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Drain commissioner asks board to correct Pine Lake roll; commissioners authorize legal action for Pine and Podunk assessment districts
Summary
Drain Commissioner Jim Dull told commissioners the county has spent about $320,000 on studies related to Pine Lake and recommended amending the special-assessment roll so all benefiting properties share cost; the board adopted resolutions under Part 307 to amend the Pine Lake assessment district boundary and to establish a Podunk Lake assessment district.
Barry County’s Drain Commissioner, Jim Dull, asked the Board of Commissioners on March 10 to authorize legal steps to correct longstanding problems with special-assessment rolls for certain lake-level districts and to allow the county to spread earlier study and permitting costs more equitably.
Dull recounted a decades-long history: Pine Lake’s legal lake level was established in 1969; court actions in subsequent decades changed the approach to lake-level administration and created complexities in who is assessed. He said engineers and counsel have already spent roughly $320,000 on studies and a 2023 DEQ/EGLE permit that is valid through 2028. Dull recommended the county seek a resolution authorizing the drain commissioner to file the statutory…
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