September 18th, 2012
This Thursday evening, September 20, at 7 pm, our County Board votes on whether to turn over the Calhoun County Road Commission duties to the County, making the now separate Road Commission a department of the County.
Our meeting will take place at the Board of Commissioners’ chambers, in the County Building at 315 W. Green, in Marshall.
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September 13th, 2012
Today the County Board’s Budget Committee (of which I’m a member) met with Calhoun County’s Health Officer to review the Health Department’s proposed 2013 budget, and our committee will recommend to the Board that it pass this budget, balanced, fortified by revenue from a number of grants, and representing 3% less in county general fund support than was so in 2012.
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August 22nd, 2012
Calhoun County Commissioner Jim Haadsma
This morning in a special meeting the Calhoun County Board voted to put a Veterans’ Millage proposal on the November 6 ballot.
The proposed millage rate is one-tenth of a mill, to fund the County’s Veterans’ Affairs Office, and is for a proposed term of 10 years.
A 0.1 millage rate means that, on a home of $100,000.00 taxable value, the homeowner would be assessed 5 dollars per year.
The County now funds the Veterans’ Affairs Office from the general fund, and that wouldn’t be necessary if this millage passed.
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July 2nd, 2012
Three of the Glenwood Trace apartment houses are already down, and the other 10 or 12 are scheduled for demolition in the next week or two.
It’s remarkable what a couple people acting determinedly can accomplish.
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June 2nd, 2012
This afternoon’s Historic Bridge Park reopening activities, including a tour (for Chris Vreeland and me) of the bridges by historic bridge rehab expert Vern Mesler.
Vern’s wife Nan Jackson also taught me to solve math problems by considering the length of the hypotenuse of a bridge base.
Calhoun County Commissioner
Jim Haadsma at the re-opening of Historic Bridge Park. (The park reopened today.)
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