The Dayton City Commission meeting will now come to order.

Would you all please rise for invocation and remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance?

This evening, the invocation will be given by Commissioner Fairchild.

Oh gracious one, in a world that feels out of control.

Remind us of your providence.

Commit us to your will.

Remind us the power of love is greater than the power of violence.

Make us ambassadors of your love.

Instruments of your peace.

Instill in us your compassion.

Make us mindful of those who are fragile and those that are vulnerable.

May they find in us generous friends.

Guide us now.

Maybe we may we be wise in our decisions and tender in our actions so that we create a Dayton where everyone is seen.

There are opportunities for all, and our community is just and vibrant.

Amen.

Amen.

And which it stands.

One nation.

Ms.

Black Share, may we please have a roll call?

Mayor Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Commissioner Joseph.

Aye.

Fairchild.

Beckham.

Aye.

May I have a motion to excuse the absence of Commissioner Shaw, please?

So moved, Your Honor.

Second the motion, Your Honor.

It has been properly moved and seconded to excuse the absence of Commissioner Shaw.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

Miss Black, excuse me.

May I have a motion to approve the minutes of the March 11, 2026 meeting, please?

So moved, Your Honor.

Second the motion, Your Honor.

It has been properly moved and seconded to approve the minutes for the March 11th, 2026 meeting.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

Miss Blackshare, are there any communications or petitions this evening?

There are none, Your Honor.

And we have no presentations this evening.

Miss Blackshare, are there any additions, deletions, or comments to the calendar?

I have none, Your Honor.

Thank you, Miss Black Share.

Miss Dixtean, are there any additions, deletions, or comments to the calendar this evening?

Your Honor, I have no additions or deletions to this evening's calendar, and given it um late uh number of uh actions or recommendations.

I also have no comments to the calendar.

All right, thank you, Miss Blackshare.

Miss Dixteen.

Ms.

Blackshare, are there any citizens who have registered to speak this evening?

Your Honor, one citizen has 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.

At that time, I will turn on the green light.

When the green light comes on, you will have three minutes to speak.

After you have spoken two and a half minutes, a yellow light will come on.

You'll have 30 seconds remaining to speak.

When the red light comes on, you will be asked to cease your comments and to take your seat.

To the audience and attendance, please be mindful this is a business meeting, and we kindly request that during this portion of the meeting you refrain from any hand clapping, finger snapping, and conversations that prevent the city commission from hearing the speaker's comments.

I call to the podium, Tasha Roundtree.

Name and address for the record.

I'm coming here tonight to speak with the city manager and with the new mayor.

I wanted to give you all some time to get back into your newly acquired positions before I came in to have this conversation.

I have been asking for over a year about creating a cannabis coalition or a council.

And here I find myself where as of tomorrow by 12 noon, over 6,000 Ohioans are about to lose their job.

And when they lose their jobs, they will not be eligible for unemployment.

What is your plan for them?

Because I've been asking you to come up and be proactive instead of reactive.

Wesley Community Center is without water, is without a telephone, is without food in the food bank.

How are we supposed to help these people?

Okay, now the mic is off.

Okay, I can do this without the mic on.

Reclaiming my time.

Reclaiming my time.

Please proceed.

It's on.

I'm just livid because I've been asking.

What are we going to do with the money when the money comes in?

And no one has created a budget.

No one has said this is what we plan to do with the money from all of the cannabis that we have sold in this city.

We don't know what we're going to do with these unemployed people.

The reason some of these people went to work in the hemp industry is because they couldn't work in the cannabis industry, and now we have to have an expungement clinic for all of these people.

Some of these people now have to go into public housing because they're going to lose their housing because without notice they are going to lose their job on Thursday evening at midnight.

And we still don't have a plan, which I've asked this council, and some of you have still been on this council.

What are we going to do?

I've had to reach out to felons with a future so that we could have a plan of action to clear off some of these records so that they would be eligible for public housing.

Because they are not going to be again eligible for unemployment.

