Raisin Township Board seeks input for strategic plan

By: 
MEGAN LINSKI

On December 28, the Raisin Charter Township Board of Trustees gathered to hear a strategic plan proposal, presented by trustee Tom Hawkins. The proposal would initiate the process of developing a strategic plan for Raisin Township, and guide the actions and goals of the board for the next two decades.

Jim Palmer, superintendent of Raisin Township, said the board seeks to coordinate an organized growth method for the township. “We want to understand what the majority wants,” Palmer said. “We want to clarify what services we can provide.”

Hawkins said he was excited about the proposal and is looking forward to working together with his fellow trustees.

“We can be strategic, providing for what the township needs,” Hawkins said. “My point is as this strategic plan is developed, it will be with the input of the township residents. It’s going to take time but we’re intentionally working with residents to provide a service.”

The proposal outlines five main points:

• Create a vision statement for Raisin Township, and determine how the township appears to others by gathering input from residents.

• Identify what issues are important to the township, with a focus on where the township needs to go in the next twenty years.

• Define expected objectives that the township must achieve to address priority issues.

• Determine who is accountable to address priority issues and defined objectives in the township. The proposal stated strategies, action plans, and budgets were all steps in the accountability process that effectively communicate how the township will allocate time, money and manpower to address issues.

• Hold regularly scheduled reviews of the process of the plan in Raisin Township at least once per quarter to assess if the plan is performing as designed.

The board also voted unanimously to give Fire Chief Eddie Mathias the authority to sell two fire department vehicles, a 1991 Ford F350 diesel mini-pumper, and a 1992 Ameritec crash truck. The vote was 4-0, with trustees Dale Mitchell, Kami Johnson, and James Cavanaugh absent. The vehicles haven’t been used for three years, and are currently in storage.

“We’re going to look into the process,” Mathias said. “Fire-truck brokers will take them over and sell them for us. If we can’t sell them, we will donate them to a department in need, or the board has given permission to scrap them if need be. We’d take the money made from the sale or from the metal and put it into our vehicle fund.”

Mathias said he believes the mini-pumper will sell from $2,500 to $7,500. The sale of the crash truck could result in $10,000 to $15,000. The department had previously sold a 1996 fire truck through a broker.

Currently, the department has three fire engines, a rescue, a tanker, and a brush truck, with the rescue capable of transporting patients if needed. In 2015, there were 544 calls made between fire, EMS (emergency medical services) and mutual aid, down 20 calls from 2014.

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