Agriculture
By Emily Votruba It's probably not anarcho-syndicalism in the making, but the City of Frankfort's planning commission under the leadership of Bruce Ogilvie has put together a fairly progressive and forward-thinking zoning ordinance. The comment period is NOW, and the public hearing is set for Tuesday,
Community Alert
By Emily Votruba Former Benzie County administrator Chris Olson, who was engaged by the Village Board of Trustees to help them create both a deficit elimination plan and an internal controls action plan as required by the State of Michigan, has come up with a corrective action plan (CAP) for
Community Alert
By Emily Votruba Last night in a special meeting, council approved a deficit elimination plan to submit to the Michigan Department of Treasury. The penalty for failure to meet the revised deadline of January 6 (moved again to January 8 because of the weather) was a 25% reduction in revenue
Community Alert
By Emily Votruba Former Benzie County administrator Chris Olson, who was engaged by the Village Board of Trustees to help them create both a deficit elimination plan and an internal controls action plan as required by the State of Michigan, has come up with a DEP for the board to
Gov't Watch
Download prioritization-workshop-part-2.m4a Full audio of the Dec. 30 meeting (2 parts): undefined undefined Full audio of the Jan. 2 meeting: undefined At the January 2 meeting, Chris Olson came back with the compiled results of the Dec. 30 prioritization exercise, in which, after a long discussion, council members and
Community Alert
The following email and pdf was received by several council members and the Village office today from former Benzie county administrator Chris Olson, in response to president Reg Manville's request for assistance with the Village's deficit elimination plan. This information was forwarded to the Alert by
Alert Reader
The Alert received the following by email from Elberta resident Teri McGregor December 20, 2013. Letters to the editor may be edited for length and minor typos/spelling issues. We welcome anyone's input. Send letters to elberta.alert@gmail.com, subject line "Alert Reader." Thanks for
Alert Reader
The Alert received the following by email yesterday, December 13, 2013. Letters to the editor may be edited for length and minor typos/spelling issues. We welcome anyone's input. Send letters to elberta.alert@gmail.com, subject line "Alert Reader." Thanks for reading! Can I post
Breaking
Download special-meeting-to-appt-clerk-12-10-2013.m4a December 10, 2013 Full audio of meeting undefined Village Community Building—In a four to three vote during a special meeting tonight, the Village Council decided to hire recently retired Village clerk Sharyn Bower back to the clerk's position at two days a week, minus
Community Alert
What follows, in bold type, are the official minutes for the meeting, respectfully (and very quickly) submitted by volunteer clerk Sharron May. Thanks, Sharron! My interpolations appear in regular type.—Emily Votruba The regular meeting of the Elberta Village Council was held on Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 7:00
Breaking
This report was given to me by two Village officials (on separate occasions). The officials asked not to be named. One of them said I should publish it on the Alert site and Facebook page, the other asked that I wait to do that until after the council meeting tonight,
Alert Reader
November 6, 2013 Hey, everyone. Well, last night was fun. With the help of social media, roving volunteer poll reporters, friendly poll workers, and our tech-savvy friend Aubrey Ann Parker, we were able to bring you election results for several districts in real time over Facebook. Next time we hope