Board of Trustees - Regular Meeting

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May I please ask for a roll call? Supervisory present. Present. Treasure preser. Trusty present. Trusty Mills present. Madam supervisor, you have six members. Thank you. May I please ask for a motion to approve the agenda? Madam chair, I move to approve the agenda with item 5.1clamation for Ryer to be removed from the agenda. Okay. Uh any discussion? All in favor? I opposed.

All right, the agenda is approved as modified. All right, I will go ahead and open it up for public comment. Any person may come forward at this time to address the board. Anyone who wishes to speak is requested but not required to state his or her name for the record and address. This is definitely the safest place to be in town right now. [laughter] You'll feel very safe. Thank you. All right, we'll move on to approval of the minutes. May I please have a motion? Madam Chair, I move to approve the minutes of the regular meeting held on February 25, 2026. Support. Okay. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. All right. Motion is passed. May have approval for the next one.

Madam chair move to approve the minutes of the working session held on February 25th, 2026. Okay. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. All right. Those are approved as well. All right. We'll go ahead and open up for um First uh second complation 5.2 proclamation recognizing 2025 department of public safety officer of the year and firefighter of the year. I will go ahead and ask the director um of public safety club.

Thank you so much ascers. could not make it tonight. So, we will be holding similar proclamation ceremony for him on the 25th. But when we get these nominations, when we send out for these nominations, we do request that officer that is being nominated when their peers are are deciding who to nominate, we ask that this be an outstanding employee, have excellent work, be admired by other employees, dedicated to the department goals, and present the highest level of professionalism, attitude, positive image, and that they exhibit our motto of proudly serving our community with honesty, integrity, and professional excellence. I can say that the officer who received the nominations, who receive the award tonight is is definitely definitely holds up all of those qualities. And so I am honored to announce that the 2025 officer of the year for Pittsville Township is Derek.

So I will read the proclamation as well. Yes, please. Yes. Big accomplishment. Thank you.

Yes. Recognizing the 2025 Department of Public Safety Police Officer and Firefighter of the Year, March 11th, 2026. Whereas each January, members of the public safety department may nominate a police officer and firefighter of the year from their respective group in recognition of their overall outstanding performance during prior year. Whereas the awardee must be a peer who has demonstrated excellent service record over the past year and who is respected by his or her peers for professionalism, commitment to duty and dedication to serving and protecting the community while also demonstrating the highest level of respect and dignity to all persons. And whereas police officer Derek Monair has been awarded the 2025 police officer of the year award for his initiative, reliability, work ethic, positive attitude, and dedication to serving community. Officer Monaster's commitment to professional excellence has been repeatedly demonstrated through his willingness to take on new responsibilities, including assignment to the traffic services bureau, crisis negotiation team, and serving as a use of force instructor. Officer Monaster leads by example with a calm, confident, and courteous demeanor. And now therefore, be it resolved that the Pittsfield Charter the Pittsfield Charter Township Board of Trustees hereby expresses it sincere appreciation to police officer of the year Derek Monair and firefighter of the year John Daro for their commitment and dedication to the service of the citizens of Pittsfield Charter Township. Congratulations. Dr. Do you want everybody take a picture?

That would be wonderful. Yeah, why don't you do that? Well, that's so Yeah, John couldn't make it here. So, there's a second portion of that proclamation that'll get read on the

come up here. That's a lovely way to Okay. So, moving on. Go ahead and ask for a motion for the consent agenda.

Madam Chair, I to the consent agenda 7.1 through 7.9. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. All right. Agenda is a motion. This motion is approved. Um, okay. Now we are going to move on to the department reports. We have an update from Director Gray as well. The Director Gray show. Thank you. Have the DPS show.

Thank you for the opportunity to present again this year with our annual summary for 2025. The first slide is our public safety personnel as our staffing levels for both police, fire, and administrative support and part-time employees. Uh we are slightly understaffed at 25, but we have been working toward staffing goals for the police department. So you'll see that we're four officers shy, but a little bit later on we'll talk about some of the efforts to correct that. We do believe we will be on track in6 to meet our goals,

our calls for service for 25 have increased pretty significantly. We have had a nearly 30% increase in police runs and a 23% increase in fire runs. Um just for accuracy purposes, if there is a call for service that comes into the dispatch center and they don't dispatch a police officer or a firefighter, we have removed those. Those do happen. Somebody's asking for directions or something like that. So those are not part of this. Um for the police department, I can say that we believe that these numbers are up for a few reasons. We have increased visibility and we've really been promoting property checks, neighborhood checks, vacation courtesy checks, um traffic stops are up and our community engagement is way higher than it used to be. So we're seeing a trend of increase, but we can kind of see where that's coming from and generally it's visibility and just engaging with the community. For the next slide, we have major crimes and I'm going to ask Deputy Chief Jason Coner to step up address.

