Jun 11, 2008 | Legislative
Legislature Approves Airport Funding After months of political wrangling, the House sent a bill to the governor’s desk that will provide over $160 million to Michigan’s airports to upgrade their infrastructure. The money was federal dollars that needed to be...
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...