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  Compliance and Reporting Guidance: State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds

  Published on November 15, 2021
  US Treasury guidance providing details and clarification for each recipient’s compliance and reporting responsibilities under the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) program established by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

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  Drinking Water 1-2-3 Guide for Local Officials and Community Leaders

  Published on July 28, 2021
  This guide is a manual that provides information about water resource management, service, infrastructure and planning. It helps you identify important strategies and actions for you and your community to take today.

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  A Greater Detroit

  Published on February 19, 2021
  Should Ecorse, Hamtramck, and Highland Park approach the brink of insolvency in the future, the State should consider responding not by canceling local democracy, but by requiring that a vote be held on dissolution and consolidation into Detroit.

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  Assessing Existing Local Government Fiscal Early Warning System through Four State Case Studies: Colorado, Louisiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania

  Published on December 20, 2020
  This report presents detailed explanations, tradeoffs and outcomes of four existing ratio indicator systems. We assert that there is no one optimal system, only the right system based on the perceived needs of policymakers in that particular location.

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  Local Government Financial Vulnerability: New Tools for Identifying and Tracking Challenges

  Published on December 8, 2020
  The onset of a major pandemic-induced recession has presented a second wave of fiscal problems for local governments. State and local governments are seeking out new tools to assess fiscal risk and vulnerability and to chart new options moving forward.

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  Pennsylvania Offers A Curious Case To Explore Alternatives To Early Warning Systems And State Intervention: Can Michigan Keep Its Horses From Wandering Off?

  Published on May 5, 2020
  The purpose of this report is to apply the Early Warning System (EWS) used by Pennsylvania with Michigan local government financial and socioeconomic data, as a way to assess potential fiscal distress that cities, townships, and counties may experience.

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  Systems Framework for Meeting Local Government Service Solvency Standards: Case Study of the City of Flint, Michigan

  Published on April 17, 2020
  This white paper is a review of the financial and service challenges, issues and conditions facing the city government of Flint, Michigan as of 2019.

• Spartyville PUBLIC MEEING NOTICE (PDF)

  Published on April 13, 2020
  Example pubic notice for an online local government meeting.

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  Flint Community Schools: Fiscal and Service Solvency: MSU Extension Center for Local Government Finance and Policy White Paper

  Published on February 3, 2020
  This white paper proposes that the ability of Flint Public Schools to meet adequacy standards is severely constrained and it seems unlikely this will change under the current policy structure.

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  A closer look at legacy costs and local actions in Michigan in the wake of PA 202

  Published on January 1, 2020
  Legacy costs have imposed challenges on local governments in Michigan. The lack of funding for retirement benefits, including pension and other postemployment benefits (OPEB) such as healthcare, affects the wellbeing of public employees.