Good evening. Thank you, director.

Uh, so our major crimes uh largely in 2025 stayed static versus prior years. Uh, there were a few where we saw some slight increases or decreases, but they typically fell in line with what we saw in 2023 uh with those specific uh crime types. The one that I would like to point out that we saw kind of a bigger increase than others was lar. Um we did some digging into kind of determining where that came from. Um certainly a larger scale aspect could be economy based. Um another aspect that we did see is there was a couple of spikes at very specific businesses where they were seeing an increase in lararsity in buildings. That definitely accounts for that increase as well. Uh this next chart is just a a bar graph to illustrate all those major crimes that we uh had on the prior slide. Uh regarding u operating under the influence of alcohol or drugs, we did see in terms of arrests a decrease of 14.8% A big chunk of the alcohol related uh incidents we saw was a decrease in what's called high BAC. So those are drunk driving incidents where somebody's blood alcohol content is extremely high and it's a different charge than a standard operating under the influence. Um but overall our trend of being down 14.8% appears to align with national trends. Uh the final numbers are not 25 nationwide, but early 2025 numbers in many locations were down upwards of 13%.

And I'm going to turn it back over to Director. Thank you. Thank you.

Moving on to police department dispatch services and response times. The the chart that you're seeing here, the top average response time is actually really reflects the the performance of metro dispatch. So this this is the the number of minutes that it takes from the time they pick up the phone for a call to actually dispatch. That time impressively is down approximately two minutes from last year. So it is a very good improvement. I think that's due to their staffing levels. Our dispatch time from that from that point forward average response time second line is from the time we receive the radio dispatch call till the officer arrives at the scene and that is down over one minute from last year's numbers. We believe that that is due to our staffing levels being a little bit higher, but then also us working on redistricting to try to spread our officers out a little bit better and make sure that we're able to respond quickly anywhere. Moving on to our public security camera system. Uh we have a policy at the police department where if we need to access one of the six cameras that are in public places, see the parks are listed. Um we have to pull a call for service number for trans to show when we did this. There was a law enforcement purpose to do it. In 2025, we did not need to pull any any recordings. Police department also has a process where if uh if a particular business has a large number of what are deemed to be false alarms, a faulty alarm system that continues to trip and have officers dispatched after three of those occurrences, they will start to incur some charges. Uh they do have there is a process to appeal those and we do not have any Moving on to significant accomplishments in 2025. Um, we had some really good ones in so proud to to list off some of these. Detective Kyle Erskin was named

Washington 100 officer of the year. Sergeant Ryan Reer, who I was hopeful would be here tonight to hear about this, was uh was was honored by the Saloon Area Chamber of Commerce as the 2025 Circle of Excellence First Responder Award recipient. And we had two sergeants complete Eastern Michigan University staff staff in command of Sergeant Josh Howard and Mark Delino. And we held the first Pittsville Township Junior DPS Academy at the multicultural academy here. Roughly 20 kids went through half days of training with police officers, firefighters, EMS personnel, and other first responders. Kind of like a day in the life of but also to touch the tools and learn some of the skills. So, it was a really, really, really great opportunity for us to connect. And then we had several promotions in 2025. Deputy Chief Honer was officially promoted in 25. Lieutenant Sam Bradley was promoted that year. Sergeant Lamar Asway was promoted in 25. And so was Corporal Bob. As I said, we were going to some of the uh efforts to recruit the uh sponsorship program has been extremely successful for us. We did we sponsored four officers through the academy last year. Um Hunter Debbar completed an academy at community college and then say Ibrahim and Justice Matea and Cole Watkins completed the Wayne County Regional Academy. Unfortunately, Justice Matea determined his first step of working in the field that police work was not for him. So he had put in a lot of time and a lot of training but I give him credit to courage to step up and say I can't do this.

