Good morning, everyone.

We will now call to order the regular session of Tuesday, October the 14th.

And Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Council Member Scott Benson.

Council Member Fred Duhard the third.

Councilman Letitia Johnson.

Councilmember Gabby's and the other women present.

Councilmember Mary Walters.

Present.

Councilman McCole Mayon the second.

Here.

Council President Tim James Tate.

And Council President Maybe Sheffield.

Present.

We have a quantum present president.

All right.

Thank you.

There being a quorum present.

We will proceed with our invitation for this morning.

We have joining us DC Chaplain Deshaun Irvin, who I think is joining us virtually this morning.

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Everyone got it.

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Hold on.

All right.

And if the clerk we've no, we've been joined by um council member Durha, Member Johnson, and Member Benson.

Good morning, uh DC Chaplain Irvin.

Good morning, sir.

Good morning, ma'am.

All right.

You can please uh lead us in invocation for this morning.

Okay.

Well, Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day and this time.

We thank you for our uh city council that has convened to make decisions apart for our city on today.

We ask that you will touch their minds and their hearts and allow them to be led by you uh so that they can go forth and make the proper decisions.

We ask that you cover this city, cover the citizens, cover our children uh that are going off the school on today so that you can continue to get the glory and the honor and the praise in Jesus' name we do pray.

Amen.

Amen.

All right, thank you so much, chaplain, for that invocation.

And we have uh this morning three uh presentations, uh, and we will start off with our first presentation from council member calloway.

Thank you, madam chair, and good morning, everyone.

Um gratitude and esteem of the Detroit, too.

Angela, you can just stand in.

Yeah, thank you so much.

From a dating house fire in Detroit district two, swift and fearless actions in the day transformed what could have been a heartbreaking tragedy and an insistent of and survival.

Your stands as an example of true heroism on behalf of myself, council member Angela Whiffle Callaway, and my eight city and the city of Detroit.

We congratulate you and for selfless courage and impact community, and it's also my um to present this to you, Mr.

Davis.

The spirit of Detroit award is presented here with to you as an expression of gratitude and esteem of the citizens of the city of Detroit.

Your heroic act of bravery and risk to rest children from that same devastating fire in Detroit and district for swift and fearless actions in the face of danger, also transformed what could have been a heartbreaking tragedy into an example story of hope and survival.

Your valor is a shining example of true bravery and courage on behalf of member Callaway and my colleagues here on this council in the entire of Detroit.

We congratulate you, Mr.

Timothy Timothy Davis, for your subtle courage and impact and so much.

And Madam Chair, I don't know if my colleagues have any words that they want to share with these heroes, absolutely saving lives.

And I know we'll take pictures afterwards.

Yes.

Oh, okay.

You can hit that button at the base of the microphone, it'll turn green.

There we go.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Council President Sheffield, Councilmember Callaway, and all the esteemed council members.

Today we gather to honor two remarkable citizens, Angela Boone and TJ Davis, whose heroic actions during the tragic fire on uh San Juan Drive.

Captured the soul of our city.

Yes.

The essence of our city.

When flames engulfed that home and smoke field, the hallways.

Angela was first to notice, alerting neighbors, calling 91.

She flagged down TJ while he was down driving down the street.

TJ stopped his car, ran out.

Safety, crawled through the smoke.

Where he retrieved a three-year-old boy.

He then aided in resuscitation.

Actions that quite literally meant the difference between life and death.

Angela and TJ remind us of the heroism that isn't uh always thought of for uh civilians.

It isn't about the uniform or rank, often it's about a neighbor stepping in when seconds matter the most.

Their courage reflects the spirit, heart, and grit of Detroit.

I want to thank Council Member Callaway for advocating for this recognition.

And Council President Sheffield for your leadership in bringing this forward.

To every member on council, thank you for your dedicated support of the Detroit Fire Department and for affirming the value of service, sacrifice, and community in our city.

Angela TJ, on behalf of our department, our firefighters, and all Detroiters.

We honor you today and are deeply proud.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Member Callaway.

And we uh definitely do stand with member Callaway in honoring you all for your service uh and your sacrifice and commitment to Detroit.

Uh, we are all gonna come down and do a photo with you all as we get through our next two presentations.

But again, member Callaway, thank you for bringing this to us.

Uh, and thank you both for uh for being here.

Um, we will now move to Councilmember Young, uh, followed by Councilmember Benson.

Thank you, Madam President.

Um, there's a quote by a great man that said that the greatest human endeavor is to inspire.

And I can't think of a person who is more inspirational, more inspiring, someone who has helped so many Detroiters achieve the American dream, whether it's through small business ownership, whether it's through working your job, to be able to feed themselves and their families and contribute to society.

I can't think of a better person who is more suited to be honored for the tireless and a lot of times thankless work of going out there and making sure that the economic conditions of this city is being improved day by day by helping people be able to, folks that have leveraged borrowed against their house that have invested all their savings just to be able to own a piece of property, a business, and be able to provide people who have given Detroiters their very first jobs and opportunities.

Words cannot express eyes, cannot see, ears cannot hear, minds cannot comprehend how thankful I am for this person and his work.

So it is my tremendous honor and privilege to present this spirit of Detroit Award to Edward Fisher.

Thank you.

45 years of excellence in service to his friends and colleagues in service to the city of Detroit.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

At this point, the 17 years clap.

This also marks the beginning of her police career today, her 40-year police career.

She joined us in the spot.

So that's a little bit random with a sidebar, but I just wanted to say that.

Okay.

So Mr.

Edward Fisher would you.

I say, oh, yeah, I came for it.

Okay.

And uh Mr.

Head, would you also please join Mr.

Fisher as well?

And anybody else that's here.

I'm sorry, Mr.

Johnson here, please.

You got it.

Mr.

Fisher has been an employee with Detroit Economic Growth Corporation since July 7th, 1980, for over 45 years.

He has been a help in need, a kind word where supported, and a kind deed with his co-workers and colleagues.

Needed that support.

Just hear what some of his co-workers said about him.

Derek Head said, Mr.

Fisher is a kind-hearted man who is committing his life to serving the people of Detroit.

And we just want to acknowledge him for that.

Joyce Josidas said, Mr.

Fisher has been with the office, has been the office uncle to so many of our kids.

He remembers them with a card on special occasions and a few dollars thrown in to let them know their thought about.

He is a proud, he is proud to be a part of their lives, and a part of the village that helped them grow.

He even remembers and shares their accomplishments in church.

He is thoughtful, generous, humble with his kind words.

It is your words, Mr.

Edar, that have made you a giant in our lives.

All who know you are touched by your spirit and your stories.

Life live long and prosper, my friend.

They are Star Trek friends forever.

I was expecting a different response, and it didn't work out, but now I was gonna move on.

That's why I paused.

I thought I was gonna have a new response.

Okay, never mind.

Denise Huntley said he was so much love.

He has so much love for the city.

I have known Edar since middle school.

We met again after we grew up and got jobs at NBD.

It was like we were back in middle school again because he was the same, talking, laughing, and caring person.

Many blessings and happy life, Edart.

Terry Jordan said, Edar is a true legend among us.

Edar has a 45 incredible years of dedication, support, and steady presence.

Behind the scenes hero, and calm in the middle of many storms, even those he created.

No one knows this city better than he does.

Edar is a proud Christian, loyal friend, and always ready to help wherever you need a hand, a history lesson or directions to the nearest office location, lunch hotspot.

Jennifer Canolos and Elizabeth Brickson told stories of how Mr.

Edar was a help with their families when they were in need.

The entire staff thanked you, Mr.

Edward Edar Fisher for your acts of service in the workplace and beyond.

So it is my great honor, Mr.

Edar, to honor you on this day with the entire Detroit City Council with this Spirit of Detroit Award for your 45 years of service to the people of the great city of Detroit.

Thank you, Mr.

Edward Edar Fisher for your excellent service.

Yes, thank you, um, Councilman Young.

It's a great privilege to be here.

I thank the Lord for this day.

It was pretty surprising to hear from my uh friend Tiffany Smith that they would like to honor you here today at the city council session.

Um I go back many years to your dad's um economic growth council when he started the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation many years ago, and I used to see him as a tall statue of somebody but admire and all the city council's members I've known over the years that I've known Irma Henderson.

I'm standing in the auditorium now after her.

I graduated from Noble from I'm sorry, I graduated from Hampton Junior High.

She was our she was our graduating speaker, and that's formidable to hear that she's been named this auditorium after her and also the marino on the East Jefferson area by Bell Out.

But I thank the Lord for over the many years that I've worked with City Council through our uh many presidents over the year, Robert W.

Spencer, all the way down to our new president Johnson here.

And I'm grateful that you all have um acknowledge me for these many years of work at a Detroit Growth Corporation.

I thank you so much.

And uh praying for the city council to do many great things for the city.

Oh go ahead, let's hit thank you, Councilmember Ian.

Uh, through the chair.

Um thank you for this acknowledgement for this kind man.

Uh he is truly a giant, uh, someone behind the scenes.

And if you could indulge me, could do I please have the other members of DEGC please stand.

And as a matter of protocol, I'm gonna allow my esteemed president and CEO Kevin Johnson to end out.

Absolutely.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

I really appreciate this uh acknowledgement of uh Mr.

Fisher.

He has been uh the steady in the storm, and uh I remember when I moved here, uh he literally uh tackled me and told me exactly where to go, exactly what to do, and exactly how to do it.

I'm like, well, why do you need me if you knew all that?

So I'm really appreciative of this acknowledgement.

You have been uh the steady in the storm, as I've said.

Uh many of our colleagues wanted to be here but couldn't because uh you guys got them working, uh, which is what you uh uh ask us to do.

But we are so thrilled for for Edar and his family uh to be able to see uh give you your flowers while you can smell them, brother.

You know, that's what it's all about, and I really appreciate that.

Council member Young for your uh leadership and council president Sheffield for allowing us to have this time.

We really really appreciate it, and thank you so much.

We thank you again.

I really really honor them by this opportunity.

Thank you, and um I think um I forgot to mention my church, Clinton Street Greater Bell Family Temple Church under the pastor to Bishop Algernon Bartel Sr.

Um he couldn't make it today, but I think you're our district um council members, Sheffield.

We're grateful for your help in the neighborhood and keeping that area up and running too.

And um, his nephew here is Mr.

Kyle um uh Bartel.

And thank you, the Lord that he was able to, he works for the city now, and I've been knowing him for many years too.

Oh, God bless you.

Thank you for this great opportunity.

Thank you, sir.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

For you, sir.

Hold on one second.

Uh, Councilmember Benson.

Thank you.

And Mr.

Fisher, I just wanted to say, and thank you, DGC, for acknowledging this level of service.

It is just so rare that we see someone who has committed themselves to 10, 15, 20 years to one organization.

You have committed yourself to 45 years to the DEGC, the city of Detroit and our residence.

And I just want to say thank you for that.

Just the ability to do that, your willingness to do that really does need to be commemorated.

I'm really appreciative of DEGC bringing this type of commitment and dedication to the city of Detroit forward.

And just as I said, just having that 45 years, it's really hard to put that into just into your brain to appreciate 1980.

You started working at the DEGC.

Just the number of presidents, the number of mayors, number of city council, the number of music genres, just all the different events.

If I'm not mistaken, you were working here when we had the South African president come to the city of Detroit.

You've seen the waterfront develop.

You've seen a change in ownership of so many different events and activities.

And so your legacy and your corporate knowledge is rare.

And I hope that we are getting all that institutional knowledge from you.

Because while we we need to recognize that, we also need you to impart that level of history and knowledge here so we know what to avoid moving forward in the future and what has worked as well from your optic.

So thank you very much for your service to the city of Detroit.

Appreciate you.

Thanks for saying congratulations.

Thank you, Mr.

Fisher.

Appreciate you.

Council Mr.

President.

Thank you so much.

Congratulations, sir.

Thank you.

All right.

Thank you, Councilmember Young, for that award presentation.

And now, lastly, we will turn it over to Member Benson for his presentation.

Madam President, thank you very much.

So I want to, if Mr.

Lane Coleman can please stand up and his family can come down to the microphone.

And families also welcome.

And this is in keeping with the spirit of the day, recognizing our servants and our volunteers.

And so before you, you have Mr.

Lane Coleman, who is a volunteer at the city of Detroit to ensure that we are able to move forward.

And so Mr.

Coleman has had a very distinguished uh tenure over the Board of Water Commissioners.

And the Board of Water Commissioners doesn't get the sexy accolades.

You probably don't see many people or the news stories coming down to talk about how we're relining pipes or how we're going to remove lead uh service lines from people's streets and make sure that we're delivering water safely uh to the residents of Detroit.

But as a Board of Water Commissioner, and what people don't recognize often is the amount of resources that go through that organization.

And so I'm gonna read just a little bit about Mr.

Coleman.

And so he's an executive leader with an unwavering commitment to public service.

He has served faithfully on the Detroit Board of Water Commissioners for more than nine years since he was appointed in January 2016 by Mayor Duggett.

Since his appointment, Mr.

Coleman served as chair of the Board of Water Commercial's Capital Improvement Program and Operations Committee, a critical committee responsible for overseeing the policies and budget of the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department.

Five-year 100 million dollar annual capital improvement program, ensuring the continued reinvestment in Detroit's aging, water, sewer, and stormwater infrastructure.

I just want to put that into context.

Five years, 100 million dollars a year, that's a half billion dollars as overseen by Mr.

Coleman.

And so if we think about how much money that is, the level of investment and the amount of responsibility that we've placed on your shoulders to ensure that half a billion dollars of infrastructure to protect the health, safety, and welfare of Detroit residents, not the health safety and welfare of anybody else's residents, but Detroit residents.

And I want to say thank you for that.

Because if you imagine I'm gonna be responsible for half a billion dollars, I'm gonna do that for free.

Thank you for your public service.

This is public service.

Yeah, you can clap for that.

That's okay.

That is okay.

Because if you take that same level of responsibility to the corporate level, they're going to charge you a far greater amount than free.

And I've done the capital, um, the cash flow analysis on free, and I like it.

So thank you for doing that great service for free.

In addition to his service on the Board of Water Commissioners, Mr.

Coleman is the founder, president, and chief executive officer of Strike Group LLC, a service disabled, veteran-owned, certified Detroit-based and certified minority-owned enterprise.

And you can give a hand clap to that as well.

Mr.

Coleman is a retired U.S.

Naval officer and native Chicagoan who made Detroit his home for decades.

I'm going to resolve it here.

That Councilmember Scott Benson, Detroit City Council, on behalf of the people of Detroit proudly present this testimonial resolution as an expression of gratitude and celebration to Lane Coleman for his service to the residents of the city of Detroit.

Mr.

Coleman, thank you.

I'm glad that you brought your family here as well, because it's often that we give these type of accolades in front of our colleagues.

But it's especially important that we do this and recognize this type of public service in front of our families as well.

And so I just want to say thank you for nine years of volunteering for the residents of Detroit and ensuring the health safety and welfare for our residents is overseen, and that we are responsibly managing and allocating over a half billion dollars of infrastructure investment into the city of Detroit.

And you did that as a volunteer.

Thank you for that.

Same for us as well, Mr.

Brown.

Let me uh let me let me just uh there's there's a whole there's a lot in the resolution, but there's a lot between the lines that you may not um see in the resolution.

Number one, my board led by uh director or former director um Coleman, um, understands the tone and expectations of this body and I report to him, and not only does he oversee a hundred million dollars in the capital improvement budget, but we have a half billion dollar maintenance and operation budget that the board also oversees.

And Mr.

Coleman is the first one to press me at every board meeting regarding how many Detroiters did you hire.

