The Neighborhood Community Services Standing Committee of the Detroit City Council met on January 22, 2026, at 6:55 PM. The meeting included approval of minutes, public comments from six residents, discussion of three contract items, and member reports. The committee voted to move all three contract items to formal session for approval.
Neighborhood community serves the standing committee will now come into order with a clerk. Please call the roll. Council President Pro Tim Coleman A. Young the second. Here. Councilmember Scott Benson. Councilmember Renetta Miller. Mr. Chair, you have a quantum present. Thank you. I appreciate that. Um is there a motion to approve the minutes? Motion. Motion's been made. Are any objections? Hearing none of the minutes will be approved. Negative chair remarks. We will now move on to public comments. How many people do we have in the queue, Mr. Bo for public comment? Mr. Chair, we currently have six individuals with their hand raised for public comment. All right. Six individuals. Public comedy is now closed. Public comment is now closed. Public comment. Is now closed. All right. Who do we have first in the queue, Mr. Bo. Mr. Chair, the first caller is William Davis. All right, Ms. Davis, the floor is yours. Two minutes. Good afternoon. Can I be heard? Yes, sir. Okay, I think the city should be a greater effort to have more community services in the community. Of course, I'm older than both of you guys. But I remember we used to have neighborhood city halls. We used to have resources more readily available. We need to have true resource centers in the community. We need to make it so that people don't have to go downtown to take care of business, which then they have to be concerned about expensive parking and getting a parking ticket. You know, so it would be good to blank, you know, bring services to the community. Also, separately, you know, um, I think it would be good if the city of Detroit was to try to exercise or renegotiate the contract as it relates to uh Bell Isle. Um the city of Detroit owns it, and the city of Detroit is not getting a penny from the state. And that was one of the reasons why the governor wanted to bankrupt the city of Detroit, you know, by not giving us our proper amount of revenue sharing for years, Governor Snyder, you know, so that he could take assets like Bell Out that he wanted. You know, so I think we should see about making sure it's more of a joint operation, you know, for as long as that lease lasts, and we should see about making sure the lease is terminated as soon as possible.