The Sun and News, Saturday, June 12, 2021/ Page 11layout has four offices.
Ranking second was creation
of a secure entry with win-
dow access to the reception-
ist, deputy clerk and deputy
treasurer functions. Among
other needs identified by the
renovation committee includ-
ed a conference room, desk
and computer space for the
planning commission, zoning
board and township commit-
tees, and storage space for
election equipment, such as
tabulators and ballots.
“Rob and I will continue to
follow up with Fleis &
Vandenbrink for the new
designs,” Cunningham said,
saying that drawings for the
conceptual design should be
back to the township by late
June.
The renovation committee
may reconvene in early July
to review those drawings,
Cunningham said.
The board has set aside
$300,000 out of the general
fund for the township hall
project, and will likely
finance the rest of the reno-
vation cost through the sale
of bonds. The 2019 proposal
called for spending $300,
out of the general fund and
bonding for the remaining
cost. Board members have
agreed that taxes will not be
raised as a result of the proj-
ect.
Heethuis said that he’s
been pleased with the pro-
cess to this point. “They’re
doing exactly what they told
us they were going to do.”
In other business Thursday,
the board approved new per-
mit and connection fees for
the township water system.
Most notably, it sets a single
fee, starting at $4,000 for this
year, for any resident want-
ing to connect to the water
system.
Previously, the system had
a two-tier system of “direct
connection” and “indirect
connection” fees, but the
definition of what qualified
as “direct” or “indirect” was
confusing, said Greg Purcell,
a member of the Water Utility
Advisory Committee.
“We thought it would be
appropriate to have one fee,
that anybody who connects
to the water system pays that
fee,” Purcell said.
The connection fee will
increase annually by 5 per-
cent or the rate of inflation,
whichever is less, according
to township documents.
The Water Utility Advisory
Committee had recommend-
ed a similar proposal in
August 2019, but the town-
ship board took no action on
the recommendation.
The board also approved a
contract with the Gun Lake
Area Sewer and Water
Authority for water services
starting July 1 and continu-
ing through the end of June- The previous contract
with GLASWA had expired
in May 2018, Purcell said.
Purcell also presented the
proposed water system bud-
get for the new fiscal year.
The proposal calls for spend-
ing $181,669 in the 2021-
fiscal year, a significant
increase from $134,245 for
the current fiscal year. The
increase is largely because of
a $27,000 expense for replac-
ing Well #2, a backup well
for the water system.
“It had to be replaced. You
have to have a backup well
on your system,” Purcell
said.
Another $6,400 is pro-
posed for power washing the
township water tower.
Revenues for the water sys-
tem come from user fees.
The water system budget
will be part of discussions on
the township budget when
the board holds a special
meeting at 3 p.m. Tuesday at
the township hall, 284 N.
Briggs Road.
The board also voted to
spend $975 to ask the engi-
neering firm Prein&Newhof
to develop a plan for a
non-motorized trail along
M-179/Chief Noonday Road.
The township Park
Committee recommended
the study for a path that
would run along the south
side of M-179 from Patterson
Road to Briggs Road to
Yankee Springs State Park.
“It’s just not safe for
pedestrians or bikers to be on
179,” committee member
Chuck Schira told the board.
The last time a study for
non-motorized trails in the
township was conducted was
in February 2015. In that
study, Prein&Newhof esti-
mated the cost of building a
trail along a 3.4-mile section
of M-179 at about $1.16 mil-
lion, according to township
documents.
Other upcoming events in
the township include a blood
drive that will take place
from 2:30 to 6:
p.m.Wednesday, June 30, at
the Yankee Springs Township
Fire Station, 1425 S. Payne
Lake Road. The fire station
also will play host to the
annual firefighters’ pancake
breakfast from 7 to 10:
a.m. on Saturday, July 3.
Donations will be accepted
for the breakfast.seeded fourth in what coach
Howell called a “loaded field
of distance runners.” Peters
was soon battling for second
with Birmingham Seaholm’s
Julia Flynn, behind
DaDamio.
Peters was seeded fourth
for the 800 as well. Coach
Howell said, “in the first 500
meters of the race Lindsey
found herself boxed in and
towards the back of the pack,
but she patiently moved up
and with 300 meters to go, as
DaDamio made a burst to
separate from the pack,
Lindsey answered and put in
a surge of her own to catch
her and get within half a step
back with 200 meters to go.
“The two girls ran stride
for stride on the curve and
down the home stretch in a
battle for the state title.
“DaDamio (arguably one of
the best distance runners in
the entire country) was able
to hold off Lindsey just bare-
ly.”
All eyes were on the dis-
tance races in Kentwood.
Ann Arbor Skyline senior
Hobbs Kessler took the 800-
meter and 1600-meter wins
on the boys’ side. Kessler
broke a 20-year-old national
high school record in the
1500-meter run while quali-
fying for the Olympic Trials
in Portland, Oregon, last
month.
