Seven Sanilac County townships and villages ask for road, fire or safety millages Nov. 3, and Yale tries again on a $20 million bond

SANDUSKY, Mich. — Voters in seven Sanilac County townships and villages will decide road, fire or public safety taxes on Nov. 3, and Yale Public Schools is back with a bond request of up to $20 million after voters rejected one earlier this year, Sanilac Broadcasting reported Thursday.

A mill is $1 for every $1,000 of a property’s taxable value. On a home with a taxable value of $100,000, each mill works out to $100 a year.

Road millages

Five townships have road questions. Two are renewals: Evergreen Township wants to keep its 2-mill road levy for 10 more years, 2026 through 2035, and Wheatland Township is asking to renew 2 mills for road maintenance for another four years.

Lexington Township wants to raise its road levy, now rolled back below 1 mill, to 1.4933 mills for two years to pay for road improvement projects. Speaker Township is asking for a new 1 mill for six years, 2027 through 2032, that would raise $55,000 in its first year for road maintenance.

Greenleaf Township’s request is narrower. It asks for up to 1 mill a year from 2027 to 2030 so it can brine its dirt roads for dust twice a year instead of once.

Fire and public safety

Moore Township is asking voters to renew a 1-mill fire levy, first approved as an increase, for four more years. It would raise about $37,500 in the first year.

Speaker Township wants a 2-mill increase for fire protection for six years, estimated at $110,000 in the first year. If both Speaker questions pass, township property owners would pay 3 new mills.

The Village of Lexington is asking for a 3-mill increase for 10 years to fund its public safety authorities.

Peck park land and the Yale bond

The Village of Peck has two proposals to sell village-owned land: part of the Bartlett Street Park property south of the Spring Creek Drain, part of the park north of the drain and one other parcel tied to the park.

Yale Public Schools wants to borrow no more than $20 million for remodeling and other work on its properties, including playgrounds, school buildings, parking lots and driveways.

Every Michigan voter will also see two statewide questions. One asks whether to call a convention to draft a revised state constitution, which voters would then have to approve. The other would bar regulated gas and electric utilities, their contractors and people with substantial ties to them from making direct or indirect campaign contributions, and would widen disclosure rules for political ads, including ads online.

Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Election Day. Voters can look up their polling place and sample ballot through the Michigan Secretary of State’s elections site.

Sources:
Sanilac Broadcasting Company, “Road, fire millage proposals populate Sanilac County ballots for November,” Oct. 15, 2026, https://www.sanilacbroadcasting.com/2026/10/15/road-fire-millage-proposals-populate-sanilac-county-ballots-for-november/
Michigan Secretary of State, elections, https://www.michigan.gov/sos/elections
Sanilac County Clerk, election information, https://www.sanilaccounty.gov/departments/county_clerk/election_information/index.php
Photo: Drdpw, “Sanilac County Courthouse (3).jpg,” Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), cropped and color-adjusted, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sanilac_County_Courthouse_(3).jpg

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