Name: Beaver Island townships move to operationalize the Emergency Services Authority
Start: 2014-05
End: 2014-05
Location: Beaver Island

Beaver Island townships move to operationalize the Emergency Services Authority

Also Beaver Island Emergency Services Authority restart 2014 · Beaver Island ESA charter revision 2014

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TypeEvent

Date2014-05

WithinBeaver Island

ErasModern era

Event

Date: 2014-05
Kind: Appointment
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: governanceemergency-managementpublic-service
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The June-July 2014 Beaver Beacon reports that Beaver Island’s two townships appointed Rick Speck and Bill Kohls to make the Emergency Services Authority operational. The appointees planned to revise the dormant two-member charter and consider expanding the board to five members representing emergency-service and historical organizations.

Evidence limits

The article documents an appointment and proposed charter work, not an approved revision or proof of subsequent operations.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, June-July 2014, "News from the Townships."
Reports that the townships appointed Rick Speck and Bill Kohls to activate the Emergency Services Authority created for the East Side Fire Hall loan, with plans to revise its two-member charter and consider a five-member board. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2014-07_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, June-July 2014, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held June-July issue scan confirms the ESA governance report.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2014-07_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island townships move to operationalize the Emergency Services Authority”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-emergency-services-authority-reorganization-2014/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, June-July 2014, "News from the Townships." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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