The Dayton City Commission meeting will now come to order.

Would you all please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance?

And this morning invocation will be given by Commissioner Shaw.

Dear Lord.

May we make a difference in this world.

Help us to keep focused on what is pure and right.

Let us have hearts of thankfulness.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

And to the republic.

One nation on your individual liberty and this for all.

All right, Miss McClendon, may we please have a roll call this morning.

Mayor Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Commissioners Joseph.

Shaw.

Fairchild.

Aye.

Beckham.

Aye.

May I have a motion to approve the minutes of the April 1st, 2026 meeting, please.

So moved, John.

Second motion, Your Honor.

It has been properly moved and seconded to approve the April 1st, 2026 meeting.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

Ms.

McClendon, are there any communications or petitions this morning?

There are none, Your Honor.

All right.

This morning I would like to call Marcy Walker to the podium to present an update on the Living City Project.

A very exciting time.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Good morning.

So glad to be here today.

Thank you, Berletta, for inviting us out.

Um my name is Marcy Walker.

This is Stefan Watts.

We are part of the Living City Project team.

This is the annual citywide cleanup that we host.

And this is our sixth year hosting this cleanup.

We have around 30 neighborhoods that will be participating to help clean up do a the largest one day cleanup in the city of Dayton.

And we want to invite everyone out to come and participate.

This will be on Saturday, April the 25th from 9 to noon.

Um you can register at Living City Project.org or you can simply show up.

But we would love for people to come and register.

We have three different after party site locations where if you are not signed up, you can go and we can uh put you somewhere.

That'll be at Revival Center for West Dayton.

It will be at East Dayton Fellowship for East Dayton and then the library in old North Dayton if you are in the North Dayton area.

Uh if you have any questions, again, LivingCity Project.org or you can email me at M Walker at the Clare.org.

And we are just so excited to be bringing this to the City of Dayton once again.

It's a great opportunity for the community to take pride in cleaning up our neighborhood together, but also to get to know your neighbors as we do something good for the city.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh wait, excuse me, Ms.

Watkins.

Uh the do any of the commissioners have any comments or anything they would like to share this morning.

Commissioner Beckham.

Uh thank you, Your Honor.

Uh, just welcome.

Uh I know this has been around now for uh feels like six, seven years almost, if not more.

So I'm glad the effort is uh continuous.

I'd like to see us build on this effort so uh that we keep our city clean all year round.

Yes.

Uh but thank you all for what you do.

I look forward to being out there.

Awesome.

Thank you, Commissioner Commissioner.

Yeah, no, thank you.

We look forward to building on this tradition.

My hope is that we pick up less litter than we picked up the year before.

Not sure we're there, haven't been driving around, but um, you know, we know that it's uh really important to our citizens to have a community that looks um inviting and beautiful and safe.

Um could you remind me of the locations Revival Center, the library in Old North Dayton?

Yes, and East Dayton Fellowship will be the East Day location.

So there are 30 different neighborhoods participating, and they will each have their own host site location, but those are the after-party sites where if people have not registered, they can go to those locations.

And so after the cleanup at noon at those different sites, there will be a party to celebrate.

We'll have lunch there, music, and just the opportunity to meet your neighbors.

Awesome.

Thank you.

Thank you for coming today, and thank you for the work that you do.

I look forward to uh to being out there with you.

It's wonderful.

Uh I want to echo what my colleagues have said.

This is great.

Uh, and one specific thing I want to say is that we know that we as a city can't do everything.

And the fact that you all are stepping up to fill this role, this vital role that really makes a difference to our communities means a lot, and we really do appreciate it.

And we all look forward to seeing you out there.

So grateful.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you for being here.

We really appreciate your leadership and the commitment.

And again, as my colleagues are already mentioned, we need these efforts to go on all year round.

So that is the charge for all of us to take uh ownership and responsibility and making sure that we're doing our part and keeping our our city clean and improving the aesthetics of our our community so that we can in fact uh attract jobs and uh new homeownership and and all of the above that go along with that.

So thank you very much.

I will say this on the record.

I will not be in attendance due to travel, uh, but do know that I will make up for uh my absence the following week, if not prior to.

So thank you very much.

Thank you all so much.

We appreciate you.

Thank you.

All right, and next, in honor of National Poetry Month, I would like to call to the podium, Miss Sierra Leone, uh, the poet uh laureate for the city of Dayton.

Good morning.

Good morning, good morning.

Madam Mayor, members of the Dayton Commission, City staff, and members of the Dayton community.

Thank you for the invitation.

Greetings on behalf of all known and unknown poet Dayton poets who have come before me.

As Dayton's inaugural laureate, my mission is to strengthen and expand the connection between poetry and community, utilizing collaborative place-based engagement.

I am here today to celebrate National Poetry Month, which was launched 30 years ago by the Academy of American Poets in April of 1966.

It is my honor to trail in the legacy of our beloved Paul Lawrence Dunbar.

There are many ways to celebrate during the month of poetry.