How many small minority Detroit based businesses got a piece of that 100 million dollar uh contract and not only is he is he pressing staff at his committee meetings and at the table at the board meeting, he ensured that we wrote policies and procedures that will require small Detroit based minority companies continue to prosper at DWSD in the future.

So even though he's gone, he's left a record uh he's left breadcrumbs for everybody that follows to ensure that Detroit-based minority companies are benefiting from the rebuilding of this infrastructure as they should.

So uh I also want to thank you for that.

That's that's between the lines uh in the resolutions is certainly one of the most impressive resolutions that I've uh been a part of.

And I thank all of you for uh participating, signing it and and delivering it to DBSD.

We will also uh have other awards at the board meeting uh tomorrow.

And I'd be remiss if I didn't introduce his wife Lee, who um I have known as long as I've I've known Lang and uh as equally accomplished in the community uh as he is.

So thank you very much.

Madam President, Commissioner uh Benson and the body here.

I want to say thank you.

Um I really really appreciate this.

Many of you probably don't know this.

Lee and I aren't originally from Detroit, but we've been here over 30 years, and and and I have the uh honor to be able to represent Detroit in two areas over the past couple of years.

One being a water commissioner, and two being the chair of the Detroit Institute of Art.

And I bring that up because when you look back when we were going through the bankruptcy, those were the two biggest assets that they were going after.

And so I move around and I travel the world in the business that I run, and I always run into someone that goes, how's Detroit doing?

And I just sit them down and I roll through it, right?

I can talk about our investment in the water department, I can talk about the arts, I can talk about what's going on in the city.

So you know, I really appreciate the opportunity to have the ability to serve.

And if there's anything uh else I can do, please let me know.

So thank you very much.

Thank you.

Never been to anything additional.

No, that's it.

All right, so colleagues, we can now go down and um do pictures with each of the recipients today.

Coleman, if you can stay around real quick, we'll do a picture.

A walk off that member eleven point.

Madam Chair, a couple weeks ago we gave a testimonial resolution and a spirit of Detroit award to Patrice Davis.

Um pro Tim Tate's favorite pal cake baker.

That's her son, Timothy Davis.

And I just thought there's here she is right there, and her son was the one who rescued the children.

I just want to bring that to our city.

I didn't know until just now.

Yeah.

Beautiful.

Thank you.

Thank you, Member Callaway.

And again, again, thank you to all of my colleagues for the presentations.

And uh, we are going to now proceed with our agenda for today.

The journal of the session of Tuesday, September the 30th will be approved.

There being no reconsiderations or unfinished business.

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

When we put in the office of contracting and procurement, the one report will be referred to the budget finance and audit committee for the internal operations standing committee.

To be forced from various city departments.

Is it okay?

I'm sorry.

Oh, okay.

There's a motion to move line item 11.11 to new business.

Their motion, motion, okay.

Hearing no objections, we will move line item 11.11 to new business.

And the 10 reports will be referred to public health and safety.

We will now move to the vote in action matters under other matters.

There are no items, Madam President.

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

My dad is in prison for murder today.

Detroiters right now, you're being stolen.

Money is being stolen from you.

Let me give you a glaring example of how this is happening.

If you look on page five of the budget right now, there is thirty-one million dollars that is to be allotted to the housing commission.

Detroiters of that those resources under section three should be coming to you.

If you look on page 13, you'll see that that the Hudson building, which was put with our money, it was built with 600 million of our dollars through TIFFA.

96 of those condominiums will be tax-free.

That means that 96 people will live in a building that you will with your tax dollars.

Tax free.

Call me at 248751896.

Thank you.

Mr.

O.

Ms.

O Wat.

Followed by Mr.

Conning here.

Good morning.

Madam Presidents, Honorable Council members.

Thank you for your service.

But we all know more is needed.

Much more than a few cosmetic fixes here and there for good optics.

It's heartbreaking to see so many proud American citizens in Detroit living in miserable conditions through no fault of their own.

They are victims of a broken system designed to make people suffer so they can be controlled.

Scripture says in the gospel of Matthew, if anyone will not listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that town.

That's that is what many Detroiters are doing.

Leaving four places outside Detroit where they are amazingly thriving.

Nothing about them has changed.

The only difference is they moved from a corrupt broken system for one that truly serves people.

This this exodus will create the vacuum.

There are no excuses.

Together, let's make Detroit a shining city on the hill in Jesus' name.

Amen.

And on Facebook, not enemy.

Again on Facebook, not enemy.

Um so last week.

Um I had spoke to Councilman Benson before the um the meeting, and you were gonna do something, and maybe you forgot.

Um, but I'll hit you via sale and just uh text you.

Um, I was I was taken back a little bit.

Uh but anyway, um Detroit Department of Transportation has an input meeting coming up this Thursday.

You can go to their social media, go to their social media page, and that information will be uh on that page or Facebook, uh, etc.

Uh, new faces.

We're trying to get new faces to come out, new voices.

I've been doing this for a very long time, and um, and I want everyone to be prepared because the weather is changing.

Um, you know, my number, my cash app 313 444, 9104.

I need bus tickets and hand warms to give out at the bus stops.

The buses still aren't running on time, it's still lackluster.

Again, bus tickets and hand warmers is coming, and also give out water.

Thank you, council president.

See you tonight in your district.

So much, thank you so much, Mr.

Cunningham.

Mike Fregata, followed by Ramon Jackson, followed by Betty Lyons.

Good morning.

Good morning, city council.

I purchased a property, two-bedroom condominium in riverfront in downtown Detroit for future living in the city of Detroit.

I paid taxes last year, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars, and my imagination was my tax might increase hundred percent, three hundred percent, five hundred percent, not nine hundred percent.

No, my taxes increase from sixteen fifty to thirteen thousand six hundred and fifty-three dollars.

This is just for summer time, and I do not know how much that hit with winter time.

Imagine any of your council.

If you have the house in Detroit and you are paying for five thousand, and next year you have to pay 45,000.

Who's going to pay for this taxes?

And I went to see the board of review, submit the document, and they're told me, fill out this form and come back tomorrow.

The next day I'll come back, it was Friday.

They said, Board of reviews closed.

Come back Monday.

I came back on Monday.

They said it's too late.

You were supposed to come on Friday, and nobody answered to me.

They do not allow me to protect myself, submit some documentation.

I remember I'm in real estate 31 years in 2007, when everything has been collapsed in every place.

There was a property in West Mulongfield appraised for 1.2 million.

Through in this time, they saw it.

Thank you so much for coming down.

I'm not sure what district or area you are uh referring to in the property, district six.

4826 for eight front.

I'm sorry.

300 River France.

Oh, 300 Riverfront.

Okay, okay.

So if we can um get with you and um our council members to try to see how we can address the issue for the the assessments and um the taxes.

So we'll get your information.

One more thing.

They're told me that because of chat, the next city is removed.

What does that mean?

Not 900%, 200%, 300%, not 900%.

Gotcha.

Somebody should make decision about this one.

All right.

So we'll get your information, sir, and work with you as well with um our council members at large to see what we can do to assist you.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

Thank you so much.

Thanks.

Residents of Detroit.

I've been coming back and forth down to the city council every week trying to get answers out of Mary Mary.

We asked Mary Mary both stated that you can vote using the county jail's address.

We're not waiting on no election department to answer a question that you all or ask or answer that you all said y'all had.

Now y'all should stand on what y'all said, or y'all should have bit y'all said something, y'all didn't know what y'all was talking about to the residents.

Residents in Detroit in 2022, we did a recall on Scott Benson, because he was one of the most corrupted city council members that he compelled us to do a recall on him because he was smug, arrogant, just like he is right now.

All y'all sitting up there, thank him for showing for catching the cheating.

If it wasn't for you, the United States would know how they was cheating in the election.

Based on that recall for you, every time y'all cheat, y'all gonna get caught.

Thank you.

You should you should get a spirit of Detroit report, Miss Betty Lyon.

Okay, good morning, Miss Betty Lyons.

Okay, I come for justice for the stolen and hid over 600 million dollars in property taxes to be returned to the Detroit residents, also for the clawback of monies belonging to the seniors and retirees.

If you, Miss Sheffield, as mayor, don't believe the lies of Satan.

How could I have asked for my overpaid property taxes when I didn't even know it was stole and hidden?

Show me proof, show me written proof.

If you're going to believe the lies of Satan, Dugan and his friend Dana Nessel, we are already doomed.

And after he tossed you to and fro to continue throwing three millions to Dan Gilbert, Romero, Romero's Mexicans, cartels and gangs, three millions financially for repairs and appliance.

You will be led like a lamb to the slaughter.

Dugan is not here to support you.

He is here to make sure you don't provide justice to the Detroit residents, seniors, and retirees.

Together we can together we will.

Good morning.

By Melissa Love.

Um, I'm here to talk about how the shelters are.

A lot of them, the NSO, cash, the I reached start working on them.

But NSO, the gap case managers, they simply take stuff, they don't do their work, they simply say, I'm not working today.

And then they have people just blind, they don't they should be telling false information when these vouchers expire.

Then they also have people that have mental issues, which it should be somebody in there they could talk to, because they're not doing their job and they're not helping me.

Some of them have been there four and five years, it's not right for them peoples like that.

They are human beings and they need a place to stay, and when they need to get help for their mental issues they have when why while they're in there, so they can get better.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Miss Moore.

Good morning, everyone.

I've been coming down here for two years now for the same thing.

And I've been basically ignored, it seems to me.

And last couple of times I said, well, power tends to corrupt.

If it doesn't fit you, don't be offended.

In 2008, I lost my home, despite my objections.

That was the same year the Kwame Kilpatrick was accused and later convicted of running an enterprise using taxpayer money.

Detroiters were never never not to my knowledge received any restitution or any acknowledgement that they were entitled to anything.

All that out of the millions that he stole allegedly or whatever.

More than a year ago, I asked about you guys uh conducted an investigation in order to see who identified the people who were overassessed.

Uh councilman Tate said no, and then he his office offered me a rental property, and I said no.

And it it because it seemed like it was the same kind of scandal when they were offering um city employees rental properties, and they sold the rental properties for to the real estate companies for a profit and had to pay the government one and a half million dollars.

So thank you, Miss Logan.

Thank you.

Thank you, ma'am.

Miss Melissa Love, followed by Helena Dunn.

The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 states that they maintain clean voter roles.

I Melissa Love never voted November 2020 or August 2024.

I will not be silenced, and justice will be served, and respect will be on my name.

I will not stop or be stopped unless God tell me to.

Until then, I will continue to be obedient, stand toes down, be bold as a lioness, and keep exposing this evil, wicked corruption.

I will continue to fight for myself, children, disabled, and elderly, and for what's right.

Mary Sheffield, it's mind boggling to me that every Wednesday I pop in.

You are never present.

But yeah, every time I look up, look up on Instagram, you cheese and hardwood rappers.

What type of representation are you setting for our city?

You are creating bad habits and lack of integrity and charisma for our Detroit women being brought up here in the city of Detroit.

Detroit, I stay here asking y'all.

Is this what y'all want for mayor?

I am here to demand our resources back, our contracts, and to get y'all out of here.

Time's up.

Detroit, let's flip this city red.

It's time for the righteous, the truth, and the light to win.

Wednesday.

The ones that have been overlooked, ignore slander and public disrespect.

I've been quiet long enough.

I will use my voice loudly and demands what's been stolen.

Detroit, I ask, what have Democrats done for us besides offer a shelter, food, clothes, backpacks, mice, and rappers?

The people that's elected in the city of Detroit that sits on this board are all Democrats.

I once was with the Democrat up until I met Ramon Jackson, and he exposed that I was illegally voting in and learning about the physical matters.

Not only I voted for the newest presidential election and the newest primary election, I will say a problem.

Thank you.

All right.

Ms.

Helena Nine.

Good morning, Council President Sheffield and members of the council.

Two weeks ago, I quoted the law, MCL 168-11 or 0.11, which I will quote again today.

Uh, no elector does not gain or lose a residence while confined in a jail or prison in response to a statement.

I made that, I quoted that law in response to a statement that was made by Miss Sheffield that a person can't use the county jail's address as their voting residence after being confined for 30 days.

My purpose in doing so was to know the law or statute that was um that would support that statement that was made.

The council president responded that the city clerk would follow up to date, no law or statute has been provided.

Since this is a matter of public information and voter education, I respectfully request that either the council president or the clerk respond today with a specific law that supports the statute, or with a specific law or statute that supports the contradicting statement that was previously made, or simply confirm that no such law exists.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Uh an official um writing from the clerk's office, and that information was referred to committee in Paris actually has a copy that she can get to you before you leave.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Excuse me, excuse me.

One second, please.

Excuse me.

Excuse me, we're not gonna go back and forth.

We received uh reporting or writing from the clerk's office to address the rights of those who are incarcerated.

All right, the next our next person today uh is Miss Linda McClaster, followed by a last name Williams.

Hello, city council.

Good morning.

About three weeks ago.

Um I said that I never voted absentee, and on my uh voters' history, it said that I did, and that was a lie, and I quoted description that I love justice, he hates robbery and wrongdoing that was wrong, and the address is Isaiah 618.

Thank you, the constitution, the laws, and the charters.

You all have not been complying, all three of them.

Okay, so I've been talking about illegal ex-offenders under Detroit Police Department, illegal immigrants.

This is the key thing.

Fake names, they go to the Secretary of State office to receive a new identity.

They receive a voting registration card, so you know they part of this illegal corruption.

They own the Detroit Police Department, illegal immigrants and ex-convicts.

Who they gonna vote in?

We've been dealing with this over 12 years of this administration.

How we gonna trust anything to come out of anybody's mouth up here with this illegal DTE in the city when you all not paying that?

When you all at the casinos hacking the steal, and every time I come down here, you want to get into my devices.

I'm disgusted.

You are all liars.

How can we believe anything anyone up here says?

I've been talking about police officers living in these shelters in.

Oh, Madam President, what you say?

Ain't no police officers in there.

When it oh, internal affairs office, he was sitting right here next to the chief.

He came to 3426 MAC Avenue and picked up all the weapons where all the police resigned at so you all tell me no police officers were staying in the shelters.

But see, then they misuse in these houses and permanent vouchers when they leave from the shelters, they able to get 30% off what they make.

With time, they've been paying, they paid 34 million dollars overtime for the Detroit Police Department.

Taxpayers money, what we gonna do about that?

Do not elect her in.

Thank you so much.

Followed by Ronald Foster.

Hey, ladies and gentlemen of the city of Detroit.

Why do y'all think I started off by saying that this is the lowest life?

The devil is in more corrupt city council.

Hey, Ramon, that's why Benson's smiling at you because he knows he got cheated in, and there's nothing we can do about it to the courts, and the people can stand up for they said again, Cheffield.

You did say that.

You can't do that.

You can look at me as a man to a woman, warders.

You say, What can you do?

You got uh you got Janice Winfrey on your speed dot.

So you got a bunch of people down here saying that they didn't vote absentee.

You can do that right now.

You understand me?

I just talked to the economic guy.

Y'all gave an award to a guy just because he had a position for 45 years.

I say, my man, how can you have an economic group when majority of black people don't run their essential business when the non-majority run our central business, which is air.

So I say, since y'all give our money, majority of our money to Dan Gibbert to airs, we should have a majority white and Arab City Council.

Maybe we'll get some justice.

You guys been getting cheated in here, and we know it now.

For y'all to sit up there, can't look a man in his face.

That's some horrible disgusting, then you open it up with a prayer to do the devil's work.

Mary Waters and Calloway, I'm a shaming y'all.

Civil rights don't mean nothing.

Y'all came from that era and say vote is important, but they cheating.

