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Votes at a glance: DPS Commission approves draft budgets, accepts bills and minutes, and recommends appointment
Summary
The commission approved minutes and bills, recommended the 2025–26 draft budgets for drainage, roads, water, sewer, wastewater treatment and refuse to the township board (including the staff-proposed water service-charge increase), and voted to recommend appointing Lance Schmitke to the commission vacancy.
At its meeting the DPS Commission recorded several formal actions and recommendations.
Votes and formal actions - Minutes: The commission approved the minutes of the Feb. 11 meeting (motion and second were made on the record; vote recorded as unanimous by voice). No objections were recorded. - Bills: The commission approved payment of bills listed in the packet (pages 42–46); commissioners voted aye and the motion passed. - Budget recommendation: The commission voted to recommend the draft 2025–26 budgets for drainage, roads, water, sewer, wastewater treatment and refuse to the township board. The motion (moved by Stankel; second by Ray Bridal) carried by voice vote. The recommendation includes staff’s proposed increase in the quarterly fixed water service charge (from $17.50 to $24.32), which staff estimates would generate about $111,142 in additional revenue to offset part of a GLWA wholesale rate increase. - Appointment recommendation: The commission voted to recommend that the township board appoint Lance Schmitke to fill the current DPS vacancy; the recommendation will be forwarded to the township board for approval at its April 24 meeting.
Notes and next steps - Several approvals were recorded by voice vote with no roll-call breakdown published in the meeting minutes; where vote tallies were not recorded, the meeting transcript records unanimous "Aye" calls and no recorded objections. The commission recommended budget and appointment items to the township board; final approvals and any rate ordinance will be decided by the board after required public hearings and formal votes. - Staff will schedule the public hearing on any water-rate adjustment (customarily held in June or July) and will update the budget based on final bid results for sewer work before finalizing appropriations.
The commission’s recommendation to the township board on the draft budgets and the appointment recommendation are the formal outcomes advanced from this meeting.
