Detroit City Council Meeting Summary

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A Detroit City Council Skilled Trades Task Force meeting was held on Tuesday, Nov. 24,2015. Stephen Grady, the Chief of Staff of Council President Jones Office, started the meeting by explaining the last. Grady started by saying that with the last meeting being held at the Mathis Center there was a big crowd. this was due to the Mathis Center handing out expungements, the sealing of one's record, on the same day in the same place. Grady laughed and said, “ We had to break the meeting up and have two separate meeting.” There were so many people coming out that Grady had to assure the crowd what the focus was about.Grady says, “This session though we are going to refocus back on the skilled trades. We’re gonna meet with some developers today, find out some opportunities.” The panel board of developers included Laura Rais of thee Mechanical Contractors Association, Sharon Travillion from Travillion Trucking, and Ric Preuss of the AFL-CIO, to name just a few.Ric Preuss was one and the AFL-CIO was one of the main points of the day. …show more content…
Preus is on the Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation Board (DESC) and was there to talk about one of the project he’s working on to bring new jobs to the City of Detroit. The AFL-CIO Home Renovation Project is were the AFL-CIO is going to buy 300 homes in detroit and rebuild them with Detroit skilled trades worker, which in turn bring new jobs to Detroit. Preuss says, “The houses are bought from the city through building trades and all of the union's use the pension dollars to invest. In this case it’s going to be used to buy houses, family
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