Detroit City Council on Tuesday approved 11 contracts to raze hundreds of blighted homes with funds from Detroit s neighborhood revitalization bond a week after it first rejected them.
The reconsideration came after members deadlocked 4-4 last week, turning down half of the agreements in a package of 23 overall valued at $30 million. The contracts cover the removal of the first wave of 1,380 blighted houses under the program.
Councilwoman Raquel Castaneda-Lopez voted in favor of the contracts after being absent last week. Meanwhile, Councilman Roy McCalister flipped his vote to yes and Councilwoman Janee Ayers voted no, rather than supporting the contracts as she did last week.
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Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red and, particularly, co-founder Marcin Iwiński made the grand promise that its employees would not be forced to “crunch.” Crunch is a ubiquitous term in the video game industry, a stand-in word describing the weeks, months, or years when developers work for long, grueling hours to complete a game.
Iwiński said at the time, in an interview with Kotaku, that he wanted the company to “be known for treating developers with respect.” But there’s a dichotomy between that historic public perception (albeit, now lost) and how workers at the company are treated. As it turns out, that goodwill which the company eventually lost did not extend to its own employees after all.
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Two area residents prepare to get their COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine from UPMC nurses at the Dunnstown Fire Hall on Wednesday.
DUNNSTOWN Local folks have been waiting for weeks to get appointments for COVID-19 vaccines, frustrated that the shots weren’t coming to Clinton County fast enough and getting no answers as to when more doses of the much-wanted vaccinations might arrive.
For more than 300 people, the long wait ended Wednesday.
UPMC has been conducting local clinics in order to vaccinate elderly citizens across several counties in the state and yesterday a clinic was held in Clinton County with about 350 men and women over age 75 receiving the first and second doses of the Pfizer vaccine at the Dunnstown Fire Hall.
City officials: Proposed Detroit charter revisions could spur fiscal crisis
Detroit Proposed revisions to Detroit s City Charter would spur an imminent fiscal crisis that would send the city $3.4 billion into debt within four years, trigger placement of an emergency manager and violate terms of its bankruptcy order, city finance officials warned in a memo released late Monday.
The grim financial outlook was detailed in a Feb. 19 memorandum distributed Monday evening to the Detroit City Council from the city s Office of the Chief Financial Officer in response to amendments proposed by the Charter Revision Commission.
Detroit s Chief Deputy CFO, Tanya Stoudemire, called the proposals very disturbing and argued they would leave the city unable to balance its budget.
Detroit The city’s first wave of more than 1,300 residential demolitions expected to begin this spring has spurred concerns over transparency and a dispute between Mayor Mike Duggan’s administration and Detroit City Council s top-ranking member.
Council President Brenda Jones in a social media post and during Tuesday s formal session accused the city s procurement office of leveling an assault on transparency by failing to disclose figures on the hiring and recruitment of Detroit residents for some demolition contracts after the council put off a vote on the contracts due to concerns over hiring numbers.
The city s new Demolition Department is seeking approval from the City Council to hire seven Detroit-based companies five of which are Black-owned to conduct 1,380 demolitions paid for through the $250 million blight bond initiative, Proposal N. The companies were selected from 180 competitive bids for $30 million in contracts for residential properties being t