LANSING, MI (WTVB) – A funding solution to fixing Michigan’s crumbling roads will wait until after Labor Day. House Speaker Kevin Cotter spoke after the House adjourned last night without a compromise deal in place among members of a legislative conference committee.
Branch County’s representative in State Senate, Republican Mike Shirkey, is a member of the committee. Cotter said the negotiations lost focus and were involving things other than the roads, which he said is what doomed Proposal 1 on the May ballot.
The Mount Pleasant Republican says the House and Senate lawmakers on the conference committee will continue meeting through the rest of this month to come up with over $1 billion for roads. Cotter adds they are trying to build off the $400 million added to road funding in the budget that takes effect on October 1, 2015.
