The Delhi Charter Township Board of Trustees met in a regular meeting on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 in the Multipurpose Room at the Community Services Center, 2074 Aurelius Road, Holt, Michigan. Supervisor Goodrich called the meeting to order at 7:38 p.m.

Members Present: Supervisor Stuart Goodrich, Treasurer Harry Ammon, Clerk Evan Hope, Trustees John Hayhoe, Jerry Ketchum, Paul Krepps, Roy Sweet

Others Present:

John Elsinga, Twp. Mgr.
Marian Frane, Dir. of Accounting
Mark Jenks, Director of Parks and Recreation
Sandra Diorka, Superintendent of Public Services
Tracy Carney-Miller, Dir. of Community Development
Tricia Vander Ploeg, Admin. Assistant/Dep. Supervisor
Amy Finch, Assistant Twp. Clerk/Deputy Clerk

Supervisor Goodrich recognized students in the audience from Holt High School.

The Board reviewed a memorandum dated June 1, 2006 from Twp. Mgr. Elsinga (ATTACHMENT I).

A Roll Call Vote was recorded as follows:

Ayes: Hayhoe, Hope, Ketchum, Krepps, Sweet, Ammon, Goodrich

The Board reviewed memorandums dated June 1, 2006 from Marian Frane, Director of Accounting and June 2, 2006 from Twp. Mgr. Elsinga (ATTACHMENT II).

A Roll Call Vote was recorded as follows:

Ayes: Hope, Ketchum, Krepps, Sweet, Ammon, Goodrich, Hayhoe

The Board reviewed a memorandum dated June 1, 2006 from Twp. Mgr. Elsinga (ATTACHMENT III).

Trustee Hayhoe asked if there would be a ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of the Skate/Bike Park. Supervisor Goodrich stated that there would be a ribbon cutting ceremony during the Holt Hometown Festival.

Trustee Sweet asked to abstain from voting on this motion due to the fact the he is an employee of the Holt Public School District and wishes to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest.

A Voice Poll was recorded as follows: All Ayes

A Roll Call Vote was recorded as follows:

Ayes: Ketchum, Krepps, Ammon, Goodrich, Hayhoe, Hope

Abstained: Sweet

A Voice Poll was recorded as follows: All Ayes

Goodrich: OK, our public hearing is open.

Diorka: Good evening gentlemen. My name is Sandra Diorka and I am the Publicly Owned Treatment Works Superintendent and I am here tonight to introduce, um, Curt Christeson from Hubbell, Roth and Clark who, who is the Vice-President of HRC and Tom Grant who is the Senior Project Manager from Hubbell, Roth and Clark. We are tonight; presenting to the public, the project plan and this is a requirement to obtain State Revolving Fund funding for improvements at the Wastewater Plant, including new digesters and um, power generation for the production of Class A biosolids. So, Tom will give the presentation and I’ll change the slides.

Goodrich: Sam, make sure uh, explain, uh, this is going to be lengthier than what some of our public hearings are and, and the reason, the Board is not aware that some of us on the Board are aware of it, but the Trustees are not aware, understand that we also have a person in the audience from DEQ, is that correct?

Diorka: Yes, we do.

Goodrich: And who is that person?

Goodrich: OK, all right.

Diorka: Her name is Cindy

Clendenon: Clendenon

Diorka: Clendenon, and she is going to be the representative at the DEQ that works with us for the State Revolving Funding as well as the possibility of a grant that we will talk about in a resolution later in the agenda.

Goodrich: Welcome. If you need one of those signed to take back to your boss, we will be more than happy to sign it as we do for the students also, OK, all right.

Diorka: Also, I would like to let people know that who ever is here for the public hearing needs to sign in on a separate sheet, if anyone is here for the public hearing. We need to have a separate accounting of who is here specifically for this public hearing. Also, we are going to be required to have a verbatim transcript of this public hearing produced. And what Tom will be doing is going through and reading into the record while he is presenting on the PowerPoint what the project plan is going to include.

Goodrich: For the students, this is the exciting part of our, our uh, our meeting, so stay alert, OK. Why don’t we turn that light off?

Grant: Hi, I’m Tom Grant from Hubbell, Roth and Clark. We have been working with the Township for the past few months on the digesters improvement projects and uh, probably within the past four months, we have decided to uh, seek some assistance in funding for this project through the MDEQ.

