Oh yeah.

Sounds a little premature with the cows.

Good evening.

The Dayton City Commission meeting will now come to order.

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

This evening's invocation will be given by Commissioner Fairchild.

Gracious one.

Breathe your spirit upon us.

Ground us in your love and justice.

Bill, our deliberations with your wisdom and compassion so that our decisions create a community where we're all find respect, opportunity, and well-being.

Amen.

Amen.

Undergone indivisible liberty and justice for all.

Miss McClendon, may we please have a roll call this evening?

Mayor Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Commissioners Joseph.

Aye.

Shaw.

Fairchild.

Aye.

Beckham.

May I have a motion to approve the minutes of the May 6, 2026 meeting.

So moved, yeah.

Second the motion, Your Honor.

It has been properly moved and seconded to approve the minutes of the May 6, 2026 meeting.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

Ms.

McClendon, are there any communications or petitions this evening?

There are none, Your Honor.

Thank you.

And I believe we are going to change and adjust, so pivot a little bit, if you will, with the uh the agenda this evening.

There are a number of members of the council that have uh engagements graduation.

It is in fact graduation season.

And so we will have a presentation this evening from Ms.

Patil Jones, I believe, Ms.

Patel Jones for the appropriations.

That's correct, Your Honor.

Um I'll ask Abby Patel Jones, Director of Management Budget to come to a podium to discuss elements of the first revised appropriation before you tonight.

Good evening, ma'am.

Good evening.

Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor, Commissioners, Clerk, City Manager.

Um, as Joe mentioned, my name is Abby Patel Jones, Director of Department Management Budget.

And before you today is the first reading of the 2026 first revised appropriation.

Um we have a couple of slides as usual showing the detailed changes in this appropriation, which I will walk you through.

Um the proposed first revised appropriation uh totals approximately 1.59 billion, representing an increase of 83.1 million dollars from the 2026 original appropriation.

Majority of the changes that you're going to see today today are related to grant funding and capital investment across multiple funds.

So starting with the general fund including special projects, as you can see here, the net increase is 1.3 million dollars.

The first adjustment on the screen is for $5,000 in the general fund for the fire department.

Um this is following a hundred club grant award recognizing a firefighter's heroic rescue of an unconscious victim from a burning home.

The funds will be used for fire training supplies and equipment.

Next, we have $47,500 increase in the general fund for the Department of Planning, Neighborhoods and Development.

Um, this is for a second annual parking lease payment to Reckworth at 417 Webster Street near the Day Air Bowl Park.

Um, as the 2025 payment was delayed and will be processed along with our 2026 commitments.

There is also a 92,000 dollar increase in the general fund for public works department.

This is to cover the lease payment to RTA to establish a temporary central business district substation for the police department.

And then we have um $360,000 increase um for the general fund for property taxes, utilities, waste management, maintenance, and security costs associated with the city assuming responsibility of the 10 West Second Street building, also known as the Key Bank Tower.

And then lastly, we have a $30,000 increase for the Commission office.

This increase is to fund the professional services related to an audit of flock camera data logs.

Um and as you can see here, there is a decrease of 529,500 in the uh non departmental.

This decrease is offsetting the increases that you see above.

It's funding all of those increases above, except for that $5,000.

In the special projects fund within the community golf fund, there is a combined adjustment of $192,900, which includes $32,900 for the purchase of golf simulator to enhance the experience at the golf course.

There is also $160,000 increase.

This is for higher than expected cost associated with the renovation of the golf maintenance building.

As you know, these expenses are supported by the golf operations revenue.

The special projects fund also has another increase of approximately $1.1 million.

This increase is allowing us for allowing us to re-encumber uh funds for preschool promise budget that was liquidated from unspent 2025 encumbrances.

This adjustment is done on an annual basis to ensure that the current encumbrances reflect both the annual allocation as well as any remaining fund from the prior year.

The annual allocation, I do want to clarify, does not change for the preschool promise program.

It remains at 4.3 million dollars.

Excuse me, Miss Patel Jones.

Could you please enlarging the screen?

Please adjust.

Yep.

Let me thank you.

As much as you can.

Thank you.

Is that better?

Yes, ma'am.

And if you can put in uh presentation mode.

Thank you, ma'am.

All right.

So this is all other funds.

Um, and starting with the special revenue category, the increase is eight hundred and six thousand dollars one hundred.

Um, and these increases are for several operational adjustments, including two hundred thousand dollars in the street maintenance fund for overtime related to snow removal and the icing operation during the January snow emergency.

This increase provides funding for the delayed AES, IGS electricity invoices that were delayed last year.

Um, it also includes additional costs related to the rising electric electricity cost.

Then we have $23,000 eight hundred increase.

Um, this increase is providing funding for street light repair cost.

And lastly, in the special revenue category, we have $542,300 increase for continuum of care funding.

This funding aligns with the final HUD allocation that we uh recently received.

Um then you see the $192,900 increase in general capital.

Um, there is a budgeting nuance here because we have to transfer funds from golf to move them to the capital fund to actually expense for the capital expenditures out of the capital fund.

You saw the transfer coming out of the golf fund, and now you're seeing the expenditure budget for the same amount in the general capital fund.

As for the enterprise fund, um, aviation operating increases by 365,800.

This is covering various operational and maintenance costs, including garage repair, technology costs associated with airport passenger processing system.

It also includes higher casualty insurance costs and mechanical and equipment replacement for cooling units, as well as parking garage elevator repairs.

Aviation non-operating reflects an additional $78.8 million dollars, and this is the majority of the increase that you're seeing in the first revised appropriation.

This increase, as you know, is related to the All Ohio Future Grant Award and loan, which will support large-scale infrastructure improvement project at the Dayton International Airport.

And just so you know, this was approved.

Um, the expect acceptance of this award was approved by the commission body in the May 6th meeting.

The sewer operating fund increases by $925,000.

This increase allows us to purchase generators and sewer cleaning unit after existing equipment was determined to be beyond repair.

And finally, in the internal service funds, we have $205,000 increase in the health care self-insurance fund as well as $553,000 increase in the workers' compensation fund.

Both of these increases support new physical therapy service that we're going to provide and the behavioral health care services, as well as the addition of nurse manager to support those additional services at the Dayton Off-Site Clinic as known as the DOC.

And then lastly, we have $30,000 increase in the workers' compensation fund that's providing funding for the purchase of gym equipment at the police West Patrol Operation Division at the new location.

And that's the extent of my remarks.

Thank you, Ms.

Patel Jones.

Commissioners.

Commissioner Beckham, do you have any questions, comments?

I don't, Your Honor.

Thank you.

Commissioner Fairchild.

Yeah, a couple of questions.

On the $32,000 being used for a simulator, the Gulf um the Gulf Fund is not an enterprise zone, right?

The golf fund is self-sustaining fund where the revenue that we generate from providing the golf service supports the expenditures for the golf.

Right, but it's not an enterprise zone.

It is not an enterprise fund.

And some of the revenue that you use can be used for other things in the general fund.

The golf has to maintain the services and the cost to provide those services.

And that and that's by policy or ordinance.

That I will have to get back to you on that one.

Okay.

The golf fund used to be an enterprise fund, but then there was a change where no longer we when we did not have the three golf courses.

I mean we went down to one golf course, uh, that's when the change was made.

Well, I think it was prior to that because community was losing money and Madden was losing money, so they couldn't we are subsidizing them, right?

No.

I mean Kitty High, yeah, sorry.

Yeah, that's correct.

That's correct.

Kitty Hawk was basically flat operating but had substantial obligations capital-wise.

Yes.

Madden never made money.

Uh community continues to thrive with the and when we had those conversations to close um Madden and Kitty Hawk, we agreed that some of the revenue would be come to the city, particularly for you because we are close particularly in West Dayton because we are clu closing MAC.

Yes, that's the $50,000 transfer that Abby mentioned.

Right.

But I'm not sure the $50,000 is sufficient and it doesn't have to be capped at $50,000.

And when you see expenses going to a golf simulator, it makes me it it'd be I'm curious what the margin is out there at community and how we could um support our young people.

Um also curious around the key bank building.

Um didn't we sell that building?

We were leasing that building.

Correct.

Which is correct.

We are leasing or we're we were leasing the I think those are all my questions for now.

I'm good, Mayor.

Thank you.

Commissioner Joseph.

Right.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Patel Jones.

I do have a couple of follow-up questions, and it's probably more so geared to Mr.

Parlet, being that you have the history of the recreation uh recreation and youth development department.

Um could you just expound a little bit on the history of community golf and by it being um self-sustaining and the revenue that is in fact generated from community golf and how those dollars are used to help with the maintenance upkeep of the facility itself.

Could you please I could give you a really long story?

Okay, well short version of the case.

Okay.

Um community golf course, uh the property itself rests in the heart of catering.

Uh it was donated to the city of Dayton by Charles Kettering or John Patterson, sorry.

Um a little over a hundred years ago.

Um and the deed specifies that it has to operate for a recreational purpose, otherwise the city of Dayton loses the property back to the uh this Patterson estate.

Um recently we approved uh substantial renovations to the golf course which are underway right now.

So uh the history, I believe it was in the 80s when the golf operation became an enterprise fund.

So that I'm told, because I'm was barely alive in the 80s, um, that the intent at that time to make it an enterprise fund was to prevent revenue from going elsewhere.

So it was intended to be reinvested in the operations.

And of course, at that time, golf was uh a different market than it was uh, you know, in 2020.

Um, but we've seen uh a resurgence uh of golf and simulators as is one that's a revenue generating potential opportunity um you know for winter months.

Um I think it's a pretty innovative uh idea that um Mr.

Isaac has come up with and uh and um any history beyond that.

I I'm happy to answer any questions, but I just try to keep it brief.

Yes, thank you.

I appreciate that, Mr.

Parlett.

Do we have an ideal of what that potential figure could be in terms of generating revenue for the uh the golf course itself, community golf course?

Um I don't know that.

I don't think it's a big number.

Okay, um, but it's something that is available at many golf facilities for the purposes of the winter.

Um it helps increase the participation and the overall.

Yeah, a lot of what we're doing, uh particularly in the on-course investments and including in the simulator, is really targeting um women, young people entering into the game.

So some of the investments we're making uh in a lot of cases can make a whole substantially easier as compared, you know, because of the distance of the T's and things like that.

Um so that's really where the focus was for the the investment is is on women, seniors, and juniors.

Thank you.

And then my last question, uh Ms.

Patel Jones is in regards to the 360, the holding costs uh for the building, uh the former key bank building.

Um and so with that, that's only the projected uh dollar amount for the the budget for 2027.

So moving forward, is that an incurred cost that we are foreseeing?

Ideally, we want to lease up the space in the future, but again, these dollar this dollar rather amount is uh potentially the holding cost for just that period of that one year.

Is that is that correct?

That's correct.

Okay, do we have any data to support is it in fact that much for the holding cost?

Like what are some of the the practices that are utilized for that dollar amount?

So the um projections, the $360,000, those are based on the actual cost that was incurred by the lesser um or lessie uh of that building.

Uh and so that that uh amount just includes us paying for the property tax, um, us paying for the utilities, which includes the water, electric, um, uh the boilers, et cetera.

Um, and it also includes waste collection services and the security costs associated with that building.

So the cost is that what you see in front of you, um, those numbers are um pretty accurate, I would say, based on the past trends, uh, since they are based on the past trends.

Okay.

And given the recent um announcement, that is why we're seeing one of the many reasons why we're seeing the reappropriations because that cost is now again being um we're now incurring that cost due to us losing our prior leasey.

Correct.

And so the hope is that our economic development team is working very aggressively to make sure that that space is in fact leased in the future.

Yes, we want to get rid of those costs as fast as we can.

Okay.

All right, thank you.

Those are the further questions I have this evening.

Thank you.

Thank you, Abby.

Okay.

First reading emergency ordinance number 32185-26.

Approving a grant agreement and loan agreement from the State of Ohio, Department of Development for combined funding in an amount not to exceed 78 million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars and zero cents on behalf of the city of Dayton and declaring an emergency.

Having been declared an emergency, I move for the immediate passage of ordinance number three two one eight five-26.

And I'll second that.

It has been probably moved and seconded to declare emergency ordinance number three two one eight five-26 as an emergency.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

Mayor, I abstained from the vote.

Thank you.

Approving a grant agreement and loan agreement from the state of Ohio Department of Development for combined funding in an amount not to exceed 78,750,000 dollars and zero cents on behalf of the city of Dayton.

Mayor Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Commissioners Joseph.

I abstain.

Shaw.

Aye.

Fairchild.

Aye.

Beckham.

Aye.

Emergency ordinance number three two one eight five-two six has passed with four votes in favor and one abstention.

First reading emergency resolution number six nine two nine-two six authorizing the city manager to accept a continuum of care grant award from U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD for a total amount of three million five hundred twenty-seven thousand seven hundred eighty dollars and zero cents on behalf of the city of Dayton and declaring an emergency.

I move for its immediate passage.

May I read that?

Oh, sorry.

Second the motion, Your Honor.

It has been properly moved and seconded to declare emergency resolution.

Resolution number six nine two nine-two six as an emergency.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

Second reading emergency resolution number six nine two nine-two six, authorizing the city manager to accept a continuum of care grant award from the U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD for a total amount of three million five hundred twenty-seven thousand seven hundred eighty dollars and zero cents on behalf of the city of Dayton.

Mayor Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Commissioners Joseph.

Aye.

Shaw.

Aye.

Fairchild.

Aye.

Beckham.

Aye.

