Day and City Commission meeting will now come to order.

Please rise for the implication and remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.

This morning, the Commission will have the honor of having um Commissioner Joseph do the invitation.

Dear Lord.

Thank you.

Thank you for your many blessings.

Please give us the strength, the wisdom, and the ability to do your work.

Amen.

Amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

And through the Republic for which it stands.

Under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

So that's you may have the roll call, please.

Mayor Mims.

Aye.

Commissioner Joseph.

Aye.

Fairchild.

Aye.

Turner Slaughter.

I then may have a motion then to excuse Commissioner Shaw from this morning's meeting.

So moved, Your Honor.

Second motion, Your Honor.

Okay, we've been probably moved and seconded to excuse Commissioner Shaw from this morning's meeting.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed to say no.

Okay.

So uh approval minutes.

I have a motion to approve the minutes from the August 6th meeting.

Move to approve, Your Honor.

Second the motion, Your Honor.

Okay, it's been probably moved and seconded to approve the amendments from the August 6th meeting.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed to say no.

Ms.

Black Sure, any uh communications or petitions?

There are none, Your Honor.

None.

And we have no presentations.

Uh see, do we have any additions, deletions, or comments to the calendar?

I have none, Your Honor.

Mr.

16.

Any deletions, uh additions or comments to the calendar.

Uh good morning, Your Honor.

We this morning I have no uh additions or deletions uh to the calendar.

I do have a few items to highlight.

Items three, four, and five are service agreements providing uh assistance or service and our um homelessness prevention programs of six hundred and fifty-two thousand.

Uh item number three is the um is a grant agreement with homeful that targets in school-based prevention and eviction prevention, including legal assistance for high at-risk households living in subsidized public housing.

This is something that we've been doing for um about ten years, and last year we served 40 households with our funding.

Item number four is a service a grant agreement with Homeful, again from our emergency solutions grant for the rapid rehousing program to provide services for those who are experiencing homelessness or at risk for homelessness.

We served a hundred households with that grant.

And then uh item number five is another grant agreement with Homeful with our uh emergency solutions grant programming, and that is for maintenance and operation expenses at the Gateway uh men's shelter, which serves 200 to 300 uh male uh individuals uh at uh per night.

So all together that's six hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars, and it's all coming from our emergency solutions grant funding from the federal government.

Okay, thank you.

And that's all I have, Your Honor.

Okay.

So, Ms.

Black, do we have any citizens who are issued to speak on the city manager's recommendations?

None on calendar items, Your Honor.

Okay.

Uh Commissioners, comments on the City Manager's recommendations.

Commissioner Turner Slaus.

Yes, thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Ms.

Dixteen, for highlighting items three, four, and five, especially given the constraints and and some of the threats that we're experiencing.

And we know that we are going to see possibly an increase in our unhoused population.

So again, I really appreciate you all, you and the staff, um, the planning and community development staff bringing this forward or planning and neighborhood development bringing this forward.

Uh the recommendation of the approval for commissioner.

A couple quick questions.

The first is, and if you can provide this offline, that's totally fine, or a memo, but just want to get an understanding of uh ESG, the rapid rehousing program, which I know have been around for quite some time.

What we are experiencing is that those who go through this the program temporary um housing and assistance, they are then back into the system where they are in fact, um, their services are no longer provided and then they're back unhoused.

So just trying to get an understanding of what's the follow-up and what are the next steps and how we can mitigate that from happening.

I know a couple of individuals who this has who have experience the rapid rehousing program and who are now unhoused.

Sure.

So there are um there is an evaluation right now going on that the um county is conducting on our uh homelessness prevention system.

And I um recently met with uh Ms.

Jerry Peghees at the county, and we talked through some of the challenges.

Um after this evaluation, there will be opportunities for us to look at our system and try and figure out where gaps are or where folks are experiencing gaps or where we need to, for instance, you know, bring on further inventory and permanent supportive housing so people aren't in gateway shelter as long as they are right now.

And so there are a number of things that um we are uh talking about and waiting for the evaluation.

Okay, thank you.

Because we're seeing where some of the private owners or landlords, where they are they will have their agreement in place for the the 12 to 18 months, and then they will uh evict the tenant or the the individual who is a part of the rapid rehousing program, and then they will uh increase the rent.

