SMART bus Millage for Oakland County Residents.

[Wesley Mouch]

Allright Oakland County residents. It's your turn to vote for the SMART Bus Millage on August 7th. This millage is to accept .59 mills per household with a taxable income of $100,000. [[for example if you own a home that is worth 100,000 you will have to pay only $59.00 a year.) If you all vote no, SMART busses will not come your county no more!

SO VOTE YES ON THE 2012 SMART BUS MILLAGE!

What do you all think about SMART busses running your cities? Is public transit is doing well from tax monies worth or is being lousy.

Your comments please.

Danny -- is this a renewal or a new millage? What's the total millage currently for SMART in Oakland County.

[professorscott]

Danny -- is this a renewal or a new millage? What's the total millage currently for SMART in Oakland County.

It's precisely a renewal, same millage the opt-in communities are paying now. The vote does not allow for any changes in local option; that is, if your community is now opt-in, it will still be opt-in after the countywide vote, and same for opt-out.

So it doesn't solve the opt-out problem; that would be a politically risky thing to do in an election year [[think the pundits). But it will preserve the existing level of service, so I agree that a YES vote is important. Too many people in Oakland County need the service and a NO result would leave them entirely high and dry.

You may not take the bus yourself, but you have a friend or a neighbor or an elderly relative or young relative or disabled friend or relative who does, or a friend of a friend.

Just, of course, IMVHO.

Cheers,
Prof. Scott