Councilman McComayount the second here Council President Pro Tim James Tent and Council President Mary Sheffield present you have a quantum president, Madam President.

Well, member Callaway is present as well.

Thank you.

We have a corn.

We are in session.

We will start with our invitation.

We have joining us today.

Uh Commander Kimberly Clemens, who will lead us in our invitation for this morning.

Good morning.

Hello, everyone.

May we please bow.

Father God, we just thank you today.

This is the day that you have made, and we will rejoice and be glad in it.

God, I know that we have agendas today.

But God, we're going to stay focused today.

We ask that you touch our minds and our hearts, touch our eyes and our ears.

God, and we just ask that you are present.

God, we invite you in, Holy Spirit, and we just thank you.

There is purpose in this day.

We thank you that no weapon formed against us shall prosper.

We thank you that life and death is in the power of the tongue.

So guide us today, and we will forever give you the glory, the honor, and the praise.

Hallelujah and amen.

Amen.

All right.

Thank you so much, Commander Clemens, for that invitation, and thank you for being here in person.

We appreciate you.

Thank you, ma'am.

All right.

We have uh two presentations this morning, and we will start with you, Councilmember Young, to kick off your first presentation.

Thank you, ma'am, President.

Um it is my honor and privilege to present this Spirit of Detroit Award, presented as an expression of the gratitude, esteem of the people of Detroit to the significantly important and tremendously viable First Lady, Monica Anthony.

Can we get a round of applause, everybody?

Before I begin, I just want to say thank you so much for sharing your husband with the church, with the city, and with the community.

Thank you for supporting him when he supports everybody else.

Thank you for being strong when no one knows how tired you really are.

Thank you for the grace you've shown, even when you want to scream, pull your hair out, and thank you for choosing kindness over criticism, and thank you for being patient instead of being infuriated.

And more importantly, I just want to say thank you for not giving up to significantly important and tremendously viable Monica Anthony.

More than 30 years of service to God's people at Fellowship Chapel, United Church of Christ.

Who can find a virtuous woman?

Her price for her price is far above Ruby's.

Proverbs 310.

She is a wife, mother, and a faith-based activist woman of God, instituting the Gladys M.

Rice, Makia Brontua Health Center, the Zoe La Little Readers Club, and the Lady Monica Life of Excellence Scholarship.

She conducts the not your average Bible study and mentors young girls 6 through 17 through the Intel Janae Training Institute Rights of Passage program.

She is an elected precinct delegate and lifelong member of the NAACP.

Yes.

So the honorable Colt Alexander Young II, Detroit City Councilman at large, with the entire Detroit City Council of Detroit, Michigan is proud to present this Spirit of Detroit Award, the first lady Monica Anthony, everybody.

Anything you like to say?

You got to press the button.

The bottom.

So it's our screen.

There we go.

Screen.

Okay, thank you.

It's been a while since I've been down here to everyone this morning, this body and organization.

We appreciate you, the citizens of the city of Detroit, and my fellowship chapel family.

Um, to the councilman.

Um, thank you so much for the recognition and honor.

I sit here um kind of laughing on the inside because it was 40 years ago this past summer that my mother brought me to Detroit kicking and screaming from Chicago.

Did not want to come, didn't want to leave my family.

Started here, went to CAS, graduated from Walmart, Wayne State Warriors, and I I call Detroit home.

Um, Chicago and Detroit.

I have two homes, and Detroit is a bad mamma jamma kind of city.

It is, and you don't mean I don't know if we all appreciate what this city is.

It's remarkable.

It is truly a renaissance city.

It is a haven for black people.

Um, it is just a wonderful place that I'm glad that my mother did what she did.

She knew what she was doing, I guess.

But um I love Detroit.

Um, and so I I'm humbled by the honor, and I really appreciate the recognition.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Does anybody else have any questions or comments?

We love we we love Monica Anthony.

We we love us birth lady.

We're welcome down now.

Yeah, take pictures.

Thank you.

Oh my gosh.

All right, we uh appreciate Member Young for that presentation, and we will proceed now to our master plan update.

And we are also going to cut off public comment for this morning as well.

Yep, we have our uh planning director, Alexa Bush here, who will proceed with a presentation.

Good morning through the chair.

We are very excited to be here and have the opportunity to share with this body an update on the city's master plan of policies.

We know it's been a busy year.

There's a lot happening in this city, but this is one that we're really excited about to take a step back and really think about the city's uh 20-year future and really where we want to aim and how we can continue to improve quality of life and really support um opportunities for Detroit or citywide.

I'm joined here by a number of members from my team and the planning department.

Um we'll each introduce ourselves as we speak.

Uh, we're joined virtually by Edwina King via Zoom and would love to walk you through a short presentation to give you an update as we do each quarter on the progress of our master plan of policies.

Um, with that, I'm hoping we can pull up the slides to begin the presentation.

Next slide, please.

So we wanted to just start with some reframing and reorienting since it's been a minute since we've been back to speak to this project.

But we'd like to begin by just saying what is a master plan.

To us, it is a really important tool, a decision making tool for the future of the city.

Now, what do we mean by that?

We go on to the next slide.

We'll start to break apart what that means to us.

First of all, to think about how this can be a great decision making tool for us.

It builds on a number of components, including starting to articulate how do we create the future that Detroiters want.

And this builds on both internal technical work that we're doing across the city with different departments, but all through through a lot of very deep engagement with residents about what they would like to see the city's future hold.

The next piece is to really begin to define what are those quality of life improvements, what is needed where across the city, and how do we best align ourselves and resources to achieve that vision.

The third piece of this is to think about the policies that really support the land use goals that allows the city to be what we need it to be to drive development, to drive investment in the city's future.

And also to help us guide how we can best and most strategically make capital improvements to advance this shared vision and make sure that we're all moving in the same direction.

In terms of the timeline, what kind of future are we talking about?

This is a long-term look.

This is really thinking about the next 20 years of the city's future and where do we begin to start shipping away now to achieve that place and that goal, looking 20 years out.

Now, to really dive into what's behind this, what's behind creating this tool, I'm going to hand it over to Darrow Byrne, Deputy Director of Planning and Development to talk a little bit more about the process.

Thank you, Alexa.

Next slide, please.

So what we wanted to do today is go over kind of where we've been, where we are today, and where we're going.

So I want we always like to start with the schedule.

So we could go to the next slide.

So we've been making great progress.

If you remember this slide, we always try to go back to this.

We started by really focusing on analysis and visioning with some significant community engagement.

And currently we're solidly in the draft policy phase of this document.

You can see that yellow star, we're right there in the middle.

We've had some great engagement on policies and looking forward to engaging the community again on policies.

And we're still targeting that kind of quarter to 2026 to have a draft plan.

We can go to the next slide.

What we're going to do today is go into a little bit more depth about what we've done in these different phases and what's gone into the work and the deliverables and how that's taking us towards that draft plan.

So if we can go to the next slide, I'm going to go over what went into that analysis and visioning phase.

The first step was really to identify our realities.

This was an effort to really understand the opportunities and challenges facing the city.

It included both excellent feedback from the community.

We did our city voices tour and surveys and things like that that really helped identify some of the challenges and opportunities.

But we also did significant data analysis and collection in this phase.

This really helped kind of create a baseline for what we're doing.

And then if we go to the next slide, the other part of this phase of work is really focused, was really focused on defining the vision.

The vision really is the future that the plan is working to achieve.

Significant engagement went into this as well.

We reached over 2,500 Detroiters in over 60 in-person pop-ups across all seven council districts.

That feedback combined with additional feedback through our master plan advisory group and engagement with our internal departments and with you all really helped shape the first draft of our vision and values.

And then we brought that back out through another round of engagement in our policy workshop and our youth engagement to really confirm and improve upon those statements.

So I'm going to go into our vision statements and our values to show where we are today.

So next slide.

So again, the vision really helps us set up what is the future that we're trying to achieve.

And we wanted to really come up with a clear, concise vision statement, which is Detroit will be a city of choice and opportunity.

This really was again shaped by the community.

And the paragraphs up here really provide more additional detail for that vision.

The first paragraph, it was important to the community to recognize that the city is great today.

And so we heard from the community youth in particular this statement that Detroit is a vibe.

And how can we really build on the things that are working well today?

And then the second paragraph really identifies the areas for improvement to really ensure that everybody is able to benefit from that vision.

Okay, the next slide really goes through our value statements.

Next slide.

Thank you.

And these values really help establish the standards for how we're going to achieve this.

So they really are resilience, equity, innovation, collaboration, and legacy.

And again, these were things that really came from the community that were important to the community for us to use as we're both developing the plan, and then we're going to use them as we work to implement the plan.

And now I'm going to hand it over to Julie Connecticut, who is helping manage this plan.

Thanks so much, Dara.

And through the chair, I'm going to be walking us through the phase two work as well as looking ahead to what's to come, especially in terms of engagement.

So we kicked off phase two by setting goals.

These are the big things the plan is trying to accomplish to achieve that vision.

The draft goals built on the work that we did in phase one in particular are community engagement, as well as a review of previous plans.

You know, we wanted to lift up other priorities from other departments and from our neighborhood plans and make sure that those weren't lost here.

We started with a list of draft goals.

I think there were about nine of them, which we developed with city staff based on that phase one work.

And then we worked with our advisory group, the feedback we got from our policy workshops and youth summit, as well as our advisory group to refine those goals.

And I'm going to share those goals on the next slide with all of you.

All right.

So we have coalesced around four big goals for this plan.

Goal number one, improve quality of life in every neighborhood.

Goal number two, grow and strengthen Detroit's economy.

Goal number three, focus density to support services and amenities.

And goal number four, make it safer and easier to get around.

This may seem like too few goals, but this is really intentional to make sure that we have a plan that's effective as a decision-making tool.

So we wanted to consolidate into an achievable number of goals.

There are many things the city will continue to do.

There are other priorities that are out there that we acknowledge the city will continue to focus on.

But for the purpose of this plan, we believe that these goals are the biggest things we need to do to advance our vision and really deliver on the recommendations in the plan.

Next slide.

And now we arrive at the portion of the project that we are in currently where we are drafting policies to guide that strategic decision making and mapping our land use recommendations that we're calling place types that will guide how different parts of Detroit will grow and change over time.

This work is grounded in data.

So recommendations are need-based and actionable and shaped by community input.

So they reflect the lived experiences of residents as well as their desires for the future of their neighborhoods.

This phase starts and ends with community engagement.

So we kicked off this phase talking about more of the policy side at our policy workshops.

We hosted six of these and reached almost 500 Detroit residents engaging around the different topics of the master plan, as well as hosting a youth summit where we engaged 141 young people from private and public schools across the city.

So this kind of builds a feedback loop, starting and ending with engagement so folks can see how the plan is developing over time.

Next slide.

So this is just how it all comes together, everything that we've walked you through here today.

Each step of the work has a purpose and answers kind of a key question about the master plan.

And they are all going to come together and work together in the terms of a final plan draft.

The realities, vision, values, and goals are fairly set.

That work is behind us.

The work ahead of us is really focused on those policies and place types with the focus of our next round of engagement, which will be district by district, hopefully later this year.

Really focused on those land use recommendations, those place types, particularly starting to get some input on mapping those place types and putting them in space for folks in their neighborhoods.

So next slide with that, we'll just wrap it up with a little uh information about how folks can stay connected to this process.

Um our website, Plan Detroit.com is always up to date.

Um, if you're interested in digging into what we learned on the data side or community engagement summaries, those are there.

Um, you can also uh see our upcoming engagements when they're posted uh when we have those set.

But newsletter subscribers are always going to be the first to know about when community engagement is coming up.

So we encourage folks to scan this QR code that you see on the screen, or we have a text to subscribe option as well, so people can get that information about where we will be in their district straight to their phone or inbox.

Um, we'll also be getting the word out via channel 10, flyer drops and bus ads during this time.

So not just digitally, but um using physical media as well.

And with that, we're happy to answer any questions.

Thank you so much.

All right, thank you all so much for the presentation and the amazing work that you all are doing.

I know this is a huge effort, so we thank you all for the hard work.

Um, is there any questions from my colleagues?

And we all did get a copy of the presentation as well, um, so that we all can have a physical copy.

Uh any questions or comments from any of my colleagues.

Yes, Councilmember Santiago Ramiro.

Thank you, Madam President.

Uh, through you, good morning.

Uh, thank you for this updates.

I'm really excited.

Um more so of a request whenever you're ready to come to D6.

Um, want to talk about the needs that we know of so we can plan together and make sure that we are uh being smart um and efficient because there's a lot of needs.

Um, and quite frankly, as we're talking about this, um, I really think after the master plan is done, um, it'll help give us our guide blueprints to what we should be investing in in each district, which is really exciting.

So thank you.

Um looking forward to having you in district six.

Thanks, madam president.

All right, thank you, council member.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Madam President.

Uh, thank you all for the presentation.

I do appreciate strengthening and growing the economy.

Um, and I know we've had some conversation about neighborhood um commercial growth and what that looks like, how we do it in a way where um is sustainable, um, and it also can fold into safety.

Um, so as you all have additional conversations around this goal in particular, I really want to see how we're focused on septic crime prevention through environmental design.

We have neighborhood commercial corridors that have been derelict for decades.

Um, and as we look at bringing businesses back into our communities, there is something special that needs to be done that has to happen in order for those businesses to stay open for them not to month after month, year after year be vandalized.

I have one in my um district that has been hit, and I think it's because they get a lot of support from the community because it's one of uh few cafes that we have, right?

It's something that people have been asking for, but now how do we make sure that business stays there and not be run out because they've been targeted.

Um, so I really want to hear more about SEPKID and how we, because we're looking at reactivating so many of our corridors, uh, that being an area of focus.

And then when you talk about making it safer, safer and easier to get around.

I hope that folds in our complete streets ordinance that we've been working on and talking to the departments about just to make sure that people are safe, especially as we're focusing on walkable communities.

We need to ensure that residents feel safe to be able to walk to and from the commercial corridors or just throughout our communities.

And so looking forward to continuing to stay involved with the work that you all are doing and certainly do appreciate everything.

Thank you.

Thank you, Madam President.

Thank you, Member Johnson.

All right.

There are no additional questions.

Again, we thank you for the presentation, and we will definitely be in touch with you all.

Thank you so much for being here.

The chair, thank you so much for the opportunity to share the update.

All right, thank you.

All right, moving back to our agenda.

The journal of the session of Tuesday, October the 7th will be approved.

There being no reconsiderations or unfinished business, we will proceed to the budget, finance, and audit standing committee.

For the budget finance and audit standing committee.

Three reports from various city departments.

The three reports will be referred to the budget finance and audit standing committee for the internal operations standing committee.

Five reports from various city departments.

The five reports will be referred to the internal operations standing committee for the neighborhood and community services standing committee.

Two reports from the Office of Contracting and Procurement.

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

Madam President, that item number 10.2 should be referred to the budget financial audience standing committee instead of planning.

So that should be six reports from various city departments.

Okay.

The six reports will be referred for planning and development.

For the public safety standard committee, there should be 25 reports from various city departments.

Oh, that was for public health and safety.

Okay.

Those 25 reports will be referred to the committee.

We will now move to the voting action matters under other matters.

There are no items, Madam President.

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

There's the correspondence from Dickinson and Wright PLLC.

This is an appeal for internal suspension of Ganga Company LLC and Brian McKinley.

Okay.

And we will know that that is received.

Should be before.

Oh, actually, the report should be firm to the internal operations standing committee.

Yes.

Thank you for the scheduling of a hearing.

All right.

We will now move for public comment.

And we have 50 to public comments.

So we will do a minute and a half this morning for public comment, and we will start with you, Miss Betty Lyons.

You did well, Miss Sheffield.

You gave credit to your grandfather, your grandmother, your mother, and your father.

Beautiful legacy.

But you got to go a step farther.

You can't have Dugan as a supporter who is a liar, a thief, a white uh premises.

He stole it, stolen over 600 million dollars belonging to the Detroit residents and refuses to give it back.

But he gives Dan Gilbert, who he has made the richest man in Michigan, tens of millions and grant money, free money, but won't give me my money.

