Dec 10, 2009 | Legislative
MITA Urges Members to Call Your State Senator This week the Senate Transportation Committee approved a bill by a vote of 4-1 that would increase the diesel tax four cents per gallon (from 15 cents to 19 cents) to provide additional dollars to transportation. The new...
Nov 16, 2009 | Legislative
More than a dozen companies have answered the challenge to have their employees help lobby for more transportation funding, tallying over 300 calls to legislative offices in recent weeks. About a dozen more companies have agreed to do an upcoming call day and are in...
Nov 11, 2009 | Legislative
The Senate is poised to vote tomorrow morning on legislation (SB 388 and 389) that would allow an optional tax on the vehicle registration fee to pay for state parks. While we are not opposed to state parks, for almost five years legislators have told us that “now is...
Oct 8, 2009 | Legislative
The State Revolving Fund program will see a sizeable 1st quarter (beginning in October, 2009), with over 40 projects worth $300 million likely being advertised later this month. This list does not include any “mega” Detroit and Dearborn projects. This should bode...
Oct 2, 2009 | Legislative
With the close of the fiscal year looming on Wednesday, the U.S. Congress and the Michigan Legislature were scurrying to complete their work on the fiscal year 2010 budgets. After much political wrangling, the legislature passed a transportation budget (SB 254) that...
Sep 30, 2009 | Legislative
Fifteen hours before construction projects would be idled, policymakers came to an agreement on the state’s transportation budget in the face of tonight’s midnight end of the fiscal year. A MITA press release last week announced a possible government shutdown and...
