KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Voters in both the cities of Kalamazoo and Portage have approved a ballot proposal to establish a Citizens’ Advisory Healthcare Action Committee or Board.
The Kalamazoo city commission and Portage city council will have to appoint members to the committees.
Kalamazoo Mayor Dave Anderson and Portage councilmembers Vic Ledbetter and Nicole Miller all urged voters to reject the proposal.
Anderson says the proposal was put on the ballots by a group he says was funded by dark money to embed a health advisory committee in the Kalamazoo City Charter.
The city of Kalamazoo has no authority in the health care field.
That is the purview of Kalamazoo County and the health department.
Anderson says all this will just put an additional burden on city staff, what he calls an unfunded mandate.
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