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The County Road Association of Michigan will be hosting a “Road Funding 101” seminar in Mt. Pleasant on Tuesday, December 8, 2015, from 12 – 4 pm. The half-day session will cover the basics on Michigan road revenues, the Michigan Transportation Fund and formula, and Act 51 reporting. For more [...]

Today, the full Senate passed out SB 394 (adopted S-2 version: SB 394 S-2), a bill to fold townships into the mix of those local communities who qualify for the Housing Law, clarifies that inspection programs are optional at the local level, and states a rental inspection fee cannot be [...]

This was a big week for SB 556, a bill to eliminate the sunset of the Commercial Rehabilitation Act (set to sunset at the end of this year). On Wednesday, the bill was amended on the Senate floor to extend the sunset of the act to 2020 (instead of an [...]

Late last night the Michigan Legislature narrowly cobbled together the necessary votes to send a road funding package to the Governor Snyder’s desk for signature. Over the past two-plus years the Michigan Municipal League has consistently called for a long-term sustainable solution that relies heavily on a significant amount of [...]

The United States House of Representatives just took some significant action on critical issues which had been looming. They passed legislation which suspends the debt ceiling until March of 2017 and lifts budget caps set by sequestration by $80 billion through September 2017. That increase will be split evenly between [...]

Most Michigan Municipal League member cities have received Personal Property Tax (PPT) distribution checks in the mail in the past week. These reimbursement checks are the first amounts cities are receiving for operating mills under the PPT reform voters approved in a statewide referendum in August of 2014 and are being distributed [...]

As the conversation around Downtown Development Authority/Tax Increment Financing reforms and lack of reporting continues this legislative session, the MML in conjunction with the MEDC and Michigan Downtown Association has create an informational piece reminding DDAs (the TIF tool that sees the most scrutiny) of the reporting requirements they should [...]

Here is a new Michigan Municipal League media statement issued today regarding efforts to fix Michigan’s infrastructure: Michigan Municipal League Urges Legislature to Pass a Long-Term Sustainable Roads Solution The following statement is from Dan Gilmartin, executive director and CEO of the Michigan Municipal League. Gilmartin is commenting on the [...]

A deal to increase the federal debt limit and set some federal budget figures has been struck by Congress and the President, according to many sources out of Washington DC. The deal would raise the debt ceiling through March 2017 and would lift sequestration caps in the budget for fiscal [...]

This week, the Senate Economic Development committee voted out SB 556, a bill to eliminate the sunset of the Commercial Rehabilitation Act.  Testimony was given last week on the importance of this tool for our communities and economic development now and in the future. SB 556 now moves onto the full [...]