The Dayton State Commission now come to order.

Please rise and rise for the invocation this evening given by Commissioner Slaus and remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Okay, Commissioner.

Thank you, Mayor.

Dear Heavenly Father, we come to you with bow heads and humble hearts.

We thank you for this day.

We ask that you continue to keep us, guide us.

Lord help us to do your will.

Bless us with discernment, wisdom, and understanding.

In your holy name, Amen.

Amen.

And to the Republic for what you say.

Okay, Miss Black Sheer, may have the roll call, please.

Mayor Mims.

Aye.

Commissioner Joseph.

Shaw.

Fairchild.

Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Mayor, I've been advised that Commissioner Fairchild will be arriving late.

Or maybe I'm not be here, but for the record.

Okay.

May I have a motion then to approve the minutes from the August 27th meeting?

So moved, Your Honor.

Second.

Okay, so five minutes and second to approve the minutes from the August 27th meeting.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed to say no.

Ms.

Black Sure, any communications or petitions.

There are none, Your Honor.

Okay.

I do have a couple of presentations this evening.

So I first like to call Miss Inus Adula.

I'm not going to try to pronounce the other part of the name to embarrass myself or anyone else.

She will be coming to the podium to talk about the sister city.

She's a coordinator for Shafiq and to talk about some of the proclamation that she's about to receive from this city commission.

Good evening.

Good evening, Mayor.

I'm Inas Abfatah.

I'm a member of Sister City Relationship between Salfita and Dayton.

I'm so pleased to be here with you.

Thank you for so much for having me today and for allowing me the opportunity to be here in Dayton for our first in-person meeting.

Thank you so much.

Okay, and uh first of all, I'd like to give uh my expressions of um congratulations and thank you for being here and uh thank you so much for the great conversation we had uh with your leader uh back at home.

And uh thank you for the assistant uh also you soph.

Uh great having the opportunity to have that conversation and to learn how to pause and not give a long, long, long statement because it has to be interpreted, okay, and then wait my turn to talk again.

So again, thank you so much.

Thank you so much, thank you.

It's my honor.

Thank you.

Yes, proclamation, please.

Whereas the sister city relationship between Dayton, Ohio and the Safit governor governorate Palestine serves to promote global goodwill, respect, and mutual cooperation through cultural, educational, and economic exchanges, and whereas Ines Abdullah Abdafacta is her in her dual capacity as the head of the international and public relations and media unit and the Dayton SAPIT SAFIT Sister City coordinator for the Safi government has provided exemplar exemplary leadership and commitment to this partnership.

And whereas Ms.

Abdallah Fata has worked tireless tirelessly to foster understanding and friendship between our communities, and her efforts have been integral to the vitality of our sister city relationship.

And whereas, in recognition of her outstanding dedication, the City of Dayton, Ohio extends a warm welcome to Miss Adafa for her five-day visit in September 2025.

And whereas her visit will serve to further strengthen the bonds between Dayton and Safit, creating new opportunities for citizens of both communities to connect and cooperate.

And whereas it is fitting and appropriate to formally recognize individuals who exceptional contributions have profoundly strengthened the ties they bind our two cities.

Now, therefore, I, Jeffrey J.

Mims Jr., mayor of the City of Dayton, Ohio, on behalf of the Commission and all of its citizens do hereby express our deepest gratitude and honors Innes Abdullah Abdelhaha Faha for her exemplary service and outstanding dedication to the Dayton South Eat Sister City relationship.

We warmly welcome her to our city.

And it is signed by their mayor and with the city.

Thank you.

Yeah, thank you so much.

Yeah, we'll just uh recap another one of the concerns or topics that you had a discussion with with some of the leaders here in the city of Dayton with the water resource group with the Central State University as well as uh Sinclair and also some of the city officials talking about the water uh situation that you have in your country uh because of the ways to spend sometimes uh deposited in places where you would normally drink water, so finding out how you could find better ways to address those concerns is very important for you.

So again, thank you for visiting those two places as well.

Okay, thank you.

So next, I'd like to have um Miss Jasmine Jones, who's attorney for Frost Brown Time to the podium to present a semi-annual independent accountability audit.

As far as the city that report.

So welcome.

Good evening to you.

Good evening.

Mr.

Mayor, Commissioners, City Manager, this is the second semi-annual report of the independent accountability auditor for 2025.

This report will cover the IAA activities from January 1st through June 30th of this year.

In review, the duties of the independent accountability auditor include reviewing um Dayton Police Department misconduct complaints, auditing the complaint process, producing reports such as this, and recommending changes and improvements to policy procedure and training.

We also participate in the community appeals board hearings, and we work with the policy review committee of the uh police department.

So, first I want to start with a review of the misconduct complaints from January 1st through June 30th.

Um, just for reference, there are two types of citizen-generated complaints.

There are complaint receipts, and these are complaints that can be resolved relatively quickly, um, either to the satisfaction of the complaint or from a cursory investigation.

It is clear that the complaint is unfounded, or it's not relevant to the Dayton police department, or um it is a proper execution of police authority.

Then you have the citizen complaint, and this is a complaint that requires more than a cursory investigation by the supervisor.

So from January 1st through June 30th, there were 89 specific allegations that are that came from 32 different events.

So that could mean that in one traffic stop, there could have been several allegations made against one officer or allegations made against multiple officers.

Um in the next few slides, we will be looking at the specific um complaints, but it is worth noting there are only 32 incidents.

So here you can see the citizen-generated complaints over time, and with each year we're only looking at January 1st through June 30th.

Um so there has been a reduction in the amount of complaints that the the police department has received, slightly less than last year, but significantly less than the year before.

You can also see there was a slight increase in the number of citizen complaints in the first half of this year since last year, but it is worth noting that 32 of these 50 complaints did come from one incident.

And this incident is under review.

Next, we will look at some of the outcomes.

Um, but first I just want to provide reference to the different findings.

Um a complaint can be exonerated, and that's when the act did occur, but it was justified and proper, it could be sustained, that means that the act did occur and it was not justified, proper or lawful.

Um, it can be unfounded, that means that there was no evidence that the allegation took place, or it could be not sustained, where there's insufficient evidence to prove or disprove the allegation.

So looking at just citizen complaints, not um complaint receipts from January 1st through June 30th, um there were 26 that were unfounded, 20 that were exonerated, zero were not sustained, three were sustained, and one investigation is still in progress.

Um there were 26 that were unfounded, 20 that were exonerated, zero were not sustained, three were sustained, and one investigation is still in progress.

This is consistent with the results from last year, but because there were there was a lot that was determined to be unfounded, we decided to look at that more closely.

