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,
Breaking
Download village-council-meeting-on-em-crisis-october-17-2013.m4a Brief update on tonight's meeting: Council voted to table the topic of the deficit reduction plan until they receive further guidance from the state, preferably in writing. The only documentation of the state's interest in seeing a deficit reduction plan cited a report
Community Alert
Art Melendez read the following letter at the special council meeting on October 10, convened to discuss options for reducing the Village's general fund balance deficit, which is so severe that according to Reggie Manville (village president), we may be taken over by an emergency manager if an
Community Alert
(Not that they're not all important...) Attention Elbertians (and their friends)! Please attend the council meeting tomorrow night (Thursday, October 17) at 7 pm in the Community Building (401 First St.) to hear our council's plan to prevent our being taken over by an emergency manager.