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Detroit council committee advances dozens of budget closing items, pins major dollar requests for follow-up
Summary
The Detroit City Council committee approved closing-resolution language for many health, housing and cultural items and pinned several dollar amounts for further negotiation, including proposals for a new Human, Homeless & Family Services department, port investments and zoo funding. Public commenters pressed the council to fully fund a Right to Counsel program and to re-examine the Land Bank.
The Detroit City Council’s committee of the whole met April 6 to work through dozens of budget line items, voting to move many items into closing resolution while pinning several requested dollar amounts for additional review and negotiation.
Council members approved closing-resolution language on a broad set of Health Department proposals — from coordination among DPW, Police and Planning to identify crime "hot spots" to a pilot program to provide child-resistant storage containers for medications and cannabis products. Member Calloway moved a one-time $75,000 appropriation for the storage containers as a pilot, and the motion was approved after members agreed the language should cover both medicinal and nonmedicinal substances.
The committee also agreed to direct the Health Department and Workforce Development to build a more sustainable behavioral-health workforce and to…
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