The Dayton City Commission meeting will now come to order.

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

This evening's allegiance, well, or invocation, rather, excuse me, will be given by Commissioner Shaw.

Dear God, we ask that you bless us and the community with peace and love.

Help us to continue to build and strengthen the community.

Amen.

Amen.

One nation, individual, liberty, and justice.

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

Mayor Turner Sloth.

Aye.

Commissioners Joseph.

Shaw.

Fairchild.

Aye.

Beckham.

Aye.

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

So moved.

Second the motion, right?

Thank you.

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

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

May I have a motion to approve the minutes of the May 27th, 2026 meeting.

So moved, Your Honor.

Second.

It has been properly moved and seconded to approve the minutes of the May 27th, 2026 meeting.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

Any abstentions?

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

There are none, Your Honor.

Thank you, ma'am.

And this evening we have a presentation.

In regards to the Felons with the Future CVG program, I would like to call to the podium.

Mr.

Greg West, CEO of Felons with the Future to the podium, please.

Good evening, you're good evening.

Good evening.

Commissioners, assistant city manager, and the rest of the staff.

Thank you for this time.

We're really coming to bring awareness for gun violence month this month.

June is gun violence awareness month.

As you see, we all have on our orange ribbons and we have on our orange shirts, because that's the color for gun violence.

I'm giving some ribbons to be distributed up to the staff and the commission so that we can all support gun violence.

I wanted to bring my crew up here to, you know, introduce them to them so that we can talk about the 82 days of no gun violence at all in the North Riverdale area.

Um that's been attributed to the hard work of our staff being out there on the pavement, talking to people, getting to know the community, getting to trust them everything.

So I want to start at the left and uh let him introduce himself and have a couple seconds to say whatever he needs to say about gun violence awareness month.

Come to the mic of Julius.

Come to the podium, sir.

Hey, hey.

Praise the Lord to all y'all that's up there.

It's my honor, even to be a privilege to even say anything.

Uh, but my name is Julius Ruby.

It's just an honor to be part of this violence interrupters, and uh just to go 82 days without violence and just be part of the community.

I'm part of the community for a long time, but this is something special, and uh I didn't even like to be called up here first, and y'all know that so but it's an honor, and we I think we've been doing a great job, you know.

So I'm just privileged, man.

I'm I'm gonna get out the way, amen.

Thank you.

Uh good evening, Darren Bird.

Uh part of the uh the violence been the community advocate, you know, in the city, whatever.

And uh, you know, the hard work over there, them days or whatever.

So it's it's been a uh a step in the right direction because we haven't had a program like this in a couple years or whatever, so it's affected.

You know, looking forward forward to spread out, go citywide.

That's right.

Thank you.

Uh Ron Santos and a violence interrupter.

Um, just looking forward to the program growing into other neighborhoods, so um, you can show the statistic change um around the city.

Thank you.

First lady.

Hello, everyone.

It's a pleasure being here.

My name is Terry Sims.

I am the outreach for the violence interrupters.

I think it's a great program because it's very needed, not just for what's happening around in the area that we are, but throughout the city.

A lot of the families are in need, and I know that once we start growing, the city of Dayton will be great again.

And safe.

Thank you.

Great evening, everybody.

My name's Chris Lock at aka C Lot.

I'm a violence interrupter for Felons with a Future and also the VIP program and Brave.

We're uh building resilience against violent encounters in our neighborhoods.

And it feels good to get back to the community.

And um, you know, just helping people change their social norms, what they think is normal.

We're helping them know nah, that's not it's not normal, you know, to be feeling that way.

And um my message is this month and moving forward for every day of every month is focus on the things that you can control and let the universe deal with the uncontrollables.

Thank you.

Hello everyone, I'm Curtis Pina Johnson, program director for uh Felon with a Future Program, Brave, Building Resilience and Advis Encounters.

And um, I want to say, man, like I want to say salute to my team, man, for them to be out there every day dealing with high-risk individuals, and again, that they don't give us any slack at all.

Um, every now and then, but other than that, not as good.

Uh but no, um, but but really um everybody up here is credible and suitable, and and that's something like we have to do, and my job is to make sure we're doing fidelity to the model, and that's something we've exemplared done ever since March.

Um boots on the ground have really paid off, and again, like the community is starting to buy in.

Again, we're 82 days, and we're gonna keep rolling with that.

I understand the the public need for it to be citywide, and that's probably why we're here talking about this today.

Because again, I mean, we're here, we're we're ready, we're focused, we're trained, and we're ready to roll out in any way, and shape and a capacity you guys uh see forth.

So thank you guys as well.

And we also have a volunteer we want to bring up.

He did join.

Yeah.

How's everybody doing today?

Well, good evening.

My name is Troy Tanner.

Uh I'm from a little bit of everywhere in Dayton.

Uh I'm the guy never shuts up.

I tell everybody, enjoy life and positive vibrations to all of y'all.

Come on.

And and uh, you know, um I have to say this in all honesty.

At one time in my life I was opposed to politics.

However, what I'm learning is is that it's gonna take all of us right to make this happen.

Not one of us, all of us.

Come on.

And we want consciousness.

So I tell everybody enjoy life and positive vibrations solid.

Thank you.

As you see, we we have people who are volunteering and coming in, and that's one of the calls of action that we're doing to the city because like you said, it's gonna take all of us.

Right now, as uh we're just in the North Riverdale area, but if you do want to get involved, please get in touch with us at uh 937-270-3731, or go to our website, Felonswitha Future Um, or our email Felonswith a Future at Gmail.

We're looking for people who want to step up and learn conflict resolutions so that they can take it back into their communities, that way we can start uh hitting this this public epidemic as quick as possible.

That's all we got to do.

Thank you.

And don't forget 1936 North Main Street, same as plugs, same with plugs, same as plugs.

That's right.

1936 North North Main Street.

And use our laundry mat.

One second after that.

One second, yes, please.

If you you all come back, please, if you want mine.

Thank you.

I'm sure my colleagues have some comments and and and want to um acknowledge you all and the work that you're doing.

So, Commissioner Beckham, please.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh, first of all, it's it's good to see everybody.

I'm very glad to be in my orange in solidarity with you all for gun violence prevention month.

Um I am um just very, very, very, very excited about what this program has and will continue to accomplish.

Um, you know, it's an honor to have been kind of in the early stage of helping it get here.

Um, and now that I have the honor of sitting in this seat, uh my my intention and my commitment is to make sure that this program does expand.

Uh, we obviously need it.

Um, and uh I know you all are doing the work.

Um some of you were a part of serve.

Uh the uh earlier original uh part uh of this program, Mr.

Ruby uh and Mr.

Bird.

Um so I'm I'm thankful that we also have the longevity and the experience built into bringing this program back.

Um and you know, our city needs it.

Uh, and we're gonna continue to support you all.

Uh, we're gonna continue to lift up this work and thank you for uh what's already been accomplished.

So uh good to see everybody.

Thank you for being here and uh proud of the program so far.

Let's keep going.

Thank you very much for sure.

Commissioner Fairchild.

Yeah, no, I just echo those remarks.

Thank you for the work you've done.

Congratulations on what you accomplished so far.

I know it was a long time coming.

We were very anxious for you all to get up and going.

And um, you know, the um continued violence outside of the area you're working on reminds us um painfully how necessary this work is.

And so um we look forward to working with you and hopefully hopefully you can teach others, and we can um someone around here says violence is contagious.

My hope is that uh nonviolence is contagious as well.

And then you'll help us lead the way in that.

Um I want to say a special word to uh as you call him C Loc.

I can remember you being here like two years ago.

Just begging, begging for something like this to exist and for you to be a part of it.

So thank you for your perseverance.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Shaw.

Yeah, thank you.

I also uh agree with everything my colleagues have said.

You know what did strike uh just reach out to me when you said uh you're the appropriate people on the job.

That's right.

You are you all engaged in this community and you have the bona fide days and to go out there and do this work.

Could be dangerous work.

So you all are very brave to do it, but uh you are committed to this because you love this community like we all do.

And and now is the time.

I mean, I'm just so glad that you all are on the ground now.

And and it's right, we have to expand this thing.

Uh you know, the heartbreaking uh instances of violence that happened in this community.

Just we can't tolerate this.

And uh the work that you're doing is commendable.

Eighty-two days.

Eighty-two days.

Thank you for working to do.

We're committed to supporting you, and we want to uh expand this work across the city.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Um, I I I too want to echo my colleagues' comments.

You all are doing remarkable work.

