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Detroit committee agrees to bundle routine closing-resolution items to speed budget work
Summary
The City Council’s expanded budget committee agreed April 1 to allow council members to move noncontroversial closing-resolution items in blocks, and approved dozens of items for closing resolution or pinning after brief discussion and requests for additional fiscal detail.
The expanded budget, finance and audit standing committee voted April 1 to allow council members to move routine closing-resolution items in blocks, a procedural change members said would speed final budget deliberations during a multi-day session.
Supporters, led by Council member Scott Benson, argued that many closing-resolution items require little discussion and can be grouped so the committee spends less time on low-controversy line items. Benson said he had five such items he was ready to move as a…
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