Hope: Excuse me uh, right here. If you are going to set on the side, could you use like a hand held microphone or

Grant: I’ll move this closer.

Hope: It would help, make sure you get right, talk into it.

Grant: OK. The reason for the project plan is to make application for State Revolving Fund or SRF assistance from the uh, State of Michigan through the MDEQ. This program’s administered through the MDEQ and provides low interest loans, which are currently at about 1 5/8% for qualifying projects. The program also provides uh, 90% grants for project planning, revenue system development and design engineering costs. This is a relatively new aspect of the project and was, is just coming into play now; in fact, we will be one of the first projects that will be applying for the 90% grants funds. The money will be used to finance improvements to the POTW digestion system primarily, with some additional work being done on the nitrification tower effluent pipeline chamber. And, as indicated up there, the submittal deadline for our project plan is July 1, 2006, uh, less than a month away to receive funding from the MDEQ.

Grant: A bit of a background for the uh, Wastewater Treatment Plant or POTW. It is a mechanical plant that was constructed in 1962, which consisted of the primary treatment and anaerobic sludge digestion. In 1978, additional construction included Rotating Biological Contractors or RBC’s, secondary clarifiers, polishing ponds, chlorination system and some additional anaerobic sludge digestion. In the 1980’s, additional uh, construction occurred which was basically, some sludge storage tanks were added. In 1994, some more major construction occurred where the RBC’s were replaced with an activated sludge system, new secondary clarifiers were added and attached growth nitrification tower, which is used for ammonia-nitrogen removal, was added as well. In the late 1990’s, additional sludge storage tankage was added. And in the 2000’s, additional activated sludge tankage, sodium hypochlorite for disinfection was added, headworks improvements and some additional return activated sludge pumps were provided.

Grant: As background for the project plan, the uh, POTW serves the Township area located north of a Public Infrastructure Boundary. In a minute, I’ll, I’ll show a slide that indicates where that is. It also serves a couple of areas located within the City of Lansing. One is along Aurelius Road between Willoughby Road and I-96 and within the Industrial Park located north of I-96 near the Cedar Road interchange. Also, an area that’s served in Windsor Township is a nursing facility there. A small area of the Township which is located along Willoughby Road, on the south side between Eifert and Gunn Road, does discharge to the City of Lansing Wastewater Plant, so those customers don’t discharge to, to the Delhi POTW.

Grant: In this slide you can find the basic Township outline along the north is kinda jagged due to the interface with the City of Lansing. And then, all the way down here is the southerly boundary. This red and black dashed line indicates the Public Infrastructure Boundary. And that is where the Township service, sewer service, ends uh, for service to the POTW. These uh, red squares show the uh, thirteen lift stations and I will be bringing those up in a minute as well.

Grant: So the existing wastewater treatment system is comprised of the collector sewers, including the thirteen lift stations, preliminary treatment which includes flow equalization, pumping, grinding and grit removal. Primary treatment includes two settling tanks. Secondary treatment includes six aeration tanks or activated sludge tanks, two secondary clarifiers and a nitrification tower. Disinfection includes both chlorination and dechlorination and then the solids are, are stabilized and then processed through anaerobic sludge digestion and then stored prior to them being land applied on farm land.

Grant: This is an aerial photograph showing the location. This is Grovenburg Road, the intersection of Grovenburg and McCue Road. And this is the primary area of the plant. The older portion of the plant is, is a couple of digesters here and um, the older primary tanks here. There are some lagoons over here, which are used in both flow equalization and just prior to the effluent being discharged to the Grand River. The rear portion of the plant, in fact when this picture was taken the activated sludge aeration tanks aren’t in construction here. Two secondary clarifiers, nitrification tower, uh the uh, some old sludge drying beds and these are the three or four sludge storage tanks, which hold a volume of about two million gallons of anaerobically digested sludge.

Grant: Again, this shows the location the, I’m sorry, the treatment processes of the treatment plant, it is a little more eye level, ground level aerial. Uh, the new system that is going to be constructed will be located approximately in this area and I have a slide that kinda shows a site plan of that in a little bit.

Grant: This slide shows the existing two south digesters, as well as the two existing north digesters. Both tanks will, although, the, the south digesters will be taken out of service and the north digesters will remain in service uh; I’ll explain that in a little bit too.

