Councilmember· 2024-11-01–2028-11-01; month-level start: November 2024 per Michigan Banner election coverage (election day; seating day unpublished); month-level end: November 2028 per the city council page term-expiry listing
Jacinta Seals
Saginaw
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Voice
- Meetings spoken in
- 17
- Total speaking time
- 51:31
- Avg per meeting
- 3:02
- Segments
- 768
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Top issues during term (17)(Development)
Civic engagement and board recruitment
Projects/Prospects Report
Over $20 million in new investment at the existing plant, with manufacturing jobs maintained and created.
Medical Diamond Project progress
$6,961,147 in city contracting for major infrastructure work.
Property split at 1427 Brown Street / 817 East Holland
Commercial Rehabilitation Act District for Shaheen Development properties
The district uses tax-increment financing to help make the redevelopment financially feasible; new housing and businesses should eventually strengthen the tax base.
Mobile Medical Response purchase and development agreement
No purchase price was listed on the published agenda.
My Michigan Medical Center Saginaw real estate purchase
Sale proceeds not stated in the discussion; the parcel is roughly a quarter acre.
Pitt & Balcony Theatre back entrance safety
The theater gets a code-compliant, safer back entrance instead of continued patchwork repairs.
Downtown brownfield redevelopment (Spicer & Tri-Star buildings)
Over $10 million in private investment enabled; brownfield reimbursement is drawn from the new tax revenue the projects generate.
Potter Street Station shingle corrections
ADA accessibility in historic buildings
Harrison Manor senior housing project
Loss of the MSHDA grant puts the senior housing project's funding in doubt.
Saginaw Housing Commission troubles
Potential state funding could support redevelopment of vacant housing commission and school properties.
New infill housing at 403 Waller Street
Turns a vacant lot into taxable housing stock and could lift nearby property values.
Blight and demolition services contracts
Up to roughly $245,000 in FY 2027 demolition and inspection spending, pending final budget approval.
Former Walgreens brownfield redevelopment, 409 West Genesee Avenue
Brownfield tax increment financing will help reimburse cleanup costs on the $7.35 million private project.
Affordable housing crisis and five-year plan
Roughly $15-20 million in anticipated HUD spending over five years will be directed by this plan.
Decisions during term (9)
Recorded while Seals was in office — not necessarily decisions they moved, spoke to, or voted on.
Approve the Community Development Block Grant Subgrantee Agreements for $986,057 and Memorandums of Understanding for $1,084,464 FY 2026-2027.
Approve the Emergency Solutions Grant Agreement with the Department of Housing and Urban Development for $174,630 for FY 2026-27.
Approve the Revitalization and Placemaking 3.0 (RAP 3.0) Grant agreement with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) for an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 for the Public Services Department, Engineering Division.
Approve the purchase with Homeland Title Company for $7,000 for title services for the Community Development Block Grant – Residential Loan Division.
Resolution approving the Community Development Block Grant Program Submission for 2026-2027
Approve the Purchase and Development Agreement with The Seals Group, LLC for 504 Carroll Street and 445 N. Roosevelt Austin Avenue.
Approve the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) contract with Lois Kay Contracting, Co. for $408,619 for the S. Granger Street and Lyon Street Resurface CDBG and ADA S. Porter St and Jackson St project for the Public Services…
Micro Dwelling Unit/Micro Dwelling Unit Development Zoning Ordinance
Resolution: temporary moratorium on data center development
Voting record (0)(Development)
No votes found matching Development.