{"id":358444,"date":"2026-06-12T22:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/358444\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T22:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:04:34","slug":"aug-4-ballot-bloomfield-township-road-maintenance-and-public-safety-millage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/358444\/","title":{"rendered":"Aug 4 Ballot: Bloomfield Township Road Maintenance and Public Safety Millage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mark-mcmillan.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-139084 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/McMillan-behaviorial-health-addiction-services-ad-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"216\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aug 4 Ballot: Bloomfield Township Road Maintenance and Public Safety Millage<\/p>\n<p>Bloomfield Township, MI \u2013 Voters in Bloomfield Township have two proposals on the Aug. 4, 2026 ballot.\u00a0 Here is the ballot language:<\/p>\n<p>Bloomfield Township Renewal of Road Maintenance Millage<\/p>\n<p>Shall the Charter Township of Bloomfield be authorized to renew up to .6575 mills for a period of ten years to finance continued road maintenance, commencing with the December 2027 levy? Approval of this proposal would permit a tax of $0.6575 per $1,000 of taxable value on all taxable property in the Township. This proposed millage is a renewal of a previously authorized millage which expires in 2026. This millage will be subject to applicable constitutional tax limitation provisions at the time of levy, and will not exceed the above-stated rate. It is estimated that this proposal would result in the authorization to collect $3,929,885 in the first year if approved and levied. Shall this proposal be adopted?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbsd.org\/west-bloomfield-preschool-academy-home\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-169777 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/West-Bloomfield-Preschool-Ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"862\" height=\"216\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Renewal of Public Safety Millage<\/p>\n<p>Shall the Charter Township of Bloomfield be authorized to renew up to 1.8428 mills for a period of ten years to finance continued fire, police and public safety protection, commencing with the December 2027 levy? Approval of this proposal would permit a tax of $1.8428 per $1,000 of taxable value on all taxable property in the Township. This proposed millage is a renewal of a previously authorized millage which expires in 2026. This millage will be subject to applicable constitutional tax limitation provisions at the time of levy, and will not exceed the above-stated rate. It is estimated that this proposal would result in the authorization to collect $11,014,437 in the first year if approved and levied. Shall this proposal be adopted?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Several communities also have proposals on the ballot. For the full list and more election information visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/elections.oaklandcountymi.gov\/government\/clerk-register-of-deeds\/elections-voting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland County Clerk\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandcounty115.com\/2026\/05\/22\/2026-candidate-interviews-and-ballot-proposals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland County Election Page<\/a> for info on other proposals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highlandfarmmarket.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-167415 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Highland-DDA-Artwork-2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"862\" height=\"216\"  \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandcounty115.com\/category\/sections\/jobs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-169039 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jocal-job-listings-page-ad_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"216\"  \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/goaffirmations.org\/pedal-for-pride\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-167552 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Affirmations-Pedal-for-Pride-Ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"216\"  \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/oc115\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-123417 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/patreon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"216\"  \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/collensestatelaw.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-163101 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CEL_Oakland_County_Times_V3_Final.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"450\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandcounty115.com\/2026\/06\/12\/aug-4-ballot-bloomfield-township-road-maintenance-and-public-safety-millage\/?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\"\/>Save this post to PDF<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandcounty115.com\/2026\/06\/12\/aug-4-ballot-bloomfield-township-road-maintenance-and-public-safety-millage\/?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\"\/>Print this post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 4 Ballot: Bloomfield Township Road Maintenance and Public Safety Millage Bloomfield Township, MI \u2013 Voters in Bloomfield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-358444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}