Public Meetings Return to In-Person July 1, 2021

As of July 1, 2021 the local state of emergency was lifted and meetings of the various public bodies including the Board of Trustees return to in-person.
Visit the Waterford Township website for dates of Public Meetings and to view the Agenda Center

July 2021 News from the Treasurer

SUMMER TAX BILL
The summer tax bill has been mailed to either the mortgage company, if taxes are escrowed, or the homeowner. If your tax bill was sent directly to your mortgage company, you can easily obtain a copy of your tax bill on the township website at www.waterfordmi.gov/taxes , click on Tax Information Search.

If the tax bill is supposed to be mailed directly to the homeowner and you have not received your bill by the second week of July, please contact our office at (248) 674-6220.

Summer taxes are payable July 1, 2021 through September 14, 2021.
Please refer to the front and back of statement for detail tax information.

CASH PAYMENTS
For those considering making their payment in cash, for safety, efficiency and Township savings, payment by check or cashier’s check is preferred.

PARTIAL PAYMENTS
Partial tax payments are accepted.

SUMMER DEFERRED TAXES
Summer taxes may be deferred until February 14, 2022, if your 2020 total household income was less than $40,000 and you meet state qualifications. A copy of your 1040A Federal Tax Form or MI-1040CR needs to accompany your application.    Applications must be received by September 14, 2021.    See back of tax bill for requirements or township website at http://waterfordmi.gov/Departments/Treasurer/Tax-Information/Deferred-Taxes.aspx.

DETROIT P.O. BOX
Why are tax bills mailed to a Post Office Box in Detroit? Waterford Township’s bank, JP Morgan Chase, located at 4750 Dixie Hwy, provides us with lockbox service.   The bank retrieves the payments from the PO Box, processes the payments and deposit funds directly into our bank account. The lockbox service center is located in Detroit.   Tax bills can be mailed to the P.O. Box in Detroit or directly to the Treasurer’s Office at 5200 Civic Center Dr, Waterford MI 48329.

ONLINE PAYMENT THROUGH YOUR BANK
If you initiate your payment through your financial institution, a paper check will be issued and mailed to the Township.         Please Read the Following:

Schedule your payment to be delivered at least 10 business days prior to September 14 to avoid a late payment and interest and/or penalties.
Payment may fail to be delivered to Treasurer’s Office if a P.O. Box address is used for an online payment; please use the township address. See below for township address.
Payments not received by the due date will incur interest and/or penalties.

Payment Address
     Waterford Township Treasurer
     5200 Civic Center Drive
     Waterford MI 48329-3773

Lunch Food Trucks at Town Hall - July 8th & July 22nd!

Lunchtime food trucks have returned to the Town Hall Parking Lot on the Civic Center campus on select Thursday in July, August & September.
visit www.waterfordmi.gov/specialevents for details and menus!
July 8th - D'Litefull Eats
July 22nd - All City Dogs
11am to 2pm all dates

Waterford Youth Assistance Summer Ice Cream Social

Monthly Recycling July 10th

Waterford Township offers free monthly recycling collection of magazines and cardboard (shipping boxes, cereal boxes, toothpaste boxes, etc, free of food debris and dry.)
This service is provided the second Saturday of every month from 9 am to 1 pm in the parking lot at Township Hall. Waterford residents only, please.

Please note that the September 2021 recycling date will be held on the THIRD Saturday of the month instead. September's recycling date is Saturday, September 18th.

Household Hazardous Waste Collection Events - Just Two Remain!

Waterford Township has partnered with the North Oakland Household Hazardous Waste Consortium (NO HAZ). NO HAZ provides residents of participating communities a safe and environmentally responsible way to dispose of Household Hazardous Waste (HHW).

Registration links will be posted on the No Haz website www.nohaz.org approximately three weeks prior to each collection date. You must register in advance. Waterford Residents pay a fee of $15.
*Please note, in-person sales at the Development Services office or on the day of the event will NOT take place this year. Online registration only.

