September 17, 2024 Board of Trustees Minutes

KIMBALL TOWNSHIP BOARD OF TRUSTEES

2160 WADHAMS ROAD, KIMBALL, MI  48074

REGULAR MEETING

Usakowski opened the meeting at 6:30 p.m. with the Pledge of Allegiance.

ROLL CALL OF OFFICERS:  Usakowski, Jackson, Wrubel, Hoffman, Deland, Ward and Nelson.

 

ABSENT:  None.

 

ALSO PRESENT:  None.

 

Usakowski:   add under New Business D. ARPA Funds through the county.

 

Deland motioned to approve the agenda as amended supported by Jackson.

Motion Carried.

 

Nelson questioned about page 2 at the bottom about getting her checked through the water department.

 

Wrubel:  It was about getting her water checked.  I don’t remember it either.  Let’s just take it out of the minutes.

 

Nelson:  At the top of page 3, the wording doesn’t seem right.  Should we reword it?

 

Usakowski agreed and said it should say “explained the process of determining the necessity of ditching and work orders from the county”.

 

Nelson motioned to approve the minutes of September 3, 2024 as amended supported by Ward.  Motion Carried.

 

III.        CONSENT AGENDA AND COMMUNICATIONS

Usakowski explained that we have disbursements totaling $34,208.27.

 

Jackson motioned to approve the disbursements of $34,208.27 to pay the bills and file supported by Wrubel.

 

ROLL CALL VOTE:  YES:  Jackson, Wrubel, Usakowski, Hoffman, Deland, Ward and Nelson.  NO:  None.  ABSENT:  None. (7-0-0) Motion Carried.

 

Nelson motioned to move boards and commissions to the next meeting on October 1, 2024 supported by Jackson.   Motion Carried.

 

Ray Campbell, 299 Eileen:  I want to go over with the board about the Lincoln Park Platt’s which is the sub-division that I live in.  I want to give you an update of what has been going on over there.

 

Usakowski asked what action are you asking from the board today.

 

Campbell:  I am making you aware of my findings and asking for help to get to those records.

 

Usakowski:  There was a Home Owners Association at some point there.

 

Discussion.

 

 

Michele Erdman applied for this grant to upgrade some of the tabulators.  There is another grant that I would like to apply for which is to put countertops all across the back of the meeting room to safely secure the tabulators.

 

Usakowski:  Do either of these require a match?

 

Wrubel:  No.

 

Deland motioned to allow Michele to apply for another grant supported by Nelson.  Motion Carried.

 

Usakowski had a list of non-union employees.  We have not increased any of our boards in sixteen years.  If we want to increase the board members wages it’s okay, if not then that’s okay too. 

 

Discussion.

 

Deland motioned to increase the non-union employee’s wages by 3% and bring back the fire fighters, board members and elected offices to the next meeting supported by Ward.

 

ROLL CALL VOTE:  YES:  Deland, Ward, Usakowski, Jackson, Wrubel, Hoffman and Nelson.  NO:  None.  ABSENT:  None.  (7-0-0) Motion Carried.

Wrubel explained that this is our annual insurance policy from MMRA.

 

Ward motioned to approve the one-time payment of $47,946.00 to MMRA for insurance supported by Nelson.

 

ROLL CALL VOTE:  YES:  Ward, Nelson, Usakowski, Jackson, Wrubel, Hoffman and Deland.  NO:  None.  ABSENT:  None.  (7-0-0) Motion Carried.

 

Usakowski explained that Joi Torrello has $50,000.00 of ARPA Funds available for us to use.  We have talked about several different items that we could use it for but my thoughts are to use it for a back-up generator.

 

Discussion.

 

No reports.

 

None.

 

I am starting to work on the budget.  I need everyone here to start thinking about the budget and what you, the board members, might have to add to it. 

 

I am meeting tomorrow with the document imaging. 

 

We are starting to do the email transition.  We will be moving from VC3 to Microsoft 365.

 

The BS&A transition seem to be going well.  There is a lot of functionality in there that we haven’t fully used.

 

If you haven’t seen, there is a for sale sign on North River Road just east of Wadhams.  The Decker’s have listed that property with a realtor.  I have talked to the realtor and Community Foundation and I am meeting with the foundation on October 2nd.  We are trying to come up with a game plan to see what we can do to purchase that property.  We are also looking for funding through the Michigan Department of Natural Resources through the Trust Fund which would cover fifty percent of the purchase price.  We are working with Community Foundation to see what else we can do to get monies to purchase that.  They are asking around $330,000.00 for the property.

 

I did talk to the county about ditching on Anglewood.  They said it will be very expensive.

 

We are in the middle of elections and hopefully the ballots will get here by Friday so we can get them out by next Wednesday or Thursday.

 

We have a tentative date of October 1st for the scuba guys to go inside the water tower to do testing and maintenance.

 

Jackson gave is financial report.

 

Property east of the park may be for sale.

 

No report.

 

Do we have a date for the fall clean-up to put in the newsletter?

 

Usakowski:  Saturday, October 19th only and no tires will be accepted.

 

No ZBA meeting.

 

I am still trying to locate video and sound people to come in and give us a bid.

 

We had our Little League Annual meeting last night and I was voted in as the president again.

 

We will have the park cleaned up by October 13th.  I told everyone that the park will be closing for the season on October 27th.

 

Wrubel motioned to adjourn the meeting at 7:54 p.m. supported by Nelson.

Motion Carried.

 

Meeting adjourned at 7:45 p.m.

 

Submitted by Becky Wrubel, Clerk