City Clerk's Office

(231)592-4000

E-Mail:  clerk@ci.big-rapids.mi.us

City Clerk - Roberta Cline

Deputy Clerk - Tammy Gillis

Human Resource Assistant - Melissa Hauger

Information on elections

Services provided by the City Clerk Office:

• registers voters
• maintains official city records
• provides City Council agenda and minutes
• maintains meeting minutes for all City boards and commissions
• receives nominating petitions for verification for Mayor and City Council offices.
• accepts and processes applications for City boards and commissions
• conducts elections
• provides records and documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act
• sells street, precinct and zoning maps and voter labels
• copy and distribute ordinances
• conducts the hiring and promotional process for the City of Big Rapids Municipal Offices
• reviews and forwards City documents for recording
• processes the City's incoming and outgoing mail
• provides legal notices and processes bid packets for large purchases
• serves as the City's public information office
• responsible for the conversion of paper documents into the document imaging system
• acts as the City's Personnel office.
• administers programs including Quality of Work Life, Employee Education and Development, Labor & Employee Relations, Human Resource Planning, and Equal Opportunity reporting.
  

The City Clerk, Roberta Cline, is also the City's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) official. The FOIA is a set of rules that governs the production of public information from requests by citizens, corporations and other bodies of government.