The Suttons Bay Village Council accepted the fiscal year 2023 audit prepared by an independent firm at their June regular meeting. With the audit finding everything in order, the council agreed to submit the report to the state.
“As usual, we contracted an independent auditor to perform the audit, and as anticipated, all is in order,” a staff report to the village council reads. “The audit is reflective of our budgeting and anticipated expenditures for 2023. The audit was absent of any surprises and did not generate any concerns.”
The village council offered their congratulations to Treasurer Lorrie Devol for her hard work managing the village’s accounting and financial reporting, though unfortunately she was absent from the Monday meeting.
The council did not take any more action at its June meeting. Village Manager Rob Larrea briefly informed the council on a complaint he received at last month’s meeting, where a resident of a private subdivision raked his leaves to the side of the curb for pickup and was displeased when the curbside pickup did not materialize.
Larrea clarified that since the subdivision and its roads are privately owned, village staff do not provide curbside pickup there. The source of the confusion appears to have been an informational email sent out to all village residents notifying them that curbside pickup was to begin, and the residents seemed to be unaware that the village’s curbside service did not reach their subdivision.
Larrea said that staff suggested that the resident place their leaves in biobags and leave them on a public road outside the subdivision for pickup, but they did not accept this offer.
Back in April, the Village Council agreed to place “no thru traffic” signs on Strattons Way facing M-204 to limit traffic coming along this narrow road between M-204 and Concord Street. This was a result of a petition from a resident and several of his neighbors, who felt that the traffic could pose a danger to his young daughters.
The resident attended the June meeting to thank the council for taking this step to improve safety on his street but noted that the visibility of the signs could be improved.
