Finance and art standing committee is now in session.

Will the clerk please call the roll?

Good afternoon, Councilmember Fred Durhal III.

Councilmember Comey Young the second.

Here.

Councilmember Gabriel Santiago Romero.

Mr.

Vice Chair, there's no coordinate.

Thank you, Ms.

Clerk.

I appreciate that.

Um the chairman is on his way.

He just ran a little bit behind, but he is on his way.

And um the honorable councilwoman Gabriel Santiago Romero will not be here.

And I think her absence is excused.

Is that correct?

The clerk's office didn't receive uh absence from Sandy Alber Romero.

Excellent.

I just want to make sure that was acknowledged.

Okay.

Is there we can't take a motion to approve the man, so we're gonna go right into public comment.

Uh, how many people do we have for public comment?

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon, Mr.

Chair.

We have seven people that raise their hand for public comment today.

Excellent.

Seven people.

Okay.

Public comment is now closed.

Public comment is now closed.

Public comment is now closed.

All right.

Who here first in Cuba's the pain?

Good afternoon again, Mr.

Chair.

We our first caller is Mr.

Rue.

All right, Mr.

Rue, floor is yours.

Two minutes, sir.

Hey, Coleman.

Coleman.

Clearly.

You were cheated in official, but cheated in by Gina A.

Walker over at the Detroit Department of Elections under the direction of Janison Winfrey, Detroit City Clerk and Chairperson of the Detroit Election Commission.

Now, I wholeheartedly sincerely say this to you.

Because of the reverence I have for your dad.

There's no way that Gina Avery Walker and Janice Wumphrey should be running the 2025 Detroit election.

No way.

You know it.

Others in that audience in the committee of the whole room know it.

Oh, people all across social media.

The whole city of Detroit.

Mayors cheated in, the city council's cheated in, the school board is cheated in, and the Board of Police Commissioners is cheated in as well.

Those that were elected for the members are appointed by the cheated in mayor.

Now I don't often come out publicly and put myself in the line of fire.

But uh Nini wants what she wants.

She wants y'all to stop saying her mama killed herself.

Y'all don't want to do it, didn't want to do it.

So that's why I took it.

Charmaine McLeod did it, Coleman.

Charmaine McLeod, Kenisha's blood relative, her cousin.

She doesn't have an explanation on how she found out Kenisha was shot.

All right.

Thank you for that.

We appreciate that.

Who do you have next to the queue, Mr.

Buff?

Oh, is you Ms.

Payne?

Sorry.

Bad habits die hard.

Mr.

Chair, we our next uh public commenter is iPhone.

All right, iPhone.

Floor is yours.

Two minutes, iPhone.

Good afternoon.

This is Betty A.

Barner, president of De Soda Elsewhere Block Association.

Um I'm here advocating for my community.

Uh I would like to uh share information if you would like to donate to our um goals and missions that we have for our community.

You can go to Zell and you can go put in D as in dog, E, B as and boy, A, W E, B as in Boy, E L at Gmail.com.

That's D as in dog, E, B as in Boy, A, W E, B as in Boy, E L at Gmail.com.

Also, I want to share for seniors.

60 plus.

There is an organization of Franklin Wright Settlement that's offering free services to seniors.

It has nothing to do.

It's not based on your income or anything.

You have to you don't have to fill out any forms.

You just tell them what it is that you need.

They're gonna be removing some branches that's uh hanging near my uh house.

There they will put in uh replaced fuses, uh door locks, uh window catches.

They provide a lot of services.

They install um window screens, uh security doors, uh they clean appliances.

So if you know of someone that needs these services, have them call 313 579 1000 extension 301 again 3135 1000 extension 301.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Vernon.

We appreciate you.

Who's next in the queue, Mr.

Payne?

Our next public commenter is Cunningham.

All right, Mr.

Cunningham.

Floor is yours.

Two minutes, sir.

My cash app is 31349114.

My Cash App is 3134 9114.

313, 444, 9114.

That number was made so you can remember it.

And on Facebook, not enemy.

Again, on Facebook, not enemy.

Click people, and you'll see a picture of me and my family together uh with my mother dressed in blue.

I think for the people that pray for us and uh we pray for you.

There is a D DOT meeting upcoming.

Please go to social media and when you do that, spell it all the way out.

Detroit Department of Transportation and share that.

If you're an executive, if you're just employee with a city, or you just uh a regular citizen like me, um share it.

People need to be able to express themselves on what's going on with the bus services.

Um the buses are the route were the Jefferson, the all of them are taking longer within the last couple weeks.

I've been giving feedback.

I'm always out here giving out the bus tickets at the bus stops.

And uh I do appreciate you.

Um, I've been praying randomly uh in the holy spirit, uh, unknown tongues and and in English, and times are getting tough, and folks need help and support and love.

You can vicariously help others through me, or if you don't like me, just do it on your own.

Give us some bus tickets.

About like uh lunch voucher or uh certificate.

