Livonia Michigan Public Safety Millage Vote
The Livonia City Council's Finance, Budget and Technology Committee met April 25 to receive input and discuss a potential 1.7 mill tax proposal for Public Safety. Presentations were made by Mayor Jack E. Kirksey and Finance Director Mike Slater, with comments offered by Council members, numerous public safety providers and officials, business owners and residents. Follow this link to view the full article on this topic LIVONIA MICHIGAN PUBLIC SAFETY VOTE.
In our local area we have seen other cities just go through the same type of voting that Livonia may be doing here in the near future. It seems some cities voted no problem to raise taxes to protect their services while others voted it down. Both sides make a very strong argument on why they feel how they do. On one side some want to protect their way of life and don't mind paying a few hundred dollars more to do that. On the other side some say they don't have it and can't afford to pay what they call high salaries and benefit packages of the public sector. This is going to be very interesting for all Livonia residents. I may go to a few city meetings before I can get enough info to form a good solid opinion on what I feel we should do.
Livonia Michigan residents please do a little homework on this topic so you will be fully aware of what is happening and if needed can vote accordingly
Here are a few things brought to our attention as what is causing some of this:
- Property tax bill decreases ($1.4 million).
- The elimination of a one-time tax collection administration fee ($920,000) and elimination of a one-time cable fund transfer ($920,000).
- Decreased State Revenue Sharing ($532,000).
- Costs of modest increases in already-settled contracts ($117,000).
- Rising employee health insurance costs ($535,000).
- Increased employee defined benefit pension expense ($830,000).
- Increased retiree medical costs ($900,000).
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