OTTAWA COUNTY, MI - A West Michigan township seeking to buy a shuttered Holland Coast Guard Station will get $600,000 in state funds to help the effort along.

The dollars were part of the state government’s over $80 billion state budget approved on Friday, Oct. 3 and signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday, Oct. 7.

The funds will go to Park Township in Ottawa County, which had a population of 18,625 as of the 2020 Census .

The township will use the funds to convert the old U.S. Coast Guard Station in Holland, 2388 Ottawa Beach Road, into a new base facility for the fire department’s water rescue operations.

The $600,000 earmark request to help the township purchase the facility near Holland State Park was first pitched in April by state Rep. Nancy DeBoer, R-Holland.

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