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Board discusses future library location

By Jerry LaVaute
Heritage Media

BELLEVILLE The library might expand soon. The Belleville Area District Library Board of Trustees voted unanimously to accept an option for the library to purchase the library building and the municipal parking lot across the street from the city at its meeting Sept. 16. The purchase would cost between $200,000 and $250,000. Library officials will decide on a prime site Oct. 8, after a public hearing Oct. 2. That will begin a phase in which new library development costs for the selected site will be determined, followed by a proposal to the voting public next year. A millage vote to decide the funding could be held as early as August 2014, according to library officials. At the end of the council meeting Sept. 10, the board adjourned into closed session, ushering meeting participants and newspaper reporters from the meeting room into the childrens section of the library to wait.

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When the open meeting session resumed, library officials outlined four alternative locations for the proposed new library, and the location for a proposed 2,000-square-foot satellite library for the Sumpter Township Community Center on Sumpter Road. Three of the four alternative locations for the new main library were in the city of Belleville, in the same general area as the current library, but with a much larger overall footprint. Some buildings, business and residences would have to be razed to make room. Library attorney John Day said that options have been agreed for all the properties save one, at 144 Third St., the site of Captain Nemos sub shop. The alternative proposals will be reviewed in a public hearing at 7 p.m. Oct. 2, in the miniauditorium in Belleville High School. Properties envisioned to create the new library site are: Alternative A: Includes current library and municipal parking lot; moves east and south to include the current site of Captain Nemos and a residence on Third Street, and two businesses Mainstreet and H&B Bookkeeping on or

near the site of the former post office on Charles Street. Alternative B: Includes current library and municipal parking lot; moving north to Main Street to include buildings currently occupied by Bruder Landscaping, local dentist Charles Boelter, the dry cleaner and the adjacent hydroponics shop. Alternative C: Current library, municipal parking lot, the Baptist church and adjacent homes on High Street. Alternative D: The Belleville Road lakefront property owned by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to the north of the bridge over the lake, and the adjacent residence. Day said that an option represents an agreement between the library and the property owner to purchase a property at a specific price, and that payments to maintain the option will be made on certain dates. It does not represent an appraisal of the propertys market value. Jerry LaVaute is a special writer for Heritage Media. Follow his blogs Pas Blog and The Eye of the Storm at http://jlavaute.blogspot.com. He can be reached at glavaute@gmail.com or call 1734-740-0062.

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Ofcials approve changes for police, re departments

By Jerry LaVaute
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SUMPTER TWP. Three new paid-on-call firefighters were added to the Fire Department, and the Board of Trustees approved more than $8,000 for the departments needs at its meeting Sept. 10. The needs ranged from officer leadership and medical instructor training to new helmets. The elevation of a part-time police officer to full-time status concerned Clerk Clarence Hoffman, Jr., who asked whether Officer Brian Steffani was a Sumpter Township resident. Steffani is not a resident, and that led to a discussion among the trustees about whether police officers should be encouraged or required

to be township residents. The vote to make him a full-time officer was 6-1, with Hoffman dissenting. Attorney Rob Young said if the residency requirement were applied to all police officers serving the township, only two officers on the police force would qualify. Young offered high praise for Steffani, noting that he doesnt often comment on personnel. Hes a fine officer; hes done a great job, Young said, noting that Steffani was always prepared for courtroom hearings. In other public safety business, trustees unanimously approved $4,200 for five officers and three firefighters to take leadership training, and an additional $1,800 for Firefighter Collin Lynch to take a class to become a medical

instructor coordinated. Fire Chief Joseph Januszyk said Lynchs training eventually would save money for the township, because he could act as trainer for firefighter medical procedures. This would save $250 per firefighter for training that had been provided outside the township. The board also approved purchasing nine new helmets for firefighters, at a cost of $249 per helmet. Januszyk explained that the color of the new helmets would be keyed to the rank of the firefighter, helping to distinguish a firefighter from an officer from the fire chief at the scene of a fire. The board went into a closed session to discuss union contracts for sergeants and lieutenants.

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