See some of the ‘GOOD OLE BOYS’ the township board is working so diligently for to get this multi-million dollar sewer through, with only 28.88 acres who signed for this project out of the 121 acres total in the whole sewer project. There is NO democracy when they work for a ‘select few!’

Updated:  September 25, 2009

With a total of 121 acres in the sewer district on 142nd , our township board is trying to push this sewer project through  at the expense of over 75% of land volume owners who opposed this sewer project for only these few “Good Ole Boys”. Here are all those who signed to volunteer for the sewer. Notice all the “Good Ole Boys” who are well connected to the political machine here in Dorr. *Also notice the “Good Ole Boys” who are members of the DDA (in red) CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL MEMBERSHIP OF DDA BOARD MEMBERS NAMES AND CONNECTIONS who voted to borrow the money to push this $1.5 million dollar project through after the people petitioned it twice and stopped it. Only 23% of the land volume owners volunteered for the sewer, yet the townboard seems to work for these few? Whats with Democracy? We have lost that in Dorr it seems!   28.88 acres represents only 23% of the total land volume in this sewer project!  Why is this board pushing this having only 23% of land owners who want this?  Because they work for and are in bed with the “Good Ole Boys” listed below.  Help us stop them before they come into Ranchero and Litchfield where we petitioned them and won that petition last year.  If we don’t stop this now, you could be the next victim down the road.  We thought we were done in downtown Dorr last year too, but this board just redrew the dictrict and started all over again even after we won with petitions and told them NO SEWER!  They just don’t listen. 

Name/Company

Govern. Position

For/Against

Acres

Parcel #

Bob Wagner partner (Video Mall)

Planning Commission Chair

For

3.04

0305-015-057-10

Bob Wagner (Dan’s Auto)

Planning Commission Chair

For

0.2

0305-016-064-00

Bob Wagner owner (Post Office)

Planning Commission Chair

For

0.23

0305-016-052-00

Bob Wagner & Harold Schumaker*

RS&S Investments

Planning Commission Chair & Fire Chief

For

0.25

0305-015-084-00

Harold Schumaker* RS&S

Township Fire Chief

For

0.59

0305-015-087-00

Billy Fifelski-Marathon*

Asst. Fire Chief

For

0.63

0305-016-060-00

Mark & Elise DeYoung*

County Commissioner

For

0.47

0305-022-009-10

Mark & Elise DeYoung*

County Commissioner

For

0.34

0305-022-019-50

Connie Holbrook

Board of Review

For

0.3

0305-022-018-00

Fred Holbrook

R =resident

For

0.42

0305-200-002-00

Louis Clark

R

For

1.86

0305-015-075-00

Clara Snyder

R

For

0.7

0305-200-006-00

Cliff Steffes

R

For

0.62

0305-015-073-00

Stan Abbott

R

For

5.58

0305-015-072-00

Pat Champion

R

For

0.35

0305-340-078-00

Roger Rosenfeld

R

For

0.35

0305-022-009-31

Williams Tooling

B =Business

For

1.31

0305-021-005-10

Dorr Mill (williams)

B

For

0.8

0305-016-044-00

Dorr Farm Prod. (williams)

B

For

1.45

0305-021-005-00

Trinity Properties Asked to be removed from sewer district. No longer in favor, financial concerns.

B Developer behind old Dicks

Withdrew 9-1-09

For

4.13

0305-022-001-00

Res/Dev

Trinity Properties Asked to be removed from sewer district. No longer in favor, financial concerns.

B Developer of condos

Withdrew 9-1-09

For

11.5

0305-022-003-00

Vacant

Rusty Dutkiewicz

R

For

0.2

0305-280-007-00

Kenowa Auto Parts

B

For

0.25

0305-016-065-00

Edna Hilaski

R

For

0.25

0305-016-063000

United Bank

B

For

1.87

0305-200-024-00

Patrick Kaczanowski

R

For

2.04

0305-022-017-00

Bob Burgstahler

R

For

0.52

0305-250-018-00

FloorMart (Bob Burgstahler)

B

For

1.91

0305-022-003-10

Jim Kaczanowski

R

For

0.33

0305-200-022-00

Janel Haggerty

R

For

0.15

0305-015-081-00

Janel Haggerty

Vacant land on corner of 142nd & 18th st.

