Packets

Fiscal Year 2018-2019 Fire Protection Payments

November 30, 2018 | director

This week the Local Community Stabilization Authority (LCSA) distributed $13.6 million to municipalities for fire protection services received by state facilities pursuant to Act 289 of 1977. Act 289 of 1977 provides for payments to municipalities for fire protection services received by state facilities. Amendments (Acts 247 and 248 of 2018) to Act 86 of 2014 (the LCSA Act) made the LCSA responsible for distributing these payments beginning in 2018.

The Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) is still responsible for distributing and collecting the municipal fire protection questionnaire for calculating eligibility and payments to municipalities. Please contact Ms. Shawn Worden at wordens1@michigan.gov for information regarding calculations. Please contact the LCSA at contact@lcsami.gov if you have questions regarding payments.

October 2018 Local Community Stabilization Share (LCSS) Distribution

October 19, 2018 | director

This week the Local Community Stabilization Authority (LCSA) will distribute nearly $244 million of Local Community Stabilization Share (LCSS) revenue to 91 tax increment financing authorities; 268 school districts and intermediate school districts; and 616 other municipalities. Local units of government should record the revenue in account 573, Local Community Stabilization Share (see Michigan Department of Treasury Uniform Chart of Accounts for Local Units of Government). Schools should record the revenue in revenue major class code 321, suffix 0000.

The Michigan Department of Treasury is responsible for the calculations. Please visit the Michigan Department of Treasury’s Personal Property Tax Reimbursements webpage at www.michigan.gov/pptreimbursements for information regarding calculations. Please contact the LCSA at contact@lcsami.gov if you have questions regarding the distribution of local community stabilization share revenue.