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Registration is open for the National League of Cities Congressional City Conference, taking place March 7th-10th. This year, the conference will be held virtually and features many sessions on local government issues, including Lead and Copper Rules, Local Transportation, Criminal Justice Reform and many more! In addition to the sessions [...]

Officials involved with the state’s redistricting process have asked the Michigan Municipal League to share the following message with our members. In short, they are asking to have someone speak about this process at your council and commission meetings virtually during the month of March. We know this redistricting process...

The Michigan Municipal League has been actively working to help our communities emerge from the financial hardships caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and there are two promising developments at the state and federal level on this effort. With the support of League member communities, these two developments would provide some...

The Michigan Department of Treasury recently published new guidance on new poverty exemption options. Under PA 253 of 2020, legislation that was completed during December's lame duck period, local governments have been given the option to extend additional relief opportunities to taxpayers that are eligible for the existing property tax poverty...

Following the issuance of President Biden’s memorandum that increased FEMA’s cost share to 100 percent federal, today, the Biden Administration clarified that FEMA will be “retroactively reimbursing states fully for the FEMA-eligible services – including masks, gloves, emergency feeding actions, sheltering at risk populations and mobilization of the National Guard [...]

Dan Gilmartin, Michigan Municipal League (MML) CEO and Executive Director, met with Michigan State University journalism students recently and covered an array of topics—from road funding to housing rehabilitation. The conversation resulted in numerous articles written by the Spartan Newsroom students that were subsequently picked up in media outlets across [...]

A new, independent study outlining how Michigan’s municipal finance system is fundamentally broken and must be fixed was presented today to the Michigan Senate Committee on Local Government. The study by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy explains that big solutions are needed to fix a big problem – the [...]

Governor Gretchen Whitmer delivers her 2021 State of the State Address on Jan. 27. Michigan Municipal League Board President William Wild, Mayor of Westland, issued a statement in response to tonight's 2021 State of the State "Fix the Damn Road Ahead" Address by Governor Whitmer. The League sent this statement...

There was a recent forum series in Crain's Detroit Business that focused on Governor Whitmer's State of the State address scheduled for tonight. The series was on the various needs throughout the state as our businesses, residents, and the economy in general attempt to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. The...

Today, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) has identified designations for certain critical workers to be exempted from the required quarantine period when exposed to COVID-19. View them here. These clarifications were sought by the Michigan Municipal League and secured in the passage of PA 339 of...