… add a regional enhancement millage to this November’s ballot. Millages are taxes assessed on a home … the ballot. This type of millage has been available to the … million regional enhancement millage in fall 2016, and Kent County … the regional enhancement millage funds. Charter public schools, …
… was “asking voters to renew” a multi-million millage raises questions whether the district crossed … asking voters to renew a 6-year Non-Homestead Millage of 18 Mils.” The six-year millage passed last night and will raise about $3.7 million …
… Michigan in Northwest Detroit. The Mackinac Center’s analysts haven’t dug deeply into the RTA’s plans and assumptions surrounding its $4.6 billion millage request on November’s ballot. But the rhetoric from the RTA leadership in attendance was troubling — even before we look at the numbers. Longtime …
… school. The West Bloomfield school board voted Monday night to demolish Roosevelt Elementary School in Keego Harbor. The board also voted to seek a millage from local taxpayers to build another elementary school. In so doing, it rejected a $1.7 million offer to buy and renovate the century-old building. …
… School District may ask voters to approve a new millage in 2011 to pay for facility upgrades or energy … voters in 2001 rejected a $386 million school millage proposal, but approved a $68 million proposal … State Journal, "Lansing School District looks at millage," Feb. 19, 2010 FURTHER READING: Mackinac Center …
… officials say is a make-or-break millage renewal, according to The Holland … vote in May because she assumed the millage renewal would pass. When it lost … Our Schools campaign to pass the millage in August, The Sentinel reported. … "Community rallies to overturn historic millage veto," July 23, 2009 FURTHER READING: …
… of those elections proved fruitful for the districts as voters passed millage, bond and sinking fund requests. But nine districts were unsuccessful, … not help us at all related to the timelines." ~~~~~ See also: Local Millages Coverage Legislators Chip Away at Proposal A Property Tax Limits
DETROIT - Voters in Metro Detroit turned down several school millage requests Tuesday, while those in the Lansing area approved them, according to media … in St. Johns, Stockbridge, Portland, Ionia County and Bath all approved millage requests, while Charlotte voters turned down a request there, the Lansing …
… an effort to drum up support for an upcoming millage, Alcona Community Schools Superintendent Shawn … Alpena News ran its article with the headline: “Millage needs to pass for Alcona Schools” However, state … District is proposing a regional enhancement millage that would raise about $5.6 million for four districts. …
MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. — School millages fared poorly in voting across the state, as ballot proposals … Genessee County were exceptions, each passing two millages, MIRS reported. Voters said no to a 30-year, … Service Inc., “Voters Recall Local Officials, Local Millages Pass, School Proposals Fail,” Aug. 2, 2011 (Subscription …
… the Detroit Free Press. What followed was a millage renewal that failed. The public spoke, and it … Library officials will try another, smaller millage in November, but the Freep reports that if that … in it, and then continue to fund it whenever millage-renewal time comes up? Government employees serve …
… voters and their voice,” he said. Larson said if the voters had passed the millage in November, the school board wouldn’t come back three months later to … get ‘Yes,’” Larson said. Other schools have attempted to get rejected millages back before voters in a matter of months. In Eaton Rapids, 57 percent …
… officer" took down anti-school millage signs in front of a township … a Washtenaw County school millage request next Tuesday. When … confiscated a number of other anti-millage signs, but no signs supporting the millage. City Administrator Roger … bounds by removing anti-school millage signs," Oct. 20, 2009 FURTHER …
… against a proposal for a new, countywide school millage in Wayne County, according to media reports. School … President Lynda Scheel said that passing a regional millage would only allow the state to avoid making necessary … "Trenton: School board opposes countywide education millage," April 22, 2010 The Detroit News, "Wayne County …
… Genesee ISD suing Flint school district Millage sought to pay off overspending crisis … Fix Flint Schools,” Oct. 8, 2010 Millage Sought to Pay off Overspending Crisis … former Buena Vista district if the millage fails. “They’re looking for a way … need.” SOURCE: MLive, “November millage renewal sought in former Buena Vista …
… needed.’” Last year, 549 ongoing property tax millage levies had been approved by local voters, all … revenue to roads. They included 21 additional road tax millages approved by local voters just between 2015 and … local communities voted to approve 36 new school millages for an additional $1.5 billion in revenue.
