Bay County

And that's sometimes a walking problem sometimes in Lansing, but I'm okay with it.

I need to see what people in Bay County need in Lansing is the things we need here.

That's what I'm hoping for.

Well, Tim, I thank you much for your time, as always.

of a couple of people, I was able to facilitate some conversations and not a lot, very, very early stages.

One of the things that we were really focused on was how can we get back to some kind of unlimited pass for the Elk County folks.

And I was pretty optimistic.

And it's still not off the table.

We're being fleeced regardless.

I have, I'm not going to give away a source, but somebody that does the finances for the library and the entities of the Bay County that told me that they're setting on millions of dollars, the library in CDs that they haven't touched.

And so, They said even if they get this millage, it will still continue to go into CDs.

They're not using it for the library because they don't need it.

Uh, you've covered most of my introductory slide.

Uh, uh, the subject property is, uh, generally located north and west of the intersection of Bay City Road and Rockwell Drive, so we're just, uh, inside the Midland County line, um, Rockwell Drive being the Midland and Bay County line.

Um, the portion of property subject to this rezoning is two, uh, 21 and a half acres.

Um, the parcel in question is currently split zoned Industrial A and Regional Center, and the petitioner is requesting that the entirety of the parcel, um, be zoned RC Regional Center, so eliminating that split zone condition.

So, um, we would anticipate future conditions in this area generally transitioning, um, around the Rockwell and Bay City Road area to a more, um, in- high intensity commercial and mixed use environment, um, consistent with the zoning that's proposed, uh, this evening.

So RC Regional Center District, again, it's intended for higher intensity mixed use development that would serve residents of the city as well as residents of the larger region.

Um, so things like what we have there currently, The Great Hall, uh, Valley Lanes, Costco, those are generally businesses that are serving not only City of Midland residents, not only Midland County residents, but potentially Bay County, Saginaw County residents, and beyond.

So it's intended to attract folks from a larger marketplace.

All right, we're back with you.

We're talking to Mark Pellega, who is the executive director of the Mid-Michigan Community Action Agency, which covers Bay County, Clare, Gladwin, Mecosta, Midland, Muskegon, Oceana, and Osceola.

I think I got them all.

And you have services in all of those counties.

They're frustrated with streets.

And we know here in Bay City, Bay County, we have bridges, right? Because when you have a river – I talked about the river – It's been a challenge with our bridges.

And, you know, that's a lot of conversations.

I actually want to fix those issues because our state kind of abandoned us and the city took it on alone.

How did we work with the individuals to meet their needs so they could be more independent? And that's my focus is how do we problem solve instead of focus on pointing fingers? There's too much of that that goes on that I've seen in Lansing is we're playing this political football.

Whoever has the ball and we're trying to spike it on the next guy.

And you know what? That's not a winning proposition for the residents and the citizens of the state of Michigan and Bay County.

And so, you know, I'm going there.

It just, you know, the varied, especially like the Blue Eyes, that was, first I've heard that one before.

Yeah, I've never run across it before, but they were very clear that this was not like golden eyes red eyes none of that it was it had these piercing blue eyes so that made it really different we're going to stick with michigan for a little bit and do another one in 1895 in bay county the bay county beast suddenly appeared it was september of 1895 the agricultural communities of merritt and portsmouth townships located in east-central Michigan's Bay County, were thrust into a state of armed paranoia.

Unlike the deep wilderness of Wexford County, Bay County at that time was a rapidly growing agrarian hub situated near the bustling industrial port of Bay City and the Saginaw River.

The land had been largely cleared of its heavy pine forests, replaced by sprawling dairy farms, sugar beet fields, and small rural farmsteads.

Because the area was heavily settled, the sudden appearance of this predator monster on the doorsteps of established farms caused a regional panic and it made the front page of urban newspapers.

Others say a wolf is too cowardly to approach a house.

A wolf would kill a dog but not attack him unless it was in the woods, the tracks, and the beet fields.

A posse of 40 armed men, led by a local township supervisor, attempted to track the Bay County beast using tracking hounds.