Fire Authority
Lowell Area Fire and Emergency Services Authority
Lowell Area Fire and Emergency Services Authority is a fire authority in Kent County, Michigan.
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What this body files with the State and posts online, checked against the law and good practice.
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Required by law
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Found: FOIA procedures and written public summary posted
The authority's own site, lowellfire.org (its "Fire Authority and Board" page carries the board's notices), links "Public FOIA Procedure" (a six-page public summary) and "LAFD FOIA Procedure" (11-page procedures and guidelines), both opened in the browser. The City of Lowell's page for the department, then on record as the authority's website, has neither; corrected to lowellfire.org on 2026-10-03.
MCL 15.234(4) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for FOIA procedures and written public summary posted
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Audit filed with the State for the latest fiscal year
Uniform Budgeting and Accounting Act, MCL 141.421 et seq.; MCL 141.921
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Audit filed on time
Due six months after fiscal year end; MCL 141.921
Good practice
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Current budget posted
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Budgets for the past three years posted
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Latest audit posted
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Budget posted as a spreadsheet or data file
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Regular meeting schedule for the year posted
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Agendas posted for the past 12 months
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Minutes posted for the past 12 months
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Members' names and a way to contact them posted
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Check register (payments) posted
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Employee pay or salary schedule posted
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Current contracts posted
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Labor agreements posted
About
- Type
- Fire Authority
- County
- Kent County
- Website
- lowellfire.org
- Notes
- lowellfire.org is the authority's own site, with its board's notices and its FOIA documents; the address on record was the City of Lowell's page for the department, which has neither. Checked 2026-10-03.
Codes
- Census of Governments ID
- 248819
- Michigan Treasury unit code
- 417548
Sources
Where this page's facts come from.
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Kent County public bodies: research notes
Open Government Project · 2026-09-24
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Treasury Document Search, Kent County local units
Michigan Department of Treasury, Local Audit and Finance Division · queried 2026-09-24
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Government Units List, 2026
U.S. Census Bureau · 2026
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FOIA documents (W1) and retirement report information (W7), Kent County bodies other than general-purpose governments
Open Government Project · read 2026-10-03