Finance and Taxes

The Marriott Hotel development, taxes and TIF, non-motorized transportation, rezoning the Evergreen properties, and lots more on Council’s docket this week. ELi informs you before decisions are made!

ELi's Alice Dreger sums up what new renderings and the draft contract tell us about the possible deal to sell lot 4 for a new 8-story MSUFCU-owned office building downtown.

This week, East Lansing's School Board heard about inequities in special education funding. ELi's Alice Dreger summarizes that tax proposal presentation and tells you what else happened at the meeting.

Babcock and Meadows said the process was fatally flawed, but Beier, Gregg, and Stephens said the debt problem outweighed process concerns. ELi’s Chris Gray reports on the final Oakwood Historic District revision.

East Lansing absentee voters in Precinct 17 will be receiving new ballots after they were sent ones that erroneously left off a levy for special education services. ELi’s Chris Gray reports.

A survey among ELi readers shows strong support for City Council selling a piece of public land to MSUFCU for a new office building downtown.

ELi’s Chris Gray outlines what to expect March 10 on your East Lansing ballot. You’ll see more than the presidential primaries!

City Attorney Tom Yeadon is now recommending City Council vote to settle a lawsuit Yeadon brought against a man he also threatened to arrest over a driveway. ELi's Alice Dreger brings the latest in the saga.

East Lansing’s parking system is “barely making it” financially. So how can the City lower the perceived barriers to parking downtown? ELi’s Alice Dreger reports on the discussion this week at Council.

Marble will get busing to Donley; a trustee lost her officer position; resident student enrollment surged unexpectedly. All this and more at this week's East Lansing School Board meeting.

A ballot proposal on a deer cull; more free parking downtown; the City’s approach to plea bargains; redevelopment downtown: all this and more will be discussed by East Lansing’s City Council on Tuesday.

Today we bring answers to ELi reader questions on our “income tax update” report from earlier this week.

Why did Mayor Ruth Beier cast the lone vote in opposition to a formal report on the eBay land sale? ELi’s Chris Gray reports.

Revised estimates indicate that the net revenues from East Lansing’s new income tax will likely generate two-thirds of what had been predicted in 2016. ELi’s Alice Dreger reports on the reasons and the impact.

An increase in the pump’s capacity, a built-in emergency generator and an improved odor-control system will be operational by October 2020, according to the Department of Public Works.