{"id":5828,"date":"2018-02-08T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.mml.org\/wp\/inside208\/?p=5828"},"modified":"2018-02-08T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T18:16:00","slug":"governors-infrastructure-environment-week-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2018\/02\/08\/governors-infrastructure-environment-week-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor&#8217;s Infrastructure &amp; Environment Week Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Governor Snyder\u00a0followed up his January State of the State\u00a0address\u00a0with daily, detailed announcements on each of the proposals from his speech.<\/p>\n<p>Each day featured one of the Governor&#8217;s priority areas of infrastructure and the environment.\u00a0 See the attached documents to learn more about what was announced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0topic was<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/snyder\/0,4668,7-277-57577-458706--,00.html\">Ubiquitous Broadband Access and Adoption<\/a>.\u00a0 You can read more about this here:\u00a0<a href=\"\/inside208\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/02\/Monday.Broadband-1.pdf\" rel=\"\">Monday.Broadband<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday&#8217;s\u00a0<\/strong>topic was<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/snyder\/0,4668,7-277-57577-458760--,00.html\">Renewing our Environment<\/a>.\u00a0 This proposal was announced as a replacement for the former Clean MI Initiative bonds and would replace the former bond proceeds with an increase in solid waste tipping fees, up to $4.75\/ton.\u00a0 More information regarding this initiative can be found here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/inside208\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/02\/Renew-Michigans-Environment.pdf\" rel=\"\">Renew Michigan&#8217;s Environment<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/inside208\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/02\/Tuesday.Renew_.Michigans.Environment_-1.pdf\" rel=\"\">Tuesday.Renew.Michigans.Environment_<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/inside208\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/02\/CMI_Bond_OneSheeter-2.pdf\" rel=\"\">CMI_Bond_OneSheeter<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/inside208\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/02\/3000-Sites-to-be-Addressed-1-31-18-2.pdf\" rel=\"\">3000 Sites to be Addressed 1 31 18<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday<\/strong>\u00a0covered<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/snyder\/0,4668,7-277-57577-458916--,00.html\">Protecting our Waterways<\/a>,\u00a0along with this web site to help bolster this initiative (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.BlockAsianCarp.org\">www.BlockAsianCarp.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0topic was<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/snyder\/0,4668,7-277-57577-459052--,00.html\">Rebuilding Michigan\u2019s Water Infrastructure<\/a>.\u00a0 This proposal is centered around a $5\/resident user fee on public water systems.\u00a0 Find out more details about this here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/inside208\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/02\/Thursday.Water_.Infrastructure-1.pdf\" rel=\"\">Thursday.Water.Infrastructure<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/inside208\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/02\/Rebuild-MI-Water-Infrastructure-1-2.pdf\" rel=\"\">Rebuild MI Water Infrastructure<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/inside208\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/02\/CommunityWaterSupplies_FINAL.pdf\" rel=\"\">CommunityWaterSupplies_FINAL<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday <\/strong>covered\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/snyder\/0,4668,7-277-57577-459277--,00.html\">Protecting our Environment and Achieving our Recycling Rate Goals<\/a>. 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