These young ladies, are you gonna listen to me?

Am I gonna have justice?

That's what we need.

You give him a part in your life.

This man is evil, and then you add Romero.

She's his prodigy, not you.

She gives the spirit of Detroit to men who love men and women who love women.

That is evil.

It makes the spirit an evil, evil thing, and it shouldn't be.

It's of a family, a man, a woman, and children, not all this perversion.

So thank you.

All right.

So we we are going to again.

Um again, encourage uh as much as we can, respectful dialogue during public comment and respect everyone's beliefs and position.

So we just want to ensure that we continue to foster uh a respectful public comment process.

Madam President, yes, thank you, Madam President.

Um, I am very proud to have given away those spirit of Detroit Awards, and I will continue to award um everyone, including our LGBTQ leaders in the city uh with the spirit of Detroit Award, as long as I'm here.

Thank you, Madam President.

All right, thank you so much, Councilmember Santiago Romero.

Rose Lyons, followed by Dale Young Hello, Council members.

Good morning.

Good morning, Madam President Sheffield.

I'm just uh just calling.

I'm just basically here today just to ask who's gonna be our hero, who's gonna be the hero in Detroit.

We all live in Detroit.

We all paid that uh overassessment of the 600 million, including the council members, because that's so that's part of your money too.

And so I just want to know uh when the accountants will be called in so that they can figure out how much we're owed, because we know that some of the uh residents have passed away, some no longer own or have moved out of the state and don't know about it.

So just because it's all of our money, who's gonna be the hero?

That's all I want to know is who's gonna be our hero.

Whoever does it, we will stand behind you 100% in our best outfit.

That's all I have to say.

Thank you as well.

Good morning.

Good morning.

I'm here to comment on the billing that's going up or proposed on Van Dyke and Ketchuba.

Um, I got on is a lot of reason why we shouldn't build the bill in there.

All right, no, I would say it's so congested right now.

If you own Kutchba and gonna make a left on Van Dyke at the same time, somebody on Van Dyke and make a right on Ketchua, it's a funny feeling now because it's so closed.

Now you are taking you gonna build a building.

They don't have enough parking, they don't have parking for the people that gonna live in the building.

And well, what they say, well, the people can take the bus.

Nobody wants to be living in a building, they can't take visit, have nobody business and so forth.

They got to take the bus.

That's uh and anybody come behind me and say, Well, they got pocket, they just a flat foot lie call.

They don't have the parking that the city require to for the resident to have.

Now, you take business, they don't spend thousands a few years ago, thousand thousand and dollars fixing the raw iron fence.

The next year they turn around there and strapped it.

Now, the last couple of years, they've been fixing their parking lot now and steps around.

They got fired.

Thank you.

That's your time, Mr.

Dale.

Sorry about that.

Um, if you don't mind, I can get your information and um also ensure that we connect you and the community with the developer to see how we can negotiate and talk through some of the issues that you all are having over there.

So, Mr.

Dale, I have Brian White and my team behind you get your information so we can reach out to you to see how we can maybe get a meeting to talk about some of the challenges you all are facing over there with party.

Well, can I just say this point?

We we're not really allowed to go back and forth during public.

No, no, no, no, this is something.

October the first, we had they had a hand on Zoom, and the lady kept taking everybody that was food for the uh building to come up.

Once she got to the people that wasn't for it, she took two people and canceled it.

I mean, just two people and there's a whole bunch of people wanting to come on, but that that's not right.

Okay, thank you so much, Mr.

Dale.

So we'll let me get your information.

I know you very well, been working with you for years.

I'll get your information and let's see if we can coordinate something between our office and the community to try to uh bring some uh improvements over there.

Okay.

So thank you for coming down.

We'll get your information, sir.

Nobody should be for that building.

Yep, thank you so much.

And Ari, if you can make sure the timer sound is on, I don't think we can hear it right now.

Ms.

Simpson.

Apologies, it it will not let me share my sound today for some reason.

Okay.

Good morning, council.

My name is Annette L.

Simpson, and I was a candidate in the mayor's race in the August um 25 um 2005 25 election.

And I just wanted to address the council and address Mary Sheffield.

I'm suing her because um there was some discrepancies in the election prior as people voting from addresses that wasn't their address, um, registered on the voters' file.

And I'm asking um for audit of the election.

So I had some um summits the court and I also um sent the summons to your home, and I want to know why you haven't responded.

And I'm looking forward to hear an answer as very well.

It's uh very soon.

Thank you.

So I want to know when you when are you going to that information was forwarded over to uh an attorney.

I don't make the decisions of the election, so I don't know why I was personally being sued, but we will definitely ensure that it is given to the appropriate entities to respond.

Okay.

Okay.

Thank you so much.

All right, thank you.

All right.

Joyce Jennings Phil's.

Teresa Davis.

And last uh Letitia McCall.

Good morning.

Good morning.

I'm here today to speak in honor of the legacy of my husband, Cleveland Fells Jr.

When it comes to the area that is bound between Mount Elliott up to Van Dyke, Mac over to Jefferson.

My husband was born in that area, grew up in that area.

He formed MEPCA, the Mount Elliott Business Association.

He garnered and received 300 million dollars in support of the development of the area where he grew up.

And I know his vision was not to have the recreation center, land or parking taken to build development that the residents and the heirs of our city would live in or to displace people in that community.

He grew up with 1816 Meldra off of Kirchhoff.

For the past year, my oldest daughter, Faith Fells, she lived in the apartment building on Van Dyke and Kirchhoff.

It is very congested in that area.

One day, one weekend, she borrowed one of my vehicles, and it was the day that the trash was being removed and the arms from the truck of the track for picking up trash damage the side of my vehicle.

So if it's that way on what now it's going to become worse.

Thank you so much.

Morning, Council members.

My name is Teresa Davis, and um I want to oppose the planning and development for section 19 and the chapter 50 uh zoning.

Um let's see.

I'm here to advocate for equity and financial stability for our long-term residents.

We seek growth that is fair to ensure development doesn't lead to displacement.

We propose an anti-displacement clause to legally stabilize the prop the property tax rate for residents who have lived here for 10 years or more and qualify for tax relief programs.

This ensures that those who stayed and invested here can truly afford to remain.

Our commitment is clear.

We want to build a thriving city that protects its historic stakeholders.

We respectfully ask the city council, the council to support this essential step towards preventing tax-driven displacement.

We are committed stakeholders, and we ask for zoning changes that reflect equity.

Also, um, we are definitely against the building of the uh apartment by uh arrived development on Bustle Parking lot.

We have a petition with right now 271 people who is opposing against that um development over there.

We do not want them to take our park, and we do not want them to um build an apartment building on Butson parking space.

Also, um for conditional use um and improve input approval.

Thank you.

Okay, so I can speak with them back here so I can get okay.

Yep, yep.

If you all are here for uh this proposed project in District 5, um but so uh we'll get your information and we will facilitate a meeting to kind of get we would love to have a meeting because uh we'll be definitely opposed.

Thank you so much.

Yep.

Hello, city council.

My name is Letitia McCall, and I am opposing the planning and development of chapter 50, section 19.

Um, I am a representative residents concerned with the consistency of our neighborhood, specifically R1 and R2 district to foster confidence in our residential core.

We respectfully ask the council to strike the application of these zoning amendments from all R1, R2 districts.

These areas must remain firmly established as single family and two family districts only.

The proposed allowance for four unrelated roommates and potential for unconscious race and destiny threatens the stability of these core residential blocks by maintaining the integrity of R1R2.

You signal respect for the current homeowners and to help ensure the predictable high quality of life.

We seek consistency and progress preservation.

Please preserve our R1 and R2 districts as they stand.

Thank you.

And also no to the ripe and development affordable housing on Van Dyke.

Thank you so much.

All right, Denise Copeland.

Good morning, Council.

Um my name is Denise Copeland.

And I'm here regarding also to say to oppose the planning and development for chapter 15, Section 19.

What's going on?

Um about the equity and the basic city services, which is a paramount to our daily quality of life.

We propose adding a clean clause to guarantee a significant increase in the city-funded lawn mowing sessions for vacant lots and open fields along with proactive city responsible sidewalk repair on residential blocks.

Currently, maintenance efforts often focus heavily on the city's outskirts or major thoroughfares through, I'm sorry, true investments and beautification starts on our residential blocks, ensuring safety for pedestrians and removing brought removing blight where we live.

We need assurance that our tax dollars are invested with equity and priority for our current residential stakeholders.

We need investments where we live.

Please support the clean clause.

Thank you.

And I also say no to arriving at the development of affordable housing as well.

Thank you.

Okay.

Thank you as well.

Ms.

Ann Boulet.

Followed by Walker Brown.

Followed by Kenneth Halloway.

Good morning.

My name is Ann Goulet.

I am here today to request that City Council amend Charter Section 2-103 to add a requirement for all elected and appointed city officials to take an oath of office in support of the charter of the city of Detroit.

I think that this amendment is needed because currently elected and appointed city officials are not required to take any oath of office in support of the city charter.

They are only required to take oaths of office in support of federal and state constitutions.

However, the charter outlines how the public's money is supposed to be used and not used by Detroit's elected and appointed city officials when they do their work for the people of Detroit.

And the Charter states that the people of Detroit quote, pledge that our officials elected and appointed will be held accountable to fulfill the intent of this charter.

Without a required oath of office in support of the charter, the door is left wide open for city officials to avoid accountability for complaints about policies, laws, ordinances, and actions that violate the intent of the charter.

Thank you in advance for your consideration of this request.

It can also help to increase organizational focus, transparency, efficiency, and reduce waste, fraud, and corruption.

Please refer me to committee as needed.

I'm happy to pursue this with you, and a copy of these comments will be sent to you afterwards.

Thank you.

Mr.

Mr.

Brown, watch a brown, followed by Mr.

Holloway, followed by Mr.

Cunningham.

Good morning, counsel.

By sure, Hand, how many took the bus to get to work this morning?

No, I don't think so.

Uh I'm opposed to these uh extending these both platforms.

All I see they do is slow down traffic, especially in the right-hand lane.

And it takes three to four minutes for the buses uh to move and pick up passenger, and all that does is just back up traffic behind that bus.

Um what I do see is seniors standing with bags in their hands, one with canes in our hands, another woman holding her child in our hand, students with backpacks and books standing waiting for the bus.

What about just adding benches for those people to sit on as they wait for these buses?

Apparently, the bus our standards is getting from 30 minutes to 45 minutes waiting on the bus.

And if we can help them uh go through their day a little better or help their student decide to go to school that day instead of waiting for the bus going home or coming or going to school, I think that will be a big help.

And also, I was at the uh Bell A Bell Air Conservancy meeting uh in October.

I think uh council needs to send somebody at these meetings where we can understand what's going on in uh at Bell A.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Brown.

Thank you, sir.

Morning.

Problem I had the other day.

I was downtown, and I see all this money coming through there, and we don't have space for black vendors down there when they had these big gangs.

Chef Ms.

Shepfield, what are you gonna do if you get in the mayor position to bring black vendors to downtown area that we have?

Uh, when these games and all these events that's going on is sad.

We can't get none of the money.

Ain't no money coming over there off of warren.

Ain't no money coming in there, you know, over there where you came to when you knocked on my door, and no money coming over there.

You see the neighborhood how it is, you know.

Uh Dugan, you know, put that plan over there, which he should have brought us out over there in them how in the housing over there from smelling them fumes.

You know, Doug and you we all know Doug is not right.

He didn't threw a rock and he had his hand.

They done took all our land, they took all our uh uh uh Bell Arn uh uh they took uh Eastern Market.

We need our resource back, the lighting company, the water.

Now he's moving on, and he's leaving it in the next mayor's hand.

So y'all better be careful, you know.

Uh, when you get in that position, because they go come at you and try to find out why all this is like it is, you know.

He's sitting up there claiming he wasn't gonna back nobody, and then all of a sudden he turned around and back.

He's talking about he won a Democrat or Republican.

We don't know what it is.

I know he's doing some wrong.

I know he could do it wrong, over tax the 600 million dollars, and they gave us back our money that we deserve.

Thank you.

Thank you, something like this.

Mr.

Cunningham, followed by Fidel L, followed by Marcia Kimball.

Good morning.

Good morning, good morning.

Uh 313, 444, 9114, 313, 444, 914.

That number was made so you can remember it.

And on Facebook, not enemy, not enemy.

Um, so uh Karen Chief Kirkpatrick, the honorable girl and cheesecope because she brought lots of money in the city to build the Rosa Parks Transit Center, um, the Samaritan Center, just things that there's so much more that she did.

I'm a transit advocate, and I really appreciate that Rosa Parks Transit Center.

Um, and what she brought.

Last week I talked about um an issue I had.

Um, and we text back and forth, and every everything was resolved and everything.

I wasn't being aggressive or anything like that.

Um, but Scott Benson, I appreciate you, sir.

Um responding via text and uh getting that resolved.

I appreciate that.

Um, there is a mayor meeting tomorrow in the sixth district.

There's only two left for the entire year.

There's only two left for the entire year.

Um my Facebook page, I have that information.

I don't have it on top of my head.

They should provide flyers so I can pass them out when they have these mirror meetings, let people know what's going on in that area in that vicinity.

Um, and y'all have a great week.

I'm praying for you guys at home, each and every council person.

Uh, from honorable Scott Benson to Honorable Durh, all y'all.

I love you and bringing today.

Thank you.

You as well, Mr.

Cunningham.

Thank you, sir.

Did y'all get the uh picture?

Yeah, we did.

Thank you for that.

We all have a copy.

Everybody, all right.

Thank you so much.

All right, we have Fidel L followed by Marcia Kimball, followed by Miss Denise Davis.

Detroit, welcome to the lowest life, the devil is city council in all of America, corrupt and moral, the Detroit City Council.

Hey, don't sit here, Detroit uh residents and people in office and let them fool y'all.

They just had three women up here that's non-majority gonna tell us about the future of Detroit in the next 20 years about the majority, and you got all these women right here.

Hey, to y'all with uh with the bustle issue.

If she's engaged with y'all, y'all, y'all would have told her we don't want that, so don't go for that.

The oldest crackhead, raw head game is give me your number, we're gonna get back with you, and they ain't gonna do nothing.

So understand this here.

Look at them, they won't even look you in your face.

Look at them.

Hey, hey, hey, Romares, the LBT, T, whatever they is, they not the majority.

Won't you address the majority?

We the majority.

Take yourself, any one of y'all city count, take yourself out to Lavonia and say we're gonna develop what white people in Lavonia, who are the majority, they're gonna tell you, man, get your black self out of here.

Go to Dearborn and Dearborn Heights and tell them hey, we're gonna develop what y'all are gonna do the next week.

Guess what they're gonna tell you?

Man, if you don't get your sucking stuff out of here, only y'all low life college educated Christians come up with this plan to not give us back our money and let somebody else speak up for us.

Y'all are the devils, political thugs wanna be gangsters.

I don't wish y'all know what y'all gonna get.

Go straight to head.

All right, yeah.

Exactly.

Miss Kimball.

Followed by Denise Davis.

My name is Smith Campbell, and I'm gonna start off with is a no for me for the arrival um development affordable housing.

Kirchable is a mess.

It looked like a hoarded house, stuff everywhere, and now they're talking about a turnaround that's right up in where the area where we have one school for our kids at.

It's an issue already with parents dropping off and picking up on Van Dyke.

So now we want to congest it even more.

And our street lights.

We have none, we have tea candles, we need street lights.

We're talking about safety.

Give us some light through that community first, Miss Sheffield.

You've been down here plenty of times when you needed things for us.

We came through for you.

It's your turn now.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Denise Davis, followed by Cynthia Perry.

Followed by Toya Watts.

Morning.

Morning.

Where do I stop?

We've been in um Iden View neighborhood for 56 years since 1956.

Sorry, but um my parents are gone.

And the neighborhood Kirchville is a mess.

Also, we cannot buy the lots on our block.

And it's supposed to be homeowners come first.

It's a mess over there.

I'm a little nervous.

I don't know what's going on.

Um we've been going to the meetings, and we've been telling them that we do not want that property, that apartment building on Kirchville.