Just be kind to those who are waiting long periods of time and the buses are not on time, so just be a blessing and stay prayed up.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, everybody.

Thank you, Brother Cunningham.

Uh good afternoon, Mr.

Clerk.

Uh as well as Mr.

Payne.

Afternoon, Mr.

Chair.

Who is our next caller?

Mr.

Chair, our next caller is iPhone.

I phone.

You have two minutes for public comment.

Please state your name for the record and proceed.

Good afternoon again.

I've already spoken.

Thank you.

Thank you, Miss Verner.

Next caller, please.

State your name for the record and proceed.

Uh, yes, Carolyn Hughes.

Um through the chair, may I be heard?

You may, ma'am.

I wasn't aware that uh you should ask the parliamentarian if you can start public comment before the meeting has been uh called.

If there's not enough or a quorum, you sitting here now, the meeting still has to be recalled because now you have a quorum.

Um there was an article that was written about all the foreclosures and how much money we have uh contributed to all of these uh programs that are report supposedly helping our homeless problem, but it seems as though it's getting worse.

Um, just as the bus service, Mr.

Cunningham, maybe you should say you love it, and then maybe they'll change it.

I have a fee that has shown up multiple years on my tax bill, and it's uh some kind of um special fee.

And it's uh some kind of um special fee.

Can you please have um the assessor's office explain to us what this uh special fee is?

Some people say there's this 200 and something minus 300 or something, but I would like to understand you know what this special fee is that we we see on our bill.

And I was under the impression from this body that our um garbage pickup would not increase, and it appears as though that is untrue.

People are seeing increases and um garbage pickup um fees.

Um I don't know.

There's there's a lot to there's a lot wrong going on with this budget committee.

And I think you should take it to heart that you are the budget committee, and now he wants to take 14 million dollars to supplement something else.

I think it would be disingenuous of you to even entertain uh taking more money, surplus funds from the city funds to to surplus or abate anything that the mayor wants.

Thanks.

Thank you.

And just to clarify, uh, Ms.

Hughes, uh public comment can be taken uh without a quorum.

Uh and the clerk has noticed that I am here, is why I said good afternoon to him.

And as mentioned in the agenda, uh, we always notice for a quorum, but thank you so much.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is phone number ending in one two four.

Phone number ending at one, two, four.

You have two minutes for public comment.

Please state your name for the record and proceed.

Good afternoon.

May I be heard?

You may, ma'am.

Thank you.

Um, I have a I just want to express my concern.

I shouldn't have to call into the meeting and re-raise my hand because I raised my hand and then somebody lowers my hand.

So please, like this plan, I don't know what's going on.

You should investigate.

Um also budget committee.

How come you didn't budget money for all the people being rolled over for the disgusting unconstitutional solar takings?

But you budgeted over five million dollars for these Farmington Hills attorneys who Coleman, they there's a guy in prison.

They didn't serve him properly, and they're taking this property anyway.

And I must give credit where credit is due.

I commend you, Coleman, for uh speaking out about Charlie Kirk and the violence.

And for anybody who thinks that guy was a racist, you are ignorant that I'm not calling you stupid.

That means you just don't know how many black admirers he has.

And even though they didn't agree with him on some things, you know, he was respectful.

And like look up the video, Doc Ritz, DOC, RICH, and enough is enough.

Boy, there are people leaving the Democratic Party in drones.

Probably like because of the way the money gets spent here, like in Chicago, when they were spending money on migrants when they didn't care about their own people when they were in the cold and they wanted to close down they had to sue to stop them from closing a rec center and park to put the migrants in when they had empty buildings downtown.

So, you know, we're not saying we don't like other people, but there are legal ways to come to this country coming across the border, you know, getting the people out busy at the border so there can be a bunch of gataways.

It just wasn't cool.

And that, you know, and we could have another 9-11 because the last administration was so absolutely reckless.

And folks, I've done immigration law.

I know what asylum is.

Thank you, Ms.

Warwick.

Next caller, please.

Our next our next caller is William M.

Davis.

Mr.

William M.

Davis, you have two minutes for public comment.

Please state your name for the record and proceed.

Uh good afternoon.

William M.

Davis, can I be?

You may sir.

Okay, I'd like to start out by saying that uh I see Mega Mayor Duncan is proposing using surplus funds to cover tax revenues declining.

Perhaps tax revenues wouldn't be declining so much if millions of dollars wouldn't go into tax abatements and the exemption for millionaires and billionaires who don't even live in the city.

You know, uh I I believe that I can make a prediction uh if the if if the city retirees do not receive something, and we haven't really received anything in the time he's been in office that there's a group of people that's already forming that already have 100 failures from Mike Duggan.

And I'm sure before the end of the year it could probably be over a thousand failures of the Dugan administration.

And I'm sure by then we could probably have at least 500 volunteers to go all over the state to point out some of his failures.

Uh, an example would be the fact that when he came into office, Detroit was the 18th largest city.

Now we're the 26th.

When he came into office, we didn't have 3,400 CD chart with General Plan City retirees, you know, dying right away, like they have since he's been in office.

