TRAVERSE CITY -- Eleven people on two boards voted in favor of approving a contract with CMS that they never saw; some of them did so twice.
Members of the Grand Traverse County Sewer and Water Committee who approved the contract April 8 include:
-- Rob Manigold, Peninsula Township supervisor.
-- Glen Lile, East Bay Township supervisor.
-- Chuck Korn, Garfield Township supervisor.
-- Wayne Kladder, Acme Township supervisor.
-- Jack Kelly, Elmwood Township supervisor.
-- Pat Pahl, committee chairman and Blair Township supervisor
-- Bruce Hooper, Grand Traverse County commissioner.
-- Bob Cole, Traverse City Director of Public Services.
Members of the Board of Public Works who approved the contract sight unseen on April 27 include:
-- Hooper, Lile and Pahl, who is also BPW chairman.
-- Marvin Radtke, rural township representative.
-- Carl Studzinski, member at large.
-- Peter Neithercut, member at large.
Traverse City Commissioner Chris Bzdok and county Drain Commissioner Kevin McElyea were both absent from the BPW vote.
