Start off with our um invocation.

We have Commander Chaplain Michael Kadat joining us this morning.

Thank you for being here in person as well.

Madam President, honored members of the council.

It is a pleasure to be here.

I am Commander Chaplain Michael Knott with the Detroit Police Department Chaplain Corps and also a proud uh resident of district two.

All right.

So we can uh, as our faith uh dictates and our traditions dictate, bring ourselves into a state of grace and prayer.

Good and gracious God, we thank you for this day, and we pray that you lead us in ways to find ways to be finding joy and grace and joy in it.

I give thanks for this council and the work that they do.

I give thanks for the progress of this great city of Detroit and its citizens.

I also ask your heavenly spirit to be upon us as the work is done in the city because there are still people in need, there are still things that need to be done, and we need your grace to help us through these times.

I ask your wisdom to be upon the citizens of this great city of this great council.

I thank you for their leadership and ask your blessings upon them and all the citizens of the city of Detroit.

Undergirdus in our activities today.

May this meeting be conducted in order and close and harmony.

It is through you.

I pray, O Lord, and personally I pray through Jesus Christ with all reverence and honor to all other faith traditions.

Amen.

Amen.

Thank you so much, Chaplain, for being here.

All right.

The journal of the session of September the 9th will be approved.

There being no reconsiderations or unfinished business.

We will proceed to the budget finance and audit standing committee for the budget finance and audit standing committee.

Fire reports from various city departments.

Five reports will be referred for the internal operations standing committee.

Nine reports from various city departments.

The nine reports will be referred to the neighborhood, excuse me, for the neighborhood and community services standing committee.

Three reports from the Office of Contracting and Procurement.

The three reports will be referred to committee.

For the planning and economic development standing committee.

Two reports from various city departments.

The two reports will be referred to committee.

For the public health and safety standing committee.

Under communications from the mayor and other governmental officials and agencies.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

We are going to move forward with public comment.

We will start with those who have joined us in person.

Everyone will have two minutes for public comment.

And we will start with Miss Betty Lyons.

And we are going to cut public comment off after.

No, okay.

We'll cut off public comment.

Okay, sorry.

Bus drivers first.

Their wages should be no less than 30 or 35 dollars with all benefits.

You ride that bus and you see what they have to go through.

You wouldn't go through that mess.

It was so bad the other day, I had to just say, damn.

And he had to get up and spray the bus.

Now the next thing is this Kenlock.

Do not vote him for mayor.

This man wants to serve Satan and Father God.

He doesn't even show how he teaches his congregation.

Where's the $35 in our jobs?

No, he wants us to make his dream come true.

He supports the Detroit fireworks.

I've never heard of a Reverend supporting the Detroit fireworks.

The next thing is Conrad Mallet.

Where is he?

He never answers the questions.

He's probably under Dugan's desk, waiting for uh his order to come out of the desk.

He is of no help.

Attorney Whittaker, you're not helping the city.

You do work for the city, don't you?

You ought to help us.

Mary Sheffield, please say that you aren't supported by Dugan.

That's like sleeping with the uh devil.

He is awful.

You have a strong family background.

I saw the picture of your grandfather.

He is a strong man.

Continue that.

Do not let this devil bring you down.

He's gonna make Detroit go into a tailspin.

And then he's gonna put it in your lap.

Don't let him do that.

He needs to be investigated.

Coleman Young, I don't know what was on your mind.

I guess you thought it was cute when you disrespected that lady that said something.

It was very disrespectful and unprofessional.

Yeah, you don't remember it because that's your usual attitude.

You always point to something that is wrong.

Thank you so much.

Ms.

Williams.

Hello, can you guys hear me?

Because I can't hear myself.

No, you have to press the bottom of the microphone.

There you go.

Oh, okay.

Hello through the chair.

Um, I've been speaking about illegal corruption of the Detroit Police Department.

I spoke about new identities over seven months ago, how you can come out of prison or um your green car expired or illegal immigrants, social security cars, birth certificates, SSI.

And this is how they were able to establish a new identity.

So I've been complaining about the corruption of ex-offenders under the Detroit police department, and you guys have not done anything about it.

It's your duty to make sure the citizens of Detroit well-being is taken care of, period.

You guys are supposed to have our best interests.

Taxpayers, and if you don't pay taxes, regardless, it's all citizens in Detroit.

So you continue to sit up and act like this does not exist.

That incident that occurred on Delaware, it was a shooting between the man and a woman.

Are you guys how you guys gonna handle this and defuse this situation?

Because they were on the Detroit Police Department, if I'm not mistaken.

When I pulled back up and yellow tape was all around, Channel 7 News was just leaving.

They was talking about breaking news, and I said, Well, you know you guys have some ex-offenders on the Detroit Police Department.

He said, Yes, I'm fully aware of this.

And these ex-offenders with different names, you have to sign off to receive your weapon with that fake name.

This is not, this is not acceptable when you are under Detroit Police Department and you guys continue to lie and cover up and act like this is not going on, period.

Like I said, it's no way officers they can't, police officers to have badges that's been in prison, murder, rape, sex offenders, all type of stuff.

You guys sit up and act like because you all working together.

From the mayor all the way down.

And like I said last week from the Board of Commission, if you all are not accountable, I hope you ride in prison, come out in the box.

The perk would note um Pro Tim Tate has joined us.

Member Young has joined us as well.

Clerk was on note, Madam President.

Mr.

Craig Wilby.

Oh, good morning.

Can you hear me?

Yes, we can.

Oh, good morning, uh, City Council.

I'm I'm here on behalf of uh a nomination for ombudsman for uh Shiri Gate.

I just wanted to give a public comment as far as for the returning citizens that I support and um have dealt with.

They see her as a viable candidate for helping out the city and and some of the city problems that that arise.

We uh fully support her in every step and measure.

I think that her work and her uh zeal has been shown throughout um her tenure in office.

I think that uh she will be a viable uh candidate not only for helping the city, but also helping this department run in a fashion that is respectable and can carry out the deeds and uh intentions of this office.

Uh, as I was reading um what that office entails this morning for the Ombudsman, um it fit her criteria and her work ethic very uh very well.

I just like to thank um this council for even giving her the opportunity for such a prestigious um office.

And I think that um as I have been watching, I'm kind of new to this, uh, as I have been watching what's been going on.

I think that there are a lot of politics and that type of thing, but on the football on the football field, you want to get the best player.

So if you have a person that is the best candidate, I think that it will be only smart to get the best player.

You may not like that player, but that player would have more value to your team.

So, in saying that, I would ask that you take her nomination seriously and that you look uh give her a vote.

Uh she has uh my support and the support of those that she has helped in the past.

And I just wanted to say thank you to to the council.

Okay, thank you, sir.

Thank you as well.

Rick Watkins.

Good morning, counsel.

Uh, my name is Argy Watkins, and I'm also here in support of Sherry Gay Dagnago for the position of Ombudsman.

I was on the floor with Sherry when uh resolution 209 supporting human trafficking survivors was adopted um in 2020.

That is um an area that uh is near and dear to my heart, the survivors in in this city um owe Sherry a debt uh of gratitude for her fight for us.

Sherry is a fighter for the people.

Uh she at the one good the good thing or one of the best things about her is that her fight is fair.

She fights fair.

She does it doesn't matter who you are, what side of the aisle you're sitting on.

If there's an issue to be addressed, she addresses it with fairness.

She has a heart to hear the people, right?

Even when we might think that what is being said doesn't um rise to uh our expectation of what should be being said.

She has an ear to hear it and grasp uh the part that's going to help this city move forward, right?

So I have a 13-year-old granddaughter.

She's probably watching us right now.

Her heart's desire is to be a politician.

You know who she admires?

Miss Sherry Gay Dagneco.

It's time for when when the children start to listen, when the children start to see a person that can exact change in this city, we should listen.

Yes.

We should listen.

She has the heart of a teacher, she has the heart of a servant, and she has the credentials for this.

More than qualified for this for this position.

I'd like to thank you for your consideration also for considering her for this position.

And and we want to let you know that uh the survivors in this city, the women in this city are behind her 100%.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you so much.

I'm missing Helena Nunn.

My name is Helena Nunn.

I am a resident of this city.

I'm also someone who has been working hard to advocate for change for black America.

Of course, as a resident of the city, I start here.

Watching closely, paying close attention to both sides.

And I must admit, I am deeply deeply distressed concerning the way you all have responded or the lack thereof concerning the evidence that has been presented, the evidence that has been presented, the seriousness of it, the veracity of it, the gravity of it.

I can't even see it in your faces.

The first time it was presented, someone made a comment that didn't make any sense.

Mary Sheffield, who's over the elections, you said nothing at all.

You said absolutely nothing at all that first time it was presented, which was disappointing to me, because you should have an answer for what was presented.

And then the next week we came back, and when you did present an answer and the answers that were presented, it cannot be verified.

It cannot be publicly confirmed.

You can't even find that information.

As an advocate, of course, I'm gonna search far wide and deep to try to understand the decisions that are being made.

However, as a resident, I think it should make sense.

I think I should be able to look and see what you say and verify it.

I want to let you all know that I am going to continue to work hard for the residents of this city, the black residents of this city, even black America, and I won't stop until truth comes out.

Election integrity is a must.

It's a must.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

So first just want to indicate I'm not over the elections.

Just to be very clear, we have a clerk's office that is over the elections.

I sit on the elections commission.

Okay.

I'm one member of several on the commission.

Uh secondly, whatever information, excuse me, but let me just finish really quick.

Any information that has been given to us regarding um fraud or any belief that there has been issues with the integrity of elect of the elections process was forwarded over to the city clerk's office.

They did a report that was published, and I will verify that that information should be online because I think we had this conversation before.

Um, if the clerk's office could confirm that that was published.

Madam President, that item was published on the city closer.

Okay.

So that was published.

So any information again that has been sent to us, we did indicate that it was sent over for a report uh to be investigated, uh, and that information was public, uh, published online.

