August 07, 2016
By Jeffrey Cunningham | jcunning@mlive.com
PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP -- In what current Plainfield Township officials have called an "historic" vote, votershave approved the township's proposal for a 0.5-mill levy that is expected to generate $585,000 to be used to upgrade the township's public trails and public recreation spaces.
The vote was 2,921 to 2,594 in favor of the millage.
The trails millage is the first dedicated millage to have been put to a vote in the township's history.
Township officials have cautioned residents from expecting trail improvements from taking place in the near future. "It will be 2017 before we receive any funding from the millage so it will be at least next year before any construction can happen, so I am hesitant to even guess at a timeline," said Township Superintendent Cameron VanWyngarden.
He said the township has a map of the trails they would like to improve but that map is just a list of trails and lines on a map. "The passing of the millage means that we can start the planning process in earnest," he said.