ELKTON — Officials from the Michigan Municipal League were in the area this week to brief village officials of a program aimed at fixing what it says is Michigan’s broken system for funding municipalities.
SaveMICity is an initiative started by the Michigan Municipal League (MML) to help communities understand and reform municipal finance at the state level.
Monica Galloway, MML member and ambassador of SaveMICity, said the MML is working in an effort to work with the state to talk about the broken financial structure. The group says the way the state has diverted dollars away from local services has cost Michigan’s cities, villages and townships over $8 billion since 2002.
The Huron Daily Tribune
by Seth Stapleton
July 13, 2019