82 days is again it is something to celebrate.

I also want to thank you all for your enthusiasm, your commitment, your leadership.

I have had the opportunity to go out and walk the blocks to talk to various different neighbors with you all.

Um in the rain.

Um, and also again, just really want to to know that we're committed to this work alongside with you, and as you all have mentioned, this is a collective effort.

We know that.

Uh we're celebrating the 82 days, but we know that there's more work that needs to be done throughout our all 65 of our neighborhoods in the city of Dayton.

So I'm looking forward to working with my colleagues so we can figure out how to make this a permanent budgeted line item.

And we're going to do that work.

That's our commitment, and that is what this community deserves.

Everyone should feel safe.

Yes.

You know, it is appalling to see some of the comments, some of the concerns that I have unfortunately had to read over the last couple of days.

And people, they are hurting.

They're angry, they're sad, there's trauma.

There's all the various things that are people are feeling at this moment.

And it pains me that people don't want to be here anymore.

Their answer is I'm leaving Dayton.

That's not who we are.

Right.

That is not who Dayton is.

We are Dayton Strong.

We are a commute community that is resilient.

Yes.

We are a community that is full of innovators, creators.

Yeah.

And we're going to make Dayton safe.

We're going to do the necessary work.

So I commend you all, I thank you.

And if you all, please in the chambers, just join me in a moment of silence for all those who we have lost to gun violence.

Your loved ones, your friends, strangers, our neighbors.

It's time for us to work collectively together.

So I thank you all, and let's do all just join in a moment of silence, please.

Thank you.

Thank you all very much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And thank you for the ribbons.

Thank you very much.

Ms.

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

Yes, Your Honor.

I would like to request the addition of legislation pertaining to the public hearing.

Thank you.

Ms.

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

Good evening, Mayor.

Commissioners, I have no deletions or additions, but I do have a couple of items I'd like to highlight for you.

First is uh an ordinance uh authorizing the sale of 40 South Edwin uh Moses Boulevard or the Zion Baptist Church.

Um what you are doing with this legislation is authorizing uh a real estate option purchase agreement with Magnus Capital Partners for the historic uh Zion Baptist Church and at a sale price of 250,000 dollars.

Magnus was selected through a competitive RFP process and proposes a mixed use development with up to 120 housing units centered on the adaptive reuse and historic preservation of the church structure itself.

The building is eligible for national register of historic places, which unlocks the ability to access historic tax credit for supporting the project's financial stability.

This is coming forward as an emergency because uh Magnus has to have site control, uh, and in order for that to happen, uh they have to have proof of that, and their application is due June 8th.

Okay.

The other items that I'd like to highlight are a couple of infrastructure projects that are happening across the city.

Um is a um is item number 39192-26.

This is the first reading where the city is consenting to allow ODOT to resurface State Route 444 from straight line mile 3375 to a stretch that partially runs through Dayton.

So this total project cost is estimated at 5.27 million dollars, and it's all funded through ODOT.

This is just our ability to give them access to do that uh renovation.

And then resolution number six nine three four-two six is the um authority giving us the authority to apply for a six million dollar federal grant that would be uh used in Northwest Dayton to for a connection for safer streets and faster response grant.

Um this basically is uh was authorized through the bipartisan infrastructure bill, and the project is a capital construction initiative targeting safety improvements for pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, and transit users in the Northwest Dayton corridor.

There is a 20% match.

If we receive the six million dollars, then the city will need to obligate 1.2 million dollars to complete the project.

Um the application has been submitted, and your action is necessary in order to finalize that application process.

And that is all I have, Your Honor.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Lofton.

Ms.

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

Your Honor, there are no citizens registered to speak on calendar items.

All right, thank you.

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

Uh Commissioner Beckham.

I have none, Your Honor.

Thank you.

Commissioner Fairchild.

I have none, Your Honor.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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

I move to approve the city manager's recommendations.

Second the motion, Your Honor.

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

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

Any abstentions?

Legislation, Ms.

McClendon.

First reading, emergency ordinance number three two one nine one-two six, authorizing the sale of certain real estate located at 40 South Edwin C.

Moses Boulevard for economic development purposes and declaring an emergency.

Having been declared an emergency, I move for the immediate passage of ordinance number 32191-26.

Second.

It has been properly moved and seconded to declare emergency ordinance number 32191-2 suit-26.

Excuse me, as an emergency, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

Any abstentions.

Second reading, emergency ordinance number three two one nine one-two six, authorizing the sale of certain real estate load located at 40 South Edwin C.

Moses Boulevard for economic development purposes.

Mayor Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Commissioner Shaw.

Aye.

Beckham.

Aye.

Emergency ordinance number 32191-26 has passed with four votes in favor.

First reading emergency resolution number six nine three six-26.

Adopting the City of Dayton's student vision master plan and establishing the mayor's children's cabinet and declaring an emergency.

Second the motion, your honor.

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

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no.

Any abstentions.

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

Adopting the City of Dayton's student vision master plan and establishing the mayor's children's cabinet.

Mayor Turner Sloss.

Aye.

Commissioner Shaw.

Aye.

Aye.

Beckham.

Aye.

Emergency resolution number six nine three six-26 has been adopted with four votes in favor.

First reading ordinance number three two one nine two-two-six consenting to the roadway resurfacing of State Route 444 from straight line mile SLM 0.3 to 3.375, with a portion being in the city of Dayton and agreeing to cooperate in matters incidental thereto, including the execution of agreement necessary to implement this ordinance.

Authorizing the city manager or her designee to apply for, accept, and execute water supply revolving loan account funding agreements administered by the state of Ohio on behalf of the city of Dayton, Ohio for one advanced PFOS treatment at Ottawa, CMAR construction, two Ottawa water treatment plan, drain gates replacement construction.

Three, Calvary Reservoir inspection and design.

Six expansion of Miami well-filled recharge lagoon phase three construction.

Seven, lead service line compliance, phase three, planning, and eight.

And that concludes legislation, Your Honor.

Thank you, Ms.

McClendon.

I would now open the public hearing.

Ms.

Lofton, please proceed.

Thank you.

Mr.

Green is on his way.

All right.

Thank you.

Mayor Ug.

Good evening, Commission.

Coming before you, uh it's always a pleasure to see you all again on such important notice.

I like bringing development projects uh before you all for review.

Uh this is a new plan development request along with the rezoning request.

The rezoning piece uh is for the whole 28.77 acres, and that is to rezone it from I-1 Light Industrial and SGC suburban general commercial to SR2 suburban residential.

So the overall intent here is to take this site and transform it into housing housing development for 73 new homes.

The applicant is D.R.

Horton.

Again, the current zoning is both that I-1 light industrial and SGC suburban general commercial.

The overall intent is to uh rezone it to SR2.

Uh this is in the Kitty Hawk planning district and uh northeast land use area.

So the colored map before you all, that is the zoning map.

Uh you'll note that uh this property and the property to the north is all I won.

Uh inner point drive is is where it it fronts.

Um and there's some there's a few industrial businesses back there, but they're they're more light industrial uses primarily indoors.

Um further to the west, you have SR1.

That is the Willow Hills development.

This was approved by uh this commission back in 2020, and I'm pleased to report that uh they're they're actually going through their final phase, phase five, to fully uh plat out the the development and and complete that construction.

That it was a uh about a hundred and ninety-four homes, I believe.

So that is fully coming online here.

Uh to the east, you have that SGC, and this is right uh right at the uh edge of the city here, um, going up Grant Pike to need more, and that's where things get uh far more commercial with gas stations.

You got a Kroger's further out there and several restaurants and shops.

But primarily this area to the south of Inner Point is far more residential in nature.

Those areas that are not uh don't do not have a cover overlay uh zoning code cover overlay.

That's the city of Riverside.

So everything to the south and south uh west.

That's that's all the city of Riverside.

Here's the vicinity map, just with the colors removed, just to give you all a good indication of what currently is there now.

Uh it's a mix of some farmland along with some some overgrowth.

Uh what you'll see here shortly is there is uh various wetlands that make this site somewhat difficult to develop.

Okay.

So here is the overall site plan.

Um key key details here is this is only to establish the plan development standards.

This is not for final plan approval.

This will need to come back before plan board at a later date.

But the general concept is again to to construct 73 single family homes with uh access off of both interpoint uh drive and uh branch pike there.

Um these lots are what's called lifestyle, and per the applicant.

This is for uh lifestylers or uh folks empty nesters, age in place.

