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Committee business: motions, receive-and-file items and scheduling from March meeting
Summary
At the March meeting the committee handled a series of procedural items: multiple memoranda and budget responses were received and filed, several items were scheduled for April review or assigned to departments, and multiple agenda items were advanced to formal session.
The Budget, Finance and Audit Standing Committee processed multiple routine agenda items, receiving materials, scheduling follow-ups, and advancing specific items to formal session.
Items received and filed or scheduled for follow-up included memoranda on: a resolution request to authorize an LPD local option sales tax study (line 6.1 received and filed); information on over-assessment for businesses (line 6.2 received and filed); a request for new legislation taxing vaping products (line 6.3 received and filed); an International Association of Assessing Officers study status request (line 6.4 to be brought back in April); the OAG forensic audit third interim report and related materials (line 6.5 brought back on April 30); a sales verification analysis for the 02/2024 sales ratio study (line 7.1 to be brought back on April 30); and multiple budget-response packets for the proposed FY2026 budget from OCFO and department offices (lines 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 received and filed). The committee also received and filed fiscal-impact materials for a proportional funding resolution (line 7.6) and responses related to civil rights and inclusion and the Detroit Fire Department budgets (lines 7.8, 7.9, 7.10). The municipal parking budget responses were received and filed (lines 7.12, 7.13).
Other procedural actions: the committee voted to send the Public Lighting Authority second supplemental trust agreement (line 7.5), the NEZ application for Woodbridge (line 7.7), and the LPD local option sales tax study resolution (line 7.11) to formal session. Committee members also assigned a request to establish a pamphlet on Detroit property taxes for real-estate sales to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer and asked OCFO to return with materials in two weeks (line 7.14 assigned to OCFO, to return in two weeks).
Where the record shows specific dates, the committee set April 30 for follow-up discussion of several items. The committee concluded with member reports and adjournment.
Actions at a glance: list below compiles the committee's procedural votes recorded in the meeting minutes.
Votes at a glance: - Line 6.1: Memorandum re: resolution for LPD to complete local option sales tax study — received and filed. - Line 6.2: Memorandum re: information on over-assessment for businesses — received and filed. - Line 6.3: Memorandum re: resolution requesting legislation taxing vaping products — received and filed. - Line 6.4: International Association of Assessing Officers study status request — scheduled to return in April. - Line 6.5: OAG forensic audit (third interim report) — scheduled for April 30. - Line 7.1: OAG sales verification analysis for 02/2024 sales ratio study — scheduled for April 30. - Lines 7.2, 7.3, 7.4: OCFO budget responses for FY2026 — received and filed. - Line 7.5: PLA second supplemental trust agreement — moved to formal session with recommendation for approval. - Line 7.7: NEZ certificate application (Woodbridge rehab) — moved to formal session. - Line 7.11: LPD local option sales tax study resolution — moved to formal session with recommendation for approval. - Line 7.14: Member request to establish pamphlet on Detroit property taxes — assigned to OCFO and to be brought back in two weeks.
No recorded objections were raised to the committee's procedural motions; most items were approved by voice vote.
