COVID-19 Crisis Response: RCTA to begin delivering groceries and prescriptions

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Effective Immediately: Amid the COVID-19 crisis, RCTA will be offering free grocery/prescription pick up and porch delivery for Roscommon county residents. Current participating stores are listed below. Other stores are working on a system and RCTA is able to work with any stores that may want to start this service for their shoppers.
To use this service; call your store of choice, give them your shopping list, arrange payment over the phone and leave your address. When your order is complete your store will call RCTA for transportation of your groceries. If you would like to call RCTA's dispatch to notify us as well you are welcome to do so.
If any passengers or stores have questions, please contact RCTA's dispatch at 366-5309. Using this service will support social distancing as well as reduce the exposure or risk to our passengers, drivers and all those that are working hard to supply this community with necessary supplies of food and/or prescriptions.

Currently participating stores:

Houghton Lake Area:

Fun Time Party Store- 989-422-3820

Country Peddler- 989-366-5257

Dukes party store- 989-366-7321

Lakehouse Meat and Deli- 989-202-4254

Dollar Tree- 989-366-6894

Pop-a-top- 989-366-9909

Angelo’s party store- 989-202-4422

Four seasons party store- 989-422-5230

Packy’s Pets- 989-422-5484

Kronner’s Pharmacy- 989-366-7611

Walmart- Pharmacy only- 989-366-6533

Wilds True Value- 989-422-3215

Higgins lake Area:

Goodtimes Party Store- 989-821-9285

State Park Market- 989-821-5323

W. Higgins Lake Hardware- 989-821-6677

E. Higgins Lake Hardware- 989-821-6896

North Shore Hardware- 989-422-5300

Roscommon Area:

Town and Country- 989-821-6676

Bob’s Butcher shop- 989-281-1555

Pioneer Pharmacy- 989-275-5600

Village Hardware- 989-275-5554

Rite-Aid Roscommon- 989-275-5161

St. Helen Area:

Pioneer Pharmacy- 989-389-7252

Ace Hardware- 989-389-7288

2019 Millage Facts

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There have been quite a few questions regarding the wording of the millage in regards to the DDA. Here is our response.: 

RCTA has been supporting the Downtown Development Authority for quite some time, I am not exactly sure when the DDA started, but I am told that this happened sometime back in the 90’s, We are not the only agency affected by this, other agencies within the county participate as well. In a nutshell, I will explain how it works as I understand it to be. The downtown development authority offers grants to property owners to spruce up the downtown area properties to encourage business and residents to come to the downtown area. The DDA offers grants to property owners to invest into the properties thus making the property values go up. RCTA collects the original property tax that was imposed prior to any renovations and the DDA captures the remainder of the increase in that property value. Example: If a property was worth 50k prior to any work being done and the DDA offered a grant for 25k and the homeowner put in 25k, the property value is now worth and taxed at 100k, RCTA would receive the tax on the prior taxable value (50k) and the DDA captures the increase to go back into the DDA grant process. This is how I understand it to be.

The reason it is visible on the ballot this time and not prior? My understanding of this is due to the newly developed transparency laws that were put in place recently. The DDA captures a portion of the millage and taxpayers have a right to know about it. The DDA is not anything new, we have been a part of it for as far back as I have history. Last year, the total amount of the capture for was just over $3305.

I hope this answers any questions you may have had. Please feel free to reach out to me should you have any other questions.

 

Steven Dubois

Executive Director

Roscommon County Transportation Authority

989-366-5309

transit@rcta-transit.net