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Residents urge council to act on tax captures, missing library funds and looming school funding cuts
Summary
Multiple residents used their March 11 public comments to urge Detroit leaders to stop tax captures and abatements that they say harm school millages, to demand repayment of $407,000 missing from a 2021 Detroit Public Library wire fraud, and to press the council to declare a housing state of emergency and reallocate funds.
Several residents at the March 11 Detroit City Council evening meeting urged elected officials to address tax captures and abatements that they said reduce local millage support for schools, libraries and other public services.
A caller who identified himself during public comment raised alarms about proposed state and federal education cuts, saying the district could lose tens of millions of dollars and urging the council to “stop the tax captures and the tax abatements on the millages for the Detroit…
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