Detroit s controversial charter revision plan, Proposal P, fails
With about 80%
67%
of voters were rejecting Proposal P, the wide-ranging plan that outlined a new process for the selection of the city s top attorney and police chief and would create a voter-installed fire department oversight board.
It called for the establishment of a department of disability affairs and department of environmental justice and sustainability as well as a task force on reparations and African American justice. It proposed an office of veterans affairs and immigrant affairs, and an office of economic justice and consumer empowerment.
The initiative was crafted over three years by an elected nine-member Detroit Charter Revision Commission with support from a coalition of environmental and human rights groups. The commission and coalitions that supported it contended the plan would have refocused city government with a greater emphasis on quality of life issues including affordable water