Trustees approve emulsion purchase; road staff to inspect culverts after heavy rain damage reports

Mark, the township road superintendent, requested and trustees approved a purchase order to North Coast Products for $4,812 to buy 1,500 gallons of emulsion used in the township's dirt patcher to repair roads. Mark and trustees also discussed a driveway and culvert problem reported by a resident after an intense rainstorm. A resident identified in the transcript as Mike (name varies in the record) had reported water coming across the road and onto his driveway after what trustees described as an intense storm on June 15 with about "4 or 5 inches in an hour." Mark and another trustee said the county engineer had performed runoff evaluations and that the area includes two streams that meet near the site, creating a retention area; they noted an apparent bottleneck where a 6‑foot culvert transitions to an 18‑ to 24‑inch pipe under the driveway. Mark said he would inspect the culverts with a trustee in the next day or two to look for obstructions and to determine whether the culvert sizing or alignment contributed to the flooding. The county's position, as reported during the meeting, was that the problem at the driveway is on private property and that engineer work upstream was intended to limit flow; trustees cautioned there is no guarantee a reworked driveway or culvert will prevent similar flooding from an event of the magnitude described. There were no motioned directives to require county action recorded at the meeting; the trustees approved the emulsion PO and asked road staff to follow up with a site inspection and coordination with county engineers.