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Update: The bonding ordinances were approved at the May 26 council meeting. The Township Council at its May 12 meeting introduced three bonding ordinances worth $3.5 million for construction projects and equipment purchases and a $450,000 capital ordinance for equipment purchases.

Update: The bond ordinance was approved at the May 26 council meeting. Thirty nine township streets would be repaved this year under a $2.5 million bond ordinance introduced at the May 12 Township Council meeting.

The Township Council on April 14 approved purchases totaling $193,440. Beyer Brothers of Fairvew won contracts for two GMC half-ton pickup trucks, for a total of $73,440.

The Township Council on April 14 extended leases it holds with a township resident on several pieces of farmland. The leases were renewed with George Manioudakis.

The Township Council April 14 gave its final blessing to a $57.2 million spending plan for 2015. The budget is powered by a $37,388,103 tax levy, up about $1.1 million from the 2014 tax levy.

Township police may one day wear body cameras, Police Chief Lawrence Roberts said March 10. The chief, speaking to the Township Council, said he is researching body cams for the department.

Two leases with township farmers were extended Feb. 24 by the Township Council. The council voted to approve the second of two one-year extensions to Albert Puchalek for Catalpa Farm on Old Vliet Road. The farmland consists of 50 acres, with a fee of $51.25 per acre, or $2,562.50 for the year.

Update: The budget was introduced at the March 10 Township Council meeting. A public hearing has been set for April 14. Original Story: The $57.2 million township budget expected to be introduced next month will carry with it a 3 percent hike in the amount to be raised by taxes, the Township Council was told Feb. 24.

The township’s payroll could grow by eight more positions this year, based on requests made at the Township Council’s second budget hearing on Feb. 12. Department heads presenting their budgets to the council also made requests for trucks, technology and other capital items during the four-hour hearing.

  Requests for a new bus for senior citizens and a new pickup truck for the township’s Fire Prevention department were made Feb. 9 during the Township Council’s first hearing on the proposed 2015 budget.