I will be reading to elementary school students, discussing belonging with AmeriCorps seniors and returning citizens, presenting a youth against violence poetry open mic on April 17th, attending local poetry events that are happening throughout the city, open mics and shows, participating in Poem in Your Pocket Day with my students, and MCing DML Stacks and Stages Literacy Poetry event featuring HBO Deaf poet John Good.

Today I'm going to share one poem.

Music and faith have been critical to my development and advancement as my artistic expression.

I thought this moment would be befitting to share a poem that I wrote for the city and the community.

Uh just right before we went into the pandemic.

It was for the Dayton Philharmonic, honoring music and honoring the people.

Emancipate your ears and hands, orchestrate harmonious awakenings to vision beyond limitations, strum strings of self-acceptance, stroke the salve of liberty, woven in culture-like rhythmic movement, hibiscus flowers and bamboo healing.

Dance to your soul's metronome, live infinitely between notes and lyrical rhyme, dream catchers, speaking in tongues, chant, scream, sing, salvation, salvation.

Nine apotheotized doves spread their whistling wings on Fifth Street, heavy hearts inhale, gentle woodwind wisdom, bells ring, monumental togetherness, crystallize tears.

Breathe in the energy of souls sharing proximity.

We are the people who could fly.

Universal citizens, feel your feet in your shoes, clothes touching skin, taste joy in the air, dig deep past romanticize bondage, irrational aggressions and implicit obstacles, veil lifted, vision perfected.

Thank you.

Thank you, Miss Sierra Leon.

Colleagues.

Commissioner Beckham, do you have any comments?

Anything you would like to share?

Thank you, Mayor.

Sierra, great to see you.

Thank you for being our inaugural poet poet laureate.

Happy National Poetry Month to everyone, including yourself.

And I thank you for that beautiful poem you presented to us today.

It reminds us that we should continue to recognize the legacy of poetry in our city.

I'm very excited for that, so thank you for organizing.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Fairchild.

Yeah.

Thank you.

That provocative piece.

And it took me back to conversations I had with a good friend who is a teacher.

He's a professor of opera.

And he and I would have conversations as pastor and musician about the role that the arts play in terms and the similarities to religion and doing to help us think about the transcendence of that we experience, but also the imminent imminentcy of lived experience.

And your poem this morning was an amazing example of exploring those experiences that we have.

So thank you very much for that.

And I'm mindful of, since it's poetry month, I'm mindful of the conversation we had recently, and we talked about how we can encourage anyone to be poets.

That all of us have some poetic skill within us.

I didn't know if my colleagues would be open to like a six-word vision for our city.

But that by the end of Poetry Month, we might have six word poems from each of us about the vision for the city or you know any part of the work we do in community.

I don't know if you're open to that.

I don't know if you're open to that, but I think it'd be a great way to celebrate the month if folks are willing.

So but thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Shaw.

Yeah, thank you for being here today.

Thank you for that uh for that poem this morning.

But most importantly, thank you for continuing to be the gift that you are to our community and the work that you do.

So thank you so much.

Appreciate you.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Stokes.

My colleagues have all said wise things.

I want to add one more dimension, and that is thank you for being here and being willing to highlight something that our society is not valuing at this time, which is literacy, knowledge, uh, imagination.

These things are not not overly valued now.

We appreciate you standing up, not only in in what you say, but also in what you do, as Commissioner says.

So thank you for our efforts.

We really appreciate you being here.

I just want to echo my colleagues' comments.

Thank you so much for lending your gifts and your talent and your time.

You are greatly appreciated, and thank you for recognizing um Poet Month and recognizing the history that we have in regards to the arts and poetry itself.

All right.

Well, Miss McClendon, are there any additions, deletions, or comments to the calendar this morning?

There are none, Your Honor.

Thank you, Miss McLendon.

Ms.

Dixtein, are there any additions, deletions, or comments to the calendar this morning?

Your Honor, I have no additions or deletions to this morning's calendar.

I do have a few items just to highlight.

Item B2 is an award of contract to integrity contractors LLC.

This is more investments with with regards to our street enhancements.

This will be improvements on East Third from Kiwi to Linden.

And it is being funded with federal transportation alternative funding as well as some geodebt from the city.

It will provide a cycle track and sidewalk improvements.

And uh there were four bids.

This is the lowest and best, and the completion is due at uh 129 uh 27, so just after the first of the year.

Okay.

Thank you.

And then uh as it relates to our resolutions, uh resolution 6923-26.

I just want to, since I wasn't able to be at the meeting last week, but due to Passover celebration, I uh wanted to make sure that I too shouted out in my thank yous and great appreciation to uh St.

Ann's Hill and all the work they did in fundraising to help replace that damaged park, and we're excited as the city to fill the gap and move this project forward as expeditiously as the supply chain will allow us.

Um excited about this.

And then um on resolution 6924-26 that supports first responder mentalness uh wellness.

I want to thank um the DPD for their leadership for um understanding or recognizing when the the original grant that provided a lot of this mental health and wellness support to our first responders was expiring, uh working with Adamus and certainly thanking Adamus for uh stepping up and supporting our first responders.

