Here's a little mini episode about our pre-meeting bet for 11/11, Veteran's Day.

All about the First Responder's Day meeting where the public came out in force to support Chief Jent!

Lonnie and Monica discuss Township Superintendent Dennis Limmatta's inept blunder. One month after the shooting and fire at the Church of Latter Day Saints, Limmatta announced he was placing Fire Chief Jamie Jent on administrative leave and that his termination would be on the Board Agenda at the meeting on October 28. Foolishly Limmatta assumed he could count on the Board to rubber stamp his decision to fire our Hero - ironically enough, on first Responders Day.

In this episode, recorded before the meeting, Lonnie and Monica make a bet on what the board will do when asked to vote on Liimatta's recommendation. Unfortunately, public outcry was so intense and immediate that Scott Bennett decided to remove the item from the board's agenda and made a statement that Jent had been reinstated. At the time of the meeting Jent still had not received anything in writing, and had in fact been given an ultimatum by Mr.Liimatta. "Agree to six more months of probation or resign." !!!!! Mr. Jent sent a counter proposal, which hadn't been answered by the time of the public meeting. The board didn't have to go against Limatta publicly, and Mr. Limatta was allowed to continue to attempt to bully and put down Mr. Jent privately. The story reveals a lot about what's wrong with Township leadership. Stay tuned for Part II, which covers what did happen at the Board meeting.

In this episode Lonnie and Monica do a deep dive into how Grand Blanc Township is working - and not working. We talk about our Superintendent, Dennis Limatta, “the CEO of Grand Blanc Township” whose attempt to fire Chief Jent is just one example of his inept handling of “the business” of Grand Blanc Township.

We discuss the many ways our township government lets its residents down.

Always fun! Lonnie and Monica take apart the muddled claims and ideas presented in our Spring and Summer newsletters....

This is not the latest Message - that would be the summer one - but it was a doozy. This was the one where Mr. Bennett claimed that Townships all over Michigan do not receive funding for their roads! Huh? So what's the 57M in road work that we've seen since Mr Bennett took office in 2016? Answer... of course we receive road funding! It's just administered by the Road Commission. And our Supervisor has been negligent in making sure that these projects reflect the desires of our community to have our roads designed with accessibility in mind. Many, many opportunities have been squandered due to lack of interest in the MDOT policies in place to encourage non-motorized development.

It's also the one where Mr. Bennett helpfully supplied a QR code so that residents could complain directly to the Road Commission if they had complaints about public roads. Again, this is a place where the Supervisor should be going to bat for residents at the County level. Listen to the crazy response a young mother received when she tried to get a stop sign installed near the bus stop in Williamsburg Farms! Buck passing at its finest. That's what you can expect from Our Supervisor.

Once again Mr. Bennett pats himself on the back for "not raising local millage" . But the bulk of our local revenues come when our assessments go up by a rate set by the state. So Mr. Bennett hasn't raised your taxes, but your taxes sure have increased! Without any increase in local services and amenities! We're paying more but he's still giving us excuses, and telling us we need a millage for any parks improvements, or any help with Special Assessment Districts.

Oh, but 120,000 of that increase went for a branding consultant to give us our new swirly line logo and our motto "A community in motion." A community in motion, all right, out of Grand Blanc Township. Another 120,000 for last summers survey where statistics were scientifically massaged to give our township government very high ratings of satisfaction across the board. Bravo! 240,000 that could have given us five foot paved shoulders on Grand Blanc Road... spent to tell us how happy we all are, swirling around "In Motion". Even though we cant' walk or ride bicycles to get to school or work or play. Great job, guys!

Watchdogs do a deep dive into the potential for a 230 acre park in the center of our two communities (City and Township) and how it "was never on the Township's radar."

In a competition between City's leadership and Township, who's winning? City Mayor John Creasey, hands down.

Lonnie rants about Code Enforcement (and Monica agrees with him)!

The last thing we want is for this administration to have even more of our tax money to spend irresponsibly, without giving us anything we want, need, or should have.

This episode has been edited. The first version misstated the cost of the firetruck. It is two million, not four million!

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