Jackson calls off Tuesday’s council meeting; next session is Oct. 20

JACKSON, Mich. — The Jackson City Council did not meet Tuesday, Oct. 6. The 6:30 p.m. session was canceled because three council members were going to be absent, Ward 3 Council member Angelita Gunn told MLive in a text message.

The council’s next regular meeting is 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20, in the second-floor council chambers at City Hall, 161 W. Michigan Ave. Agendas and minutes are posted in the city’s online Agenda Center, and cancellations show up on the city’s meeting calendar, MLive noted.

The skipped week leaves the council’s late-September decisions as its most recent business. At that meeting, Wilcox Newspapers reported, members voted unanimously to declare four street rebuilds necessary, on Elm Street, Page Avenue, Morrell Street and Washington Avenue, and told staff to prepare special-assessment rolls. That step does not approve construction by itself; plans, bids and final costs still have to come back to the council.

City staff said the Elm, Page and East Washington work is part of the federally supported East Side Commerce Corridor linking the highway and the Michigan Center area with downtown. Morrell is planned in two phases, Brown to Bowen streets in 2027 and Bowen to West Avenue in 2028, because of how the grant money is structured, a city engineer told the council. Assessments are capped at $15,000 or 25% of a property’s state equalized value, whichever is less.

The council also gave final approval to an ordinance banning virtual currency kiosks in the city, bought a dump and plow truck package for $228,494 and a hook-lift truck package for $140,584, and approved selling city-owned land at 221 W. Louis Glick Highway for a proposed 15-unit townhome project, according to the Wilcox report. A first reading also passed on a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement for an 81-unit rehab at King Community Homes.

Residents who want to weigh in on any of it will have their next chance at the public comment portion of the Oct. 20 meeting.

Updated Oct. 7, 2026: Revised to reflect that the canceled Oct. 6 meeting has passed.

Sources:
MLive, “Jackson City Council meeting canceled due to expected absences,” Oct. 6, 2026, https://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/2026/10/jackson-city-council-meeting-canceled-due-to-expected-absences.html
Wilcox Newspapers, “Jackson City Council advances street projects, bans virtual currency kiosks,” Sept. 25, 2026, https://wilcoxnewspapers.com/jackson-city-council-advances-street-projects-bans-virtual-currency-kiosks/
Photo: DontCallMeLateForDinner, “Jackson, Michigan City Hall, 2025,” April 22, 2025, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), cropped and color-corrected; derivative under the same ShareAlike license, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jackson,_Michigan_City_Hall,_2025.jpg

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