The Dayton City Commission held a regular meeting on June 18, 2026, called to order by Mayor Turner Sloss. The meeting included approval of minutes, adoption of city manager's recommendations, a public hearing on zoning code amendments, and extensive public comments on police technology, neighborhood blight, homelessness, and gun violence. All votes were unanimous unless noted.
The dates and city commission meeting will now come to order. Would you all please rise for the invocation and remain standing for the pledge of allegiance? This evening, the invocation will be given by Commissioner Beckham. Thank you, Your Honor. Dear Lord, uh, thank you for uh this evening. Uh thank you for the opportunity to lead our city. Uh we ask that you continue to uh give us the clarity and awareness to reduce violence in our city and the clarity to uh do the work to improve our city for everyone. Uh in your name we pray, I'm in. Amen. And to the republic for which is one nation under with liberty and justice for all. All right, Miss McClendon. May we please have a roll call? Mayor Turner Sloss. Aye. Commissioners Joseph. Aye. Shaw. Aye. Fairchild. Aye. Okay. Beckham. All right. May I have a motion to approve the minutes of the June 10th, 2026 meeting? So moved, John. Second the motion, Your Honor. It has been properly moved and seconded to approve the minutes of the June 10th, 2026 meeting. All in favor say aye. All opposed say no. Any abstentions? Miss McClendon, are there any communications or petitions this evening? There are none, Your Honor. Thank you. Ms. McClendon, are there any additions, deletions, or comments to the calendar this evening? There are none, Your Honor. Thank you. Ms. Dixteen, are there any additions, deletions, or comments to the calendar this evening? Your Honor, I have no additions or deletions to this evening's calendar. I do have a few items to highlight. So we're excited to bring that forward this evening. Item number five is a contract modification from an original contract in uh 20 from 2023 with Optica Consulting. This item is a third renewal uh of existing technology consulting services agreement for $373,866,000 through June of 2027. The original contract was initially managed by our IT department. Optica provides specialized technical support for critical police technology systems, including body worn cameras, in-car cameras, mobile data computers, electronic crash and citation systems, license plate readers, which are the axon in car cameras. And so occasionally optical will need to switch a camera out if there's a faulty camera. That is the only is only the axon. It has nothing to do with our flock LPR systems. Services include maintenance, troubleshooting, vendor coordination, technology planning, after hour support for mission critical systems.