PUBLIC HEARING

FEBRUARY 13, 2006, 7:00 P.M.

COURTROOM, COURTHOUSE

SAULT STE. MARIE, MI 49783

Present: Commissioners, Ted Postula, Don Cooper, Scott Shackleton, Richard Timmer,

Bernard LaJoie and Chairman Earl Kay

Absent: Commissioner Jim Moore

Also Present: Sharon Kennedy, Register of Deeds/Equalization Director, Nicholas

Lambros, Chief Circuit Court Judge, Frank Blissett, Don and Chris

McLean, Debbie Sirk, Cathy Monson, Cynthia Morley, Jeri Wolski,

Will Karr, Jeff Moran, Sheriff, Kelly Beaune, Assistant to the

Controller, Kathy Noel and Diane Cork, County Clerk

The purpose of the Public Hearing was to accept public comment to consider one of the methods of financing the proposed Kretz Lumber Company Project, through the submission of an application, by the Economic Development Corporation of Chippewa County , for a Community Development Block Grant, in the sum of One Hundred Twenty Thousand Dollars ($120,000).

Hearing no public comments, Chairman Kay declared the Public Hearing closed at 7:03 p.m.

Respectfully Submitted,

Diane S. Cork, Clerk Earl Kay, Chairman