… Vassar Public Schools held an event which explicitly advocated for a school millage request. A panel that featured a private citizen and a group of administrators … bond. Jones also notes that Vassar residents have a significantly higher millage rate than citizens in surrounding communities. They pay a total of 37.8 …
… News,“Group opposes bond question,” Jan. 30, 2014 FURTHER READING: Michigan Capitol Confidential,“School Districts Spend Tens of Thousands on Losing Millage Requests," July 23, 2013 Some Districts Behind on Technology, According to MDE DETROIT – More than 80 percent of Michigan districts have met the …
… antiquated regional transit system. Detroiters already pay the highest effective property taxes in the country, and the Regional Transit Authority millage would have raised taxes by $4.6 billion. Mackinac Center for Public Policy’s Vice President for Marketing and Communications surmised in a recent …
… district sent out a flier shortly before a bond millage that read, “Preserve Our Heritage. Fund Our Future.” … finance a public relations scheme in order to pass millages and bond proposals,” said Eric Doster, the general … school districts to say anything about local millage and bond questions," the MASA posted on their …
… Township have approved a new millage proposal to fund repairs and … 18-year, 1.3 mill sinking fund-a millage collected for a set amount … voters rejected earlier school millage and bond proposals beginning … asking for." Critics of the millage increase note the frequency … of Van Buren opposed the millage and bond increases because …
… for public policy prudence and humility with the defeat of the 20-year millage proposal to fund mass transit expansion in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb and Washtenaw … side of the road and with a two-year waiting period before any future millage could be placed in front of voters, Metro Detroit’s leaders should focus …
… double their existing public safety millage to maintain services. Financial data … an increase in its public safety millage from 1.00 to 1.95 mills for 10 years … township. Pittsfield Township’s millage is common among municipalities that … Public Policy, said public safety millages are like used car dealers who try …
… local roads, and those figures are counted here. But the resources that local governments generate to spend on their own roads from property tax millages are not included. Finding the historical records on state spending and comparing them with recent data was harder than it may seem. Things in Michigan …
… whether it was advisable to ask for a tax increase in view of the state’s economic downturn, and also discussed how a November vote might affect future millage requests, should the district decide to return to the voters within the next year, AnnArbor.com reported. SOURCES: AnnArbor.com, “Ann Arbor schools …
… ING, Mich. – About 90 percent of millages proposed statewide this summer passed, … an analysis by Bridge Magazine. Millages for transportation, seniors and public … numbers posted by Bridge. However, millages for schools were the least popular, … “Voters Sign Off on 90 Percent of Millage Requests,” Aug. 16, 2012 FURTHER …
A pitch mailed by the Kalamazoo Public Schools to a local nonprofit asking for help passing a millage hike on May 5 included the following: “For many years, the state has underfunded public education, and local school districts have needed to make significant budget cuts as a result.” The letter also …
… visitors to “Vote YES on senior millage renewal.” The Sand Road Senior … advocating for a government millage, on government property. … its Senior Citizens Service Millage, which expired in December. … funds generated from this millage are divided up between the … throughout the county.” Millages are fine. They raise money …
… local police and fire “enhancement” millages on the ballot. These public safety … to approve a general property tax millage increase. Or alternatively, ask voters to approve extra millages for those lowest priority services. … asking for extra police and fire millages. When you buy a car you expect it …
… were relieved in 1994 when Proposal A ended the constant stream of local millage elections. The result was lower property taxes and, at the same time, significant … Vander Veen bill doesn’t explicitly repeal any of Proposal A’s operating millage caps. Therefore, it doesn’t alert the public to its likely outcome. Technically, …
One thing voters did not get to decide in recent school millage elections was whether they wanted to pay higher wages for the construction projects that were approved in districts across the state. Yet that's what will happen because of the state's prevailing wage law, which mandates that union scale …
… Proposal A’s restrictions on new millage requests. According to a 2009 … expanding the use of sinking fund millages have been introduced, both by … type covered by Proposal A millage limitations. Three weeks … in debt for technology. "A millage for school security or technology … future debt. A sinking fund millage raises X amount each year …
… any communication to residents that mentions an upcoming property tax millage election within 60 days of the vote.” Gov. Snyder has yet to sign the … to say the district was “asking voters to renew” a multimillion-dollar millage. Saline High School posted a video on its website in 2011 that featured …