Uh lastly, we have had conversations here at the table.

We invited uh our Secretary of State here and others for a discussion around voter integrity and fraud uh at one point, and if uh it is warranted and my colleagues are wanting another discussion, we can have another one at that time.

But we have had discussions about this uh several times.

Lastly, Director Whitaker, if you can just mention um, I know council was one uh entity that you can report issues with, but there's also other entities uh if there is any uh suspicion of voter integrity, voter fraud, uh, et cetera, where uh other uh entities that you can report that as well to.

Madam President, yes, it has been widely circulated that avenues uh to address issues of voter fraud is available throughout the state.

Secretary of State certainly would be a starting place.

You can also go to the Attorney General's office.

Uh uh attorney, state attorney general nestle will take your complaint.

The FBI will take your complaint dependent upon what the issues are.

If it's a federal election, certainly they will take up that item at that point, but there are a number of investigative agencies.

Council is not an investigative agency, but there are a number of investigative agencies that will take your complaint and determine whether or not it's is valid, and if it is valid, they will prosecute the offenders.

So there's matters there there are agencies available to to address it.

City council is not an investigative agency of that type.

So, you know, you can take your complaints in those to those institutions, they would be happy to take them and investigate the merits of it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

Linda McClay.

Followed by Mark Lane.

Okay.

Good morning, madam, madam president.

My name is Linda McClastor.

And I never vote absentee.

And I found I did not know that the Lord would reveal that when they put my ballot in a yellow envelope, that that was not the proper way to send it in.

So I found out later that they put that I voted absentee and I never vote absentee.

And I was reading in my Bible, God said he loves justice, but he rate he hates wrongdoing and robbery.

Ma'am.

Um is it Ms.

Linda McClastor, if you can make sure we have your information so that we can get that particular situation and issue over to um the clerk's office so that they can respond accordingly to see what exactly happened in that situation.

So if you would like to leave your information, we can make sure that that is forwarded over to the clerk's office.

Okay, thank you, ma'am.

Yes, Mr.

Um.

Thank you.

And if you'd like to provide the information to our office as well, we would help further the information to those investigatory and entities that Mr.

Whitaker uh indicated as well.

I'm sorry.

I said if you would like to also work with our office, we would work with you to help with those investigatory entities that Mr.

Whitaker mentioned that can look into your issues and your concerns.

Thank you.

Thank you, ma'am.

All right, thank you.

Uh Mark Lane.

Good morning, City Council.

Uh Mark Lane wanting to ask about the water drainage fees, water runoff fees.

Essentially, a few years ago, a law was initiated to charge churches essentially for rain.

When rain, when it rains, uh the water runoff fees that occur are being assessed to the churches, resulting in at least some cases, very large bills.

And I just want to remind the council that the the churches don't manufacture money.

But the money comes from the donations of the members.

And so essentially this is a tax on the members, but even beyond that, this is not something that the churches are using.

This is just rain coming out, snow coming out, and then the drainage that comes off is being charged to the church as if the church called for the rain.

The churches aren't using the rain any more than anyone else is.

So it seems to me to be uh a gross uh indication of or gross situation where the churches are not really being treated fairly in this case because uh the churches are not responsible for the rain coming down.

So I'm asking the city council, look into this, look into uh what can be done to reverse this.

I think in the history of the water department, no one has ever been charged for rain.

I don't know what brought this about, but I think it's something that needs to be reversed.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Pastor Louise.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

And thank you, Pastor Mark.

There's a reason why the City of Detroit cannot reverse the water drainage fees, it's because there's a budgetary problem.

The city of Detroit receives about a hundred million dollars every single year from water drainage fees, and it's pastors like me, right, that give everything we have to this city to know that the city is tasking us for something that essentially is illegal.

How do we know that?

The Supreme Court of Michigan, when Lansing sued about this water drainage fee, which is a tax.

The Supreme Court said it was illegal for them to do it.

But Detroit just sued concerning the same water drainage fee, and the Supreme Court said what?

It was legal.

Now, what's the difference?

What's the difference between Lansing and the city of Detroit?

Two things.

One is Lansingham is a majority white city, and Detroit is a majority black city.

That's number one.

Number two is that Detroit just simply can't afford it.

Detroit cannot afford to tax churches.

Detroit cannot afford to be able to receive this 100 and I mean it's 150 million dollars that comes in every year.

And there's a third reason why this happens.

This happened so that the Democratic Party can put a gun to the head of pastors so that pastors won't speak up.

How do I know that?

As soon as Sodom and Kenlock began to run for mayor, all of a sudden his water drainage fees comes up.

I have the conversation that goes all the way back to Gabe Leland, where city assessor said that it was wrong for this to happen.

We're local churches, we're trying to serve our community.

It's not right that you're taxing us when we're tax exempt.

I just wanted to say uh for the churches that are experiencing these high drainage fees, there's a program called Easy Pay.

Easy Pay is a program within DWSD that provides uh relief and provides you to be able to make payments in installments.

Uh so I suggest you would call DWSD and make sure that you qualify for that program.

Again, it's called Easy Pay.

Thank you.

Oh God.

All right, Reggie Ridge.

Yeah, the Google with Easy.

Good morning.

Good morning, Madam President, Mr.

Pro Tem, and to our esteemed council members.

For the record, I would like to clarify a recent news article regarding my discussions with various vendors about their products for potential use if I am blessed with the appointment of legislative ombuds.

Over the past three months, uh I've contacted several vendors, including Civic Plus, Work Pro Data Management Systems, and Wing Swept to explore data management options for Detroit.

My goal was to compare the pricing features of their systems and assess their ability to sync with a geographic information system.

Unfortunately, there was a misunderstanding about the purpose of these calls.

I apologize for over-preparing for the interview, and I apologize if my actions seemed presumptuous.

It was all a part of my plan to be well informed and well researched for my interview.

Be blessed, and I yield the floor, Madam President.

No worries.

Okay.

Thank you so much, um, Reggie Davis.

John George.

Good morning, Council President and the council at large.

My name is John George.

Excuse me.

Uh to be clear, I know a number of people, a number of people that are running for that position of adbudsman.

As a matter of fact, I've given two letters of support, uh, one to uh Reggie Reg Davis and one to another candidate.

I feel um, and I also know Sherry Gay as well would be a good candidate as well.

My point is this uh in regards to character and as it relates to Reggie.

I've worked with him for many, many years when he served with the mayor, when he served with Wayne County, and I know he is a man of good character.

And if in fact uh he is elected to that position, I know he will serve the citizens well.

Um we've worked on many projects together uh over the years, always with a focus uh and a concern for the citizens uh of the city of Detroit.

Uh with that being said, I know we all make mistakes.

I've certainly made my fair share.

Um, but again, I think he would be a good candidate uh to serve other people in that particular position.

Thank you so very much for your time.

Thank you, Mr.

George.

Fidel L, followed by Charles Miles.

Again, welcome to the most devilish, corrupt city council in all America, the Detroit City Council.

Again, you just can't say nothing and don't have no proof.

Uh all these black issues, and we've been down here for years, and now we start seeing people pop up when they running for a position.

If they were so into the people of Detroit, they'd have been coming down here just like us.

When Sherry De Nago said on that school board that she even reports that this kids that's in the eighth, ninth, and tenth grade on an average is reading at a third or fourth grade uh level.

Why would we hire?

Reggie Davis, he makes a mistake, but it's against the laws, against the rule.

So again, don't go for that nonsense.

Two to my uh brothers that's uh pastors here.

The question is, we know they running the game on the black churches, but what about the Catholic churches?

Do they have a water rain off draining the free to the city council or corporate attorney?

We've been to all that.

They ain't helping.

We'd have been to all that.

Y'all said Scott uh uh uh the attorney general, Secretary of State, they were uh uh on election fraud.

Uh uh the election person that runs over the election, uh I can't remember her name.

What about our word?

We say that we voted in person, and on day data, they got us voting after T, which means they switch switched our our vote.

So again, our word don't mean nothing.

We are the majority.

Y'all guys get the non majority millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars in bond.

You guys get the non-voters who run our central business, keep renewing their license and benefits, and yep, and the majority don't get nothing but fees, ordinance, over sex and taxes.

What kind of people is y'all?

Who y'all represent?

Y'all don't represent the majority, y'all represent the non-majority, and those are the facts.

Last but not least, we live in an area where it where a man can identify as a woman and a woman can identify as a as a as a man.

The law says that you cannot use the Glane County jail as your resident.

Now let me see y'all get out of that one.

Charles Miles, followed by Ramon Jackson, followed by Mr.

Lee.

Ramon Jackson's name.

Okay.

My name is Charles Miles.

I'm back here again.

As you know, I've been still trying to address these overassessed taxes and misapplied payments to my properties.

Uh you guys uh forced me to get a lawyer for your mistake.

So I don't know what type of uh city government this is because all of you have a copy of it years ago.

And most a couple of y'all attempted to help.

He seen the receipt, and you knew it was bogus.

And you know that it was the city's fault.

He kept blaming on Wayne County Treasury.

So now the Wayne County Treasure clearly blamed it on you.

Eric Sabree, why won't you never call him up?

You call all these fake treasures, Nikki Patel.

He clearly made a lie statement, clearly in that auditorium, right in front of everybody.

It's recorded.

He lied and said that I owe money that I clearly did not owe, and y'all did nothing about it.

Nobody said nothing.

So, and I'm still going to court.

And y'all keep spinning it around.

These court dates been going on.

It's been going on since 2017.

This is ridiculous.

And all you guys right here have been working down here during this time, especially Mary Sheffield.

And I mean, you need to just get out the way.

Because you can't handle your position.

If this is very simple.

You and Duggan, the mayor's office, all of y'all know about this situation.

Now you're harassing me.

So now you got a fake police officer, investigating me for something I clearly didn't do.

And then he gave me a fake police report.

I got the police report number.

The chief knows about it.

I got him on rec on record talking to me about it.