There were 26 complaints that were determined to be unfounded by the police department from five different events.

The complaints were alleged against 11 different officers, and the allegations were for damaged property, discourtesy and disrespect, harassment, violation of law, and violation of policy.

When we reviewed this, we determined that 11 out of the 26 were also unfounded.

We determined that one was not sustained.

Um we did not have, we did not believe that we had enough evidence to determine to prove or disprove the allegations.

Two were determined to be exonerated where the allegation did occur, but it was justified and proper and lawful.

And 12 out of the complaints are under review, but we determined that they are not unfounded because there was some sort of evidence that supported the allegation.

And this is not to say that whatever occurred was not justified, it's just there was some evidence.

We also looked at the sustained citizen complaints.

There were three that originated from two different events.

All three complaints were alleged against three different officers, and the allegations were for discourtesy and disrespect and violation of policy.

When we reviewed these citizen complaints, we did look at the time spent on the investigation.

Investigations should be concluded within 90 days, and in all of these investigations, they happened in less than 90 days.

And then the discipline issued in all of these events were training memos, and the IAA agreed with the discipline that was issued.

Now for a few reports.

This just shows the time that the IA spent on different activities.

Given the transition in the beginning of the year, a lot of time was spent onboarding, training, and also spending time speaking with city staff to get a better understanding of the needs, the concerns, what's working, what's not working, policies and procedures.

So moving forward, there will be a shift in how our time is spent, but we did still spend time participating in community appeal boards hearings, auditing, and investigating.

In our last semi-annual report, I did say that part of our plan for this year would to be reviewing the 2024 complaint receipts to see if they were classified properly.

We did review all 95 of these complaint receipts.

For three of these complaint receipts, we were unable to make a determination because we were missing some piece of the evidence.

So there might have been a video that was missing.

But we were able to review the rest, and we determined that three out of these 95 should have been classified as citizen complaints rather than complaint receipts.

And these three arose from two different events that were related to unprofessionalism, failure to de-escalate, and discourtesy and disrespect.

We also included reasons for why these complaints were classified as complaint receipts, and we felt that it was important to provide context so that when we're looking at the number of complaints received, we have an understanding that not all complaints received are actual are actually based on misconduct from our police officers.

So there were some complaints that were allegations against neighbors or allegations against the court or other police departments.

There were some complaints that were referred to mediation, there were some complaints that were withdrawn, or the person who submitted the complaint didn't leave any contact information, so the police department could not call them back to investigate more.

There were also duplicate complaints, and then others were it was very clear that the complaint was unfounded or was proper execution of police authority.

One of the duties of the IAA is also to review critical incidents, and critical incidents include officer-involved shootings, traffic collisions involving police officers that result in death or serious bodily injury to another person, use of force resulting in death or serious bodily injury to another person, and deaths while an arrestee or detainee are in the care of the police department.

From January 1st to June 30th, we were notified of one critical incident.

This incident is under investigation, so there is nothing for the IA to review at this time.

As mentioned, these investigations should take place within 90 days unless there is an extension.

And in most cases, they did take place within 90 days.

There was only one we found that took 144 days.

But when we looked into it, it looked like there was a large gap in time from when the complaint was submitted to when the investigator actually received the complaint.

So this could have been a clerical issue, and this is something that's under review to make sure that there's something that doesn't whether or not something needs to be addressed.

And then that like I said, there's one investigation that's still in progress.

So over the past few months, we have made a few observations.

First, the complaint process addresses law and policy violations.

It doesn't formally address practices or acts that don't align with best practices or discretionary acts that are permissible but may unnecessarily cause harm.

So because of this, there may be unmet expectations from the community as well as seemingly unresolved complaints.

Our second observation is that the current standardized correspondence with complaintants may give the appearance of an action and indifference due to the tone and the selected content included in the correspondence.

For example, if someone submits a complaint, they may receive a citizen letter that says the police department investigated the complaint and they did not find a policy violation.

But it doesn't show that the police department actually took time to consider the complaint and actually took steps towards addressing what may have come up.

So the person who submitted the complaint may feel like their complaint was ignored even though it was not.

So even though there may be room for improvement, we can see that there has been progress made towards police reform efforts in the city.

So first we recommend conducting a survey and gathering feedback from those who are involved in the complaint process, also from citizens who have gone through the process to see if there are gaps that need to be filled and how to best fill those gaps.

So it would be helpful to get feedback to see if this current process needs to be adjusted at all.

The second recommendation is to review and evaluate the standardized correspondence that complaints receive.

This we made this recommendation because perception matters, and people can only work with the information that they have.

So there may be an opportunity to improve communications in order to build trust and improve community relations.

So as mentioned, um, that line of when behavior may be disrespectful or discourteous isn't clear, and we understand that that's subjective, uh, but it raises the question about the application of de-escalation practices when it comes to interacting with citizens.

Um something that we observed is that there are several officers who do an excellent job of speaking calmly and respectfully, um, putting considering the perspective and the emotions of those that they're talking to, modeling certain behavior, um, even in very stressful and high emotional situations.

And so it's worth exploring how that can become the standard, and so that we can see that more consistently across the board.

So with that, that concludes our report, and I'm happy to answer any questions that you have.

Okay, thank you very much.

So commissioners have a thought of two.

Uh Commissioner Slowson.

Questions.

Yes, thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Jones, uh, for your presentation this evening.

Just a question, and I'm just trying to make sure I'm following.

So some of the observations they are aligned with the recommendations that you are making this this evening.

And I know one recommendation that you made prior to during your initial um presentation was that the process itself was not easily to locate, if you will, or was it easily to to navigate through?

So it's it's easy to be able to submit a complaint, but because of the the communication that that citizens are receiving, I think there's an opportunity to set better expectations as to what can take place in an appeal.

So if someone is coming in thinking that, oh, this is a bad practice, that will not be resolved through this process.

So they are left, they may feel disappointed because they thought something was going to take place that actually cannot take place through the current process.

Thank you.

The only thing that I will add um mayor is that like once these recommendations have been vetted through the entire commission, like what are the next steps and if we are going to move forward, then uh I don't know if that charge leads with um Ms.

Jackson and in HRC or what the next steps are in terms of if in fact we are in agrees with accepting the um the rec recommendations based off the uh observations that were made by Ms.

Jones.

Uh that would go to um first of all Commissioner Joseph since he was the chair of that committee, and then we'll come to us.

Yeah.

Okay.

Thank you.

I'll I'll appreciate that.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Thank you, Ms.

Jones.

Thank you.

Okay.

Commissioner Fitchow.

