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Middletown officials may consider striking treasurer post from city charter FacebookTwitterEmail 2of3 Middletown Charter Revision Commission members met April 13 to discuss a variety of issues, including thresholds for bond referendums, the mayor’s salary and elimination of the treasurer’s position.Screenshot / WebEx meetingShow MoreShow Less 3of3 MIDDLETOWN The Middletown Charter Revision Commission voted unanimously to recommend elimination of the treasurer’s post in 2023, a job one member calls “redundant.” City leaders can choose to pass or reject any recommendations the charter review panel makes when it deliberates in May. Treasurer Steven Kovach, who couldn’t make the meeting, submitted a letter explaining that the post oversees the finance director and mayor in a mechanism aimed at avoiding conflicts of interest. ....
Aging hazard dams forced a reckoning in Michigan this year Updated Dec 30, 2020; Facebook Share LANSING, MI They say you shouldn’t let a crisis go to waste. Well, there’s been a few of those in 2020. In Michigan, it was also the year aging hazard dams forced a long-overdue reckoning among state regulators. This fall, a group of experts in river ecology, civil engineering, dam safety and other aspects of environmental and energy policy have taken the crisis maxim to heart as they flyspeck the regulatory structure around an overlooked and under-funded area of the state’s water infrastructure. The goal is to overhaul the state’s dam safety and regulatory protocols, and hopefully avoid another catastrophe like the one on May 18 in Edenville, when a decrepit hydroelectric dam collapsed and unleashed a 500-year flood that displaced 10,000 people during a pandemic and caused about $200 million worth of damage in three counties. ....