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Advisory Parks Board :: Board of Review :: Construction Board
City Council :: Downtown Development Authority/TIF Authority :: LDFA Board
Library Board :: Local Officers Compensation Commission
Mechanical Board of Appeals :: Planning Commission :: Zoning Board of Appeals

Advisory Parks Board

The advisory park board shall act soley in a fact-finding, recommendatory and advisory capacity to the City Council and it shall be its duty to consider and study and promote publicly the reasonable needs of park facilities and activities in which the city might participate.  For more information see Section 16 of the Eaton Rapids City Code.

Meetings: 3rd. Tuesday in January, March, May, September & November

Patricia Barnstead

Mary Maxey

Robert Welch

Mike McGhan

Brenda Stohr

Board of Review

The function of the Board of Review is to revise and correct assessments; it shall hear the complaints of all persons considering themselves aggrieved by assessments. If it appears that any person or property has been wrongfully assessed or omitted from the tax roll, the board shall correct the roll in such a manner as it deems just.

Meetings: 2nd Monday in March and for two successive days thereafter.

Cheryl Kapff

Mary Maxey

Gerald Kopack

Construction Board

Mary Backofen
Bob Tubbs
Joseph Bennett
Walt Glassbrook

Alma Stahl

Verlon Graham

City Council

The City Council is the legislative and governing body of the city and has powers and authority to adopt such laws, ordinances and resolutions as it deems proper for the exercise thereof.

Meetings: 2nd & 4th Monday of every month, 7:00 p.m., 200 S. Main Street.

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Downtown Development Authority/TIF Authority

The Downtown Development Authority (DDA) is a body created under the authority of P.A. 197 of 1975, as amended, for the purposes of promoting growth and preventing deterioration in the business district, to create and implement development plans, to issue bonds and to utilize tax increment financing.

Meetings: 2nd Friday of every month at 7:00 a.m. in City Hall, 200 S. Main St.

Sheri Dubois
Mark Haubert
Duane Ross
Ernest Phillips
John Vanator
Roger Harris

Marilyn Stenberg

Dr. William Lindow

LDFA Board

The Local Development Finance Authority is a body created under the authority of P.A. 281 of 1986, as amended, to encourage local development, prevent conditions of unemployment and promote growth, create and implement a development plan, acquire interests in real and personal property, and to utilize tax increment financing. 

Meetings: As needed.

Brian Ross
Willard Maxey
Ben Dancer
Richard Freer
Gary Wichman
Leonard Peters

Chris Mergener

Linda Wilbur

Jeff Brown

Library Board

Meetings: 2nd Monday of every month at 10:30 a.m. in the Library, 220 S. Main St.

Local Officers Compensation Commission

The Local Officers' Compensation Commission shall determine the salaries of the Mayor and Members of the City Council.

Meetings: As needed.

Sonja Seaks
William O'Connell
Jan McRee
Leonard Peters

Ed Shotwell

Mechanical Board of Appeals

Meetings: As needed.

Alma Stahl
Verlon Graham

Planning Commission

The Planning Commission is responsible for reviewing all applications for re-zoning, lot splits, site plan approval, special land use permits and variances and giving recommendations to the City Council for each.

Meetings: 1st Monday of every month at 7:00 p.m. in City Hall, 200 S. Main St.

Lisa Letarte

Steve Kapff
John VanArk
Jeff Ostrom
Deb Malewski

Jill Skinner

Val Kunkel

Kathy DeGrow

Janice Creyts

Zoning Board of Appeals

Meetings: As needed.

Steve Kapff

Rick Babbit
John Hetzer

Reuben Green

Charles Cartwright

Roger Harris - Alternate - 11/01/09