Schoolcraft School District voters will be asked to renew an 18-mill non-homestead tax – $18 per $1,000 taxable valuation – on all property other than the taxpayer’s principal home, for which the school tax is 6 mills. The renewal on that “non-homestead property”, which includes second homes, apartments and non-residential properties, will extend from 2027 to 2036. The ballot language:
Schoolcraft Community Schools Operating Millage Renewal Proposal
This proposal will allow the school district to continue to levy the statutory rate of not to exceed 18 mills on all property, except principal residence and other property exempted by law, required for the school district to receive its revenue per pupil foundation allowance and renews millage that will expire with the 2026 tax levy.
Shall the currently authorized millage rate limitation of 19.9780 mills ($19.9780 on each $1,000 of taxable valuation) on the amount of taxes which may be assessed against all property, except principal residence and other property exempted by law, in Schoolcraft Community Schools, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, be renewed for a period of 10 years, 2027 to 2036, inclusive, to provide funds for operating purposes; the estimate of the revenue the school district will collect if the millage is approved and 18 mills are levied in 2027 is approximately $1,275,000 (this is a renewal of millage that will expire with the 2026 tax levy)?
Statewide ballot questions
Michigan voters will decide a call to convene a constitutional convention to draft a general revision of the Michigan Constitution. The Constitution contains a provision calling for placing the question on a statewide ballot every 16 years. Voters have said “no” to the question in every year it’s been on the ballot since adoption of the current constitution in 1963.
State Proposal 2026-1
A proposal to convene a constitutional convention for the purpose of drafting a general revision of the State Constitution.
Shall a convention of elected delegates be convened in 2027 to draft a general revision of the State Constitution for presentation to the state’s voters for their approval or rejection?
State Proposal 2026-2
Another statewide ballot question would prohibit campaign contributions to candidates for governor, attorney general, secretary of state, state House and Senate and some other offices. The proposal was the result of an initiative petition campaign from Michiganders Out of Money in Politics. A spokesperson for the Michigan Chamber of Commerce said the proposal would limit “public discourse and free speech.”
A proposed initiated law to prohibit campaign contributions from certain regulated utilities and government contractors and apply campaign finance laws and regulations to additional types of political communications.
The proposal would:
- Prohibit regulated electric and gas utilities, contractors with over $250,000 annually in government contracts, and people and organizations with substantial connections to these utilities/contractors from making direct or indirect campaign contributions to those who run for or hold offices that impact them.
- Expand laws regulating spending on political communications, including those requiring disclosing donor information, to apply to communications clearly identifying candidates or ballot questions, even if they do not expressly advocate voting for/against them.
- Expressly apply the law requiring disclosure of who paid for political communications to internet political communications.
Should this proposal be adopted?
