The Board of Zoning Appeals regular meeting on April 4, 2024, has been canceled.   The next scheduled meeting will be held on May 2, 2024.

City offices located at Marquette City Hall, 300 W. Baraga Avenue; the Lakeview Arena, 401 E. Fair Avenue; the Arts and Culture Center, 217 N. Front St. (in the Peter White Public Library); and the Municipal Service Center, 1100 Wright Street, will be closed on Friday, March 29, in observance of Good Friday.  Marquette Police, Fire, and Public Works and Utilities will remain operational during this time. 

There will be no change in garbage pickup for City residents.

Beginning March 19, 2024, the City of Marquette will require all boaters to obtain a launch permit to launch a boat at either Cinder Pond or Presque Isle Marinas.

Seasonal launch permits are now available for purchase at Lakeview Arena Parks & Recreation office, located at 401 E. Fair Avenue, the City of Marquette’s Treasurer’s office located at 300 W. Baraga Avenue.  Seasonal launch permits will also be available at Cinder Pond Marina office beginning May 6, 2024.  The cost is $70.00 per seasonal launch permit, and $20.00 for an additional launch permit (restrictions apply).

Daily launch permits are $7.00 and are available in the red launch boxes located at Cinder Pond and Presque Isle Marinas.

The Marquette Housing Commission Board has canceled the Tuesday, March 19, 2024, meeting at 4:30 pm.

The regular meeting of the City of Marquette Brownfield Redevelopment Authority Board has been cancelled for March 20, 20224 due to a lack of agenda items. The meetings are held at 8:00 a.m. at the Municipal Service Center, 1100 Wright Street, Marquette, MI. 49855 on the third Wednesday of each month.

The Parks & Recreation Advisory Board (PRAB) meeting scheduled for March 18, 2024 has been cancelled.  The next scheduled meeting is April 15, 2024. 

The City of Marquette Arts and Culture Advisory Committee will hold a special meeting to discuss 2024 Art Week project proposals on Thursday, March 14 at 6:30 p.m.

All meetings take place in the City of Marquette Arts and Culture Center, located in the lower level of Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front Street.

For questions or more information, please call the Office of Arts & Culture at 906-228-0472 or email arts-culture@marquettemi.gov.

MARCH 12, 2024 to MARCH 14, 2024 - MAIN ST. ELEVATOR CLOSED FOR On March 12, 2024, the elevator from Main St. To Washington St. will be closed for maintenance. The stairs will remain open. Maintenance and inspection are scheduled to be complete on March 14, 2024.

In cooperation with the Superior Watershed Partnership and Northern Michigan University Biology Department, the City of Marquette will be closing a portion of Peter White Drive in Presque Isle Park to facilitate the safe migration of the blue-spotted salamander.

The southwest bend of Peter White Drive from the Ice Cream Store Pavilion to the gate north of the pavilion will close to vehicular traffic daily at 8:00 p.m. from March 15 to May 15 or until the completion of the migration.  Road barricades will be placed and removed daily to prevent vehicular traffic use of the migration area.  Foot traffic is permitted in the area during regular park hours.

Superior Watershed Partnership can be reached at (906) 228-6095.

The Marquette Public Art Commission (MPAC) invites local artists to apply to design and paint text-inspired, site-specific artworks on the surface of the Holly Greer Bike Path in Marquette.

The Words to Live and Bike By project links language, exploration, and artistic expression to invite Marquette and its visitors to connect as a community. These words - REMEMBER, RESPECT, HOPE, DREAM, and GRATITUDE - were originally selected by the Marquette Public Art Commission prior to their first installation onto the bike path in 2020. Four years later the original murals have faded and yet, the importance of these words persists. MPAC now invites a new set of local artists to reimagine the original words at the following sites:

REMEMBER: North Lakeshore along restored shoreline

GRATITUDE: South side of the Marquette Commons

DREAM: Lower Harbor/Kids Cove

RESPECT: North Lakeshore Blvd. between McCarty's Cove and Shiras Park

HOPE: Clark Lambros Beach Park

Applicants may submit multiple designs but will only be selected to create one mural. The deadline for submissions is Sunday, April 28th. Winners will be notified by May 10, 2024, with painting to occur on June 24-29, 2024 during City of Marquette Art Week.

The selected words will be stenciled on the bike path with white outline prior to painters’ arrival on-site. Completed murals will be 6 ft. in height and vary in length depending on the length of the proposed word. Selected artists will receive $300 and all necessary supplies including paint, brushes, drop cloths, etc.

For more information or to apply, a full prospectus can be found on the MQTcompass.com website, https://www.mqtcompass.com/opportunities/call-for-proposals-bikepath-murals/ For additional information, please contact the City of Marquette Office of Arts & Culture at arts-culture@marquettemi.gov or (906) 228-0472.