The Detroit City Council has approved a budget deal that promises to avert drastic cuts to police and fire, recreation and bus service.
The council voted to restore $25 million of the $50 million it cut from Mayor Dave Bing’s budget.
Bing says the vote is good news. But he says tough things are still in the city’s future.
Layoffs will be a reality, there’s no way around that, and with those layoffs there’s obviously going to be some service problems. So we’ve got to get better at servicing the citizens that are here, as well as the businesses that are here.
Two council members voted against the deal. They say they’re not convinced the mayor’s revenue projections will hold. And they say if they don’t, the budget will have to be revisited.
The new fiscal year starts tomorrow.
