Saline Area Chamber of Commerce Blog

Saline Area Schools Financing 2012-13

Written on February 28, 2012 at 9:10 pm, by Larry Osterling

     It’s looking more and more like this fiscal year for Saline Area Schools (2012-13) may find them working with something that hasn’t happened for a long time, namely a deficit budget.    Saline would join other Washtenaw County public school districts Willow Run, Ypsilanti Public Schools, and Victory Academy in operating with a deficit.  Saline  reduced its fund [...]

Movie “Credits” and Movie Production in Michigan Communities

Written on February 22, 2012 at 2:11 pm, by Larry Osterling

Starting several years ago with a movie called “Whip It”, the Saline area community has had several movies produced or partially produced in our area.  The movie production companies come here and are incented to produce here with credit subsidies from State of Michigan tax dollars.  There have been numerous comments and studies conducted about movie production credits, pro and [...]

International Bridge Project

Written on February 15, 2012 at 8:34 pm, by Larry Osterling

Our thoughts on the International Bridge Project are well-know and the Chamber has a  published postion statement available for viewing on line in our November 2011 newsletter “The Advocate”.    There’s still plenty of support for it.  There’s also plenty of advertising dollars being spent against it.  We’d like to hear from you and know what you [...]

County-Wide Transit

Written on February 15, 2012 at 8:30 pm, by Larry Osterling

Many of you may have already read about the “County-Wide” transit proposal and/or heard presentations from the marketing firms that were hired by AATA officials (AnnArbor Transportation Authority).  County-wide transit represents an effort to identify demand to expand AATA services into outlying areas of all parts of Washtenaw County (or at least all parts of the County agreeing to [...]

Are you a “spend-lesser” or a “tax more”–or somewhere in between? This year we’d like to know

Written on February 2, 2012 at 8:10 pm, by Larry Osterling

It’s an election year and the sirens are already going off.   Every day we hear from groups, causes, elected officials, and wannabe elected officials  in the public (i.e. tax-supported) sector who want us to be concerned about future funding for one particular topic or another.  Sometimes we think it might be nice just once  to hear something like    [...]

Chamber Gift Checks – Please Call Us if you have a question!

Written on March 23, 2011 at 2:09 pm, by Larry Osterling

The Chamber has some pretty big benefits that most of our members are pretty aware of already,  And then there’s a ton of littler less-known benefits in our “goodie bag” of advantages that we just can’t seem to publicize enough (i.e. the Office Depot discount program, movie ticket discounts, printed check discount program, member discounts [...]

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