Y'all won't do nothing about you know what Martin Luther King would do to y'all, pick y'all up and take y'all to the bar.

Ronald Foster.

Oh my god.

By Anthony.

Through the president, just a few things.

Um, I just wanted to speak.

Well, I'm glad to see a lot of people come off for the children after another incident.

It does not negate the information that you have for the previous three years.

And um this city for the last 10 years have paid into a community education commission that have excluded poverty communities.

Um, when I spoke about it in public comment, you guys have done things to cover it up gold line as part of that.

And I've always asked that every student in every school here be afforded those same opportunities at after school programming and everything else.

Um grievances, uh, continue to talk about grievances.

Well, here's some grievances here to council members, uh, state legislators and everyone else.

And what this council body has done, I think is despicable.

You have suppressed my voice.

You have tried to give my work to somebody else to um endorse them and do different things, and it has to stop.

These things are time-stamped and dated, and so the CVI and all those other people that plagiarize and everything else.

You have to stand up and take accountability and start with the source.

Miss Callaway on here, other people on here.

You guys are mandated reporters.

When people bring issues about schools and everything else to you all, you have to act.

So it's not gonna be getting up here talking about what you did do and what you're not gonna do and everything else.

The news happened.

You all are welcome to have the same emails that I provided years ago.

Thank you, Mr.

Ronald Foster.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Good morning, City Council.

Anthony Eid here on behalf of community development advocates of Detroit.

See that.

Uh, first off, thank y'all for being here today and allowing me to speak as someone who's held office before.

I understand that public comment is not always easy.

And uh, I feel for y'all for listening to all these comments we've heard today.

Um, we have CDAT support the DLBA MOU amendments that were made at last Thursday's uh planning and economic development development committee meeting.

Uh, especially two provisions in there.

The first being the language regarding CLTs.

Uh, the CLT language creates a clearer, faster pathway for DLBA uh dispositions into uh to get the hand the land back into the hands of residents of our city, and it's really how we create permanent affordable homes and community ownership here in Detroit.

We also support the language around the water at sewer lines, being able to disclose which properties in the land bank have had those services shut out, will uh create for greater transparency and pre-development costs, and we believe lead to fewer uh failed projects.

See that also supports some of the items that were removed from the uh MOU language, such as uh the provision for DLBA members to be uh citizens of the city of Detroit.

However, we do understand that that issue might be better served in the IGA instead of the MOU, and hope to work with y'all to make that happen in the future.

Uh, finally, thank you to Councilman Johnson's office for working with CDAT and your wonderful staff for uh thinking.

Thank you so much.

Right, Miss Tanya Wells, you will be the last in person, or I didn't see your card.

Good morning, honorable council.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

That's first Corinthians the 14th chapter in the 40th verse for your own edifications.

The right for counselor and suits that every low-income Detroit have a legal representation, they need to maintain house, thrive in their communities, and commute and achieve stability in the in-court advocacy and the ongoing tenant support.

It is not an exclusive just to the 36th district court, a city jurisdiction deciding criminal civil and tenant cases in the beginning.

The third judicial circuit court also decides criminal civil and tenant jurisdictional uh cases on the county level, for they are equal in law in Wayne County, the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, the state and both city townships and federal jurisdictions, treatments under the state of Michigan in the 1963 constitution clauses also fairly protected.

They were ratified, signed, and given formal consent to duty.

It was ratified in 1968, and it was originally intended to prevent the discrimination of the newly freed slaves who were at that time taken back to their owners by the sheriff's department, who are also the keepers of the jail.

It's a challenge to not be treated equally based on gender and other characteristics, unadulterated misgivings of the law and the rule.

The 14th amendment clause, federal and state, man change government.

I have a presentation.

Thank you so much.

I appreciate your term.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Wells.

And DeDante Smith will be our last in person.

Good morning, uh city council.

I just want to say I have the dangerous buildings list.

So I've been on a uh interest, a couple interesting things thanks to Councilman Scott Benson, uh, and finding board homes that are wide open from the land bank, uh, that need to be boarded up.

So I found out a lot of homes that are demolished are privately owned from the city, privately owned.

The city of Detroit destroys or tearing homes down that don't need to be torn down.

We have a housing price.

We have so many people who are homeless.

We have overflow shelters.

I think that's that's a travesty in and of itself.

I want to say I appreciate uh council member waters for her work in the land bank MOUs, and shame on you, Councilman Tate, for shooting down her amendments to the MOU.

Um, very, very disgusting work.

Also, I want to say I'll give you a little bit of a shout-out, Scott Benson.

You you did respond to me on a Sunday, and you did send your people out to our press conference, even though you that's about the most shout-out you'll get.

Also want to say um thank you, Angela Wilfill Callaway for your uh your help with the CPTA body cam body camp ordinance that is very helpful for transparency.

We appreciate that.

I haven't haven't had a chance to talk about it.

Really really appreciate that.

Also, um, this board is not all Democrats.

We have a working families parties member on the board.

Um, and I want to say I'll be reaching out to a couple of you guys' offices about uh these dangerous buildings and the buildings that are being torn down.

Like we say, we have a housing crisis.

We have people who are living in abandoned houses, we got people who have nowhere to sleep, nowhere to go, and we're turning down perfectly salvageable houses, and we're taking people's homes uh through the nuisance abatement project, but then we're tearing down homes that don't need to be torn down.

I'm on I'm gonna provide a list of addresses that can be saved to each of your offices.

But thank you very much.

Thank you.

All right.

That will conclude all of our in-person public comment.

We will go to those who have joined us virtually.

Good morning, madam president.

There were 22 hands raised before you would cut off public comment.

And the first caller is Zachary Rowe.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning, Council President Sheffield and Councilmember Johnson and Council members.

My name is Zachary Rowe, and I serve as exec director of the Friends of Parkside, a small community-based organization that was started by Parkside residents more than 30 years ago.

I know many of you have seen the recent email correspondent from Friends of Parkside about the parkside redevelopment, but I want to thank you for reading and considering those messages.

Today I want to briefly highlight what at the heart of those emails, ensuring that resident voices remain centered in the redevelopment process.

I grew up in Parkside alongside the people, the children, the grandchildren are now served.

My mother Catherine Rowe and the group of determined women helped start it from the partside.

She served as the first executive director, and I'm proud to continue her legacy today as the long-time community advocate and organizer working on behalf of Parkside residents.

The majority of our board are parkside residents, and together we spent more than 25 years serving this community from our office space inside the Parkside Community Center, which is owned by the Parkside.

Support residents, teach digital skills, and create uh safe positive spaces for youth.

This space isn't just an office, it's uh is where residents feel seen, respected, and supported.

Um, this is where trust is built.

Um, okay, I'm sorry.

Um basically, I just okay.

I just uh we're asking Detroit City Council to continue to hold the funds for Detroit Housing Commission to DAC demonstrate real engagement, respect and fairness and to renew friends of park side.

Okay, thank you so much.

The next caller is William M.

Davis.

Uh good morning.

Can I be heard?

Yes, you can.

Okay, I like to start off by saying I agree that policies and procedure is essential.

Um, because I worked in the wallet problem for 34 years.

I've been retired for 13 years now, you know, as a former elected police commissioner.

I'm amazed that we still have so many lawsuits.

Um I'm amazed we still have so many indemnifications.

I'm amazed at some of the stuff that still goes on.

Because when I worked in throughout the water department, you know, if you had any vehicle, if you were involved in any vehicle accident, you had to go get blood and drug tested.

Yet today, that's still not a policy across the board with all city employees, especially the police department.

You know, if you want to actually reduce costs and make things better, you need to have some standard policies for anybody to drive a city vehicle.

Whatever, if they involved in any accident, they should get drug and alcohol tested.

You know, I think the city could do a better job of reducing these lawsuits if there was some if they did simple business like policies.

You know, this city needs to join the 21st century instead of acting like this doing the 19th century.

You know, a lot more needs to be done and should be done.

Yeah, I should be doing more to help the city of Detroit retirees who continue to suffer.

You know, since the time I worked for the city of Detroit, we went from like the eighth largest city to the 26th largest city.

And most of that decline has been in the last 12 years.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Davis.

The next caller is Frank Hammer.

Mr.

Hammer, good morning.

Good morning.

This is Karen Hammer.

Congratulations, City Council, for your unanimous support.

October 7th, repealing the single-use plastic in Detroit.

The city's green task force crafted this resolution.

Why is it important?

Single use plastic, like bags, cups, and bottles is proved dangerous to our health, land, water, and wildlife.

The resulting microplastics are in our bloodstreams, brains, and placentas for thousands of years.

The next step, we the people need to pressure our reps in the Michigan legislature, like Helena Scott, to repeal the state law PA 389 that is still restricting cities from passing these local regulations.

Also, producing plastic is rising because plastic comes from petroleum.

Fossil fuel companies are increasing production to make up for more entities that switch to alternative power sources like wind, solar, and geothermal.

Last, I want to comment.

Why has Israel not released the dead bodies, including children of its hostages, prisoners not even charged with any crime?

Thank you so much.

The next caller is phone number ending in 169.

Good morning.

Caller 169, good morning.

Caller 169, good morning.

Okay.

Ari, let's come back to this caller, please.

Okay.

Uh the next caller is Frank Hammer.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning, uh City Council President of Sheffield and the City Council.

Um there's been quite a bit of rancor on this public comment today.

I want to say that at the same moment, there are four or five cities that have been invaded and occupied by the federal government under the Trump administration, including LA, Portland, Memphis, Washington, DC, and Chicago against the will of the city governments and even the governors.

All done in the name of containing crime, even though data demonstrates that in each of these cities, crime has been reduced.

It's not about crime, it's about intimidation of city residents who have the bad habit of voting democratic in preparation for the midterm elections next November.

We need to express solidarity with Chicago mayor Johnson, where 300 recently were 300 federal agents ascended on an apartment building at 3 a.m.

for military helicopters, fully armed, and broke down the doors of the sleeping residents and handcuffed them and drug them out to U-Haw bands, some butt naked.

Their possessions in their apartments were destroyed.

Take it from me.

This is an example of upcoming fascist rule.

And we have to mobilize and express ourselves dirty with Chicago.

Thank you.

All right, thank you, Mr.

Hammer.

The next caller is Charlie.

Good morning, Charlie.

Good morning, Charlie.

Good morning, Charlie.

Are you there?

Okay, let's come back to this caller, please.

Okay.

Uh the next caller is to hear Ahmed.

Good morning, Miss Ahmed.

Good morning, uh, Council President Sheffield.

Thank you for your leadership and support of the homeowners of Detroit by sponsoring and passing property tax reform ordinance, sponsoring and passing resolutions that accompany the ordinance, and to ensure the Board of Review members pass the state certification.

This is at the core of preserving housing in Detroit.

Thank you for your partially signing the Coalition for Property Tax Justice First Hundred Days Plan.

And we urge you to fully sign something your opponent has not done.

Thank you for your leadership urging Wayne County Treasurer Eric Sabrie to grant foreclosure moratoriums, attending uh community forums and addressing uh residents' concern regarding property tax justice issues.

Mayor Duggan is directly responsible for the illegal over taxation of foreclosures, and he has tried to block every effort you and we have tried it to put forth.

Uh I think uh I didn't realize the tremendous and courageous work you put forth, and I apologize for not recognizing that and giving you due credit.

I'll be the first to congratulate you if you win.

Uh may all ship uh with uh the uh and with the fascist monster in the White House.

You need our support and our unity and not offer that and uh thank you and good luck and uh God has bless you and uh your history making accomplishment.

Thank you so much, Miss Ahmed.

The next caller is phone number ending in 482.

Caller 482, good morning.

Uh uh Detroit City Council.

Uh over the last four days, I had conversations with uh our big cousins, our partners, and I took their advice into consideration when making this public coverage.

Now take the tag up off of Nimi's mother, her mama, uh Kenisha Cole, DPDK 20-11112.

I took the extraordinary measures to demonstrate that Jermaine McLeod did it.

Now, tomorrow is Kenisha's birthday.

Yesterday was Mimi's birthday.

Today is the day in between when we celebrate both birthdays.

Now, Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield.

I think you're aware now that Marvin Walker is our partner, and you know Marvin Walker over eight years or so, he's given to you, support a joke, campaign, and that ring you wear on your finger is here.

Um the condo you stay in is here, but you said what you said about me.

Now I'm gonna say what I'm gonna say about you.

You are liar, and your dad is a liar.

That's where Sheffield III keeping me out of 2500.

Our next caller, please.

The next caller is owner papa.

Good morning.

Owner Papa, good morning.

All right, let's come back to this caller, please.

Okay.

The next caller is phone number ending in 124.

Caller 124.

Good morning.

Good morning.

May I be heard?

Yes, we can hear you.

Good morning.

Okay.

Well, um, here I'm not.

I think you're uh a little misguided about Mary Sheffield.

I dialed in and I had my hand raised for the last two fold committee hearings, but for some reason I wasn't called upon.

Also, please know her chief of staff right in white won't speak with me.

That's called First Amendment retaliation.

Her other staffer Kayla was supposed to look into the Blake tickets that I never received, but I got um uh collection notices from and then she said she would look for proof that I was actually served, and then just didn't do it after, and she I had to send her the law, Detroit law to understand it.

Now, also if Mary Sheffield was really standing up for it, she wouldn't stand for the planning committee or it was internal app to put off uh the inquiry about this BZA fee schedule that just came out of nowhere, or excuse me, the transcript fee, and everybody watch out.

They're trying to pass a massive change to the zoning ordinance.

It would pretty much prevent a lot of people from being able to challenge any of these developments, many of which were secretly planned, like what happened to us, and Mary Sheffield didn't stand up for us.

And the COO of Detroit came from Chase Bank.

So it looks like it's Jamie Dammons overseer.

He's the one pushing for this zoning amendment.

And if any of you counsel, let this go through.

The next caller is Karen Winston.

Good morning, Miss Winston.

Good morning, Miss Winston.

Okay, we can proceed, please.

Okay, the next caller is Toya's iPhone.

All right, good morning.

One more.

Okay, all right, we can proceed again.

Okay.

The next caller would be Cina Brown Anderson.

All right, good morning.

Good morning.

May I be heard?

Yes, you can.

My name is Cranston Anderson, a candidate for city council in District 3.

I urge you all to participate in the D3, all block club connect at 2711 East Otta Drive this Saturday from 2 to 6.

My question is one eight, 1.8 billion dollars were distributed across 49 Michigan cities.

826 million opera funds were sent to Detroit.

There were 127 projects in the pipeline.

How many are completed?

Stagnated or waste.

How much opera funding impacted district three?

And is any of those funds still available?

If there is, when is the deadline to utilize or return back to those, return those funds back to the federal government?

If there is not any opera funding remaining, is there any funds available from District 3's regular budget?

What project beside the Greenway are in the pipeline for District 3?

The people of District 3 want to know how many projects are completed in District 3 using Opera funding.

What was the cost of those projects and how many more are in the pipeline?

How much of District 3's budget remains and how is it being used?

Will those be used within the next 21 days before the election?

And will the community be afforded the opportunity to participate in how those funds will be spent.

As a candidate, I'm really interested in knowing what resources will be available to new city county members so we can really help our own residents with real neighborhood revitalization.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The next caller is Galaxy S22 Ultra.

Good morning.

Can you hear me?

Yes, we can.

Well, y'all been catching hell down there today, and folks been going at it.

But you know, that's the job you signed up for.

I'm not going to uh uh attack you guys because you have the uh some things in the city of Detroit, but as I always say, we need more.

We need our resource back.

DTE, we need the lighting company back, we need our water back, which I know we will we won't get back.

