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• Township compensation increases nearing $600,000 in just one vote, including unbudgeted mid-year raises, reclassification into higher municipal pay scales at 100% of new ranges, enhanced benefits, and subsequent Board raises — while Fire Department training budgets were reduced to make the budget numbers work.
   

• Utility-scale Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) raising concerns about emergency response readiness, documented fire and smoke incidents in other communities, environmental and water protection, and ordinance drafts wrote to allow siting near homes, farms, and livestock — including a project proposed along S. Van Kal Street.
   

• Sewer projects imposed, with additional neighborhoods required to connect despite widespread objections. These projects often involve significant connection and assessment fees, leaving residents questioning cost, necessity, timing, and the process used to mandate expansion.
   

• FOIA requests that several residents report were not fully fulfilled, including written responses from staff stating additional township communication records were not required to be produced. These experiences have contributed to concerns about transparency and access to information.
   

• Budgeting and capital planning practices, including unusually large year-to-year fund carryovers, a reported $24 million increase in Township assets, and major projects advanced under the assumption that securing partial grant funding justifies significant resident-funded obligations. Residents have questioned whether these long-term commitments are being adequately discussed or consented to.
   

• Expanded and stricter parking and site rules affecting schools, churches, businesses, and residential properties. Residents view these changes as unnecessary regulatory overreach.
   

• Expanded sidewalk and snow mandates approved by the Board — even amid public and media pushback — that residents and businesses view as overreach with unclear guidelines and uncapped fines with possible property liens.
   

• Resident emails and phone calls regarding questions, zoning, infrastructure, and development that residents report were not returned or acknowledged.
   

• Property assessment classification concerns have also been raised regarding property assessment classifications that residents believe were applied inconsistently across many properties, affecting tax treatment.
   

Michigan law allows voters to recall elected officials when residents believe trust, transparency, or representation has been compromised. 

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A recall petition is a lawful civic tool that allows residents to bring important questions directly to voters.

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Signing a recall petition:

• Does not remove any official from office

• Places the question on the ballot

• Allows voters to weigh in now, rather than waiting through the remaining years of the Board’s term for major decisions to continue.