Citizens for Plainfield Township Trails

Plainfield Township Non-Motorized Public Trails and Public Recreation Areas

Millage Renewal Proposal language

In 2016, Plainfield Charter Township voters approved a ten-year property tax millage for building public trails and enhancing public recreation areas. Since then, the Township has constructed over nine miles of paved trails. If the voters approve the following millage, the Township intends to construct and maintain additional non-motorized public trails and public recreation areas.

Shall the previously approved increase to the property tax levy limitation of 0.5 mill ($0.50 per $1,000 of taxable value), as reduced to 0.4596 mill ($0.4596 per $1,000 of taxable value) by required millage rollbacks, be renewed at an amount not to exceed 0.4596 mill ($0.4596 per $1,000 of taxable value), and levied annually for ten (10) years, 2026 through 2035, inclusive, for the purposes of providing funds for the acquisition, construction, improvement, operation and maintenance of non-motorized public trails and public recreation areas within the Township in accordance with the Plainfield Charter Township Parks & Recreation Master Plan?

If approved and levied, this millage is estimated to raise approximately $980,000 in the first year of the levy. As required by law, a portion of the millage revenues will be captured by, and disbursed to, the Comstock Park Downtown Development Authority, the Plainfield Avenue Corridor Improvement Authority, and the Plainfield Brownfield Redevelopment Authority.