Tuesday December 12 Michigan House of Representatives will be voting on the Detroit Lighting Authority, HB 5688 and HB 5705. These are aligned with SB 970 which passed Michigan Senate on
Lets take Senator Coleman A Young Jr's advice that was given in the letter linked below and establish a Public Infrastructure Trust, such as the one Chicago has. Detroit can do this, it doesn't require the State of Michigan stepping in.
View PDF of letter with the attached bills and analysis as it moves to Michigan House of Representatives on Tuesday, December 10. Document also available through ScribD.
We are a broad-based coalition of communities, unions, and concerned citizens united in retaining self-government by the people of Detroit. We oppose the Emergency Manager Law (Public Act 4) as well as two illegal strategies which stem from it: (1) The Financial Stability Agreement, signed by the Detroit City Council, which strips away the power of our elected officials, and (2) the imposition of the Detroit Public Schools Emergency Manager, which has left our school system in ruins.
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