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The Budget, Finance and Audit Committee of the Detroit City Council met on October 7, 2026, at approximately 1:00 PM. Chair Denzel McCampbell presided, with Vice Chair Letitia Johnson joining later. The meeting included public comments, a discussion on fiscal year 2027 budget implementation (focusing on transit, substance use prevention, language access, and senior food access), presentations of the financial statement audit plan and the payroll performance audit for public safety, and several new business items including a neighborhood enterprise zone application and two workforce housing pilot proposals.
Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Implementation – Community Services (120 Discussion)
Audit of Financial Statements (Item 7.2): The Auditor General and Plant Moran presented the audit plan for fiscal year 2026. Risks include income tax receivables, claims and judgments, pension liability, and a new accounting standard on classification. The federal single audit is delayed due to the 2026 compliance supplement not yet published by OMB; the financial statement deadline is December 31, 2026, and the federal deadline is March 31, 2027. Council was invited to share any additional concerns.
Payroll Performance Audit – Public Safety (Items 6.3 & 7.8): Ray Roth of Stout presented the third interim report covering DPD and Fire. 11 observations: 47% of DPD and 46% of Fire transactions had unsupported time. Five observations specific to DPD, five to Fire, one on overtime. Three recommendations from DPD (manual timekeeping, lack of support for overtime/shift premiums, and standby time conversion) remain unresolved because DPD did not respond. Other recommendations (courtesy relief, out-of-class premium, comp time lump sums, overtime clarity, excessive overtime oversight) were accepted or noted. The administration plans to upgrade the UKG time and attendance system for sworn officers over two years. Council discussed the high amount of overtime, burnout, suspended-with-pay duration, and residency numbers (578 sworn Detroit residents, 1,976 non-residents as of a recent report). The Auditor General offered to follow up with DPD on the three unresolved items.
Contract Award (Item 6.1): Contract 6007256 for car washes. The administration reported progress with an east-side contractor and negotiations with others in districts 3, 4, and 5. A motion to approve the contract passed.
Neighborhood Enterprise Zone Application (Item 7.3): Applicant Brandon Dallas proposes a new single-story, 2,000 sq ft, three-bedroom house at 2431 West Forest Street in Core City. Estimated cost $300,000. It will be his primary residence. The planning commission recommended approval. Motion to approve passed.
Workforce Housing Pilots (Items 7.4 & 7.5):
Note: The meeting adjourned shortly after 4:05 PM.
October 7th to order with a clerk, please call the roll. Councilmember Denzel Anton McCampbell. Present. Councilmember Letitia Johnson. Virtue Johnson did indicate it that she'll be a few minutes behind, but she will be here. Clerk was so note. Councilmember Mary Waters. Mr. Chair, you have a corn present. Thank you so much. Uh Madam Clerk. They'll move us along to the approval of the minutes. Members of the committee should have received a copy of the minutes. And with that, is there a motion to approve the September 30th minutes? It's been a motion to approve the minutes, seeing no objections, that action shall be taken. For the chair remarks, I will just mention that I know I mentioned this for the past few weeks, but I will have to keep us on time because we do quite have quite a long agenda today. So just want to make that note, and I would be, it's not to interrupt folks, but we'll be letting you know when your time is coming to an end. And if there's further discussion needed, we can bring it back or you can follow up via memo. All right, with that, we will move ahead to uh public comment. Request for public comment will close at 110 p.m. Um please limit your remarks to two minutes. We'll start with those in the room and then move to those participating remotely. So we have one person in the room so far. Um, and I believe we have a seven online. Uh we'll start with Mr. Carly if you could come forward. All right, Ms. Crow, you have two minutes. Good afternoon. Uh I don't know how good it is, but it's afternoon. And Denzel McCampb, District 5 representative, you're cheated in public official, along with uh Letitia Johnson, who's not here, cheated in public official. Dennis is busted, busted, busted, busted. And Gina Avery Walker, you need to call her before this committee and ask her what has the money been going to that y'all been sending over to the Detroit Department of Elections. And that Daniel Baxter, her and Daniel Baxter busted, busted, busted. Absolutely ballot fraud is real in Detroit. And international absentee ballot fraud. Very first case I've ever heard of it in my life, is real dinner MFR. Now you a teeth in public official. You know how I know? Because I don't know what I don't know. Just like I'm gonna tell you this. Dodo was my dude dude, and Mr. Robert Carmack was my NYGDA, NYGGA.