Question 12a Does your jurisdiction use your its general fund to fund its contributions to road and/or bridge maintenance, improvement, or construction? (Among those jurisdictions that report using local revenue sources) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Service spending, Roads Question 12b Does your jurisdiction use special assessment(s) to fund its contributions to the road and/or bridge maintenance, improvement, or construction? (Among those jurisdictions that report using local revenue sources) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Service spending, Roads, Property taxes Question 12c Does your jurisdiction use millage(s) levied by your jurisdiction to fund its contributions to road and/or bridge maintenance, improvement, or construction? (Among those jurisdictions that report using local revenue sources) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Service spending, Roads, Property taxes Question 13a In the last two years, has your jurisdiction tried to raise local funding for roads and/or bridges through a new or renewed road millage(s)? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue Question 13b In the last two years, has your jurisdiction tried to raise local funding for roads and/or bridges through a special assessment(s)? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue Question 14a Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would the majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 14b Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would the majority of your jurisdiction's citizens support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 14c Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would the majority of your jurisdiction's business community support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 14d Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would you personally as local official support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15a Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a special assessment? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15b Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/county millage? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15c Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional vehicle registration fee (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15d Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional fuel tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15e Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through local/regional sales tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Taxes, Roads Question 43 How would you rate the way the Michigan Legislature is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, Job evaluation of legislature Question 32 Similar to an actuarially required contribution for a pension fund, a jurisdiction's "annual required contribution" (ARC) for its retiree health care fund is based on the benefits earned by employees in the current year, plus an amount to reduce any unfunded liabilities for past years. Some jurisdictions pay their retiree health care ARC in full each year. Others do not, and may just pay as they go for only that year's retiree health care costs. Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 34 To the best of your knowledge, are your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations currently fully funded? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 35 Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations are currently fully funded, in your opinion, are these obligations a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all for your jurisdiction's fiscal health? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 36 Looking ahead, how concerned are you, if at all, that your jurisdiction will not be able to fulfill its health care benefit obligations to its retirees? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 37a Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose prohibiting jurisdictions from providing retiree health care benefits for future retirees to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37b Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose setting hard caps (i.e., percentage or dollar figure) on jurisdictions' contributions to retiree health care costs to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37c Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) or assisting jurisdictions in creating VEBAs to shift control of retiree health care benefits to employees and/or retirees themselves to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? 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Question 12b Does your jurisdiction use special assessment(s) to fund its contributions to the road and/or bridge maintenance, improvement, or construction? (Among those jurisdictions that report using local revenue sources) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Service spending, Roads, Property taxes Question 12c Does your jurisdiction use millage(s) levied by your jurisdiction to fund its contributions to road and/or bridge maintenance, improvement, or construction? (Among those jurisdictions that report using local revenue sources) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Service spending, Roads, Property taxes Question 13a In the last two years, has your jurisdiction tried to raise local funding for roads and/or bridges through a new or renewed road millage(s)? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue Question 13b In the last two years, has your jurisdiction tried to raise local funding for roads and/or bridges through a special assessment(s)? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue Question 14a Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would the majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 14b Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would the majority of your jurisdiction's citizens support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 14c Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would the majority of your jurisdiction's business community support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 14d Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would you personally as local official support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15a Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a special assessment? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15b Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/county millage? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15c Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional vehicle registration fee (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15d Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional fuel tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15e Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through local/regional sales tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Taxes, Roads Question 43 How would you rate the way the Michigan Legislature is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, Job evaluation of legislature Question 32 Similar to an actuarially required contribution for a pension fund, a jurisdiction's "annual required contribution" (ARC) for its retiree health care fund is based on the benefits earned by employees in the current year, plus an amount to reduce any unfunded liabilities for past years. Some jurisdictions pay their retiree health care ARC in full each year. Others do not, and may just pay as they go for only that year's retiree health care costs. Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 34 To the best of your knowledge, are your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations currently fully funded? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 35 Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations are currently fully funded, in your opinion, are these obligations a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all for your jurisdiction's fiscal health? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 36 Looking ahead, how concerned are you, if at all, that your jurisdiction will not be able to fulfill its health care benefit obligations to its retirees? