WAYNE COUNTY CHIEF EXECUTIVE v. GOVERNOR

Docket No. 199290.

583 N.W.2d 512 (1998)

230 Mich. App. 258

WAYNE COUNTY CHIEF EXECUTIVE and Wayne County, Plaintiffs-Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. GOVERNOR of the State of Michigan, State Treasurer, State Department of Treasury, Director of the State Department of Management and Budget, State Department of Management and Budget, and State of Michigan, Defendants-Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided June 9, 1998, at 9:05 a.m.

Released for Publication September 10, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fink Zausmer, P.C. (by David H. Fink, Amy M. Sitner, and Gary K. August), Detroit, for the plaintiffs-appellants/cross-appellees.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, Thomas C. Nelson and Margaret A. Bartindale, Assistant Attorneys General, for the defendants-appellees/cross-appellants.

Before HOEKSTRA, P.J., and JANSEN and GAGE, JJ.


HOEKSTRA, Judge.

This appeal raises a number of significant issues involved in pursuing an action based on the Headlee Amendment of the Michigan Constitution, Const. 1963, art. 9, §§ 25-34. Resolution of these issues requires that we properly construe the second sentence of § 29 of the Headlee Amendment, which states:

A new activity or service or an increase in the level of any activity or service...

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