The Detroit Elected Officials Compensation Commission convened on October 28, 2025, primarily to reenact votes from a previous meeting where meeting notice failures were identified to ensure compliance with the Open Meetings Act. During the session, the commission elected Erica Hill as Chairperson and Tiffany Jackson as Vice Chair. The commission heard presentations from the City Clerk and Council members advocating for elected officials' salary adjustments based on market comparisons and budget availability, while receiving status reports from various city departments and deferring a fiscal impact analysis to a future meeting.
Through the chair, if would I be able to explain why we're reenacting this, if that's all right. Um, while you guys are filling it out, I'm just explaining this so the uh audience knows. Um, the reason why we're reenacting the votes from last meeting is after the first meeting last week, we discovered that the meeting notice wasn't appearing online. So, in order to uh make sure that there's no open meetings act violation, we're now reenacting the votes from the first meeting. Um that everybody can see who votes which way. Is this one? Yeah. Oh caveat. Madam Clerk, do you have the results of the ballots? I have the results. The clerk will read the ballot results. For vice chair, I have three votes for Jackson. And I have one vote for Hill. And for Chairperson, I have three votes for Hill and one vote for Jackson. Congratulations to the chair, Erica Hill and Vice Chair Tiffany Jackson. I would now turn the remainder of the meeting over to the chairperson. Thank you. Okay, so we will now review the uh resolutions requesting relevant input and information from City Council Mayor and the City Clerk. Through the chair, if I may. But I will say that the resolution setting meeting schedule has been modified slightly from the version that was mod voted on at last week's meeting. That's because we were informed after last week's meeting that this meeting room will not be available for the meeting dates that were selected after this date. So that was the November seventh, November thirteenth, and November seventeenth meeting dates. However, the November thirteenth meeting date was um already it was already the auditorium was already reserved for that date. So I did put a reservation in for the seventh and seventeenth. Um and so I have everything all but confirmed. Um once I have final confirmation of that, I'll put the commissioners know. Um so that's the that's the only change that was made in that uh resolution. Still the same meeting time, same dates. We did have one extra meeting date in there as a precaution. So losing that 13th, the 13th is a meeting date. But if not, if it's coming up to the 17th and it doesn't look like we're going to be able to complete the commission's duty of determining the elected officials' salaries, we will schedule an uh a subsequent date at that 17th meeting. Okay, so is that the reason why the 13th is not listed? Correct. Okay. And I did add um in the provision following the schedule. Uh clarification that the October 22 and 28 meetings will be in this room and that the other meetings will be in the auditorium. Thank you. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Um so we'll proceed with the resolution to accept the resolution of the Detroit Elected Officials Compensation Commission requesting relevant input and information from Detroit elected officials. Thank you. Any objections? No. No. So moved. We'll move on to the resolution of the Detroit Elected Officials Compensation Commission requesting a report from the Office of the Chief Financial Officer on how the Commission's actions may be affected by the budget process and for a fiscal impact statement. So any objections? No. We have the resolution of the Detroit Elected Officials Compensation Commission setting commission settings schedule of 2025 meetings. So moved.