The Budget Finance and Audit Standing Committee held its final meeting of the council session, focusing on the codification of a budget reservation ordinance, public comments regarding fiscal fairness, and the review of new procurement contracts. The committee thanked departing staff and reviewed a resolution to ensure incoming officeholders have budget access at the start of their term.
Ordinance to Amend Chapter 17 (Section 17-2-30)
New Business: Contracts
Mr. Chair, you have a quorum. Thank you, Madam Clerk. And let us make sure media services are queued back up as well. Thank you. I want to uh first thank member vice chair for getting us started here this afternoon. Really appreciate that, sir. Uh we'll move to approval of the minutes. Members have provided members have been provided the minutes from last meeting. Is there a motion to do so? Motion. Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken. We will try to move swiftly into our agenda first going into our public hearing, noting that this is our last budget finance and audit standing committee for this council session. And so before I I get to the end, I would like to thank everybody from LPD, Mr. Corley, Miss Barcliff, Ms. Short, all of council staff, my team, uh the clerks, as well as the parliamentarian, uh, for all the amazing work that you have done over these past four years. Uh it goes without saying. I think this is the finest committee on council. Uh, I may be a little bit biased, but uh what I will say is uh we have I believe provided transparency to the community, uh tried to educate them when possible about the budget process uh and ensure that we are passing uh funding uh as well as contracts and other legislation that ensures that our city stays fiscally stable for years to come. So uh thank you all for your service and all you have done. And don't want to leave out Mr. Anderson as well uh from the law department. Um so uh we have already taken care of public comment. We will now call back to order our 110 p.m. public hearing regarding the amendment of chapter 17 of the 2019 Detroit City Code Finance Article 2 budget division one allocation by adding section 17-2-30 reservation of budget allocation for elected office holders and certain years to ensure half of the fiscal year budget allocation be reserved for incoming elected office holders. Uh here to help us discuss a little bit more about this, obviously is LPD uh who has uh helped put this ordinance together as well. Law department is here uh as well. This is something that we have discussed uh in length, uh but we are now at the public hearing stage, whereas if this is passed today, it goes in front of council, so the ordinance has the opportunity to be approved. So if we can just do a brief overview and review uh of this ordinance, we'll take public comment as well. So if you wish to participate in public comment regarding our 110 p.m. public hearing, uh please indicate so now uh by raising your hand via the zoom feature. Public comment going once, public comment going twice, public comment going three times. Public comment is now closed for our 110 p.m. public hearing. Uh I will defer to you, Mr. Corley, uh, to give a brief overview and then if Mr. Anderson or Ms. Barcliff would like to add on after that, uh they are more than welcome. Floor is yours, sir. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon. Uh City Council. I just want to say, Mr. Chair, it's been a wonderful pleasure working for you this last four years. Uh you're you're wonderful. Your staff is great, it's been great, and uh it's been an honor working with you, and I appreciate it. And I look to work with you in some capacity in the future. Honestly, sir. So this is an ordinance to amend chapter 17 of the 2019 Detroit City Code.