In a 9-0 vote, the county board authorized the issuance of bonds “in the principal amount of not-to-exceed forty ($40) million in total, according to county documents.
Incumbent Lea Markowski has held the seat for one year since it became vacant when Steve Gawron became the mayor last summer. The other seat is vacant, as Sue Weirengo declined to run again.
Wednesday’s event, put on by the Neighborhood Associations of Muskegon, will be followed up by a second “meet the candidates” style event on July 22 at 6:30 p.m. at Muskegon Community College.
The agreement allows Comcast to use city rights of way to lay cables and other infrastructure. It does not make Comcast the exclusive cable provider in the city.
Quality Tool & Stamping, which resides between McIlwraith and Jarman Streets to the east and west, wants to build off the north side of its facility to place more press equipment on-site.
Contamination has been found at that site in groundwater 90 feet underground, and was in previous tests by Burgess-Norton to be moving in a north-northwest direction toward Ryerson Creek.