Councilmember Letitia Johnson present.

Councilmember Denzel McCampbell.

Present.

Councilmember Renata Miller.

No day, thank you.

Councilmember Gabriela Santiago Romero.

Present.

Councilmember Mary Waters.

Present.

Councilmember Angela Whitfield Callaway.

Council President Pro Tim Colmey A.

Young a second.

Here.

Council President James Tate.

Here.

Mr.

President, you have a quorum present.

Thank you so much.

We have a forum present, which means we're now in session.

We will now begin the collection of public comments.

For those who would like to speak for this body this morning, both in person and online.

If you're online and would like to speak, please raise your hand.

If you're in person, raise your hand and someone will walk to you and provide you a card so your name will be provided.

Providing this morning's invocation, we have none other than Reverend Lawrence Rogers, who serves as the senior pastor of Second Baptist Church in Detroit, the oldest historically black congregation in Michigan established in 1836 by former enslaved and free African Americans.

Pastor Rogers, if you can please come forward.

Good morning, so thank you, Senior.

I'm glad you streamer.

The floor is yours, sir.

Thank you again for that.

Absolutely.

Good morning, Mr.

President and distinguished members of the Detroit City Council, honored guests.

It's a privilege to be with you today in this chamber, a place that sits on the wall for justice and protect the humanity of our beloved city.

And I'm grateful to offer this invocation today.

Let us bow.

We thank you for this day and for the sacred moment, the sacred trust place in those who serve the city of Detroit.

Thank you for calling each one gathered here to the noble work of leadership, service, and stewardship.

We ask that your presence fill this chamber with peace, insight, and purpose.

Lord guide these council members as they deliberate on matters that affect the lives, hopes, and futures of so many.

Let their words be measured.

Their motives continue to be pure and their decisions guided by both wisdom and compassion.

We ask you to help them to see beyond the visions of this time, position, or pride, and rather to the shared vision of a stronger, fairer, and vibrant Detroit.

Bless this city, oh Lord, from our riverfront to our neighborhoods, from our schools to our small businesses.

Bless the people who give Detroit its soul, the dreamers, the workers, the builders, the caregivers.

May every family know safety.

May every family know dignity, opportunity, and hope.

Anchor us in the belief that what unites us is always greater than what divides us.

Remind us that leadership is not a privilege or power, but a burden of responsibility, an invitation to serve with humility and courage.

We move through this meeting, dear Lord, as we move, we ask that your spirit of wisdom fall fresh on every heart and every decision.

We ask you, the Lord, to continue to bless us with understanding, compassion, and faith.

Help us to continue to work together so that we can help realize the promise of this beloved city.

And when the day is done, may each of us look back and know that our words, choices, and actions may Detroit a little brighter, a little kinder, and stronger than before.

We ask all this in your holy name.

Amen.

Amen.

Thank you so much, Pastor Rogers.

We appreciate you coming by and providing that wonderful invocation if you would like to stay.

We certainly have a seat for you, but we understand if you have to leave and take care of other business as well.

Thank you again.

The journal of the session of Tuesday, January 20, 2026, shall be approved.

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

We'll like to note in advance that uh Pro Tim Young does have a presentation that he's looking to provide.

Um his guest is not here at this moment, but when he arrives, we will uh allow that presentation to take place.

Madam Clerk for the budget and finance and audit standing committee.

Four reports from the legislative policy division.

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

Four reports from various city departments.

The four reports would be referred to the internal operations standing committee.

Uh and for everyone who was in the everyone in the auditorium today who wanted to provide public comment.

Did you raise your hand?

Did you receive a card?

You have received the card.

Okay, raise your hand.

We need to get those parts, folks.

All who have not received a card, raise your hand.

I see one down up front up here.

Is that it?

All right.

We shall now conclude the collection of public comments at this time.

For the neighborhood and community services standing committee, madam clerk.

Two reports from the mayor's office.

The two reports will be referred to the neighborhood and community services standing committee for the public health and safety standing committee.

Seven reports from the mayor's office.

The seven reports will be now.

That will be seven reports from various city departments.

Um the seven reports will be referred to the public health and safety standing committee.

We'll now move on to voting action matters.

Under other matters.

There are no items, Mr.

President.

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

There are no items, Mr.

President.

Thank you so much.

We will now call for public comment.

We will give everyone two minutes this morning.

We have first up, and I do apologize if I'm not pronouncing your name properly.

Um, Miss Rosanna Perkins, followed by Kenneth Smith, followed by Sharon Richardson.

Those will be our first three speakers.

Morning, Ms.

Perkins.

Salutations and good morning to all of you.

We want to be able to hear every work you have to say.

Salutations and good morning to all of you this morning.

Um my name is Risana Perkins, and I am a lifelong Detroiter.

Um I was raised by my mother, Constance Hayes, Loretta Tibb, Kathy Gibbs, and all of these three women were my mother, my grandmother, and my aunt.

They all passed away from cancer.

And I wanted to do something in remembrance of them.

And I wanted to incorporate my love for the city of Detroit.

So I wrote a cancer awareness book about the city of Detroit and about Bumblebees.

Um, Motown Melody loving Bumblebees called the Busbies.

And I took all of our local Detroit cancer organizations and I put them in this book, and then I put a guide to all of the beautiful places to visit in the city of Detroit.

And also all the beautiful food venues in the city.

And I was um hoping I have a proposal already typed up.

I just didn't know the proper person to email, but I was hoping that I could dedicate um this book to the city of Detroit in front of the spirit of Detroit in honor of the women who raised me.

And I also um bring you guys, honey, this morning, and um I have a word for each and every one of you up here, because I thank you for um what you guys do for the city of Detroit.

And I'm proud to be from Detroit and everywhere that I go.

I'm always um showing the power of resilience.

I researched uh the mantra of Detroit, and it's from the ashes.

And that's something I had to walk in real life.

So I just would like to present you guys with Thank you so much, Ms.

Perkins.

We will receive uh what you have.

Thank you so much.

Uh we will also work with uh our office will work with you to try to figure out how we can help uh get your message out uh further to the public.

Um, but again, appreciate you for for coming down today.

Thank you so much.

Our next speaker, Kenneth Smith, followed by Sharon Richardson, followed by Claude Norwood.

Morning, Mr.

Smith.

Good morning.

President.

Okay, um, I'm here from the Captain Stevens apartments.

Ms.

Norbert, uh Camper Stevens apartments in downtown.

The clock is not moving.

Oh, I'm sorry.

All right, pause it.

Let's take it all the way back to two minutes.

Oh, okay.

Okay, my name is Dennis Smith, and I'm here from the Camper Stevens apartments.

And the serious problem that we've been having in our apartment building is security.

Okay, it is a senior citizen building, and our manager has uh maybe where people can come into the building and get on a stairwell, which used to be locked, but now she has them propped open so people can just walk in because we have four elevators, only one elevator works.

So in case that breaks down, which sometimes it does, you can get on the stairwell and get in.

But it allows other people to come in.

So on weekends, we have a situation where sometimes I take the stairs because I live on the third floor.

I see where somebody been smoking, and that's not a tenant.

And somebody maybe might I might see like uh little packs like for marijuana, things like that.

So people come in off the street and they use our stairwell, and because it's cold outside, it's it's it's it's a bigger problem.

So this is what's been concerning me lately.

Um, I was hoping that somehow that there would be some law put in place where um the owners and management is responsible for security in the building, as opposed to just having a green light outside and protecting the tenants because I don't feel protected, especially on weekends.

You know, I'm a big guy, but still, I mean, when people come in in the building and they're there, mainly on the weekends and at night, because there's no no no management there, no maintenance there, none of that.

No, appreciate your time.

Thank you so much.

Where's where is it located, sir?

It's on Washington Boulevard.

Would you want the address?

Washington and oh Grand River.

Right on the corner.

We had a fire there in um 2024.

Okay, your time is up.

Oh, okay.

Does anyone uh who whose district this is located and want to take this particular item?

You said Washington Boulevard and Grand River.

Right on the corner.

Member Miller.

Member Miller.

Would you give us like some pinpoints because that's right where we registered at?

Oh, the address is 1410 Washington Boulevard.

Yeah, it's uh okay.

Is that next the northeast corner?

What's what's the name of the building again?

Yeah, what's Stevens?

Yes, I am familiar with it.

I have family in that building.

And the elevator's been down for a while.

Years for a while, yes.

I believe that's right over there by the book Catlack Hotel.

Yeah, down the street.

Exactly.

My um, I believe that might be six because it borders right there.

But if someone from my staff will get with you this morning.

But just to let it let it be known that the owners of the building, they are responsible for the security uh and of that particular uh location.

So we will, as a body and work with the colleagues to make sure that uh those issues are addressed, and uh we'll go from there.

But thank you for coming down before you leave.

We have member waters.

Uh well.

Good morning.

Good morning, sir.

And and thank you for for coming down.

You you know, we did pass a compliance ordinance last year, too.

And they those are cited in that compliance ordinance.

So that's that's the law that you're talking about here at the local level.

It's an ordinance.

But but nevertheless, they should be in compliance.

And I know that the administration has some things that they're working on as well.

And I believe that all of us working together, we're gonna get those things fixed, okay?

All right, thank you.

All right, Mr.

President.

And I'll be coming down there too.

Okay, I'll be waiting.

Okay.

Okay, pro Tim Young.

You good?

All right.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Just want to share with you that isn't district six, and someone from my staff will talk to you right now.

That isn't District 6, and someone from my staff will talk to you right now.

So let me get the information because it is the responsibility of the property owners.

Thanks for coming down.

Thanks.

Okay.

Uh, pro Tim Young.

Yeah, um, where is B seed on this?

These the elevator is supposed to be inspected by BC.

So I don't know if there's anybody available from BC that wants to speak to this, but that's what they're supposed to do.

They're supposed to inspect the elevators.

It's unacceptable.

So do they have anybody from there that wants to speak?

Not as this, not at this moment.

We're still in public.

Well, then let me just say, well, then let me just reiterate.

BCD is supposed to do this.

This is BC's responsibility.

They have elevated inspectors for this purpose.

There it's in the elevator for this purpose.

They need to speak to this gentleman, and we need to have a discussion.

