The retirement of a long-serving township official, the proposed 2007-08 budget and the general state of affairs will be among the topics discussed at Leland Township's Annual Meeting Saturday morning.

The meeting will be held in the Old Art Building in Leland at 10 a.m., with a coffee and refreshments social hour starting at 9 a.m. At the meeting, township electors may consider the salary resolution adopted by the Township Board in February.

Supervisor Harry Larkin is seeking an 8 percent salary increase, from $18,500, $20,000. The other township board members’ salaries would stay the same, including: clerk Jane Keen, $27,500; treasurer Michael Kirt, $25,500; and trustees Steve Plamondon and Nick Lederle, $1,900. Township electors may either increase each board members’ salary more than requested, leave the pay at current levels with no increases for the 2007-08 fiscal year, or do nothing and the salary resolution already adopted by the board will go into effect on April 1, 2007.

The township is proposing a 10-fund budget that calls for $1,962,928 in total expenditures, up 1.6 percent from $1,931,106 budgeted for 2006-07. Township officials are forecasting $2,213,475 in revenues, up 2.2 percent from $2,164,819.

General fund revenues are expected to increase 4.5 percent from $504,463.75 to $527,094. Most of the increase will come from an anticipated 6.6 percent rise in property tax revenues to $322,000.

Expenditures are set to jump 12.2 percent to $564,080, with any possible deficit to be addressed either through use of the general fund balance or amending the budget later in the fiscal year. The township’s fiscal year runs from April 1 through March 31. Included in the general fund expenditures is $100,000 for road repairs and improvements in Leland and Lake Leelanau. Keen said the following roads are scheduled for improvements this year:
• Meinrad Street, west of St. Marys Street and west of Gertrude Street; Main Street from Meinrad to St. Joseph including new curb.
• Pearl Street, from M-22 to the water’s edge at Nedows’ Bay, including the parking area at the park; Cummins Street between Fourth and Grand; parts of Juniper Trail from Chandler to Union; Reynolds Street from M-22 west to the road end; and Lake Street from Williams Street to Brooks Street.

Zoning administrator Bob Hagstrom, who is retiring after being on the job more than two decades, will be recognized at the Annual Meeting.