Good morning, everyone.

I will now like to call to order our public health and safety standing committee for today, Monday, September 8th, 2025.

May the clerk please call the room.

Good morning.

Councilmember Gabrielle Santiago Romero.

Present.

Councilmember Scott Benson.

Scott Benton.

Councilmember Mary Waters.

Madam Chair, there's a core.

Thank you, Mr.

Clerk, given the quorum.

We'll go right into the agenda for today.

We have received our minutes from our last session.

If there's a motion to approve, motion.

Hearing no objections, our minutes will be approved from our last session.

Today we have a light of on a lot of items given that we're back, our first session back from recess.

So welcome back, everyone.

Feels like going back to school.

Happy to be here, ready to get some work done.

So we can go right into public comment for today.

I don't see anybody here for public comment in person.

So if you are online and you would like to make public comments, please raise your hand now.

I will be cutting off public comments in one minute.

So at 10 05, hands need to be raised if you want to make public comment for this morning.

This would be general public comment for our session today of public health and safety.

We can how many hands do we have raised so far, Ms.

Duncan?

Madam Chair, there are currently nine hands raised.

All right.

We will give everyone a minute and a half.

And if you are tuning in, uh please again raise your hands now.

If you would like to make public comments, we can put a minute and a half on the clock.

And again, we have a number of items on our agenda today.

We are back with a lot of business to cover.

We can begin with the first folks that we have online.

Um and Miss Duncan, with whenever you're ready, we can begin with the first caller.

Okay, madam chair.

The first caller is Miko A.

Williams.

Yes, hello, good morning.

How are you?

Um, I just want to let everybody know in this election.

Watch the money.

Watch how people are going to be bringing certain gifts of frankincense and my to the table to try to buy off whatever mayor candidate they can get.

It's already secret conversations, and a recent article shows where this money is coming from and who's giving money to whom and the power that is associated with the money.

Um, that is developer based as well as outside cash.

You got people coming from outside trying to look in the city of Detroit to see what they can get.

It is a shame that the people are still going through a time where we're being outspit and outnumbered by big money interests.

It's time for us to fight back to stop this and to vote for the candidate that will be powered by the people and not money.

Dan Gilbert may be getting a divorce, but that don't change his situation here in the city of Detroit.

He can get a new one anytime he won't off the street.

And turn Detroit into its real $2 uh mistress.

Then you also have Mr.

Benson, who is criminalizing the city instead of helping the city.

Mr.

Benson, you you have literally lost your way, sir.

It's time for you to be gone.

Just leave already.

Public comments is now cut off.

Who do we have next, Ms.

Duncan?

Next, we have iPhone.

iPhone.

This might be Miss Varner.

Yes, it is.

Good morning.

To all within the sound of my voice.

And to Madam Chair.

Uh I'm sharing today information about from the Franklin Wright Settlement Senior Chore Services.

They have uh services free for seniors, 60 plus of age.

Call 313-579-1000 extension 301 again.

313 579 1000 extension 301.

Uh only have a minute and a half, so I'm not gonna go through the entire list, but they help with a lot of different things.

They replace fuses, light bulbs, door locks, window catches, faucet washers.

For me, they're gonna be uh shampoo and carpet, trimming uh uh tree limbs that's hanging over my house.

Uh they do seasonal snow removal, plus they do uh seasonal removing um leaves off your property.

Uh they clean appliances and store, they install window shades and uh curtain rods, etc.

Uh the soda elsewhere black association.

We still advocating for our boulders.

Uh we have been successful in uh purchasing additional uh lots, and so we're gonna be expanding our park.

We need playscape equipment.

Uh go to Dba W E D E L at Gmail.com.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The next caller is Cunningham.

Mr.

Cunningham, if you can hear us, you're up next.

It was a great to see you at your event.

Very cordial, very uh kind.

They were very nice to me at another city council event.

They didn't treat me such as nice.

Everybody under the sound of my voice, 313, 444, 9114, 313, 444, 9114, 313, 444, 9114.

That number was made.

You can remember it.

And on Facebook, not enemy.

Again on Facebook, not enemy.

When you put in not enemy, put in people, click people, and you will see my page.

I'm excited for everybody to pray in the Holy Spirit, drink a lot of fluids, call my name, Brother Cunningham into the atmosphere.

And my mother, Cheryl Marie Lyons, which we we received communion together uh yesterday.

