1.
Call to Order:
Vice Chair Reiss called the meeting to order at with a quorum present at 6:03 p.m. at the Elm River Township Hall.
2.
Roll
Call:
Members Present: B. Sibilsky, D. Johnson, J. Reiss, and T.
Condon
Members Absent: Chairman S. Hagan arrived 6:12 p.m.
Visitors: present Supervisor Maki, and others *note various attendants for the
T.B. meeting arrived throughout the meeting.
3.
Approval
of the Agenda:
Commissioner
Condon motioned to accept agenda with addition of New Business Budget,
supported by Commissioner Sibilsky
VOICE VOTE: All ayes. November 12, 2009 Agenda approved.
4.
Approval
of Meeting Minutes from: October 15, 2009
Commissioner Condon motioned to approve
Regular Meeting Minutes of October 15, 2009 supported by Vice Chair Reiss.
VOICE VOTE: All ayes. October 15,
2009 Meeting Minutes approved.
5.
Scheduled Public Hearings: none
6.
Other Matters for Review: none
7.
Correspondences:
8.
Old Business:
a.
Township Board Report:
i.
Supervisor
Maki clarified differences between Non-Zoning Ordinances and Zoning Ordinances,
authority of town board to enact, land division ordinance, blight, junk car and
noise ordinances. County ordinances,
process. Master Plan can have verbiages
with similar. Plan Commission would
like newsletter to clarify, so that residents may be better informed, as some
members are getting phone calls.
ii.
Commissioner
Sibilsky reported the T.B. received a 2010 Census detailed map, not sure if it will
good for our use.
b.
Progress on Sections of Master Plan
i.
Chair
Hagan same
ii.
Commissioner
Condon No new direction, expressed need for maps.
iii.
Commissioner
Sibilsky Working on getting pictures and Census Map.
iv.
Vice
Chair Reiss Working on verbiage, may need help with graphs, will invite Susan
Burack and GIS Nels Anderson to December meeting.
Correction:
Vice-Chair Reiss working on verbiage may need help with graphs, will invite
Susan Burack to December meeting. Chair
Hagan will invite GIS Nels Anderson to December meeting.
v.
Secretary
Johnson gathering information.
c.
Status of Survey
i.
Thank
you to Secretary Johnson for posting presentation on the township web
site. Noted that you will need recent
version of Adobe Reader to download.
ii.
Commissioner
Condon surmised impressions from board on presentation, majority plus, few
minus, 30 – 30 – 40 on zoning.
9.
New Business:
a.
Meeting Dates 2010 and remainder of year
i.
Chair
Hagan motion the following meeting dates for the remainder of 2009 and 2010
through September, secretary Johnson supported.
VOICE VOTE: All ayes. Meeting Dates approved.
December 17, 2009 changed to December 16 @ 7
p.m.
January 21, @ 7 p.m.
February 11, @ 6 p.m. then Joint with T.B. 7
p.m.
March 11, @ 7 p.m.
April 8, @ 7 p.m.
May ? joint meeting with T.B.
June 14 @ 7 p.m.
July 12 @ 7 p.m.
August
? joint meeting with T.B.
September 13 @ 7 p.m.
b.
Budget
need to gather hard cost
data for T.B. annual Budget meeting in March.
10.
Public Hearing Dates next meeting December 16, 2009 @ 7:00 p.m.
11.
Public Comment (3 minutes):
a.
Tom
Ward asked if board was working with the County Plan: Chair Hagan responded yes
that it would dovetail county plan.
b.
Mary
Ann Jarvi asked about changes to Bill Nichols Trail: Chair Hagan responded that
would be a question for the T.B.
12.
Additional Comments Planning Commission: none noted
13.
Adjournment:
Secretary Johnson motioned to adjourn,
supported by Commissioner Condon
VOICE VOTE: All ayes. Meeting adjourned 6:45 p.m.
Minutes Approved on
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