{"id":5859,"date":"2021-09-21T16:32:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T20:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senatedems.com\/mccann\/?p=5859"},"modified":"2021-09-21T16:32:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T20:32:52","slug":"senator-mccann-celebrates-bipartisan-budget-agreement-funding-for-local-kalamazoo-county-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/mccann\/2021\/09\/21\/senator-mccann-celebrates-bipartisan-budget-agreement-funding-for-local-kalamazoo-county-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator McCann Celebrates Bipartisan Budget Agreement, Funding for Local Kalamazoo County Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LANSING, Mich. (Sept. 21, 2021) \u2014 Today, Sen.&nbsp;<strong>Sean McCann<\/strong>&nbsp;(D-Kalamazoo) issued the following statement after the Michigan Senate passed the Fiscal Year 2022 budget, set to begin on Oct. 1:<br \/><br \/>\u201cI am excited that my Senate colleagues and I have agreed on a bipartisan budget framework today that provides for substantial investments in critical priorities and projects in Michigan and Kalamazoo County.\u201d<br \/><br \/>Among the included budget items specific to the 20th Senate District that Sen. McCann fought for are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>$3 million toward construction of a U.S. 131 interchange on the north side of Kalamazoo County, allowing critical two-way transportation routes for local businesses and relieving wear and tear on nearby local roads.<\/li><li>$1.5 million to support the City of Portage in construction of a new Portage Senior Center, serving seniors throughout Kalamazoo County.<\/li><li>$1 million to support expansion of additional treatment capacity at the Great Lakes Center for Autism Treatment and Research, serving a great need for children primarily diagnosed with autism who engage in behaviors so disruptive and dangerous as to require they no longer live at home.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith significant federal relief money still unspent even after the passage of this annual budget, I will continue to advocate to my colleagues in the legislative majority to put those funds to use on the many great needs facing our communities,\u201d Sen. 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(Sept. 21, 2021) \u2014 Today, Sen.&nbsp;Sean McCann&nbsp;(D-Kalamazoo) issued the following statement after the Michigan Senate passed the Fiscal Year 2022 budget, set to begin on Oct. 1: \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-statement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Senator McCann Celebrates Bipartisan Budget Agreement, Funding for Local Kalamazoo County Projects - Senator Sean McCann<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/mccann\/2021\/09\/21\/senator-mccann-celebrates-bipartisan-budget-agreement-funding-for-local-kalamazoo-county-projects\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Senator McCann Celebrates Bipartisan Budget Agreement, Funding for Local Kalamazoo County Projects\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LANSING, Mich. 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