Because they're going, their businesses are going to close.

They can't go into the cannabis industry.

The cannabis industry did not prepare to the influx of these people nor these products.

This is a money grab.

And yet I'm still asking when you see these other cities receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars, they already had a plan, and we still don't have a plan.

I'm fighting for Wolf Creek to create nerd hubs for our youth for living with purpose for our senior citizens.

And I'm still asking, what's our plan?

And y'all still don't have a plan?

Y'all still haven't created a council?

What are y'all doing?

I'm not gonna keep asking and keep begging.

I'm gonna run for office and take somebody's job up here next.

Thank you.

Thank you, Miss Round Tree.

If you wouldn't mind staying back so I can get some more information.

As you mentioned, there has been transition, so allow us to get our footing together and then we can have a conversation so we can figure out what the plan is.

Thank you I appreciate it.

Miss Dixteen, if we can file a follow-up conversation again, I want to get some understanding of the background and so we can work with our colleagues as well and what you're hearing.

Sure, we'll work we'll work on getting you uh all of you in a memo.

Yes, ma'am, thank you.

I appreciate it.

Thank you, Miss Round Tree.

That concludes the speakers for calendar items.

Thank you, Miss Black Share.

Commissioners, are there any comments to the city manager's recommendations this evening?

I have none, Your Honor.

Thank you, Commissioner Fairchild.

No, Commissioner, all right.

I have none.

All right.

May I have a motion to approve the city manager's recommendation?

Your Honor, I move that we approve the city manager recommendations.

Second motion.

All right.

It has been properly moved and seconded to approve the city manager's recommendations.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

Legislation, Miss Black Share.

Second reading resolution number 6922-26.

Authorizing the real properties located at eight addresses in the city of Dayton, Ohio for acceptance of electric vehicle EV chargers.

Mayor Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Commissioner Joseph.

Aye.

Beckham.

Aye.

Resolution 6922-26 has been adopted with in favor with four votes.

And that is all, Your Honor.

Thank you, Ms.

Blackshare.

Ms.

Blackshire, are there any citizens who are registered registered to speak for general comments?

Three citizens have registered, and I'd like to remind everyone of the three-minute time limit.

Good evening, Yusuf Zane, 4906 Umberwood Drive, Dayton, Ohio.

Good evening.

Mayor, Commissioner, City Manager.

I'm standing in front of you to tonight while families in places like Lebanon, Palestine, and Iran continues to bury their children.

Last week I spoke about Dayton's unique place in history as the home of the Dayton Peace Accords.

A moment when the city helped bring Warring Nations together and showed the word that peace is possible.

Today I return with deeper concern.

We are living through a time of immense human suffering.

Innocent civilians are losing their lives.

Children are being killed.

The human cause of these uh conflicts is real.

Ongoing and devastating.

And we are not disconnected from these realities.

Just recently, the Ohio Senate is currently considering a formal partnership with Israel focused on trade, investment, and research.

And here in Dayton, if I may remind you, we have already welcomed an engineering and construction firm that you all proudly put in the newspaper from that part of the world to establish a manufacturing and research operation in our city.

These decisions may be framed as an economic development, but that also carry moral weight.

In 2020, this body adopted a resolution, condemning genocide and affirming that Dayton should ensure that companies that does not it does business with avoid complicity and crimes against humanity.

So the question is not whether Dayton has a moral voice.

The question is whether Dayton will use it.

How does Dayton wish to be remembered?

I ask again.

As a city connected to systems of surrounding war, or as a city whose name became synonymous with peace.

And today, as innocent lives are being lost across multiple conflicts, silence is also a choice.

Let Dayton once again be a city that calls the world toward peace.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Hilary Lerman.

You may begin.

I taught history at Miami University.

And understanding history, I'm gonna say some things that probably will offend people right now.

But this reminds me of the start of world war two.

If we remember the Nazis, they moved into the Rhineland, they moved, they took over Austria, they took over Czechoslovakia, and the world basically didn't do anything.

