The Grand Marais City Council approved a $9,500 commercial rehab loan request from the GunFlint Tavern June 12. GunFlint Tavern owner Jeff Gecas attended the meeting along with Housing Administrator Nancy Grabko and Hal Greenwood of the Grand Marais – Cook County Economic Development Authority. City Administrator Mike Roth explained that the loan comes from a commercial rehab revolving loan... READ MORE >
Grand Marais city councilors and Public Utilities Commission members began council’s May 29, 2013 meeting by approving the refunding of two bonds. The action is expected to save taxpayers about $300,000 over the next 17 years. Bruce Kimmel and Nick Anhunt of Ehlers Inc., the city’s financial advisors, attended the meeting and explained the bidding process. There were three bids... READ MORE >
Grand Marais city councilors went forward with a number of projects May 8, 2013, their first meeting in almost a month; council’s April 24 meeting was cancelled due to lack of a quorum. First on the agenda was Danna MacKenzie, Cook County’s information systems director. She was on hand to explain a proposal from Verizon Wireless seeking to replace an... READ MORE >
Grand Marais city councilors approved a number of varied requests at their April 10, 2013 meeting, ranging from A (air conditioning) to Z (zip line). First on the list was a request for a letter of support from the Cook County Historical Society to the Minnesota Historical Society backing the local agency’s pursuit of a grant to purchase and stabilize... READ MORE >
Plans for construction of a zip line on the Gunflint Trail were green-lighted April 3, 2013 when the city’s planning commission unanimously approved the developer’s request for both a variance and conditional use permit. The requests will next go to Grand Marais City Council on April 10 for final approval. The proposals were presented to the planning commission by Matt... READ MORE >
City officials said they would sit down and meet with representatives of the Cook County Senior Center after hearing safety concerns about their shared parking lot at council’s March 27 meeting. Warren Anderson, chair of the Council on Aging which oversees the Senior Center, led the discussion. A number of Senior Center board members and staff also attended the meeting... READ MORE >
North House Folk School Director Greg Wright visited Grand Marais city councilors March 13 to present the school’s 2012 annual report. And as usual, the results were positive and upbeat. “In a word, things are thriving,” Wright said of the 16-year-old facility located on city property on the Lake Superior shore. “And thank you is the most important thing to... READ MORE >
Boaters who use the Grand Marais harbor will soon have an improved dock and launch, thanks to an agreement with the state Department of Natural Resources approved Feb. 27 by the city council. City Administrator Mike Roth explained that the new agreement, which has been reviewed and sent back and forth between the city’s and DNR’s attorneys during the last... READ MORE >
Grand Marais City councilors listened Feb. 13 as George Wilkes and Virginia Danfelt presented a review of what the Cook County Local Energy Project (CCLEP) has been doing during the past year. It has been a busy year, Danfelt said, with one of the highlights being the city’s Energy Plan which was adopted last summer. In conjunction with Cook County,... READ MORE >
Grand Marais city councilors voted Jan. 30 to go ahead with the first step of a planned public works facility by approving a pre-design proposal from LHB of Duluth. Under the terms of the $10,844 agreement, the engineering firm will compile information based on the city’s needs, such as function, size and furnishings. The firm will then provide a programming... READ MORE >