Uh Sheffield, when you get in office, please do not follow Delgan Steps because you know he screwed us.

He overtaxed us, we still haven't got our tax dollar back.

We we we prefer you to be your own person.

I know sometimes you have to be in, but don't bend all the way over.

We know the opera fund that he screwed us out of in uh in the city, it should have came to the neighborhood.

He gave it gave our tax dollars to Dan Gilbert and them, but we can't even get grants uh a loan that we used to have that we'd have to pay back.

Now they put grant loan for seniors uh uh um with no interest rate.

Well, if seniors don't have income, how'd they go pay that back?

So we there's a whole lot needy done, and like I said, I'm not going to banish uh uh the city council because I know you uh some of the things you guys did, but you have to do more for the people, black folks, especially.

We study our history, we see how much hell we get caught in history.

We shouldn't thank you so much, sir.

The next caller is Samsung SMA 166U.

All right, good morning.

Samsung, good morning.

All right, Samsung, good morning.

All right, are we let this continue?

Okay.

Uh the next caller on the list is Cindy Dara.

Good morning, Cindy Dara.

Um, yes, I I just want to let people know that they can write my name in for Detroit City Clerk or uh current clerk is on a post.

And I stand if you vote for me, your vote approval voting.

We want approval voting where you can vote for as many as you want.

When you've got 11 people running for president, I wanted four of them.

I didn't get anybody because I could only vote for one and it split the vote between 11 people.

If you go to electionscience.org, electionscience.org, or just a uh Google approval voting, but make sure you get to that website.

That you can see how approved voting is much better than ranked choice that gets promoted every day.

And I don't get along with those people because they even refuse to even look at approval voting, which is a better system.

It solves the problems.

And I want everybody to please look at that.

We need to get it statewide, we need it all over the world.

And right now we've got a uniformity law in Michigan that uh makes us all do the same thing, and also they changed the digital instead of optical scan.

I just learned this the other day.

Death's dangerous.

We should they're our best machines for analog connect the arrow.

Oh, you couldn't fix the machine, and now they're going to digital instead of optical scan.

Thank you so much, Ms.

Dara.

The next caller is Darren McCluskey.

Good morning.

Good morning, counsel.

I'd like to address three things today.

Um, the first is I brought this up a few times, but it's very prevalent today.

Um, when you're calling in remote and you're just called upon, people often call in remotely because they're busy doing other things.

So just like in person, you guys cue the next person.

It would be very helpful to announce who is coming up next.

And maybe that would prevent the seven or so people that um were not able to speak and have to be moved to the end.

Okay, secondly, um the tax auction's in full swing.

The second round is about to happen.

The first round um had few fewer properties than normal, but I'd like to bring attention to how the city of Detroit is circumventing a Supreme Court ruling.

Um the excess equity generated at a tax auction is supposed to be allowed to be claimed by the property owner that was foreclosed.

The city of Detroit routinely makes very large blight bundles and also uses a right of first refusal that does not allow the property to individually be auctioned off.

That is dipping right into the pocket, pulling money out of the pocket of someone who can afford it the least.

Um they have many ways of fighting blight.

They can nuisance a bait and steal someone's property that way.

They should not be stealing the equity of people by um coming up with a slick way of just putting it in a blight bundle.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

The next caller is calling user two.

Good morning.

Call in user two.

Good morning.

Can I be heard?

Yes, you can.

Good afternoon, madam mayor.

I won't call you president.

You are officially our mayor.

Congratulations.

I sent pictures over that it has been an accident that happened to the bus shelter on Linwood and West Grand.

It needs to be replaced completely.

Glasses all over.

It has caution tape that needs to be addressed.

The fields grass need to be cut once again.

It's not getting done.

And I also seen something yesterday, Madam President, that disturbed me that at this now uh gas station.

You have a gentleman running up on African American men with um like a miniature bat uh running them away from the property.

Um, and I have it on film.

I think that's inappropriate.

You need to get a dress.

In closing, I'd like for you to also answer why haven't you gotten an answer to my question when it comes to laying down hazardous chemicals in residents, whether or not you have to be state certified or state licensed.

Your staff has made no effort to get back with me.

And I've been asking uh all council members to respond.

So I'm not just depending on your office.

Okay, thank you, Ms.

Shay.

The next caller is Kevin Westbrook.

Good morning.

Hi, hello.

Uh, thank you, Council President, for all the great work you're doing.

Thank you to the team of the council president.

You you your reaction time to the citizens is instantaneous.

Today, Detroit, I want to say we must stop.

Let's look at our veterans.

Um, I know you uh you love your service.

I know you love your service to our country and you love your military.

Our veterans are being treated bad.

And it's not by the council.

We should learn from this.

These facilities that's getting these grants that's supposed to be helping our veterans in our city are doing more good than bad.

They let our veterans come in there, they just give them some food in a bed and tell them to help themselves out there.

The veterans coming there still strung out on drugs, haven't woken up.

That's okay because they're getting their grant money.

They're gonna have their chick and they're gonna be like, This veteran is too high.

We don't got to worry about that in no place.

No, let's stop letting these people get all this money that's supposed to do this work.

Let's take care of once we take care of our veterans, we can see a brighter, prettier picture helping our future mayor, Ms.

Sheffield, take care of our city, and everyone's included.

But Lord have mercy.

Let's really look around at what's being done to our veterans.

It's not our city that's doing this, it's these people that's coming here, these big companies, like volunteers of America.

I'm gonna call you out over there on Milwaukee.

You got everybody walking around there looking like a hazard.

Let's start cleaning up right now and let's clean up with our veterans.

We can't turn our back on them either.

Let's get them off them drugs, get them through that transition because they they thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The next caller is Jai Singletary.

Hello, can you hear me?

Yeah, good morning.

Hi, Madam President and City Council.

My name is Jai Singletary.

I'm a district six resident, and I have time today.

I'd like to address two matters that I've heard through counsel um or from public comment.

The first regards voting from the Wayne County jail.

Um, I'd like to state for those that need the education that there's been many.

This claim has been going on week after week that I've heard.

And I'd like to cite MCL 168 7.758B, Section 758B.

And this states the following A person who is in court, uh, in a court of this or any other state or any federal court has been legally convicted and sentenced for a crime for which the penalty imposed is confinement and jail or prison shall not vote, offer to vote, attempt to vote, or permitted to vote at an election while confined.

Now, while residents have been asking about a specific law that prohibits those that vote, and it's in the interpretation of the law, those who are awaiting arraignment, trial, or sentence sentencing, which by the way, that's 60 seconds-six me, percent of those in the Wayne County jail, according to the Detroit Justice Center, have the right to vote.

They have the right to vote.

Those that would like to challenge that claim, please call me.

2021 eight zero four one nine.

And to those who well, I'll stop there.

Thank you, madam president.

Thank you, City Council.

Have a great rest of your day.

All right.

Thank you, guys.

Shout out once again.

You don't even have to be in the building to make a difference in the impact.

So we appreciate you.

I love you, my brother.

Thank you so much for reaching back up.

Thank you so much, Jai.

We appreciate you for that.

All right, our next caller, please.

Uh next caller is Miko A.

Williams.

All right, Nico Williams, good morning.

Good morning, madam president.

Uh, Damico Williams, taxpayer, private citizen, district five resident, constituent, and also uh the chief director of High Trade Detroit.

Uh, I do want to shout out Mr.

Lane Coleman uh for receiving his award today.

He has done a lot for the uh city of Detroit under the Board of Water Commissioners.

And I want to thank you, madam president, for your diligent advocacy, your legislative ability to campaign for that budget that was passed by the state.

We got $9 million for the water lifeline plan.

It is so important, and I thank you very much uh for your leadership uh in advocating for Detroit residents.

Uh, I also want to say uh in District 5, uh listening under the sound of my voice, Joanne Tyson and others, please do not vote for Renata Miller in District 5 running for the city council seat.

Uh she came to the Detroit People's Platform uh conversation 30 minutes late.

She was angry, abrasive, aggressive.

And also, this is the type of treatment that we'll be treated to if she gets elected.

Willie Burton was on time.

Willie Burton made the uh answers, and Willie Burton is standing up for democracy, and he's also trying to stand against big money, guard corporate interest and sprawl around district five.

It is getting very terrible.

Uh, I will say that that lady Bernada Miller is not, she has not voted in any election.

We don't even know if she's a Trumper, but I will say please vote for Willie Burton on December on November 4th.

Thank you.

All right, thank you, Mika.

We are back to the uh beginning of the queue with uh phone number 169.

Hello, can you guys hear me?

Yes, we can hear you.

Okay, great.

Um, I just want to say um prayer.

Does prayer still work?

Thank you for praying for Brother Cunningham.

I want to bring to your attention a quote by Hippocrates.

It says to make a habit of two things to help or at least to do no harm.

Church empowers that be.

Do not reharm, do not reharm, do not reharm.

Let's harm.

Please, in God's name, let your revenge happen naturally, not force, use your unity for bigger causes, not to hold Cunningham down.

Thank you, guys.

Thank you, guys, thank you, guys.

Janice Winfrey and Mr.

Kramer, and I cannot forget Mike Duggan, bus fare is free.

Free rides on election day.

That's awesome.

D dot is moving in the right.

Um, and D dot is on the right track and moving in the right direction.

Thank you for my time.

The next caller is Charlie.

Hello.

Yes, good morning.

Okay.

I'm calling in today about uh the right-hand vote for Charles Miles for City uh Commission District 2.

Uh and also I was calling in about the water drainage fees.

I'm trying to get some answers about these water drainage fees for uh land that has no water meter.

Is there any way we can get some resolve on how are you all able to charge people?

Oh, rain water that rain on the grass without a meter, and also I've been coming down there so many years about my property taxes, and nobody can do nothing about it, even when I paid the bill, and then this foreign guy just came in today, and everybody got some resources for him because he bought a million dollar house or whatever, or 45,000 taxes or whatever, and you got answers for him so quick, this foreign guy, and this is what y'all practice taking care of white folks and foreign people and not taking care of the people that have been living here, born and raised.

So I don't understand how is that that was a slap in the face for you to get resources for him, and I'm sure you're working diligently for him right now, but he can't get no resolve.

Thank you, Mr.

Meyer.

The next caller is owner Papa.

All right, good morning, owner Papa.

Good morning.

All right, going once twice.

All right, and uh owner Papa, please submit your uh public comment to the clerk's office for public record, and our next caller, please.

The next caller is Karen Winston.

Miss Winston, good morning.

Good morning, Miss Winston.

Hear me?

Yes, we can do it.

Can you hear me now?

Okay, great.

Yeah, um, yeah, thank you for the 90 seconds.

Um yeah, the city of Detroit retirees.

I I know you guys uh came up with a fast track resolution um to put us in line for something that we won't qualify for, but we don't want that.

But we want we want our money back.

We would like to be made whole.

We would like the uh cost of living restored because the cost of living has not ceased, but our adjustment has ceased.

So we'd like to see that restored.

Well, you know, like the saying says it goes first.

They came for me, and then you did nothing, and next they'll come for you, and then we'll see who'll do what when that uh when that time comes.

Um winter is coming.

Uh we got a beautiful day today, but winter is imminent, it's coming.

Um, so this time next month we may have you know three, four inches of snow on the ground, and these homeless single mothers and children.

We need to try to make an effort to get these um these people housed.

Uh perhaps we could stop tearing down so many properties and start spending that money on rehabilitation of these properties, and I'm sure that in the long run, that'll be much better.

And we we'll start to put a dent in this homeless issue.

Personally, I don't have a homeless uh housing issue, but that doesn't mean I can't be concerned about the children and about the other one, uh, people who are not so fortunate.

So, yeah, take a look and let's do something for the Detroit retirees.

Thank you.

The next caller is Samsung SMA 166U.

Okay, this is the second time I'm hitting on mute.

Can you hear me?

Can I be heard?

Yes, we can hear you.

Okay, thank you.

This is the second time.

The first time I had unmuted, but anyway, good morning to all city council president, Sheffield, and Mayor Councilwoman at Large Mary Waters, Carmen Young, and everybody else except the person that wants to talk about uh oh by fact, matter of fact, Scott Benson, you got that big old sign over there.

What about better made potato chips?

How much you pay for that sign?

If anybody will go around in district three, district three, and look at our area for 12 years that you've been on city council, drive through district three and tell me if you are with vote for Scottison.

First of all, Castina Anderson is running for City Council.

And I have when I first met her, I left right on to her.

So anyway, district three, her name is C R A N S T A N A.

Anderson, Crassina, born and raised here, Crass Anderson, vote for Creston.

We need a change.

And Scott, you can get an attitude all you want.

But let me tell you something.

Everybody, all y'all city council, not through district three.

From woodwick to uh Cali to Charl to um eight mile to I can't think of the other name of Street, but check out our district guard and tell me that he's done something over here.

You tell me.

Thank you.

The last caller who raised their hand before public comment was cut off is Toya's iPhone.

Toya's iPhone, good morning.

Toya's iPhone, good morning.

All right, Toya's iPhone going once.

Twice in Toya's iPhone.

Please submit your public comment to the clerk's office for public uh record.

And that will conclude all of our public comment for this morning.

We will proceed to our agenda.

Understanding committee reports for the budget finance and audit standing committee from the Office of Contracting and Procurement.

Council Member Durhall, a resolution line item 17.1 contract number 600 3071-A1.

100% city funding amendment one to provide an extension of time and an increase of funds for facility management services for the Detroit Public Safety Headquarters.

Contractor Jones Lane LaSalle America's Incorporated Total Contract Amount.

And that's for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer.

Councilmember Durhal, a resolution.

Councilmember Durha.

Thank you, Madam President.

Move for approval for line item 17.1.

All right.

Any objections?

Hearing no objections, the one resolution will be approved.

Of course, the waiver for line item 17.1, madam president.

Hearing no objection, a waiver will be attached to that item.

From the office of the city clerk, city planning commission.

Councilmember Durha, a resolution, line item 17.2.

Councilmember Durhal.

Thank you, Madam President.

Line item 17.2 is a resolution of authorization for a neighborhood enterprise zone certificate application for the rehabilitation of a house at 264 Watson and the crosswinds.

We'll replace neighborhood enterprise zone area.

This has been recommended for approval by the CPC as well as committee.

Move for approval for line item 17.2.

All right.

And hearing no objections, the one resolution will be approved.

Request a waiver for line item 17.2, madam president.

Hearing no objections, a waiver will be attached to 17.2.

From the mayor's office from the internal operations standing committee.

Councilmember Johnson, two resolutions, line items 18.1 and 18.2.

Councilmember Johnson.

Thank you, Madam President.

Move for approval.

These are appointments to the elected officials compensation commission for Erica Hill and Nicholas Waller.

All righty.

Question.

Member Benson.

Thank you.

Um, through yourself, either to the chair or to the administration.

Do we know when that body will be seated and begin its work?

Or the management committee.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Um pending the approval of these two appointees.

I believe deputy mayor is working to have a meeting schedule immediately.

Immediately, and to have them sworn in as soon as possible.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

Hearing no further questions and hearing no objections, the two resolutions for the appointments to the officials compensation commission will be approved.

Madam President, I'd like to request a waiver for both line items.

In hearing no objections, a waiver will be attached to both items from the law department.

Councilmember Johnson, five resolutions, line items 18.3 through 18.7.

Councilmember Johnson.

Thank you, Madam President.

Move for approval.

18.6 are settlement requests and a request for legal representation and indemnification.

All right.

Hearing no objections, the resolutions, the four, did you move all five?

The four resolutions will be approved.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Madam President.

Move for approval on line item 18.7.

This is to reappoint Eric DeWicke to the Brownfield Redevelopment Authority Board of Directors.

