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Committee approves emergency demolition, environmental testing, public-lighting amendment and DWSD vehicle purchases

Detroit City Council Public Health and Safety Standing Committee · February 23, 2026
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Summary

The Public Health and Safety committee approved multiple contracts and grant items Feb. 23, including an emergency demolition make-safe contract ($68,977.11), a $200,000 environmental testing training contract, a $1.5 million amendment to a public lighting decommissioning contract, and a $2,049,920 DWSD purchase for 10 hydrant utility trucks; all were approved without recorded objection and sent to formal council.

The Detroit City Council Public Health and Safety standing committee approved a package of contracts and grant-related items at its Feb. 23 meeting, sending the measures forward to the full council for formal consideration.

Emergency demolition: The committee approved contract #3088921 to Domino Demolition Company for emergency make-safe after fire response at a McCormick address in Detroit. Planning staff said the work responded to a fire-department request and was procured as an emergency; the contract period runs through June 30, 2026, for a total of $68,977.11. "We got a letter from the fire department, so we had to have people mobilize fairly quickly," said Gert Malil, planning and strategy specialist.

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