I put it on my social media, and it was a lot of response.

Um, she was a registered nurse for many years.

She has multiple scorosis, her legs don't work.

She's a God fearing woman.

Um, and I think she raised a decent child.

Um D dot still lacked luster.

If you want to ride the buses, get that 313-444-9114 and do it right along.

No matter if you're important, rich, powerful, or just a regular old person like me.

Um, please do it right along.

And also again, I want you all to pray in the Holy Spirit.

Um, chant, call my name in the atmosphere as I pray for you.

Be it about shum, that my son doctor, son, that's from go.

The next caller is Tahir Ahmed.

Miss Ahmed, if you can hear us up next.

Good morning.

Yes, good morning.

Uh welcome back.

Uh, good vibrations.

I we need help here.

Um the University of Chicago released the study, analyze Detroit's 2025 assessment rule.

They found that the city continues to illegally inflate the value of its lowest value homes.

Um, the Michigan Constitution supporting legislation, uh, case law are clear.

No property can be assessed at more than 50% of the market value.

Uh, nevertheless, the city of Detroit has illegally inflated the value.

84% of homes worth less than $5,000.

Um, Mr.

Eric Sabree has granted a foreclosure moratorium every year except this one.

And we want to urge everyone, and and even you, council member, to call Eric Sabrine, and we thank you for uh giving a uh resolution uh uh supporting the fact that we need uh a moratorium this year as well.

But we want you uh personally to call Eric Sabri and ask him not to foreclose on these over 800 homes that he is planning to well that uh he might foreclose on.

We're hoping that he'll be the hero like he was before.

Thank you and have a blessed day.

Thank you, you as well.

The next caller is not that Karen.

Hello.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Um, first off, I have three things I want to speak of today.

But first off, um uh member Santiago Mero.

I'd like to commend you for not accepting that donation for your campaign.

All money is not good money, and it seems that you realize that then better to have no money than to have dirty money, I think.

Um the retirees, Detroit retirees.

We're definitely in need of some assistance, and you know, it's been 12 years, and we're still not any closer to stopping that illegal um that money with that money.

And what happened with the the accounts was no no uh no offense of ours.

That was something that was done by the pension board.

So the pension board, those guys need to go to jail, and we need our money back.

The homeless, we gotta get the homeless off the street.

Winter is coming, winter is coming, winter is coming.

So we need to do more about you know, making sure that our babies and our you know, single mothers have a place to lay their head at night and not in the uh casino parking lot.

We need to make sure we take care of that.

$600 million over taxation.

It's you know, it's it's unlawful.

Everybody knows it's unlawful, but everyone just like the retirees.

You turn your head and look a different way.

You gotta focus on those things.

You gotta focus on making people whole.

You know, um, you can't hold people accountable for things that which they had no hand in um delivering to the system.

Thanks a lot for listening.

The next caller is owner Papa.

Good morning.

And through the chair, Carolyn Hughes, may I be heard?

Yes, good morning.

Good morning.

Um do you have a quorum today?

Um on your agenda today is a report that is about the speed humps.

Um you are the you are the committee chairperson for health and safety.

Um, are you aware that these speed humps add more particulate matters to the neighborhoods?

And my understanding is that if you need to quell traffic, there has to be some report on the need for quelling traffic.

On my street where I've lived 40 plus years, I've I've never witnessed an accident.

Uh uh, and I'm not sure why I have speed humps, and there's a park right down the street from me that doesn't have speed humps all around it.

Um speed humps kill.

Okay.

They add particulate matter.

There's wear and tear on cars.

Um it it it's it's it has a deleterious effect on our health and on our communities.

And I'm wondering why every decision this body makes is not with data or with knowledge, it's just to give contracts to people to make money on the city.

This is not helping our situation, it's harming us.

And you are the chairperson of the health committee, and you should be concerned with this with the high asthma rates in the city of Detroit.

We don't need to add to the problem.

Please remove them.

The next question.

Oh Vice Chair.

Just the FYI, the previous caller.

The reason that that report is here is because of her concerns.

And so hopefully she'll take a look at that report, which was identified by her as an issue.

And so this body, as per the chair has indicated, um, commissioned that report to address her concern.

So hopefully people will understand that we do take people's concerns seriously, and we act upon them.

Thank you.

Thank you, Vice Chair, and thank you for moving forward that memo.

Um, and we do have a quorum.

Who do we have next?

The next caller is William M.

