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Detroit charter commission OKs updated revisions to send to governor
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Detroit The Detroit Charter Revision Commission on Tuesday approved changes to its charter revision plan after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer rejected an initial proposal, citing legal deficiencies. We were definitely going to take a look at the comments we got back from the governor and Attorney General s Office to make any changes that we deemed appropriate, Commissioner Denzel McCampbell told The Detroit News after the vote during a virtual meeting.
The updates were expected to be forwarded to Whitmer s office soon, McCampbell said. Whitmer s office did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday night and Wednesday.
Royal Oak rejects veterans petition for vote to halt memorial move
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A petition seeking a citywide vote on Royal Oak s plans to move a veterans memorial has been rejected as legally insufficient, a city official told organizers this week.
City officials want to move the Royal Oak Veterans Memorial 40 feet from its current location south of the public library to expand paved areas for walking as part of a planned park known as Centennial Commons.
City clerk Melanie Halas sent one of the petition drive s organizers, Edward Burkhardt, emails on April 21 and May 4 indicating that enough of the 1,000 signatures on the petitions were valid to put the issue on the November ballot.
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday declined to approve the proposed updated Detroit City Charter submitted by the city's revision commission. In a Friday letter to revision commission chair Carol Weaver obtained by Crain's, Whitmer cited "substantial and extensive legal deficiencies" from a review by…