Now y'all take him from our lots, take him from the park to put parking over there, telling us we can go in through the back door.

It's a shame.

It's a shame.

We don't even know who's trying to come in the neighborhood and put them apartment buildings over there, and then they say affordable houses.

There's nothing affordable over there.

Then y'all trying to go up on our taxes.

I yield back.

Thank you.

Good morning.

My name is Cynthia Perry.

Um, I'm here.

I've I've had brain surgery, so just bear with me several times.

This thing that you guys are trying to do, it's really awful.

Because what you're trying to do as far as bustle is concerned, and affordable housing and everything that you guys are putting into it, it's not right.

It's not right, and you all should be ashamed because we live in this neighborhood.

We have lived in this neighborhood for myself.

I'm 68 years old.

I don't think that somebody should come in and dictate what they're gonna put in the neighborhood.

I don't eat with my dog.

You got a restaurant running that have dogs coming in there with wagging tails and carrying on and stuff like that.

Unsantitary, unsanitary.

This is that's for white folks, and I'm just gonna say it like that because black folks don't eat with their dogs.

You guys uh are trying to take our uh our uh um in other words.

We have uh our own houses.

I understand about this bail thing, but it takes me a while to get my point across, yeah.

You're you're they building 400,000 homes in our neighborhood.

The taxes is gonna go up to some crazy.

Who's going to be able to afford to be in these houses?

Thank you, ma'am.

Thank you so much.

That's your time.

Thank you.

We also oppose the bylaw um statement.

Sorry, you cannot do that.

You've already had your your time to speak.

You cannot speak again, so let's just be respectful of the process and the rules here.

Toya watts followed by Martin White.

Morning.

My name is Toya Watts, the president of Charlotte Void Village Association in Island View.

I'm here today to speak on an RFP of Fred M.

Butzel Family Center that we utilize every day of our lives.

It was built in 1975 under Coleman Young's watch.

Okay, and so what I'm getting at is it is utilized.

It's a piece of cement that we use, a parking lot that don't look like nothing, but we utilize this parking space, and y'all coming down here with this RFP for apartment building when we got so much, so much plentiful land that y'all gonna inconvenient us to utilize the building that is our community hub in our backyard that Mary Sheffield utilized with her staff, Coleman.

You usualize it with your staff, and you live in our backyard, and you don't see this coming for us at all, something wrong with you guys.

Come on now, don't take something we've been utilizing for generation after generation.

They intimately domain a whole block to put this center in, they took the parents' homes, they took my family home to put the center up, and now all of a sudden this word gentrification and density come along, and you're gonna build an apartment building on this lot, and now we're gonna use the back door to get in, like we the help to the building.

You're not messing with any other community center.

So why is she picking Curchable?

But one more thing I got to say, I'm gonna be like every king.

Ain't no love in the heart of the city of Detroit.

If you time is all good morning, good morning, madam president, city council members.

My name is Martin White, I'm president of the Indian Village Association.

I'm here to strongly and vigorously protest some of the language and the amendments under the planning and economic development standing committee 19.2, 19.1.

The very language in here tells us exactly where some of this is going.

And people have worked hard over the years to maintain and develop that neighborhood.

Everything that's being done now is in place, and the buzzword is density, density does not mean quality.

You have language in here that says you want to revise the definition of family to increase the number of unrelated persons qualifying as family from two to four.

Let me share with you definition that you can pull up, and I invite all the audience to pull it up.

You can get it from on your chat GPT, you can get it on your AI apps, boarding house by definition.

A boarding house is a building where three or more unrelated persons meet individual rooms are ready.

Thank you, sir.

I know my time is up, but you pass this particular item.

Someone else's time may be up as well.

Okay, thank you so much.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Vincent DePa.

Yes, yes.

Followed by Joshua Lamir.

Good morning.

All right, Castle members.

Uh my name is uh Vincent De Paul.

My name is Vincent DePaul.

Ajago.

I am the president of this organization called Community.

Sherry Temple 7.

I am here today to ask how can I partner with you to deliver our services?

Unemployment rate in Detroit is what?

10.2.

Also in uh mission of this organization is to jump training and your placement.

I want to know how I can be able to partner with you so we can uh improve the living standard.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

If you can just um leave your information, we'll make sure all of the colleagues get a copy of your presentation and um Paris Blessing right here.

All right, thank you so much.

All right, Joshua Lemire, followed by Tanya Wells.

Good morning.

I uh I'm always either early or late.

Um, I just came in to uh uh how you say uh express uh my want and desire for uh George Clinton Wade on uh let's call that second avenue in 94.

But you know, naming stuff is one thing, but but having access to things is another thing.

United Sound Studios has been owned by MDOT for like a decade.

And uh Aretha Franklin recorded there, John Lee Hooker recorded there.

Parliament Funkadelic recorded there, and I think children uh and uh you know, young musicians in the city should have access to that studio.

It's uh to this day one of the only uh independent music studios in the country, and it's sitting there rotting, but again, I'm dang, I'm early to the party.

That was supposed to be uh Thursday's agenda, but uh um but yeah, there's just there's no reason um for for what's happening on uh on Van Dyke and Kirchable.

The city's 140 square miles, and uh you know I'm not gonna echo what everybody has already said, it's congested.

And who the hell eats with their dog?

Ugh.

Ugh.

Well, hang on, one more time.

And I'll use the last 10 seconds of my time for a moment of silence for Samantha Wool.

We lost her 10 20 two years ago, and this time of year is extremely difficult for me and uh everybody in this great state of Michigan's thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Uh, just really quick to uh the residents from Island View and Miss Watts as well, too.

This has not come before the Detroit City Council.

The city council also does not issue a request for proposal, so that did not that was not initiated from the city council.

Uh, I know that there has been some meetings that have been held with the administration in community, uh, but again, there has been no formal action or anything actually even submitted to the city council regarding this proposal.

But I do appreciate you all coming down.

Ms.

Watts, you have my number, Raymond's number, Brian's number, Tyler's numbers, everyone's number on our staff.

So please just give us a call uh and reach out to us, and we will work with all of you all to ensure that the issues that were addressed um today that were here addressed, we will address with the developers as well.

So thank you all for coming down.

We can't go back and forth, Ms.

Watson for I just wanted the record to be clear that this is not before the city council, nor has uh the council initiated an RFP for that project.

So thank you all for coming.

All of it will come before council.

Yes, it has not, we have not voted on it yet.

But again, we would love to host a meeting with you guys in the development team to make sure we're all on the same page.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you all.

Okay, okay, thank you guys.

All right, I was giving honor to work out officials to his son and my savior, my friend, my doctor, my lawyer, my all and all.

Jesus Christ of Nazareth, giving thanks and praise to my family for raising me as a religious person.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against rulers and against spiritual wickedness in high paid places.

Therefore, take unto you the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand the in the evil day, having done all two stand, therefore having your loins girt about with truth and having your breastplate of righteousness and having your feet shot with the preparation of the gospel and the breastplate of righteousness, above all, taking the shield of faith wherewith you shall be able to quench the fiery darts of the wicked and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God.

I stand here in place of bold encouragement to my fellow neighbors, women and children who are still homeless as I am, victims.

On page 12 of this 20-page, uh, I don't know what you call this thing this.

I asked Les two weeks ago to speak to council under number 20 says to speak to Detroit City Council, Santiago Remero.

Sorry if I butchered the name a little bit.

I don't know how to speak Spanish no more.

All right, asked to speak to this council regarding building safety and engineering.

Thank you, thank you.

I wasn't contacted correctly to be able to be prepared.

I'm gonna I'm just gonna say I think we'll get to that item when we get to the agenda.

I was not properly given information to be here so that I could I can stand and do my 15 minutes correctly and properly so I can speak to uh date and time.

Yes, well, we might discuss that petition when it comes up, and we will make sure if it's approved, you are notified of when you come speak.

Oh, I see.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you, Mr.

Foster.

Good morning through the president.

Um, first merely having a title is not enough.

In recent time, doctors have proven to be untrustworthy.

So have some clergy.

Ministers are titled to care for the needs of people.

And while uh respect and appreciate our clergy and our ministers, there is a difference.

Some clergy have come down and celebrated the reversal of Brown versus Board of Education.

While some ministers preach your community and provide needs to community and encourage the community to keep the Ten Commandments, and so we have to know the difference between clergy and ministers.

Um of our clergy have become corrupt, some have sex assaults, some have brothels and work centers, and so we can no longer just trust in titles.

One of the reasons that I come down here, and I hope everybody looked it up, is Khalif Broader.

When we talk about children in this community, we talk about a young man that is 16 that was jailed for three years without a trial, beaten daily by gangs and girls because he would not join the game.

He was in solitary confinement for 90% of his time because he did not capitulate to government.

He met Jay-Z, he ended up committing suicide.

I am at the government has a role in mental illness.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Foster.

We will go to our virtual callers now.

Good morning, madam president.

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

And the first caller is Crystal Rice.

Thank you for taking.

Um, listen to me.

Good morning.

Um, Mary Sheffield, I don't know what your relationship with Mark Sever is.

Um you find ways to be absent for all these committees, the homeless task force and other committees, but you found the time to go to a funded Trump event and to get collect your check.

Now, what do you have to do to get that check?

And this man is trying to capitalize on the weed industry, which could push out 20 black-owned businesses, not only um the small businesses in Detroit as a whole, but 20 of them are black owned.

I am so sick of tired of black businesses not being represented downtown.

What are you going to do about that?

And there's something going on with you and something.

I don't know what kind of relationship you you endorse.

I mean, Trump, I mean, Doug and same person.

Endorsed by it was endorsed.

Um he endorsed you, but you you don't think we don't know you got some promises with that, something going with that.

You got to do better.

Thank you, Mary Waters.

Thank you, Callaway, for helping me with my water.

I do appreciate that.

But we got to do better with black owned businesses because this being the tail of two cities is real.

And as for bustle, I grew up in Bustle.

I was one of the beneficiaries that got a free lunch during the summer.

I hope as big as the empty apartments up and down.

Y'all talk about a portable house.

Fix the hood, not downtown.

Put more black businesses.

All right, thank you.

The next caller is Tahira Amada.

Good morning, Miss Tahira Mid.

Good morning.

Good morning, uh, President and uh next mayor, uh Mary Sheffield.

Uh, and uh next mayor, uh, Mary Sheffield.

Uh, I'm not gonna bash you because you are our best hope right now.

Um, I I did say I was gonna support Ken Locke, but I realize that you have been our friend.

I mean, you're not perfect, nobody is perfect.

Um, you have helped us preserve the most important thing in our city, and that is our shelter.

Right now, if you want to rent a place to live, it's gonna be 14,000, 1400 a month, and we have legacy homes that we're counting on you to preserve, and we appreciate you passing the property tax reform ordinance.

I know I've been one of the ones who've been bashing you, and I I'm not gonna say bashing you, but I criticize you, and I'm gonna support you.

I wanna make you help you be the first black female president.

I mean mayor in Detroit.

Uh, you may even go to be president, but we need your advocacy.

We need a black woman that knows about children, and Angela Winfield Callie, Callaway, you are a she roll.

You've been cleaning us up over here on in in D2.

And you're so tiny, you're a superhero.

You stand up for us and council, and you stand up for us in the hood.

All right, thank you so much.

The next caller is William M.

Davis.

Mr.

Davis, good morning.

Good morning.

Can I be heard?

Yes, you can.

Okay, I like to start off by saying that the city of Detroit can do better.

The city of Detroit can and should do better.

You know, just during the time that um Mr.

Duggan has been in office.

The city of Detroit went from like the 18th largest city in America to the 26th largest city, and maybe dropping more.

You know, we need to make sure more is done to not just help the city chart retirees, which y'all know that y'all should, and and y'all really could have, and could do a lot more.

But just looking at the children, the child property in Detroit has gotten worse.

Child property in the city of Detroit is three times the national average.

The mayor should be ashamed.

You know, there's over a billion dollars came in to help do something about what was going on.

He could have saved a lot of city Detroit retirees, a lot of other people from dying.

He chose not to.

He could have done a whole lot more to help the average black and brown person in the city of Detroit.

He chose not to.

You know, it seems as his primary focus has been to continue to be white business people, millionaires and billionaires.

Since I'm not a millionaire and a billionaire, I guess he doesn't care about how many of us die.

But I hope the city will change his course and start doing better and start helping more of our people.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

The next caller is owner Papa.

Okay, good morning.

Oh, good morning, and through the chair, may I be heard?

Yes, you can.

Yes, the presentation was very interesting.

And I, Mr.

Fidel, you're absolutely right.

We have three white women that come up and tell us the future of the city of Detroit.

And they say their plan goals.

Their first plan goal was to improve quality of life in the neighborhoods.

Failure, three times the poverty rate of the national average.

Grow and strengthen Detroit's economy.

Failure.

You're taking our property tax dollars and you're going to plug holes of the corporations.

You guys should be wearing SS badges because this is fascism.

Uh focus density to support services and amenities.

What does that mean?

Uh make it safer and easier to get around.

Okay.

DOT is a mess.

People call all the time, come down there and complain about the bus system.

You guys are dismal failures in all that the goals plan.

Oh no, maybe that is the goal.

Maybe the goal is to run us out of the city so that so that we don't have quality of life.

If you think people in the neighborhoods have quality of life, you you have another thing coming.

The man asked who who rode the bus.

No, you didn't ride the bus this morning because we buy you cars and we we give you cars to drive.

Uh fiery darts, yes.

Duggan is giving you the darts, and you're throwing the darts at the people.

So, yes, we have to put on all our armor when we deal with you because this is devilish.

You have three times the poverty rate of the national average.

You are number three in crime, and you sit there and spend billions of our dollars to resolve these issues, but they don't.

Okay, thank you.

The next caller is phone number ending in 169.

Hello, can you guys hear me?

Yes, we can.

Okay, great.

I just want to say thank you for praying for Brother Cunningham and holding him down his bag.

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Okay, thank you.

Dropped off.

Okay.

All right, thank you.

Uh the next caller is not that Karen.

Okay, good morning.

Hello.

Yes, good morning.

Good morning.

Um President Sheffield, um your debate with uh Reverend Kenlock.

You you um said that uh retirees had gotten two 13th checks.

Well, we didn't, only the police and fire.

General general retirees, we didn't get that.

I don't know if you thought we did or not, but I just want to correct that.

We did not get a 13th check.

What we did get was a piece of check this past May, one time for 464 dollars, which is not like a 13th check.

And um, I believe it was the 13th checks that caused the bankruptcy.

That's what they said that it caused the pension funds to become insolvent.

So we don't want to do that again.

We we can't stand, we the general retirees can't stand another decrease in our pension checks.

Hopefully, when you guys get ready to retire, the pension fund won't be depleted again.

But these 13th checks will definitely help to deplete um, you know, the pension funds, especially at the rates that are given out to police and fire.

Um winter is coming.

We got to get the homeless, we got to get the kids and the single parents um the families off the streets.

Uh, we got to get them in housing.

Uh the repurposing of the Renaissance would be great to help to process um to end you know, progress towards homelessness uh issue, and we definitely got to do that.

We gotta have take time to get the retirees made whole.

We got to get the 600 million dollar over taxation property tax resolved.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

The next caller is Frank Hammer.

Good morning, Frank Hammer.

Good morning.

This is Karen Hammer.

Thank you, Council President Mary Sheffield, for your strong assertion in the mayoral debate on Channel 7 TV that as a mayor you would defend Detroit against outside invasion by governmental forces.

This contrasts with the weak response of your opponent who referenced cooperation, downplaying the threat to our national and local laws and the constitutional balance of power.

Detroit should protect its well-being as a diverse, equitable, and inclusive city.

Related but separate is how would the next mayor deal with public libraries and the DPS.

Increasing communication is fine, but DPS must have active city support.

Public schools are the backbone of our community, the most democratic way to educate our children, and they are anti-poverty.

They accept all students where charter schools turn away those who have mental psychological and physical disabilities.

Public schools have an elected school board, proven professional standards of learning and curriculum, and a unionized workforce that protects wages and rights of teachers.

The next mayor should increase support.

All right.

