The Neighborhood Community Services Standing Committee of the Detroit City Council convened on September 4, 2025, at approximately 6:16 p.m. with a quorum present (Councilmembers Young, Whitfield Callaway, and Benson). The committee approved minutes, heard public comments, and moved several agenda items to formal session. Key discussions included the removal of a past-due election event, questioning of ticket pricing for a private event in a public park, and member reports highlighting community events and services.
Name of the community serves standing committee will now come into session with a clerk. Please call the roll. Councilmember Coleman A. Young the second. Here. Councilmember Angela Whitfield Callaway. Councilmember Scott Benson. Scott Benson. Mr. Chair, you have a quorum present. Thank you, madam clerk. You're welcome. All right. Is there a motion to approve the minutes? Motion made or any objections. Hearing none, the minutes will be approved. Uh negative chair marks. We will now go to public comment. I think we have four people in the queue for public comment. Um, seeing no one here, we don't have any in-person public comment. So we'll now go virtual. Who is the first person that we have virtually, Mr. Bo? We currently have five callers for public comment. Our first caller is you matter. All right, you matter. Floor is yours, two minutes. You matter. Uh good afternoon, may I be heard? Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Well, um, I disagree with Brother Cunningham about the mayor's meeting last night, but he was there in person. But uh the mayor and his people, in my opinion, are First Amendment lightweights, and I don't think what they're doing is legal. They are saying that because somebody in the past said something inappropriate on the phone or Zoom, that the rest of us can't speak, and that they'll ask our written questions, but two meetings in a row, they didn't ask my questions, so I will send them and see if they actually ask my questions. But that is totally inappropriate, and I believe it violates the First Amendment in equal protection because some person misbehaved in the past, you treat people differently and won't let them speak because you all don't do this at city council, you just get rid of the misbehaving person, and you don't apply it to everybody else. So I thank you, City Council, for not responding in such a First Amendment adverse way. But would you member young as at large member at large number one? Would you please ask LPD to look into the legality of what they're doing? And also, I would like to say that I'd like to thank the lovely person from the demolition department who came out the other day and boarded up 296 Smith, which is owned by the people who want to build North End Landing, and they don't take care of their property. Uh it had been open to trespass for over a week. They still have another building that's collapsing in the back, open to trespass with a bunch of debris that's been sitting there since at least 20 uh 23. But they don't well, they finally got a ticket, but it didn't have to they didn't have to uh fix it. And so all right, thank you so much for that. I appreciate that. Who you next to the queue? Mr. Chair, the next caller is Cunningham. All right, go ahead, Mr. Cunningham. Mr.