So now I will turn it over to fire chief. Thank you. Good evening. Evening.

So the calls for service in 2025 we experienced as you can see uh an increase of calls for medical runs of 7 calls from 2024 to 2025. Um during the year, we evaluated our response models and the types that occurred throughout the township. And through that review, I identified that our department was not responding to every call of service occurring within our juris jurisdiction. As a result, we adjusted our response protocol so that our units now respond to nearly every incident in the township regardless of severity. Many of the additional responses were non-lifethreatening medical incidents, but they still required evaluation and care. On the fire side, we actually saw a decline in fire related incidents. And this reduction is likely due to the continued work of our fire prevention division through our community risk reduction program along with newer construction following the IFC 2024 standards which improves overall building safety. This here is just a chart that represents that last slide um with the calls that are

[clears throat]

The department's average response time in 2025 was 8 minutes and 19 seconds. These numbers reflect all calls for service, including both emergency and non-emergency incidents. Compared to 2024, the response time increased by approximately 37 seconds. This change was largely due to the increase in the number of calls that we are now responding to during that year. At times we also had multiple incidents that occurred in the same uh district simultaneously which would require units from another district to cover those calls that slightly increased uh the response times. We too had some significant accomplishments in 2025. Last year our department was fortunate to receive two important grants. The first was part of the regional federal assistance of firefighter grants, also known as AFG, which provided roughly $75,874 in funding. These funds allowed us to replace our attack nozzles, add high-rise kits to each apparatus, and upgrade our foam equipment. We also received a Firehouse Subs Foundation grant totaling $19,893, which allowed us to purchase four thermal imagers. The this was a critical improvement because allowed us to place a thermal imager on every piece of apparatus, improving firefighter safety and search capabilities. Another major accomp accomplishment was completing blue card training at 100% participation. Blueart is the incident command system adopted countywide and completing this training across the entire department was a significant undertaking. I'm proud to say that Pittsville Township helped lead the way in that effort. Our department also recognized the importance of supporting residents with autism and sensory sensitivities. We purchased Carter kits for every

apparatus and additional kits for police patrol vehicles. And our members received training to better assist individuals during those emergencies. Finally, like our police department, we participated in the multicultural academyy's first DPS Junior Academy where we shared with students what a day in the life of a firefighter is. uh and and the role that we play with serving in our community. Some more significant accomplishments uh with the implementation of blueart we identified the need to strengthen command presence uh both during daily operations and emergency incidents. As a result, we piloted a shift commander position to enhance firefighter safety and operational oversight. This role ensures that an experienced and knowledgeable command officer is assigned to every shift. The shift commander is responsible for managing day-to-day operations, supporting crews, and providing command and coordination during major emergency incidents. Additionally, dur due to retirements within the department, we we also hired two firefighters. We are proud to welcome David Cox Jr. and Phil into the Pittsville Township Fire Department family and they have already begun contributing to our operations and servicing our community.

At this time, I'd like to turn it back over to Director Gray for the remaining portion of our presentation. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

So, what wasn't on either of our slides, but it goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway. U one of the one of the biggest accomplishments and one of the biggest moments for the department of public safety was also with the support of residents and this board we did security public for the next 10 years. So I just want to thank you for that. And then of course not spoiling the surprise but you will see fire marshal John Carl here on the 25th with big smile to receive the same award that just received. Thank you. Any questions? Any questions?

I love this process. Wonder Absolutely. And and I'll try to explain it a little bit more clearly so that the non-emergency non-emergency um service calls that we are going on are up and then our proactive work to be visible in the community that's up to an officer. If an officer rolls into say an apartment complex and they're going to actively ride through or walk through this apartment complex, we have instructed them as part of polic because you are actively This isn't just driving around, right? So, every traffic stop they make it pull a call for service number. Every time they do a property check, it pulls a call for service number or they go on a non-emergency call that going to pull another that shows that 30% increase. What it's kind of showing you is that on the ratio of calls for service, our violent crimes are actually if you look at it as a ratio, how many calls we have crimes we have, it's down. But a lot of that is just portions of it are that portions of it are are shifting reporting but a large portion of it is an initiative within the department. Our supervisors are driving this instru instruing them to do special service drives or special details, selective enforcement in this particular area. And then they were instrued to pull a number so that we can actually keep track of

the fact that we did do this, how often we did it, how many minutes I can like I can say that when we pulled numbers for the village response time was 8 And I think for police it was five. So it's we are definitely below above average and below average responses.

