Additionally, the officials are offering a 100 percent tax break on new equipment for no less than 12 years, The Detroit News wrote today, but they are still working with representatives from the Michigan Economic Development Corp. on an incentive package for General Motors.
"It's a monster offer," township Supervisor Matthew Gibb was quoted as saying by the aforementioned source. "I struggled with it because we're talking about funds and public money is so tight for everybody. But if the plant closes, we don't get any tax revenue. I'd rather have the jobs and ancillary business for our small suppliers and big suppliers and party stores and everything else."
Gov. Jennifer Granholm hasn't issued a statement so far but a spokesman confirmed the governor is trying anything that's possible to bring GM's small car at the local plant.
"We are waging an aggressive fight for this project and the jobs it will bring to Michigan and we're going to do everything we can to make this project a reality for our state," Granholm spokeswoman Liz Boyd said. "The governor and the MEDC are fully engaged in this fight for jobs."
GM's production facility in Orion currently employs 3,400 hourly and salaried workers which were until now responsible for the production of Pontiac G6 and Chevrolet Malibu.
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