By Barb Pert Templeton
The Marine City Commission held their bi-monthly meeting on Feb. 6 and it was one of their shortest meetings in months, lasting just under 37-minutes. All six commissioners were present.
Here are a few highlights:
MML visit successful
Marine City Manager Michael Reaves told officials that a representative from the Michigan Municipal League recently visited the city and spent time with him and a few department heads and did an inspection of city records. “We’ve done quite well in preventing employee injuries over the last couple years, our rating is quite high,” Reaves said. The MML offers training resources for multiple departments in the city and the city manager passed those along to the appropriate departments. Mayor Pro Tem Lisa Hendrick said the MML also did the same thing for the Marine City Fire Authority and everything was all clean, no injuries were reported by the fire department. The MML offered the fire service ideas for future trainings too.
The Marine City Commission meets on the first and third Thursdays of the month at 7 p.m.
City property list updated
Marine City Manager Michael Reaves told officials he plans to provide officials with an annual detailed list of properties owned by the city. He said the report he was presenting was an update because there was no current file with information about properties owned by the city. He did find an old file and was using that as a starting point to identify city properties. “There may be property out there that the city owns that’s not on the list, or there may be property on the list that we don’t own but we have it listed as city property or more importantly, there’s property that we have buildings constructed on that we don’t have the deed for the property,” Reaves said. He said going forward once a year he will provide a list of all the properties owned by the city the locations and the commission can decide if they want to keep or sell the properties in question.
Meeting procedures to be adopted
City Attorney Robert Davis told officials that at the next regular commission meeting on Feb. 20 they will be adopting a charter item about procedures for their meetings. Davis asked the commission to carefully read the documents he provided to them on the subject so they can get that item in place. The commission meets on the first and third Thursdays of the month at 7 p.m. at the Guy Center at 260 South Parker Street.
Deadline extended for board seats
Marine City Clerk Jason Bell told members of the city commission that applications for open board seats still aren’t coming in from the public so he wanted to extend the deadline. The previous deadline of Feb. 13 was changed to Weds, Feb. 26 at 4 p.m. The application for the city commissioner vacancy is Feb. 27 at 4 p.m. At the moment these boards have seats to be filled:
· One on the Historical Commission, One on the Board of Review,
· One alternate for the Board of Review,
· Two on the Zoning Board of Appeals,
· Two vacancies on the Tax Increment Finance Authority (TIFA),
· One citizen at large on the Pension Board of Trustees.
· Four vacancies on the newly formed Arts, History and Culture Commission (formerly the 300 Broadway Committee.)
Requirements to serve on city boards include (in most instances) being a resident of the city, being a registered voter, not being in default to the city for any taxes or water charges.
Reservation site live on website
City Clerk Jason Bell told the city commission that the reservation system for city properties is now up and running on the city website. As the home page is landed on there are little bubbles at the bottom of the screen next to the orange community event calendar, there’s a link to follow called “make a reservation.” Reservations to rent the Mariner Park Pavilion, 300 Broadway Bandstand and the new Guy Community Center at the former Marine City Lions Hall are available.