I have to say that I actually this last week um the last couple weeks um I had given some presentations one at the SL chamber and um a company new to you resale over at Carpenter um outwardly in front of everyone after I finished presentation said they had to call the a couple incidents and that the response and the professionalism were wonderful. Um so that was a very nice shout out. Another resident who had previously said they had bad experiences with the police um have said that things have really changed. Um and then there was um one more comment was oh I was at the ribbon cutting for Haver Hill on Clark which is our new affordable housing and they had made comments about how good the response was when they call. So, and that's the last two weeks of what I've heard. So, I make sure that get shouted out as well. We have Thank you everybody. And you know I know we've talked about this before too. They've also been very inconvenience during the um the construction of the building next door. Um and they will continue to be inconvenienced um you know as we're hoping in the next month or so um they move into the new part and the old part. And so um thank you for keeping everything up while all that's going on. And hopefully in the end it all worth it.

Sure. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. All right.

Never mind. I have to ask my clerk for those things in detail. She's so good. Um, okay. If we move on to new business, um, can we get a motion for 9.1?

Madam Chair, I move what happens on these supervisor is we turn it over to the treasur and then we do a receptor treasurous 2025 tax season expense. multiple particip. September 25 policy. operating accounts. Otherwise,

discuss will you speaking about these separately because that's very good. Thank you.

Then I will uh move to uh receive a filely balance reports for the third quarter 2025 and for fourth quarter 2025. All in favor? I opposed. All right. Received and filed. May I please have a motion for 9.3?

Madam Chair, move to approve the emergency repair of fire engine by coming sales and service for a cost not to exceed $11,000. We do obviously have our firef000 and not to exceed $1,000. That's just a little buffer in case they find something during the repairs.

Thank you very much. You never know. [laughter]

All in favor? I opposed. All right. Motion passes. Thank you. All right. May I please ask for a motion for 9.4? Madam Chair, I move to authorize to enter into an agreement with alert system, subject second. Any discussion on this one? All in favor?

I opposed. All right, motion passes. May please ask for a motion for 9.5 m to adopt a resolution of establish improvement authority and set a public hearing date resolution 26-5. Okay. We do have um our um tip and economic development uh administrator Craig Lion here. I know that um I was not here at the last meeting. I was up at the state and there were a couple more people who weren't here. Um so I was going to ask um Mr. Lion to come up and just give a little brief overview of what this intent means before we um vote on it.

Sure. Good evening, Ward. [clears throat] So, what is in front of you this evening as was indicated the resolution of intent. What this allows the community to do is to move forward with the public notice that also is provided to other taxing jurisdictions in the area to let them know that we are entertaining the option for authority. This improvement authority is specifically for the state street. of it is to be able to perform the necessary infrastructure improvements to control traffic and other necessary public throughout that notice of intent provide this option for discovery and allows to be able to move forward and begin collecting all necessary information to be able to come back to you provide a 3 and But be able to provide necessary cost estimates, um, scope of project, all the necessary nuts and bolts that will be accounted for in an overall development plan. Should one be adopted in the future to be able to ensure that these funds are allocated appropriately and necessary? questions that you know I understand how events go on but for me it's kind of hard sometimes to think about we're going to think about this really big

project that we're going to But we don't know how much don't we don't have all these things before we have to actually have a hearing on an intent to establish a really big project but we don't know what the project is but we need to let the public know that we have this intent to do it but we don't have any of these numbers. feels a little weird and natural. So um even though I don't know how I actually sit on this issue um I will be voting yes on this resolution because I we have already worked on getting assessment

no we do an assessment

yes the environmental assessment for So there was assessment done up we did that we voted on that about a year ago updated that'll be completed probably the next I don't know month or so I think and that's what the road commission will use to be able to appection They usually require crosssections when they are submitting for funding. So there's certain things that the township has to do in it. But the thing is at the end the state street corridor there is not just I mean it's in Pittsfield Township but it's such a a regional type of thing. That's why we do have the support of commissioner Sanders and some of the commissioners that we obviously presented to them as well. because it will be between that whole area and other side of that's going to come over to our road. We're going to need we have a lot of congestion. We need to make sure that we're getting ahead of it and because we don't just want it to be just one street without us having to be able to put in the proper things to make it really a nice sustainable and good to live in sometimes. It is the start of protection.