Davis.

Uh, good morning.

Can I be heard?

Yes, good morning.

I like to say I've I find all the callers so far today have been very interesting.

And I think we do have a number of issues in this city that needs to be addressed, especially as it relates to the city retirees that was robbed and continue to be robbed.

And the city of Detroit itself has been robbed and continue to be robbed.

They have resources that was taken that we're not being fairly compensated for.

Also, this weekend on Saturday, the health department had a community block party, which was good.

But my big butt is the fact that, like last year when I went, there was some free parking available.

That whole area is difficult to park.

You have people that have to walk a long way to try to get some free services or be aware of stuff.

Uh also the the location for the health department is bad in that there's no parking for people.

Uh, and the parking is provided that the city provides for the staff and employees frequently they parking in needers.

And the city is paying for them to have parking that other people are taking that makes it difficult for seniors and pregnant women.

You know, I think uh also that the city retirees is this and this claw annuity clawback that was our savings, that the city also got a third of the money that was coming in from the monies.

Uh they they don't they didn't have to pay anything.

We shouldn't have to pay anything, and we should make the city should make us whole.

Thank you.

The next caller is Cecily McClellan.

Yes, thank you very much for this opportunity.

Um I'm calling because I believe the city council should act, and particularly this committee to codify into law a water affordability program.

Currently, the uh Detroit Lifeline Program is not functioning as it once did because it lost major funding.

We had over 60,000 residents that are eligible for low-income uh services, uh lifeline service up to 30,000 of those residents currently is less than um eight thousand with the potential of only servicing about 4,000.

Easy pay is not a uh um uh remedy because easy pay uh uh does not afford you uh to eliminate any arrears, and it stretches your rearage over a three-year period.

So we are receiving calls from citizens who cannot afford to pay their current bill and also uh their rearage.

I also support all activity as it relates to the Detroit retiree as a public safety committee.

We have retirees out here who have not reached the age of Medicare who cannot afford these exorbitant insurance rates that uh the city needs to consider having some type of program that would allow them a group plan for those retirees, the clawback as Mr.

Davies indicated.

The city received uh uh one third of those funding.

We believe the city is in a better position to pay uh the clawback than the retirees that are on fixed limited income.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I have a question for LPD of the law departments.

I believe uh council presidents might have been looking at a water uh affordability um ordinance for the city.

I can't recall at this at the state level.

Um, they were talking about this um fund essentially that did not pass.

Um, but am I recalling correctly that the city was looking into um some type of water affordability ordinance?

I'll take it over to LPD and then turn it over to law.

Yes, yes, there was okay, but um, it's not financially practical within the city alone.

Okay, for the same reasons that the problem exists if you think about it.

Okay, no, for sure.

Thank you to the law department.

And through the chair for that reason, we have not seen any proposed language uh come our way up.

Okay.

Would LPD would you be willing to resend whatever information uh was shared in the past for us to review?

Absolutely.

Okay, thank you.

Uh thank you to our caller.

Who do we have next?

Next, we have Mr.

Ronald Foster.

Uh good morning, Mr.

Foster.

Good morning through the chair.

Just wanted to um call in and be positive.

I was very um happy with a lot of the articles and the improvements uh that this committee is making.

I know it's keeping the tent of year to not just select few in the community, but the community as a whole.

Um, of course, there's a lot more work that could be done.

There's a lot more advocacy that could be done.

When I speak about poverty, people tend to get all up tight and upset because they lack the understanding of what poverty is.

Poverty comes from generations, and so the only complaint that people will have about not addressing poverty in the last 10 years or so would be not really applying things to stop the ongoing issue.

It takes three generations for poverty to occur.

It takes three generations to stop poverty, and so people got to stop being so personal and listen.

Seek information, stop trying to be defensive, seek new information and start doing the right things.

Everything that somebody says is not a shot at you.

People have problems with policies and where money is spent at.

Thank you.

Marguerite Maddox.

Unless you got things in how about doing a look at my shoes.

Please.

And the safety issue of the shelf.

They have been some.

But I know we are welcome in my own neighborhood.

And I started some lights being put up.

The life leave the more closer than your child takes and uh read this and he knows something about the lights.

So I am I am glad that he knows what I do him and the council doing the public comment.

And so please make sure that we are paying extinction the lights especially at first rocks because I wouldn't ever be perfect and I don't know how many times I um get hit by the cars so please for the screen please pay attention to where you are going to be unfasty because it being here unless you unless you ever is thank you, Miss Maddox, Vice Chair.