For

0.23

0305-015-080-00

Dorr Pharmacy

B

For

1.78

0305-022-007-10

Jim Elzinga

R

For

0.21

0305-200-008-00

Total of 121 acres in the total sewer district. Those who are FOR the sewer have only 28.88 acres? Democracy? NO!

28.88

No Majority!

Now that Trinity withdrew, those “FOR” the sewer have only 28.88 acres!  23% Stop this NOW!

CLICK HERE TO PRINT THIS PDF SPREADSHEET  to show your neighbors, friends and family so they can see who this townboard works for instead of working for the majority of hard working citizens! 

Updated September 25, 2009

This list shows (as of Sept. 25, 2009, verified from the township offices) 33 parcels with only 28.88 acres of land who want this multi million dollar sewer, compared to  44 parcels who OPPOSE this sewer or have not volunteered who own 92 acres, yet the board works so very diligently to work for the “Good Ole Boys?”   This is NOT RIGHT and we the people need to once again take back our township government from those who work for the very few, at the expense of the many.  All Public improvements are determined by land volume, not the number of people, this is how the Michigan legislature wrote the law.  Even if it was by the number of people, those who have opposed this, have more than those who want it, so this project should never move ahead as written in the Public Improvement Act.  But because the town board got a high paid lawyer to call this project “voluntary” they worked a loop hole into this Public Improvement Act to get around the intent of this Act. This town board are in bed with the “Good Ole Boys” and should be removed from office, or your neighborhood could be the next victim of this deceptive board. 

Tammy Vanhaitsma told the DDA board they have almost 50%. She is such a deceiver! She said this on September 9th, 2009 at the DDA board meeting. I have it in her own words on video.  Video clip on file.

Update: On September 25, 2009 Patty Senneker and I went up to the townhall to get all these special voluntary agreements that are signed and on file with the township. We we received these under the Freedom of information from Jane Rens. All the township has at this time are only 28.88 acres out of a total of 121 total acreage in the entire sewer district. That is 23% of the total land volume that is in the whole district, yet still again, this townboard is working for those few special people listed on the table who want this sewer project to go forward. We have a township government that works for their family and friends, inspite of the majority of citizens who have said NO, twice on this expensive sewer project in the last 21 months!

The Bitch is Back!

Thank you Judge Cronin! I am so glad you were elected to bring justice to criminals and protect the children.

WOOD TV8 | Stepmom stabber sentenced to prison

Dorr Township board cancels regular board meeting because a quorum was not present!

Under Michigan Statute, a town board cannot conduct official business at a board meeting unless there is a quorum present.( a quorum is a majority of board members. Dorr has 7 board members so a quorum is 4)

Absent for the July 16th, 2009 board meeting was:

Jodi Brummel, Clerk
Paul Davis, Trustee
Dan Weber, Trustee
Josh Otto, Trustee

CLICK HERE TO VIEW ATTENDANCE RECORDS:

Meeting was canceled even though there were approximately 15-20 residents present to discuss their township concerns about this scandalous sewer project when 3 of those absent all just happen to take a vacation the very same week the board had ALL their yearly board meetings scheduled since the beginning of the year to conduct township business. Michigan Open Meetings Act states in section 15.265, Section 5  (2) For regular meetings of a public body, there shall be posted within 10 days after the first meeting of the public body in each calendar or fiscal year a public notice stating the dates, times, and places of its regular meetings. All these meetings have been scheduled since the beginning of the year, so every board member knew when this meeting was going to take place and could have scheduled their vacations accordingly. These meetings were posted in the Globe in January and the yearly schedule for ALL board meetings is even posted on the township website. There is no excuse for this! Even though July has an extra 5th week, this board does not seem all that dedicated to do the peoples work, but more concerned with their vacations all at the same time.  I wonder if a private sector employer would let all their employees take the same week off and close the business down?  I highly doubt it.

