St. James Township meets on December 4, 1985

Locator map: Township of Saint James highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago — Took place at Township of Saint JamesLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.

Event

Date: 1985-12-04
Kind: Meeting
Where: Township of Saint James
Carried out by: Township of Saint James
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: governancepublic-serviceinfrastructurecommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The December 4, 1985 St. James Township meeting addressed township payments, roads, law enforcement, the former DNR building, island project funding, a street light, youth activities, a fire-truck purchase, a possible joint community building, and renewed discussion of merging the island townships.

Evidence limits

This record preserves published minutes and adopted resolutions. It does not establish service delivery, completed purchases, property dispositions, engineering findings, or merger action.

Sources

St. James Township, Regular Board Meeting, December 4, 1985, Beaver Beacon, January 1986.
Reports minutes covering payments, the Township Campsite structure, roads and primary-road resolutions, county transit taxes, law-enforcement and DNR coverage, the former DNR building, project-funding assistance, a Font Lake drainage-map delay and proposed trade, a Kings Highway street light, youth activities, a fire-truck purchase, a joint community building, and possible township merger. These are published minutes and resolutions, not complete legal, engineering, financial, property, or implementation records. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, January 1986, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held eleven-page January issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the December 4 township minutes.
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Beaver Island Archive, “St. James Township meets on December 4, 1985”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-st-james-township-december-4-1985-meeting/, accessed [date], citing St. James Township, Regular Board Meeting, December 4, 1985, Beaver Beacon, January 1986. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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