This year's collection dates and locations are as follows. All dates and locations hours are 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.:

Registration links will be posted approximately 3 weeks prior to each collection event

Saturday, July 24
Kensington Church
4640 S. Lapeer Road, Orion Township

Saturday, September 25
Oakland County Service Center Campus
1200 N. Telegraph Road, Pontiac
(Follow signs on campus)

Waterford Township Public Library July News & Events

Library – Services returning throughout July
Available Now

Study Room bookings
Study tables – first come, first served basis
Library collections
Computers
Casual seating

Available Soon

Sunday hours
Quiet Study Room
Meeting Room bookings

Children’s Programs (through age 12)
Tails and Tales: 2021 Children’s Summer Reading Program (July 17 deadline to sign up)

Pick up a summer reading packet from the Children’s department, which includes a book bag, reading chart and more. Or sign up online and track your minutes of reading with Wandoo Reader.
Track the number of minutes you read and report your progress each week to be in the weekly prize drawing for a gift card from Roblox, Amazon, Meijer and more.
Reach your reading goal by July 31 to get a free book and a chance to win one of the Grand Prizes – a Kindle Fire Tablet

Virtual Pet Show through July 31
Send us a picture of your pet by e-mail to watekids@waterfordmi.gov, or drop off a photo in person, along with your name, age, and phone number.  Maximum picture size is 4” x 6”.   Winners will receive a certificate and a treat for their pet.
Tales of Tails Outdoor Storytime
Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:00a, Through August 4, (weather permitting)
Held on the grassy area between the library and fenced-in sidewalk leading up to the veterans’ memorial. Bring your own blanket, towel, or chair to sit on. Recommended for children ages two through the early elementary grades.

Take-and-Make Craft Kits
Weekly craft bag with variety of animal and cultural crafts to take and make at home. Demonstrations of the weekly craft projects featured on our YouTube Craft Corner the Saturday beforehand. Stop by during library open hours to pick up your craft bag or arrange for contactless pick-up of materials.

Teens (grades 6-12)
Teen Summer Reading
Register for Teen Summer Reading using the Wandoo Reader link on our website.

Log the number of minutes you read over a 9-week period. Ideally,
Read books, graphic novels, magazines, newspapers, and comic books or eContent and audiobooks.
Prizes awarded by random drawing to participants who have logged at least 500 minutes.
- 1st prize – Kindle Fire Tablet
- 2nd prize Bluetooth Speaker/Night Light
- 3rd prize – Meijer gift card

MiLibrary Quest Virtual Scavenger Hunt through July 31
This animal-themed Quest will take you to the web sites of other participating Michigan libraries in search of animals that will be entered into a digital field journal. Participants who find at least 20 animals will be entered into a drawing for a prize.
Teen Take & Make Kits through July 31
Kids going into 6^th-12^th grades can pick up a different Take & Make Kit each week. Instructions and most of the supplies for the crafts will be provided in the kits. Pick up the kits to work on in the comfort of your own home and at your own pace. One kit per teen each week while supplies last. Kits are reserved for kids going into 6^th through 12ths grades only.
Surprise Me! Book Bundles through August 28
Are you looking for something new to read and you don’t know where to start? Do you like the element of surprise? Grab a Surprise Me! Book Bundle over the summer. These bundles are wrapped paper so you can’t see what you’re checking out. You won’t know what you’ve got until you get home (or into the parking lot if you’re really eager!)

Adults – Programs
Be Kind to Your Mind: Read – Adults Summer Reading

Read or listen to adult library books of your own choosing and log each book you read using Wandoo Reader, our online summer reading tool. NOTE: You will need to register by creating an account to get started. https://wandooreader.com/waterfordmi/adult-summer-reading-program-2021-be-kind-to-your-mind
Write a short (can be very, very short) review and rate the book thumbs up or thumbs down. Try to do this every week or two through July. We will choose one participant’s review of a well-rated title to feature each week our website as well as on Facebook and Instagram.
Log at least 4 books by midnight July 31 to be entered in the Grand Prize drawing in early August. Prizes for the 2 winners, drawn at random are
- Kindle Fire HD 8
- $75 Meijer gift card

Adult Take & Make Kit: Mini Accordion Books
July 12 – July 17. Registering for a kit is required.
Pick up a craft kit to make fun mini accordion books to give as gifts or decorate as personal keepsakes! Each kit will contain materials to construct three mini books. Glue and scissors will not be provided. Available for pick-up beginning at 10am on Monday, July 12^th - Saturday, July 17th, at the Adult and Teen Services Reference Desk.

Seeking the LORD, the Search for the JARVIS LORD Shipwreck
Tuesday, July 20, 7:00p-8:30p via Zoom
Join shipwreck hunter and author Ross Richardson in exploring the depths of Northern Lake Michigan while looking for lost ships and missing aircraft. Dive down to Lake Michigan’s newest shipwreck discovery and meander through the histories and mysteries of the Manitou Passage, the most dangerous place in Lake Michigan. Register with an email address. We will send you the zoom link for the program the day before.

