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Committee to seek one-week review of proposed earlier start to budget hearings
Summary
Members of the Budget, Finance and Audit Standing Committee agreed to bring back calendar items next week to consider moving the start of the 2025 budget hearings from March 12 to March 6 to allow more deliberation; staff and committee members flagged knock-on effects for CDBG/block grant scheduling.
The Detroit City Council Budget, Finance and Audit Standing Committee on Wednesday voted to bring back calendar items next week to consider shifting the start of the 2025 budget hearings to Thursday, March 6, rather than the previously scheduled March 12. The motion to return items for further discussion passed with no objections.
Committee members said the change would give the council more time to deliberate department budgets after Mayor’s delivery of the budget on Feb. 28. “We would start on 6th March, which would provide 4 additional days of budget deliberations,” Councilmember Benson said,…
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