Emergency resolution number six nine two nine-two six has been adopted with five votes in favor.

First reading emergency resolution number six nine three zero-two six.

Approving the submission of a grant application for the fiscal year 2027, Ohio Airport Improvement Program Infrastructure and Capacity Enhancement Direct Grant Application for General Aviation Airports to the Ohio Department of Transportation Office of Aviation, authorizing the acceptance of a grant from the State of Ohio, Department of Transportation, Office of Aviation for $750,000 and zero cents on behalf of the City of Dayton and declaring an emergency.

Being declared an emergency, I move for the immediate passage of resolution number six nine three zero-26.

Second the motion, your honor.

It has been properly moved and seconded to declare emergency resolution number six nine three zero-26 as an emergency.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

Second reading emergency resolution number six nine three zero-two six.

Approving the submission of a grant application for the fiscal year 2027, Ohio Airport Improvement Program, Infrastructure and Capacity Enhancement Direct Grant Application for General Aviation Airports to the Ohio Department of Transportation, Office of Aviation, authorizing the acceptance of a grant from the State of Ohio Department of Transportation, Office of Aviation for $750,000 and zero cents on behalf of the City of Dayton.

Mayor Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Commissioners Joseph.

Aye.

Shaw.

Aye.

Fairchild.

Aye.

Beckham.

Aye.

Emergency resolution number six nine three zero-two-six has been adopted with five votes in favor.

First reading emergency resolution number six nine three one-two-six.

Approving the submission of a grant application for the fiscal year 2027.

Ohio Airport Improvement Program Direct Grant Application for General Aviation Airports to the Ohio Department of Transportation Office of Aviation.

On behalf of the City of Dayton and declaring an emergency.

Having been declared an emergency, I move for the immediate passage of resolution number six nine three one-two-six.

Second, Your Honor.

It has been properly moved and seconded to approve emergency resolution number six nine three one-two six.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

Second reading emergency resolution number six nine three one-two-six.

Second reading emergency resolution number six nine three one-two-six, approving the submission of a grant application for the fiscal year 2027, Ohio Airport Improvement Program, direct grant application for general aviation airports to the Ohio Department of Transportation, Office of Aviation, authorizing the acceptance of a grant from the State of Ohio, Department of Transportation, Office of Aviation for $750,000 and zero cents on behalf of the City of Dayton.

Mayor Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Commissioners Joseph.

Aye.

Shaw.

Aye.

Fairchild.

Aye.

Beckham.

Aye.

Emergency resolution number six nine three one-two-six has been adopted with five votes in favor.

First reading ordinance number three two one eight nine-two-six, amending the city's appropriations for the year 2026.

First reading resolution number six nine three two-two-six authorizing the city manager to accept federal fiscal years 2027 and 2028 Federal Aviation Administration Airport Improvement Project Grants from the United States Department of Transportation for Airport Improvement Projects at the James M.

Cox International Airport and Dayton Wright Brothers Airport on behalf of the City of Dayton in an amount of $25 million and zero cents.

Adopting the City of Dayton's Student Vision Master Plan and establishing the City of Dayton's Children's Cabinet.

Second reading ordinance number 32186-26, consenting to the roadway restoration along main line of State Route 4 from Mile Marker 17.11 to 20.38 and from mile marker 21.98 to 22.98 in the city of Dayton and agreeing to cooperate in matters incidental there too, including the execution of agreement necessary to implement this ordinance.

Mayor Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Commissioners Joseph.

Aye.

Shaw.

Aye.

Fairchild.

Aye.

Beckham.

Aye.

Ordinance number three two one eight six-26 has passed with five votes in favor.

Second reading ordinance number three two one eight seven-two six, authorizing the grant of a non-exclusive easement to Veteran Energy Delivery Ohio, LLC, doing business as center point for a gas pipeline on land at the James M.

Cox Dayton International Airport.

Mayor Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Commissioners Joseph.

I abstain.

Shaw.

Aye.

Fairchild.

Aye.

Beckham.

Aye.

Ordinance number three two one eight seven-two six has passed with four votes in favor and one abstention.

Second reading ordinance number three two one eight eight-26, authorizing the grant of a non-exclusive roadway access easement to Air Corps SNC2 LLC on land at the James M.

Cox Dayton International Airport.

Mayor Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Commissioners Joseph.

I abstain.

Shaw.

Aye.

Fairchild.

Aye.

Beckham.

Aye.

Ordinance number three two one eight-26 has passed with four votes in favor and one abstention.

And that concludes legislation.

Thank you, Ms.

McClendon.

Thank you, Mr.

Parlett, Ms.

Jackson, and thank you to all the members in the chambers for that adjustment.

We would now resume to the regular uh calendar.

And at this time, I would like to call Ms.

Erica Fields with Learner Earn to the podium, please.

Hey, can I good evening, Ms.

Fields?

Give us one second.

We want to make sure that you have everything that you need.

Good evening, Mayor, Commissioners, Deputy City Manager, Commission staff.

My name, as you all know, it's Erica Fields.

Um, I'm the senior director of uh partnerships and community impact for Learn to Earn Dayton.

And you know, I have to tell you the truth.

I don't know if I presented more when I was here in the city or now we learn to earn, so it's it's good to be back, but um thank you for having us.

Um I'm here um talking to you today about resolution number six nine three three-26, um, supporting the formal adoption of the student vision for Dayton and key implementation opportunities to be able to move this forward through the children's cabinet.

Um, I do want to acknowledge before um I get into the nuts and bolts of this.

I do want to acknowledge the several members that we have here from Learn to Earn Dayton and our CEO, Stacy Schweikhart and her leadership for allowing us to move this forward.

Um, as you all know, in 2023, Learn to Earn partnered with you all, the City of Dayton to launch the first ever Student Vision for Dayton, a real roadmap and master plan that identified core priorities specifically from youth across the city.

Um and the idea was that this man master plan would guide and shape um the way that we do business as government, as schools, as as youth serving organizations, and really think about how we can prioritize the evolving needs, wishes and concerns, frankly, of young people, especially uh as cities or as a city and as the district is shaping and creating policies and programs.

We want to make sure that we're prioritizing the voice of young people.

Um, throughout this process, um, and you will see I think we submitted in the submission of the plan that you have, um it outlines four major priorities a leadership development that the young people have identified, leadership development, um, mental health and bullying, college and career readiness, and safe, supportive, and healthy neighborhoods.

And in the plan that we've submitted to you for each of those priority areas, you will see a vision, goals, strategies, a theory of action, and enabling conditions that have to be true in order to make this a reality.

Um, also included in that.

I'm seeing I told you I'm just talking and I'm not like I'm not using this.

Okay.

Um the resource guide that's also included, and then an implementation tracker that would ensure that we are making progress towards the stated goals.

Okay.

And one of the most important pieces of this resolution is really talking about how we move from planning to implementation.

Uh, Commissioner Fairchild, you specifically asked me when I presented a little less than three years ago, what is implementation going to look like, right?

We don't want to um have young people across the city invest their time, their resources, their lived experience, to have a master plan that essentially sits on a shelf somewhere.

We want to make sure that we're making real a real commitment and real investment to look at policies and procedures that uplift the the wishes of young people.

And so this is there's a true opportunity as we've been conceptualizing this and thinking about what implementation looks like.

We recognize that there is a real critical need to build an infrastructure that supports the ecosystem of all systems throughout the city, a cross-sector leadership body that looks at um how we can align metrics, how we can align the strategic priorities and how we ensure that we're operating in a coordinated man manner instead of silos.

And so in the resolution, you see key opportunities for implementation of a children's cabinet, um, and key opportunities that I'm gonna talk about um as we go through the presentation that have been presented to the city of Dayton to move forward with implementation.

Um so essentially uh a children's cabinet is really a national best practice that is that is occurring and being launched all across the country.

There are several mayors' cabinets that are happening at a local level, and there are also uh cabinets that are happening at a statewide level under under the governor.

And so um what you'll see here is really how some um of the cabinets have been structured.

It includes representation from from all systems when you think about education, when you think about health care, workforce, um philanthropic organizations are also at the table.

And one of the most important and critical pieces is to ensure that we have the approximate voice and leadership of young people themselves that that have a seat at the table and make sure that their vision is actually uh um going to be a reality and that they can continue to monitor monitor the success of the vision that they put forward.

Okay, so with that being said, um we have key opportunities that um has have been presented to us to think about what is implementation look like.

Um to provide technical assistance, capacity, and external funding.

And together these create a rear window, a rear window for um implementation for the children for building the children's cabinet.

The first is the city accelerator, and the city accelerator is really a community of practice that has been developed by Strive Together, Harvard Ed Redesign, and Results for America.

And essentially the program really helps uh local government think about uh how they build their capacity to to create infrastructures that support opportunities for social and economic mobility for children and families.

And for us specifically, uh the Dayton opportunity would be built around building the technical assistance and capacity for building a children's cabinet.

And so um the work would begin in July of 2026, and it would require a joint leadership with Learn to Earn, the City of Dayton, and I also want to thank Dayton Public Schools for their commitment because they will be a part of that problem, be a part of the process, making sure that this is there's two true integration with the school system.

Uh the second is uh the Fuse Executive Fellowship.

And if you've heard of Fuse, it's essentially what that is.

Fuse uh merges together opportunities um from community organizations and local government to think about again how we're building opportunities to increase uh mobility for for and outcomes for students and children across the country.

And the Fuse Executive Fellow program essentially embeds an executive within local government uh to build the capacity of a specific project that local government is working on with community.

And again, in our instance, that would be building the mayor's children's cabinet.

And so the great opportunity here is that Fuse covers 90% of the cost of bringing an executive here to do this work.

Um so uh this is to start in the fall, the placement of the executive fellow will be in fall of 2026.

And so with all of these opportunities, we really just want to thank the the city for um its commitment into really thinking about how we can invest in young people, making this a reality, making the vision a reality.

I I want to really honor the work of the young people they had uh committed a lot of time, their lived experience, their expertise into this project, um, and and it's really important that we see this through.

So thank you for your support of the resolution.

Um, and I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Thank you, Ms.

Fields.

Commissioners, Commissioner Beckham.

Do you have any comments or questions?

Uh none except thank you, uh, Ms.

Fields, uh, Stacy and the Learn to Earn team.

This is um very important work to me.

I had the pleasure of helping facilitate the groundwork uh to bring this forward under our former mayor.

So there's been a lot of work put in.

I want to thank the young people uh who participated uh and just looking forward to uh the cabinet.

I am very um I'm very uh confident that the uh decisions that need to be made for the uh benefit of our young people will be made by this cabinet.

So uh very excited.

Uh thank you, learner, and thank you, Erica.

Thank you, Commissioner Fairchild.

Yeah, I want to thank you for the hard work um in getting us to this place.

You know, I we all know we need to do better by our young people.

This is a big step in getting us to that place where we can do that.

The implementation is gonna be crucial.

I want to thank you guys for bringing additional resources alongside this work.

Uh that's uh um really beneficial and um speeds up the work.

So thank you for doing that, and uh congratulations for giving us to this place.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Shaw.

Yeah, likewise, uh congratulations on this.

Um I'm really excited uh for this for this uh process to begin.

It's already beginning, but to be fully implemented.

And then also, you know, opportunities that might arise from this uh on the other side of it.

But uh a lot of work.

I I've seen you do this work and do it very well, thank you.

And uh look forward to the these outcomes.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Joseph.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Ms.

Fields.

Uh I'll just say that it really strikes me that for everything we do up here, the success of the future of the city really rides on you and us getting this right, reaching out to young people, giving them opportunities.

So uh you know how important this is.

I know and you've been dedicated to it, you've been dedicated to it for a long time.

So we're glad to support you.

I'm excited to see where this goes.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Ms.

Fields, thank you very much.

And if I may, please learn to earn staff, please stand up.

Thank you for all of your commitment, your time, your work, and your leadership.

This has in fact been a long time coming.

I know this is something that is very um dear to you.

Uh so thank you for your leadership and your commitment.

And I think it really does speak to what Commissioner Fairchild raised earlier when we start to look at the reappropriations for 2026 and making sure that we have the programming services for our youth.

And we do have again a number of various different things that are taking shape and form.

I also want to uplift the work of our recreation and youth services department for all of the great programming that they're doing.

And so if you could, I just want you to really highlight and uplive all of the youth that were involved in this process, the amount of time, energy, their input, and if you have a number of those who have been involved, whether whether it was 50 to 100, whatever that number may be.

I know there was a great deal, but the conversations.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Again, if those who would like to learn more about this initiative, there is in fact a work session that individuals can view online at our YouTube channel.

Um and again, we'll be happy to answer any additional questions.

This presentation, I will take it, will be on the city's website as well.

I also want to uplive the work of uh the staff, my colleagues, our partners.

We have the Summer of Peace, which we will be uh launching, which is in fact a comprehensive approach of all of the various different services, programming throughout the city of Dayton and the county.

Um, and I'm very excited about that work, so more to come on that, and we'll be sharing that publicly with everyone through all the various different social media channel uh outlets, and again, it just really speaks to the alignment of the work that is being done with learn to earn uh preschool promise, as well as with this initiative itself, children's the children's cabinet.

So great work, as well, and I cannot uh negate the work of our recreation and youth services as well.

So thank you, Ms.

Fields.

Thank you for all of your work and your leadership.

All right, Ms.

McClendon.

Are there any additions, deletions, or comments to the calendar this evening?

Your Honor, I would like to request the addition of legislation pertaining to the public hearing at the desire of the Commission.

That is all right.

Thank you.

Mr.

