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Ann Arbor City Council Meeting Summaries

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For each City Council meeting, I provide links to the City's Legistar website, CTN's YouTube video, and links to my newsletters and voting charts that I publish on A2ELNEL.com. I list agenda items of interest from each meeting, along with Legistar links, articles I've written (highlighted purple), and articles published on MLive. Look for highlighted text to find votes on development, affordable housing, and the City's Sustainability and Innovations department.

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April 1, 2019

• APPROVED: $75,000 to the Ann Arbor Housing Commission to analyze feasibility of city-owned properties for development as affordable housing (Legistar)​

  • https://www.mlive.com/news/g66l-2019/04/7e243683485105/ann-arbor-adds-to-list-of-potential-affordable-housing-sites.html

• APPROVED: $74,450  for lifting and leveling of displaced sidewalk slabs, 2019 Sidewalk Repair Program (Legistar)

• APPROVED: $658,511.54  for sidewalk slab replacement for displaced joints and installation of ramps, 2019 Sidewalk Repair Program (Legistar)

• APPROVED: $147,001 for cutting sidewalk slabs to correct vaulted and displaced joints, 2019 Sidewalk Repair Program (Legistar)

• APPROVED: $150,000 partnership with Community Action Network to operate Bryant and Northside Community Centers (Legistar)

• APPROVED: $50,000 for 2019 Bike Share program (Legistar)

  • ​https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2019/04/ann-arbor-agrees-to-fund-bike-share-program.html

• APPROVED: Ordinance banning two-stroke power equipment in DDA area (Legistar)

  • ​https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2019/07/ann-arbor-bans-2-cycle-leaf-blowers-other-equipment-downtown.html

• APPROVED: Establishment of Center of the City task force (Legistar)

• APPROVED: Requirement that City street-related improvement projects (e.g. lane reductions/road diets) come to Council for approval (Legistar)

• Two resolutions related to allocation of 2019 millage rebate (unrestricted) funds:

  • APPROVED: Allocations described in the Sept 2017 resolution - affordable housing, climate action, and public safety - will be fully funded in the 2020 general budget (Legistar)

  • APPROVED: The millage rebate will be used to fund community priorities, consistent with survey results (adjusted, based on funding already committed) (Legistar)

    • Mayor Taylor VETOED this resolution on April 5, 2019 (Legistar)

  • ​Background: the Washtenaw County Community Mental Health and Public Safety Preservation Millage passed in Nov 2017, which included "rebate" funds that would enter the City budget at a future date, untethered as to purpose. Ballots for the county millage named only two purposes: public safety and community mental health

    • Link to Washtenaw County page on the millage, including ballot language

  • Prior to the millage vote, in Sept 2017 City Council passed a non-binding resolution promising specific allocations of those rebate funds for climate action, affordable housing, and pedestrian safety (Legistar)

  • ​https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2019/04/mayors-planned-veto-an-insult-to-democracy-ann-arbor-council-member-says.html

  • https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2019/04/ann-arbor-mayor-delivers-promised-veto-of-council-vote-on-new-tax-money.html

  • ​Additional Thoughts (Mar 31, 2019) - Mental Health Millage Compromise​​

  • Surveys, Studies, and Commissions

• Personal Interest vs Public Interest