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Earlier this afternoon Treasury staff shared the following information as part of the 2018 amendments that the League supported to the state's Personal Property Tax reimbursement system.  A key component of last year's law change allows communities to seek corrections to their PPT reimbursement amounts when calculation or data errors...

The Michigan Municipal League has been asked to pass this along to our members, particularly our many rural community members. It's from the USDA. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11, 2019 – Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced that USDA and four of its partners are accepting applications...

The State of Michigan, through the Department of Technology, Management, and Budget (DTMB) is providing a grant opportunity for projects that exclusively extend broadband service into unserved areas in Michigan.  Applications for the Connecting Michigan Communities (CMIC) Grant are to be received through a competitive grant process that is technology [...]

From Left League CEO & Executive Director Dan Gilmartin, Irma Esparza Diggs, League President Melanie Piana, Congressman Dan Kildee and NLC CEO Clarence Anthony. (View more photos here) They're fighting for Michigan communities. They're fighting for all the nation's communities. They are fighting for more funding for infrastructure. They're networking...

Today, Chris Hackbarth, the Michigan Municipal League's director of state and federal affairs, had an opportunity to testify before the 100th Legislature's House Local Government and Municipal Finance Committee. We are encouraged that "Municipal Finance" has been added to the committee name this term. Hopefully it's an indicator that the message...

(View  more photos from the event here). About 40 members of all the legislative committees of the Michigan Municipal League gathered this morning (Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019) in Lansing to kick off the year. The League event was highly successful as members from the League’s various legislative policy committees heard...

Last week House Bill 4046 was introduced to amend the Michigan Zoning Enabling Act. This legislation is the same bill introduced last term (HB 4503). If passed, it would: Eliminate a local unit of government’s ability to regulate short-term rentals (defined in the bill as a rental of 28 days or...

We here at SaveMICity.org highly recommend that you check out a new interview with the Michigan Municipal League’s Dan Gilmartin and Westland Mayor William Wild. The 15-minute talk on “In the W with Mayor Wild” covers an array of city-related topics, including term limits, the craziness of Lame Duck late...

Following the Senate's release of their committee membership last week, the House released their committees late yesterday, signaling the real beginning for legislative activity in this new term.  Now that committees in both chambers have been finalized, consideration of new bills will likely commence in the coming weeks. The only...

One of the first pieces of legislation submitted this term is a re-introduction of the dark stores big box property valuation fix that the Municipal League has been advocating for in recent years.  Seeking to address the unfair situation resulting from a precedent-setting Michigan Tax Tribunal decision, the legislation introduced...