I don't know if it's a committee of the whole or whatever process we need to have.

We discussed about elevators that don't work that need to be worked.

Why are they not working?

Is it the budgetary issue?

Was it manpower issue?

They need to speak to that.

So I like to hear, I'm very, I'm very enthusiastically excited to hear what BC has to say about this issue.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

And Mr.

Washington, uh, please know that we will return to this item after public comment to allow for uh some feedback on this particular issue.

Uh member Santiago Roman.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

And when Mr.

Washington comes and shares, um, this is, I believe, a uh priority of the mayor.

She recently announced efforts to address um the terrible conditions in many of our senior apartment complexes.

Um, so if they can share with us those uh plans, because I believe to Pro Tamion's points, I believe it does entail more hiring the B seed, making sure that we have what we need.

Um, so if we can hear those plans, that would be great because unfortunately, this is nothing new and things that we often work on um in our office with our seniors.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Mr.

President, yes, ma'am.

I would say I concur with uh member young.

This has been going on for many, many, many years.

And I will work with you uh prefusely to help resolve any BC issue when it comes to um the oversight that has been neglected in our city for many years in the senior buildings.

Thank you very much.

Thank you so much.

So, college allow uh BC to come before us, they will be coming.

Um, so we'll continue with uh public comment.

Our next public commenter, Miss Aaron Richardson.

Thank you so much.

The floor is yours, ma'am.

My name is Sharon Richardson, and just a follow-up on Ken.

I live in that building as well.

I live on the 21st floor.

Today, as I came here, the elevator was down.

They got it going.

I walk 21 flights many, many times.

I've been there 16 years.

I just got a cortisone shot in my knee.

We need also it's camper Stevens, so it's two buildings.

The Stevens buildings has no elevators, two elevators, none are working, but they are moving them into our building, so that's more activity on that one elevator.

It's a serious problem, and it needs immediate attention.

I cannot, I'm almost 70 years old.

I cannot do them steps no more.

Also, in closing, I wanted to say to you, Council Tate, Kalia, very good friend of mine, is a very good person.

Good worker.

One more thing.

I'm portrait that I beat it for Mary Sheffield.

I'm gonna frame it and have it given to her, and that's to let her know that God has her cover.

It's beautiful.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh, there may be someone from uh Mayor Sheffield's uh team here uh that could gather that document or that that portrait from you is very beautiful.

Thank you again for coming down.

All right, let's reset that clock.

Our next speaker, Josh Mann, followed by Michael's mama.

What's your name, sir?

Oh, yes, I apologize.

I see here.

Yes, sir.

Ms.

Norwood, please come forward.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

And thank you, uh Council for giving me the opportunity to speak to you.

Um, the first things that I like to address first is uh No, but if you can please speak into the mic so we can hear you all get everywhere.

The first thing I want to address was uh Renee Nicole Goodman, the young lady that was shot in the face by ICE agents.

And the second name I want to address is Monico.

Um the situation, uh, why I'm bringing it up now is a major concern that's coming from the community.

Uh they're looking for a response from the city on how to even react if you're approached by ICE.

Um, I've researched it myself.

There's no clear understanding how to react.

Uh they could just take you in for questioning.

I don't even know if they allow you a telephone call to call somebody, let you know where they're at.

Um, and I'm bringing this up because this is the concerns that the community is speaking about.

They're afraid.

I've even done interviews with the police.

They don't have no clear answer as to how to handle yourself when you're confronted by ice.

And going back to uh Miss Cook, the lady that uh caught the bus and went to the shelter and was turned away and ended up freezing to death.

Um we know the temperature right now is very climate and climate, and people are suffering.

A lot of people we may not even be aware of, that's dying today.

And um, I'm also representing uh district seven, CAC community advisory council.

Currently, we're not funded, and so we want to diligently work with the city council to address these issues to see how we can assist, but we need money to operate to work through the city.

Thank you so much, sir.

Thank you.

We we want to make sure that you have the information that the charter says uh unfortunately does not provide for a budget for you all.

Uh and that's not city council, that's actually the charter that provides that language.

So that would have to be a charter amendment uh in order for that to take place to allow for you all to have a budget.

Um, but I'm sure that uh member McCampbell either will talk to you offline or maybe have any uh statements you want to make now.

Member McCampbell.

Uh thank you, Mr.

President.

Um, and Mr.

Norwood, uh Commissioner, thank you for coming down as you do every week.

I do want to make a note about you asked about knowing your rights for ice.

Um member Santiago Romero and I have um put out a video trying to show the know your rights and go down on on that.

But also ACLU and uh National Immigrant Rights Center also has know your rights materials as well.

So we could um we can get some printing material for you on that way.

But um definitely folks can access that through the ACLU and other organizations on the rights that we have for ICE.

And um, I know you mentioned around uh folks have access to warm places.

I I know um Dot also started some warming buses over the weekend, and I was glad to see that.

I know um there are folks in the room that advocated for that.

So definitely we'll continue to, as you heard in the discussing last week, trying to find ways to make sure people have access to warm places.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Josh Mann, followed by Michael's mama, followed by Betty Lyons.

Mr.

Mann, the floor is yours.

Good morning.

Uh since Duggan was prosecutor, he developed uh passion for anti-graffities.

And then when he got his chance to change the law, he created a felony out of it, raiding people's houses, you know, causing many problems for artists in the community.

And yet at the same time, he started implementing murals throughout the city, not realizing that it was the same people that were doing the graffiti, we're doing the murals.

Where can people practice this in a safe space?

If your child or grandchild wants to become a muralist, which we have in every part of Detroit at this point, every part, there's no platform for them to practice this to become the next artists.

Uh, so I think it's important that we create safe places for future generations of artists to be able to practice these talents, which Duggan had outlawed and you know, criminalized so harshly.

Uh, we have available parks all over the city.

It works great with parks.

People want to take pictures in front of it.

People travel just to see street art and the murals, they become part of the tours offered by people, private tour groups in the city.

So I think it's important to offer platforms for the kids in the future generations to not have to choose criminal activity simply to pursue the arts.

And that ties into last week's drifting.

If we don't provide legal platforms for people, only illegal is there.

Uh and then they're gonna choose that.

So I think that's important.

So I think that's important also with the Flock Safety.

Flox an open server that anybody can open up and watch.

We can watch you all driving everywhere.

If that's an example of evidence that would move this forward, I can watch anybody in this room.

Thank you so much.

Next speaker, Michael's mama, followed by Betty Lyons, followed by James Chandler.

So before my time starts, I'd like to graciously ask for 15 additional seconds.

Can't do that, man.

We have started to the floor is yours.

Good morning, any all of you guys.

Whose job is it to staff and create infrastructure for our government officials, both elected and appointed?

Is it the citizens' job to make sure that said elected and appointed officials have adequate staffing for each department that actually functions both adequately and effectively?

Or is it the government's job?

What happens when appropriate staffing isn't met?

Do y'all realize the importance of having adequate staffing?

It could be the matter of life or death, resolution or vigilantes, closure or exposure of inadequacies, justice or our civil rights being violated.

I'm no lawyer, but in my opinion, as a citizen of Detroit, when I file a serious missing persons report for my son, there should be adequate staffing to help locate him and an actual attempt to find my only child.

There should be no reason for DPD to not follow their own guidelines, protocol, and procedures, which ultimately led to meet the mother organizing a search party and finding Michael, my only child in a garage with a bullet to his head all while on national news, leaving me and my entire family traumatized forever.

My question is where was the servant and protecting when Michael went missing?

And when I literally begged Lieutenant Covenant and a reporting officer from the fifth to help me find my baby, why didn't they help me find Michael or actually investigate his death?

Why do I have to beg for these officials to do their job or suffer the consequence for their negligence?

Is that not a violation of my civil rights?

Hell, just my human rights.

What about Michael's rights?

Why were there only five people, which two being supervisors working in the missing persons department in a city of over 600,000?

Is that not a violation to every citizen of Detroit civil rights?

Are my requests are my rights and not being violated when my foyer requests aren't being answered within the time allowed, or when I'm filing complaints and being sifted to departments and department with no risk, no resolution or accountability, or perhaps receiving a response back after I sent out over 25 certified letters, two being to Mayor Sheffield, while president of the city council and my district council person, Letitia Johnson.

I should be grieving and fighting the system, but Michael is working.

Thank you, ma'am.

So I know I believe I saw you address the board of police commissioners as well.

I didn't hear you.

Said I believe I saw you address the board of police commissioners as well.

One second, one second.

So I believe you uh addressed the board of police commissioners.

I'm my understanding was that Chief Bettison uh did instruct his chief of staff to uh discuss this with you uh as I watched the meeting.

I can't tell you what happened, tell you my observation.

And so I'm going to personally talk with uh Chief Bettison to find out what uh was provided to you, and I have someone from my team also who can gather that information uh and we'll go from there and see if we can do the assist in terms of getting you responses to the questions that you have.

We don't have them right now.

So you so do you guys not provide the the budget?

We have a button.

We do not run the police department.

So we're not going to I can't pretend to you as if we know the answers to your questions.

What I can do is get someone from my team behind you to get your information.

We reach back out to you.

I'll also make a commitment to you myself to speak with the chief of police to find out what transpired in terms of your conversation with his and what investigation he's done.

And again, we'll make sure that we follow up to give responses to the questions that you have.

Okay, Mr.

President.

Uh member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Um, thank you for coming down.

This is my first time hearing about it.

I heard you indicate that you sent a to the office.

Yes, ma'am.

Um we'll look look into that as well because I do not recall receiving anything.

This is my first time receiving it, but I want to work directly with you to get your questions answered.

I think Mr.

President, for um, availing himself to do that as well, but I will be sure to do that because you do live in District Four, and I'll walk with you and work with you directly with the police department, not only the chief, but also with the fifth precinct.

Um, I believe it was last year that council did create, and it was council president, uh, Mary Sheffield at the time, who created an alert system for children specifically.

Um, and so I would like to understand when this occurred and why there was not an alert that went out to the city to provide assistance in doing the the search for your son.

Um, but all of those things I can certainly commit to you and make a promise that because now you have come before me directly, um, that I will work with you and will get this resolved.

