Middlebury Township PO Box 622, Ovid, Michigan 48866 Regular Meeting 7627 W. M-21, Ovid, MI Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 7:00 pm REGULAR MEETING Call to Order: Supervisor Herendeen called the meeting to order at 7:36 pm. Board Members Present: Supervisor Michael Herendeen, Clerk Jamie Aldrich, Treasurer Jill Ruess, Trustee Gene Ruess, and Trustee Ronald Powell Guests Present: Guests were present: Gary Keiger, Carl Chalker, Jodi Medina, Carrie Meisel, Mark Darling, Josh Haley Scheduled Comments: Josh Haley, spoke about getting new tasers for Shiawassee county via grants. Looking forward to seeing what the speedway has forward. Public Comments: Opened at 7:38 pm Closed at 7:38 pm Motion to Approve Agenda: Jamie Aldrich made a motion to approve agenda as amended. Geno Ruess seconded the motion. Voice Vote: Ayes: All Nays None Carried Motion to Approve Minutes: Mike Herendeen made a motion to approve with discussion and changes the February 11th, 2024 minutes. Jamie Aldrich seconded the motion. Changes made to minutes, showing Genos vote on page 2,3 motion misspelled and corrected. Voice Vote: Ayes: All Nays: None Carried Motion to approve Bills Jill Ruess made a motion to approve bills from General Fund ck# 6335-6351 $8,983.42 and EFT’S $3,464.75 For a total amount $12,448.17. Gene Ruess seconded the motion. Roll Call Vote: Ayes: J. Aldrich-Yes M. Herendeen-Yes J. Ruess-Yes, G. Ruess-Yes, R. Powell-Yes Nays: None Carried Communications: MTA- No meeting since 2024 Library- We had our meeting on March 26th, went over monthly happenings and financials. They have applied for a grant to purchase an AED for the library. The board made a decision to purchase one regardless if we get the grant or not. Discussed the cleaning contract and made decision to find a new cleaning company, they will be getting bids for that. Appointed an IT committee for all upcoming IT changes. We had our first meeting on March 3rd. Jill Ruess made a motion to pay library rep, Angela Wheeler for meetings of the library IT committee at standard meeting rate. Ron Powell seconded the motion. Ayes: J. Aldrich-Yes M. Herendeen-Yes J. Ruess-Yes, G. Ruess-Yes, R. Powell-Yes Nays: None Carried OMESA- Brush truck, replaced old ambulance. Clerk- None Assessor- Absent Treasurer- Have some CD’s coming due that will transfer. Business: 1. Michigan’s Sick time ACT. I have done some research through MTA and been reading through the Clerk Digest. Seems that the ACT has created more questions then answers. Most of the townships are sitting down as a board and creating a “Time off Policy” spelling out who receives sick time and how it is approved. There is also a lot of discussing with township attorneys about who qualifies. Some have been advised that no one is exempt. Some are waiting on advisal from council how to proceed. MTA Payroll Precision Webinar. Angela would like to attend this tomorrow. Cost is $25.00 She has done some research on the new sick time accrual and would like to attend as they have discussed on the online form. Jamie Aldrich made the motion to approve Angela to attend the webinar. Gene Ruess seconded the motion. J. Aldrich- Yes M. Herendeen- Yes J. Ruess- Yes G. Ruess- Yes R. Powell- Yes Nay-None 2. Deputy Supervisor pay. Audit/F65/GL Entrys. J. Aldrich made motion to have Maner Costerisan file the F-65 with the state. J. Ruess seconded the motion. J. Aldrich- Yes M. Herendeen- Yes J. Ruess- Yes G. Ruess- Yes R. Powell- Yes Nay-None 3. ARPA Adjusting entrys. Jamie will move them 4. New Sweep account GL set up. Jamie will get with BSA on how to set account up. 5. Monthly Reports needed in meeting packets. Find over budget report and include in monthly reports. 6. Home office pay out. Please make sure that you put this on your time sheet for April. Old Business: 1. Driveway acquisition. Spicer survey markers need to be returned. G. Ruess follow up them. Gene noticed they did add orange ribbon to some of the markers but does not think that they have pulled the markers. Nothing to report Final Comments: Opened at 8:29 pm Closed at 8:34 pm Jill would like to discuss new building. Geno will reach out to Antrim township to see what they built. Ron Powell asked about chicken ordnance. This is at the county level. Motion to adjourn the meeting: 8:35 Adjourned at 8:35 pm . Next meeting April 8th, 2025 at 7:00pm X Angela Wheeler Deputy Clerk