Self serving township board members.  Can’t you people organize your vacations so the peoples business can still be conducted? You didn’t  vote to pay the township bills?  So now what? No paychecks can be written? Perhaps this is another one of their learning mistakes?  But Im sure, they will not let this happen again, right?

Because the board did not meet the requirements of the Michigan Statute, the next board meeting will be 3 weeks from now, because of the extra 5th week in July,  the first Thursday in August, 2009.

Same crap over in Barry County with their sewer project too!

This reminds me of a situation at pine lake in Barry County several years ago. There seemed to be an increasing weed growth in the lake. Some of the newer residents asked the township to do a study as to the cause. This was never put to a vote and each property owner was charged for the study. Well, the study said that the problem was all the septic systems around the lake were the main cause of the increased weed growth in the lake. Again, without a vote, it was decided that a sewer system needed to be installed, costing each home owner thousands of dollars, then more to hook up to the system which was manditory. Now, after some years of this new system, there is still weed growth in the lake and each home owner has to pay a quarterly charge for the system. It was not the answer and now everybody pays for something that didn’t change a thing. So then the Pine Lake Association wanted to chemically treat the lake to kill the weeds. They pushed this through again without a vote costing the homeowners more. Again, this didn’t work and killed shellfish. Finally, a group of homeowners stood up to the association and demanded no more treatment for weeds. Just shows that a few people can affect many others if we let them, namely the Pine Lake Association. Pay attention and don’t let the few decide your future.

Michigan resort town near St. Joseph goes belly up and is bankrupt. State takes over!

READ THE FULL STORY HERE:  Three Oaks goes broke: Michigan resort town’s finances implode

My aunt who use to live in Three Oaks just stopped by today, August 16th, 2009 and told me about her quaint little town she use to live in.  Three Oaks Michigan down by St. Joe / New Buffalo, which she said the State just took over because the town went into bankruptcy.  These local politicians who think they know more about our town then all the other people who live and work there , and who pay the taxes to run it.  Lets not let a few corrupt board members ruin our town by doing what they want to do or are told to do, by the special interest of a few people who want this done for their own agenda,  when these corrupt board members will not pay one dime of their own money, but take yours to pay for a multi million dollar sewer project you the people do not want to pay for, nor for that matter, can afford to pay.  Do they want this township bankrupt too?  Lawyers get paid, engineers get paid, a special few are getting their sewers for free because our township board will have to purchase easements from D. Mark DeYoung, the county commissioner to run this project down his “PRIVATE ROAD” to get it into the back door of Dorr school,  along with  a few more easements for some other special people, off the backs of regular hard working people who live here in Dorr, who have said NO not once, but TWICE!  Will this board ever listen to the people they are suppose to serve? Don’t hold your breath!

Lets not wait to see if  the state takes over our township after they ruin it like what is happening in Three Oaks, Michigan.   We must stand up to them and tell them admittedly, NO, we the people have told you we do not want that multi million dollar sewer in Dorr, just because some other township may have a public sanitary sewer. Those other townships or cities may have had an urgent need and the people didn’t petition them to stop it, but we did!  Would you please show us with data that there is an urgent & critical need and that there is a public health risk first, instead of some off the wall irrational reason, that this town board just  “thinks” Dorr should have it! The health department has NEVER said there is an urgent need because of a public health risk.  Have you ever had anyone had contaminated drinking water?  I have never heard anything of the sort, and I have lived in this township all my life of over 50 years.


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Dorr Township DDA board regularly scheduled meeting is canceled on Wednesday Aug. 12th, just 3 weeks after the townboard canceled their regular board meeting. What is going on in this township?

