Clay Township
Clay Fire Territory
April 24, 2025
5:00 p.m.
Purpose: Regular Township meeting and any other business that may legally come before
the Board.

• Call to Order: 5:13 pm

• Meeting Attendance
  • George Ewald Director of Finance & HR, 
  • Jaren Kilian Fire Chief, Robbie Thomas Clay Board,  
  • Randy Figg St. Joseph County Council, Jim King, Jason Hacker, Edwin Gamez, Cameron Freedline, Amy Drake St. Joseph County Council, Michelle Shaw Board President, Derrik Decraene Park Manager, Sean O’Brien, Trustee
• Minutes from previous meetings, January 7^th & January 23^rd, March 20^th, 2025 review and approve
  • Minutes will be caught up, reviewed and approved at next meeting

• Township Business:

• Financial Statements –George Ewald, Director of Finance & HR
  • January 2025 EVERWISE – interest $70,387.01
  • February 2025 EVERWISE – interest $61,608.86
  • March 2025 EVERWISE – interest $ 66,110.48
    • Motion to approve all bank statements Q1 Michelle
      • 2^nd Robbie Thomas 

• Web Site Update- George Ewald & Michelle Shaw
  • We are happy to announce we have a base site up and are sending photos and documents to Taylor at TJ Marketing.  Michelle and George hope to have our site up, running and public ready by July 2025

• General Assistance – 2025 Eligibility Guidelines

• Income Guidelines for 2025 
• Vote To Approve 2025 Guidelines:  Michelle Shaw voted to approve, Robbie Thomas 2nd

• SB1 – upcoming changes 
• CIP for Township/Park/Cemeteries
  • George, Derrik and Sean will be working closely together to update and finalize a formal Capital Improvement Plan for the Township and Rainy Day Funds

• Clay Park Update – Derrik DeCraene
  • Storm Damage 03/30/2025- the cemeteries both lost large trees and Watson’s Tree service will be beginning the clean up asap
  • Park Open 04/01/2025
  • Cemetery Clean Up – Tree Removal- see above
  • Healthwin Encroachments
    • Certified Letters sent (2)
    • Phone calls made to Steve Gazdick & Mylinda Traversa
    • Next Steps…Sean suggested that we contact Pete and come up with a letter demanding they remove their equipment/structures from our land.  Amy Drake will find out how much of the land at Heathwin was sold with the building.  There are 82 acres total, but news stories have suggested that all of the property was not sold with the building.
    • Yoga In The Park will now be called “Saturdays In The Park”  Tentative dates for puppet shows etc. will be 05/17, 06/14, 07/12 and 08/09
    • Veterans Group will be doing “retired flag ceremonies” twice in summer of 2025

• Fire Department Update-  Chief Kilian
  • See attached update sheet

• Old Business: none

• New Business: none

        Set next meeting:   June 26, 2025  @5:15   

Adjourn: 5:55 p.m.