You know, we did not have all these bike lanes that people are complaining about that cause a lot of accidents and uh road raids.

There are countless things that we could come up with in the event that we feel that we've been not looked at, not helped.

And we do feel like we're not being looked at, not being helped, and a whole lot more can and should have been done for the city of chart retirees.

You know, so perhaps we could give them a going away present in the event he chooses not to assist us because this uh clawback is horrible, but no clawback for white millionaires and billionaires who don't do what they say they're gonna do.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Next caller, please.

Mr.

Chair, our last caller is not that Karen.

Not that Karen, you have two minutes of public comment.

Please uh state your name for the record and proceed.

Hello?

Yes, ma'am.

Yeah, not that Karen Winston here.

Yeah, I'm a city of Detroit retiree, and right, we're tired of our money being clawed back.

We'd like to see some of the developers have, you know, that don't live up to their end of the bargain.

We'd like to see their abatements clawed back.

And perhaps that would be more money, uh, you know, from in the general fund to help the city of Detroit retirees to help make yourself uh accountable for what you did when you took our money away.

Because as a retiree, we did nothing wrong.

What was wrong was the pension board and the pension um members who did not who mishandled that money?

So I think that needs to be looked at for what it was.

It was not, it was no harm that the retirees did themselves, but rather the board that we have no um, you know, we don't appoint the city council president and uh uh John Naglik and all those other guys.

We don't select them to be on the board.

You guys work that out, you know.

President, and then you have um, I think um Mr.

Benson was on the board at one time.

Now I think Mr.

Young is on the board.

So you guys, you have more say than you own up to on those pension boards to help make the retirees whole.

Uh as it relates to these immigrants, you know, being legal is one thing and illegal is something totally different.

So we don't want illegal immigrants.

We welcome all immigrants, of course, but not illegal immigrants.

And they talk about black jobs.

What is a black job?

You know, what is a white job?

So there's no job designated for any one particular um race of person, you know.

So we have to be fair about um, you know, how we use the city funds to pay people's salaries.

Um same thing with you guys.

You guys should change your committees every two years.

You haven't done that.

It's stated clearly in the charter that's a requirement.

We'd like to see you own up to the the charter and live up to the charter.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And does that conclude public comment, Mr.

Payne?

Mr.

Chair, that concludes public comment.

Thank you.

We'll go back and uh move to approve or move to approve the minutes of last meeting.

Uh members have been provided those minutes.

There's is there a motion to do so?

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Already taking care of public comment.

Uh, we have some reports on our agenda uh today.

Uh not much, uh, but we'll go directly into unfinished business line item 5.1 status of the office of the chief financial officerslash office of budget, uh submitting the fiscal year 2025-2026 allocation of elected officials budget.

Uh motion to discuss line item 5.1.

Motion.

Hear no objections, that action shall be taken.

Joining us, we have Mr.

Donnie Johnson.

Good afternoon, sir.

Please state your name for the record and then proceed.

Good afternoon, Mr.

Chair Donnie Johnson, um, acting deputy chief financial officer and budget director for the city.

Um, this item is the resolution that we have submitted um that would effectuate securing budgets during an election year for elected officials.

So, what this resolution will do is take 50% of each elected officials' office budgets, including the council president's support budget for the city council, bifurcated into that 50% share.

That 50% share of each of those will be moved into appropriations that are restricted.

Cheating.

The cheating and election.

Okay.

Sorry about that, Mr.

Johnson having some technical difficulties with the Zoom.

No problem, Mr.

Chair.

Um, as I was saying, uh, this would move the funds into what we call lockbox appropriations.

These appropriations would be set up.

They would receive the half of the budget.

They would then be disabled so that they cannot be transacted against until after the election, sometime on around uh probably either New Year's Eve or New Year's Day.

Um the staff members responsible for the um budgetary.

We need to check the Zoom and see what the issue is.

Okay, I think we've got the issue resolved.

I'm sorry again, Mr.

Johnson.

I apologize.

Please continue.

Not a problem, Mr.

Chair.

Um, so as I was saying, uh, those funds would be lockboxed until after the election and the start of the new year, when the new council term begins, they would then be moved back into the budget.

The purpose of this is to ensure that newly elected um elected officials um will have at least the six months of budget remaining in their budgets for the fiscal year in which they take office.

This is the result of our fiscal year and um electoral terms not coinciding exactly.

So our fiscal year is bifurcated by those terms.

So this would ensure that, you know, um, when someone takes office, they have the six month, full six months of their budget available to them to set up their office and do what they need to do.

Thank you, sir.

Any questions from colleagues?

All right.

Uh and I had my questions answered from last meeting, you know, we're just concerned that current council members were able to uh uh or there was no anticipation of current council members going over that 50%.

Um, seeing that uh this is a resolution that has come a little bit later uh in this session, uh and we only have a few months left.

But from our understanding, uh there will be no uh council members going over that 50%.

Is that correct, Mr.

Johnson?

