WATERFORD TWP., Mich. (WXYZ) — Communities across Oakland County are seeing public safety millages rejected by voters — and Waterford Township is among them. The township is now facing a budget shortfall of more than $8 million. We got to keep the fire department going, the police department going, EMS…" Paul Wendrick said. Butcher outlined what a budget shortfall of that size could mean in practice. There's a lot of implications for a budget shortfall of that nature," Butcher said.