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Lobbyist tells Roseville council state budget continuation avoids shutdown and boosts road, public‑safety funds
Summary
Adam Wright of Midwest Strategy Group told the council Lansing passed an $81 billion continuation budget that shifts the sales tax off gasoline to a higher gas tax (directing funds to roads), creates a public‑safety revenue sharing program and increases marijuana tax revenue; he estimated specific near‑term amounts for Roseville.
Adam Wright of Midwest Strategy Group briefed the Roseville City Council on Nov. 11 about key provisions of Michigan’s recently passed continuation budget.
Wright said the Legislature used a week‑long continuation budget to avoid a shutdown and ultimately passed an $81,000,000,000 state budget on Oct. 3. He described process changes that increased earmark transparency, requiring public testimony for special projects listed on a new website.
Wright said a primary structural change was removing sales tax from gasoline and raising the gas tax by a similar amount so that those dollars flow specifically to road funding rather than to school districts and other local distributions. He also said the budget included an increase in the marijuana tax expected to raise about $420,000,000 and that the package added a public‑safety revenue sharing program (about $50,000,000 ongoing and $20,000,000 one‑time) with narrow allowable uses.
Wright estimated Roseville would see constitutional revenue sharing decline by about $100,000, statutory revenue sharing remain flat, and an additional nearly $230,000 from the new public‑safety revenue sharing. He said transportation funding tied to the budget would likely bring approximately $2,000,000 to Roseville in the current fiscal year and about $3,100,000 the following fiscal year.
Wright also flagged potential housing legislation that could include elements of local preemption (setbacks, use rules), and he said his office would alert the city if proposed state bills would affect local authority.