It's so critically important.

And uh that's all I have this morning, Your Honor.

Thank you, Ms.

Dixtein.

Ms.

McClendon, are there any citizens who are registered to speak on calendar items this morning?

Your Honor, there is one citizen registered to speak on calendar items.

I would like to state 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, and you will 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 in 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 conversation that would prevent the city commission from hearing the speaker's comments.

I call to the podium Lynn Lamance.

Hi, Lynn Lamance, 1061 Bertram Avenue.

Good morning.

Good morning.

I am um here to talk about the uh police ammunition and try to get that removed.

Uh save money, save lives, and um, as Matt Joseph is always speaking of, go green.

If we could change that into an item that um where we purchase tasers, chargers uh for law enforcements.

Um that's what I'm here to do.

I'm also this is in regards to uh the recent shootings and videos on Facebook.

Citizens still have not got um thorough body cam footage, flock camera footage, at least 30 minutes prior to the incidences.

Uh we have not heard about officers being on leave.

We have not heard the officers' names.

We have not heard an actual independent investigation, independent meaning not the Dayton police investigating themselves, not the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office investigating themselves.

Um furthermore, um I am here also to speak besides saving lives and money.

Um Santa Clara residents were here two years ago regarding flock cameras, never saw them.

We again we we tell you things happening in the neighborhoods, graffiti, junk cars, loose dogs, illegal dumping, you know, that's that's not important, but bike laws in downtown Dayton are.

Uh furthermore, we would like to, I know there's a big push to hire within.

I am asking you not to uh create uh police chief with SETI since the FOP is so hellbent on putting a molester on the streets, not SETI.

I'm asking you not Paul Saunders as he helped uh pay a slumlord for that metal restaurant that you want to put more policing in downtown Dayton again, not him.

I am asking you not Kyle Thomas over the FOP since he fought so hard for SETI's job.

I am asking you not Henderson if he can't speak like a man for himself and has Paul Saunders speak for him.

Uh I am also asking that you consider Joe Parlett and Shelley Dixtein for removal, and we get some better leadership in this city.

Thank you, Miss Lamance.

Thank you.

That concludes speakers, Your Honor.

Thank you, Ms.

McClendon.

Commissioners, are there any comments to the calendar items or the excuse me, the city manager's recommendations?

Commissioner Beckham.

I have none, Your Honor.

All right, thank you, Commissioner Shaw.

Commissioner Fairchild, excuse me.

Thank you.

Uh regarding the enhancements on East Third Street.

Um between Kiwi and Lyndon.

That's a long stretch.

I don't think there's a stoplight in between that section.

And we have a very popular restaurant and bar in the middle.

And I know talking to citizens, they were interested around is there some way to have some kind of crosswalk between those two lights.

Is that something that's in the midst of those enhancements?

I don't know if it's in the enhancements themselves, but I know that there was a lot of community engagement around the design, and we can certainly follow up with Commissioner to let you know what that was.

That'd be great.

I appreciate it.

And then can you give us an explanation on the payment of voucher?

Um that is uh with civil service.

Yes.

Uh hold on a minute.

I believe it was a um a timing uh issue with regards to invoicing.

They did not receive an invoice until 2026 after the contract had expired, and so they didn't notice that um that contract was expiring.

There it's a um oversight that they will have to address uh with the rest of their contracts.

Okay, thank you.

I don't have anything.

Thank you, Commissioner Fairchild, Commissioner Shaw, Commissioner Joseph.

Okay, thank you.

I don't have any comments as well.

Um please have a motion to approve the city manager's recommendations this morning.

I move to approve the city manager's recommendations.

Second motion, Your Honor.

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

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All of both say no.

Legislation, Ms.

McClendon.

First reading ordinance number three two one eight two-two-six to vacate Vicksburg Street from Maywood Avenue to Maywood Avenue.

Second reading ordinance number three two one eight one-two-six, amending the official zoning map to change the zoning of approximately one acre at the west terminus of West Hillcrest Avenue from open space, OP to suburban single family residential, SR2.

Mayor Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Commissioners Joseph?

Aye.

Shaw.

Aye.

Fairchild.

Aye.

Beckham.

Aye.

Ordinance number three two one eight one-two six has passed with five votes in favor.

Second reading, resolution number six nine-two-three-two-six, approving the cash donation acceptance from the St.

Ann's Hill Historical Society Neighborhood Association in the amount of seventy thousand dollars and zero cents.

Mayor Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Commissioners Joseph?

Aye.

Shaw.

Aye.

Fairchild.

Aye.

Beckham.

Aye.

Resolution number six nine two three-26 has been adopted with five votes in favor.

Second reading resolution number six nine two four-two six authorizing the acceptance of a grant award from the Montgomery County Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Services Board in the amount of $64,050 and zero cents on behalf of the City of Dayton.

Mayor Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Commissioners Joseph.

Aye.

Shaw.

Aye.

Fairchild.

Aye.

Beckham.

Aye.

Resolution number six nine two four-two six has been adopted with five votes in favor.

