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The Detroit City Clerk said as of Wednesday, her office had not received the final charter document. Commissioners plan to take the matter to court if the question is left off the August ballot.
The Detroit Charter Revision Commission missed its deadline to submit the final version of the document it had spent the last three years drafting in time for the August primary, according to City Clerk Janice Winfrey. The announcement comes as the city’s election commission prepares to approve the municipal primary ballot on Thursday.
According to a letter authored by Winfrey, the Detroit Charter Revision Commission successfully submitted a ballot question proposing the new charter on May 6.
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday declined to approve the proposed updated Detroit City Charter submitted by the city's revision commission. In a Friday letter to revision commission chair Carol Weaver obtained by Crain's, Whitmer cited "substantial and extensive legal deficiencies" from a review by…
Detroit officials, commission fight over whether charter revision would put city back in bankruptcy
Detroit officials, commission fight over whether charter revision would put city back in bankruptcy
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Detroit financial officials on Monday told state Financial Review Commission members Monday about what they called unfunded mandates in revisions proposed for the city charter. Officials say the costs associated with the revisions would bring Detroit back into state oversight.
Detroit s financial officials and members of the body elected to revise Detroit s charter are feuding over the city s allegations that proposed changes would be too costly and put Detroit on the road to a second bankruptcy.