Yeah. And really, you know, any point again, you know, things could be stopped. And even if we go down a road and we decide that at some point, you know, we're not capturing enough. This was an authority um or a CIA um years ago that when the economy crashed, it was established. We're looking to establish again, keep it longer, and catch some of that growth that is um coming down that road whether we like it or not.

If it wasn't the process that it would allow us to be able to be able to provide some additional answers to the question such as how much is the road? Once we get that information back from stated environmental assessment, then go to our engineering consultants to provide the actual estimate for the recommended crosssection and that we'll be able to have a rough estimate as to what that road cost from that point forward. get the road commission involved and see what kind of timing we're looking at for federal funding projections of that. So what all that means if we have a component to it is actually able to capture the incremental increase in value of tax. The longer we wait, the less funds likely timing is of the essence. I wish that we did have 100% estimates at this time. I'm more than happy to do that because they are large numbers. But this is about a nine month process. The treasur we are act

number different as So, you know, on my comments, you know, like I said, I don't know if I'm able or not. I I I'm curious enough to go forward and try to find out what these numbers are and how how this will all work out. Um, timeline that is driven not by us and it's not anything that it's statuto but like I said I am curious what the timeline is. Um and and whe I I do have a tendency to think though that this is this is still going to a lot and there going to be a lot of residents who are going to be paying for this corridor. Now, you know, we need to make each and every part of our township, welcoming, interesting, vibrant, all of those things are necessary.

But I want torid But that's why I think that right but I'm interested in trying to see what the numbers are how that all works. But I think it's I think it is really expensive. I think it's going to be a lot more expensive. That's why I think Washington County helping to be nice.

And then and then I also worry about like getting grants from the federal government. We all know how that works out sometimes. It's not guarantee if they say, "Hey, you're getting the money." So, that's just my All right. Any more questions or conversation about this?

I just want to first say you guys Thank you for that. but also really investments because investments like this aren't just about several businesses that those businesses our rescess

and thank you for your time and that goes out to anyone else on the board who would like to take any other staff on any of any other things that are on the agenda. Um, please open dialogue at all the time. If you need more background before we get here, all right, then I will go ahead and ask for a roll. Yes. Yes. Thompson. Yes. Thank you. Passes and I will for a motion for 9.6.

Madam Chair, I move to adopt a resolution to approve an application to the Michigan Township uh participating plan risk reduction grant program resolution 26-y if anyone has any question on this one. It's pretty self-explanatory. Just gives us the ability to buy for more money. You guys doing a really good job and I really appreciate it. All right. Roller treasure. Yes. Thompson. Yes. Mills. Yes. Supervisor. Yes. Thank you. Motion passes.

All right. I will move on for leazison and trustee reports. Does anyone have a report to give? I have a couple things I just want to kind of go over. I did mention earlier that um last week they had the ribbon cutting for um the affordable housing. This is the haban um both representative Wilson Commissioner Sanders um repres 295 units which is affordable housing. Um that is an amazing accomplishment here. Um there might be some more of that coming so stay tuned. But it was very good to see. They have 91% occupancy rate and um have turned away people because they make too much money. Um but other than that, it's a really nice facility. Look at it. That's really nice. Um also, we've had a lot of um residents reaching out about the heavy traffic on Michigan Avenue, the trucks and all of that. And just again, we have been in contact with Michigan State Police, with MDOT. Uh, Commissioner Sanders is calling a meeting. Uh, we're working on a a time for that so that residents come come out, ask questions. Representative um from data center uh might be there as well as Michigan State Police. We're trying to get MD dot out. Uh, right now it's tenatively for six o'clock on March 30th at the LRC, but we're trying to um make sure we can get all the people there to answer questions. So, being addressed best we can with limited control that we have over it. Um I don't think we've officially said I know that everybody knows that we um had lost some funding talked about 2.5 million dollars in federal funding for the building next door but we did I don't think we said it in this form receive um or at least signed into law hopefully we without any issues um $2 million and we just wanted to make sure we publicly thank uh Congresswoman Dingle and Senator Slotkin for really fighting to get that back not