So it forces them out.

So thank you.

I'm glad that conversation is is um ongoing and that you're working closely with the county.

The other question is, and perhaps this is offline as well, in regards to home fold, thank you very much.

I'm glad to see this recommendation for the 300,000 for the maintenance and improvement.

Um, but out of curiosity, I know that in 22, I believe it is in what it was in 22 and maybe even 23.

Um, homeful at the time, not homeful, excuse me, St.

Vincent DePaul, they receive funding from ARPA to make um improvements or maintenance.

And so just I trying to get an understanding of what those dollars were used for and where we are, because I do know that there are some things that we need to address at the Men's Gateway Shelter, but trying to get an understanding of how in fact those dollars were used.

The ARPA funding was used primarily to help um with the operations during COVID.

COVID, right.

And and and helping to, you know, post-COVID, there were a number of improvements.

Um, as that we have over the 15 years made, you know, capital improvements as needed to expand operations or uh mitigate issues occurring.

So I can provide a detailed memo on what the ARPA funding was used.

Okay, thank you, Ms.

And the last thing that I wanted to mention too um very briefly, and I did not mention it uh during last minute during the first reading, but again, um just would like to uplift the staff and kudos to our fire department as well as our partnership with Montgomery County and the multi-jurisdictional hazard um management plan.

I am so glad to see that's in place.

A lot of great information.

I believe the document may be like around 150 or so, 200 pages, but it is a wealth of information and it goes through a lot of various different uh steps in the process in terms of if in fact there is a um an emergency, uh whether it is a um a hazard spill or flood or whatever the case may be, it goes into great detail.

So again, I want to wanted to uplift the staff as well as uh the law department and um our fire department, any other departments that were involved in that, the plan itself.

And that's all I have.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

Commissioner Fairchild.

I'm good.

Thank you.

Good.

Uh just one thing there, if I could.

That is uh thank you for the talking about the the homeful grants.

And I as I've done before, I like to put that in context too.

This is uh a textbook program.

We've been working on ending chronic homelessness since 2006, uh, and it's textbook because a number of reasons.

First, we work with all of our partners to make sure that there is one system, there's less duplication than in some systems in some localities.

Uh there is one uh uh single entry point, right?

So when somebody comes into the homeless system, everybody sees it, whether it's our city partners, the hospital partners, the shelters, uh and the streamlined system that was not working very well before.

Uh another thing that I really like about the system is that they're continually re-looking at ways to do it better.

And what you're seeing is another version of that uh to to work to try to end chronic homelessness.

So just want to put that in context that this is not just some one shot that uh we've worked on this for a long time now, for 19 years, together with our partners in catering our partners of the county and and throughout the system.

Um, and that uh when times are, as Commissioner just mentioned, things are gonna get worse here because of ridiculous governance at the federal level.

The structures that we've put into place here are going to serve us very well.

Uh so uh we might land a little more gently than then than we might have otherwise.

So I want to thank you for that.

Thank you for the grant and thank the staff for their work on this.

Thank you, Mayor.

Yeah, thank you.

Thank you guys for highlighting the um great work of the staff.

Okay.

Okay, so um at this point in time uh they have a motion then to approve the city managers recommendations.

I moved to approve the city manager's recommendations.

Second motion, Your Honor.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

Okay, legislation, Ms.

Black Shear.

Second reading, emergency resolution number six eight seven eight-25, authorizing the city of Dayton's continued participation in the multi-jurisdictional hazard management plan in conjunction with the Montgomery County Office of Emergency Management Emergency Management.

Mayor Mims.

Aye Joseph.

Aye.

Fairchild.

Aye.

Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Second reading ordinance number 32155-25.

Amending the official zoning map to change the zoning of approximately 0.21 acres at 742 and 746, Belmont Park North from mature single family residential, MR-5 to campus institutional CI.

Mayor Mims.

Aye.

Commissioner Joseph.

Turner Sloss.

Aye.

First reading resolution number 6879-25, declaring the intention to appropriate real property interests in parcels 98 T and 117T in connection with the Salem Avenue Reconstruction Phase 4 project.

