The council members are working on plans that would boost staffing levels beyond those called for in the budget proposed by City Administrator Steve Powers.
City Administrator Steve Powers received a round of applause Monday night after presenting a budget plan that avoids further cuts in the police and fire departments. In fact, he proposes increasing police staffing. The applause — the first time in years that anyone could remember such a sound following a ...
Ann Arbor officials announced Friday that plans to build a multi-modal Fuller Road Transit Center have been halted after a federal funding requirements changed the assumptions about financing. Christoper Taylor, a City Council member representing Ward 3, sent a letter to his constituents on Saturday, explaining aspects of the change.
Ann Arbor City Council members may have been a bit overzealous in their attempts to be transparent about emails exchanged during council meetings. After tightening the rules around emailing during council meetings over the past two years, council members realized even third-party communications unrelated to city business were showing up ...
A majority of Ann Arbor City Council members joined forces Monday night to block a proposal to reduce the city's funding for public art. The vote was an exact reverse from two weeks ago when the council voted 8-3 to give initial approval to cutting the funding in half.
The new language still gets rid of the vague term "approaching," but it doesn't go so far as to require pedestrians to be "within" the street to get motorists to stop for them.
There's a movement afoot to roll back Ann Arbor's pedestrian safety ordinance, and discussion on the issue could take center stage at this week's City Council meeting.
"For years now, Ann Arbor has made a mess of sidewalk repair and replacement," Ann Arbor City Council Member Christopher Taylor, D-3rd Ward, writes in a letter e-mailed to city residents today. Taylor is championing what he calls a "modest tax increase" to maintain sidewalks. What do you think? Take our poll.
Update: University of Michigan responds to Ann Arbor's request for reimbursement of game day costs; with poll The Ann Arbor City Council voted unanimously Monday night to send a strong message to the University of Michigan: Pay for city services on football Saturdays. Now U-M has until Aug. 26 to ...
Details of the employment contract between the city of Ann Arbor and its new administrator, Steve Powers, were made known for the first time Thursday night. Powers, who has been the county administrator in Marquette County for the last 15 years, will be reimbursed up to $30,000 for relocation and ...
Members of the Ann Arbor community interested in getting to know the finalists in the city administrator job search should mark their calendars for July 12 and 13. Council Member Christopher Taylor, D-3rd Ward, says that's when city officials plan to bring potentially three or four yet-to-be-determined finalists to town. ...
New nonunion employees hired to work for the city of Ann Arbor soon might have to clock twice as many years of service in order to collect pensions from the city. They also could see changes in their retiree health care benefits under a proposal approved in concept only by ...
The Ann Arbor City Council may be violating a city policy if it goes through with the level of cuts proposed for park operations under the city administrator's recommended budget.
(A factually incorrect statement made by the mayor has been removed from this story.) Mayor John Hieftje says he's feeling OK about the job cuts Ann Arbor has made in its police and fire departments while he's been in office the last decade. "We've been pretty comfortable in reducing police ...
Ann Arbor City Council Member Christopher Taylor says negotiations between the city and the Downtown Development Authority have been "frank and fruitful." "There is some progress," Taylor said. "But also there are some points of contention that we'll continue to have conversations about."
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