Goo blast summary committee approved

Clinton Township – As a persecution against the owner of the Goo Smoke Shop will continue later this month, Clinton Township Trustes approved their own research along festive lines.

The Clinton Township Board of Trustees voted 4-3 on 4-3 February to set up a committee to develop a summary of the events around the Goo Smoke Shop Fire and Explosions. Initially presented at the board meeting of January 27, the maker of the proposal, Trustee Dan Kress, said the council that the group would develop a summary for the three latest part -time trustees.

“It is a summary with three board members that we have put together,” said Kress. “There is no public input. There is no public hearing. Because it is a committee of three people, it is not an open meeting and I am looking for just information that we share with each other, or we share in a closed session. “

According to the pre -document that was submitted to the 10 February meeting agenda package, the Summary Committee has the task of looking in (ING) in the permits of the municipality, approvals, regulations, emergency alarm system and general response “to” offer an honest “Summary including the financial costs that are ultimately left to our taxpayers. “The last summary developed by the Commission would” include an overview and ultimately a special recognition certificate for every dedicated and heroic firefighter, police officer or municipal employee who defied the sight during and after the explosion. “

The move to form the committee comes to the board almost a year after the fire, as well as one year after the election of Kress and months after King and Wade themselves were chosen. Kress said he did not receive an update about the incident since he officially joined the board.

“We (managers) are about facts in the dark,” said Kress. “As for whether the case is closed. About whether the EPA investigation (was concluded), the ATF, FBI. If there is a report, we have never shared that and that is nothing of that privileged information for you (supervisor Paul Gieleghem) or the planner to have or for someone. The board must remain tailored to what happens, what happened and plan ahead in the spirit of transparency. “

Approval of the group came along party lines with all administrative republicans – Trustes Kress and Wade together with Township treasurer Mike Aiello and Township Clerk Kim Meltzer – votes to approve Democrats King and Julie Matuzak, together with Gieleghem – against votes with concern with concern with concern concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern with concern that the committee’s work could influence the legal proceedings in favor of the owner of Goo.

“I want us to learn what we can learn about what happened,” said Matuzak. “I want us to ensure that our regulations are in the best possible form, that we can do this. I am just worried that having this committee by accident can really harm this criminal proceedings, and I am very worried about that. “

Gieleghem told administrators Macomb County public prosecutor Peter Lucido did not advise him to “harm a jury” and told deputy supervisor than O’Leary not to have the municipality ruin (his) business. “Township Attorney Jack Dolan said managers that the municipality collaborated with state legislators to force the attorney general Dana Nessel by Michigan to give an opinion about whether the municipality could investigate companies like Goo Smoke Shop without prior warning.

“You catch criminals who want to be unnoticed by being able to surprise them, and we hope that we can get a statement that we can enter this kind of facilities without giving knowledge so that they can (with), whatever, whatever they did Illegal, disguised or hide it, removed the items and so on, “said Dolan.

The AG’s opinion would be used to lead changes to the regulation code with regard to searches.

Dolan also pushed back against a claim in the proposal of Kress stating that the investigation by the federal government into the explosion had ended. While cleaning up the site of the site site ended, Dolan said that he was not aware of ongoing investigations and that the official position of the FBI would not be confirmed or refused to any investigation.

Kress expressed the willingness to have the public release of the summary remembered until the end of the legal proceedings.

Change elections

Trustees also voted 5-2 to reduce the number of voting dishes in half, reducing the number of 42 to 20 and the number of voting locations from 23 to 19. Up to 4,999 people in 2023 and was described by Matthew Cheung, election coordinator, as a cost -saving measure and a response to a growing number of absent voters.

The measure also removed early vote as an option for the Bond election of the Bond election of Mount Clemens Community Schools.

Gieleghem and King voted against the measure.

For another election issue, managers voted unanimously to use $ 29,900 in subsidy funds to buy cameras, video recorders and other equipment to check ballot papers in the municipality.