It’s up to the state auditor’s office now. Brimfield Township, which manages the Kent-Brimfield Maintenance and Improvement fund for the mutually beneficial Joint Economic Development District, may be in for some more bad news.
The Kent-Brimfield JEDD is south, east and west of Kent, but north of a separate JEDD the township has with Tallmadge. The M&I Fund is to be used for maintenance and permanent improvements anticipated to last five years or more, Kent Community Development Director Bridget Susel said at a May 19 JEDD board meeting.
Susel noted that the final use of M&I monies rests with Brimfield Township, which in September 2025 pulled $44,044 from the fund to pay for fire and emergency dispatch services Kent police provide. Susel stated that the JEDD board was never advised, as it should have been, of that expenditure. She also referenced other expenditures, including unspecified credit card payments Brimfield had made…