November 22, 2018 ■ B5www.allegannews.com ■ The Allegan County News
Part Time PositionZoning Administrator
Casco Township, Allegan County
Casco Township in southwest Allegan County isseeking candidates to fill the position of Zoning Ad-ministrator. The position is part time with higher ac-tivity during the summer season due to increasedseasonal activity associated with its six miles ofLake Michigan Shoreline.
Experience- Public administration or Planning and Zoning
Knowledge and Skills- Considerable knowledge of planning and zoning- Working knowledge of property development- Working knowledge of the government processes
and services- Considerable ability to communicate effectively
and diplomatically both oral and in writing withstate and federal agencies, private businesses,elected officials, potential developers, townshipstaff, and the general public including formal pre-sentations.
In addition, a candidate must be self-motivated, de-tail oriented, organized and commit to attend con-tinuing educational opportunities as they becomeavailable.
See full job description on Casco’s Township’s website: www.cascotownship.org
Please send resume to Allan Overhiser: [email protected]
All resumes must be submitted by November 30, 2018
NOTICEInvitation to Bid for Qualifying Architect/Engineer for Sandy
Pines Storm Shelter/Community Events Center
Salem Township, located at 3003 142nd Ave. Burnips, MI, 49314 and Sandy PinesWilderness Trails, Inc. (“Sandy Pines”) 2745 136th Street, Hopkins, MI are request-ing Qualifying Architect/Engineer bids for a dual purpose Storm Shelter servingas a safe room and a Sandy Pines community events center to be located withinSandy Pines, Salem Township, and Allegan County, MI.
Salem Township obtained FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant application numberPDMC-PJ-05-MI-2017-007 on September 14, 2018 for the structural hardening ofa building to serve as a Safe Room in allowing them to resist weather relatedstorms including EF-4 Tornadoes. This structure will be located in Salem Township.Sandy Pines Wilderness Trails Inc. shall be responsible for the scope of work per-formed outside of the Grant.
Scope of Work
Design and engineering of a two-story dual purpose storm shelter on the resortproperty, with occupancy to shelter 1,104 people. The building shall be designedand engineered to meet FEMA P-361 and ICC-500 Safe Room requirements fortornado Shelters. All work shall meet all Federal, State and Local Standards, in-cluding FEMA Environmental Considerations. Architects/Engineers will also beresponsible to provide all professional and basic services necessary to produceall preliminary design plans for review and make recommended changes and ad-justments and prepare final design plans and specifications in accordance with allmunicipal, county, State, and federal codes and requirements. A detailed and fullscope of work can be obtained by contacted Salem Township, located at 3003142nd Ave. P.O. Box 49, Burnips, MI 49314 c/o James A. Pitsch, Township Super-visor or by email [email protected]. Salem Township, as the Admin-istrator of this grant, shall administer this grant pursuant to the conditions statedwithin the Federal/State/Local Agreement. Anticipated start date of the project isexpected to be October 2019 with an expected completion date of May 2021.
General Architect/Engineer Qualifications
To give notice to potential qualifiers that Salem Township is an equal opportunityemployer in accordance with Title VII, Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C 1981,1983, 1986 and amendments, and it is the policy of Salem Township to requirecontractors, vendors and suppliers providing goods and services to the townshipto afford equal opportunity for employment to all individuals regardless of race,color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability status or veteran status, or anyother class protected by law.
Salem Township, carrying out projects assures that affirmative action statutes areutilized and that employable persons and businesses in our project area are utilizedto the greatest extent feasible with particular emphasis being placed upon hiringof women and minorities as both employees and, where applicable, subcontrac-tors. We encourage these businesses to apply.
General Architect/Engineer’s company shall be licensed within the State of Michi-gan.
Electronic scope of work is available by contacting Salem Township, located at3003 142nd Ave., P.O. Box 49, Burnips, MI 49314 c/o James A. Pitsch, TownshipSupervisor or by email [email protected].
Walk through: Invitation for a walk through of site inspection is Tuesday, December11, 2018 at 10 AM local time.
