Councilmember Gabriela Santiago Romero.

Good morning, present.

Councilmember Scott Benson.

Scott Benson.

Councilmember Mary Waters.

Councilmember Santiago, we have a quorum.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Given a quorum, we'll go right into the session for today.

We have received our minutes from our last session.

Is there a motion to approve?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, we will approve our minutes from our last session.

I have no chair remarks for today.

We can go right into public comments.

This is will be general public comments for today's session.

Please raise your hand now if you are in person and you would like to make public comments.

General public comment for us.

I will be cutting off general public comment in two minutes.

So at 10 03.

Oh sorry, so she has a call.

Make sure that you please have your hands raised.

Everyone will have two minutes on the clock for general public comment.

And again, if you are online, please raise your hands now.

We have a meeting right now.

Stop being rude.

What we will do is we will begin with the folks that we have here in person.

I'm assuming the two folks that are in the audience, are you both here for general public comments?

I have not seen any hands raised.

Okay, understood.

I'll begin with Mr.

Foster, followed by Mr.

Roo.

If you wouldn't mind making sure your microphones are turned on once you get to the stage.

Okay.

And to anyone that might still be listening, you have opportunity to raise your hands virtually for general public comment this morning.

Mr.

Foster, whenever you're ready.

Good morning, um, through the chair.

I just wanted to come down and speak.

A uh I am very grateful, you know, for opportunities in life.

You know, I don't come down here arrogantly or speaking as if I'm better than anyone or that I know it in everything.

What I do is just try to capitalize on the opportunities, second, third chances that I received in life to breathe and to do other things and to contribute to making a better environment and prevent other youth and at risk people of uh falling in the same pit traps and falls.

With that being said, I've taken a lot of abuse down here.

I'm a veteran, I'm a man, and so I tolerate it and I'm used to it.

But moving forward, it has to stop.

Um I understand that a lot of staff members have a lot of other things that they do outside of here and maybe infiltrate and could combine work, their self-esteem, their values and things into their life.

And so I admonish those things.

I asked maybe for some cultural training amongst your staff.

Um and with that being said, I've been uh a strong advocate for increasing wages for your staff for the for the self of council across the board, and so I don't understand uh why some or all with me will be retaliatory, would be um exclusive.

Um, would be overlooking and different things like that.

Um, with that being said, uh, one of the ideas that I've had and I'm grateful for with the down payment assistance.

There's some being a combat veteran as veterans.

I don't need any money to get a house.

I get zeroed down already.

That was one of the ideas I brought here to a stand to our impoverished community as well.

And so I just asked you all to be open, listen, respectful both ways.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We appreciate you coming down, Mr.

Roo.

And public comments is now cut off.

Public comment is now cut off.

Mr.

Ribbon Crowley.

If the note if the clerk can please note even Jimmy Member Waters.

Clerk will note.

Thank you.

Okay, we'll give her a minute to get settled in, and then I'm gonna start.

Uh Gabriela Santiago Romero, as I said on numerous occasions now, you're a liar.

You did not read that report on uh May the 9th, 2024.

The findings on the allegations of voter fraud by anonymous citizen report, and council members right there didn't have the report on the ninth.

Nobody had it until the 22nd when I brought it to Fred Duhaw's committee.

Now I want to just switch real quickly.

In 2025, there was a meeting held uh for the city of Detroit aboard the Detroit Princess River Boat.

I am the first, very first assistant director of operations on the Detroit Princess River boat.

Now, I after the meeting, there was a parks and recreation employee, parks and recreation department employee that raised her hand while Captain John was extolling uh the benefits of the boat, and he said it'd bring thousands and thousands of people to the riverfront.

So she raised her hand and one finger up like this and said, uh that might be the problem.

It might bring too many people to the riverfront.

And I lost it.

And I said in front of everybody, what the F did you just say?

And then I called Cap out in the hallway and I told him, um, we trying to squeeze you for some bunny, and you're not giving them sugar honey iced tea.

And he said, to which he replied, I'm with you.

I'm not giving them nothing.

So then I walked over here to the K Mike.

This building on the 11th floor, walked up in, and I saw uh Anthony Adams and Derek Miller and a few others in the uh front of the building, and then I stood in the mayor's office.

So I stood up and I said, uh John Changler is a friend of mine.

He ain't giving y'all sugar honey iced tea.

Leave them alone.

Thank you, Mr.

Crowley, for coming in.

Hope you have a blessed day.

We will now turn it over to the folks that we have online.

Uh Miss Duncan, who do we have first?

And how many folks do we have, raised?

Madam Chair, there are a total of 15 callers.

There was one caller who called, but in, but it was after you cut off public comment.

The first caller is Cecily McClellan.

Yes, thank you very much for this opportunity to speak.

I'm with uh we the people of Detroit Water Peace Division, and uh I'm very much concerned with the Detroit Lifeline Program, which is non-functional now.

And many of those residents, I mean, it reached the peak of almost 30,000 residents, and the large proportion of them had were on the first tier, which was an $18 payment every month.

And there was a forgiveness of their reverse.

That program no longer is functional right now, and they're uh waiting for uh Gliwa to um uh provide uh approximately three million dollars that will just service a min a very small amount of Detroit residents.

So now we're looking at potential water shutoffs coming in the uh winter months.

Uh the whale coalition has backed and supported the state's uh water affordability now legislation, and that is House Bill 555, uh House Bill 5170, 5171, 5172, and 5173.

I strongly encourage this body to review those documents.

It provides um a statewide water affordability now that can be duplicated here in the city of Detroit.

It adjusts water rates using a sliding fee scale based on federal poverty guidelines.

It offers debt forgiveness.

Uh it protects and roll these uh customers from water shutoffs.

The program uh extends to both owners and renters.

We need to get on board.

Uh please review the house bills that I have just shared with you.

Um we need an ordinance that is very much uh in line with that house bill so we can protect the residents of the city of Detroit and always ensure that they have access to clean, safe, and affordable water.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The next caller is stop violating the Detroit City Charter.

Miss Warwick, you're up next.

Uh yes, good morning.

Uh, the reason thank you for two minutes.

Uh member Santiago Romero, since you were one of the wise ones and didn't vote for the eminent domain takings for solar firms.

I wish you would please speak out to people.

In fact, I've been thinking about it, and frankly, the city committed a fraud by omission on the residents of the city of Detroit.

And you're violating the charter regularly.

Um, and the it's the corporation council's duty, it's supposed to be an independent entity to uphold the charter.

Um you're not the whole so the so-called the solar takings are because you allegedly care about our health.

Yet people come down about the concrete crushing plants and all of this, and you just do all these different ways to allegedly deal with blight and abuse the blight excuse.

And that was one of the excuses used for the solar takings, but yet you never mentioned that the definition of blight that the city was be using would be using is that a property was ever tax reverted in the past without more or owned by the land bank.

So everyone within the sound of my voice.

If you live in a property that was ever tax reverted or owned it, or if you have a property that you got from the land bank under state law, it is blighted per se.

And according to the city, two people on this council meeting right now voted that they can take your property simply because it was ever owned by the land bank or tax reverted in the past, and that's the way to deal with blight.

Yet this past Friday they passed a blight patrol task force.

You can't do that under the charter under sex section uh 9-405 and treat people differently, and that was fraud beyond by omission by not saying your excuse to take people's property for DTE and other solar entities.

