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Charlevoix County Press LAST JOFiCAw- FU^MC LU,i",AFY PO BOX G EA3T JCaFAW, MI, 49727 • .1,1 i .: J"." >"' Charlevoix County Press Volume 109 Number 31 September 28, 1988 Copyright, 1988. Sftwr Communications. Inc All Rig his Reserved 30 Cents $700,000 bond issue for Boyne Falls approved The building program is on at Superintendent Chuck Smith district and will meet the needs would probably come during the during the eighties, and ad­ board wants to hold down the in­ Boyne Falls School, after was extremely pleased with the of the kids. summer break, when the con­ ditional growth is coming for at terest costs. Those rates are residents within the school way the vote came out. "The The next step in the building struction could be done without least the next four years, accor­ figured with an interest cost of district approved a $700,000 bond committee has been working process will be to hold a special disruption of the classes. ding to plans that have been about 7.5 percent rate on the issue which will allow the system hard on this project for about a board meeting to issue the bonds, The plans also call for ad­ presented to the community over bonds when they are issued. to build four new classrooms and year, looking at the crowded start the architectural firm into ditional storage rooms, the past few months. School Board President Bill remodel the current school gym. conditions and trying to figure deciding the final specifications bathrooms, a new boiler room, By 1991 the school expects to Cousineau was also elated at The issue was approved by out the future of the school," he and finally letting the bids to and a teachers' lounge. have a student population of over hearing the news of the bond voters by a 183 to 148 count of said, "This is now possible." build the additional classrooms. The gym will be expanded so 350, with most of the new issue being approved. He said he the votes in the special election The school, which was con­ Smith said the work may be that it will be a full size gym. students coming into the lower felt proud of the community for held Monday. The voting was structed in two parts, was first able to start yet this fall on the Principal Mike Wallace said he is grades. Presently, the school has supporting the school system. considered heavy for the school built in the 40s with what is now classrooms and could be com­ looking forward to the new gym 145 students in kindergarten The plans have been on display district as 341 votes were cast the elementary side of the pleted by next spring. The and the classrooms, as they will through the fourth grades, while at various locations throughout out of about 800 registered building constructed in the 60s. classrooms will be constructed on help relieve overcrowding for there are 71 students in the high the district giving residents a voters within the district. Nine Smith said the construction of the north end of the elementary- several years. school. chance to see what would be con­ votes were blank, with one vote the eighties will continue a side of the school. The school system has been The payback of the bonds will structed and where. considered an overcount. strong building program for the The remodeling of the gym experiencing steady growth be only ten years, as the school EJ residents asked Grant approved for EJ waste to help select super treatment facility from EPA It's the culmination of a dream, lining them so the effluent will no day. When the project is com­ been slated to begin will Residents of the East Jordan Public Input Session and could be just the thing longer leak into the ground pleted, the system will be probably get the okay by the School District are encouraged to East Jordan High School needed by the City of East Jor­ water table. The lagoons are city. participate in the selection of a SEPTEMBER 27 dan to start new developments located near the city owned air­ capable of handling more than One of the projects that has new superintendent for the 8 a.m. - 9 a.m. like other cities in the north. port in South Arm Township. 377,000 gallons per day. been on hold is a new multifamily district. East Jordan High School The dream, an approval of a $1 The total cost of the project is housing project that would add The board of education recen­ 9:15 a.m.- 10 a.m. million dollar plus grant to the estimated to be in the area of The city submitted the ap­ 40 additional housing units to the tly approved a procedure to be East Jordan Elementary School city for the enlargement of the $1,654,800 with the city plication for a grant last April city including 16 senior citizen followed, which includes a 10 a.m. -10:45 a.m. present waste-water treatment borrowing $540,000 from the and was notified by the EPA it apartments and 24 residential specific time table for the East Jordan Elementary School facility, is now a reality and the Michigan Bonding Authority on a had won the grant September 6. units. recruiting and interviewing A letter or card listing ideas city was recently notified it had 15 year payback. The additional There are presently about 600 recommended by Dr. Carl W. and viewpoints about charac­ won the grant from the En­ $110,000 will be paid from local The city has not been able to homes tied to the sanitary Brautigam of the Michigan teristics and competencies of a vironmental Protection Agency. monies. allow additional projects because sewer system in the community. Association of School Boards. Dr. superintendent may be sent to The city will now move for­ of the carrying capacity of the Homeowners can expect to see Brautigam is serving as a con­ Dr. Carl W. Brautigam, Michigan ward with plans to enlarge the' Presently, the lagoon based lagoon system. With the water and sewer rates raise sultant to the board in it search Association of School Boards, 421 lagoon based system by system is designed to handle only enlargement, and when it is com­ slightly in upcoming utility bills for a superintendent. W. Kalamazoo, Lansing, deepening the existing ponds and 200,000 gallons of waste water a pleted, several projects that have to help pay off the loans. Dr. Brautigam will be available Michigan 48933, or to Mrs. Mary to hear residents' opinions about P. Jason, President of the East Boyne cuts the type of person they would Jordan Board of Education, 703 like to see head the school Prospect, P.O. Box 436, East Jor­ district. Citizens are welcome to dan, Michigan, 49727-0436. Dead­ liquor in park Trying to beat the winter deadline talk to Dr. Brautigam on Sep­ line for correspondence is Oc­ It is now against the law to con­ tember 26-27,1988. tober 14,1988. sume alcoholic beverages in the SEPTEMBER 26 For further information call: Old City Park, due to action at the 7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m. Ruby Dipzinski, 536-3131 or 3111. Tuesday noon meeting of the Boyne City Commission. The commissioners approved the or­ dinance after the second reading News Briefs and made it effective immediately. In making the motion to ap­ Work is supposed to start about Oct. 3, city officials prove the ordinance, Com­ said, concerning the capping of the former landfill. missioner Sandra Stanley said that The city manager said that all paperwork has been com­ she has heard nothing but positive pleted and approved by the state. The contractors comments concerning the action. Other commissioners said they had have a deadline to start work Oct. 3. Completion for heard similar reports from mem­ capping is still set for next June. bers of clubs and societies within the city. The Charlevoix County Sheriffs Department in The commissioners then ap­ conjunction with the Charlevoix County Prosecutor proved bids for repairing about has available six trained Victim-Witness Advocates as half of the roof of the City Hall a resource for Charlevoix County citizens. "Crime vic­ building, the repairing and tims have long been overlooked by the criminal justice replacing of doors for the street garage, and agreed to replace two system and this is one step towards rectifying that additional doors in the old fire situation," Sheriff Lasater said in making the announ­ barn. cement. Winning the bid for the roof The Victim^ Witness advocates' role is to assist repair was the Hawkins Brothers people in their understanding of the criminal justice firm, with a low bid of $15<120. They will be recovering the roof system; to help identify other resources available to with a 60 mill thick membrane Workers from the CM. Smith Company are dose behind the bulldozers, spreading the gravel, crime victims arid/or witnesses; and to provide which will be fastened down to the working hard to keep a deadline, as they add road are the workers of HAD, who are paving a section emotional support; for example accompanying a wit­ presentroof. gravel to Park Street The street has been blocked of Park with the first coat of asphalt. The dty hopes ness to court. Anyone interested in talking to an ad­ Seals and Roberts won the bids the longest of all of the infrastructure work done so the work is completed by the middle of October or vocate should contact either the Sheriffs Department for the door replacements and far, as the dty has had to replace sewer, water and long before the normal winter shutdown for con­ or the Prosecutor's office at 547-4461 or 547-7207, repairs for both the street garage gtorao^raiiMakmgahBOrtthelel^ofltFouWing struction.
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