The Lincoln Township Board of Trustees has yet to review a proposed settlement with St. Joseph Township in the dispute over use of the Maiden Lane sewer line.
We reported this week St. Joseph Township Trustees have voted to accept a proposal from a mediator after much negotiation. However, their counterparts in Lincoln Township met Tuesday night and the matter wasn’t discussed. Lincoln Township Supervisor Glnn Youngstedt told us it’ll take a bit more time.
“We have to have a closed session with our attorney to review that, and we’re working on trying to get a date for that now,” Youngstedt said.
That meeting with the attorney could be at any time.
According to St. Joseph Township, the proposed agreement would have Lincoln Township paying for its use of the sewer line, although St. Joe said the deal still isn’t perfect. The dispute goes back years after St. Joseph Township tried getting Lincoln Township to pay for its usage. When an arrangement couldn’t be made, St. Joseph in 2023 moved to terminate the 50-year-old agreement between the two of them over the Maiden Lane sewer.
For their part, Lincoln Township Trustees have said they want any arrangement to reflect their township’s actual usage of the sewer line.