I apologize for everything that transpired and how it transpired, but look forward to working with you.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Next speaker, Betty Lyons, followed by James Chandler, followed by Shar Williams.

I come here with the same complaint.

The over 600 million dollars in overpaid property taxes, stolen by Dugan and supported by, as Washington, DC calls Dana Nessel a political thug.

The coalition for property tax justice has no answers.

I've been coming down here over three almost three years.

Yet there is no answers from the coalition.

Yet the Muslims, Mexican town, fake Jews living off the backs of black people.

Let's listen to the history of black people forced over here as slaves, never, never paid.

Black soldiers on retard home from the service who are lynched in their uniforms or burnt up.

Our homes were burned.

Our children burned.

What uh President Washington had over 500 slaves, and when he died, he passed them on to his wife.

Thomas Jefferson, he had Sally Hemings raped her as a young teenager.

She had over five five of his children.

He never freed her.

This is a society built on hate.

And it still is built on hate because they still listen to the fake Jews, the Muslims, the Mexicans.

If something happens in Mexican town, something happens instantly to support them.

But the people in that apartment building, it's strange that you know nothing about it and have done nothing about it.

But let it happen in Mexican town.

You'll be over there and you know it.

So you better learn your background and your history.

Next speaker, James Chandler, followed by Char Williams.

Mr.

Chandler, the floor is yours.

Good morning, council.

Uh, my name is James Chandler, uh, previous writing candidate for city council, district one.

Uh, my my uh address is toward my petition I brought forth uh 2026-009, agenda 20.1.

Um I sent emails um regarding what can be done and um that the petition can go through.

Uh this complaint raises two urgent failures.

First, Detroit residents are not being educated on debt limits or on what Michigan and Detroit can legally do as a home rule city.

Second, the city is uh failing to fully enforce its own charter powers under Detroit Charter sections 1102 and 1103.

The city has comprehensive home rule authority that must be interpreted liberally in favor of local power when higher governments interfere with Detroit's ability to regulate price gouging and protect residents that violates the 10th Amendment and the Charter's Declaration of Rights.

Price gouging is a direct is a direct threat to public welfare, and Detroit has the legal authority to set stronger local protections than the state.

This petition must be processed in full and under home rule with our elimination because Detroit has the right to protect its people beyond state minimums.

And I uh I um even tried to minimize it.

I circled the ones that you could do um if if it was still a problem to push the whole thing, as again, home will you can push the whole thing.

Um so I know Benson said last week he wanted to throw out the baby with the with the bathwater.

We can't do that.

Uh they say it's a lot, the petition is a lot, but that's what happens when you let debt build up.

It's a good it's going to be a lot.

And this is what the people we we I have the signatures, the people this is what we want the petition to go through.

So I'm standing on that.

And we have home denying.

Thank you so much.

Member Pro Tim.

Yeah, thank you, sir.

So do you have like a uh charter amendment?

Do you have some language you talking about proposing?

Or do you just mention uh the charter um because that seems like if you want to do that?

I mean, I'm not telling you what to do, but I would assume the best way to go about that would be to circulate petitions.

I believe y'all was talking with the department of law.

So I'm not sure if y'all were still going through that.

I didn't know if you got that far.

Yeah, they said that last week.

Yeah, thank you.

But if you had, but if you have something you can send that to me, I would appreciate it because I don't know if you're getting the charter, but some of that stuff you talk about in terms of price gouging.

I know with new technology, we can you know talk about how that information have analytical breakdowns of that and what could be done, state, local, whatever.

But I just need to know what that is so I can read it and then put it through my analyses, and then we maybe be able to present something.

We don't have to go to the charter.

If you still want to, that's fine.

Yeah, but everybody, so everything in the thank you.

So the other the other thing I will say is that I don't know if you have any specific price gouging issues that you have in mind.

But if so, uh there is an agency now that's the Secretary of State's office that receives that those complaints, consumer protection agency, I believe it is.

I don't know if you've taken that route up to this point, uh, but you have the opportunity and availability to do that uh above and beyond and the age as well.

So we'll say we can't go back and forth.

I know you have a petition before us, and we will be discussing that petition later on in this meeting.

Thank you so much.

Hello, can anyone hear me?

Can you guys hear me clearly?

Yes, ma'am.

Hello.

Today um it is Black History Month.

But let's talk about the homeless condition.

Whole blue, if anyone is not aware, that means the shelters are mandated to allow people to come in because of the severe weather.

I've been coming here over a year, complaining about this illegal corruption.

If you all were not housing police officers, it'd be more than 1700 beds, like Mary Shelfield said.

So it's not acceptable where any life is lost.

I don't care what the nationality is.

I'm tired of all this illegal corruption when you all sit behind these desks and lots of the citizens of Detroit concerning what's going on in the city.

You didn't gave them over 500 million dollars.

Clearly, they can pay rent because 34 million dollars in overtime, but they taking up bare spaces from the homeless people.

That's not acceptable.

I heard Mary Sheffield on the radio say they don't have a problem with ice, but why are the people out here in the streets complaining about ice?

Lies, being dishonest, period in Rimara.

That house you bought.

Is that another house you bought on um Delaware with the money, the contracts?

We have a whole lot of contractors here in the state of Michigan.

Why do you guys feel you have to go to Scottsdale, Arizona to get a con somebody to come here?

That 2.9 million that you guys spend outside, we need a whole lot of service done for them buses.

It's not acceptable.

If you all cannot do this job, comply to the laws in the constitution in the charter, you do not need to have this job.

Well, we had an ex-offender on the Detroit police department, an X-Tin, Bush Jones, and you all continue to say it's no ex offenders under Detroit Peace Department.

Make that make sense.

Thank you.

And I do want to know that I didn't misspeak when I said Secretary of State Member Pro Tim was absolutely correct.

That is the internal attorney general's office.

Uh and that was directed to uh Mr.

Chandler, so I didn't misspeak.

Uh, my apologies.

Next speaker is Ruby Riley, followed by Santori Parnell, followed by Brother Cunningham.

Good morning.

Happy New Year's to all and to the new people.

You all don't really know me.

But if you have been watching, probably if you pull up your mic.

If you have been watching city council for all these years, you would know Ruby Riley speaks up and she come down here and she speaks about issues.

First of all, our new one, Renetta, nothing against you, but the thing is you was talking about it's always the same people calling in about issues.

But there are other people that don't have Zoom meetings, they don't have cards.

I wrote down with my friend, my car is down.

I was supposed to have my car fixed.

Then Zill, you was on the city charter, right?

Congratulations.

Anyway, hello ladies, hello, gentlemen, everybody that's here.

Um I just want to speak on that though, because they say we talk about the same issues.

And the lady just mentioned about issues with other people getting things done.

Because when I had my flood in 2016, I froze in my house.

Dealing with what's his name?

Gary, give it away, Brown.

And I went to meetings, I slipped and fell, broke my ankle, going back to my house, but it was in the street, city property, whichever it is.

But yeah, everybody else get what we don't get.

I froze for two years.

No washer, no dryer, pipe froze.

So I didn't accept what they offer.

First, they offer 764 dollars.

I'm not a crackhead and I don't do drugs, like I told them.

Thanks to Natamiko and uh Beula Walker, they had me to come down to the water department.

And I told them I don't do drugs and I don't get hacked.

But now, like Southwest Detroit got theirs.

I need my, I want to be reimbursed for everything.

Y'all got put in, they got put in a hotel.

Got fed, and I'm not done with it.

So anyway, you know, I might have a water bill, but I know some people that keep their fences locked where the water company can't get in there to read their bills, to read their meters, okay?

Because I'm the one that looks happy.

But anyway, uh, I just want to speak on that Romero.

When Southwest Detroit had their flood, they were treated like kings and queens, and I had to freeze in my house.

And I still have a hand.

Thank you, Miss Ryan.

You got y'all gonna speak on that?

Yes, Mr.

President.

Can somebody please speak on that?

Miss Ms.

Rowley.

Mr.

President.

Uh, member of Santiago.

Thank you.

And we also would be incredibly helpful if I wasn't the only council member reinstating that in Southwest Detroit, people have not been made whole.

People lost their houses, people lost their cars.

The city did the bare minimum, and I continue to advocate for anyone in this city that is dealing with flooding that they get me whole.

But it is not true that Southwest Detroit is a very divisive narrative that continues to pit black and brown and immigrant and newcomer native people against each other.

But ma'am, brown and we're going across these issues, and unfortunately, unfortunately, and I thought in my house.

Unfortunately, we are all in this together.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Member Santiago, you may proceed if you would like.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Just reminding everyone that that is a false narrative, that it would be incredibly helpful if I wasn't not the only member on this council stating these things because the optics, quite frankly, being the only immigrant, being the only Mexican that represents Southwest Detroit, when we all know, and we should know, as a city, that we did not do them rights.

We need to all be actively speaking on this so that we can bring the narrative rights so that we continue so that we're able to work on this together.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Next speak, uh member, excuse me, pro Tim Young.

Yeah, I just wanted to say, let's remember that rights are not like pie.

You know, just because one person has one doesn't mean another person loses it.

I think we need to lose this mentality of a zero-sum game.

Now, look, the biggest room in the world is a room for improvement.

Can we make improvement in terms of how we deliver services?

Yes.

Can we do a better job in terms of how we can take care of people?

Yes.

But I think this notion, this idea that we're gonna be attacking other members is that somehow they got something, so we didn't, is not true.

It's not accurate.

It's not government works fundamentally.

And so I think that it's important for us to remember, like remember Santiago Romero said that we are in this all together.

But more importantly, I just wanted to say not only are we in this all together, but our histories are tied together.

I the fact that I think that we're sitting up here talking about the Latino community.

When one, I just said I just want to get this off my chest.

One, let's be clear.

The Latino community, they are indigenous to this land.

A lot of America used to be Mexico.

Matter of fact, the first civilization in this country was Tewacon, which means the place where the gods dwell in this country.

And it was that way until the Masculine American War.

Also, remember, it was a Latino community that provided the underground railroad for the slaves during the Civil War in the South.

So we've had partnerships with our Latino community for a very long time, historically.

We need to continue to do that in the modern age now, and we just need to remember listen, we're not when we're helping the Southwest Detroit and we're investing in Southwest Detroit.

We're not taking away from you.