Uh it's more age-friendly targeted, but it is not restricted to age-friendly.

It's just the the certain building criteria can be met, wider door frames, smaller lot sizes too to incentivize folks uh at a certain stage of life if they want to stay in a single family house to have that option.

While those to the south is 33 lots, uh that's more of your traditional two-story suburban single family.

Um 52% of this lot would re remain open space, and and that's a lot.

Code for our code requires uh at least 20.

So we are more than more than doubling that.

Uh again, part of this is simply result of the the geography of the site, the wetlands.

Uh care was spent by the the applicant to not really disrupt the wetlands and and the creek that moves through it, as that gets one economically difficult, but two, can cause stormwater issues further on.

So the general idea is to not really uh affect that too much and leave it as is.

So in terms of buffering, landscaping and signage, uh 215 trees uh are proposed to be planted in addition to what remains.

Um that that's a pretty significant amount.

So that's not only includes those street trees that we require, but also enhanced landscaping along the north of the site, abutting uh that industrial use to provide some buffer space and some screening uh towards any uh any new resident or or resident that would abut that.

And then along from Brant Pike, obviously, you want more screening and a little bit of a buffer from a uh a far more uh uh commercial corridor, but that becomes a Grant Pike.

So you so you want a little bit of a noise reduction there.

Um stormwater, uh those the city of Dayton Water Division has, of course, seen this plan has has no issues, but final approval will always need to come from from them, and those plans would, of course, come at a later date.

Um to two monument signs are proposed.

That's just your typical neighborhood.

Hey, this is it's gonna be called Brant Farms, this is Brant Farms Welcome.

Uh there are two existing billboards on the site, uh, both on both along Brant Pike on the far south and the far northeast.

Uh those would be removed.

And in the PD language, there would be no further billboards allowed on the site.

So one those would have to be removed, and you can't put new billboards on there.

So that that's that was one of the modifications that plan board actually requested and is reflected in the updated uh plan development standards.

Um the applicant gave several examples of of the types of homes and elevations.

Uh I just chose two from each type.

Um again, your your lifestyle, that's your single-story ranch, uh ranging in size from 1200 square feet all the way up to a little bit under 1,800 square feet.

And then the bottom are the typical two stories ranging from 17 to 2400 square feet, roughly speaking.

Went over this a little bit.

Uh final plan is required.

This is just for the preliminary standards and to say is is this zoning change uh appropriate here.

Uh a few of the other PD standards in the SR2 zoning district, it imagines 60 foot wide lots, uh, larger lots uh found more prevalently in our uh suburban areas.

This would be a little bit of a deviation from a staff perspective.

Uh density is not something we should be afraid of.

And on top of that, there's quite a bit of open space.

So in terms of a context for the area, this would not be a huge change compared to what is there.

Uh rear yard setback would would be altered by five feet, but again, that's partially for those smaller lot sizes for those lifestyler homes.

Um mature and existing trees would be preserved if possible.

That is a big thing we always encourage.

We we don't want you to clear cut areas.

We want to retain those existing mature trees and wildlife areas as they provide uh ecological benefits.

And then again, I mentioned those those billboards.

Public process-wise, um every time I come up here, I always like to highlight that when an applicant comes to the neighborhood before going through any of our land use boards or plan board.

That happened on January 15th, 2026, or is a general neighborhood meeting.

Um there was folks curious, but no one really opposed to this overall proposal.

Uh, and that's reflected in the next comment, which no comments were received for or against.

Uh, of course, this went through our land use board on April 8th, which uh vote unanimously to recommend approval of the zoning map amendment.

Um plan board saw this at April 14th, 2026.

UNAMS recommended approval with the modification, remove the billboards and keep them out of the site, please.

Um again, that is reflected in in the PD, the updated repeated standards.

And from a staff perspective, we would of course recommend approval.

Looking at this contextually to the to the west, to the east, to the south, it is far more residential.

It has not quite reached that commercial standpoint.

In addition, this this property has been zoned for industrial for a number of years without any form of development occurring.

And and staff believes that an industrial use, you know, especially on Schwinn for closer to the south there would probably be fairly impactful to those existing residences.

So this is a uh far less intensive use uh uh intensive overall land use and development pattern that that could be compared to today.

So that that is why staff is is recommending support here.

Of course, this commission has the ability to uh approve, remand or or offer denial.

Um I am of course here to answer any questions, and uh the applicant team is here as well if you wish to answer questions from them.

Thank you, Mr.

Green.

I'll turn it over to my colleagues, Commissioner Beckham.

Do you have any questions?

Thank you, Your Honor.

Uh no questions, just some quick comments.

Um, I mean I certainly agree.

Um obviously it's been zoned industrial and the lack of development there, I think, uh makes calls for for some housing.

So glad to see this come forward.

Um, I have thank you, Your Honor.

Thank you.

Commissioner Fairchild.

No.

Thank you, Commissioner Shaw.

Yeah, we're uh you may have said this um uh of the neighborhoods around it.

Has there been any outreach or any conversation with them?

I know there was a question about uh the density and the widening of Ramp Pike.

Yeah.

So um we reached out directly to the city of Riverside.

Um they have uh they're not as or let's say organized in terms of specific neighborhoods and neighborhood leadership.

Um we did reach out directly to the city of Riverside who had several comments um uh which those those were addressed, and they themselves had a little bit of power here to to influence that.

The original vehicular access point was along Schwin Drive, uh not Brant Pike, and Riverside blocked that that's their street.

That's that's their right.

Um and and that was a lot of where their residents were coming from.

Uh Willow Hills being developed the way it is, that's where our residents would come from.

Um it's it's not close enough to where a lot of those homes would be.

There's a lot of buffer area and stormwater retention.

So we really didn't get too much from that.

Uh in terms of Grant Pike widening, um again, th this has been seen by our engineers and our stormwater folks.

There were really not large concerns that haven't already been addressed in this revised site plan um compared to that early January meeting and and uh the uh meeting in March for the land use board.

Okay, that's all.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner.

I appreciate those questions.

I had a couple of questions myself in the same um same vein.

So you mentioned the uh city of Riverside.

What were some of those concerns or questions that they raised that you said that they were in fact addressed?

Yeah, so originally the city of Riverside, the the residents along Schwin specifically.

Um and those are those folks to the southwest.

Okay.

Uh had consumers of concerns about stormwater and having placement of of any development too close to them.

Um I'm gonna briefly go back to the aerial here.

So if we're just looking at the southwest of the site, you see that vegetative area.

Um those concerns were addressed once they realize that a lot all that existing vegetation is is to remain.

Okay.

And the closest private lot would be between 800 and a thousand feet away from that that uh westernmost property line.

So that that partially addressed their concern and um their concerns about stormwater, those were addressed simply because of the distance involved and the fact that the the existing wetlands and the natural path of the water is going to largely be respected and remain.

Um the final uh the the final piece of information that uh I I I briefly spoke on was uh the city of Ridge Riverside and their residents felt that having 73 new homes onto Schwin Drive was going to overwhelm the road.

So they what what they ended up doing was saying, okay uh we don't believe uh Schwinn Road can or Schwin Drive can handle this, we're gonna restrict vehicular access from it.

So the applicant revised the site to have all uh the secondary access come off of Brandt Pike, and then that addressed our final concern.

Okay, thank you.

You also stated that it it wouldn't affect it too much.

What did you mean by it wouldn't affect it too much the development in terms of any disturbance to the wetlands?

Yes.

So you can kind of see here you if you just imagine the subject property uh box in the middle of the in uh of the middle of the screen, you'll see a line of trees.

site to have all uh the secondary access come off of ramp pike and then that addressed our final concern okay thank you you also stated that it it wouldn't affect it too much what did you mean by it wouldn't affect it too much the development in terms of any disturbance to the wetlands yes so you can kind of see here you if you just imagine the subject property uh box in the middle of the in uh of the middle of the screen you'll see a line of trees um that is the existing drainage path and water uh water path that it goes through the site so if I'm I'm going back here you'll note a lot of that is to remain a lot of that blue that's that's the existing path of the water so uh a minimal impact here means we're not bulldozing the entire site and completely altering the the uh way the natural flow of the water as is currently existing but there will be some disturbance any development is going to somewhat disturb um with that I would say again that's all the way up to the that's up to the uh the Dayton Water Division in terms of stormwater infrastructure and impact um they're they're gonna have to conduct and and give several studies to show it it will not impact surrounding properties.

Okay.

And and that is that is typical of any development that comes forward.