First reading resolution number 6880-25, declaring the intention to appropriate real property interests in parcels 13 SH and 25 T in connection with the Finley Street Reconstruction Project.

That concludes legislation, Your Honor.

Okay.

So uh Ms.

Lexing, do you have any citizens who are registered to speak?

We have three citizens who have registered.

I would like to remind our speakers of our three-minute time limit.

I call to the podium, Kimaru Watenza.

Good morning, everybody.

Good morning.

Good morning.

I'm Kimaru Atenza.

I live at 1200 West Grand Avenue, Dayton 45402.

And about two and a half years ago, I raised the issue of uh a number of houses on Ferguson Avenue that need to be raised.

Recently, uh a person or entity, and I'm not sure which, but that uh they bought a house, uh, one of those houses, uh, and this entity is out of California.

Um a family, excuse me, two families moved into that house that actually needed to be raised.

And um uh shortly after they moved in, um, we all who are in uh proximity of that house got a notice that one of the people that moved in was uh sex offender.

Um so uh then uh the city came in and forced the um the families out of the house because of code violations.

The house was definitely not fit to be living in.

Um that's what the status is now.

Um the whoever bought the house uh is now trying to bring it up to code.

It's not gonna happen.

But and that those families that wanted to move in are coming over every few days to check on the progress.

The house should have been raised.

Um, and we in our neighborhood would not have had this problem.

So Blade Cutters is the only company that I've seen in our neighborhood that is raising those houses.

And obviously, they haven't gotten to those on my street.

Um so I guess what I want to ask the commission here and now is why hasn't um blade cutters at least been approached to hire uh black people from Dayton as part of this um of their contract to raise these houses.

Um I see blade cutters all the time.

They are Lily White as far as those people in skilled positions, and that does not seem to be right.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you for your comments.

Thank you, Mr.

Wattenza.

David Woods.

David Woods, 3230, Lake View Avenue.

Hello there, Mayor City Council meeting.

Morning.

How you doing?

Um I was uh I call the chief of police of Kettering, Ohio.

He they say he, quote, was on vacation.

So he's off vacation now.

I called him yesterday and uh told the clerk I want him to go ahead and talk to uh chief of police in Englandwood, Sergeant Corey Farick, and Sergeant Mike Lang retired for England Police, and uh because them crooked cops lied, you know, far as they did uh they work with Kenner Hospital because the chief of uh Captain Perez and Kenner Hospital Police and Sergeant Mike Lane lied on me and got me trespassed seeing my dad.

Well, the chief of police in Inglewood, like that I told y'all before, he said that they never told me that lie, but he went ahead and let me suffer and not see my dad, but I he all he had to do was say, Oh, that's not true.

I could have seen my dad this one as this right now when we talk to y'all now, and I wouldn't be going there when I'm gonna do now.

I go do mood swings because of this since I didn't see my dad's dead by that.

I got headaches constantly.

I'm depressed constantly.

Sometimes I had tears in my eyes out of no reason.

When women talk to me, there's one black woman, she looked good, she like dark skin, built, she like, well, I don't know what's wrong with you.

Uh you don't seem to be connecting me.

I can't connect to women, Holly, at all now.

I'm just depressed constantly because of this.

And I and I told him I want the chief police to go ahead and do that.

And I told him I want to talk to Bernice Newest, like to say that pretty white woman Chapman, who is my dad got choked, he's and go to the hospital and talk to her and have a talk to Civil Rights Commission Christy McDonald, who's investigating Kenneth Hospital.

Her number is uh uh 937-2856511.

I urge the public to call the chief of police of Ketter in Ohio, his number is 937-296-2555, especially black folks and tell them that they want him to go ahead and do what they do.

And I talked to them and called Kettering Hospital to talk to Bernice News who witnessed my dad got choked.

Her number is Ketter Hospital Main Campus numbers 937-298-4331 and tell the corporate civil rights commissioner Christy McDonald.

Uh basically, uh I feel my rights as a black man is being disrespected.

I called Channel 2 News this morning.

I called him yesterday, y'all gonna go ahead and take the chief of police and see if he's gonna go ahead and go down there.

And I told Chief Police I want him to arrest the uh nurse who choked my dad since they put in the medical records.

And um I told the clerk that's what they tell him.

