A Quick Tour Of Mullett Township

Mullett Township News & Views-Promoting Open Government in Mullett Township

There is also the Mullett Township Party Line or you make drink the Kool-Aid from the Topinabee Development Association "Artesian" Well

Mullett Township is a general law township in Cheboygan County, Michigan. The population was 1312 in the 2010 US census. The township and Mullett Lake are named for John Mullett, who with William Burt, surveyed much of the area between 1840 and 1843.

The commercial center of the Township is the quiet unincorporated Village of Topinabee located on the west shore of Mullett Lake on M27 highway. The village is a trailhead for the DNR Trail with off-street parking and restrooms.

The village has a Post Office, Convenience Store with gas pumps, Public Library with 24 hour outdoor WiFi, an artisan-owned woodwork shop, a breakfast cafe and a bar and grille. Township owned buildings include the Library, Township Hall and Fire Hall, and an unused former school building on Lea St.

Recreation needs are served with a beachfront park and covered picnic area, free public boat launch at the north end of the village, a small public access to Mullett Lake across from the Nokia Cafe and tennis court, ball-field, and playground equipment at a public park located up the hill on Lea St.

The east side of Mullett Township is largely rural, with no commercial development. Township services include a Fire Hall and volunteer East Mullett Lake Fire Department.


Friday, October 30, 2015

O'Hare's Great Up North Needs Money Again

From May 2014- 

Motion by Kathy Flory to enter into an agreement with the Great Up North Alliance in cooperation with the PURE MICHIGAN campaign.  This campaign will promote Cheboygan County including all nineteen townships.  Mullett Township agrees to a contractual arrangement in the amount of $2,000.00 per year for 2014-2015-2016 to support the funding of this campaign.
  
On the November 3rd Meeting Agenda-

Pure Michigan Campaign (Great Up North) Mullett's Participation

Is the Great Up North Marketing Alliance (GUNMA) back for another $2,000 "donation". Where are the results? What was done? Where are the invoices? How many Pure Michigan spots were run and where? 

If Tom O'Hare believes so strongly about marketing Cheboygan as the Great Up North; let him fund it himself.

At the very least, the following 3 Mullett Board members benefiting professionally or personally from tourism related businesses and/or employment income derived from tourism should recognize the conflict of interest and recuse themselves from motions or votes to fund  GUNMA.

Supervisor MaryAnneGale- Owner of Bed & Breakfasts and Butterfly House on Mackinac Island

Treasurer Kathy Flory-Bookkeeper for Topinabee Market and owns/rents tourist cottage

Trustee Dennis Dombroski- City of Mackinac Island Building Inspector
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  • Linda Socha
    Linda Socha
  • By Richard Crofton
    Editor, @richard_crofton

    Posted Mar. 22, 2014 at 12:01 AM

    CHEBOYGAN
    Accusations have been made recently about the Cheboygan County Commission being anti-development for not supporting the “Great Up North,” GUN, group, which is trying to promote the county.
    One of the main players in GUN, Tom O'Hare, has come out attacking the commission for its lack of supporting economic development and questioning why the panel does not do it.
    County Commission Chair Linda Socha has broken the silence and has responded to those attacks, which she says are unfounded.
    “We want to make sure we have cops on the streets and safe communities,” she said in an interview with the Cheboygan Tribune. “This is one of our priorities as far as economic development is concerned.”
    Socha said the county's role in economic development is one of streamlining the process for permitting and making it easy for people to get what they need for construction and to open up the doors
    “We are conservative in that we don't want to be restrictive. We want to make sure it is done right and done legally,” the commission chair said. “We want good people who can work with people. We want to make sure people are comfortable. … We have cleaned up the permitting. Our intent is good. We are aiming to be good for the public.”
    She said other groups should take over the funding of economic development.
    “The county’s role is making sure the regulatory system is in place (for economic development),” Socha said. “Economic development should include the chambers and bureaus for marketing and the EDC is meant to help with financing. The CEDG could be a good thing if every time they came up with something they didn’t run to the county to fund it. That isn’t how it works. That is what irritates the public.”
    She said the county supports other groups that can help with economic development.
    “We have NLEA (Northern Lakes Economic Alliance) and the DDAs have tax increment financing. Three of them capture money out of county tax money. That is a loss for us. In a way that is economic development,” Socha said. “We have our own website, we support the marina and the airport. We formed the airport with the city for economic development and they don't fund it. We also formed the marina with the city which they also don’t support. We also support NEMCOG which does Pure Michigan.”
    She said with all of this, the taxpayers are saying enough.
    “You get the same taxpayer paying five times,” she said. “How many times can you take it out of the same taxpayer?” Taxpayers' dollars to the county also have been flat as well. “Our revenues are flat. We need to finish what we need to do. We have enough money to do that,” Socha said. “These unelected groups are trying to wag the dog. This has nothing to do with meeting with constituents. … Groups want us to be the bank for development. I believe we are playing the right role.”