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Emergency Services Director Eric Smith described the Region 6 mutual aid agreement as a formalization of existing practices among neighboring counties. “It’s completely optional,” Smith said, adding that the agreement mainly adds documentation and a cost-recovery provision rather than changing day-to-day operations. The board voted to allow county emergency services to participate and to authorize signatures.

The board approved an intergovernmental agreement with the West Michigan Regional Medical Consortium tied to fiscal-year 2024 Homeland Security grant funding. County Controller Brenda said the regional fiduciary distributes about “probably between 18 and 20,000,” noting that the county itself may not directly receive funds but that county entities could benefit. The board approved the agreement to ensure the county and local agencies remain eligible for the grant funding.

Commissioners also adopted Resolution 2025-06, authorizing participation in partial settlements of the National Prescription Opiate Litigation. Brenda told the board the resolution commits the county to participation and that the county would “receive just a onetime payment.” At the meeting commissioners discussed a $135,000 payment associated with a particular manufacturer listed in the settlement documents.

Other approved items included fiscal-year 2025 budget adjustments and four warrant reports. The board approved four warrant reports totaling $1,754,780.77 and voted to accept the controller’s recommended midyear budget adjustments; officials noted most adjustments are net zero across funds, with two special-revenue funds using fund balance to record capital costs.

Routine consent-agenda items 8 through 10 were placed on file. The board moved and supported each item and carried each motion by voice vote; no roll-call tallies were recorded in the meeting minutes.

Several commissioners commented that formalizing the mutual aid agreement would make documentation simpler if the county later seeks reimbursement after a large event, but that signing does not obligate counties to provide assistance in every request. The board did not change county policy on any of these items beyond authorizing participation, signatures or routine appropriations.

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The comments came during the public-comment portion of the board’s regular meeting. Several residents asked the board to enforce the county’s park ordinance, limit how large private groups may rent McCarthy Park and return the park to its prior, primarily public use.

J.L. Hudson of Greenville said he walked into the park during the event and found performers “disrobing” and audience members waving money at dancers. “I was outside my house three quarters of a mile away at 3 p.m., and I could plainly hear electric guitars wailing away,” Hudson said. He told the board police declined to respond to a neighbor’s complaint and warned the county that if it does not protect the neighborhood “we’ll be forced to seek protection in the courts.”

Darla Waffle, who said she spoke with a longtime neighbor who has lived across the park since the 1960s, said she had never seen parking on lawns and vehicles exiting ditches to access the road. “Driving and parking on the grass ... almost causing accidents,” Waffle said, and she reported loud music, litter and “revealing dances” in view of children.

Ron Smith, who gave a Greenville-area address, said GPS-directed traffic created problems at his driveway and that vehicles and trailers had to brake suddenly, at one point causing horses in a trailer to fall. “I can’t ride my golf cart over there on the grass,” Smith said, describing damage and safety concerns around the park.

Speakers asked the board to limit rentals to one pavilion per group and to cap attendance — suggestions Hudson said would prevent the problems his neighborhood experienced. Hudson specifically cited “park ordinance section 31” and asked the board to enforce existing rules.

Vice Chairman Peterson and other commissioners listened and later asked county staff about future bookings. County Controller Brenda (last name not specified in the record) told the board a full-park wedding is scheduled later in the month; she said McCarthy Park has had multiple rentals and that the county will review how park rentals are managed going forward.

Board members said they plan to discuss the park ordinance after the summer season and review whether to keep the current rental approach or change it. Peterson noted the board had earlier discussed meetings with event organizers and that some neighbors had sought compromises that, according to speakers, were not implemented.

The public-comment period on this matter closed with residents urging clearer limits and stricter enforcement of park rules; the board did not adopt a new rule at the July 14 meeting but acknowledged the issue will return for further consideration.

For now, county staff said existing park rules remain in effect and confirmed upcoming park bookings. The board indicated it would take the comments under advisement and place park-ordinance revisions on a future agenda for consideration.

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Montcalm County commissioners approve mutual-aid agreement, homeland-security grant IGA, opiate settlement participation and budget adjustments

Residents urge stricter McCarthy Park rules after large private rental; commissioners hear complaints