And that concludes legislation, Your Honor.

Thank you, Ms.

McClendon.

Are there any citizens who are registered to speak this morning?

Your Honor, there are five citizens registered to speak.

And I would like to remind everyone of the three minute three-minute time limit.

I call to the podium Lynn Lamance.

Hi, Lynn Lamance, 1061 Bertram Avenue.

And I am just talking again on the redlining of city services into the neighborhoods.

However, I want to make sure that we have a boarding contractor because things are not getting boarded in the neighborhoods.

And as far as boarding things, there has to be a cost analysis from boarding something five, seven, eight, nine, ten times versus using the dogs boarding that you people use in downtown Dayton for all these precious buildings.

At some time, the cost analysis has to board it one time with the dogs versus whatever.

That needs to be looked at if there actually is a boarding contract.

We are turning them in, piles of houses that should be level five for demolition.

4143 Marie Drive, 72 Ashwood Avenue, 465-467, Allwood, I'm sorry, all win, and the Fairview neighborhood.

And yes, I'm aware it's currently in a housing court for nuisance.

23 Great Miami Boulevard, 43 Victor Avenue are all piles of houses, should be rated as level five and should be somewhere on the nuisance demolition list.

Um as well as the housing survey.

Again, we want our city services not redlined.

Everything is is going towards downtown Dayton.

We want less of that.

Less downtown Dayton, more neighborhoods, because who in the suburbs is gonna come here and spend money and it looks like the Gaza around downtown Dayton.

Um until we get proper management, I am also uh advocating for a boycott of downtown.

My white brothers and sisters do not come here and spend your money, your time if if we do not get proper management and less redlining for the neighborhood issues that we have we constantly email, advocate, come here for.

Um, if you are a union member, from my understanding that is voluntary, and you can cancel out your union membership if there is not proper um representation, or they are not putting their money into these proper uh Democratic Party and politicians.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Lamance.

I call to the podium Carlos Buford.

Carlos Buford, 2130 Della Drive, Dayton, Ohio.

Good morning.

Good morning.

I stand before you not just with concern, but with but with urgency.

Over the past few days, our community has been forced again to grapple with the consequences of police encounters that never should have escalated the way they did.

Let me be clear.

Too often we hear explanations focused on what happened at the final seconds.

But we must ask what happened in the first moments, because that is where accountability begins.

When officers engage citizens over low-level misdemeanors, they are not entering high-risk situations.

They are creating them when those encounters are mishandled.

And when the citizens' constitutional rights are violated at the start, everything that follows is compromised legally, morally, and socially.

Second, we must prioritize constitutional policing at the very start of every encounter.

That means ongoing mandatory training and evaluation centered on citizens' rights, de-escalation, a proportional response, especially in low-level situations.

Because if we get the beginning right, we prevent the tragedy at the end.

We also must contend we we also cannot ignore the disconnect.

Many officers do not live in the communities they police.

That lack of proximity often leads to a lack of empathy, and our residents feel that.

Let me close with this.

Please sub I'm done.

Thanks.

Thank you, Mr.

Beefer.

I call to the podium Reverend Kelly Kelly.

Hi, I'm Reverend Kelly Kelly.

Good morning.

515 East Third Street.

I represent Miami Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.

We are a small congregation and a small denomination.

We center around the inherent worthiness and dignity of all people.

We believe that Dayton is lauded as a liberal and progressive city.

However, we find that the continued targeting and profiling of black and brown neighbors does not match what we present ourselves to be.

We show up here today in support of racial justice now and black lives matter, Dayton, and the other coalition members who are saying that the police shooting and killing of Reginald Thomas should not be allowed.

It has already happened, and yet we are not seeing the accountability that was asked for at the press conference at the end of March to reiterate our request.

We are asking for an immediate public release of all body camera, dash camera footage, and CCT footage, full transparency from the City of Dayton and Dayton Police Department outside of social media, accountability for all officers involved.

We have not been updated on whether or not they are on probation, suspension, or have been terminated.

An end to pre text steps, stops, stopping someone for a light on a bicycle, and that person ending up dead at the hands of police is unconscionable.

Creation of a civilian review board with subpoena power and investment in compute community-based resources for the community, not city of Dayton.

We should not have to fundraise to provide an environment where all can thrive.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I call to the podium Zakya Sankara Jabbar.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Your Honor Commissioners.

It's unfortunate to be back home.

Oh, sorry.

Zakya Sankara Jabbar, 18th Farm Crest Court, Silver Spring, Maryland.

You know, it's unfortunate I have to come back home and be here today to speak up about another injustice in this community.

I was heartbroken to get phone calls from my colleagues, relatives, family, friends after the murder, the unjust lynching, because I'm gonna tell the truth today of a black man in this city.

You know, Commissioner Fairchild, the Reverend that just spoke before me reminded me that during George Floyd's uh, you know, organizing in 2020, you started an anti-racist coalition to deal with police accountability specifically with white pastors.

And I just wonder where is that work today?

You know, what are you all doing right here in this community to hold the police accountable, to hold the state accountable to the lives of black people?

