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Millington Township board approves budgets, employee contracts, earned sick time and streaming move to Zoom
Summary
At its Feb. 17 meeting, the Millington Township Board approved the 2025 fire budget, paid bills totaling $539,328.95, adopted earned sick-time accrual effective Feb. 21, 2025, approved employee contracts and a deputy clerk stipend, and voted to buy Zoom streaming for public meetings.
Millington Township Supervisor R. Loomis called the Feb. 17, 2025, regular meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. at the Millington Township Hall. The board approved the meeting agenda and the Jan. 20 minutes before taking up financial and administrative business.
The board voted to pay bills presented by the treasurer, with the meeting record showing disbursements by fund of: General $53,435.34; Fire $10,341.94; Police $3,703.07; Refuse $27,823.00; Tax Collection $442,921.13; IFT Tax Collection Fund $1,104.47, for a total of $539,328.95. The treasurer reported fund balances totaling $1,796,584.76.
The board approved the 2025 fire budget. Members noted that Millington will cover 60% of the total fire cost while Arbela Township covers the remaining 40%.
On personnel and workplace rules, the board approved a package of administrative measures. Members voted to implement employee contracts and to review them annually at the budget workshop. The board approved moving the deputy clerk from hourly pay to a $1,150-a-year stipend retroactive to Nov. 20, 2024. The board also approved increasing the administrative assistant’s pay from $14.50 an hour to $17 an hour retroactive to Jan. 20, 2025.
The board debated implementing earned sick time (ESTA) and voted that employees will begin accruing earned sick time starting Friday, Feb. 21, 2025.
On meeting access, the board approved switching recording and streaming of meetings to the Zoom platform at an estimated cost of $15 per month and authorized purchase of a television for the office so in-person attendees can view documents and livestream content.
The board signed a contract with SafeBuilt, the township’s code enforcement/vendor partner, after members said earlier contract questions had been answered.
Public comment opened at 7:54 p.m.; eight people spoke and three letters were read. The public-comment period closed at 8:09 p.m. The meeting adjourned at 8:37 p.m.
What happens next: Most of the personnel changes and the Zoom purchase will be implemented administratively; the ESTA accrual is effective Feb. 21, 2025. The clerk and township staff will process the retroactive payments and stipends as approved by the board.
