Gary McCririe says the township won't ask for more money

Some good news in the Argus:

Genoa Township residents won’t be asked anytime soon to fund county roadwork after the “significant trouncing” the township’s road millage proposal took last week, Supervisor Gary McCririe said.
McCririe said the nearly 3-to-1 failure of the 15-year, 1.5-mill tax levy proposal will also make other Livingston County townships think twice before pursuing millages to fix roads the Road Commission is responsible for.
“I think that the results of the millage should give us pause, and we should think long and hard before we go back and try that again. I think the voters spoke pretty clearly and decisively that they’re not interested in additional tax dollars to fund Road Commission roads,” he said.
“I don’t see a path where we would put the issue before the voters anytime soon,” McCririe added.

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McCririe said the scope of last week’s defeat suggests a rework of the project list or changing the size or length of the tax levy would not make a difference in voters’ minds.

At this point, I doubt it will make a difference, because there's no trust.  Gary McCririe blew it because the original plan was that unacceptable. The road list was the biggest problem because it assaulted rural character and property rights. In addition taxpayers in subdivisions was the plan as wasting money for projects residents did not want to see happen. Road Commissioner Mike Crane said this, which gives me confidence that county doesn't have nefarious plans for some of these rural country roads (at taxpayer expense). We still have to stay vigilante.

Green Oak likely took more exhaustive measures than Genoa to get resident input on road project selection for its millage proposal, Road Commission Managing Director Mike Craine said. Most of Green Oak’s projects improved existing paved and gravel roads rather than reconstructing them, he added.

“I think that the selection and maybe the amount of time before it went on the ballot may have influenced the outcome. I think people felt they had to mobilize really quickly because it was coming on so fast,” Craine said.

“I don’t think it was about millages, per se,” he added.

Green Oak didn't reconstruct roads. This was different. Would a Green Oak style plan pass? Maybe, maybe not. Protect Genoa Township Neighborhoods would not have been formed against a Green Oak Township type of plan. That type of plan would likely just have people voting yes or people voting no for tax or use reasons without an organized opposition.That's much different than threatening the rural character of these neighborhoods by widening these roads 10+ feet.

Gary McCririe still doesn't get it. He needs to get it, soon, if he wants another term as supervisor.