Grant: The project is needed because the Anaerobic Digestion System is at its capacity and it needs to be expanded to meet projected wastewater flow rates. The planning period we’re using for the project plan is 20 years. So, between now and 20 years from now, the digester sizing will, will need to handle nearly twice the flow that it’s receiving now. Two of the digesters are 44 years old. Those are the two south digesters that were built in 1962. And the two north digesters are 28 years old. One of the south digesters has been out of function for several years due to a non-functioning cover. Mixing, which is critical, in achieving proper sludge digestion, is not occurring as well as it should be. Much of the digestion system equipment is, is worn out and it’s old and it is in need of replacement. And at least two of the digesters covers require refurbishment or replacement.

Grant: The project plan requires consideration of several alternatives. The first alternative, must be what’s called the No Action alternative. This is where you consider what would happen if nothing were done and everything was just as it is, left in place as it is. Well, it would all be there. What you would lose is an ability to treat additional sludge generated from the higher projected wastewater flows, which would lead to the digestion system overloading and future non-compliance with NPDES permits limits and worker safety concerns. This alternative was not considered because of properly sized digestion system is required to handle both the current flows and the projected growth within the service area over the next 20 years.

Grant: The second alternative that we looked at was a construction of two new mesophilic digesters. These are digesters that are operated at a temperature of about 98 degrees Fahrenheit. Parts of that alternative include abandoning the two existing south digesters in place and basically just means kinda moth balling them and letting them stay. We provide some minimal restoration of the two existing north digesters and maintain those to be used in case there is some exceptionally heavy solids loading, or for emergency purposes. As well, we would construct new two mesophilic digesters in that area I showed on the site plan near the center of the POTW property. This alternative is less than the next alternative, Alternative No. 3, and there is uh, that’s positive for and it also provides for Class B biosolids and does not have any electrical power generation capabilities.

Grant: Now the selected alternatives are the Alternative No. 3. This would be a new two phase, which would be a thermophilic and mesophilic digesters, plus combined heat and power. I mentioned the mesophilic digestion occurs at a temperature of about 98 degrees Fahrenheit. The thermophilic digestion occurs at a temperature of about a hundred and thirty one degrees Fahrenheit. It’s uh, substantially warmer and things are substantially more efficient at a higher temperature. The proprietary, this is a proprietary 2PAD system that produces Class A sludge and Class A sludge provides more flexibility for ultimate disposal of the sludge solids. The combined heat and power will use the methane gas which is produced in the mesophilic digester as fuel for microturbines to which would create electrical energy for use at the Plant or distribution on the power companies grid. Extensive digester gas scrubbing and drying will be needed to prepare this methane gas for use in the microturbines. And the 2PAD system will save a significant amount of electrical energy as compared to a mixing system called vortex mixing system considered in Alternative No. 2.

Grant: This is a site plan showing the um, the two new thermophilic digesters along with the two new mesophilic digesters and a two story or a two floor building, a basement and a first floor, where the equipment for the digesters would be housed and the combined heat and power system would be as well.

Grant: Uh, cost comparison between the three alternatives shows that Alternative No. 2 is the cheapest construction cost. It has a present worth cost when you use the interest rate of the 5 1/8%, which is a mandated federal discount rate for comparing the projects and that translates to an estimated equivalent cost of about $912,000 a year. Alternative No. 3 costs more construction wise, but when you look at the present worth they’re almost equal as No. 2 and only $1,000 more on an equivalent annual basis. Now, what we were, what we’re looking at and we have applied for a grant with MSU to the 21^st Century Michigan Jobs Fund for about $250,000. It shows up as a little bit more than that, almost $400,000, but that is considering some contingencies and other factors that are built into the costs. The present worth costs and annual equivalent cost are actually, are less than Alternative No. 2 for that one, so we are hopeful of getting that $250,000 grant and that will be in relation to the combined heat and power portion of the project.

Goodrich: Let’s go one more slide.

Grant: OK. Um, looking at the user costs of these, of the alternative that was selected, Alternative No. 3; although, today the SRF rate is at 1 5/8% we assume that it’s going to go up a little bit for next fiscal year, which is when the funds for this project would be available to 1 ¾%. And we’re looking at a 20-year life of the loan. The estimated monthly cost per user is $3.18. If you compare that with the open market loan rate, or bond rate, of about 5 3/8% today if would be about $4.79, so you can see there is a little bit of savings there, about a buck sixty a month. And these costs are based on the estimated 9,765 meter equivalents that are hooked into the POTW system.

