Voters will enter voting booths next Tuesday. Canal View seeks to renew its county millage rate to continue providing low-cost services to residents. The facility has helped house the community’s parents and grandparents when living alone is no longer an option for more than 40 years.
Well to start the millage provides about 8 to 10 percent of our operation’s operational revenue for canal view Houghton County and it does so much there’s so many great things we just recently completed a new roof and a new window project we’ve completed we have four new hot water boilers – Adam Laplander, Director, Canal View Senior Care Facility.
Houghton County’s canal view millage affords the facility the ability to make critical infrastructure improvements and supports providing high-quality elder care. Including two underway projects, such as replacing the facility’s water main and upgrading elevators. Canal View’s request will seek to renew a 2.1 millage rate.
Statistics show that the need for nursing home care is going to increase between now and 2040, especially with the baby boomers. So that need is going to be there. It’s going to be there for a long time. And we probably even see more in the need for more nursing homes to be in different areas. That need is always going to be there. – Adam Laplander, Director, Canal View Senior Care Facility
More than three-quarters of canal view residents receive care through Medicaid. The facility sets aside beds for Houghton County residents, and a small number for Keweenaw County residents. Director Adam Laplander says while the family sorts out Medicaid paperwork with a DHHS specialist on site, the millage helps Canal View take on a new resident.
But we can still take that resident ahead of time, and that’s what allows us to do that with the millage and get them in the facility as that process is being worked on, and the application is being completed by them and the DHS rep. And because you are owned by Houghton County, Houghton County residents get a little bit of preference when applying? – Adam Laplander, Director, Canal View Senior Care Facility
Canal View’s millage renewal, if approved by voters, will reappear after four years, for a 2.1 millage rate between 2026 and 2029. The consideration sits alongside three other questions for voters. The Houghton County jail construction bond, CCISD’s plans to improve education opportunities through infrastructure improvements, and supporting an elder nutrition millage to fund Copper Shores Meals on Wheels.
Listen to Todd Van Dyke’s full interview with Adam Laplander here.
Learn more about August 5th millage requests below:
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