Governor
Rick Snyder held an hour-long Legislative Quadrant meeting regarding roadfunding
Tuesday. This came right before the Governor left for Japan and Germany. Snyder
commented the conversation went well. Another meeting is being planned for the
minority and majority leaders to continue the progress.
Detroit
News columnist Nolan Finley published some figures Tuesday that Senate Majority
Leader Arlan Meekhof, Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich, and Governor Snyder
all agreed were inaccurate. Mr. Finley reported $1.2 billion being set aside,
to which all replied no such numbers have been agreed upon. Senator Meekhof did
mention that the prevailing wage repeal proposal has not been included in any
agreement thus far.
Governor
Snyder revealed the solution has been largely predicted to be a combination of
additional revenue and General Fund savings. Although no agreement has been
reached yet, all parties involved expect it to be a bipartisan solution.