Thank you, Ms.

Hammer.

The next caller is Tyson Gersh.

Okay.

Tyson, good morning.

Hi, can you hear me?

Yes, we can.

Hi.

Um, I guess uh for I think it's item 19.2, the general text amendment.

Um I just on behalf of our neighborhood association, which has sent uh counsel uh fairly detailed letter this morning about it.

Um please don't vote.

Yes, to pass it through.

Um it's not the most serious of the text amendment proposals, but there is some very serious language and changes within the package.

Um, specifically uh uh uh uh section 50-14-111 off street loading um in the alleyway being allowed in the residential uses, uh the credit for public parking, which I'm a bit confused to see this still on the proposal because uh member Johnson motioned to have it removed during the public hearing last week, and it appears that it's still on it.

So I don't understand why that's there.

Um 50-9-104, 50-9-11.

Um, the by right mixed uh residential use in the business districts.

Um, and sorry, I'm trying to like read this while I'm talking.

It's a little difficult.

Um, I I don't think all these things should be packaged into one thing in this way and shouldn't be getting reviewed alongside three other text amendments.

All right, thank you, Tyson.

The next caller is Cristana Anderson.

All right, good morning.

My comments and all questions are for official record, and if you don't answer right now, I will take a written response from District 3's current council person or anyone on the council that has some integrity.

First, I would like to say that another disgraceful part of public comment is that you all only respond when council feels insulted.

If you can take time to respond to offenses, why don't you respond to actual problems that need expeditious attention?

This process needs to be critiqued to be more effective for the people and not the time restraints of the council.

Which fund is the 750k dollars coming from for the these community intervention groups?

Why isn't the community a whole in as a whole involved in the selecting process of the groups we want to serve in our neighborhood?

Is our elected officials using the CVI groups as protection on the street while they are campaigning for election or re-election?

Have any of you in the election brought up to the attention of the department election department that the print on the ballot is too small and demonstrates voter suppression and displays no regard for our visual impaired residents?

I do support residents opposing amendments are in one that have a negative impact on our well-being for our residents.

I do not support any plans that force residents out of their home nor pollute or contaminate our air.

I do support elected and appointed officials taking an oath to the charter of accountability.

Whereas there is an oath, no oath to uphold and execute the okay.

Thank you so much.

The next caller is calling user two.

Good morning.

Yes, you can.

When they wash it down, it's only clean water.

Why is no disinfectant being used?

If you go to Greyhound, even smart, you'll never see metal detectors just to ask the question.

I find that very appalling.

I'm disappointed that Victoria told me she was gonna email me to let me know about your public meeting for the evening and lie and did not do that.

A liar shall not tarry in God's eyesight.

You will give accountability.

Do not let no more children freeze to death like you did, Tatiana Williams.

You're gonna pay for that.

But you made sure illegal migrants were put up in best of hotels.

Election is around the corner.

Time to show Detroit.

What can you do versus what you cannot do?

Three years.

You have not done nothing.

You have a buck terminal that's leaning glass shelter, leaning that's harmful to the kids in your right.

Thank you so much, Miss Shay.

The next caller is Cindy Dara.

Cindy Dara, good morning.

Good morning, Cindy Dara.

Yes, um, can you hear me?

Oh can you hear me?

Yes, okay.

Um I just want to say on the master plan, 20 years from now, but I predict if you don't change the property tax thing.

What you're gonna have is gentrified, gentrified Detroit.

If you got enough money, you can live in a gated community and you'll be safe in your castle.

That's that's the way it's going.

And uh it the headly amendment may protect the current residents from paying more taxes, but as soon as that house and in the village gets sold, and then they start saying, well, it's worth more money because uh these other buildings are worth more money around it comparable.

That's the way we do it now.

Uh that they have to pay it, and uh, who's gonna be able to afford it?

And maybe it maybe you're gonna have to have three or four people living in those big houses if we don't have families with children that can afford to live in those houses.

So I saw that with Boston Edison too, but I'm running as a Friday in Canada for city clerk, and uh I want you to look at electionscience.org.

Now, tonight at the Detroit Public Library, the main library, at from 6 to 745, rank choice voting is having their little meeting to promote themselves.

There it's gonna be on if they get enough signatures, it'll go on the ballot for constitutional amendment.

It's not as good as approval voting.

Go to electionscience.org and look.

All right, thank you, Ms.

Dara.

The next caller is Riley.

Good morning, Riley.

Good morning, Rylan.

Good morning.

Can I be heard?

Yes, you can.

Um I wanted to make a comment on Mr.

Benson's as an alleged taking the fire or his staff taking a fire department person to run against council woman uh at large Mary Waters.

I would never never vote against waters because waters look out for the residents.

Some might not think so, but I fear she does.

Number two, your staff, Mr.

Benson was at the police precinct level precinct hearing.

Well, I mean that we have every month or whatever, and they he was passing out your bags, and he had literature in there, but he gives me an empty bag.

Don't get an attitude because I want new over here in district three.

12 years, look at district three.

If you are like I said before, I want to know what city council has rolled through district three.

It looks like a Beirut.

Then we got fences everywhere and all that stuff.

So, Mr.

Benson, I'm not voting for you, I'm voting for Crestonna Anderson.

It's time for a new face in the place because you're not doing for everybody, you're only doing for some, and that's leaving us out.

So, therefore, I'm not voting.

Vote in District 3, Crassina Anderson for City Council.

For those to hear my voice, ride through district three and see what I'm talking about.

Then you know where I want to.

All right, thank you so much.

Next caller.

The next caller is Jedante Smith.

Jadante Smith, good morning.

Okay, let's come back, please.

The next caller.

Okay.

The next caller is Renard Manchunski.

Okay, good morning.

Hi, good morning.

Can I be heard?

Yes, you can.

Hi, good morning, madam president and members of council.

Um my name is Renard Moschensky, District 6 resident.

And I wanted to speak to the Detroit uh football club soccer stadium project.

Although I'm not in the um impact zone, um, as a transit writer, um, as an essential writer, meaning that transit is the central to my livelihood of being here and it's uh my way of soul means of traveling around the city.

Um, for folks that live along uh Michigan Avenue and in Southwest Detroit, uh the stadium is going to transform the area.

And I just want to speak to these demands for shuttle transit and um other forms of transit that does not um encourage increased ridership with DDoP.

If we actually increase the frequency of the route of Michigan number two route and the other routes that uh intersect with Michigan, we could actually have um less parking on the streets and less land use for parking.

Um, because without a bus only lane or transit only land on Michigan Avenue, umward what the stadiums that we have will get crowded, and that bus only lane really helps with uh T Dop buses, the smart buses, and the Q line service so that traffic is not interrupting.

Um transit riders need to get around the city, and we need to consider that for the Michigan Avenue project.

And I think the bus riders need more consideration in this project instead of specialized transit.

Um that's for private use.

All right, thank you, Renard Boshanski.

The next caller is phone number ending in 482.

All right, good morning.

Can you hear me clearly?

Yes, we can check here.

I told your daddy, and he do skip up in the mix.

So I'm gonna make this real straight to the point.

The ventrification process that's underway in the city of Detroit is reprehensible.

Now, the alumni Naughty, that's the key University of Michigan graduate, spread throughout the state of Michigan, the county of Wayne, and the city of Detroit.

You know all about them.

You've been there long enough to know exactly what I'm talking about when I say alumni naughty.

Now you just got engaged to be married, but you ain't made no announcement about a month ago.

You had an engagement party.

I know one of the people that attended the party, a friend of a friend of a friend.

She was a guest at that party where you got engaged.

You ain't said nothing.

And I waited a month.

Now it's time to turn up to 1000.

Mimi won't what you want.

And y'all done voted me down for uh presenting information in the city council.

So I'm gonna take it to the street because I'm Mr.

Rue now, Mary Sheffield.

Everybody go vote for Solomon Kenlock.

Tell everybody over 18 that's black in the city of the city of Detroit to go out and vote for Solomon Kinlock because Mary Sheffield is in on the inn with the alumni Naughty, the alumni Naughty, those University of Michigan graduates that's in key financial position all throughout the state, the county.

All right, thank you.

The next caller is Miko A.

Williams.

All right, Mika Williams, good morning.

Hello, good morning.

Can I be heard, please?

Uh, prayers and uh well wishes to Malik Shabbaz.

What a great man he is, and it just makes me sad every day, you know.

We don't have anybody to fight for us no more.

Um, and I and I just hope that he recovers.

But anyway, let me just clarify the point.

Reverend Kenlock did not say yes.

He said when the question was asked, he said in a martial, not in the martial law way, but in a collaborative way.

We already have federal partners.

All we got to do is call Don Isam.

She goes to our church, and Don Issa would know what to do.

So that's not a valid uh you stop spreading misinformation.

That that's disingenuous.

And also, uh, I just want to say to my district five neighbors listening under the sound of my voice, Toya, Tyson, Joanne, others, residents, community.

Please don't vote for Renata Miller.

Uh, this lady is very, very dangerous.

She doesn't show up on time to places.

Uh, she has domestic violence issues, she hasn't paid her taxes, and she's a homophobe.

She has uh this day for LBGTQ that's over majority of district five.

This is not the lady, and she's paid for by dark money.

We can't even find her campaign finance reports, and madam president, did you endorse that woman?

Have you ever seen her?

Has she come down to city council?

She has not.

So why would you lend any endorsement instead of Willie Burden, who's been here for 12 years, same as you vote for Willie.

Thank you.

The next caller is iPhone.

Good morning.

Uh good morning.

This is Betty A.

Barner.

I'm talking low, y'all, because I'm at a doctor's appointment.

But I want to say uh good morning to all within the sound of my voice.

Uh, today I want to give kudos to honorable uh council member Callaway.

I appreciate her coming to my community, the Finco and Wyoming area.

Her, her team, and volunteers.

They came Saturday, they cleaned up that area.

They even uh went on the service drive of the lodge in the green lawn area and cleaned that area, reported a bandit vehicles and blighted areas.

I appreciate all the work that council member Callaway, her team, and the volunteers did to help my community be more of a improved neighborhood, improve the environment.

Kudos to you.

I thank you for all that you do.

And God willing, come January 26th, we'll be part of District 2.

Also, if there's anyone within the sound of my voice that need help in their homes, please contact DAAA 313 446 4444.

Ask for the My Choice to Waiver Program.

And if you're not thank you.

Good morning.

Good morning.

May I be heard?

Yes, good morning.

Good morning.

I was gonna say I had a long conversation with Councilman Tate out in the hallway about um the 13 amendments that Mary Water had.

He's claiming he didn't block them.

Might have had some misinformation last week about that, about the process around those amendments, but those are excellent amendments that uh council member waters brought forth for the land bank, and I appreciate those amendments.

Um, so sad to see that them, see that they were not passed through.

I also want to say uh Scott Benson, I love an explanation about how you're unable to influence or ask the administration to do certain things when it comes to the city, especially when it comes to boarding up houses.

I like to see, I like I love for your your policy analyst or expert to reach out to me and give me that section of the charter.

Um, like I asked you for um just because I feel like you're gonna make a statement like that and hide behind the charter.

I love for you to explain to me what the charter says around that amendment.

Also, D3 needs a different different level of leadership.

It's been very, very hard in D3 to get anything done under this under under Scott Benson.

I also want to say I appreciate so so much my D5 family coming down talking about the Bustler Family Center um and maintain that legacy because we we do love our center.

We do not want to see our center being torn up to do development.

Um, and it was just such a beautiful thing to see.

I came down a little bit too like to come in person, but I appreciate my D5 family sticking together.

We need to stick together like this all over the city when it comes to issues.

Make sure you use your voice, make sure you have everything that you do in your community.

Make sure you all right, thank you so much.

All right, that will conclude all of our public comment for this morning, and we will now proceed with our agenda for today for the budget finance and audit standing committee from the office of contracting and procurement.

Councilmember Durha, a resolution line item 17.1, contract number 600 5276-83, 100% city funding, amendment three to provide an increase of funds for professional auditing services, contractor stout, Rice S Ross LLC, total contract amount, 750,000.

That's for the auditor general.

Council member Durha, a resolution.

Councilmember Durha.

Thank you, Madam President.

Move for approval for line item 17.1.

All right.

Hearing no objections, the one resolution will be approved.

Request a waiver for line item 17.1, Madam President.

And hearing no objection, a waiver will be attached to 17.1.

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

Councilmember Durhal, a resolution, line item 17.2.

Councilmember Durha.

Thank you, Madam President.

And just moving for brief discussion.

Um as everybody knows, this is uh a resolution of authorization for an NEZ certificate for 96 newly built condominium units uh within the new Hudson's Tower with the Roscoe Development Company Neighborhood Enterprise Zone uh area.

So this is the NEZ certificate.

And uh this comes out of an agreement that was made by council uh years ago, community benefits agreement that this body approved uh three years ago.

Uh but during conversation, uh even in committee, uh we had a conversation with bedrock, who uh would like the opportunity to report how they're meeting that commitment, madam president.

It's my understanding that they are exceeding uh that commitment, which is a great thing.

Uh, but uh they want to take the step uh and show how they're meeting that that commitment.

Uh so madam president, with that being said, uh I would like to make a motion to send this back to committee uh to allow for that report uh to take place uh in committee.

That is my motion.

Okay.

All right.

Are there any objections?

Hearing none, that action will be taken.

Thank you, Member Durhaw.

Thank you, Madam President.

From the housing and revitalization department, council member Durhaw, a resolution line item 17.3.

Councilmember Durha.

Thank you, Madam President.

We had an opportunity to speak with the administration on this particular item, and they are asking that it be removed from the agenda.

A pilot is not going to be needed uh for this project.

So I'd like to make a motion to remove line item 17.3.

Right.

Are there any objections?

Hearing none, that action will be taken from the law department.

Yes, member Vincent.

Just a point of order.

Have we addressed line item 14?

Can you say that again, Member Vincent?

Can we address line item 14?

Number the appeal line items.

Yes, so that one that was referred to internal operations for the scheduling of a public uh for a hearing.

All right, thank you.

Discussion, quarter discussion.

Is it possible to have the law department and LPD speak to that either now or later in today's session?

Yep.

Just want to make sure that we educate colleagues about the importance of language around.

Yep.

So we will have um someone come up at uh after we get to the line items.

Okay, from the law department, madam president.

We are actually in the internal operations standing committee.

And from the law department, council member Johnson, eight resolutions, line items 18.1 through 18.8.

Councilmember Johnson.

Thank you, Madam President.

Move for approval, these are various lawsuit settlement requests.

All right.

Hearing no objections, the eight resolutions will be approved.

And member Benson, who did you want to speak?

Mr.

Whitaker.

Mr.

Whitaker and a representative of the law department.

Okay.

We can just do it now since we are into IOS.

Um Director Whitaker, we can just meet uh speak on the item that was referred to committee regarding the suspension, interim suspension of Guyanga.

Yes, the process.

Um as you know, um that company and uh Mr.

McKinney was um issued an interim suspension of work for the city by the uh inspector general.

That notice was sent out about uh about a month ago, I believe.

So that was sent out to council on October 9th.

There was a request for an appeal from Gaiga and Mr.

McKinney.

That matter now comes before you um pursuant to the code.

We issued a report to you outlining what the what the various positions of the parties were, what the um basic um allegation by the um for by the inspector general and um the comments made by the attorneys on behalf of Gaga and Mr.

McKinney.

You have that according to the code, you have 45 days for the date of the request for a hearing to conduct the hearing.

So um 45 days would be you would have to conduct the hearing by November 24th, based on our calculations.

We put that in the memo as well.

So we would ask that you find a date on your calendar to hold the hearing.

Hearing will be conducted by the law department, which is consistent with past practice.

Thank you so much.

Anything, attorney Graham.

Uh, through the chair, nothing to add to that, just would highlight the sensitivity of this issue and to be uh cautious when discussing these matters in public.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And just to my colleagues, I know Paris has already started to go around to try to gather a date and time that works for everyone for the scheduling of the hearing.

Just one last comment to further what Mr.

Anderson just said.

This is a quasi-judicial hearing that council has, as you've had it before.