Yeah, welcome back.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

Thank you.

Um got half of the um report and this is what we imagined um when we put the IA in place.

And so this um is very um reassuring that we are starting to get to um fulfill the recommendation.

And um I appreciate you um recognizing that our officers um in in most of their um interactions are courteous and respectful and do a great job.

And that's kind of what we knew.

And I appreciate you looking for those places where we can have improvement, and which was the intent of the of the recommendation.

So thank you for this work and look forward to um seeing this move forward.

Thank you.

Commissioner Schultz.

Totally agree with that.

Um I I was really excited to hear that.

I mean, these are kind of the expectations that we had going into this.

We have we've got good police officers.

And uh I I guess what I'm interested in hearing you expand upon is the perception that the complainants have with the process.

I mean this is speaking painting with a broad breast, but generally, how do you feel about how do you feel about how they feel about the process is really what I'm saying?

Yeah.

So I have attended three um cab hearings, and what's interesting, I'm observing, um, and I can see, you know, coming in, it it takes a lot of courage to speak in front of a room about your experience.

Absolutely.

And so when you were met with, well, there was no policy violation, even though it was a traumatic experience.

What I'm seeing is so then what was the point of this?

And so I think there's a missed opportunity there where it may not be the formal appeal process, but maybe more of a restorative justice circle or something where it can be a conversation of we hear you and we understand, and that's unfortunate that this happened.

That was not the intention.

Um, but just something so that it's more of um a restorative process and not just a procedural process.

Yeah.

So there were I saw that there were one, maybe two that went to mediation.

That uh of the complaints that with to mediation to to kind of uh appeals or no, the media mediation center.

That they I guess the complainant and the officer must have gone to mediation.

You listed that you said there is at least one that went to mediation as a as a I mean several go into mediation, but I uh uh do you mean like from the beginning or after an appeal?

Well, whatever in order to reach resolution, uh I I'm not sure what the number was, but there was a number of them that went to mediation and then was resolved through that process.

Is that accurate?

I'm not sure about the mediation data at this point.

Okay.

Um, but I do know that some complaints are referred to mediation.

Well, what I would like to do is dig a little deeper on that piece of it, because I'm interested in um number one, the effectiveness of of the mediation center in that whole process in this process.

Um, but also then the results um and and just how people feel about um resolving this through mediation.

I mean, I think it's uh one of the great resources that we have, and one of the uh processes that kind of arose from from the um police reform.

Um I'm just interested in digging a little deeper on that.

So we'll have conversations about that.

We don't have to deal with that right now.

But thank you for the work.

Appreciate it.

Of course.

Okay, Commissioner Joseph.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh first of all, thank you very much.

Uh, just like Commissioner said a moment ago, this is the vision we had for for your jobs.

You're doing an excellent job.

This is these are the kind of uh statistics we wanted.

This is the overview you wanted.

You're playing the role that we envisioned for the IAA.

So thank you to you and your colleagues.

Thank you.

I do have a couple things I want to mention though.

If we could go to the slide, citizen generated complaints over time.

It was your probably six or seventh slide.

Now, Mayor, we talk a lot about how we don't celebrate our successes as nearly as well as we should.

So we're going to look at this slide carefully.

So we put this process into place.

And one of the things we heard from residents was that the complaint process was hard to access, difficult to understand, and they didn't get the kind of feedback that they expected, the kind of responses.

So we worked really hard to make sure that the complaint process was very accessible, that people could go online, they could talk to any one of and any many entry points, anybody would point them to the same place to access uh the system to make a complaint.

If they didn't know how to use it, somebody would teach them.

If they had trouble, they could submit a written complaint.

Uh so we made it a lot easier to make complaints when they happened, if they happened.

So what we saw was that was successful, and we saw the number of complaints go up as we expected, because before it was harder to submit complaints.

You can see in 2021, 2022, and 2023, the number of complaints increased, which is usually not good, but for us it's a little bit encouraging because it means people are ex accessing the system.

Um what we hoped would happen is that it would reach a peak, people would access the system, and we would be improving along the way our processes and procedures, getting used to taking care of these these difficulties, and it happened.

You can see the numbers there go down.

Uh I I couldn't have dreamt it any better.

Uh while not perfect, every one of those is a failure of some sort, right?

Of communication or something.

But the fact that they're going down and going down so drastically, I'm very proud of the work of this commission, uh, the work of all our partners in the community, um, the work of the administration, work with police, uh, and uh I I love this.

I love this slide.

Let's keep it going down.

Uh so that's my first comment.

The second one uh is if you could go to 2024 complaint receipts, please.

It's uh another 10 or 12 slides in, I think.

Now this one.

Uh you mentioned that uh uh in in your well, it's I guess the third bullet down that uh of the complaint receipts, uh uh it three were probably not put in the right basket to start with.

And that was a a difficulty that we had as part of the oversight committee is who makes that first determination.

You know, we want to make sure that these things are going into the right place.

If it's on if it needs to be investigated further, that it goes that way, that it's in the right basket.

If it's something that can be resolved quickly, as many are and should be, it goes in the right basket.

So you mentioned that three out of ninety-five, which is not bad, you know, it's not not a bad percentage.

Um can you tell me, and maybe you don't know, and you can tell me later, but uh is what is the current process for reviewing those and where they're going.

We we talked about that quite a bit as part of the oversight committee.

Uh but if you could maybe look into where how who determines it and as a per first pass, when something comes in, which basket do those complaints go into?

And second, is there a second pass?

Like as as the complaints are initially investigated, or the next person looks at them.

Is there someone else doing a quick review to say, yep, confirmed, this is in the right basket, this isn't the right path for investigation.

And I I don't know the answer to that, and you know it's been a couple years since I was deep into it.

But I'd like to find that out if possible.

So that was the second thing.

I believe in most instances it is the uh the officer that's the allegation is against their immediate supervisor.

I see.

I wonder if it might be a good idea in this commission that we could talk about or commission uh that might be good to have somebody else look at that as a second pass uh along the process.

I got to make a note to myself we'll look at that.

Oh the chief knows.

Yeah.

So uh ultimately all those uh complaints uh go to PSB who reviews them to make sure that they were following protocol.

So the three cases they have, I know we talked to uh uh right before that.

I want to know what those are and and and who reviewed them because all of those complaints are reviewed by PSB to make sure they put in the right basket.

If they were not, then they would they can go back and say nope, this needs to be investigated.

Great.

It's not really just uh supervisor.

They might determine this is complaining receipt, but they don't they don't ultimately decide that it's gonna stay in that basket.

