Flint City Council deadlocks on moving prevailing-wage resolution out of committee; motion to send to full council made

Flint City Council members split 3-3 on a motion to keep Resolution 250131-T — a prevailing-wage standard for city-funded construction projects — in the finance committee, causing that motion to fail, and a councilmember then moved to send the resolution to the full council for consideration.

The split occurred after a motion to “keep in finance” was made and supported; the roll call recorded three yes votes from Councilmember Burns, Councilmember Pfeiffer and Councilmember Jarrett and three no votes from Doctor Lewis, Miss Priestley and Miss Michelle, with Councilmember Alemin absent. The presiding officer said, “The vote is 3 yes, 3 no. That motion failed.”

The councilwoman from the Second Ward moved to put a motion on the floor to send the resolution to the full council and said she would not support the resolution “in its current form,” citing reductions in city attorney staffing and unanswered questions about the draft. “The city attorney's office has lost some attorneys, and I wanna make changes to this, and I can't get answers to it … But I will not be supporting it in its current form,” the councilwoman said.

Other council members exchanged points of order and sharp accusations during discussion. One speaker invoked “Robert's Rules” and called a colleague “a big liar,” saying, “I absolutely did not ask him to separate. So she is a big liar. A big liar,” during a heated back-and-forth about whether an item had been separated on the agenda.

No final vote on the motion to send Resolution 250131-T to the full council appears in the provided transcript. The meeting record shows the motion was made and supported by the councilwoman from the Seventh Ward, but the transcript stops before a recorded outcome for that motion.

The resolution as introduced was described in the meeting as addressing a prevailing-wage standard for city-funded construction projects; the transcript does not include the ordinance text, proposed wage rates, or funding details.

Meeting procedure and decorum were emphasized during debate. One participant referenced “page 26, section 3-0104,” urging colleagues to “respect and show decorum for your colleagues and also the residents.”

What happened: the finance-committee motion failed on a tie; a motion to send the resolution to the full council was then put on the floor but not resolved in the excerpted transcript. The councilwoman who moved to send the item said she seeks substantive changes and that staff in the city attorney’s office have been reduced, limiting her ability to get answers before a final vote.

Pending items and next steps: because the provided transcript ends before a final disposition of the motion to send to council, the resolution’s next formal step is not recorded here. The city clerk’s official minutes or a later portion of the meeting would be required to confirm whether the measure was placed on a future full-council agenda, tabled, or acted upon.