So um just emphasizing that you shouldn't have any comments on it and be directed by corporation council.

Thank you.

Anything else, Member Benson?

All right, member Young.

You said quasi judicial hearing.

Yes, correct.

Right.

So we're not talking like square people on their own or anything like that, right?

No, sir.

Okay.

I just want to make sure.

Uh you're you're set as an appellate board.

So the the inspector general has issued an interim suspension, and you determine whether or not they've uh they have good cause for issuing that based on the evidence that you hear at the hearing.

Good cause of issuing or good cause of ending.

Good it would be the same.

Oh you know, if if they have justification for for entering the interim suspicion, you will you will know that after you hear the evidence.

Are we voting on that now?

Or is this just you vote on it after the after the vote whether or not to take it up?

It's we're you're just informing it's happening forward.

Madam Madam President, you have to take it up.

Okay, but but you vote after hearing the evidence as to whether or not you're sustaining the interim suspension or not.

Okay, thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor President.

All right, we will proceed for the planning and economic development standing committee under unfinished business.

Council President Pro Tim James Tate, an ordinance noting a roll call line item 19.1.

Pro Tim Tate.

Madam President, I move to take from the table an ordinance to amend chapter 50 of the 2019 Detroit City Code Zoning by amending article, excuse me, 12.

Zoning District Map Section 50-17 district map number nine to revise the zoning classification for parcels generally bounded by Rosa Parks Boulevard, Burlingame Street, Woodrow Wilson Street, John C.

Lodge Freeway, the East West Alley, first north of Lawrence Street, and Lawrence Street, commonly known as 11534 Woodrow Wilson Street, also 1534, 1540, 1550, 1636 Lawrence Street, and 1551, 1537 Burlingame Street from the existing R2 two family residential, RS district and R6 district zoning classifications to the SD1 district.

Uh zoning classification laid on the table September 16th, 2025.

Hearing no objections, that action will be taken under unfinished business.

No worries pro Tem Tate.

Madam President, I move the ordinance to be placed on the order of third reading and considered read.

Hearing no objections, that action will be taken.

Council President Pro Tem Tate.

I move the ordinance to be passed as submitted.

There being a roll car required with a third piece for the roll.

Councilmember Waters.

Councilmember Young.

Yes.

Council President Sheffield.

Yes.

Councilmember Benson.

Yes.

Councilmember Durha?

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson?

Yes.

Councilmember Santiago remember?

Yes.

Council President Pro Tem Tate.

Yes.

Madam President, that motion pass eight yes.

Right.

The ordinance is approved.

President Pro Tem Tate.

I move that the title be I'll move that the title of the ordinance be confirmed.

Hearing no objections, that action will be taken.

Under unfinished business.

Council President Pro Tim James Tate and ordinance not in a roll call.

Line item 19.2.

Pro Tim Tate.

Can the president move to discuss, please?

Yes.

Thank you.

I know that there was a number of folks who came down had some concern about this particular item.

And I believe that there's at least a colleague who has some concern, uh, has voiced it to me on this particular item.

Um, and there is a request to postpone this item for one week uh at committee.

Uh, I will say that we are losing days and times for public hearings in committee.

And so that is a uh concern.

I just want to make that very clear.

Uh we are chop full.

And uh member uh uh chair chairman young, you understand how it feels being the the chair uh of the committee that comes after us.

Um so uh there is a request for a one-week postponement on this particular item.

Um, but we hope that we can move this forward um after we get those questions resolved.

And I'm president, of course, for postponement of line item 19.2.

Okay.

For one there are no objections, we will postpone 19.2 for one week from the city planning commission.

Discussion, yes, on 19.2.

Is I know that there's some controversy here also.

I believe there's some misinformation going out about this also.

Um, is it possible to do a brief um conversation or brief presentation just about some of the nuances of this because people are reading the summary of the ordinance versus the actual text of the ordinance?

I believe that's a huge difference in how this text amendment is perceived.

Is that possible?

Pro Chair.

Yeah, I mean, Madam Chair, Madam President.

Of course, you are the president.

I know that we did do that in committee.

Um, we peeled back the layers because there was to uh member Benson's uh credit, a lot of confusion about all of the tax amendments uh that are being requested.

Uh we did just that in committee.

I'm not sure if there's going to be if if going through it today will move this particular item uh based on uh our colleague, but I would request that we still be allowed to move forward.

Um, seeing that we did have that discussion in committee.

Discussion.

Member Benson.

Oh, the motion is passed, I believe, to bring this back in a week.

That's not my intent.

My intent is just to get on the record education because people have approached me as well, and we've had conversations with the professionals, but I just believe this is a great venue just to have a very brief, brief conversation to kind of bring some clarity about the uh confusion that surrounds this.

Okay.

Are you are you want to do that now or would it be back next week when they come when the item comes back?

Maybe that's that's up to will the body.

I would like to do it now just to make sure people have the opportunity to understand they can think about it and then have conversations with their constituents and then get it on to the record now.

Um, Mr.

Is there a will to do this now, colleagues, or do you all want to bring this um discussion back next week when we have the item before council?

Okay, so no one really saying anything, so we will um yes.

I I'll say I would prefer if we're not going to vote on the item today, yeah.

I prefer that we we postpone this discussion as well.

Because again, time is something you can't get back.

Um, information and folks are not paying attention, they may not pay attention.

Uh I think in for information is is key.

Uh we can certainly talk about it again.

We've had those discussions and we will talk about it uh as we move forward.

That's my so we will ensure that we have the um the departments and those who are over this particular ordinance available next week when we have this item back before the city council because we already voted to postpone it for one week.

So when we come back next week, we will ensure that we have the appropriate representatives here to discuss uh this particular ordinary.

Madam President.

Okay, member waters.

Yeah, I moved to reconsider my vote on 19.1.

19.1.

Okay.

All right.

Did we ever yes?

Yes, member Johnson.

Thank you, Madam President.

Um, just further discussion on uh the prior discussion.

Um someone did note that in committee.

Um, however, that was not removed.

And so whether we discuss this today or next week, I would really like for the community to understand why it wasn't removed, not just um an email sent to me, but would like to make sure we have that discussion preferably today than next week.

Thank you, madam president.

Mr.

Washington.

Do we have someone on who can discuss?

Is that CPC?

Are they here?

Okay, here he is.

Director Ty, if you would like to come down, please.

Thank you, Madam President.

Good morning, city council.

My apologies, trying to get some answers to these questions in anticipation of this very thing coming up.

Uh, I did not hear what transpired while I was waiting on the elevator.

Um, if I could uh make sure that I'm responding appropriately and be refreshed on what the immediate question is.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Madam President.

Through you to Director Tide.

Um, really just asking if we can provide clarity for the public in regards to the item that I motioned to be removed from the zoning language.

Certainly.

Through the president to member Johnson with respect to the parking credit, which is one of the 17 substantive items that are included in the sixth general text amendment.

We were approached by the administration back in 2023 and asked to add a provision to uh the ordinance that would extend existing um benefit that is currently provided to land that is zoned SD1, as well as land within a traditional main street overlay area, wherein parking can be provided via privately owned lots that are no greater than um a quarter mile away, uh 1,320 feet.

This is being done in order to begin to provide sort of a district approach to parking, tradition, particularly in our commercial corridors where businesses are unable to establish because they can't meet the parking requirements.

They either don't have land or they don't have land that is available within the current distances.

So this provision in traditional Main Street and in our mixed-use zoning categories of SD1 and SD2 was put on the books uh, I believe six or more years ago.

Because the administration, in an effort to provide support for our commercial corridors, uh chief example being the Avenue of Fashion is in the process, or it was then in the process of developing municipal lots, similarly to what we see in some of our suburbs, Royal Oak, Dearborn, et cetera, where municipal lots are put in along our commercial corridors in order to provide an option or relief valve so that required parking can be met by those lots.

This was uh what was brought to us.

We reviewed it.

We found it to be consistent with the spirit and intent of the uh traditional main street overlay, and we advanced that when the matter was discussed last week.

Ms.

Murphy and I were not fully uh in uh cognizant, uh could not could not fully recall uh everything that had been discussed upon preparing the requested amendment.

We contacted the administration, we went back and reviewed everything and thus provided the information to um Member Johnson and to the entire uh body this morning to simply say by removing that particular provision as requested by member Johnson and as moved by the committee.

It means that seven lots that ARPA dollars were used to develop across the city would not be uh able to be utilized to provide the required parking on those commercial corridors in such instances where a business needs that in order to be compliant and to open.

So this was uh again a policy initiative that the administration took up in response to something that has come up over and over again, again, using the Avenue of Fashion as a perfect example of the city is leasing uh a lot, leasing property from um uh New Prospect Baptist Church in order to provide parking there.

That parking was to be supplanted by these two lots.

Two lots have been developed along the southern end of the corridor.

And two more lots were to be developed further to the north.

They are designated lots eight and nine on the map that I provided you this morning.

And those two could not be completed as the ARPA funding ran up.

So again, bottom line is the provision was put in in order to allow us to be able to extend an existing provision that today only applies to privately owned lots, allowing businesses to be able to claim these municipal lots as providing the necessary required parking by the zoning ordinance.

Thank you.

Thank you, uh, Director Todd.

Um while I appreciate the historical context there, um and I guess we'll deal with this next week, but I do want to just share the reason for my request to remove the item is for me to have a better understanding of the plan moving forward on how we address parking, particularly within our neighborhood commercial corridors.

It's great that the city has identified land and put in lots because I have one not far from me on East Warren.

I'm asking for a greater plan to understand as we have been working on reactivating commercial corridors, one lot here, one lot there does not solve the problem.

I really want to understand what the parking plan is as we move forward, reactivate many buildings within our neighborhood commercial corridors so that we don't have our neighborhoods overrun by cars because people are now patronizing these businesses and parking in front of people's homes in their driveways and on their grass.

Uh, just really trying to understand what the plan is.

That's all it was.

Um, and so we'll we'll have more conversation between now and next week.

Um, and I think I'll I'll then make a determination on whether or not the amended language should be in this version that we will move on next week.

While I appreciate the information, I'm still curious to know as to why it was not removed because the motion was made and passed.

Um in PED.

Thank you, the chair.

Yes.

Yeah, no, the the uh motion was made, and indeed uh you were you should have received also as part of that same email the ordinance that did remove the language.

So you do have the ordinance before you that uh provides what the committee did.

We just wanted to make sure, since Ms.

Murphy and I felt that we had not adequately addressed the issue in committee that we provided before background.

And and further to to uh Member Johnson's point, certainly I think this was a pilot program that the administration was uh put forward, again, utilizing ARPA dollars in order to try to begin to meet a new.

As I indicated, they had initially intended to do nine lots.

They ran out of money and were only able to do seven of the lots.

So I would imagine that to the extent that it's maybe seen as successful or desirable funding is the issue, as it is with so many other things that are facing the city, and certainly we'll look to contact the mayor's office and uh bring them uh along to in order to more properly respond to the question as it's been raised.

Thank you for that clarification.

Thank you, Madam President.

Thank you, Councilmember Johnson.

Member Young.

Thank you.

Uh, this is more of a general question, just about parking in general.

I think so.

For my understanding, uh space for all-street parking is about $8,000 per space.

And then, like if you had um uh if you had a uh parking uh garage, about like $35,000 per space.

If it's underground, it's like $50,000 per space.

I just want to know what are we doing to be able to reduce these costs of all-street park?

Not to mention the bad that I think it adds like $1,700 per everyone's rent, if I'm not mistaken.

So what are we doing to like reduce these costs overall in terms of all-street parking?

Through the president's chair to Member Young.

Um Member Young, the numbers that you gave, unfortunately uh pale in comparison to what the current estimates and practice would appear to be.

Oh, which we have seen uh prior to the pandemic and certainly uh with uh rising material costs and since the pandemic with various factors and of course more recently, tariffs uh greatly affecting material costs uh and the cost for even these municipal lots that we uh uh are referencing vary uh just for surface parking from between 20 some thousand per space to 35 or even uh yeah, about 35, 36,000 per space.

For surface?

For for surface parking.

Now, again, we don't know all the specifics.

That's where we would look to the administration to provide additional detail to understand why in why there's such variance in cost, what the underlying issues were that may make one site uh more particularly expensive than another, uh, on top of again increased material cost and I guess to a certain extent, even labor cost.

Uh, but this is definitely an issue.

I believe a structured parking space now you're looking at uh close to 50,000 for structured underground is even more.

But wait, so it's 50,000 for garage.

That's what we're talking about.

And the underground is even more than 50.

Right.

And and and again, uh we'll yield to the experience that the administration found in the development of these lots.

We can also look at what is otherwise happening um in the private sector, but again, construction cost is has increased incredibly just uh within the last 10 years.

Do we know what that equals in terms of rent?

Because I mean, I thought because for what I know it was $1,700.

If you're saying it's more, I mean, what is that?

And do we have that as a percentage?

I do not know.

I won't dare to guess, but this is one of the reasons why in the other ordinance, not this ordinance, but the other ordinance that has come from the administration that we've been working on, the COO ordinance, parking was one of the underlying concerns.

If we can't reduce the cost, can we reduce the requirement in order to lessen the cost by only require by requiring less parking to meet the need?

And do we have an estimate of how much tax credits you would have to be able to issue to make those projects more for me?

This is why we need land value tax.

But I mean, to make that more affordable.

I do not achieve in there.

That's crazy.

All right, no done.

Okay, thank you, Member Young.

Member Vincent.

Thank you.

Uh, Mr.

Todd, just based on the summary of the ordinance and the text amendment, it indicates that lofts will become conditional allowed uses in the R1 and R2 districts, which causes concern if I'm a resident in a low density neighborhood where you can now make my garage build onto my garage on my property into a loft.

Can you provide some clarification?

Is the city now trying to allow anyone to build a loft in their backyard and rent that out as an Airbnb or just as a new rental unit to bring in more income and maybe as a way to offset our affordable housing crisis?

If Scott Benson has a detached garage, I can build a loft onto my property and then rent that out and then maybe make a couple extra dollars as an Airbnb as well.

Is that what we're trying to do here?

Through the president's chair, too, Member Benson.

That is not the intent of that particular clause in the sixth general text amendment.

We do know that there are any number of individuals, whether they're doing short-term rental or if they're doing a longer, more traditional rental, say to a college student that are monetizing their homes uh or property uh on a residential lot in one way or another.

And that may be being done legally or illegally.

Uh again, at present, we don't have regulations on the books for short-term rentals.

Uh so, but we do know that they exist throughout the city, uh, an issue that many other cities are facing.

Um, but they are treated as rental properties.

If a nuisance arises, then it becomes an enforcement issue to be addressed.

Let me not lose uh track.

As it concerns that particular provision in the Sixth General Text Amendment, the conversion to loft as proposed here is intended to apply to non-residential property.

So this would be the instances where in an R1 single-family uh zoning district or an R2 two-family zoning district, which is typically just generally limited to those activities, um, where prior to zoning, you may have had a commercial or even an industrial building established that sits there today, or maybe it's even an institutional building, which again is also the subject of another ordinance that is before you.

What we were trying to do is to say where non-residential structures such as that exist, we will allow lofts to be created on a conditional basis for residential purposes in order to reactivate those particular facilities.

Otherwise, they sit vacant, they are unused.

So we're saying you can do that.

That would not include someone's garage because that's an accessory and that was be that would be a residential structure.

The provision is only intended for those uh legacy, those vestige non-residential properties uh structures within those two zoning districts to now be utilized for residential purposes where again they might otherwise be vacant, blight and uh concern.

But Mr.

Todd, then I must interject here.

So you're telling me that if I live, say in Indian village and I have a carriage house over my garage, I cannot, as a conditional use, activate that as a law and rent that out.

Not by virtue of this particular provision, no.

Oh.

So there are protections here then against turning my garage or my neighbor doing that and turning my neighborhood into a an apartment style or Airbnb haven.

So there is some there are some protections here then.

There through the chair, yes, there are protections that may not mention short-term rentals in particular or may not call out some of these concerns, but there are provisions that guard against these sorts of uses.

Again, we know that there's any number of scoff laws, uh, as there's scoff law activity that's taking uh taking place in and around the city.

