While the Northport Sportsman’s Club agreement between Leelanau Township is still being revised, further discussion on the topic and what it will look like was addressed once again on Tuesday evening.
Marc McKellar of Kuhn Rogers in Traverse City spoke on behalf of the club at the township’s regular meeting to clarify the situation and to address any other concerns from the community and board. Township Supervisor Mike McMillan said he wanted to give the board a chance to review it once more before new members start next month.
“The sportsman’s club — that has gotten off the rails in the worst way, so I wanted to make sure we just didn’t burden the next administration with this problem, so we wanted to address it head on,” McMillan said. “So we’ll continue to move forward with the Sportsman’s Club…” The township and club originally entered into discussions to formalize a use agreement after either party could not find a signed copy of the 99-yearlong agreement. In that process, the township has requested for an indemnity clause to be included as well as for a shorter use agreement time period with renewable years.