It needs to be reviewed and is reviewed in the system that we have, which is our uh professional standards bureau, it goes to that lieutenant.

Great.

That's the answer I wanted.

Thank you, Chief.

Uh and the last is uh to your observations page and then to your recommendations, which are excellent.

Like really uh very good.

Uh I wanted to say that as we move forward with your recommendations, uh the intent of the committee when you're talking about discretionary acts that are permissible but may still cause harm.

Uh we had a number of committee members, particularly Tom Walrab and a couple others, if you know that you know Tom, who were insistent that we needed to include language in the legislation that gave you and gave our complaint investigators and the cab broad leeway in saying this is not against the rules, but it's still bad.

And we want to acknowledge that this sort of activity is something that we need to look into.

We need to quantify where possible and and to answer.

I think that's that's a very good observation.

I'm glad you brought it up.

Um the last one is last thing I want to talk about is you talked about making sure that uh uh the the folks who are making complaints or making appeals have a reasonable expectation of what might happen out of that process.

It is very important.

Um our our original view uh from the committee was that uh the mediation center would play a role in that, that there would be somebody available for to to communicate with them uh not only about expectations for where the process would lead them, but also about what is going on currently in the process.

That was a complaint that we heard from so many people who had made complaints that you know they didn't hear in a timely manner or uh they had to call a lot of times to get an answer about where the case was in the process.

Um so it sounds like we might need to beef up that piece of it, like that piece of the process to make sure that that human contact is there, that there is a back and forth, uh, like I say, not only about level setting expectations about what could happen, but also about status and that sort of thing, too.

You talked about tone of letters, very important.

Uh I think that's uh that's another excellent recommendation.

And last point I want to make is actually on your your recommendation page, and I think uh another committee looked at de-escalation techniques, so that might be a chance to re-engage with with police uh over how that that overlap happens.

Uh like you say, you know, taking best practices from the ones who are doing it the best.

I love that.

I love that idea.

So uh I talked a lot.

I apologize.

I don't always talk a lot, but this one I love it.

I'm really glad to see it in action.

It's amazing to see a policy that we worked on so hard uh be put in place and actually work.

So uh thank you for your work, thank you for this report.

A really excellent job.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

You uh touched on a lot of uh uh points that was going to raise.

Uh so the only one that is left for me, uh Commissioners, thank you so much, is the aspect of the de-escalation training.

Yeah.

What what's your um best indicator of the de-escalation training that we are going through as one of our policies that came out of my committee?

I think it went to the training committee, if I'm not mistaken, to do more training relative to how uh obviously it's gonna be more engaging in terms of how to get uh de-escalate the situation to keep it from rising to a level that would cause violence or injury or harm in some way.

I think we're still at the stage of of looking at what is going on, still fact gathering.

Um this was still very preliminary just from watching some of the body cam footage, but I haven't compiled enough data at this point to see if there are like consistent patterns yet.

Um so until we compile that, compile the data and analyze the data, I think it's difficult to say like what may need to be adjusted specifically.

Yeah.

You know, because as I look at some of the um complaints that are uh again going in the right direction, meaning down, uh the aspect of us thinking that part of this is because of so much of a focus on de-escalation and find uh better ways to uh have officers address the situation and keep it from moving that we again to the next level.

So again, so this uh what we can do to find a better way of showing that, uh, we'd be very much the investigated that.

And that will be a priority.

Okay.

Thank you so much.

Appreciate you.

Thank you.

Okay.

Ms.

Johnson.

Okay, okay.

So uh Ms.

Black Shear, um count items as far as uh this deletions or comments with inductions or uh comments associated with the calendar.

I have none, Your Honor.

Ms.

Dixon, in addition to deletions of coming to the calendar.

Your Honor, this evening I have no additions or deletions uh to the calendar.

I do have a couple of items I would like to highlight.

Uh one uh item number two is a service agreement with Broombro Construction.

This is a contract modification as we continue to complete the West Pod police station in West Dayton.

This is brought to you by Dayton Recovery Plan.

Uh we are excited to see some of this work happening because it lays the groundwork for attracting future investment and development uh with the infrastructure and and some of the changes.

So we are excited to bring forward this amendment that takes us to a uh $10 plus million dollar investment right now in West Dayton.

Okay.

Item E nine is a contribution as a result of negotiation for a legal settlement with Dayton Power and Light, also doing business as AES corporation.

The uh results of the legal settlement reduced residential charge from $22 to $9.75.

It also obtained a million dollars to assist with bill payments for residents.

We also eliminated reconnection fees for all residential consumers, which is a barrier, particularly for our low-income uh residents.

And then finally, um there was a commitment to extend the disadvantaged community energy initiative and the next rate case, which is the program we got $7.8 million previously for to go into housing rehab, and you we talked about that later.

So we're excited about this settlement and um what we were able to do for the community and bring to the community.

And that's all I have.

Okay.

All right, thank you.

So Ms.

Black Show, do we have any citizens who are uh wishing to speak on city management recommendations?

None on countlender items, Your Honor.

Okay, Commissioners, your questions and thoughts on city management recommendations.

Commissioner Thomas Laws.

Yes, very briefly.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Ms.

Dixteen.

I just would like to um uplift the work of Meg Maloney as well as the entire staff, the sustainability office staff and as well as our law department.

So thank you, Ms.

Dixteen, for bringing that forward and congratulations to our sustainability um office for the great work.

The question that I have, and remind me again, I know we touched on it, but the um the $7 million, I know that we're using that.

Has that already been, has it already been identified as to what um what vendor it will go to in terms of like our partners?

Will it go to the network itself for those rehabs that you have identified or that will be identified or the universal?

This is this is a um three-year program.

It is not been all allocated.

In fact, this fall is where the network will have an opportunity to apply for funding.

Okay.

So it would be the apply through funding, okay.

And this fall.

Can we just have the details on that once they are fleshed out?

Okay.

Thank you.

And what was the dollar amount?

Is it the seven or nine?

What was it?

7.8 million was the total.

Some of that has already gone to Durne for administration and capacity building.

But then the final question that I have on that.

So I know that we were the only municipality at the table during these negotiations and these talks, but does that also include um other municipalities that will, because of our work, because of our leadership and us being at the table, will other municipalities benefit from the work that we were able to do on this piece?

I believe that one, we're the only municipality, we're often the only municipality, primarily because we fight for our residents, our our low-income residents particularly.

This is a rate that is applied across the board to PUCO from PUCO.

So they they get we we argue and negotiate, but it benefits everyone.

Very good.

That's what I thought.

Okay, very good.

So we're showing the collaboration and the collective spirit of us being the leader in the region and showing that partnership.