May we have the um if the applicant please because my concern is around the wetlands and when we use language like not too much or that it won't be any large disturbance I want us to be clear as to what those perimeters are and what provisions do we have in place to protect the wetlands understanding that again we we want to be uh good stewards and we want to make sure that we are in fact um protecting those lands overall under to your point right there it will be some disturbance with development but I want to know and I want to hear what are provi what provisions will be placed to make sure that there won't be any uh huge manipulation if you will to the site itself or disturbance I should say yeah so I'll I'll call up uh the applicant team which includes uh choice one engineering so uh Aaron Ryan Robert Thank you Mr.

Green Hello Mayor City Commissioners thank you for having us here this evening uh Rob Smith and Aaron Horn we are both with DR Horton uh we are the hopeful home builder developer and home builder for this site so again thank you for having us Ryan Lakefeld is our civil engineer with choice one engineering he can help us answer any of the technical questions um happy to answer any questions you have just want to address what you said about the wetlands um there's a large stream that runs through this site which we will be we will not be disturbing the stream there are some surrounding wetlands we anticipate um impacting potentially up to a half an acre of wetlands we will have to mitigate for those with the Ohio uh EPA yeah so um Aaron if you want to add any more details to that so there will be minimal impacts but I get your point you want to know what minimal really means so that's really where we're seeing but we are going to stay out of the stream we even tweaked the site uh plan slightly just to make sure we stayed out of that stream.

What type of safeguards do you put in place on the site while you're moving dirt while you're developing is there any screening that take place could you walk me through that process itself.

Stormwater plans so any time we have a development this size anything that's over an acre the OEPA requires a stormwater pollution prevention plan.

So specifically in cases like this with this wetland typically we'll do a federal fabric fence and we'll even double road that to protect that so it has a double form.

So if that first one is breached for whatever reason there's a second barrier to prevent that from being impacted substantially thank you.

You said 52 percent will be open lot is that correct?

That's right.

Yes.

And that will remain so so it won't be a second or third phase this will remain as open lot.

That's correct.

Okay.

Last question and there will actually I have two sorry apologize.

The price point and I know this is preliminary but do we have an ideal of the price point for the I believe it's four different styles or models that you all have in place or yeah.

Yeah that's a great question.

Obviously it things can change so we all I was have to like to preface that the it we we have to go with economic forces but ultimately we really want this to be attainable for residents of the city.

So we we hope to to be able to start in the middle mid-200s um price point low going up to um the mid-three hundreds so um it's things have gotten uh very expensive lately um the terrorists we are trying to most most communities it's hard for us to offer things below 300 thousand anymore which is really crazy to say but it's the truth.

So with when it comes to single family detached housing if we can achieve that mid-200s price point that I know that seems high but it would be it would be great for uh by comparison to what we're seeing in in the marketplace today.

So that's where we hope to be able to start in the mid-200s.

Thank you I appreciate that and there were no concerns that were raised Mr.

What I'm speaking of more specifically are the the neighbors that abut this future development.

You haven't received anything.

I just want to make sure that the church the existing residents are pleased that the uh existing vegetation site, their existing buffer will remain.

It will remain.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you, gentlemen.

I appreciate it.

Thank you.

All right.

I would now close the public hearing.

What is the pleasure of the commission?

I'd like to move forward.

All right.

Thank you.

Legislation, Ms.

McClendon.

First reading ordinance number 32193-26, amending the official zoning map to establish Plan Development 196 and change the underlying zoning from light industrial I-1 and Suburban General Commercial SGC to suburban single family SR2 for 28.77 acres at the northwest corner of Brant Pike and Schwin Drive.

That concludes legislation.

Thank you, Ms.

McClendon.

Are there any citizens that are registered to speak this evening?

Your Honor, there are 10 citizens registered to speak.

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

We ask that you state your name and address for the record.

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

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

After you have spoken two and a half minutes, a yellow light will come on and you will have 30 seconds remaining to speak.

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

So the audience in attendance, please be mindful.

Good afternoon.

My name is Hillary Horman.

I live at 249 Wyoming Street, Dayton, Ohio, for the past 40 years.

I'm a Jew.

And I was taught by my grandfather to oppose oppression and oppose especially fascism.

He was born in the shittles of Russia.

And he got together armed groups to fight the czarist police.

But in any place there's informers.

And the czarist police came and arrested him.

And he was fortunate and he wasn't shot and he was sent to Siberia.

And he made it to here.

But he taught us you fight oppression.

And he was around for World War II.

And he saw, excuse me, the Nazis coming and they took over.

They in they sent their forces to Spain that had a democratic revolution.

He saw the Italian fascists take over Ethiopia, and nobody stopped him.

And he saw that Hitler kept advancing.

They took over to Rhineland.

They took over Austria.

They took over Czechoslovakia until finally they had what I'm calling for now is a united front against fascism.

And in my mind, people could disagree.

The activities of the United States and Israel are fascists.

Thank you.

They're taking over, they're murdering people.

And each time we think we could relax a little bit.

It gets worse.

They took over Venezuela.

They're talking about going to Cuba.

We have to make a stop.

I realize people could say, well, that's not the business of Dayton.

But it's the business of every citizen to stop this stuff.

I thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Lerman.

Thank you.

I call to the podium bar.

Commissioner Chamber members, please let's be respectful and be mindful.

This is a business meeting, so please.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Excuse me, Miss McClendon.

Barbara Bauer.

That was fast.

I'm not complaining.

Hi, everybody.

My name is Barbara Bauer.

I live at 400 Gene Avenue.

And I've been there for about 15 years.

I've been in Dayton since 73.

I love Dayton.

Big supporter, great government, great police.

Anyway, the problem I have is I need a little help here.

Um I have uh a neighbor who doesn't take care of their property very well.

And uh I've addressed those issues for the last 15 years.

But recently in March, the uh situation got much worse.

I um took out an equity line, got a lot of things done to my property, and I had my two big houses painted.

So my painter told me that next door, the house next door, which is only like maybe four feet away, really close, that they had a raccoon nest going in and out of the property.

Well, I reported that to the manager of the property as I've done other problems.

That was in March.

Nothing has been done.

The situation got worse.

The raccoons began raiding the baby squirrel's nest, so my back gutter was clogged up with squirrel bones.

So it sounded like a uh uh something in Africa there, you know, with all these uh chattering sounds, it was impossible to stay in my backyard.

So I hired Jeff, the critter guy.

I don't know if you have ever heard of him, but he actually came to the property, set traps on both of the roofs all around the property, and for three weeks, I didn't want to see the critters because I I really don't believe in killing, but I didn't want to live with them either, you know.

So anyway, it took him about three weeks.

I paid him over four hundred dollars.

Uh I've reported the problem to the city inspector who is Ronnie Evans.

He has done nothing.

I just spoke with him Monday, and he said he's just too busy.

I've spoken with the uh manager of the of the uh place, and he's too busy.

I think we all know busy people get things done.

So anyway, I need some help here.

The critters are gone now, but how long's that gonna last?

Thank you.

That's it.

Thank you, Miss Bowers.

If you wouldn't mind staying after the meeting, so we can make sure Miss Uh Lofton, if Ms.

Bowers can receive support from Mr.

Gongal or you want me to see somebody?

If you just want to stay back after the meeting, we'll make sure that you very much and meet you.

It's good seeing you.

I know you served for a number of years on the priority board.

I yes, I was on the priority board for 12 years.

Yes, ma'am.

I've been doing neighborhood work for 45 years, so anyway, thank you.

Good seeing you.

Thank you.

I call to the podium, Sharon Screech.

Hello, Commissioner.

Good evening.

Um my name is Sharon Screech.

I live at 515 West Grand Avenue, Dayton, Ohio.

Um I just came to provide some statistics of Dayton, Ohio.

I've been in Dayton my whole life.

Number one, we're number five on the murderer capital list.

Number five.

Think of that.

All the cities in America, we're number five.

And you know, it's just amazing how we're number five.

And all these people are talking about they want to leave Dayton.

Crime is everywhere.

But I just would like to I would like to thank the mayor for her public hearing this weekend.

We had a lot of good information this weekend, but I just want to know when are we gonna stop talking and taking some actions.

When are we gonna start doing that?

You know, sometimes I come here, the commission is divided.

I hardly ever see any of those others at any of the things you're doing, Mayor.

Right.

I mean, I I see Mr.

Fairchild, I see Mr.

Beckham, Mr.

Beckham left before me at the public hearing, so I don't know how much engagement he was doing.