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

Uh, Your Honor, I have no additions or deletions, uh, but I do have now one comment.

I was going to comment on the $80 million grant that's kind of worth uh commenting about, but it's kind of moot at this point.

So I understand that there were some logical questions about the Peterson um construction contract and why it wasn't structured within the the PLA uh structure that we've passed as a body.

Um the funding source, you've heard us talk about DIFA and water projects, and that is the division of environmental and financial assistance with the Ohio EPA.

Um they're providing low interest to no interest, um, principal forgiveness loans for really large projects that the water department has been endeavoring.

Um this is another one of those.

And the structure within, and I'll ask Keisha Kenney, Director of Water, to come up and fill in any gaps that I miss.

But um the funding source and the project concept uh dates back to 2024.

Um so under the construction manager at risk structure, the contractor provides a maximum guaranteed price.

So we know what it's going to cost, and it's not going to go anywhere beyond that.

So all of those things and the project was bid and intended to be kind of um iterations, uh, but we knew in 20 early in 2025 that that's how this was going to be handled.

Um so part of that is allowing Peterson construction to you know bid things out and and um and uh handle the guaranteed maximum price uh and manage that so that they're able to deliver that guaranteed the project and its completion as specified um uh uh you know from start to finish.

Um additionally, uh I've been told um that Peterson is actually a union shop, um, but I'm not I haven't been able to confirm that just yet.

Um but further uh city manager spoke with um with trades labor representatives uh last week.

They understand uh and they've expressed no concerns.

Thank you for that.

I appreciate that.

I know we all work very diligently on, as well as the administration on making sure that the PLA was in fact in place, and we understand that the timing so moving forward, we will make sure that that is fully executed and follow-on agreements.

Yeah, we do currently have at least one PLA that's active with East Pod North.

Yes.

Um it's about five million dollars if I'm not mistaken.

Thank you for the additional context.

Thank you.

I have nothing further, Your Honor.

Thank you.

Ms.

McClendon, are there any citizens that are ready registered to speak on calendar items this evening?

Your Honor, there are two citizens registered to speak on calendar items.

I would like to state there's a three-minute time limit as you address the commission.

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I call to the podium Zakia Sankara Jabbar.

Good evening.

Good evening.

Zakia Sankara Jabbar 2426, Jerome Dayton.

Uh let's see here.

The agenda item that I want to speak to.

Well, first, um, it's good to see my friend Erica.

It's been a while, and um I sure wish she was still working at HRC because she was great in that position, and um want to tell her that I uh publicly that I'm still thinking about her and praying for her and her beautiful child her beautiful son after the loss of her partner.

Uh I want to speak to number seven under other association for the advancement of colored people, thirty-five hundred dollars.

So is this other fund here?

Is this like a slush fund for the city manager to just you know kind of uh you know, support the people that support her?

Because that's what it seems like to me.

The NAACP came out and undermined the community, undermine the mayor and commissioner uh Fairchild on the process of the hiring of this uh new police chief.

And not even a month later, they get $3,500.

I mean the corruption and and the disrespect of the community is absolutely outrageous in this city.

And what is the sister city foundation?

What $15,000 and Fairview Recreation Center and Water Park is closed?

What what kind of what's going on down here?

This is ridiculous.

I do have a few comments too on the learn to earn presentation.

I didn't hear any breakdown on the children's demographics.

Um I would like to know the demographics of the children that are gonna be served, especially if the city of Dayton is paying them any kind of money from the taxpayers.

But this is clearly, in my opinion, bribery uh on behalf of since the city manager runs the city.

She made this recommendation, I'm assuming this didn't come from the commission.

Thirty five hundred dollars to the NAACP, not even a month after they set up and had an hour-long press conference to support the city manager undermining the mayor and commissioner Fairchild.

I'm gonna keep saying that because I want people to know what's happening down here.

Fifteen thousand dollars for Dayton Sister City, and then a simulator for golf and catering.

What's the demographics?

Who going out there to play?

What youth are experiencing that?

I'm serious.

I want to know that.

What's the demographics of the youth that's going from Dayton, particularly West Dayton, all the way out there?

I'll be back.

Thank you, Miss Akira Jabbar.

I call to the podium Talas Gage.

I think it's one seven.

All right.

So what's going on, Ms.

Fairchild?

What's going on, Mayor?

Good evening.

Rest of y'all.

Um, so I want to speak on the same thing that the NAACP that 3500.

It's a to it say to assist the organizations with continued support in the areas of education, health, and criminal justice.

I ain't never seen where like where are they doing this at?

That's I just want to know where they're doing it at.

What organizations they're working with, what people they working with.

That's all I want to know.

I ain't gonna take up that much time, but if it could just be cleared up for me, somebody covering let me know like what they doing with this money, what or who they working with.

You know, because if they boost on the ground or something like that, I ain't never seen them.

Now I just stopped there.

Thank you, Mr.

Gage.

That concludes speakers on calendar items.

Thank you, Miss McClendon.

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

Commissioner Beckham.

I have no Your Honor.

Commissioner Fairchild.

No, I don't have any comments.

Uh but I would like to say to the community, I'm gonna have to leave here about 7:15.

I get to be the keynote speaker at Belmont High School, my alma mater.

They asked me months ago to be there.

I did not know that it would fall on this night.

So my apologies for those who have come to speak and know that I will go back and watch on YouTube your comments.

Commissioner Shaw.

I'm good.

Okay, thank you.

Commissioner Joseph.

Nothing here, Mayor.

Thank you.

I do have a couple of comments.

I too will need to be excused, and I apologize.

I have a graduation as well this evening, but note that I will be making sure that I'm in conversation.

My senior policy advisor is here.

Um many staff members are here, so we will make sure that we hear any concerns that you have so that we can address those concerns.

Uh I would like to address the comments in regards to calendar item number seven, the NAACP.

Um, just make note that those are questions that we pose as well.

Understand that this is an annual allocation that has been identified from the commission office to support the NAACP in the annual banquet.

So that is the dollar amount, and actually it is a reduced amount from prior years.

Um so again, just making note in that clarification.

And then the Sister City Foundation.

Um, that is a commitment that has been made for a number of years in partnership.

Uh Commissioner Joseph leads that led that uh initiative with a number of other uh organizations, and I believe the dollar amount that is a small fraction of what the city contributes outside of what the philanthropist and other supporters provide for this initiative as well.

Um, and those are all the comments that I have in regards to the calendar.

So may I have a motion to approve the city manager's recommendations?

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

I second the motion.

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

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

All right.

And I believe this evening we have board board appointments.

We do 20 uh your honor, I move to appoint Andrea Hurdle, Walt Hibner, and Michael Laudenslager to the environmental advisory board for a term ending November 27th, 2028.

I second the motion.

It has been properly moved and seconded to approve the appointment of Andrea Hurdle, Walt Hobner, and Michael Lawsenslager to the environmental advisory board for a term ending November 27, 2028.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

Mayor, I move to appoint Stephanie Lucky to the Human Relations Council board for a term ending January 31st, 2029.

I second the motion.

It has been properly moved and seconded to appoint Miss Stephanie Lucky to the Human Relations Council board for a term ending January 31, 2029.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

Abstain.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Thank you.

I move to reappoint Burgess Gow, Alice Heckman, Charles Johnson, and Aaron McNichol to the landmark commission for a term ending June 30th, 2029.

Second motion, Your Honor.

It has been properly moved and seconded to uh reappoint Burgess Gow, Alex Heckman, Charles Johnson, and Aaron McNowell to the landmark commission for a term ending June 30, 2029.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

Round four now.

Yeah.

Uh I move to reappoint Timothy Bemett, Joseph Craig, and Christopher Lewis to the Board of Zoning Appeals for a term ending June 30, 2028.

I second the motion, Your Honor.

Thank you.

It has been properly moved and seconded to reappoint Timothy Bimmett, Joseph Craig, and Christopher Lewis to the Board of Zoning Appeals for a term ending June 30, 2028.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

Your Honor, I move to appoint Mayor Shanice Turner Slaus to the Joint Office of Citizen Complaints Ombudsman's office, replacing Jeffrey J.

Mims for an indefinite term effective May 20th, 2026.

I second the motion.

It has been properly moved and seconded to approve to appoint excuse me, Mayor Turner Sloss to the Joint Office of Citizens Complaint Ombudsman's Office replacing Mayor Jeffrey J.

Mims for an indefinite term effective May 20, 2026.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

And that completes the board appointments this evening.

I'd like to call forward Jeff Green from our planning neighborhoods and development department to give you details about this zoning change.

Yeah.

Hang on a second.

One second, please.

Thank you.

The public hearing is now open.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Parlet.

Go ahead.

Good evening.

As we wait for the screens to heat up.

Oh, there we are.

This is a rezoning and a plan development request.

Uh, specifically the zoning map amendment portion is to rezone the property from MR5, which is our mature single family zoning district, to MMF and mature multifamily, and also establish a plan development overlay for potential new housing development at uh the uh southeast intersection of Edwin C.

Moses and West Third Street, which is Zion Baptist Church site.

The applicant is Magnus Capital Partners.

The current zoning again is MR5, which is that mature single family proposed zoning is both a plan development overlay to be established and mature multifamily.

This is in the right Dunbar zoning district, and this is in the West Land use area.

This is an aerial uh just showing what it currently exists.

Again, this is the southeast intersection, the property outlined in blue, particularly.

It uh hosts the Zion Baptist Church as well as the Arte Cultural Center.

This is zoomed out uh but showing the zoning map, the yellow, including this property, that's where MR5 is.

Uh notably the majority of the MR5 here is is across across Edwin C.

Moses Boulevard in terms of those single family houses.

Uh to the south, you have campus institutional, that is land owned by Sinclair.

To the east, you got the river, so that's open space.

And to the north, you got a little bit of open space and a little bit of uh MNC, which is mature neighborhood commercial, as that is along West Third Street and is the obviously commercial corridor there.

Um a little bit more zoomed in zoning map.

Uh that hatched area, that shaded area that I I boxed in in red, that is the right dunbar historic district.

And and the reason that is important here is this site is both histor uh strategically in terms of its location, but also historically and culturally significant given what has occurred there in the uh the Zion Baptist Church site.

So what the uh historic district, the right Dunbar Historic District essentially does is any form of exterior change to property, including uh demolition, would need to go through the landmark commission.

So in other words, this this district uh makes it difficult for one to demolish historic structures again, which uh would include the uh the Zion Baptist Church site.

Uh here is uh the proposed site plan.

Uh one thing I really quickly want to note is this is just for preliminary uh approval only.

This will have to come back before plan board for final plan approval.

What that means is we are simply looking at the rezoning of the property and established a general uh development regulations for the site.

Um so this uh this would be approximately 100 to 120 uh units uh over two buildings, each four to five stories in height.

Again, nothing's been finalized.

This is just a general concept to say, hey, this is what we're looking to put here.

Uh again, preservation of the historic Zion Baptist Church.

That that's a fairly big deal and one something that we uh in planning really will be pushed on in uh Magnus Capital Partners um want to reuse the site as you can see in the in the site plan itself.

So that that is proposed to be some form of adaptive reuse, final use would come later on, but it would remain.

Um this would have approximately 155 parking spaces uh shown, so that is more than one for every unit being sold there, plus whatever is left over for commercial.

Um speaking of that possible additional commercial building, that is where the LTRTA Cultural Center is, along with design baths.

Sure.

So we're talking about again large adaptive reuse for this site.

This will have to come back before plan before final plan approval.

That would include elevations, final landscaping, really where the buildings are going to be located exactly, what they're going to look like, all of that.

So just a few site photos.

This is a photo uh looking north towards West Third Street.

It's the Zion Baptist Church.

This is looking south along Edwin C.

Moses.

Uh this is just showing the church along with the RTA Cultural Center.

Uh this is looking east towards the river, as you can see, it has uh views of uh downtown.

Um one thing I do want to know you got the the embankment there, which is fairly high up, um, probably about 10, 20 feet in height.

So any building that's that's one of the rationale for the the taller buildings there is so you'd you'd be able to see over those embankments so you can see the river in downtown.

And this is on top of that embankment looking towards Edwin C.

Moses Boulevard.

Uh this is a site plan, and this the purpose of this plan is just showing the the little pink dots.

That is where the bus lines are.

So one of the things we wanted to note with this is it is a multimodal site, and what that means is you don't you don't just need a car to get there.

You can use the bus.

It is highly walkable being uh on on the intersection of Edwin C.

Moses and uh West Third Street, and it's also connected to uh the recreational trails along the river.

This uh plane on the left was what was originally submitted, and after some community feedback and staff feedback, this is uh the plane on the right is eventually what it came to.

And and this plan in staff's opinion is a little bit more appropriate.

It's so it sets the development contours along West Third Street.

So right when you pass the bridge and go in west along West Third Street, you'll you'll see the building instead of just trees.

So trees are proposed to be preserved as as to a great extent possible, but uh having that development and building profile kind of set the tone for what what's possible along West Third Street is important here.

Uh each of these photos is just uh if one were to look on the ground, heights.

It's just judging heights.

So one of the big things here is we wanted to make sure that the these buildings would not overshadow the church.

So these buildings are set back in appropriate distance, and the first thing one would see along with those street trees is the Zion Baptist Church.

So that that was incredibly important from the staff perspective, and uh the applicant uh at Magnus Capital Partners has been excellent in doing what they can to keep those views and maintain the church as one of the centerpieces for this site.

Uh went over a lot of this already, so I I don't want to keep rehashing the same thing, but the big things here are this is a rezoning from mature single family to mature multifamily, along with the plan development overlay.

