Pittsfield Charter Township v. Washtenaw County

I concur with the majority’s result, but find its reliance on a small host of statutory-construction tools unhelpful and unnecessary. The majority’s use of these tools to search for “textual indications” to resolve the conflict between the statutes at issue is remarkable in its failure to analyze the text of the statutes. In my view, the plain text of the county commissioners act (cca) clearly conveys the Legislature’s intent to grant county boards of commissioners exclusive jurisdiction over site selection for and construction of county buildings.1

*717MCL 46.11 of the CCA provides in pertinent…