Benzie County

Resolution No. 2023-#005

RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING MILLAGE ELECTION FOR BENZIE COUNTY

ROADS AND HIGHWAYS MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR MILLAGE RENEWAL
AND RESTORATION PROPOSAL
AND CERTIFYING BALLOT LANGUAGE

WHEREAS, the voters of Benzie County supported a 1.00 mill tax to fund local road
improvements and primary road maintenance and improvements in the townships, cities and
villages of the County in 2018, which was constitutionally reduced in 2022 to .9666 of one (1)
mill, and that millage expired December 31, 2022, and

WHEREAS, the Benzie County Road Commission has requested that the County Board
of Commissioners have a Road Improvements and Maintenance Millage Renewal and Restoration
Proposal placed on the November 2023 General Election Ballot at the same level of millage
previously approved in 2018; and

WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners for the County of Benzie seeks to have the
voters of the County determine whether or not they desire to continue to raise funds for the
purposes of local road improvements and primary road maintenance and improvements in the
townships, cities and villages of the County of Benzie, Michigan, by an ad valorem property tax
levy of up to the same millage approved in 2018, being at 1.0000 (1) mill, for a period of five (5)
years, 2023 through 2027, inclusive.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the following proposal be submitted to

the qualified voters of the County of Benzie at the next General Election to be held in the County
on Tuesday, November 7, 2023:

BENZIE COUNTY ROAD IMPROVEMENTS AND MAINTENANCE

MILLAGE RENEWAL AND RESTORATION PROPOSAL
For the sole purpose of continuing funding for local road improvements and
primary road maintenance and improvements in the townships, cities and villages
of the County of Benzie, Michigan, at the same millage level approved by the voters
in 2018, shall the previously voted increase on the Constitutional limitation upon
the total amount of taxes which may be assessed in one (1) year upon all property
within the County of Benzie, Michigan, be renewed and continued at .9666 of one
(1) mill, and shall the previously authorized reduced millage of .0334 of one (1)
mill be restored, for a return to the previously voted total limitation increase of (1)
mill ($1.00 per $1,000 taxable value), and be levied for a period of five (5) years,
beginning in 2023 through 2027, inclusive?
 If approved and levied in full, this millage will raise an estimated $1,587,914 for
Road Improvements and Maintenance within Benzie County in the first calendar
year of the levy based on taxable value. In accordance with State law, the millage
will be disbursed to the Benzie County Road Commission, the City of Frankfort,
and the Villages of Benzonia, Beulah, Elberta, Honor, Lake Ann and
Thompsonville; and a small portion of the millage may be captured by the City of
Frankfort Downtown Development Authority and the Benzie County Brownfield
Authority.
YES
NO

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this question is hereby certified to the County Clerk.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that all Public Officials of the County of Benzie, State
of Michigan, and all Governmental units thereof, within such time as shall be required by law, are
directed to perform all acts which shall be necessary to be performed in order to submit the above
stated proposition to the duly qualified voters of the County at the General Election to be held in
the County on Tuesday, November 7, 2023.

Ayes:

Nays:

Absent:

______________________________ ______________________________
Bob Roelofs, Chairman Tammy Bowers, Clerk
Benzie County Board of Benzie County
Commissioners

Dated: May 9, 2023

I CERTIFY THAT I am the County Clerk of Benzie County and that the foregoing is a
correct copy of the resolution passed as therein set forth on the 9th day of May, 2023, by the
Benzie County Board of Commissioners, and that the same is now in full force.

Dated: May 9, 2023 ________________________________

Tammy Bowers, Benzie County Clerk