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Ypsilanti HRC reopens 'failure to act' resolution, discusses complaint form, subcommittees and town halls
Summary
The commission untabled a resolution alleging that delays and inaction on issues affecting marginalized groups constitute discrimination; commissioners also reviewed the city's complaint form and discussed limits and options for creating working groups and town halls.
The Ypsilanti Human Relations Commission on Aug. 21 removed from the table and reopened discussion of a draft resolution asserting that the city’s delay or failure to act on several recommendations may amount to discrimination against marginalized groups.
The resolution — originally drafted earlier in the year — lists items the commission said had been delayed, including the planning commission’s affordable-housing recommendations, a driving-equity ordinance aimed at narrowing low-level traffic stops, and slower-than-expected allocation of certain millage reimbursement funds to mental-health and social services. Commissioners…
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