Ann Arbor City Council Meeting Summaries

Accessible from A2COUNCIL.com and A2ELNEL.com/A2COUNCIL

For each City Council meeting, I have provided 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 have listed 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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September 3, 2019

• DEFEATED: CM Ackerman reappointment to Planning Commission (defeated 6-5) (Legistar)

  • State law allows CM Ackerman to serve on the Planning Commission until the Mayor nominates another Council Member​

  • https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2019/09/ann-arbor-council-divided-6-5-on-reappointing-colleague-to-planning-commission.html

  • A month after this Council meeting, I wrote a post about this issue: Elections Have Consequences

• APPROVED: $579,478 Lower Town Area Mobility Study (Legistar)​​​

  • This study was part of the FY20 approved budget for $649,478 ($579,478 plus $70,000 contingencies)

  • This study was defeated when first proposed for $732,992 at Feb 19, 2019 Council Meeting (Legistar) - at the time it was an 8-vote requirement to amend FY19 budget

  • https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2019/09/ann-arbor-to-spend-nearly-650k-on-lower-town-mobility-study.html

• APPROVED: Public Release, redacted report about former HR Director Robyn Wilkerson (Legistar)

  • ​https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2019/09/former-ann-arbor-human-resources-director-frequently-caused-conflicts-with-others-report-finds.html

• APPROVED: $73,710 for Sustainability and Innovations to purchase solar panels to be installed at Fire Station 6, 1881 Briarwood Circle (Legistar)

  • ​https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2019/09/ann-arbor-oks-74k-contract-for-solar-panels-on-city-fire-station.html

• DEFEATED: Road Reconfiguration Pilot for Green Road, from Burbank Drive to Plymouth Road (Legistar)

  • Note: a similar resolution was defeated at the Aug 5, 2019 Council meeting ​(Legistar)

• DEFEATED: $27,000,000 General Obligation Capital Improvement Bonds for the DDA to expand Ann Ashley Parking Structure Expansion, including $5,000,000 for office space (Legistar)

  • Note: ​This was brought back to the Oct 21, 2019 Council Meeting with a reduced cost of $23,000,000 and was also defeated (Legistar)

  • https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2019/09/ann-arbor-council-rejects-4m-plan-for-new-dda-office-meeting-space.html

• US versus THEM: The Guilty Pleasure​