But what I'm saying is we have to be united for something.

When I don't see Joseph and Shaw at anything, come on.

Anything.

Come on.

I don't see any, you know, I don't I see the same folks engaged in this community.

Mr.

Shaw has a cleaners that has been in this community for years.

That's the first person that should be there.

I'm just it is just bothering me.

We have a young man that got murdered over the weekend.

We have several shootings.

I'm just gonna say it's getting old.

And I just and you know, and my thing is this all these dollars are going to things that don't matter.

This development that we about to get.

Who has 250 or 350,000 when you got people out here struggling to pay rent to buy a home that's closer to Hubert Heights than it is today?

So I just want to I just want to see more united front.

We need the chief.

The chief should have been here to come up with some plans to tell us what we need to do.

We need to do to assist you all with cleaning up this city.

And I would just like to say this before I end.

We need to fire that city manager, and we need to get somebody else.

Y'all have a good evening.

Thank you, Miss Greach.

I call to the podium, Lynn Lamance.

Your hair looks very lovely tonight.

Thank you, Miss Lance.

Lynn Lamance.

I live just a few houses down from a shooting.

And a demolished, a perfectly working demolished hospital.

Um I am here to talk about the Northwest, actually, Fairview neighborhood in particular, uh compared to the care and concern of downtown Dayton.

I've been up here before regarding the Phoenix police, community policing that is supposed to be in the area.

Uh, that Henderson, your new chief Henderson, is on that contract as well as citywide and Premier Health.

I just wanted to let you know, despite having community policing in my neighborhood, I had to be the one to reach out to Henderson, who is not here tonight at this meeting.

Uh did not, I had to reach out to him.

He did not reach out to me.

Phoenix police did not reach out to me.

Despite living um so close to the shooting, uh, no Phoenix officer visited my house, no detective has uh visited my house.

I do have cameras on my house.

I guess that's not important.

Um I also wanted to uh notate that there's still residents' concerns that the Phoenix police are not in the neighborhood.

However, we I did see them on my camera uh after the balloon release, 720 p.m.

They were in my neighborhood around the balloon release.

Um I also wanted to uh ask why Henderson did not do any type of a press release, this many shootings, where is the where is he?

Where the hell is he?

Um I wanted to point out I pulled a police report regarding um an incident 2139 Salem Avenue.

Um, and I want to read to you what the police report says.

However, without the use of Flock, it is not possible to search for a potential suspect vehicle.

Flock would have been the best investigative tool to help the victim pursue justice in this case.

There is no flock cameras in Fairview.

I just want to remind people of that, nor do we want them.

However, there are supposed to be these Phoenix officers that you know, I don't see them.

Uh why aren't they used to pursue justice in this case?

Um also I want to remind everybody, despite having the Phoenix Project, it appears a lot of work that these people supposedly did is not done.

The AMPM Market 2317 Salem Avenue that previously sold gun lighters they do not have a certificate of occupancy.

That's a loss of money, that's a safety concern.

Um again, the shooting happened right across the street from a perfectly good hospital.

So I'm gonna be asking that the Phoenix Police money actually be turned into uh again, youth programming, community gardening that once existed in the Fairview neighborhood.

Um also there is a good Samaritan Foundation as well as Premier Health Foundation, those are two foundations, pots of money.

Time is up.

Thank you.

Thank you, Miss Lamance.

I call to the podium, Talas Gage.

Gutties bird.

I want to start this all by just saying fire Shelly Dix thing.

Fire Shelly Dix change.

I should say that for three minutes.

Yes.

But my focus ain't just on Shelly Dixon.

I also have a uh interest in speaking on uh, like I said before, rec centers.

I'm gonna constantly say that.

I'm gonna constantly say that, I'm gonna constantly say that.

Uh it's not in the budget.

Well, we need to figure out a way to put it in the budget.

It's as simple as that.

I mean, we got enough bandos, we got enough handyman.

Uh uh, the fellas with a future, they got this area secure.

I'm pretty sure it's like a vacant building bando, something over there in that area that we can utilize and put some kind of community center or something in there for the people.

My focus is the babies, man.

Like I always say, to fix the future, we must work on the future, which is the babies.

You know, and I actually I left my phone back there.

I got a uh a message from one of the youngsters in the community that uh he couldn't be here today, but he had left me a note.

And I if he can't come next week, then I'll read what he sent.

Because I mean that's him reaching up.

Um it's just serious, man.

It's serious to me, it's serious to me.

There is I'm happy that you did come out there to that uh mean you didn't stay long.

But I mean you did make a step forward though, so I am appreciative of that for sure.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

So whenever you ready, we waiting on you to either get from behind that desk or be involved with us, man.

Do something instead of looking at me like you're doing now with this stupid look on your face.

Uh Shanissa, I appreciate you, fair shot.

I appreciate you.

Fire Shanice.

I mean, uh, not not fire Shanice.

We love Shanice.

Forgive me, forgive me.

Get rid of uh Shelly Dix thing.

We love you, we love you, we appreciate you, my bad for saying that.

And I also want to address this too.

Uh last time when I was here, I said something about uh uh Marlon Shacklefirst group, man.

And I asked I actually thought that they did something else.

And uh they don't do what I thought they did.

So I spoke wrong on them, and I wanted to put that on record too, man.

They do good work out here.

I appreciate what Shaq does for me personally in my life, and also what he does for other people out here as well.

So I just want to end with that and saying again, my bad for saying that.

I appreciate you, you're awesome.

Fair shots, you know, you awesome, you're my guy out there.

Whenever you're ready, Shaw, you anyway, and I'm glad you showed up and fire uh Shelly Dixon.

Thank you, Mr.

Gage.

I call to the podium uh Maya Mickler.

Hi, I'm Amaya Mickler.

Good evening.

I um I live on Edison Street off of James H.

McGee, and I go to Decca Middle.

I'm here to talk about the gun violence within poverty communities.

First, to be honest, we need a better plan for gun violence and poverty to end because the current plans or actions are not beneficial.

We truly need we truly need this, and this isn't doing anything but making a bigger problem for our community.

For example, just like situations with Jamichel Carver on Monday, March 30th, federal charges were filed against Jermichael for being a felon in possession of a firearm, Terrence Gay.

He was charged with a deadly weapon, attempted murder of federal agents.

This isn't productive for anything going forward in our communities due to most of the kids in the so-called hood having challenging challenges with right from wrong.

You see kids um going along with the crowd thinking thinking is gonna get them somewhere in life when really it's not.

This isn't always the council's fault.

It's the people in the family that they are around because this because they are not getting taught the same way as people with common sense.

However, if we get rid of Jerry Madrin, we can have more people that actually know what's right from wrong and knows the right thing to do, so we can have kids who are becoming lawyers, doctors, and etc.

This is why all the gun violence is getting out of hand.

Kids, teenagers, and even younger young adults think it's cool to be quote unquote gang bangers.

Also, did you know almost 20% of youth reside with within 600 miles of a gun homicide occurring in the past year?

This is unacceptable towards the youth and communities of West Dayton.

We need we need a plan to get this out of our community and out of society.

The things we are doing aren't right, but City Hall, I was asking, would you help us to establish and set a rules to get all of this gun violence and poverty out of here?

Let's try to make this world a better place instead of trying to go in on everybody like city like city council about what they aren't doing.

We need to humble ourselves and look at what we aren't doing.

We are going around.

We are not going to let you off the hook for this.

You are all in control of the money.

Why isn't everybody getting their fair share?

This doesn't make sense to me in my opinion.

Why isn't anything being done to benefit my people and community?

To be honest, what I also feel like is a disgrace by this is that now there's a policy that you can't even get a fair loan from a bank to black homeowners or business owners, and this is personally very heartbreaking for me.

I would like to be a business owner.

I would like to have my own house, and I would like to do things for myself.

I do not want to be able.

Thank you.

Thank you, Amaya.

Thank you.

Noah McAllister.

Okay.

Good evening.

Good evening.

Good evening, you all, Mayor Sloss.

Um, my name's Noah McAllister.

I stay um on what's called Ellesmere off of Autobine.

Um, and I'm just wanted to talk about gun violence within that specific part of Dayton.

See, there's a big the big issue in Dayton is the gun violence.

Within the last week or so, there has been at least gun, three gun shootings that I've heard of and three program related deaths.

And so basically, not too long ago, Mayor Slaus had hosted a town hall meeting asking for question what does public safety look to us the people.

And not a single soul said more police.

