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Residents press Southfield council on basement backups and sewer funding; city explains eligibility limits and grant history
Summary
Multiple residents raised long-standing basement backup complaints and asked why Southfield had not secured large federal or state grants; city staff explained disaster-declaration eligibility, ARPA/CDBG formula allocations and the city’s historic sewer program and enforcement timeline.
Several residents used the council’s communications period to press the city about recurring basement sewage backups and the lack of large-scale grant funding to pay for sewer connections or private lateral repairs.
Stacy Jackson, a Southfield resident, told council that a neighboring municipality had received “nearly $400,000,000 for basement sewer backups and another $35,000,000 for private sewer connections” and asked why Southfield had not pursued similar funding. She said residents in affected neighborhoods have reported recurrent basement flooding with sewage since 2016 and urged the city to be more “creative and innovative” to help those households.
City Administrator (name on file) responded at length in the meeting, saying his staff had investigated the funding claims and that Detroit had received large federal disaster funds (he cited $346…
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