Detroit's mayor was tasked with balancing the budget and improving city services following municipal bankruptcy.

The city's next mayor will have a solid financial track to work with, experts say, but will need to strategize ways to invest in the city without hurting its core services.

Mayoral candidates Mary Sheffield and Solomon Kinloch Jr. have plans to grow revenues or seek assistance to launch new programs.

As Detroiters gear up to vote for a new mayor and city council, questions loom about the city's long-term financial resilience following its emergence from a historic bankruptcy and 12 years of leaders mining for resources to continue restoring the once fiscally-mired town into a thriving urban area.

Detroit once was plagued by a lack of reliable city services, with several neig

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