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The Forum is co-moderated by Karl Fink and John Hansen.
If you wish to be added to the Forum mailing list just send a request to RepHansen@aol.com. or KarlVFink@gmail.com You will get meeting reminders, meeting notes and nothing else. -Meeting Dates- The next meeting of the Dexter Forum will be on Saturday, April 20, at 8:30 AM at the Dexter Wellness Center. The group meets on the first and third Saturdays of the month. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <<< The "Stump" >>> Expect more Stump activity as we approach 2020 elections. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***. Karl and I have recorded an interview about the Forum for the local component of All Things Considered on WEMU 89.1 radio that will be broadcast on Monday, December 3 during both the 4:00 and 6:00 versions of the show. Many of the questions were about why you keep coming and why you don't yell and argue. You can also hear the segment by getting on the WEMU website and clicking on the podcast after Monday. **** https://www.wemu.org/.../public-interest-focus-community-forum-dexter- where-participants-listen-and-learn |
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Who We Are |
The Dexter Forum is supported by the Dexter Wellness Coalition as part of the 5 Healthy Towns initiative to "help connect with others in healthy ways". The purpose of the Forum is to create an opportunity for interested women and men to gather to discuss important issues facing our community. All are welcome on a drop-in basis. The group meets on the first and third Saturdays of the month.
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The Forum in action-
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"We make the agenda at the meeting so you never know what's on peoples' minds until you ask." ========================================================= Notes for Meeting of April 06, 2019 We took another shot at finding the money to fix the roads. Part of the reason that politics is so interesting is the number of moving parts that are beyond anyone's control. Since Governor Whitmer proposed her grand plan to do it all right and do it all right now by biting the bullet and raising the gas tax by 45 cents per gallon - which plan was soundly rejected as being unrealistic - the cost of gas has actually gone up by 45 cents per gallon due to 'market forces'. So we decided to pick on the big trucks which is harder to do now that we have Bob Steptoe, a big truck driver, attending our meetings. We are not sure that they pay the right amount but we found out that they do pay a lot more than we thought they did. Since we operate without the safety net of an agenda we sometimes slide from one topic to another as we did when Bob, the above mentioned truck driver also mentioned that his company, Adair Printing, was closing. It was also noted that nearby Thomson-Shore Printing was entering bankruptcy and down the road printers Edwards Brothers/Malloy was going under after their recent merger. Western Washtenaw County was once known as a national center of low volume, high quality printers. Now everyone has a printer on their desk. We can't have a Forum without talking about development and congestion so we did and we found, with the help of Paul Cousins, a proper villain. It was Judge Dexter who nestled the town at the intersection of a creek and a river and then brought the railroad in the middle of it all. So we have congestion and...more is coming. The development on Baker Road just past the roundabouts is back on the agenda in Scio Township as a planned unit development (PUD). This means that annexation to the city is not on the table and the decisions will all be made at the township level. A big question with high density projects is always who gets the poop. The proposal on the table calls for the installation of a sewage treatment plant on site with discharge into Mill Creek. I believe it is similar to the system used in Thornton Farms on the corner of Jackson and Parker Roads. Jason Maciejewski, our new county commissioner was influential in bringing a working session of the commission to the western part of the county last week. It was well attended with topics selected to appeal to us westerners - broadband access and teen mental health. The commission administers a 200 million dollar budget. Four of the nine commissioners are new, a majority (5) are women, youthful Jason is the third oldest and all nine are Democrats. So now you know. We had the usual flurry of infomercials and added a new help wanted feature as well. Basically, if you are not attending some sort of fundraiser in the next couple of weeks you are not achieving your full potential as a community builder. Karl and I are making our second appearance on the Lucy Ann Lance show (WLBY1290 AM) on Thursday, April 18 at 8:00 AM. Tune in and hear what we have to say about you. *** The next meeting of the Dexter Forum will be on Saturday, April 20 at 8:30 AM at the Dexter Wellness Center.*** ---(John Hansen writes the notes but he knows that Karl is watching and might withdraw the privilege if he gets too far over the center line.)--- ========================================================= --------------- |
