The Sylvan Township Board unanimously approved the proposed 2017-2018 budget of $605,290 at its March 7 meeting.
Supervisor Tom McKernan said the board will review the budget on a quarterly basis.
The board currently has four members due to Roy Schmidt’s resignation earlier this year. McKernan said the township had received three applications for the trustee post, and that there will be an open meeting March 16 to interview the three applicants.
That trustee position will last through 2018.
The board unanimously approved a resolution for sanitary sewer metering, meaning that customers will be charged by actual volume of wastewater treatment.
There was a presentation by Jason Maciejewski from the Western Washtenaw Recycling Authority. Maciejewski told the board that in 2009, close to the time Sylvan Township stopped its membership with the WWRA, recycling in the area became a single-stream system, meaning people don’t have to sort their recycling. Maciejewski invited the township to join again. The current cost is $26 per household.
In other action, the board approved a certification for the sale of spirits in the township. Clerk Kathy Kennedy said she’d received a phone call from the Michigan Liquor Control Commission in response to a request from a township business asking permission to serve liquor at a one-day event. The commission’s records showed that liquor is illegal in Sylvan Township.
