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Township Board organizes for 2025 with annual meeting

  A time-honored tradition, the Frankenmuth Township Board of Trustees held their 2025 Annual Meeting on Monday, March 17, at the City & Township Government Center.

  The board made fairly quick work of the agenda, adjourning the meeting within 45 minutes. Township Supervisor Jeff Frahm ran his first Annual Meeting, as 20-year Supervisor Tim Hildner did not seek re-election in 2024. Also in attendance was another former supervisor, Martin Warnick.

  Three public hearings for the 2025-2026  fiscal year were conducted for special assessments for police protection, fire equipment, and trash collection.

  For police protection, the assessment was increased from $364 per household to $382 per household, and to take $30,000 from the General Fund to subsidize the cost for police protection. The assessment hike was approved.

  Next, funding for the Frankenmuth Fire Department was discussed for updating and purchasing fire equipment. His special assessment was bumped up $5 from $45 to $50

  The trash collection special assessment was approved unchanged from last year, at $150,000 for 2025-2026. All three hearings passed unanimously.

  Frahm also discussed the road improvement projects planned for the summer of 2025. A total of $424,278 of the estimated total cost for the year of $689,327.50 will be to rebuild one mile of Warnick Road or Block Road (north of Junction Road. This project is to be determined.

  Other road projects include......

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