Volunteers and City of Detroit employees will help senior or disabled residents who need assistance clearing flood-damaged materials from their home. Residents should indicate if they are seniors or persons with a disability on the online form at detroitmi.gov/waterdamageclaims or when calling DWSD at 313-267-8000.
Quicken Loans is assisting the City by providing employees to handle flood calls from residents.
In addition, the City is looking for volunteers to work four-hour shifts to help move debris from the basements of elderly or disabled residents. The City will provide protective gear.
The schedule of volunteer gathering centers will be set later this week for different neighborhoods. To sign up as a volunteer, go to detroitmi.gov.
Residents with property damaged by flooding may be able to get reimbursement by filing a claim with the Detroit Water & Sewerage Department (DWSD). Those claims also may be filed with FEMA if a presidential declaration of disaster is issued.
For most people during this historic flood event, a DWSD sewer defect is not likely the cause of the damage. But filling out the form will get residents a head start on federal assistance.
Losses should be documented with photos of the flood damage and receipts related to cleaning and repairs. Homeowners should file a claim with their insurance company immediately. Under state law, residents have 45 days to file a claim with DWSD. The deadline is August 10.
Fill out the claim form at detroitmi.gov/waterdamageclaims or call (313) 267-8000 for assistance.
On June 26, roughly 5.77 inches of rain fell in Detroit overwhelming the region’s storm water system. Detroit got almost two months of rain in one day, mostly within five hours. The average rainfall for June is three inches.
In response, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued an emergency declaration and will submit a request for Presidential declaration of emergency along with documentation to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
From there, FEMA will visit the area and evaluate whether disaster conditions exist. The President will then make a determination of disaster.
If a major disaster is declared, FEMA funds are unlocked and can be used for payments to help offset residents’ losses.
However, a disaster declaration takes time. After the August 2014 flooding in Detroit, President Barack Obama declared a major disaster about a month after the flood event.
Left to right: DWSD Director Gary Brown, Michigan Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist, Mayor Mike Duggan and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer discuss historic flooding, State emergency declaration and FEMA process at a news briefing June 28.
Residents are encouraged to clean and sanitize basements immediately unless there is an immediate health hazard. In those cases, the Detroit Water & Sewerage Department (DWSD) will send City or contractor crews to those homes. Residents should indicate the hazard when completing the online form at detroitmi.gov/waterdamageclaims or calling (313) 267-8000.
Residents should place debris at the curb. The Department of Public Works (DPW) crews will provide continuous bulk pickup service in flood-affected neighborhoods. Ticketing is suspended in those neighborhoods until the removal is complete.
The City of Detroit is now scheduling at-home vaccinations for any Detroit resident age 12 and up.
The at-home vaccinations are the latest in the City’s ongoing efforts to provide residents with the COVID-19 vaccine. Those efforts included visiting homeless shelters, senior buildings and other assisted living facilities, as well as providing access for disabled residents and those without their own transportation and doing door-to-door outreach and education.
To schedule an at-home vaccination appointment, call (313) 230-0505.
City of Detroit officials asked for residents’ input on how to spend funds through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), and Detroiters have spoken.
Under ARPA, Detroit will receive $826 million, with $400 million designated for COVID-19 relief funding to restore the City’s budget. Residents were asked to weigh in on the remaining $426 million. A total of 3296 residents attended 60 in-person, conference calls or zoom meetings to hear the ARPA presentation in May and June, with 584 residents taking the survey. Learn more about the survey results.
The Detroit Health Department has issued numerous violations to a Church's Chicken restaurant in Detroit for failure to comply with the requirements of the Michigan Food Law. Learn more about the health violations.
The City of Detroit’s Planning & Development Department (PDD) present its vision for bringing millions of dollars in investment to the Gratiot/7 Mile neighborhoods, the 10th and final Strategic Neighborhood Fund plan to be completed. Read about the vision for Gratiot/7 Mile neighborhoods.
