Doug Roberts to retire after 16 years on State Tax Commission
The Michigan Department of Treasury announced last week that State Tax Commission Chairperson Doug Roberts is retiring after nearly 42 years state of Michigan service.
“Doug’s contributions to Treasury and the state of Michigan are admired and respected,” State Treasurer Nick Khouri said. “I appreciate his commitment to serving our state through his role on the State Tax Commission for the past 16 years.”
Roberts has been a member of the State Tax Commission since 2003, serving as chairperson for the last eight years. Over the past four decades, he has served as Director of the State Employer, both Deputy Director and Acting Director of the Department of Management and Budget, Deputy Superintendent of Public Education, Director of the Senate Fiscal Agency and State Treasurer.
The State Tax Commission is comprised of three members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the state Senate. The commission has general supervision of the administration of MichiMackinac Center Tracks Lawmakers’ Missed Votes Mackinac Center tracks lawmakers’ missed votes
Michigan’s 38 senators and 110 representatives missed 1,671 roll call votes in 2018 according to the Missed Votes Report compiled by Jack McHugh, editor of MichiganVotes.org.
Mackinac Center tracks lawmakers’ missed votes
For the full two years of the 99th Michigan Legislature (2017-2018), the missed votes total was 3,461.
Nine senators and three representatives each missed 50 or more votes in 2018, led by Rep. Bettie Cook Scott in the House (599 missed votes) and Sen. Tom Casperson in the Senate (199 missed votes).
There were 15 senators and 80 representatives who missed no votes this year.
In comparison, the highest individual missed votes totals in 2017 were 144 in the Senate (by Sen. Coleman Young II) and 93 in the House (by Rep. LaTanya Garrett).
The 1,671 missed votes in 2018 is substantially more than the 2017 figure of 1,153, but this was skewed higher by Scott’s 599 missed votes. Scott stopped coming to legislative sessions after losing her bid for a Michigan Senate seat in the August primary election, essentially leaving the people of the 2nd district unrepresented during the second half of the year. MichiganVotes.org is unable to recall a similar situation in the past 25 years.
Excluding purely procedural votes, the Senate voted 1,043 times in 2018 and the House voted 1,045 times, for a total of 2,088 roll call votes by the entire Legislature.
In 2017 the Senate held 570 roll call votes and the House held 511, for a 2017 total of 1,081 roll call votes taken by both bodies.
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