ALLEGAN, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – Voters in Allegan County will be asked to renew what some say is a vital millage.
Chairman Dean Kapenga and his board colleagues approved on Thursday the language for a nearly half-mill levy over a four-year period for providing services for senior citizens. “It’s helping people with home-delivered meals,” the Hamilton Republican told Ed Ver Schure on “WHTC Talk of the Town” on Friday. “It’s helping people with adult day care, with counseling, with transportation, with just home support. It comes back to the commissioners to look at this; (a board that oversees county-provided senior services) have gone through every effort to be as efficient with the budget that’s there, and we’ve researched that for probably the last two months.”
If approved, this would raise an estimated 2.2 million dollars-plus in the first year of the millage period. The county board also endorsed the ballot language for another August millage renewal request of one full mill for road resurfacing and reconstruction, which would generate an estimated 4.4 million dollars for 2019 alone.
