MACOMB TOWNSHIP — On Jan. 7, the Macomb Township Board of Trustees voted unanimously to sue Shoppers Vitality for accessing an easement.
“There’s a proposed connection, two connections to current substrates that will go to Hayes Highway, which customers have now denied us and the developer,” mentioned Township Supervisor Frank Viviano. “The municipality considers this denial to be a danger to public security.”
The trustees voted on the movement after about 40 minutes of dialogue with city legal professional Jeffrey Candela. Metropolis Clerk Kristi Pozzi participated remotely as a result of medical points.
Though not rather more info was offered by the trustees after the common portion of the assembly and vote, the council launched an announcement on the matter the next day. The assertion mentioned the properties being condemned have a 24-inch high-pressure fuel line beneath them. The intent of the municipality and the developer is to accumulate easement rights to construct two roads that will connect with Hayes Highway. The town states that with out the northern of the 2 easements, a connection must be made subsequent to Beck Elementary Faculty, “creating harmful situations for kids and their households throughout drop-off and pick-up instances.”
The town says an inside coverage at Shoppers Vitality is the rationale no easements have been granted.
As of January 9, Shoppers Vitality wouldn’t touch upon the state of affairs as a result of no official lawsuit had but been filed towards them.
Ballistic glass
As a part of the renovation of the clerk’s workplace service desk, directors permitted the acquisition of ballistic glass from Mt. Clemens Glass & Mirror Inc. good for not more than $26,075.
“That is inspired in any respect clerks’ conferences, so as to add extra safety measures to the clerks’ places of work once they run the elections,” Pozzi mentioned.
The municipality initially regarded for glass from suppliers throughout the current buying cooperatives, however went past and located Mt. Clemens Glass after quotes they obtained elsewhere went for about $30,000 with highs between $23,000 and $35,000. The permitted prices embrace quotes from Mount Clemens Glass for non-compulsory additions of through-holes and metal plates, though the glass itself prices $22,940.
Broughton Highway Design Contract
Trustees permitted an settlement with skilled providers agency OHM Advisors to do design work for sidewalks alongside Broughton Highway at a value of $270,000.
Funds for the venture come from a $2.6 million Transportation Options Program grant from the Michigan Division of Transportation and the Southeast Michigan Council of Authorities. The preliminary quoted price for the design work was $288,000, however was diminished as a result of the earlier work on the Broughton Highway venture utilized to the sidewalks.
