MML Review Magazine Winter 2025

The official magazine of the

Winter 2025

Volume 98, Number 1

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On the Cover Mayor Don Gerrie served 12 years on the Sault Ste. Marie city commission before being elected mayor in 2019.

07 Council Rules of Procedure: What Is the Law and What is Local Choice? By Kim Cekola 10 Local Government Ethics By Michael McGee 13 Top 10 Legal Things that Make a Municipality Different from a Business By Roger Bird and Eric Scheske 14 The Open Meetings Act and Local Boards and Commissions By Andrea M. Pike and Carlito H. Young 18 MI Water Navigator Celebrates Three Years, Transitions to MI Funding Hub By Grace Carey 20 New League President Has Experience at the City, State, and Federal Levels By Liz Foley 26 Incorporation from a Village to a City By Don Beavers

05 Executive Director 29 Legal Spotlight 30 Northern Field Report 34 Municipal Finance 37 Municipal Q&A 38 Membership

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