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SUMPTER - ROMULUS
SUMPTER - ROMULUS

Trustees seeking solutions to township recycling

There was a lot of trash talk “Did we call public hearing ” service, and agreed with
at the Aug.8 meeting of the in 2018 on it or have a commu- LaPorte that a survey of resi-
Sumpter Township Board of nity meeting,” LaPorte asked. “I dents would be helpful.
Trustees. think it is time to test the I think it is time to test the waters. One township resident told
The discussion followed a waters. With more people mov- With more people moving to the community, the board that she moved to the
proposal of Township Manager ing to the community, residents township in 2021 and had never
Anthony Burdick to designate might be ready for recycling residents might be ready for recycling now. before lived anywhere that did-
$35,000 of expected American now,” he said. LaPorte suggest- n't pick up recycling.
Recovery Plan Act (ARPA) ed a survey to determine what “Residents don't deserve a
funds to a possible recycling the public wanted to do. choice,” she said. We are in a
outlet in the township. Trustee Burdick said his suggestion and did not authorize any system could be installed to time of environmental crisis
Don LaPorte was not in favor of was based on current condi- expenditure. ensure no illegal dumping took and in 30 or 40 years the oceans
the proposal and suggested that tions of the recycling efforts in “It just like the cemetery. place. may not be there. Trash is tak-
it was time to ask residents if the township. Not one penny gets spent until LaPorte said he would like ing over. This is not the 1800s,”
they wanted to participate in a He said the community was approved by the board,” he to see the board have more she said and urged the board to
curbside recycling program. running out of options to keep said. Burdick suggested the options than “moving the 200 move forward with a recycling
“We have people moving into recycling where it is due to a funding might be used in build- yards up the road.” plan.
the township,” he said, “so it lack of personnel. He added ing a corral for a recycling Trustee Matt Oddy suggested Township Supervisor Tim
may be time to ask again.” that it would take time to pre- effort with proper signage the option of allowing township Bowman and LaPorte cast the
Burdick said the cost of curb- pare and distribute a survey as advising residents that illegal residents to dump recycling at two no votes on the proposed
side recycling was about $12 to LaPorte suggested. Burdick dumping carried a $500 fine for the landfill or a combined recy- transfer of funds. Trustee Peggy
$13 per household based on stressed that his proposal was the first offense. He suggested cling effort with other commu- Morgan did not attend the
research he had done. an effort to set aside the funds that a $1,800 video surveillance nities to lower the cost of the meeting.
Response to stalking complaint leads to weapons charges

The report of a suspicious Police discovered the man
vehicle resulted in the arrest of also had an outstanding war-
a 28-year-old man and the con- rant from another jurisdiction
fiscation of loaded weapons and and when searching his vehicle
nearly 300 rounds of ammuni- found two loaded, uncased
tion by Romulus police officers weapons along with almost 300
last week. rounds of ammunition. One
Officers were dispatched to weapon was on the passenger
the area of Harrison and seat of the vehicle and the other
Eureka Road in the city follow- easily accessible behind the
ing the report of the vehicle passenger seat, according to
which was parked near the police reports of the incident.
home of a stalking victim. Police The suspect, who had not
said the victim feared the man been arraigned at press time,
had violated the current per- was remanded by Romulus
sonal protection order issued police to the Wayne County Jail.
against him. He has been charged with two
When Romulus officers counts of carrying a concealed
arrived on the scene which was weapon, two counts of resist-
a short distance from the stalk- ing/obstructing officers and one
ing victim's home, the man count of aggravated stalking.
jumped from the vehicle and Police praised the actions of
refused to obey officers' com- the officers and said it “doesn't
mands. He physically resisted take much imagination to know
officers at the scene before that this story could have ended
being subdued and arrested, very differently” in a post on the Loaded weapons and nearly 300 rounds of ammunition were discovered during the arrest of a stalking
according to police reports. Romulus Police Facebook page. suspect in Romulus last week.