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Allegan County Poor Farm Welfare Committee Seeks New Hospital |
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SUPERVISORS SOCIAL WELFARE COMMITTEE SEEKS NEW HOSPITAL Eleven members of the Allegan county board of supervisor's Social Welfare, Buildings and Finance Committees met for a joint committee session at the Allegan county court house Wednesday to discuss the problems of bringing a one million dollar bonding issue before the voters. The group are responsible for the project of placing before the voters the issue of constructing a new county medical care facility, to augment the present county hospital and infirmary. Fred M. Thrune, Lansing, the legal consultant, and M.R. Stuit, Grand Rapids, financial consultant, met with the group. At the meet it was tentatively decided that the committees will recommend a county vote on the bending issue in the spring. The joing committee decision will be placed before the entire board of supervisors at their January session. As now suggested, the issue would call for a one million dollar bond to be repaid over a 20 year period. Tentative millage rates of one dollar per thousand dollars of valuation would be set for the first four years, and then two dollars per thousand for the next 16 years, or until the bond is retired at an earlier date. The issue of erecting a new county hospital was brought out earlier this year when it became apparent that the present county hospital must be replaced or enlarged. The supervisors voted last Fall to erect the new structure at the site of the present county farm and infirmary four miles north of Allegan. |
 December 29, 1955 |
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