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Alpena County Treasurer’s office employee Cindy Cebula pulls a tax-record book from a shelf while at work Friday. The treasurer’s office will have more money to keep track of, as the county was awarded about $5.5 million from the recently passed stimulus package.
ALPENA–Counties, townships, and cities are in line to get a financial boost, the likes of which they have never seen before.
In the coming weeks, local governments will begin to receive portions of the $65 billion allocated to local governments in Michigan from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that passed through Congress last week and was signed by President Joe Biden Thursday.
PPI Board Elects Angela Rodell as Chair and Mark Delaney as Vice Chair
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PPI Board Elects Angela Rodell as Chair and Mark Delaney as Vice Chair
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ONTONAGON The passing of Ontonagon Herald owner and publisher, and recent village trustee, Maureen Guzek was memorialized during Village President Tony Smydra’s president’s report. After being appointed to the council, Guzek was elected to the trustee position during this past November’s general election.
With the unexpected death of Guzek, the village council now has two vacancies to fill. After getting elected, and not making a single meeting, Jessica Huntzinger resigned her position in January. Huntzinger had missed all five meetings after being elected.
Smydra claimed Huntzinger had been sworn in on Dec. 11. Video and audio tapes of the meetings since Dec. 11, along with her swearing-in, do not seem to reflect this, neither does the council minutes.
MARQUETTE Michigan State University Extension will move forward with less money in its coffers.
The Marquette County Board of Commissioners in December failed to amend the fiscal year 2021 budget to include extra money for MSUE.
Erin Carter, director of the MSUE district that covers Marquette, Alger, Luce, Schoolcraft, Mackinac and Chippewa counties, had indicated that the reduction puts extension programming about $13,000 below its base funding amount of $59,562 from the county.
Liana Pepin, Marquette County 4-H educator with MSU Extension, which includes 4-H programming, noted in an email that the county commissioners had to deal with a budget reduction of $455,000 from fiscal year 2020.