And lastly, of course, certainly when it comes to a historic district, those activities, again, if coming rightly through the city, will have to be approved by the historic district commission.

And so there's another layer of protection there then as well for those historic districts that don't want to change the character.

Now, that's not how it was proposed to me by advocates in that space.

They say that we're going to now turn people's garages into Airbnbs, that you will be able to make tons of money by turning your carriage house into a loft and renting that out and then changing the character of those historic neighborhoods.

So we're not trying to do that.

So we're gonna verify that.

Again, through the chair.

That is not the intent of these provisions.

We do recognize that such activity is taking place in various places across the city within and without historic districts, and trying to uh arrest it in some way, uh put forward uh additional means of enforcement to utilize the provisions that the protections that do exist on the books, uh, takes a will to do so.

All right, thank you.

I'm glad that we had the chance to have this conversation because there's lots of misinformation going on in the community right now about what this text amendment will do, and you just help me to better understand what it's not going to do.

Thank you for that, Mr.

Todd.

Member Waters?

Yeah.

Well, you I did have a motion on the floor too, but I'll go ahead and ask uh Director Todd a question.

I think the the troubling part for me is when you um when you say that is not the intent.

I think there ought to be a way that we can put some language there to to safeguard it.

Uh in fact, that it will not happen.

That's the kind of language I would be looking for so that that is protected.

You say again, that's not the intent.

Again, that's not the intent.

A lot of things happen because it wasn't the intent.

So, how can we put the safe necessary safeguards there to ensure that it does not happen?

Uh I'm using that phrase, the intent in terms of what the commission, commission staff was looking to achieve by virtue of advancing these uh particular uh amendments to the ordinance.

Um, again, we can look at existing language that is there today to protect and see if in fact any of that needs to be shorn up even further.

But what I'm getting at when I say not the intent, we did not design the provision nor the language to do that.

What I'm saying is is that other people may attempt to take advantage, and if they're doing it, that activity would be illegal then in a future tense, just as it is today, thereby making it an enforcement issue.

Um, we are not trying to create uh you know, wiggle room.

We're not trying to make for the escape clauses, and that is one of the reasons why, of course, once the commission and the various agencies are done with uh the drafting of such things, we send it to law department for approval of to as the form in order to further ensure, help to bulletproof that in fact we are not doing so.

So I I certainly recognize and have been confronted by um uh members of the public when I say intend.

We're not trying to deal with or ignore unintended consequences.

I'm just simply trying to say as it has been asked, well, what were you trying to do?

That was not what we were trying to do.

We are very sensitive as we have been for the last uh 10 uh or more years to the impact of short-term rentals uh when such things have been abused in this community and other communities as we have been attacked, uh as we've been attracted, as we have been monitoring that particular activity uh here and elsewhere.

We're aware of what's being done, certainly in some of our suburban communities with both Dearborn and Dearborn Heights have uh made them um prohibited activities except for very limited uh areas.

We have not come there yet because none of the activity that we've engaged in thus far has been specifically directed at say short-term rentals, but what we have been trying to do uh is advance those provisions that will allow for the traditional use and expanded use of residential activity across the city.

Oh, just just one final thing, Mr.

Todd.

And as I was listening to you, I um for people who will take advantage of it, you know, because you said there might be some people, and and I'm pretty sure it could be.

So if a person go ahead and do it anyway, even though that's not the intent of the ordinance, they do it anyway, and if you take them to court, what's what's the what leg do they have to stand on?

Because if the language is not really clear, then that the people will take advantage of it.

Again, through the chair, I believe that the language is clear.

What I'm saying is that the language doesn't specifically say that you can't do short-term rentals.

It's not specific because we don't have short-term rental regular uh regulations.

What we did put on the books, for example, uh, that began to cause this back in 2015 as part of the fifth general text amendment, uh, before language around short-term rentals, when we were still basically referring to everything as an Airbnb, before that really evolved.

What we said was that an end uh homeowner or property owner cannot declare as a home occupation um the renting of a home for overnight stays.

Uh member Benson is certainly quite familiar with this as he pointed it out when the matter came before before council.

We have had a couple of different uh instances where after that uh former council member ayers took on this issue and attempted to advance regulations uh for short-term rentals.

Some of it got through in terms of laying some groundwork within current rental structure, but never specifically to address that.

Then we had the state uh in a number of instances over the last 10 years advancing state level regulations that would have removed local uh that would have removed home rule, um uh essentially saying that uh local municipalities could not advance local zoning rules to govern or to regulate uh short-term rentals.

Thankfully, none of that was successful, and once again we find ourselves in a situation where now we can.

Um again, I believe that there are protections on the books.

They just don't use that specific language, and we can try to identify where those exist um and uh make it clearer, which again are part and parcel of, I think the work that Member Callaway is ultimately looking to do to directly uh advance regulations for short-term rentals, and then what we will be looking, I think, to do um as we continue uh to advance work, whether it is uh through anything that is before you now or future efforts that we're looking to do with regard to housing um through the pro housing grant and continued work under our uh on our zone Detroit project, the uh rethinking and refreshing of the zoning ordinance, and then certainly I think uh to the extent that even our master plan, which you received a presentation of earlier, may even look to speak to this issue and some of the policy that is developed there as part of setting the vision for the city.

Thank you, madam president.

Thank you.

Any additional questions?

Okay, all right.

Thank you, Director Todd, for that.

And we have already postponed that item for one week.

So this will come back next week.

Thank you, Madam President.

Thanks, City Council.

All right, we will go back to 19.1.

Um, there was a motion to reconsider 19.1.

There are any objections to reconsidering 19.1.

Hearing no objections, that action will be taken.

And we can move it again, madam clerk.

Council President Pro Tim James Tate in ordinance not in a roll call line item 19.1.

So no, she said no.

Dr.

Approval.

Approval.

Yep.

Move.

I move the ordinance to be passed as submitted.

There being a roll call, Madam Clerk, please follow.

Council Member Whitfield Callaway.

Council Member Young.

Council President Mary Sheffield.

Yes.

Council Member Benson.

Yes.

Councilmember Durhall.

Yes.

Council Member Johnson.

Yes.

Council Member Santiago Romero.

Yes.

Council President Pro Tim Tate.

Yes.

Council Member Waters.

Yes.

Eight yes.

That motion passes, Madam President.

Yeah, I want to vote.

Council Young, yes.

Council Member Young.

Yes.

Thank you.

Madam President, that motion passes nine years.

All right.

The ordinance is approved.

Pro Tim Tate.

Is that it?

Okay.

All right.

All right.

We will proceed.

We already postponed 19.2.

And if there are no objections, I would like to take up the community violence intervention contracts, um, which are line item 21.8 through 21.10.

Madam Clerk, if we can just move those three items, please.

Yes, madam president.

Council member Santiago Romero, nine resolutions.

Nine items.

You go on 21.5 through 21.13, Madam President.

No, just 21.8 through 21.10.

Line item 21.8 and 21.10.

Yes.

Councilmember Santiago Romero, three resolutions.

And those are three contracts.

I'm not sure if you want to read those uh yes, madam president.

Line item 21.8, contract number 600 5401-A4, 100% ARPA funding.

Amendment 4 to provide an extension of time and increase of funds and amend contract terms and conditions for services to reduce violent crime in the city of Detroit through community violence intervention, CVI tactics, contractor, Detroit Friends and Family Total Contract Amount 3, 150,000.

That's for health.

Contract number 6005402-A4.

100% ARPA funding.

Amendment 4 to provide an extension of time and increase of funds and amend contract terms and conditions for services to reduce violent crime in the city of Detroit through community violence intervention.

CBI tactics, contractor, Detroit People's Community Total Contract Amount, 2 million 975,000.

That's for health.

Line item 21.10, contract number 600 5413-A4, 100% ARPRA funding.

Amendment 4 to provide an extension of time and increase of funds and amend contract terms and conditions for services to reduce violent crime in the city of Detroit through community violence intervention, CVI tactics, contractor force Detroit Incorporated total contract amount 3,675,000.

That's for health.

Councilmember Santiago Romero, three resolutions.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Member Santiago Romero.

Thank you, Madam President's motion to approve 21.9 and 21.10.

Okay.

She let she's gonna do them separately, I'm assuming.

Yeah, so we'd step out 21.8, so just 21.9 and 21.10.

Okay.

Uh hearing no objections, the two resolutions will be approved.

And member Santiago Romero.

Thank you, Madam President.

I would like to bring back 21.8 in one week.

Um, there are some questions from some colleagues that need to be answered.

So we'd like to bring this item back in one week.

Okay.

Is there any objections on bringing 21.8 back in one week?

Hearing none, that action will be taken.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, we will go back to our regular um order of the agenda, moving now to 19.3 from the city planning commission.

Council President Pro Tim James Tate and introduction of an ordinance, line item 19.3.

President Pro Tim Tate.

Madam President, I move that the ordinance be read twice by title, ordered printed, and laid on the tape.

Hearing no objections, that action will be taken from the city planning commission.

Council President Pro Tim James Tate or resolution set in the public hearing.

Line item 19.4 pro tem tape.4 for a day to be determined.

Pro Tim Tate.4 for a day to be determined.

Discussion.

Member Benson.

Just want to recognize uh CPC staff as well as uh PDD um committee for moving this forward where we're now down zoning from heavy industrial on our waterway asset to something far more community um specific, especially when you have residential that directly abuts this property.

So just want to acknowledge and recognize that and uh prioritize these types of down zonings that we're doing.

So thank you.

All right, thank you, Member Benson.

All right, and we will have uh the public hearing scheduled at a day two be determined for 19.4.

Hearing no objections, the action will be taken from the Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority, Council President Pro Tim James Tate, nine resolutions, line items 19.5 through 19.13.

Pro Tim Tate.5 through 19.13.

These are terminations of uh Brownfield redevelopment plans that never got off the ground.

Okay.

Any objections?

Hearing none, the nine resolutions will be approved from the housing and revitalization department.

Council President Pro Tim James Tate, two resolutions, nine items 19.14 and 19.15.

Pro Tim Tate.

President move approval line items 19.14 and 19.15, please.

All right, 19.14 is a obsolete property rehabilitation certificate.

19.15 is a commercial rehabilitation district.

Any objections hearing none, the two resolutions will be approved.

President, yes.15, please.

All right, is there any objection to a waiver or 19.15?

Hearing none, that action will be taken from the request to speak before the Detroit City Council.

Councilmember Santiago Romero, a resolution, noting that this line item was postponed from last week's formal session, line item 20.1.

Okay.

Uh Councilmember Santiago Ramiro.

Thank you, Madam President.

Uh, my staff is speaking with um Miss Wells.

So I'm going to ask if we bring this back in one week again.

Um, I have not been briefed on what's been said or done so far, but I do know that we are working with uh the residents, so asked to bring this back in one week.

Okay.

All right, and hearing no objections, we will bring 20.1 back in one week.

We will now move to the new business portion of the agenda under unfinished business.

Council member Durhal and ordinance noting a roll call, line item 22 21.1.

Member Durha.

Thank you, Madam President.

I move to take from the table on the ordinance to amend chapter 31 of the 2019 Detroit City Code Offenses, Article 1, generally by amending section 31-1-1, misdemeanor violation, continuing violation, penalties for conviction thereof, and by amending Article 5, offenses against public peace by adding section 31-5-21, use of smokeless tobacco, alternative nicotine products and other tobacco products prohibited at stadiums or sports arenas to prohibit use of smokeless tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, and other tobacco products, and stadium or sports arenas in the city of Detroit laid on the table October 7th, 2025.

Right.

Hearing no objections, that action will be taken from the mayor's office.

Madam President, that items requires a roll call.

Oh, I'm so sorry about that.

Um councilmember Benson.

All right, thank you.

I want to thank uh Member Durhal for leading the efforts on this.

We've got a number of uh council persons who are starting to take up uh tobacco related ordinances and public health issues, and really do want to recognize that this council has shown a level of courage to make this possible because this is a huge industry that has deep uh levels of resources to fight these types of ordinances, but there has been a level of courage shown here.

I want to make sure we recognize that.

And then Member Durhaw, can you speak briefly speak to why something like this is important and how this has a positive impact on our children and the health of our community?

Yes, Member Durha.

Thank you, Madam President.

Through you to Member Benson, uh, when we came to introduce this ordinance, we uh had a conversation uh with a lot of groups uh who are around the country uh and cities that have made significant strides.

One of the groups knocked tobacco out of the park has been very successful uh ensuring that stadiums, sports arenas, places that kids frequent, uh are tobacco.

Um here, what we've seen in our stadiums here, even through our baseball stadiums here, uh smoking has been banned in those stadiums already.

The issue uh and the reason why we are focusing on this is that oftentimes the players themselves use smokeless tobacco, chew, spit, whatever they call it.

Uh we had the opportunity to engage with young folks in our high schools who play baseball, uh, who's who state uh upon the conversations we had with them, that they thought that's a regular part of the game when they were looking at baseball.

Uh, and so we have to understand uh that that influence is still there for our young folks, and that's one of the reasons why we wanted to take the steps to move this ordinance forward.

Uh, it is my belief, uh, and you and I have had this conversation.

Uh, nothing more uh makes you look at our ordinances and our laws on the books and how to protect our children than when you are a parent yourself, uh, or you care for children yourself.

Uh and when I think about my children, uh particularly my daughter uh and my young son, who's two, uh, who may and they love sports is in their blood uh from their mother, not for me.

Um, but uh knowing that they may be influenced by the folks they watch each and every day play these sports, I think it's a responsible thing for us to do uh here in our city and show that we are really serious about our young people and the influences uh that are presented upon them.

So uh that was one of the reasons that I wanted to push this forward, but I want to thank you as well as Member Callaway.

I know you both have been very steadfast and very vocal uh about this particular issue.

I know this is generally not in my lane, uh, but but this is something uh that I felt necessary to push forward, and one of the great things I hope to do before I leave here uh in this council session.

So thank you all for your support.

Thank you, Madam President.

Thank you so much, Member Durha.

Councilmember Young.

Yeah, I'm a little bit.

It's one thing if we're talking about vapor or we're talking about smoking cigarettes, but this is chewing tobacco, from my understanding.

I mean, listen, I understand for kids.

We should be able to do that.

Absolutely.

If you're a kid, you get caught with chewing tobacco, you should be banned.

Period.

I understand that.

But if I'm an adult and I want to be able, I mean, you know, I wouldn't do this, but if I'm an adult and I want to be able to enjoy chewing tobacco in the stadium, I should be able to have that right.

I just think you know, this is kind of like, you know, and I used to be this kid, but it's kind of like one kid messes up at the playground, so everybody's got to go home.

Like I just don't think that if I'm a functioning adult and I'm old enough to be able to engage in this kind of nasty habit, I should have that right to be able to do so.

I just don't understand.

If this is like smoking a cigarette or vapor, that I understand because you don't want kids to can't smoke or to catch contact, I get that.

But for chewing tobacco, I just don't understand why we're doing this.

Through you, Madam President, to Member Young, who's my colleague colleague and I always love our debates.

Uh, chewing tobacco is one of the leading causes of mouth cancer.

Uh soptic is cancer uh as well.

Uh and so uh when you talk about that in any form, whether that's vaping, whether that's inhaling or whatever the case may be, uh, we want to do everything possible to protect our children.

I will say this.

Uh I did not only engage uh with high schoolers, but also the baseball organizations who now it is becoming their practice of their teams that when you sign a contract with the major league baseball organization, they tell you you cannot use tobacco in any form.

Uh and so this is helping to codify that.

I think this again is providing responsible uh uh a sense of responsible role modeling uh for our young folks who look to go into sports.

Uh and again, uh this is not something uh that is going to uh prevent folks in their spare time in their own homes or their cars or whatever they choose to do to stop chewing tobacco.

But what this is saying is when you are in a public place and our children have their eyes on you, we want to ensure uh, and this is a step.

We want to ensure that you are going to participate in healthy behavior that displays healthy outcomes here in the city of Detroit.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Member Young, followed by Member Calloway.

Okay.

Oh, thank you.

But no, thank you.

