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Council combines CVI requests into $3 million allocation to add groups and sustain program
Summary
Councilors combined separate requests into a single $3 million package to fund Community Violence Intervention (CVI) efforts, approve adding two additional organizations identified by procurement, and direct the administration to use funds to sustain existing operations if state Public Safety Trust Fund dollars do not arrive.
Detroit City Council approved a combined $3 million allocation for Community Violence Intervention (CVI) work, directing the funds to sustain current programs and to add two groups that were selected through a subsequent procurement.
Council members said the allocation would cover base operations for five existing CVI groups, provide funding to add two additional groups identified by the city's second notice of funding availability, and support staffing and performance bonuses. City staff told the council the two new groups were ready to be contracted if the council identified a funding source.
Deputy Chief Operations Officer Andrea Taverna explained the program's performance-based structure and why one of the original six groups had not been renewed: the city's quarterly metrics compare homicide and nonfatal-shooting trends in each group's zone to citywide trends. "The reason that the group in the far Northeast corner of the city was not extended for a second year was that we didn't see the same level of violence reduction that was achieved by the other organizations," she said.
City staff estimated one additional group's one-year cost at roughly $970,000 (about $700,000 in base funding plus potential performance grants). Council then combined two previously proposed line items and established a single $3 million line item to add capacity and provide continuity if state-level Public Safety Trust Fund dollars do not materialize.
Council members emphasized the program's priority status and asked that the administration include language in the closing resolution to show commitments for program continuity and to return with procurement and contract timelines to get the two new groups under contract as soon as feasible.
Action taken: council combined two CVI-related budget requests into one $3 million line item, approved it for the closing resolution, and instructed administration to return with contract documents and timing to begin work promptly.
