A revamped Medicaid Expansion bill, HB 4714, sponsored by Rep. Matt Lori (R-St. Joseph County), passed from the House with strong bipartisan support, 76 to 31, and is now in the Senate Government Operations Committee. HB 4714 would save Michigan taxpayers about $200...
 Gov. Snyder presented his Fiscal Year 2014 budget today with a guaranteed funding increase for cities, villages, and townships (CVTs), while again disproportionately cutting revenue sharing to county government. "It’s disappointing that the state continues to punish...
HB 6022, 6024, 6025, 6026, and SB 1065-1071 Personal Property Tax (PPT) On the last day of the lame duck session, Lt. Governor Calley and MAC reached an agreement on the PPT package of bills that would tie bar the entire PPT repeal to the passage of the use tax vote...
PPT is headed to the House floor for a vote this morning, with a new proposal from house republicans that would exempt all new personal property from January 1, 2013, on, with no reimbursement. This would mean a virtual phase-out, with NO reimbursement to local...
Deena Bosworth, Legislative Coordinator for MAC, talks to Michael Patrick Shiels about Personal Property Tax. http://soundcloud.com/mibigshow/mbs-h3s4-mark-fisk-cont-deena
 Your involvement is needed to help slow down the movement of the newest PPT proposal. See below for ways to get involved and how to figure out the impact this latest plan will have on your county. Lt. Governor Calley unveiled his latest personal property tax reform...
The MAC Education and Training Program has been designed to provide tools and information that facilitate creative, new, and innovative approaches from counties to prosper in the new and changing structure of county government. With easy to follow online courses, MAC...
MAC was invited to a special briefing in the Lt. Governor's office to discuss his new plan for PPT Replacement. MAC's position on PPT Repeal has remained the same, we will support the repeal if we get full reimbursement through a guaranteed revenue source. Lt....
Veterans Day is a time to celebrate and honor the service of all U.S. military veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good. Today, we would like to take a moment to thank all of our members, elected and...
Hello MAC Members and followers, and welcome to the new blog of the Michigan Association of Counties. Today felt like an appropriate day to launch our new blog seeing as it is such a crucial day to our nation. Government, from local up to federal, has such an impact...