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Detroit committee hears plan to split HRD budget into three departments; members press for org-chart transparency
Summary
City staff told the council the proposed Executive Organization Plan reallocates an adopted $90.6M HRD budget across HRD, a new Health, Homeless and Family Services (HHFS) department and OCFO, shifting staff but not increasing overall spending. Council members asked for clearer funding sources, names for reassigned roles and more public access to the org chart before final approval.
City staff told the Internal Operations Committee on Feb. 25 that the mayor's proposed Executive Organization Plan divides the adopted $90.6 million budget previously held in the Housing and Redevelopment Department into three parts: about $45.9 million remaining with HRD, roughly $41.4 million to a new Health, Homeless and Family Services department and $3.3 million to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer. "This is our way of showing that there are no new dollars involved here," a staff presenter said, describing the mapping as budget-neutral and derived from the adopted HRD figures.
The presenter said the plan reallocates filled…
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