Board minutes
2023-12-12 Regular Board Minutes
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Middlebury Township Minutes 00/00/0000
Middlebury Township PO Box 622, Ovid, Michigan 48866
Regular Meeting
7627 W. M-21, Ovid, MI
Tuesday December 12, 2023 7:00 pm
REGULAR MEETING
Call to Order:
Supervisor Swan called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm.
Board Members Present:
Supervisor Jeffery Swan, Clerk Jamie Aldrich, Treasurer Jill Ruess, Trustee Greg Atwood and Trustee Gene
Ruess
Guests Present: Guests were present: 8 Marlene Webster, Mark Darling, Mike Herendeen, Gary Keiger,
Dennis (representing Owosso Speedway), Satendra Guru, Mark Holly
Scheduled Comments: Marlene Webster- courthouse renovations are complete and everyone is moved
back in. All dog licenses must go through the County Treasurer, no longer done at local entities. County is
looking at verbiage for upcoming energy bill. Medical facility in county is proposing expansion.
Public Comments: Opened at 7:02 pm Closed at 7:20 pm
Wants to buy property from Crow Auctions, wants to open vineyard. Needs to make sure that we will
allow wine tasting.
Owosso Speedway, improvements going strong.
Motion to Approve Agenda:
G. Atwood made a motion to approve agenda as amended. G. Ruess seconded the motion.
Voice Vote: Ayes: All Nays None Carried
Motion to Approve Minutes:
J. Ruess made a motion to amend the minutes G. Atwood seconded the motion.
Voice Vote: Ayes: All Nays: None Carried
Motion to approve Bills
J. Aldrich made a motion to approve bills J. Ruess second the amendment to approve bills from General
Funds in the amount of 6055-6067 for $6,787.52 an EFT for $1,216.87 and Road Fund Check #1083 For a
total amount $59,288.11
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Roll Call Vote: Ayes: J. Aldrich, G. Atwood, G. Ruess, J. Ruess, J. Swan
Communications:
MTA- Meetings are moved to every other month, next meeting February 2024
Library- Library will have updates starting in February. New floors, painting etc. Updates had not been
done in 27 years.
OMESA- Working on S.O.P. Getting new fire truck, around April.
Clerk- no updates
Assessor- 3 B.O.R. cases. Will get new numbers from the county sometime next year.
Business:
1. New Hall: Table until next year.
2. Ambulance Services: Fees have gotten extremely expensive. Jeff went over spreadsheet
with proposals from Owosso and Laingsburg. Spoke about needing to increase our millage
to cover the cost. Jeff proposed that we get the wording together for the proposal and
have Matt McKone look over the proposal to replace our current millage. Spoke about
getting the word out to people to give them the information needed to understand the
millage.
Final Comments: Opened at 7:55 pm Closed at 7:56 pm
G. Atwood questioned the missing signs on Glenwood. Jeff spoke to Chris Cannon about getting the signs
replaced and they are working on it.
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Motion to adjourn the meeting: Adjourned at 7:56pm
Meeting adjourned by Supervisor Swan.
Next meeting January, 9th 2023 at 7:00pm
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Angela Wheeler
Deputy Clerk