The next caller is owner Papa.

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

Yes, good morning.

Good morning.

Did all two uh what uh Miss Warwick just expounded on.

Um your agenda are several HIV monies, millions of dollars.

Why is that money being funneled to other organizations like Wayne State and Grace?

Why isn't it going to our health department?

And why don't we have a report from the health department after millions of dollars being spent?

What have we accomplished?

I see a HEP C Hepatitis C has been a problem in the city of Detroit for some time.

You are the health and safety committee, and it's your job to oversee the health and safety of the public, and it's more than just uh guns for police.

And and speaking of the letter that uh Miss Waters has written, uh, councilwoman waters.

Um, I remember when they had a sink on the Mayo, and uh a few people got pushed around by the police department, and the police came to the council table to uh expound on what had what had occurred.

Um Mr.

Chief Bettis first came to the public and said that the woman refused to show identification, and then once he found the truth, he came back to the public.

This is the reason why that ordinance that uh was just passed is ill gotten.

It's it's not going to help the public, it's going to help the police.

The police need some guidance because I saw that police officer squat down as if that woman was on the 10 most wanted list and fire at her.

And I'm pretty sure it wasn't expected that she was going to make it, but God bless she did.

And so now you have to deal with the uh aftermath, and not only you, but the people in the city of Detroit, because I'm pretty sure a lawsuit will come out of it, and we'll be paying more uh money and settlements, and hopefully, you're not going to identify indemnify this police officer because these kind of police officers do not need to be on the police department, and someone needs to oversee the hiring of these people.

He needs a mental test.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Yes.

Um I've been coming down there or on the phone talking with my city council, uh, Letitia Johnson about like uh the last caller said we don't have a health department because nobody did nothing about these films over here that we inhale, messed up our system, and I'm going to the Dr.

Steel for stuff I've been through with this plant being built over here for years, and it's sad that I have to keep saying the same thing on the call the health department and uh all the other places that we supposed to call.

They they should have bought us out from over here, first of all.

But Dugan took that money and ran with it and just gave us a little loudly $15,000, wouldn't work worth a darn thing to fix up our house.

How can you fix the house up with $15,000?

That's saying our health is more important than that little $15,000.

You want to help us uh buy us out or give us more money to fix our house up.

We put in for a grant, me and my wife.

The first thing they said was, we're not eligible because we got 15,000.

That 15,000 was from Christ.

It wasn't from the city, but they started charging us more taxes.

It said it's real sad.

You want to take my money for taxes, but you won't let me get a grant over here from the city.

It said that we have to deal with that.

I'm trying to get the hell out of Detroit because it's so sad that you have to keep on dealing with this year after year.

They just sold all our uh uh uh the outsource all the resources that we had.

I called DTE to get a light bulb in the alley because they be back there dropping off cars, which I didn't call the police and call uh my city council doing sex acts back there, and I come through the alley when I get from uh work doing my work.

And it said that they want me to take out a loan for their uh light behind my house.

That's not my right, that's they like.

We gotta get it together, y'all.

We gotta get some backbone.

The next caller is not that Karen.

Hello.

Yes, we can hear you.

Great.

Good morning.

Um, thank you for your punctuality, and thank you for the uh 120 seconds you've given us this morning.

Um I agree 100% with Mr.

Hollywell.

Uh anybody in the within the sound of my voice, I would encourage you um to just move out of the city.

That's what I plan to do.

And as a matter of fact, in two weeks I'll be leaving the city.

I just refuse to continue to pay uh property taxes and city taxes for what you know.

We don't get any uh refund from.

So um the garbage has picked up half hazard two weeks this month.

The garbage man has passed um my home without taking the regular garbage that's the blue uh blue cans that the recyclables, they're being empty, but for whatever reason, I don't know if I'm on the on the hit list for not picking up garbage or not.

But in any event, um two two weeks running, two weeks running.

My garbage have cut have had to pull the can back in full of garbage, like it was.

Um, so yeah, I think that if more people uh because the city waits you out, the city that's that's their end game.

They wait you out for everything, whether it's a lawsuit, whether it's a wrong, whether it's a pension, whatever, they just wait you out and hope you died before you get your resolution.

So kudos, Mr.

Hollow.

I'm moving.

I suggest everybody that continues to call and come down and voice their concern.

I suggest that you do move out out of the city.

Maybe when enough of us do that, then maybe then um well they're gonna keep fudging the numbers, but maybe then they'll start to realize that they have to do more for the citizens and have to do more for the taxpayers and less for the corporations.

You set aside almost 50 million dollars for the corporations, but you haven't set aside any money for the Detroit City of Detroit retirees.

We don't want to fast track, we want our money back.

No fast track, money back.

Thank you.

The next caller is Cunningham.

Brother Cunningham, you're up next.

3134, 9114, 313, 444, 9114.

313, 444, 9114.

That number was made so you can remember it.

And on Facebook, not any two words.

Um I was coming down there to come in person, and I forget that I don't get any money for doing this.

I forget that I uh no, you know, nothing special for doing this.

And I was like, you know, let me go get that 25.

And so I said I'd just do it on Zoom.

I have to snap out of it and know that I'm not getting 100,000.

I'm not getting 10,000.

I'm not getting nothing.

I'm not for this activism and me helping others, I get nothing from it.

So I I can do both.

Do it on Zoom, and my customer, my customer says hello.

Hey, going uh he's a disabled brother.

Um and I'm taking him to work.

Um, and I want to shout out the honorable councilwoman Gabriella, Santiago Romero.

I didn't bug her or nothing like that when I was there, but uh the the honorable Marguerite Maddox.

Um her birthday, she was turned 70 years old.

And councilman Young came.

Councilman Tate came.

And councilwoman Gabriela Santiago Romero.

She came.

She leads with her heart, and that is a blessing.

Real tough.

Um, and I know it touched Ms.

Marguerite, my friend's heart.

Uh, Marguerite and Scarlet.

Uh, I'm still in need.

The bus service is not on time, so folks are waiting longer at the bus stops.

You can do it vicariously through me or do it on your own.

Buy some bus tickets, buy some hand warmers, regular citizens, Oprah Echelon, Sididi, Uberdy, Down the Earth, whatever you are, do it vicariously through me or others.

Or you or or you all can do it yourself.

Uh, the hotline number is my cash app and uh hotline number.

So I thank you so much.

Thank you, Brother Cunningham.

It's always good to see you.

Please drive safe.

Who do we have next?

The next caller is Betty A.

Varner.

Uh good morning to all within the sound of my voice.

I'm Betty A.

Varner, president of the Soda Elsewhere Block Association.

Today I'm gonna advocate and talk about our Finkel Corridor.

Um the mission uh for myself and members and residents in this area is to have a thriving uh redevelop Finkel corridor.

We are in the need of monies for the Fink Accorder.

We had uh wonderful meetings and uh got a lot of information working with the city administration, but the problem is there's no monies.

Uh I our prayer is that our honorable elect uh mayor, Mary Sheffield will get on board and uh with us to help find monies to redevelop our thinker corridor.

We uh care about our community.

We are committed.

Uh uh majority of the members in our association are seniors who have been living in this area for 30 plus years.

Uh I'm at a prime example.

I've been in my home for over 50 years, and rather than us sitting back and complaining about all the changes we have seen, we are doing what we can do as seniors uh and uh proud residents of the city of Detroit to improve our community.

