Chelsea residents will not see a millage increase this year, but they will find increases when they receive their next sewer and water bill. Tuesday night, the City Council unanimously adopted a $3.9 million operating budget and set a millage rate of 13.1555 mills.
Two revenue-generating proposals were rejected by Ypsilanti voters May 8 and that has propelled two anti-tax candidates onto the Democratic ticket for the upcoming council elections, which are promising to be as contentious as any other Ypsilanti election cycle. The city is considering laying off seven firefighters as it crafts ...
Michigan's House and Senate fiscal agencies have come out with their revenue estimates for the 2012-2013 fiscal year — and the news isn't all good.
At its special budget meeting held Thursday, the Ypsilanti City Council discussed alternative budget reduction ideas and said tough decisions need to be made in the coming months following the May 8 election in which voters rejected the proposed income tax and Water Street debt retirement millage.
Although a 15.53 city operational millage won’t be set by the Saline City Council until next month, at this point it looks like there won’t be a tax increase for city residents - for this year, anyway. The City Council has held numerous budget sessions to try to close a ...
Chelsea residents won’t be seeing a millage increase this year, but they might see increases in their water and sewer bills if the City Council approves a proposed $3.9 million operating budget next month. At a work session Tuesday night on the proposed fiscal year 2012-2013 city budget, City Manager ...
Some 10 to 12 years ago, the City of Ypsilanti decided to embark on the Water Street Project. Specifically, the socialist commissars at City Hall grossly overstepped their Constitutional authority when they forced taxpaying, private property owners and small businesses to give up their property in favor of a “vision” ...
As the president of the Ann Arbor Firefighters, I am writing this missive on behalf of our members to share our concerns regarding the city of Ann Arbor’s decision to shut down the city’s tower truck in the face of city budget cuts. This truck company, operating out of the ...
A popular Pioneer High School teacher may no longer be paid for the work he does at a local teen center as the Ann Arbor Public Schools’ creative writing program feels the effects of budget cuts. Jeff Kass, a leader in the school’s creative writing community, is slated to be ...
The Ypsilanti Board of Education unanimously passed the district’s 2011-12 budget, reducing health care for all staff and changing some long-standing district transportation policies. The school board also approved borrowing $14 million from the State Aid Program in order to have adequate funds to get through the school year. That ...
Tuition and fees to attend the University of Michigan in fall 2011 will increase 6.7 percent for in-state undergraduate students and 4.9 percent for out-of-state students, under a budget the Board of Regents passed Thursday. The university will take a $47.5 million cut in funding from the state for the ...
Administrators in Ypsilanti Public Schools will need to find about $1 million more to cut from the 2011-12 budget by next week, officials revealed Monday. Chief Financial Officer David Houle said he wants to have the budget ready for review by the public by June 20, one week before the ...
For the sixth year in a row, Dexter Village residents will see the same millage rate on their tax bills. However, as has been the case the last few years, they will see an increase in their water and sewer bills, which will climb by 3 percent, while trash fees ...
Ann Arbor high school students will have the option to take a bus to school in the 2011-12 school year and about 8 fewer teaching positions will be cut than originally anticipated, according to the budget passed by the school board Wednesday.
Dealing with the 2011-12 budget has been a nerve-wracking experience for Ann Arbor school board trustees. From initial projections to proposals from the state to proposed budget cuts, there have rarely been any easy choices for trustees while discussing the budget, which is expected to be finalized Wednesday. The meeting ...
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