That is correct, Mr.

Chair.

All council offices are on track to be under the the target of 50% of their annual budget.

Okay, thank you.

Mr.

Corley.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair, good afternoon, city council.

So um obviously, Mr.

Chair, council members would plan uh to make sure that their staff would use any unused vacation time, uh any anticipated unused SIG time.

Um to make sure that that's exhausted by December 31st, if you should approve this um resolution, which we do approve.

You know, and um we do support.

Okay, thank you.

All right.

Seeing no further questions, is there a motion to send line item 5.1 to formal with a recommendation to approve?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Thank you, Mr.

Johnson.

If you hang on really quick, we're gonna go directly to line item 5.2 status of the office of the chief financial officerslash office of budget, submitting the financial report for the 12 months ended June 30th, 2025.

Is there a motion to discuss line item 5.2?

Motion.

No objections, that action shall be taken.

Back to you, Mr.

Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

So we're back on this item.

Um, to follow up on some questions that this body had on the report.

I am going to share my screen.

As soon as I get it to cooperate.

There we go.

So what we're looking at is the slide that was the subject of our discussion um at the last um uh session.

And this is our projection slide.

And so the questions that were asked of of me and um chief deputy CFO Greer were, you know, what what are some of the items that are driving these surpluses that we see in professional contractual services, operating supplies, and other expenses.

So I have with me um the information to answer some of those questions.

So what's driving professional contractual services is really that's an underspend on surplus additional funds that we had added to the budget in fiscal year 25 for the flood response in the Southwest when we have the Southwest water main break.

Uh, we had allocated funding in emergency funds to respond to the flood that ultimately we did not need to use all of that reserve.

So we have unspent reserve there.

So that's really the big item that's pushing up the professional and contractual services underspend amount.

Umperating uh supplies category.

Curiously, operating supplies also contains repair and maintenance contracts.

Um just an interesting quirk of the way our chart of accounts um uh lays out.

But what we have in here is um software licensing fees in the Department of Innovation and Technology was one of the big drivers of this item.

We had expected larger software licensing increases than we actually ended up realizing um in fiscal year 25, which is good news.

Um, and it's good news for preparing, frankly, the 27 budget because it allows us to know that our licensing rates for um uh software is not growing as fast as we expected.

Another big driver in this um was uh a few contracts in the general services department um that were as needed contracts for certain services that just weren't utilized to their full extent in fiscal year 25 as they're as needed contracts.

It's sometimes they're hard to predict.

So we assume a certain scenario and then we see how it plays out.

And then finally, the other expenses, which I know is always a big um question mark for a lot of folks, and especially residents reviewing um other expenses.

The biggest driver in this is the workforce investment fund.

So if you'll recall in the general fund budget every year, we do allocate a specific amount of money that serves as the cushion essentially for collective bargaining agreements that are negotiated during that fiscal year.

Since we don't really know how those contracts are going to turn out when we're doing budget development in the fall and early spring, um prior to the start of the fiscal year, we put aside an amount that needed to be used that that could be used in the event that collective bargaining agreements result in higher labor costs.

Fortunately for us in fiscal year 25, the 17 million dollars we had allocated was not necessary.

So the CBAs that were negotiated in 25, uh, we were able to absorb those costs due to vacancies in various departments and things like that.

So we didn't have to tap the workforce investment fund.

Um this is also the category where a number of what we would consider the the no year items would would be.

So some of these items will drop off of this as part of the surplus and move forward into the next fiscal year.

Um, some of these are going to be funds that were related to the solar fields project, solar neighborhoods project.

Um we also have items that are contributions and transfers to component units in here.

So items like um the general fund subsidies to the Department of Transportation and the City Airport.

These are items that are finally reconciled later in the adjustment period when their expenses are settled since they're non-geners, and then we true up the books from that.

So these will go down as we do the final inter what we call interfund transfers.

Um those are the big drivers in this category.

Um nothing particularly um exciting.

Um they're mostly interfund transfers or reserve funds that were ultimately not needed in the fiscal year.

Um, not really any underspend in the other expenses category related to city services directly or anything like that.

So that's the breakdown of those sorts of expenses.

Thank you.

Uh any questions?

All right, seeing none.

Uh Mr.

Corley.

Did you really thank Mr.

Johnson for taking the time to explain these in more detail?

And I do recall the last time he's he said that, and I think he just reiterated that no services would be impacted by by this.

So that's a good thing as well.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Uh also on board one, noting that this is the last one before the new fiscal year, uh, giving an outlook of again what this fiscal year looks looked like for 2025.

Um, but again, thank you so much for your report.

Mr.

Johnson, can you let the public know where they can find this report for transparency, please?

Yes, the city's um monthly financial reports are on the uh city's website.

It's um Detroit MI.gov slash OCFO should take you to the main landing page for the OCFO.

Um, and from there you can go to the reports section and you can see monthly financial reports, our single audits, our annual comprehensive financial reports, all of those items live um on that website.

Okay, thank you very much, Mr.