This this police report number is fake.

It don't even exist.

So why is it not being investigated?

This has been going on since September the 4th.

The report number is 250904.

Yeah, do you rush a person off of the you come down here every week?

I've been coming down here for years.

You rush me off of the.

You no, no, you rush me off.

I can't make a statement.

Look at this.

You got your bullies.

And y'all ain't doing nothing.

So tired of y'all.

That's your.

Yeah, I know.

Thank you.

When you take bribes and offers and these tickets, thank you.

And all that shit.

Yeah, you vote.

Watch the mouth.

Watch your mind.

Yeah, you're voting.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Ramon Jackson.

Residents in the city of Detroit that's listening.

The reason that we come down here because we hold these as our elected officials and we present issues before you all about them.

So people keep telling us to go somewhere else.

We are in the correct place.

We here amongst the people to talk to the residents.

They are the triers and the jurors.

Dana Nessel is not the triers and the jurors of us here in Detroit.

These people work for us.

So this is why we come here.

We gave them a document.

I gave Mary Sheffield, Mary Waters, and Angela Callaway and David Whitaker a document.

It got two laws on it.

It got MCL 168492 and MCL 1681.

I encourage the residents to look those two laws up.

Also, Google, just Google.

Can you vote in the city?

Um in the county jail using the county jail's address.

It's easy as a Google to tell you.

Now both of these two council members set up and said that you can use the county jail's address to vote after presenting that to y'all.

So now I presented the laws to the residents and to the council.

They should be able to present where they're getting that information from, or they are lying to the residents.

The sister just spoke about um the same issue that y'all need to be able to prove it, and Mary Sheffield lied to her.

It's no report about the August of 5th election.

We talking about August 5th, 2025.

It's no report from the clerk about the August 5th, 2025 election about hundreds of people voting in the county jail using the county jail's address to vote.

We ran some of them people, and guess what?

They don't even live in Detroit.

So they can't not only could they not use the county jail's address, they couldn't vote if they was in the county jail because they don't live in Detroit.

We need a forensic audit of that election.

We tested a sample.

It's muddy.

So really quick, um the information from the previous August 2025 election.

That information, I'm not sure if the clerk has done their investigation on those uh claims that have been made about those voting in the county jail, but the previous information that was submitted to us about people voting in different houses and things of that sort, that was submitted.

So, Madam Clerk, do you have the most current information regarding those who are voting within the county jail?

Has that been forwarded to you all?

Madam President, to my knowledge, I'm not aware of that, but I can um check to find out.

Okay, so we will make sure we get that to you all, and so that that can be um responded as well to from in writing from the clerk's office as well.

All right, thank you.

All right, that will we have one more in person?

Okay, Mr.

Lee.

Yes, um, first of all, good morning to everyone.

Um yeah, we can hear you.

Go ahead.

Somebody else.

You can go ahead.

Okay, first of all, I would like to um give my blessings to everyone up here and council board and blessings to those sitting behind me and those sitting in front of me.

Okay, uh I feel like 95% of the problems we have is due to the fact that reparations was never given to us, like they've been given to everybody else, and until then we're gonna America gonna the whole country gonna continue to suffer until they do right by us, and um another reason why our mother goddess and father god is uh angry with us is because of the way we still treat each other, and uh and the way we still seem to be like putting each other down too much, and uh and then you got the other sides like being in the crabs in the bucket, putting each other down, trying to see if we can get to the top first and all this shit.

But all but on the time though, I mean, we all are saints and sinners, real life saints and sinners, not just on the movie, but we was like that before the movie, and we have to forgive the center stuff because we are everybody's centers, like Jesus said, everybody got a center anyway.

So nobody was perfect but Jesus, so and we gotta be more saintly than uh centers, you know.

So and we gotta be more saintly than uh sinners, you know.

So regardless of what little wrong somebody that did, and this person did, or this person did, or didn't like this person doing, or this person doing only look.

We need a suggestion box to set up where everybody put in solutions to all the problems that's been happening, and we face that we facing it that we don't like solutions to each each problem instead of hating on each other.

Yes, thank you.

It's about a hundred thousand solutions.

I only know about 10,000, so I need help with a suggestion box.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Yeah, okay.

All right, we will move now to those who have joined us um virtually.

Good morning, madam president.

There were 20 hands raised before you would cut off public comment.

And the first caller is Cindy Dara.

Good morning.

20.

Good morning, Miss Dara.

All right.

All right, Miss Darr, are you there?

Okay, Ari, can we come back to Ms.

Dara, please?

Okay.

The next caller is Darren McCluskey.

Good morning.

Darren McCluskey, good morning.

All right, good morning, Dear McCluskey.

All right, let's try the next caller.

Not sure if something's going on with the Zoom.

Um, next caller.

The next caller is Galaxy S22 Ultra.

All right.

Good morning.

Can you hear me?

Yes, we can.

Okay.

You know, it's sad.

You know, I just I said this many times before that we have to come down there, you know, week after week, month after month, year after year for the same thing.

And uh you guys gotta take charge of stuff, you know.

Everybody's running for a position again, but then we catch it hell with the same problems we've been having.

I've been having problems on the east side with the uh fumes, you know.

I know my city council been trying to get stuff together, you know.

I've been having problem with uh uh land bank, the house right next door to me.

I talked to the lady yesterday, the house is leaning where it got messed up.

The foundation was messed up when they was building this Chrysler plant.

Uh talk to the inspector my I've been on the job, everybody spends you to a certain person to talk to, but nothing is getting done.

Nothing getting done, and we're tired of it.

That's why the gentleman went off like he did.

You know, the lady at first talking about uh uh Reverend uh uh Kinlock uh uh talking about the devil shit, all this the devil going on down here.

We put a we put a pastor on on Mike before it starts, and then we still can't get stuff done in our city.

We catching hell in our city, and you guys want us to vote.

You want people to vote.

The young folks, I talk to them all the time.

I'm out there in the street, I'm talking to them, and they ain't voting because they say it's a waste of time because you guys ain't gonna do nothing.

They see that we catching hell and nothing getting done, and that's the real talk.

I've been out in the streets for years talking with them.

I was one of them young folks, you know, uh that went through that.

That I said I wasn't gonna vote no more.

But I stopped voting again, and it still ain't getting nothing done.

You know, Duggan is sitting up here, he's saying he wasn't back at nobody, he was go one go be a Republican or a Democrat, and then come and find out he's back in Sheffield.

You know what I'm saying?

And things because he won his way.

He done screwed us up.

All right, thank you.

The next caller is iPhone.

IPhone, good morning.

Good morning.

This is VA Verner, and I'm here this morning.

I'm gonna uh I'm advocating and speaking for uh as a city resident born and raised.

I received a letter from the Detroit Water and Sewage Department.

As I speak, and whoever is within the sound of my voice, if you can answer the questions I'm going to ask, please do, because I know it's more than myself that needs this information.

This letter stated that the lifeline uh benefits that I am receiving, it will expire September 30th, 2025.

It did not say why.

I would like to know why the uh my benefits are going to expire, and I would like to know if there's any of the programs.

I'm familiar with the easy pay program, but you must have a pass due balance for that program.

Is there any programs that can help seniors, people on fixed incomes, people with disabilities to help them stay current with their water bills?

Um was the letter sent to everyone?

Because I've talked to quite a few people who are on this lifeline program.

Some have received the letter and some haven't.

So if there's anyone that can answer these questions, please do September 30th is coming real quick.

And we on fixed income.

And this program was helpful to help us continue to have water and not be stressed with past due bills.

If there's anybody uh that needs services in their home as a senior, please contact uh D Tipole 313 446, 4444.

Ask for the choice waiver program, especially if you're not eligible for Medicaid.

All right, thank you so much.

Um I am going to see if we can have someone come on from DWSD.

Um, if not, Ms.

Varner, I can have um Brian Peck and Paul from DWSD reach out directly to you and provide some information on that program um as well as any other opportunities to assist you.

So um try to stay on.

We'll try to get somebody on today.

If not, I will definitely make sure that Mr.

Peck and Paul from DWSD does reach out to you today to follow up directly with you.

Okay, thank you for calling in.

Our next caller, please.

The next caller is Nico A.

Williams.

Good morning.

Hey, let me re let me talk to Ms.

Varner.

Hey, Miss Betty Varner, Damiko Williams, Chief Director Hydrate Detroit.

I want to talk to you and answer your questions.

Yes, of course, DWSD is going to phase out the lifeline plan because of no funds.

However, um, they're going to launch a new program, Lifeline H2O.

And if you're zeroed down on your water bill and paid, you will be enrolled in that program.

I am fighting to make sure that people enrolled in Lifeline already should be able to roll over to the new program without giving any information, recertifications, as long as you recertified that your information is correct.

Um this is affecting people on the lifeline plan.

8,000 people or so, and also um you will have to uh certify for the new lifeline.

The lifeline is going to be um H2O is going to be $34 a month.

And if there were no arreages, uh, if you owe a rear juice, you have to go on easy pay before you get on this new program.

DWSD is trying to save money, and they're also trying to make sure that they can service those 8,000 customers that have paid their bill faithfully and have not been shut off of the program.

I hope I was able to answer your question.

I will get your number from Fred Durrall and I'll try to uh get more in touch with you.

As regards to the life, the drainage fees, um, that failed because the church didn't do a public campaign.

Certain pastors uh accepted the uh drainage fee proposal by Mayor Duggan back in 2015.

Our own Joanna Underwood was trying to uh stop that meeting, and she was uh not successful.

But we all had campaigned against this drainage beat, and we were not successful.

So, yes, the this is in complete hypocrhypocrite to uh vote versus Lansing, and now that the citizens have to wage a class action lawsuit.

Unfortunately, we don't have no black lawyers or anybody for the people that can advocate for us, other than me, myself, a few other people.

Uh so we are trying to do whatever we can to fight back against this drainage speech.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

The next caller is not back, Karen.