Because I'm here to tell you that this city is about tired.

And I've been very clear about that.

I've been in conversation with people here, particularly young people, young black boys and men who are fed up watching their loved ones, watching people that look just like them being murdered on TV on body cam footage.

And I can tell you, they are not making a difference between the county jail deaths either.

They don't care that you all don't have the power over that.

All they know is black men keep dying in this community.

And they don't get any recourse.

People come down here, they ask you all to do something about it immediately.

People have asked y'all for years before I left to get rid of this city manager.

I mean, before I left, why is she still here?

That's that's clearly a part of the problem.

And then when I listened to the commission meeting last week, the assistant city manager said he didn't care about what he heard from the community about the police.

Now, why are people paying taxes for people who don't care about how they feel?

You all can make a decision right today, and get rid of this city manager and this assistant city manager, and get somebody in here that understands human rights, civil rights, and the humanity of black men and boys.

Because that's what this is about.

You all have normalized the inhumanity of black men and boys.

I'm just looking at the body language of everybody in here.

Y'all just it's another day at the office after y'all didn't kill somebody and took somebody's father, son, and husband.

That is unacceptable.

You are creating an unsafe environment for every black boy and man in this city and in this state when you don't hold the police accountable.

Hold the police accountable.

Today our blood is gonna be on your hands, period.

Thank you, Ms.

Jabbar.

I call to the podium Dan Barton.

Dan Barton, 338 Central Avenue, Grafton Hill.

I'm here to speak into an issue that is pending, and I believe possibly subject to change by a review of the zoning administration code.

Um for the last eight years, we've had planned development.

Uh I think it's 179 pending in Grafton Hill.

The neighborhood and the neighborhood of uh CDC had opposed that reuse of two apartment buildings that had been closed down by the city for health and safety violations and structural code violations.

We wanted that building to be rehabilitated in a way that would make it zoning compliance, uh, because it had been built at a time of redlining when zoning requirements for parking and public amenities were not actually uh being enforced and were routinely ignored.

What happened in this process, and I have these uh these documents to give you an overview, is that the city planning department intervened on behalf of the applicant and assisted them in navigating towards a plan development.

The requirements for the plan development were not fully uh implemented in that the documentation by the applicant of the plan of the site with parking and the plan of the building to reduce an all-efficiency building to one and two bedrooms was never submitted and never made public.

Uh the plan worked its way through the standard BZA plan board and then to City Commission.

What happened in that process, however, is the narrative kept changing.

And the physical plans that are required of a PD, the site plans and the physical layout of the building never caught up with the legal process.

And this commission approved PD 179 without a site plan and without a structural plan.

What happened after your approval, however, is that the planning department appended a revised plan that didn't reflect the narrative, and that was done at the direction of Mr.

Tim Reardon, the planning director at that time.

What we are asking is that plan 179 be set aside and reviewed with the evidence of the process.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Barton.

That concludes speakers, Your Honor.

Thank you, Ms.

McClendon.

Ms.

Dixtein, do you have any closing comments this morning?

I have none, Your Honor.

Thank you.

Ms.

McClendon, do you have any closing comments?

Yes, Your Honor.

There is a work session on economic and community development initiatives immediately following this morning's commission meeting, which will be held in the PRC.

That is all, Your Honor.

Thank you, Ms.

McClendon.

Commissioners, do you have any closing comments?

Commissioner Beckham.

Thank you, Your Honor.

Just want to thank the citizens and residents that came out and share their comments and concerns today.

That's all for me.

Thank you.

Commissioner Fairchild.

Yeah.

Thank you.

And want to thank the citizens for coming as well.

City Manager, can you remind us when the work session with the police is going to be the update that we're going to have that's coming up in May?

We are in the process of getting that scheduled.

We're still working, as far as I know, on a schedule to accommodate all of the folks needing to be there.

Okay.

Thank you.

And where are we with you know incidents happen and we have had some recently?

We all asked for patience, let the process take place.

We did that when Brian Moody was shot.

Can you give us an update when we'll do that full review around his death?

Moody?

When will we?

Are you talking about office?

Are you talking about the Moody?

Yes.

I'm going to ask Joe to come forward and give that.

I know that there has been work that's been done.

And but I it's been a while, so I want to make sure Joe.

Yes, I believe that the sorry, Joe Parlett, Deputy City Manager.

Um I I believe that the investigation of Moody was completed in November-ish in the fall.

And are there any uh legal outstandings?

Are there any pending cases?

Pending cases related to the Brian Moody incident, like the family suing us, any Not to my knowledge.

So we could we could we have asked for patience in that case.

We have the information.

There should be some time when we share with the community all of the information.

Is that right?

Not typically, but we can.

Why not typically?

It's just not been my experience that that is a practice.

Okay.

Well, didn't um didn't they put out a press release?

I'm sorry, excuse me.

If the attendees in the uh commission chambers, please let's just allow the process in terms of a hearing the questions to be answered, please, because we all want to make sure that we hear everyone.