So again, kudos to our sustainability office.

Thank you.

That's all I have.

Okay, thank you.

Commissioner Fitchell.

Yeah, I with the um Brimbaugh contract.

Have we gotten the master plan from the Dillon group for the right factory site?

Um no, we have a we have a conceptual plan, but we are in the midst of the structural analysis for the right factory site to see if we can reuse it or if it has to be taken down and replicated, et cetera.

So the master planning work has been paused until we get through details on that.

What's the timeline for that structure report?

Because it seemed like they've been working at that for quite a while.

Well, they there was a great delay in that because of vendor availability because of all of the construction going on.

Um it is wrapping, it should be wrapped up by um November because it's it it has been just underway for uh a couple of weeks now, and it was about a 90-day completion, 90 to 120 day.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, Commissioner Shaw.

Yeah, so um back to uh the AS element.

Um you mentioned that there were some accommodations that were made through the settlement um for residential customers.

Does that also go to small business customers?

So like we reconnect and waiving the reconnection fees and that kind of thing.

I'm not sure about that.

Normally when we we will make we will negotiate if the small businesses are getting hit with a rate, right?

So we have in the past negotiated to bring down costs for businesses.

I'm not sure about whether or not the reconnection is only to residential customers or if it's to business customers.

Residential?

I know for sure that's all right.

It was called out as just residential, but we can follow up and if you could.

I mean, that's you know, small businesses get hit with e extraordinary fees, even over and above what the residents get.

So I would really like to hear about that.

And it's uh you know, I'm not necessarily talking about large businesses over well, small businesses, uh five hundred employees or more, but I'm talking about really micro businesses.

Uh because uh well, for obvious reasons.

I will I will clarify, we'll we'll clarify with that, but then we'll also make a note of that for you know the next rate case.

Okay.

Thank you.

Okay, Commissioner Chilson.

Uh nothing today, thank you.

Okay.

I'm good.

Thank you.

So that'll I have your honor.

Okay.

May I have a motion then to approve the city manager's recommendations.

Your Honor, I moved to approve city manager's recommendations.

And I'll second that.

Okay, it's been probably moved in a second to approve the city managers' recommendations.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

Okay.

Legislation, please, Ms.

Buckshire.

Second reading resolution number 6884-25, authorizing the city manager to accept Federal Fiscal Year 2026, Federal Aviation Administration Airport Terminal Program, ATP grant from the United States Department of Transportation for Airport Infrastructure and Terminements at the James M.

Cox Dayton International Airport and Dayton Wright Brothers Airport on behalf of the City of Dayton in an amount not to exceed $15 million and zero cents.

Mayor Mims.

Aye.

Commissioner Joseph.

Aye.

Shaw.

Turner Slaughter.

Aye.

First reading resolution number 6886-25, declaring the intention to appropriate real property interests in parcels 94 T and 127 T in connection with the Salem Avenue Reconstruction Phase 4 project.

That concludes legislation.

Okay.

Three citizens have registered.

I would like to state that there is a three-minute time limit.

As you address the Commission, we ask that you state your name and address for the record.

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And we kindly request that during this portion of the meeting, you refrain from any hand clapping, finger snapping, and conversations that will prevent the City Commission from hearing the speaker's comments.

I call to the podium Kevin Keller.

Good evening, Mayor.

Good evening, Commissioners.

My name is Kevin Keller, 3922 East Street, Dayton, Ohio.

Okay.

Good evening.

Good evening, Mayor.

Commissioners and audience, City Manager.

What I have to say today is uh mostly about uh public roads.

I seems to have been a decrease in uh a lot of the roads around town, and I specifically remember on a newscast, don't remember which uh which uh company it did, but um they were talking about repaving a good section of Smithville Road north of 35, uh somewhere around Hoffman Street, all the way to Radio Road or just short of that.

That's a real problem.

A lot of potholes, a lot of uneven pavement, a lot of uh dips because the truck sit there a while out the lights, and it's become pretty dangerous.

And I'm just dreading this winter by getting stuck in one of those or sliding off in one of those uh pieces of pavement.

It's it's become a really mess, and I remember they were talking about that's part of the uh the paving program this year discussed last year.

Also, uh the red light speed cameras, I'm told that they might be coming back.

And is there any kind of justification or I was told that uh in order to have those things work, the uh police officer has to be present.

The third is uh vehicle side swipes on narrow roads.

We live on a narrow road, uh we park on a narrow road, which is Quentin, Cherrywood, and uh um I don't remember that other road, but it's up just uh west of Smithville on uh East Third Street in Smith Smithville.

Those streets are so narrow, and when cars go by, especially when they exceed the speed limit, um sideswiping.

Like I said last week or last meeting, my wife and I had our cars sideswiped.

I've had mine done twice just by parking in the street.

So some people are parking up on the curb or lit on the grass to try to avoid that.

Um all kinds of people are speeding, not only v uh cars, residential cars, but uh, you know, like FedEx and and UPS drivers, the mail uh carriers, uh um city vehicles that are much wider than average car, and uh I'm not sure if they really realize how narrow those roads are.

I really wish we could look at that and find some kind of uh solution.

Uh fourth we have uh paving over curbs.

When they pave and they don't grade enough off those curbs, it raises the pavement and the curbs almost disappears.

When we have a good rain, it floods the yards and it floods the roads because the the uh water doesn't have anywhere to go except into the road, and eventually it goes to the drain, but a lot of it doesn't go to the drain because of the how the pavement is is uh designed.

It's not crowned as much.

And that I because I live on a corner and on a hill, East Third Street of Quinton that I know is pretty much a river during heavy rain, and that's not safe, especially if we're driving down that hill.

And uh restoring the diner building.

I hear that there's there's talk of restoring the diner building.

I mean, we all called it the diner at Fifth Street and um was it Patterson Boulevard or St.

Clair.

I would love to see uh ideas on that.

Thank you.

So we'll have someone get your concerns and address those.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Keller.

Christine Lincoln.

Hi, my name is Christine Lincoln.

Name and address for the road, 1000 Birch Street, Springfield, Ohio.

Thank you.

Good evening.

Good evening, Mayor and Commissioners and City Manager.

Thank you for having giving me this moment.

It means a lot.

It means the world to me to stand here before you tonight.

At the start of these many meetings, you pray, asking God to bless your work and to guide your steps and to help you serve this community.

I'm here tonight with an opportunity for you to do just that.

Um February 1st, early in the morning, 818 Rosedale.

I was brutally attacked.

I was strangled, bitten, and raped for 30 minutes.

I fought like hell to survive because the only thought in my mind was that my babies were going to come home to their mom today.