We need monies for our quarter.

Also, we have purchased um uh vacant land, bright blighted land, and we've created a park in honor of our late vice president Gwendolyn Lanier.

Now we are expanding, and we have purchased additional lots that need to be cleaned up.

And if you would like to uh donate to that mission, please go to uh Zao Diva D E B A W E B as in Boy, E L at Gmail.com.

If you can also donate by using my telephone number if you do, if you know it.

Again, that's Diva D S N Dog, E B as in Boy A, W E B E L at Gmail.com.

Thank you for this time.

Thank you.

The next caller is Tyson Gersh.

Hi, can you hear me?

Yes, we can.

Thanks.

Uh, I guess spent a really long time looking through the Board of Zoning Appeal, court reporting contract history.

Um, it's really hard to get a clear picture of what's going on here.

Uh, you know, the deeper you look, the less straightforward it all seems to be.

Um, and I guess uh what do I want to say?

Um I think the city council needs to re-evaluate the way that it's approaching a lot of these contracts, um, just with agencies in general.

I mean, all of these public hearings all have the same needs.

You gotta record them, and you gotta make those recordings available.

Why don't we just have like I mean, city council records things and like that it's all linked and available online?

We should just do that for every single agency.

Um, I think that you know, we have this unique Detroit rule about transcripts for BZA hearings.

Um, you know, it's 2025.

I think we maybe need to revisit some of this stuff.

Just use one contract and uh for services across all departments for all public hearings across the city, post all the videos online, and just streamline and simplify this.

I mean, there's like weird period.

You see the BZA like doing its best to comply with the charter.

And honestly, I think you guys have been putting the director in a really tough spot.

Um and I think it's unfair to them.

Um, you know, it seems like just kind of arbitrarily, city council this year doesn't want to give it the money to fulfill its duties, and then this next year it does.

Like this is just not how we should be running things, and the cost is unnecessary.

Just one contract, all departments post the videos online.

Thank you.

The next caller is Miko A.

Williams.

Miko, you're up next.

If you are speaking, we cannot hear you.

We can go to William Davis and come back to Mr.

Williams.

Mr.

Davis, you are next.

Uh good morning, can I be heard?

Good morning, yes.

I think it should be greater transparency for the residents of the city of Detroit as relates to drainage fees.

I know I pay a high drainage fee.

I know a lot of people do, but yet it we should be able to know who is paying who's not and why and why is it different amounts?

And some people get credits, and some people don't.

Uh take myself, for instance.

I worked for the city of Detroit for the water department.

I did 34 years exclusively in the water department.

And part of the time that I was there, most of the time that I was there, they said part of the reason why I water and sewage bill and and then they add the drainage fees was so high because part part of the reason they was the pay and happened to pay my future pension and fees.

So, you know, part of the fees was associated with that.

In so much since my pension was cut, the city should be looking at how they're going to repay the residents of those expenses associated with paying for my pension in the sense it wasn't is still an enterprise department.

You know, so I think that we have been cheated.

Uh City Trade uh retirees that live in the city and it was also part that had to pay um all of these fees.

It should be a better breakdown and also more needs to be done as relates to making sure that the wall is more affordable for residents.

You know, all these fees and all these questionable non-transparency is driving people out of the city.

You know, in the 12 years, the city of Detroit went from the 18th largest to the 26th largest city, and it's that you know, and it does not have good prospects for becoming larger again.

We we need to be more inclusive with the residents that live here.

We need to be more welcoming.

We need to make sure that these prices can't continue to go high, and we need to make sure people have greater transparency in the city government.

Right now it's highly questionable.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The next caller is Renard Majunski.

Good morning.

Can I be heard?

Yes, good morning.

Good morning, madam chair and members of public health and safety committee.

Um, first and foremost, I want to thank um thank Marguerite Maddox, I believe that happy birthday.

Uh, she turns uh the Great 7-0.

And um there was a celebration for her birthday um over the weekend.

I want to just um speak about line item 5.1.

My name is Renard Roswski, organizer with Detroit People's Platform.

I was in a meeting about this with DOT, and there was a meeting in compliance with the citizen um overview um ordinance of um when it comes to surveillance.

So DOT is basically upgrading his camera system.

And what they did was have a hearing with all the bus riders during its um public hearings and community input meetings.

Um we were assured that this is not going to use any sort of facial recognition or AI that could um um criminalize innocent people.

However, it will have a retention period of 180 days with a deletion period if there are no incidents.

It will allow for basically monitoring of the buses, upgraded cameras, um fitted with I think uh 4G or 5G technology that just allows it to broadcast.

It's like Wi-Fi basically and clear images.

And the reason why this is important because bus riders, drivers, everyone um should have uh symbols of safety if there's medical event or safety event that happens, anything that happens, there's a video record of it that will assist in any sort of cases, allowing for fair um trials as well, too.

Um not only that, it will allow for bus riders to make a complaint and it'd be backed by video evidence if there's an incident or anything on the bus since there's some sort of low trust with folly complaints.

Um so that's just information about line item 5.1 um in terms of DDOT.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The next caller is Melissa Love.

I'm glad Donald Trump is attacking the massive fraud that's been happening across the U.S., especially in the urban communities.

The Democrats is still in gotta go.

If we had representation, DTE wouldn't be so high.

Y'all need to get a hold of DTE ASAP.

When you live in the suburban areas, DTE is dirt cheap.

We need cheap DTE in Detroit.

When we do move out, they will lose that big budget.

They've been stealing.

No people, no budget.

Y'all need to make sure buses is is on time first.

Love versus Benson at all.

Case number 25-C V13105.

The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 states that the Secretary State Johnson Jocelyn Benson must maintain clean voter roles.

I'm Melissa Love, never voted in November 2020 or August 2024.

And I am here to demand my name off the voter roads and collect my share of the pie.

Y'all been stealing from.

I'm here to demand representation and justice for the hood of the city of Detroit.

I will continue to stand for what's right and for us mine and fear no evil while doing so.

I will continue to call and show up boldly and with confidence.

Black communities of the city of Detroit, east to west, north to south.

Please wait.

We have no representation.

We are forced to live in private, especially when it's more dispensaries than grocery stores.

We will continue to live in poverty if we don't speak up.

All the nice stuff that's appealing to the eye around the city is called justification.

Thank you, Detroit for cheating me and making me a force to be reckoned with.

Because I ain't letting up.

Remember, God is a God of justice.

And I love what God love and hate what God hate.

No justice, no peace.

No justice, no peace.

No justice, no peace, no justice, no peace.

No justice, no peace, no justice, no peace.

No peace.

Cindy, if you can hear us, we cannot hear you.

Okay.

Uh I was thinking that the transition team when I ran about who was on it.

I didn't, I don't know any of these people on uh Cheffield's transition team, but I'd like to figure uh include people from uh Detroit People's Platform, you know, and uh Carol Hughes, myself.

I mean, uh the people that come on in public comment to give good ideas, they should somehow be included in the transition team, I think.

That'd be a good idea.

Uh to let some of the people that in other words, it seems like the people that are uh here on there have a lot of money.

They probably aren't living in Detroit.

And uh a lot of them anyway.

And I, you know, they're not living the same life.

Detroiters are so let's let the people help plan that are being affected by the plan and also implement the plan, not just plan it, but help implement it.

