on May 4, 2011 at 5:11am.
Board of Trustees Meeting on June 15, 2009
GENOA CHARTER TOWNSHIP
REGULAR MEETING
JUNE 15, 2009
6:30 P.M.
MINUTES
Supervisor McCririe called the regular meeting of the Genoa Charter Township Board to order at 6:30 p.m. The Pledge of Allegiance was then said. The following persons were present constituting a
quorum for the transaction of business: Gary McCririe, Paulette Skolarus, Robin Hunt, Todd Smith, Jean Ledford and Jim Mortensen. Also present were Township Manager Michael Archinal and
approximately five persons in the audience.
A Call to the Public was made with no response.
Approval of Consent Agenda:
Moved by Smith, supported by Ledford, to approve items 1 and 2 under the consent agenda and to move item 3 to the regular agenda for further discussion. The motion carried unanimously.
1. Payment of Bills
2. Request to approve minutes: 06-01-09
Approval of Regular Agenda:
Moved by Ledford, supported by Hunt, to approve for action all items listed under the regular agenda and to add the following: 9. Request for approval of a publication of statutory notice for an
amendment to the township zoning ordinance regulating fences in water-front yards as discussed by the Planning Commission. 10. Request for re-appointments to the Planning Commission and Zoning
Board of Appeals. The motion carried unanimously.
3. Request for approval of an amendment to the Peddler Solicitor and Transient Merchant Licensing and Control Ordinance changing the current fee from $100.00 to $200.00.
Moved by Ledford, supported by Hunt, to amend the Ordinance as recommended. The motion carried unanimously.
4. Public Hearing on Fendt Drive Road Improvement Project.
A call to the property owners was made with the following response: Jane Halliday - If the project should come in over the 10% allowed under act 188, would we have to start over? McCririe - Yes.
Halliday - The road will become a gravel road for the next four years, could it remain gravel? McCririe - That would be up to the property owners. Halliday - If the drive is gravel, why is it
necessary to pave the parking lots on the industrial properties? Archinal - Gravel parking lots can be approved at the discretion of the Planning Commission. A variance would be required.
A call to the public was made with no response.
5. Request for approval of Resolution #3 (Approving Project, Cost Estimates, Special Assessment District and Causing the Special Assessment Roll to be prepared) for the Fendt Drive Road
Improvement Project.
Moved by Skolarus, supported by Smith, to approve Resolution # 3 as requested. The motion carried by roll call vote as follows: Ayes - Ledford, Smith. Hunt, Mortensen, Skolarus and McCririe. Nays
- None. Absent - Wildman.
6. Request for approval of Resolution #4 (Acknowledging the Filing of the Special Assessment Roll, Scheduling the Second Hearing, and Directing the Issuance of Statutory Notices) for the
Fendt Drive Road Improvement Project.
Moved by Mortensen, supported by Ledford, to approve Resolution # 4 as requested. The motion carried by roll call vote as follows: Ayes - Ledford, Smith. Hunt, Mortensen, Skolarus and McCririe.
Nays - None. Absent - Wildman.
7. Request for approval of a fire works permit display July 4, 2009 (July 5 or 6 if weather does not permit) on Lime Lake by James Wright with the display being launched directly across
from his home at 4681 Bauer Road, Brighton, MI 48116.
Moved by Smith, supported by Skolarus, to approve the permit as requested contingent upon the following: licensing from the state, insurance and proper storage of materials. The motion carried
unanimously.
8. Discussion regarding SELCRA Articles of Incorporation.
Ledford will be considered an at large member of SELCRA with voting rights.
9. Request for approval of a publication of statutory notice for an amendment to the township zoning ordinance regulating fences in water-front yards as discussed by the Planning
Commission.
Moved by Smith, supported by Mortensen, to approve the publication as requested. The motion carried unanimously.
10. Request for re-appointments to the Planning Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals as requested by McCririe.
A. Planning Commission appointments
Moved by Ledford, supported by Hunt to re-appoint Barbara Figurski and Douglas Brown to the Planning Commission for a three-year term to expire 06/30/2012. The motion carried unanimously.
B. Zoning Board of Appeals appointments
Moved by Hunt, supported by Smith, to re-appoint Barbara Figurski to the Zoning Board of Appeals for a three-year term to expire 06/30/2012. The motion carried unanimously.
Moved by Ledford, supported by Smith, to appoint Marianne McCreary to the Zoning Board of Appeals for a three-year term to expire 06/30/2012. The motion carried unanimously.
The regular meeting of the Genoa Charter Township Board was adjourned at 6:50 p.m.
Paulette A. Skolarus
Genoa Township Clerk
(Press/argus 06/19/09)