The finance committee of defendant board of supervisors also submitted to the allocation board the county budget for the year, calling for the sum of $1,450,615 to be raised for operating expenses. On the 11th of May, 1954, in accordance with statutory provisions hereinafter referred to, plaintiff filed with the tax allocation board of Washtenaw county its estimated budget for the fiscal year in question, indicating the necessity of raising $80,000 for operating expenses within the district, exclusive of amounts necessary to be raised as extra voted millage and for debt retirement. It is conceded that portions of so-called intercounty school districts are located in said county. From such stipulation and from the pleadings and exhibits attached thereto it appears that the plaintiff is a graded school district lying wholly in Washtenaw county and embracing the city of East Ann Arbor as well as a part of Pittsfield township. The parties have filed a stipulation as to certain material facts involved. However, in determining *393 the matter now before us we may not properly go beyond the scope of the issues fairly presented by the petition and the answers. The Court has had also the benefit of briefs submitted by others, interested in the questions involved in the controversy and in related questions, as amici curiae. The matter has been submitted on plaintiff's petition, the answers of the defendants thereto, and the briefs of counsel representing the respective parties. This mandamus proceeding involves, generally, the amount of money that may be raised by taxation in plaintiff school district for the fiscal year 1954-1955. Larnard, for Michigan State Association of Supervisors. Bonisteel, Jr., for Michigan Education Association and Michigan Association of School Boards.Ĭharles A. McHugh, Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys (Albert E. O'Brien, Prosecuting Attorney, Hobart Taylor, Jr., and Philip A. Dexter, Assistants Attorney General, for the State. Kelley, for defendant clerk and assessor of city of East Ann Arbor.įrank G. Lehman, for defendant Pittsfield township supervisor. DeVine, Prosecuting Attorney, for defendant Board of Supervisors of Washtenaw County.Īrthur C. 9, PITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP, WASHTENAW COUNTY,
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