Regular Meeting
President Lee Strad called the meeting to order at
A motion was made by Anstine to accept the minutes and financial report as presented. Seconded by Baum.
Roll Call Vote: Strad – Yes
Baum – Yes
Anstine - Yes
1st Public Speaks Session
A representative for Emma Brat is concerned about her neighbor building a garage in the front yard and only 25 feet from the road. The Zoning Inspector already denied it, and it is now going to the BZA under appeal. She also presented pictures to the Board showing the property in question, and some of the concerns with the current state it is in. They have not complained about it before now, but they really don’t want to see a building going up in the front yard and what it will do the property values around it. The Board told them to go to the appeals meeting and present there concerns there.
Louis Grooms stated that there is an Appeals meeting on the 29th. He did state that he will not be there due to some other obligations.
Mrs. Davis wanted to thank Carol and Mark for getting a stop sign put back up when the other one was taken.
She also stated that
Baum
stated that there was a nice letter to the editor from Kerry Valella supporting
an on and off ramp and requesting that the Waste District help with the
funding.
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Strad
that they talked about the possible contract next year with the East Sparta
Volunteer Fire Department at the last meeting that the Trustees had with the
ESVFD.
A
motion was made by Anstine to enter into a contract with the East Sparta Volunteer
Fire Department for $80,000 in 2006 with the option to possibly purchase a
piece of equipment as well. Seconded by
Strad.
Roll
Call Vote: Strad – Yes
Anstine – Yes
Baum - Yes
Buam
discussed the upcoming Fire Levy. The
Board is still trying to decide whether it will put a replacement or a renewal
levy on the ballot next year. After a
short discussion, the Trustees agreed that for right now, they would ask for a
renewal and not a replacement levy.
Compared to the other Townships that the ESVFD cover, the Board feels
that the other Townships are not paying there fair share, and for the Board to
ask for more money by putting a replacement on instead of a renewal just
doesn’t seem right when the other Townships are not even giving the voters an
opportunity to approve a replacement.
Baum
also gave some dollar figures on what the two types of levy’s would bring:
$39,000
for a replacement
$16,600
f renewal.
A
motion was made by Anstine to have the reorganization meeting on Tuesday,
January 3rd at 6:30. Seconded
by Baum.
A
motion was made by Anstine to enter into Executive Session for personnel. Seconded by Baum at 9:28 pm.
A
motion was made by Anstine to adjourn executive session at 10:15 p.m. Seconded by Baum.
A
motion was made by Baum, on advice from our legal council, contingent upon the
acceptance by the union and employee, we accept this written discipline. Seconded by Anstine.
Roll
Call Vote: Strad – Yes
Anstine – Yes
Baum - Yes
Nothing at this time.
Monday, November 21st 05
Nothing at this time.
Dr.
Nicolleti called to report that he had been having odor problems from the
landfill from Friday to today. She
didn’t get the message until tonight, but will go check it out. She did want to remind residents that they
need to make a formal complaint to the Health Department and not the Zoning
Department because the Health Dept. has jurisdiction over this area.
She
went on to ask the Trustees to look at a property in Stinewood where a resident
is building a retaining wall. The Road
Supervisor stated that he has good reason to build it, but it needs to be on
the other side of the right of way, not on the right of way where the Township
could be liable if someone hits it.
Baum
and Strad agreed that it shouldn’t be there, but Anstine wanted to see it
before they all made a decision. He will
contact
Strad
brought up a Zoning Issue that came up at the joint meeting with the Zoning
Commission and the Trustees. The issue
is whether the Township would want it mandatory that we bring every business in
every year that have conditional use permits.
Strad went on to say that he thinks it would be way to costly to bring
in approximately 40 to 50 businesses in every year so they can renew their
conditional use permit. Strad would like
to send a representative to the Commission meeting to let them know up front
how the Board stands on this issue.
You
are not losing the capability of bringing them in when they see fit, but at the
same time, we wouldn’t need to bring in the small businesses all of the
time. The Board all agreed that we
should not make it mandatory to bring everyone in every year for a renewal, and
Anstine will go to the meeting to represent the Board on this issue.
Mrs.
Davis wanted to know what constitutes a reason why a company would be brought
in for a conditional use permit? The
Board explained that basically if they get some complaints, or violations against
a business, they would ask the company to come in to review the company before
the conditional use permit is re-approved.
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Mrs.
Davis did ask the Board to find out how many conditional use permits the
Township does a year.
Other
Zoning business discussed concerned the Miller Construction fine of $100 per
day and is up to about $15,000 just in fines.
There should be a court resolution some time around the holidays.
Pahanish
read the road report.
Worked
on Bowmont where there were soft spots.
He
also talked to the only resident out there about widening the road.
Winterized
the trucks.
Installed
four welcome to
He
is requesting that the road crew be off on the 25th of November unless it is snowing.
We
got 75 to 90 tons of salt from Cargill.
He
also asked for a set of drive tires for the dump truck. The Board agreed that this was okay.
Pahanish
has schooling tomorrow for Mosquito spraying.
The
next few weeks they will continue to chip brush among other things.
The
Mayor of East Sparta approached the Board about putting up a sign stating that
there is a park entrance 1000ft. ahead. Pahanish
said that you actually need a permit to do this. There is a gentleman coming from ODOT to see
if the signs are necessary. If they are
justifiable, then they will put them up.
The
Trustees decided to enter into the agreement with the
Pahanish
will mail in the form.
The
Trustees decided to stock pile 4’s and 57’s since the price will be going up
25% in January from National Lime and Stone.
Public Speaks Session