And I understand I'm not, I'm not, I'm not saying this is safe.

It's not.

I'm not saying there's not risks.

There are.

I'm not saying that this is I'm not encouraging.

I'm not, I'm not, I'm not condemning and I'm not condoning.

I'm just saying if I'm an adult, and I'm not talking about kids or people playing baseball.

Yeah, you shouldn't be.

But if I'm an adult, I'm a grown-up, and I make a personal decision to be able to engage in chewing tobacco by myself in the corner or wherever I'm at, and I'm watching this game, and I want to be able to eat the big chew or whatever it's called.

I should be able to do that and not have to worry about being fined or penalized.

You're talking about $250 to $500 fines.

Um, you know, most people don't have $400 for personal emergencies, let alone should be fined for chewing tobacco.

I'm I'm not trying to be the tobacco spokesman guy, but I just feel just in terms of just the right to be able to exercise the ability to choose to engage in this habit.

I should be able to do so as long as I'm not endangering children, as long as I'm not giving it to children, as long as it's something I am doing as an adult, making this decision, having all the rights available to me.

I just believe I should be able to do that.

And I just think this is kind of like the nanny state, and we just have other more pressing issues to deal with than crack it down on people who are chewing tobacco.

Thank you.

And I'm done.

Thanks so much.

And all right, then I'm gonna go to Member Calloway.

Durha, thank you.

And again, I will articulate you will still be able to chew tobacco if you want to, just not in our sports arena.

Just not around our kids.

You can still participate in whatever you choose to do, and however you do it, but not in our sports arenas.

And by the way, I will and I will put this on the record as well through conversations, not just with baseball players and their organizations, the MLB themselves are supportive of this ordinance, are asking for this ordinance as well, because that is the trend that they are trying to portray around our country's healthy outcomes for youth and sports.

Thank you, Madam President.

Thank you so much.

Did you want to go to Ahwa?

Okay.

Attorney Anderson.

Through the Chair Graham Anderson Law Department to uh council member young fantastic points.

And as always, we appreciate your uh uh championess for uh personal freedoms.

Um, one thing that I I want to highlight is um your your concern about someone immediately getting fined in the ordinance that says any person who fails or refuses to obey.

People will, of course, be warned first.

We're not just immediately gonna, you know, oh, you're chewing tobacco, we're gonna get where's your wallet.

You know, we're not gonna jump on people that quick.

There will be a warning naturally.

Um and on top of that, one thing uh to uh council member Durhal's point about working with the MLB, uh over half of penalty ballparks enforce an ordinance similar to this.

So we're not reinventing the wheel here at Clamerica.

This isn't something that um is very out of line and stuff.

This is something that is becoming the norm.

Um I understand your concerns completely, but due to the council member uh Durhall's point, this is uh strictly for at the stadiums only.

Thank you.

Just want to highlight those points.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

Member Callaway, um, thank you, thank you, madam chair, and good afternoon, everyone.

Um we don't believe that our behaviors with chewing tobacco or vaping or smoking marijuana um does not really impact our children uh directly, but it directly does because um they see what we do, they mimic what we do, um, they imitate what we do, uh, they follow what we do.

Um we were just in a school, my team and I, um, last Friday.

We were at Mumford, and um, they have issues with the students vaping.

And so we need to have conversations with, and I'll probably perhaps start those conversations with Dr.

Vitti.

Um, the vapors, the vaping devices are in the schools, and the students are vaping and smoking marijuana in the schools.

So even though we say it's legal, um, and it's a decision of adults making these decisions to make such items legal, doesn't make it right.

Um, and so a lot of our kids are mimicking exactly what we're doing.

So it does directly impact our students.

Um, and I spoke to Dr.

Rezo, Dr.

Um Razo, um, a week or so ago after leaving Montfort, and she asked me a very specific question.

It was an eye-opener for me.

How young do we think students are or youth are um when they start vaping?

I said eighth grade, and she corrected me.

It's second grade.

Our students who are six and seven years old are vaping, and they're having to go to emergency right in DPSCD and our charter school.

So we do have an issue.

So I want to thank my colleague, uh, Member Durhaw, for this very important um ordinance.

I absolutely support it.

Um, and our behavior does indirectly and directly impact our youth.

And I want to thank um Miss Rezo for making sure that Mumford is now on the list to receive services from the health department to come into the school and talk to those um young people about vaping, because now the vaping is coming in cotton candy flavored cherry, strawberry, it's appealing to our young people.

And um I'm grateful to um Chief Bettison for going into our gasoline stations and other um retail outlets that are selling these devices to um folks under 18 years old.

So we do have a I call it an epidemic in our city, whether we want to acknowledge this as so, it is so that we do have an epidemic, and if we go into our schools today, you can smell um the vaping going on.

You can smell it, it's in the air.

Um, our students smell like marijuana, and they don't understand um the impacts on their health now.

And um, with the marijuana, it's eating away, and I learned this in middle school, it's eating away at your brain cells, and those brain cells are not going to reproduce themselves.

So that's a whole nother conversation.

But um, thank you so much, Member Durha, for bringing this very important ordinance to um this body.

And um, I'm grateful.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Okay, thank you.

All right, any additional questions?

Yes, Member Santiago Nero.

Thank you, Madam President.

Um, just briefly, I will also be voting no on this.

Um, only simply because our stadiums already um prohibit smoking and vaping, and I just don't see enforcements.

Um, so to member young's points, um, instead of trying to tell people what they can or can't do, um, especially if we're not able to enforce what we already have on the books.

I understand the the spirit of this.

Um, and I'm grateful that people are having these discussions, um, but I don't believe um that's passing this will necessarily make an impact to the things that are being shared.

I think there's there are many other things that we should be doing, um, but just simply wanted to make that statement.

Thank you, Madam President.

All right, thank you so much, Councilmember.

Okay.

There are no additional questions.

Um, we will now move the ordinance.

Councilmember Durha move ordinance to placed on the order third reading.

Hearing no objections, that action will be taken.

Councilmember Durha.

Thank you.

Um, Madam President, I I had not, but I moved that the ordinance be placed on order of third reading and considered read.

Okay.

Hearing no objections, that action will be taken.

Member Durhaw.

Thank you, Madam President.

I move the ordinance to be passed as submitted.

There being a roll call required, the clerk will please call the roll.

Councilmember Young.

No.

Council President Sheffield, yes.

Councilmember Benson?

Yes.

Councilmember Durha?

Yes.

Council Member Johnson.

Yes.

Councilmember Santiago Romero.

No.

Council President Pro Tem Tate?

Yes.

Council Member Waters.

Yes.

Councilmember Whitville Calloway.

Yes.

Seven yes.

That motion passes, Madam President.

All right.

The ordinance is approved.

Member Durhaw.

Thank you, Madam President.

Uh, I move that the title to the ordinance be confirmed.

Hearing no objections, that action will be taken.

Thank you.

Thank you, colleagues.

Great.

Thank you, Member Durha.

Yes, Madam Chair, um, if we could have um LPD, I'd like to request um what the city can do.

I know when I work for DPS CD, Madam Chair, they had where you could not smoke um anything to tobacco related outside of any of the schools, outside of the Fisher building where um DPS property was located.

I was at the 12th precinct, and there was an officer there vaping on the parking lot.

So if I could throw yourself to um Mr.

Whitaker, uh, Mr.

Whitaker, I'd like to know whether or not we have anything um in terms of an ordinance that would prevent or prohibit um vaping um and uh marijuana um smoking on city property, i.e.

a precinct, police precinct, because I I saw that and I also saw it at um a fire, a fire department where I saw a firefighter vaping on city property.

Madam President, we'd be happy to look at it.

I don't know the answer to that right off the top of my head.

But if you give us uh a memo, we'd be happy to research that, give you an answer and right.

Okay, yeah, I will make sure you get the memo um by tomorrow that question whether or not um we can restrict or prohibit the use of um vaping um on city property by city employees, especially in uniform.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

I mean, thank you, Mr.

Whitaker.

Okay.

Question on your uh motion, member Young, followed by protein tape.

None of the questions or clarification.

I just won't say the vote that we took up previously was about uh chewing tobacco.

Right.

I'm not suggesting that police officers you know smoke the sunny Shiva in the parking lot.

I'm just saying this was just about chewing tobacco in the stadiums, and I thought that that should be okay if you're an adult to be able to do such.

I think you have to ban that, then you'd also have to ban you know beer in terms of the act in terms of the uh negative externalities of that.

You'd also you can also look at hot dogs because of cholesterol, it can clog your arteries or notchos.

You know how far we go.

I'm sorry, it's a whole different conversation.

I'm kind of ranting here.

But I just wanted to say, I just want to make clear.

We were just talking about chewing tobacco.

We were talking about vapes, we were talking about marijuana, which by the way, no one has ever died from smoking marijuana since they found it on the Euro Asia state, since you know, Shanghai, the divine farmer in 2727 BC.

That's another conversation.

But I just want me to get clear.

We were just having a discussion about chewing tobacco in stadiums.

That's it.

Thank you.

Madam Chair, thank you, Member Young.

I want to make sure that my um memo um is understood by Mr.

Whitaker, and uh, I stand by my request for um that report to be done.

So Mr.

Mr.

Rose will get you the memo.

Thank you, madam chair.

All right, so that's a motion for that memo to that request for LPD.

Just to look into it.

Okay, you had a discussion on the motion process.

Yep, the only thing I would say is that it I'll say right now it is already prohibited for marijuana, but vapes come in uh with tobacco as well.

So it may be more applicable for the tobacco because if you're using a vape on city property, it's not your home.

So it's already a violation.

So just wanted to make that clarification for um Christopher Whitaker as we move forward with the uh assignment.

Um thank you.

Thank you, madam chair.

But thank thank you, Mr.

Whitaker.

I look forward to receiving your report after you receive my memo.

Thank you, madam chair.

Right.

Any objections to the request for LPD to do a report?

Hearing none, that action will be taken.

All right, we will continue now to under the mayor's office.

Council member Young, three resolutions, line items 21.2 through 21.4.

Councilmember Young.

Thank you, Mayor President.

Um I move to approve line items 21.2 through 21.4.

All right, these are all various uh events that have been approved by various departments, hearing no objections.

The three resolutions will be approved from the Office of Contracting and Procurement.

Council Member Santiago Romero, nine resolutions.

Uh Madam President, there will be six resolutions, nine items 21.5 through 21.7, and line items 21.11 through 21.13.

21.5 is contract number 600 5075-A1.

100% grant funding, amendment one to provide an increase of funds for services for ending the HIV epidemic, a plan for America, Ryan White, HIV slash A's program, parts A and B.

Contracted Community Health Awareness Group, total contract amount, 1 million 744,000 955.83 cents.

That's for health.

Contract number 600 5079-A1, 100% grant funding.

Amendment one to provide an increase of funds for services through WSU Horizons for ending the HIV epidemic, a plan for America, Ryan White HIV AIDS program, parts A and B.

Contractor, Wayne State University, total contract amount 390, 324.

Contract number 6005074-A2, 100% grant funding.

Amendment 2 to provide an increase of funds for services for ending the HIV epidemic, a plan for America, Brian White HIV AIDS program, parts A and B, contractor, Matrix Human Services, total contract amount 2 million, 333,000, 416.56 cents.

Contractor, Matrix Human Services, Total Contract Amount, 2,333, 416.56.

That's for health.11, contract number 600 5076-A1, 100% grant funding.

Amendment one to provide an increase of funds only for a program administrator for coordinating and managing medical and supportive services for low income under insured and uninsured persons living with HIV in the Detroit eligible metropolitan area.

Contractor Neighborhood Legal Services of Michigan.

Total contract amount, 230, 871 dollars and 12 cent.

As for health, contract number 6005070-A1, 100% grant funding, amendment one to provide an increase of funds for service for ending the HIV epidemic, a plan for America, Ryan White HIVAIDS program, parts A and B.

EHE Contractor, Oakland, Livingston Human Service Agency, total contract amount, 221, 510 and 12 cent.

Contract number 6005085-A1, 100% grant funding, amendment one to provide an increase of funds for an adult clinic program administrator for coordinating and managing medical and supportive services for low-income under and uninsured persons living with HIV in the Detroit Metropolitan Area.

DEMA, Ryan White, Contractor, Oakland Integrated Health Care Network, Total Contract Amount, 1,688,003 and 56 cent.

That's for health.

Council member Santiago Romero, six resolutions.

Motion to approve 21.1 through 21.7.

There's a motion to approve line items 21.5 through 21.7.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Member Santiago Romero.

Thank you.

Motion to approve.

Oh, just a quick note.

Um to the clerk's office.

We voted on 21.8 through 21.10.

Excuse me.

We hounced 21.8, voted 29, uh 21.9 and 10.

Um, but want to make sure I don't believe our agenda shows the correct line for the funding source.

So just want to make sure we did receive that correction letter.

Um, so just noting to the clerk that we approve this um as amended with uh with the correction letter as corrected.

I guess member Santiago Romero, we're talking 21.8, 9 and 10.

8, 9, and 10.

Clerk.

Mr.

President, through you, we have received the um corrections for the administration for those two items.

They will be corrected.

Thank you.

Santiago Romero.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Given that correction, um, in confirming that can move forward in asking that we approve 21.11 through 21.13.

Which is a motion to approve line items 21.11 through 21.13.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Moving on from the office of contracting and procurement.

Council member Young, a resolution line item 21.14, contract number 600 6668-A1, 100% city state funding, amendment one to provide an increase of funds for freeway trash pickup, rubbish removal, and disposal services, contractor, Mobile City Preservation LLC, total contract amount, 2,250,000.

That's for general services.

Council member Young, a resolution.

Member Young.

Thank you, ma'am.

Excuse me.

I'm sorry.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Excuse me.

Uh move to approve line item 21.14.

There's a motion to approve line item 21.14.

Any objections?

See none.

That action shall be taken.

Mr.

President, member Young.

Thank you.

I like to request a waiver for line item 21.14.

Request for waiver for line item 21.14.

Any objections?

See none.

The waiver should be attached.

From the office of the chief financial officer, Office of Development, Development and Grants.

Council Member Santiago Romero, three resolutions, line items 21.15 through 21.17.

Member Santiago Romero.

Thank you, Mr.

President's motion to approve.

There's a motion to approve line items 21.15 through 21.17.

Any objections, colleagues?

See none, the action shall be taken.

From the Department of Public Works Administration.

Council Member Santiago Romero, two resolutions, line items 21.18 and 21.19.

Member Santiago Romero.

Motion to approve these are two permits for sign it or for banner installation.

There's a motion to approve line items 21.18 and 21.19.

Any objections?

Seeing none, the action shall be taken.

Request a waiver, Mr.

President, for both items.

It's a request for waiver on line items 21.18 and 21.19.

Any objections?

Seeing none, waiver should be attached.

Under resolution, correct?

Councilmember Benson, a resolution line item 21.20.

All right, thank you.

This is a resolution recognizing October as national or state planning month, and we have a member of our life and legacy planning staff.

Is it uh Mr.

Chair?

Is it possible for her to come down and uh receive this as well?

Is express some words around the program.

This Mr.

Darcel, Ms.

Dark.

And so this resolution, the National Estate Planning Awareness Month is observed every October to encourage individuals and families across the United States to prepare for the future by developing or updating their estate plans, including wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and health care directives.

Proper estate planning helps safeguard families from uncertainty by ensuring that assets are distributed according to one's wishes, reducing legal conflicts, preserving wealth, supporting charitable intentions, and protecting vulnerable beneficiaries.

And a lack of estate planning exacerbates racial wealth gaps.

And there is a racial disparity in estate planning where it's estimated that 76% of African Americans and around two-thirds of Hispanic Americans do not have a will, which is roughly twice the rate of white Americans.

The racial disparities in the state planning are likely due to a variety of factors, including a lack of historical accumulation of wealth due to discriminatory practices and a lack of trust in wealth management systems due to these policies, which means that many people may be unaware of the consequences the lack of the state planning can have on property transfers.

Whereas in test state property, transfers can often result in multiple individuals owning property as tenants in common, which after individuals can sell, after which individuals can sell their fraction of ownership to others like developers who may then force a sale and obtain property for below market value at the expense of a family's wealth.

