LANSING, Mich. — Tuesday is election day in mid-Michigan with only a handful of races and issues on the ballot--two of them are proposals that would raise property taxes in two communities.
The first proposal is a police and fire millage in Jackson County's Napoleon Township.
One millage would go to the police department, the rest will go to the fire department.
The millage would last five years and raise a little more than $508,000.
The second proposal, which is generating more attention, is in Meridian Township.
The township is asking for a $35 million property tax hike to pay for street improvements.
That money would be spend on neighborhood streets while the state and county handles the major roads.
Some homeowners said they don't want to pay for someone else's streets.
"If we don't get support on this issue, we'll continue levying the quarter of a mil which generates 400-thousand dollars and we'll get to every street about every 47 years,' Meridian Township Manager Frank Walsh said.
Meridian Township is also asking voters to renew the roughly .2 mill levy to pay for the CATA "Redi-Ride" bus service.
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