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On this 4th of July, 2014, the Topinabee Development Association is celebrating all it has done in a few short years to "preserve and enhance" the Village of Topinabee. 

Government by an Association
For an Association

These are the Facts

2012 Shade Trees and TAC Swings

2014 A Concrete Wasteland-To ALL The TDA Members Who Publicly Denounced the TAC Swings as "Unsafe"-Those Are Children Playing on the New Swings

Kayak Access to Beach??-After Unpacking Their Gear, This Family Gave Up and Returned to Indian River Waters-Thank you David Ogg for refusing to allow a simple sloped portage to Mullett Lake

The TDA Park's Widely Publicized ADA Beach Access-No ADA Matt and Piled High With Rocks this Summer as ordered by David Ogg

The TDA Park's New Play Activities-Walk the Climbing Wall

Some of the New TDA Park's Activities-Back Flips Off Landscape Terraces

Some of the New TDA Park's Activities-Back Flips Off the Nine Foot Tall Climbing Wall

While Children Backflip Off and Edge Along Nine Foot High Walls-Township Employees Pile Rocks as Directed by Park Project Manager David Ogg

Last Month-This Tree is Gone

This Month-This Tree Will Be Gone-Killed by last year's excavations

The entire community wishes to thank the Topinabee Development Association, and especially Park Committee members Tom O'Hare and David Ogg for their tireless and ongoing efforts to turn Topinabee into treeless parking lot. 

The next agenda item? This year's "version" of the Topinabee Development Association Streetscape. More wasted tax dollars. More Concrete. Less Trees. 

The Board of the Topinabee Development Association are not elected government officials. Their first, and historically only representation is their own and their association's interests and agenda. A show of hands at the 2014 TDA soiree by "virtually" everyone means literally not everyone at the meeting. It is definitely not a majority representation of the community at large. The TDA asks everyone who agrees with them and then states: We can find no disagreement.   

This is the TDA Fallacy

ANNUAL MEETING AGENDA

The annual meeting of the TDA was held June 28, 2014 at the Mullett Township Hall at 10:00.

A summary of the meeting is below:

The meeting started with TDA business including nominations and elections to the Board.  The newest TDA board member is Graham Tillotson. Dave Ogg, Kim Wilkins and Mary O’Hare were also elected to new three year terms.

 Next on the agenda was Rachel Osborn, township clerk, presenting the Mullett Township street scape plan for Topinabee.  She indicated that the planning for the project is much further along than at this time last year.  Much detailed engineering work has now been completed and MDOT is now fully engaged in the process.  After her presentation, members of the audience, where asked by a show of hands, whether or not they supported the plan.  Virtually everyone in attendance raised their hand in support of the effort with no one raising their hand in opposition.    Mary Jan Miller told everyone about the proposed plans for Block V (working name “Spirit Park”) and encouraged everyone at the meeting to drop by ABC Rustics to congratulate Erv on his great suggestions for the plan.

Ken Paquet from the Cheboygan County Road Commission spoke about a proposed four year millage. The money raised would be used exclusively for road paving in the County . 

     Gifts from Breakers and the Topinabee Market were raffled off during the course of the meeting. 

TDA Annual Meeting

Rachel Osborn presents information
on the streetscape plan

Mary Jan Miller presents information
on”Spirit Park”