All right.

And hearing no objections to that item, the resolution for the appointment will be approved.

Madam President, I'd like to request a waiver on line item 18.7.

In hearing no objections, a waiver will be attached to 18.7.

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

Council President Pro Tim James, two resolutions, noting that line item 19.1 was postponed from last week's formal session.

Contract number 6007459, 100% CDBG-DR funding to oversee the rehabilitation and or construction of public housing units.

Contract the Detroit Housing Commission total contract amount 31 million.

That's for housing and revitalization.

Contract number 6007355.

100% city funding to provide coordinated entry services for the City of Detroit Homeless Management Information System, which is HMIS, Contractor Michigan, Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency total contract amount, 750,000.

That's for housing and revitalization.

Council President Pro Tim to resolutions.

Thank you, President Pro Tim T.

Mm-President, I move approval of line items 19.1 and 1922, please.

All right, discussion.

Discussion.

All right.

We will open them up for a discussion starting with Member Callway.

Thank you so much, Madam Chair.

Do we have a list of the um we're talking about 31 million dollars, which is wonderful to oversee the rehabilitation and construction of public housing units.

Do we have a list of the locations or which um housing um developments is going to be rehabbed?

Where is the 31 million dollars gonna go?

Thank you, Member Callanway.

Thank you, ma'am.

Mr.

Washington, do we have someone on for this item?

Yes, madam chair, we do have on Nicole Wise Penny Des Moines and Arthur Jameson is on his way upstairs to the auditorium now.

And madam chair, while he's coming, I'm hoping that this is being spread equably and fairly across the city and not in just um a couple of um uh select areas because we have a lot of vacant apartment buildings and structures in district two um on both sides of Woodward Um that need rehabilitation.

And I've been asking um since I've been on this council for folks to take the look at it.

So I'm hoping some of those um locations are included in this 31 million dollar bucket.

All right, Miss Nicole Wise.

Thank you, Madam Chair Nicole Wise with HRD.

All right, if you can put provide an overview, please on the contract before us regarding the housing commission and the 31 million dollar investment or contract for us.

Yes.

Yes, thank you, madam chair, and I'll do my best.

Uh, I know that we uh have director Jemison who is on his way up to give a little bit more detail, but overall, um, currently the 31 million dollar sub-recipient agreement uh would allow us to um it's basically structured in a way that the uh the housing and revitalization department would be able to approve uh review the underwriting for each individual project before uh issuing a purchase order that includes our environmental review that we would need to do, um, CDBGDR regulations.

Um, there are a lot of steps in our development deals that we uh as a department would review prior to issuing any purchase orders to the DHC for projects that they've identified for this funding.

All right, thank you.

We also have Director Jimmonson that is here.

So if you want to provide any additional information for us, uh absolutely um these 33 million dollars are central to our ability to redevelop several um public housing developments and begin the planning and development process for several more, uh specifically the park side, Sheridan, Brewster, Diggs, and Forest Park development will probably receive capital from this uh in the direct redevelopment of those projects.

We're expecting Sojourner Truth, Smith Holmes, and a number of other projects to get planning resources to help redevelop these projects.

This is a, as you heard from the colleagues here at the city, this is a time consuming process of underwriting, going through different kinds of reviews in order to spend these dollars, but they're absolutely essential.

We are hoping to make a designation, for example, to redevelop the Sheridan project in November.

And the dollars that may are made available through this process are going to be essential to completing that project.

So we uh we need this uh approval today.

Uh we hope that your uh this council sees fit to do that.

Uh recognizing that there are a number of other steps where public comment and input are going to be crucial uh and that we welcome.

Did you have more anything additional, Member Calloway?

I I do thank you so much.

Um for um can we have a list uh uh a physical list of um heard you say them, but can we see a list?

I'd like to see a list today.

I can have a list of the projects that um where this 31 million dollars will be focused on.

And then also um I had talked to you um when you first returned to Detroit about a property over there, Tyler, um a 24 unit property, a 2900 Tyler, um, and you said it couldn't be done.

It was cost prohibitive, those were your words, and I'm just wondering um 31 million dollars and that 2400 unit, which I understand now um a young lady um is going to um be developing it, but in that area um we have a lot of beautiful structures that need redevelopment, and you know the areas is just beautiful over there.

Um, and then also we have 14 empty buildings in Palmer Park.

Um, some of these are just beautiful structures and just falling in such deep disrepair, and then they're gonna get to the point where they're gonna have to be demolished.

Um, and so I'm hoping that um um some of those dollars or if not from this pool of money, this bucket of money of 31 million dollars could be redirected or focused on the areas that really, really need um some attention.

A lot of people don't know that, but that Palmer Park area has um 14 that I've identified that are in poor condition.

And then that one structure that we talked about, 2900 Tyler.

So um if you could speak to to the Palmer Park situation and that 2900 um Tyler.

Um thank you very much through the chair uh to Councilmember Callaway.

So um I did provide a list as was requested at the planning and economic development committee.

Uh I believe it was emailed to uh to everyone.

Uh I'm happy to resend it, included every uh one of the properties that we believe will be affected by these dollars.

Uh, thank you for bringing up 2900 Tyler.

Um, we know it well.

Uh, as I mentioned in our meeting, uh, we decided to partner with the uh housing and revitalization department to issue an RFP.

Um we uh pledged uh to participate in a couple of different ways and helping enhance the financing of that project.

Um you're right.

Uh we were thrilled to uh have a selection of a capable developer, we think, and I believe HRD is in a discussion with the developer on the final terms.

We're really pleased that that's turned out the way uh that it has.

And I think we are uh we are excited about the potential to do more um rehabilitations of existing properties.

Our challenge right now is that uh I've got uh 3,000 or more households in public housing who desperately need their residents today who desperately need their development uh attended to.

So I'm I'm with you in the sense very specifically that we are hoping to um with some of the planning dollars that we've got, we're hoping to make a request for money to attack the exact kind of um smaller properties you're talking about because having those become mixed income developments is really a great way of of helping neighborhoods grow.

So we share that goal.

Okay.

All right, thank you so much.

And what thank you, madam chair, and to yourself, Mr.

Jameson.

What about Palmer Park?

Sure.

So the Palmer Park assets you're talking about are parent houses that we've we've toured several of them and as well as my development director.

Um we there have been opportunities to acquire them and and redevelop them.

Again, I the challenge for me is I've got to prioritize the tenants I have today who need me to me and my development team and operating team to focus on rehabilitating their properties today.

And so, although I'm gonna be requesting um more funds, engaging philanthropy and others to try to help us.

I got to stay focused on the folks I got to comment tonight.

I'm gonna have a community meeting at one of our developments, and those folks have said when it went, give me a date when we're going to start seeing um shovels and and backhoes and and site work, and I've got to stay focused on those folks.

But we have enough people now and enough time to make sure that probably in the next 12 months or so we'll be able to begin attacking rehabilitations.

Okay, if you can send me that list, um, and also through the through the chair to yourself.

Um, there was a property on 2nd Street next to Detroit Unity, and I was at church um last Sunday.

And um, I don't know if it's been firebombed, but it was beautiful a year ago, and now it's just half um burned down.

And it was it was the kind of building that could have been saved and housed people because we don't we have a homeless problem because I don't want to say we want to have it, but we have the housing stock.

We have the buildings to put homeless people in.

We just need more of the desire to do so.

That building was beautiful.

People were living there, and then I don't know what happened to it, but I was over there, you know, and um it looks like it's been firebombed.

So now it's gonna have to be demolished in Palmer Park, you know, second, um, right around um Merton.

Okay.

So um I don't know what's gonna happen to the building now because it's it's if it's about to cave in.

So um hopefully, um, I guess it would be, I don't know who needs to know that, but it's it's just sitting there and looks like it was fire bombed.

And that a year ago when I first drove past it.

Um, I think the land bank was boarding it up.

Okay.

And then I thought something was going to happen.

I was hopeful.

Well, hopefully the land bank is listening because I saw their really classy, glossy commercial during the Lions game, and they said they're uh going around the city um rebuilding and rehabbing buildings.

So when I saw that um commercial, they got money.

So I hope you're listening, Miss Daniels, you and your team, because we got a lot of buildings in the city that um need some of your Detroit land bank money.

But Mr.

Jimison, hopefully we I'll get that list today, and hopefully something is going to happen on the west side of Detroit.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you.

Um Rick Cadmondson, just really quick, how roughly how many um public housing units do we have in each rate?

Roughly how many families um are in public housing in Detroit.

In um public housing, so the buildings that we own and operate approximately 3,500 is it would be a rough guess.

Um that's that's a total number of units we probably have or we're uh at a high 80s in occupancy.

So, you know, probably 300, 3,200, 3,300.

Okay.

Um, and um, I do agree.

I think that um all of the public housing buildings that I've been to need desperate repairs and investments, so it's good to see that we're putting money into uh redeveloping these sites.

I think oftentimes when we talk about housing in Detroit, those who live in public housing are left out because we're focusing on building new residential, you know, projects, housing in our neighborhoods.

But those who are in public housing are going through a lot uh as well too, primarily around issues with management, um, their overall resident experience or you know, living in these buildings.

So I just wanted to know overall, what is the housing commission doing aside from these this investment, which I think is a great start.

Um, what are you doing to better improve the residents' experiences within uh public housing in Detroit?

And a lot of it again is centered around safety, cleanliness, um, lack of enforcement and compliance um in issues with uh the management of these particular buildings as well.

So through the chair, thank you for the question.

So um, since I've been there, I was able to join a team that really gotten very focused on the resident experience and exactly the words you've said.

Can you speak up just a little bit?

Sure, I'm sorry.

So when I joined about a year ago, I was really pleased to join my uh chief operating officer Irene, who'd already been implementing a number of changes.

Uh, the primary issues that uh that concerned HUD and concerned tenants we talked to and in our groups were uh the things you're mentioning, management, uh occupancy, um, and and getting uh getting work orders turned uh around quickly.

So we've been able to increase our performance in all those metrics over the last year, and that's really been the focus of my and credit goes to my uh chief operator operating officer Irene Tucker for doing that.

Uh our occupancy is up almost um 13 points.

Uh we've had uh very significant increases in the uh how rapidly we can move um move work orders.

Uh and part of that's come from our partnership.

We uh developed with uh we issued a bid uh and got third party management to help and support and work in partnership with our management to more rapidly uh do uh unit turnaround, more rapidly do um work orders.

And so that that's really been the focus of the last year.

I think what we're trying to do is lock in some of those changes.

Uh we have a ways to go.

I don't want there to be any misunderstanding uh that we're satisfied uh we're happy yet, but we're trying to lock in the change and the process we've had and then make capital improvements to the assets uh more rapidly.

Uh and this resource is part of it.

I think people on this uh honorable body are very aware that you know this was not a place where ARPA funds were spent.

It's not a place where other uh capital streams that have come through the city have have been allocated.

And so we're really prioritizing uh looking to this asset, uh, this resource as a way to make those major investments.

I hope that answered your question, but that's the crucial focus right now is locking in the things that have gotten better, trying to take another step in that, and then also coupling that with significant rehabilitation.

Okay.

Well, thank you.

Um glad to hear that there's some changes happening and looking forward to our sit down to talk a little bit more about the way that we can improve uh their their experience, um, their living experience in public housing.

I think there's a lot of improvements that can be made in that regard.

So looking forward to those conversations.

Uh yes, council member waters.

Um thank you, Madam President.

So um just a um a couple of quick questions.

One is that if if you were able to acquire the dollars to say rehab those apartment buildings in Palmer Park and 2900 Tyler, I think we had a press conference on 2900 Tyler.

Uh, if you as soon as we we got here, that should have been done a long time ago.

So, but what would it take to um turn those into public housing?

I I don't know if they're private at this time.

Uh was that public housing before?

I don't know.

So the chair to council member waters was 2900 Tyler public housing before.

Is that the question?

Pardon me?

I'm sorry, were you asking if 2010?

Yeah, yeah, what was it?

No, it was a uh um about two to three years ago.

Yeah, uh my predecessor had a plan to start taking on some of these small properties, um, undertaking the redevelopment on our part, and then using um rental assistance resources to to make them deeply uh subsidized affordable housing.

Um what I'm sorry, I don't want to take too long, but that's a short answer.

Yeah, yeah.

No, no, I was just thinking I 2900 titles should have been renovated a long time ago.

I mean, if if I'm correct, we stood out in front of that building when I first got to council.

And it still has not been uh been rehabbed.

So I I want to I wanted to point that out.

And it's probably not your doing because I I don't know uh if you know who owned that that building previously who even owns it now.

So but I don't I do what I do know is that we do need more public housing, and that's a fact.

So I also wanted to thank you for um making Sheridan one and two part of your priorities.

Uh there's been a lot going on at Sharing One and Two.

Um I I also want Narcan uh machines in front of each building.

We have we have a drug issue there.

And and and the management has been resistant to allowing our health department to come in to come there and place those Narcan machines outside of each building, Sheridan One and Two.

I mean, they though those stories that many of those residents share with us are horrifying.

And the way that people sometimes die in those buildings, uh they don't discover it for 14 days or something like that.

So and so renovating Sheridan 1 and 2 certainly will help to improve their quality of life, but we also uh want you to use your leverage and insist that they allow those Narcan machines so people don't drive.

I mean, you know, so that there's some protection there uh if there's a drug overdose through the chair to council member waters.

So um we're very aware of the uh of the possibility of having those machines.

Speaking a little bit on behalf of of our agency in this regard, um we when we first had the opportunity to install them, you know, we had not had the kind of community meetings we needed to have with residents about some of the things that have been happening.

Um so what we did was we had a series of meetings together with uh police command uh out at the site um that took place over a few months where we were able to talk to tenants about what they'd seen, um, begin to do some of the kind of police work we needed to do uh in the building and with the residents of the building.

So I think we're in a much better place than we were when we originally asked.

So I think uh I would like to catch up with my team, but I think that we can give you a firm date for when we can do that very soon.

We are we agree that it's important.

I think there's a uh uh a population there that needs to see it happen, but we also wanted to make sure they'd also see us seen us do some of the other things, partnering better with DPD and the other things they need to see us do in the building.

Okay, then just I'll say one final thing.

Um I did also we did it when we went over there a couple months ago or so, we did a major write-up in terms of some of the things that were going on, five in the buildings, uh, according to one resident, been five murders in the buildings.

I, you know, so uh I ask that our police department would go there, unmarked cars, unmarked clothing, uh on a nouse, and just walk through the buildings uh any time of the day or night just to see to make sure that there are that there aren't any crimes being committed in those buildings.

That was a plea from um some of the residents because of what's been happening.

So I wanted to share that.

I haven't heard back from our police department whether or not they're doing that.

Um, but I would imagine if they were that they would check in with you as well.

Through the chair, Councilman Waters, we're very focused on uh the partnership with police at that building in particular.

Um, and we've been trying to increase it.

We've also at this that development and others uh done some paid police uh pardon me, paid security details to enhance security at a number of these properties.

Umjo is an example of a place that we've been focused on.

So listen, this is something that's really important to us.

Um, and we're gonna try to bring it.

I would also say Chief Bettison has personally been uh in close contact with me about the work we're doing at Sheridan and other developments.

So we're hoping to bring some of the innovation they brought to other parts of the uh city to uh our developments.

We've already seen some of the results of that uh at places like Sojo.

Um we're not satisfied, obviously, but we're we're pleased with some of the the direction of what's happening.

But the key thing is our relationship with DPD is is crucial, and we're we're trying to make it even stronger and make the our developments even safer.

Well, thank you.

