Benzie County places two millages on Nov. 5 ballot, approves budget and contract measures
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The Benzie County Board of Commissioners on Aug. 13 approved ballot language for an ALS millage and a jail operations millage for the Nov. 5 general election, scheduled a public hearing on the 2024/25 budget and approved several budget and contract actions including a Marine Patrol extension and a Recycling Coordinator contract.
The Benzie County Board of Commissioners voted on Aug. 13 to place two millage questions before voters in the Nov. 5, 2024, general election and approved a slate of routine budget and contract actions.
The board adopted Resolution 2024-018 to submit a special millage for county emergency medical and advanced life-support services to the ballot and adopted Resolution 2024-019 to renew a jail operations millage. Both resolutions passed on unanimous roll call votes with all seven commissioners recorded as ayes.
The board also set a public hearing on the fiscal year 2024/2025 budget for Aug. 27, 2024, and authorized the county administrator to make transfers between departments and funds to balance the 2023/2024 budgets for all funds. Commissioners approved payment of county bills totaling $628,820.84 covering July 19 through Aug. 8, 2024.
Smaller budget and program adjustments approved included a $6,000 budget amendment to extend the Marine Patrol program into September and the designation of $19,224.04 in defederalized Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds for home repairs, to be managed by the Community Action Agency with reports back to the board within 12 months.
In personnel and contract items, the board authorized a one-year services agreement with Schaffer Company, LLC to provide Recycling Coordinator duties at $6,000 per month from the 228 fund, subject to legal review and signature by the chair. The board also appointed delegates to the annual MERS conference: Kelly Long as Officer Delegate and Commissioner Sauer as Alternate Officer Delegate; Suzanne Maul was affirmed as Employee Delegate with Rose Roelofs as Alternate Employee Delegate.
Broadband vendor Cherry Capital Connection LLC reported that its 'Open Access' service is now live and directed residents to ccc.fiber.com for availability information. The board heard an actuarial presentation on MERS from Tony Radjenovich and later entered a closed session to discuss a written attorney-client privileged communication as permitted by MCL 15.268(1)(h); the board returned to open session at 11:15 a.m.
Next procedural steps include the Aug. 27 public hearing on the FY2024/25 budget and placement of the two millage questions on the Nov. 5 ballot. Copies of the draft Master Plan were also ordered distributed in accordance with the Michigan Planning Enabling Act with a public hearing set for Nov. 12, 2024.