Councilman Benson through the wealth generation task force recognizes the critical role that estate planning plays in building generational wealth and reducing disparities in financial security and strengthening communities.

And we have a few more, whereas I did want to make sure that city staff was here to briefly um discuss what we're doing in the city and the impact that we're able to have in how we are growing wealth through our life and legacy program.

Mr.

Chair, you may proceed.

Thank you, Councilman Benson.

Good afternoon, everyone.

This is a really important program for the record.

No, I'm sorry.

This is a really important program for Detroiters for a lot of reasons.

There's so many people who think that because they tell their daughter that the house belongs to them when they die, that the house actually belongs to them.

That is not true.

There are transactions that make that that make that ownership legal.

And what often happens is people undervalue the dollar value of the homes they live in, thinking that it doesn't amount to much.

But if the house is paid for and you leave it to a daughter and you transfer the property properly, and the daughter can improve the house, she can increase the value of the house and therefore build wealth for her children.

So you all are familiar with land bank houses, right?

If you've ever toured a land bank house, they look terrible on the inside.

I have renovated land bank houses.

And when you're done, you can take something that you perhaps paid 10,000 for, $5,000 for, and make it worth 100,000.

That's not money to be left on the table.

I want to thank Councilmember Benson for supporting this program because it's really, really important.

And I am always amazed at what people don't know about how to transfer property.

And I'm gonna say this and then I'll shut up, okay?

So Ladybird deeds is a really important transaction.

If you want to leave a house to a family member, the Lady Bird Deed offers tremendous advantages.

It holds the property tax uh level at that level that the parent paid for, and it transfers the ownership to the new the to the family member and it's legal.

You can't write it on a piece of paper and say, I'm leaving it to my daughter.

It just doesn't happen that way.

And so if it is possible for that uh heir homeowner to participate in city programs for home repairs, if they don't have the name on the deed, they can't participate.

So this is really, really important when you think about growing generational wealth.

Thank you so much.

And please state your name for the record.

I know you.

Darkell Strickland Love.

I'm with the um Housing and Revitals Institute, HRD.

Thank you so much, Member Benson.

Thank you.

And I also want to rec um recognize Mr.

Rico Razo, who is leads that group as well.

And under his leadership, they have been able to make a huge impact.

We are putting out $4,000 services to residents of the city of Detroit at a cost of zero.

I've done the cash flow analysis.

Three is good.

These cost $4,000 on the open market.

Please take advantage of this.

We as a city are paying for this.

These are your ARPA dollars.

Thank you, President Biden, for making sure that Detroit's have the opportunity for free to help protect their generational wealth.

And this is not a conversation that is typically a kitchen table conversation within our communities.

I want to make it very clear, not preparing for the transition.

And nobody, nobody wins that race.

We all go on to glory.

But race, wealth, education, everybody, every community knows someone that did not prepare and they have major problems when it comes to transitioning their estate.

Please be prepared.

We're providing this service for free.

And it's not easy.

It's a heavy lift.

There are signatures, there are documents, there are friends you have to gather, there are witnesses, there are um uh certified um people who have to take care of this, but it is so valuable and so worth it.

And when you start to see the growth of your family's wealth and just the basic education around how to protect it, it's huge.

And so I want to thank you, Darcia, for what you're doing and HRD staff and Mr.

Razo as well.

You are doing fantastic work.

And unfortunately, being ARPA funds, these this extinguishes next year around June.

The other challenge is you can't use general fund dollars to support this program.

So we're gonna continue to look for the philanthropic community and our good friends over Gilbert Family Foundation who now fund this and they fund probate court for families who find themselves in that unfortunate situation.

They will pay money to send you to probate court to take care of your family estate.

And we have the county treasurer, Mr.

Eric Sabree, who's also very supportive and helping us with judges over the Third Circuit Court.

And so what you all are doing is very, very important.

It is boring talk, but it is such an important topic.

I just really want to thank my colleagues for bearing with me this morning and for your team and your staff for doing this.

Thank you so much.

It's very, very important.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you all.

Thank you.

Mr.

Member Calvin.

Yep.

Thank you.

Um, ma'am, before you leave, um, before you leave the microphone, can you please share a number?

Because we have people listening across this city.

Can you share a number that we can call um to get more information?

And thank you, Member Bemston for making this a more comfortable conversation to have around the kitchen table.

Um, thank you.

Thank you for your leadership on this um very important topic.

But can you provide a number where people can call you today to get more information?

Sure.

I'll I'll give you two ways to to connect with this program.

The phone number would be 313 628 1133.

They can also go to the city's website, Detroit Mi.gov slash estate planning.

Thank you, ma'am.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Member Young.

I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for all the work that you've done.

This has been a really big issue.

I don't know.

I I read some reporters like over 233 million dollars or something like that.

That's on the table that people are not claiming.

Do you have a number of what that is?

And do you know how much the economy of the city of Detroit would benefit if people actually were to claim this the right way?

I don't have a number for you, but I will tell you that the Detroit Future Cities did a survey and they discovered from 2021 to 2024.

5,500 properties were left on the table, airs property, where there is no clear title.

That's from 2021.

That doesn't count what happened during the pandemic.

Right.

Because we know a lot of people lost their homes during that time, too.

So it's it's the beginning of something.

This is the beginning of something.

If you're thinking about taking care of your family going forward, leaving a legacy for your grandchildren.

This is a really important part of that process.

And isn't this something that I mean you you could go back?

I mean, I don't I don't want to get too deep with this, but you would go back.

I mean, did Jim Crow era when they used the Harris property to be able to take a lot of land from a lot of folks?

I mean, I think black people from like uh 1918 and 1997 lost about 90 something percent of their land, and part of the process was through Harris property because they didn't have access to be able to get wills and things that dangerous, so they would take their property.

This if you know through white capping, they just didn't go out and kill black people and we should take their property that way.

I think that was from 1920, 1929, if I'm not mistaken in Michigan and other parts of the country.

But I just want to say so.

It's kind of like you mean it's important economically, but you're also correcting you know, a historic um injustice as well.

True, but that's something that we have to do.

Yeah, that's something that we have to do.

No, I'm just I just want to just make that clear.

Thank you.

It's it's it's a lot deeper than just what you know some people might see on the surface.

This has been going on for a very long time in the African American community.

So I appreciate the work that you're doing.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

And thank you, Mr.

Basic.

Thank you, Mr.

Clemson.

Motion to approve.

It's a motion to approve the resolution.20.

Colleagues, any objections?

Saying none, that action shall be taken.

Oh, with the request or waiver, chair.

There's a request for a waiver on line item 21.20.

Seeing no objections.

Is that uh objection?

Okay, seeing no objections.

A waiver should be attached.

A member young.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

If I can, I just want to request a waiver for line item 21.3.

That's a petition of Cannibal Marketing Communications request the whole Halloween at the station.

There's a request for a waiver and line item 21.3, colleagues.

Any objections?

Seeing none.

Should be attached.

Thank you, Ms.

President.

You're very welcome, sir.

For the president's reports on standing committee referrals and other matters from the budget finance and audit standing committee.

Three reports from various city departments.

Three reports should be referred to the budget finance and audit standing committee for the internal operations standing committee.

11 reports from the law department.

The 11 reports should be referred to the internal operations standing committee for the neighborhood and community services standing committee.

One report from the Office of Contracting and Procurement.

The one report will be referred to the neighborhood and community services standing committee for the planning and economic development standing committee.

10 reports from various city departments.

The 10 reports should be referred to the planning and economic development standing committee for the public health and safety standing committee.

Five reports from various city departments.

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

There are no items, Mr.

President.

And now move to member reports.

Um I am having a hope program virtual meeting.

That's the Hope Homeowners Property Exemption Program.

The Hope deadline is November the 7th.

We are having this program, the Hope Program Virtual Meeting with Eric Sabrie, Wayne County Treasurer, and Willie Donwell, director board or board of the tax review.

We are having this Wednesday, October 22nd, so that's tomorrow at 5 to 6 p.m.

So tomorrow, Wednesday, October 22nd, 5 to 6 p.m.

At you can you can register now or you could call 31324248.

That's 313-224-4248.

That's 313-224-4248.

You can register to partake in the Coleman A.

Young, the second Hope Program Virtual Meeting.

Remember the Hope deadline is November 7th.

It's going to be Wednesday, October 22nd, 5 to 6 p.m.

with Eric Sabrie, Wayne County Treasurer, and Willie Donwell, director of Board of Tax Review.

You can call 313 224 4248, or you could go online at Coleman.yo at Detroit M I.gov.

That's Coleman.yo at Detroit Mi.gov.

That's Coleman.yo at Detroit M I.gov.

That is all lowercase Wednesday, tomorrow, October 22nd, 5 to 6 p.m.

Hope to see you there.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Member Waters.

Thank you.

Um let's see.

Or um last week, Wednesday, we had a very successful skill trade um past fourth meeting.

People showed up.

There's um certainly indicated that there's a tremendous need and tremendous desire for those uh jobs in skilled labor.

So I want to thank everybody for coming out to participate.

And thank you.

Um chairman for coming out as well.

We were in D1, so I thank you.

Um then on Friday, we did our breast cancer um awareness um luncheon.

Ladies came out, they look so beautiful.

Um I want to thank uh human resources and that that team for helping out.

I want to thank my team for assisting as well.

And and the young lady, I can't think of her name right now, but she was just a beautiful uh MC for us.

I want to thank um Rhonda Walker for corn uh showing up to moderate the panel.

Um so this Friday, we will have a um shelter by by faith.

Um faith community and nonprofits at Wayne County Community College on West Cider Drive from 10 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

Um sheltered by faith, Wayne County Community College, and um from 10 to 2 p.m.

on West Out of Drive.

All right, thank you, Ms.

Chairman.

Thank you, member Waters.

Member Santiago Romero, thank you for the work you do.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Uh looks like we're going to keep uh Dr.

Willie Donald pretty busy because he will be joining us this Thursday, October 23rd from 5 30 to 7 30 at Las Says to also hold a HOP program informational session in District 6.

So again, for district 6 or any residents in the city of Detroit, join us this Thursday, October 23rd, from 5 30 to 7 30 p.m.

Uh, Director Donwell will have a presentation around 6 p.m.

We will have some late dinner and some get a gift card raffles as well.

So please join us uh to learn more about the whole program this Thursday at least at 5 30.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Sorry about that.

Thank you, Member Benson.

We'll report uh member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Just want to remind District 4 residents that we are hosting our coffee hour on Friday, October 24th, this Friday at 8 a.m.

at Decent Detroit, a new coffee shop in District 4, located at 148-34 Kirchhoff again, 148-34 Kirchhoff this Friday at 8 a.m.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Member Callaway.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Want to thank everyone for coming out over the weekend on Saturday um afternoon to help us clean up the Woodingham and Tular Finkel area.

We had volunteers to come as far as um from Auburn Hills.

Want to thank them for coming out and all notes TTV team and absolutely Team Waters.

Your team showed up in their t-shirts, their yellow t-shirts.

I want to thank you for sending them over, Mr.

Jason Clover.

You were the leader of that team.

You guys did amazing work in that alley over there at um at the foot of Whittingham.

So thank you so much to you and your team member Waters.

Thank you so much for that.

Um also the District 2 City Council Community Relations team will host office hours this Thursday from 10 to 12 p.m.

at strategic community partners located at 10240 West McNichols Road.

Stop by, share your concerns, uh, grab some um donuts, some apple cider.

We'll be there again at um from 10 to 12 noon.

Also the Northwest Activity Center this Friday from 10 to 3 for the Helping Homes Resource Fair.

There will be on-site assistance for homeowners property exemption, the Hope application.

So please come out.

Sometimes you think you don't qualify, but you really do, and you won't know unless you come out and get the information and get your questions answered.

So this Friday at Northwest Activity Center on the corner of Myers and Curtis from 10 a.m.

to 3 p.m.

And then on Saturday, the DEA drug take back day will be taking place at the 12th precinct, located at 1441 West 7 Mile.

Come dispose of your unused, unwanted or expired medication safe safely, and you don't have to share your name.

You don't have to share any ID.

You can just drop off those um medications.

Then also on the same day from 11, and that's from 10 to 2.

The same day from 11 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

My team and I will join Sheriff Raphael Washington and Commissioner Angelique Peterson Mayberry at Palmer Park Ban Show, which is right next door to the 12th precinct.

We will be participating in from pain to power survivor walk.

Everyone is invited to participate in all these activities.

It's just not exclusive to the residents of district two.

We'll be at the band shell.

We'll start that walk.

It's called from pain to power survivor walk, honoring domestic violence survivors in acknowledgement of domestic violence month.

To register, you can call my office at 224 4535.

And also we'll be having the same day, Saturday, October the 25th.

Our Livernoy Fall Fest is back.

It's a family-oriented activity for everyone in the city.

It will be from six mile to eight mile from one to seven p.m.

Come out, support our local shops, enjoy pumpkin painting, and it's for the entire family.

It's free of charge.

Then also, and we will um have a district two community table there.

Um we'll have donuts and apple cider and treats for the children on Monday, October the 27th.

Commissioner Angelique Peterson Maybury and Wayne County Register of Deeds, Bernard Youngblood are hosting a deed fraud prevention workshop at the 12th precinct, 1441 West 7 Mile.

This event is free to the public, not just for district two residents.

Please call 2240942.

And then we will have Signite Grace on October the 29th, trick trunk or treat.

That will be on their parking lot off of West Outer Drive, right around I think it's Hubble.

6071 West Outer Drive.

And then congratulations to the owners of the um toss and sauce pizzeria on the Avenue of Fashion.

It opened um I was there for um after the ribbon cutting on Thursday.

Come and get your oval shaped pizza and all the products are a natural ingredients, healthy ingredients, and it's right there, um, right across from the CVS.

I don't have the exact exact address, but it's right across from the CVS, right around Margarita and Livernoy.

So go out, enjoy some oval shaped pizza at toss and sauce.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

That completes my report.

Thank you, Member Callaway.

Member Durrell.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

And just inviting everyone to join us for our 29th policy session taking place on the 27th of October, this upcoming Monday from 6 p.m.

to 7 30 p.m.

at the Edison Branch Library located at 1840 Joy Row.

Uh again, this time our topic will be why voting is important.

Noting that that will be one week before the election.

Uh so we are inviting everyone to come out, discuss the importance again of voting.

This is part two uh of our uh policy session regarding voting.

So again, uh we are hoping that you come out, take the opportunity to learn alongside your fellow residents, have refreshments uh as well.

We hope to see you there.

Thank you, Mr.

Uh President.

Thank you.

I have no amendment reports to share.

Thank you, colleagues.

Under communications from the clerk.

A report on approval proceedings by the mayor.

One more time, I'm sorry.

Or report a report on approval of proceedings by the mayor.

Uh any objections, hearing no objections.

Mr.

President, that item received in place on file.

Oh, we will receive in place on file.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Under testing, Mr.

President, yes, before we go there, we missed um under adoption without committee reference.

And there are no items, Mr.

President, for that.

Oh, you know what I had to highlight under adoption without committee reference.

There are no items, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Now under communications from the clerk.

A report on approval of proceedings by the mayor.

Report the risk.

The report shall be approved, shall be received.

Uh under testimonial resolutions and special privilege.

Council member Benson, on behalf of council president pro tem Tate resolution line item 32.1.

Thank you, Member Benson.

Vote been approved.

Motion to approve line item 32.1.

Any objections?

See none that action shall be taken.

Under testimonial resolution and special privileges.

Council Member Johnson, a resolution line item 32.2.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Motion to approve.

It's a motion to approve line item 32.2.

Any objections?

See none that action shall be taken.

Under testimonial resolutions and special privilege.

Council member Young for resolutions.

Line items 32.3 through 32.6.

Member Young.

Thank you, Ms.

President.

I move to approve line items 32.3 through 32.6.

Motion to approve line items 32 point to 32.3 through 32.6.

Any objections?

See none that action shall be taken.

Uh with those resolutions being approved.

There's no further business to come before this body.

Any is there a motion to adjourn?

See no objections that action shall be taken.