May 22, 2008 | Legislative
MITA staff and select members led a delegation of the Michigan Transportation Team to Washington to lobby for more federal road dollars. Currently, our state receives only 92 cents of every transportation dollar we send to the federal government and the Federal...
May 9, 2008 | Legislative
The MITA legislative team has been busy this week pushing policymakers to act on key issues. There is about $160 million in airport funding projects tied up in a capitol outlay bill pending in the Legislature. MITA has been very concerned that the delay in approving...
Apr 24, 2008 | Legislative
MITA lobbyists continue to work to garner support for an additional $1 billion annual investment in transportation funding by aggressively reaching out to legislators. This week’s calendar was jam-packed with legislator meetings in order to talk to them before summer...
Apr 2, 2008 | Legislative
MITA Continues Work on MBT Fix While the state Senate is off on break for the next two weeks, MITA continues to push forward on the MBT Materials Deduction fix highlighted in recent bulletins. Before the Senate went on break last week, a motion was made to discharge...
Mar 18, 2008 | Legislative
MITA Testifies Before House Committee Last week, Mike Nystrom and Keith Ledbetter testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation to provide feedback on the proposed 2009 Transportation budget. Billed as a “continuation budget”, Nystrom and...
Mar 4, 2008 | Legislative
The following article was written in Gongwer Michigan Report No. 41, dated February 29, 2008. The Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association, along with officials for general contractors, homebuilders and builders and contractors, are lobbying lawmakers...