Okay, good morning.

Hello.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Yes.

Um, yeah, the water drainage fees are they're really unacceptable.

Um when I I've had my home for years, decades actually.

And I remember when the water bill came just every three months, four times a year, and it would only average about 20 a month.

So now we're averaging about $100 a month.

So it's no surprise that people are having problems paying their uh water um responsibilities.

It's not because of uh lack of them wanting to pay, but rather just being unreasonable, the fees that that are tacked on to all of our bills.

So the city should not try to manipulate the taxpayers by taxing them more and more time and time again.

Uh the city of Detroit retirees, we're still waiting to be made whole.

We the your fast track was nothing.

Your fast track resolution meant nothing.

It meant nothing to any of us except putting us on a list that possibly we possibly we would get you would get around to us, but most likely you would not.

And even if you did, we wouldn't get approved for anything anyway.

So we're we're up on all the tricks and games that are being played, because this game has been played since 2013.

So you know, it's it's no surprise that uh it's just stagnant and it's come to a resolution for fast track to nowhere.

Um, the homeless winter is coming, everybody knows winter is coming.

We gotta get these people off the streets.

Let's repurpose some of these uh facilities as opposed to demolition and spending all this money paying people to arrange demolitions.

Let's pay some people to arrange housing.

That's a total 180 degree, you know, flip from where you are.

Uh 600 million dollar over taxation, another double dirty dip.

We're waiting to be made whole on all accounts, and nothing else is acceptable.

Even with the new mayor, you know, we we don't let you off the hook.

You stay on the hook.

You you stay in in bird's eye view of what's been wronged uh to the people who dedicate their lives to all right, thank you.

The next caller is owner papa.

All right, good morning.

Good morning, and through the chair, may I be heard?

Yes, you can.

Thank you.

Um, yes, I'm looking at 7.2 corporate income tax reserve fund that you want to take our surplus money and supplement um corporate income tax uh reserve fund.

That is just another way to supplement the failures of this mayor and this council for the decisions that you've made and how you have been spending our money.

You sat down to a 260 million dollar surplus four years ago, and now we have an estimated 60.2 million, and the mayor wants to take 42 million of that for his own.

This is this is a lynching economically of the people in the city of Detroit.

You cannot deny that we have problems with um the clerk, um, Janice Winfrey.

In 2016, uh Miss Stein had a um uh um she she had a count of which we should have for three elections to make sure our elections are fair, because the election of 2016 went through the city clerk, the county clerk, and and was and was certified by all three and the secretary of state.

Um if we Mr.

Whitaker, if we have three checks and balances that fail, we need another resolution.

This is not helping.

And I am in agreement with um the other caller that says that we need uh uh um a class action lawsuit against this body and this mayor, because you have been spending our money unjustly misappropriating.

You have all kinds of ARPA funds that you're spending for things that you should have been doing for the people.

You you're not helping the people, you're helping contractors and um uh uh developers.

That money, if if you go along with 7.2, you are part of the problem.

Okay, thank you.

The next caller is Stephen Haran.

Good morning.

Can I be heard?

Yes, you can.

Even though I do live in Miami, I still run a business in the city and pay city income tax, so I still want to stay engaged.

But um, you know, once again, I'm gonna call about um that Palestine conference, you know.

I agree there should be a ceasefire.

You know, I agree, but you know, Israel has its right to exist, you know.

It is the Jewish state, and you know, like most countries, you know, it was founded not in the greatest way, but you know, still it is the Jewish state, and you know it just pisses me off and it embarrasses the city to see a bunch of white commies, you know, shout or Zionism to go away for Israel not to exist and just all this other sh I haven't now I can't say that word.

Um, but you know, this city council needs to do something about all this anti Semitism because that conference there was it's stringing anti Semitism going on at that convention, and you know.

I'm really hoping that it is not in Detroit, it's not near Detroit next year.

And you know, because it would never be near Iami and Miami.

We respect Israel and the right to exist, you know.

You can criticize, and I hate that in Yahoo.

I I criticize that regime 100%, but you know, Israel is the Jewish state and has its right to exist.

And you know, Leslie, I want to just call out some of the slanderous comments.

Um, you know, I protested Nick for we're I've you know I protested him.

I despise that EOS, you know, but you know, for an unemployed loser, and I'm not even gonna say his name to just attack me like that.

It's just ridiculous, you know.

And I'm gonna praise um councilwoman Santiago Romero from evening them and uh all right, thank you.

Um before we move forward, Cindy Dara, are you here for your public comment?

Okay, you can come because we called your name earlier.

If you want to make your public comment, uh I I just left uh Richard's courtroom where they were talking on the solar farm and eminent domain use to take property for solar farms.

Okay, I wrote this last night.

DTE is a profit oriented private company that needs to be made into a public utility with the long term because uh the long-term goals of creating energy in a healthy environment.

And the Michigan legislature passed a law regarding DTE to create a certain amount of renewable energy by a certain date.

That date is approaching.

The city of Detroit has sewers that were underused due to low density and water flow that sewers were clogging while our uh heavy rains pour uh sewers and uh and and the stormwater with the sewage goes to the river and Toledo, etc.

In our antiquated sewer stormwater drinking water system.

Why better why better use of imminent domain?

It's cheaper than rebuilding our water system, and once the city buys up all the use restrictions on each property to take with the illegal use of imminent domain, the city can build a gated community for those who have more than the rest and more than their privately uh uh and then they can move their privately owned solar farms to a new low density location.

We're paying for those uh Boston to bring those solar farms in, and then we're giving the inner putting the energy up on the grid, and then we have to buy it back from DTE, and I work for public lighting.

If you ever give me enough time, I will tell you more about how we gave away our polls, our lights, our our uh underground.

Thank you, Mr.

We had I work for DT for public lighting.

Thank you.

And there's no reason we shouldn't go back to a public utility.

This is ridiculous.

Thank you so much, Ms.

Dyer.

We've got profit-oriented people, they're not gonna look out for our interest as much as we all right.

Thank you so much, Ms.

Dara.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, thank you, Ms.

Dara.

All right, we will go back to our um online callers.

Okay, the next caller is to hear our right.

Yeah, some morning we have been complaining about the corruption that has been that has made us poorer, sicker, apathetic, and common 12 years under you and Doug and Mary Sheffield, we have been looted, 600 million dollars in illegal property taxes.

100,000 homes were illegally foreclosed, plus another 84 uh 834 will be on the 31st of this month.

The Hudson Deal breach that you've been silent on.

You offer no plan to make us whole or tackle the problems you caused, causing an explosion and homelessness tragically, losing Amelia and Darnell Curry because of it, an explosion in poverty and crime, the largest black generational wealth in a century.

We've experienced under you.

We watched you turn your back while home repair grants, uh putting us uh on fake vacuum lists uh, by the way, uh meant to keep us in our homes were stolen and converted into corrupt demolition projects.

That cost twice as much uh uh for demolition, subjecting poor people and churches to regressive policies like the rain tax.

You don't deserve to be mayor.

No uh no one corrupt like uh Reggie Davis deserved to be a part of this new administration.

He's he's uh promoting Duggan policies and his corruption showed he couldn't help itself.

It's time for change.

Well, we want we want uh the next mayor, because uh apparently you're not gonna do it.

Uh, we want you to sit down and come up with a policy to get these families out of these shelters and out of these parts.

All right, thank you, Ms.

Amad.

The next caller is William M.

Davis.

Mr.

Davis, good morning.

Uh, good morning, young people.

Can I be heard?

Yes, you can.

Okay, I like to start off by saying that I find it offensive that uh the mayor is going to be talking about allocating 42 million dollars for uh to help make up for the this almost a billion dollars of corporate welfare since he's been in office.

I also find it offensive that the city chart retirees, you know, we'll suffer continuous suffering every day.

You know, I I noticed that you know if the city was to like, you know, they took our cost of living retroactive back to 2013, even though that was 2014 when they did, you know, that that was 2.25.

What the city could do potentially for those that still paying, you know, a new declared back.

You know, some have died, some are, you know, may have paid it off, very few have.

But what they could do is they could retroactively uh change the interest rate to 2.25.

That would make it more bearable for many, and that would perhaps help because he has not done anything substantially to help city Detroit retirees.

In fact, yesterday on Facebook on my story, I posted uh a saying saying that um the city retirees could um help keep Mayor Dugham from becoming governor next year.

I got over 362 responses in less than 18 hours.

So I still got another six hours to go.

I am one of those, but there are a lot of people that feel that he has been a failure and continues to fail because he has not done anything to help the average city church retire, senior or what have you.

But this is something simple.

It wouldn't cost a lot of money to retroactively reduce the cost of living.

I mean, it worked directly the interest on our carback to 2.25.

And it should be able to do that because y'all did that, you know, retroactively for our cost of living.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

The next caller is Veronica Smith.

Good morning.

My name is Veronica Smith.

The Michigan Supreme Court voted last week to dismiss the hearing for the case against the DWSD drainage fee, also known as the rain tax, which means the Michigan Court of Appeals ruling will be allowed to stand.

The Michigan Supreme Court just violated its own precedence by basically saying that the drainage fee is an illegal tax in Lansing, but not in Detroit.

This the miss, excuse me.

This dismissal of the lawsuit now clears away from here Duggan and Conrad Mallet to potentially begin to work seizing the property of those who are behind on their water bills.

That's going to destroy many businesses and probably several hundred small churches because they simply cannot pay.

For homeowners, the fee is typically 30% of the water bill.

And we don't want to be delinquent in order to use the easy pay or pay as you go, Steph.

We are asking you, city council, to ask them to not begin proceeding on property seizures based on this dismissal.

And the majority council could instruct General Counsel Mallard not to begin any property for seizures at this time.

It should be the concern of any council candidate running for re-election that these seizures would devastate the local business small business economy.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Well James E.

Tate Jr.

I got a text message this morning.

It was Nimi's spelling test.

A plus plus on it.

So she lived up to her.

