New Township Residents
Welcome to Georgetown!
Click here to visit our FAQs page!
The Township offers the following community services:
- Public Library
- GT Connections Senior Center (for folks 55 or better)
- The Senior Center also offers a soup and salad bar lunch that is open to the public! $7.00 gets you a trip to the soup and salad bar. Tuesday - Friday 11:30 am - 12:30 pm.
- Six Public Parks (2 of which have splashpads!) Plus 4 Ottawa County Parks.
- Monthly e-Newsletter (click to sign up!) & a Quarterly Mailed Newsletter
- We're partnered with the Jenison Historical Association Museum to promote local history. The Local History Room is open to the public on Wednesdays at the Library from 11:00 am - 1:00 pm.
Annual Community Events
- Memorial Day Events (hosted by Kenowa AMBUCS)
- 5K Run
- Parade
- Ceremonial Service at the Georgetown Cemetery
- Farmers' Market at the Library during summer
- Art in the Park (at Rosewood Park) hosted by the Grandville-Jenison Chamber of Commerce
- Saturday Slip N' Slide (at Rosewood Park) hosted by Neverthesame
- Fire Prevention Open House
- Fall Fest at the Library
- Tree Lighting and Holiday Market at the Library
Elected Officials
The Township is governed by a board of seven elected officials; one supervisor, one clerk, one treasurer, and four trustees.
Board Members serve on several committees, such as Finance Committee, Utilities Committee, and Services Committee.
The facilities and day-to-day management of the Township and its staff is performed by a superintendent hired by the Board.
Elections
Please visit our Elections page for detailed elections information. Here are some tips for new residents:
- Most often, when you update your driver's license address at the Secretary of State you are also updating your voter registration. You can check with us a couple weeks after you visit SOS to make sure your registration updated.
- If you were on the permanent absentee mail ballot list in your prior municipality, you will stay on it when you move to Georgetown.
- When you move to Georgetown and register to vote, you will be issued a new Voter Registration Card. You do not need this card to vote, but it does tell you your precinct location. When you go to vote, you only need your photo ID.
Utilities
Most utility services are privatized in Georgetown.
- The Township provides public water/sewer through the Public Works Department. Please call our office to set up your water/sewer account at 616-457-2340 or email us at contact@georgetown-mi.gov. You can also click here to fill out an online form to start water/sewer service.
- Water and water treatment services are purchased from the City of Wyoming. Wyoming sources its water from Lake Michigan.
- Sewer treatment services are purchased from the City of Grandville.
- You can sign up for ACH automatic payments on your water/sewer account by filling out this application here: https://georgetown.seamlessdocs.com/f/ACHform
- The following services are privatized. You can research the companies that provide service to your address on the internet and chose the company you want to go with:
- Garbage/Recycling
- Internet/Television/Phone
- Electricity (Consumer's Energy) - Consumer's also handles our streetlights! To report a streetlight that's out, please use the Consumer's Energy Map.
- Gas (DTE Energy)
Public Safety and Road Maintenance Services
Policing is provided by the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department.
Georgetown Township has its own Fire Department, which is largely staffed by paid-on-call firefighters, with four full-time staff members including Fire Chief Matt DeWitt.
Snow plowing and street repaving are provided by the Ottawa County Road Commission.
Tax Information
Like many municipalities, Georgetown has a summer and winter property tax.
- Summer taxes are available in July and are due by September 14.
- Winter taxes are available in December and are due by February 14.
- Both the summer and winter tax cover all 12 months of a calendar year, but are due on different dates because they pay for different things.
- Summer taxes are the larger bill and pay mostly for school/education taxes.
- Winter taxes pay mostly for County/Township taxes.
- Georgetown has one of the lowest municipal tax rates around at only $2.25 per $1,000 of taxable value.
- Unfortunately you cannot sign up to have your taxes be paid via ACH auto-pay.
- Property tax law is governed by the State of Michigan, and Michigan does not have a senior citizen tax exemption.