Just days before Mark Noss began sending hefty (and secret) payments to Steven Ingersoll in April 2014, something really crappy happened.
Allegedly.
According to a complaint filed April 12, 2021, in Grand Traverse County Circuit Court, a sewage back-up occurred in 2014, followed by a second in 2018, at 328 Munson Avenue, a property owned by Noss and his wife that houses Full Spectrum Eyecare.
Although flush with cash after signing a contract in March 2014 to manage the Grand Traverse Academy, a charter school that paid him $850,000 in a management fee the first full year (ending June 30, 2015), Noss is claiming nearly $8,000 in "lost income".
In the complaint, Noss alleges the 2014 back-up occurred due to a "defect" in the city's sewage disposal system. Noss maintains that another back-up occurred around May 24, 2018 as a result of an April 23, 2018 incident the city "failed to repair, correct or remedy".
The City of Traverse City denied previous claims made by Noss to recover nearly $50,000 in damages, loss and attorney fees (doesn't this dude have insurance?), spurring the civil lawsuit.
Traverse City has 21 days to respond.
