Flint mayor credits road repairs, lead service-line remediation and staffing gains

Mayor Sheldon Neely used the broadcast to highlight recent municipal accomplishments: a large road-repair effort, lead-service-line remediation, balanced budgets and gains in police and fire staffing.

"We have remediated all lead service lines inside the city of Flint," Neely said on-air, and he added that the city has repaved what he described as 506 miles of road and has achieved seven balanced budgets. Neely also said the city recently added eight recruits into the police academy, bringing staffing to the full complement budgeted by the city for the first time in more than 10 years, and that firefighter staffing has increased by roughly 30 percent since the administration took office.

Neely presented the accomplishments as evidence of improved fiscal health and public safety capacity, and he repeatedly thanked state representatives and local planners for grant support that helped fund projects.