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Residents urge equitable neighborhood investment, apprenticeships, water affordability and transit fixes during council public comment
Summary
At the April 21 meeting residents and community leaders used the public-comment period to press council members on perceived inequities in district funding, ask for revived apprenticeship programs, urge action on lead-line replacements and water affordability, and request transit improvements.
A wide range of residents and community leaders spoke during public comment at the Detroit City Council committee meeting on April 21, urging more equitable distribution of city resources and calling for expanded apprenticeship programs, better transit service and stronger water-affordability protections.
The nut graf: Speakers repeatedly raised two themes — that investment is concentrated in a few districts while other neighborhoods are underserved, and that city programs (including apprenticeships, lead-line replacement contracts and transit services) should prioritize Detroit residents.
Betty A. Varner, president of the DeSoto Ellsworth Black Association, said her neighborhood along the Fenkell corridor needs funding for corridor improvements and for a community park where fencing…
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