City plans 25 community meetings to ask for input on spending
Money could be used toward making city s economic growth more equitable
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan will lay out a framework for how the city could spend its American Rescue Plan aid in a 7 p.m. Tuesday speech.
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan tonight will lay out plans on how the city could spend the first half of a monumental federal aid package.
The city administration will focus on reducing intergenerational poverty in its goals for using the first half of an $826 million infusion through President Joe Biden s American Rescue Plan Act, deputy mayor Conrad Mallett Jr. told Crain s.
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Mayor Mike Duggan will focus on five areas across Detroit to invest $400 million of the COVID-19 pandemic-related federal funding.
Detroit expects to
receive $826 million in federal funding to address various challenges throughout the city and Duggan is inviting the public to provide feedback on areas needing investments. The first $413 million will be available by
early June, while the second half will come next year, said Deputy Mayor Conrad Mallett.
Key areas Duggan is eyeing include: fighting intergenerational poverty, investing in neighborhoods, investing in parks, improving
recreation and cultural assets, enhancing public safety, closing the digital gap and supporting small businesses, Mallett added.
Detroit receiving $400M in federal relief, city plans to get residents input
By Taryn Asher and David Komer online producer
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DETROIT (FOX 2) - Over the last year, COVID-19 and the racial unrest that followed brought the root of Detroit s challenges to the forefront. But with the help of more than $400 million in federal aid - Mayor Mike Duggan is working to combat it. We are not talking yet at this point, reparations - we are talking about reparative programs which are different, said Deputy Mayor Conrad Mallett.
Detroit takes resident s input on $400M of federal relief
On Tuesday the mayor will outline how he plans to use the unprecedented American Recovery Act funds. His main goal is tackling intergenerational poverty, funding programs that will help break the cycle of inadequate education, healthcare and job opportunities.
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Detroit Fire Department report finds 40% of firefighters have witnessed drinking on the job
Responsible parties will be disciplined, officials say
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The audit comes after a party was held at a fire station house party, where the department said on-duty firefighters were drinking. An emergency call came in and the first to arrive was crashed a heavy rescue truck into a parked car. The department said he was drunk.
About a week later, an overnight chief couldn’t be reached to manage fire crews. He was found trapped in a department vehicle that crashed. He was arrested for drunk driving.