Thank you, Ms.

Maddox.

Vice Chair.

All right, thank you.

Ms.

Maddox, if you could please contact my office, like to uh have a deeper conversation with you about your request and your observations.

Thank you.

Thank you, Vice Chair, and thank you, Miss Maddox.

Uh we will soon share our experience with you walking in District Six with the public to continue to support you and your advocacy.

So thank you for all that you do.

We appreciate it.

If the clerk can please note we've been joined by member waters.

Clerk will say no.

Thank you.

I believe we still have a few more callers, or was that our last caller, Miss Duncan?

There was one more caller, but they had raised their hand after you cut off public comment.

I sent five.

Okay, understood.

Sorry to our last caller.

Um I did call uh cut off public comments at 1005.

Um, and we welcome you for next week or to join us for formal session uh or send us over your comments.

Um what we will do now is move on to the rest of the agenda under unfinished business.

5.1.

This is uh contract number 6007286.

This is regarding specialty uniforms for DPD.

The administration has asked us to remove this.

Is there a motion to do so?

Hearing no objections, five point one will be removed from our agenda.

5.2 and 5.3 are various uh demolition contracts.

Um there are questions that have still not been received.

Uh so we are being asked to bring these two back in one week.

Hearing no objections, 5.2 and 5.3 will be brought back in one week.

5.4 is contract number 6007252.

This is grants funded to provide environmental consulting services.

The contractor is Tetra Tech, they're located in Detroit, and this total contract will be 400,000, and it'll be for BC.

Uh, we held this, we got our answers to our questions over recess.

Wondering if there's a motion to approve or discuss.

Motion to approve.

Hearing no objections, five point four will be approved.

Is there a motion to send to new business?

We'll be sent to new business with the recommendation to approve five point five.

This is contract number six zero zero seven one ninety-one.

100% city funding to provide design build services for renovations and repairs that are needed at the Linden uh street facility.

The contractor is DMC consultants, and this will be for police at 500,000.

Um, is there a motion to discuss?

Motion.

Thank you, member waters to the administration.

I believe uh there are still some questions that have yet to be answered uh from Pro Tem Tate.

Uh wondering if those have been sent over, if not, so we can bring this back in a week.

Motion okay, good morning, Mr.

Washington.

Good morning, madam chair and committee.

I believe those have been responded to.

Um, but I can double check.

Um, I believe we also have Commander Sonia Russell and Robert Milleter available to respond to any questions that the committee may have.

Thank you, Mr.

Washington.

Are there any questions for five points five from us?

If there are not, there was a motion to bring this back in one week.

I want to provide the time for Pro Tem Tate to respond to review the answers.

Um, so given no questions from this committee, five points five, hearing no objections will be brought back in one week.

5.6.

This is contract number 308474.

This is utilizing 100% blight funding for emergency demo at 14320 Wilshire.

Contractors DMC.

This contract has yet to be demolished, is our understanding.

So we uh we're asked to bring this back in two weeks if there's a motion to do so.

Discussion.

Vice Chair.

Um motion to uh bring back in two weeks, discussion on the funding source.

Um, we've not seen this is blight funding, but we also have a number of contracts that are funded through bond funding.

Just what's the difference on these?

And where are we?

Um, Mr.

Washington, do we have our group exec to discuss?

If we can make your panelists, choose your joining as a panelist, madam chair.

Thank you.

Good morning, Lewan Counts Group Executive over construction and demolition.

Good morning, group executes to see you.

Um we have questions regarding really demolitions that we have on our agenda for today.

Um we have 5.6 is utilizing 100% blight funding and a number of other contracts using bond funding.

Um, our vice chair is wondering what the difference is.

Um vice chair, anything else you would like to elaborate on?

No, that's good.

Thank you.

Okay.

Through the chair, so 5.6 is shown as an emergency demo.

Um, and it is an emergency demo of a residential property.

And historically, we've always used um general funds um for emergency demos, and since but in the past when we had blight funding in place, we would if those properties were a part of our inventory that had been identified for the bond demos and they became an emergency, we would use bond dollars to cover that cost.

Um, but since we have um exhausted all of our bond funding, we have to go back to our normal operations, which is to use general fund dollars, which would be the blight fund um to cover any emergency demos moving forward.

