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Introduced in the Senate on January 24, 2007, to authorize local governments to create "water resource improvement tax increment financing authorities" with the purpose of using "captured" tax revenues to pay for broadly defined "water resource improvement" projects that aid in "water resource improvement" and economic growth, including streets, plazas, pedestrian malls, and any improvements to these including street furniture and beautification, parks, parking facilities, recreational facilities, right of way acquisitions, structures, waterways, bridges, lakes, ponds, canals, utility lines or pipes, sewer systems, water systems, storm water systems, or buildings that aid. A municipality could condemn and take property under its eminent domain powers and give the property to the authority. A municipality could also add special assessments to property tax bills to pay for these projects, and could create a tax increment finance authority (TIFA) to "capture" the increment of extra local property tax revenue that would result from the economic growth which might be generated by the "water resource" improvements. The “captured” tax revenue would be used to pay off the debt incurred by borrowing to provide these new facilities

The vote was 36 in favor, 0 opposed and 2 not voting

(Senate Roll Call 16 at Senate Journal 20)

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Please, clean and plentiful for the future.

look up "useful idiot" and see if it applies to you. This is just another tax grab to get OUR MONEY INTO THEIR POCKETS. As long as we have this many sheeple, Michigan is doomed to be a third world dictatorship. Just give all your money to the imperial state government, after all they are smarter than you and will spend it better.

These greedy socialists are again terming another land grab as a 'water' act! For those of you who suffer from publc educaton, let me translate this: it says it's giving legal permission to muncpalities to take your land to put in concrete benches, statuary, decorative fountains, etc and then increase YOUR property tax to pay for it!! Leave my property alone!! And my property taxes, too. Only a dyed-in-the-wool apartment-dwelling socialist would see this as a positive idea(because he's jealous of your industry and financial responsibility in actually ownng the property and he isnt!). You buy the cow, the government steals the cow and give him the milk cheap.

This State is fast becoming the United Socialistic State of Michigan!!!!

you really think they're doing this for the right reasons.....think again. there goes another excuse to be in control of our land and our money

with the clean the water money? Make parking lots?

2007 Senate Bill 47 (Authorize local "water resource improvement" TIFAs ) (Senate Roll Call 16) Passed in the Senate (36 to 0) on March 7, 2007. [History, Amendments & Comments] The vote was 36 in favor, 0 opposed, and 2 not voting (Senate Roll Call 16 at Senate Journal 20) [Comment on this vote | View others' comments] Vote Support Oppose Not Voting Undecided Legislators (Republican) 100% 0% 0% 21 total votes Legislators (Democrat) 88% 0% 11% 17 total votes What do you think? Support Oppose Undecided (logon required) The following legislators supported 2007 Senate Bill 47 (Authorize local "water resource improvement" TIFAs ): Allen (R) Anderson (D) Basham (D) Birkholz (R) Bishop (R) Brown (R) Cassis (R) Cherry (D) Clark-Coleman (D) Clarke (D) Cropsey (R) Garcia (R) George (R) Gilbert (R) Gleason (D) Hardiman (R) Hunter (D) Jacobs (D) Jansen (R) Jelinek (R) Kahn (R) Kuipers (R) McManus (R) Olshove (D) Pappageorge (R) Patterson (R) Prusi (D) Richardville (R) Sanborn (R) Schauer (D) Scott (D) Stamas (R) Switalski (D) Thomas (D) Van Woerkom (R) Whitmer (D) The following legislators opposed 2007 Senate Bill 47 (Authorize local "water resource improvement" TIFAs ): The following legislators did not vote on 2007 Senate Bill 47 (Authorize local "water resource improvement" TIFAs ): Barcia (D) Brater (D)

Is building streets that absorb heat and creating heat islands really helping water?

HMMM?

then detroit wouldn't have been able to pollute it in the first place.

Cutting All The Taxes help tourism??? Why do these mental midgets think that you can get out of a hole by digging it deeper? Less Government + Less Taxes = More Prosperity

Dear Sir: I am writing to express my extreme displeasure at your vote to implement this bill-another attempt at encouraging 'takings' of private property. I thought the Michigan Legislature made loud public statements regarding their displeasure with the Kelo decision and passed resolutions to discourage 'takings' for private profit. And then you slide thru legislation to encourage more takings without letting people know what you're up to? I live in your district, a small township in Jackson County that is primarily low-income at the north end of the township and contains many senior citizens on fixed budgets. We continually must fight small-town political hacks who are overly-impressed with their powers and attempt to ramrod control of our property -particularly lakefront property. Our millpond is clean and relatively undeveloped-we like it that way. However, there are interests in other areas that would like to force through 'Rails to Trails' initiatives,'special lakefront assessment districts' and other nefarious schemes in the interest of 'conservation'. We cant afford major sewer contracts or other 'improvements' here and are happy with the way things are. I also dont need some petty bureaucrat condemning my small property so they can either get funding to make it public access, tax me for cement benches for some out-of-county Yuppie to sit on once in awhile or force me to put in a sewer system that would cost me many thousands of dollars due to the distance from the main road and effectively force me off my land. None of this would improve the lot of the heron that nests in my front yard, or the mink that travels the shore hunting or the common mergansers who stop every year with the loons on their way north. It wouldnt prevent the muskrats from undermining my bank or discourage the hundreds of Canadian Geese who bless us with their company every year. It also wont clean up the residual heavy metals laid down in the bottom muck dating back to Henry Ford's little enterprise upstream many years ago. All these types of controls have done is prevent me from improving my residence and increased my taxes! (and no, it's not big enough to make a movie on-the resultant erosion would destroy our pond). I voted for you and it appears I made a mistake. I wont make it again. I saw the Socialists and big developers pull 'Urban Renewal by Natural Catastrophy' on New Orleans. Now it appears MIchigan is attempting the same coup d'etat under cover of Michigan's severe economic conditions. The blue-collar workers who have retired to these small enclaves are obviously an embarrassment to the God-like beings who believe that Michigan stops at Ann Arbor, Lansing, Grand Rapids,Kalamazoo and Traverese City and believe only in high technology for the future....and the rest of us should just get out of the way, while they take our property for their own personal playgounds and to chase some elusive world clean water controls/goals. The American people are angry-and nowhere are they angrier than Michigan.