Our side is better than your side. Them’s fighting words in Mullett Township. East side versus west side. It has gone on forever. Ridiculous as it’s seems, the Mullett Township Board, with 60 % of the Board from the east side of Mullett Lake now plans to build a new restroom at Boy Scout Park at a cost of $50,000+. As there is no infrastructure there, I fully expect the project will be closer to $100,000. The west side has one, the east side also should be able to, ahem, relieve themselves in style.
The Board ignores the fact Topinabee only has a modern restroom because the DNR provided a grant for the majority of the cost, serving as a restroom for the trailhead. Not to look a gift-horse in the mouth, but Mullett Township expends thousands of dollars a year cleaning and heating the restroom “gifted” us by the DNR. Does the Board propose hiring someone from the east side of Mullett Township to perform all of these duties?
The Boy Scout Park has no DNR trail, no M27 traffic, no pedestrian traffic, no signage showing the general public where it is, no improved driveway, not even a graveled parking area. It does have a very nice expensive pavilion identical to the one in Topinabee and a dilapidated corrugated metal quonset hut. On a recent visit there were 2 metal and 2 wooden picnic tables under the pavilion. There is a usable pit toilet substantially the same as the one that served the Topinabee Beach Park until the DNR’s largesse.
I have been told that making comparisons between Tuscarora and Mullett Townships are unfair. The Tuscarora Board does seem a little smarter. Devoe Beach has evolved into a very nice municipal park with a swimming beach. It is still served seasonally by 1 or 2 simple and cheap porta-johns.
The Mullett Township Board, notorious for building roads to nowhere that residents don’t want, now proposes to pour your money straight into a $50,000 to $100,000 toilet, flushing it down the drain.