… traditionally favorable time for millage approvals, and more than 100,000 faculty, … voters would approve the millage by a 24 percent margin after … over an unrelated transit millage increase that was narrowly … property tax revenue. The millage had the support of some of … $150,000 in support of the millage and posted their names in …
ADRIAN, Mich. — Madison School District voters this month approved a millage extension to pay for a $3.6 million performing arts center, according to … The Telegram, with completion by fall of 2012. The district’s operating millage renewal also passed, by a margin of 256-42, The Telegram reported. SOURCE: …
… Education voted 6-0 against supporting a proposed new, countywide school millage, The (Southgate) News Herald reported. The Wayne County Regional Educational … (Southgate) News Herald, "Trenton: School board opposes countywide education millage," April 22, 2010 FURTHER READING: Michigan Education Digest, "Voters turn …
… have lost their driver's license for nonpayment. Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No" Senate Bill 574, Let charter schools get some ISD enhancement millage money: Passed 23 to 14 in the Senate To require revenue extracted by future regional enhancement property taxes that are levied by Intermediate School …
… however, a local preservation task force began lobbying for a 15-year millage to generate at least $20 million for county PDR purchases. The apparent … A slim majority of county commissioners has so far refused to put the millage on the ballot, citing significant unanswered questions about its economic …
… that the legislation suggested the prospect of a future Kalamazoo transit millage increase. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Margaret O’Brien, R-Portage, assures … authority than currently exists nor is the intent to raise the current millage. This legislation is in the same spirit as Governor Snyder's mission of …
The National Taxpayer's Union has just released a 2010 election guide called "The Taxpayer's Perspective" that lists every local millage election in the states by county. Each is given a "plus" or "minus" sign rating based on whether it "could lower taxes or control government" or "raise taxes or expand …
… within a regional ISD, a wide gap in millage funding exists. Washtenaw ISD, for … nearly 80 times more special education millage funding per eligible student ($12,835) … the 56 ISDs specifically prohibited millage funds from being used to provide … regions.[34] A series of other millages that ISDs can levy brought their …
… operations, Police and Fire Pension Plan, and longevity millages are subject to a limitation of 20.0 mills in … with Ecorse's Home Rule Charter. The rubbish millage is subject to a State limitation of 3.00 mills. All other millage rates have no limitation.
… vote margin Tuesday. The millage, which called for a 1.9 mill … just after midnight. The millage would have generated $37.7 … the city. By defeating the millage, the citizens saved $196 on … fighting mad.” The anti-millage group Troy Citizens United … a campaign to defeat the millage. They had a Web site and held …
… approach as follows: Cap the ISD special education millage. A nearly tenfold gap exists between the highest … floor. New dollars generated should top off local millage revenues based on the enrollment of disabled students.[‡‡] … information, see Kathryn Summers, “Special Education Millage” (Michigan Senate Fiscal Agency, June 8, 2021), …
… Percent More Spending Per Kid and One-Ninth the Average Health Co-Pay Ten Total Fires and $30K in Average Overtime Pittsfield Township to Vote on Millage for Core Services April Hartland Teachers to Share in Belt-Tightening Town Rescinds 'Unconstitutional' Tea Party Sign Ban School District Saves …
… School and Local Government Millage Limits The Constitution, … levied in unlimited amounts. Millage is called "operating" millage unless it is levied to repay … years at a time. The total millage, both allocated and extra-voted, … first 18 mills of school millage could be levied by local school …
… expenditures. Since school millage is both the largest source … be able to combine their millage requests into an "all or nothing" … entire school system if a millage request fails at the ballot. … districts to no more than two millage elections each year. This … asking the voters to approve a millage until they are finally worn …
… for excluding both. School Millage Rates The level of school millage rates is a critical assumption … assuming an average school millage rate of 22 in the current … model assumes that school millage rates grow 50% faster under … the effect of higher school millage rates, the entire model was …
… parcels with a split "Headlee" millage rollback. The pros and cons … another grows faster, the millage rate on the latter class alone … back. This will create two millage rates for each current millage authorization. Since "homestead" … of valuation methods and millage rate limits. See Table Two. …
… Assessment Ratio x Total Millage Rate. Each of these factors … property tax bill as the millage rate. Market value, called … assessment or SEV of $50,000. A millage rate of 57 (about the current … .50 x 57/1000 = $2,850.00. Millage Rates A mill is a rate of … In the equation above, a millage rate of 57 mills is expressed …
… Assessment Ratio x Total Millage Rate. Each of these factors … property tax bill as the millage rate. Market value, called … assessment or SEV of $50,000. A millage rate of 57 (about the current … .50 x 57/1000 = $2,850.00. Millage Rates A mill is a rate of … In the equation above, a millage rate of 57 mills is expressed …
