Council adopts dozens of items; votes include lot sales, CDBG reprogramming, budget changes and planning appointment

Pontiac City Council on April 15 adopted a broad set of routine and substantive measures, including the consent agenda and a series of separate resolutions covering city lot sales, reprogramming of Community Development Block Grant funds, a budget amendment and a conditional rezoning extension for Lighthouse Campus.

The council approved the consent agenda (items AthroughO) on a recorded vote of 6yays, 1nay. The consent package included minutes, contract approvals, a $500,000 opioid-related contract for Rx Kids, and resolutions about cemetery access, park namings and MDOT contract scheduling for illuminated street names along the I-75 business loop.

Votes at a glance (select items) - Approval of consent agenda (items AO): adopted, 6yays, 1nay. - Sale of a previously paid but unrecorded Elm Street lot (to an individual who paid in 2016): adopted, 6yays, 1nay. The council formalized the long-unrecorded transaction so the buyer—an record the deed. - Sale of two Orchard Lake/Harris parcels to Walnut Creek Properties for infill housing: adopted, 6yays, 0nays. - Sale of a Seward Street side lot to an adjoining homeowner: adopted, 6yays, 0nays. - Sale of a narrow Auburn Road strip to an adjacent property owner (Regina Campbell): adopted, 7yays, 0nays. - Postponement of sale(s) of two Jesse Street parcels pending clarification: motion to postpone adopted, 7yays, 0nays. - Reprogram CDBG funds (program years 2019 and 2023) to demolition (amendment adopted on the floor): adopted as amended, 6yays, 0nays. The council amended the resolution on the floor to specify the intent: reallocate the remaining HUD CDBG program-year funds to demolition…