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Votes at a glance: commission approves sewer, parking-lot and pension actions; schedules zoning vote
Summary
The Traverse City City Commission approved a set of construction and maintenance contracts, authorized a pension-waiver application and committed to a 2,000-ton road-salt purchase for 2025–26 at its March 17 meeting, and introduced a zoning amendment for possible enactment April 7.
The Traverse City City Commission on March 17 approved a group of consent items and a set of pulled items, including contracts for sewer and parking-lot work, a one-time pension contribution and a commitment to purchase road salt for the 2025–26 season.
The consent calendar was approved as amended after commissioners pulled items 5, 6, 7, 10 and 13 for questions. Pulled items were discussed and approved individually before the meeting moved on to other business. Several separate motions and roll calls followed during the meeting.
Among the actions the commission took: it authorized engineering and construction agreements for the West Side sanitary sewer rehabilitation project; approved an amendment and additional work on a galvanized water-service replacement contract; approved the purchase of a V-box spreader with a liquid applicator for the city garage; authorized submission of an application under Michigan’s Protecting Local Government Retirement and Benefit Act and adoption of a resolution to make an additional contribution to the Municipal Employees’ Retirement System; accepted the city’s audited financial statements for fiscal 2023–24; and approved an amendment to add 1,000,000 gallons-per-day of capacity to the city’s bulk-water contract with Garfield Township.
The commission also introduced, for possible enactment on April 7, an amendment to the city zoning code that would change how many dwelling units an R-2 lot may contain, and voted to extend certain pilot and committee work on downtown streets.
Votes of record, motions and the items they covered are summarized below.
