Candidate for Lyon Township Supervisor
Background
Experience
- Resident of Roscommon County for 44 years.
- Resident of Lyon Township for 16 years.
- Certified Assessing Officer for 32 years. Currently licensed as Michigan Advance Assessing Officer and Personal Property Examiner.
- Co-owner of Municipal Management Consultants; contractor of business management of the Beaver Creek Grayling Township Utility Authority for the previous five years. Former business management of the Higgins Lake Utilities Authority for 10 years.
- Lyon Township Assistant Assessor for five years.
- Lyon Township Assessor 25 years.
- Creation and administration of township budgets.
- Creation and administration of township ordinances.
- Creation and administration of multiple special assessment districts.
- Assisted multiple former Lyon Township Supervisors with all aspects of statutory duties.
- Assisted multiple former Lyon Township Treasurers with administration of bi-annual tax rolls, including printing and mailing of tax bills.
- Served as interim Township Supervisor from July 2021 until November of 2022. As a member of the township board during that time we:
- Continued work on a proposed sewer system initiated by the previous board.
- Began the process of properly funding the Trash Fund, which had been running in the red for several years, to make it self-funded.
- Made much needed repairs and upgrade to the cemetery road.
- Installed security cameras at township facilities, with partial funding from a grant by the PAR Plan.
- Replaced the culvert at Big Creek with grant funding.
- Began work on a septic ordinance.
- Began work on a food truck ordinance.
- Upgraded township website to a .gov site for added security, as well as a completely new, more user- friendly site.
- Improvements to the road and parking areas of Park 27.
- Provided funding and enthusiastically supported the expansion of the summer concert series at Park 27.
- Paved multiple local roads.