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Shores voters approve roads, infrastructure proposal
Edwards clears primary for state House District 12, to face Randell Shafer in November
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In unofficial results from the Aug. 6 election, St. Clair Shores voters passed a proposed roads and related infrastructure millage by a margin of 7,067 votes to 5,048. The proposal asked voters to approve an
annual levy of 2 mills for five years, beginning on July 1, 2025, for necessary residential street, alley, and city parking lot repairs and construction, street lighting, and related sewer repairs and construction. The millage will replace a current 1.6430-mills levy, which was adopted in 2019. The new millage is estimated to collect
$3,931,795.50 in its first year. Councilman Chris Vitale said he doesn’t have any strong feelings about the proposal. “I think less of a city government when it has to rely on millages to fund infrastructure and things like that, because these sorts of things should be provided for in the budget,” Vitale See ELECTION on page 31A
Feasibility study for hotel, conference center in the works BY ALYSSA OCHSS aochss@candgnews.com
At the State of Lake St. Clair address on July 31, the idea of a potential hotel and conference center along the coast of Macomb County was again floated. Officials say these plans are still in their beginning phases. The idea first surfaced at the State of the Lake event in 2023. Gerard Santoro, Macomb County Parks and Natural Resources program director, said in 2023 they completed a Lake St. Clair coastal See HOTEL on page 27A Photo by Patricia O’Blenes
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