And with that plan development overlay, it would set the max building height of 65 feet.

Uh it would set the vehicle parking spaces of one per unit along with uh all necessary bicycle parking.

Um any mature street trees would be preserved, and if needed to be removed would be uh a new tree would be planted later on the site.

Uh the historic designation again remains in effect.

That that is, I think, key here that would protect the church building specifically.

And uh no off-premise advertising, and and that's a that's just us saying, hey, we don't want any build up billboards on this site.

So that would restrict any billboards on the site.

Public process wise, uh February 4th, uh the applicant and staff met with the neighborhood to get initial feedback, and that's kind of how that plan uh evolved from the initial one present first presented at this meeting to what you see now.

Uh March 10th, uh this uh applicant went before plan board for just for work session, a work session is just getting general feedback on hey, is this a good idea?

What would you suggest any changes?

So that's that's what that was.

Uh correspondence and support from Wright Dunbar Inc., that is that letter that you see up there.

Uh the West Party Land Use Board uh met on March 26th and voted unanimously to recommend approval of the zoning map amendment and and the development as it's currently situated.

Uh City Plan Board at April 14th, so uh a little little more than a month ago, voted unanimously to recommend approval as submitted.

Uh planning staff recommends approval.

Um I always like to say this to come this uh to commission is uh we followed our normal uh uh mailing list here.

So anyone within 250 feet was notified of this.

Again, that includes neighborhood presidents, and we we included the neighborhood presence for right dunbar and Wolf Creek as well, since Wolf Creek is right across the way that we wanted the folks know what's coming and get their feedback early on.

And that was again that February 4th meeting.

Not all applicants do this.

This is something we always recommend, and we always want to say kudos to those applicants that do is go to the community first before you go to any of our boards and see what changes could be made and what is acceptable and what is not.

So I just want to take the time to say, hey, we we should as staff and as a city uh recognize those individuals and these entities that go to the community first before having to come forward to a board and get that official feedback.

In terms of commission uh alternatives, uh, you have the ability to approve, remand back to plan board or deny.

I am here to answer any questions, and if there are none for me, uh I would invite uh Vishal from Magnus Capital Partners uh to come on up and you know say things that I might have left out and generally give a few words.

Thank you, Mr.

Green.

Uh Commissioner Beckham, any comments or questions?

Uh just a few.

Um first of all, thank you for the presentation.

Um I understand this is coming back to us for final approval, but um I I know Magnus is doing uh another development right uh in the five oaks area, if I'm correct, and that is uh designated as workforce housing.

Um is there an intention uh for the 100 to 120 units of this particular development to be any workforce or affordable?

Uh I believe that's the case, but I would uh have that question go to Vishall.

Okay.

It's probably more appropriate to handle that than I.

Um and then is there any intention on what the adaptive reuse of the church will be?

Obviously, it's being maintained as a historic preservation, but what is the future use going to look like of that of that property?

So the the PD would allow for it to be uh a form of commercial, so that could be uh whether it be a restaurant, um uh some form of assembly use, uh uh something uh those sorts of uses of what is in the PD now.

Um and we wanted to really restrict it.

That was one of the reasons we didn't want to open the zoning up to uh a commercial use or something a little bit more high intensity because I mean you don't you you don't want to overwhelm the site and overwhelm the area.

So the uses we were currently saying are good um are those that are a little bit more restrictive to respect the site in the surrounding area.

Okay.

Those are my questions.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Fairchild.

Yeah, thank you for those questions.

I'm good.

Commissioner?

Yeah, just quickly.

So um has there been conversation with Sinclair?

I know at one point they were looking at doing some student housing on that parcel those parcels next door to that.

Um to that I'm I'm not entirely sure.

I can certainly look into that and get back to you.

I would appreciate that.

Okay.

Um magnets, and I guess I can ask uh the representatives.

Would there be day uh daycare provided like they are doing with the five oaks project?

Is there anything like that?

Uh uh again, uh that would be for Vishall, but uh I I I would note that uh especially with the the development you're all talking about along Forest and Five Oaks, um, there was a number of amenities, uh governance site.

That that seems to be what what Magnus is is really good at is not just providing good housing but a lot of amenities.

Yeah.

Okay.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Uh actually, if you could go back to the slide that showed uh that you could only partially see downtown from that site.

I don't know if that's uh there you go.

Uh east of town, around Techtown, there we've been talking for a long time about a plan to pull back the levees to make it easier to access the bike trails and the river and to sort of make that happen there.

I'm wondering if it might be possible to do the same thing here since we're doing a lot of work or gonna be moving dirt anyway, uh, to be able to pull back the levee and make it easier for people who live there to access the river and maybe improve the view too.

So it's not a obviously it's not something you need to do right now, but I'd like to hear if it's at least possible.

Yeah.

And uh and I know Plan Board uh at their meeting was also questioning okay, how do how do the connections work to this site and to the wider community and to those bike trails?

So I know it is actively being considered and talked about.

And I would imagine once final planning uh approval comes forward uh to plan board that there would be a uh a more firm answer.

But yes, I that is actively being considered.

Great.

I I can imagine five rivers would be amenable to talking about a conservancy district too.

So all right.

Well, that's all I have.

Thank you.

Uh uh let's see.

Well, I guess we'll go to Vishall next.

Okay, thank you.

Good evening.

Thank you for having me.

And um happy to uh offer a couple of opening remarks, mindful of time, as you mentioned, there was a graduation or two happening.

Um thank you for having us.

Magnus is uh as you've already uh noted actively developing a 260 unit affordable project in the Five Oaks neighborhood that is designed to be a workforce housing development along with a child care facility.

This site is also intended to be a workforce housing project serving households between 40 and 80 percent of AMI.

Uh at least the majority will be focused on that.

Uh we do not currently anticipate a child care facility being here, uh, given the site constraints and this only being a couple miles away from the Five Oaks neighborhood.

Um the I just want to uh uh thank and react to what uh Jeff said about reaching out to the community for us that's non-negotiable.

This is a starting point, not a thing to avoid as a community-based developer.

Um, so we are grateful, as oddly as that might sound, to receive community feedback.

And as you hopefully saw from the first version of the site plan to the version in front of you on screen today, it helped.

That community feedback actually helped.

Um then last thing I'd like to note is the site is uniquely positioned to reflect history as well as the future, and we love that dynamic that dynamism in the site.

You're at the forefront of the gateway of Wright Dunbar here.

You have Design Baptist Church, which has a long history, of course, too as well.

But then we also have this contemporary persistent need for good housing, and so we love the fact that we can bring all that together out of a um in a respectful fashion to create a compelling project for the city.

Um I will stop speaking, or I could go on for a few hours, so I'll turn it over to you guys for any uh questions you may have.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Uh no, you've answered all my questions.

Uh thank you for your uh continued development and interest uh in bringing more housing to the city of Dayton, specifically workforce housing.

So I appreciate it.

Good to see you.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

Commissioner, yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you for this work.

Thank you for your ongoing commitment.

Thank you.

Likewise, you answered my question.

I I would like to uh have staff Luke get his contact information.

I will there's a connection I would like to make with you and uh my valley child development centers.

So if we could do that before you leave.

Of course.

Thank you.

All right, well, thank you very much.

We appreciate it.

Back to Mr.

Green, I think.

I was just come up to return this.

Great, thank you.

If there's no further questions for me, I'll I think we're good.

Uh then goes to Mr.

Clendon.

Are there any citizens registered to speak on the public hearing?

Your Honor, there are no citizens registers registered to speak on the public hearing.

All right, Commissioners, any further comments on the public hearing?

Let's move forward.

See anyway?

All right.

I will now close the public hearing.

What's the pleasure of the commission here?

Like to move forward.

All right, well, let's move forward.

Uh legislation, Ms.

McClendon.

First reading ordinance number 32190-26, amending the official zoning map to establish Plan Development 195, and to change the underlying zoning from mature single family residential MR5 to mature multifamily MMF at 40 South Edwin C.

Moses Boulevard, 3.74 acres and declaring an emergency.

Having been declared an emergency, I move for the immediate passage of ordinance number 32190-26.

Second.

So properly moved and seconded to for the passage of uh ordinance number 32190-26.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

Second reading.

Okay.

Second reading, ordinance number 32190-26, amending the official zoning map to establish Plan Development 195 and to change the underlying zoning from mature single-family residential MR5 to mature multifamily MMF at 40 South Edwin C.

Moses Boulevard, 3.74 acres.

That concludes legislation.

Thank you, Mrs.

Clendon.

All right.

Uh well, Ms.

McClendon, are there any citizens that are registered to speak this evening?

Your Honor, there are 26 citizens registered to speak.

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

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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 Brenda Brown.

Brenda Brown, 3816, Netco Avenue, Dayton, Ohio.

This is my first time here.

I don't know what I'm doing.

But it's good I wasn't here yesterday because I was really highly pissed off.

I am pissed off at the Dayton police because I feel like I live in the black neighborhood.

They would not do their job because we're black.

And I'm sick and I'm tired.

I live on that club.

My house paid for my house.

You can take my house and put it in Cinderville.

Every since that Dango store on Gettysburg burnt down.

Those people came to our street across the street from another store that's on the corner of my house.

They last year it was hundreds of people up there setting up tables, four or five tables in the middle of the sidewalk, playing chess.

They do another gambling, selling reefer, selling barbecue, selling lawmores, big U-Haul trucks, having flea markets.

Okay.

I found the manager, who the owner of it is Dayton Metropolitan.

Okay.

This year, okay, the mayor told us at her organization to pick up trash.

Okay, I did better.

I went down to Dayton Metropolitan.

I had them trespass them from their lot.

Then they came back to put up big old barricades.

These people still coming back, getting on the sidewalk, setting up their tables and they chairs, playing chess.

They not want it there.

We don't I don't call the police personally myself about 50 times since it's been worn.

One uh sergeant called me back and told me he contact Dayton Metropolitan, Dayton Metropolitan told him his name is D I L L I E Y.

His uh Dayton Metropolitan told him that uh nobody's supposed to be on that sidewalk.

Okay.

Then he told me lie and said he gonna put it in the notes.

If they go up there, they're going to jail.

Okay.

They still up there every day go single day, and I'm sick of it.

Everybody on my street call the police.

They don't do nothing.

Okay.

I talked to another officer, got his name too.

Uh, officer Lochiski, L-U-C-K-O-K-I.

He went up there one day, they had all the tits and everything.

He called me and he told me he made them pack up their stuff.

He told them if they come back, he's taking everybody to jail.

They've been coming back every day.

I'm calling them every single day.

Now, Dayton Metropolitan and the police playing games with me.

Yesterday, they gonna say, uh, the police gonna say she went up there.

Okay, but I'm tired of this.

That code, the corner of NECCO and Gatesburg got to be cleared out before somebody get killed up there.

Well, somebody look into it, you're right.

Tired of that.

Don't have to live like that.

That's hard.

Just because you're black.

I called to the podium Lacey Fishley.

Hey, okay.

We are blessed to have a wonderfully diverse community that includes people who came to the United States as refugees and as immigrants.

We have speakers of various languages, with the most popular being Kinearwanda and Spanish, besides English.

As a member of the Social Justice Ministry for the Parish, I know firsthand how impactful and harmful immigration enforcement has been on my community.

Several families have been ripped apart because of ICE enforcement.

People who are valued and contributing members of our community, stolen away.

Because of my work and my connections in the church, I've received numerous calls from distressed family members and friends desperately seeking relief for their loved ones in detention.

Watching the people that I see every Sunday suddenly vanish has been traumatizing and wounding.

That is why I am asking you to officially remove the ALPR cameras and produce the audit logs.

Please, our community weeps.

Thank you.

I call to the podium Yusuf El Zayn.

Good evening.

Um Yusuf El Zain 4906 Amberwood Drive.

I'm here on behalf of the uh Islamic uh Council of Dayton, uh, as well as uh D Flock Dayton, and thank you for the members that are present here today.

Um Yusuf El Zaim 4906 Amberwood Drive, Dayton, Ohio.

Mayor, Commissioner, Deputy City Manager, Chief Henderson.

Tonight I come with grief, with anger, and with truths this body no longer should ignore.

On Monday, May 18th, 2026, two white teenagers walked up to the Islamic Center of San Diego, home to the Al-Rashid Islamic School and Majid, where parents and children as young as five gather to pray and study Arabic and Quran and open fire.

For Muslims, Muslim Americans, this climate is not theoretical.

It shapes our daily lives.

Three heroes, three martyrs, Amin Abdallah, Mansur Kaziha, and Nadir Awad, whose names we must not allow to become footnotes.

They died for 140 children so that they can live.

Two American teenagers do not wake up one morning and decide independently to murder Muslims at place of worship and their schools.

Even though the blood is on their trigger fingers, the fingerprint are on every politician and pundit who built the road they walked on.

They are taught, they are radicalized, they are handled, handed a word view by adults around them, by the politicians on their screens, by the algorithm that freed them.

This is this came from my wife, by the way.

And about the city's flock safety surveillance system that shared data with immigration agencies despite public assurances that safeguards existed.

And after witnessing the massacre in San Diego, a city that, by the way, expanded its flock service in 2025.

We must ask an uncomfortable question.

What kind of public safety are these systems truly providing?

Cities are told these cameras keep communities safe, and we heard it from the police department.

Yet hatred continues to escalate, vulnerable communities continue to be targeted, and innocent people continue to die.

The cameras are still up, the contract remains active.

Default audit logs not been released, the sworn public has not happened.