I refused to let this man take me from them.

When I escaped and found a phone, because he had taken mine, the very first thing I did was call the police.

Surely I thought that just so it was what come quickly.

But instead, that was the moment that I began to feel dismissed, stereotyped and judged.

When officers arrived, they could see my injuries, they could see that I was missing clothes.

I was taken to the hospital on the first time I felt hope, surely, that they would arrest him.

Surely that they would recover my phone, and surely that justice would be served.

The same nurse gave me strength, reminding me that even the smallest trace of DNA could put an attacker away.

But when the lieutenant came to see me at the hospital, what I received was not compassion, it was irritation.

He showed no empathy, no urgency.

Even the nurse was stunned by his demeanor.

When I asked about my phone, he told me they hadn't gone into the house to retrieve it.

Speaking as if I were the inconvenience, as if my pain were an interruption.

In that moment, I felt my fight slipping away.

The nurse reached reassured me that the detectives would be different, that they would pursue justice.

But months have gone by, evidence was ignored, calls and emails have gone unanswered, and eventually I was told the DNA was not enough.

And my case would be closed.

I cannot accept this.

I know there was enough evidence to move forward, and I know I am not the only woman that this man has hurt at 818 rows to go.

Many won't even report because they don't believe the police will listen.

And from my experience, I understand why.

I do respect the police.

I know the burden that they carry each day, but I also know this when officers and detectives lose empathy for the people they serve, when they dismiss survivors like me, they fail in their duty.

The lieutenant and detective treated me as if my pain did not matter.

And I believe that this man will kill someone if he hasn't already.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Thank you for your comments.

Would you please um Ms.

Jackson get additional information from you?

Okay.

Thank you.

Wait, right here.

No.

This is right there behind you.

I'm sorry.

Ray Hollingsworth.

Mayor, Commissioners.

Good evening.

Ray Hollingsworth, 4438 Hoover Avenue, Dayton, Ohio.

I am here on behalf of the citizens that live near and on Cornell Drive.

The burnt down store that burned down to the ground in March of this year is still sitting there.

And we were told that there's going to be some contractors to get that mess up.

Uh two months ago.

We've seen no contractors.

We're not sure if there are really contractors.

And now that you all have put dumpsters there for the rubbish, burned up things that people have put mattresses, couches, and now there's trash bags, tires, etc.

It's become a dumping ground.

It's been smelling.

And I I go in that area often because I have a person that helps me at times.

And I know residents that still live in that area.

And we have to look at that mess where the city of Dayton seemed by you guys lied.

Mr.

Mayor, I'm not sure if you realize it or not, but you're the mayor of all of Dayton.

That mess should have been up.

And we're not really sure if the contractors are contractors.

Because when you have a contractor, that means there's a contract.

And I'm not sure why out of one, two, three, four, five, and six, y'all don't remind each other we need to get that mess up.

I grew up in that area in the 70s and 80s.

I grew up not far from Commissioner Shaw.

And about over a little bit more than 30 years ago, I moved it to Residence Park.

What is going on?

Why is that mess still down there?

You put a fence up there, and then you put some type a tarp up there when the NATO was coming as if, well, if we bring NATO down here, we don't want them to see that mess.

There's a port-a-potty in there, and I saw someone who didn't look like a contractor to me coming out of that port-a-potty.

What is going on?

It seems like a big great big disrespect.

Betrayal.

When is that mess going to get up?

We're going to give you all to Monday, five o'clock, to have that mess cleared up.

You have contractors, get them on the job.

And if it's not up by 5 o'clock Monday, the people I talk to, the residents, there's beautiful homes across the street from there.

We're going to take this thing to another level.

We hate to have to do that.

Thank you, Ms.

Hollywood.

Thank you for your comments, Ms.

Hollywood.

That concludes the speakers, Your Honor.

It's pretty good over there.

Okay.

Just a couple.

Um, Your Honor.

I wanted to remind everyone that the city is looking at um red light speed cameras in school zones, which is trying to slow traffic down where chill a great deal of children are present, and we clearly do not need police based on the based on the state law to be there.

Um so that that is um with regards to that.

The Smithville re paving is happening over 26, 27, and 28 because it is built, it is can it's also incorporating reconstruction.

And so those, you know, as you know, that funding comes in five year, you know, with five-year tales.

Um with regards to the demolition occurring at Cornell.

Um with regards to the demolition occurring at Cornell, I'll remind everyone that's a private demolition, that we have been there have been numerous violations cited for the contractor that the property owner has contracted with.

So we are pursuing without any grace trying to get this mess addressed and out of our neighborhood.

Um that's that's where it sits right now.

And that's all I have, Your Honor.

Okay.

So this let me just uh pose a just a bit of a question uh regarding that.

Uh I know we have had uh mobile conversations and multiple situations in court, in and out of court uh initially by by us, of course, and the aspect of looking at someone who had insurance who said they didn't have insurance, so we went back and forth with that.

So the owner that probably does have insurance owner that probably had the responsibility of hiring and uh consulting with the contractor to work on cleaning that up.

We did assist in some way, shape, or form to expedite the process and we communicate those um those uh actions, if you will, to the community as well.

But I'm not sure of the latest, because I thought we were in a situation right now where the contractor and the owner were following through on the process of taking the started and then there was a pause.

Um and prior to the start, remember we put the fence up to try and curb jumping and try to, you know, contain the site.

Because once something happens with contamination, once somebody puts something in there, it has to be treated like contamination.

The second thing is so when the pause happened and there was no response to us as to why there were pause had happened, that's when we started citing.

And second time.

Yeah.

Okay.

Because ultimately, yes, the property owner is responsible for cleaning up the demo the doing the demolition.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Thank you so much.

Okay.

Ms.

Blackshire, in closing comments.

I have none, Your Honor.

Okay.

Commissioners, closing comments.

Uh Commissioner Turners Laws.

Yes, thank you.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Ms.

Dixteam, um, for providing additional context as it relates to the red light cameras, and then also um to your point, I believe it was last week, if not last week, the week before last, we just approve an agreement to do additional work for a vendor to look at the compliance piece as it relates to the real light cameras.

It's not to say that we were not in compliance, but this is some additional work that is being done to make sure that we are in compliance and that these real light street cameras, if you will, are uh being utilized effectively.

And then in regards to the narrow streets for Mr.

Keller's point, thank you, Mr.

Keller, for for being here this evening.

Um I believe at one point, and I know Mr.

Keller has raised this a number of times, as well as many other residents who reside in those those areas where the streets are in fact narrow.

