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Michigan’s budget crisis is closer to a resolution this morning.
The state House and Senate each unanimously passed legislation Tuesday that would undo some of the cuts made by Governor Gretchen Whitmer in September, and roll back some of the transfers made by the State Administrative Board.
Funding will be restored for sheriff’s department road patrols, isolated school districts, rural hospitals, autism programs, county jails, and other programs.
The Pure Michigan tourism campaign was not included.
Whitmer has promised to sign the bill, and make no changes.
At last night’s Houghton County Board meeting, Commissioner Glenn Anderson mentioned another omission from the budget bill…
The nearly million-dollar bill is for pension contributions from the now-defunct Western Upper Peninsula Manpower Consortium.
Gogebic County is on the hook for it, because it handled the finances on behalf of all the counties in the consortium. Gogebic is suing the other Western U.P. counties for their shares of the liability.
The state has already stepped in to pay for all of the other similar situations in the state.
Whitmer used the Ad Board to remove money from the current budget that would have resolved ours.