I call to the podium Sharon Screech.

Hello, commissioners.

My name is Sharon Screech, and I live at 515 West Grand Avenue, Apartment 3EL here in Dayton, Ohio, 45405.

Thank you for allowing me to speak today about an issue that deeply affects many residents in our community.

Over policing and the damage it causes to public trust, especially within the African American community.

I want to be very clear from the beginning.

This is not a police bashing session.

This is about making sure the voices of the people are heard, the community deserves to be listened to, and law enforcement deserves honest feedback from the people they serve every day.

Over policing refers to excessive and aggressive law enforcement practices that disproportionately target certain neighborhoods and populations.

It includes heavy patrol presence, frequent stops, surveillance, and harsh enforcement of minor offenses that might be overlooked in more affluent communities.

These practices overwhelmingly affect low-income communities and communities of color.

Many residents feel like they are constantly being watched, questioned, or treated as suspects instead of citizens.

Over time, that fear turns into distrust.

One example, one example, many residents are questioning is the police hub now sitting next to the RTA bus depot.

People want to know who approved that spending and why the public was not fully informed.

Mr.

Parlett.

We seem to have a budget for adding a police hub, but we cannot seem to find money in the budget to improve parks or create more recreational opportunities for the children of this city.

The same concerns came up with the flock camera system.

The community was told information from those cameras would not be shared with outside law enforcement agencies.

And later we learned that was not true.

When the public feels misled, trust is broken all over again.

That is why transparency and oversight matter.

And when trust disappears, cooperation disappears too.

According to the 2026 police stop statistics from the Dayton Transparency Portal, black males accounted for more than 16,000 stops.

Approximately 45% of all stops in that demographic category.

White males accounted for around 8,800 stops, or roughly 24%.

Those numbers are alarming and raise serious concerns about profiling.

When one demographic is being stopped at nearly double the rate of the other, families notice and mothers' notice.

I am the mother of three adult sons.

Looking at these statistics honestly breaks my heart because it tells me that every time my sons leave the house, they may already be viewed as targets before they even speak a word.

That is a painful reality for many black families in this city.

It also is also concerning how quickly routine stops can escalate.

A simple traffic citation can subtly involve two or three police vehicles, which is ridiculous.

That overwhelmingly show of force can increase tension instead of creating calm.

I have lived in Dayton my entire life, and I care deeply about the city.

That is exactly why I'm speaking today.

People want safety, but they also want dignity, fairness, and respect.

And these conversations are becoming even more urgent after the shooting of Reginald Thomas here in downtown Dayton over something as minor as a missing bicycle light.

Incidents like this leave lasting scars on the community.

Time is up, thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Ms.

Creach.

I call to the podium.

Victor Pate Sr.

It's been a long time.

Victor Pate, I guess you would remember Victor Pate, 1017 Rosseter Drive, Dayton, Ohio.

Um main thing I want to bring up, and I know three minutes is not going to do the job, but I want to introduce this.

There's a lot of talk about the problems with the city manager.

I want to talk about the city management office and structure.

It interferes with real democracy.

It always has.

How many of the people in our sector will be hired in the place that's being built?

So those are real important things.

I'm not causing saying any individual is a problem up here.

Anyone.

I'm saying we need to be honest about real democracy.

We need to be honest about it.

So three minutes, of course, isn't enough time, but I want to introduce this so that we can sit down.

I don't care if I don't get along with these people here, those people there, that gender there, this gender there, they should be represented equally so that we can have real democracy, so that we can find a way to run our city like our city.

You guys are structured with a hard problem.

And city management, incidentally, is something that is put that you are trained to look at attrition, but with attrition not affecting business.

You know, so we need to do that.

So that's all I want to say, and thank you for your time.

And yeah, I'll be back again, okay?

I call to the podium Mary Sue Gaminer.

Mary Sue Gaminer, 1418 Arbor Avenue.

Commissioners, tonight I'm calling for the firing of the city manager.

There's been a lot of talk about accountability and transparency and rebuilding trust.

I don't believe that will be possible until you remove Miss Dixteen and begin a robust search for a new city manager.

The automated license plate readers were the tipping point for me.

To have known about this since October of 2025, and then not revealed it until after the November election, after the January flock contract renewal, after the March resignation of the police chief, it's just too convenient.

The hospital is another example of loss of trust.

Why did no one in the administration have a clue that Premier Health was about to destroy Good Sam?

And why was there so little effort to stop it?

Then, after the citizens spoke and voted for a public hospital, the legal department's report to the commission was a path to avoid that responsibility.

The city manager inserted the public hospital into the citizens' assembly, overriding concerns about blight and youth.

Under this city manager, with your approval, huge amounts of money have gone into downtown.

And yet, a historic building one block from here, the Dayton Daily News Building, remains abandoned, surrounded by vacant lots and a chain link fence for over 12 years throughout the city manager's time in this position.

A year ago, the city manager recommended a 1.4 million dollar expenditure for a new police station downtown.

Not only did it look like a bailout for an investment company that hasn't paid their taxes or kept up their property, it fed into the myth that more policing makes people safer.

In reality, fighting the root causes of poverty is what makes people safer.

Regarding ALPRs, you need to order them removed immediately because you cannot guarantee that they are not accessible to flock independently.

You need to cancel the contract and demand the audit logs.

Finally, I remind you that you said there would be transparency in the investigation of the killing of Reginald Thomas.

If the report is not ready, say it's not ready, give an estimate of when it will be ready.

That's transparency.

And again, I asked the question is the pen independent accountability auditor investigating this killing.

I would also note that there are a lot of citizens here, many registered to speak, but many not registered to speak.

We are united in our love for Dayton and our determination to make it a safe place for everyone.

I invite all of those to stand.

El Pueblo Undido jamás será vencido.

Chukon.

Thank you.

I call to the podium Alex Gonzalez.

Good evening.

Uh my name is Alice Gonzalez, and my family lives directly behind the Tasty Bird Market, the historic Tassy Bird Market that was burned down nearly three weeks ago.

I'm grateful for May you say your address.

Oh, sorry.

Alice Gonzalez, 23 Mound Street.

Thank you.

Do I start over now?

Yes.

Okay.

Good evening, Commissioners.

My name is Alice Gonzalez.

My family lives directly behind the Tasty Bird Market that burned down nearly three weeks ago.

I'm grateful for the firefighters and first responders for their efforts to put out that fire that morning.

However, I'm here tonight because the residents of the Wright Dunbar Village neighborhood living around this site are frustrated, concerned, and tired of feeling ignored in this situation.

First, the cleanup timeline is unacceptable.

From our perspective, this dangerous site has largely been left sitting while nearby residents continue living with the consequences every day.

We've not received clear answers about when the cleanup will happen, why it's taking this long, or what protections are being put in place for surrounding families.

Second, communication has been extremely poor.

Residents close to this property, myself included, should not have to rely on rumors or guessing to understand what's happening.

We deserve updates, transparency, and a clear plan moving forward.

My biggest concern, however, is the health hazard this site now poses.

There are potential risks from asbestos, lead, and rotting food still sitting at the property.

The smell, I hope you guys can come by sometime, is nauseating.

The flies are surging again, and there are scrappers that have been entering the site, disturbing the debris, potentially stirring up more contaminants into the air while nearby families are forced to live right next to it.

To my knowledge, there's been no testing of the site itself or of nearby homes for the contamination.

This is deeply concerning to the people who live there, especially to my family and my children.

And I think many Messi res many residents are asking the same difficult question.

Would this situation still look like this if it were happening in the heart of downtown?

Would it still look like this if it was sitting two miles south of us?

I don't believe it would.

We have seen this city move quickly when it wants to.

We watched years of infrastructure projects get accelerated into months when major events and outside and outside attention are uh are demanded it.

So we know rapid action is possible when there's urgency and priority behind it.

Overall, this is a bad look for the city.

But more importantly, it's unfair to the people who live there.

I know that this commission can do better.

We're asking for urgency, transparency, site testing, and immediate action to protect the health and safety of the surrounding community.

Thank you for your time.

Thanks, Mr.

Gonzales.

I call to the podium Kathleen Kirsch.

I made a promise.

All right.

Kathleen Kirsch, 6310 Harvest Meadows Drive.

Um, I think most of you know me by now.

I'm an attorney with ABL.

I'm here on behalf of the Coalition on Public Protection and with the community members tonight.

As you can see, we represent a very diverse group of concerned residents about the ALPR cameras.

When I spoke before you two weeks ago, I said now that you know Dayton Police Department has violated its promise not to share the ALPR data for immigration enforcement purposes.

The next steps that you take will show how your commitment to accountability for what has been an egregious violation of community trust.

As far as I can tell, and correct me if I'm wrong, the flock cameras have still not been taken down as of today.

The program is suspended, but I don't think anyone really knows what that means.

Are the cameras still collecting data?

Are they still collecting reads?

And if so, who is receiving that data?

If the flock cameras are still receiving data, then we are all still very vulnerable.

In December 2025, Flock changed its contract language to say that while customers retain their own data, customer data does not include the underlying raw footage captured by Flock Hardware, which includes quote, still images, video, audio, and other raw data captured by the Flock hardware or by customer hardware.

That data goes to Flock.

So if someone is driving by an ALPR right now, and that ALPR captures their license plate because the cameras are still up.

But what we don't know is if they're going to flock.

Why is it a c a concern if the data is still going to flock?

Well, in 2025, Flock launched pilot programs with ICE Homeland Security Investigations and Border Patrol.

The FBI is currently looking to partner with Flock to receive its data.

Flock has repeatedly shown that it cannot be trusted to safeguard our data, and the only way for the commission to protect us is to have the cameras taken down and to cancel the contract.

Accountability means the audit logs need to be produced now.

We have heard that they are not public record.

That's been one reason for denying their production.

I reviewed the Ohio Revised Code today, and section 149.43A1YY only accepts ALPR license plate reads themselves, those images from public record.

They're public record.

Those the audit logs are public record.

Nor should they be exempted as confidential law enforcement information.

I won't bore everyone here with the entire code, but there is a section 149.4382A of the Ohio Revised Code that specifically lays out when a public record can be withheld because it contains confidential enforcement investigatory investigatory records, and none of those pos uh none of those exceptions reply here.

We're not sharing defendant data.

We're not uh we're not the Dayton Police Department already acknowledged they shared this data with local law enforcement and national law enforcement.

So we're not revealing anything they haven't already revealed.

Furthermore, several other cities, including Tip City and Kettering have disclosed their audit logs.

Why is it so difficult for Dayton to do the same?

You need to take down the cameras, you need to cancel the contract, and you need to give us a specific time frame with accountability for when those things will happen.

Thank you.

Thanks, Miss Kirsch.

I call to the podium Stephen Ware.

Stephen Stephen Ware, uh, 3033 Beaver Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, 45429.

Dayton has oh Dayton has lots of events scheduled for this year, and I want to tell you about some of my favorites.

Out on Fifth is an event that closes a section of Fifth Street to motor vehicles, allowing people to walk around freely without having to worry about traffic.

Everyone but cars are welcome to join the fund in the Oregon district on the first Friday weekends of each month from May through September.

Dayton Pride is a great opportunity to go out and strut your stuff, celebrating our city's vibrant LGBT plus community.

All the colors of the rainbow will be flying throughout Dayton on Friday, June 5th, and Saturday, June 6th.

I'm a big fan of a big fan of big bands, so I'm really excited for the big band performances at Riverscape Metro Park.

Uh Central Jazz Big Band performs on Friday, June 12th.

The Kim Kelly Orchestra performs on Friday, July 10th, and the Dayton Jazz Orchestra finishes the trio performances on Friday, August 14th.

Of course, Dayton isn't limited limited to excellence in just one genre of music.

The Levitt Pavilion hosts all kinds of music this summer, including the funkfest on Saturday, May 30th, the Ford Dayton by Dayton Festival on Saturday, June 6th, Blues Fest on Saturday, June 27th, Rockfest on Saturday, August 1st, Reggae Fest on Saturday, September 15th, and last but not least, Jazz Fest on Saturday, September 19th.

If you like folk music, you can check out the Dayton Celtic Festival to experience the sights, sounds, and tastes of Celtic culture.

Riverscape Metro Park hosts the festival on the last weekend of July from the 24th to the 26th.

In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the lights and flight show will be a blast this year.

The night sky above Kettering Fields will be bright with fireworks on Friday, July 3rd.

In autumn, you can partake in German culture at Oktoberfest, featuring live music, family activities, outstanding artisans, delicious food, including sauerkraut, and of course, far more beer than anyone could possibly drink.

Uh Dayton Art Institute hosts the event on Saturday, September 26th, and Sunday, September 27th.

If there's anything in Dayton that can make me feel like a kid again, it's seeing Courthouse Square come alive with holiday lights during the grand illumination for Christmas time.

I hope to see you all there on Friday, November 27th for the lighting ceremony.

Although I'm looking forward to all the wonderful events that Dayton has scheduled, there's one event that tops all the others in my mind.

I and many of my fellow Daytonians cannot wait for the removal of flock cameras across the city of Dayton.

Unfortunately, I can't tell you when it takes place because that event doesn't have a scheduled date.

So I'm wondering.

When are we gonna remove those freaking cameras?

Thank you.

Thanks, Mr.

Work.

I call to the podium Eli Cox.

Wait, by the way.

Do you have a microphone?

There you go.

Eli Cox 1238, Walmart Avenue.

Day in Ohio.

I am eight years old, and I and a black child.

I Derve to live in a neighborhood that is safe where police respect the hat law and do not speed up and down my street.

