The Detroit City Council public health and safety subcommittee approved a three-year contract pool worth up to $400,000 to fund cleanup, remediation and decontamination of public-hazard properties, including sites identified as contaminated with fentanyl.

"This contract would allow us the ability to have a company that is capable and qualified to go in and actually clean the site and make it safe," Luan Counts, group executive of construction and building operations, told the committee. The recommended contractor is Bio Clean Team of Porterville, Michigan.

Officials said the city has encountered fentanyl at a small number of properties since the creation of its Board of Brigades program (the speaker cited three or four incidents). In each case, the presence of fentanyl was identified during police action and the Detroit Police Department signaled to city teams that a hazardous-material cleanup was required before city crews or ordinary contractors could enter the premises.

Key points:
- Contract scope: The pool covers cleanup for fentanyl as well as other hazardous substances, methamphetamine contamination and mold remediation when necessary.
- Funding and term: The three-year contract ceiling is $400,000; speakers said the figure authorizes the city to address multiple incidents as they arise rather than reflecting a fixed per-property obligation.
- Trigger and coordination: Cleanups are typically triggered by Detroit Police Department actions; city staff reported they will not send teams into a location until it has been properly contained and cleared by the contractor.

Committee members asked how many properties the contract would support and what per‑property costs could look like; staff replied that costs vary by the extent of contamination and that the $400,000 pool enables the city to cover multiple sites as needed rather than pre-committing a set amount per property.

The item was forwarded to full council with a recommendation to approve.