So uh and I'd like you to uh help uh ask the Detroit election commission to have a meeting and call the no to republic young man that took my petitions originally and stamped them, and then they said I didn't sign a paper that I don't uh whatever.

If I didn't sign some paper and something they didn't give me to sign, uh then when I or charge via write in, and I was putting literature out the whole time because I want approval voting.

Well, I could election science.org for a better system.

And uh anyway, I I need your help.

We need to have him testify under oath that I didn't sign any of those papers because I did sign them.

We are gonna go back to Miko Williams Miko, I believe you're trying to be heard, please.

Yes, hi, good morning.

Um Demiko Williams, private citizen, taxpayer, uh local Detroit resident, citizen, lived here all my life.

I love Detroit.

I love everything about the city, but the people, the toxic environment, the no representation, the disrespect, me being arrested, having my name, my reputation, my good work ruined.

I I've been a product of Wayne County Community College, I graduated northern high school.

I am the Detroit dream, and I feel like leaving here is probably the the only result.

I have nothing else to show for other than I tried to fight for water rights.

I tried to fight against the shutoffs.

I tried to fight against Gary Brown, and people won't help me.

I tried everything I can to resist white supremacy and corporate colonization, but people fell into the disinformation and the misinfo around it.

We have people selling us out and telling us they don't care about their neighbors.

I have done everything I tried to do.

I just went over the numbers, made 10,000 or more paying people's water bills privately, and I don't get no respect.

All I get is arrest, disrespect, um this mayor, this council, you know, it it's it's very terrible.

Why would I stay here?

And Detroit doesn't have a health department, it is contracted through a third party renting an office space in the city of Detroit.

It is not for real, okay.

If it was, then why is our the new RX My Kids?

Why are they not servicing Detroit residents?

We found out on the Mildred Gadda show yesterday that they are not servicing Detroit residents, this new RXMI kids initiative.

It should be.

Can you get please find out Santiago Romero?

What's going on and make them come here to the city council under summons and testify to you what's going on with this program and why Detroit isn't included, please.

That's a real ask.

And for the rest of my time, I just say happy birthday, Margaret Maddox Scarlet.

Thank you.

No, madam chair.

The last caller is going to be Mar Marguerite Maddox.

All right.

Miss Maddox, you are up next.

You are our last caller.

When it comes to our ex kids, there are many of us that are pushing for this to come to the city.

I have high hopes that with their incoming mayor, this could happen.

No promises, but this is something that is being discussed um at the city.

I know amongst a few of us.

Um Miss Maddox, are you are you with us?

Yes.

Happy birthday.

Happy belated.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ben.

Everyone.

Thank you for being there among sending this thing.

Television.

And my whoop my not done.

It is never done.

Um about the water.

The word issue.

Good back to what it be to do.

I think it was every month.

Pay me paying me on it.

Because I was blowing up.

I paid paid my glimmer.

And it was a little easier.

Yes.

But the kid.

Uh no, come back.

You're making sure it's gone.

So the key they uh we should be.

No.

But next we need to figure that.

Um because the I shall look in the area.

They need to be fit immediately.

So um done.

Thank you.

Everyone that came out instead of bringing with me.

Oh I'm going.

Thank you, Miss Maddox.

May God bless you with many more years of life and health regarding sidewalks.

As you know, city council does put a lot of money into sidewalks while knocking on doors this summer.

I'm seeing a lot of sidewalks repair happening in our neighborhoods.

I know that when you and I took our walk in your shoes, we were out in Maine streets, um, in in business corridors, which are also in need of sidewalk repairs.

Um, so can thank you for your continued advocacy.

We did also ask for a list of the sidewalks that have been repaired and what is to be repaired in the future, so we can keep asking for that.

Um, thank you for your advocacy on water, and when it comes to the health departments, Miss Maddox, I could not understand the tools that you were asking for.

If you wouldn't mind, please messaging me, texting me, um, what those were uh for me to review.

I appreciate you.

Thank you.

Um, Miss Duncan, that was our last caller, so we can go right into the rest of the agenda under un oh uh vice chair.

Thank you.

Just wanted to uh wish Miss Max a happy birthday as well as thank her for her advocacy.

Uh she's been doing this since I've been here, which I would go on a limb and say I mean she's been doing it before I was here, and she's been doing this without pay just based on her passion for sustainability as well as disability access.

Thank you.

Thank you, Vice Chair.

Also learned what a batty, Miss Maddox says she's an Olympian, she's a a runner, she's she's she is not just an advocate, but just an incredible human.

Um, so Miss Maddox, happy to know you.

Um moving us along to unfinished business five point one.

This is contract number six zero zero seven one six one utilizing a hundred percent grant funding.

This is to provide complete video and camera system for D dot blood uh bus fleets.

Uh this will be for 312 buses.

The contractor is Luminator Tech Group, they are in Plano, Texas.

This is a five-year contract at 4,355, 888 with 96 cents.

Is there a motion to approve with discussion 5.1?

Motion.

Thank you, Vice Chair, Mr.

Washington.

Who do we have to discuss 5.1 chair committee?

Um, for the chair, there's actually a request to postpone this one week.

There's one more meeting that Dow wants to satisfy for COX before we proceed.

Okay, I will take that.

If uh without objections, is there a motion?

I need a motion.

Thank you, Vice Chair.

There's a motion to bring 5.1 back in one week.

Hearing no objections, 5.1 will be brought back in one week.

5.2 is a memo relative to a resolution to pass the living wage for musicians act.

Is there a motion to discuss?

Motion.

Thank you, LPD.

The requested resolution has been provided.

It's at a subsequent point in the agenda under new business.

Oh, so then is there a motion to receive and file 5.2?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, 5.2 will be received and filed.

5.3.

This is contract number 3087566.

100% bond funding to provide an emergency demolition for residential property.

12888 Chapel.

Contractor is SC environmental there in Detroit.

This is for 16,000 for construction and demolition.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss 5.3?

Motion.

There's a motion to approve.

Are there any objections?

Hearing none.

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

5.4 is a memo relative to data on incidents regarding food vendors.

We have received responses from the fire departments.

We are still waiting to hear back from police.

Um, not sure, Mr.

Washington, if you can help us move that along, but with that, I would like to bring 5.4 back in one week.

Hearing no objections, 5.4 will be brought back in one week, waiting for response from DPD regarding food vendor incidents.

And for folks that are interested, we are looking at our current food truck ordinance, uh trying to make some modifications.

The administration is as well.

Um I mean, and we're looking to make sure that we are meeting the need of food vendors and also meeting the need of health and safety of the city.

5.5.

This is a memo relative to a request for reports on travel in.

This is on the agenda further down as well.

If there's a motion to receive and file, motion five points five will be received and filed without objections.

And five point seven.

And five point seven is a memo relative to request for reports on flood mitigation solutions on West Grand Boulevard.

Is there a motion to discuss?

Motion.

Thank you.

Uh to LPD, I believe another status updates if you have one for six and seven.

Or Mr.

Washington to the administration.

Yes, madam chair, if we could request one week for both items.

If there's a motion to do so, hearing no objections, five point six and five point seven will be brought back in one week.

Thank you, Mr.

Washington.

Under new business, six points one and six point two.

Under the Office of Contract and in Procurement, 6.1.

This is contract number 308059, utilizing 100% blight funding.

This is to provide an emergency backfill for commercial property 4400 St.

Auburn.

