Milford accepts 3 streets to receive state road money

 The Milford Village Council at its Monday, Aug. 20 meeting approved a resolution accepting Riverside Street, Riverbend Street and Whitewater Street in the village’s local street inventory.

This move will allow the streets to benefit from state transportation funding for maintenance after the village submits the required legal description and necessary forms to the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT).

“There’s a new development behind the (Milford Civic Center) and these streets are completed. We will now take them over and we will let the state know that we can get Public Act 51 money,” said Interim Village Manager Deborah Frazer.

The resolution states that the three streets are now public streets.

This comes after Milford Village voters approved a new millage earlier this month that increases the village’s charter tax rate over a 20-year period for the purpose of defraying the cost of major and local road maintenance.

With the approval, 3.5 mills will be collected during the first 10 years before dipping down to 1 mill to be collected during the last 10 years of the levy.

The first collection will take place in the July 2013 village tax bill.