Goodrich: OK, I’m sorry to do this, but that’s, uh, we need to break for our 8:00 public hearing on a tax uh, exempt. I think we, do we

Hope: I move to open the public hearing on Resolution No. 2006-011 – Application For Industrial Facilities Tax Exemption – Fibertec, Inc.

Goodrich: OK, uh

Ammon: Second

A Voice Poll was recorded as follows: All Ayes

Tracy Miller, Director of Community Development, stated that Fibertec is a business that has qualified for industrial tax abatement under Public Act 198 providing up to 50% abatement of new taxes that would be associated with new investments related to personal property costs in the amount of $767,200. The company estimates that as a result of this improvement, they would be able to retain 41 jobs and four new positions would be created within two years of the project completion.

Ms. Miller introduced Keleigh Halmich, Fibertec Controller, to the Board. Ms. Miller further stated that Fibertec has received three other tax abatements from the Township and has, to date, followed through with their reporting requirement and completed their investment they represented in job creation.

Ms. Halmich asked the Board if they had any questions for her. Supervisor Goodrich asked if the 45 jobs are additional jobs. Ms. Halmich stated that Fibertec currently has 41 positions and will be adding four additional positions.

Trustee Sweet asked Ms. Halmich, for the sake of the public, to state what Fibertec does. Ms. Halmich stated that Fibertec is an environmental testing laboratory, which tests soil, water and air for pollutants.

A Voice Poll was recorded as follows: All Ayes

Goodrich: OK, we are back in the 7:45. Sorry to do that, next time we’ll, we hope to not have to do something like that

Grant: That’s fine.

Goodrich: Thank you.

Grant: Uh, part of the project plan needs to consider the environmental impacts of the selected alternative. The short-term impacts include positive impacts of creating indirect and induced employment during construction. That’s pretty natural and will happen. The negative impacts, again, relate to some construction noise, soil erosion, dust and fumes and increased traffic perhaps in the, in the general site.

Grant: Impacts uh, relate, long term impacts of the selected alternatives, uh, some positive impacts include improved operation of the sludge digestion system. Lower electrical and natural gas energy consumption and costs due to implantation of the new digestion system. The POTW will accommodate projected growth within the service area. And there really are no negative impacts associated with this project environmentally.

Grant: Uh, irreversible impacts uh, uh, that would occur environmentally, include non-recoverable materials that are committed to the project and are traded off to provide the improved performance and capabilities of the sludge digestion system. Some resources are public capital, energy, labor and unsalvageable materials will also be irreversible. And possible potential of construction damage or accidents during construction.

Grant: The impacts are mitigated uh, short-term construction related by establishing guidelines for vegetation removal, dust reduction and traffic control. Uh, and the soil erosion and sedimentation control permit will be obtained and complied with during construction during this project as well. The long-term impacts uh, will be uh, include that the operation of digestion, the new digestion system will be periodically reviewed and optimized process and reduce energy consumption.

Grant: The proposed schedule for this project is looking this way, Uh, by July 1^st, as I indicated before, we need to submit the project plans to the MDEQ. About November of this year we’ll submit the plans and specifications. We’ll complete those and submit those to the MDEQ for approval as well. We’re looking at starting construction in March of ‘07 and construction completion sometime in the spring, May of 2008.

Grant: I want to explain now, several changes that have occurred or will occur to the final project plan that will be submitted to the State. Uh, since the version that was issued for public comment was put out about a month ago. In Section 1, in the summary recommendations, we removed from the conclusions the improvements to two lift stations and replacement of one lift station. After further consideration, we felt that these projects required further study, uh, at significant costs to the project and we are not willing to undertake these at this time. However, we can undertake those, under this project plan, by simply submitting a supplement to the project plan at a later date within three years, if the Township desires. We also changed the selected alternative to No. 3. It was, it was mistakenly shown as No. 2 in the original project plan. In Section 2, which is titled Project Background, we made some changes to the population data after further discussions with Tri-County Regional Planning Commission uh, what they would accept for projections through year 2026. We modified slightly the Windsor Township and City of Lansing population projections within the service area as well.

