Grand Blanc Watch Dogs
Lonnie Adkins and Monica Shapiro talk about what goes on at the Township. Think “the team” is asleep at the wheel? Think they waste our tax dollars? Think the township could be better? So do we! Let’s talk Grand Blanc!
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We keep talking! Do not Knock! Recall, Data Centers and Flock Cameras, Development, Neighborhood Road Repair (opens the original)
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This is a great one! Listen up! One year since the LDS Church Fire... WE STILL HAVENT GOTTEN CHIEF JENT THE MINIMUM STAFFING HE SAID HE NEEDED! 1.6 % of the Budget and a solid year since the Church Fire PROVED he was right to ask for it! Dennis Liimatta and his Municipal Consultancy... Monica and Lonnie talk about transparency misbegotten Development policies, he Do not Knock Ordinance... lots more on Flock Cameras and Data Centers - ..Plenty about Roads, Roads, Roads and what it means to get a
Data Centers! Flock Cameras! (opens the original)
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Look at the attendance at the township's meeting on Data Centers and Flock Cameras! Ya think they advertised? GB Watchdogs thinks they were relieved to have managed to have the discussion under the radar... Listen to Lonnie and Monica discuss the moment at 39:40 when Attorney Chubb and Scott Bennett agreed that if there wasn't enough industrial zoned property to accommodate a hyperscale data center, we could rezone! More on Flock Cameras Soon! Keep listening and visit us on Facebook -Grand Blanc
View Newspaper Gets it Wrong (opens the original)
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The Grand Blanc View published their usual puff piece about the Township Board. "GB Township Board Mulls Millage Proposal." The article tells a nice little story about our fire department but it gets one key aspect dead wrong. "Chief Jent sounded the alarm about staffing levels after the Sept. 28 LDS Church fire. NO! Jent was HIRED to try to fix staffing levels in April 2025, and almost immediately determined that we needed four additional full-time firefighters to bring us to minimum safe staff
Interview with Larry Pack, MD Grand Blanc resident (opens the original)
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Larry Pack is a member of a neighborhood that was targeted for a random zoning change from residential to commercial, so that one of the DDA developers could put an office plaza in the center of a quiet neighborhood of 10 acre lots off Baldwin road. He and his neighbors got 60 people to come out to the planning commission meeting to protest this - 60 people who live in other neighborhoods all along Baldwin road and don't like the way the township has been systematically downgrading that area. Th
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