I deserve to have parts that are safe, and the water pads have great water pressure.

And out clear swimming pools.

I want to be able to grow up into a man so I can become a firefighter.

I had dreams too.

Invest in children, increase the money for you.

Mr.

Beckham and Mr.

Shaw, you were once black boys like me.

Thank you, Mr.

Cox.

Well done.

I called to the podium, Talus Gage.

Alright, Talus Gage, 1921, Gettysburg.

45417.

Alright.

Uh man.

My time started, right?

Yes, sir.

Okay.

Well, I ain't gonna be too long.

One thing I want to talk about is Dixtein, she gotta go.

Everybody knows she gotta go.

Everybody knows she gotta go.

And the way I feel, all three of y'all up there gotta go too.

All three of y'all gotta go.

We're supposed to talk and we ain't spoke yet.

That was like maybe a month ago.

I ain't gonna blow you up.

You know, and then I thought you was gonna be different, man.

But you showing me that you just like them.

You showing me that you compromise, man.

I thought you were stronger than that.

You showing me that you weak, man, that you compromise, that you was a solo, bro.

Come on.

Damn.

Oh yeah, I don't know if I'm supposed to say.

But yeah, man, you you a disappointment, bro.

You're a disappointment.

And I wanted to say that to you, to your face, in front of everybody.

That's how I feel, man.

Hopefully you you shut me up and you made me see something different.

But right now, I mean.

Dag, bruh.

Dang.

And he like, man, you y'all, y'all just I don't know what to say, but I want to say something about the kids too, man.

Rec centers, rec centers, rec centers, man.

If if all kids see on TV is people selling drugs, right?

Or talking about it.

And they go outside their house, and that's all they see.

It's like programming.

It's programming.

If they if we don't program ourselves, then the system will program us.

And that's what they're trying to do with these with the music with the TV and everything else.

So if our kids got some rec centers or something else to do, instead of coming outside and watching these so-called, I don't even like these cops.

These cops or the people selling drugs, and what you think is gonna happen to them.

We supposed to be psychobusses.

We ain't breaking on cycles if we add more cops.

We ain't we ain't breaking no cycles if we ain't got no rec centers or anything for the kids to go to.

Hell, even a grown-ups could use a rec center, they be having water aerobics and tutoring and all this kind of stuff that grown-ups could do as well.

So I would love it if y'all would so can we take a bando and turn it into a rec center or like a spot where kids can play basketball at or something like that, a vacant building?

Can we do something like that, y'all?

Can we turn one of these buildings that's already standing?

I mean, I know a bunch of handyman that can fix on some of that stuff.

You know what I'm saying?

If y'all could give 3500 to the NAACP and they ain't doing nothing.

I ain't seen nothing from them.

Nothing.

If y'all could get that to them, then y'all could give it to people that's gonna actually work with these kids as boots on the ground and mentor kids that put they put their life into this because they passionate, not compromise, not sellouts.

Y'all suck, man.

And if and if if he's with her, then he could go too.

Thanks, Mr.

Gage.

I called to the podium, Kevin Keller.

Kevin Keller, 30.

Kevin Keller, 3922.

He's through Street Day Noah, 45403.

Commissioners, office staff, city manager, assistant, and audience.

I apologize for my wardrobe selection today.

I was out putting a flap tool up for Memorial Day weekend.

I have uh three items I'd like four items I'd like to share.

First of all, we had this when I first moved here from San Diego in the early 90s.

Community policing.

I don't know what's happened to it.

We we used to have a uh policemen or a couple of them that would come into the community, establish friendships, have coffee and donuts and some things like that.

They would establish a relationship.

They were in and out of the town.

It was great.

They'd show up to our commission or our neighborhood meetings as a participant, not just an observer.

We need to bring that back.

Guns.

I don't understand how this city okayed an ordinance that says you can fire your firearm, you can set off your firearm, you can shoot your firearm as long as it is in your property in the city of Dayton.

It's crazy.

How in the heck is the law enforcement gonna uphold the laws and keep the American the neighborhood safe when we have laws like that on the books?

I mean, I've I've heard a couple weeks ago a uh AK or uh RMR 15, one of those shot off 20 or 25 shots in about 10 seconds.

I just think that's crazy.

Nothing's done.

Because well, that's okay.

How does the the police department know when something's really happening?

Because you don't know whether that's uh shooting somebody or just playing around.

I think that's crazy.

Speed cameras.

I think speed cameras, if they're gonna have them, they need play fair.

Let people know, hey, there's a speed camera here.

Cause people to slow down.

It's just like a police car sitting on the side of the road.

He he he's a warning.

But if you blatantly go by him 20, 30 miles an hour over the speed limit, you deserve to get caught.

Five ten minutes, five miles over or so.

You know, I'm giving you a warning.

I'm sitting here.

I I really think those things to have um attention.

I've lived here a long time.

I've lived in a lot of cities being an aircraft mechanic in the Navy.

And I've seen a lot of things go, I've seen a lot of things work, and I've thought a lot of things fall.

And this separation between our commission and its citizens is uh it's not good.

Yeah.

We need to start taking care of our citizens, but on the other hand, citizens need to start taking care of our our commission and our city leaders.

Congratulate them when they do well.

Because usually when I make a statement up here, I try to end on positive.

And my positive would be um try sitting up at the podium one or the the desk one day and hear comments from the the audience.

Your time be tough.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks, Mr.

Keller.

I call to the podium Karen Goodall.

Goodall.

76 London out.

Good evening, everyone.

Uh, thank you for your time and attention on the urgent and distressing topic of the flock cameras.

I know we've talked to several of you already about this.

Um I appreciated the meeting that we had with you, Commissioner Joseph, since all of this was public.

Um, and I appreciate um Mayor and Turner Slaussen, Commissioner Fairchild have to leave, but I know that they had a phone call as well with some constituents to talk about that.

And given the information you all have at this point from us about how disreputable Flock is as a company and a vendor, I would like to ask for an immediate removal of the cameras and for the contracts to be canceled as soon as possible with a date given to the community.

Um, as we talked about, it's disheartening to see them still recording as we drive by knowing that this has happened.

Um as we've discussed with you, Flock has illegally shared data with outside groups, including starting an undisclosed pilot program last year with Customs and Border Patrol and the Department of Homeland Security.

They cannot be trusted with sensitive data, and there's no amount of safeguards to utilize with the company that is unwilling to conduct business lawfully.

I'd also like to highlight the stress that's been brought to our community as a result of this.

There's a sense of fear now that's causing people to stay home, um, and that's causing them to miss critical medical appointments.

I've seen our clients miss veterinary appointments.

I've had a client at our clinic get their paperwork ready to leave the country.

I had to get a health certificate ready for their pet for them to move out of the city.

Um we also have neighbors where they have to have groceries delivered to them because they are scared to leave their homes.

And I have not personally experienced this myself, but it's seeing that happen to the people around us is very distressing.

Um, and that's been, you know, very upsetting to live with the last few months since we've known this and been trying to bring this to everyone's attention.

Um it's also been very heavy and demoralizing to spend hours sharing concerns and not feeling heard.

Um I do want to thank Commissioner Joseph because we received an apology during our meeting, and that was very meaningful.

It's not often that we hear apologies from officials when mistakes have been made, and it went a long way to have that acknowledged and have that mistake at least said out loud.

Obviously, there needs to be actions paired with that apology, but that's a start, and I think you can't have any repair of trust without acknowledging that and without acknowledging what people have gone through with you.

So I hope that we can see that trust and respect rebuilt and that there's a path forward for everyone to feel more secure and hopeful in our community.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I call to the podium, Ebony Hastings.

So the last city commission meeting, Commissioner Shaw pointed that he doesn't necessarily respond back to us because he considers this a business meeting.

So I think that it would just be a best practice to kind of communicate that to us and then maybe follow up with email because you all do ask us to give our email or our phone numbers in regards to specific questions that are raised where we're asking for answers.

So I have quite a few.

Um to support the rehabilitation of that.

It stated that the meeting that the city center building would be plan for seniors in low-income housing.

I want to know if that's true, and I want to know why isn't Montgomery County and the City of Dayton working collaboratively in more things besides buildings that are downtown.

And then um in regards to the learn to earn, I think it's important for me to know what demographic of students were involved in their work sessions and what demographic of students will um benefit from this uh pilot program.

And then I want to know.

So why are we leasing?

Um why are we still leasing the building?

Let's get rid of it.

If it's not ours and nobody's occupying it to do city business, we need to get rid of it.

I drove through East Dayton on my way to the um city commission meeting this afternoon, and I noticed that there are not debris of um demolished homes throughout the East Dayton community.

So let's be a mirror and just reflect how we take care of our city from east to west.

Um the speed cameras.

I don't understand what's the delay in the removal if we have the the burden of proof that they are causing harm to the residents and the citizens of Dayton, especially the immigrant community.

And then again, I echo what Mary Sue said in regards to Reginald Thomas.

If the investigation is still pending, give us a status update of that.

That is how you garner our trust in just communicating back and forth in regards to what our concerns are.

You're asking for our email, we're providing it, we're following all of your rules.

Respect us enough to do it in return.

I call to the podium Lois de Grey.

Hello, I'm Louis DeGru.

Hello.

At uh 1601 East Fifth Street.

Um so thanks for having me here.

Hello.

Um there's been a lot of discussion about you know the hurt that um uh federal law enforcement has done to our communities.

Um, and I don't need to rehash that.

I just want to underscore the uh enabling effect that the flock safety uh technologies that we've that the city has uh implemented throughout the city, that effect um helps enable that uh that uh trauma causing events that uh federal law enforcement causes.

Um, you know, like others have said, I'm pretty disappointed by uh the amount of time from when we learned that this technology was being misused, put that in quotes uh to now, and we are still unclear on how that uh what the pause of that contract looks like.

Um, and I would just recommend and ask that uh the uh all of these cameras are removed and that the contract is ended as quickly as possible.

I think we have seen already that the tools that collect this data, despite being called automatic license plate readers, they collect far more than just the license plate.

Um and these technologies can be misused pretty heavily.

Um I think this commission should also uh pass an ordinance that ensures this kind of technology can ever be used in our community again.

Um I understand that there is no expectation of privacy in public, but that's not what's happening here.

Uh, this is like being followed by someone 24-7, uh, having them record what you do and then sell that information to somebody else.

Um, I think that everybody in this room would be very uncomfortable if we were being followed around by just some dude 24-7.

Um, so just like to reiterate that I want those cameras gone as quickly as possible, contract to be ended, and that they never come back.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Gray.

Zakir Jabbar.

Thank you.

Zakya Sankara Jabbar, um Lord have mercy, 2426 Jerome, I had to remember.

So I'm back and I want to talk about a number of different things.

The energy in here um, you know, for me just feels really heavy a lot because of the level of disrespect that comes uh from this podium consistently.

I've been here consistently now for over a month, uh, working with the community here.

People have been calling for the firing of the city manager.

Um, as Ebony just so eloquently stated, there's no responses either from up here, except for the mayor and commissioner Fairchild, no emails, no outreach, just come back and just sit and look at people and never respond.

Uh it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy where people feel unheard, and so they do disengage.

And maybe that's the training you all got, right?

Just wait them out.

This is a poor city.

Most people are working poor, working class, so ain't nobody got time to keep coming down here telling y'all the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over again for y'all to just like how you looking at me, Matt Joseph, right now, just look and don't say nothing.

I even gave you an opportunity specifically, you, Matt Joseph.

You after the commission meeting two weeks ago, I asked you directly why didn't you respond to the people who came up here and talked about the police brutality, their own personal experiences.

You don't care.

I said, why don't you care?

You literally looked at me and I had tears in my eyes because I could not believe that a black woman came up here, relived her trauma, and nobody addressed it.

Other people came up here and told you about their experiences with the Dayton Police Department.

You looked at me and walked straight away.

You think that's acceptable?

You think that's okay?

That's not okay to continue to ignore people and to ignore 38% of the population here which are black.

That's a pretty significant population.

I know you feel like you Teflon Don, because you've been here so long, but a part of the reason you've been here so long is because people are not engaged.

And so here's my new announcement today.

I am so excited to announce that I'm gonna be working on whoever's campaign that's gonna be run against Chris Shaw and Matt Joseph next time.

I'm gonna be working on it, and I got plenty of time to work with the community.

Because see, y'all got plenty of money from the business community.

You're gonna outspend us.

You got that, but you ain't gonna outwork me, baby.

I'm gonna visit every church in West Dayton.

Every community center in West Dayton, you are not to see you disrespected the wrong person.

Because you gave me energy.

You disrespected the wrong person.

You disrespected the wrong community.

For you to sit up and walk away from me when I asked you a question.

You had every opportunity to engage me.

Fire the city manager.

Ain't nobody gonna keep coming down here telling y'all the same thing over and over again without disrespectful sales.

And he is looked like the man, one of the men that went in Robbie's place and the other day.

Thank you very much for your comment.

Thank you, Mr.

Kira Jabbar.

Uh-oh.

I call to the podium Paul Kerrigan.

Hi, Paul Kerrigan.

Good evening.

1525 Pershing Boulevard.

I want to thank, start by thanking you for sending me the note.

Thank you for telling me you appreciated me being involved.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

And hello to the rest of you gentlemen.

I came here with a specific purpose, but after what I've heard here tonight, I think I'm going to stick to a little details.

And I hate to bring this up in the situation given the circumstances I've heard here tonight.

It seems trivial that I'm bringing this up.