And that's the same thing with the roles reversed of what the United States and Israel are doing to the world.

I don't know how we're gonna resolve this, but again, Hitler, genocide.

What the world has been saying, what's going on in Gaza is genocide.

We've got to stop this, and hopefully, the City Commission will be a light for what's right and what's wrong.

I thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Lerman.

Tasha Roundtree.

Oh, Tasha Round Tree, 4609 St.

James.

I was here before about the cannabis industry.

I'm here now as the president of Wolf Creek Neighborhood Association.

I've been hearing lately on a lot of Facebook and on the social media how Wolf Creek is being gentrified.

First off, let me say that is absolutely incorrect.

What we are is actually the most compassionate neighborhood in the entire city of Dayton.

When we had a homeless problem, we didn't just push those people off to be migratory.

What we did was we worked with our worked with Miami Valley housing opportunities, and we got those people in places like Woodford Mental Institution and Recovery, the 115 program before we allowed it to close down, which was an atrocity to our our local population.

What we did was we showed those people compassion and not just used them off.

What we did was we worked with our renters to get them into a more structured, more uh responsible landowners by working with the land bank, by working with Habitat for Humanity, by getting them better landlords than some of these slum lords that come in from out of town and don't fix up properties, don't take care of the property.

What we did was we worked with some of the first time home buyers programs with uh Chase Bank because they had additional funding to reinvest in our neighborhoods.

And people who have been there for years, they are allowed to get their house fixed up through the uh home rebuild Dayton program.

We are one of the most compassionate neighborhoods because we do have places for small businesses to put up their businesses, like Philip Morgan, one of the eat down, sit down eat restaurants which has excellent food.

We do have a cigar bar, we do have a bakery that's coming.

We have beautiful amenities.

And instead of going and spending $500,000 in Oakwood Centerville, if you get your money up, you can get a $300,000 house in our neighborhood and put a pool in a backyard and put a nice privacy fence up in it and have a nice barbecue pit.

You don't have to move out of the hood to have a nice house and then be in a nice area.

Don't hate the game, join us.

But that's not gentrification because we choose to come up because we choose to do better.

We chose to invest in our neighborhood and to come up.

We worked hard for the come up because we were purposely disinvested in.

And now that we're being invested in, don't hate on us, join us, but don't try to stop us.

That's it.

We are the first to have scholar homes.

We are the first to make sure that if you want to be a firefighter, a police officer, a teacher, if you want to work at as a Mason, if you want to work as an electrician as a plumber, you want to go to school to be something.

We have specialized homes with the land bank to make sure that we can offer you housing.

Thank you for your public assistance to live well.

Thank you for your comments.

Thank you, Ms.

That's it.

Thank you.

Thank you for your leaver leadership and your advocacy.

You're exactly uh correct in terms of all of the number of great things that are taking place in the in the Wolf Creek neighborhood.

So thank you for recognizing the work in Wolf Creek.

That concludes the speakers, Your Honor.

Thank you, Ms.

Black Chair.

Miss Dixteen, do you have any closing comments this evening?

I have none, Your Honor.

Thank you.

Ms.

Bleckshire, do you have any closing comments this evening?

None, Your Honor.

Commissioner, do you have any closing comments?

Commissioner Beckham.

Yes, Your Honor.

I'll be uh very brief.

I just want to thank the University of Dayton uh Balsa organization, which is the Black Law Students.

Um they will be holding their annual Joseph Sinke Banquet uh this Saturday, March 21st.

Uh tickets are still available.

Uh I have the honor of keynoting that event.

So just wanted to highlight uh and thank them for the invitation and looking forward to it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you for bringing that up.

Appreciate it.

Commissioner Fairchild.

Yeah, a couple comments.

Uh thank you to the Japanese American Citizen League.

They had me out to swear in their officers last weekend, and uh it was uh meaningful evening to be with them as they uh recommit themselves to their their mission and to um standing up for what it means to be a citizen.