And we look forward to working with you a lot more because we're in and out of the buildings a great deal, uh trying to help resolve those issues, whether Sheridan wanted to 8330 on the river, a number of of our of our public housing.

And so we look forward to working with you a lot more, okay?

All right, thank you.

Thank you, Madam President.

Thank you, Member Benson.

All right, thank you.

Uh Mr.

Jameson, thank you for being here today.

And looking at the memo you submitted to my colleagues, just a couple of questions.

Number one, we're looking about 31, about we're looking at 31 million dollars um to be spread out, both capital and in pre-development dollars here.

Do you have a number or a percentage you'd like to see uh allocated towards the capital side uh and then towards the pre-development side?

And obviously, if you're indicating eight million dollars, which is 25% of the total amount to be spent on park side as planned.

What are the plans just percentage-wise for capital versus pre-development?

Sure.

So I think the majority of this money is going to be spent on capital.

My estimate would probably be about, sorry, I'm expecting the majority of these funds to be spent on capital.

My guess would be approximately 28 uh to 29 million will be spent on capital.

Um, so the remainder will be spent on uh planning um and design work to help uh us advance projects that are a little further back in the pipeline.

Um by way of example, um the key thing is our ability to spend money on park side using this resource allows us to free up other kinds of money that we can spend and make the Sheridan transaction happen.

That's gonna be a very uh high cost uh activity, but um by having this money come in allows us to spend other money we have on executing Sheridan redevelopment.

Okay, so it sounds like 90% or more is what you plan to spend on the capital side.

And you indicated to the president that there are about uh 3,000 um residents.

How many units do you plan would be impacted in total with the 31 million dollars if you're able to spend it all.

I'm not worried about pardon me through the chair.

We're gonna spend the money.

Okay.

Um again, this is an area where we've got built up uh and backed up uh needs going way back.

So the short answer is I'm sorry, I want to make sure I understood the question.

Umits how many units?

I I think that just about every development is going to be touched by this, either through planning or through capital investment.

How many units is that's about 3,300 units.

So it's 3,300 units, not residents.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Pardon me.

If you assumed that uh each unit has uh an average of um two people, you're talking about six thousand six thousand five hundred Detroiters.

Okay, so but but three thousand units.

Yes, correct.

Okay.

And then it the memo alludes to there may be a challenge based on the need for underwriting.

You anticipate there being a challenge of being able to spend any of these dollars.

It just says we need to make sure based on underwriting that we comply.

And so to me, that reads as there could be a challenge ensuring that you have the legal authority to spend these dollars.

You're you're saying very confident that's not the case.

Maybe this is just being having a disclaimer saying, hey, just in case there could be a challenge, but you have a level of confidence where you don't think that will be the case.

Through the chair to council member Benson, no.

The only challenge, honestly, is we've got uh is it takes time to do this, right?

So by way of example, uh, each transaction, uh, let's say we're talking about Sheridan.

Um, I have to have whole whole process of underwriting, credit memos, approvals from HRD that we're working closely with on this.

There's all kinds of layers of approvals.

And so one of the things that happens, and I know members of the council of this honorable body, I should say um hold us accountable for this.

But it's like, you know, why won't this happen faster?

And some of the things that we have steps we have to take, and again, public comment that we have to respond to are things that make it take longer, but they're also reasons why when it happens, uh, why it can be great.

So um the only challenge I perceive is uh just the methodical methods of doing the comment periods, doing the underwriting, um, getting all the approvals.

If there is one point I I would like to make, is I think I'm hoping uh this is some of the first DR money that we are able to spend uh because getting that money under contract is a crucial signal to um the administration um that we're gonna spend this money and spend it wisely and spend it on time.

I mean, when you say administration, you mean the federal I'm just the current federal administration.

Uh we need to get these these funds uh drawn and spent um so they understand uh how serious we are here about this work.

Fantastic.

And then I just want to go back to my concern about the ability to spend, speaks to the logistics of spending money, not to the need or your desire to do that.

But there is an issue with logistics and spending 31 million dollars on public housing on federal dollars.

There, there's a level of logistics, and there are additional protections that go along with that.

That can complicate the process, which is why that I have a concern about our ability to get that money invested the way that you want it to be invested in the way that our residents need.

So I've got every confidence in you, Mr.

Jameson, that you're gonna get that done, but I still do have a level of concern about our ability here in the city of Detroit to get that done in a timely fashion.

Five years seems like a law of time, but in our reality, it is.

It's not very much time when it comes to development and how much work you need to do.

Thank you.

Thank you, Member Benson.

Councilmember Young, followed by Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Uh sir, always good to see pleasure.

I just wanted to talk to you really quickly.

From my understanding, there was a there was a report that's a big outliner Detroit that talked about that 22, only 22% of the properties were habitable.

I just wanted to say, is that true?

If if not, what we because there might be some improvements since then, what are the number of the habitable housing that you have currently?

And then secondly, how would this or would this at all improve on that and making more housing available or making the housing existing housing habitable?

Through the chair to council member Young.

Um, so our current occupancy rate is about 87%.

Um, so I think rough estimate of like habitability, so to speak.

Um, the units that are not included in that occupancy are units that are out for rehabilitation.

So um most of those units are going to be uh improved by capital, but uh, but I would say even a habitable unit, uh, like let's say we're talking about a unit at Sheridan.

Um, when we reoccupy it, just doing our regular annual unit turn, unit becomes vacant, we ask a new family or household to go in there.

Um we're going to we're the short answer is we're absolutely going to increase the habitability ratio uh of our properties.

But right now we're already 87, and we think if we get the other we use these resources, we should be able to get a well over 90 uh into the range that most housing authorities are located.

And it was my other thing.

I just wanted to make sure I got I want to talk about this too, kind of piggybacking off what uh member waters was talking about a little bit earlier, but she was referring to uh safety.

And certainly I just want to know are you partnering up at all with DPD?

I know they have two programs, a micro policing program, but they also have a program called the Server Protect program, or basically have police officers that are actually walking the beats in these certain areas.

I'm sure they probably could send a patrol car if it's some of these senior citizen buildings of these public buildings, because we've had conversations about people when I'm doing my going to seriously build by people who are you know dealing drugs and other such illegal activities that are going on in these in these buildings.

Is there a partnership that goes on with that?

Because I know right now that's prime from what I've seen is primarily done through uh private security.

And so I just wonder is there a partnership with DPD as well for that?

So I would I would characterize our relationship with DPD as a partnership.

Um we had uh a sort of concerted effort this summer uh at Sheridan at Sojo and a few other developments to get uh additional special attentions, additional um walkthroughs, additional patrols development.

Sheridan's different because it's it's a you know vertical and has innovators.

So we we again worked with the command over there to create a particular uh approach to um uh to walking through the building, um, making sure that people understand that DPD is present there, and uh I think we had some success.

Um we didn't have obviously as much success as I want, but we had enough to build on, and I think uh Chief Bettison's been a great partner there.

Um so I guess the the short answer would be um we we also by the way spent a lot of time this summer exploring whether we could do paid police details.

Um what ended up coming out of that was uh the chief coming forward with more things he could do.

Uh but we did instead spend money on more private security uh again at Sojo and some of the other developments where we thought we needed it most, but we invested in and focused on specific um summer weekends and summer extended weekends, where we could get more private security out there.

Again, we're we're focused on this issue.

Um again, it's part of the resident experiences was mentioned earlier.

Um we've got to get our these have to be the safest places in the city.

Um and we we have the capacity to do it, and we're gonna keep working with uh get there.

And then I wanted to ask you, will will services be affected at all during the government shutdown?

Um, that's a whole different question.

I'm now regretting that I didn't invite Irene to join me here, um, a partner in crime.

Uh right now, um, we do not see that as a risk.

I would say that if you talk to me at the end of 30 days, we have significant reserves that we hold to make for events like this.

Um, if we begin to be in the beginning of November, I think it's time for us to have another conversation.

Uh, but but for the time being, we're okay.

People who uh we have something on our website right now for people who may be concerned about their voucher or uh or other housing that they that they have that's supported by us, they should not be concerned at this moment.

Again, if we get to probably November, we could expect we need to be prepared.

This is my final question.

I just wanted to ask you primarily about the um are there any federal resources in terms of in terms of policing or things of that nature, or is that something that you're just gonna continue just to do just via private security and contracting?

Um we've spent a lot of time this summer, sorry, through the chair to uh Council Member Young.

Spent a lot of time this summer looking at ways that we might be able to pay for additional police details, and that's what took us to the private security and the and the step forward from the chief to help us because we there aren't a lot of net new federal resources for that, specifically in public housing, but we were trying to flex resources that we had into doing that.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

Thank you, Councilmember Johnson.

Thank you, Madam President, and good afternoon.

Um thank you for sharing the list of rehab and redevelopment um as well as pre-development sites that you're planning to address with these dollars.

Um as you know, last week I did postpone the vote on this because we received a number of different emails relative to specifically parkside um and concerns.

And so I had the ability to have a two-hour meeting uh with some folks, um, friends of Parkside in particular, and um really want to elevate what council president mentioned, which is uh the condition of the properties that residents currently live in and addressing those.

I do know at Parkside, there's probably about 50% of the units that are offline as a result of um the condition of them.

So can you speak to whether or not there are changes with the way DHC is handling property management um and maintenance moving forward, or if there are specific um conversations that you're having relative to park side?

Sure.

So um so Parkside's a very unique situation.

Um it's a situation in which we have a development that um was um launched about 30 years ago under the aegis of the Hope Six program.

Uh and the idea was at that time that the housing commission would be the developer of the the Hope Six project.

Hope six projects are efforts to do big redevelopments of public housing that include market or for sale components and sometimes other uh other aspects.

So um after the community after the housing commission completed their work in the late uh 90s, 1999, 2000, turn the property over to formidable uh property manager.

And so for the the 25 years following uh the property was managed by them.

Um in 2022, um DHC um acquired the interest that Formidable and the other entities had in the property and took over uh the property with the intent of redeveloping it.

Um we uh we then you know did a whole range of things.

One of them was um asking Formidable to leave as property manager hiring a new property manager continental, um, who was whose job it was to help us um get the property to a place where it could pass uh some of the key inspections that it has to pass because before then it had not been able to pass them, and uh we urgently needed it to be able to do that.

Um so once we completed that um hiring the new manager, um making the investments, getting past um uh getting past the inspections approximately the same time.

We had an RFP process.

We selected GENASCO development corporation to be our partner to redevelop uh the property.

So um, so today um we are uh really at the we're hoping to complete the financial closing this year, and uh we're hoping to be able to begin work on the uh a portion of the site that that's vacant, um, which would allow us to develop the apartments and townhomes uh that will let everybody on the site today move to a new unit.

Uh it will also allow people who uh have been maybe people who have a disability or large family size or have been on the site a long time to um not only make a move off out of their unit into a new unit, but also have uh the right to go to a single entry unit that there'll be a townhouse or uh in a group of townhouses um after they make their first move.

So um we think we've got a good development uh project designed for people to go to, uh, and we're right now in the process of just going through hearing people's public comment, uh responding to it and taking next steps.

Um, but if I'm hopefully in that answer, I've answered some of your question, but I did want to say that um we've had Continental there, which we think has helped us be a better manager.

Again, we got more work to do there, but um, they've been able to help us get from where we were, which was not acceptable to being on the road to being better.

All right, thank you.

Um, and I have my team and I have participated in some of the community engagement activities that you all have done there.

I thought the one that I went to um was phenomenal because the community had the opportunity to weigh in on literally every asset of the development.

Um now in my conversations, uh there were some concerns about engagement of residents that are currently there, um, and really encouraging them to come out and also helping to make sure they understood what was being presented to them and the terminology that was being used.

Uh, and so with that, I want to make sure that my office is very tied in with you all on engagement within um as you continue to move forward and make progress uh there and and we probably need to have a a meeting um with the residents in the near future just to make sure everyone is on the same page and that you understand the concerns that are being elevated by the residents.

Um I will make sure that we stay too very closely connected to uh engagement and as this process moves forward.

I do want to ask Ms.

Wise a question relative to the environment, um, the environmental impact.

So can you speak to what the city is looking for if there are if there is uh testing that's done and it shows that soil needs to be remediated prior to development?

What is the responsibility of the city and or the developer prior to moving forward?

Sure, through the chair, I'm actually gonna pass that question on to my colleague Penny Dwynan, who is on our environmental officer.

Um Penny Thank you for the question through the chair.

Um Penny Dwynan, the environmental review officer HRG.

Uh we work with sorry, let me step back.

HUD requires us to work with the state agency that's the Department of Environmental Great Lakes and Energy Eagle, uh, to ensure that any of our funding is reviewed to the uh appropriate use, in this case residential use.

Um, and so we work through uh soil sampling to determine if there is contamination at a site, and then that contamination um is planned to be remediated to reduce all exposure to residential crit to residents to the residential criteria laid out by the state of Michigan.

Thank you.

And I just want to be clear that prior to development happening that remediation has to take place through the chair, ma'am.

The uh most of the remediation actually happens during construction because it's a it's a construction activity.

Um, so we follow through it would happen before a notice to proceed for construction.

We would know exactly what remedial activities have to happen during construction, and then uh post construction, pre-occupancy.

We test all of those remedial activities and make sure that the sites uh suitable for use of the residents.

So uh the city through HRD stays very involved in the through the construction process post construction uh and making sure that everything is done correctly to the state requirements, and then um we report all of that back to HUD.

Okay, thank you.

Uh, and Mr.

Jemison, I will connect with you directly to address the additional concerns that were elevated to me in my call.

All right, thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Johnson.

Please to do that.

All right, thank you, Madam President.

All right, thank you, Member Johnson.

Any additional questions?

All right, hearing none, thank you, Director Uh Jamison for being here.

And we will proceed.

All right, there was a motion to approve 19.1 and 19.2.

Are there any objections?

Hearing no objections, the two resolutions will be approved.

Yes, for a while from 19.1, please.

Any objections to a waiver hearing none, a waiver will be attached to 19.1.

Yes, member Young.

This is a quick question.

I don't know who it is, but do we have like a dashboard, like a counter, just so the public can know how much investment we're making in public housing.

I just think that's really important overall, because this has been some substantial amount of investments that we made.

I think people need to be able to track it.

We need to be able to see it.

And that's why I support blockchain technology for the city, but that's a lot of conversation.

I don't want to have today.

But I just think we should have some sort of dashboard or something where people could just see it and click and get track.

I don't know if we have a portal already, but I just think people should know that if you do.

So thank you.

Maybe we can work with director Jemison on that as well.

Yeah, I well, I didn't know that's directors.

I don't know if that's our HRD department or however you want to do it, but with HRD and with the housing commission with vote.

All right, thank you, Member Young.

All right, from the city planning commission.

Council President Pro Tim James Tate, a resolution line item 19.3.

Council President Pro Tim Tate.

The president move approval line item 19.3.

This is an extension of the review period for the proposed zoning ordinance text amendments.

Hearing no objections, the one resolution will be approved from the housing and revitalization department.

Council President Pro Tem Tate for resolutions, line items 19.4 through 19.7.

President Pro Tim Tate.

Are there any objections?

Member Waters, which item the clerk would note for 19.7.

Hearing no further objections, the four resolutions will be approved.

For the public health and safety standing committee from the Office of Contracting of the Hearment.

Council Member Santiago Romero, 31 resolutions.31.

Madam President, I like to point out that nine items 20.1 through 20.27, uh all various construction and demolition contracts.

And due to the length of them, I will read the contract number and the amount for each one of those.

Line item 20.1, contract number 30776.

Total contract amount 106, 777.

Contract number 308, 6342, total contract amount, 82,538.

Contract number 3086343, total contract amount, 24,000 24.

