(View more photos here on flickr and have SaveMICity come to your community by emailing us at mbach@mml.org.) Six West Michigan cities teamed up with the Michigan Municipal League recently to discuss the state’s funding system for municipalities during a…
The state of Michigan has now diverted more than $8.1 billion in revenue sharing from Michigan municipalities, including cities, villages, townships and counties since 2002. This new figure adds in 2016 financial data and dates back to 2002. Through 2015 the…
As part of the saveMIcity initiative we wanted to make sure you are aware of the effort in the Michigan House to eliminate the state income tax. Let’s face it, nobody likes to pay taxes. But we do like the services…
The City of Romulus has 104 fewer employees than it did a decade ago. It has 17 fewer public safety officers and eight less full-time firefighters. It’s building and grounds program shifted from a full-time, in-house department to a seasonal,…
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The Michigan Municipal League is having a news conference Tuesday (Jan. 24, 2017) related to our saveMIcity work and Governor Rick Snyder's recent State of the State address. We will livestream the news conference and we encourage all League members,…
The Michigan Municipal League's Anthony Minghine will be in Lowell Thursday (Jan. 12) to discuss the state's broken system for funding Michigan's municipalities. This Save Michigan Cities event, which is free and open to the public, is 6-8 p.m. in…
The Michigan Municipal League's Anthony Minghine has been all over the state discussing Michigan's broken system for funding municipalities and last month he was in Westland. Just before the holiday break, Tony had a great conversation about the saveMicity work…
(View more photos here). The Michigan Municipal League’s saveMIcity initiative has been all over the state and we were in Adrian Monday meeting with area elected officials, the business community, residents and the media. Despite multiple inches of snow falling…
While most of the headlines and talk about Tuesday’s (Nov. 8, 2016) election results involved the Presidential race you may missed the fact that there were more than 300 ballot questions facing voters throughout the state. What’s even more impressive…