Johnson.

You are very well.

Okay.

Uh is there a motion to receive a file line on a 5.2.

Well, no objections to that action.

Shall we take it?

Next, we'll go to line item 5.3 status of the legislative policy division submitting the legislative policy division report on the status of 2024-2026, financial and budgetary priorities, public policy planning and action resolutions.

Motion to discuss line item 5.3.

Well, thank you very much.

Mr.

Corley, we still need some more time on this one.

We're good.

We're good.

Oh, we're good.

Yes.

Please proceed.

Thank you so much.

I have some opening remarks, and then Miss Renee Short would take over from there with a PowerPoint presentation.

But back in July, let's say the policy division LPD presented a report on the status of the 2024, 2025 financial and budgetary priorities, public policy, planning, and action resolutions, or in other words, the council's fiscal 2025 closing resolution.

LPD um has committed to report periodically on the status of council's closing resolution items.

And this report is the first one for fiscal 2025.

The fiscal 2025 council closing resolution outlines 119 resolutions to further address the needs and concerns of the community that were not funded or fully integrated into the fiscal 2025 adopted budget.

Items included in the City Council closing resolution resulted from council's deliberation of the budget of fiscal 2025 and compromises made to ensure that a balanced budget was adopted.

So without further ado, Mr.

Chair, Ms.

Um Short is here to present a PowerPoint on this report.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Corley.

Good afternoon, Ms.

Short.

Thank you for your diligent work on this.

Please state your name for the record and then proceed.

Good afternoon to the chair and council member Young.

Uh this honorable body.

My name is Renee Short.

I'm um fiscal analyst with the legislative policy division.

And it is our privilege to present to you today your um FY25 closing resolution, the status of your priorities for the fiscal year.

Um next slide.

I'd like to start with why we do this.

And this is really for the listening uh public who may not know the process and so how do we get to this point?

And then want to lift up that not all of the council's priorities will be funded in the adopted budget.

As Mr.

Corley said, we have a hundred and nineteen closing resolutions, and uh only I believe 46 items made it into uh funding.

Um so with these items, we're asking the administration to um continue to look at council's priorities and as financial circumstances change to provide opportunities to have some of council's priorities um implemented.

And again, communication is key.

We are highlighting the areas of importance for the administration to consider when uh favorable funding conditions occur.

And then last is the execution that we see that council priorities are uh acted upon.

Next slide.

So on this slide, we've looked up some of the accomplishments and achievements that occurred during this legislative term.

Uh we saw that residential cyber repair program was enacted and funded.

We expanded the emergency tree trimming and removal program, funded the disease, dangerous and diseased, dead tree trimming and removal program created and fully funded the Office of Disability.

Uh created and funded the Office of Immigrant Affairs.

Uh during this term, we established the paid parental leave benefit, and council created and funded a reparations task force.

There was implemented and funded the right to council program, funding for mental health services, and uh contracts are approved for additional training for police.

What we established the and funded the nurse navigation program, expansion of the goal line after school program, created and funded a snow removal grant fund program, and this was expanded for other services for our elderly, senior, and disabled population.

And last but not least, and this is just a small uh partial listing of the accomplishments that council was able to do through uh budget adoption and the closing resolution action.

They've funded community violence intervention.

So applause, applause for all the hard work that you've done in this past uh three and a half years.

So going in next slide to the status of the 25 resolutions.

Now this um status uh it's not uh what I want to say as of today's date.

Uh we started this process of a while back.

This is our first update for 2025.

We apologize for the delay.

Here we're showing in this graph of our 11 resolutions that uh majority are open right now between open and closed items.

We have 77 percent of the items having been acted on.

And then of the other two categories, action under consideration or no consideration given, no action planned that accounts for 23 percent um actions of handled.

So this is where we stand, of course.

Uh again, this is uh our status that's uh as of the beginning of this fiscal year, and so uh things may have moved between the categories uh and as Mr.

Corley said, we continue to monitor activity as it happened.

Next slide.

What I want to lift up, and then it's certainly a um accomplishment for council because this it's been a long standing um issue and discussion.

Um, and it's one that's been frequently commented on by the public is ARPA funds and council's ability to direct of these funds.

So again, this is one of council's priorities and uh council approved in March 18th, 2025 a supplemental budget amendment that uh the allowed the chief operating officer to establish a new appropriation that transferred and reallocated some ARPA funds during the 26th budget deliberations, council um approved 9.5 million for reassignment into this opera fund for council's uh use in um designation.

Uh the 26th closing city council closing resolution states stated council's intent to evenly divide approximately 14.5 million of opera funds that uh the administration um reallocated uh and this was to be done 30 days upon adoption of the 26th budget, which it occurred, and of this 14.5 billion, council approved 5 billion for homeless initiatives.

So again, a long-standing issue that uh probably has been discussed from day one of the seating of this council uh has been acted upon, and council was able to direct the use of certain our opera funds, and it is expected that their additional funding will become available from the office of the chief financial officer with which council may be able to uh direct the activity of those funds.

