CapCon 2024 Program

Advocating For Your Community

Whether you’re in Lansing for CapCon, or in your community, we strongly encourage our members to visit with their state lawmakers. You might see them at our Legislative Breakfast Wednesday morning, or at a community meeting. You may meet with them directly in their offices, or maybe you’ll see them at the city or village hall. When talking with them, be sure to mention these three issues that dramatically impact your community and every community in Michigan. 1. Revenue Sharing Trust Fund: Secure Local Resources In November of 2023, the House of Representatives took action on the Revenue Sharing Trust Fund legislation, and by a vote of 106-4, successfully passed House Bill 4274 and 4275. These bills would dedicate 8% of the 4% sales tax and place those funds in a trust fund specifically for statutory revenue sharing. This legislation is the League’s top priority and would go a long way to preserving resources that are currently being used to fund revenue sharing. Ask your Senator to support the creation of a Revenue Sharing Trust Fund to protect local resources, and to pass House Bills 4274 and 4275 sponsored by Representative Amos O’Neal (D-Saginaw) and Representative Mark Tisdel (R-Rochester Hills) this spring. 2. Disabled Veterans Property Tax Exemption: Restore Local Resources In 2013, the state legislature passed legislation that gave a property tax credit to 100% disabled veterans and required locals to shoulder the cost burden. At that time, it was estimated to have a collective impact on local budgets of just over $9M. This action by the state to pass this cost onto local units of government has now grown to Here are key areas to discuss with legislators:

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