Contractors inner city contracting, they're in Detroit, and this will be for 56,500.

Is there a motion to discuss 6.1?

Motion.

Thank you.

Mr.

Washington, who do we have to discuss our con construction and demolition contracts?

This is for 6.1.

For the chair, we have group exec council and I.

If we can move her over as a panelist.

Thank you.

That was you.

Something just popped up.

Has she accepted the all right?

Um to our group exec count.

We are hoping to speak with you regarding six points one.

You have been made a panelist.

You would just need to accept and unmute yourself.

She may be away from the table.

So what we'll do is Mr.

Washington, if you wouldn't mind pinning um our group exact and we can come back to these items.

Well thank you.

Uh without objection, we will come back to 6.1, and I will move us along.

Uh we will also come back to 6.2.

This is another construction and demolition contract.

So I'm just gonna move us along until we're able to discuss 6.3.

I don't believe so, member waters.

We can just move on.

Thank you.

So for 6.3, this is contract number 6006284, amendment number one.

This is utilizing 100% city funding to provide an increase of funds for high pressure breathing air compressors, uh PMI and parts and hydrostatic testing services, contractor RR Fire Truck Repair Inc.

They are located in Northville, Michigan.

This will be a contract through June 30th, 2026.

The increased amount is 90,000, bringing this total contract to 217,869, and this will be for fire.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss 6.3?

Motion to approve hearing no objections, 6.3 will be approved, sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

6.4 through 6.7 are various health department contracts.

6.4 is contract number 6005077, amendment number one.

This is 100% grant funding to provide an increase of funds only through the W the Wayne State University's adult services for ending the HIV epidemic.

The Ryan White's HIV programs for parts A and B.

Contractors Wayne State University.

They're here in the city.

The increased amount will be for 1973 with 67 cents bringing this to 1,232,777 with 17 cents.

6.5 is contract number 6005091 amendment number one.

100% grant funding for an increase of funds only for the Psy Nigh Grace Projects Program Administrator for coordinating and managing HIV in the Detroit's eligible metro area.

Contractors Wayne State University.

The increased amount is 319,904 with 75 cents.

This brings the total contract to 1,274,312 with 20 cents.

Bringing this total contract to 1,067,330 with 90 with excuse me with 89 cents.

And 6.7, this is contract number 6005093, amendment number one.

An increase of funds only for an adult clinic program administrator utilizing 100% grant funding for coordinating and managing medical and supportive services for low-income under or uninsured persons living with HIV in the Detroit eligible metro area.

The increase is for 665,711 with 84 cents, bringing this total contract to 3,637.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss?

Motion to approve discussion.

Vice Chair.

Thank you.

Looking at the definition in line of 6.6 and 6.7.

It talks about Detroit eligible metro area for residents to receive benefits.

What is the Detroit eligible metro area?

Mr.

Washington, who do we have to discuss?

If we can make her over to a panelist.

And I see Ms.

Floyd has joined as well.

Thank you for joining us.

If you wouldn't mind sending your name and title for the public.

Good morning, Christina Floyd, at the director of public health for the Church Health Department.

Thank you for joining us, Deputy.

Were you able to hear our vice chair's question?

Uh through the chair, yes.

I'll repeat it just to make sure that I understood or I heard it correctly.

The question was who are the eligible citizens through and then I think it kind of cut off, but I'm assuming metropolitan area.

Was that what was that?

Chair, Ms.

Floyd, yes.

So the question is the contract speaks directly to Detroit eligible metro area for residents to receive benefits.

What is the Detroit eligible metro area?

Yes.

Uh through the chair uh to council member Benson.

I know this has come up before these are the um counties in which that surround us or open county, only county city, uh and few others.

So those are the individuals, those are the regional areas to which uh we provide services to uh for the grant.

Okay, so those residents from it sounds like five county area are eligible to come in come to Detroit and receive those services.

Yes.

Okay.

Do we receive additional funds for supporting residents or eligible citizens, residents outside of the Detroit, the city of Detroit?

Through the chair to council member Benson.

We receive regular funds, but I see what you're saying with regards to an increase in funding because they are coming from those areas.

Uh I will have to look into that to see if that is the case.

I'm not too familiar that we actually see an increase of funds because we're serving those populations.

Um but I can more certainly find just generally, I understand the reason that you want to serve and not turn anybody away.

So my concern is just are we displacing our own residents by serving a large metropolitan area versus just providing services to our own Detroit residents?

Is my question?

Okay, through the chair to council member Benson.

Uh no, no one is being displaced or turned away because there's only been X amount of services allocated, and we can only do one more through our contractors.

Uh we've never had that problem with Ryan White, uh, as well as with the um EHIV epidemic.

Uh and so uh we actually receive um extra funding.

Uh we see increase in funding these particular uh contracts for amendment is uh because we now have a full um budget that has been approved by um Ryan White as well as EET.

So uh but as of uh right now we have never had residents of the city of Detroit that have been displaced are not able to actually access uh any services through our contractors because residents who are outside of the city garner those services.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

Are there any other questions for 6.4 through 6.7?

Hearing nine, I um as just mentioned before, and we'll see um what next term holds, but I I hope that anyone in this committee um can begin to hold uh quarterly reports the way that we do for D DOTs um and other entities who do a lot of work for the city.

I'm not sure if you hear during public comments, but there are a lot of questions of what the health department does uh does what it provides.

I think it would be really important and beneficial that we provide reports around the grants that we receive, around the family planning and care that we do as well, um, and any other programs that you think Detroiter should know about that we can highlight.

Um, is my only note for us to prepare for that?

Um, but thank you, Deputy.

Hearing no other questions, is there a motion to approve?

There was a motion to approve, hearing no objections, six point four through six point seven will be sent to formal will be approved since a formal with the recommendation to approve.

Thank you for joining us.

Moving us along six point eight.

This is contract number six zero zero five six six zero amendment number two utilizing 100% ARPA funding.

This is to provide an increase of funds only for additional coal response mental health training courses.

The contractor is the Cordonal Group to LLC.

They're in Ypsilani.

This is going to go through June 30th, 2026.

The increase is for 400,000.

This will bring this total contract to 2,425,600.

And this will be for the health departments.

Is there a motion to approve with discussion 6.8?

Thank you, Member Waters.

Mr.

Washington, who do we have to discuss?

6.8.

I see.

Oh, Mr.

Washington.

Yes, through the chair, we have Captain Curtis Schale, Neidra Hall, and Valencia Lau.

If we can move them over as panelists.

I only found a Valencia Lyle, Madam Chair.

Hello.

Hello, good morning.

If you wouldn't mind stating your name and title for the public.

Hi, good morning.

My name is Valencia Lyle.

I am the director of Behavioral Health Initiatives in the Detroit Mayor's Office.

And I did want to ask that Lieutenant James Domini also be promoted as well.

Could you repeat the name?

James Domini, Lieutenant James Domini.

All right.

I do see that we found James, so we can make them a panelist as well.

Thank you.

Thank you.

While we move them over as a panelist, wonderful.

Oh, hello, if you wouldn't mind stating your name and title for the public.

Good morning.

My name is Neja Hall.

Well good morning.

And then I believe I can't see whoever just joined us as well.

If you wouldn't mind introducing yourself with the name and title.

Good morning, Lieutenant James Domini with Detroit Police Department.

Good morning.

Thank you all for joining us.