Next slide.

So one of the categories that I want to lift up for the closing resolutions are what would we label actions under consideration?

There's a total for this session of 23 items, and I'm listing out to begin with 14.

On the page six here, you see behavioral and mental health training and outreach.

That all of these items, all of council's closing resolutions, were discussed during the 26 budget deliberations.

And some were brought forward into 26, and what you see here for 25, some of these items were also carried over from 24.

This listing again, actions under consideration are really uh pending items, really haven't started implementation.

Um these are ones that we want to um take a look at to see, and as I said, some have been brought forward not to see if they are ultimately can be initiated.

So we have child care um program, money for the Motown Museum, a zero bridge loan for uh capital improvements, and mainly directed for our cultural institutions to fill that gap.

Uh the office of sustainability and placing all the FTEs under that department.

Next slide.

Number six, uh, we've talked about amusement tax and uh pairing that with number seven is the local auction tax.

There we have movement and uh on this issue, and next week we expect to hear from the Citizen Research Council on their report on local option tax, and so we're excited to learn more about that and uh initiative.

Eight uh is the retiree rainy day fund and having an annual contribution for um that nine is the mini stations for police in senior buildings.

Next slide rounding out these uh 14 that we have listed.

Uh we have safety um training program for police to eliminate uh motor vehicle collisions.

We have the public gliding authority for 11 and 12 to talk about a large-scale lighting study and mid-block lighting in our neighborhoods.

Uh 13 is friendly communities, uh, age-friendly communities and planning for future development.

And 14 we've listed is remediating the burdens of blight tickets on our senior residents.

Next slide.

So here I'm just rounding out the last of these 23 items that we have labeled as actions under consideration.

And as I indicated, uh one has moved towards completion, and that's our local option tax report that we look forward to hearing from CRC next week.

Uh again, uh DOT transit app, the QR codes for Charles Wright Museum, um, the icon Vulcan printer, the 2030 minutes neighborhoods.

Some of these have been carried forward from previous fiscal year, uh safety safely accessing the riverfront, Greyhound Bus Depot site, Palmer Park Blanchill parking, reverse conviction fees, and using the surplus general fund surplus for council priorities.

Next page here, these are the items that have been brought forward from previous fiscal years and some that occurred in 25 that the administration have not indicated that they're going to move on these items.

The employee tuition reimbursement.

The employee tuition reimbursement, I think that's been in every closing resolution from the beginning.

HR has indicated that they have other activities that they they found to be to fit this need.

And so this one sits in this category.

The land value tax ballot proposal advocacy is sitting here for now.

There was a study and a hundred thousand allocated to DEGC to perform the study, but it was subsequently reallocated to the green grocer program.

So we we leave it in this category because Councilman Bear Young, we know this is an item that a top priority for you.

Next we move to just more informational cat.

We categorize the council priorities by services, and this year we added with 20 fiscal year 25.

We added one other category that was public safety.

So here we just kind of listing where these priorities fit into the various service activity.

We have internal services and environmental infrastructure communications, and these are all operations of the city geared to this type of activity.

So BC being environmental, internal services is really made up on a number of operating items to improve overall city services.

And of course, we have transit with DOT, continuate constituent services.

It's really our direct interaction with our citizens, our cultural initiatives really come into play when we fund operations and capital initiatives for our museums and libraries and zoo, economic development activity, employee compensation and benefits, health initiatives, housing, neighborhood development, retirees.

Next slide.

Again, number one, city internal services, followed by constituent services, economic development, cultural, cultural initiatives, and housing initiatives.

And how does this compare to fiscal year 24?

Again, it was city internal services being number one item, followed by city services infrastructure, constituent services again, peer and top list, economic development, and health initiatives.

Next slide.

So that again the comments submitted will assist the council and administration in maintaining accountability and transparency on issues of high imports to the community.

Next slide.

So one of the recommendations that came out of this process was how to improve the monitoring of City Council priorities.

And this was expressed in council's closing resolution and schedule B.

So LPD proposed an accounting change that we believe will provide greater transparency into council initiated changes to the budget as reflected in Schedule B.

And this proposal was incorporated in the 20 council's 26 closing resolution, and it was affirmed in the administration's closing resolution.

So for FY26, OCFO will assign a project number to all the non-personnel budget items that was added or modified by council via Schedule B, which will up will allow the legislative policy division to run reports and monitor the use of associated funds for the uh schedule B items, those items that were actually adopted into the budget.

This does not include personnel budgets because of the complexity of signing project numbers to the payroll system, but the Office of Budget has indicated that they will provide us with a position reports to monitor the status of any uh staffing changes that council initiated.

So they have begun the process of uh signing these project numbers, and we look forward to working with the Office of Budget and monitoring the FY26 uh council closing resolutions and the schedule B items that were adopted in the budget.

So last I'd like to conclude by saying that um LPD is committed to continue to monitor council resolutions and other council actions and the items that are noted under no consideration or pending consideration may require uh council to have a line item discussion with within the appropriate council committees, and we encourage the administration to continue to update council on the progress of initiatives included in the current and previous budgets or requested in council's closing resolutions.