We are all in this together.

Now, again, we could do a better job in terms of service delivery, and we could do a better job in terms of responsiveness.

I totally agree with that.

But I think to start engaging in this back and forth division, as if somehow there is this dichotomy or riff that exists.

It does not.

It doesn't exist historically.

It doesn't exist now.

We could be so much better.

The farther we're gonna go depends on whether or not we work together.

You know, it's like that old union thing.

Umited, we bargained, divided, we pay.

So let's come together, let's work together, and let's advance to Detroit for everyone, because we're big enough for everybody.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Mr.

President.

Um member of Santiago Romero, then we'll go to our next public.

Thank you.

Just wanna make it very clear that Southwest Detroit also has black, white residents as well.

So I we often forget this.

And it's so important to remember.

I'm asking you again, please.

Also, there are immigrants that live across the city.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Uh it appears that Miss Uh the Sun Century Parnell has declined to uh speak.

Is that correct?

Okay.

Our next speaker in person, Mr.

Cunningham, Brother Cunningham.

How's everyone doing today?

313, 444, 9114, 313, 444, 9114.

That number was made so you can remember it on Facebook, not enemy Detroit.

You'll see a picture of either giving out hand warmers or myself, me and my mom.

But I think those that reach out uh and ask for prayer, reach out, uh, ask for my address to mail me things that some people want to be anonymous and that.

But um, I want y'all to do me that favor.

Buy some hand warmers, buy some bus tickets, right?

So take those bus tickets and give them out at the bus stops.

The hand warmers and the bus tickets are the things that I use the most.

And sometimes with a four-hour pass, you can get on one bus, get on another bus, and get on another bus and stay warm.

You know, people don't think that way, but I was homeless for 10 years, and I sure did.

Stay warm a lot of times, get on the Dexter and then take the Dexter and go downtown and get on another bus and stay warm.

And this happened for uh about 10 years of homelessness, um, literally.

And I was still coming and helping others at that at that time and in those years.

But I know that um I was wondering how I made it uh Saturday.

I gave out hand warmers, gloves, my fingertips got really cold.

I jumped back in the car, put my gloves and my hand warmers on, and I was just wondering, my God, how did I make it through all of this?

God, that's how I made it through that.

God, because a lot of people that I speak to that I touch still and their walls come down and they talk to me.

One of them was scratching their head and their fingers were cut off from frostbit.

So God was trying to tell me something that it could have been worse.

Mild stroke, COVID-19, and pneumonia at the same time.

I made it through and I'm still here, and I don't look like thank you for your time.

Thank you, Ms.

Thank you.

We will now shift to our online public commenters.

Who is our first?

How many callers do we have and who do we have first, Mr.

Whitfield?

Good morning, Council President.

We have 21 callers in the queue.

I'm sorry.

We have 21 callers in the queue.

Okay, who do we have first, please?

Um first caller is William M.

Davis.

Mr.

William M.

Davis, the floor is yours.

We have two minutes.

General public comment.

Uh, good morning.

Can I be heard?

Sir.

What did you say?

Yes, sir.

Oh, okay.

Uh I like to start out by saying for those city Detroit retirees, uh, the Detroit Active Retired Employee Association meeting for tomorrow is canceled because the church, St.

Matthew St.

Joseph Episcopal Church, the boiler is out.

Um, and that happens in a lot of buildings because I know we've done protests.

I've been involved in protests throughout the city.

There's a number of buildings to make that need to make sure they have heat, have uh air conditioning in the summertime, we have maintenance and stuff.

You know, I'm of course I'm older than most of y'all.

I remember when the city church used to have a lot of inspectors actually did that.

There was city Detroit with you know, workers that you know that work for the city, they lived in the city, used to inspect stuff.

I know throughout the ages, you know, we've downsized, you know, outsource, you know, we outsource too much in the city.

We need to make sure more Detroit residents are working.

Uh also separately.

I'm the citizen uh co-leader of the Metro Detroit All Pac.

There was a previous uh citizen leader, because we also have a law enforcement leader was a consuela Lopez, and um, you know, she's a friend of mine, and she is much darker than I am, much darker than most black people in this city, but she's Hispanic.

You know, you can't look at a person and tell what they are, uh, you know, what you know their background is.

We need to be more welcoming.

We need to be uniting, you know, against the tyrannies of evil that's you know, facing the city because you know, we need to be building more bridges, not more walls.

We need to get out of our assignments, we need to be working together.

We need to make sure we have a major voter turnout in this city, and we need to be doing a lot better than what we're doing.

And of course, the city definitely needs to help the city of Detroit retirements.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is Charles Miles.

Charles Miles, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes.

General public comment.

Hello.

We can.

Okay, my name's Charles Miles.

I'm coming again today.

I have major concerns with the city of Detroit and uh the mayor's office.

I have uh eviction hearing scheduled for Friday on uh this issue with property tax foreclosure that's in my opinion, illegal because I have the payments, I've made the payments and they were misapplied in the city of Detroit on the city of Detroit.

I have city Detroit payments that you guys I've showed you.

I can show whoever it needs to be seen.

I'm tired of listening to people telling me they're working on it and nothing gets done.

This has been going on since 2017, actually 2016.

This doesn't make any sense that there's thousands of people in the city of Detroit, Owen County, thousands with the same issue.

Now, I talked to Chief uh ex-Chief Brian White.

He said he seen it last Thursday.

He looked at it.

He said, This is a simple fix.

I said, Wow, help me, because it ain't simple for me.

I thought it was simple too.

He said, This is a simple fix.

It's clear that they made a mistake.

Why is it not simple with you guys?

Oh, you just don't care.

Are you too busy?

I mean, this you council members have seen this.

So I don't know who's in your ear telling you that you can't do nothing.

It's the city of Detroit's fault.

They made a mistake or they did it on purpose.

And it seems that it's a purpose, not a mistake, but it's still it's still inaccurate on my document of my paid receipt.

And you would not correct it.

And I keep talking about you, keep saying that you're working on this.

It's been years that you knew about this.

It don't take years to go in.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is owner Papa.

The floor is yours.

We have two minutes.

General public comment.

Good morning, and through the chair.

May I be heard?

Yes.

Uh a dream deferred is the order of the day for black people.

And no, we're not saying that uh we're against anyone, but we need to be for ourselves as well.

Um the reappointment of Conrad Mallet and Julie Snyder means we're going to suffer again the same administration as the Duggan administration.

And I thought this was a new administration.

We have still having indemnifications and legal representations of um police officers that are abusing the public.

Um, and you don't have Mr.

or Chief Bettis come down to the table and discuss what is he doing.

Number one, about you know, the inordinate amount of indemnifications that Detroit is facing and lawsuits.

Uh, nor do you ask him any questions about the large number of missing people in the city of Detroit.

I see you have lots of task force.

One of the most ineffective ways of handling a problem is through task force.

And I have asked uh councilwoman Callaway if I could have a benchmark.

Let us see what these task force are doing.

Not just not keep adding task force and not seeing what these task forces are doing.

Um we have we we're supposed to be uh in a global warming, but I I received my um assessor's bill, and it's in three languages.

I speak English.

Can we save some trees and have a different way of printing out our mail from the city?

I'm pretty sure that American Express does not have sixty different languages that they send their bill out in.

Um you heard the complaints from the people.

We cannot continue on the road.

We are continuing down spending our tax dollars for other people's 19 dots one through six blight of funding.

Mr.

Chair.

Member Kelly.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Chair.

Um and um I can only speak for my task force and the work that they the volunteers have done.

Um, namely, an ordinance came out of the human trafficking task force a little over a year ago, and I'll be out, and you're welcome to join us.

Um, you can call my office at 224 4535, hanging the placards that are required by this ordinance that the human trafficking task force was the inspiration behind, and this honorable body passed unanimously.

It requires that the city have every motel and hotel have a sign displayed in their lobby in a visible location with a one-800 number and a 313 number.

If you see something, call these numbers.

So I don't know what other task force you're saying.

You don't see what they're doing, but if you can, if you have time to join you this, me this Friday, we'll be at a hotel on Jefferson with our new director of Creole, attorney Jade Mathis, installing another sign.

And you are welcome to join us, and you can help us hang the sign in the hotel in Jefferson.

And I think we'll be the quality end.

You can call my office again at 224 4535, and you have an invitation to join us to hang up the signs that the human trafficking task force inspire.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Uh, member McCamp.

I just want to know one that we do not have an official language in this country, and two that it's very important for us to have language access in the city of Detroit.

Um, one, because we have residents that speak various languages.

Um, I actually hear from a lot of folks in communities that um they would like more translating materials so that we can communicate with our neighbors to let them know what's going on in the city.

So I just want to know if there are folks that do want to ensure that our that our city documents are translated.

We can reach out to our office and we can help with that as well.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

We're gonna allow him to leave the auditorium.

Mr.

John Tay Smith, the floor is yours.

Good afternoon, hope.

It's as loud as it can be.

Yep, that's going on.

I want to say no Conrad Mallet reinstatement.

Uh shout out to Chief Edison.

Uh I appreciate your donation to my GoFundMe.

Um Mary Waters for Town Hall for D Frog.

The Long House, the Leland House residents need help.

Uh no more solar farms in Detroit.

Um, hopefully I'll be on the news soon talking about Conrad Mallet and how he used his official position as corporation counsel to offer me a job with the city of Detroit.

Uh D7Es recenters.

Also uh the retirees who spent their lives in their 10, 15, 20 years working for the city of Detroit deserve respect and they deserve to be treated fairly.

Um really hate to see how so many people spent their time to attack Gabriela Santiago Romero, and we have personal issues like Conrad Mallet.

Please don't ask me for help if you're sitting there and attacking Gabriela Santiago Romero and not talking about Conrad Mallet, who was doing so much evil across the city when it comes to Board of Police Commissioners, the solar lawsuits, and also the indemnifications with police officers.

He sits on the board of police commissioners and watches the bat officers and doesn't do anything to stop them.

Also, I want to give a shout out to the uh the EPU staff for uh city council and the mayor's office.

You guys are doing a good job.

You guys gotta watch what you say to me because I'm not the average young black male.

Also, uh I do want to get more information about the the development of the Packer plant, which is in my neighborhood.

