EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT





DATE: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Feb. 13, 2013



EVENT: “How We Fund Local Government—Michigan’s Local Leaders See Need for Reform”



In a free, public event, Debra Horner and Tom Ivacko of the University of Michigan’s Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy at the Ford School of Public Policy, will present findings from the Michigan Public Policy Survey on the views of Michigan’s local government leaders regarding their jurisdictions’ fiscal health and service delivery in the aftermath of the Great Recession.

Launched in 2009 and conducted twice per year, the MPPS program surveys every county, city, township and village in Michigan. Findings in this presentation include responses from the leaders of 72 percent of these local jurisdictions. It includes information on fiscal health, leaders’ satisfaction with services still delivered today, and their views on whether they can continue providing these services in the future based on the state’s current system of funding local government.

PLACE: Christman/MML Building, First Floor, 208 North Capitol Ave., Lansing, Mich.



SPONSORS: Wolverine Caucus, U-M Office of Government Relations and U-M Alumni Association



INFORMATION: Veronica Wilkerson Johnson, (517) 372-7801, veronicj@umich.edu