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Dear Neighbor, October has arrived, and with that, the leaves are falling, temperatures are dropping, and autumn is fully underway! We hope you’ll take advantage of everything the Mitten State has to offer this month, whether that be trick-or-treating with the...
District 5 Legislative & Community Updates
Dear Neighbor, Fall is officially here. While my team and I have been enjoying the shifts in temperature and seeing the leaves on the trees start to change, we've also enjoyed getting back into the rhythm of the legislative session. From passing voting protections to...
Irwin and Polehanki Legislation to Improve Literacy and Help Students With Dyslexia Heads to Governor’s Desk
Bills to screen students for characteristics of dyslexia receive bipartisan and unanimous support in Senate LANSING, Mich. (Sept. 26, 2024) — Today, the Michigan Senate finalized Senate Bills 567 and 568, comprehensive legislation to improve reading in Michigan. The...
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Livonia’s Good Old-Fashioned Corn Roast was a hit yet again! Thanks to the Lions Club and Bill Joyner for making it happen 🌽 ... See MoreSee Less
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"Madam President, half a dozen construction workers came to my office yesterday wanting to talk about Michigan's roads, and I was struck by the great pride with which they talked about the careers that they built, making Michigan's roads smooth and safe for us to travel on.
We agreed that Michigan needs a sustainable plan to keep our roads fixed and fixed the right way so they last as long as possible.
When we talked about road funding, the guys I spoke with did not want to pay for roads by cutting money from our public schools.
I showed them how around 46% of Republican Speaker Matt Hall's road plan is paid for out of the School Aid Fund.
They didn't like that and agreed that we have to find a way to fund roads that isn't on the backs of Michigan's public schools, which are still underfunded by billions of dollars each year.
Speaker Hall's roads plan is a clever shell game involving holding schools harmless on the revenue side only to inflict serious harm on the appropriations side as it pushes $1.47 billion of higher ed appropriations currently paid for using the General Fund to the School Aid Fund.
Speaker Hall's budget proposal also strips $600 million of the MPSERS savings the Democrats gave back to schools.
So, in all, his plan guts school funding to the tune of over $2 billion.
So when you hear him say, "We will pay for roads with no new taxes," please know that he can claim that because his plan blows a $2 billion hole in school funding, but doesn't raise taxes.
It's classic smoke and mirrors.
I look forward to voting on a real roads plan that leaves our great public schools alone." ... See MoreSee Less
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Here are the amounts that Republican House Speaker Matt Hall’s budget proposal CUTS from Senate District 5 communities as a result of his reduction in revenue sharing. ... See MoreSee Less
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