Bid due date: Sealed Bids may be sent or delivered to: Salem Township, betweenthe hours of 9:00am and 4:00pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays, C/O James A. Pitsch3003 142nd Ave., P.O. Box 49, Burnips, MI, 49314, or be brought to Salem Town-ship Offices located at 3003 142nd Ave. Burnips, MI, 49314 by 11am on Monday,January 7, 2019 local time. The public opening will follow immediately after in themeeting room at the Salem Township offices. Once the meeting is called to order,no other bids will be accepted.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
WAYLAND TOWNSHIP PLANNING COMMISSION
WHEN: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2018TIME: 6:30 P.M.WHERE: WAYLAND TOWNSHIP HALL
1060 129TH AVENUEBRADLEY, MI 49311
The Wayland Township Planning Commission willhold a public hearing on the following proposedamendments to the Zoning Ordinance:
1. Amendments to Section 3.39, Private Road Re-quirements. These amendments would, amongother changes: require existing private roads to beupgraded to current standards if the private road isproposed to be extended; require additional appli-cation information; revise the private road permitprocedure; exempt a private road serving no morethan two lots from the road paving and turn aroundrequirement; require that a private road serving atleast three but no more than 20 lots be constructedto the standards of the Allegan County Road Com-mission for a Local Road Section;require that a private road serving more than 20lots be constructed to the standards of the AlleganCounty Road Commission Standard 1A and; pro-vide additional standards for a private road.
2. Amendments to Section 3.17 (e), Signs for aHome-Based Business. This amendment wouldcorrect an existing conflict in the Zoning Ordinancewhereby the sign requirements for a Home-BasedBusiness were different than the sign requirementsfor other uses in the same zoning district.
The proposed amendments are available for reviewat the Wayland Township Offices, 1060 129th Av-enue, Bradley, Michigan 49311, by appointment bycalling the Township offices at 792-6394.
Matt Miner, SecretaryWayland Township Planning Commission
SPORTS
Much of that confidence re-volves around the experiencethat returns for Hopkins.
Seven players are back froma team that posted a 13-10record in Jewett’s first seasonat the helm, marking the firstwinning record for the pro-gram in a decade.
Among the returning playersare all five starters from a yearago.
“The experience comingback at all five positions is def-initely a team strength, as is theversatility among the athleteswe have,” Jewett said. “Ourguys are also all very highcharacter kids who play welltogether in an unselfish way.”
Among the returning playersare senior guard HunterLewellyn, sophomore guardColin Weber, junior forwardTyler Zomerlei, senior for-ward/center Nolan Smith andjunior forward/center DrewWeber. Senior guards BryceSmith and Blaine Hunt roundout the returning group.
Newcomers include juniorguard Kyle Pierce, junior for-ward Nathan Tew andguard/forward Trevor Smith.
“As I begin my second yearas head coach at Hopkins, I’mexcited to build on the founda-tion we built last season,” saidJewett, whose team made it toa Class B district final beforefalling to Wayland. “I can al-ready see the confidence andhow much more comfortablemy guys are in the system thisseason compared to last.
“They now know my expec-tations and what we need to doin order to reach our goals andhave a successful season.”
MARTINFew teams in the SAC will
be able to match the experi-ence possessed by Martin thisseason, as eight players returnfor the Clippers from lastyear’s roster.
“We’re excited to have somany returning players,” sec-ond-year Martin coachBradley Moelker said.
And none of those playershas more experience than sen-ior forward/guard CarterHilton.
A starter since his freshmanseason, Hilton will be lookedto for leadership on both endsof the court.
“Carter can impact the gamein many ways,” Moelker said.“Defensively, he’s capable ofguarding any position on thecourt. Offensively, he has theskill to play multiple positions.Although he has a nice shotthis year, I believe his vision,defense, passing and leader-ship are really going to affectgames.”
The senior trio of AlexHardy, Michael Morey andClayton Geerlings head up theguard position, along with jun-ior Cayden Curry. SophomoreCollin Coburn will see time atboth guard and forward, muchlike Hilton.
