BridgeDetroit contributor Kayleigh Lickliter has this week’s City Council roundup: New property tax payment option, demolition contract concerns, next steps with the water authority’s pump station plan and the tow rate commission’s revival.
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Kayleigh Lickliter
Kayleigh Lickliter is a freelance reporter from the metro Detroit area. She joined the BridgeDetroit team as a contributor in 2021 to track how the city was spending over $800 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding. Before entering the local news industry in Detroit, Lickliter was a private investigator in multiple sectors.
She diligently holds the city to its promises, which has led to quick, sometimes decisive, action by government officials.
As a proud Detroit Documenter, she has live-tweeted over 120 Detroit and Wayne County public meetings. Her first investigative story for BridgeDetroit was featured on the front page of the Detroit Free Press. Her reporting uncovered the city’s use of cemetery dirt as backfill and Proposal N advisory board meetings that were held behind closed doors and without notice to Detroit residents.
Lickliter understands the complexities of local government and the bureaucratic barriers that Detroiters often face. Coupled with her unique eye for the details that make information newsworthy, she is an asset to every newsroom she works with.
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Wayne County officials are working to educate residents as its Mortgage and Deed Fraud Unit investigates 400 fraud complaints.
City debars, seeks $3.5M from ex-federal demo contractor amid critical land bank report
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Def Sound designation delivered
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Bobby Ferguson banned from city contracts until 2033 amid watchdog probe
Detroit’s inspector general issued a debarment order Tuesday for Bobby Ferguson, a contractor convicted in the corruption scandal with former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
Wayne County deputies union threatens to ‘rebel’ over courthouse security contract
County officials were focused on addressing safety concerns while the union representing Wayne County’s deputies argued that the county isn’t doing enough to fill vacancies and weakening their union agreement.
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