We are discussing 6.8.

This is the mental health core response training.

This is for it says under it says for health department, but I do believe these are trainings happening through police.

Given that we're utilizing ARPA funding for this, my first question is what are the plans to provide these services to fund uh these services after ARPA funding is no longer available for us.

So uh part of the reason why we wanted to uh expand or increase the um amount going towards this training is because there will be um two um yes two train the trainer courses so um we plan to train about 60 individuals from PD.

Um the fire department is also participating in this training so um overall there will be 60 uh individuals from police department and the fire department who will participate in the train the trainer sessions um but then other additionally the funding will go to about um up to 680 people from uh DPD and DFD, mostly DPD to participate in the trainings.

Okay, and the folks that are being trained for DPD, is this any officer or these the officers that are um in our co-response mental health unit.

Um I don't know um defer to the Domini, but most of these people will be um any officer.

Um we are trying to expand um their um just knowledge and capacity it within mental health, so um officers that are training that are interested in increasing their capacity and uh just mental health uh training to um have an appropriate response to residents who experience mental health crises, uh they will uh participate in this training.

Okay, and then so to the first question.

We are putting more money in now.

Are there any plans for for succession planning for the program once this funding is gone?

So with the trainer trainers, that's a sustainability model.

So we're um once we do um utilize all of the funding, police officers can then use their own folks to train additional classes moving forward.

Understood.

Okay.

Um, so then we would be missing new best practices, new data, new information because things change.

Um and just hoping that we try to find either more grant funding.

Uh I know that there is the public safety uh fund at the state level.

Wonder if there can be some funds from that uh from that buckets to be utilized for for this as well, not just CDI.

Um, but while I think it's smart to train the trainer to have officers that are ready.

I think it's important to have the latest information, the latest trainings as well.

Um, one question, and and forgive me if if I'm totally off base, but I'm just going off of what I'm seeing and hearing.

Um, unfortunately, we have still seen um deaths at the hand of police as still this year.

Wondering were any of those during a mental health call.

I can speak uh briefly on that.

Our mental health co-response team has not been a part of any of those.

Um mental health does play a role in a lot of police response, but I am not aware of any of those where we were called and unable to make it uh or that involves someone in crisis uh at the time, and what that was directly related to the uh officer ball shooting, that's that I'm aware of.

Okay, thank you.

Um we uh we'll continue to ask those questions.

I want to make sure that if we're investing in best response to mental health calls, um, that we are actually seeing results and changes moving forward.

Um, are there any other questions for this grant from my colleagues?

If not, um just thank you for the work that you're doing.

Um, and I'm incredibly excited to see that fire is a part of this work.

Um, I, for one, would like to see um our police responses, our police respond to crime.

Um, I do know that we're having more conversations um on the role of police to respond to mental health, um, but I hope to get to a point where it's just fire, it's just uh folks that are part of our health departments.

Um, I know we don't have those structures just yet, but I'm I'm grateful that we are moving in this direction and will continue to push us uh to think about uh changing the infrastructure that we have now to try to, if possible, um eliminate um any issues um or any more violence that we're seeing when it comes to mental health calls and police.

Uh so thank you.

There was a motion to approve.

Hearing no objections, 6.8 will be approved, sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

Thank you all for joining us.

Moving us along to 6.9 and 6.10.

6.9, this is contract number 6007457, utilizing 100% IPA funding.

This is to furnish Detroit Police Department special upfit services.

Contractor Security Solutions Services are located in Detroit.

This is for a one-year period of 950,000, and this will be for police.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss 6.9?

Motion to approve discussion.

Discussion, yeah.

All right, Vice Chair, discussion.

Thank you for yourself to the administration.

What is IPA funding?

Mr.

Washington, if you wouldn't mind joining us.

Through the chair, um, we have Ashley Franklin as well as assistant chief Franklin Hayes.

If we can move them both over as panelists.

Okay.

So if we can move AC Hayes, Ashley, and Abbott over as panelists.

Good morning, if you wouldn't mind seating your name and title for the public.

Good afternoon, Alex Weatherup, Assistant Director of General Services.

Alex, sorry, I heard Abbott.

No worries.

Um, so through the chair, I can respond to the question about the IPA funding source that stands for installment plan.

Um and what it is is it is a financial vehicle that the OCFO um had put together for fleet purchases last year, and it is basically a kind of just in time payment plan.

It is mostly comes out of the general fund, but if, for example, we purchase vehicles for DPW for street funded activities, um, they will pay into the debt service with street funds.

Thank you, Alex.

If our other two panelists wouldn't mind introducing themselves with name and title as well.

Good morning, Franklin Hayes, Assistant Police Chief, DPD.

Deputy Chief Michael Parrish, DPD.

Good morning.

Thank you all for joining us, Vice Chair.

Oh no, I'm just asking about the IPA.

All right, Member Waters.

All right, thank you.

Um good morning.

I just uh I want to understand if in fact the uplift does it just the contract just cover cover uplifting, but does it also cover the purchase price of the SUV?

I I thought I heard that, but I wasn't sure.

Yes, it did through the chair.

I'm sorry, it is include the purchase price of the SUV.

All right.

So uh will this uh SUV be American uh May, preferably uh in Michigan to whoever can answer that.

Um, I believe so.

Um, however, due to the nature of um the contract and what the vehicle will be used for that hasn't been disclosed at the time.

Well, you don't have to tell me what type it is, you can just tell me if it's if it's American made, if it's made here in the United States or if you're well, yes, I can't confirm that.

Okay.

You're not saying that it's made in Michigan, but you're saying in the United States.

Correct.

Okay.

Well, all right then.

Thank you, Member Waters.

Um, my only question is what will this vehicle be used for?

Well, Madam Chair, uh Franklin Hayes.

Uh, and I can uh defer to my uh uh the other DPD panelists on here uh as well if we need uh as far as getting into the weeds, but this will be an investigative tool that will be utilized uh under two court orders or two search warrants to activate uh to apprehend dangerous uh uh violent felons uh in the city of Detroit, uh as well as a tool to locate those that may be endangered, such as abduction, uh being kidnapped and things of that nature.

And again, it has a felony nexus to it uh in our investigations.

Uh, it has nothing to do with uh traffic, nothing to do with quality of life or immigration issues.

This is solely a tool to find uh again violent individuals uh that are wanted uh for violent crimes.

Understood.

Um the upfitting, what does that mean?

Uh will this vehicle have any pieces of technology that you will be purchasing additionally?

Will it be technology that have that we already have approval for?

Um I I know that's um our police have a lot of tools and gadgets um that can pick up data, information.

Um have we cleared that through COUGS?

Are we purchasing anything new?

Um, can we expect that you utilize um what you already have of what has been approved uh for this vehicle?

Madam Chair, that is a uh uh I think there were three different uh facets of your question.

So I'm gonna take two of those and I'm gonna defer uh to uh Deputy Chief Parrish to uh uh address the latter.

Uh we're we're in this place.

The technology that we currently have that's been approved by COX uh is outdated.

Uh and it no longer uh can be you utilized optimally by design due to uh technology evolving and it revolves around cell phones.

And uh, as we know, cell phones now are 5G, and for it to be utilized properly, um, well, our current technological capabilities get us to 4G.

So um uh it's to a point now that what we have uh cannot aid us in the investigations uh due to uh cellular techno the evolution of uh cellular uh technology.