And I'll put it on record.

Uh the Grassha Grand neighborhood, I would love to name that and possibly expand their neighborhood into island view.

I'll see the rest of my time.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is Betty A.

Varner.

Betty A.

Varner, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes.

General public comment.

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

I'm Betty A.

Varner, president of the Soda Els World Black Association.

Want to give some information today to uh assist caregivers.

If you are caregiver that is in need of support, you are taking care of your loved one friend, etc.

Uh Mrs.

Deborah A.

Rawl has a program that's unique that assists caregivers.

Uh there uh she has a program where she would send people to your home to assist you, and the person who needs the care can receive the care, the services.

So whatever you're doing, she's there to assist you.

They have programs where you can get a massage uh monthly, get your um nails done.

They have events just for the caregivers, just so that you can get a break.

It's free.

You don't have to be on Medicaid.

The person who's receiving the care does not have to be on Medicaid.

Her telephone number is 313 484808.

Again, 313 484 3808.

And this particular program focuses just on the caregiver to give them some relief, and the bonus is the person who needs the help, continue can be served.

And also, um, there's other programs under her umbrella that you would need to be on Medicaid.

So it's a very unique uh organization.

Uh honorable uh council member Callaway, Mrs.

Royal.

She lives in District 2.

Her business is in District 2.

She has an idea uh for a project just strictly for seniors.

I gave her your office number.

So please receive her call.

Next caller is phone number ending in 169.

Caller ending in 169.

The floor is yours.

Two minutes, general calling comment.

Hello, can you guys hear me?

Yes.

Great.

I just want to say um thank you for praying for Cunningham.

Um be faithful, be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

And that quote is by Mother Teresa, and thank you for my time.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is Tahira Amad.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes.

General public comment good morning.

The coalition for property tax justice has created a plan detailing how to correct property tax adjustice in the first hundred days of the Sheffield administration.

Uh, we have uh reached out to offer uh this work to uh directly to Mayor Sheffield's uh transition team on these issues.

Despite these repeated attempts, the Sheffield administration gave the coalition little notice of the executive order uh that she just put out and did not uh incorporate any of its substantive uh recommendation.

The issue here is not symbolism, it's impact.

The city of Detroit has foreclosed upon tens of thousands of homes illegally overassessed Detroiters by more than 600 million dollars.

We brought the mayor a roadmap grounded in law data and uh lived experiences.

Sheffield's administration ignored that roadmap.

The coalition's first 100 days plan is built around five pillars that together would meaningfully address the property tax injustice.

Number one, replace the assessor with a qualified assessor as required by state law.

Number two, enforce the property tax reform ordinance by the Detroit City Council, passed by the council in 2023, including clear assessment uh notices, public data, access, and independent racial studies.

Number three, stop overassessing lower valued homes by uh connecting uh flawed ECF and depreciation practices.

Number four, protect owner occupant exemptions so that uh occupants are not uh improperly taxed or displaced.

Return number five, return the money to over.

All right, thank you for that.

We appreciate that.

Who's next in the queue?

Next in the queue, we have Lamont iPhone.

Lamont iPhone.

Floor is yours.

Two minutes.

Oh, good morning through the chair.

Couple phase.

Um, this is Black History Month.

I think it's important that we understand Martin Luther King's.

Well, the greatest tragedy is not the brutality of the bad, but the silence of the good.

1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was created.

Colored people.

If you all accept the truth, look at your heart of hearts.

What is your agenda pushing here?

Right?

Your agenda has been pushing non-colored folks.

And so the way that you treat and be contemptuous to black people and try to be bad black people to push a white man up into a position.

I think it's atrocious and it needs to be talked about during black history, but secondly, man, when it comes down to the NAACP, our past as the ministers have to be accountable for either leading or misleading the people.

We know that Brown versus Board of Education was reversed when you guys had a 70-year anniversary celebrating it.

Now, how do you justify misleading the people?

Are you gonna say that God led you that way, or are you gonna come out and tell the truth and say that you were led by financial gangs, right?

So as ministers, you have to be accountable for what you lean people or misleading people.

Thirdly, I want to talk about return to citizens.

I think that is important to understand historically, your return of citizens have been far more impactful than our um colored folks here that sit around and do nothing.

People like Nelson Mandelvin, people like Rose the Bruce, people like Mark Cometz, people like Martin Luther King Jr.

They all took stance for what it was that they believed in and suffered the consequences for their stance that they took.

What stance have any of y'all taking here?

What do you believe in?

Who is your agenda pushing?

Who do you want to see at the top nowhere?

Start with the propaganda with our people.

It's not here too, mom.

Do right, have some integrity and move and forward.

All right, thank you for that.

Who's next in the queue?

But next in the queue, we have vote no on mallet Bush and Snyder.

All right.

Floor is yours, two minutes.

Uh good morning.

May I be heard and thank you for two minutes?

Yes.

Go ahead.

Okay.

First of all, I'd like to say the task force should be open to the public to attend and listen, just like the master plan update group doing the master plan update should be open to the general public, but it is not.

And residents are not being treated equally.

So that's why I say no to Alexa Bush.

Uh Julie Snyder wrote some stuff I don't believe was true, wouldn't respond to my email.

So they may sit there and have nicey nicey meetings with you, but listen to the residents about how they feel about it, because that's who you're supposed to be serving.

Conrad Mallet has not lived up to his duty to uphold the charter under Charter Section 7.5-209.

I'll give you an example.

Uh section 9-405, the elimination of redundancy.

There's no report on the elimination of redundancy, and there's lots of redundancy in this government.

So that's not supposed to be happening.

Also, at the mayor's meetings, Mr.

Mallet was there and witnessed constitutional charter violations being committed by Mayor Duggan, and yet he said nothing to the mayor.

So I have listened to a few of these meetings.

I have not heard a single resident call in and say keep Conrad Mallet.

I'm sure he has enough money to retire on.

It's time for you to be bold and listen to the people.

Don't feel bad about offending anybody of the inside group over there's feelings and listen to the people.

But look at Mr.

Mallet's record about the charter.

Plus, we got constant losses.

Hold on, stop.

Please can we refrain from making sounds while the gentlelady is speaking?

Please.

But please let's let the gentlelady speak.

Okay, I'm sorry, I didn't quite hear everything that you said.

But you know, like going back to the master plan update.

Let me give you an example about Alex Alexa Bush.

They and for those of you don't know who most people in the city don't know.

The city selected 41 residents to be part of a master plan advisory group.

And you won't let other people come and listen to these more in-depth meetings.

And Miss Bush doesn't care about it, but you all should change it.

But vote no.

Right.

Thank you.

We appreciate that.

Who do we have next to the queue?

Next caller is telephone number ending in one two four.

All right, two minutes, one two four.

One, two, four, are you there?

I already spoke.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

Who you're next to the queue.

Next in the queue, we have Aliyah Moore.

All right, Ms.

Moore.

Go ahead.

Two minutes.

Yes, thank you.

Good morning.

I do apologize as a citizen.

I don't come to city council meetings as often as I should.

I spend a lot of my time at Detroit Public Schools Community District meetings, committee meetings, and regular board meetings.

Over the last nine years, the image and the illusion through media, through articles, have had the illusion that parents are pleased.

The community is pleased with the movement of Superintendent Dr.

Nicolai VD as well as our moving board of up to 14 members divided by two.

So that's seven.

But Detroit needs to know, and City Council needs to know.

Moving forward, I don't know what this relationship is going to look like with our new mayor as well as the school system, but the city council needs to know that there has been many missed opportunities for our children because of personal egos and a driven mission that has nothing to do with local businesses.

True investments.

We have over 22 abandoned buildings.

We have 20 over 20 schools that can't pay their lights and gas because they don't have enough students.

But yet we're building five schools.

We had a state of the schools, uh what, last week, which literally was a smoke and mirror show.

But I digress because the media is only going to, as what I see, give the narrative that everything is okay.

So moving forward, I know you all don't have jurisdiction jurisdiction within our school system.

But look at what this partnership is truly going to look like because our children are suffering in this city.

And the rationale is we need more equitable funding.

But let's talk about the funding that's here that's not being used equitably.

Let's talk about the millions of dollars that have been coming through this district, and yet our children are still at the bottom.

But yet talk about mission.

Thank you.

We were next to the queue.

Next caller is Frank Hammer.

Who is Mr.

Hammer?

Go ahead.

Good morning, Pro T Young and City Council and all in attendance.

Donald Trump recently called for the Republican Party to nationalize voting in the United States.

Trump called for Republican officials to take over voting procedures in 15 states.

He's aiming for blue states, which include our elections in Detroit.

You should all recall Trump accused the city of election fraud in 2020 without citing any evidence.

He's been in Detroit twice since, and no official has called him out.

Trump yesterday urged Republicans to say we want to take over.

Saying he wanted to end the use of mail-in ballots and even the use of voting machines.

He's on record trying to coerce Minnesota to hand over voter roles in exchange for withdrawal of the murderous federal ice agents.

And he sent FBI agents to Atlanta to seize Fulton County's voting records.

And needs to involve Detroiters.

In our most recent election, only 17% of us voted.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, sir.

Who's next in the queue?

Next in the queue, we have TJ.

EJ, floor is yours.

Two minutes.

EJ.

Good morning, um, city council.

My name is uh TJ.

Um, I'm calling in regards to um Conrad Mallet.

I think that it's time for new leadership change in the city, and um I do not support his reassignment.

Um, there is a lot of outstanding um settlements and things like that that he is costing the city's taxpayers a lot of money.

Um, I also want to speak to Gary Brown and Sam Smalley of the Detroit Water Sewage Department.

They have failed this city and allowing these water mains to be um raciously out umrepaired, um, blaming it on infrastructure, but have gotten over hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal, state, and local government to assist with these infrastructure um issues, and still haven't improved.

Um, I also want to touch bases on um the demographics of Southwest Detroit and Santi Um Maryago.

Um, she did an outstanding job uh representing that conference.

Um, that comment about uh people attacking Southwest Detroit.

Um, I think that I was actually a album, actually a water activist, and I've been over in Southwest Detroit, and um I've seen the repairs and damages that people experienced, and they still haven't been settled out for those.

