House Speaker-elect Matt Hall on Friday unveiled a significant plan to fix Michigan’s roads and bridges, calling for real, bipartisan action on the pressing issue during the Legislature’s lame duck period.| MI House Republicans
State revenue is up $3.5 billion after Friday's Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference. What's behind the numbers?| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
After the legislature rejected her proposed motor fuel tax increase, Governor Whitmer turned to bonding to provide a short-term revenue injection for road projects, but new ongoing revenues are still critical. Large state revenue surpluses would allow the state to eliminate the sales tax on motor fuel and replace it will a revenue-neutral increase in the motor fuel tax rate while drawing on the surpluses to mitigate budget holes inherent in the tax shift. We estimate such a shift could genera...| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
CRC has created a multifactorial state road funding index to compare road funding levels in each state. Using data from 2012-2021, Michigan ranks 30th nationally.| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
Michigan distributes state revenue sharing to local road agencies based on an obsolete formula not matched to needs.| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
In a Nutshell: Michigan’s counties, cities, villages, and townships are breathing a sigh of relief with the passage of next year’s state budget. In Fiscal Year 2025 (FY2025 runs October 2024-September 2025), revenue sharing payments – the sum of those obliged by the state constitution and those approved in the state budget – will increase […]| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
A novel approach to evaluating statewide pavement conditions ranks Michigan 40th.| Citizens Research Council of Michigan