… agreed to a merger. Taxpayers in Oceana will now have to pay the higher millage rate assessed in Mason-Lake. According to the Oceana County treasurer, the higher millage will cost Oceana County property owners an extra $1.02 million a year, …
… misleading voters about an August millage, which is promoted as a public … deceive citizens about the millage, and that the higher tax will … what’s going on with this millage. It’s just a shame,” Stahl … residents to vote yes on the millage while not using the words … lecture she gave about the millage proposal. She said the video …
… Downriver area, where the millage rate average is more than … Troy. In 1987, the average millage rate for the 17 Downriver … Downriver community has a millage rate lower than the statewide … townships also exceed the average millage rate in their category. The Melvindale millage rate (85.05 mills) actually …
… Tax Due = Taxable Value x Millage Rate = $50,000 x 0.018 = $900 … for city debt, while other millage rates are used to calculate … the authorized property tax millage must be reduced to a level … so this reduction in the millage rate is often referred to … increase the local operating millage beyond the maximum amount …
… voter-approved local road millage that took effect in 2017. … that levy a dedicated road millage. The Mackinac Center for Public … collected by 570 of those millages by looking at local government … The largest annual road millage levied by a local unit of … the city of Warren. A road millage in the city of Southfield …
… that impose two separate millage levies, when 59 of their GOP … allow for a differentiated millage - meaning one millage with different rates for various … line haul service at one millage rate, and one comprised of … response service) at another millage rate, but both under a single, …
… would roll back the average millage rate by a significant amount … require a reduction in average millage rate, as its special 1993 … However, the creation of split millage rates, and the possibility … promise any direct reduction in millage rates or the assessment ratio. … rollback factors to determine millage rates under both current law …
… districts which levy high school millage rates. As shown previously … cities typically have high millage rates, and would receive heavy … amounts on schools, with high millage rates and property values … values and close-to-average millage rates. Given the economic … but also tend to have lower millage rates. A third redistributive …
… according to a report in The Dexter Leader. The "regional enhancement millage" would continue for five years, with all tax dollars distributed to the … Under Michigan law, an intermediate district must put an enhancement millage on the ballot if it receives identical requests from school districts representing …
… advocating a “yes” vote on a millage question likely violates state … a three-year property tax millage that would cost the average … household for three years. The millage would give the department … assessment” rather than “millage.” “When we sent the flier … residents we printed the word millage in error,” Bishop said in …
… average school operating millage rates and SEV for each municipality, … Appendices II and IV. SEV and millage rates are assumed to grow … the reimbursement to the millage rate approved by the voters … is no incentive to raise millage rates further.[29] However, … disincentive to lowering millage rates below 1992 levels. The …
… expenses. So when current school millage authorizations are due to … received a 19.6292 operating millage authorization. Voters in Adrian … reductions” refers to potential millage rate rollbacks mandated by … school districts must cut millage rates by an amount sufficient … approve higher “just in case” millage rates in advance. Called “phantom …
… due to new construction, increase faster than the rate of inflation, the excess growth requires a proportionate reduction in the maximum authorized millage rate. This mechanism keeps the property tax bill for the entire taxing jurisdiction growing at about the "real" rate of growth in the district.[43 …
… due to new construction, increase faster than the rate of inflation, the excess growth requires a proportionate reduction in the maximum authorized millage rate. This mechanism keeps the property tax bill for the entire taxing jurisdiction growing at about the "real" rate of growth in the district.[13 …
… duties comes as the city has put a 1.9 millage increase for five years on the ballot that will be voted on Tuesday. The millage would generate $37.7 million over … But Szerlag said that even if the millage passes, he could layoff up to 90 … said. One Troy resident against the millage increase wonders why it took so long …
… Park residents approved a 1-mill millage that runs through 2020. Then on May … voters approved another 1.14 mill millage that runs through 2021. Oak Park … Average Overtime Local Police/Fire Millage Votes Show Local Politicians’ Bad Faith Pittsfield Township to Vote on Millage to Fund Core Services Commentary: …
… Policy Initiative, said the fees could be a “tax by another name” if the municipality already pays for police and fire services through an operating millage. LaFaive also noted, however, that such fees can reduce the overconsumption of said services.
… $275,206 on its May 2 enhancement millage victory, according to documents obtained … districts to receive the benefit of the millage beginning next school year, and local … governmental body, working to promote a millage result,” said Eric Larson, president … usually in a very biased way — any millage.”
