The Michigan Association of Counties

Time to register for 2020 Michigan Counties Legislative Conference

The 2020 Michigan Counties Legislative Conference will feature a variety of speakers and events to enhance county officials’ learning and leadership skills. This year’s conference runs Wednesday through Friday, April 15-17, at the Lansing Center and Downtown Radisson Hotel. …

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Revenue sharing increase highlights Gov. Whitmer’s FY21 budget

Michigan counties would see a $5.7 million boost to state revenue sharing payments under spending plans released today by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for fiscal year 2021. In her second budget plan, Whitmer advises the Legislature to appropriate $232.2 million in statutory revenue sharing for counties, a roughly 2.5 percent increase from FY20 levels …

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Ensuring proper trial court funding, reversing diversions of local tax revenue among key goals for counties in 2020

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MAC joins coalition against bill that usurps local control

MAC has joined with six other organizations representing local governments, environmental causes and schools to urge defeat of a bill that guts local oversight over the location and operations of sand and gravel mining in Michigan. …

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Year-end episode of Podcast 83 goes over budget supplementals, 4-year terms, road commission mergers and more

MAC’s Governmental Affairs team reviews the restoration of key county funds via budget supplementals, the prospects for 4-year terms for county commissioners and more in this year-ending episode of Podcast 83. …

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Scenes from the 2019 Michigan Counties Annual Conference

More than 400 county officials, speakers and others gathered at the Grand Traverse Resort Aug. 18-20 for the 2019 Annual Conference …

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Welcome to MAC (Michigan Association of Counties)
Founded on Feb. 1, 1898, MAC is the only statewide organization dedicated to the representation of all county commissioners in Michigan. MAC is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that advances education, communication and cooperation among county government officials in Michigan. MAC is the counties’ voice at the state and federal level, providing legislative support on key issues affecting counties.