”</p> </p></div> <p>The proposal failed, with 85 village residents voting to disincorporate, and 93 voting no. The vote failed, as has every village dissolution vote in Michigan history. (Ron French/Bridge Michigan)</figcaption></figure> <p>So far,<a href="https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/a-brief-history-of-disincorporation-and-consolidation-in-michigan"> no Michigan village in history</a> has voted to wipe itself off the map. That problem is worst among Michigan’s rural villages and townships, said Chelsea Wuth, spokesperson for the state’s Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity. “</p> <p>Unlike Michigan city residents, village residents pay village taxes as well as township taxes.