But you know what I'm here to talk about about the speeders and the speeding on Pershing Boulevard.

You know, shortly after months ago, I was here and presented you with the data which I have from the first black box.

You guys all agree that that was a serious problem.

And whoever decided, the engineers, police, put up those two speed indicator size.

One in each direction.

Those were taken down after 60 days.

That was two weeks ago today.

So I'm on top of it.

I told you I wasn't going to go anywhere.

So I'm evidence of that now.

It took me till three o'clock this afternoon to get the data because I didn't know that there were only three sets of those for the city, and they moved about every 30 days.

And we were given 60 days, so I was real happy.

I knew it wasn't going to stay there.

But I didn't know that it collected data the whole time it was there.

Every car, speed time of day, the whole nine yards.

60 more days of data from the first, which we had.

I'm here to tell you I have it with me now.

I have a copy for you.

I'm probably gonna leave it at that and just leave you that copy and move on because I've been in touch with the lieutenant.

I don't want to name names over at the engineers, been talking with them.

They don't know what to do at this point, and they're trying to figure out what to do because it hasn't gotten better.

Those signs didn't mean much once the police left after the first week and a half that they stayed there on the street with those signs.

It's ridiculous.

I want to make sure I cover everything I wanted to talk about today.

I didn't know that Dayton South Dayton Airport was owned by the city of Dayton.

I'm so happy to hear that.

Do you know how much I hear people talking about how badly that property is wanted by developers?

You guys have a golden bank account down there.

I don't know how you feel about that in the future and the needs of this city.

Uh I have uh, this is important for me.

This is only for me, everybody else it doesn't matter.

Came to my attention from the police from the the uh engineers that I'm only doing this because I had a failed petition and I'm taking it personal.

That's the rule, or the going around the city.

Only thing I had to do with that petition was my signature when it came to my door.

It was a result of living there 17 years and seeing this going unabated, undealt with for all that time, and losing a cat run over by a speeder and a dog hit by a run over by or hit by a speeder.

They didn't even slow down, they didn't give a damn.

They just kept on going.

And it keeps happening there in quads, the whole nine yards.

It's such a pity little problem compared to what's going on here tonight.

So you but you heard me.

And I want to get this data to you because it's for you.

I have my copy.

Your time is up, thank you.

Yes, I see.

There you go.

Thank you, Mr.

King.

Thank you very much.

Also have some photos of police and firemen of baseball leagues from back in the 30s, if anybody's interested, but I have a contact with the police and fire.

I'll probably pursue that.

Thank you.

I call to the podium Jennifer Evans.

Oh to the podium, Jerry Bowling.

Good evening.

Good evening, Jerry Bowling III, 522 Herbert Street.

Um, I'm here on behalf of the McCookville Neighborhood Association to provide thanks to city staff, uh, Tom Ritchie uh from Public Works, Jason Phillips from Housing, and Lily Hannibal from Citizen Engagement.

Uh, we had a good meeting on Monday, and uh their participation and discussion about Claridge Park was appreciated.

Um here on behalf of the Old North Dayton Neighborhood Association, McCookville Neighborhood Association, Kaiser High School alumni, and our committee for our event on Sunday, June 14th.

It's a flag day celebration at Point Park at the corner of Valley and Kiwi, and that's at 2 p.m.

on that day.

And what we're gonna celebrate is the rededication of the North Dayton Patriots Memorial, uh, the 80th anniversary of the awarding of the Medal of Honor to Corporal Tony Stein of the U.S.

Marine Corps, the raising of the flag at a flagpole that had been barren for years.

Also the America 250 celebration.

And something very interesting is going to be a time capsule reveal that was put at the memorial there in 1946.

So we're interested to see what's going in there.

Um what what's coming out of there, and we also will put something in there as well.

Um this memorial, there's the names of 98 Patriots from uh what was at the time called North Dayton, um, who gave their lives during military service during wars, uh, World War One to Korea and Vietnam.

So we're gonna honor them as well.

Um we have uh a Facebook page and an event, and that's North Dayton Patriots Memorial, so you can follow us on that, and we'll get you the flyer.

Um we want to thank the city of Dayton uh for your support.

Uh some of the um the monument being uh restored was with grant money that the two neighborhood associates associations used.

Um also the Kaiser High School Alumni Association, uh citywide development as well.

So there's a number of stakeholders, and I think you've all received invitations to appear at the event, and uh we'll make sure we get you the flyer in that invitation.

So thank you so very much.

Thank you, Miss Bowling.

Mr.

Bowling, thank you.

I call to the podium Aaron Ship.

Hi, Karen Ship, 3843 Alvin Avenue, Dayton, Ohio.

Um Mayor, Commissioners, thank you for the opportunity to speak today.

I want to raise a concern that affects not just my neighborhood, but many communities across our city, especially our black, brown, and lower income residents.

Many of us recognize this is an ongoing challenge, yet despite widespread awareness, we've seen little meaningful action to address it.

In the four years that I've been that I've returned to this community.

I have not heard us, well, besides today.

Um, many public people talk about the noise pollution and its uh um and its documented effects on our health.

And in my neighborhood, noise pollution is extreme.

Just a mile from my home, there is an outdoor police firing branch nearby a train nearby.

There's also a train crossing with no set schedule.

I've heard it blasting his horn at 2, 3, 4, and 5 in the morning.

And very quickly to address the the police thing just yesterday, from 8 in the morning until about 3 in the 3:30 in the afternoon, the police were firing, you know, practice firing at this range.

It was they paused for lunch, but then started again.

It was ridiculous.

We have cars found in music, motorcycles with modified exhaust revving down streets, and drivers feeding 50 or 60 miles per hour in zones posted for 25 or 30.

Some neighbors hold late-night black parties, though I've worked with those around me to reduce the frequency.

We also contend with loud arguments, shouting, gunfire, and fireworks, not to mention the constant well of emergency vehicles.

This isn't just a nuisance.

Noise pollution has serious, measurable effects on our bodies, including hearing loss, cardiovascular strain, sleep desk disruption, sleep disruption, mental health effects, cognitive effects, and metabolic impact.

And I didn't know I still had a little bit more time.

So along with the hearing loss, we got um prolonged exposure to sounds over 70 decibels can cause permanent damage.

A gunshot from the ranks that I was just talking about a mile away, can still reach 93 decibels.

Federal rules require train horns to be between 96 and 110 decibels at a thousand feet.

This is ridiculous.

And then you got the cardiovascular strain, uh cardiovascular shame.

Ugh.

And I respectfully ask this body to take these concerns seriously.

Our communities deserve the same protections from environmental health hazards as any other part of the city.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Shipp.

I call to the podium, Maddie H.

Maddie H.

Okay.

Christina Mendez.

Christina Mendez, 711 West Winger.

Good evening, Mayor Turner Slaus.

Good evening.

Commissioners.

My name is Christina Mendez, and I serve as the executive director for the Dayton Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, as well as the board chair for the business and economic development committee under Welcome Dayton.

And I'm here tonight speaking on behalf of our members and the broader immigrant community that is the backbone of this city's economy.

The recent revelations about the Flock license plate reader program have shaken our community deeply.

More than 7,100 searches tied to immigration enforcement were conducted using Dayton driver data.

Data collected from our streets, from our members' employees, from families going to work, to school, and to church.

And this happened while community groups and this commission were assured the safeguards would be in place.

The city manager has already acknowledged that this commission went to great lengths alongside community representatives to create thoughtful, intentional policy guardrails, and that the city failed to execute in that direction.

We do appreciate the honesty.

But acknowledgement is not enough.

Trust has been broken and it must be rebuilt through immediate action.

Now we've heard the narrative that the business community wants these cameras to stay.

And I want to be very clear.

That narrative does not serve us all.

The Dayton Hispanic Chamber of Commerce represents businesses that depend on immigrant workers.

People who are now afraid to go to work, they're afraid to take their children to school, and they're afraid to simply exist in Dayton, Ohio.

That fear, guys, has real economic consequences.

When workers do not show up, businesses suffer.

When families live in fear, communities suffer.

The immigrant community is not a liability to Dayton.

It is a real asset.

Our members hire locally, they pay their taxes, and they invest in this city.

They deserve to live and work without fear that a routine drive down the street is being logged and shared with federal immigration administration and authorities.

So we urge this commission to take the following steps.

One, permanently remove the flat cameras rather than simply suspending them.

Get them gone.

Number two, release the full audit logs.

We want to know what that when the data was shared and when.

And commit to a community-centered process before any surveillance technology is ever deployed again.

Dayton can be a city where everyone, I mean everyone, regardless, regardless of immigration status, can live with dignity.

Tonight, we ask you to choose trust over surveillance, and we ask you to choose community over fear.

Thank you and God bless you all.

Thank you, Miss Mendez.

God bless you.

Thank you.

All right.

So off the top, I did want to thank several.

Thank you.

All right.

I did want to thank several of the members of the commission.

Um, specifically Commissioner Fairchild, Commissioner Joseph for reaching out to the deflock Dayton group, and also Mayor Turner Sloss for doing the same.

If Shaw or Beckham, if you either of you have, I'm not aware of it, but I would thank you also.

Um that's a fortunate because I'm gonna have to immediately criticize the outreach that you've done so far.

Um basically all of the um we are hearing a bunch of promises uh being delivered to, like being delivered to uh like lawyers at ABL, other members of the group that met with you guys so far, and they're like they're good promises, and I'm glad that we're committing to them.

But none of them have any kind of dates, none of them have any kind of estimates, um, what like the process that needs to happen for any of them to go through, anything like that.

If we do not have any of those guarantees or any assurances that things are in motion, things are moving through, then this issue could just be left in limbo forever.

Uh and I don't I think I speak for everyone here in the room wanting to remove the plot cameras that we do not want that to happen.

Um today, I have one specific ask, uh, which is I believe that given the harm that's already happened, we need to at least temporarily remove the cameras from the streets.

I have a tech background, and there is no way that we can guarantee uh that the cameras are not recording unless they are either physically covered up or physically removed.

They always have access to power and they could be triggered remotely.

There is no way we can guarantee they are not recording.

Uh I will of course be advocating for the permanent removal of them and for the contract.

However, I think this temporary step would go a long way towards relieving people's anxieties in the short term.

Uh thank you very much for your time.

Thank you, sir.

I call to the podium re-molnar.

Sorry.

Hi, hi.

Good evening.

Good evening.

361 West Dayton Yellow Springs Road in Fairborn.

Um I wanted to share with you a little passage from this book that I'm hoping the title will give you some direction.

It's called Right Thing Right Now.

But it speaks for itself.

But you know, it's that's what we're asking you to do.

It's simple, really.

We just want you to do the right thing right now.

Um so a passage from this says that it's not without cost to break your word.

Nor is your reputation usually the only one at stake.

Not only because we all represent other people, but because each time we deceive or break faith, we undermine the public trust.

We make it hard for people to trust each other.

But the converse is also true.

Each time we keep our word, we make a deposit.

We add a strand to the rope that binds the world together.

And I think as public servants, what better um what better to aspire to than to be the rope that binds the world together and keep your word?

Um from real violence of police and ICE brutality and kidnapping and family separation to the threat of violence from ALPR surveillance, an excessive presence of police downtown.

It's clear that people who live, work, and play here in Dayton want more than words from you.

We all want action.

You don't need to remind us what the problems are or the limitations that you're up against.

We want to know what you're gonna do about it and when.

Um thank you, Commissioner Joseph and Mayor Turner Sloss for making commitments to removing the ALPR cameras, canceling the contract with FLOC, um, and producing that an audit log of who has access to the Dayton ALPR data and when.

I will mention that this is just an Excel document, so it shouldn't cost you $30,000.

Um we are still working on any commitments from the remaining commissioners, as well as a clear and transparent timeline.

I also hear an uplift calls for accountability for this culture of impunity in regard to this level of violence that's being uplifted by community members calling for the city manager to be fired.

Please tell us plainly what are you doing and when to take action within your power in these matters.

If some of you will continue to claim that the ALPR camera data uh are somehow able to be appropriate to put parameters on it to protect vulnerable Daytonians, I just want to share a brief list with you of the counties that have 287G contracts, which make them essentially ICE themselves.

These include Adams, Brown, Butler, Claremont, Delaware, Fairfield, Fayette, Gelga, Green, and 17 others.

So thank you.

I call to the podium Destiny Brown.

Good evening.

Destiny Brown, 130 West 2nd Street, Dayton Ohio, 45402.

I'm here today because unfortunately many residents have watched for years as the spending priorities and values entrenched within the city manager's administration have shaped the direction of the city in ways that are impossible to ignore at this point.

So while downtown continues to flourish with investment, development attention, many of the neighborhoods are experiencing the exact opposite.

Residents are watching infrastructure decline, community resources disappear, and essential services dwindle while being told there's not enough funding to address the conditions they live with.

The imbalance is just not disappointing.

It reflects a deeper issue within the culture of our local government.

Equity means ensuring that every neighborhood, every family, and every resident receives the fair consideration and investment.

Right now, too many people feel excluded from that vision.

However, many people supported and elected Commissioner Beckham because they believe there was an opportunity for a shift, a chance to move toward a culture of government that is more community-centered, transparent, and willing to challenge systems that have produced inequitable outcomes for years.

This is a defining moment.

What residents are witnessing is a part of a larger culture under the city manager's administration that has normalized a lack of transparency, weak accountability, and decision making that often excludes meaningful meaningful community participation.

We have seen major decisions move forward without adequate public visibility or oversight, including the execution of 223 contracts totaling 3.5 million without commission approval, as well as the advancement of a 1.4 million dollar property purchase without an appraisal, competitive bidding, or proper public notice.

