Milk River Intercounty Drain Drainage Board
Regular MeetingGrosse Pointe Woods, MI · December 18, 2025
Agenda
STATE OF MICHIGAN
GRETCHEN WHITMER DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DR. TIM BORING
GOVERNOR AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
Notice of Drainage Board Meeting
(In accordance with P.A. 40, of 1956 as amended)
MILK RIVER INTERCOUNTY DRAIN
Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Drainage Board for the said drain will be held at:
10:00 a.m., Thursday, December 18, 2025
Southeast Macomb Sanitary District Headquarters
20001 Pleasant Street
St. Clair Shores, Michigan
The purpose of this meeting is to conduct necessary and appropriate business of the drainage
board (see attached agenda) and any other business that may come before the Board.
Proceedings conducted at this public meeting will be subject to the provisions of the Michigan
Open Meetings Act.
Candice Miller Elmeka Steele Bryan Babcock Jim Kowalski
Macomb County Wayne County City of St. Clair Shores City of Grosse Pointe Woods
Public Works Commissioner Drain Commissioner Director of Public Works & Water Director of Public Works
21777 Dunham 400 Monroe St, Ste 400 19700 Pleasant Dr. 1200 Parkway Drive
Clinton Township, MI 48036 Detroit, MI 48226 St. Clair Shores, MI 48080 Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236
586-469-5325 313-224-3620 586-445-5363 313-343-2460
Those needing accommodations for effective participation in the meeting should contact the
drain/public works commissioner of their county at the number listed above or may use the
Michigan Relay Center by calling 711 for deaf, hard of hearing, or speech impaired persons.
Dated in Lansing, Michigan on December 11, 2025.
Dr. Tim Boring, Director
Michigan Department of
Agriculture & Rural Development
Joseph P. Brezvai
Deputy for the Director
517-388-3067
STATE OF MICHIGAN
GRETCHEN WHITMER DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DR. TIM BORING
GOVERNOR AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
December 11, 2025
SENT VIA EMAIL
Ms. Candice Miller
Macomb County Public Works Commissioner
21777 Dunham
Clinton Township, MI 48036
Ms. Elmeka Steele
Wayne County Drain Commissioner
400 Monroe St, Ste 400
Detroit, MI 48226
Mr. Bryan Babcock
City of St. Clair Shores Director of Public Works & Water
19700 Pleasant Dr.
St. Clair Shores, MI 48080
Mr. Jim Kowalski
City of Grosse Pointe Woods Director of Public Works
1200 Parkway Drive
Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236
RE: Milk River Intercounty Drain
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Enclosed is a Notice of Meeting. If accessible, please post it in your office or in your building
where other such notices are posted. Also, in accordance with P.A. 528 of the Public Acts of
2012, if your county maintains a website that is accessible to the public, this notice and
agenda shall be posted on the homepage or on a separate webpage dedicated to public
notices.
Also, please prepare an Affidavit of Posting and forward one copy to this office.
Sincerely,
Joseph P. Brezvai
Agriculture Development Bureau
JPB:jm
Agenda
Milk River Intercounty Drain Drainage Board
(Macomb and Wayne Counties)
10:00 a.m., Thursday, December 18, 2025
Southeast Macomb Sanitary District Headquarters
20001 Pleasant Street
St. Clair Shores, Michigan
1. Call to Order
Board Members
Joseph Brezvai, Chair, Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural Development
Elmeka N. Steele, Esq., Wayne County Drain Commissioner, Wayne County
Candice Miller, Macomb County Public Works Commissioner, Macomb County
Bryan Babcock, P.E., Director of Public Works/Water, City of St. Clair Shores
Jim Kowalski, Director of Public Works, City of Grosse Pointe Woods
2. Approval of Agenda
3. Approval of the Minutes for:
a. October 23, 2025, Regular Drainage Board Meeting
4. Reports
a. Operations and Maintenance P. Trombley/K. Walby/K. Seidel
b. Priority 1B and Select Improvements Project R. Strassburg
• Construction Update
5. New Business
a. 2026 MRIDDD Meeting Dates SEMSD
b. Soil Erosion Bond Letter Tetra Tech
6. Unfinished Business
a. Generator – Project/Funding E. Steele
b. Plume Study Tetra Tech
7. Approval of the SEMSD Pass-Thru Invoice (October and November 2025)
8. Public Comment
9. Next Drainage Board Meeting: Thursday, February 26, 2026 @ 10:00 a.m.
10. Adjournment
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