This week, voters in Oakland and Wayne Counties approved the Southeast Michigan Public Historical Museum Authority Millage Proposal.<\/p>\n
It passed by a fairly wide margin in Wayne County, with 63% of voters approving it. In Oakland, about 53% of voters said \u2018yes\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Macomb County was not included<\/a> in the proposal.<\/p>\n That means the millage will be in place for the next 10 years. It will tax residents 20-cents for every thousand dollars of taxable property value. For a home that costs $300,000, that would come out to about $30 a year.<\/p>\n That funding will cover the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the Detroit Historical Museum, and the Dossin Great Lakes Museum. Beyond that, there\u2019s also a 15% allotment for other historical museums throughout Wayne and Oakland Counties.<\/p>\n Assistant Director of the Michigan Museums Association Melissa Ford joined The Metro to discuss the millage with Tia Graham.<\/p>\n Hear the full conversation using the media player above.<\/p>\n Listen to The Metro weekdays from 10 a.m. to noon ET on 101.9 FM and stream on-demand. Never miss an episode \u2014 subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, YouTube<\/a>, NPR<\/a>, or wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week, voters in Oakland and Wayne Counties approved the Southeast Michigan Public Historical Museum Authority Millage Proposal.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[195301,158860,158862,155133,2311,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-522730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-charles-h-wright-museum-of-african-american-history","tag-detroit-historical-museum","tag-dossin-great-lakes-museum","tag-millage","tag-museums","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522730","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=522730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}