just for us but for others in the community. I believe uh city got their $2.7 million back for the rec center as well which is actually located township and good partnership there. So uh just want to make sure we publicly thank them as well. Um wanted to make sure that everybody knows that we are making that whole transition with the rubbish and the bins are going to be delivered next week from Stevens. Uh you're going to have a hang to those all the residents will and then the following week uh will be the pickup for the old bins. So unfortunately where presidents will have the two bins at one time. Um we're looking forward to having that new service um starting in play and I think it's going to be a good relationship with a little bit of transition. It's always change is always rough but we'll get there. Also wanted to thank everyone for all the work we did on the fire suppression system and being back in this room today is very nice uh to have our our facility back. Um special thanks to our IT department, our building department, our fire department for and every employee that was put out why we did all this. It was worth it and we're all back up and running again. Oh, and just let you know that we actually uh Deputy Aler has been working on our next submission for funding. Uh so now that we just got that signed into law, we're back busy asking our state and federal representatives to give us more money. So we're on that and making our rounds. So we're happy to do that as well. All right. At that point, I will go ahead and wrap it up and open it up for public comment, too. Um, and I do want to make sure that I I missed this the first time around. We did have two submissions that you all should have gotten that were sent in online. Um, I do want to address both of those and then open it up if anybody else wants to speak as well. Um but the ones that we received uh the first one about the uh

road near Carpenter on the sidewalks just want to speak to that real quick is that there is a dirt road over by Carpenter and the the person who had the public comment was asking to have it paved and over the years it has been looked at and uh it's about a million dollars a mile to pave an unpaved That's obviously a big investment. Uh the road commission also is hesitant to pave any new roads. They're not taking on any everything else coming in is now private roads. That being said, that particular area is near Carpenter Elementary and the Anna public schools is using um their millage money to update different schools and Carpenter Road uh Carpenter Elementary is one of those schools on that list. So I believe it's 2728. So that we are in discussions with them to see what we can do in that area and so because they do want their buses to be able to be on pavement and not any um disturb road. As far as the sidewalks go, the sidewalks, there was a survey done back in 2010 2011 um with a safe um routes to schools grant. At the time that neighborhood was not in favor of having um sidewalks there. That being said um It's a things have turned over, right? It's a whole another neighborhood, whole other group of things. So, we will contact this resident to work with them and and see what kind of needs there are possibilities for looking for grants. Again, there are possibilities in that area. Um, but of course, it would take funding and we'd also need to make sure that neighborhood actually does want that. We would need to probably do petitions to make sure we had majority. So, addressing that one and then the other one um was asking about a road study to be done over at textile

and lower road. We already have um a request in to do textile west or lower text the textile the west side. So we are going to expand it to go to the east side to accommodate that um that comment as well. That's a long conversation or a long thing to address what it was but we are addressing what um the two comments were that came in. And at this point, I will open up for anybody here who'd like to come up forward and state their name if they would like to or their address and speak to us.

Good evening. Can you all hear me? Yes.

All right. Thank you all for the opportunity to speak and thank you all for your service. My name is Marula Dallas and I've been a homeowner in this township for the past seven and a half years. I've to a meeting before. Um, but the safety situation on Michigan Avenue that is parallel to Harwood Farms has reached a point where I need to speak up. This area starts well before the intersection at Campbell Road and ends slightly after the intersection at Warner Road. According to the latest available data on Michigan traffic crashbacks, which I understand MD uses uh to analyze crash trends, there were accidents along that stretch in 2024 alone. And just last month, another serious crash occurred, one where a vehicle actually flipped over. Incidents like these aren't just statistics. They are warning signs. Traffic in this area has also increased significantly in the past year. As you all discussed a few moments ago, larger vehicles require much more distance to slow down and stop, which makes the curve the 55 mile hour speed limit and conditions more concerning given the crash history and the increase in traffic. This area would benefit from a formal traffic safety study to evaluate whether current roadway conditions still match present patterns. I understand that these reviews, which are conducted by state police, um, but the request needs to go through MDOT, um, usually explore potential safety improvements such as speed management, signal adjustments, signage, or other design solutions. A reasonable next step would be for the township to formally request that MDOT conduct a study for the highway stretch parallel to Harwood Farms to include the intersections at Warner Road and

