CALHOUN COUNTY
Supervisor Rapp called the regular meeting of the
Eckford Township Board to order at 8:00 pm.
Others in attendance were T. Baylis, K. Lawrence, W. Cornell, K. Hinkley,
M. Delaney, A. & L. Blight, R. & L. Dunn, R. Buskirk, G. Moore, S. Mobley, S.
Hinkley, K. & L. Kiessling, D. Masternak and Zachary.
ABSENT:
NONE
Supervisor Rapp led the group in the pledge and T.
Baylis gave the invocation.
W. Cornell stated the minutes under Old Business
for the Homer Fire Board Agreement motion should have read; motion to enter into
the Homer Fire agreement with the changes of actual percentage in the amount for
fire protection from a minimum of 10% to actual and that the truck funds will be
an actual percentage as well
forgone for the 2010 year.
A motion was made by W. Cornell to accept the Clerk’s minutes of the
November 16, 2009. K. Lawrence
seconded the motion.
CARRIED
T. Baylis, Treasurer gave the financial statement
for December with
RECEIPTS
$ 2,425.90
DISBURSEMENTS $
16,248.03
BILLS TO PAY
$ 7,346.89
K. Lawrence made a motion to accept the Treasurer’s
Report and pay the bills. W. Cornell
seconded the motion.
CARRIED
Given by B. Rapp, Eckford has had 13 runs for the
year as of the December meeting.
Eckford will start paying the five year average of what they actually used
starting in 2010 instead of the minimum 10%.
They are still talking about a full-time chief position but they aren’t
sure the Homer Village’s position on this yet.
The board would like to use the fund balance money left over in the
account that is usually sent back to the entities each year for gear replacement
etc. instead of being given back to the townships and village.
T. Baylis asked if they would be able to add the full-time fire chief in
this year’s budget. B. Rapp stated
no but they want us to keep promoting this at our board meetings.
Given by W. Cornell,
no December meeting
Given by R. Buskirk, as of November 16, 2009 there
were no building permits to report.
Given by R. Buskirk for M. Farmer,
New Complaints-- K. Keissling
has been sent a letter to try and collect the building permit fee for a deck
that was put on their home with out a building permit.--pending
Kathy LaRoe at 6349
20 Mile Road, clean-up of the property from a burned structure.
Contact has been made and abatement pending.
Robert Farmer property 110
Ogden St.—Mr. Farmer is working on getting the cars cleaned-up—pending
Jason Blackburn property, J. Drive S.—still working on getting him to
clean-up the property—pending
Collins Property, 7650 22 ½
Mile Rd., little progress has been made and will not be cleaned up by the
December 21 deadline. M. Farmer told
R. Buskirk that we should extend his time 4 more months to co-inside with his
building permit—pending
W. Cornell made a motion to give the Collins 4 more months to clean-up
and be completed, junnk gone and the barn done.
K. Lawrence seconded the motion.
CARRIED
4 yea 1 nay
G. Tompkins, 107 Maple St.,
property is now cleaned up--CLOSED
G. Newsome, property on J. Drive S.,
most of the property is cleaned-up but full compliance is still being
sought—pending
A copy of the full report is on file.
Given by D. Masternak, the PC had a public hearing
for the Wind Energy Ordinance before their last meeting.
They have decided to change 1 paragraph and they have sent it to the
County Planning Commission for their comments and approval.
Election of officers has taken place and they have stayed the same as
last year with D. Masternak as Chair and M. Delaney as Secretary.
They talked about the agenda for the PC for 2010 and keeping on track.
The PC is compiling the Zoning Ordinance changes and they will sending
them to the County PC as well.
D. Masternak spoke with the attorney about a Lake Zoning Dist. to help with all
the variance applied for at Stuart
Lake. The attorney will be sending
an example for this as well working with us on noxious weeds and the IPMC to
work with foreclosures.
Given by L. Dunn, the library will be closed early
for Christmas and New Years. Look at
the new newsletter for many great opportunities in 2010.
As always you can get computer support and use their computers with the
high speed internet.
Given by S. Hinkley,
everything is closed up for the winter at this time. Hopefully a
primitive shoot will be in the spring and we will be working on summer
activities.
MARENGO TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPT.
A. Blight stated that Eckford had 9 runs for 2009.
G. Moore was here for Senator Nofs with an updated
list of contacts for him and his office.
B. Dunn asked who had the final authority to give
tax exemption for Wilder Creek? B.
Rapp stated it was the assessors.
K. & L. Kiessling stated that they were upset with
the way they were charged for a deck they built before getting a permit.
They stated that they planned on paying for the permit but they didn’t
think it would be a problem to build the deck and then get the permit.
They were charged double the permit fee per the townships building code.
After several calls from the Zoning Adm. R. Buskirk she turned the case
over to Code Enforcement Officer (CEO) M. Farmer to collect.
NONE
Homer Fire Budget for 2010 was given to each board
member to look over prior to the meeting.
K. Hinkley stated that the chief did a great job in saving a lot of money
in this years budget. Yet she feels
chief position needed a raise. It is
a lot of responsibility and time for a very little amount of money.
B. Rapp stated that he would bring it up at their December Homer Fire
Board meeting. W. Cornell made a
motion to approve the 2010 Homer Fire Budget.
K. Lawrence seconded the motion.
CARRIED
Conditional Use Permit for Dwight Dunn.
A motion was made by T. Baylis to approve the Conditional User Permit for
Dwight Dunn for farm help. K.
Lawrence seconded the motion.
CARRIED
Board of Review, B. Rapp stated that 1 change was
made for Kara & Marv Kielssing.
Teresa caught the problem on their taxes.
D. Brunner our assessor thought that property taxes might go down about
$100 next year.
W. Cornell asked if we should look at our building
permit fee late charge after the Kiessling complaint.
R. Buskirk stated she would look into it and see what other townships
charge for building w/o a permit.
K. Hinkley made a motion to adjourn at 9:09 pm.
Seconded by K. Lawrence.
CARRIED
Respectfully submitted by,
Kimberly Hinkley
Bruce Rapp