Thank you.

Please, the question, Ms.

Dixtein to Mr.

Parlet.

Was there not wasn't there a release that um offer or that Matt Heck put out?

I'm trying to remember the details.

Typically, when uh a grand jury uh makes their determination, uh there is a press release provided.

Um I forget the exact legal term.

I'm not a lawyer, but they determine that they will not accept charges uh against the officers.

So that's part of the criminal investigation that takes place after an officer-involved shooting.

Once that is concluded, there's a professional standards review.

That doesn't even really start until after the uh criminal investigation takes place.

Then we have a professional standards review.

The report that I'm referring to in the fall of last year was the professional standards full review of of the entire incident.

Because generally speaking, those are not shared publicly.

Okay.

Um because like today, at that time we had citizens coming saying, can we see the body camera?

Can we get a full understanding of what initiated the stop?

Can we get a full understanding?

We ask for patients for everything to run its course.

So if it hasn't been typical, maybe we need to find a process to be able to share with the community, because we made this promise, and you know, I think with when trust is broken, we got to find a way to repair that trust.

And the way to do that is to make our walk match our talk.

And we said at the time we would provide this information we haven't to date.

So I'm looking at my colleagues that maybe we can work together to find some way with city manager and police to do that and to model that so that the community will have confidence that in this most recent incident, it would happen as well.

Right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So we will work with Ms.

Dixtean to make sure that there's a consensus and then Ms.

Dixtein within in turn charge uh Mr.

Pyrolet to execute that that process for us so that we can in fact release it.

Thank you for bringing that up.

Excuse me, I didn't mean any of that.

No, no, thank you.

Um then um you know it it's it's always difficult up here to deal with very serious and uh issues as well as the breadth of the issues.

So there's a couple other things I would like to say, not at that level of seriousness.

Um I was fortunate to get to the SUFS uh production uh that uh uh Dayton Live brought us the Broadway series.

Um it's a powerful story of the suffragette suffragists and uh their work for um overcoming injustice.

The closing um song on that uh production resonated with me in this moment because throughout the show it showed the um the different um strategies in trying to work for justice and there are some who take an incremental work and some who are more urgent, and um there's always a struggle between those two parts and working on justice and um the old guard is saying to the new guard um no, we didn't solve all injustice, but we did our part as best as we could.

And now we turn it over to you, and we must march on.

And I thought that that was really uh compelling, particularly in this moment.

That uh we'll never get it right.

We're imperfect as humans, but we do have a responsibility to work for injustice.

And um, hopefully at the end of the day, we can say we did our part, and um you can learn both from our um our successes and our mistakes.

But inviting everyone to come and to march on.

And then uh there's an opportunity for folks to think about the work that we do.

Uh the Dayton Library continues to um hold their government commons learning series.

Um it will be held in the Center for Community Impact and Innovation Room on Thursday, April 9th, um, from 6 30 to 7 30 p.m.

And this um it's their second module in the series, and it's about the Constitution, including the history and core beliefs of the framers, registration is required.

You can get more information at 937-746.

Uh, this number isn't correct, so um we'll have to you'll have to look up from the Dayton Library to get the uh the right the correct number.

So encourage you to uh participate in that that work.

So thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Fairchild.

Commissioner Shaw.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh the Miami Valley Urban League is accepting applications for a solid opportunities for advancement and retention program.

The program lasts two weeks and offers personalized coaching, career development, skill enhancement, and post-program job coaching.

Uh the program is available to all adults, 18 years and older, and you can find more information at MBUL.org slash SOAR or by calling 937-226-1513.

That's a really good opportunity there for the Urban League.

Yesterday I met with Tommy McGuffey Jr.

with the Economic and Community Development Institute of Greater Dayton.

Uh they offer loans of up to $50,000 for for startup businesses and up to $2 million for established businesses.

These loans are uniquely easy to obtain and are a great resources for people who who are struggling to find support and and funding.

For more for more information, you can go to ECDI.org or call 937-345-0010.

Um just some really good opportunities for folks who uh can take advantage of.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Shaw.

I'm sorry.

Commissioner Joseph.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh and also from our friends at Edgemont Solar Garden.

Uh, you can get your garden started this season now at the spring plant sale this weekend, April 11th from 12 to 4 at their facility at 919 Miami Chapel Road.

They're featuring all kinds of starter plants, including tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, elderberries, herbs, and other house plants, uh, all started by the community down there.

Uh come early for the best selection, as you know.

If you've been there before, this is a popular event, so it's gonna go quickly.

Uh proceeds from the sale, support community programs at Edgemont there and and uh Greater West State.

So thank you for your support.

Thank you, Commissioner.

I have a couple of brief comments.

Um the council are in training program in the summer camp uh for 2025, the future, is that all right, 2025, 2026?

The future is in our hands.

Registration is open April 1.

Spots are filling up fast, so we are encouraging everyone to register early, and then the summer camp is available from ages 3 to 12 at the Northwest and Lowerye Recreation Centers from June 1st to July the 24th.

The cost is $100 per week with uh campers available, campership available.

