Grand Blanc Watchdogs

Bruce is the Executive Director of the Genesee County Medical Control Authority, which collects data and oversees administration of the County's EMS system. In this interview he presents all the facts regarding Exclusive Contracts and the Geofencing model that the Township opted to approve because it protects their political donors. These are the facts that only Scott and Dennis had; they chos...

This is a great one! Monica's son, comedian Abe Shapiro, mocks the Recall effort and makes his mother laugh. If you follow Abe on instagram you know how funny he is. Enjoy!

Lonnie and Monica talk about all the problems that have come to light SINCE the language for the recall was approved. Anthony Hudson told the board back then that we'd be wathing the and urged them to "act better." Well, folks, they haven't. After the incident at East Middle school where a mother was told it would be two hours before an ambulance would arrive, the board acted on limited informatio...

The Firefighter Lawsuit - four firefighters sued the Board and Dennis Liimatta for "retaliation" . We thank them for reminding the public that the problems in the Fire Department are very much ongoing. Mr. Liimatta is still trying to control and punish our first responders rather than work with Chief Jent to create the kind of Fire Department this community deserves. On another public sa...

April 11 Metro Flint News Talk Radio broadcast Major floods the first weekend in April; The shocking lack of leadership by Supervisor Scott Bennet, some challenging questions for Drain Commissioner Jeff Wright and a lot of information about what needs to be done and how difficult yet not impossible the solutions are. #JeffWrightDrainCommissioner

In this second part of our School Millage discussion, Monica interviews her daughter Dara, a GBHS Graduate and current high school teacher. She has a Master's degree in education from Columbia Teachers College. Dara has taught in the New York City public schools and in the LA Unified School District and now a Charter school in Los Angeles. Dara shares some great insight into our Millage and Grand...

This was part one of our second CCN radio show, in which we discussed the upcoming School Millage Renewal vote. Key points - Grand Blanc Schools have gone down in the annual US News and World Report on US high schools. We were perennially number one in Genesee County; this year we are number Eight. The millage is for a lot of flashy stuff but nowhere does the School Board address this academic dec...

This is part one of our second CCN Radio Show, in which we discuss the Township meeting where Chief Jent gave his comprehensive year end review and and outlined future plans for the Department. Mr. Bennett thanked him for his presentation and as if he hadn't spoken, talked about how the Fire Department Task force consisting of Bennett, treasurer Yancho, Clerk Dave Robertson and Superintendent Liim...

Warwick Hills has been trying to get its roads fixed for many years. If you've been to the Ally Challenge lately you know exactly how bad the roads there are. After trying, and failing to get the project off the ground in 2020, the Warwick HOA had managed to obtain the proper petitions (not easy when the DPW is handling instead of the clerk - many delays and problems - in fact Warwick has been str...

This was our first show on Metro Flint News/Talk Radio - listen for us every Saturday at 1pm-2pm on internet radio. But in case you miss it, we'll post it by the following Monday right here at GB Watchdogs. Lonnie and Monica discuss the Patriot Ambulance "geofencing" agreement with the township, which seems inferior in every way to what an exclusive contract with Medstar is offering the eleven Gen...

Our first (and so far only) video podcast with Genesee County's own Democratic Candidate for Governor, Sheriff Chris Swanson!

Here's a little mini episode about our pre-meeting bet for 11/11, Veteran's Day.

All about the First Responder's Day meeting where the public came out in force to support Chief Jent!

Lonnie and Monica discuss Township Superintendent Dennis Limmatta's inept blunder. One month after the shooting and fire at the Church of Latter Day Saints, Limmatta announced he was placing Fire Chief Jamie Jent on administrative leave and that his termination would be on the Board Agenda at the meeting on October 28. Foolishly Limmatta assumed he could count on the Board to rubber stamp his deci...

In this episode Lonnie and Monica do a deep dive into how Grand Blanc Township is working - and not working. We talk about our Superintendent, Dennis Limatta, “the CEO of Grand Blanc Township” whose attempt to fire Chief Jent is just one example of his inept handling of “the business” of Grand Blanc Township. We discuss the many ways our township government lets its residents down.

Always fun! Lonnie and Monica take apart the muddled claims and ideas presented in our Spring and Summer newsletters.... This is not the latest Message - that would be the summer one - but it was a doozy. This was the one where Mr. Bennett claimed that Townships all over Michigan do not receive funding for their roads! Huh? So what's the 57M in road work that we've seen since Mr Bennett took offic...

Over 750 residents participated in the Master Plan Survey. Many of us attended workshops and made comments on the drafts. The resulting document was pretty great! But the two main priorities identified in it have been backburnered: "non-motorized access to our roads" and "Improvements in the North End" While the Township goes full steam ahead on stuff none of us said we wanted, or only reluctantly...

Watchdogs do a deep dive into the potential for a 230 acre park in the center of our two communities (City and Township) and how it "was never on the Township's radar." In a competition between City's leadership and Township, who's winning? City Mayor John Creasey, hands down. Lonnie rants about Code Enforcement (and Monica agrees with him)!

The last thing we want is for this administration to have even more of our tax money to spend irresponsibly, without giving us anything we want, need, or should have. This episode has been edited. The first version misstated the cost of the firetruck. It is two million, not four million!

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In this episode Lonnie Adkins and Monica Shapiro discuss the 24M Firestation/DPW Building and the major amount of debt township took on to pay for it.