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Pinckney council appoints Trisha Wagner, tables two proposals; 10% water/sewer rate increase dies for lack of second
Summary
At its April 27 meeting the Village of Pinckney council unanimously approved the appointment of Trisha Wagner to a vacant trustee seat, tabled proposed changes to water-bill enforcement and a rental-housing inspection program, and allowed a proposed 10% water and sewer rate increase to die when no one seconded the motion.
Village President J. Buerman called the Village of Pinckney regular council meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. on April 27, 2026, and the council took several formal actions, including the appointment of a new trustee and votes to table two proposed ordinances.
President Buerman recommended Trisha Wagner to fill a vacant council trustee position; Trustee Bierman moved to approve the recommendation and Trustee Coppersmith seconded. The motion passed on a unanimous roll call vote and Trisha Wagner was sworn in by Village Clerk A. McCall.
The council then addressed several proposed resolutions. A proposed amendment to section 51.11 concerning water-bill enforcement was discussed and Trustee Coppersmith moved to table the measure; Trustee Bierman seconded and the motion to table carried on a unanimous roll call vote. Later, a separate resolution to create a rental housing inspection program under Village Code Chapter 155 was likewise tabled after a motion from Trustee Coppersmith and a second from Trustee Bierman; that motion also passed unanimously.
Trustee Self moved to accept a resolution that would have raised water and sewer rates by 10 percent, but the motion received no second and therefore died without a vote to advance.
A routine consent agenda was approved earlier in the meeting on a motion by Trustee Self, seconded by Trustee Bierman, carried on a unanimous roll call vote.
President Buerman also noted a previously considered marijuana license transfer agreement and said, "unless anyone had any questions, he would sign it and send it out," indicating administrative follow-through on that item.
The council scheduled a special meeting for May 18 at 6:30 p.m. The regular meeting adjourned at 8:14 p.m.
What the votes mean: where motions were "tabled," the council paused consideration of those measures without adopting their provisions; the proposed 10% rate increase did not proceed because it lacked a second. No ordinance or rate change was adopted at this meeting.