But somehow, city manager, Miss Shelly Dixtein, found a way to fund two more police stations in the Dayton area when that money could have been used to reopen the pool place over there on Third Street or host block meetings for um for the black youth and so for us to come together and unite.

So my point is in black neighborhoods, when a police officer gets called it versus a white neighborhood, from things I've noticed from when I was over at my friend's house in the suburbans.

Um, I found out when you call the police that when you're in a black neighborhood, the police takes a smaller time, takes a little longer time to get out to your residency than to get them versus when you're in a suburb, when you're in a gentrified neighborhood and they get out there as quickly as they can.

And I see that as a problem.

Now, gun violence.

Over the course of 2013 up to 2020, from what I know so far, black youth has experienced a 108% increase in gun-related deaths.

So that's a problem because if the black youth is getting shot and dying because of gang violence and guns, that's a problem.

Nobody should even be having a gun except for city officials or police officers because if there's gonna be genocide within the Dayton area, we shouldn't have nothing going on.

And when you look to the Bible, it says in 2 Corinthians 10 and 4 that for the weapons of our welfare are not carnal but mighty through God to pulling down of strongholds, or in Proverbs 17 and 10, which says an eagle man sees key, sees key only rebellion, therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

And so if you pray, pray what prayer works, and so when you're praying, change can happen.

See, God may not come when you want him, but he's there on time.

So I just want to say before I'm gone that prayer works and the start of change is with us, the community.

So prayer and instead of talking, get in there.

Thank you, Mr.

Callister.

Thank you.

Please, no clapping.

This is a business meeting.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I call to the podium, Yusuf Elzane.

Good evening, Yusuf Elzane, 4906 Amberwood Drive, Dayton, Ohio.

13 weeks and counting.

This past weekend violence came to Dayton.

And I want to begin by saying this plainly.

Flock cameras never did and never will prevent gun violence that came to Dayton in the past weekend.

A man is dead.

The community is traumatized again.

Cameras do not stop bullets.

Data does not stop hatred.

An illusion of security purchased through surveillance grants is not protection.

Yet this is what we are being offered.

And while that the city purchased cameras to surveil neighborhoods, the weapon that killed domestically and internationally flow without restrictions, without accountability, without pause.

This is our problem.

False safety at home, real violence everywhere else, until this commission refused to participate in that cycle.

Dayton remains in this truck, a do-loop.

We have spent months looking away from crimes against humanity in Gaza and South Lebanon.

We have watched, documented, chosen silence, and we did nothing.

We funded it.

We sanitized it, we normalized it.

We thought the word that violence overwhelming, uh, an uncountable violence is permissible.

That might make that there are no consequences for crimes against humanity.

So when violence comes to Dayton, why should anyone be surprised?

We glorify killing.

When adults in government justify the eraser of entire population as necessary when American weapons carry out what amounts to genocide.

We are teaching lessons.

Impunity works.

That is the culture we are building.

No not just in Gaza, but here in Dayton.

When we sanitize crimes against humanity abroad, we create the conditions where violence at home becomes inevitable.

Just something that happens, some something we cannot prevent.

But we can we choose not to.

Second, commit that Dayton will not fund support or remain silent about destruction of civilian population.

Third, recognize that Dayton violence and global violence are connected through culture and impunity.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Al Zayn.

I call to the podium Zakia Jabbar.

Zakya Sankara Jabbar, 2426.

Um good after good evening.

Good evening, Mayor, Commissioners.

First, I want to thank you, Mayor, for the public safety uh town hall this past weekend.

Um that was a very good town hall.

I thought that community was very engaged.

You heard a lot, and I appreciate the young person uh reflecting on the fact that when you ask the question about what public safety looks like for the community, not one person responded that they wanted more police.

The gun violence certainly uh is a huge issue, and it has been an issue, particularly uh in our community, there's a disproportionality between gun violence, that of the police, and then also gun violence that just happens in the community.

The other thing that I think that's really important to say is that we should be waiting for the facts in these cases and not making assumptions.

I've seen a lot of talk about quote unquote black on black crime and blaming the victims and blaming the communities themselves, uh, and absolving responsibility of the people who are in elected office from the federal, state, and local level.

The community led by me held a press conference uh a couple days ago on Monday to respond to the gun violence.

And I just want to know why is the community doing y'all job?

Because see, where was any of y'all at?

All of you.

Where was y'all's press conference?

Do y'all not give a damn about the black folks that's dying drop dropping left and right?

I mean, that's for everybody.

Where was the police chief?

Y'all sending a message that it don't even matter.

Would that have been the same response if it happened on East Dayton?

I don't know.

I'm asking.

That's a problem.

The other problem that I'm noticing since I've been back home looking at a lot of construction, I ain't seen a black worker yet.

What all this construction y'all got going on?

Y'all running a criminal enterprise down here.

Dayton Montgomery County Public Health.

Gun violence is a public health issue.

Period.

Stop blaming the community that y'all done disinvested from closed hospitals, closed mental health facilities, and divested in damn recreation centers for kids.

Ridiculous.

That that's gonna stop.

This is gonna be one of my last meetings, too, to keep coming in person because this is gonna be my last time asking y'all nicely.

Asking for a remedy to the criminal activity that's going on and what I mean by criminal activity and illegal activity is number one, the racial disparate impact of black people in Dayton.

You gotta date and put Montgomery County Public Health where y'all appoint most of the people on there, and the city manager appoints them all.

Are y'all crazy?

What is going on down here?

Why does this person have so much power?

Y'all need to fire that city manager.

And the final thing before this cuts off: if you don't fire the city manager, you're gonna be sued.

That's a warning.

And I'm not playing with you.

And you're gonna be embarrassed nationally on national TV.

Keep playing.

Thank you, Miss Georgia Barr.

I call to the podium, Kenya Akbar.

Kenya Akbar 147, East Hill Crest Dayton Ohio 45405.

And I'm just gonna follow my sister up with saying quit play.

And I know you can.

It's time for us to get very serious about the lives of the residents in West Dayton.

Where is our moral compass?

We need a moral compass to produce the redlining results and knowing that banks intentionally red line black communities, large geographies where black residents were concentrated, is a disgrace because nothing was done about it.

Money was concentrated in the downtown Dayton area and Westside was ignored.

It took Shanice and Fairchild to come and beg you all to amend a budget that disregarded youth programming.

That is disgraceful and disgusting.

And as human beings, not coons, not yes men, as human beings, we must adjust our moral compass so it also reads for the West.

In this case, because that is where there is a large concentration of black population.

Let's not disregard the fact that 500 years of slavery took place in this country in which we reside.

Dayton Ohio has the ability to turn on the fuse in this country, the United States of America that has not been seen.

Let us use our power to empower those individuals in this city to do what has not been done in major cities across this country.

Let us stand up and be different.

If we need to invent something, let us invent humanity.

Because this country has been inhumane for far too long.

And we hold a power, a power like none other.

Fairchild and Shanice, I applaud you.

I love you.

You came in not on a democratic or republic engine, but on the engine of the people.

Show the people that you are who we believed you were when we voted for you.

We are declaring a black code.

We will honor respect and stand with the black code.

We will love and respect one another.

We will not kill children.

We will protect the youth consciously, emotionally, and physically.

We will honor and protect our elders.

Elders will teach our youth.

We will build foundational strong family structures.

Fathers will be highly present.

We will educate our own beyond the system.

We will act with integrity and justice.

We will exercise control over our emotions.

We will support and spend money with our own because integration did not save the black community.

It enabled us.

We will keep our streets clean because we are a product of our environment.

It is a blessing to live in this dispensation, and I believe we are currently portal and the vampires will die.

Thank you, Miss Akbar.

That concludes speakers, Your Honor.

Thank you, Miss McClendon.

Excuse me.

If you did not register within the timely frame time frame, then you will not be permitted to speak.

So we just encourage you to make sure that you're here by 5 45 so that you can register.

Now, if you stay after the meeting, we will make sure that someone will come and address your concerns.

Thank you.

Thank you, Miss McClendon.

Miss Lofton, do you have any closing comments?

I have none, Your Honor.

Thank you, Miss Lofton.

Miss McClendon, do you have any closing comments?

I have none, Your Honor.

Thank you.

Commissioners, do you have any closing comments?

Commissioner Beckham.

Thank you, Your Honor.

Just a few.

I did have to uh head out during uh I think the QA with Chief Henderson.

Uh I had another obligation uh that I had to attend to.

Um but I I thank you for organizing that event and bring more awareness to uh the public health crisis.

