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Putnam Township supervisor asks Pinckney to share spring cleanup cost; resident objects to manager holding multiple roles
Summary
During public comment at the Jan. 12 Village of Pinckney meeting, Putnam Township Supervisor Tom Chambers asked the council to pay an additional one-third of a joint spring cleanup cost; resident Raymond Rau opposed a village manager simultaneously serving as zoning administrator and Village President. No council action on those requests is recorded.
At the Jan. 12 Village of Pinckney council meeting, Putnam Township Supervisor Tom Chambers asked the council to contribute an additional one-third of the cost for a joint spring cleanup junk drive with Unadilla and Putnam townships. The request was recorded during the open public comment period; the minutes do not record a council vote or formal response to the funding request.
Also during open comment, Raymond Rau distributed documents and spoke against the village manager serving concurrently as zoning administrator and Village President. The minutes record his opposition but do not show any council reply or corrective action in the same meeting.
Later in the meeting’s public forum, Julie Amy spoke in support of the character of the current Village President. Public commenting closed at 7:10 p.m.; the public forum closed at 8:33 p.m. The minutes do not indicate that the council took formal action on the spring cleanup funding request or on the governance concern raised by Rau.
Because the minutes record only the statements, not any council commitments or votes on these public-comment items, further follow-up would be required to determine whether the council will consider the funding request or address the governance concern at a future meeting.
