Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

MAC's director updates county board on legislation

By RALPH ANSAMI

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BESSEMER — Insuring adequate funding for court systems is one of the “wins” the Michigan Association of Counties has supported recently, its executive director told the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday.

Stephan Currie outlined issues MAC has been tackling and is prepared to tackle.

He said a task force on how state court systems are funded has been assigned, but has not yet met.

Currie said huge cuts to revenue sharing payments to counties have caused MAC to ponder if that’s the proper funding model from the state.

Efforts...