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Commissioner recall nixed

MARQUETTE, MI--   A recall effort against three Marquette City Commissioners will not move forward. 

Wednesday the County Election Board of Commissioners voted down a petition to recall Sarah Reynolds, Michael Coyne, and Dave Campana. 

Marquette resident Michael Neiger initiated the recall.  He said he wasn’t satisfied with a potential boathouse deal with the Upper Peninsula Rowing Club at Founder’s Landing.  The boathouse would be owned by the city, which would lease a portion to the UPRC.  Neiger wanted the city to also manage the property and pay maintenance costs for the entire building. 

City Commissioner Sarah Reynolds says she doesn’t think there will be any problems with the rowing club.

“They’re very respected people in our community,” she says, “also a non-profit group, and they would be having a lease agreement from us, and I don’t see—if they do something wrong, if they try to make it private, we always have options to renege on our agreement because they haven’t done what they’ve said.” 

Marquette Police Chief Mike Angeli is working with all sides to come up with an acceptable deal. 

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.