Have we vetted the idea of a traffic study or if if the in fact there's something additional that can be done to help with understanding that the streets are narrow, but is it a matter of us taking from the sidewalk or what other with our traffic engineering or surveying that could potentially be done to look at ways to mitigate?

As you know, Commissioner, we have narrow streets across the city in much of the built-out neighborhoods.

And there has been numerous looks at how do we address this?

Do we restrict parking?

There's not enough parking, you know, because of the lack of garages and the lack of you know and there have it is something the staff continuously look at for best practices to try and see if there's resolution.

Um there is no easy answer at this point to dealing with the you know, if you reduce the this the sidewalk, many of the sidewalks are narrow to start.

They are not very expansive.

And if you take sidewalk away, then you have ADA issues because you don't have ex you create accessibility issues in that regard.

So there has been multiple looks at how we might try and address something talking as well as talking to other cities in you know with similar similar situations.

And there has not been a an easy solve at this point.

No, that's fair.

Thank you.

And I know that you all are are doing your due diligence, if you will, or um, and trying to find ways and means to to address the concern.

One recommendation that I do have, and I don't know if this is the case, um, Mr.

Keller Street in particular, but oftentimes we have throughout our neighborhoods, the 65 neighborhoods, um, in particular, I will speak to Westwood, Residence Park, Southern Dayton View, Dayton View Triangle, many of uh those neighborhoods, there are there is rather an influx of inoperable vehicles that are taking up off-street parking, if you will, with spire tags, whatever have you.

So is it a matter of us going through and doing a blitz or a review to see with warnings, of course, right?

We don't want to start throwing vehicles away, and then we have another, you know, um situation where there are a cost burden or another hindrance on um our residents, but looking at ways and means to address those issues of those operable vehicles or vehicles that do not have up-to-date uh tags or stickers to remove them off of the of the street itself because they in fact they um reduce the number of parking spaces that are in fact available available.

So I don't know if that's the case for you, Mr.

Keller, but it might be something for us to look at overall.

Commissioner, we have a unit that has been that for the last year been working aggressively to take cars inoperable or storage, you know, that has occurred in neighborhoods, and they have been aggressively sweeping and reducing those numbers.

And I'm happy to get you a report on the outcomes of that group because they are working feverishly catching up and getting getting people in compliance.

Yeah, no, thank you, and you're absolutely correct, and that raises another point.

So in um Belmont Park, I know we're getting ready for the the Greek festival, if you will.

Um I would just ask that we please make sure that we issue out warnings because some vehicles were told and there was no notice.

So we just need to make sure that we are in fact providing that level of courtesy, understanding that this was the direction of the commission and that we are trying to mitigate um a number of the concerns, but making sure that we're doing our due diligence and providing level of courtesy to give the residents or or the vehicle owners um enough time to remove those vehicles.

So I appreciate that.

Thank you.

And thank you, Mr.

Keller, for being here this evening.

Um Ms.

Lincoln, um, thank you for for being here and for your bravery.

Um Ms.

Jackson, I understand you have our contact information, so I will be following up with Ms.

Lincoln this evening.

But I do want to acknowledge her bravery and the unfortunate incident that took place, and um my goal and our uh I believe all of our duty is to make sure that our residents feel safe and they are in fact protected throughout our neighborhoods.

And I would just like to get an update on because if I'm not mistaken, I do remember this this case um in particular.

And so I would just ask if we could get an update, Ms.

Dixtein, as to where we are in the investigation, understanding that I know a lot of the information may not be able to be disclosed to us, but to make sure that Ms.

Lincoln has the assistance and support that is needed.

And I think this also goes back to our report, the accountability um report that we just received this evening from Ms.

Jones in having that process in place where people feel that they are in fact heard and that they understand what the next steps are in that process.

So I look forward to working with you, Commissioner, on that.

So um, Ms.

Dixine, if you can provide us with a follow-up on that.

Mr.

Hollinsworth, thank you for bringing this to our attention.

I know my colleagues and I, and I will be the first to admit I was under the impression that this was addressed.

Um, and as you heard from Ms.

Dixtein, this is a private um demolition or removal, and initially we did take the steps, the city did take the steps with the fix the fencing and really pushing forward to make sure that the site itself was uh demolished and removed, but there is additional work that needs to be done.

Um know that it is in fact uh a priority and that it will be cleaned up.

Um so I don't know if there is another course of action that needs to be had, and and to your point, right, giving us five days, we'll perhaps we need to extend those days to the the uh the private owner to make sure that they are held accountable for removing the debris itself.

So I would just ask Ms.

Dixtein if I know once you have that information readily available, if you can pass that on to us, and if in fact there are any stipulations that have been identified in the removal of that of the site itself, and is there additional incurred costs that the uh property owner were will incur with the debris continuously still sitting there.

And um last thing that I wanted to make mention there are a number of events that took place this past weekend, a number of back to school events, um, one in particular in Macintosh Park, which was well attended.

It was also a I believe a three-on-three tournament, number of events that took place.

Um and thank you, Ms.

Reaper providing providing uh talking points in the recreation department.

The after school recess program is now open.

This is great work once again by a recreation department.

The program follows Dayton Public Schools calendar and is available at all three recreation centers.

Uh the sessions run Monday through Friday, 2 30 p.m.

to 5 30 p.m.

And include homework support, arts and crafts, physical activity and games in a daily snack.

Uh register at the DaytonRec.com website or by calling your preferred recreation center.

And this is free of charge, I assume.

This is great work.

So kudos to our recreation department.

And I believe that's all I have.

Thank you.

Okay.

Commissioner Fairchild.

Uh no comments.

Okay.

Mr.

Shaw.

All right, quickly.

Um, I'll start here.

So uh just a couple of announcements.

Uh launch date and start up week.

A launch in Startup Week runs September 10th through the 12th at the Dayton Arcade and the Hub.

This free event offers workshops, talks, and networking for small business owners and entrepreneurs.

You can learn more at Launch Dayton dot com.

Uh also uh the recreation department is offering uh Rec Connect, a free program for kids 8 to 12 at the Greater Dayton Rec Center.

Uh each event features movies, crafts, and games that help kids build friendships and connect with their community.

Uh upcoming dates, September 9th, October 14th, and November 11th from 6 to 8 p.m.

And you can learn more with the City of Dayton recreation department.

Um I want to respond about the uh Cornell market.

You know, I rode past there.

I really too thought that it was being um a addressed in a meaningful way because it it was.

I mean, they removed a lot of the debris that was blowing.

And I think that was a big issue, Reynard, for the um for the neighbors around there.

Uh many of them I've talked to personally as well.