In response to the public health emergency and the risk posed by a resurgence of COVID-19, Detroit's Chief Public Health Officer Denise Fair issued an emergency public health order extending the restrictions in place for Open Meetings Act until July 31, 2021. Read the news release.
Good morning Community Leaders,
Below is important information regarding the flooding that happened over this past weekend. Please share with your member and neighbors. Please open the additional attachments to this email regarding the flood.
https://detroitmi.gov/departments/water-and-sewerage-department/dwsd-customer-care/dwsd-damage-claims-sewage-backups
DWSD Damage Claims & Sewage Backups | City of Detroit
Did you experience an overflow or sewer backup from the rain event on June 25-26, 2021? If you have water damage due to the severe flooding resulting from the rain event on June 25-26, 2021, complete this online form to begin the damage claim process, as well as alert the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department in order for Field Services staff to be dispatched to severely flooded areas.
detroitmi.gov
If you have water damage due to the severe flooding resulting from the rain event on June 25-26, 2021, complete this online form to begin the damage claim process. This also alerts the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department in order for Field Services staff to be dispatched to severely flooded areas. State law requires you file a written claim with your local water utility, DWSD in this case, within 45 days of when the overflow or backup was discovered.
Read the DWSD Fact Sheet regarding the June 25-26 rain event.
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District 5 Virtual Community Meeting will be on Tuesday, June 29th at 5:30 PM. Please see the link and call-in number below.
Join Zoom Meeting:
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Meeting ID: 898 7773 7899
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COVID-19 guidelines have been updated for the State of Michigan and as such, we are able to increase the outdoor capacity for the next two concerts and have made MORE TICKETS AVAILABLE!
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE
Donations for the musicians and to support the Historic Boston-Edison Association are still being accepted.
The Historic-Boston Edison neighborhood presents the 11th year of music concerts in the homes of our neighborhood.
We are happy to welcome you to our community for the 2021 edition of our house concert series featuring three performances with world-class musicians across multiple genres. The concert series is presented by the Historic Boston-Edison Association and Michelle May, Music Director of the Sounds of Music House Concerts™ organization. Tickets are $25. The address for the concerts will be given following ticket purchase.
RAIN DATE SUNDAY JUNE 13, 2021 12:30 - 1:30 PM (access to the backyard begins at noon) - Classical Concert with Eliot Heaton, violin, and Nathaniel Pierce, cello.
SATURDAY, JULY 24, 2021 7 PM - 8 PM (RAIN DATE SUNDAY JULY 25 7 PM - 8 PM)- Jazz Concert with the Vincent Chandler Quintet.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 2021 7 PM - 8 PM (RAIN DATE SUNDAY AUGUST 15, 7 PM - 8 PM) - Blues Concert with Thornetta Davis.
In order to comply with the current health and safety guidelines, the following measures will be used for these concerts--please note updated guidelines:
For information on our featured artists please visit the Concerts in Boston-Edison page on HistoricBostonEdison.org
During the May board meeting the Historic Boston-Edison Association directors recently elected the following officers:
Congratulations to these officers and many thanks to all directors, both past and present, for their service to both the association and greater Boston-Edison community.
For more information on how you can be elected to an officer position and for a list of current HBEA board members, please visit the current Board of Directors page.
As the world paused for many months and students everywhere grappled with the reality that their long awaited dreams of going on senior trips, prom, award banquets and graduation possibly wouldn't go as anticipated. We don't want them to think that their accomplishments are not to be celebrated.
To show our support and love, we want to honor the class of 2021 graduates in our upcoming newsletter.
Please provide the following:
We don't want to forget our promotional students! Send us their name and let us know whether they are promoting from Kindergarten, Elementary or Middle School.
Click here to email information by Friday, July 2, 2021.
We look forward to celebrating our graduates!
The May 2021 Newsletter is available online.
Highlights of this issue:
If you've missed them, back issues are also available here on the website.
