- Date
- 1985-08-07
- Kind
- Meeting
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- Township of Saint James
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- governanceinfrastructurepropertyenvironmenttransportationcommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
St. James Township’s August 7, 1985 minutes record a 7.8106-mill tax levy and discussion of landfill risks, Yacht Dock financing and wastewater, road dust, accessible polling, infrastructure projects, and a postponed public hearing on possible merger with Peaine Township.
Evidence limits
The newspaper minutes document motions and discussion, not final financial, environmental, engineering, electoral, or merger outcomes.
Sources
- Reports approval of a 7.8106-mill 1985 levy; discussion of the unapproved landfill, leachate, possible incinerator and monitoring wells, Yacht Dock wastewater and financing, roads and dust, barrier-free polling, and a postponed merger hearing with Peaine Township; it also records restroom landscaping, sidewalk, playground, and fuel-tank discussions. These are newspaper-published minutes, not an adopted budget, environmental assessment, engineering plan, road-maintenance record, or merger outcome. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1985-08_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eighteen-page August–September combined issue PDF, filed canonically as August 1985, is paired with the remote OCR and confirms the St. James Township minutes.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1985-08_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “St. James Township sets a tax levy and discusses landfill and merger hearings, 1985”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-st-james-township-august-7-1985-meeting/, accessed [date], citing St. James Township meeting minutes, Beaver Beacon, August–September 1985 (combined issue filed as August). (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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