Help return more than $8 million per year to library budgets. Please contact your state representative today and ask them to support SB 579 and SB 619-624. These bills will ensure that dedicated library millages go to support the library. Email, call or tweet your message. Add your story to MLA's talking points and tell them how tax capture relief will help your library serve your patrons. Encourage your representative to contact MLA or GCSI with further questions. To contact your representative go to http://cqrcengage.com/alami/action and click the "Take Action" button. What is Tax Capture? There are many forms of tax capture and they go by many names. You might be most familiar with Downtown Development Authorities (DDA), or Tax Increment Financing Authorities (TIFA), Brownfield Redevelopment or Corridor Improvement among others. These entities capture millions of dedicated library millage dollars each year. Voters go to the polls and choose to support their libraries by approving a dedicated library millage. These locally dedicated taxes approved by voters for library funding are being captured against the libraries' choice often without the locally voting taxpayer's knowledge or approval. These bills remove the automatic tax capture and allow for libraries to discuss tax capture projects and make a decision to opt in. It requires the tax captures to be transparent in their activities, explain their value to library boards and then request an opt-in from libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at 517-394-2774 or MLA@milibraries.org. Thank you for your support and quick action on this important issue impacting library funding in the state of Michigan. Rachel Ash Communications and Membership Coordinator Michigan Library Association 3410 Belle Chase Way Ste. 100 Lansing, MI 48911 Phone: 517-394-2774 ext. 225 Fax: 517-394-2675 www.milibraries.org<http://www.milibraries.org/> Connect with us on social media: Facebook<facebook.com/michiganlibraryassociation> Twitter<twitter.com/mlaoffice> Instagram<instagram.com/michigan_library_association> [cid:image001.jpg@01D23421.3AF4C2D0]