Contract number 3086344.

Total contract amount $38,100.

Contract number 3086345.

Total contract amount $86,500.

Contract number 308-6346.

Total contract amount 50,000.

Contract number 308-6347.

Total contract amount 24,931 dollars.

Contract number 3087038.

Total contract amount 76,630 and 56 cent.

Contract number 308665.

Total contract amount 16,000.

Contract number 3087171.

Total contract amount $58,978.11.

Contract number 3087242.

Total contract amount 28,765.

Contract number 308667.

Total contract amount $16,088.

Contract number 308691.

Total contract amount $16,999.

Contract number 308-6508.

Total contract amount $50,682 and 56 cent.

Contract number 308-6702.

Total contract amount $16,604.

Contract number 3086142.

Contract number 3086707.

Total contract amount $17,443.

Contract number 308-6710.

Total contract amount $17,361.

Contract number 308-6714.

Total contract amount $16,200.

Contract number 308-87016.

Total contract amount $41,890.

Contract number 308-7034.

Total contract amount $16,300.

Contract number 308-7035.

Total contract amount $17,100.

Contract number 308-7036.

Total contract amount $24,900.

Contract number 308-7155.

Total contract amount $18,400.

Contract number 308-7156.

Total contract amount $11,900.

Contract number 308-7044.

Total contract amount $18,875.

Nine item $20.27.

Contract number 308-7158.

Total contract amount $17,820.

Contract number 6007061.

$100 city funding to provide maintenance and support services for Detroit Police and Homeland Securities.

For Barco Video Walls, back end devices and associated equipment.

Contractor Blue Water Technologies Group Incorporated.

Total contract amount $81,281.

That's for police.

Contract number $0.007150.

100% city funding to provide a cloud-based solution to manage the DPD secondary employment scheduling program.

Contractor Roll Call Technologies LLC.

Total contract amount $300,000.

That's for police.

Contractor, Fort Wayne Contracting, Ajax Paving Industries Incorporated, Joint Venture.

Total contract amount $3,593,610 22 cent.

That's for public works.31.

Contract number 600-6510-A1.

Amendment one to provide an increase of time only for cold patch asphalt contractor.

Cadillac asphalt LLC.

Total contract amount 630,000.

That's for public works.

Council Member Santiago Romero 31 resolutions.

Thank you so much.

Councilmember Santiago Romero.

Thank you, Madam President's motion to approve.

I will break these up if there's any need to discuss.27.

The majority of these are demolition contracts.

All right.

Are there any objections to these items?

Discussion session.

Yes, Councilmember Callaway.

Um, thank you, Madam Chair.

So do we have anyone on from construction and demolition?

I have a question about line item 20.16 and a companion contract, which is line item 20.20.

It's the same commercial property.

Mr.

Washington.

Yes, through the chair, we do have group exec counts online.

Okay.

Mr.

Washington, we do not see um group executive online.

Okay, through the chair.

If we can bring those two back towards the end, I'll reach out to her now.

It was 16 is 20 and 20.

So 20.16 and 20.20.

Okay.

My motion to bring those back to the end of the agenda.

Okay, hearing no objections, that action will be taken.

Any additional question on these items?

Okay.

Any objections.

Hearing no objections.

The resolutions from 20.1 through 20.27 will be approved, excluding the two that we move to the end of the agenda.

Member Member Santiago Romero.

Thank you, Madam President.

Motion to approve 20.28 through 20.31.

Okay.

Any discussion on these items.

All right.

Hearing no discussion.

Are there any objections?

Objection, member Santiago Romero, 20.28.

The clerk would note.

Clerk was so note, Madam President.

Any further objections.

Hearing none, the resolutions will be approved.

Request a waiver, Madam President, for 20 points 29, 20.30, and 20.31.

Any objections to a waiver.

Hearing none, a waiver will be attached to those items.

Thank you.

All right.

From the Department of Public Works Administration.

Councilmember Santiago Romero, two resolutions, nine items 20.32 and 20.33.

Councilmember Santiago Romero.

Thank you, Madam President.

Motion to approve.

These are both petitions for banners.

All right.

Hearing no objections.

The resolutions will be approved.

Under resolutions.

Council member went field calloway, a resolution line item 20.34.

Councilmember Callaway.

Motion to approve, madam chair.

Okay.

This is a resolution supporting the establishment of a vulnerable adult medical alert system.

Are there any objections to the resolution?

Hearing none, the one resolution be approved.

Thank you.

Can we attach a waiver to it, madam chair?

Okay.

Hearing no objections, the waiver will be attached.

Thank you.

Yes, member.

I just want to if the clerk would note that issue a written statement regarding 19.7.

Thank you, Member Waters.

Clerk was so note, Madam President.

All right.

From the request to speak before the Detroit City Council.

And then we have attorney Anderson coming down before we proceed.

Through the chair Grand Manager's law department.

The law department has reviewed these three petitions to speak before city council, and we have not found any legal liability for these three individuals to speak.

Council is free to vote their consciousness.

Thank you.

Okay.

Madam President.

Yes.

Since we are under request to speak for 20.1, 21.1, excuse me.

The petition from Tanya Wells, not sure if she's here, but based on the request, this sounds like a constituent case.

It sounds since it's a B seat issue.

But I'm just trying to keep things efficient and effective.

And if it's a constituent case, we can work on it with her personally to give us time for full counsel to work on full council business.

So to my team listening, we will reach out to her.

I'm we can bring this back in one week.

And if that's not enough, um, I can share what happened during those discussions and uh what I think we we should be doing moving forward.

Okay.

Sounds good.

Is there any um objection?

I'm still gonna bring this one back.

Any objection to bringing it back in one week?

Hearing none, that action will be taken.

Thank you.

And moving to request to speak before Detroit City Council.

Councilmember Young, two resolutions.

Noting that line items 21.20, 21.2 and 21.3 were postponed from last week formal session.

Councilmember Young.

Move to approve line items 21.2 and 21.3.

Okay.

So is there um a willingness from council member Young as the chair to have these two petitions speak before the neighborhood and community services date?

Oh, that's why you have uh I I assume we already did this, and I've read through this.

I'm like, yeah, I want to see what they got to say.

Okay, you want to bring this before my committee?

Is this is this with this normally to market?

I got no problem with it.

Okay, motion.

Okay.

And are there any objections?

Hearing none, the two resolutions will be approved.

Moving to new business from the mayor's office.

Council member Young, five resolutions.

Line items 22.1 through 22.5.

Member Young.

Um, I'd like to move to approve line items 21.1 through 21.5.

All right, these are all various events with departmental approvals.

Hearing no objections, the five resolutions will be approved.

Councilmember Young.

Thank you, Mayor President.

Can I get a waiver from line item 22.2?

And if there are no objections, a waiver will be attached to 22.2.

From the office of contract.

Yes.

Uh, before you go on, um behalf of the city clerk office.

We will like a waiver for line item 22.4, madam president.

Okay.

There are motion to add a waiver for 22.4.

This is the department of elections part that's opposed.

Event.

Hearing no objections, a waiver will be added to 22.4 from the office of contracting and procurement.

Council member young, three resolutions, line items 22.6 through 22.8.

Contract number 600 6684-a1.

Amendment one to provide an increase of funds only for restoration and improvements to Rogale Park contractor, major contracting group incorporated, total contract amount, 4 million 31, 461 dollars and nine cents.

That's for general services.

Contract number 6007.org for light duty transmission and component repairs.

Contractor Ferndale F L L C doing business as suburban Ford of Farnville.

Total contract amount 100,000.

That's for general services.

Contract number 6007466, 100% major street funding to provide construction equipment maintenance and repair services.

Contractor AIS construction equipment corporation.

Total contract amount 300,000.

That's for general services.

Council member Young, three resolutions.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Young.

Thank you, Mayor President.

Uh, I move to approve line items 22.6 through 22.8.

Any objections.

Hearing no objections, the three resolutions will be approved.

Member Young.

Yes, I like a request of waiver for line items 22.6 and 22.7.

All right.

Hearing no objections, that action will be taken.

Protentate.

Member Young addressed the um all right.

Before we go to our referrals, we can go back to the two items that were postponed to the end of the agenda.

Washington, do we have someone on director counts?

Excuse me, group executive counts.

Yes, through the chair, she has joined.

Okay.

Motion to discuss 20.16 and 20.20.

All right.

We will move it for discussion.

She is she on.

All right, member Calway.

Oh, thank you so much, Madam Chair.

And good afternoon, um, Director Counts.

Um good afternoon, Lawan Counts, group executive for construction and building operations.

Item 20.16 and 20.20.

They appear to be companion um contracts.

What is an emergency alteration versus an emergency demolition?

Because I'm looking at all the contracts.

It's the only um emergency alteration that I see for this particular property at 5706 Shane.

And then that's 20.16.

It says emergency alteration for the commercial property, not emergency demolition.

Then it says um line item 20.20, a commercial property, emergency backfield.

So I have two questions.

What is an emergency demolition versus an emergency alteration and line item 20.16 for um 5706 Shane Street through the chair, a commercial uh an emergency alteration is one where we take the demolition down to um to the to grade.

We don't do a complete removal, it does not include any basements, any um foundations, anything of that nature.

Um the backfield that you see further down picks up the removal of all of the subsurface structures as well.

Um, you will remember there was a time when we started splitting out the demolition from the backfield because they wanted to be some comparison or the the the backfield to be bid out separately so that we could ensure that we were getting the lowest possible pricing.

Um and that's what this is.

This is some of the the last um of these breakout type of emergency commercial demos that we did during that time period.

Okay, because I know through the chair to yourself, I remember about a year ago we talked about using drones to identify and locate basements so we could avoid some additional fees for the contractor charging the city because once you go into a property, I'm no expert like yourself, ma'am, but I would think that once they are going over there surveying the property, they know whether or not there's a basement there now that we can use drones.

That's not the case here though, right?

Through the chair.

Through the chair, two things.

We know this is not the case.

This is a more exact method, um, because what we were able to do was actually see what the opening, what the space is that requires both the removal and the backfield.

Um, but then also through the chair, the the drones that was not an option for us.

Um fire was not actually able to use the drones in that manner.

Okay, so I'm just I'm just trying to understand why we're split into two contracts costing the city over 100,000 to demolish the property.

That's what I'm trying to understand.

Because it's well over 100,000 just to demolish this one um this one property.

It has a wonderful history too.

Through the chair, the cost, the the cost is the most accurate pricing.

So regardless of if we would have placed them together um or separated the cost out, the cost is still the cost.

The difference was prior to we were waiting and doing the demo efforts and then placing the backfield, um, allowing the contractors the opportunity to see exactly what needs to be removed.

And that way we were actually allowing them to have access to the base plants.

Um, what we did in order to make sure that we were getting the best possible pricing was separated them out completely.

So we did the demo portion, which was get the building down and remove all the debris, and then we came back at that point and allowed the bidders or the contractors to bid the work as it was exposed and um available for them to be able to take the proper measurements and everything for the backfield material as well as the removal.

All righty.

Um thank you.

Thank you so much, madam chair.

Thank you, um, director counts.

All right, thank you.

Uh Director Counts.

Uh Director Counts.

Any additional questions on these two items?

All right.

Are you fine?

I think I got you.

All right.

All right.

There are a motion to approve the two items.

Motion.

Are there any objections?

Hearing no objections, the two resolutions will be approved.

And uh we will move now to the walk on item, Adam Clerk.

Yes, madam president.

We do have two walk-ons.

The first one uh motion was made earlier to walk on line item 11.11 to the new business.

So resolution to recognize the indigenous people's day celebration.

Councilmember Santiago Romero.

All right, Councilmember Santiago Ramiro.

Thank you, Madam President.

Motion to approve.

Motion has been made to approve.

Are there any objection?

Hearing no objections, the one resolution will be approved.

Request a waiver, madam president.

All right, hearing no objections, a waiver will be attached to the resolution.

Thank you.

And madam president, we have a memo to walk on.

All right, be referred to that planning and economic development standing committee from Council President Pro Tim Tate.

Pro Tim Tate.

Madam President, move to send this walk on to uh business uh for referral, excuse me.

This is to uh draft the resolution to amend the DLBA MOU.

This is for that one year.

We'll thank colleagues for uh working together to get us to the point where we are today.

We do know that this is kind of a stopgap as we start to look into what uh the processes, the MOU will look like um in the upcoming year uh years plural, as well as I know that member um waters and others are looking at the IGA as well.

So I thought this was the most appropriate uh action.

Uh certainly don't want to go into the new year without having any after it uh lapsing for as long as it has.

So again, move to uh send this item to uh new business for referral.

Okay, hearing no objections, that action will be taken to be referred to planning and development, madam.

Yes, member water.

Yeah, I just want to know the the status from LPD of um the um IgA resolution that we requested to you, madam president.

Okay, madam president, yes, sir.

We're currently drafting the resolution.

Um working along with law law will be amending the MOU, but our resolution will coincide with that.

Okay, thank you.

You should have it to you within a day or so.

All right, thank you, Ms.

All right, thank you, Member Waters.

All right, for the president's report on standing committee referrals and other matters for the budget finance and audit standing committee.

So reports from various city departments, the two reports will be referred to the budget finance and audit standing committee for the internal operations standing committee, fixed reports from various city departments.

The six reports will be referred to the internal operations standing committee for the neighborhood and community services standing committee.

Three reports from the mayor's office.

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

16 reports from various city departments, madam president, including the walk-on referral.

All right, the 16 reports will be referred to the planning and economic development standing committee for the public health and safety standing committee.

15 reports from various city departments.

The 15 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 our member reports and we will start with council member young.

Thank you, ma'am.

Um, first of all, I'll just like to say um I am going to have a hope program virtual meeting.

Uh remember your hope deadline offered uh your hope program that's the homeowner's property tax exemption program.

The deadline is November 7th.

So starting Wednesday, October 22nd, 5 to 6 p.m.

That's Wednesday, October 22nd, 5 to 6 p.m.

So Wednesday, October 22nd, 5 to 6 p.m.

We are gonna have my virtual hope program meeting.

It's going to be with Eric Sabree, Wayne County Treasurer, and Willie Donwell, director of the board of tax review.

You can register now.

You can scan the QR code or you can call 313-224-4248.

That's 313-224-4248.

So again, Cal McComba young the second Hope Program Virtual Meeting for the Hope Owner for the Home Owner's Property Exemption Program.

The Hope deadline is November 7th.

The virtual meeting will be Wednesday, October 22nd, 5 to 6 p.m.

You could call 313 224248.

And again, it's Wednesday, October 22nd, 5 to 6 p.m.

Also, I'd like to thank all of the community members who came out to celebrate my second no 40.

Wait, huh?

Celebrate my birthday party.

I also like to thank my colleagues, Scott Benson and Council.

I said, oh no, no, no, celebrate my second.

Okay.

So my second annual birthday party.

I'm turning 43 years old.

Oh, sorry, I got confused.

I thought I thought, second.

Well, I'm on it.

Um, annual birthday, but I also like to thank my colleagues, Councilmember Benson and Councilmember Waters for stopping by wishing me a happy 43rd birthday.

And we're gonna have cake after the meeting as well to celebrate 43rd birthday.

I also want to thank Charles H.

Wright Museum of African American history for honoring me with an award last Saturday for my advocacy for the Charles H.

Wright Museum.

We're used to giving out awards, not used to receiving one.

That's a really big deal.

While I was a member of the state senate, I also appropriated $2 million to the Charles H.

Wright Museum.

And it was the first direct grant from any museum, no, to any museum from the state.

Let me say that again.

It was the first direct grant to any museum from the state.