I agree that is gun violence um in our city.

And I think uh the violence intervention program, the brave program uh that we have started.

Uh we have to continue to measure it.

We have to continue to lift up their work and absolutely um expand it.

Uh I think it deserves to be expanded, and I think uh as we continue to uh deal with uh these types of issues that uh that is gonna be the program that is necessary to target the type of situations uh that we're having in our city.

Um and of course, creating more opportunity for our young people.

So I'm very glad to see uh the city of Dayton's children's cabinet uh in tonight's agenda as well.

Um that will be an investment in our young people that will be decision making uh with our young people uh at the uh helm and the priority.

Uh so uh I think that work is going to hopefully move the needle.

Um, but we have of course so much more to do um to to make sure that one, we're reducing gun violence, but two um that we are uh giving more opportunity to our youth and to the young people that spoke tonight.

Uh thank you for being here for uh take some courage to uh to get up here and speak.

Um so to uh I believe Mr.

McAllister and Miss Amaya, uh, thank you for being here.

Thank you for speaking out as a young person in our city.

I truly appreciate you.

Um and those are all my comments.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Fairchild.

Yeah, thank you.

Um there's some upcoming events that I want to share, and also I want to thank the Fifth Street Brew Hub.

I had asked them to open up on Sunday, United States men's national team was doing one of their tune-ups before the World Cup, and they opened it up, and about 30 folks came out to cheer on the men's team, and uh the men's team will be playing Germany on Saturday, and the Fifth Street Brew Probably open again if you want to come out.

Um, I think there's a real opportunity in our city to reinit it together through um through athletic clubs.

And you know, it could be soccer, it can be football, flag football, um, basketball.

Um, but I think there's an opportunity um to really try to get in our neighborhoods, um, collection of people investing in our young people.

And so um, you know, the path to the more rec center is is a long one, but a path to investing in our young people could be a shorter one if we really focus on um getting more adults invested in the lives of young people.

And so part of pulling together people together to watch soccer is to also start building relationships to talk about how we um use athletics to um create a space to be in the lives of young people.

Um this Saturday, June 6th is uh the whole weekend is Pride Weekend, but this at 11 a.m.

the uh parade kicks off, and so I invite you to come down and be part of the parade or watch the parade.

It begins at Jefferson Street and ends at 2nd Street, travels down Main Street.

Um, and I encourage everyone to come out and join the vibrant celebration of pride, unity, and the values that make Dayton a welcoming city.

Mark your calendar now.

The air show is June 13th and 14th, so that's coming up, and um that's one, you know, not many communities have air shows, quite frankly, and Dayton's fortunate to have that asset and encourage you to come out and enjoy that time.

Um then you know, I too want to echo your comments to the young people for coming and speaking, and you know, it takes a little gumption to get up there and speak, and I appreciate you doing that, and I appreciate the words that you shared and the concerns that you raise.

Uh I was pleased to see some of the young people who came out to the town hall on um Saturday.

Uh one group that we've met with some time ago, and talking about these issues back in December, we met with them is the Y Laggers.

Some of you know those young ladies achieving greatness.

On June 20th, June um June 27th, July 11th, and July 18th, they're having both cleanup and beautification opportunities.

And the thing about it is they like we want to get young people out.

And so help spread the word around young people.

And what I committed to them is that like an adult sh shouldn't be allowed to come and help unless they're bringing three young people with them.

So as an adult, be thinking about the young people in your life.

If you don't know three people and young people in your life, then start working so you can you know build those relationships, fill your car up with young people, come out and support the Y laggers as they're doing this work.

And um it really dovetails into this question around violence.

You know, um the solution to violence is gonna be comprehensive, it's gonna take all of us.

The mayor, you know, has talked about reimagining public safety in that work.

You know, it's part of its police, but part of its neighborhood development, creating housing, it's reduction of poverty, it's investing in young people, um, it's helping people get connected to jobs and employment, being job ready.

So there's a wide comprehensive work that we need to do if we're really going to be serious.

But I believe now is the time.

We've this has been too long, the time's passed to really um do this work, and so we've got to create an urgency from this commission.

This we need to lead on this and create and sustain urgency.

I'm mindful that when the downtown safety work group came together, they gave us um questions and asked us to respond in 20 days, and we did.

Um I think we hear from the community right now that there's the same sense of urgency, that there are questions in the community around public safety and the reduction of violence, and we need to respond to that.

In the midst of that, I hope we're data-driven.

You know, one of the things is that I'm still trying to get a sense of, and I sent some questions over to city manager back at the beginning of April.

Next Wednesday, we have a work group with the police, and I've been promised that the questions I sent over, that those questions will be answered on next Wednesday.

But one of the things that I've still been trying to understand and the questions go to is we redeployed officers out of our neighborhoods in the downtown, even though we're saying that the downtown um was relatively safe by the data.

Right.

And so I'm trying to understand why there is a redeployment of officers from the neighborhoods in the downtown.

Um asking about what strategies we're employing with our um with the Dayton police.

Um I'm curious what role pretextual stops and stop and frists um strategies play within our broader strategies.

We also changed our um staffing, and we had been on four shifts that allowed some overlap, and that overlap occurred at the highest call volume, and so I'm curious to see the re going back to three shifts, how that impacts the number of officers who are on the street at the time when the most calls are um made.

Um and then one of the statistics or one of the measures of our police officers is the time they're occupied.

And I'm really curious around how that has shifted as we've made these changes.

Um, and particularly the time occupied for our officers down in downtown versus our officers in uh West Pod and East Pod.

So those are some of the questions that I'm anticipating being answered next Wednesday.

And um we're all we all need to do this work together.

Policing is one part, but the community is another.

I appreciate some of the people standing up and talking about um the responsibilities we have as citizens and community members to also uh be invested in creating a city where there's not violence.

So I look forward to doing that work with you, and I encourage my colleagues to renew our conversation because we talked about really there are some things we're doing and they're not obvious and they're not aligned.

And I think being able to put everything we're doing in alignment and also evaluating whether the things we are doing and where we're spending the money are as effective and strategic as they can be.

So I look forward to doing that work with uh my colleagues here.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Shaw.

Yeah, thank you.

Thank you for those uh those great uh comments.

Um all of both of you.

Um I too want to thank the young, especially the young people that have come down here tonight, um uh showing leadership and and civic involving engagement, and I think that's just critically important to how we change the true trajectory of this community uh into the future.

And also the violence interrupters, uh I I just really am excited about the opportunity for that.

And I should have said to you, uh Commissioner Beckham, thanks for your leadership uh in standing that up and um and and leading uh on behalf of this commission.

Also, uh thank you, Mayor, for for your uh continued engagement.

You know, we can't always make everything, you know.

I I uh I had an opportunity to um spend time with the um pillars of the community with the urban league uh yesterday, and that was some really important work to do also.

But thank you for for continuing to engage in those spaces.

Um keep my comments pretty brief, but as the 43rd cohort of the City of Dayton's neighborhood leadership institute graduates on June 4th.

I'm proud to recognize their accomplishments and the commitment they have shown to becoming stronger advocates in their communities.

I'm grateful for the time and effort these graduates have invested, and I look forward to seeing the many ways they will continue to strengthen our neighborhoods and contribute to the success of our community.

I I know that some of our um of our uh staff are going through that process now, so we were really excited for them.

Uh these are different ways that uh we can engage the community uh and folks learn about where the levers of power uh work in this uh in this government.

Um so I would encourage everyone to kind of get involved in NLI and uh and take part in that.

So thank you, Mayor.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner.

A couple comments this evening.

I would like to thank um all my colleagues for their their comments and the questions that the that you all posed this evening.

Uh thank you to all of the residents.

And let me pause for a second.

I I recognize that we have a group of members that are in blue shirts.

So I just want to offer the opportunity, if we could deviate just a tad bit, if you all wouldn't mind coming to the podium, introducing yourself as well as your organization, if that's fair.

Please awesome.

Yeah, thank you.

We've nominated okay.

Thank you.

Hello, uh, and commissioners, everyone in attendance.

Uh we are the family and youth at the Casique Council.

Uh we're uh offshoot of Omega CDC.

Okay.

Um we're just getting started.

Actually, wanted to come and kind of see how this process goes and uh for some our first time.

So uh hopefully we'll be uh coming in front of you to talk about some issues going on in our community.

Uh everyone want to introduce yourselves or did you tell us your name again?

Did you see my name is Chris Reigns?

I'm sorry if I did my name is Chris Reigns.

