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Detroit council votes to place unspent ARPA funds distribution into executive session
Summary
The council voted by unanimous consent in the afternoon session to move consideration of reallocating unspent ARPA funds into executive session; the motion called for splitting the funds evenly among council offices and required each council member to list projects and amounts for executive review.
The Detroit City Council agreed by unanimous consent during the afternoon session to place discussion of unspent American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds into executive session and to prepare an executive-session spreadsheet listing projects and proposed amounts.
Council member Calloway moved to place into executive session the reuse of $9,000,000 in ARPA funding to be split evenly among the nine city council members and asked that each council member list projects and allocation amounts to be included in the executive-session materials. Member Calloway later clarified a second motion referencing an additional $4–$5 million that had been discussed by budget staff. Council members combined those figures for the motion and agreed to treat “all unspent ARPA dollars” to be distributed evenly among council offices; the exact total (whether $13 million or another figure) was left open in the public record because budget staff reported different preliminary figures.
Member Johnson asked the OCFO (Office of the Chief Financial Officer) for an ARPA-funded program list to help determine reallocation; Mr. Corley (OCFO staff) said a draft executive-session spreadsheet would be available the next afternoon and that staff would seek funding-source details before the Wednesday morning executive session.
The council also approved, by unanimous consent, a motion from Member Johnson to add a development-tracker website item to the executive-session materials with a future dollar figure to follow.
Action details: The motions as recorded in the afternoon excerpt were approved by unanimous consent (no roll-call vote recorded). The council instructed OCFO staff to draft an executive-session spreadsheet and requested that council members add dollar figures to their proposed items before the Wednesday executive session. Because the materials will be discussed in executive session, project-level allocations and some funding-source details are not in the public transcript excerpt.