I also appropriate 1.5 million dollars in National Air American Museum and the Holocaust Museum.

So thank you, Madam President, and happy birthday too.

Happy birthday, Councilmember Young.

And President Pro Tim Tate.

Thank you, Madam President.

Um, just want to thank all the men, women, uh, families who came out uh yesterday to welcome the young people back to Gomper's uh elementary middle school.

It was a very tragic incident that took place last week.

Um and we're gonna let the courts deal with the legalities of of what took place.

But what happened uh yesterday was nothing more than uh the community uh showing up and making sure that those children in the neighborhood for certain uh knew that uh they were loved, appreciated, and that we were not going to stand or not going to stand and allow for violence to be the norm in our schools, and we are working extremely hard to ensure that that is the case outside of the school buildings as well.

We had about 80 or so folks who showed up, maybe be more.

We didn't do an exact head count.

Uh folks from all different walks of life uh showed up seven o'clock in the morning.

It was cold and it was dark.

But if the babies can be there, so can we.

Uh, and I just want to again thank everyone who uh showed up.

Uh, and thank my team for for the short, I mean, quick turnaround on this.

We didn't know exactly what day the school was gonna open back up.

And once we found out, uh they they they went into action.

So again, thank you to my team as well.

Thank you to the school.

And we we still got some work to do.

Uh you know, we say no uh good deed goes unpunished.

You know, heard uh criticism saying it's not enough, and they're right, it's not enough.

Uh welcoming the kids to school.

But there's other things that are taking place.

Um community-based, uh, but we're wrapping our arms around that school in particular.

We have a number of organizations within Brightmore who have made a commitment to being a part of the solution.

Um, but it makes it real challenging uh when you have allegedly a parent who directed that that horrific situation.

So uh, but again, we we we gotta make sure it's not just the kids, but it's the whole family that we we help.

And that is the goal as we uh continue to move forward.

So again, thank you to everyone who participated.

Um, and all the best to the uh young lady and those young people who witnessed uh that incident as well.

Just wish the best, and we're gonna be there with them along the way.

Thank you, Madam President.

Thank you so much, President Pro Tim Tate.

Councilmember Santiago Rivero.

Thank you, Madam President.

I'd like to enjoy District 6 uh members to join us for our next coffee hour, Thursday, October 16th at 11 a.m.

We're gonna be at Donut Villa.

We're going to continue our office hours on Monday, October 20th at Equity Alliance from 3 to 5 p.m.

We're gonna have the uh Detroit's health department as our guest this October.

So please stop by if you have any questions.

Also want to ask uh residents to save the date to join us for our third annual D6 Movie Nights on Thursday, November 13th at Senate Theater.

We're going to be screening the nightmare before Christmas.

And the first 300 residents that join us will receive a free hot dog, popcorn, pop um indoors open at five o'clock.

Want to continue to encourage um anyone that is interested in learning more about this about the DCFC stadium to join us on Thursday, October 16th at 6 p.m.

at Mexican Town CTC for continued discussion around the uh the NAC and also just want to say a huge thank you uh to my team, Team GSR that worked incredibly hard with their indigenous community um over the past few months to bring back the Indigenous People's Day celebration to downtown Detroit after 30 years.

Uh we held it yesterday, and there were over a thousand people that came.

Um the this the stadium that that we have down there, the the the little stage area that we have.

Um, if you were in the middle and you looked up, it looked like a dream or a movie.

It was very, very beautiful.

Uh so thank you to my team.

Thank you to the city to the administration that helps make sure that we got that done as well.

Hope that we're able to continue the tradition moving forward.

Thank you, Madam President.

All right, thank you, Councilmember.

Member Waters.

Thank you, uh Madam President.

Let me just say first and foremost, I was certainly happy to participate in in um Indigenous Day on yesterday.

It was a it was a very great um event.

Um when I think about my family uh down in Alabama, we talked about the um uh uh trail of tears.

And in fact, if you're driving on one of the highways down there, um you can look way up and you can see reservation uh right there.

Um my family is uh is uh Choctaw.

I have friends that are Creek Nation.

And so I it certainly runs through all of our veins.

And so it was just uh really great to be there yesterday and and and support the uh event.

Uh member Young, uh happy birthday.

Love you, member Young.

I was happy to stop by your birthday celebration.

Um, so I wanted to uh give you a a shout out.

Um I was happy to walk with uh Pro Tem on Saturday along with uh State Representative uh Stephanie Young when we did the um domestic violence walk over on um on the in the Finkel area.

And um, you know, Reverend Simmons just did a wonderful prayer.

And so certainly appreciated that any time that we can elevate uh domestic violence.

Um I I know what I what I went through as as a kid, um, you know, with domestic violence.

And so those scars do last forever.

It's uh it's it hurts the entire family for generations after generation.

The um let me just announce some of these uh events.

Uh October 15th, skill trade, which is tomorrow, 4 to 6 p.m.

1663 Lasser.

It's from 4 to 6 p.m.

at Crowwell, 16630.

Lasser is the last one for the year.

Um October 17th, which is um this uh this Friday, we have a lunch, breast cancer awareness uh lunch.

It is from 12 to 2, and it's right here uh in this uh auditorium here on the 13th floor.

We encourage uh all employees to come out and to participate uh in a breast cancer awareness um luncheon.

You know, black women see a dive more often, 40% more often than white women of uh breast cancer.

And even though our diagnosis are probably at the same rate, but when you talk about lack of access to health care and all of those, those barriers uh that black women experience.

They there's the survival rate just isn't uh as strong.

On October 24th, it's a sheltered by faith.

And I love saying that, sheltered by faith, uh, luncheon and meeting, which is gonna be at Wayne County Community College, um West Side on our West Saddle Drive from 10 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

And we're encouraging um faith-based uh organization, our churches, along with our nonprofits to come out and participate for this very important learning uh uh luncheon.

All right then.

Thank you so much, madam president.

All right, thank you, Member Waters.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Madam President.

Um, would like to remind our residents that our monthly community meeting is taking place on Monday, October 20th at 5 30.

We will have DTE present to talk about the reliability of um their system as well as to provide outage updates and information about the energy assistance program.

The meeting on Monday is taking place at the Matrix Center at 13560 East McNichols.

Again, that is Monday, October 20th at 530 p.m.

at the Matrix Center.

And the following Friday, next Friday, we are hosting our coffee hour uh at a new coffee shop in District 4 called Decent Detroit.

The address is 14834 Kirchville Avenue.

That is Friday at 8 a.m.

Just want to encourage everyone to come out, join us and um experience this new coffee shop in the district.

Um, and just want to say thank you to the team for their outstanding support over the last month.

Um we just continue to keep pushing forward and looking forward to the ribbon cutting tomorrow at AB Ford Park at 1 p.m.

That is AB4 Park, the base of Lenox Street and the water.

So looking forward to that.

We've the city has invested millions of dollars into that park, and it's coming along well.

I was there yesterday for the uh supply schedule that we hosted in district four and see it coming into shape.

A lot of the trees, the basketball court, um, and just a variety of activities all surrounding the community center.

So looking forward to that tomorrow at one o'clock.

Thank you.

Thank you, madam president.

Thank you, Member Johnson, member Vincent.

All right, thank you.

Number one, once again, congratulate my colleague for his receiving the advocate award, the Charles H.

Wright Gala this past weekend, and then also one to uh thank the Charles H.

Wright.

Is there a hand clap?

That's okay.

And also to thank the Charles H.

Wright for also awarding me the advocate award at the gala as well.

But also want to thank my colleagues because that is that award was predicated on the support that we've been able to provide the Charles H.

Wright over the last five years while I've been a trustee there.

And so that's really a group award.

I just want to thank my colleagues for being so supportive of the Charles H.

Wright and ensuring that we're providing resources to our city-owned museum, the Charles H.

Wright.

So thank you, colleagues.

That was very helpful in my ability to receive that award.

One to thank the community, uh GSD, planning and development department, CPC staff, uh the Joe Lewis Greenway team, as well as my staff for hosting a fantastic Joe Lewis Greenway community meeting regarding the proposed downzoning of the industrial properties that surround the Joe Lewis Greenway.

This was the first of what will be 58 uh community meetings.

We do these about half and about half mile increments.

So there will be one coming to you soon.

But this was the first one.

Just looking forward to the ability to down zone and ensure that our non-motorized pedestrian pathways are healthy and are supportive of people who want to run, walk, cycle through their neighborhoods and their communities.

In addition, please save the date for 5 December.

That is Bingo with Benson.

This is our 11th bingo with Benson that will be at say Detroit Play Center, uh, better known as Lipke Rec Center.

I always want to say thank you to my colleague for co-hosting these with me.

That is Member Waters as co-chair of the senior task force.

In addition, please, if you live in Zipco 48234, Gleaners uh Community Food Bank now services Detroit residents who live in 48234, and it is located at 44018 Mile.

Please go to Gleaners.

That is a fantastic service, and it is open to residents in the city of Detroit in the 48234 zip code.

And then last but not least, please sign up for our life and legacy planning seminars.

We have two more in this in the Detroit in the month of October, one on 20 October, and the next one on 23 October.

And you can sign up by calling 866-313 5220.org.

That's my dhn.org, mydhn.org.

Thank you.

Thank you, Member Benson.

Member Durha.

Thank you, Madam President.

And just inviting everyone to join us for our 29 policy session taking place October 27th from 6 p.m.

to 7 30 p.m.

at the Edison Library Branch on 1840 Joy Row.

We'll be discussing the importance of voting part two.

So if you haven't attended the last one, please uh attend this one.

This is going to be part two of why voting is important.

And if you haven't attended any of our policy sessions before, we invite you to do so.

Great opportunity to learn alongside fellow residents.

Again, this is taking place uh on October 27th from 6 p.m.

to 7 30 p.m.

at the Edison Library located at 1840 Joy Road.

That concludes my member report.

Thank you, Madam President.

Thank you, Member Durha.

Before I go to Member Callaway Waters, you had a follow-up.

I just uh thank you, Madam President.

I just want to say thank you to all of my colleagues, EPU and other staff members who joined us today for Shades of Pink to elevate uh breast cancer awareness.

So thank you all so much.

I see your pink girl.

All right, that's all I wanted to say, Madam President, because I do appreciate the fact that most of you rest up the pink to elevate.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Member Waters.

I appreciate it.

Member Callaway.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Um want to thank everyone for coming out to our coffee and conversation yesterday at the Tindal Rec Center located on Seven Mile Near Wyoming.

Um I appreciate all our community partners that came out, the United Community Housing Coalition, the Health Department, DPSCD, Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Health Network, the Detroit Area Agency on Aging, the Detroit Land Bank, and our EPU, our very own EPU came out yesterday morning.

So thank you all for coming out.

We had a wonderful, wonderful time.

This Thursday, October the 16th from 10 a.m.

to 12 noon.

Um my community team will be at Strategic Community Partners with our community office hours, and that is located at 10240 West McNichols.

Stop by to share your concerns, ask questions, and learn more about the work my team and I do in the community on a daily basis, seven days a week.

Next, my office is teaming up with all notes TTV for a district two community cleanup this Saturday, October the 18th at 130 at Finkel and Wyoming.

There's a lot of litter and debris there.

And it was the case back in 2022 on October the 8th.

That was my very first cleanup.

And we're back to where we started.

So member waters, I'm calling on you again through the chair.

If you have time to come out and assist with that effort, you and your volunteers, anybody else who wants to come.

Um, that is this Saturday at 130 p.m.

Finkel and Wyoming.

Um, and if you want more information about that, 224535 and come dress to clean up.

Then October the 20th, we'll have our district two community webinar.

We will have special presentations from the city clerk's office and the property assessment board of review to discuss the homeowner's property exemption application.

More information again, you can call 224535.

And then really excited about this October the 25th from 11 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

We will be at the band shell with um Sheriff Raphael Washington and Wayne County Commissioner Angelique Peterson Mayberry.

That will be from um let's see here from 11 to 2.

And we will have our from pain to power survivor walk in recognition of domestic violence month from pain to power survivor walk, and it's hosted by again Sheriff Raphael Washington and Angelique Mayberry, our Wayne County Commissioner.

That is this, that's it's October the 25th.

And we will have a special presentation from the author of the monster who killed his family twice.

And she is also a domestic violence survivor.

Her name is Faith Brown.

So we have information.

You can call my office at 224535 for more information.

And then on October the 27th, Angelique Um Commissioner Angelique Peterson Maybury and Wayne County Register of Deeds, Bernard Youngblood, are hosting a deed fraud prevention workshop at the 12th precinct on Seven Mile, next to the band shell.

And this event is free.

You can call 2240942.

And then also signat Grace, October the 29th, they are have trunk retreat.

And you can call our office to get more information about that.

And then one of our residents, um, is a senior citizen.

She came to the coffee and conversation yesterday and brought some wonderful information.

The University of Detroit Mercy starting on October the 18th is going to offer a free eight-week program designed to teach senior citizens basic essential digital skills.

That is at the University of Detroit Mercy, and it's going to be from 12 to 1 on Saturdays.

You do not have to live in District 2.

If you are a senior, if you live in the city of Detroit, you qualify.

And they are going to show you how to avoid fishing scams and online fraud, recognize and preventing viruses, best practices for mobile banking and online shopping, and how to set up your um a strong password and using facial recognition, etc.

So please come out.

Um October the 18th at the University of Detroit Mercy, and that's located on the corner of Libernoy and West McNichols.

And the number for more information is 777-4715.

And that's for any senior citizen in the city of Detroit.

Come and get your senior tech classes for free.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you so much, Member Callaway.

Councilmember Young.

Yeah, sorry, man, friends.

I just want to awesome.

Everybody in the back.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Member Young.

Uh, and just a reminder that this evening there is an evening council meeting at 7 p.m.

that will be held at Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church in District 5.

Again, that is tonight at 7 p.m.

Discussion.

Yes.

Just one last item to say, Ron, I wanted to congratulate my colleague on additional indigenous people's day celebration yesterday at Hart Plaza.

That was the clap.

That was a great event and unexpectedly large.

And so that just shows the pent-up demand for that type of cultural event and the fact that the indigenous community is not often recognized.

And just to have that type of turnout yesterday was fantastic.

And so I was really impressed and had a chance to walk around the entire event.

And I see that some made purchases uh while they were there.

And so I just really wanted to recognize that uh because that was fantastic.

I hope that it gets done again and brought back.

And so I just wanted to make sure that publicly uh congratulate and acknowledge that's that event yesterday and your staff.

I know they work hard on that also.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Santiago Romero.

Any additional member reports?

Okay.

All right, under the consent agenda.

Oh, excuse me, under adoption without committee reference.

There are no items, madam president.

Under communications from the clerk, a report on approval of proceedings by the mayor.

The report will be received and placed on file under testimonial resolutions and special privilege.

Councilmember Johnson, a resolution line item 33.1.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Madam President.

Move for approval, noting that there is a scriptner's error.

This was a testimonial resolution, not in memorial.

Okay.

Perfect.

Well, so no, madam president.

And all right.

Apologies as well for that.

No worries.

Uh hearing no objections, the resolution will be approved.

And under testimonial resolutions is special privilege.

Councilmember Santiago Romero, a resolution line item 33.2.

Member Santiago Romero.

Motion to approve.

All right.

And hearing no objection, the one testimonial resolution will be approved.

Under testimonials in special privilege.

Council President Pro Tim James Tate, two resolutions.

Line items 33.3 and 33.4.

President Pro Tim Tate.

The President approve approval of the resolution.

In hearing no objections, the two resolutions will be approved.

And if there is no further business to come before us, I know we are going straight to the back for member Young's birthday celebration.

There are motion to adjourn.

The meeting will stand adjourned.