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 37a Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose prohibiting jurisdictions from providing retiree health care benefits for future retirees to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37b Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose setting hard caps (i.e., percentage or dollar figure) on jurisdictions' contributions to retiree health care costs to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37c Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) or assisting jurisdictions in creating VEBAs to shift control of retiree health care benefits to employees and/or retirees themselves to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? 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Question 12c Does your jurisdiction use millage(s) levied by your jurisdiction to fund its contributions to road and/or bridge maintenance, improvement, or construction? (Among those jurisdictions that report using local revenue sources) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Service spending, Roads, Property taxes Question 13a In the last two years, has your jurisdiction tried to raise local funding for roads and/or bridges through a new or renewed road millage(s)? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue Question 13b In the last two years, has your jurisdiction tried to raise local funding for roads and/or bridges through a special assessment(s)? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue Question 14a Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would the majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 14b Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would the majority of your jurisdiction's citizens support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 14c Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would the majority of your jurisdiction's business community support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 14d Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would you personally as local official support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15a Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a special assessment? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15b Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/county millage? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15c Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional vehicle registration fee (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15d Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional fuel tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15e Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through local/regional sales tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Taxes, Roads Question 43 How would you rate the way the Michigan Legislature is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, Job evaluation of legislature Question 32 Similar to an actuarially required contribution for a pension fund, a jurisdiction's "annual required contribution" (ARC) for its retiree health care fund is based on the benefits earned by employees in the current year, plus an amount to reduce any unfunded liabilities for past years. Some jurisdictions pay their retiree health care ARC in full each year. Others do not, and may just pay as they go for only that year's retiree health care costs. Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 34 To the best of your knowledge, are your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations currently fully funded? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 35 Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations are currently fully funded, in your opinion, are these obligations a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all for your jurisdiction's fiscal health? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 36 Looking ahead, how concerned are you, if at all, that your jurisdiction will not be able to fulfill its health care benefit obligations to its retirees? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 37a Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose prohibiting jurisdictions from providing retiree health care benefits for future retirees to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37b Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose setting hard caps (i.e., percentage or dollar figure) on jurisdictions' contributions to retiree health care costs to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37c Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) or assisting jurisdictions in creating VEBAs to shift control of retiree health care benefits to employees and/or retirees themselves to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? 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Question 13a In the last two years, has your jurisdiction tried to raise local funding for roads and/or bridges through a new or renewed road millage(s)? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue Question 13b In the last two years, has your jurisdiction tried to raise local funding for roads and/or bridges through a special assessment(s)? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue Question 14a Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would the majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 14b Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would the majority of your jurisdiction's citizens support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 14c Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would the majority of your jurisdiction's business community support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 14d Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would you personally as local official support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15a Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a special assessment? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15b Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/county millage? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15c Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional vehicle registration fee (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15d Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional fuel tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15e Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through local/regional sales tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Taxes, Roads Question 43 How would you rate the way the Michigan Legislature is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, Job evaluation of legislature Question 32 Similar to an actuarially required contribution for a pension fund, a jurisdiction's "annual required contribution" (ARC) for its retiree health care fund is based on the benefits earned by employees in the current year, plus an amount to reduce any unfunded liabilities for past years. Some jurisdictions pay their retiree health care ARC in full each year. Others do not, and may just pay as they go for only that year's retiree health care costs. Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 34 To the best of your knowledge, are your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations currently fully funded? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 35 Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations are currently fully funded, in your opinion, are these obligations a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all for your jurisdiction's fiscal health? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 36 Looking ahead, how concerned are you, if at all, that your jurisdiction will not be able to fulfill its health care benefit obligations to its retirees? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 37a Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose prohibiting jurisdictions from providing retiree health care benefits for future retirees to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37b Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose setting hard caps (i.e., percentage or dollar figure) on jurisdictions' contributions to retiree health care costs to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37c Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) or assisting jurisdictions in creating VEBAs to shift control of retiree health care benefits to employees and/or retirees themselves to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? 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Question 13b In the last two years, has your jurisdiction tried to raise local funding for roads and/or bridges through a special assessment(s)? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue Question 14a Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would the majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 14b Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would the majority of your jurisdiction's citizens support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 14c Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would the majority of your jurisdiction's business community support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 14d Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would you personally as local official support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15a Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a special assessment? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15b Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/county millage? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15c Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional vehicle registration fee (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15d Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional fuel tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15e Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through local/regional sales tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Taxes, Roads Question 43 How would you rate the way the Michigan Legislature is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, Job evaluation of legislature Question 32 Similar to an actuarially required contribution for a pension fund, a jurisdiction's "annual required contribution" (ARC) for its retiree health care fund is based on the benefits earned by employees in the current year, plus an amount to reduce any unfunded liabilities for past years. Some jurisdictions pay their retiree health care ARC in full each year. Others do not, and may just pay as they go for only that year's retiree health care costs. Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 34 To the best of your knowledge, are your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations currently fully funded? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 35 Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations are currently fully funded, in your opinion, are these obligations a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all for your jurisdiction's fiscal health? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 36 Looking ahead, how concerned are you, if at all, that your jurisdiction will not be able to fulfill its health care benefit obligations to its retirees? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 37a Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose prohibiting jurisdictions from providing retiree health care benefits for future retirees to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37b Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose setting hard caps (i.e., percentage or dollar figure) on jurisdictions' contributions to retiree health care costs to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37c Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) or assisting jurisdictions in creating VEBAs to shift control of retiree health care benefits to employees and/or retirees themselves to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? 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Question 14a Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would the majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 14b Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would the majority of your jurisdiction's citizens support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 14c Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would the majority of your jurisdiction's business community support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 14d Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would you personally as local official support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15a Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a special assessment? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15b Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/county millage? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15c Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional vehicle registration fee (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15d Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional fuel tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15e Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through local/regional sales tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Taxes, Roads Question 43 How would you rate the way the Michigan Legislature is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, Job evaluation of legislature Question 32 Similar to an actuarially required contribution for a pension fund, a jurisdiction's "annual required contribution" (ARC) for its retiree health care fund is based on the benefits earned by employees in the current year, plus an amount to reduce any unfunded liabilities for past years. Some jurisdictions pay their retiree health care ARC in full each year. Others do not, and may just pay as they go for only that year's retiree health care costs. Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 34 To the best of your knowledge, are your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations currently fully funded? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 35 Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations are currently fully funded, in your opinion, are these obligations a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all for your jurisdiction's fiscal health? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 36 Looking ahead, how concerned are you, if at all, that your jurisdiction will not be able to fulfill its health care benefit obligations to its retirees? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 37a Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose prohibiting jurisdictions from providing retiree health care benefits for future retirees to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37b Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose setting hard caps (i.e., percentage or dollar figure) on jurisdictions' contributions to retiree health care costs to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37c Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) or assisting jurisdictions in creating VEBAs to shift control of retiree health care benefits to employees and/or retirees themselves to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? 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Question 14b Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would the majority of your jurisdiction's citizens support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 14c Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would the majority of your jurisdiction's business community support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 14d Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would you personally as local official support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15a Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a special assessment? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15b Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/county millage? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15c Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional vehicle registration fee (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15d Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional fuel tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15e Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through local/regional sales tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Taxes, Roads Question 43 How would you rate the way the Michigan Legislature is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, Job evaluation of legislature Question 32 Similar to an actuarially required contribution for a pension fund, a jurisdiction's "annual required contribution" (ARC) for its retiree health care fund is based on the benefits earned by employees in the current year, plus an amount to reduce any unfunded liabilities for past years. Some jurisdictions pay their retiree health care ARC in full each year. Others do not, and may just pay as they go for only that year's retiree health care costs. Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 34 To the best of your knowledge, are your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations currently fully funded? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 35 Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations are currently fully funded, in your opinion, are these obligations a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all for your jurisdiction's fiscal health? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 36 Looking ahead, how concerned are you, if at all, that your jurisdiction will not be able to fulfill its health care benefit obligations to its retirees? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 37a Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose prohibiting jurisdictions from providing retiree health care benefits for future retirees to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37b Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose setting hard caps (i.e., percentage or dollar figure) on jurisdictions' contributions to retiree health care costs to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37c Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) or assisting jurisdictions in creating VEBAs to shift control of retiree health care benefits to employees and/or retirees themselves to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? 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Question 14c Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would the majority of your jurisdiction's business community support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 14d Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would you personally as local official support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15a Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a special assessment? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15b Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/county millage? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15c Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional vehicle registration fee (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15d Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional fuel tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15e Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through local/regional sales tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Taxes, Roads Question 43 How would you rate the way the Michigan Legislature is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, Job evaluation of legislature Question 32 Similar to an actuarially required contribution for a pension fund, a jurisdiction's "annual required contribution" (ARC) for its retiree health care fund is based on the benefits earned by employees in the current year, plus an amount to reduce any unfunded liabilities for past years. Some jurisdictions pay their retiree health care ARC in full each year. Others do not, and may just pay as they go for only that year's retiree health care costs. Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 34 To the best of your knowledge, are your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations currently fully funded? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 35 Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations are currently fully funded, in your opinion, are these obligations a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all for your jurisdiction's fiscal health? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 36 Looking ahead, how concerned are you, if at all, that your jurisdiction will not be able to fulfill its health care benefit obligations to its retirees? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 37a Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose prohibiting jurisdictions from providing retiree health care benefits for future retirees to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37b Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose setting hard caps (i.e., percentage or dollar figure) on jurisdictions' contributions to retiree health care costs to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37c Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) or assisting jurisdictions in creating VEBAs to shift control of retiree health care benefits to employees and/or retirees themselves to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? 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Question 14d Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, in your opinion, would you personally as local official support or oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads, through existing options such as millages or potential new options like sales or fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, etc.? Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15a Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a special assessment? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15b Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/county millage? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15c Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional vehicle registration fee (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15d Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional fuel tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15e Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through local/regional sales tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Taxes, Roads Question 43 How would you rate the way the Michigan Legislature is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, Job evaluation of legislature Question 32 Similar to an actuarially required contribution for a pension fund, a jurisdiction's "annual required contribution" (ARC) for its retiree health care fund is based on the benefits earned by employees in the current year, plus an amount to reduce any unfunded liabilities for past years. Some jurisdictions pay their retiree health care ARC in full each year. Others do not, and may just pay as they go for only that year's retiree health care costs. Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 34 To the best of your knowledge, are your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations currently fully funded? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 35 Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations are currently fully funded, in your opinion, are these obligations a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all for your jurisdiction's fiscal health? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 36 Looking ahead, how concerned are you, if at all, that your jurisdiction will not be able to fulfill its health care benefit obligations to its retirees? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 37a Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose prohibiting jurisdictions from providing retiree health care benefits for future retirees to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37b Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose setting hard caps (i.e., percentage or dollar figure) on jurisdictions' contributions to retiree health care costs to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37c Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) or assisting jurisdictions in creating VEBAs to shift control of retiree health care benefits to employees and/or retirees themselves to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? 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Question 15a Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a special assessment? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15b Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/county millage? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15c Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional vehicle registration fee (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15d Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional fuel tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15e Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through local/regional sales tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Taxes, Roads Question 43 How would you rate the way the Michigan Legislature is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, Job evaluation of legislature Question 32 Similar to an actuarially required contribution for a pension fund, a jurisdiction's "annual required contribution" (ARC) for its retiree health care fund is based on the benefits earned by employees in the current year, plus an amount to reduce any unfunded liabilities for past years. Some jurisdictions pay their retiree health care ARC in full each year. Others do not, and may just pay as they go for only that year's retiree health care costs. Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 34 To the best of your knowledge, are your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations currently fully funded? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 35 Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations are currently fully funded, in your opinion, are these obligations a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all for your jurisdiction's fiscal health? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 36 Looking ahead, how concerned are you, if at all, that your jurisdiction will not be able to fulfill its health care benefit obligations to its retirees? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 37a Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose prohibiting jurisdictions from providing retiree health care benefits for future retirees to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37b Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose setting hard caps (i.e., percentage or dollar figure) on jurisdictions' contributions to retiree health care costs to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37c Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) or assisting jurisdictions in creating VEBAs to shift control of retiree health care benefits to employees and/or retirees themselves to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? 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Question 15b Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/county millage? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Finance Budget and Operations, Roads, Property taxes, Revenue, Taxes Question 15c Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional vehicle registration fee (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15d Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional fuel tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15e Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through local/regional sales tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Taxes, Roads Question 43 How would you rate the way the Michigan Legislature is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, Job evaluation of legislature Question 32 Similar to an actuarially required contribution for a pension fund, a jurisdiction's "annual required contribution" (ARC) for its retiree health care fund is based on the benefits earned by employees in the current year, plus an amount to reduce any unfunded liabilities for past years. Some jurisdictions pay their retiree health care ARC in full each year. Others do not, and may just pay as they go for only that year's retiree health care costs. Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 34 To the best of your knowledge, are your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations currently fully funded? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 35 Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations are currently fully funded, in your opinion, are these obligations a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all for your jurisdiction's fiscal health? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 36 Looking ahead, how concerned are you, if at all, that your jurisdiction will not be able to fulfill its health care benefit obligations to its retirees? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 37a Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose prohibiting jurisdictions from providing retiree health care benefits for future retirees to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37b Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose setting hard caps (i.e., percentage or dollar figure) on jurisdictions' contributions to retiree health care costs to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37c Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) or assisting jurisdictions in creating VEBAs to shift control of retiree health care benefits to employees and/or retirees themselves to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? 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Question 15c Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional vehicle registration fee (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15d Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional fuel tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15e Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through local/regional sales tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Taxes, Roads Question 43 How would you rate the way the Michigan Legislature is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, Job evaluation of legislature Question 32 Similar to an actuarially required contribution for a pension fund, a jurisdiction's "annual required contribution" (ARC) for its retiree health care fund is based on the benefits earned by employees in the current year, plus an amount to reduce any unfunded liabilities for past years. Some jurisdictions pay their retiree health care ARC in full each year. Others do not, and may just pay as they go for only that year's retiree health care costs. Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 34 To the best of your knowledge, are your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations currently fully funded? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 35 Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations are currently fully funded, in your opinion, are these obligations a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all for your jurisdiction's fiscal health? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 36 Looking ahead, how concerned are you, if at all, that your jurisdiction will not be able to fulfill its health care benefit obligations to its retirees? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 37a Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose prohibiting jurisdictions from providing retiree health care benefits for future retirees to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37b Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose setting hard caps (i.e., percentage or dollar figure) on jurisdictions' contributions to retiree health care costs to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37c Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) or assisting jurisdictions in creating VEBAs to shift control of retiree health care benefits to employees and/or retirees themselves to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? 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Question 15d Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through a local/regional fuel tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Transportation, Roads Question 15e Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through local/regional sales tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Taxes, Roads Question 43 How would you rate the way the Michigan Legislature is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, Job evaluation of legislature Question 32 Similar to an actuarially required contribution for a pension fund, a jurisdiction's "annual required contribution" (ARC) for its retiree health care fund is based on the benefits earned by employees in the current year, plus an amount to reduce any unfunded liabilities for past years. Some jurisdictions pay their retiree health care ARC in full each year. Others do not, and may just pay as they go for only that year's retiree health care costs. Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 34 To the best of your knowledge, are your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations currently fully funded? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 35 Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations are currently fully funded, in your opinion, are these obligations a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all for your jurisdiction's fiscal health? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 36 Looking ahead, how concerned are you, if at all, that your jurisdiction will not be able to fulfill its health care benefit obligations to its retirees? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 37a Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose prohibiting jurisdictions from providing retiree health care benefits for future retirees to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37b Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose setting hard caps (i.e., percentage or dollar figure) on jurisdictions' contributions to retiree health care costs to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37c Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) or assisting jurisdictions in creating VEBAs to shift control of retiree health care benefits to employees and/or retirees themselves to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? 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Question 15e Looking ahead, if the state legislature does not significantly increase funding for the maintenance, improvement, and construction of roads and/or bridges in your jurisdiction, do you think the majority of your citizens would support or oppose raising additional local revenue through local/regional sales tax (if it were allowed in Michigan)? (Excluding those jurisdictions that report a majority of citizens to oppose the pursuit of additional local revenue dedicated to roads) Survey Fall 2014 Categories Services, Infrastructure, Revenue, Taxes, Roads Question 43 How would you rate the way the Michigan Legislature is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, Job evaluation of legislature Question 32 Similar to an actuarially required contribution for a pension fund, a jurisdiction's "annual required contribution" (ARC) for its retiree health care fund is based on the benefits earned by employees in the current year, plus an amount to reduce any unfunded liabilities for past years. Some jurisdictions pay their retiree health care ARC in full each year. Others do not, and may just pay as they go for only that year's retiree health care costs. Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 34 To the best of your knowledge, are your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations currently fully funded? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 35 Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations are currently fully funded, in your opinion, are these obligations a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all for your jurisdiction's fiscal health? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 36 Looking ahead, how concerned are you, if at all, that your jurisdiction will not be able to fulfill its health care benefit obligations to its retirees? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 37a Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose prohibiting jurisdictions from providing retiree health care benefits for future retirees to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37b Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose setting hard caps (i.e., percentage or dollar figure) on jurisdictions' contributions to retiree health care costs to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37c Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) or assisting jurisdictions in creating VEBAs to shift control of retiree health care benefits to employees and/or retirees themselves to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? 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Question 43 How would you rate the way the Michigan Legislature is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, Job evaluation of legislature Question 32 Similar to an actuarially required contribution for a pension fund, a jurisdiction's "annual required contribution" (ARC) for its retiree health care fund is based on the benefits earned by employees in the current year, plus an amount to reduce any unfunded liabilities for past years. Some jurisdictions pay their retiree health care ARC in full each year. Others do not, and may just pay as they go for only that year's retiree health care costs. Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 34 To the best of your knowledge, are your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations currently fully funded? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 35 Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations are currently fully funded, in your opinion, are these obligations a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all for your jurisdiction's fiscal health? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 36 Looking ahead, how concerned are you, if at all, that your jurisdiction will not be able to fulfill its health care benefit obligations to its retirees? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 37a Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose prohibiting jurisdictions from providing retiree health care benefits for future retirees to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37b Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose setting hard caps (i.e., percentage or dollar figure) on jurisdictions' contributions to retiree health care costs to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37c Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) or assisting jurisdictions in creating VEBAs to shift control of retiree health care benefits to employees and/or retirees themselves to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? 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Question 32 Similar to an actuarially required contribution for a pension fund, a jurisdiction's "annual required contribution" (ARC) for its retiree health care fund is based on the benefits earned by employees in the current year, plus an amount to reduce any unfunded liabilities for past years. Some jurisdictions pay their retiree health care ARC in full each year. Others do not, and may just pay as they go for only that year's retiree health care costs. Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 34 To the best of your knowledge, are your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations currently fully funded? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 35 Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations are currently fully funded, in your opinion, are these obligations a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all for your jurisdiction's fiscal health? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 36 Looking ahead, how concerned are you, if at all, that your jurisdiction will not be able to fulfill its health care benefit obligations to its retirees? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 37a Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose prohibiting jurisdictions from providing retiree health care benefits for future retirees to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37b Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose setting hard caps (i.e., percentage or dollar figure) on jurisdictions' contributions to retiree health care costs to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37c Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) or assisting jurisdictions in creating VEBAs to shift control of retiree health care benefits to employees and/or retirees themselves to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? 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Question 34 To the best of your knowledge, are your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations currently fully funded? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 35 Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations are currently fully funded, in your opinion, are these obligations a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all for your jurisdiction's fiscal health? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 36 Looking ahead, how concerned are you, if at all, that your jurisdiction will not be able to fulfill its health care benefit obligations to its retirees? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 37a Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose prohibiting jurisdictions from providing retiree health care benefits for future retirees to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37b Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose setting hard caps (i.e., percentage or dollar figure) on jurisdictions' contributions to retiree health care costs to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37c Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) or assisting jurisdictions in creating VEBAs to shift control of retiree health care benefits to employees and/or retirees themselves to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? 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Question 35 Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction's retiree health care obligations are currently fully funded, in your opinion, are these obligations a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all for your jurisdiction's fiscal health? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 36 Looking ahead, how concerned are you, if at all, that your jurisdiction will not be able to fulfill its health care benefit obligations to its retirees? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 37a Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose prohibiting jurisdictions from providing retiree health care benefits for future retirees to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37b Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose setting hard caps (i.e., percentage or dollar figure) on jurisdictions' contributions to retiree health care costs to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37c Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) or assisting jurisdictions in creating VEBAs to shift control of retiree health care benefits to employees and/or retirees themselves to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? 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Question 36 Looking ahead, how concerned are you, if at all, that your jurisdiction will not be able to fulfill its health care benefit obligations to its retirees? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, fiscal health Question 37a Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose prohibiting jurisdictions from providing retiree health care benefits for future retirees to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37b Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose setting hard caps (i.e., percentage or dollar figure) on jurisdictions' contributions to retiree health care costs to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37c Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) or assisting jurisdictions in creating VEBAs to shift control of retiree health care benefits to employees and/or retirees themselves to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? 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Question 37a Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose prohibiting jurisdictions from providing retiree health care benefits for future retirees to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37b Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose setting hard caps (i.e., percentage or dollar figure) on jurisdictions' contributions to retiree health care costs to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37c Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) or assisting jurisdictions in creating VEBAs to shift control of retiree health care benefits to employees and/or retirees themselves to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? 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Question 37b Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose setting hard caps (i.e., percentage or dollar figure) on jurisdictions' contributions to retiree health care costs to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB, State mandates and preemption Question 37c Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) or assisting jurisdictions in creating VEBAs to shift control of retiree health care benefits to employees and/or retirees themselves to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Job evaluation of governor, State government job performance, Governmental Relations, State government Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 155 Page 156 Page 157 Page 158 Current page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Page 163 Next page next Last page last
Question 37c Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) or assisting jurisdictions in creating VEBAs to shift control of retiree health care benefits to employees and/or retirees themselves to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Job evaluation of governor, State government job performance, Governmental Relations, State government Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 155 Page 156 Page 157 Page 158 Current page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Page 163 Next page next Last page last
Question 37d Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-pooled retiree health care benefits system to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Job evaluation of governor, State government job performance, Governmental Relations, State government Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 155 Page 156 Page 157 Page 158 Current page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Page 163 Next page next Last page last
Question 37e Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose facilitating the creation of private health care exchanges (like the public exchanges in the federal Affordable Care Act) for Michigan's local governments to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Job evaluation of governor, State government job performance, Governmental Relations, State government Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 155 Page 156 Page 157 Page 158 Current page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Page 163 Next page next Last page last
Question 37f Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose creating a state-wide bonding pool for funding retiree health care benefits to help your jurisdiction better meet or reduce its retiree health care obligations? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Job evaluation of governor, State government job performance, Governmental Relations, State government Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 155 Page 156 Page 157 Page 158 Current page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Page 163 Next page next Last page last
Question 37g Thinking about the following actions the State of Michigan could take to help local governments address retiree health care obligations, to what extent, if any, would you support or oppose easing credit rating-based restrictions so more jurisdictions could issue bonds for funding retiree health care benefits? (Among those jurisdictions that reported offering some kind of retiree health care benefits) Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, OPEB Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Job evaluation of governor, State government job performance, Governmental Relations, State government Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 155 Page 156 Page 157 Page 158 Current page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Page 163 Next page next Last page last
Question 38 Do you feel things in your jurisdiction are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Job evaluation of governor, State government job performance, Governmental Relations, State government Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 155 Page 156 Page 157 Page 158 Current page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Page 163 Next page next Last page last
Question 39 How would you rate the way your jurisdiction's governing board is performing its job? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Local government job performance, Job evaluation of own jurisdiction, Governmental Relations Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Job evaluation of governor, State government job performance, Governmental Relations, State government Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 155 Page 156 Page 157 Page 158 Current page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Page 163 Next page next Last page last
Question 40 Do you feel things in the state of Michigan are generally going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten off on the wrong track? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Governmental Relations, State government, State government job performance, State direction/track Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Job evaluation of governor, State government job performance, Governmental Relations, State government Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 155 Page 156 Page 157 Page 158 Current page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Page 163 Next page next Last page last
Question 42 How would you rate the way Rick Snyder is performing his job as Michigan's governor? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Job evaluation of governor, State government job performance, Governmental Relations, State government Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 155 Page 156 Page 157 Page 158 Current page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Page 163 Next page next Last page last