Read that again. Quickly. Read it aloud. Feel the footfall of syllables. Breathe. Bite each consonant. Speak surely, confidently. You know what it means. They know what it means. Everybody knows what it means.

Squish-puff is what happens when revenue-neutral has no empirical, quantified basis. It was a planner's ploy, a tasty morsel of insider jargon, to convey an illusion of financial planning, to focus attention where he wanted it focused, away from the possibility of a real downtown park. The limits or your language are the limits of your thinking. Control language to control thought.

Revenue neutral now has a seat of honor, the foundation of the Lake Park dream evisceration. Chockley invoked it again at this meetup.

Up next? A map showing just how little park space will be provided by the latest Board retrenchment, a proposal to reserve as Public park property a  band of public land only 400 feet deep, measured from the lake's edge.

As a public service, here are the packet Documents broken out and separated into separate pdfs: 

• 6:15PM Northfield Township Board of Trustees Regular Meeting LiveAgenda    - Coming Soon 
• 7:00PM Northfield Township Board of Trustees Regular Meeting LiveAgenda    - Coming Soon

• WCRC Managing Director Sheryl Siddall's memo about Governance Plan Public Hearings, 10/10/2019
• WCRC Organizational Structure Options, 2019-09-19 

• 2019-10-22 Resolution 19-612 to Adopt Northfield Township Master Plan
• 2019-10-22 Recommendation to Adopt Northfield Township Master Plan, McKenna 2019-09-03 [the memo in the 2019-10-22 packet]
• 2019 Northfield Township Master Plan, McKenna  [35MB]
  
• 2013 Northfield Township Master Plan, Carlisle-Wortmann

• 2019-07-10, North Village Development Proposal, Livonia Builders    [2.5MB]
• 2019-10-15, North Village Development Proposal, A. R. Brouwer    [5.5MB]
• 2019-10-15, North Village Committee Report and Recommendation, McKenna
• 2019-10-22, Resolution-19-615 to Establish North Village Park Minimum Park acreage

• Building Department Builddown (Outsourcing) Report
• Budget amendments, 10-15-2019
• Annual review of Township Employee Health Insurance Benefit and HSA contribution, 10-15-2019
• Barker Road Property Sales Listing Agreement, 10-17-2019
• Coyle Rd property purchase offer, 10-17-2019
• Manager Aynes' Holiday Week Paid Time Off (PTO) memo, 10-17-2019
• Clerk Manley's memo proposing a Retention Basin/Sewer Survey  [link repaired]

• 6:15PM Northfield Township Board of Trustees Special Meeting Agenda [10/22/2019]
• 7:00PM Northfield Township Board of Trustees Regular Meeting Agenda [10/22/2019]
• 10/22/2019 Northfield Township Board of Trustees Meeting Packet  [95MB}