And with that, if there's any questions, we are available for response.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Ms.

Shore for your diligent work.

Uh, not an easy thing to do.

Uh work with all the departments, track down all of the priorities, uh, all of the closing resolutions, uh, kind of start to finish.

Um, I don't envy you.

Each closing resolution obviously has its own life, its own discussion, its wrong process.

Each one of council uh council's priorities or council members' priorities due uh as well.

Uh but thank you for for providing this information.

This is very helpful, uh, even the council members, and I'm sure this work will continue going forward, uh, but gives an idea uh of what has been accomplished uh for a council member as I looked at the report, uh it gives you kind of a snapshot relative to the budget priorities of where you started, what was important to you and where you are today and what you got accomplished.

And so uh I am glad uh that this report was done.

I am thankful to you as well as LPD and the entire team, but you've done an amazing job on it.

I wanted to make sure that I told you that.

Thank you.

Absolutely.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Chair recognizes member vice chair.

Young yeah, I just wanted to second.

I mean, this is absolutely amazing.

This is extremely comprehensive.

I I didn't expect I would get much, I'd be honest with you, I don't expect not getting much of any feedback at all, let alone something so detailed and something that was so well um put together because it was so many priorities.

I mean, I just remember you know that night, and I'm just thinking, oh, am I ever gonna get back on any of this?

You know what I mean?

Because just so much of it at one time.

So I think that really goes to your excellence and you know, experience um really showing here.

I I I I just wanted to ask, and I appreciate you know let me down easy about the whole transference from the uh 3D printer to the uh to uh the green grocer program because that was really hard for me to do.

So I appreciate that.

Um, but I wanted to just I wanted to ask you really quickly about some of these things.

I because I know you had something on here about um the the 20, 30 minute um neighborhoods, and I received a call from PDD saying they had made some progress on this.

I don't know if that means they're done yet, but I know they made some progress on that.

And I just want to know is that reflected in this?

Have you talked to them and they said that even though they made progress, that's it's still not done yet, or is there another conversation that needs to happen?

Because that's a recent update.

Okay.

That's a recent update.

So another conversation needs to happen.

Okay.

We're now the holding it in the pending item, but we can now move it since you said they made some progress move it to open and then progress, and we we look forward to them reporting out to exactly what the progress is they made on that.

Absolutely.

And I also just wanted to add just a curiosity.

When when these uh do get finished or do get fulfilled, are they brought before council to have discussions on afterwards, or is this just something that just all the members are updated on that your priorities have been fulfilled?

I know we can't talk about all of them, but you know, but then again, so many of them will probably be open anyway.

So you go you're only gonna close so many.

So the ones that you do fulfill, do we then have discussions afterwards before the body as a whole, or is it just where we get these um detailed reports about you know those uh those priorities being complete?

Well, the interesting thing through the chair is that we continue to talk about closing resolution and even our schedule B items, the the funded items in our budget deliberations, and so those that remain open or are in a pending state are you know LPD voice questions, yeah, and so do the council members and so especially with this uh 26th budget deliberation.

We've had some in-depth conversations about these open items.

So our report shows items moving between open and close, and then those that are kind of in a holding pattern, but we don't really have uh another conversation about the completions and the activity like we found out today that we have the banners raised on liver noise.

And so that was a closing resolution item and a schedule B item.

And uh so it has been completed and you know, celebrated by the community.

No, I think that's excellent.

I mean, I I I think that's real good.

I mean, because I know there's a lot of them, but I just I like the fact that we're having discussions like this about these items, you know, and having talking about whether or not they, you know, how they've been completed and whether and how they're gonna be implemented.

I think it's real nice.

And even if it's not, if you're telling me why it's not gonna, if you complete it, but it's not, it's nice to at least have that discussion or why, so I can go back to my community and tell them why, why not, or whatever.

I also wanted to ask you about uh DPD mini stations and senior facilities.

It's it it says that currently DPD is focused on hiring officers to fill the vacancies.

As DPD fills its vacancies, they'll be able to explore the feasibility of providing more localized services.

Uh currently the creation of many stations is not feasible.

Now, is it not feasible because of the fiscal aspect of it, or is it not feasible because of the uh deployment aspect of it because they're more in focus on micro policing, or they don't have the officers to be able to do that, or that's not part of their strategy, or is it both?

They don't have the money, and it goes against how they deploy the officers as well.

Um, through the chair, I have done that.

I don't know all the time.

That question for DPD is that a question for DPD?

Yes, this was kind of a response earlier on.

I don't know if they had a change of heart now.

We know through uh the monthly financial reports that our hiring has uh has been good and uh lower vacancies, so uh again, this may be a budget more thoroughly discussed during the budget process as to whether they need more funds for staffing or is it deployment or is it some type of organizational thing that is holding them back from the mediation issue?

Do you think that's more of a question I should be asking for DPD, you think?

