BUCHANAN CHARTER TOWNSHIP – PUBLIC HEARING – SMCAS

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CHARTERED TOWNSHIP OF BUCHANAN
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
SPECIAL ASSESSMENT DISTRICT FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
THROUGH SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COMMUNITY AMBULANCE SERVICE,
DISTRICT NO. 1
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Township Board of the Township of Buchanan, Berrien County, Michigan, has determined to proceed with creating a special assessment district to defray, in whole or part, the Township’s share of the cost of providing ambulance and emergency medical services through the Southwestern Michigan Community Ambulance Service.
The Township Board has tentatively determined that all or part of the Township’s share of such cost will be specially assessed against all residential units, commercial parcels, industrial parcels, and agricultural parcels within the Township, unless such lands and premises are exempt by law from paying special assessments. “Residential unit” includes each unit in multiple family dwellings, apartments, condominiums and townhouses, and includes each pad in a mobile home or manufactured housing community.
TAKE NOTICE that the Township Board will hold a public hearing at a meeting of the Township Board on September 07, 2023, at 6:30 p.m., at the Township Hall, 15235 Main Street, Buchanan, Michigan 49107, to hear and consider any objections to the proposed special assessment, the district and all other matters relating to the Special Assessment District for Emergency Medical Services through Southwestern Michigan Community Ambulance Service.
TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that property will not be added to the proposed special assessment district without further notice and public hearing.
This Notice was authorized by the Township Board of the Township of Buchanan.
Dated: August 17, 2023 Wendi Heyliger, Township Clerk