NOTICE OF GALE LAKE

SPECIAL ASSESSMENT HEARING

TOWNSHIP OF ATLAS

TO: THE RESIDENTS AND PROPERTY OWNERS OF THE TOWNSHIP OF ATLAS AND ANY OTHER INTERESTED PARTY

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that as a result of petitions submitted by property owners on Gale Lake requesting aquatic plant treatment whose area constitutes more than 50% of the total area of Gale Lake, the Atlas township board proposes to create a special assessment district for the recovery of the cost of aquatic plant treatment.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the District within which the foregoing improvements are proposed to be constructed and within which the cost thereof is proposed to be assessed is more particularly described as follows:

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the township board has received an estimate of the costs of such treatment in the approximate amount of Five Thousand and 00/100 ($5,000.00) Dollars, and has placed the same on file with the township clerk, and if the board creates said district, the cost of the treatment will be spread among the properties above.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that said Estimate and Petitions may be examined at the office of the township clerk from the date of this Notice until and including the date of the public hearing hereon and may further be examined at such public hearing.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that a public hearing upon such Petitions, District and Estimate of Costs will be held at the Atlas Township hall at 7386 S. Gale Road, Goodrich, Michigan, commencing at 5:30 o’clock p.m. on October 17, 2016.

At such hearing, the board will consider any written objections to any of the foregoing matters which might be filed with said board at or prior to the time of said hearing as well as any revisions, corrections, amendments, or changes to the Estimates and Costs or to said Special Assessment District.

All interested persons are invited to be present at the aforesaid time and place and to submit comments concerning any of the foregoing.

Teresa Onica, CMC

Atlas Township Clerk

Publish in The Citizen 10-15-16