Council to Discuss Main Street Program, Special Land Use and Transit Agreement

Saline City Council meets at 7:30 p.m. Monday night at city hall. Here’s what’s on tap:

• Cindy Czubko, president of the Saline Downtown Historic Alliance, will update city council on the alliance’s bid to make Saline a select-level member in the Michigan Main Street program. Saline has been an associate-level member in the program, which promises to help Saline with training, business retention and other plans to bolster downtown. The application is due this fall. In the application, the alliance must show how it will fund the program. A major cost will be salary and benefits for a full-time program manager. Although the alliance is applying independently of the city, it is expected that the city will be asked for some kind of financial support.

• Council will be asked to authorize or not authorize Mayor Gretchen Driskell and City Manager Todd Campbell to negotiate the Act 7 Agreement of Governance Plan with the Ann Arbor Transit Authority and other participating governmental units. The new AATA county transit master plan includes daily express bus trips from Saline to Ann Arbor, much like the ones currently serving Chelsea residents. The plan also includes transit within the city of Saline. If Saline chooses to go along with the plan, the city will have representation on a board that would help enact parts of the plan.

• Council will hold a public hearing and then consider whether or not to grant a Special Land Use to Your Bobbers Down, which has plans to use property at 1400 E. Michigan Ave., Saline, for wholesale packaging and retail sale of fishing tackle. The property is located in an industrial district. The business is owned by Jamie Olson and the property is owned by Storage Pros Saline, LLC.

• Council will consider a motion to pay up to $20,680 to Fiberclass Contracting to repair the roof at the Saline Rec Center.