All right, thank you.

Um, and just looking at the blight funds, since we've got about five million dollars remaining, and if you look at the numbers for the bond funds, it indicates that we have about I think it was 27 million dollars remaining.

And so is it that on the 27 million dollars once that balance are we looking to extinguish that based on the number of contracts we have coming up through the chair?

I believe it's a combination.

I'm not exactly certain where you're seeing the balance fund at, um, but that might be existing contracts that have already been encumbered against the 27 million.

Um, hence why you know we we don't have any funds left.

Okay.

All right, just for clarification, looking at the TEDA report, it indicates as of August 29th, 2025, funds available for bond was 27.7 million dollars, and so it would make sense if you're indicating that the 27 million dollars is now encumbered, which is why you're indicating we have a balance of almost nothing, and we're seeing a number of these contracts come today.

Correct.

We do have them sorry, through the chair, we do have a certain number that has been identified, and so even though it's not physically encumbered across on the bond, there are like a scattered amount of properties that are remaining to be applied to the bond.

Okay, and then another question commercial demolitions.

I had a meeting with the uh school this past week, and they've prioritized and you and I had the conversation.

Uh potentially could cost five million to bring the school down.

Um are there dollars for commercial demolition or the demolition of old schools within our budget through the chair?

No.

So we have ex only um commercial dollars that were um allocated to the demo program were through I mean for the commercial side were for through ARPA.

Um and we have exhausted all of our ARPA fund ARPA funding at this time.

Well, good job managing our ARPA funds.

Um we'll have a conversation with your office about the potential to uh board up.

Are there money to secure commercial properties?

Um I'm sorry, I could not understand the question.

Um, are there monies to secure board up commercial properties through the chair?

It really depends on it's gonna be on a property by property basis.

Um if the property is a very large, vast you know, vast amount of openings, it's going to become more challenging.

Um we do have the the in-house labor to support it, it's going to be the cost of the materials to do so.

Okay, we'll have a conversation with your office.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you, Vice Chair.

Motion to approve.

Um, quick question on uh just brief discussion.

Um group exec, is this property demolished?

Um five point six was it?

Yes.

Through the chair, yes, it was demolished on August 18th.

Okay.

The notes that we have uh were that it has not been demolished just yet.

Um, but we'll move forward with the information that you shared with us today.

Thank you.

There was a motion to approve.

Are there any objections?

Hearing none five point six will be approved, sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

Thank you.

Thank you.

5.7 is a memo relative to a request to extend summer recreation center hours.

We can re uh receive and file this memo.

Motion.

Hearing no objections, 5.7 will be received and filed.

5.8 is a memo relative to concerns about um AVTAS Specialty Services Corporation.

We were asked to bring this back in two weeks.

Motion.

Hearing no objections, 5.8 will be brought back in two weeks.

5.9 is a memo relative to the Detroit Health Department's conducting wellness checks for senior citizens.

We received uh this uh memo as well.

Member Waters, would you like to receive and file or keep it on our agenda?

Uh receive and file.

Hearing no objections, 5.9 will be received and filed.

5.10 and 5.11.

We are looking for a status updates if there's a motion to discuss.

Motion.

Thank you to the law department.

Through the chair for 5.10.

The response has been delivered for 5.11.

I'd ask a one-week bringback.

Okay, bless you.

Thank you.

Uh, without objections, 5.10 can be received and filed given the responses.

Is there a motion to bring back 5.11 in one week?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, 5.11 will be brought back in one week.

5.12 is contract number 3083818.

Utilizing 100% blight funding to provide emergency demo at 19436 Westbrook.

Contractors, Detroit next, they're in Detroit.

This total contract is 15,000 and it's for construction and demolition.

Is there a motion to discuss?

Motion.

Thank you to the administration.

Um, I believe we are having some tax clearance issues here.

Um, not sure if we have anyone from OCP who can give us more information of where we are.

Yes, through the chair, if we can call Alicia Wright.

Okay, if we can make Miss Wright into a panelist.

She's being promoted, Madam Chair.

Thank you.

Hello.

Hello, good morning.

If you wouldn't mind stating your name and title for the public, Elisha Wright, um, with the Office of Contracting and Procurement.

Good morning, Miss Wright.

Um, your camera seems to not be working, so you can get off if you'd like.

You're you're fine.

Oh, okay look at media services.

We have a cool new screen.

Um, dual screen.

