A Proposal to Amend the Kalamazoo City Charter to Establish a Citizens' Advisory Healthcare Action Committee and Require a Healthcare Action Plan
What does this measure do?
Supports: Healthcare Affordability
Kalamazoo would create a citizens' committee, appointed by the City Commission, to study health care costs and access and produce a Healthcare Action Plan every two years that the commission must adopt and publish. Residents would get a regular public plan on local health care costs and access.
Read the official ballot measure
Proposed by: Citizen petition by Community Action Michigan (nonprofit and state PAC); City Commission set the vote
A nonprofit that is also a state political committee, set up in April 2026. Board chair Barbara Hammon is a retired nurse. Its funders are not disclosed. It also attacks Republican lawmakers.
Source: bridgemi.com
A YES vote means
The city creates the health care committee and must publish its plan every two years.
A NO vote means
No committee or plan is required.
No financial records found for this ballot measure.
Source: kalamazoocity.org
Source: kalcounty.gov