The League’s advocacy team spends a great deal of time researching legislative issues of importance to municipalities. Through their research, they develop issue papers and legislative briefs that provide the framework for the League’s efforts to represent municipalities’ best interests at the state and federal level.

Issue Papers

• • 2014 Revenue Sharing Factsheet – The revenue sharing distribution formula was designed to appropriately compensate the communities that support us all and the higher costs they bear. Therefore, when that formula is underfunded, Michigan’s entire economy suffers.
  • Home Rule in Michigan – Then & Now

Legislative Briefs

• Economic Development: Why Abatements and Tax Increment Financing Create Jobs at the Local Level
• Current Practices and Policy Recommendations Concerning Public Act 198 Industrial Facilities Tax Abatements (Land Policy Institute, Michigan State University – October, 2007)
• Economic Development Downtown Package
• Commerce Centers for MI Revitalization: Legislative Solutions
• Commerce Centers for MI Revitalization: Background Paper
• Commercial Rehabilitation Act
• Liquor Licenses for Redevelopment
• Economic Tools for Michigan’s Developed Communities
• Cable Franchising & PA 480 of 2006