- DTE Energy and residents will face costs for services firefighters and police provide.
- Long waits for utility crews to relieve firefighters where wires were down during storms or accidents drove the new ordinance.
- Utility is disappointed and says residents may have to pay the city for wire-downing incidents on their properties.
"This cost-recovery ordinance will allow a team of experts from the Police Department and the Fire Department to identify costs that the City may have borne with respect to downed wires and the appropriate assignment of reimbursement fees to utilities when appropriate," City Councilwoman JoAnn Watson said in an e-mail to the Free Press.