Why are regular scheduled board meetings being canceled in this township all of a sudden?  First a townboard meeting on July 16th, 2009, then not even 3 weeks later, a DDA regular scheduled board meeting on August 12th, 2009 was canceled?

Something is not right here.  When a notice was received from the township Clerk, Jodi Brummel that the DDA regular board meeting was canceled, I replied with a question of why it was canceled? Talking with both Greg Damveld of BP gas station who sits on the DDA board, and Jodi Brummel the township clerk who also sits on the DDA board, no one knows why it was canceled. That is very strange that those who sit on a board are left completely in the dark!

Jodi’s response was “Tammy cancelled the meeting because of scheduling conflicts due
to unforeseen circumstances.”

I replied back with “Thank you!  Can you please
give us your legitimate reasons why the DDA meeting was canceled?”
Scheduling conflicts due to unforeseen circumstances?   Can you be
a bit more specific on this?  This surely does not tell us anything you
know.  Scheduling conflicts?  How can that be?

These meetings are set the beginning of the year for each month!  (see below. taken from township website)

You need a quorum (majority of members) to run a meeting, you don’t need everyone! (There are 9 board members, they only need 5)

Who could not make it to this meeting? Those who do not take these positions seriously?

We want to know this information please.  Township government not holding
regularly scheduled meetings and canceling them in this last month is
getting ridiculous.  Please reply with more information please.

People want to know why, and its not just me.  But even if it is,
we want to know the real reasons,  not some unforeseen circumstances. Why was this meeting now canceled?

I will wait for your more accurate specific reasons why 5 or more DDA board
members could not make it.  We would appreciate a reply to these
questions please.

Reply from Jodi the township clerk:  the meeting was cancelled due to
unforeseen circumstances; I have no additional information to provide.  As
a courtesy, I thought I was being helpful by informing  you of this.

My reply back to Jodi:  Oh, yes it was a courtesy and I do appreciate it, but we still want our
questions answered.  I understand if you do not have the facts on what
happened, but someone does though correct?  I am just asking you to
find this information for me and get back to me on this, thats all.

Its called in the office environment, follow-up.

Thank you Jodi, I appreciate all the help you can give me on this.

Jodi’s reply back to me:  I told you I did not know all of the specifics.  Sorry that I
have no additional information.

My reply back:   Hi Jodi,

Please have Tammy reply at her earliest convenience
please, I would really appreciate it.  Let her know exactly what
information I want please so I do not have to ask these over and over
again.

You have my emails, just let her read them.

Tammy’s reply back to my question: 

            I
have read all the e-mails between you and Jody and she’s covered
everything there is to cover. The meeting was cancelled do to a lack of agenda
items along with unforeseen conflicts for more than a few Board members. There
are no more specifics to be given. These meetings are set at the beginning of
the year and when I mention “unforeseen” circumstances that mean
that things have come up unexpectedly. I don’t require specifics from people,
everyone’s entitled to their privacy, all I need to know is there is a
conflict for them and they will not be able to attend.

Tammy

My reply to Tammy:  Its pretty amazing that in the last month  the  town board canceled a
regular board meeting and now the DDA board canceled a regular board meeting. What is going on?

Who are the people who could not make the meeting?  I do not need to know
the exact specific reasons why they did not attend, I want to know who they are.

There are no privacy issues being revealed by  telling us who
called in to let you know they could not make it.  Many of us want to
know who could not attend todays meeting because of unforseen
circumstances.  Yes, everyone does have issues that come up
unexpectedly, but elected and appointed officials  are there to
represent the  people and we want to keep track of who makes the
meetings and who does not.  We want answers from our unresponsive
officials please!

Reply back from Tammy:

I am the one who cancelled the meeting due to a lack of business and conflicts that I was aware of with other members.

My reply back to Tammy for the information I requested: 

Hi Tammy,

Exactly right.  Then you know that 5 members were not able to make it correct?  Because there was not a quorum to conduct business.  Who were these 5 people that could not be there that made you cancel this meeting?  We the people want to know who they are please.

