Mayor Bing - Community Meeting Aug 30

Mayor Dave Bing will be holding his community meeting for District 3 as he visits each of seven districts around the city. As a citizen activist group we are encouraging the public to attend the meeting. This community meeting is for the Mayor and his staff to understand the needs of Detroiters throughout the city.

Click here to download a copy of the flyer for the event.


WHO: Mayor Dave Bing and staff
WHAT: District 3 Community Meeting
WHEN: Thursday, August 30, 2012, starts at 7:00pm
WHERE: Brenda Scott Middle School, 18440 Hoover St, Detroit MI 48205
FACEBOOK: Event link

There will be a brief period likely from 6:50-7:05 when you'll be able to fill out a card requesting to speak during the public comments segment of the night. You should be offered 2 minutes to speak, although we have found 1 minute or 1.5 minutes is regularly offered. It is HIGHLY recommended those wishing to speak and find seating arrive by 6:30pm.

Prepare your presentation, deliver it direct to the point and cleanly. Ideally create an opportunity for action by the mayor and his staff. Targeted issues will be delegated to staff to manage. We need broad reaching change and that can be in the form of requesting audits, public documentation of results, and requesting conversational dialog that isn't happening at community meetings. Require open meetings and proper notice and publication of events offering public participation. Ask for public service announcements to appear where YOU will see them. Transparency of government is not coming from Mayor Bing's administration.

About the Location

Brenda Scott Middle School is one of 15 schools that the Educational Achievement Authority (EAA) is laying claim to pulling from Detroit Public Schools. It will be managed by Matchbook Learning. Emergency Manager Roy Roberts worked with Robert Bobb to establish the EAA, implementing it the 2012-13 school year with Detroit Public Schools the first pulled into the statewide district based on being Persistently Low Achieving schools on MEAP test scores.

Mayor's Community Meetings

The above map also shows the declared resident locations of City Council members, seven of which will have to reside in a district to serve as its elected representative.

City Charter, Sec. 5-110. - Community Meetings.

Each calendar year the Mayor shall hold at least one community meeting in each of the non at-large districts. A city-wide community meeting shall be held not later than September 30 of each calendar year at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center auditorium or other location suited to accommodate at least an equal number of citizens. Meetings shall begin between the hours of seven (7) o'clock P.M. and eight (8) o'clock P.M. and shall not conflict with an evening City Council meeting scheduled under section 4-102. 

The meetings shall be published and noticed in the manner set forth in the Michigan Open Meetings Act. Meetings shall be conspicuously posted on the City of Detroit's website or then existing modes of electronic or non-print communication and on other forms of media owned or operated by the City of Detroit, including any television channels.

List of Community Meetings Held by Mayor Bing

• City-wide meeting held in the Erma Henderson Auditorium
• District 1 meeting held July 12 at Rosedale Park Activity Center
• District 2 meeting held July 27 at Northwest Activity Center
• District 3 meeting to be held August 30, 2012 at Brenda Scott Academy
• District 4 meeting (pending)
• District 5 meeting (pending)
• District 6 meeting (pending)
• District 7 meeting (pending)