… 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 …