Um could we use the other one?

Possibly if there is a 4G, but we are uh again, we're moving in this place to 5G, uh, which would continue uh its usage that we've already had approved for the 4G, but we're just evolving.

Uh I'm gonna turn it over to uh Deputy Chief Parrish to answer the latter.

Uh thank you, AC Hayes.

Yes, to uh AC Hayes' point, uh 5G used to be the exception.

Now it's the norm.

And uh if we continue to use the current technology that we have, we'll be missing a large uh uh window through which we can utilize this technology and intercept individuals wanted for violent crimes or that are intent on committing violent crimes, you know, for example, people that can you know carry guns with the intent of using them.

Uh so in order to keep our technology relevant and applicable to the real world out there, uh, we do need this upgrade to the 5G uh network.

Uh speaking to the COX process, uh Madam Chair, uh yes, we did follow the COX process.

We did have a specification report that was approved by our Board of Police Commissioners.

Uh it was posted uh online in accordance with the COGS protocols.

Uh, and that's why we're here today, uh, in accordance with COX and consistent with C Ogs in this situation.

So, yes, we're adhering to COGS, and yes, uh, although we do have the current technology, we do have technology, it is soon becoming old technology.

This upgrades necessary to keep the technology relevant.

And this is unique technology.

It's not this isn't it's that's not like we can defer to another system that we already have to uh that can replicate what this particular device can do.

This is a unique device uh uh that uh is designed to track uh to capture intercept uh unique cell phone signals.

Uh and like the AC said, there are there is a lot of uh legally built in checks and balances.

The amount of search warrants that we have to get in court review that we uh have to obtain before deploying it uh is substantial.

So, yes, uh, we meet COG's uh procurement of this particular system is necessary to keep technology relevant, and there's a lot of checks, internal checks and balances that are legally required.

Thank you.

So this is new technology.

Do we have a new COGS report, or you're telling us that we do not need one based on what we already have?

We we've we have authored a COX report.

I believe it was authored uh uh several weeks ago.

It went in front of the board.

So we have a current COGS report that has been posted in accordance with COG.

So we're here in front of you with a new COGS report uh applicable to this technology.

Okay, so I will look for that.

I've seen it for others.

Um I do not believe that I've seen it for this just yet, so we will double check.

Um of the questions that I have so far for 6.9.

Uh we do have another DPD contract.

Um, this is for 6.10.

Um, that if there's nothing else for 6.9, are there any other questions or concerns for 6.9?

There was a motion to approve.

Um, are there any objections?

I will be an objection just because I need more clarity moving forward.

Uh so we will continue to have conversations on the COGS report and what will be in this vehicle.

For 6.10, this is contract number 6007497, utilizing 100% city funding.

Oh, yes, Dr.

Powers.

I'm sorry, you didn't call that motion as passing.

Oh 6.9 will be approved sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

Thank you, Dr.

Powers.

So 6.9 is moving forward, discussing 6.10, uh another police contract.

This is contract number 6007497, 100% city funding to provide taser 10 uh certification five-year bundle.

The contractor is Axon Enterprise, they're located in Scottsdale, Arizona.

This will go through October 30th, 2030.

The total amounts will be for 1 million 36,692 with 48 cents.

Is there a motion to discuss or approve 6.10?

Motion to approve.

Are there any objections?

I will be in objections for 6.10, frankly, because tasers are used a lot against protesters, um, which I do not agree with.

But other than that, hearing no other objections, 6.10 will be approved, sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

Thank you for joining us.

Moving us along, 6.11 through 6.15.

6.11.

This is contract number 600447, amendment number two, utilizing 100% major street funding.

This is to provide an extension of time only for construction and engineering and inspection services.

Contractor is AECOM Great Lakes.

They are located in Detroit.

This is going to amend the contract through December 31st, 2027.

No increased amount.

6.12 is contract number 6004476 amendment number two, utilizing 100% major street funding to provide an extension of time only for construction engineering and inspection.

This will be for Hubble, Ruth, and Clerk.

They're located in Detroit.

This will extend their time through December 31st, 2026.

6.13 is contract number 6003495 amendment number two, utilizing 100% three funding to provide an extension of time only for construction engineering and inspection services for major street improvement projects.

Contractors Hubble, Ruth and Clark.

This will extend their time through December 31st, 2026.

6.14 is contract number 3088 319, utilizing 100% solid waste funding to provide payment for final invoicing for rental of five Peterson TL3 dump trucks with grapple bucket loaders for illegal dumping.

Contractors big truck rental.

They are located in Tampa, Florida.

This contract will be until March 19, 2026, and it'll cost 151,212 with 91 cents.

And 6.15 is contract number 6005328 amendment number one, utilizing 100% street funding to provide an extension of time only for construction engineering inspection services for various construction projects.

Contractors Habo Ruth and Clark, this will extend their time through December 31st, 2026.

And the total cost the whole total contract here with no additional funding is still 5 million 141,13726 cents.

All of these are per public work.

All of these are extensions of time only.

Are there questions or concerns for 6.1?

Excuse me.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss?

6.11 through 6.15.

Question to approve.

Are there any objections?

Hearing none, 6.11 through 6.15 will be approved, sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

Under the departments of appeals and hearings, 6.16 through 6.18.

Our dangerous buildings findings and orders.

6.16 is for September 26, 2025.

617 is for October 24th, 2025.

And 6.18 is for October 31st, 2025.

Is there a motion to receive and file?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, we will receive and file 6.16 through 6.18.

Under the Office of Chief Financial Officer, Office of Development and Grants.

6.19 through 6.25 are all various grants applications and acceptance.

619 is to request to accept and appropriate the fiscal year airports, the fiscal year 2025 Airport Improvement Program Grant.

6.20 is to request to accept and appropriate the fiscal year 2026 Detroit Bridge Environmental Assessment Grants.

6.23 is to accept and appropriate the fiscal year 2024 assistance to firefighters grants.25.19 through 6.25.

Discussion.

With discussion, Vice Chair.

This is a reimbursement grant.

Where will the upfront capital come from to support these efforts?

Mr.

Washington, who can discuss 619?

I do see Denise Bond is online.

If we can make Denise into a panelist Duncan, were you able to see our panelists?

Oh yes, I see her now.

Good morning.

If you wouldn't mind stating your name and title for the public.

Good morning, Denise Vaughn, manager too for Airport Department.

Good morning.

Were you able to hear the question?

Yes.

Yes, there are no uh council.

There are no um upfront cost.

I believe the um obligation is roughly 27,000 for the local match.

Uh through the chair, this indicates that the grant is a reimbursement grant.

Yes.

Which would tell me that we need to have upfront capital that we will be reimbursed for, which then tells me we need to have a pot of money to pull that money to pull that capital from sorry, yes, that is correct.

So then where will the uh pot of money come from to pull the capital for reimbursement purposes?

The um environmental was done.

Um I'm not sure about where the pot of money came from exactly Madam Chair, is it possible to have somebody from the OCFO's office come on board?

They should be able to identify the source of funding.

Mr.

Washington through the chair, can we bring this back at the end?

Motion.

Thank you.

We will come back to 6.19.

Mr.

Washington, I have a quick question for 6.20 as well.

Do we have anyone to discuss?

Yes, through the chair, um, we have Christina Floyd.

If we can make her into a panelist.

