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.


Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Another Topinabee Quality of Life Improvement

Supervisor MaryAnne Gale's ongoing quest for a self-cleaning, maintenance free restroom continues as she discards the four (4) roll toilet paper dispenser, making Topinabee famous on the web in this photo, and replaces it with her ballyhooed two (2) roll TP dispenser. We all know the issue is not tissue, it is cleaning and checking the restrooms on a regular basis. The filth is there and so was plenty of toilet paper. Adding more TP sheets does not create a cleaner restroom.

I already know my math is better than Supervisor Gale's. Unlike Supervisor Gale's Mullett Township Budget, I have not budgeted to spend twice my income in this fiscal year. 

Supervisor Gale explained how this bigger 2000 sheet roll will eliminate this problem. This two (2) roll toilet paper dispenser holds two 2000 sheet rolls. The other toilet paper dispenser can hold four 1000 sheet rolls. Four rolls of 1000 sheets is the same quantity of paper as two rolls of 2000 sheets. Simple math.
                           
How many sheets on a roll??

On an empty roll? None. Here is a picture of the new toilet paper dispenser on Sunday afternoon. EMPTY. A week old and already empty by neglect.

Supervisor Gale will now discover that keeping two "full" 2000 sheet rolls of TP in the dispenser is both harder, and more wasteful, than keeping the former four roll dispensers full. It is unfortunate that Supervisor Gale lives in or has fallen into the "expert" hole. Whether it was the ill-conceived restroom surveillance camera or a 2000 sheet roll of toilet paper, she based her decisions and was able to influence the Board by referring to "experts" advice. 

Toilet paper wasted with the new dispenser. 7/23/2014
This is enough paper and time wasted on Supervisor MaryAnne Gale's potty issues. Why does Supervisor MaryAnne Gale continue to waste her time and the Board's dealing with the most simple minded day to day administrative issues? Little roll of toilet paper? Big roll of toilet paper? Garbage dumpster? Big or little? Change room on the Boy Scout Restroom? Storage room? No room? The result; wasted time and there is often nothing to show for the time spent. Can't she recognize the issue is not tissue. It's herself.

Local contractors won't bid on jobs because she ignores the need for a formal, written and adhered to, bid and procurement policy. She continues to throw work and purchases to whatever name pops into her head or crony that has her favor at the moment. She promises open government and then refuses the most simple of FOIA requests. 

She did not work toward a  simpler blight ordinance that would satisfy the majority of the Board. Supervisor MaryAnne Gale instead displayed the bully's behavior; my way or the highway. Her blight ordinance or none. 

The other four Board members, three who did not support her, then gave up. Why did no one take the initiative to enter a motion to redraft the proposed ordinance again? Three had voted no. Could three possibly agree and approve a motion to remove the paragraphs or conditions that caused their naye? The public and some Board members opposed the veiled threat of property expropriation that remained in every version presented by Supervisor MaryAnne Gale. The Topinabee Development Association would love to have that tool to "enhance and preserve" the character and charm of Topinabee.

Supervisor MaryAnne Gale may think she rules the roost. She is just another chicken in the hen-house. One cackle. One vote.