So I thank them for that.

Also um want to thank the leadership team of the city for the big hoopla and how um how hospitable we make the city is for basketball fans who come here every year for the first four games.

And uh I was there last night and it was running really well and had great games and uh it's a real asset for our community and uh kudos to those who uh do all the planning to make us uh a great host site and hopefully we continue to impress upon the NCAA.

What a great uh host we are.

So kudos to them.

Um during spring break.

There will be a spring break hub held at the Greater Dayton Recreation Center, which is over on Third Street.

It's from March 30th through April 2nd, and it runs between 11 a.m.

and 6 p.m.

It's a free program and is open to youth ages nine to seventeen.

It'll offer a variety of engaging activities, including hands-on crafts games, STEM programming, and extended open gym time.

And if you'd like more information, you can call the city at 937-3334732.

And then lastly, I just want to share that this is uh severe weather awareness week.

And uh with the high winds and uh possibility of tornadoes, and as we're reminded from the the tornadoes that came and water outages, and you need to take steps for you to be prepared, and so I encourage you to look um online and look at what families need in terms of having waters and radios, batteries, food, so that you are able to support your family for about 48 hours because we know in an emergency um our first responders are gonna be occupied with a lot of uh a lot of um tasks to help people in trouble and uh and you need to be able to help support your family and then also be able to support support your neighbors.

So during this week I encourage you to pay a little attention to your own family preparedness.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Joseph.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh Commissioner, I want to echo your thanks to everyone who has been working to make uh Dayton the showpiece this week for the first four.

Uh everything we do uh to to show off that uh we're a great place to live and work and play, uh just really pays off here when the the eyes of the at least the country and maybe the world are on us here.

So I want to thank all of the the city employees and everyone in the community that's gone out of their way these last couple weeks to prepare.

Uh second, I want to congratulate our Department of Water.

They recently received the National Environmental Achievement Award from the National Association of Clean Water Agencies for the successful urban agriculture grant program.

This program supports local growers by providing funding to transform vacant lots into productive gardens.

And all of us have seen these gardens around.

Uh the gardens, and the reason why water department is involved is because uh they promote stormwater management, biodiversity, and access to fresh food for our neighbors.

Um since its launch, the program has expanded to 41 garden locations across the city, helping strengthen neighborhoods and address food insecurity.

You can find more information about the award and the programs on the city's website.

I think both the regular city website and the water department website have mentioned of it.

So just Google City of Dayton and uh urban agriculture and it'll come up.

We'd love to have more.

Uh this is something that we can expand.

Uh, we love getting our neighbors fresh produce uh and highlighting the things we can do to help like that.

So congratulations to water.

Uh city manager, please extend our congratulations to the organization.

We're proud of them.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Thank you, Commissioners.

I just have a couple of comments.

Oh, would you all please uh and thank you, Ms.

Jackson, uh, as well as Ms.

Dixing for your work on that.

Um, would you all please join me in a moment of silence and recognizing the fallen soldiers?

I believe there has been uh a total of 11 um, but most recently six airmen, three of which we know that were from the state of Ohio.

So would you all just please join me in a moment of silence?

Thank you all.

We'll like to to uh recognize the uh mayadullah mosque, and I may have pronounced that incorrectly.

Um, but I want to thank them for hosting an IFTAR event, um, myself and Representative Timms.

They hosted us this past uh Saturday, as well as uh thinking extending the things uh to the Arab uh Social Association Association with keynote speaker Dr.

James Ogbe, as well as the Peace Museum this past weekend as well for the breaking of the fast and celebration of IFTAR for the community Iftar.

So uh thank you for all of the the leaders, uh, Mr.

Alzane, thank you for your leadership and the extended invites.

I would also like to recognize that last week um again is already mentioned, so again, just want to thank the staff for all of their commitment.

Thank you, Mr.

Reed.

All right, we're on the same way, Liv.

All right.

Well, with no further business uh before the commission, this meeting is now on adjourn.