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The Detroit City Council is the legislative body of Detroit, Michigan, United States. 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 Detroit City Council has elected Mary Sheffield to be its president. [2]
The government of Detroit, Michigan is run by a mayor, the nine-member Detroit City Council, the eleven-member Board of Police Commissioners, and a clerk. All of these officers are elected on a nonpartisan ballot, with the exception of four of the police commissioners, who are appointed by the mayor. Detroit has a "strong mayoral" system, with ...
Detroit, the largest city in the state of Michigan, was settled in 1701 by French colonists. It is the first European settlement above tidewater in North America. [ 1] Founded as a New France fur trading post, it began to expand during the 19th century with U.S. settlement around the Great Lakes.
July 30, 2024 at 4:50 PM. DETROIT (FOX 2) - The Detroit City Council voted Tuesday to approve phase one of the city's plan to install solar panels on large plots of vacant land. The measures that ...
They are asking Detroit City Council to approve an extension until Nov. 30 to close on the $350,000 purchase of the tower from the city, and to then get a full two years to complete the project's ...
Detroit City Council could decide this week on whether to approve incentives for part of a $3 billion development in the New Center area that is a collaboration among Henry Ford Health, the ...
Ken Cockrel is the son of the late Kenneth Cockrel Sr., a civil rights activist and Detroit City Council member. [114] The younger Cockrel also ran for city council, and was first elected in 1997. [114] Cockrel was elected council president in 2005, [114] and assumed the mayorship after Kwame Kilpatrick's resignation in 2008.
July 16, 2024 at 10:55 PM. Detroit City Council delayed voting Tuesday on developing fields of solar panels as officials prepare a legal analysis of the project. After weeks of deliberation ...