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Detroit CFO lays out OCFO priorities and ARPA timeline as council adds motions on participatory budgeting, inspections and enforcement pilot
Summary
City CFO Tanya Stenomart and OCFO deputies presented the proposed FY27 budget, highlighted a $105 million prior-year surplus and said roughly $100 million in ARPA funds must be spent by year-end; council members placed several noncontroversial motions into the closing resolution and executive session, including a $1 million pilot for truck enforcement and follow-up on participatory budgeting and presale inspections.
Tanya Stenomart, Detroit's chief financial officer, opened the Expanded Budget Finance and Audit standing committee hearing on March 25, presenting the Office of the Chief Financial Officer's FY27 priorities and an update on major funding streams.
Stenomart told the committee the OCFO is aligning the budget with Mayor Sheffield's priorities for housing, neighborhoods, public safety, youth and economic mobility, and noted the CFO's statutory duty to certify that the council's adopted budget complies with the Home Rule City Act. She said the office has consolidated financial functions into seven divisions and continues to seek efficiencies while preserving a budget cushion.
"We will continue to create and implement a financial infrastructure that results in a structurally balanced budget for each fiscal year and long term plan," Stenomart said.
Deputy CFO Donnie Johnson gave a general fund overview, saying OCFO's year-over-year budget increase is under $2 million and driven mainly by wage inflation; the office achieved headcount efficiencies to absorb most cost pressures. Johnson said the city ended fiscal year 2025 with a $105,000,000 surplus and that the administration recently recorded a $21,000,000 FEMA COVID reimbursement included in the current budget.
"Our increases are really attributable primarily to typical annual wage inflation," Johnson said.
Chief Deputy CFO Regina Greer and Deputy CFO Terry Daniels summarized Treasury and grants…
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