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Governor Whitmer signed Executive Order 2020-77 to extend Michigan’s Stay Home, Stay Safe order to May 28. The governor’s order will allow manufacturing workers, including those at Michigan’s Big 3 auto companies, to resume work on Monday, May 11 as part of her MI Safe Start Plan. Under Executive Order [...]

During the Michigan Municipal League’s recent webinar Re-opening Your Community: What’s the Best Strategy? an attendee asked if the League could compile a best practices document. The idea was to collect and share policies being planned or implemented for municipal buildings, parks, downtowns, employee policies, etc. We have already begun [...]

For the third time since the Covid-19 state of emergency was declared by the Governor, she has issued an Executive Order allowing local boards, commissions, committees, subcommittees, authorities, councils and nonprofit boards to use telephone or video conferencing methods to continue meeting and conducting business while ensuring the public has...

The Michigan Municipal League is encouraging all community managers, mayors and village presidents to do the most recent edition of the Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS) run by University of Michigan’s Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP). This survey is on financial impacts of COVID-19 on local governments [...]

EPA is working to improve the environment and public health conditions of low-income and minority communities through our daily efforts to ensure all Americans have clean air, safe water, and access to information to make decisions to protect personal and public health. As part of these efforts, EPA has re-opened [...]

TODAY, Tuesday, May 5 at 4:30pm Please join Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity Director Jeff Donofrio as they provide an update on the Administration’s COVID-19 emergency response. TO JOIN THE WEBINAR: Click on this link. For those of you new to Microsoft Teams conference, [...]

A number of local officials had the opportunity to meet virtually with State Senator Jim Stamas (R-Midland) on Monday, May 4, to hear an update on the state budget process and the Legislature’s understanding of the state revenue picture at this time. The senator also wanted to hear first-hand about [...]

MDOT has indicated that a significant portion of rural and non-rural federal aid is not obligated (nor awarded) at this point, which is causing concern as to whether the State of Michigan will obligate/award all of its federal funds this year. We need your input on how the “Stay Home,...

MDOT has provided preliminary revenue adjustments for the current and next two fiscal years for cities and villages. In the current fiscal year preliminary projects show a $51.2M (8.2%) decrease in anticipated revenue and roughly a 5% decrease in both FY 21 ($31.8M) and FY 22 ($28.1M). The following link...

The Michigan State Police, Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division (MSP EMHSD) will be hosting virtual FEMA public assistance applicant briefings at the State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC). Regional briefings start the week of 5/4/2020. Review the linked briefing announcement and map to identify which regional briefing to attend. Eligible [...]