Campbell Road. Taking a proactive step now could help prevent a more serious incident in the future. Thank you for your time and I would appreciate any update the township can provide about possible next steps. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have your your contact information and sign in sheet. Yes, ma'am. We will follow up on that. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you for coming. Thank you for being Christina Lauronus 151 East Textile Road. And I would echo what the previous speaker said, that area definitely needs to be looked at. The intersection of Campbell and Michigan A in particular is extremely dangerous and if there's any way a traffic signal could be put in there that would be extremely helpful. I was so careful about looking at where the meeting was every time and tonight I went to the wrong building for the first time. I was doing such a good job. So I missed the first public comment but I don't think it mattered because um I think it wouldn't have changed anything. Um, I'm ardently opposed to this concept of the corridor improvement authority on State Road. I can't describe to you how opposed I am to this. This was tried before. It was a miserable failure. It was uh very little money was collected and yet we went we spent a ton of money, publications, notifications, signs put up in public places. Um, just all of the the legal work and the consultants that we paid. We paid and paid and paid and paid and paid and collected a few bucks. And I was opposed to that throughout the entire process because I do not believe in tax increment finance authorities

period. I don't know of one that's been a good idea. Um and in the end that one failed and I don't exactly remember the reasons why it was ultimately decided to dissolve it. it had gone through the whole creation process, but I do remember the lawyer noting that that while there's a creation process, there really isn't a direction on how to dissolve these things. So, we ultimately ended up I say we, the township ultimately ended up giving the money back to the taxing authorities that had opted in, except of course Pittsfield lost everything that it had put in. I mean it just went back to I suppose our general fund but we had spent we spent the township spent all the money the taxpayers of the township spent all the money on the lawyers consultants the meetings for the wealthy business owners that formed the the members of this corridor improvement authority who would come and complain about how icky the road was but yet would not pony up their own money in a special assessment district. And I remember very well the gentleman who owned what's now called Real Truck. It was called Truck Hero at the time coming in very happy one day because he had sold his business. Well, he was one of the most biggest complainers about the state of the road. He had sold his business for over a billion dollars and he was absolutely delighted. That gentleman wants the taxpayers of Pittsfield Township to put its own money in so that he can profit. And that's exactly what's going to happen here. Now, the areas that look to be developed in in in a large way would be the Avis Farm South area. That's probably the biggest area that's that's got a big project planned on it. rather than doing a special assessment district like they should and like every other business has done. And in fact, the

homeowners, the residents of Asheford Village, Hickory Point, for example, paid through special assessment on each of their every homes to pave Crane Road and uh what's the next Munger Road, Crane and Munger Road. So, it's a slap in the face to all the people who have paid special assessments to improve the roads that are that need to be improved when development goes in. It It draws money off of voted millages that we all voted for and we all pay and we expect to be used for what they're voted for. And there is an opportunity to opt out for a number of the entities. The schools, I believe, can opt out. The libraries can opt out. WCC can opt out. parks can thank you can opt out. I don't know where that came from. Thank you. can opt out. Um and and I made it my mission to go to each and every one of those entities and explain to them in case they didn't know, but fortunately they already knew what a bad idea this was. And most of them opted out. The AADL did not opt out because they have such a tiny part of this particular corridor. So they felt it wasn't going to affect them. Why not do a special assessment district? Maybe we can make Anniver airport pay with a special assessment district. And it's just I found if you Google, you know, TIFFA and opt out, you will find many writings on why, you know, the long and short of it is when a community votes a village into effect for their local library, for example, TIFFA diversions in that community take taxes off the top of the library and that money does not go to the originally voted to support and that's also true. We will be taking from our

public safety who we all were told we had to vote more money for this was a dire situation and our parks in Pittsville Township. They're all going to be contributing their tax increment increase. I I can't I'm very disappointed to see this happening again and I hope that it will be stopped and I hope that the sunk money that we we're wasting on the various notifications don't prohibit us from stopping as soon as possible and finding another way of funding this project. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Okay, I'll open it up for um board response. Okay. Um, if there's none, I will go ahead and ask for a motion to adjourn. Chair move to second. All in favor? I. All right. Um, meeting is at 7:28. Thank you all.