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Detroit council committee recommends denying six CDBG public-service appeals, refers ethics questions to law department
Summary
A City Council committee recommended denial of six appeals to the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) public-service funding recommendations and referred recently disclosed conflict-of-interest questions to the law department and Board of Ethics for advice; council delayed final deliberations to the next scheduled session.
A Detroit City Council committee on [date not specified] recommended denying six appeals of the draft Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) public-service funding list and referred newly disclosed conflict-of-interest questions to the law department and the Board of Ethics for advice.
Chris Gulak, LPD staff to the City Planning Commission, summarized the City's review process and the appeals before the committee, saying groups that score 80 or above are recommended for funding and that 13 threshold criteria must be met. "Those that are score 80 or above are recommended for funding. Those that are below 80 have a low score and are not recommended for funding," Gulak said, describing why some high-scoring groups were nonetheless found ineligible.
The committee heard background from Housing and Revitalization Department staff, including Tamara Fontaine Hardy, director of the Neighborhood Services…
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