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Governor Whitmer appointed Tremaine Phillips to serve on the Michigan Public Service Commission. The State Administrative Board voted to approve Governor Whitmer’s proposal to increase oversight within the state procurement process by decreasing the threshold for additional approval for state contracts. Joyce Parker was selected to serve as the Michigan Department of Treasury’s deputy treasurer […]

Governor Gretchen Whitmer has appointed Tremaine Phillips to serve on the Michigan Public Service Commission. This is her second nomination to the board since taking office in January 2019. Currently, Mr. Phillips is the director of the Cincinnati 2030 District. Previously, he worked at Empower Gas and Electric, LLC and the Michigan Environmental Council, served […]

The State Administrative Board voted to approve Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s proposal to increase oversight within the state procurement process by decreasing the threshold for additional approval for state contracts from $500,00 to $250,000. In 2018, the threshold for approval was changed from $250,000 to $500,000 allowing departments to approve state contracts up to $500,000 without […]

Joyce Parker was selected by State Treasurer Rachael Eubanks to serve as the department’s new deputy state treasurer over state and local government finance programs. She will lead program areas within the department that provide financial services and bonding to local communities and school districts and oversee property tax administration. Ms. Parker began her new […]

The Michigan Department of Transportation is inviting public comment on their draft State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). STIP is a federally required planning document listing the road, bridge, and transit projects located in rural areas that the state plans to fund with federal aid. It includes a compilation of transportation projects that will be authorized […]

Michigan’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate last month remained unchanged from the prior month at 4.2%. Total employment increased by 2,000, while unemployment rose by 3,000. Last month’s rate is higher than the national average of 3.7%. In the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn market the June 2019 unemployment rate was 4.6%, one-tenth of a percentage point over the prior month. […]

The House and Senate are tentatively scheduled to hold session Tuesday – Thursday.

Below are some of the articles that the MLC lobby team has been reading this past week. We hope you find them as interesting and useful as we do. Designing Smart-Home Products That People Will Actually Use – While there has been an increase in smart-home technology, it hasn’t become mainstream yet. How can creators […]