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Wage-study dispute and $50,000 matching grant proposal fail to win board support
Summary
A proposal by Commissioner Baker to offer matching grants of up to $50,000 to each city and village failed after debate; the board also agreed to use a 14-county comparable set as the working basis for a contentious wage-study discussion scheduled for January.
Two finance-focused items dominated the latter portion of the Montcalm County Board of Commissioners' Dec. 16 meeting: a failed proposal to offer matching-only grants to cities and villages and an extended debate over a county wage study.
Commissioner Baker reintroduced a motion to provide a matching-only maximum offer of $50,000 from excess fund balance to each incorporated city and village (nine entities total) for road and street improvements.…
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