Detroit City Council Formal Session

Detroit City Council

Politics

Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024
10:00 a.m. — 2:00 p.m. EST

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2 Woodward Ave Detroit, MI 48226 (Directions)

Note: This is the final meeting before winter recess and likely to run longer than 4 hours.

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Edited and summarized by the Detroit - MI Documenters Team

Note-taking by Allise Hurd

The final City Council meeting of the year lasted 7 hours. They exempted solar farms from zoning laws and approved line item 16.26, the acceptance and allocation of federal funds for flood relief.

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Live reporting by Sherrie Smith

The final City Council meeting of the year lasted 7 hours, with a lengthy debate over allocating federal funds for flood relief from 2021 storms between affordable rental housing and basement backup protection.

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It’s Tuesday, November 26th! I’ll be live-tweeting the Detroit City Council Formal Session at 10:00am for #DETdocumenters @DetDocumenters Media partners: @BridgeDet313 @chalkbeatDET @freep @metrotimes @Michigan _public @media_outlier @PlanetDetroit @wdet @wxyzdetroit

08:57 AM Nov 26, 2024 CST

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While you wait for today’s meeting to start, check out the thread from last week’s meeting here: https://x.com/nachumdetroit/status/1858879077387526222?s=46&t=RpYzZ1EoOiisPIGmWFspMA

https://x.com/nachumdetroit/status/1858879077387526222?s=46&t=RpYzZ1EoOiisPIGmWFspMA

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The agenda for today’s meeting is a long one. It’s available online here: content.govdelivery.com/attachments/MI…

content.govdelivery.com/attachments/MI…

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For info on how to attend today’s meeting check out the Detroit City Council webpage page: detroitmi.gov/government/cit…

detroitmi.gov/government/cit…

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If you feel there are errors or corrections needed to these tweets or you have questions, please contact documenters@outliermedia.org

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And did you know that City Council posts its meeting minutes? You can check out the decisions that were made at the last meeting here: pub-detroitmi.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?I…

pub-detroitmi.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?I…

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Meeting called to order at 10:07am

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There are 2 special presentations today

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🏆 SPIRIT OF DETROIT AWARD PRESENTATIONS 🏆 Geraldine Chapman addressing youth in the audience after receiving her presentation

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🗣️ PUBLIC COMMENT 🗣️ Each speaker will have 1 minute 30 seconds to speak

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One speaker worked in the Office of Disability stated that she was fired due to abuses by her supervisor. Says her dream job was taken from her and this was devastating.

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A number of items were referred to committees just before Public Comment

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🗣️ END OF PUBLIC COMMENT 🗣️

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BUDGET, FINANCE AND AUDIT STANDING COMMITTEE

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INTERNAL OPERATIONS STANDING COMMITTEE

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The Council voted to Appoint the following people to the Tenants Rights Commission: Doneisia Davis, Jamie Junior, Teresa Sanders, and Sherrie Smith.

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The Mayor’s office also appointed Mary Cox and Josephina Ramon to the Tenants Rights Commission. There are 3 more seats that will be appointed by the Mayor.

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PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STANDING COMMITTEE

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PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDING COMMITTEE. Much discussion on the amount of time lapse between emergency demolition contracts coming before council. It was explained that the recent group of late contracts was as a result of a process clean up in the department

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PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDING COMMITTEE

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NEW BUSINESS. Here are the brew business items in the agenda

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CORRECTION: Here are the NEW Business items on the agenda

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NEW BUSINESS continued

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NEW BUSINESS continued

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NEW BUSINESS item results

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Items 17.1 & 17.2 are bring bright back for reconsideration. Council President stated that information was received that will change her vote. Line items 17.1 & 17.2 are now APPROVED

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Council is going on recess until 3:30pm

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It’s 3:34 and Council hasn’t returned yet

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This is all that’s left on the agenda once the Council resumes

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Council has returned from recess at 3:46pm

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Line Item 15.18 was APPROVED

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Line item 15.19 was APPROVED

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Line item 16.26 was discussed and APPROVED

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🚶🏽‍♀️ WALK ON REQUESTS 🚶🏽‍♀️

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2025 Detroit City Council Calendar was APPROVED

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Contact from the Internal Operations Standing Committee was APPROVED

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Line item 21.1 was pulled from Referrals to New Business and APPROVED

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Resolution in Support of the Safer Michigan Act by Council Member Durhal was APPROVED

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Resolution to honor Judge Deborah Thomas was walked on and APPROVED. End of 🚶🏽‍♀️ WALK ON ITEMS 🚶🏽‍♀️

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There was a motion to suspend MEMBER REPORTS

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No items on the CONSENT AGENDA

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Council will return Tuesday January 7, 2025

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Meeting adjourned at 4:58pm

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This concludes my live-tweeting of the Detroit City Council Formal Session for 11/26/24. For more meeting coverage, check out: detroit.documenters.org

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Detroit City Council

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The Detroit City Council is the legislative body of Detroit, Michigan, United States. The Council is responsible for the creation of local laws—called ordinances. Additionally they pass resolutions, motions, and the proposed city budget. The full-time council is required to meet every business day for at least 10 months of the year, with at least eight of these meetings occurring at a location besides city hall. The council may convene for special meetings at the call of the mayor or at least four members of council. Areas of responsibility for the Budget, Finance and Audit Committee include, Budget, Finance and the Auditor General.

City Council members are elected on the same cycle as the Mayor and will be elected in 2021. Seven members represent the seven council districts, while two members are elected at-large.