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Sanitation Services Update 5/13/25

There are a couple garbage removal updates for Laurium Village Residents, Landlords, and Business Owners. Please see the following:

1) Effective Immediately - All garbage bags must be placed into garbage cans and the cans must be placed within a reasonable distance to the curb. A reasonable distance as determined by the Village Manager is to be within 8-10 feet of the curb or closer. If it is not within this distance, garbage will not be picked up per Village Ordinance 2024-01: Garbage Collection and Disposition.

2) Garbage cans must be placed outside for collection purposes either the night before the collection date or by 6:00AM on the collection date. This is to ensure that your garbage is collected and not missed.

3) Beginning September 1, 2025, the quarterly rate will increase from $54.00 to $60.00 as set forth by the Laurium Village Council. With this rate increase, all Village households will be provided one (1) 95-gallon garbage can if the household does not already have one of the Village’s newer style of cans. If you have already purchased this style of can from the village in the last few years, then you will be entitled one free replacement can within a 3 year period. Additional cans may be purchased for $85.00 per can at the Village Hall (if needed).

4) The only garbage that will be collected beginning September 1, 2025 will be the garbage that is placed into either the village provided cans or the previously purchased village 95-gallon cans. Special arrangements may be made with the Village Office.

The village will begin tracking and handing out the 95-gallon cans over the next few months to village households and businesses.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Laurium Village Hall. Thank you.

-Ian Lewis, Village Manager

Spring Cleanup Update 5/6/25

Spring cleanup is expected to begin next week. The cleanup pickup dates for brush/leaves will be Monday and Friday. The spring cleanup schedule will run throughout the month of May. Additional weeks in June may be added dependent upon the weather. Please do not put brush or leaves into bags or in the garbage. All brush/leaves must be left on the road near the curb in order to be picked up.

Also, it is expected that street sweeping operations and sidewalk cleaning operations will begin next week. These aspects of spring cleanup will likely run throughout May as well. Please monitor the Village’s Facebook page and the Laurium website for any future updates.

Thank you.

Ian Lewis, Village Manager

Village of Laurium: Becoming a City?

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The Village of Laurium has started the initial process of determining whether it should change its form of government and become the City of Laurium. Michigan’s Most Northern City! However, prior to continuing the process, the Village Council and its Administration want to hear from you. We hope that you, the Village Residents, will help us determine what is best for our community.

The BIG QUESTION that every Village Resident wants to know is - What does this mean for me as a resident and a current taxpayer of Laurium?

The major difference between being a City and a Village is that Village residents currently pay Calumet Township taxes. If the Village of Laurium becomes the City of Laurium, then Laurium residents would no longer pay Calumet Township’s approximate 1.28 mills of general operations tax and the 0.99 mills of Colosseum tax. Therefore, Laurium residents would save approximately 2.27 mills on their taxes annually by becoming the City of Laurium unless future millages are passed by the Laurium residents. Future millage request ideas can be seen in Question 3 below.

• A home with a taxable value of $75,000 would initially see a tax savings of approximately $170 annually by becoming the City of Laurium.

• A home with a taxable value of $50,000 would initially see a tax savings of approximately $115 annually by becoming the City of Laurium.

• A home with a taxable value of $25,000 would initially see a tax savings of approximately $57 annually by becoming the City of Laurium.

What else would you gain as a Village Resident and Taxpayer?

If the Village of Laurium residents support the proposed change, then the City of Laurium would no longer be part of Calumet Township. This would allow the Laurium Administration to better assist its own residents due to being in control of all the different facets of government. How this works:

• Taxes: If you currently pay $1,000 in taxes annually (i.e., $500 to Laurium and $500 to Calumet Township), you would now only pay your taxes only to the City of Laurium.

• Elections: Laurium would be responsible for registration and holding of elections.

• Assessments: The City of Laurium would now be responsible for all of the assessments and reassessments of properties throughout Laurium.

All other services including public works, sanitation, fire services, and police services would remain the same for the newly formed City of Laurium unless additional millages are approved by the residents of Laurium.

What is needed to move forward with becoming the City of Laurium?

1) A vote of the general public supporting the change to becoming a newly formed city instead of being a village, and

2) The election of a charter commission.

• Eleven members are needed for the Charter Commission; therefore, Laurium would need eleven residents to consider running for the Charter Commission to help in the creation of the newly formed City of Laurium.