Wayne County announces paving of Fenster Sub., part of Judd Raod

Sumpter Township was notified by Wayne County that it would be paving the roads in Fenster Subdivision and Judd Road from Sumpter Road west to 300 feet past Bohn Road at no cost to the township.
The township didn’t know when that would begin, but got a call on Aug. 11 announcing the county would start preliminary work on Aug. 13 and asking the township DPW to post no parking signs to help clear the area.
Maria Beaudrie, Sumpter’s Human Resources Specialist, confirmed that those roads get very bad during rainy weather in the spring.
At the Sumpter Planning Commission meeting on Aug. 13, Commissioner Sharon Claxton said the $500,000 for the paving came from the Wayne County Road Initiative Fund.
“We were entitled to it and didn’t apply, so they used their discretion,” Claxton said, adding, “We have $500,000 more coming.”
In July 2014, then Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano announced the roads initiative that would spend $14 million over two years for township road work with matching funds from the townships. Cities get road funds directly from the state, but township’s road funds go through the counties.
Van Buren Township used money from the county fund to put with a special assessment district to pave Venetian, Jeanette, and Dewitt roads, which were in poor condition. Money from the fund also was used in Walden Woods, with matching funds from the homeowners association. All the work on those projects had to be completed this construction season.