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.
- The Great Revenue Sharing Heist – There have been a lot of high profile robberies over the years. The Lufthansa robbery, D.B. Cooper highjacking, the Antwerp Diamond Caper…but these crimes look amateurish compared to the state of Michigan’s Great Revenue Sharing Heist. An article posted from the League’s March/April 2014 Review Magazine
- Home Rule in Michigan – Then & Now
- Long-Term Consequences: Why Attempts to Further Cap Property Taxes Would Cripple Michigan’s Future
Legislative Briefs
- 2022-2023 Core Legislative Principles
- 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