In 2011, the state of Michigan implemented major policy changes in its statutory revenue sharing program, through which it distributes funding to a subset of Michigan's 1,856 local governments. The new policy replaced formula-based funding with an incentive program that uses revenue sharing to...

In 2011, the state of Michigan implemented major policy changes in its statutory revenue sharing program, through which it distributes funding to a subset of Michigan's 1,856 local governments. The new policy replaced formula-based funding with an incentive program that uses revenue sharing to...

This report presents the opinions of Michigan's local government leaders regarding their trust in the federal, state, and other local governments, based on statewide surveys conducted in the Spring 2013 and Spring 2009 waves of the Michigan Public Policy Survey. The report also includes...

This report presents Michigan local government leaders' assessments of their jurisdictions' fiscal conditions in 2013 and the actions they are taking in response to ongoing and widespread fiscal challenges. The findings are based on responses from five statewide survey waves of the Michigan...

Property tax revenues are one of the most important sources of funding for local governments in Michigan, but jurisdictions' revenues are constrained in part because most have at least some properties that are exempt from taxes. This report presents Michigan local government leaders' opinions...

This report presents findings on the presence and use of formal financial planning and management policies in Michigan local jurisdictions, based on statewide surveys of local government leaders in the Spring 2014 wave of the Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS). The survey asked a series of...

This report presents Michigan local government leaders’ assessments of their jurisdictions’ fiscal conditions and the actions they are taking in response to ongoing and widespread fiscal challenges. The findings are based on responses from six statewide survey waves of the Michigan Public...

This report presents the opinions of Michigan local government leaders and officials from the state's county road agencies regarding the relationships between local governments and county road agencies, as well as local officials' ratings of road agency performance and related issues. The...

This report presents Michigan local government leaders' assessments on a range of issues regarding public employee unions in their jurisdictions. The findings are based on statewide surveys of local government leaders in the Spring 2011-2013 waves of the Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS)

This report presents the opinions of Michigan's local government leaders regarding concerns over state government preemption of local decision-making and preferred areas of shared and separate policy authority between local and state government. The findings in this report are based on statewide...