Chief police have personally talked to him, they just said, Oh, yo, you know, like a blase.

So I don't know if they're gonna do it now.

But show two news, I don't know.

I'm gonna tell the mayor and city council meeting that I'm uh said that Channel 7 News and Chun Tun News is not covering this at all because I feel they don't care about black people, and that's giving me emotional distress.

And I appreciate y'all.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Thank you for your comments.

Darrell Lee.

Good morning, everyone.

My name is Good Morning.

Good morning, everyone.

My name is Darrell Lee, 1903 East Third Street, Dayton, Ohio.

Um, I'm speaking on gardens of my life and um the um father's rights.

I've been shot 12 times.

I got a hole in my heart, I got organs took out, and this guy deserved 18 years in prison.

Let's think about it.

That's Tim Murder.

I'm still alive.

This guy should be facing life in prison.

He's dangerous.

All right, let's go on about the citizens.

I'm a citizens of Dayton, living in Dayton, fear for my life, my children's life.

Everyone is supposed to be justice for all, right?

So the people who do right in the city of Dayton and prove themselves and um live in the community and be one piece.

So just as well as my kids, we all parents here.

We all citizens of Dayton.

Where's the jesters?

Just like we're home when I was having the case plan, where's father's rights?

Um, mothers don't follow the case plan that I give information.

Mothers that got I got this docket, her on my right hand, dock it that she holding criminal guns.

She's a criminal.

I got a docket here that this witness statement, he was the transport for my kids when I didn't have driver's vials license.

So let's go.

Was the point for us people in Ohio State or fathers or even women?

Where's the justice for anything?

Criminal kids, um, walking down town in public, people get bully on, people take up for themselves, Dayton police take the good people in jail for taking up for themselves.

So let's go about, I got a hole in my heart.

Let's go about we all parents here.

Let's go about the homeless people.

I was one of them man's in Gateway at the time, have uh a violent job trying to get housing, was on the case plan, was trying to be a family, but I love God more now.

And my children well, I love my children, unfortunately, but I love God more.

I was just trying to be a family, which I should have got two separate case plans.

But why is the rail and the rails kids, the rail lee junior, the rail, Darriel, Darriana, Darcell Lee can't see the um father.

Or why Darrell Lee can't see they um his kids.

Or why is this guy is not doing life in prison or at least 50 years, 40 years in prison, so he get out of prison in 18 years and come out and kill somebody else and um Dayton.

Oh, I can die within 18 years.

I only got one organs in my body.

I got a hole in my heart.

I got bullets in my head right now.

Thank you.

No further questions.

God bless justice for all.

Okay, thank you, Mr.

Thank you for your comments.

Thank you, Mr.

Lee.

Mayor, that concludes the speakers.

Okay.

I have none, Your Honor.

Ms.

Black Street, in closing comments.

Mayor, there is a development update work session in the PRC immediately following the meeting.

Okay.

Thank you.

Closing comments.

Commissioner Thomas Laws.

Yes, uh, very briefly.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, just would like to thank um the entire staff.

I know this weekend was full of a number of events.

The um Wreck Your Hood event with this was this past weekend.

Um we also had uh McClendon Institute, they had their back to school events, do a big for the kids with Dream Big Foundation.

They had their back to school event, a host of other events, and so I will um don't want to name them all off because I'm sure I will miss one, but nonetheless, we really appreciate all of the staff, all of the community leaders and stakeholders that came out and contribute to um the number of giveaways from book bags, school supplies, also the revival center, they had their back to school event.

I believe it was Monday at Westwood Elementary.

So again, and the um activities and events are still ongoing.

So this weekend is the 19th annual Dayton African American Culture Festival, which will take place on Saturday, August the 16th, as well as Sunday the 17th at Island Park.

And then I will also like to thank all the residents that came out to speak this morning.

Uh Mr.

Wattens uh um I'm sure you already know that the HRC, our Human Relations Council uh department, they work very closely with the various departments, um, including public works, and and in doing so, they establish um participation goals.

MBE SBA SBE goes to those various demolition projects.

So those projects may include the hauling of debris, whatever have you.

So again, those goals are set unless there are um specialized, and sometimes that may go into areas of um improvement or renovations for our water, water uh department and some of those various different projects.

