The Township budgeted $5.79 million in FY2022 for the initial Phase of Schmidt Heritage Park – which includes the Ferris Street improvements and the new entry/parking lot into Hofma Park/Preserve.

The low bid on the development of the park was from CopperRock Construction at $5.57 million – or about $220k under↓ budget

Further, the water and sewer portion of this park project was bid in November at about $445k – which was about $75k under↓ estimates.

Schmidt Heritage Park is scheduled to open in June of 2023 – but some of the athletic fields may need some additional time for the turf to become established prior to usage.

There are no surprises with the 2021 water and sewer statistics. Growth in water usage is a factor of population growth and summer weather (i.e., dry vs. wet) with 30+% of water being used for lawn sprinkling. Growth in sewer collection is almost entirely a factor of population growth.

The Township received 1,000 KN-95

masks to distribute to the public –

and a similar number of “blue

surgical masks”. The Township is

providing two of the KN-95 masks

per person and/or two of the blue

surgical masks.

Residents can come to the front

desk of the Administrative Building

(i.e., 13300 168 th Avenue) during

normal business hours for masks

as long as supplies last.

The Grand Haven Charter Township Board approved the following list of road paving for 2022

at an estimated cost of about $577k:

All of the listed subdivision roadways are rated either a “4” or "5" on the 10-point PASER scale (i.e., “Fair”) and total about 2.71 miles of bituminous re-surfacing. (The Township has about 40 miles of subdivision streets. Further, since 1987 the Road Commission delegated 100% of the costs associated with subdivision resurfacing to the Townships. For 2022, Grand Haven Township will resurface about 6.7% of all public subdivision streets within the community.)

If you have specific questions about Township operations, please send an email to bcargo@ght.org .