Lathrup Village eNewsletter

CITY OF LATHRUP VILLAGE

27400 Southfield Road

Lathrup Village, MI 48076

248.557.2600

www.lathrupvillage.org

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E-Newsletter - August 28, 2020

Absent Voter Ballot

If you have any questions, call

City Clerk’s office

248-557-2600 x-226

cityclerk@lathrupvillage.org

If you’d like to receive an absent voter ballot, you must first complete an Absent Voter Application, which can be found here.

If residents completed and returned to the Clerk an Absent Voter application for the August 4^th election, you do not need to complete another AV application because it’s good for both August/November 2020 elections.

Clerk’s Office will receive absentee ballots for November 3^rd election during the last week of September and will mail them shortly after.

Summer Taxes Due August 31st

Residents are reminded that their Summer Property Tax payments are due by Monday, August 31, 2020. Payments can be made by:

24 hour drop box – located outside of the Police Station

In Person – at City Hall for 8am -4:30pm at 27400 Southfield Rd.

Online at www.OfficialPayments.com or calling 800.2Pay-Tax (800.272.9829). Enter Jurisdiction Code 3248. American Express, Discover, MasterCard, and Visa are accepted. This service is provided by Official Payments Corporation and they charge a nominal fee for using this payment method

Eligible residents can request to have their summer tax payment deferred until Feb. 15^th. To qualify, income cannot exceed $37,500 and applicant must be 62 years of age or older or disabled. Applications for Deferment of Summer Tax are available CLICK HERE

For additional information, contact the City Treasurer at treasurer@lathrupvillage.org

Lovin' Lathrup Village Fall Clean Up

Gather your friends and family and join us in removing trash and debris from our culverts and ditches, and getting the Southfield Road corridor ready for fall and show your love for Lathrup Village! The clean up will take place on September 26th from 9:00 am to 11:00 am.

Click here to sign up.

Street Improvement Bond Millage

The Infrastructure Study Group has recommended a proposal to improve 7.1 miles of city residential streets over 3 years, starting in Spring 2021.

The $5.85 million project would be paid for by the issuance of a bond that residents and businesses would pay back over 10 years with an average millage rate of 3.9176 mills.

The proposal appears on the November 3, 2020 ballot for Lathrup Village residents. The cost to the average homeowner would average $263 per year.

To help educate residents on the facts surrounding this this proposal, the City has created an informational website:

www.FixLVRoads.com

The site also has an interactive street map that will easily allow you to determine your annual cost, based upon the current taxable value of your home, should the proposal be approved by the residents.

Informational Town Hall Meetings will be announced soon.

Join us in congratulating Lathrup Village's City Administrator -. Dr. Sheryl Mitchell. She was presented with a 2020 Community Builder Award, in recognition of leadership and passion for community development by the Michigan Municipal League.

Congratulations

to Sheryl!

Oakland County COVID-19 Testing

Oakland County will expand its free drive-thru COVID-19 testing to include school-age children beginning August 31. Children must be from 4- to 17-years-old, have symptoms of coronavirus, and be residents of or attend school in Oakland County. Testing is available weekdays by appointment only and can be made by calling the Oakland County Health Division's Nurse on Call hotline at 800-848-5533.

General COVID-19 resources can be found on the Health Division’s website at www.oakgov.com/covid or by contacting Nurse on Call at 800-848-5533 or noc@oakgov.com.

CENSUS 2020 Updates

As of today Oakland County has 10 of the top 20 Cities in Michigan for Responding to the Census. Let’s Congratulate them on a job well done, but we still have more work to do in the next 4 weeks let’s make them count. Please see the following cities and there rankings below:

1 Huntington Woods 93.1

2 Pleasant Ridge 90.8

4 Beverly Hills 89.3

5 Lathrup Village 88.7

6 Berkley 88.6

10 Clawson 86.2

13 Wolverine Lake 85.0

15 Franklin 84.7

16 Sylvan Lake

19 Rochester Hills

With a little over a month left before the 2020 Census ends Sept. 30, all residents are asked to complete the Census online, by phone or the form mailed to their home. It’s just that simple!

In an effort to increase the response rate, census volunteers also be going door-to-door canvassing, phone banking, visiting events to get residents to complete the Census on the spot.

Residents can complete the Census right from their home by:

Going online to: my2020census.gov
Calling (844) 330-2020 (English)
Calling (844) 468-2020 (Spanish)
Completing the form that was mailed to their home

Back2School Book Bag Giveaway

Thank you to LOGOS Global Ministries, our volunteers, and our sponsors, Starbucks, 8 Mile Foodland, Sun Communities, Inc., Meijer, and Detroit Memorial Park for helping us put on our Back2School Book Bag Giveaway! 400 Book bags and over 1,300 boxes of food were distributed this past weekend. Thank you to all who came out, click the link below to see our Lathrup Village TV video of the event.

Back2School LVTV Video

OAKLAND COUNTY

RENT, MORTGAGE & UTILITY RELIEF PROGRAM

Oakland County is dedicating Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding, from the federal Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, for eligible Oakland County residents to pay up to three months of past-due rent, mortgage, and utility payments as a result of a temporary job loss, reduction in work hours or other income hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit the County's website for eligibility requirements and additional information by clicking here.