Um, if you've got a a port-up toilet on site, that means that their contractors working on that because by state law you have to have them, and I think that's what was happening there.

But um, yeah, I'm really concerned that about this pause, and I appreciate you, City Manager, for um and your staff that they are addressing this and citing them uh where appropriate.

Again, it is private property.

Uh, we don't control that.

We can't go on that property uh in a meaningful way to do the work ourselves.

So we're kind of stuck with what we've got there.

But I I agree with you.

I mean, that's an eyesore, and it's something, you know, again, we both grew up in that neighborhood.

And uh, you know, so I pay a lot of close attention to that, and I want to see it get cleaned up as well.

But I I think we'll get there.

Um I do want to take a point of privilege real quick if we can ask uh Jagger Besseter to uh come to the podium for just a moment.

I want to I know this is embarrassing, but that's kind of what you sign up for.

Yeah.

Stagger has been with us for a little over a year, uh one of the legislative aides, and I just want him to wish him farewell on his journey as he moves on from us.

Friday is his last day uh with us on this commission.

And I just want to tell you how how much of a privilege is it has been working with you over this past year or so.

Um you've made a great impact uh on this commission and on this community.

I just want to thank you for your service and and wish you wish you well.

Uh I don't know if you have a few remarks or if the commission wants to say something with that.

Yeah, we'll we'll we'll say something first, then you can say something.

That's true.

And then we'll say something again if we want.

Uh but uh I I teased him earlier today told him that there was some um uh executive order from the highest office in the land that would prohibit him from leaving us.

Okay, we will try to do that.

So we're working on trying to support that activity.

Uh but you have been a great addition to this uh to this city commission and to the city as a whole.

Uh there's so many things that you've done that so meaningful as far as citizens are concerned, uh supporting each and every one of us and all the things that we do, trying to make sure our citizens were receiving the best service that we can get them.

So again, thank you.

In any order.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor.

I'm very excited for you and your new endeavor.

Thank you so much.

You've been a great addition to the Commission office.

And I know that you're going to do great.

And again, just know that if you ever have to reach back, know that we're here to support you.

And again, I wish you all the best.

You've been great to work with.

You've done a great job.

We know you're going to do a great job of your next job.

Thank you, like the Commissioner said, and the mayor.

Thank you for things you done for our citizens for us.

You've been a good worker, and you can be proud of that.

Commissioner Fretchell.

Yeah.

Just echo what my colleagues have said.

You're very conscientious worker and appreciate your attention to details and following through and also the interactions you have with our citizens.

I think you demonstrate your role model for what how we went our employees to work with our citizens.

And you should be like the poster boy for having a positive attitude.

I don't I'm not in there every day, but um of all the days I saw you, I've never seen you had a negative attitude.

And um that's commendable.

So keep that up as you go into your into your next work, and we know you're through work.

Yeah.

Congratulations.

Yeah, you're gonna next employer has any doubt, you just take a copy of this film and share with them all the great things that we said about you.

Okay.

Um well, it's been an honor to work with all of you.

And uh it means a lot to me that you guys have had um these remarks.

So thank you guys a lot.

Okay, thank you.

Well thanks, yeah.

And that's all I have.

Okay.

Commissioner uh Joseph.

All right.

Uh I want to first of all recognize Sinclair Public Policy class that's here, uh, Ms.

County Daniels class.

If you would like to stand up and at least wave the crowd, get recognized.

Thank you for being here.

All right.

We appreciate you all being here.

Uh we would love to have an audience and especially folks who are interested in public policy.

That's the lifeblood of the city.

It's what we do and what we love.

We're glad to see you're interested in it too.

So thank you for being here, you all.

Thank you.

Uh also I want to mention this is vascular disease awareness month, September.

One of the best ways to prevent vascular diseases through regular cardiovascular activity.

Many City of Dayton employees this month are committed to 10,000 steps a day to try to combat uh cardiovascular disease and keep healthy hearts going.

I'm going to try to get to 10,000, but I know it's not going to happen.

I'm going to try anyway.

Just not enough time in the day.

I know that's a terrible excuse.

But I appreciate all the employees who are doing that, and those of you out here there, uh, you're welcome to join us 10,000 steps a day.

Uh second, the African American Wellness Walk returns for its 25th year, coming up September 13th, next Saturday.

It's 5K walk run, starting at Island Metro Park and ending uh at 8 a.m.

You can register on Premier Health's website.

You can go to Premier Health.com and there'll be a link there to register for the African American Wellness Walk.

That's all I got, Mayor.

Thank you.

Okay.

Got a few things.

Um let's do the one that I forgot to do uh last month, and that was the uh Black Babies Breastfeeding Month.

I was there a whole month and uh had the opportunity to share with them some thoughts about the importance of that month and uh talking about the aspect of the young people who are receiving breast milk from their mothers, uh creates a much more healthier immune system for those young people as well, and sort of addresses uh some of the needs that they have for nutrition and the earlier months and years of their life.

So again, that just supports their uh their benefit that they have a long-term benefit uh when they're best fed.

Additionally, the Ohio Families uh talent show and uh the uh unification against um uh police brutality that was held uh sponsored by Mr.

Dion Green, and then the Westwood days uh in addition to Westwood days and the celebration that they had with great food and again uh a packed audience.

Uh also had uh 20 young people who are part of the uh peace ambassadors, young peace ambassadors program, and they demonstrated a lot of the uh work that they're doing in that space to learn how to identify and resolve conflict.

Additionally, we had the 11th annual back to school um uh block party that was held at the uh park, um Macintosh Park, a lot of great food, it was mentioned before, and this was put on by uh Mr.

Darrell Dalton.

And uh lastly, the Men of Color Leadership Training Program uh this uh this morning, as they're still there right now, they have the young men who are watching the Cincinnati Reds uh baseball game, uh about 300 of them from cities such as Columbus, Cleveland, Lima, uh Springfield, Cincinnati, and of course the originator of the Men of Color Program, Dayton, Ohio.

So we had about 30 young men who left this morning going to um the baseball game, but having opportunities to talk to uh some of the uh athletes of the stars who are involved in that process, as well as talking to some of the former athletes of those who were attended college and played in those spaces as well, and also talking to them about the importance of uh budgeting and balancing their time and using all their God given talents and skills to be their best self.

So all this was happening, still happening right now, as I mentioned before.

And so while they're learning a lot, they will probably be real sleepy tonight, real sleepy tomorrow morning in school, because they will probably not get back home until about 10 or 11 o'clock tonight.

So with that and no further business to come before this commission, love and peace for all and hatred for none, this meeting is adjourned.