Enrichment Groups

Knitting Group via Zoom
Wednesday mornings, 10:00 a.m.-Noon. Registration required.
Share patterns, exchange ideas, show off your projects, and socialize while you knit! Our Knitting Group meets in the Conference Room, but during the summer, we'll try to meet outdoors on the library grounds, if weather permits. Please bring your own lawn chair for outdoor meetings. Outdoor meetings will be labelled as such on the events calendar and announced via email. Please register on our online events calendar to receive emails with updates about the group.

Waterford Genealogical Society Afternoon Meeting Outdoors
Wednesday, July 7, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
A meeting of the Waterford Genealogical Society held outdoors at the pavilion at Fish Hatchery Park, 4490 Hatchery Rd, Waterford, MI 48329 (not far from the library). All are welcome to attend.
Waterford Genealogical Society Evening Meeting via Zoom
No meetings in July or August.

Book Discussion Groups
Thursday Evening Book Discussion
Thursday, June 10, 7:00 p.m. IN PERSON. Location: Community Room. Registration required.
Title: Three Wishes: a Novel by Liane Moriarty
The book is available as an eBook or downloadable audiobook using the hoopla app. Or pick up a print copy from the library by calling the adult desk at 248-618-7693. Registration is required.
Monday Afternoon Book Discussion
Monday, June 21, 1:00 p.m. via Zoom. Registration required.
Title: The Switch: a Novel by Beth O’Leary
The book is available as an eBook or downloadable audiobook using the hoopla app. Or pick up a print copy from the library by calling the adult desk at 248-618-7693. Registration is required.

Library Garden Club meeting
Wednesday, July 14
4:30p-6:00p - Work Bee in the Library’s Gardens
Gardeners dead head, weed and assess the conditions of all plants in the beds at the Library’s entrance.
6:30p-8:00p – Seminar IN PERSON in the Library’s Community Room
Participants will share gardening tips & tricks from their own experience.
(Registration is required for all Zoom presentations. Provide your email address in order to receive a link to the Zoom meeting one or two days before the event. For help with Zoom, see the GCFGlobal tutorial (https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/zoom/getting-started-with-zoom/1/) or visit the "Joining a Meeting" page on the Zoom website.)

Summer Safety Tips from the Fire Department

News from the Waterford DPW

Attention all Lawn, Landscape and Garden
Enthusiasts:
As you start planning your spring landscape and gardening projects, consider having a second water meter installed. This second meter is used to register the outdoor water use for your property; measuring the outdoor water use separately allows DPW to not bill sewer portion for water that is not entering the sewer system. The sewer cost is the largest portion of your quarterly bill and having a second meter installed could provide significant cost savings depending on your outdoor water habits.

Current cost for a 5/8” sprinkler meter is $185 and quarterly charges are $13.03 for the first 1,000 cubic feet of use and $2.91/100 cubic feet over 1,000. Questions about past water use, purchasing a sprinkler meter or to schedule an appointment please call 248-674-2278.

Water Quality Report
Waterford Township DPW has released the 2020 Annual Water Quality Report. DPW prides itself on providing our customers with safe, quality drinking water and is proud to present our 22^nd Drinking Water Quality Report. This report includes details regarding where our drinking water comes from, what it contains and how it compares to standards set by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy.

To view the report visit www.waterfordmi.gov/waterqualityreport or you can request a copy to be mailed by calling our office at 248-674-2278.

Cross-Connection and Backflow Prevention
Waterford Township DPW has contracted HydroCorp to manage the township Cross-Connection Control program. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE), formerly Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), requires DPW to have all commercial and residential accounts inspected for proper backflow prevention to maintain the safety of our water supply.

HydroCorp inspectors will inspect residential properties every ten years and commercial properties either yearly or every five years depending on the property’s use and plumbing fixtures. These inspections are included in the contract between DPW and HydroCorp so there is no cost to homeowners.

In addition to the visual inspections done by HydroCorp, any property with a testable backflow prevention device will receive a testing notice to verify the backflow prevention device is functioning properly. Testing of backflow prevention devices is required annually for commercial properties and every three years for residential properties. Testing of backflow prevention devices need to be performed by a certified backflow prevention tester, a list of certified testers can be found at www.watercustomer.com. Cost for these tests are the responsibility of the property owner.

Questions regarding the Cross-Connection Control program or backflow prevention assemblies and testing can be directed to HydroCorp at 800-690-6651 or 248-250-5000.

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