So I just want to make sure that people understand it is a misinterpretation of what happened and the narrative is false.

Um, I've also want to uh dedicate time to look into these issues with the water and sewage department.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

We appreciate that.

Who's next in the queue?

Next caller, we have Darren McClessley, Mr.

McCleskey.

Floor is yours.

Two minutes.

Hello, council.

Okay, I will also express my severe disappointment of Conrad Mallet being reappointed.

Uh just because someone is effective does not give them the right to be at their post.

They have to abide by certain principles.

And just look at his resume.

I know it was submitted in a packet.

That resume compared to the all the other people is the formatting is horrible.

Um, he's resting on his laurels of being, you know, the head of the Supreme Court.

But what did he do there?

He stepped down under Republican leadership, in which massive constitutional changes were made in the state of Michigan for what?

For private enrichment.

And and that's what's happening here.

Uh, if you look at what's happening with the solar project, the rights of people are being completely trampled in cahoots with DTE.

It's a legacy that Duggan is gonna leave the city of Detroit, and you're honorable body to clean up.

There should be a break from that.

There should be a break from the the dirty dirt scandals that are happening in the city.

Um the other thing I'd like to address is you guys know I'm a landlord.

In the last two months, we've had seven break-ins.

We thought it was six as of this morning, now it's seven.

Furnaces, hot water heaters stolen almost religiously.

You can count on it.

What does that do?

That's a direct cost that is translated to tenants.

It is it is obscene what is happening.

How it takes days and days to work working with police officers just to get someone to respond and investigate.

We have air tags for our stolen furnaces in a house, and there is zero response.

We have to wait multiple days just to get a call back from a detective.

The city needs to take care of the basics first.

Thank you.

All right, thank you for that.

You know, before we go to the next call, I just wanted to say I think that we need to find out exactly where uh this issue is.

I'm so sorry about what happened with you in terms of the uh robberies.

I think we need to determine whether or not that place will qualify as a place for the server protect program.

That's where you have police officers that are walking that area, you know, to be able to deter crime that's taking place, or whether or not it would be appropriate.

I have to go through the budget process and all this, but also to bring back a program that my father had, which was many uh police stations having police officers in certain parts of that area to deter crime.

So that is a conversation I look forward to having with DPD about that and other areas that um where we're having issues with crime and how data is used and what kind of analytical tools we're gonna use to be able to prevent that and the legality of all those things.

All right, that's another discussion on the back.

Um who do we have next to the queue?

Next caller is phone number ending in 992.

992, the floor is yours.

Two minutes 992.

Hey Garmer, what's up?

Black bag room, black bag.

You know me.

We got up and left out the auditorium.

Well, the liar, Gabriella Santiago mayor.

Uh made mention this morning of uh thing.

I'm gonna bring to the attention that everyone within earshot, everyone citizens, taxpayer in the city of Detroit, black Mexican.

I'm back.

I'm back to Vincent.

Now we got to get down straight down to it, and I'm straight to it with it.

Now, Kenisha Coleman did not shoot himself, but that fraud council president James E.

Tate Jr.

Kenita Coleman's mother twice.

Yeah, that was not the right representative for the family.

But the family didn't ask me to do sugar honey ice tea.

That's who Mr.

Rue really is.

I'm elected in Detroit.

Some circles, that's what they call me.

I keep that to myself.

I don't really put it out there, but now I'm getting ready to display it, demonstrated everybody living and breathing in the city of Detroit, County of Wayne, State of Michigan, and United States of America.

Oh me, because I'm cut like that and I'm built like that.

Ain't nobody, no N word nowhere.

I stand on mine.

Got a 45, four and a half decades deputation in and around Detroit again, stand up 100.

But I'm definitely getting ready to put it out there.

You hear that, Santiago?

Yeah.

All right, thank you for that.

Who's next in the queue?

Next in the queue, we have Reynard.

All right, Reynard, floor is yours.

Two minutes, Reynard.

All right, good morning, Mr.

President.

Can I be heard?

Yes, sir.

All right, good morning.

My name is Renard Mishusky.

I'm district six resident, and I'm organized transit organizer of Detroit Phoenix platform.

I really want to bring up this issue that's been bothering a lot of bus riders, including myself, um, not so much impacted by it.

I do appreciate the efforts of DPW, um, Detroit, I mean Department of Public Works when they're plowing the streets.

However, when they plow the streets, people that are using the bus, especially senior citizens and folks with wheelchair or walkers gotta stand on Mount Everest's that are next to the bus stops.

And when I say that these mounds of snow and ice that build up and build up, build up because after the streets are plowed, the sidewalks are not taken care of.

So you got people, and you have women with babies and strollers and children that got to stand on these mounds of ice and snow next to the bus stop, often with no shelter and catching the bus.

All I ask of, because I cannot directly talk to the Department of Public Works.

I don't know if they're public meetings or issues, but I bring it up to this body because I know you guys can do something about it, to have a coordinated plan.

When they plow the streets, they also take care of the bus stops and sidewalks.

This has been a perennial issue for years and it predates this administration.

So I give grace, but it's frustrating to see that because that violates the American Disabilities Act.

When someone in the wheelchair or Walker or someone with a non-visible disability can't board the bus because it's got all this snow and ice and mounts of crap just loaded up on it, as if like we're not a consideration.

Believe it or not, people do go to work to their doctors, to the pharmacies, and everywhere else on a bus during this terrible weather.

That's what I love about Detroit.

We get going in any type of situation.

However, you can't leave us behind like that and leave snow and ice mounted up.

So please direct the department of public works and D DOT to work together on the plan.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We're gonna go first pro-the-young, then member McCall.

Uh, thank you.

I appreciate that.

I just want to say it comes to my attention that the city settled a lawsuit recently involving access for people who are disabled or people who have a physical challenges.

So I think that we're going to be making improvements in terms of buses but also improvements in this actual building as well.

So I just kind of want to let everybody know that we're kind of going for that process of how we're going to do that budgeting that putting that together but we've heard those concerns and we're working that out as we speak.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Member McCamp thank you Mr.

President if if I know we're after public comment if we could have someone from DPW address the plans around uh showing the getting the snow around the uh bus stops that would be great.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Mr.

Washington please note we will be returning back to you for response on that item as well that was just uh brought before this body.

Thank you so much.

Next caller please caller is Jim B district six.

All right caller the floor is yours we have two minutes general public comment caller are you there?

Yes I am good morning this is uh Jim Bernell from District uh six uh to the chairman Santiago Romero I couldn't agree more with your uh statement I live in North Corktown and I'm still dealing with flooding issues from when the uh pump system went out evidently the city of Detroit is not liable for anything um I've spoken and left messages with both the state several city council people and to have anything resolved uh if somebody wants to reach me my number is available um I'll leave it with your office office staff if you ask for it thanks thank you next caller please oh Mr.

President I'm sorry uh before we go to our next caller member Santiago Romero thank you Mr.

President to Jim I'm not sure if you reached out to our office just yet but if you haven't please do give us a call please give us a call at 313 2242450 um and we will see what we can do thank you thank you Mr.

President thank you next caller please next caller is Toya all right Toya the floor is yours you have two minutes general public comment caller are you there caller are you there?

Toya are you there?

Can you hear me?

Yes ma'am yes my name is Toya Watts president of Charlotte Village Association and I want to give a shout out to Mary Waters and Angela Callaway on the fraud deed that knowledge of learning this because it has happened to me but I want to know why is why Bernard Youngblood is not doing this for us in the neighborhood to educate us about the quick claim deed the warranty deed to compare because it happened to me in 2004 when I called the boogeyman knocked at my door and said they own my home my family home so I want to know what you gave Sarody it didn't it did educate me some but I don't know the steps to take because I called them numbers and I'm not getting through right now which steps to take to protect my home or anybody else my family home so I wish you would be more clarified what steps do we need to take do we need to go down there and uh debate with Bernard Youngblood that's been there for 25 years and having stepped up to the plate in the community for us and you guys the city he's the county so I need to find this knowledge out how I take my home it won't be fraud to like dead with a quick claim deed or a title search or or a how do we go about doing this in our neighborhood so could you give me a feedback on that appreciate you guys and you and Joanne did a good job Mary thank you.

Oh thank you Ms.

Watson are you still there okay we're gonna give uh member waters an opportunity to respond member waters okay thank you uh thank you Mr.

President first of all I want to give out my number which is 3136282363 uh secondly I want to say that yes um the Wayne County Register of Deeds I was invited um they do plan to make one or two of the meetings I don't know which one we haven't gotten a commitment from them this as yet however he did point out uh because I communicated with um uh mr young blood this morning again he says that the Wayne County commissioners have done a number of uh deep fraud uh meetings uh throughout uh throughout Wayne County uh I didn't attend any of those maybe some people did uh I personally did not so um I tried explaining to him that you know I mean and frankly uh not as many of the people know that Wayne County Commissioners as they do um city council members and so we're on the front lines um every single uh day uh this time we're also um including someone from uh the Wayne County prosecutors

Um I didn't attend any of those, maybe some people did.

Uh I personally did not.

So I tried explaining to him that you know, I mean, and frankly, uh not as many of the people know they're Wayne County Commissioners as they do um city council members.

And so we're on the front lines um every single uh day.

Uh this time we're also um including someone from uh the Wayne County prosecutor's office uh from 36th district court.

Um you all we have gotten calls, uh, Mr.

President.

People talking about, I mean, from lawyers who's currently representing about one of them is representing one uh about five people at one time uh who are experiencing defraud.

So I if she could call my team and I will walk her through uh what she missed on Saturday for now, and we will also connect her to some additional resources as well.

So again, the numbers 313 628 2363, 313-628-2363.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And member Waters, I know you have uh another one coming up, I think tomorrow, right?

For those who may be interested and might not stick to the end of the day.

Yeah, uh, and and district one, yes, we did.

Oh, what's up?

President James State.

So you guys, that would be it.

Prowell for those that are listening.

Um tomorrow from um 4 to 6 p.m.

So we will have a significant.

Do you know the address record off top of your 16630?

Locser.

Lasser.

I believe I think I think that's that's it.

16630 lawser.

Please come out.

If you don't get any help today, come out tomorrow uh to Prowell on Lasser, and we'll make sure that we can directly connect you with someone.