Where does it say that the supervisor can cancel a regular scheduled DDA board meeting set up a year in advance because YOU alone decide, by fiat once again, there is nothing on the agenda?  Can you show me the rules where you alone, as the supervisor have the sole authority to cancel a regular scheduled DDA meeting due to no agenda items?  How do you know that the other board members who are equal in authority as you on the DDA board (with the  exception they do not moderate the board) did not have any items to discuss?

You once again are over stepping your authority.  Second of all, when did the DDA board vote you in as the chair of the DDA board?   We would like answers to this as well.

(3) The business which the board may perform shall be conducted at a public meeting of the board held in compliance with the open meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15.261 to 15.275. Public notice of the time, date, and place of the meeting shall be given in the manner required by the open meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15.261 to 15.275. The board shall adopt rules consistent with the open meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15.261 to 15.275, governing its procedure and the holding of regular meetings, subject to the approval of the governing body.

The chairperson of the board shall be elected by the board.  When did this happen since you were elected as the supervisor in November of 2008?  Do you have the minutes that show a vote was taken by the DDA board that made you the legitimate chair of the DDA?   I would like this information under the freedom of information act please.   This is my notice in writing to that affect. Dated 8/13/2009

You have 5 days to present me those minutes to view. I am very interested in reading those minutes and exactly who voted to make you the chair of the DDA board.

If you would just answer our simple questions, you would not be so scrutinized, but you leave us no choice. You are so evasive with our simple questions, its just unbelievable to us.  Why don’t you make your job simple and just give us honest answers?

I await the minutes that show you were legally voted in as the legal chair of the Dorr Township DDA board.   It says nothing in the DDA Act that the supervisor of the municipality  is the automatic chair of the DDA board, so we want to see the voting casted that has given you the authority to chair this board? The DDA act states, the chairperson of the board shall be elected by the board.  This means elected by the DDA board itself, not the townboard.

Please have Jane call me when you have this information available. I would really appreciate it.

It is the public policy of this state that all persons, except those persons incarcerated in state or local correctional facilities, are entitled to full and complete information regarding the affairs of government and the official acts of those who represent them as public officials and public employees, consistent with this act. The people shall be informed so that they may fully participate in the democratic process.   Freedom of Information Act

These are the board members who know when the regular monthly board meetings take place each and every month: This information is taken directly from the township website.

DDA (Downtown Development Authority)

Tammy VanHaitsma-Supervisor
 Jodi Brummel-Clerk
Mark DeYoung-County Commissioner
 Harold Schumaker-Fire Chief
Marcia Halloran
Cathy Merren
Greg Damveld
Bill Fifelski Jr.-Asst. Fire Chief
Seth Ledendecker

DDA meetings held 2nd Wednesday at 2:00 p.m (taken from township website)

Conflicting schedules?  When you are elected or appointed to various township board positions, you accept the responsibilities of your commitments to these board meetings, otherwise you have no business sitting on these boards.  Tammy VanHaitsma specifically said in May, 2009 when she appointed Harold Schumaker to the DDA to rubber stamp her agenda, she did not want to appoint Richard Achtenberg owner of Dorr Industries because he lived in Lansing and she wasn’t convinced he would be able to make some of the meetings even though he works in Dorr during the daytime, yet we have all the above people who either live or work here in Dorr, yet a majority are not committed to attend these meetings.  Please Tammy, tell us who the 5 board members who could not make this DDA meeting that made you cancel this scheduled meeting set up way back in January when the whole yearly schedule is set for these board meetings, so we the people know which members take their positions seriously, and those who are on these boards and show up just to rubber stamp your agenda when they are needed!

Once again Tammy, you leave us no choice, so ReFELT will  begin to keep track of the DDA board attendance as well as regular township board meetings if you can’t give us this information, because you are so evasive and deceptive with all the answers you give us. Please put all the minutes of every township board up online, which shows who attends these meetings and those who are absent for the whole public to see please! We the people want an open, honest, fair, lean and transparent government, where everything is out in the open, and we intend to have just that! ReFELT is well aware of what wood finishers already know, that pressure must be applied to sand paper to get results from a defective board!