Sorry, Miss Wright.

I was gonna ask where we are uh with the status of tax clearances uh for 5.12.

I still haven't um received a tax clearance for them, and I believe they're still just working on it.

Um haven't got the details though um through the chair.

Okay, we will bring this back TBD and we'll check in with you regularly to see if there's been any changes.

Okay, all right.

Thank you without objections, 5.12 will be brought back.

TBD.

5.13.

This is contract number 308230.

This is utilizing 100% blight funding.

There is a correction at 6.1, so 5.13 can be received and filed um without objections.

5.13 will be received and filed, and we will see this again on line item 6.1 with the correct contract.

Moving us along, 5.14.

This is contract number 808246 utilizing 100% blight funding to provide an emergency demo at 5198 South Clearden.

Contractors Celebean, they're located in Detroit.

This will be for 19,268.

Is there a motion to discuss?

Thank you, member waters.

The park has not been demolished.

DTE still has not disconnected.

Um, is our group exec still along with us, Miss Duncan?

Yes, thank you for joining us again.

Um group execs just wanted to check in on this property.

It says that we still have DTE issues, and this has not been demolished as of July.

Do you have any more information for us?

Through the chair, it looks like we anticipate issuing an NTP later today.

Hmm.

Okay.

Um, should we move this out to regular?

Bring it back for one more week to finish up all the all the processes.

Um through the chair, I I mean, ideally, we would like to see it move on to regular business.

Um but of course it's at the will of the body.

That's okay with me.

We still have a few other more.

Thank you, Vice Chair.

5.14 will be approved, sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

Um, and we'll make a note for formal just to make sure that this everything has been cleared, Miss Duncan.

Moving us along under new business, thank you, group exact under new business under the office of contracting and procurement.

6.1.

This is the corrected contract.

Should read as contract number 308230, 100% splight funding to provide emergency demo at 3935 fair view.

Contractors inner city contracting, they're located in Detroit.

This will be for 20,590.

And 6.2, this is contract number 307621, 100% splite funding to provide emergency demo at 5504 underwood.

That's also known as building 102 rear.

Contractors inner city contracting.

This is for 27,77 dollars.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss 6.1 and 6.2?

Motion to approve.

Hearing no objection, 6.1 and 6.2 will be approved, sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

6.3 corrected contract should read as 308 6323 to provide emergency demo at 4815 tiremen.

The contractor is SC Environmental, they're located in Detroit, and this will be for 39,282.

Uh we have been told that there are a number of vehicles that have to be removed.

Um, and they're still prepping this for demolition.

Um, and we were given a two brack, a two-week bring back if there's a motion to do so.

Motion hearing no objection, 6.3 will be brought back in two weeks.

6.4 through 6.13 are all various uh demolition contracts.

These are utilizing 100% bond funding.

6.4 is contract numbers 308 5958 to provide emergency demo at 18515 Goldburn Contractors DMC.

This is 17,280.

6.5 contract number 3085960 emergency demo at 1317 East Nevada.

Contractors DMC for 18,912.

6.6 contract number 3086011.

Emergency demo at 9456 wood wood lawn, contractors DMC, 16,900.

6.7, contract number 3086102.

Emergency demo only for the residential property at 8611 Travers.

Contractor Sullivan, this is 13,452.

6.8 is contract number 3086111.

Emergency demo at 5468 Springwells.

Contractors CS Environmental Services, SC Environmental Services.

This will be for 23,123.

They are located in Detroit.

6.9 contract number 3086114.

Emergency demo at 527 Crossley.

Contractors SC Environmental for 15,711.

6.10 emergency at demo at 3491 Beals.

Contractors SC Environmental at 16,000.

6.11 is contract number 3086180.

Emergency demo at 7545 and 7555 Serena.

Contractor Celebine for 24,900 and excuse me, 24,309.

6.12, contract number 3086329.

Emergency demo at 11729.

Winthrop DMC consultants will be the contractor at 16,800.

And 6.13.

Contract number 3086333 to provide emergency demo at 8049 Emily.

Contractors inner city contracting in Detroit for 25,750.

Is there a motion to approve 6.

I believe three?

Excuse me.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss 6.4 through 6.13?

Motion.

Motion to approve.

Are there any objections?

Hearing none.

6.4 through 6.13 will be approved, sent to formal with the recommendation to approve 6.4 contract number 6007402.

