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January
This month’s cover story: What your township attorney wants you to know
Additional articles include:
- Budgeting and planning reminders and updates for 2022 (Feature)
- Personal property tax exemption, candidate affidavit of identity updated and more (Inside Lansing)
- Township employees, election workers FICA and unemployment insurance (Financial Forum)
- Surety bond options (Hello, MTA …?)
February
This month’s cover story: Township use of ARPA funds broadened, simplified
Additional articles include:
- Chaplain program serves township public safety personnel, greater community (Feature)
- 2021 public acts and vetoed bills (Inside Lansing)
- Budget requirements and considerations (Financial Forum)
- Township board meetings, remote meetings and COVID precautions (Hello, MTA … ?)
March
This month’s cover story: Funding capital improvements
Additional articles include:
- Using aerial imagery to improve township services (Feature)
- FY 2022-23 budget recommendation presented (Inside Lansing)
- ARPA reporting (Financial Forum)
- How your township can—and can’t—use ARPA funds (Hello, MTA … ?)
April - May
This month’s cover story: Renewable energy on the horizon
Additional articles include:
- Partnership is the new leadership (Feature)
- Historic supplemental bill includes hold harmless funding for townships (Inside Lansing)
- What types of expenditures are authorized for townships? (Financial Forum)
- Capital improvements using ARPA funds (Feature)
June
This month’s cover story: Bill Deater leads MTA in 2022
Additional articles include:
- Spring Lake Township named ‘Township of Excellence’ for unprecedented third time (Feature)
- 22-23 MTA legislative policy platform (Inside Lansing)
- Meet MTA’s newly elected Board of Directors
- Inflation and property tax revenues, Proposal A (Financial Forum)
- The impact of redistricting on township elections (Feature)
July
This month’s cover story: Bringing order to the disorder
Additional articles include:
- Projects in Michigan townships garner historic preservation honors (Feature)
- Ballot proof changes now in effect, funding options available for emergency authorities (Inside Lansing)
- July and December board of review (Hello, MTA … ?)
- Defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans (Financial Forum)
AUGUST
This month’s cover story: Decoding employee classification and compensation
Additional articles include:
- Protecting people: New firefighter training rules impact township fire departments (Feature)
- State FY 2022-23 budget includes community investments (Inside Lansing)
- Tax collecting, disbursements (Hello, MTA…?)
- Authorization to sign checks, accounts payable process (Financial Forum)
September
This month’s cover story: Show me the money, grant guidelines for townships
Additional articles include:
- New state office focuses on rural development (Feature)
- Inside the Form L-4029 (Hello, MTA…?)
- Budgeting for your township (Financial Forum)
october
This month’s cover story:
Inside Election 2022
Additional articles include:
- Inspiring tomorrow’s local leaders (Feature)
- Taking and administering the oath of office (Hello, MTA…?)
- Fund accounting (Financial Forum)
November
This month’s cover story:
Local efforts for climate resiliency
Additional articles include:
- Welcoming new officials following the midterm election (Hello, MTA…?)
- MTA’s new website has a new look (Feature)
- Fund accounting (Financial Forum)
- Legislation enacting election changes signed into law (Inside Lansing)
- ‘Exclusionary rule’ does not apply to evidence in civil ordinance enforcement actions (Legal Review)
December
This month’s cover story:
Planning for the unimaginable
Additional articles include:
- American Rescue Plan Act updates (Hello, MTA…?)
- Inside the state’s assessment roll audit (Feature)
- Why auditors will review board meeting minutes (Financial Forum)
- Inside the lame-duck legislation session (Inside Lansing)