Dorr Township - Agenda? Minutes?

Over the week-end I looked on the Dorr Township website for the Agenda for tomorrow night's meeting, and it wasn't posted. As of this morning, it has been posted. The Agenda for the August meeting is still missing.

And Minutes of past meetings? Where are they? The Minutes for April, May and July are missing. Those Minutes are crucial, because they are to reflect the Township business and expenditures around a new headquarters. The August Minutes are to be approved at the September 13th meeting, and you can preview them through the tab for Clerk.

Be sure to examine the Public Comment portion of the Minutes. Any idea what was asked and answered? The purpose of the Minutes is to provide a clear record into the future of the content and context of a meeting. You sure can't tell that from the August Minutes!

Whose job is it to post the Agenda and the Minutes? Is it the Clerk? Or is it the Supervisor?  Or the Trustees? The Clerk, an elected office, doesn't report to the Supervisor or the Trustees, although the current Clerk was appointed by the Trustees to fill a vacant position.

The job doesn't pay much (in the grand scheme of things), but it doesn't require much. A simple matter of publishing an informative Agenda (which most of the Agendas are not) and producing the Minutes in a clear, standard, informative and grammatically correct manner shouldn't be a big deal. It's definitely not a full-time job.

So, how about it, elected officials? You do get your pay on time; right?

Dorr Township is still on the hunt for a new home. Apparently, now it's looking at 1039 Lake Avenue. They ought to have the due diligence down pat by now, after spending $30,000 to determine that they shouldn't buy the property on South Eastwood Drive.Hint: Look for mold the first time through the property on Lake Avenue.

Was there a quorum at the August meeting? Do two elected trustees (out of four) constitute a quorum? Or does the presence of the elected Supervisor and the elected Clerk make the meeting of Trustees valid? One trustee, Mr. Swanson, has been unable to serve for months, and the trustees are still holding his chair open. With all due respect to Mr. Swanson, he holds an elected office and should perform his duties - or resign. A deadline should be set for his return, say, at the October meeting; however, the trustees cannot add that to the September agenda at this late date.

Residents shouldn't have to hunt around for the Agenda. A user-friendly website would link the Agenda to the meeting date on the homepage. Instead, when you click on the meeting on the homepage, you go to a calendar page (duhhh!!!) that contains the meeting. How about a link to the Agenda, instead?!