… 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 …
