Council Information

2025-2026 Officers and Council Members PDF

Bylaws PDF updated Apr. 2020

Annual Reports

All documents in PDF format

• 2023-2024
• 2019-2020
• 2018-2019
• 2017-2018
• 2016-2017
• 2015-2016
• 2014-2015
• 2013-2014
• 2010-2011
• 2009-2010
• 2008-2009
• 2007-2008
• 2006-2007
• 2005-2006
• 2004-2005
• 2003-2004
• 2002-2003

Section Demographics PDF

Past Chairs PDF

Interested in attending a Council Meeting?
Contact Chair Christopher Forsyth at kkolb@rsjalaw.com for more information.

Guidelines for Amicus Requests

Reports on Public Policy

• Proposed Amendment to Michigan’s Zoning Enabling Act, MCL 125.3405
• Proposed Amendment to MCR 7.203 by Adding a New Section (A)(3)
• Motion to file Amicus Brief in Shaw v City of Dearborn PDF
• Motion to file Amicus Brief in Oakland County Water Resources et al v. MDEQ PDF
• Amicus Brief for Leave to Appeal in the case of DeRuitter v. Byron Township PDF
• Amicus Curiae in City of Warren v. Bezy PDF
• Amicus Curiae in Wigfall v City of Detroit PDF
• Amicus Curiae in West v. Detroit PDF
• Amicus Curiae in Van Buren Township v. Visteon Corp PDF
• Amicus Curiae in Mich Assoc. Home Builders v. Troy PDF
• Mobilitie WT Docket No. 16-421 Matter PDF
• NL Ventures v. City of Livonia PDF
• City of Southfield v. Jordan Development Company, LLC et al. PDF
• Krawczyk/Klepacki v. Township of Hagar PDF
• Shelby Township v. Command Officers Association of Michigan PDF
• Michigan Association of Home Builders et al. v. City of Troy PDF
• Baruch v. Township of Tittabawassee PDF
• ADM File No. 2014-13 PDF
• Amicus Curiae Brief in Haynes v. Village of Beulah PDF
• Report of the Task Force on the Role of the State Bar of Michigan PDF

Chair: Kristin Bricker Kolb, Farmington Hills

Vice-Chair: Dawn Michelle King, Southfield

Secretary-Treasurer:  Julianne Veronica Pastula, Detroit

Deputy Secretary-Treasurer: Aaron C. Thomas, Pontiac 

All articles are in PDF format

September 2015

• Theme Introduction by Mary Joan Fales
• The Open Meetings Act by Christopher J. Johnson and Carlito H. Young
• What Process is Due an Applicant for a Local Government Permit or Approval? by Gerald A. Fisher and Lori Grigg Bluhm
• Municipal Finance After the Detroit Bankruptcy by Patrick F. McGow
• The Internet and Municipal Broadband Network Systems by Michael J. Watza
• Public-Sector Collective Bargaining: Labor Relations in the Public Eye by Stephen O. Schultz, Helen "Lizzie" Mills and Steven L. Koski