Business Partnership
What is the MATS Business Partner Program?
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Abonmarche provides complete engineering, architectural, surveying, planning, landscape architectural and marina/waterfront development services to municipalities throughout Michigan and northern Indiana. Abonmarche is celebrating its 30th year of service in 2009.
Dedicated to “engineering strong communities” through innovation, value and excellence in civil engineering, surveying, architectural and geographic information system services.
Unparalleled client service and support while continuously perfecting our software applications, all at a fair and reasonable price.
A planning consulting firm serving municipalities throughout Michigan, and specializing in zoning, master planning, training, difficult land uses, and mediating land issues.
Fahey Schultz Burzych Rhodes PLC is a leading firm of township attorneys, representing more than 40 townships statewide. We offer townships accessible, affordable legal expertise, based on more than 100 years of combined experience.
The Municipal Practice Group at Garan Lucow Miller represents hundreds of public entity clients in a wide variety of civil litigation needs. Our preeminent attorneys, with nationally recognized expertise, are uniquely suited to address complex legal concerns.
Certified public accounting firm providing financial advisory services to local governments. Umbaugh has more than 50 years of experience and expertise in all areas of public finance and is one of the largest and most active financial advisors to governmental units in the Midwest.
An experienced provider of a full range of innovative, practical municipal legal services, the Hubbard Law Firm is committed to the betterment of municipal government.
A full-service consulting engineering firm providing planning, design and construction engineering for municipal, utilities, roads, bridges, stormwater, water and wastewater treatment projects.
Community planning, zoning, economic, park and recreation, urban design, community development, downtown planning, landscape architecture, municipal official training, visioning, development reviews, and more.
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..
Miller Canfield specializes in municipal representation in municipal bonds and finance, communications, cable television regulation, franchises, construction contracts and disputes, employee benefits and pensions, environmental law and regulation, labor relations and discrimination, litigation, taxation and assessment appeals.
Jennifer Mansolf, Marketing/Product Development Manager; 517-703-9030
MERS is a statewide public employee retirement system that provides an array of quality employee benefit solutions. MERS offers comprehensive employee benefit solutions to approximately 75,000 members in nearly 700 municipalities statewide.
Since 1979, Pontem has developed advanced software programs to aid townships, counties and other municipalities with property tax administration, fund accounting and cemetery management. We provide free software upgrades and never force clients to purchase a new platform release.
Prein&Newhof is a full-service engineering firm with offices in Grand Rapids, Byron Center, Muskegon and Kalamazoo. We are the Township Engineer to over 45 Michigan communities, offering civil and environmental engineering, surveying, soils, GIS / mapping, and laboratory services.
Monica Reyes, Director, Office of Continuing Education & Development, and Director, Michigan Certified Public Manager Program;
989-964-7489
CPM® is a nationally accredited management development program for public managers in Michigan, offering middle to upper-level training to local and county government officials and staff, state agency personnel, and non-profit personnel. Participants are trained in subject areas that enhance their productivity and effectiveness as public managers. MATS members receive a 10% discount on tuition fees through a partnership with this association.
Wade Trim provides engineering, planning, landscape architecture, operations, environmental science and surveying services to municipalities, industries and private corporations throughout Michigan and seven other states.
MATS Business Partner Companies
Top of Page Michigan Association of Township Supervisors : Ph/Fax 734-572-8776 : 4642 Walnut Court, Ypsilanti, MI 48197 Email MATS
"We love MATS and really value all you do."
Christina McKenna, Director of Communications,
McKenna Associates, Inc.
to offset conference registration fees to allow MATS to provide high quality educational programming and valuable networking opportunities at a cost every township Supervisor can easily afford.
From the marketing perspective of a company that provides products and services to townships, the program is a fantastic tool to help them get their message in front of a key pool of potential clients.
The goals of the MATS Business Partnership Program can be looked at from two sides. From the MATS perspective, the program is a way to help us strengthen our pool of resources.
We look to our business partners to be key members of our team in serving Michigan’s rural communities. We seek out our business partners first when we need questions answered, when we need speakers for seminars and conventions, when we need newsletter articles, when we are developing resource materials for our web site, when we have sponsorship and exhibit opportunities, and more. The revenue from Business Partner dues also helps