Residents have also watched repeated efforts to limit public engagement through practices like emergency bus budget designations and vague appointment processes.

While at the same time, neighborhoods continue to experience deep inequities in investment and in quality of life.

One in 10 Dayton homes need major repairs.

And a 2023 citywide survey found that one in three residents were dissatisfied with housing conditions in their neighborhood.

There are so many unsafe structures that have been sitting for years, while downtown beautiful case tells the tale of two different realities in Dayton.

Taken together, these are not isolated incidents.

They reflect a governing culture that prioritizes centralized control, limited transparency, and unequal investment, while continued communities continue to ask to be heard, respected, and valued for the future of our city.

Your voters in our community is watching.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Brown.

That concludes speakers, Your Honor.

Thank you.

Good job.

Please, you all.

Thank you very much.

I really appreciate everyone's patience this evening.

Mr.

Parlett, do you have any closing comments this evening?

Thank you.

Ms.

McClendon, do you have any closing comments this evening?

Yes, Your Honor.

City Hall will be closed on Monday, May 25th, due to the Memorial Day holiday.

Thank you, Ms.

McClendon.

Commissioners, do you have any closing comments?

Commissioner Beckham.

Thank you, Your Honor.

Um I want to thank all of the residents and citizens that came out to speak this evening.

Appreciate you sharing your concerns.

I join my colleagues uh in requesting that the flock cameras be taken down.

Um I think we are working through how soon we can do that.

Um I think in the interim, I think we are trying to figure out what steps can be taken to mitigate the vulnerability and concerns that uh there are still uh recording happen, recordings uh being taken.

And I would just ask Deputy City Manager Parlett uh until we um obviously address that concern.

Can you define for the public what suspended actually means?

Not active.

Um but we had uh a meeting earlier today, and DPD agreed to work with um public works to put bags over the cameras.

Thank you.

Do we have a timeline?

Uh we do not.

It's just an idea that was brought by DPD today.

Okay.

So we'll get the work on it.

It would be uh well appreciated for us to uh be able to communicate a timeline in which those short bags will go over the cameras.

So I would love to to get that update as soon as we can.

Um in addition to that, I have some questions about the tasty bird situation.

Um can we just get an update on what exactly is the current state of of that circumstance?

Yeah, I'm not positioned as we sit here, but we'll follow up with you with the most up-to-date.

Thank you.

Uh I believe those are all of my comments again.

Uh thank you to all the residents that continue to come out and voice your concerns.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Schell.

Thank you, Commissioner, for your comments.

Um I totally agree.

I think we are all united in that effort that we need to remove these cameras as soon as possible.

Uh and I think that work is happening now.

And and uh would appreciate um uh as many updates as we can get as we go through this process.

I think it will go a long way with residents.

Um so I'm confident that that is going to happen and we will we'll stay on top of it as a commission.

I know.

So I know that we all agree on this, and and that's that's very good.

Um I also appreciate the comments today.

Everyone is very passionate about these and other issues, and it's glad that they come down here uh and show their concern.

Um these are business meetings, so I do not respond directly.

But I am available uh if anyone ever wants to reach out to me.

Um I make it a point to always keep those appointments and we'll keep keep the uh communication up as best as possible.

Having said that, uh I would like you to join the Dayton Minority Business Assistance Center for a virtual workshop on May 26th from 10 to 1130 a.m.

Learn how state certification can help uh excuse me, minority-owned women-owned and veteran-friendly businesses grow.

Uh you can call 937-226-822 for more information.

Also, in recognition of mental health awareness month, Haven Behavioral Health will host a mental health resource fair on Thursday, May 21st from 9 to 11 a.m.

at one Elizabeth Place.

The event will bring together community organizations, uh, vendors, and highlight mental health resources through the community.

Uh you can call 937-234-0102 to follow up with them.

That's all I have.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Joseph.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh, I want to join my colleagues in thanking folks for coming out today.

Uh and I join my colleagues in asking for a firm timeline for when these things are going to happen.

Uh second, I want to congratulate Meg Maloney, our own Megan Maloney on being recognized as one of the Dayton Business Journal's 40 under 40 award recipients.

She's been in a jail.

She's been a driving force behind our City of Dayton sustainability and resilience initiatives, and she continues to help position Dayton as leader in renewable energy and environmental innovation.

That's a leader not only in the region, not only in the state, not only in the country, but internationally.

She's very good.

Some of the accomplishments that have happened under her leadership of the department are she's helped Dayton residents save more than a million dollars through the city's partnership with SOPEC, and that's on electricity bills since 2022.

She's supported, built and supported sustainability initiatives that generated approximately 29 million dollars in savings and cost avoidance.

She is directly participating in reducing 30, 300,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions and engaging more than 70,000 residents through outreach and programs.

She's also secured for the city more than 36 million dollars in grant funding uh for climate, energy, and equity initiatives.

And she has most recently advanced one of the largest community choice solar agreements within a city limit in the United States, projected to save our residents more than 42 million over the next 25 years.

We are very grateful for Meg's leadership and dedication to building a stronger and more sustainable Dayton.

Thank you, Meg Maloney.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you.

I would like to thank my my colleagues for their comments, and thank you for recognizing this Maloney.

She has done a remarkable job in continuing on that path.

So again, thank you.

I really appreciate you acknowledging her work and the entire staff.

Um couple comments this evening.

Uh thank you all for uh um extending the courtesy of uh allowing me to to step away from the meeting uh this evening due to graduation.

And with that, I want to congratulate all of the graduates um near and far, DPS graduates and many other neighboring communities.

As mentioned earlier, there are a number of things that we're working on collectively together.

I'm very excited about the work behind the summer of peace.

More details will come and we'll be happy to share the with that information with the public.

Is that what we're dealing with right now?

We had some very unfortunate situations that took place over the last couple of months, to be honest.

But most recently, an incident that took place during a graduation ceremony that was very disturbing.

And it is very concerning on a number of fronts.

And what we're seeing in our community, and it's not isolate isolated to the city of Dayton.

So let me be clear on that.

We're seeing a lot of disruptive and illicit and very concerning behavior from our teenagers, from our youth.

And so my my ploy and my ask is that this is not a city issue.

This is not a DPD issue.

This is not a DPS issue.

This is not an issue for more so where all of the responsibility lies on our churches, our organizations, or even for that matter, many of our other institutions, that the home itself.

So I'm asking that we all take ownership and responsibility and that we all roll up our sleeves and do the necessary work.

We have to make sure that we are providing the opportunities, the resources and programming that are available to our youth.

As mentioned, I am constantly uplifting the work of our recreation youth services.

They do a phenomenal job with limited resources.

You all have seen the budget.

You know that we are operating with a very tight budget, and on top of the many constraints that we're dealing with, fuel costs is real.

Um preschool promise the work that they're doing, the work that is also rolling out will learn to earn with the children's cabinet.

Um and again, for in our churches, there are a number of summer Bible studies or Bible schools that will be taking place as we roll into the summer months.

Well, we know summer officially starts, what is it, June 21st?

So this is an opportunity for us to make sure that we all are intimately involved.

And I would challenge you all.

If you see something, say something.

We need people to speak up.

We need to make sure that we are taking responsibility for our communities.

Again, we cannot police our way through this.

So that is a charge.

I'm holding myself accountable, and I ask that we all be held accountable as we start to roll into the summer months.

And we want to make sure that with that there are a number of programming and services that are readily available.

Uh the staff put together a very comprehensive list.

Uh there are over a hundred plus program.

So we are going to debunk the myth and the notion that there is nothing for our kids to do that is farthest from the truth.

There are plenty of things for our kids to do.

The issue that we face is that how do we make sure that one that our kids are aware of the various different programming, two, transportation is in fact a factor.

Um, and so again, we're going to make sure that we're working very diligently and intentional about how we are having uh a productive and peaceful summer that will lead into the fall and to the winter and to the next to the following seasons throughout the year.

So again, that is my ploy, that is my charge.

More information will come about the summer of peace.

We're gonna roll a lot of that information out.

But I just wanted to speak to that because again, it's very concerning as to what we've been seeing that is taking place across across the country.

Um, and again, it's not isolated to the city of Dayton.

Thank you all to the members of our community that came out this evening.

Thank you for your heartfelt um concerns and testimonies.

Thank you for lending your time uh for giving voice to the the issues that are important to to many of us.

And so again, just will like more detail on the timeline.

And so with Ms.

Jackson, if you could work with Mr.

Davis and make sure that we have that information so that we can too share that information with the public.

I think it may even warrant for us to do perhaps a um to work with our public affairs department for a public announcement, whatever the case may be, so that we can have that re uh statement available.

Um so thank you, Ms.

Jackson, for taking that lead.

And thank you, Mr.

Parlet, for acknowledging that the work is being done and that the concerns are not being uh they're not falling on deaf ears.

So thank you for your leadership on that.

Um so thank you, Ms.

Hasting, Mr.

Gray, Ms.

Sakar, Jabbar, Mr.

Hering, uh, Mr.

I I I believe that we should move to a permanent solution, and I don't know what that may look like.

Uh perhaps this is an opportunity for us to revisit the petition for the speed bumps in your area because we are in fact limited on resources.

Um Mr.

Bowling, thank you for acknowledging the rededication.

I look forward to that information across our desk so that we can make sure that one that we're in attendance and that we can share that as well with the rest of the community.

Uh Mr.

Ship, thank you for your concerns and the noise uh pollution.

It is in fact uh a deep concern.

Uh, there is an ordinance in place.

Um, so it's an opportunity, I believe, for us to revisit uh to identify the the levels of enforcement.

What are we doing for enforcement?

Would perhaps it is in fact a PSA to remind individuals to remind the community, the NORS ordinance, especially as we start to move into the summer months.

Um so thank you for bringing it to our attention.

And I know that Commissioner Shaw works very closely with the railroad crossing initiative, and so he um sure has some information with NLC and can provide um some various different uh options and uh mechanisms that we can look into for for furthering that um addressing rather that concern.

Ms.

Mendez, thank you for your your comments, thank you for being here, thank you for being an advocate for the community.

Um I believe that the next steps in this process in which this body will have further conversation as to what some of the the demands are and that is um the release of the audit, the the timeline around the release of the audit, knowing that it is in fact an NXL file.

How do we make sure that that information is readily available, but also that that information is not um we're not exposing or divulging any any additional information to warrant any security, privacy or an ammunity concern.

So we don't want to address an issue by creating another issue, so to speak.

So there's more work that to come on that.

Um Mr.

Kerr Kervin, I believe I have that right.

Um please forgive me if I mispronounced your name.

But thank you very much for your concerns and um your recommendation for the cover as you heard from Mr.

Parlett.

They're already having the conversations working with our public works department, um, and so along with the Dayton Police Department.

So we will have more of a definitive answer as to when that will take place.

Reed, thank you for your leadership and thank you for being here as well.

And I apologize that I missed the first 15 speakers, but rest assured.

Um I know the staff will make sure that those comments will be shared with me, and then I will also have an opportunity to go back and and revisit and and review the meeting from this evening.

A couple more comments, and then I'll be coming too close to an end.

Congratulations to Sugar Creek Packing and Montgomery County Land Bank for securing environmental justice grant with the state of Ohio.

Land bank received 166,000 to help redevelop Tech Town, which will create 30 new jobs in the city of Dayton.

Sugar Creek received 173,000 to remediate 4.1 acre industrial site in West Dayton, which will allow them to expand their operations in West Dayton.

So wait a little, right?

Way to go.

That is awesome news for Sugar Creek as well as with the land bank.

So we like to see development taking place in the city of Dayton and all parts in the city of Dayton, but uh Sugar Creek has in fact led the charge when their expansion and their leadership in the uh North Gettysburg Corridor.

So we're very excited to see, and we want to make sure that we are uplifting that work and we look forward to seeing the results.

Also would like to bring to everyone's attention that this Saturday will be the celebration of the African Liberation Day at Liberation Park.

That is 836-836 Superior Avenue, and the event starts at 10 a.m.

Uh vendors will be available throughout the day.

I'm not sure.

I believe it probably will be dusk in terms of when the the event will actually come to an end.

But we're in inviting all of those to come out, all community members to come out and enjoy the day and building community and neighbors with friends.

And then lastly but certainly not least, I would like to thank uh my colleague.

Thank you so much.

Thanks for coming out, Commissioner.

I know we were in your neighborhood, but uh thank you very much.

I know uh many of my colleagues had other obligations, so they will be at the next one, I'm sure.

Weather permitted, right?

Um so and I know Commissioner uh Fairchild, he missed the tail end of it, but I want to thank all of those who came out yesterday, uh yesterday evening.

It was a beautiful evening.

We actually were able to walk the area prior to the storm coming in.

So it was a good use of time.

Um so thank you to all of again the staff members from DPD, our Dayton Police Department, our Dayton Fire Department, Public Works, Housing Inspection, Um, Planning Staff, Community Engagement, of course, the famous and the one and only the commission staff that came out.

Um, so again, we thank Ms.

Roberta, all of the leadership in the um Forest Ridge and Quill Hollow neighborhood, um, a great neighborhood, and they will too will be celebrating their 50th anniversary of existence.

So, and all of the LUS from my understanding are in fact they're filled and they're developed.

So a thriving neighborhood, so it was good to go out.

Um, so that is all that I have.

Again, I thank everyone for being here and thank you for your patience and sitting through a very long but important meeting.

So, with no further business, this meeting will now come to it will now adjourn.

Thank you.