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JOANN SPORLEDER: My question is regarding the Stuckey Cemetery on Cleveland Road. It is a local landmark and is owned; -and the adjacent property immediately to the west of it is also part of the parcel that is owned by Clay Township. Clay Town chil» it�d ig vPn �nPrmiccinn to SiDn, (ln o_i s billboard in -the --property which is west of the cemetery. Permission was also given by the township at that time to have the - sign installed Lou O'Donnell also wanted to take down some of the trees. He was given permission to only take down the trees immediately around the sign site. Area Plan approved the site and the location. The site and location also had to be approved by the DNR so that the sign would be a sufficient number of feet away from the west boundary of the cemetery. I met with Mr. Lou O'Donnell on several occasions, and I was quite specific about the trees that he could not cut down. He was not allowed to cut down the large red oak tree at the corner of the cemetery and the trees along the cemetery fence line which boarders the toll road on the south side of the cemetery. When he had the sign installed, he also had the large red oak tree cut down and the trees along the cemetery fence line on the south side of the cemetery. There are several things wrong with this situation: 1. He was told not to cut the Red Oak Tree, nor any trees in the cemetery, and to stay a certain distance away from the cemetery. 2. It is a local landmark, and if he were going to cut down any trees he would need a C. of A. first; which of course he did not get. I would like to say that we are going into a legal situation and I don't quite know where to go with this. The township attorney is going to address this because he is in sufficient breach of the contract. He was supposed to first contact the township board and lay out for them the entire environmental plan of what he was going to do. Someone from the township board was supposed to have been there at the time that the trees were cut down, none of which he did. The DNR should also be informed because they have violated an historic cemetery. The township's attorney, Mr. Augustino, will be sending a letter, as I understand it, to Mr. O'Donnell relative to this breach of contract. I don't know what is going to happen after this; but, I think that ----we need to find out how much -value needs to be placed on these historic trees that have been cut- down. ut down. I would also like to suggest that we send a letter, if the board thinks it is appropriate, to Mr. ; O'Donnell informing him of his transgressions on this historic cemetery, one of the oldest cemeteries in Clay Township. KAREN HAMMOND-NASH: My recommendation is that we do not dump this additional situation onto Tom. I should definitely correspond with Sign One and then send a copy of this correspondence to Mr. Augustino. I should also offer to the township attorney, if he is the one taking lead in the litigation, all of the information within the commission's disposal throughout the development of this case. I am going to assume that the township is going to be seeking legal regress to seek restoration of the site to the approval of the state forester. We would certainly offer to be involved with this situation. JOANN SPORLEDER: One of the things that Mr. Augustin said is that we need to begin to ? establish a value for the trees that have been cut down, so that a judge could make a decision based on the historical significance and value of these trees. JOHN OXIAN: To get this information you should contact the state forester.