Grant: In the flow rates, we modified the average and peak day flow table to include dry weather or infiltration and wet weather, inflow wastewater flow rates. And with added discussion that for this digestion system improvements project, the basis of design for digester sizing is the pounds per day of solids to be digested; which is not dependent on either the infiltration or inflow of flow rates into the sewer collection system, but it’s rather based on the baseline residential, commercial, etc. industrial wastewater flow. The modified projected commercial and industrial flow increase during the plan; the 20-year planning period will go up from 1 mgd to 1.8 mgd. And the modified projected average and peak day flows to account for population, we modified the projected and average peak day flows to account for population and the flow modifications above. As well, we’ll be modifying the influent, projected influent wastewater parameters.

Grant: The pumping stations, that I mentioned earlier, we’re removing language calling for the improvements and replacements and we’ll indicate language that these stations require additional study and a supplement to this project plan may be submitted at a later date. Section 3 is entitled Alternative Analysis. And we modified the selected Alternative No. 3 slightly to include two thermophilic digesters each at a size of 57,000 gallons, which is to provide redundancy and capacity for the planning period. Alternative No. 3A as it was originally titled was just modified to be Alternative No. 3 with State grant. In the cost comparison tables, they’ll be modified as indicated previously and use the Federal Discount Rate of 5 1/8% for the Present Worth calculations.

Grant: Section 5, entitled Selected Alternatives, we deleted Phases B and C for the lift stations, as I discussed previously. We’ve revised the estimated costs and user cost summary tables as I presented previously. And in the environmental impacts, we did have language that would indicate that there would be a minor increase in energy consumption. Actually with the 2PAD and the combined heat and power system, there will be a decrease in energy consumption.

Grant: And that sums up the presentation of the project plan, so if there are any questions, I would ask that you come to the microphone and state your name and address.

Goodrich: Could you turn on the lights. Is there any questions from the audience?

Zietlow: Uh, uh, I’m Josh Zietlow, uh, 3900 Wachtel Drive. And, um, I was just uh, wondering um, I’ve been going to the high school for two years now and the current plant, uh, on several days, um, you can, there are some highly unpleasant smells at the school. And I was just wondering, um, what or if anything would be done about that?

Goodrich: This, this is supposed to take care of that.

Zietlow: OK, thank you very much.

Goodrich: Now, also too, you want to remember that that plant has been there for 40 years and the school has been there for like three years.

Zietlow: Ya

Goodrich: Ya

Zietlow: It’s just interfering with our education.

Goodrich: Ya. Well, we certainly wouldn’t want that.

Elsinga: Um, this will go a long way toward correcting that. I would never suggest to the public that we will not have odors at a wastewater facility. But these are the solids handling processes that will be relocated further south. Probably,

Grant: ¼ mile.

Elsinga: ¼ mile or a thousand feet. And um, new construction of that type of process should certainly reduce the types of odors from that type of process and that’s a reason why we are looking at this type of process and relocating it.

Goodrich: Another thing too, is that we have, what two years ago or three years ago, we planted, we planted trees.

Elsinga: uh, huh.

Goodrich: Uh, in through that area, which will help uh, take out some of the odors also, with the uh, new trees that we planted in there. That’s always good. Anybody else? Good question. Thank you for coming forward, appreciate it.

Krepps: Can we ask?

Goodrich: Yep.

Krepps: All right, just one question. It, one part of the slide said the existing anaerobic digester system is at capacity. Is that, I mean, when you think of that is that in teams of 100% capacity or it’s, there’s some level that’s considered at capacity that’s less than 100%.

Grant: Well, it’s very close to it, if not at 100% capacity. Um, it’s, it’s, I think a previous study to ours, and ours kinda said the same thing, it really can’t take much more solids loading. Now, for the next couple of years, yes, it will work. But the goal of the next five years, it will be severely overloaded and will, will need some significant improvements.

Krepps: Thanks.

Grant: yep.

Goodrich: Anybody else on the, on the Board? Are you a part in any way as far as speaking or

Clendenon: No

Goodrich: Just a listener. Ok, all right. I guess um, can move to

A Voice Poll was recorded as follows: All Ayes

The Board reviewed a memorandum dated June 1, 2006 from Twp. Mgr. Elsinga (ATTACHMENT IV).

Twp. Mgr. Elsinga stated that the property owner recently acquired this property, which is an adult foster care home. When the property owner realized that that septic system had failed, he approached the Township.