And it's not just for district one residents for those who ever find themselves needed.

Yes, not just for district one.

I mean, wherever you are.

You're doing it citywide.

Yes, I'm doing it doing it citywide.

We'll just go into each district, but it is citywide.

And Mr.

President, it is so needed.

I I just can't believe it.

We appreciate you for it.

My number again.

All right, Pro Tim says, give up my number again.

313 628-2363.

Thank you so much, Member Callaway.

Yeah, thank you.

Um thank you, Mr.

Chair, and thank you, Member Waters.

Um, at large number one, we had the first of the D fraud um gatherings or meetings in District 2 at the Northwest Activity Center this past Saturday from 10 a.m.

to 12 noon.

It was standing room only, which just let us all know that there is a great need for this information to get out.

We had Lakeshore Legal there.

Um, we had um Detroit title search company there, and um you can save yourself a lot of aggravation are starting right there getting your title searched so you'll know whether or not you have a good deed warranty, a warranty or a quick claim deed.

And so I want to thank you, Member Waters and your entire team for coming out.

And um, again, it was a couple hundred people there, and it's amazing.

So um, you know, it's it's just the need.

And you can the folks can also call my number um at 224 4535, and we will give the numbers to you of those who are in the panel on Saturday.

Um, from I think we had like five or six people on the panel, but we do have those numbers call 224 4535, and we we will be happy to share those numbers with you so you can get the help um answers that you need.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

The last caller in the queue.

Uh is unique at words.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Hello.

Hello.

Hello, can you hear me?

Yes, ma'am.

Good morning.

Good morning.

We can hear you.

Hello, can you hear me?

Yes, we can.

You may proceed.

Are you there, caller?

Can you hear me?

Am I being heard?

Yes, we can hear you.

Caller, are you there?

We're gonna give you another opportunity.

Caller, are you there?

Okay, so uh good afternoon, good morning.

Um, my name is Unique Edwards, and my phone number is 248-470-2846.

I'm a mother of two boys, ages one and eight years old as of January 27th.

Me and my kids, we have been homeless and dislocated ever since my landlord and bailiff Gordon and three different police officers evicted me and my small son from our home.

I had a motion pending to give me more time to be able to transition it to my next home.

The property that I was rented from and did not have a certification of compliance.

And also I was evicted during a snowstorm.

It was extremely cold and very, very snowy outside.

I was being belittled when I mentioned my motion repeatedly.

And I just been told I have filed the wrong thing, but no one reached out to me.

I never knew I even had my proof.

And the bailiff proceeded to throw all of my things away out of my three bedroom and one bathroom house.

Anything I was not aware of this process is being about to happen.

I had talked to my landlord the day before, and she never said that she was going to be uh putting me out the next day.

So I'm just reaching out to seek support from anybody who's just willing to help.

I'm a single young mother.

Um and yeah, thank you.

Thank you so much.

Mr.

Chair.

Ms.

Edwards, we uh I wanted to uh extend um apologies for for those who have treated you the way that they have.

Uh it sounds like you have not gotten a response.

Not sure if you reached out to the city of Detroit and not received that response.

We're gonna do all that we can to ensure that you have um what you need during this very challenging time.

Uh, please give my office a call at 313 224, 1027.

You don't have to wait until this meeting is over with.

I got somebody at the desk right now.

313 224 1027.

We're gonna figure we we have uh access to uh certainly items for your your your your child, um, but we also are looking to see uh what balls may have been dropped because there's no way that you should have been um evicted in that situation.

Um but we're gonna make sure again 313-224-1027.

And um hurts out to you, and we're gonna do what we can to assist.

Um member Callaway.

Yeah, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Hopefully, that young lady is still listening.

Um, I'm gonna also provide a number of a place where I know she could go right now and get shelter.

It's called COTS Peggy Place, and it's on Wyoming, right around the corner from Mary Grove campus, and the number is 2709100.

I know of another young um mother with four kids, and they were able to help her and then get her place in her own home.

So the number again is 313-270-9100, and that it's COTS, Peggy's place wife right off of Wyoming and um six-mile, right near the campus of Mary Grove Um College.

And also, Mr.

Chair, if we could have um through yourself to Mr.

Whitaker, Mr.

Whitaker, can we put a moratorium on evictions during these times um times of the year, like around December through February, when we know that we're having these frigid temperatures, dangerous temperatures, um causing deaths, um, like we know what happened um last year with the two children, and then we know um right around Macomb County, they found a woman frozen to death behind a dumpster.

So, what is our ability as a city to um establish a moratorium on evictions during these types of um weather conditions?

Through the chair to Mr.

Whitaker.

Mr.

Mr.

President, yes, sir.

Yes, uh, I think given the complexity of that topic of moratorium, certainly council can pass uh ordinance establishing a moratorium in certain contexts, whether or not you can do that to interfere with the relation uh landlord tenant relationship between a landlord and a tenant.

Um maybe challenging, but we would be happy to undertake an investigation, legal investigation to determine how, if any, if anything that council can do in that regard, but it will be through ordinance.

Yes, um, through the chair.

Thank you, Mr.

I that is a motion um for that assignment to LPD and also um through the chair to you, Mr.

Whitaker.

I know we've had executive orders before.

Is this right for a executive order from the administration?

Because we're these are troubling times, and these are some very frigid temperatures, and people are suffering, and we know that, and they're dying, and we know for a fact in front of one of our shelters.

We had um a couple of folks to call and say they are sleeping in their cars because of the condition of the shelter.

So is this ripe for an executive order from the administration if our resolution um may not be per permissible permissible or have any strength to it through the chair to yourself?

Ms.

Witter, Mr.

President, I I would say the same thing would apply to that.

Let us do a research to determine the extent to which the mayor through executive order can really do the same thing.

I think it would be the same legal basis that council would act.

If it would prohibit council from acting, it would also prohibit executive branch and vice versa.

If you could act, then the the mayor would be empowered to act similarly as you suggested.

But let us do research to make a determination how as I indicated how you might go about doing that if you allow by law to do it.

Okay.

Thank you, Mr.

Whitaker.

Callaway, if you could please restate your motion.

Yeah, um, that is my motion, Mr.

Chair.

I give the motion.

Oh, the motion.

The motion is the assignment that I just um provided to uh Mr.

Whitaker, just the information on whether or not um it is permit um the resolution or an executive order order from the administration um for a moratorium on evictions during these types of conditions.

Um is that plain, Mr.

Mr.

Whitaker?

Yes, I understand, but it's not a resolution, it would be an ordinance.

Okay, so just the investigation, the research.

Okay, but that so that would be the motion just to look into whether or not these are possibilities through um via an executive order or resolution.

And is that clear, Mr.

Whitaker?

Yes, okay.

If you could put it in writing as well, we'd be happy to undertake.

Yeah, Mr.

Mr.

Um Rose is probably doing that, um, doing that now.

Also through the you you move.

I'm done with the chair.

There was a motion.

Okay.

Any objection, Connors.

It's a motion on the floor.

Any objections or discussion?

See none, that action shall be taken.

Okay, thank you, Mr.

Vote.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, additionally, Mr.

Whitaker, I remember when I first joined the council, there was, I don't know if it was an executive order or resolution with respect to um not turning off water.

Um, is that true?

Was there an executive order or some type of resolution or some type of action that was taken by the city to restrict water shutoffs during certain times?

Mr.

President.

Through the chair to yourself, Mr.

Whitaker.

My my belief is that that was during COVID, and there were certain restrictions that were undertaken for public health reasons.

I don't know whether the same, I know that whatever rights you have, we will cover moratorium generally in our response.

So whether it's a moratorium on water, whether there's a moratorium on uh on places of housing, we will we will cover all of that in our writing.

Okay, and through yourself, through the through the chair to yourself, and it does have a very, very serious public health component to it.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, Mr.

Whitaker.

Thank you, Mr.

Whitaker.

If you can add us as well to uh to that uh item, uh I understand uh in the past that it was uh the city's standpoint that the Detroit police department would not participate in these evictions and it would allow for Wayne County Sheriffs to do that solely.

Uh so if we can please uh allow that to be part of that investigation uh to determine if that uh took place.

We'll be happy to do that as well.

Thank you so much.

Still have uh a few more colleagues.

Ms.

Whitaker, then let me know.

Thank you commander, sir.

President, uh, our legal department, our policy people will meet you as soon as this is over because we sent um documentation to your office regarding the landlord tenant ordinance, because unlike uh councilman councilwoman calloway, we know it's illegal.

A lot of things are illegally going on in city of Detroit, especially under landlord tenant, and if you do not have certificate of compliance, you should not first of all even be in court or even doing any type of eviction.

You should not be having anyone removed from their home.

These are the laws that we set forth in the city of Detroit, and we do not even abide by our own laws.

So we have documentation for you.

You probably have it on your email.

You've been working on it for the last two weeks in regards, similar to what uh uh council person callbate just spoke on.

But if you would see him immediately uh Toronto, I would appreciate it.

We would happen to do that, Mr.

Ms.

President, Mr.

Witter.

On that point, oftentimes uh more legislation or more ordinances is not necessary, is about enforcement of the laws and the books.

And so if you will also send that request to the administration for their reaction, particularly the departments who are in place to enforce that would be helpful.

But we would be happy to undertake whatever you give us.

Thank you very much.

Um thank you, Mr.

President.

From my understanding, Director Brown said there was a moratorium on water shutoffs during the winter months.

I my understanding is that it's I don't think there is one about evictions, but I think there is a one about water shutters, and I know it's prohibited for heat and power and shut off during these winter times.

Am I correct about that?

Mr.

President, uh, as I indicated, I believe you're right, but I think it has a lot to do with the with the COVID, and I'm not sure whether or not that's currently in place or not.

I think it was suspended for a period of time, but I don't know whether that moratorium has ended or not.

And we will be happy to cover that in our writing.

Well, from my understanding, I mean, correct me wrong.

If we're understanding in terms of COVID, I know that the water should also end it, just in general, because people's waters are prohibited during COVID, and they ended that aspect.

I what I'm just referring to is just for these times during these winter months.

So it's for a small finite period of time.

I'm assuming you don't have to use all, but I'm assuming that the uh water should also prohibit.