Dorr sewer project proceeds over protest! The town board is forcing a multi million dollar sewer on 140 acres of property when only owners from 40 acres want it? Taking care of the select few you ask?

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY  at Allegan News Online

This sewer project now coming into Dorr, is not the normal democratic way for a “special assessment”. This is a devised assessment made up by a high paid attorney from Grand Rapids to get this $1.5 million dollar sewer project through Dorr, because the people of this township signed petitions in January of 2008 to stop this when it was slated to go through Ranchero, Litchfield and Dorr proper.  The people defeated it back then in early 2008, with over 52% of the land owners saying NO!

Then the township thought they knew better then what the people did, and tried their shenanigan again, this time coming down 142nd from Hillcrest Mall to the Parks and then south on Hickory St., (Hickory St. is a private road owned by the County Commissioner, D. Mark DeYoung and his wife Elise (Fifelski) DeYoung, who will get a FREE sewer out of this because the township will have to purchase an easement from them to run the sewer trunkage down their private road to get it in the “back door” of Dorr elementary school.)

The people petitioned this 142nd sewer project as well, because of the cost of this enormous project and the bad state of the economy, where many are loosing their homes in foreclosures, businesses are seeing their profits dwindle and many folks are loosing their jobs. This has to be the WORST time to be doing such an expensive project such as putting in sewers when they have not proven that this is needed. The people once again collected signatures in January of 2009 and got almost twice the required amount of signatures to defeat this the second time, as writen in the public improvement act to stop a project.

But now, the township board hires  a high paid bond attorney paid by the people themselves to finagle the public improvement assessment where the people once had the right under the public improvement act to petition their government to stop it, and they literally took away our right to object to this at all.  This is not democracy!  This is going on all over the country where our representatives do whatever they want, when the people who vote them in office tell them differently!  We no longer have representation of the people, where we can petition our government.  We are loosing what has made this country great!

The high paid attorney, Roger Swets said, “even if no outside forces required any along the sewer to hook up, the DDA finances could shoulder the burden of it planned debt.”  Notice he said “even if”, this is NOT the case.  There is a state statute that reads you must hook up with 200ft. of a public sewer and the county has this in their county code as well.
Health department officials have the authority to require a connection
if a property’s septic system fails within 200 feet of an existing
sanitary sewer line.

MORE CODE WORDS:

Once the sewer lines are in place, other agencies take them into account.

Health department officials have the authority to require a connection if a
property’s septic system fails within 200 feet of an existing sanitary
sewer line.

While director of environmental health Bill
Hinz has stipulated in communications with the township that minor
repairs to septic systems may be allowed, larger repairs or expansions
would not.

Once the sewer pipes are under the road, its out of the peoples hands to stop this or get out of any financial obligations that this unethical board is going to burden the people with. The Health Depart. officials HAVE the authority to make you hook up, even though the board tells us they said you won’t have to. Can you have the county amend their county code to protect the people so they know without a doubt any new person running the Health Department, including Bill Hinz and any predecessor after him will abide by these unenforceable communications?   NO!
 
You just tell the people whatever they want to hear to get this $1.5 million sewer project through that the people legally petitioned and stopped the second time around.

Bill Hinz also states in this article that minor repairs MAY BE allowed, larger repairs would not!

AGAIN MORE CODE WORDS:    minor repairs?   Does anyone really know what constitutes “minor repairs”?  Is this spelled out in definitions in the county code, so this is not determined by some person who does not want to issue a repair permit?

And then another CODE word:   MAY BE? So this must also mean, may NOT as well right?

The township ordinance is another way hook-up could be required, but
board members voted unanimously at the meeting to amend it to affect
only those building new homes.