Twp. Mgr. Elsinga stated that there is public sanitary sewer contiguous to the property with a lead up to the property line. The property owner can connect to the public sanitary sewer and pay over time, through a special assessment, at an 8% interest rate. Additionally, the property owner will have to connect the line to the home (approximately 150 feet) which could cost approximately $5,000.

A Roll Call Vote was recorded as follows:

Ayes: Krepps, Sweet, Ammon, Goodrich, Hayhoe, Hope, Ketchum

The Board reviewed memorandums dated June 1, 2006 from Sandra Diorka, Superintendent of Public Services and June 1, 2006 Twp. Mgr. Elsinga (ATTACHMENT V).

Sandra Diorka, Superintendent of Public Services, stated that the Township and the Holt Public School Board agreed to nest the school system under the Township Stormwater Phase II Permit compliance. The Township will take responsibility of the schools compliance with stormwater so that they can cancel their permit and be in compliance under the Township’s permit.

Trustee Sweet asked to abstain from voting on this motion due to the fact the he is an employee of the Holt Public School District and wishes to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest.

A Voice Poll was recorded as follows: All Ayes

A Roll Call Vote was recorded as follows:

Ayes: Ammon, Goodrich, Hayhoe, Hope, Ketchum, Krepps

Abstained: Sweet

The Board reviewed memorandums dated May 26, 2006 from Tracy Miller, Director of Community Development and May 31, 2006 from Twp. Mgr. Elsinga (ATTACHMENT VI).

Trustee Sweet asked if any of the taxing authorities responded to the Township’s notice regarding this abatement.

Clerk Hope stated that the Capital Area Transportation Authority (CATA) responded. CATA requested to be exempt from this abatement. Clerk Hope explained that one entity cannot be exempt.

A Roll Call Vote was recorded as follows:

Ayes: Ammon, Goodrich, Hayhoe, Hope, Ketchum, Krepps, Sweet

The Board reviewed a memorandum dated June 1, 2006 from Twp. Mgr. Elsinga (ATTACHMENT VII).

A Roll Call Vote was recorded as follows:

Ayes: Goodrich, Hayhoe, Hope, Ketchum, Krepps, Sweet, Ammon

The Board reviewed a memorandum dated June 1, 2006 from Twp. Mgr. Elsinga (ATTACHMENT VIII).

A Roll Call Vote was recorded as follows:

Ayes: Hayhoe, Hope, Ketchum, Krepps, Sweet, Ammon, Goodrich

The Board reviewed a memorandum dated May 9, 2006 from the Delhi Township Planning Commission (ATTACHMENT IX).

Trustee Hayhoe asked that he be excused from voting on this issue due to financial reasons.

A Voice Poll was recorded as follows: All Ayes

Tracy Miller, Director of Community Development, stated that Ron Smith owns this property. It is located to the west of the new Ranch House Restaurant and 7-11. The intent is to rezone the eastern part of the parcels that front on Burton Road to the Commercial Zoning District to enable additional parking to service the commercial businesses that front on Aurelius Road. As a part of this rezoning request, the remaining area that fronts on the residential street provides enough space, so that if, in the future, a land division were to occur, a single family residence could be constructed. The total property size is .89 acres, only .17 acres of this property will be rezoned.

A Roll Call Vote was recorded as follows:

Ayes: Hope, Ketchum, Krepps, Sweet, Ammon, Goodrich,

Abstained: Hayhoe

The Board reviewed a memorandum dated May 26, 2006 from Tracy Miller, Director of Community Development (ATTACHMENT X).

Tracy Miller, Director of Community Development, stated that Bishop Development purchased this property from the Capital City Church of God. The property is located immediately behind the residence located on 6280 Bishop Road and backs up to I-96. The Development Company has acquired a number of parcels that pretty much surround this piece and have been rezoning them over the past few years from R-1E to C-3. The developer stated that there are no immediate plans for this parcel.

Ms. Miller stated that when these parcels begin developing, the Ingham County Road Commission might wish to reconfigure the intersection of Bishop Road and M-99.

This parcel is 3.35 acres in size and is surrounded on all sides by the Capital City Church of God or Bishop Development. To the immediate south (across Bishop Road) the properties remain zoned A-1. There is a total of approximately 22 acres in this area that are zoned C-3, and Bishop Development owns approximately 14 of these acres.