This is 100% city funding to provide electrical maintenance and repairs at various city facilities.

Contractors Power Lighting Tech Tech Technical Services.

They're located in Detroit.

This is a three-year contract for 3,500,000.

And it's for construction and demolition.

Is there a motion to approve the discussion 6.14?

Motion.

Thank you, Member Waters.

To our group exec, if you are still on with us, if you wouldn't mind joining for this conversation.

Thank you.

Just wondering what the public can expect, what we can expect with this contract.

This contract actually allows us to service all of our city owned facilities in the event that they have any electrical issues.

But he's one man and we're responsible for 140 locations.

So this contract work will allow us to actually continue to provide those services until we won bring um that one individual up to speed.

And then if we're if in the event we're able to hire the two more vacancies, um they'll allow us the transition time to be able to acclimate those employees as well.

Madam Chair.

Member Waters, um good morning.

What um has some of those facilities that may um have some electrical issues?

Can you just name a couple of them?

Sh through the chair, yes, I can.

Um, this would be any type of electrical issue, whether it's um lights that are out, interior or exterior, to police, fire, recreation centers, elections, um any of our um park comfort stations, um, pretty much any city facility that the city well, every city facility that city owns that has electrical service could be touched by this particular contractor.

I I just wonder have you identified any of those that would need some immediate assistance.

Um, through the chair, we are currently actually right now we're actually working at animal control.

Um, so that is a location that we know can use some immediate attention.

Okay.

Um, but there's also preventative maintenance that uh that needs to be performed as well that ensures that we don't end up in a more catastrophic situation where we need immediate service from a contractor as well.

Okay, thank you, madam chair.

Thank you, member waters.

Group exec, just wondering how long have we been without an electrician?

Um, and what's your timeline to make sure that the city um is is has our our staff our staffed and ready.

So we it's been at least three years.

Um I want to say it's been closer to five, which we have not had a working electrician.

Um so we're very grateful for the one that we just recently have hired.

We do have um leads on another individual who we're hopeful will join the staff as well.

Um it's challenging um because the need for trades is so great in the industry.

Um, and so the pay that is offered um outside of the city is usually far more enticing for electricians, and the work simply is typically going to be a lot it's gonna be easier.

Um one of the the better parts about working for the city is that you have exposure to a wide range of facilities and types of situations that you know could challenge your skill sets, um, but it's also a very challenging skill set to have at the pay scale in which the city offers.

Understood.

Should we raise the pay then for our electricians?

Have we made it that discussion yet?

Uh we often will raise uh the salary for for different positions.

Wondering if that's been discussed.

Through the chair, it has.

Um, unfortunately, I don't think we have much control over that.

That's a part of the union negotiations, so it's really where you know that falls out.

Um, if you're asking me personally, for all of our trades, yes, we probably should consider raising all of our pay skills for all of our trades.

Um it's it's an industry that's kind of dying across the board.

Um, and so trying to entice people to go into that business is a difficult thing.

Okay, understood.

And last, how what have we been doing then these past three to five years?

Have we been including work in other contracts?

Have we has the work fallen on staff under other um other tasks as assigned?

I guess how has that been worked um working so far?

So through the chair, we do have a position that's called a building trade worker, which is like um a jack of all trades, so they have had to assume um more of the the the weight of the electricians that we have not had.

Um, but then we also make sure that we capture any issues that we have in our capital improvement projects um so that we can at least lighten the load on the maintenance team um so that they don't have to be as reactive um to things that they know that you know it could potentially break, and then we have a situation where we definitely have to call the contractor out.

So we have definitely used our um funding from both the UTGO side but also from ARPA to ensure that we were fortifying our inventory, our building inventory so that we did not have to be as reactive in the future.

Okay, thank you.

Um, I appreciate that.

There was a motion to approve.

Are there any objections?

Hearing on 6.14 will be approved, sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

There's a hands raised.

If you wouldn't mind sitting in a name and title for the public.

Good morning, Ashley Wilson legislative policy division.

And I just wanted to point out to the council that the tax balances for this vendor is expired.

I have reached out to OCP to see if they have updated their passes, and I haven't had work back yet.

Okay, thank you for letting us know.

Uh we can keep this moving out to formal for next week, and then if uh we'll check in with you, um, Miss Wilson and LPD to see where we are if we need to bring it back.

Okay, all right, everyone.

Um thank you for the flag.

Move with moving us along under 6.15.

