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Detroit City Council urges moratorium on owner-occupied tax foreclosures and approves multiple contracts
Summary
The council approved a nonbinding resolution urging Wayne County Treasurer Eric Sabree to impose a moratorium on owner-occupied tax foreclosures; it also moved through many procurement items, approving contract amendments and waivers and postponing several items for further review.
Detroit’s City Council voted to place a nonbinding resolution in the name of the council urging Wayne County Treasurer Eric Sabree to issue a moratorium on property-tax foreclosures of owner-occupied homes in 2026.
The resolution was introduced as a walk-on by Councilmember Leticia Johnson and adopted with no objections recorded. Johnson framed the measure as an urgent but nonbinding request: “This is us urging the treasurer,” she said. The chair and other members noted the resolution requests that the county pause foreclosures to protect homeowners who speakers said may have been over-assessed.
Separately, the council approved a series of contracting and procurement items across departments after committee referrals and discussion. Notable approvals recorded on the agenda included:
- Amendment 9 to legal services contract (Cummings, McLaurie, Davis & ACO PLC) for reverse-conviction and related legal services, total contract amount listed as $3,200,000 (law department item). - A cybersecurity subscription renewal (Proofpoint) listed as $481,022.69 (office of contracting and procurement item). - Multiple transportation and DDOT-related contracts, including a $2,000,000 contract for coach repair services (Wayne State / contracted vendor noted on the agenda) and other fleet- and parts-related items; several items were approved and a few were postponed for one week for additional information (for example, item 18.8 and item 19.3 were postponed for additional review).
Councilmembers requested additional analysis on certain long-term agreements (for example, a discussion about a salt-mining lease and long-term revenue split led members to postpone a vote on that item for one week to obtain more financial detail). Several waivers for immediate effect were granted where the administration requested them.
Next steps: the moratorium resolution is an urging statement to the county treasurer, not a change in city law. Council staff and departments committed to provide follow-up materials, including financial analyses on specific contracts, and to revisit postponed items at the next meeting.
Provenance: topicintro SEG 3990, topfinish SEG 4020.
