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The right to criticize government is also an obligation to know what you are talking about. 
-Lent Upson, 1st Executive Director of CRC  


1975 Publications

The Detroit School District Budget for 1975-76
CC 884 ( December 75 ) 6 pages

Michigan's Financial Problem ("Worst fiscal crunch in state history")
CC 883 ( November 75 ) 6 pages

Saving Taxpayer Dollars Through Consolidated Police and Fire Services
Memo 227 ( October 75 ) 12 pages

Today, many cities are caught in a crunch between increasing public concern about the adequacy of police and fire protection services and the rapidly escalating salary and fringe benefits costs for police officers and fire fighters.

The consolidation of municipal police and fire departments offers Michigan communities the opportunity to increase significantly police patrol strength and fire fighting response, with little or no increase in costs, or, to reduce expenditures for public service salaries and wages while maintaining existing service levels.

Police-fire consolidation can increase the number of on-duty men available for police patrol or response to fire alarms by as much as 50 percent. If present service levels are adequate, police-fire consolidation can result in a 25 percent reduction in salary and fringe benefit costs while continuing to provide the same level of service. In either case, police-fire consolidation makes available more on-duty personnel to fight fires and provides a larger group of trained public safety officers off-duty who can be recalled in the event of a major conflagration. Police-fire consolidation also makes it feasible to extend the 40-hour work week to all public safety personnel and tends to provide them a higher degree of professionalization and job satisfaction.

The Michigan Single Business Tax (takes effect January 1, 1976)
CC 882 ( October 75 ) 12 pages

"The Free Market: A System Worth Saving," John J. Riccardo, Chairman, Chrysler Corporation, Remarks at Annual Meeting
Misc. ( September 75 ) 13 pages

The City of Detroit Budget for 1975-76
CC 881 ( July 75 ) 4 pages

The Public School Employee Strike Issue
CC 880 ( June 75 ) 6 pages

The Michigan Economy -- An Overview
Report 249 ( May 75 ) 15 pages

The 1975-76 Executive Budget
CC 879 ( March 75 ) 12 pages

Recent Michigan Expenditure Trends
Report 248 ( March 75 ) 15 pages

The 1974-75 Budget Problem-City of Detroit and the Outlook for 1975-76
CC 878 ( February 75 ) 2 pages

Despite the January layoffs of almost 1,500 city employees in an effort to stem the tide, it presently appears that the City of Detroit faces a June 30, 1975, deficit of $25-$32 million. Revenues will be some $25-$42 million less than original budget estimates and the cost-cutting measures taken to date will reduce expenditures by about $10 million below the amounts appropriated. While the current state of the economy has exacerbated the city’s fiscal problem, the city budget for 1974-75 was not balanced with solid revenues when it was adopted in the spring of 1974.

Outline of the Michigan Tax System (Eighth Edition) Summary of state and local taxes [Because this publication is revised every two years, past editions have not been made available for download. Please contact CRC to obtain a copy past editions.]
CC 877 ( January 75 ) 20 pages

Welfare in Michigan
Misc. ( January 75 ) 32 pages

The Legislator's Handbook--Eighth Edition
Misc. ( January 75 ) 41 pages

 

 

 

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