Yes, yes, that's kind of what I figured.

I just I was gonna ask you if you had it, great, but if not, I understand.

And then uh my final question I wanted to ask was just about um the um the sales tax involving um the involving stadium tax or the music tax.

I just wanted to ask one from my understanding, that's just gonna be predominantly for the uh tiger stadium for the basketball, hockey arena, um, football, just primarily for those Ford Field, that area, downtown area where they're gonna be levying that tax.

One, and then secondly, are we are we are we just having the analysis based on how much money it raised, how it'll work, or is this also something where we potentially be talking about legal ways in which we could go around the process of not having to go to the ballot, whether whether it's collected signatures because you got to collect some of the cities for it to get on the ballot, or whether you're going through the legislature, because you gotta get 83 votes in the house and 25 votes in the Senate because it's two thirds of both chambers, and then you gotta vote for the public has to vote for it.

So, are we having discussions at all about how to get around that, or is this just uh kind of intro to the process that we're gonna have to be doing?

How we're just gonna raise and chair?

Yes, yes.

So um, thank you, Councilmember Young.

So, as um Ms.

Short indicated, the CRC is gonna come before this particular committee on October the second.

Right, over the first, to discuss the report on the amusement tags.

Wait, so it's they come in October.

So they're not coming next week, they come in in October.

Okay.

Yes, yeah, yes, and not this week.

Okay and um they they are going to cover those points, and so uh if you can please, you know, reiterate your questions then.

That would be good.

Okay.

No, I just I just want to know just the reason why I'm asking you is I just want to know just kind of what it's nice to know what you're kind of getting into a little bit before you get into that, you know, so I can kind of ask my question.

Because I the question I have about this is more is not more in terms of the procedures, more in terms of the politics of it, you know, than I do in terms of the act, you know, to the feasibility of actually doing it.

But I just want to know if they're having conversations about ways in which we can have this without having to go through that process, then that could those questions are necessary, you know what I mean?

So thank you.

I appreciate it.

Mr.

Chair.

Um and also just to make it clear, and when it comes to the CRC, so again on October the first, they're gonna discuss just the amusement tax issue.

Yeah, they're working right now on the local option sales tax uh as we speak, and that'll probably be about a couple of months from now.

So the first report just will focus on amusement tax.

And Mr.

Chair, if I just quickly, I just want to thank you for your comments um for Miss Short and putting this together.

Um it's a labor of love for her.

Uh frustration too as well.

And uh, but uh I really appreciate her.

She has a huge spreadsheet putting this all together.

And um uh it's it's just remarkable.

So I really appreciate her her work on this.

So thank you so much for the comments.

Thank you.

And again, thank you, Miss Shore.

We appreciate you.

Um with that, is there a motion to receive and file line item 5.3?

Motion hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Next we'll move to line item 5.4.

Status of Councilmember Benson submitting a memorandum relative to request for Detroit Public Library D uh DPL Foundation information.

Uh motion to discuss line item 5.4.

Motion.

Mr.

Corley, where are we at with this particular request?

So um, Mr.

Chair, I suggest that the committee bring this back to be determined because the um litigation or potential uh lawsuit or whatever that may be that may arise uh involving the Detroit Public Library Foundation that's being formulated right now.

They're working the Detroit Public Library working with their attorneys to see how they go forward.

So um, based on my conversation with the chief officer, Antonio Brown, he would like for this to come back, you know, as determined to give them an opportunity to go through their their legal process.

Okay.

Is there a motion to bring back line item 5.4 to be just to a date to be determined?

Sir Vice Chair.

Motion, I'm sorry.

Hearing no objection.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Uh we'll move on to new business line item 6.1 from legislative policy division submitting a report and proposed ordinance to amend chapter 17 of the 2019 Detroit City Code financed by amending Article 2 budget division one allocation by adding section 17-2-30 budget allocation to elected offices of city council mayor and city clerk to provide for financial stability of elected offices during election years.

Motion to discuss line item 6.1.

Motion.

Here no objections, that action shall be taken.

We've already discussed this as well.

Mr.

Johnson came on and read about the resolution and the memorandum.

This is the actual ordinance piece that will go in front of council, and it just needs to be sent to formal for introduction.

So is there a motion to send line item 6.1 to formal for the introduction and setting of a public hearing?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

That brings us to the end of our agenda.

Member reports.

Chair recognizes member vice chair Young.

Negative report.

Thank you, Member Vice Chair.

And just very quickly, our 28th policy session will take place Monday, September the 22nd from 6 p.m.

to 7 30 p.m.

at the Edison Library, located at 1840 Joy Road.

And our topic will be why voting is important.

We're inviting the public to join us again.

That is taking place Monday, September the 22nd from 6 p.m.

to 7 30 p.m.

at the Edison Library, located at 1840 Joy Road.

Please come out and join us.

Other than that, that concludes my member report.

Seeing no other business to come before this committee, the budget finance and audit standing committee will stand adjourned at the call of the chair without objection.