OAKLEY, MI -- Amid continuing "drama" over the Oakley Police Department and its chief, whose home was recently raided by federal agents, village trustees voted unanimously Tuesday night not to renew contracts for the part-time, six-person department.

"It would eliminate all the controversy and drama that's come from the department," said Oakley Village President Rich Fish. "It's in the best interest of Oakley to not renew the contracts."

Though numbering six part-time officers, including chief Robert Reznick, the department only worked a total of 13-and-a-half hours last month, took zero service calls and conducted zero traffic stops, according to the police report given at the meeting.

Under the current contract, Reznick is paid $500 each month and all other officers are paid $13 for each hour worked, said Jennifer Hart, Oakley trustee and deputy treasurer.

Come Nov. 8, when the current contracts expire, the number of hours worked, too, will total zero.

Amid several calls from those attending who questioned whether Reznick would no longer be employed by the village come Nov. 8, Fish gave his assurance.

"If the feds are concerned about him, shouldn't the Village of Oakley also be?" asked former trustee Francis Koski.

But the police department doesn't only bring a sense of comfort, it also brings in donations made to the village through the police fund, Fish said.

Just last month the village was able to come up with around $22,500 in donations in a matter of days to fund the police department's insurance through next year, trustees said Tuesday. Some of leftovers -- a little under $2,000 -- where then used to clean up a blighted area, Fish said.

It's those donations which put Oakley, a village of roughly 300, under scrutiny when it was revealed their police force had wealthy individuals and celebrities among their ranks as reserve officers.

Some of those found on the list of reservists helped Oakley pay the bills by making donations to the department.

The village kept the identities of its reserve force secret and would not surrender them to citizens or in response to an MCOLES subpoena until multiple lawsuits forced the release of reservist documents, including applications bearing the names of wealthy businessmen and celebrities such as Kid Rock.

Fish said the village would "ride this month out" and then open discussion back up among the trustees to see whether they'd like to permanently rid the village of a police force or just make some changes.

Fish would not say for certain if the police department will come back and, if it does, will contain Reznick, whose time as chief since 2008 saw the reservist list and donations swell.

"It would be too early to think about what we're going to do," he said. "I really don't think we'll have a police department."

Federal raid and an absent chief

Reznick's Gaines Township home, which lay just outside of Genesee County's Swartz Creek, was raided Oct. 5 by agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Around a dozen agents that afternoon could be seen taking cardboard boxes, firearms and documents from the home and loading them into vehicles.

Reznick did not attend the Tuesday night meeting involving the fate of his agency. Fish said he told the chief to stay away and that "he didn't want him here," given all that's recently transpired.

Though Reznick did not answer calls to his cellphone nor to the police station and he didn't answer his door when visited by MLive-The Flint Journal, Fish said he's spoken with the village's top cop and relayed some word.

"He was kind of frazzled," Fish said. "He's on the law enforcement side, and now he's on the other side."

While ATF spokesperson Ronnie Dahl confirmed federal agents were conducting "law enforcement activity" in the area of Reznick's 5184 Oakhill Drive home at the time, she declined to comment further, citing the ongoing investigation.

Fish said the raid was a continuation of a federal investigation in 2015 when the Federal Bureau of Investigation requested and received financial documents from village's auditors.

Because that turned up nothing, he said, they went for his guns.

"He hates alcoholics and doesn't even associate with smokers," Fish stated jokingly, saying that leaves only the "firearms" part of the agency's name and purview.

The agency, as the name but not acronym states, also investigates acts of arson and bombings, among other things.

Fish said Reznick's service revolver for the village was not confiscated.

"So as far as we know, Oakley does not have any idea that anything was done pertaining to the village of Oakley?" Trustee Cheryl Bolf asked Fish about the raid. "Whatever situation Rob is doing is Rob's doing, he pays the price, this has nothing to do with us? If indeed there was anything to be, to be done. At this point we know nothing, so this has nothing to do with the village?"

"Right," Fish responds.