Lonnie Adkins and Monica Shapiro talk about what goes on at the Township. Think “the team” is asleep at the wheel? Think they waste our tax dollars? Think the township could be better? So do we! Let’s talk Grand Blanc!
We keep talking! Do not Knock! Recall, Data Centers and Flock Cameras, Development, Neighborhood Road Repair
This is a great one! Listen up! One year since the LDS Church Fire... WE STILL HAVENT GOTTEN CHIEF JENT THE MINIMUM STAFFING HE SAID HE NEEDED! 1.6 % of the Budget and a solid year since the Church Fire PROVED he was right to ask for it!
Dennis Liimatta and his Municipal Consultancy...
Monica and Lonnie talk about transparency misbegotten Development policies, he Do not Knock Ordinance... lots more on Flock Cameras and Data Centers - ..Plenty about Roads, Roads, Roads and what it means to get a Special Assessment in your neighborhood...
Being silenced by this board, on and on... lots of stuff you'll enjoy and need to hear!
2 Sept 2026
Data Centers! Flock Cameras!
Look at the attendance at the township's meeting on Data Centers and Flock Cameras! Ya think they advertised? GB Watchdogs thinks they were relieved to have managed to have the discussion under the radar...
Listen to Lonnie and Monica discuss the moment at 39:40 when Attorney Chubb and Scott Bennett agreed that if there wasn't enough industrial zoned property to accommodate a hyperscale data center, we could rezone!
22 Aug 2026
View Newspaper Gets it Wrong
The Grand Blanc View published their usual puff piece about the Township Board. "GB Township Board Mulls Millage Proposal."
The article tells a nice little story about our fire department but it gets one key aspect dead wrong. "Chief Jent sounded the alarm about staffing levels after the Sept. 28 LDS Church fire. NO! Jent was HIRED to try to fix staffing levels in April 2025, and almost immediately determined that we needed four additional full-time firefighters to bring us to minimum safe staffing levels over our two fire stations. He brought his concerns to our superintendent, Mr. Liimatta, who made the decision himself to turn down Jent's urgent request and deny him the right to apply for the SAFR grant. Jent continued to raise alarms and put his request for salaries and benefits for four firefighters in the 2026 budget. His continued warnings, which Liimatta never bothered to bring to a public meeting of our elected officials, were ignored. AFTER the fire, when we did arrive understaffed, Liimatta scrambled. He placed Jent on administrative leave and installed Deputy Chief Maricle as interim chief. Maricle's first act was to issue a statement that staffing levels were fine, Chief Jent didn't understand the federal safety mandates as they applied to our hybrid full-time part-time department. The Watchdogs think it's time the Board stopped hiding behind, and protecting, the overpaid Superintendent Dennis Liimatta, and answer some hard questions about public safety in Grand Blanc Township!
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