The town board voted to amend their ordinance so they could tell the residents that the township will not force you to hook up.  They did this so they have no responsibility in this.  We know now that the township will not force anyone to hook up because they amended this ordinance, but that just moves that responsibility to the county, where Bill Hinz  can do whatever the county code says, or someday when he is replaced, his predecessor in the county Health Department can force everyone on the sewer that they must hook up if you are within 200ft. They can, because its written in the county health code.  We a code says “may, can, might, possibly,” these are all left to interpretation, so whoever is in power, makes those decisions.  This is a deceptive tactic used by our townboard, so they can tell the people, “WE ARE NOT GOING TO FORCE YOU TO HOOK UP, ITS THE COUNTY THAT MADE YOU DO IT!”

Bill Anderson a legislative liaison for the Michigan Township Association.

While he said he had never heard of a sewer utility being funded in this way,
he said the public only has the opportunity to protest requests for
higher taxes.  This is NOT TRUE!  Have you read the public improvement act Mr. Anderson?  It clearly states that the people can petition to stop a public improvement with 20% of land volume signatures and then those who want the public improvement must get over 50% to proceed.  This sewer project was defeated using that statute , but now this high paid attorney is trying hard to work around that statute that we the people successfully used twice to stop this enormously high priced sewer project.

Here it is:  1) The township board may proceed to carry out an improvement as provided in this act unless written objections to the improvement are filed with the township board at or before the hearing provided in section 4 by property owners as follows:

(a) petitions by the record owners of land constituting more than 20% of the total land area in the proposed special assessment district.

Mr. Anderson also states that  if the DDA was able to finance the project without raising taxes,
in other words, the petitioning process is not available to the public.  That may be fine if the DDA was not asking the citizens to pay them back the money they are loaning to put something in we dont want or voted for, but they are not paying for the project Mr. Anderson, they are loaning the money to the residents and expect to be paid back, and with accrued interest!

Mr. Anderson as says “While I don’t have much of a comment on the methodology they’re using,
the matter-of-fact function of government is left to government officials,” he said. “Government only comes to you if they need more money from you.” 

Thats the other problem Mr. Anderson, who exactly is the government?   WE ARE, THE PEOPLE!  Not some abstract entity out in oblivion someplace.  We the people have said we do not want this nor do we want to pay for this project.

You seem as lost as we are with the methodology that this deceptive township board is using? Why would that be?  Because no other township in history has never had to resort to working around the public improvement act 188 where the people petitioned this and stopped it to have our town board use such low ball tactics to get a public sanitary sewer project in?

This is NOT democracy at work.  This is a corrupted local government who have lost their way and action needs to be taken against them.  When you work so hard to put in a public improvement which consist of 140 acres total, and only owners of 40 of those acres want this project, with the other 100 acres of the owners who do not, something is drastically wrong with those who are suppose to serve ALL the people!  This board only serves the special few!

The county jail and sheriff’s complex proposed site at Dumont Lake, according to Commissioner Fritz Spreitzer, would violate the Michigan Constitution? More incredible turns to this soap opera in Allegan County! (YouTube)

READ THE FULL STORY HERE AT :Allegan News Online

More twist and turns to bring excitement to Allegan County!

Spreitzer, who has consistently advocated for a downtown Allegan jail, spoke about the attorney general’s opinion.

“We
as a group need to change our resolution concerning the sheriff’s
complex,” Spreitzer said. “We who have taken these jobs and our oaths
to uphold the constitution are not doing so.”

I totally agree.  You took the oath to uphold the constitution, now its simple!  Just do it!  Then everyone can sleep peacefully at night.  No more trying to determine where the office is.  Is it remote, is it here, is it there.  If its remote, then move it off to some deserted island in the pacific and do your business from there.

Commissioner Dean Kapenga pointed to Ottawa County as an example, where
the sheriff’s office appears to be outside the county seat.  Why not just say the county seat is wherever the sheriff is seated then?  Politicians working around the constitution and laws for their benefit.  READ THE LAWS AS WRITTEN!