… increase via a public safety millage, saying it has made signficant … 1.14 mills Public Safety Millage for 10 years. Voters approved a 1-mill Public Safety Millage last year, but the city now … values. The city says the new millage will cost homeowners on average … a critic of public safety millages. “There’s no such thing …
… rollback of property tax millage levels, made possible by increasing … from those rolled back local millage rates with money from the … certain types of local school millage increases. It introduced a … rollback of school operating millages have largely evaporated. … through large capital spending millage increases in off-cycle, low-turnout …
… jobs. The city has put a 1.9 millage increase for five years on … be voted on Tuesday. The millage would generate $37.7 million … Troy resident opposed to the millage. “People have had their overtime … resident who opposes the millage. “Everyone is cutting back, … Gosselin, R-Troy, who opposes the millage. ”Other towns will look for …
… in the district, and the millage rate is limited to the lesser … agricultural property, though this millage is subject to Headlee rollbacks. … pool.[44] ‘Hold-Harmless’ Millage An exception to this 18 mill … to levy a "hold-harmless" millage at one time or another since … been permitted to levy this millage above the amount that Michigan …
… the revenue generated by millage rates levied in 1991 or the … government could still increase millage rates, but there would at … provision that requires uniform millage rates on all classes of property … effect of allowing different millage rates combines with the millage rollback provisions of the …
… spearheaded groups fighting against millage hikes for schools, libraries, … said using public safety millages is often like trying to make … public safety ‘enhancement’ millage money goes into the same pot … end, these ‘public safety’ millages are about preserving those … was one of only a few major millages to be defeated. While the …
… Choice law because most local millage funds used to finance special … by refusing to spend local millage dollars on disabled students … inside the ISD that levied the millage. Take Traverse Bay Area ISD, … example. It says that no millage funds can be spent on a nonresident … $8,883 per student from its millage. When disabled children from …
… example assumes the higher millage rates, slower growth in value, … at 4.5% a year, and school millage rates increasing one mill, … $28,982. Although the school millage rate grows an extra half mill, … at 5.5% a year, and school millage rates increasing one mill, … $57,950. Although the school millage rate grows an extra half mill, …
… an evaluation of the local millages in the August primary. Its … How many times has that millage been before the voters? They … misplaced, however: targeted millages used to pay for core government … support for a fire or police millage than one for non-core functions. … likely to say "no" to extra millages to support municipal golf …
… According to Teachout, property millages are a reasonable method for … abated by passage of a 0.2 millage passed Aug. 7 in Wayne, Oakland … claimed it didn’t have for its millage campaign. The gamble paid … raise the $230 million the millage is projected to bring in over … Toledo property owners via a millage). Teachout accepts at face …
… get some but not all of their money from enrollment numbers, Van Beek told CapCon. Districts also raise money for school buildings through local millages. Enrollment numbers do not determine how much a district gets from those taxes. When asked about the statement that school boards may have to close …
… appropriate tax rate — or millage — must be determined. This … tax of 18 mills.[38] Local millage rates, or the number of mills … The various state and local millage rates are discussed beginning … Tax Due = Taxable Value x Millage Rate = $50,000 x 0.018 = $900 … for city debt, while other millage rates are used to calculate …
… to their heads," were donated to a committee formed to advocate for a millage increase—the day after the voters had approved the millage. "This is all a bit strange," concluded the editorial.
… line with revenue, the report said. Voters rejected a 2-mill enhancement millage request that would have required them to pay about $30 million in new tax … AnnArbor.com reported. SOURCE: AnnArbor.com, "Impact of countywide school millage failure: WISD leader says cuts to school districts are coming," Nov. 5, …
… Note that in Michigan, certain revenues, such as those from sinking fund millages, can be used only for various forms of capital spending — the construction … are, however, accounted for anyway, since the revenue from debt-service millages, which are used to pay back bondholders, are included in the local revenues …
… state data and records indicates the number of communities imposing road millages is more than 700. The amount of money raised locally and spent locally … each year. In Oakland County, for example, 15 municipalities impose road millages on property owners. In Wayne County, another 15 municipalities collect …
… other), resulting in two separate millage rates; and In 1993, allow property … array of property tax rates; with two millage rates – one for residential and agricultural … other property – for each current millage rate. In most cases, the rate for … constitutional provisions, such as the millage limits in Article IX Section 6. Finally, …
… professor excluded billions of dollars in tax revenue that go to intermediate school districts and funding from the federal government and local school millages. Overall school funding, when adjusted for inflation, increased 22 percent between 1995 and 2011, according to Van Beek’s research.
… administrators at the Detroit Institute of Arts received in 2012. That was the same year voters in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties approved a 10-year millage for the DIA worth $23 million. The DIA has also resisted suggestions that it sell just a single painting that would have provided enough cash to ensure …
… is asking voters “to approve” the millage and states the tax increase would … mailings before the public safety millage was approved last fall. He called … “Using phrases like, ‘Why do we need a millage increase?’ and the tax hike will … coffee per week’ and passing the millage ‘can mean the difference between …
… publicized a number of flaws in the RTA’s plan, including unrealistic assumptions regarding state and federal funding levels. On Election Day, its millage ballot proposal was narrowly defeated thanks to active opposition by grassroots community organizers who were massively outspent by pro-RTA corporate …