This contract should read as contract number 6007056.

This is you utilizing 100% grant funding to provide the burn states crisis intervention program to manage youth violence prevention and other community policing programs.

The contractors Detroit Police Safety Foundation.

This is a total contract of 360,000.

This will be for police.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss six points fifteen?

Motion to approve.

Hearing no objections 6.15 would be approved, sent to formal with the recommendation to approve under the departments of appeals and hearings 6.16 through 6.20 are all various buildings, dangerous buildings findings and orders.

6.16 is for August 1st, 2025.

6.17 is for August 13th, 2025.

6.18 is for August 15th, 2025.

619 for August 26, 2025.

620 for July 11th, 2025.

Is there a motion to receive and file 6.16 through 6.20?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, 6.16 through 6.20 will be received and filed.

Under building safety engineering environmental departments.

6.21 through 6.23 are all recommendations for recession.

6.21 is a recommendation for 10242 West Grand River.

6.22 is for 319 Ed Sol Ford.

And 6.23 is for 7285 Prairie.

Is there a motion to concur with the departments for 6.21 through 6.23?

Discussion.

Uh member waters.

Um I would like to see a picture of the one at six six point two three.

Six points twenty-three to the administration.

Mr.

Washington, who do we have to discuss these items with us from BC?

Well, oh they're not gonna be able to show it to me today anyway.

So just wanted to be shared with you.

Well, I do I want to save this.

I want you have it.

It seems like they might be working on the back.

Huh.

We can bring it back if you have more questions.

I think that's my only assumption is that they're gonna have a plan to fix what looks like the porch.

Everything else looks solid, but we can also discuss this with BC to see what they found.

You can ask them now.

We can bring it back.

We can bring it back.

Okay.

Motion to bring back in one week.

Uh 6.23.

Hearing no objections.

6.23 will be brought back in one week.

And there was a motion.

Oh, is there a motion to concur for 6.11 and 6.2, excuse me, 6.21 and 6.22.

Motion.

Hearing no objections.

6.21 and 6.22.

Uh we will concur with the department's findings, and we will bring back 6.23 in one week.

Under the office of the chief financial office, office of development and grants.24 is to accept and appropriate a cast donation from Valerie R.

Williamson.

This will be for the police, uh, Detroit Police Academy.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss six points 24?

Motion.

Motion to approve, hearing no objections.24 will be approved, sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

Under the legislative policy division LPD, 6.25 is a memo regarding the correlation between particulate matter and speed humps.

We have received this information.

Is there a motion to discuss or receive and file?

Receive and file.

Hearing no objection, 6.25 will be received and filed.

6.26 is a resolution in support of the Michigan Senate Bill 492.

Um is there a motion to approve or discuss 6.26?

Motion to approve.

Hearing no objection, 6.26 will be approved, sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

6.27 is a resolution in support of the federal government and state of Michigan continuing to grant support for the focus hope head start program.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss 6.27?

To approve.

Hearing no objections, 6.27 will be approved.

Sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

6.28.

A resolution in supports of House Bill 45 17 and House Bill 4518, amending the Michigan Amber Alerts Act and Child Abduction Broadcast Act.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss?

Motion to approve.

Hearing no objection six points twenty eight will be approved.

Sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

Under the departments of public works administration, six points nine, six six point twenty-nine and six points thirty.

These are both resolutions to permit the installation of banners.

6.29 is for Southwest Detroit Business Association and 6.30 is for the Livernoy Business Association.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss six points?

There's a motion to approve 6.29 and 6.30.

Hearing no objection, 6.29 and 6.30 will be sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

Under miscellaneous 6.31 and 6.32 are two resolutions from my office.

6.31 is uh in support of recognizing September 12 through the 21st as welcoming week and 6.32 uh resolution in support of national his um hispanic heritage month in from September 15th through October 15th.

Is there a motion to approve to new business 6.31 and 6.32?

Motion hearing no objections, both items will be sent to new business with the recommendation to approve.

6.33 is a resolution in support of continued funding for the accessibility program.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss?

Motion to approve.

Motion to approve 6.33 will be sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

6.34 through 6.36 are all various memos.

6.34 is related to fix our flooding, our flooded basement act.

6.35 is regarding the child abduction broadcast act amendments, and 6.36 is a memo relative to a request for a resolution in support of Senate Bill for 92.

Both or all three of these items need to be brought back in one week.

Motion.