More than 45 percent of Americans make a resolution every year, according to statisticbrain.com. Some people vow to live a healthier lifestyle, others promise to spend more time with family, and many say they will try to save money.
As millions of Americans make resolutions to improve their lives, what could we do right here in White Lake or Highland to make it an even better place to live?
Does White Lake need a dog park? How about a new restaurant in Highland?
What is on your White Lake and Highland wish lists? What is one thing you would improve in 2013?
Tell us in the comment section below or leave a note in our Local Voices section about why you love living here!
I understand that you can drive the twp office M-F 8:30am-5pm, but some of us aren't anywhere in the vicinity of the twp during business hours.
Also, big increase in traffic for this intersection coming off Oxbow Lake Rd ever since they paved it thru to Cooley Lake Rd and Bogie Lake Rd.
I'd also like to see Indian Springs Metro Park follow suit with Stoney and Kensington and make another world class Disc Golf course. This area is a bit of a deadzone for the sport.
I've found them to be very responsive (generally within the week you'll get an email back). If it's a patch/repair problem, they really rely upon all of us road travelers to help be their second set of eyes since it's impossible for them to simply drive around looking for potholes and (on the dirt roads) washouts.
contact the township and you can be placed on a mailing list to receive this information well before the meeting.
I personally think that 20 years after the dawn of the information age the township should at the very least be able to provide verbatim transcripts of board meetings. Several months ago I contacted The Patch about recording the meetings and converting the audio to text and publishing the minutes here. Then I spoke to Carol Burkhard and she told me that she can now Skype into a meeting if she needs to. Well, if we have the technology available for her why not make it available to everyone? The meetings could easily be recorded and posted to the township's website... In the meantime, Laura if you have a portable device capable of Skyping tomorrow's meeting I am sure it would be appreciated.
Pam has a great point about how the agendas are often so cryptic as to give you little to no idea what will actually be discussed, especially since each meeting of late tends to begin with the Supervisor removing items from and adding items to the agenda so that the public has no notice at all of what ends up actually being what was planned to be discussed.