News from the City Government

With only just over a week remaining until the Affordable Care Act enrollment deadline of February 15, Mayor Mike Duggan is urging Detroiters to attend local enrollment events to sign up for affordable health insurance. This effort is part of the Mayor’s commitment to get residents enrolled under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by the deadline to make sure they have access to affordable health care.

Do you think your property is overassessed? Residents who disagree about the amount of their property tax assessment have an opportunity to appeal before the City of Detroit Assessments Division Assessors Review that will be held Feb. 2-16, 2015, in Suite 804 in the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center, located at 2 Woodward Ave.

The City of Detroit is committed to making sure that all 1884 miles of residential streets are plowed with at least a 10-foot path. In addition to verifying contractors’ work through visual inspections and GPS data, citizens are being provided two options for reporting unplowed streets.

Trash Collection Resumes Today With the majority of residential streets now plowed, the City’s trash collection contractors have resumed trash collection today. The City will operate on a holiday trash collection schedule this week, meaning it will pick up residents’ containers one day after their normal collection date.

The City of Detroit's Department of Public Works is providing this update to its snow removal efforts as of 9:00 a.m., Monday, February 2, 2015.  Attached is the city's snow removal policy for background information. 

The City of Detroit's Department of Public Works is providing this update to its snow removal efforts as of 4:00 p.m., Sunday, February 1, 2015. Attached is the city's snow removal policy for background information.

With snow in the forecast, the City of Detroit Department of Public Works is reminding residents of its snow removal policies. The City utilizes a three-level system during winter weather.

Do you think your property is overassessed? Residents who disagree about the amount of their property tax assessment have an opportunity to appeal before the City of Detroit Assessments Division Assessors Review that will be held Feb. 2-16, in Suite 824 in the Coleman Young Municipal Center, located at 2 Woodward Ave.

For the second year in a row, most Detroiters will see a reduction in the assessed values on their homes when they receive their annual Notice of Property Assessment, Mayor Mike Duggan announced today. 2015 Assessment notices are being mailed next week and will start arriving in mailboxes soon.

S.A.Y. Detroit, in partnership with the City of Detroit, and Score7 Charitable Fund (Matthew Stafford’s Charitable Foundation), today revealed plans for a unique new Academics and Sports Program, called the S.A.Y. Detroit Play Center (Sports, Academics, Youth) reclaiming an abandoned recreation center in Lipke Park, that was closed in 2014 due to city budget cuts.