Uh registration can be completed online or in person at the recreation centers.

And then there is also the counselor and training program, which is also available for ages 13 to 15 at Low Rye in the Northwest Recreation Center.

The program offers hands-on leadership experience, volunteer service hours, and skill building opportunities.

The cost is $50 per week, and application and an essay is required.

And then again, you can get more information or register at Daytonrec.com.

That's D A Y T-O-N REC.com.

I will also like to thank all of the presenters this morning.

Thank you, Ms.

Walker with the Living Cities Project, as well as uh Miss C and your colleague as well, excuse me.

Um Miss Sierra Leon, thank you for being here, and thank you for all of your leadership and the work that you're doing.

Ms.

Lynn Lamance, thank you for your advocacy, your continued uh support in regards to redeveloping and addressing the issues in in our neighborhoods.

Um know that it is a commitment of mine, and I shared that with my colleagues.

We're gonna continue to make those uh those efforts in addressing the blighted structures and a number of the deteriorating conditions in our community.

Um you raised a very interesting point that we have actually asked for, and that is in regards to where we with the cost analysis in reference to the boarding of the vacant properties that we have in the city of Dayton, knowing that it is in fact a large lump sum, uh, but finding an economic we means and way to secure these properties.

Um and we do have several boarding contracts, if I'm if I have that correct, um, that are actually um that have been let that are executed.

Um, and this is the time of the year where this is boarding season.

So if you see of any others, then please by all means let me know.

We can get those.

Um I know that you're no strange stranger to it, an email, phone call, whatever we need to do to make sure those are addressed, and I'll be happy to to walk the block with you if we need be.

Um know that that's my commitment, and I'm willing to do it.

I've done it before and I'll do it again.

So thank you again for all of your leadership and your work.

Mr.

Buford, thank you for your comments and your advocacy.

I know this is time away from your other obligations, but I really appreciate you being here.

Um it is the commitment of the entire commission and the administration to make sure that there is a just and fair process.

Um so your concerns are valid and we hear you.

Um Reverend Kelly Kelly, it's good to see you again.

Thank you for your advocacy and your leadership.

Um, and know that the sentiments are true, and we're gonna continue to work through that process.

So I appreciate you being here.

Um Mr.

Kira Jabbar, thank you for making the travels and your leadership and your advocacy.

Um again, we are committed to that process.

These are not just uh empty promises.

Uh I too am a mother and a wife.

Um, and so I see it on both sides.

So understand that there is commitment that is being made, and we are holding true to that that commitment.

Mr.

Barton, uh, thank you for being here.

Um Ms.

Dixteen, I I believe you have provided us with this information some time ago.

So perhaps we have dropped the ball.

Is there something that we need to do to communicate to Mr.

Barton?

Because I I believe that this is something we revisit last year, maybe even two years ago.

So if you have an update or if we want to work offline, just so we can uh make sure that we are addressing Mr.

Barton's concerns.

Thank you, Ms.

Dixon.

And that was in regards to uh plan 179.

And again, I just really uh want to well first let me pull on the thread of Commissioner Fairchild's comments that he's raised um to Mr.

Parlard and regards to some of the unfortunate incidents that took place.

Um understanding that there is a criminal investigation, then it then moves into the professional standards review, the professional standards bureau.

And correct me if I'm wrong, and I'm leaning on my colleagues as well as Ms.

Dixtean and Mr.

Parlette, but because of the work that was done with the police reform initiative and the 142 recommendations, I believe I have that number right.

Um there is in fact the IAA, which is the uh internal accountability audit, yes.

And so that after the professional standards borough, we would then move into that last phase, which is the IAA.

Is that correct?

The the IAA can can interject at any point in time.

They are they can they can watch it in real time.

They can come in after the point that that whole administrative review and Commissioner Joseph's committee uh worked through that.

So do you have anything to add to that or is it?

Yeah, we we made sure when we did police reform that there was if if folks weren't satisfied with what the determination of the Standards Bureau was that there was a a real path for hearing their concern and for uh submitting that to a board of folks that would would listen to it, hear it, and then advise us on how to fix it in the future.

So I'm actually not sure if they followed that process yet.

Sometimes those processes ended up waiting until like regular criminal charges are either dismissed or not.

Um and then we can go forward with sort of our end of it.

So I I need to refresh my memory on exactly.

Yeah, I don't I don't know if the IAA has um interjected in this yet or not.

Um but they uh again, she can go in at any point in time and and watch real time.

That was as a result of all of the conversation around uh n uh oversight that wasn't related to the police department or the administration.

Okay.

Thank you.

I I think it may go a long way if we are able, and I know we've done this in the past, and this definitely pre-states me.

So thank you for your leadership in the work.

Um, that three of the members, I think maybe were you uh senior policy advisor at that time as well?

I believe so.

Yes.

I I believe I was.

Yes.

So uh thank you all for the work that you all been done, and many of our community members, um, as well as the administration, that was in fact a heavy live.

