City of Detroit

CITY COUNCIL

A RESOLUTION CALLING FOR UNITY IN AVOIDING A FINANCIAL CASH CRISIS & THE RESTRUCTURING AND LONG TERM VIABILITY OF THE CITY OF DETROIT

WHEREAS

The Preamble to the Charter of the City of Detroit calls for a local governing structure in which public policy objectives and decisions reflect citizen participation; and Public Act 4 of 2011, the Emergency Manager Law, jeopardizes the principles of electoral representation and citizen participation in local government that form the basis of the City of Detroit Charter and American Democracy, in general; and Having been vested with the fiduciary duty of representing the best interest of its citizens, the elected leaders of the City of Detroit, being the Mayor and the City Council must act affirmatively and urgently to develop a viable plan that will correct the current fiscal crisis and set the stage for long term fiscal solvency; NOW, THEREFORE BE IT That the Detroit City Council stands with Mayor Bing in developing a three pronged plan that, first addresses the necessity to bring the Citys expenditures in line with its revenues by taking the necessary step of laying off up to as many as 2,300 city employees as recommended by Ernst and Young unless and until any or all labor concessions have been derived resulting in a reduction in the number of layoffs needed; and BE IT FURTHER The second prong of the plan addresses the need to restructure City government as we now know it by calling for the plan to include reforming, consolidating, sharing and the elimination of some services currently performed by the City to ensure that the City continues to operate within its financial means after the first prong has been achieved; and BE IT FURTHER That the third prong of the plan be the development of strategic steps outlined to reduce the accumulated deficit which set forth reasonable expectations of initiatives and projected revenues, specific methods of measurements and reporting of the accomplishments or failures of the projections and identified timelines with alternative actions to be taken if necessary to maintain the objective deficit reductions; and BE IT FURTHER

WHEREAS

WHEREAS

RESOLVED

RESOLVED

RESOLVED

RESOLVED

That the Detroit City Council stands with Mayor Bing in opposition to an Emergency Manager and endorses his plan to prevent municipal bankruptcy; and BE IT FINALLY That the Detroit City Council submits the above referenced steps be adopted as the template for the plan formulated by the Mayor under which both branches of Detroit City Government can stand together on to correct our fiscal crisis.

RESOLVED