End of the bargain.

I told her.

Good grades in school.

And I would help you with your mama.

You done got in the way.

And your pastor is running to be mayor.

So I'm going to extend to Solomon Kenlock an invitation to visit 1932 7, West Chicago.

Publicly.

That's the veterans housing facility located over in District 7, right next to St.

Suzanne.

Church where Fred Duha got the resource center and his uh district office.

Now, Mary Sheffield and James Tate, pay close attention to this.

You showed up to have a luncheon with the veterans.

Um, it was set up.

They got up, got out their beds, you know, got shaved up, and they were looking forward to meeting with you.

But you walked in the door, a 1932 7 West Chicago.

I saw the video, it's on video, and those videos have mics both inside and out.

You walked in, you looked at some pictures on the wall, then you turned around and walked out, and you instructed that staff member with you.

Tell them whatever.

You didn't have no family emergency.

You're a liar.

Thank you.

Our next caller, please.

Uh next caller is Crystal Rice.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Um, I just wanted to enlighten you on something, um, President.

Um, there was uh news um about a park that a young lady for almost a year came down to ask to give, which was the uh Martin Luther King Park.

Um, this park was um it was over 45 years old, Rosa Parks um was in the grand opening of it.

Um, a year ago, you promised that you would get these benches done, that you would get this done where the part of the community wanted to make it a ski slope as a statue of the real Martin Luther King, the one that actually looks like him.

You never can't gave that promise, but my question is if you can't even promise keep your promises on the upkeep of a park.

What other what would you do as a mayor?

You know, and that you know that shows that your promises don't mean anything, you know.

These people that have the retirees haven't been made whole.

Can you live up 480 dollars?

That is a sad fact that these people have to live like that, and you were and it was on your watch, you and your girl Shantae Jenkins.

And I got a warning for some of y'all that want to endorse you.

Be very careful, be very careful because it proves that you're in bed with uh Mike Duggett.

You weren't about Kenlock being the devil, it's some devils on right here.

You have no souls.

These people come up here every day and plead their case, and nothing is being done, and it makes no sense.

I decided to come back to Detroit because I love my city.

I did my diligence taking care of my parents.

Now I'm back to fight for my city, and I'm gonna on my watch.

I will live and breathe and be up here telling you what you're doing wrong.

And you can never be a mayor.

I don't care if you are a woman, you're not the woman that there's two ladies on there that could have been the mayor, but you're not one of them, and you need to get it together.

Y'all need to get this together because y'all up for election, and we're watching, and we're tired.

We I am I am tired of hearing the same complaint, all right.

All right, all right, thank you.

The next caller is Marguerite Scarlet Maddox.

All right.

Yes, we can.

Okay, tempt them.

Oh, do not think about how we can make the city better.

I do know that we are needed.

Big city is the true me.

I get it in the thing that is my friend.

And my late grandmother.

And they do not them.

And like I said, the four.

We are running the true.

One detroit.

And we do not get right.

He's playing.

And this is not less comment.

Please make sure that beer.

And the M.

Please.

We all need to figure out the way to look at.

May God bless the citizen of Detroit.

Please.

Thank you very much.

All right.

Thank you as well.

The next caller is Kevin Westbrook.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Hi.

Hi.

Hi, my name's Kevin Westbrook.

Today is my birthday Detroit, so I'm happy to call in on a wonderful birthday where I can say words like inclusionary housing ordinance.

Property tax reform.

Homeowner property tax exemption.

Just to name a few things to my fellow resident that comes.

And it sounds like your comment is always script.

And it sounds like it's script by our honorable council president's opponent.

Just because our council president works side by side diligently with the mayor, does not mean that one politician's mistakes is another politician's responsibility.

Mary Sheffield and her team holds conversations with citizens, not to disrupt, but to assist.

The community through the lens of equality, inclusion, justice.

Young lady, ma'am, your comments hold no merit.

They hold no merit.

This is a strong black woman.

But I will not go there right now.

I just want to continue to say that they use legislative tools responsibly with accountability.

No politician has perfect outcomes.

Some areas remain challenging.

But together we can tackle these challenges.

And I'm sure with a leader like Mary Sheffield, together we will tackle these challenges.

And homeowner property exemption applications are due first Friday in November.

And I'm sure that that team that holds the council president office will help you, Detroit, in any matter that you want.

You want to start a business, you want you want to thrive in a city like this.

You have a special young lady that is up there and council president.

And God, I pray that yeah, she show you that she deserves to be mayor because she does the work.

And the team is spectacular.

Thank you.

Thank you all.

You make me so happy to be a Detroiter.

I love you.

All right.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Westbrook.

All right, our next caller, please.

The next caller is Andrea Thompson.

Andrea Thompson, good morning.

Good morning, Andrea Thompson.

Andrea Thompson, good morning.

Okay, our next caller.

The next caller is Renard Monchunski.

All right, good morning.

Uh good morning, madam president.

I also want to wish happy birthday to Kevin.

Today is my birthday, uh turn 26th.

You're probably wondering why am I calling on my birthday?

I love the city so much, that's why.

And as a bus rider and a lifelong resident of Detroit, I grew up on 13359 Lauder.

Um and been using the bus since.

Um we deserve better.

And I know that Sean Council get beat up a lot by council because you know, people are not being heard, so they lash out or wherever they need to lash out, right?

The responsibility for the delivery of services of the city lies in the hands of the administration.

The council is the legislative body.

They can prescribe the rules, but it's up to the executive to actually carry that out.

Council has been year over year working with residents and transit advocates and organizers like myself and many others to improve our system because we organized ourselves to say we are tired of complaining.

We're going to build power, we're going to organize for better public transit because this city, which is the majority black city, the largest in the United States, deserves public transit.

It's not an option, and I am tired of the stigma around public transit in the city.

And I want to thank the efforts of council members and council president for me stigmatizing it and actually bringing that up as a concept as well, too.

Every all types of people work and ride the bus in the city.

Doesn't matter who they are.

And this administration like to pick homeless people against other people.

We are all on the same bus that deserve to be safe as well.

Unfortunately, this administration has failed to deliver its mandate on providing public transit over these past 12 years.

And I'm saying this as a resident of the city of Detroit.

Under a new administration, we will have better.

And I thank this council for its efforts.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

And happy birthday to you, Renard, and also Kevin as well.

Thank you for calling in.

Our next caller, please.

Next caller is she Gina Brown Anderson.

All right, good morning.

Good morning, may I be heard?

Yes, you can.

I am Cranston Anderson, resident candidate for Detroit District 3 Councilwoman.

Mayor Waters first, thanks for the motion to have a forensic audit of the Detroit Land Bank last week.

Please provide regular updates on the progress of that action.

Is there any solution?

Resolution for the parcels transferred with penalties and fees waived without city council approval.

This action was completely unethical.

The budget isn't the issue.

The waste of financial resources is.

Voter suppression starts right there with you all thinking only seniors are valuable, even though their pensions were stolen on your watch.

However, you continue to disregard, have a disregard for all the residents of Detroit.

Detroiters, it's very easy for elections to be stolen when we don't use our own ballot.

To the council, I know that many of the issues that residents bring to council may not be under your direct job description.

However, real leaders are a voice for unjust hardships, and any assumption of election fraud should be a priority, priority to those that are elected to be our voice.

So I'm very disappointed that many of our council members attempt to avoid being the advocates we need.

As far as the rain drainage fee that many Detroiters see as a tax, I simply say stop, fix it.

This method is used to prioritize politics our faith-based organizations and steal our properties.

You took pensions awarded, you give away our land, and now you want the air we breathe.

The just will prosper from the unjust.

For citizens that believe God has nowhere in government, please check the status.

If God is not governing you, who is it's important for all of us to know that we are representatives of each other, both leaders and residents.

And if we do not work together in unity, we will lose.

We will lose our city, we will lose our homes, we will lose our children.

We already have no jobs that viable enough to help us pay for everything they charging us for.

That's it.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you as well.

Uh the last caller who raised their hand for public comment.

We are back to Andrea Thompson.

All right, good afternoon.

Oh yes, good.

Well, good afternoon.

Hi, good afternoon.

This is Andrea Thompson.

I'm calling in to support Sherry Gay Daniango for the Office of Obsman.

Um, she's a fantastic leader in the community.

She has literally transformed my life.

I've been with Detroit Public Schools Community District for 27 years.

Um, they were phasing out my position as a college advisor, and she fought um to um make a pathway for us, and I became a counselor.

Um, I went back to school and finished um my master's degree, and I really appreciate all the things that she has done for my family and for us as educators.

We need someone like Sherry in that position to continue to fight for us every day.

She has lived the struggles of us as educators and our students.

She has fought alongside of VFT with us in every major battle affecting Detroit, um, especially when our schools were closing.

Um, she embodies the values of equity, advocacy, and justice.

Um, Sherry has a beautiful personality and a great spirit.

If you've ever been in her presence, you can feel her power.

Um, and she's she her smile just it is inspirational and it lifts us up as people.

Um, she fought against emergency managers.

Um, and and she's always focused on closing the gap for students.

I do believe that she can do both jobs because she lives a life of multitasking in excellence.

Some of us are multi-gifted and multi-talented, and we can handle more than one major task, and we can execute an excellence.

I really appreciate um the hard work of the city council every day.

I'm a proud uh born and raised Detroiter who lives in District 2.

Thank you for all that you do every day, and thank you for allowing me to speak today.

All right, thank you.

Okay, that will conclude all of our public comments, and we will proceed to our agenda for this morning for the budget finance and audit standing committee.

Council member Young, a resolution line item 17.1.

Councilmember Young.

Thank you, ma'am.

I moved to approve line item 17.

Okay.

All right, line item 17.1 is fiscal year 2020 through 2026 allocation of elected officials budget.

Budgets.

Um is there any opposition to objections to the resolution for 17.1 hearing no objections, the resolution will be approved.

From the legislative policy division.

Yes.

