Excellent! - From Muskegon Informed - Kris (in FB gulag!)-----As Muskegon County voters weigh the Muskegon Community College operating millage restoration on the August 4 ballot, a piece of the story is getting lost:

...the very mechanism MCC says has been "shrinking" its revenue is the same mechanism that has protected county taxpayers from runaway tax bills for nearly fifty years, and it has done so without starving the college.

That mechanism is the Headlee Amendment, added to Michigan's Constitution by voters in 1978. 

Its purpose was simple and deliberate: 

• stop local governments from collecting an automatic windfall whenever property values rise faster than inflation. 

Before Headlee, a hot real estate market could quietly hand a taxing authority a double-digit revenue increase without anyone ever taking a vote. 

• Headlee closed that door. 

Each year, if the taxable value of the existing property base outpaces inflation, the millage rate is automatically rolled back so that the levy on that base grows no faster than the cost of living. 

Any increase beyond that requires a direct vote of the people, which is precisely the vote in front of Muskegon County residents this August...

Much here, read all at link!