The Municipal Employee's Retirement System of Michigan (MERS) is a statewide public employee retirement system that provides quality employee benefit programs for approximately 75,000 Michigan public employees. They have more than 60 years experience in providing cost-effective plan administration to municipal employees. MERS activley seeks opportunities to strengthen the economic welfare of their members and the Michigan communities that they support.

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Asphalt Materials is a client-focused, innovative provider of high quality asphalt and asphalt emulsion products. These products play a critical role in providing clients with the tools to build and maintain economical and reliable pavements. Asphalt Materials staff is there to assist clients in the techinical aspect of constructing and maintaining asphalt pavements. Through consistent research and client needs, Asphalt Materials continues to introduce new techonoliges to ensure the highest quality asphalt products.

Bauckham, Sparks, Lohrstorfer, Thall & Seeber, P.C. is engaged in the general practice of law with special emphasis on township law. Our clients include townships throughout the State, the Michigan Townships Association as well as private individuals and businesses. Our township representation includes all phases of township operations and issues.

Fahey Schultz Burzych Rhodes PLC is a leading firm of township attorneys. Based in central Michigan, we represent more than 30 rural and urban townships statewide. Our specialists offer townships accessible, affordable expertise, based on more than 100 years of combined experience in township law. 

Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith is a Michigan law firm built upon age-old philosophies that embrace integrity, hard work, camaraderie and community involvement. Their reputation is a result of relationships they build with clients, employees and communities.

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Through their operating subsidiaries, ITC is in the business of transmitting high-voltage electricity throughout the central United States and for the international markets to our neighbors in Canada.  Beginning operations in March 2003, ITC is the nation's first fully independent transmission business - and is now the nation's largest independent transmission company.  ITC invests in electric transmission to enhance reliability and relieve electric transmission congestions, connect renewable energy resources to customers, and to lower the delivered energy cost to consumers.

Michigan CLASS® offers all public agencies, including townships in Michigan a safe, liquid and competitive investment option. CLASS® (Cooperative Liquid Assets Securities System) is an independent investment pool which enables public entities to combine their funds with other units of government in order to gain financial leverage to obtain competitive rates and better service on their short- and long-term investments. The Michigan CLASS® Board membership represents the diversity of its agencies and works to maintain a product that services the needs of all Michigan public agencies. Richard Garay, Regional Manager.

Ted Hartleb agency has been locally owned and operated since 1977, offering many different types of insurance including Auto, Home, Business, Life, Long Term Care, and Disability, and a wide variety of services.

C2AE is a full-service architectural, engineering, and planning firm that has been providing award-winning design services for more than 42 years. C2AE offers a wide range of specialized services for a broad spectrum of market sectors, including k-12 and post-secondary education, health care, industrial, municipalities, recreational facilities, site planning, transportation, and waste water/water infrastructure.

Consumers Energy is Michigan's second largest electric and natural gas utility, providing service to more than 6 million of the state's 10 million residents in all 68 counties in the Lower Peninsula. Consumers Energy is the principal subsidiary of Jackson-based CMS Energy Corporation.

The David Chapman agency has been faithfully servicing the Michigan communities insurance needs since 1976. The agency's public entity department has assisted multiple townships, cities, special districts and villages throughout the state of Michigan in placing their insurance coverage with robust and cost-effective programs specifically designed for their unique exposures. We believe in conducting ourselves with utmost integrity and honesty in all our dealings as a good name is to be more desired and great wealth.

A diversified energy and technology company involved in developing and managing energy-related businesses and services nationwide. Detroit Edison and MichCon are DTE Energy's principal regulated subsidiaries.

HME, Inc. builds quality fire apparatus. And that's all we build. While other manufacturers build fire apparatus as a sideline or as a way to broaden their product line, at HME, creating and building innovative and intelligent fire apparatus that are safer, more efficient and more responsive to all the challenges faced by departments and municipalities is our one and only goal.

Kingscott is a full-service architectural, engineering, interior design, and planning firm with offices in Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, and Chelsea, Michigan. We like what we do. We are dedicated to our clients' long-term satisfaction. We provide creative and responsible design that reflects what our clients want. We have fun.

Mika Meyers Beckett & Jones, PLC provides legal services to townships, other local governments and public authorities to ensure the efficient and cost-effective delivery of vital public services. We provide specialized legal expertise in areas as diverse as zoning and land use planning, bond issues, special assessments, tax increment financing, DDA's and other public authorities, labor contracts and arbitration, employee benefits, elections, environmental regulation and many other matters affecting local governments.

Legal services, specializing in municipal representation in municipal bonds and finance, communications, cable television regulation, franchises, construction contracts and disputes, employee benefits and pensions, environmental law and regulations, labor relations and discrimination, litigation, taxation, and assessment appeals.

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Nickel & Saph, Inc. Insurance Agency is an independent insurance agency that has been in continuous operation since 1929. Our agents and professional staff are dedicated to the public entity marketplace. Nickel & Saph adds value to a community’s insurance program throughout the year by conducting professional training, property evaluations, and educational seminars. The insurance companies Nickel & Saph represent offer stability and commitment to townships throughout Michigan. A periodic review of a township’s insurance needs assures township officials that qualified professionals have assessed a community’s needs and that the coverages secured are obtained at a competitive price.

Flexible, affordable, easy-to-use property tax administration, fund accounting and cemetery management software solutions for local government and cemetery managers backed by unparalleled support and free software upgrade and platform releases as part of your annual support fee.   Call us and find out what a difference Pontem can make.

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SAFEbuilt is a leading provider of building department services to municipalities. Services include complete building department administration, plan review and inspection. A customized solution from SAFEbuilt allows communities to manage their building department more efficiently and cost effectively. The staff of state licensed and ICC certified professionals ensure the standards and codes for safety, health and public welfare are maintained.

Since 1927, Hubbard, Fox, Thomas, White & Bengtson, P.C. has been dedicated to providing the highest quality legal services to its clients, which has made the firm one of Lansing's oldest and most respected. The firm's success is rooted in its commitment to fully understand their clients’ needs, to respond with honest, straight-forward advice, and to recommend and execute the most appropriate course of legal action that supports the client's interests—all in keeping with the highest standards and ethics of the profession.

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Thrun Law Firm, P.C. focuses on real estate and property tax matters, labor and employment (including collective bargaining/negotiations/benefits), contracts, bond, election and finance matters, and criminal prosecutions for ordinance violations. The firm provides representation to municipal clients at all levels of state and federal government forums, including the Michigan Department of Civil Rights and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, as well as arbitration. Thrun Law Firm has offices in East Lansing and Novi.

Wade Trim is a professional services consultant that serves the infrastructure and related needs of municipalities, industries and private corporations throughout Michigan and seven other states. Services include engineering, planning, landscape architecture, operations, surveying and environmental science.