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Michigan Government
Last updated on March 30,
2009
- Citizen's
Guide to State Government (PDF)
- Organization chart of three branches of government
- Directory of executive departments with phone numbers
- Descriptions of the Michigan legislative process, directories of
legislative members and committees, how to contact government officials
- Number of signatures needed for petitions; number of
state legislative and court officials by political party for counties and
cities
- Michigan
Manual
- Directory of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches
- Descriptions of each agencies and its missions
- Biographies of key officials, judges, and all legislators with maps
of the districts they represent
- History and Constitutions
- Official Canvas of Votes for the last state-wide election plus
initiatives, referenda, and selected votes since 1948
- Sample Letters
- State of
Michigan Departments and Agencies
- Comprehensive web links to state government
- Salaries of
State
Officials
- Book of the States (Doc. Cen. JK 2403 .B72)
- Provides comparative salaries for governors, executive branch
officials, legislators and judges in various chapters
- See index under "salaries" at the back of the book
- State
of Michigan Telephone Directory
- Current directory arranged by department and available in Adobe
Acrobat format
- Search engine to find individual state employees by name
Agency Web Sites Arranged by Keyword
- Michigan Office of Services to the
AGING
- Aging fact sheets, senior resources, population data
- Department news and policy
- Renamed in 2002 as MiSeniors.Net
- Michigan Department of
AGRICULTURE
- Description and contacts in the animal, dairly, farm, and food divisions
- Press releases beginning January 1996
- Michigan
Market Place describes over 26 commodities
produced in the state and provides addresses/links to their industry
councils
- Climatology
provides hourly weather forcasts
and historic weather data, 1951-80, by county and weather station
- Numerous production and forecasting data from the Michigan Agricultural Statistics
Service
- Links to agricultural servers throughout the United States
- Industry web pages under development as of June
1996
- State
ARCHIVES of Michigan
- Archival circulars list the holdings of primary source records,
including state and local elections, military records, and information
from government agencies
- Separate pages describe services provided to state governments, local
governments, and individual researchers
- Michigan
ATTORNEY GENERAL's Office
- Searchable text of Attorney General opinions beginning 1997/98
- Considerable consumer protection information
including Michigan
statutes on automobiles, homes and rent, gifts, fraud
- Subject directory of offices for filing a consumer complaint and an
on-line complaint submission form
- Registration guidelines for charitable
organizations
- Free Annual
Credit Reports-What Consumers Should Know provides
Michiganians with advice on avoiding identity theft when requesting
credit reports via phone, mail, or the internet (http://www.annualcreditreport.com)
- Michigan Department of CAREER DEVELOPMENT
- Created on April 5, 1999 to enhance skills of Michigan's workforce
- Web site includes annotated links to state services for employers and
job seekers
- Michigan CENSUS AND STATISTICAL
DATA
Center
- Michigan county-wide data from the 1990 and 2000 Censuses of Population and
Housing, Economic Censuses, County Business Patterns
- Population estimates and projections, government finance
data, and mapping
- CENTER FOR
EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE AND INFORMATION
- Data includes district and school building data on student
headcounts, free lunch eligibility, and dropout rates
- School staffing surveys, school safety and expulsion data
- Financial summaries include Bulletin 1011 (Analysis of Public School
Revenues and Expenditures) and Bulletin 1014 (Michigan Public Schools
Ranked by Select Financial Information)
- Most files in dbf format
- Michigan Department of
CIVIL
RIGHTS
- Pamphlets on illegal discrimination and instructions on filing a
complaint
- Services to assist business in complying with civil rights laws
- Michigan Department of CIVIL
SERVICE
- Job classification specifications for state civil service
- Employee regulations, guidelines, and benefits
- Job applications and available job listings
- Employer forms
- Michigan Department of COMMUNITY
HEALTH
- The agency was created in January 1996 by Executive Order 1996-1
- It consolidates the Dept. of Public Health, the Dept. of Mental
Health, and the Medical Services Administration
- Web site describes agency mission and activities
- Drug
Control and Substance Abuse
- Information on education, prevention, treatment, and law enforcement
- Special report and proposals on various topics, such as binge
drinking
- Health
Insurance Coverage
- Services for pregnant women, children adults and seniors
- Medicaid information
- Health
Statistics
- Data on cancer and communicable diseases
- Marriage, divorce, birth and death data, usually to the county
level
- Mental
Health
- Fact sheets on mental health in Michigan
- Directories of state-operated hospitals and community health boards
- Links to university psychiatry departments and federal mental
health organizations
- Office of the State
Registrar
- Birth, pregnancy, death by cause, cancer, and health care statistics
- Most data at the state level, Detroit, and Wayne County
- Physical
Health
- Prevention, crime victim services, and informed consent on
abortion
- Division
of
Vital Records
- Instructions and application forms for obtaining birth, marriage,
divorce, and death records
- Michigan Department of CONSUMER
AND INDUSTRY Services
- This is the reorganized Commerce Department
- Primary mission is regulation and consumer protection
- Links to web pages of its subdivisions, including
- Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs
- Corporation and Securities Bureau
- Financial Institutions Bureau
- Liquor
Control Commission
