Flint City Council to meet electronically Monday; FPD collective bargaining, pot ordinance on agenda
By Tom Travis The Flint City Council will hold its second electronic council meeting since the coronavirus pandemic began at 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 13. The public may participate by viewing it on YouTube on the SpectacleTV account. In an emailed press release issued Thursday, Deputy City Clerk/City Council Secretary, Davina Donahue stated in part that the meeting is a Flint City Council electronic public meeting in light of COVID-19...
Flint residents join in “Light Up The Night” support for medical professionals
By Tom Travis A Westside Flint neighborhood joined in a national observance Thursday night to show support for medical professionals fighting the coronavirus. As virus fears mount and the grim statistics grow exponentially, America seems to be gearing up for a month likely to bring sickness and death across the globe like no other time in our modern memories. Yet communities throughout the country took time to show love and support to...
Neeley says of the pandemic, “this is real, this is serious, people are dying” in a Monday afternoon video press conference
By Tom Travis “This is real, this is serious, people are dying.” Flint Mayor Sheldon Neeley said in an afternoon video conference press conference Monday. Neeley began by paying homage to his colleague in the Michigan State Legislature, Isaac Robinson, age 44, who died Sunday in Detroit from complications to the coronavirus. Robinson represented the 4th District in the Michigan State Legislature. Robinson’s mother,...
“We are in a new normal,” City Health Advisor Lawrence Reynolds asserts
By Tom Travis “We are in a new normal,” the City of Flint’s newly-appointed Health Advisor to the Mayor, Dr. Lawrence Reynolds, asserted in a wide-ranging phone interview Sunday. As numbers on the coronavirus pandemic skyrocket, both nationally and in the state and Genesee County, “All the assumptions under which we operated in the past should be tested, questioned or thrown out the window and...
Flint City Council, after a “social distance” livestream, will not meet again until May 10
By Tom Travis The City Council voted unanimously Monday night to not meet again until the regularly scheduled city council meeting on May 10. All committee meetings and council meetings are cancelled until then. If there is an urgent need to meet, the council agreed to have an electronic meeting. With Governor Whitmer’s “stay in place” executive order less than 24 hours old, the city council met in Council Chambers. The...
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