Kessler’s Skyline team
finished fourth in the overall
boys’ team standings for the
day. Fenton and Rockford
shared the Division 1 Lower
Peninsula State
Championship, both scoring
34 points. Zeeland West was
third with 30, ahead of
Skyline 28, Pinckney 25,
Novi 25, Dexter 24, Macomb
Dakota 24, Detroit Cass Tech
22 and Birmingham Brother
Rice 20 in the top ten.
Brother Rice senior Udodi
Onwuzurike won the 200-
meter dash in 21.23 and the
100-meter dash in 10.55,
joining Kessler as a two-time
state champ. Detroit Cass
junior Tamaa Myers II swept
the hurdles championships,
taking the 110-meter high
hurdles in 14.26 and the 300-
meter intermediate hurdles in
37.87.
Flint Carman-Ainsworth
senior Terrence Muex set a
new MHSAA Finals recordwith his time of 46.53 to win
the 400-meter dash.
Zeeland West hung near
the state leaders with wins in
the 4x400-meter relay and
the 4x200-meter relay.
Oak Park won the Division
1 girls’ championship with
86 points, ahead of Detroit
Renaissance 60, Ann Arbor
Huron 45, Traverse City
Central 39, Birmingham
Seaholm 30, Ann Arbor
Pioneer 28, Macomb L’Anse
Creuse North 21, West
Ottawa 21, East Lansing 19
and Dexter 18 in the top ten.
The two medal-winning per-
formances by Peters put the
Scots in 12th with 14 points.
Detroit Renaissance was
powered by its sprinters.
Junior Kaila Jackson won the
100-meter dash in 11.70 and
the 200 in 24.01. She was
one of two Renaissance med-
alists in each race. Junior
teammate Leeah Burr was
the runner-up in the 200.
Junior Olivia Jenkins
medaled in the 100 and also
reached the nine-woman
finals of the 200.
Those three Renaissance
juniors teamed with sopho-
more Madison Sheard to set
the MHSAA Finals record in
the 4x100-meter relay (45.seconds). The team of
Jackson, Jenkins, Burr and
Shannon Wheeler won the
4x200-meter relay in 1:36.99.
It was an Oak Park record
from 2016 that the
Renaissance girls broke in
winning the 4x100.
The state champs from
Oak Park were second in that
4x200-meter relay and won
the 4x400-meter relay. Oak
Park senior Jada Roundtree
was in both of those relays
and won the 400-meter dash
in 55.13, beating Burr by just
under a quarter of a secondfor first in that race. Tamyra
Todd, another Oak Park
senior, was fourth in the 400.
Their sophomore team-
mate Nonah Waldron won
the 100-meter hurdles in
13.72 seconds and the 300-
meter low hurdles in 43.17.
Oak Park had the three fast-
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with Morgan Roundtree, a
freshman, second and junior
Emon Miles third. Roundtree
and Miles were third and
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RENOVATION, continued from page 1
one of the toughest his team
has faced all season, along
with the Ionia girls they faced
earlier in the day and the
Olivet girls they’ll face
Saturday.
Lakewood will take on
GLAC rival Olivet in the
Division 2 Regional
Semifinals at Fowlerville
High School today (June 12)
at noon, following the tour-
nament’s opener between
Owosso and Haslett. The
Olivet girls closed the GLAC
season by sweeping their
three ballgames with the
Vikings, leaving the
Lakewood ladies a win shy
of a conference champion-
ship.
TK beat Hastings 21-0 in
three innings in its district
semifinal contest Saturday.
Grace Zube and Baileyhad three hits each in the win
over the Saxons for TK.
VanStee, Eliana O’Riley and
Natalie O’Riley had two hits
each. Natalie, Eliana and
Paige had two RBI each.
Bailey, Kate Caldwell,
Sprague, Rachel Shoemaker,
Ellie Vandefifer, Haveman
and Zube had one RBI
apiece. Sprague, Carly
Snyder, Shoemaker,
Vandefifer and Ellie Rogers
each had one hit for the
Trojans. Rogers, Zube and
Bailey scored three runs
each, and VanStee and
Natalie O’Riley both scored
twice in the four-inning
game.
Bailey threw three innings,
striking out seven while not
allowing a hit or giving up a
walk. Peyton Stahl threw as
perfect inning of relief forTK, striking out two.
Lakewood managed its
one run against Ionia in the
first district semifinal ball-
game of the day in
Middleville in the bottom of
the third inning.
Back-to-back singles by
Federau and Liv Woodman
got things started with one
out for the Vikings in the
bottom of the third, and then
Slater delivered a single into
left to load the bases with
two out. Federau came home
to score on an error by the
Bulldog catcher, before Ionia
managed to get the final out
on the base-paths.
Federau was 2-for-2 in the
win, and Slater, Woodman,
Bella Lab and Goble had the
Vikings’ other hits.DISTRICT, continued from page 6
FINALS, continued from page 7