And I would ask that it go back to this ordinance language, go back to the committee and have it referred to law so that they can analyze, make sure that the placement of this uh ordinance language is in the right place in the code and that it is approved as to form otherwise by the law department.

Okay.

All right.

We are on line item 17.2, but the uh the resolution previously was okay prior to that.

We approved just the actual ordinance itself.

Yes, the ordinance.

Okay, so we're on 17.2.

Um Director Whitaker is indicating that this should go back to committee uh to allow for further review and approval as to form by the law department by the law department.

Is there a motion to send 17.2 and 17.3 to committee?

So move.

Hearing no objections, that action will be taken.

Clerk will so no panel president.

For the internal operations standing committee, councilmember Johnson, a resolution line item 18.1.

Thank you, madam president.

Line item 18.1 is to appoint Kristen Lesson to the elected officials compensation commission effective immediately and ending on September first, 2028.

Move for approval.

All right, any objections.

Hearing none, the one resolution will be approved.

Madam President, I'd like to request a waiver on line item 18.1.

All right.

Any objections to a waiver.

Hearing none, that action will be taken from the Office of Contracting and Procurement.

Councilmember Johnson, a resolution line item 18.2, contract number six zero zero six zero six five A three.

100% ARPA funding, amendment three to providing the extension of time and to amend contract terms for the right to council information and portal contractor lakeshore legal aid, total contract amount 252,006 dollars.

That's for law.

Thank you, madam president.

Move for approval.

Any objections.

Hearing none, the one resolution will be approved.

And suppressed forward.

From the law department.

Councilmember Johnson, five resolutions.

Lie items 18.3 through 18.7.

Councilmember Johnson.

Thank you, Madam President.

Move for approval.

These are various lawsuit settlement requests.

All right.

Any objections.

Hearing no objections, the five resolutions will be approved.

Under resolutions.

Recommendations for appointment to the Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority, Community Advisory Committee.

All right.

Thank you so much.

And colleagues, we all have our ballot before us.

We are to select four names for the appointment to the Brownfield Redevelopment Authority.

CAC and Paris will collect the ballots.

Okay, yeah.

Thank you.

Madam President, I have the votes.

Okay.

For a candidate Josh Mack, Councilmember Whitfield Callaway, Councilmember Waters, Councilmember Young, Council President Sheffield, Councilmember Durhall, Council President Pro Tim Tate, Councilmember Gabriella Santiago Romero.

That's seven votes for Josh Mack.

For David Bonner, Councilmember Callaway, Councilmember Johnson, Councilmember Young, Councilmember Durhall, Council President Pro Tim Tate.

That's five votes.

For candidate George Etherich, Councilmember Callaway, Councilmember Waters, Councilmember Johnson, Councilmember Young, Council President Sheffield, Councilmember Durhall, Council President Pro Tim Tate, Councilmember Santiago Romero.

That's eight votes, Madam President.

For Marlowe Sean Franklin, Councilmember Callaway, Councilmember Water, Councilmember Johnson, Councilmember Young, Council President Sheffield, Councilmember Durhall, Council President Pro Tim Tate, Councilmember Santiago Romero.

That's eight votes.

For John Barth, Councilmember Waters, Councilmember Johnson, Council President Sheffield, Councilmember Santiago Romero, that's four votes.

That's four votes.

Madam President.

George Etherit, David Bonner, and Marlowe Sean Franklin have the most votes.

Okay.

All right.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

And we can now move forward with those names.

Underline item 18.9.

Councilmember Johnson.

Council Member Johnson.

Thank you, Madam President.

Move for approval to appoint Josh Mack, David Bonner, George Etheridge, and Marlowe Sharon Franklin to the Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority Community Advisory Committee.

All right.

Hearing no objections, the resolution will be approved.

For the planning and economic development, any request for waivers on that?

Okay.

For the planning and economic development standing committee from the Office of Contracting and Procurement.

Council President Pro Tim James Tate.

Nine resolutions.

Line items 19.1 through 19.9.

Contract number 6005217-A2.

100% ARPA funding.

Amendment 2.

To provide an extension of time only for housing counseling services for pre-purchase.

Mortgage tax foreclosure, home repair and utility assistance.

Contractors Jefferson East Incorporated.

Total contract amount 350,000.

That's for housing and revitalization.

Contract number 6007315.

To provide income tax preparation services, filing returns for eligible individuals, including earned income tax credit.

Contractor Accounting Aid Society.

Total contract amount 213, 716.

That's for housing and revitalization.

Contract number 6006557-A1.

100% ARPA funding.

Amendment 1 to provide an extension of time and an increase of funds for development of public facility rehabilitation accessibility upgrades.

That's for housing and revitalization.

Contract number 600 6553-A1.

100% ARPA funding.

To provide an extension of time and update terms for development of public facility rehabilitation accessibility upgrades.

Contractor Freedom House.

Total contract amount.

That's for housing and revitalization.

Contract number 6006551-A1 100% ARPA funding.

Amendment one to provide an extension of time only for development of public facility rehabilitation accessibility upgrades.

Total contract amount 165,000.

That's for housing and revitalization.

100% ARPA funding.

That's for housing and revitalization.

Contract number 6006957-A2.

100% city funding.

For to operate a tool bank to support the Serve Detroit Volunteer Program.

Contractor Bailey Park Neighborhood Development Total Contract Amount 90,000.

That's for housing and revitalization.

Contract number 6006958-A2.

100% city funding.

Only for to operate a tool bank to support the Serve Detroit Volunteer Program.

Contractor Moda City Grounds Cruel.

Total contract amount 160,000.

Last contract is contract number 6006959-A2.

100% city funding.

For to operate a tool bank to support the Served Detroit Volunteer Program.

Contractor Premier Group Associates LC.

Total contract amount 150,000.

That's for housing and revitalization.

Thank you, Madam.

Um, Madam Clerk, President Pro Tim Tate.

Madam President, I move approval line items 19.1 through 19.9, please.

All right.

Any discussion?

Any objections.

Hearing no objections, the resolutions from 19, the nine resolutions will be approved.

President.

Yes.

Request for a waiver, request for waivers, excuse me, for line items 19.1 through 19.9, please.

Any objections to a waiver.

Hearing none, that action will be taken.

From the city planning commission.

Council President Pro Tim James Tate.

One resolution.

Line item 19.10.

All right.

Pro Tim Tate.

Madam President, I move approval of the resolution.

Move approval of the denial that was sent forward by the city planning commission in line item 19.10.

So move approval of the denial.

All right.

Motion has been made.

Are there any objections?

Hearing no objections, the one resolution will be approved.

Request a waiver for line item 19.10, Madam President.

All right.

Hearing no objections, a waiver will be attached to 19.10.

From the housing and revitalization department.

Council President Pro Tim James Tate.

A resolution, line item 19.11.

Pro Tim Tate.

Madam President, I move approval of line item 19.11, please.

All right, 19.11 is approving a commercial rehabilitation certificate on behalf of Davis and Ham Tramic Building.

Any objections to the resolution.

Hearing none, the one resolution will be approved.

From the planning and development department.

Council President Pro Tim James Tate for resolution.

Line item 19.12.

Pro Tim Tate.

Madam President, I move approval line item 19.12, please.

Okay.

19.12 is request to authorize a temporary construction easement on Waterloo Street and Melgium Street.

Are there any objections?

Hearing no objections, the one resolution will be approved.

Under resolutions.

Council President Pro Tem James Tate on behalf of Council Member Benson.

A resolution line item 19.13.

Pro Tim Tate.

Madam President, I move approval of line item 19.13, please.

On behalf of Member Benson.

Okay.

On behalf of Member Benson, this is a resolution supporting diverse athletic offerings at the proposed Pistons Waterfront Multi-sports complex.

Are there any objections to the resolution?

Yeah, we can actually bring this back.

Um Member Benson is here.

So pro tem tape.

Yeah, I got a feeling he would he's he's in support of it, but I agree with you.

Probably to be able to support it himself.

Because we haven't really got anything from from the project in the case.

Yeah, move the postpone the vote for line item 19.13 in one week.

Okay, we will move to postpone for one week, 19.13.

And if there are no objections, that action will be taken for the public health and safety standing committee from the office of contracting and procurement.

Councilmember Santiago Romero, two resolutions, noting that line item 20.1 was postponed from last week formal session.

Contract numbers 3086102, 100% bond funding to provide an emergency demo only for residential property 8611 traverse contract of Salabane Trucking and Excavating Incorporated Total Contract Amount $13,452.

That's for construction and demolition.

POD on conduit lines, contractor, extinct systems, LLC, total license fee is $1,500 per pole per year plus utility charges.

That's for public lighting.

Councilmember Santiago Romero, two resolutions.1 and 20.2.

Right.

Any objections?

However the documentation that was attached to that was for a different uh resolution which I have for you all a copy of the corrected one for Mr.

