News from the City Government

Second phase of Mayor's 40 Neighborhood Parks initiative now underway; first 10 parks renovated last fall Funds for two-year program coming from $11.7M in unspent bond funds dating back decades discovered last year by CFO

Training program an example of the new Detroit at Work initiative announced by Mayor Duggan during his State of the City address DMC, Henry Ford Health System & St. John Providence partnered with the city to develop a new healthcare industry training program Focus: HOPE and Oakland University School of Nursing Continuing Education selected to provide training to 240 residents over 12 months

Ride share partnership to provide up to $25 in credits for new Lyft users who sign up Lyft joins over 100 businesses partnering to provide benefits to Detroit ID holders Discounted ID, ride credits available at Detroit ID Pop-up Enrollment Location this Thursday

Citywide Spring Cleaning dates scheduled for May 6, 13 and 20 City also launches Serve Detroit website as new portal for Volunteer Opportunitie

City and key partners to invest more than $4 million to rehab 115 vacant homes over 2 years, create 2-acre park, landscape 192 vacant lots Community-focused project to be model plan for Strategic Neighborhood Fund's effort to stabilize and strengthen Detroit neighborhoods

Tiger fans coming to downtown Detroit for Opening Day activities will find convenient parking, expanded time limits for street parking and some street closings around Grand Circus Park and Comerica Park on Friday, April 7.

Program began in September, was to be completed in June Recently approved funding means remainder of city’s 6,000 previously identified dead trees will be removed by late fall.

Mayor Duggan launched new platform in April 2015 to let Detroiters "have city hall in their pocket" Residents can report a variety of issues ranging from potholes to graffiti to illegal dumping and broken street lights

Mayor launched Medical First Responder training for all firefighters in 2014 Fire companies now responding to nearly half of all priority medical runs, are first on scene 60% of the time Avg. response times for priority medical runs improved by 2 minutes since program started

Spring/Summer hours also to begin April 17 at 5 drop-off locations City also announces that yard waste collection will extend to from late November to mid-December