Purchase Tickets for 2021 Concerts
SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 2021 2 PM - 3 PM Classical Concert with Eliot Heaton, violin, and Nathaniel Pierce, cello. (RAIN DATE SUNDAY JUNE 13, 2021 NOON - 1 PM)
SATURDAY, JULY 24, 2021 7 PM - 8 PMJazz Concert with the Vincent Chandler Trio. (RAIN DATE SUNDAY JULY 25 7 PM - 8 PM)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 2021 7 PM - 8 PMBlues Concert with Thornetta Davis. (RAIN DATE SUNDAY AUGUST 15, 7 PM - 8 PM)
These will be one-hour concert events. You will be allowed to enter the backyard beginning 45 minutes before start time.
Visit our Concerts in Boston-Edison page for more information and to learn more about this year's artists!
The Membership Committee would like to remind residents that the previously $40 annual membership dues have officially increased to $60 beginning the new fiscal year May 1, 2021 – April 31, 2022. The dues increase will continue to help support the events, services and activities made available to residents and the HBEA community. [Join or Renew Your Dues Today!]
Whether you are renewing your dues or paying for the first time; your contribution supports Boston-Edison with a number of benefits, noted below, which makes our community a premier neighborhood to live in.
PUBLIC SAFETY: Collecting speed data to LEVERAGE our voices with the city for
HOLIDAY DECORATIONS on ALL light poles, the gateways and HBEA signage
ORGANIZED COMMUNITY CLEAN UPS of ALL the Boston-Edison Community
BI-WEEKLY CLEAN-UPS of high traffic areas
BEAUTIFICATION of the flowerbeds,
COMMUNITY EVENTS: increased focus on children events, Oktoberfest, Holiday Home Tour, House Concerts, Summer Concerts, and more…
Leveraging our voices with the City for:
ALL alleys cleaned by the city west of the Lodge;
ALL alleys scheduled to be cleaned East of the Lodge in 2021;
Daffodils planted by the city in Voigt Park and All of the boulevards;
$25,000 funding award for tree health and maintenance of Voigt Park from Wayne County facilitated by the late Jewel Ware, County Commissioner
As you consider your contribution as a HBEA resident, please also consider becoming a Gilded Giver by donating over and beyond membership dues. [DONATE HERE]
The nomination process is now closed and elections will be held at the upcoming annual meeting on May 26th, 2021.
At the Annual Meeting on May 26, 2021 your Historic Boston-Edison Association (HBEA) will be looking to elect six Board of Directors Positions. The following are open for election:
Per the Association Bylaws Director’s positions are open to all Active Members, “in good standing” who meet the following criteria:
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CITY OF DETROIT COVID-19 RELATED PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
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CITY OF DETROIT OPENS VACCINATIONS TO ALL RESIDENTS 16 AND OLDER
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Join Sierra Club Michigan Chapter and Friends of the Rouge for the virtual Green Your Neighborhood community forum! Learn more about how communities across Detroit use native plants and landscaping as tools to manage stormwater. For more information about the month-long series, click here (Link: https://www.sierraclub.org/michigan/great-lakes-great-communities-campaign#GYN_2021). Questions? Email glgc@michigan.sierraclub.org.
Nurture your love for gardening through Rain Gardens to the Rescue with the Sierra Club and Friends of the Rouge! The program includes a series of virtual workshops and hands-on rain garden installations. The workshops are designed to teach you about rain gardens, their purpose and the steps to take to create a rain garden of your own. Applications are open to residents, community groups and faith-based organizations in Detroit. Preference for locations in Detroit Council Districts 1, 2 & 7. To learn more, click here (link:https://therouge.org/rain-gardens-to-the-rescue/). Applications close April 26, 2021. Questions? Email glgc@michigan.sierraclub.org.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW VIDEO OF THE GIVEAWAY WITH COMMUNITY RESIDENT INTERVIEWS
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