Just move the city lines to extend past the complex! That will get around the constitution. Proclaim that the seat is where ever the majority of county commissioners say it is! That should get around any doubts.  Etc., etc.  Always trying to beat the laws. Just follow the laws would you?  This jail in this county after 7-8 years is just another fiasco where the commissioners are not listening to the people.  Before you go any further, how about putting it on the ballot to see if the people will even support your jail with a mileage , you may be surprised what you find?  If you have no money to build it, then your next step before you even discuss all this, is to see if you can even find any money to support this.  If you only find $1,000,000, then do your studies to see if its even worth pursuing and if you can feasibly build a jail with the amount of money you have available to do a project such as this.  If you can’t feasibly do this, then put up a like the  tent city like the Sheriff in Arizona does for his prisioners and make them pay for their own food and lodging.  After spending a winter living in a tent, Im sure any repeat offenders will think twice about committing a crime twice! Deer hunters sleep in tents during deer season and so do those who fight a war in cold regions, so don’t give us your politically correct excuse that it is cruel and unusual punishment.  That is up for interpretation, and most law abiding citizens will  probably disagree that it is.  My gosh, you politically correct people think putting insects in a cell is cruel and unusual. Most people have them in their houses!

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Tammy VanHaitsma, Dorr Township supervisor (Dictator/Power grabber) says, Patty Senneker would be a great asset to the Planning Commission , then takes a 180 degree turn and appoints 3 unknown people? (Video)

Tammy VanHaitsma now turns 180 degrees on Aug. 6th, 2009 and appoints 3 recent residents to the area, after telling us only 2 months ago on May 7th, 2009 that she would like to see Patty Senneker on the Planning Commission. In Tammys own words, “we talked extensively and feel she would be a great assest to our planning commission.”

website link -Patty Senneker who has lived in Dorr Township for over 30 years, a highly successful realtor, a very capable, honest and qualified individual, who Tammy VanHaitsma said would be a perfect fit, now selects a women from Moline, who in Tammys words, likes to stay at home with her kids, has some accounts payable experience and some training as a  paralegal.  This women was appointed to a 3 yr. term. No offense meant to this person, but what happened to Patty Senneker and your opinion of her, Tammy, as a great asset to the Dorr Township Planning Commission?  Did you have memory lapse? You just said this on May 7th of 2009?

Another appointment to the Planning commission was a gentleman who Tammy thinks has lived in Dorr for less than 5 years. He is an engineer at Excel. He has construction lay out knowledge. He was appointed to a 3 yr. term also.

The last appointment, a gentleman from Illinois, who just recently moved here, who served on a planning commission for 15 yrs. in Illinois is retired from the Army. He was appointed to a 1 yr. term.  Why if he is the most qualified out of the 3 candidates, would Tammy recommend him for a 1 yr. term instead of a 3 yr. term?  Perhaps maybe he may not agree with what this board is doing when he votes because he knows how a board is run, and he won’t follow the leader? Then it would be to hard to get rid of him?  In 1 yr. Tammy would be able to tell if he falls in line with what they want and if he does, she can then reappoint him?  If he doesn’t fall in line, then she just will let his 1 yr. term expire and not reappoint him. Great plan Tammy, that should work exactly as you planned it!

Is this small town politics or what?  This is our government people. Please take notice and watch how they control everything and what they are doing. This township has run like this for over 30 years. Playing all these little political games like this over the years has brought many skeptical people who do not TRUST our elected officials in their capacity to govern our township in an ethical, honest and fair manner for everyone.  They work for a select few!

It just seems pretty strange that in the last 6 months, we have had 4 people resign from the planning commission one right after the other. Makes one wonder about all the politics behind the scenes and who is not going along with those in power, doesn’t it?  See the resignations in the last few months in township government under dictator, Tammy VanHaitsma since she took office in November of 2008.

Click here for all resignations:

more Videos coming soon from this Aug 6th meeting………come back to see! You will once again be surprised!

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