I do not uh see Christina online, Madam Chair.

Okay.

My only question was just the status of this project.

Um so Mr.

Washington, if you wouldn't mind asking that we receive an updates um through email is fine.

Um, but I know that this is uh an issue for D6.

We'll do madam chair.

Thank you.

All right.

Are there any other questions for 6.19 through 6.25?

Uh is there a motion to approve 6.20 through 6.25.

Motion.

Hearing no objections, 6.20 through 6.25 will be approved.

Is there a motion for new business?

Motion will be sent to new business with the recommendation to approve.

Under LPD, the legislative policy division six points twenty-six.

This is a report on public safety and quality of life issues at 11560 Harper AV, the travel in.

We can receive and file.

Or if there's any discussion for 6.26.

If there is no discussion, is there a motion to receive and file?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, six points 26 will be received and filed.

Under the departments of public work, city engineering division.

6.27 is a petition of Midtown Hotel Group requesting an outright vacation for a utility of an of an existing utility ease easements in the block bonded by Martin Place, Alexandrin Woodward, and John R.

6.28.

Bless you.

This will be to raise awareness of special city of Detroit sporting events game above sports bowl.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss 6.27 and 6.28?

Motion.

Motion to approve.

Motion to approve, hearing no objections, 6.27 and 6.28 would be approved.

Central formal with the recommendation to approve.

6.29.

6.31 through 6.33 are all various memos.

Actually, 6.29 through 6.33 are all memos.

6.29 is a memo relative to resolution to support access of city water for Detroit urban farmers.

6.30 is a memo regarding police involved shootings.

And 6.33 is a memo relative to request for resolution concerning Senate Bill 611 and 612.

Is there a motion to receive and file?

We have received the memo response for member waters 6.30.

There's a motion to receive and file.

Receiving file motion.

Hearing no objections, 6.30 will be received and filed.

The remaining items, 6.29, 6.31 through 6.33.

All need a one-week bring back.

Motion.

Hearing no objections, 6 points 29, 6.31 through 6.33 will be brought back in one week.

That brings us down to member reports.

We have three items to go back to before we do so.

And just a reminder, we do have dangerous buildings today.

If we're able to move our way backwards, I would like to begin with 6.19.

Mr.

Washington, do we have anyone with us just yet for 6.19?

Through the chair, yes, we have Terry Daniels from Grants.

If we can make them into a panelist.

Thank you.

Good morning, if you wouldn't mind setting your naming title for the public.

Good morning.

Terry Daniels, Director, Office of Development Grants.

Thank you for joining us, Director Vice Chair.

Thank you.

Just looking at the letter dated 22 October, which indicates that this is a reimbursable, a reimbursement grant.

Where is the what is the source of the reimbursement funding of front capital?

Through the chair.

This is a reimbursement grant, which means that uh the department has to pay for the expenses first, and then we get reimbursed from the federal government.

Um reimbursements can happen as the work is re uh occurring.

So as funds are expended, then those funds would get drawn down from um from federal government and and reimburse the city.

So what is the source of funding for the upfront cost?

Just where is the airport getting the money to pay for the activities prior to being reimbursed?

Is my question.

The airport would most likely have to get a general fund loaned in order to pay for the cost up front, and then as the expenses occur, we draw it down to reimburse the general fund.

Is it likely?

Do we know is that the process or is that the agreement as of now?

Do they have this in their own budget?

Do we need to I'm not aware that they have that in their budget now, but this is a process that we use for grants that need uh funding up front.

Okay.

Thank you.

Um, madam chair, motion to bring this back in one week so we can get a full answer and a request that the airport department be prepared to answer that question next week.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you, Vice Chair.

It's been a motion to bring back 6.19 in one week.

Hearing no objections, we will bring back 6.19 till next week.

Thank you, Director, for joining us.

I'm going to move us along, making my way backwards to discuss 6.2.

Mr.

Washington, is there anyone to discuss 6.2 with us and 6.1?

I believe these are both construction and demolition.

Yes.

Yes, through the chair, we do have group exec counts online.

We can make her into a panelist.

Madam Chair.

Thank you.

Good morning, Lewine Counts, group executive for construction and building operations.

Good morning.

Thank you for joining us.

Uh, group execs for uh is there a motion to discuss 6.1 and 6.2.

Motion.

Thank you.

For 6.1.

This is regarding the backfill for commercial property 440 St.

Aubin.

It says 100% blight funding in title, but in the TEDAR report, it indicates bond funding.

Um, and I believe bond funding is not eligible for commercial demolitions.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Uh, what is funding this demolition?

The chair, um, you will be correct that this would be general fund.

It is a commercial property.

Um, I'm not exactly certain what's what's being reported out on the TEDAR report.

Okay.

It just indicates that this is bond funding.

Oh no, it says blight funding in the title.

Um, so we will just double check to make sure that the TD report reflects that as well.

Um, but for my um display funding.

Oh no, it does say account blight funding.

I see someone from OCP has joined us.

Good morning, Ashley Wilson, legislative policy.

Oh, from LPD.

I always do that.

Sorry about that.

No problem.

Um I was just going to answer your question about the bond funding versus blight funding in the TED report, and the T report does indeed state that it is light funding.

Thank you.

All right.

Appreciate uh that verification, folks.

Moving us along for 6.2.

Um to our group exact wondering, is this property city owned or privately owned?

This property, if I'm remembering correctly, this property is privately owned.

Um there is a significant concern about the materials that are falling from the structure.

Um hence why we were um requested to install this facade stabilization and netting system to protect um would-be pedestrians who are walking by this location.

Understood.

Looking at the property, it it looks sound, but um just being this committee, we like to demolish a lot.

Why are we going from not demolishing to trying to secure it?

Um this through the chair, this property is actually quite an expensive demo if we were to undertake it.

Um, and I believe it's still in some type of litigation, not litigation, there is some type of law action um on the property, hence why we've only been asked to basically protect the public as opposed to move forward with the demo.

Understood.

Could the property owner do that instead?

Um there is currently some sh um I don't know what to call it, like some scaffolding material that's installed that's supposed to protect the um the supposed to protect the pedestrians walking underneath, although we have seen some of these bricks that have fallen off that have gone through um the the scaffolding protection that the owner has put up.

So this is just an additional barrier to ensure that we are providing a safe experience for residents who are in direct proximity of this location.

Understood.

Is it possible to get the 127,000 back if we're doing this for private uh private property?

Through the chair, it's my understanding that it is a part of the law action.

Perfect.

Okay, thank you.

Member, any other questions for 6.1 or 6.2, Vice Chair.

Um, will there be a lien placed in a property for the amount of this contract?

Or less pendants, which is a thing.

Should they uh should they not pay?

Then yes, that's the that's the normal process.

Right, thank you.

All right.

Hearing no other questions, is there a motion to approve six points one and six point two?

Motion.

Hearing no objection, six point one and six point two will be approved, sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

Thank you, group exec.

Moving us along now.

I do believe that is everything on our agenda.

We are now at member reports.

Vice Chair.

Uh no report.

Member Waters.

No report.

Uh my only report is that our evening community meeting for District 6 is tomorrow.

We are going to be at Patton Park.

Thank you.

Uh so hope to see folks there at 7 o'clock.

Other than that, we do have our 130 p.m.

Dangerous Buildings hearings today.

So we will stand at recess till 1 30 p.m.

Thank you all.