mm EAST JORDAN PUBLIC LIIHAHY PO BOX G EAST JC;!::AM, :.:I, ::V. / Osmerus mordex (smelt) EJ math students in contest Get your garage sale ready season to start Call 582-6761 for advertising See Page 4 See Page 8 CHARLEVOIX COUNTY PRESS Volume 107, Number 5 Number 6 April 2,1986 April 9, 1986 25 Cents News EJ EDC established, members named East Jordan -- After several members argued that the by-laws one representative of the council to Carl Beck was named from the Schmidt could be present at a later Briefs months of cutting through red were out-of-order, on the grounds be present. The council member council to represent council at the date and it went to a vote. The tape, the establishment of an Eco­ that the committee can not draw up would be a mediator and liason committee meetings. vote was 3-3 with Mayor Pat Sweet nomic Development Committee by-laws without the approval for between the two groups for inter­ At the March 22 meeting of the casting the deciding vote of nay. It You will notice that was named to the East Jordan area the seat ing of committee mem­ pretive and representative situ­ City council it was revealed that the was the general opinion of the this issue of the Char­ by city council. As long ago as bers. Trie council also had some ations. establishment of the committee council members that at one time levoix County Press is January the council had been reservations as to the qualific­ Named to the seats were: Dave was to take place while council- or another one of the members of approached by area residents in an ations of certain seekers of seats to Waldron, Dick Wheeler, Ellen woman Donna Schmidt was out of council would not be present, and double dated. The rea­ effort to establish the EDC, but the committee and chose to be Cihak, Cal Diller, Herb Griffin, town. A further delay in the business should carry on as it son for the double date council was of the opinion that the selective in their choices. At least Mike Longton, and Cele Malpass. decision was asked for so that normally would. is to allow the employ­ group should follow certain chan­ one resident who wished to serve ees time for a vacation, nels in their endeavor and were put was denied a seat on the commit­ especially while the off repeatedly until now. tee. At last weeks council meeting There vuas also some deliber­ children are out of the subject was brought to the ation as to how many people the school. We will start council after supplying a requested council should name to the com­ afresh with the issue tentative set of by-laws for the mittee. They decided to institute a dated April 16, 1986. committee to follow. Some council committee of seven members with Thank-you and we'll see you then. Melrose seeks way Applications are now being accepted at all Michigan Employment to reassess township Security Commission offices for the 34 youth Walloon Lake -- Saying that if federal revenue sharing funds records are incomplete and out of could be used to pay for the employment jobs that date, the Melrose Township asses­ project. will be available in sor told an audience at the annual The township has about $9,000 Charlevoix County this township meeting the task of in the next years budget that could summer. The program equalizing assessments in the be set aside to help pay for a total gives youth a chance to township would be monumental. reappraisal. The assessor, Tony Keller, who Keller told the members of the earn and learn by ser­ has been working for the township board he would be interested in ving in many different for a year trying to make some doing the job because of his job positions. headway into the records in an familiarity with the files and be­ attempt to work out the inequities, cause he figured he could save the told the township board it would township money. Funding was made take someone working on a full When asked, Olliffe said he available for Charle­ time basis about a year to complete would be favorable to having Kel­ voix to continue to the updating and filling in of the ler do the job. "I'm very satisfied tax records the township bases and so seems to be the board,'' search for the source of their assessments on. Olliffe said, "And although I the chemical ground­ The township has about 400 plus haven't talked With all of the water contamination parcels of land on the assessment members of (he Board of Review, &?: that has plagued the roles. the ones I have talked with are city for the last few Township Supervisor, Larry 01- too." liffe told the Press that the records In other action, the township years since it was dis­ possibly haven't been right since okayed a $189,000 projected bud­ covered. The funding the township was appraised by the get for the operations of the was made through an county in 1972. township which includes a $100, appropriation of the The records have not been total­ 835 general fund, a $14,628 fire Michigan Environ­ ly updated since then. Olliffe said operating fund and a $60,000 road the blame for the missed records fund. mental Respose Act. would have to go to everyone who The township is hoping to repair was an appraiser since that time. Lee and Third'. Streets along with Sales of the 1986 Some of the records show some North Shore Drive and four rail­ people are over assessed while road crossings this year from the hunting and fishing others show blank areas. Some road fund. licenses have started records show missing building per­ The township is also looking into and are available from mits or deeds. sending out identification cards to local vendors. The Keller told the annual meeting township residents for the use of that the entire township "needs to the township's transfer station. license sale was sus­ be reassessed. "We want to limit our transfer pended for a month A member of the audience, station to those who live inside the while the DNR reor­ Pierce Erb, who is also a member township, not from others who live TtrMr fr"'* ganized the prices up­ of the board of review made a outside," Olliffe said, "The land­ It only took a few moments for the winds to push some high water on the lake makes the shorelines around the motion from the floor to hire an fill closing of the Boyne City of the Lake Charlevoix ice up on shore Tuesday lake very susceptible to erosion due to ice and water ward. assessor. He told the board he landfill in Evangeline Township Morning, along with a few boulders that had help form movement this spring. Road crews have been out in sees a real need for improved files has been seen as a potential a breakwall along the Veterans Memorial Park. Some force starting last fall and continuing to today to pile up Have a dinner with to substantiate the current assess­ problem by the board. of the boulders were estimated to weigh about a ton stones along the unprotected parts of Lakeshore Drive Dr. Roger Jacobi, the ments. If approved, residents wanting showing everyone in town that when nature wants to near Boyne City as well as many other places around After the board agreed to hire an to dump refuse at the transfer site change the shoreline, it can do it almost anytime. The the county. head of Interlochen at appraiser, pending the township would have to show a card signify­ the home of Joan and find the money, Willis Planck was ing they live within the township. Chuck MacGillivray. told to look into the matter and see Tickets for the six BC completes budget review, course menu created South Arm budget by area chefs are avail­ able by calling 347- seeks approval next week 6443. Five lucky being reviewed Boyne City -• City commissioners police car, the total budget was Commissioner Thelma Behling couples will win the East Jordan •- A proposed bud­ members will receive $8,200, plan­ finished their review of the annual reduced about $4,000 as compared remarked that no matter how much catered affair, and will get for $125,000 has been set up ning commission $4,000, and zon­ Boyne City Budget at their noon to last year. The major items for was spent from the general fund, be chauferred, wined and reviewed for Southarm Town­ ing commission ¢2,000, meeting Tuesday, covering the expense in the budget is for the the service was needed and is and dined by many ship for the 1986-87 year. Expend­ Revenues for ithe township in­ police department, Ambulance, salaries of the officers who this appreciated by the community at itures for road improvements are clude $15,000 im property taxes motor pool, streets, airport and year will only see minimal increa­ large. She also wanted to thank all area businesses and expected to cost the township from one allocated mill, $4,000 in capital projects. ses in their paychecks. those who are taking the time to restaurants. The affair $55,000 for improvement of La- delinquent taxes. $4,000 in in­ Each item was explained to the The Ambulance Fund also is serve on the Ambulance crews. is sponsored by the Croix road and to establish part of terest, $2,000 in federal revenue commissioners who were given an budgeting for a new ambulance.