So those goals are set.

Um and then I would encourage you, and then you and I can work offline um to have a conversation with HRC so that you can get a closer review.

And oftentimes they are identified on the um the commission calendar when those goals, participation goals are set and when they are in fact achieved.

Uh Mr.

Woods, um, my condolences to you and your family, and um I would just encourage you to continue on your path and seeking the legal counsel and the support that is needed.

Um, Mr.

Lee, I thank you for for being here and all the best as you transition and move forward to gaining uh visitation rights with your your family, your children.

And I believe that's all I have.

Okay, thank you.

Commissioner Fitchow.

Yeah, thank you.

Um I think it might be helpful um to just review the whether Blake Cutters had hit the participation goals that would have been in their contracts, given Mr.

Wattenz's comments.

I remember you being here six years ago and talking about this issue of blight and abandoned houses.

Um and I encourage you on the last uh commission meeting of the month, we get an update on our demolition.

And so um off the top of my head I can't tell you we have we uh with ARPA dollars when we received those, we put a plan pulling together some other dollars to take down eleven hundred homes.

Um I'm curious if the homes there on Ferguson Street are um in that uh list to become to come down.

We shouldn't review that.

And then another piece, I know that we had broken those uh demolition contracts into smaller to create opportunities for um new contractors to come in.

I think maybe we should look at an update to see if any of those contractors have been able to get those contracts, if not what the barriers are.

So thank you for continuing to keep that in front of us.

And thank you for mentioning the African American Cultural Festival.

This is one of my favorite weekends in Dayton.

Not only is the African American Cultural Festival going on, but up in St.

Anne's Hill, Porch Fest is going on, and uh both those events start on noon on Saturday.

Porch Fest goes to about six o'clock on Saturday, and then African American Cultural Festival is both uh Saturday and Sunday.

So a great opportunity to come out and enjoy um a lot of great music and uh the people of Dayton.

And then uh finally, um yesterday was the first day of Dayton Public Schools.

And uh my sophomore started this morning for first day of school.

So our students are back in school.

Um, you know, we know that it's a challenging year for our families, particularly of high school students.

So I encourage you to be mindful of our families who have students and DPS, but also um let's pray for them to have a great school year, a safe school year, and uh be on the watch out for kids um out and about uh as they're going back and forth to school.

So good.

Okay, thank you.

Commissioner Joseph.

Uh thank you, Mayor.

Actually, uh just one thing, and uh this being summer all we commissioners and mayor were out and about a lot.

And when we're out and about a lot, that means we get complaints from people about a lot of different things.

And I just as I was sitting here, I was thinking about really I want to thank you and thank your staff for excellent excellent performance these last few weeks because we've been throwing a lot of stuff at you.

Just uh the way the system works is because she's the city manager.

When we get complaints, we send them all to her and she funnels them down to the staff to the organization to take care of, right?

And I just just as I was sitting here, wrote down some of the departments that I know that you funneled my questions from in just the last like two weeks.

Community engagement, housing inspection, public works, police, uh commission staff, which we we took care of ourselves, city manager staff, law, welcome to Dayton staff.

And I'm sure there are more that I'm not thinking of right now.

So I've and so we've just been especially because we've been getting a lot of complaints, we've been shoving a lot of stuff at you.

So thank you very much.

Please pass our thanks to the staff.

They're doing a great job.

Thank you.

Okay, I'd like to echo those comments.

She has a long list of those concerns that uh uh brought to us as we are out and about, and those who are brought to us here at the City Commission as well.

And we'll be happy to share the information with you.

So hang on and we'll take care of that.

Uh I'm really I think my colleagues took care of mostly everything I was going to say with the exception of Mojo Flo, uh live uh entertainment at the Levis Center.

Uh, I think it's tomorrow, August 14th at 7 uh p.m.

So get ready to dance, high energy funk, so for vocals, as well as um a show that you will not forget.

They also ask that you bring your dancing shoes or shoes that you are comfortable in dancing in, whichever uh is the case, uh, because there are a lot of things that will cause you to get up from your lawn chair and um and and cut the rug, if you will, or or the concrete since we have it out there.

So um thank you so much, and with no further business to come for this commission, love and peace for all and hatred for none.

This meeting is adjourned.