Chennault everyone should have a copy of that as well member Santiago Ramiro thank you madam president and thank you madam clerk given that correction and motion to approve 20 point three to through twenty point five as corrected for 20.5 noting that these are all petitions for requests of easements or vacations all right hearing no objections the three resolutions will be approved moving to the new business agenda from the Office of Contracting and Procurement Councilmember Santiago Romero a resolution line item 21.1 contract number 6005671-82 100 ARPA funding amendment two to provide an extension of to provide an extension only for improvements throughout the ICE Arena and recreation center for the Adams Bustle Complex Contractor Gandal Incorporated total contract amount 2 million one hundred ninety thousand that's for construction and demolition councilmember Santiago Romero a resolution member Santiago Romero motion to approve any objections hearing none the one resolution will be approved madam chair yes request a waiver on line item 21.1 thank you all right hearing no objections that action will be taken from the office of contracting and procurement council member young a resolution noting that line item 21.2 was postponed from last week formal session contract number 6004150-82 100 city funding amendment two to provide an extension of time and an increase of funds for the city's parking ticket and collections management system contractor madoxo traffic management usa incorporated total contract amount 10 million nine hundred fourteen thousand eight hundred and one dollars that's for municipal parking council member young a resolution member young thank you ma'am president um we're still I have just been notified that we're still we're waiting for uh clearance tax clearance for line of 21.2 state treasury is still reviewing the vendor's paperwork uh this they're asking for seven to ten days so uh I would like to postpone line item 21.2 for one week okay let me make a motion excuse me to postpone line item 21.2 for one week there's a calloway yeah um this this contract expired um september the 10th so are they still providing services pending the um approval of their tax clearances or is this one that we should consider rebidding because they've gotten um a couple of extensions because they didn't have their tax um clearances and if someone through the chair can come on from municipal and let us know the last time or contracting and procurement they had tax clearances on record okay mr washington do we have someone on from uh procurement please yes madam chair um good and good afternoon we do have jamilla watkins from procurement online okay we will promote uh we was repeat the name um mr washington jamilla watkins good morning my name is janila watkins from the office of contracting and procurement okay member uh called oh thank you madam chair um good morning miss watkins real quick question when was the last time they had their tax clearances um confirmed because i think they've asked for a couple of extensions because they didn't have them in place um so that's my question good morning councilwoman and through the chair their tax clearance expired last to um believe it was last it was the 18th it expired on the 18th of september and they did apply before the expiration date it's just taking a longer time to get it approved okay all right thank you ma'am chair thank you member calloway so you postponing this for one week yes um thank you madam president i'd like to make a motion to uh postpone line on 21 point two for one week okay we will postpone this item if there are no objections 21 point two will be postponed for one week

It expired on the 18th of September and they did apply before the expiration date.

It's just taking a longer time to get it approved.

Okay, all right.

Thank you, madam chair, thank you, member Callaway.

So you postponing this for one week?

Yes, I'll uh thank you, madam president.

I'd like to make a motion to uh postpone line on 21.2 for one week.

Okay, we will postpone this item if there are no objections, 21.2 will be postponed for one week under resolutions, council member Johnson a resolution noting a roll call, line item 21.3 council member Johnson.

Thank you, madam president.

Move for approval to schedule a closed session on Tuesday, September 30th at 3 p.m.

All right, there being a roll call, madam clerk.

Please call the roll.

Councilmember Durhall, yes, council member Johnson, yes, councilmember Santiago Romero.

Yes, Council President Pro Tim Tate, yes, Councilmember Waters, yes, Councilmember Whitfield Callaway, yes, Councilmember Young.

Okay, yes, Council President Mary Sheffield, yes, Councilmember Benson.

Eight yes that motion passes, madam president.

All right, under resolutions, council member Johnson.

A resolution noting a roll call, line item 21.4 member Johnson.

Move for approval to schedule a closed session on Tuesday, September 30th at 3.15 p.m.

All right, madam clerk, please call the roll.

Councilmember Johnson?

Yes.

Councilmember Santiago Romero.

Yes.

Council President Pro Tim Tate.

Yes.

Councilmember Waters?

Yes.

Councilmember Callaway?

Yes.

Councilmember Young?

Yes.

Council President Sheffield?

Yes.

Councilmember Durhall?

Yes.

Councilmember Benson.

Eight yes.

That motion passes, Madam President.

Yeah.

I was out of doing that.

All right.

Yes.

Yeah, I just want to talk about a line of 21.5.

I need to abstain.

I have a conflict.

Okay.

All right, let me finish.

So 21.4 was approved.

That was what I needed you to say.

Yes.

Yeah.

Just the clerk.

Okay.

Yep.

21.4 was approved.

All right.

Moving under resolutions to 21.5.

This is the one you want to abstain from.

Okay.

If the clerk would note.

Councilmember Johnson, a resolution, noting a roll call.

Nine item 21.5.

All right.

And member Johnson.

Thank you, Madam President.

Move for approval to schedule a closed session on Tuesday, September 30th at 3:30 p.m.

with discussion.

All right.

Discussion.

Thank you.

Through you to the law department.

I see we have several closed sessions that we're looking to schedule.

Are they all for one particular incident that occurred?

Through the chair, Graham Anderson Law Department.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

The first four are the first matter.

The second um five are the second matter.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

Okay.

All right.

All right.

So madam clerk, please call the roll for line item 21.5.

Councilmember Santiago Romero.

Yes.

Council President Pro Tim Tate.

Yes.

Councilmember Waters?

Yes.

Councilmember Callaway?

Yes.

Councilmember Young.

I'm abstaining.

Can you do that?

I don't think you can.

Yeah, you can't abstain.

Okay.

We're in the middle of the.

I know we're in the middle of a vote.

So go ahead, Dr.

Powers.

I think.

Yes.

Step away.

I would continue with the Okay.

Council President Sheffield.

No.

Councilmember Benson.

Councilmember Durhall.

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson.

Yes.

Six shades, Madam President.

That motion passes.

Okay.

The resolution is approved.

Under resolutions.

Councilmember Johnson and a resolution noting a roll call.

All right.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Madam President.

Move for approval.

This is to schedule a closed session on Tuesday, September 30th at 3 45 p.m.

Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Council President Pro Tim Tate.

Yes.

Councilmember Waters?

Yes.

Councilmember Callaway?

Yes.

Councilmember Young.

Council President Sheffield.

No.

Councilmember Benson.

Councilmember Durhall.

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson?

Yes.

Councilmember Santiago Romero.

Yes.

Six y'all's that motion passes, Madam President.

All right.

That resolution is approved under resolutions.

Councilmember Johnson, a resolution noting a roll call nine item 21.7.

Member Johnson.

Move for approval.

This is to schedule a closed session on Tuesday, September 30th at 4 p.m.

Roll call, please.

Councilmember Waters?

Yes.

Councilmember Callaway?

Yes.

Councilmember Young.

Council President Mary Sheffield.

No.

Councilmember Benson.

Councilmember Durhall.

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson?

Yes.

Councilmember Santiago Romero?

Yes.

Council President Pro Tem Tate?

Yes.

Six yes.

That motion passes, Madam President.

All right.

The resolution is approved and under resolutions.

Councilmember Johnson, a resolution note and a roll call.

Line item 21.8.

Member Johnson.

Move for approval to schedule a closed session on Tuesday, September 30th at 4 15 p.m.

Roll call, please.

Councilmember Callaway.

Yes.

Councilmember Young.

Council President Sheffield.

No.

Councilmember Benson.

Councilmember Durhall.

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson?

Yes.

Councilmember Santiago Romero.

Yes.

Council President Pro Tem Tate.

Yes.

Councilmember Waters.

Yes.

Six Ya's that motion passes, Madam President.

Okay.

The resolution is approved.

Under resolutions.

Councilmember Johnson, a resolution noting a roll call.

Line item 21.9.

Member Johnson.

Move for approval to schedule a closed session on Tuesday, September 30th at 4 30 p.m.

Roll call, please.

Councilmember Young.

Council President Sheffield.

No.

Councilmember Benson.

Councilmember Durhal.

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson?

Yes.

Councilmember Santiago Romero.

Yes.

Council President Pro Tim Tate?

Yes.

Councilmember Waters?

Yes.

Councilmember Callaway?

Yes.

Six Ya's that motion passes, Madam President.

The resolution is approved under resolutions.

Councilmember Johnson, a resolution noting a roll call.10.

Member Johnson.

Move for approval.

This is to schedule a closed session on Tuesday, September 30th at 445 p.m.

All right.

Roll call, please.

Council President Sheffield.

No.

Councilmember Benson.

Councilmember Durhall.

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson?

Yes.

Councilmember Santiago Romero.

Yes.

Council President Pro Tim Tate?

Yes.

Councilmember Waters?

Yes.

Councilmember Callaway?

Yes.

Councilmember Young?

Yes.

Seven yes.

That motion passes, Madam President.

All right.

The resolution is approved.

Under resolutions.

Councilmember Johnson, a resolution noting a roll call.11.

Member Johnson.

Move for approval to schedule a closed session on Tuesday, September 30th at 5 p.m.

Madam Clerk, call the roll, please.

Councilmember Benson.

Councilmember Durhall.

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson?

Yes.

Councilmember Santiago Romero.

Yes.

Council President Pro Tim Tate.

Yes.

Councilmember Waters.

Oh, yes.

Councilmember Callaway?

Yes.

Councilmember Young.

Yes.

Council President Mary Sheffield.

No.

Seven yes.

That motion passes, Madam President.

All right.

The resolution is approved.

Under resolutions.

Councilmember Waters or resolution line item 21 point 12.

Member Waters.

Thank you, Madam President.

I move for approval.

This is the resolution just calling on the state legislature to investigate some of the conditions that were cited by some of the inmates at this Huron Valley Correctional Facility.

And the reason is is that many of those women are residents in the city of Detroit.

So they cited things like mold, other unsanitary conditions, lack of uh mental and health care being denied.

So I want to bring it bring that to the attention of the Michigan legislature.

Thank you.

Thank you, Member Waters.

Are there any objections to the resolution?

Hearing no objections, the one resolution will be approved.

And Madam Clerk, before we move to referrals, do we have any walk-ons?

Yes, madam president.

I have a walk-on for uh council president pro tem would like to move to new business to walk on a memorandum to be referred to the internal operations standing committee.

Okay, pro tem tape.

Uh to send the walk on to I'm sorry, move to send the walk on to new business for a vote.

This uh item we actually touched on in our session uh where we did the interviews for the ombudsperson, uh and this just codifies the uh request to law department and LPD, specifically uh LPD in this one.

Okay, is there any objections hearing none?

This memo will be referred to the internal operations standing committee, no president through you to uh Mr.

Whitaker, sir.

Uh when do you think the report will be ready for us to review Madam President?

Knowing that noting that we would be potentially voting on the individuals next Tuesday.

I have a draft report that I'm reviewing here at the tables kind of hard to concentrate though.

So I I suspect I'll have it out by the certainly by the end of the today today.

