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Votes at a glance: Grosse Ile Township Board, April 14 meeting
Summary
Summary of formal actions taken at the April 14 meeting, including consent agenda approval, equipment purchases, personnel and ordinance actions, contracts and utility compliance agreements.
The Grosse Ile Township Board of Trustees recorded these formal outcomes on April 14.
Votes at a glance - Consent agenda (file 25-001): Approved (voice vote). Items included minutes of 03/24/2025 regular meeting; check register through 04/11/2025; authority to process payments through 05/02/2025; resignation of a construction board of appeals member; electrical inspector contract; community development reports; sale of used Ford Explorer police vehicles; police commission resignation.
- Action item 1 — Airport batwing purchase: Approved (voice vote). Motion: Purchase a used Woods BW 15 52 batwing rotary cutter from Doable Equipment Incorporated in the amount of $20,395.70; contingent on final approval of the Grosse Ile Airport Commerce Park Commission. Delivery estimated 1–2 months.
- Action item 2 — Nonunion employee wage adjustments (FY 2025–26): Approved (voice vote). Motion: Authorize adjustments to nonunion wages in accordance with the attached chart dated 04/03/2025; proposed rate includes a 2.5% market/CPI-inclusive adjustment and is built into the 2025–26 budget.
- Action item 3 — Accept fire chief retirement: Approved (voice vote). Motion: Accept retirement of John Camilleri from the position of fire chief effective 04/05/2025.
- Action item 4 — Ordinance amendment (Chapter 2-58, public right-of-way): Approved (voice vote). Motion: Amend section 2-58-20 to allow the township safety officer to enforce Article 2, including stop-work authority for unsafe construction.
- Action item 5 — Bridge commission ordinance: Approved (roll-call vote 5–2). Motion: Approve and authorize publication of the attached bridge commission ordinance. The board debated membership size and staff participation before approving the ordinance as presented; ordinance to be published and become effective the day after publication.
- Action item 6 — Hydrocorp residential and commercial cross-connection agreements: Approved (voice vote). Motion: Authorize execution of residential and commercial cross-connection service agreements with Hydrocorp to implement Part 14 compliance under the Michigan Safe Drinking Water Act administrative rules.
- Action item 7 — Toll bridge engineering services (H&H): Approved (voice vote). Motion: Accept H&H Engineering proposal at cost not to exceed $3,427,000 for design, construction and compliance engineering services for the toll bridge.
Notes: Where the transcript records roll-call tallies, they are listed above. Where the meeting used voice votes, the record shows approval or passage but did not include a full roll-call tally in the public transcript. For items that included contingency language (for example, the batwing purchase contingent on Airport Commerce Park Commission approval), the transcript states that contingency explicitly.
