Committee of the Whole - Council Redistricting Discussion
Detroit City CouncilRemote
The City’s seven Council Districts need to be redrawn based on the 2020 Census population data. The Detroit City Council will be holding a discussion on the issue on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 2pm. The meeting will be held in person and virtually via Zoom.
To attend virtually, please use this link to join: https://detroitmi.gov/Online-CC-Meeting.
For additional details, please see the attached documents.
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Reporting
Edited and summarized by the Detroit - MI Documenters Team
Residents resist redrawing of district boundaries. Five maps were presented, two will move forward after more outreach.
Residents from Grixdale Farms in D2 are displeased with proposals to redistrict their neighborhood into District 3.
12:20 PM Nov 14, 2023 CST
Documenters reporting:
“Detroit Evening Report: Redistricting process begins for Detroit City Council”
President Mary Sheffield says the formal session will probably continue for at least 30 minutes, or longer if council takes a break.
There are 8 callers for public comment and 16 in-person commenters. We are going right into public comment #DetDocumenters
Next commenter asks council to engage with them, the community, who will be most impacted by the change in districts.
Another commenter says that using major roads like Woodward to redistrict separates a community similar to segregation.
He was talking about using absentee ballot fraud and how they shouldn’t use John R as a dividing line between the east and west side.
Todd says that redistricting would not take full effect until after the 2025 election, so people would still be represented by the councilmember they elected in the last election.
The second slide shows that 101 was consolidated and is now a larger district.
Notice how 4 takes from 5.
Jamie Murphy is taking over for director Todd because his voice is weak from sickness.
President Sheffield says the public should have time to react to all 5 options and the council can re discuss when they return from winter recess in January.
President Sheffield asked the best way for people to give feedback. Todd says the best way would be by giving comments through the city council.
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Agency Information
Detroit City Council
The Detroit City Council is the legislative body of Detroit, Michigan, United States. The Council is responsible for the creation of local laws—called ordinances. Additionally they pass resolutions, motions, and the proposed city budget. The full-time council is required to meet every business day for at least 10 months of the year, with at least eight of these meetings occurring at a location besides city hall. The council may convene for special meetings at the call of the mayor or at least four members of council. Areas of responsibility for the Budget, Finance and Audit Committee include, Budget, Finance and the Auditor General.
City Council members are elected on the same cycle as the Mayor and will be elected in 2021. Seven members represent the seven council districts, while two members are elected at-large.
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