I'm sorry.

102 Cambridge Avenue, Dayton Ohio.

All right.

Thank you.

Hello, everyone.

Good evening.

Everybody knows me up here.

My name is Porthea Dennis, live at 33 Dayton Avenue, president of Jane Reese Neighborhood Association, and just a plug, come out this weekend from one to four in the McIntosh Park, wreck your hood, old Dayton View and Jane Reese is being represented.

And Debbie Blundon Diggs will be there.

Thank you.

Sharon Hutchinson, 1709 West Grant.

Thank you.

Uh Kelsey Harmer, I'm the organizing and advocacy coordinator at Omega CDC.

All right.

And I'm Tracy Siving, uh, and I live at 62 Horace Street and right down by our neighborhood.

And uh shameless plug.

We're doing a beautification project at Fairview Commons on Saturday from 9 to noon, planting trees and bushes and installing benches on the basketball court, repainting the lines.

So love to have anybody come out and join us.

We need people in dig holes if you want to come, please do.

We were there last weekend as well doing a neighborhood cleanup and a mad shout out to the City of Dayton Waste Collection, showed up on Norman Avenue.

If you haven't been down that alley, you haven't been, because you couldn't, but now you can't.

So if you'd like to take a drive by it, come on down it because your car can actually fit.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you all very much.

And thank you all for being here and thank you for the work you're doing.

Excuse me.

Mr.

Lehman, thank you for your comments and for being here and your continued advocacy and giving voice to the issues that we're dealing with overall globally, globally.

Ms.

Bowers, thank you as well.

I'm glad that you're still here so that we can make sure that someone speaks to you after the meeting.

Ms.

Screech, thank you for your comments.

Thank you for your advocacy.

There were a couple of questions that you posed, and I did not jot them all down, but I will make sure that I speak with you after the meeting to address the specific questions that you had this evening.

I would say that I want to thank everyone for coming out this past Saturday, as well as the staff.

There were a number of staff members.

I'd like to thank Chief Henderson for being there as well as along with his um command staff.

Um the conversation was definitely fruitful.

Uh it was a lot of engagement.

And so I really want to acknowledge our facilitator, Mr.

Fred Cox, who did an awesome job.

Our panelists, uh Mr.

Sha Sean Walton Senior, Sean Watson Jr., Dr.

Um Bushman, um, Iris Rowley, she was in present, as well as Robbie Brantford, uh, Mr.

Curtis Peanut Johnson was in attendance.

Um, again, so I I believe I named everyone.

Uh well received conversation.

We know that there is more work that needs to be done.

Um, and that was one of your points.

Thank you, Miss Creech.

Like we had those conversations, they were very fruit fruitful, but now the work and those are the conversation and the next steps to what we need to make sure that we're we're executing and addressing the issues of gun violence.

Uh Commissioner Beckham, as well as uh all of the members of the commission have uh raised the issues in terms of us dealing with uh Mr.

Gabe, you raised the issue as well in terms of us looking at this public health crisis that we have in our community, the disproportionate effects of the crime that we're seeing in West States and Northwest States, and we have the data, it shows that those are areas of concern.

I really appreciate Commissioner Fairchild raising those questions, and so he is absolutely correct.

There will be a work session and and understand too that we know that giving a press conference and not necessarily giving the way forward will be premature in terms of what the next steps are.

Understanding too that the police department, the chief and the command staff, will in fact be holding a work session on Wednesday, which is the 10th of June, to address the concerns that we're seeing in our community around gun violence.

Out of that, what we're also opting to do is to make sure that we have a retreat.

Ms.

Jackson, we're going to be pulling on you and your and your support to align our schedules so that we can have a moral uh deliberate uh deep conversation as to what it looks like, understanding that the issues that we're dealing with around gun violence is in fact a public health uh crisis.

We have to tackle it from multiple different um angles, if you will, and so we're committed to doing that work.

CVG felons with the future, the work they're doing is just one intricate part.

We know that we must continue that work with all of our community stakeholders.

That includes our churches asking our churches to open their doors, to rally their networks, to host conversations, creating the spaces that are necessary for our youth organizations.

I'm glad to see you all here standing up a new youth council, getting involved, making sure that you're a part of the conversations.

Our neighbors checking on one another, our businesses helping us to reimagine what in fact how how do we envision uh public safety.

Reimagining public public safety overall, and that is the ask and the charge for the number of uh sessions that will be held uh throughout the next couple of months, uh couple of weeks, I should say, um, on what the next steps will be in that in that vein.

So I'm calling on every resident, every every congregation, every organization, every every neighborhood association, businesses for us all to step up so that we can in fact be peace ambassadors.

We know the great work that's being done and in partnership uh with the county and the city with our peace ambassadors.

We're hopeful that that work will continue under the leadership of Marlon Shackleford.

And again, you have key people in this community that are in fact doing the work that have been doing the work for a number of years that goes back to serve, right?

Uh, from Tony Ruby and and Byrd and many of the others that are doing this work on the ground.

So we want to make sure Sean Walton, we want to make sure that that work is is comprehensive and that we're looking at it from different angles, knowing that uh city government, we can't lead this alone.

Uh the government.

And Ms.

Akbar, you touched on it.

This is a moral compass issue that we're dealing with.

So I really appreciate your comments, and I really want to uplift that and uh stand true to what the commitments are for us to make sure that we're moving the needle in addressing the concerns in our community from poverty, from housing instability.

Uh we just had a work session prior to about uh access to counsel, reducing the number of families that are in fact impacted by eviction.

How do we make sure that we are assisting those individuals with the support that is needed?

Ms.

Lamance, thank you for your continued advocacy and for being here this evening.

Um like to have a conversation with you after the meeting.

Uh Amaya Decam Middle School, thank you.

You did a remarkable job.

I will encourage you to have a conversation with the blue shirters over here to figure out how we can get you as well as Mr.

Callister signed up to be a part of the youth council, and we also want to extend that invitation to you in regards to our uh youth cabinet that we just passed this evening.

So very excited about that work, the work that we're doing there.

Thank you for Commissioner Beckham for uplifting that.

Um, Mr.

Alzane, thank you for your comments, thank you for your continued advocacy and and really speaking to where we are in terms of uh the violence that we're seeing throughout the country throughout the world.

And you all know that this is not isolated to dates in Ohio.

This is literally happening everywhere.

And I know that I might be preaching to the choir, so to speak, but this is what happens too when you have a federal government who is actively working against those various different programs that we once had in place, and that is continuously chipping away the funding streams that we once were were privy to, and that we could really work to address the various different issues from the recreation centers, Mr.

Gage, from all the various different social services and and agencies that are honestly they're they're struggling right now because the funding stream, the funding purse strings are are now drawn up, if you will, and they're now tightened.

Um so we're doing more with less.

Um but again, we're resilient.

We know that we have to be innovative and creative in doing the necessary work.

Um that is our role as elected members, and so we are um asking that you continue to hold us accountable, extend the grace, let us continuously work together to identify what um are the best practices.

Again, we want to make sure that the CVG model, felons with the future, is a permanent line item in the city's budget, but we also need to make sure that we're not um negating other issues that we may be faced with throughout the city, whether it is with the the number of housing instabilities and and other concerns that we have.

So more conversation will be had.

My hope is that we will find time with our calendars to entertain a retreat solely focused on the gun violence in our community and trying to find and identify best practices and what we need to do to move the needle there.

But again, let me be clear.

This is not all on the local government or PD.

This is a collective effort.

So we need all hands on deck, isn't that right, sister uh Sakara Jabar, all hands on deck.

We need everybody involved.

Everyone needs to be involved.

Uh also want to thank Ms.

Akbar again.

Thank you for your comments.

Um again, please, please, please, not just for today or this weekend.

Continue to wear your orange ribbons, wear orange.

Uh, June is in fact uh gun violence awareness month, as mentioned by Felons with the Future, uh, Mr.

Greg West.

So we want to continue to support that work.

Um, and again, noted that there's 82 days.

That is just one segment of the city.

We want to make sure that is across the entire city.

So there's more work that we need to do.

And so, with no further business that come before the commission, this meeting.

Oh, I'm sorry, thank you, Ms.

Jackson.

Next week's meeting, thank you very much.

Next week's meeting will be held at 8 30 a.m.

Again, that is Wednesday 6.

6.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Next week's main meeting, the 10th of June, uh, next Wednesday will be held at 6 p.m.

Thank you very much.

All right, with no further business come before this commission, the meeting is adjourned.