- Dates
- 1985-05-29 – 1985-06-05
- Kind
- Meeting
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- Township of Saint James
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- governanceinfrastructurecommercecommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
St. James Township reviewed bids for Phase I Yacht Dock work at special meetings on May 29 and 30, 1985, accepting Gillespie Oil and Transit’s $16,870.99 bid after discussing an irregularity in its bid security. At the regular June 5 meeting, the township also addressed taxes, seasonal docking, restrooms, the fire station, a playground, and sidewalk engineering.
Evidence limits
The Beacon preserves a newspaper account of meeting minutes. It does not establish the final contract, completed work, audited finances, adopted tax levies, or the outcome of the bid protest.
Sources
- Reports the opening of two Yacht Dock Phase I bids on May 29, a May 30 reconvening that waived the Gillespie Oil and Transit bid irregularities and accepted its $16,870.99 low bid, and the regular June 5 meeting. The June minutes cover financial and tax-levy discussions, a trial fourth seasonal Yacht Dock slip at $450, restroom and fire-station maintenance, playground work with the county, and sidewalk engineering photographs. These are newspaper-published minutes, not contracts, audited accounts, adopted levies, or completed construction records. 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 · 1985-07_Beaver-Beacon
- The held twenty-six-page July/August combined issue PDF, filed canonically as July 1985, is paired with the remote OCR and confirms the township minutes.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1985-07_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “St. James Township reviews Yacht Dock bids and June operations, 1985”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-st-james-township-may-29-june-5-1985-meetings/, accessed [date], citing St. James Township meeting minutes, Beaver Beacon, July 1985 (July/August combined issue filed as July). (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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