So it may go a long way for us to do some educate to provide some education and awareness of what that process looks like, that there is in fact in a criminal investigation that will be completed that would then move forward to professional standards review that would then in turn at any point, rather, excuse me, any point the IAA will review that pro that case or whatever have you, or that incident.

And we need to make that clear so people understand where we are.

Um so again, uh I think that will go a long way to provide that level of education and awareness.

And perhaps that's something that we can tap into with HRC, our community relations council.

Um this might be a a good um uh uh initiative for them to help lead.

Um so thank you for that.

Um I also again I know uh to Commissioner Fairchild's point, um this is a very heavy time that we're dealing with.

And I just really want to speak uh very briefly uh to the community, to those who are in fact in the chambers this morning.

Again, thank you all for making the travels.

Thank you all for making the commitment for being here.

I know that many of us have other obligations to to be in in the city chambers meeting at 8 30 in the morning on a Wednesday morning, but nonetheless, this is what democracy looks like, right?

This is what the process that we all have elected to be a part of and what the community has entrusted us to to do in representing the people in the uh the city of Dayton.

So with that, um given the number of incidents involving the use of force uh by some of the members of the Dayton police, um, we have heard the concerns and know that we are indeed listening to those concerns.

And any time force is in fact used, uh it raises deep serious questions.

Our community deserves answers, and more importantly, it deserves trust in the system that is meant to protect it.

Uh that's why I remain committed to a transparent process.

Um each of these incidents from the unfortunate incident that took place on Tuesday um March 24th to the recent circulation of the videos on social media, the two incidents that are circulating on social media, they are ongoing a full investigation.

We will follow those facts to wherever they lead us.

So I asked for patience.

I ask that we do not judge or rush to any conclusions, less allow the process to run its course, hold us accountable to make sure that that process is in fact running its course, and then in turn, guess what we are doing?

We have in fact appointed the city manager who then in turn directs the chief of the police to go do, and that go do in that process is running the investigation.

So again, I'm just asking for the patience to know that the city manager is charged, who is appointed with the execution of directing the staff and all personnel, and in his case, we're speaking of the chief of police, who would then in the who would then in turn run the investigation.

In addition, I really want to again pull on that thread of the IAA, the independent accountability audit, knowing that it can that individual, uh Miss Brown, Miss Jasmine Brown, I believe is her name.

She is uh generally here every month, is it every month or every quarter?

Every quarter, she provides an update of the number of cases, the number of incidents.

She also gives the finding of those various different cases.

One of the recommendations that she has made before this commission, she actually made that recommendation until end of 25, and we are actually in the process of executing that recommendation.

And that was in fact to have a streamlined process so that individuals know where to go and how they can in fact file a complaint, a concern, whatever have you, when it pertains to uh our PD, our police department.

So that process is in fact ongoing.

Do I have that right in terms of the recommendation to make sure that individuals know where to go, who do they need to talk to, and how they work through that process.

Um, do you have anything that too?

It was just it was more like when they're in the process, making sure they know what's going on.

They might not have legal training or that sort of thing.

So they fully understand and we all agree to that.

So that is the commitment to make sure that the IAA is in place.

Um and then the other piece is that the auditor, their charge is to make sure that there is a comprehensive review of the incidents and that our policies and our practices are being clearly they are clearly identified and that they are in fact uh followed, and where there is improvement needed, we will make those necessary adjustments for a course of action.

We're also taking uh the necessary steps in the systems to ensure that again this goes back work to the community oversight.

This includes uh enhancing the the work in the commitment around the community appeals board, which again is housed in in HRC community if you there's a level of correction.

Okay.

Okay, let's hold the comments.

I l and I will I will personally come down and have a conversation with Eregor as well as um Miss Kelly.

I mean, sorry, Miss Jabbar.

I will personally come down and have a conversation because if it's something we need to correct, we're gonna fix it and we're gonna make sure that we correct it today.

Thank you.

Uh thank you.

Um again, we know that transparency will guide us in taking that step, and we share the we're going to share that information with the public as it becomes available.

So again, thank you, commissioners, for your commitment in that process.

Um and let me be clear on this.

Um, public safety and public trust, they must go hand in hand.

And we cannot uh choose one or over the other.

So know that at our that is our commitment.

We all care deeply about this community.

We care deeply about each and every one of the the constituents, all 138, and even those outside of the 138 who visit the city of Dayton, whether it's recreation entertainment, we care deeply about their safety, their well-being, and we want to see the city of Dayton grow.

So, with that, and more than downtown in all 65 neighborhoods all across the city.

So, know that that's our commitment.

Give me one second, Miss Lamance, please.

So I thank you for your voice.

Thank you for your engagement and thank you for commitment, and know that we all share your sentiments, and we're going to be in lockstep with the administration as well as the community for us to work together.

There are too many challenges going on in this world right now for us to be at odds.

At this point, we need to make sure that we're working together and we are addressing the the issues that we see in our community collectively and with full transparency and being intentional about that work.

So, with no further business, the Dayton City Commission meeting will now come to I'm sorry, will now be adjourned.

Thank you.

All right.