Sylvan Township residents will get second chance to decide whether the township can levy a 4.4 mill tax for 20 years to pay utility debt and delinquent taxes. The Sylvan Township Board Wednesday morning unanimously approved putting a request for the tax levy on the Aug. 7 ballot, and if ...
Related story: Sylvan Township residents may get second vote on large debt millage Washtenaw County has been forced to pay $350,000 this year after Sylvan Township defaulted on multimillion dollar bonds for major water and sewer improvements.
Sylvan Township voters may have a second say on whether to tax themselves for about $13.7 million in bond payments and taxes owned to the county. But, that’s only if the Township Board and the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners can agree on a millage amount and language before the ...
Facing what residents called extremely high water bills and mounting dissatisfaction with elected officials in Sylvan Township, members of the Chelsea Springs board of directors, a subdivision with 51 homes on the outskirts of Chelsea, continued to explore the possibility of annexation into the city. Tuesday night, the five members ...
Salaries for Sylvan Township officials will remain unchanged for another year.
Sylvan Township this week unanimously reappointed one Planning Commission member and two Zoning Board of Appeals members.
As a concerned resident of Sylvan Township, I want to make sure that people get out and vote Nov. 8 on the township’s proposal for the millage increase of 4.75 mills. Whether you vote yes or no, that’s up to you. Here are my thoughts:
A recent Michigan Court of Appeals ruling in the lawsuit of two developers against Sylvan Township is mostly good news for the township, its lawyer, Gaetan Gerville-Reache, said in a recent press statement. “We are pleased with the decision,” he said in the statement. Norfolk Development Corp. won a $2.4 ...
While Sylvan Township officials await a decision from the Michigan Court of Appeals regarding a $2.4 million judgment brought against the township by two developers, township attorney Pete Flintoft told a standing-room-only crowd Tuesday night that a long-term repayment plan could ease the pain of reimbursing the county for $10.6 ...
Editor's note: This story has been corrected to not that the approved budget is smaller than the previous year's. The Sylvan Township Board Tuesday night unanimously approved an operating budget of $448,950 for 2011-2012 — a decrease of $21,100 from the previous year — which includes $170,000 for legal fees. ...
This story was updated at 10:15 a.m. Saturday with information from County Treasurer Catherine McClary.Representatives from Sylvan Township, Chelsea and Washtenaw County met Friday to discuss options in the tangled mess of lawsuits and future water and sewer bond payments that could mean whopping tax bills for Sylvan residents. The ...
Sylvan Township residents could face a one-time 18-mill tax bill as the result of lawsuits filed against the township by two developers. Norfolk Development Corporation and Magellan Properties sued the township for breach of contract and were awarded $2.4 million by Washtenaw Circuit Court Judge Donald Shelton in September. In ...
The Sylvan Township Board unanimously appointed residents to four boards on Tuesday night. LuAnn Koch, the township clerk, was reappointed to the Chelsea Area Fire Authority (CAFA) for five years while Reuben Lesser, a township trustee, was reappointed as the alternate. Currently, Koch serves as the chairman of the CAFA ...
Michigan State Police SWAT team members used tear gas to force a 15-year-old boy from his Sylvan Township home this afternoon after he threatened his sister with a gun, bringing a peaceful end to a 13-hour standoff, troopers said.
The Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Department and Michigan State Police are on the lookout for a black Ford SUV in connection with tools stolen in Sylvan Township. Police were dispatched to the 12900 block of M-52 around 9:30 p.m. for a burglary in process, according to the sheriff’s department.
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