Greetings citizens of District 2 and the City of Detroit.
When George was elected by you to make change in city government, he said "I don't
intend to disappoint you". In the short
time that he has been in office, the following things have been accomplished.
1.
Board appointments to all sub committees have been
approved and meetings are being held.
2.
A commitment to Light up Detroit by encouraging
citizens to call the Public Lighting Commission at 313 267 8140 twice a week to report
the location of non-working streetlights. We want all the lights in District 2
to be on by late spring/early summer.
3.
Restarting the effort to have commercial air
service out of Coleman Young International Airport.
4.
Supporting the efforts of the Magic Plus LLC
group to revitalize the State Fairgrounds into a viable property containing a
new Amtrak Station and, businesses creating jobs.
5.
Making sure that City retirees and, employees do
not get abused or lose out on the pensions that were promised by monitoring the activity of the Emergency Manager.
In addition to these successes, an active program to get
more citizens to challenge their property taxes by going to a Board of Review
hearing on their property is in full effect.
If you never tried to appeal your property taxes then we highly encourage
you to do so. You have more to gain and
nothing to lose by scheduling a hearing with the Board of Review.
The revitalization of Coleman Young International Airport will included upgrades to the terminal and construction of a new runway. This is a jewel of the city that Coleman Young and the Tuskegee Airmen had to give back to the community. We must not let that die.
In time we will have a District office located at the
Northwest Activities Center on Curtis and Meyers so that we can get even closer
to our constituents. As of January 21st,
Office furniture, Website and, phone lines to our office are still under construction.
Under the leadership of Council President Jones, Detroit
will exit the bankruptcy in a much better position to provide services at the
most economical of costs.
Equal opportunity demorcrat? What's your view on overturning the ban on same-sex marriage in Michigan? How about supporting a proclamation by Council that Detroit supports same-sex couples as a intrical part in the future of Detroit?
ReplyDeleteAndrew, there should have never been a ban placed on marriage in the first place. We have much bigger issues like bankruptcy and, protecting pensions for City Employees than, worrying about somebody's social life.
ReplyDeleteIf a proclamation is made, I will support same sex couples as citizens of Detroit and I hope that they shop and party in Detroit also.