“The guard position is defi-nitely the skillset we arestrongest at,” Moelker said.“We have multiple playerswho can start at positions onethrough three and will oftenhave to use a small ball lineupwith more guards on the court.
“The players are always inattack mode when we are onoffense. We have some veryquick and savvy players sur-rounded by guys who canknock down jump shots.”
Senior center Jacob Yowlerand sophomore forwardMitchell Jager round out thereturning group and will be re-lied upon for much of thefrontcourt responsibilities.
“Jacob is going to have toplay some important minutesthis year for us,” Moelker said.“He can rebound and get someeasy looks in the post.
“Mitchell has a nice feel tothe game for a younger player.He is going to give us somenice minutes at a stretch-fourposition.”
As the Clippers strive to im-prove upon last season’s 8-14mark, consistency is one of thekey points Moelker is trying todrive home to his players.
“As a team our main concernis understanding how impor-tant every possession is bothon the defense and offensiveside,” he said. “Last year wehad lapses in judgment and de-cisions that put us out of somegames.
“We look forward to thechallenge of trying to play asperfect as possible duringevery second of games thisyear.”
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Moelker expects Coloma tobe the team to beat in theSAC.
OTSEGOOtsego was the class of the
Wolverine Conference lastseason, winning the leaguetitle and finishing with anoverall record of 19-2 that in-cluded an 18-game winningstreak.
With several of the key con-tributors back this year, itpromises to be another funseason for the Bulldogs.
“This season will offer a lotto be excited about in Otsego,”Bulldog coach Matt Dennissaid. “We return six of our topeight players and have a goodgroup of players coming upfrom the junior varsity team.Our strength will be our depthand basketball IQ.”
That list of returning playersstarts with senior guards Ad-dison Atwater and Will El-dred, who are entering theirfourth and third seasons, re-spectively, at the varsity level.
“Addi plays fast and getsothers involved,” Dennis said.“The team is his to run thisyear and I think he will dogreat.”
“Will is solid every time hesteps on the floor. He shootsthe ball from the free throwand the 3-point lines consis-tently and is hawk on the de-fensive end.”
Fellow returning senior Jay-den Dentler adds to the guarddepth, although will misssome action early in the sea-son as he recovers from anelbow surgery. Junior guardCharlie Williams led the Bull-dogs in scoring as a sopho-more.
“Charlie will be a markedman this year and won’t sur-
prise anyone,” Dennis said.“His ability to do the littlethings on both ends of thefloor will cause fits for the op-posing teams.”
Senior forward JaekobSallee also returns, as do jun-
ior forwards Jaxsen Callawayand Owen Watson.
Six-foot-6 senior forwardJordan Ross highlights the listof newcomers.
“Jordan will offer somemuch needed rebounding and
defense in the post,” Dennissaid. “His ability to explode tothe rim offers a new option forour offense this season.”
Other newcomers are juniorguards Peyton Vanderhoff,Derek Ward, Nate Bush andHunter Lucas along with jun-ior forward Fab Gaines.
“A lot of our success will de-pend on how we come to-gether as a team since we didlose four seniors off last year’steam and will be bringing innew faces from our JV team,”Dennis said. “One of the greatthings about this team is thatthree of our returners weresophomores last year and willnow be playing with theirclassmates they’ve grown upwith and played basketballwith before.
“And our seniors are great
leaders who represent them-selves, their families, the pro-gram and the community inthe right way. This leadershipwill be relied upon all yearthroughout our entire pro-gram.”
It’s a group Dennis expectsto contend for another leaguechampionship, with Dowagiacand Three Rivers as the topthreats to the title.
“I’m excited to coach thisgroup of players,” Dennissaid. “We have good playersand good people. This leadsme to believe they’ll play un-selfishly and buy into our styleof play very quickly. Playingas a team is what will separateus from our opponents andgive us the best chance to wineach night.”
Charlie Woodhams handles the ball in the Wolverine Confer-ence championship game for Otsego last season. Woodhams, ajunior, returns as the Bulldogs’ leading scorer. (File photo)
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