- Michigan Insurance Bureau
- Michigan Low-Level Radioactive Waste Authority
- Michigan State Housing Development Authority
- Public Service Commission
- State Fair
- Tax Tribunal
- Became the Department of Labor and Economic Growth on
Dec. 8, 2003
- Michigan Department of
CORRECTIONS
- Directory of prison facilities with description of program, security,
prisoners, capacity, funding, and address
- Brief overviews of corrections in Michigan and victim assistance
- Job openings
- Directory
of Michigan Prison Librarians
- Michigan Department of
EDUCATION
- Michigan Economic Development
Corporation
- Monthly county and place employment and unemployment data since 1970,
occupational salaries and projections by county, tax free zones, and
recruitment materials for Michigan business
- Offshoot of the Michigan Jobs Commission and formed on April 5, 1999
- Michigan EMPLOYMENT
Security Commission
- Michigan
ENVIRONMENTAL Science Board
- Full text of MESB reports (e.g. effects of mercury, chlorine, lead
on the environment)
- Information about the Board
- Michigan Department of ENVIRONMENTAL
QUALITY
- Press releases, management plan
- Description of agency and district offices
- Phone numbers to call for emergency responses
- A list of hazardous
waste facilities is available by county
- Underground
storage tank facilities, open/leaking and closed, can be
searched by city, county, company or address or downloaded
- Michigan
Environmental Code
- Searchable text of the Natural Resource and Environmental
Protection Act of 1994
- Environmental executive orders and current environmental
issues
- Michigan FAMILY INDEPENDENCE AGENCY
- Michigan Bureau of FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
- The Bureau regulates banking and related enterprises in Michigan
- Rules and regulations regarding financial institutions
- Recent legislative activity
- Michigan Center for GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
- Downloadable shape files for Michigan
- Legislative district and natural resource maps
- MI Mapper programs for individual government agencies, e.g. boating
- 1990 and 2000 Census maps
- Michigan HISTORICAL
Center
- Records maintained at the State Archives
- Michigan historical sites
- Michigan History Museum information
- Michigan
Dept of HUMAN SERVICES (Dept. of Social Services/Family
Independence Agency)
- Biennial Report with summary of social services caseloads,
departmental initiatives, and directory of local offices
- News releases and fact sheets on social services programs and
disbursements
- Renamed from the Michigan Family Independence Agency on March 15,
2005
- Michigan State POLICE
- Primarily statewide crime data
- Links to departmental bureaus and local law enforcement agencies
- Includes a missing and exploited children's data base
- Road
Conditions
- Driving conditions on U.S. highways and interstates in Michigan
- Data arranged by county and then road
- Sex Offender Registry
- Addresses of former sex offenders living in Michigan
- Searchable by zip code only
- Provides name, address, physical description, date of birth, and
offense for which convicted
- Michigan PUBLIC SERVICE
Commission
- The commission regulates public utilities: gas, electric,
communications and motor carriers
- Web site includes a mission statement, annual report, current
projects, and contact information
- Michigan
UNEMPLOYMENT
Agency
- Employer information includes affirmative action report, newsletters,
and status of labor bills before the Michigan Legislature
- Advocacy forms and online resumes for the jobless
- Average weekly salaries in Michigan since 1971 with unemployment
trust fund, unemployment conpensation contribution, and unemployment
insurance claims dating back to the 1930s
- Unemployment
Claims
- Instructions for unemployment claims in English, Spanish and Arabic
- Unemployment application forms to be used via mail
- Information on submitting applications via voice telephone (MARVIN)
and the internet
- Walk-in unemployment offices to be closed in December 2002
- Text of 1963 Michigan Constitution
- Press releases and Executive Orders
- Michigan
Budget
- Budgets from FY 2000 to present
- Available as single downloadable in pdf format
- Possible answer for historical data:
Executive Budget, 1941 to present: HJ 11 .M542
2000+ also at:
http://www.michigan.gov/budget/0,1607,7-157-11460_18526---,00.html
Grad: 1984/1985-1992/1993,1994/1995,1996/1997-2005
Buhr: 1941/1943-1967/1968,1969/1970,1971/1972-1983/1984
Trends in State Finances, 1936-46
Library of Michigan: HJ2053.M5 T74 1946
Michigan Auditor General Annual Report
HJ 11.M52, Buhr: 1837-1938
Some of these have been digitized by Google; some not. The
MIRLYN Record provides direct links. They were also published
in the Michigan Legislature's Joint Documents Series for the 19th
Century
http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu:80/F/?func=direct&doc_number=000047962&local_base=AA_PUB
- Governor Engler's
Archive
- Includes some speeches and web site as of October 2002
- State of the State
Address
- Granholm
- Archival
Set (Engler) is usually the January speech and has its
own unique title
- Historical State of the State addresses appear in Michigan.
Governor. Messages of the
Governors of Michigan, J 87 .M516 (v.1-4 in Buhr; v.5-10 in Grad
Stacks)
- Governor Granholm's e-mail address is
http://www.michigan.gov/gov/0,1607,7-168-21995---,00.html
- State
Officers Compensation Commission Final Report: 2000
- Salaries and expense accounts of the government, lieutenant
government, Supreme Court justices, legislators, legislative officer
supplements, 1968-2002
- As of May 29, 2007 the salaries had remained the same
- Historical
List of Michigan Governors
- Covers 1837 to the present
- Includes name, party, and dates
- National
Governors Database (Natl Governors Assoc)
- Biographies and pictures of all state governors, historic and current
- Searchable by name, state, party, demographic characteristics
- Complete through Iowa as of 2/4/04; some additional material for other
states
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