Trustee Krepps stated, for clarification, that this parcel does not have any road access and could only be entered by Bishop Road, if combined with another parcel. Ms. Miller answered in the affirmative. Trustee Krepps asked if the church has placed any liens or restrictions on this property. Ms. Miller stated that she did not know.

Trustee Hayhoe stated that approximately six neighbors attended the Planning Commission Public Hearing. No objections were heard from the neighbors.

A Roll Call Vote was recorded as follows:

Ayes: Ketchum, Krepps, Sweet, Ammon, Goodrich, Hayhoe, Hope

A. Approval of Minutes – Committee of the Whole Meeting of May 16, 2006

B. Approval of Minutes – Regular Meeting of May 16, 2006

C. Approval of Claims – May 23, 2006 (ATTACHMENT XI)

D. Approval of Payroll – May 18, 2006 (ATTACHMENT XII)

E. Approval of Payroll – June 1, 2006 (ATTACHMENT XIII)

F. Utility Agreement for Sanitary Sewer between Delhi Charter Township and Hiawatha Park Development Co. – Cedar Ridge No. 2 (ATTACHMENT XIV)

G. Investment and Finance Transactions – Michigan Liquid Asset Fund+ (ATTACHMENT XV)

Trustee Sweet stated that in the Utility Agreement for Sanitary Sewer (item F) the effective date listed on the agreement is February 1. Trustee Sweet stated that this is not correct; the effective date would be when the Board approves the agreement. Tricia Vander Ploeg, Administrative Assistant/Deputy Supervisor, stated that the correction has been made on the original agreement.

A Roll Call Vote was recorded as follows:

Ayes: Krepps, Sweet, Ammon, Goodrich, Hayhoe, Hope, Ketchum

Supervisor Goodrich reminded the Board of the Goals and Objectives meeting to be held on June 7, 2006.

Treasurer Ammon stated that the Summer tax bills will be received by the property owners on July 1, 2006.

Clerk Hope stated that at the May 16, 2006 meeting, Mike Hamilton (4541 Sycamore Street) spoke about the protests at funerals and the legislation that has been passed. Clerk Hope stated that the legislation that was passed is Federal legislation, which applies to Federal cemeteries and allows the States to do the same. The legislation does not apply to the Delhi Township cemeteries, as they are public property. The Township ordinance on assemblies (Ord. No. 54) addresses assemblies of 1,500 people or more. Clerk Hope stated that the Township will continue to watch what the State does. Supervisor Goodrich asked if the Township has the ability to move forward, prior to the State moving forward. Clerk Hope stated that he did not get attorney opinion; however, his guess would be no, because it is public property.

Trustee Hayhoe stated that the Kiwanis Club will be holding their paper drive (June 16 & 17). The recycled paper is used for insulation.

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Trustee Hayhoe stated that the annual Kids Day will be held on June 10. The Township Parks Department, the Holt Lions Club and Holt Kiwanis Club sponsor this event.

Twp. Mgr. Elsinga stated that the Ingham County Road Commission is taking bids on the Huntley/Berkley Square Street resurfacing project on June 20, 2006. This will be presented to the Board at the July 18 Board of Trustees meeting.

Twp. Mgr. Elsinga stated that Jackson McDaniel, developer of Delhi Four Seasons is beginning the engineering and architecture for the Four Seasons housing.

Twp. Mgr. Elsinga stated that a subcommittee consisting of Board of Trustee and DDA Board members will be meeting on June 15 and June 22 to discuss the budget.

Enter into Executive Session –8:47 p.m.

A Voice Poll was recorded as follows: All Ayes

Regular Board meeting reconvened at 8:58 p.m.

Trustee Sweet asked to abstain from voting on this motion due to the fact the he is an employee of the Holt Public School District and wishes to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest.

A Voice Poll was recorded as follows: All Ayes

A Roll Call Vote was recorded as follows:

Ayes: Ammon, Goodrich, Hayhoe, Hope, Ketchum, Krepps

Abstained: Sweet

Meeting adjourned at 8:59 p.m.

1. Letter dated May 23, 2006 from Patrick Lindemann re: Pond Study, Lochwoode Subdivision.

2. Letter dated May 24, 2006 from Ryan Knott, Michigan Townships Association to Mayor Bernero.