Okay, thank you, Madam President.

Thank you, Mr.

All right.

All right, any other referrals?

Madam President, it's not a referral, however, um there's a request for is a walk on pertaining to the ombudsman application process.

It is an internal right now to be referred.

However, that item um is a request to walk this item on to be voted on today.

It's amending the resolution pertaining to the interviews, the application process, director Whitaker, or oh, yes, attorney Barclay.

Good afternoon.

Oh, good morning.

Um it is number 24.9 on your um agenda today, and what we've done is at the request of your body last week during the interviews.

We've amended the resolution for the interview process.

Okay.

Yes, please.

So the first change is number three.

It indicates that all of the interviewees will be subject to a background check.

Okay, as we is we indicated, and four and five um both provide greater detail for the the voting process.

So in um in uh number four, it indicates that um it clarifies that one the council members will make um three choices and to narrow down the field to three, um, and then that will be in rank order.

Your your first choice being given three points, your second point, your second choice being given two points, and your third choice being given one point.

So that clarifies that um and it further indicates that there would be no plunking, but that was in the resolution prior.

And number five, um, also just further indicates me further clarifies that um in the in the and if it's necessary to limit um if if after the third vote there is no clear um winner that we will attempt to narrow down the field to two so that it is it'll be easier to um get to the two-thirds vote so um if there's a tie among the two lowers getting individuals then you would vote between those individuals um to narrow down to two okay is there any questions or concerns regarding the amended resolution for our uh process of selecting the embudsperson?

Okay, all right, and this needs to be walked on.

So is there a motion to walk on the amended resolution?

Motion.

All right.

Hearing no objections, that motion is approved.

Um and is there a motion to approve the amended resolution for the interpro interview process and selection process?

So move.

All right.

Hearing no objections, uh the amended resolution will be approved.

All right.

Thank you, Attorney Barcliff.

Is that it, Madam Clerk?

Yes, President.

Okay.

For the President's report on standing committee referrals and other matters for the budget finance and audit standing committee.

Two reports from the Office of Contracting and Procurement.

The two reports will be referred to the budget committee.

For the internal operations standing committee.

10 reports from various city departments removing line item 24.9 and replacing that with the walk on to be referred.

All right.

The 10 reports will be referred to the internal operations standing committee.

For the neighborhood and community services standing committee.

Seven reports from various city departments.

These seven reports will be referred to the neighborhood and community services standing committee for the planning and economic development standing committee.

Five reports from various city departments.

The five reports will be referred to the planning and economic development standing committee for the public health and safety standing committee.

18 reports for various city departments.

The 18 reports will be referred to the public health and safety standing committee under the consent agenda.

There are no items, madam president.

All right, we will call for member reports.

Member Pro Tem Tate.

Negative report.

Okay.

Member Young.

Negative report.

All right, thank you.

Member Waters.

Thank you, Madam President.

I just want to read something.

This is a memo from the construction and demolition department.

It says attention neighbors of 3751, Northwestern.

We receive information on unapproved material used to fill the hole resulting from the demolition at the above address.

We sampled the material and found the material did not meet contractual standards for environmental quality and exceeded the standard for direct contact.

Accordingly, the material will be removed and replaced as soon as possible.

In the meantime, please continue to stay off the property and be attentive to the remediation process.

And so with that, Madam President, I'd like to make a motion and we will follow up with a memo at the health uh department.

Um do uh um some blood workup to make sure that none of those children uh who live uh there and near there are contaminated.

That is uh my motion.

All right, are there any objections to you repeat your motion one more time, Member Waters?

Uh my my motion would be to have the uh health department to go out and test these children who uh who live around this property to make sure that they did not uh contact anything, they were not contaminated in any way.

Okay, so you want us to do um a resolution urging them to do it or something like just make sure I'm clear on what the motion well, yeah.

My motion right now is to call on the health department to to go out there and do testing.

So we so I will follow up with a with a memo.

Yeah, okay.

Yes, okay, just want to make sure something is followed up in writing.

Yes, okay.

Are there any objections to the motion?

All right, hearing none, that action will be taken.

Thank you, madam president.

All right, thank you, Member Waters.

Member Santiago Remiro.

Thank you, Madam President.

Just want to invite District 6 residents to join us for a monthly office hours next Monday, September 29th.

We'll be at Kemani Rec Center from 4 to 6 p.m.

My team will be there if you need any help, need an assistance.

Um, my chief of staff will be there.

I have been joining them this month and have a really great time talking to residents and trying to help them out with um anything that they're dealing with.

Wanna also ask everyone to save the dates for our D6 monthly meeting for October for October 1st at 6 p.m.

We're going to be at Urban Neighborhood Initiatives on Lawdale.

We're gonna have a brief presentation from the health department regarding our Detroit ID program, and then we're gonna be joined by Ozzy Rivera and Alicia Diaz for a conversation on black and brown solidarity in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month and thanks to Member Young's suggestion that we make sure that we make space to have these conversations together in community.

You will get the invite from us.

Um and thank you for encouraging this.

Um to also continue to uh encourage district six residents and anyone interested in the DCFC to join us for the next CBO meeting.

It's going to be on Thursday, September 25th at 6 p.m.

at the Mexican town CDC on Bagley.

The NAC is going to present uh their projects community benefits so far.

Um, any mitigation that they want to also avoid or mitigation that they need um for any of the project impacts.

Thank you, madam president.

Thank you.

Member Callaway.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and good afternoon, everyone.

Um, want to thank everyone for coming out to the Northwest Activity Center this past Saturday for the first women's business summer summit sponsored by Detroit Women's Commission that was seated um officially on March the 30th, 2025.

Resolution went out in 2023.

So they're doing some amazing things.

The um it was well attended, it was a network opportunity for women who are aspiring to be business owners.

And then right after that, we walked over we went over to the Judge Mathis Community Center on Greenfield for the Project Clean Slate, and I want to thank everyone, all the volunteers from the Project Clean Slate team.

Um they service 313 residents expunging records, and it was amazing.

We had the um fingerprinting um device there, they had um all the laptops, they had all everything that everybody needed to get their records expunged were right there, and in any questions they had um were um addressed right there on the spot, and the line was wrapped around the building.

Um and it was just it was amazing.

So I know there were more than 300 people there, but at least 313 residents were serviced.

Um, this evening we are having our um district evening meeting.

We'll be meeting at Fellowship Chapel, um, 7707 West Outer Drive at 7 p.m.

It's held in District 2, but it's for all residents.

It's a citywide um evening meeting, but just being hosted by us in District 2.

Again, it will be this evening at 7 p.m.

at Fellowship Chapel, which is located at 7707 West Outer Drive.

And then um on September the 26th, Friday, Strides for Seniors is back.

Join my team at Palmer Park at 9 a.m.

until 1 p.m.

for a day of fun, fitness, and community uh registration includes a lunch box, uh I'm sorry, a box lunch, access to wellness exhibitors, music and dance activities, and you can um register at Strives for Seniors dot org.

Again, that is this Friday, September the 26th at Palmer Park, and it is our annual Strives for Seniors.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

That completes my report.

All right, thank you, Member Callaway, Member Johnson.

Thank you, Madam President.

Just want to remind District 4 residents that this Saturday we will have our fall shred day from 10 a.m.

until 2 p.m.

across the street from the 9th precinct on Grasshit and Gungston.

So if you have personal confidential information that you'd like to have shred, you can see it put in the truck and be shredded that day.

Again, Saturday, September 27th from 10 a.m.

until 2 p.m.

Across the street from the 9th precinct on Grasshead and Gungston.

Thank you, Madam President.

All right, thank you, Member Johnson, Member Durhoe.

Thank you, Madam President.

Uh, and just want to remind uh folks from D7 that our district seven community engagement meeting will take place Tuesday, September the 30th from 6 p.m.

to 7 30 p.m.

at the St.

Suzanne Cody Rouge Community Resource Center located at 1932 1 West Chicago.

Again, this is our uh District 7 community engagement meeting taking place Tuesday, September the 30th from 6 p.m.

to 7:30 p.m.

at St.

Suzanne Cody Rouge Community Resource Center.

We're inviting you to come out.

We're going to have all the city departments there that can give you access to resources and help solve some of your problems in real time.

So uh again, please join us on September the 30th from 6 p.m.

to 7:30 p.m.

Thank you, Madam President.

All right, thank you, Member Durha.

And uh our annual covering the community where we give away coats, gloves, scarves, and much more as we approach um the cold weather uh will take place Saturday, October the 11th at the Tollin Playfield from 1 to 4 p.m.

Again, our annual covering the community event will take place Saturday, October the 11th from 1 to 4 p.m.

Uh please come out if you have questions or comments.

Please reach out to our office.

We are also hosting our welcome to District 5 Russell Woods edition at the Boys and Girls Club on October the 1st.

Please join the Office of Council President Mary Sheffield, the Department of Neighborhoods, and other various city departments as we officially welcome you to District 5.

Come meet your city representatives and department leaders to learn about available resources and connect with your new community.

If you have any questions, please call 313-224-4505.

And that will conclude all of our member reports for today.

Under the consent agenda.

Under adoption without committee reference.

Move to approve line item 32.2.

Hearing no objections, the one resolution will be approved.

Under testimonial resolutions and special privilege.

A resolution line item 32.2.

Pro Tim Tate.

So move, Madam President.

All right.

Hearing no objections, the one resolution will be approved.

And just a reminder that there will be no committees this week due to the congressional black caucus.

So both Wednesday and Thursday committees have been canceled.

Yes, Member Young.

No, I was going to say um member uh Callaway has an event tonight.

Yes, did she mention that?

Didn't she?

Did she mention it already?

Oh, God is gonna make sure.

Okay.

We have our evening charter meeting tonight at 7 p.m.

in district two.

Just want to make sure.

Yep.

All right.

And if there is nothing else to come before us today, is there a motion to adjourn?

Motion.

All right.

This meeting will stand adjourned.