I know legally during the winter months that he is prohibited.

I don't think we have the issue for evictions.

What I would say for the young lady at call and um presentate office more than cable being to handle this, but there's a uh housing um solution office that she could go to.

I also think there's some funds that are available for uh right to counsel.

I don't know exactly if they're there or not, but I think there's some.

So there are some places for her to go currently where we're still have some ARPA funds.

Like I know we got a budget coming up, so we'll see how much more we get where we're at.

But I think those are programs she'd be gonna have.

That was just I just want to get that part out so people would understand that.

Okay, thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Mr.

Chair, hold on one second, please.

Yes, Mr.

Campbell.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Chair, and uh thank you, Mr.

Witaker.

I we did discuss water shutoffs and PHS yesterday.

Um, and the department did indicate that they are not doing shelves right now due to the cold weather.

I'm not sure how long that is or if it's for the winter or just because this is a cold stop that we are deep freeze right now.

Um I'll also say is that um we had a discussion around that whether it comes to water, it may be not necessarily our ability to have a moratorium, but the funding and our commitment to gliwa.

Um, so if if we could get that understanding through your research, that'll be great.

Right.

Mr.

President, we will cover that after the water department insists that water has to be paid for.

So moratoriums, so to prevent that, I'm sure I I wasn't able to hear yesterday's discussion, but I've heard it before.

So I uh we will cover all of that in our response.

Okay, thank you so much, Member Callaway.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

And this is to you, Mr.

McCarthy.

But it just goes back to what um I um wrote, we wrote to you on December the 17th, a request for a memorandum, and I'm still waiting for it concerning a heat shut-off moratorium.

And the reason why I asked because there were three losses of lives on the corner of Wildemere in Seven Mile that I was there on the scene, and it was devastating to watch that house go up in flames.

And I'm not gonna share all the details here, but that's what precipitated this particular request to your office.

So I um reissue this request that you look into um uh heat off um moratorium due to the loss of life um due to for whatever reasons, um, space heaters, electrical outlets, I don't know.

But just um, especially during these troubling times in these very, very um severe um frigid temperatures.

So I'll reissue this memorandum.

Um I'll have um one of my staff members give it to you again, but I'm hoping and still waiting that um still waiting on the response to this request.

Mr.

Thank you, Mr.

Whitaker.

Okay, Mr.

President.

Yes, sir.

Uh I believe we have responded to that request.

Uh there is some difficulty asserting a moratorium over heat because it's controlled by the public service commission.

And uh I don't know whether the council has the ability.

I think I recorded indicates that you don't really have the ability to issue a moratorium in that regard.

So um, but we'd be happy to recirculate that report.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Uh Pro Tim Young, and then we're gonna allow the uh speakers that we have queued up to provide responses that we have requested from earlier.

I just want to say that was an answer question by Galloway.

And they told me that it is a moratorium in place.

Shutting off our heat until in these winter months.

They told me that directly.

Yesterday.

So I just want to let everybody know.

Thank you so much.

We shall now close out public comment.

We're not going to close out the items that we discussed in public comment.

We want to, I saw uh Deputy Director Smaller that he had joined us.

We're going to allow him to come and provide just a brief understanding.

I know there was a long conversation in committee.

Provide some additional insight for folks who may not have seen the committee to uh yesterday on water shutoffs.

The floor is yours.

Please introduce yourself for the record.

Good morning.

Sam Smalley, Deputy Director, Detroit Water Insurance Department.

Just wanted through the chair, just wanted to provide some brief information as it relates to shutoffs and frigid temperatures.

DWSD does not interrupt service when there are freezing temperatures, either current and or forecasted.

Many of our customers have boiler systems, and we want to ensure continued service.

And also the continual flow of water helps prevent freezing.

Happy to answer any other questions there may be.

Next up, Mr.

Washington, there was a concern about the uh shoveling of the or the pushing of snow by the DDOT uh bus shelters.

We have someone who can respond to what the plan is, how we're going to address that concern that was brought up before this body today.

Yes, and good morning through the chair.

If we can promote Jenny and Whitfield from DDOT as well as Alex Wetherup from GSD.

All right, we shall do so.

Let's see, Ms.

Whitfield before us.

Good morning, ma'am.

We can promote the other speaker.

Um good morning through the chair.

This is Jenny Whitfield, Chief of Staff for DDA.

So much.

We're waiting for your colleague to join as well, Ms.

Wetherop.

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

All right.

On how we are as a city uh handling the uh snow in an in an effort to ensure that those who are using our bus shelters are not either blocked out or having to um traverse over hills and and and mountains of snow and ice uh dangerously to get to their uh destination, their resting spot.

So the floor is yours, whoever would like to begin to respond.

Well, yes, first of all, thank you to this honorable body for the opportunity to speak.

Um, I would like to also take the opportunity to say thank you to our partners, uh GSD.

So uh as this honorable body and our constituents know, we have um over 5,000 bus stops.

So it is a huge hurdle daily to get to every single bus stop, but we are working and doing our best to make sure that to your point our constituents are safe and finding um means to uh get through uh snow removal um and ice and salting.

Um one of the things that we are finding uh strategies with our GSD partners to do um on the 153 shelters that they take care of um within the shelf uh within the city and uh we also have an additional partner that I'll get to uh after that um is uh working through daily, making sure they are touched when we can with uh trash removal, snow removal, ice and salt.

Um and and some of those are also being done by hand.

They are also helping us with our Zicla platforms um and making sure that those are shoveled, which are a new addition to make sure that those are safe for our constituents as well with the bus boarding platforms.

Um and then on top of that, we have an additional 120 um advertising shelters that are being handled by Brooklyn Outdoor, which is a small woman-owned minority business in the city of Detroit, or excuse me, small women-owned business in the city of Detroit that also has a crew that goes out and handles our advertising shelters on top of that, to also make sure those are being uh removed with trash, salted, um, and the snow is removed.

Um, as we talk about the additional bus stops and shelters that we are trying to implement daily on top of those, um, it is a hurdle and it is something that we are consistently working on.

I believe there was a question that was brought up regarding the ADA compliance.

Uh, we are working with FTA, and there are requirements that we must maintain on a day-to-day basis.

Um, and per the FTA, we have a requirement uh to make sure that we are putting in an effort.

When there is a right-of-way that we are responsible for, then we have to make sure that we are putting in the effort to ensure that there is a pathway for individuals that have ADA needs to be able to get there.

If we do not own that right away, then our responsibility per the FTA is to make sure that we are coordinating with the individual that does own that right-of-way to ensure that there is some type of need that is being taken care of.

So we are constantly in conversations to work through MOUs, et cetera, um with uh MDOT and with County.

Um, those have not been finalized yet, but that is something that the new administration is currently working through and we are pushing hard for to make sure that we can get those done.

Um so if we have additional questions on that, um, we are more than happy to set up meetings with offices or any of the council staff or community members to constantly talk through things that we're working on.

If there are specific communities that have concerns, if they feel that we are overlooking or missing any areas, please feel free to reach out to my office.

Every single one of you have my email address, and I will be happy to pass it out to make sure that we can get some extra effort or attention to areas that are needed.

Thank you so much for that response and going to give you an opportunity, Mr.

Withrop as well to respond.

Uh, but we have that direct connection to you.

But if there's residents uh or there's riders who have concerns about the conditions of the bus shelters, I know we have a phone number for you know, uh uh being on time and the timeliness and all those other different aspects of the bus travel.

Um, but for the bus shelter, uh, what phone number, what contact information uh should our riders utilize?

And what number can we give out to our riders if they have concerns about the conditions of the bus shelters?

Okay, so our customer service line for anyone listening uh would be 313 933 1300.

Um and I encourage anyone, um whether it's services slow, whether you have issues um where you feel unsafe, whether you would like us to look at bus stops, um, whatever your current concerns may be, um please utilize that line.

I also do not have an issue with giving my email out, as you know anyone utilizes it anyway, and I give it out on our community input meetings.

My email address is J as in Jenny, I as an Edward and is in Nancy, W as in Wale, H is in Henry, I is an IGLU, and that's at Detroit Mi.gov.

Please feel free to utilize it as necessary so we can make sure we are putting attention where it's needed, which is with the community.

Thank you so much.

And that phone number again, 313 933 130.

D dot service line.

Yes, sir.

All right, thank you.

Mr.

Rutherford, if you have anything you want to add.

Yes, thank you.

Through the chair, just wanted to piggyback on what deputy director Whitfield was mentioning about um the efforts to keep the bus shelters clear.

General Services is responsible for the bus shelters themselves, not all the stops.

Uh, but we do have five crews and we have a two shifts, um, seven to three, and then eleven to seven, and we hit our 24-hour routes first, and then we move to the higher ridership routes, and we hit every shelter every day.

Thank you.

Proto mean.

Thank you, Ms.

President.

Uh good to see you again, Ms.

Winfield's been a minute.

Uh, Ms.

Whether I'm always seeing a user.

It's good to see you anyway.

Um, I just wanted to say really quickly two things.

I just want to know one, how does a bus stop exist in an area that is not a right-of-way?

And then secondly, I wanted to ask, and I think this is more of a question for DPW, but there's new technology like heated sidewalks.

Now, this is not a stove top, it's something where it's enough to work it's it can melt the snow, but we're not talking about you know burning people permanently here.

Uh, you know, but I just want to know has that technology been in partnership or in conjunction um with the Department of Transitation in terms of these bus stops and things in nature so we can deal with the issue of this snow.

Mr.

Wether.

Um, so this is the first time I'm hearing about that type of technology, but that seems very interesting uh through the chair to Councilmember Young.

Um, thank you and hello, nice to see you as well.

Um, as someone that I know always advocates for technology, that is very interesting, and I would definitely take that back to my team and see if that's something that we can look into and hopefully ask this honorable body for some funding to go towards that.

Um, but um as far as how we look at and place shelters across the city in general, um, there is a point system that is utilized, and we are working on actually putting up a page that all of our constituents, including this honorable body, will be able to access and see.

That way they'll be able to answer those questions.

Um right now I don't have it in front of me uh as far as what is uh utilized and how it goes through FTA, but I will make sure that once that page is up and running, I will get that through Malik and uh all of the LPD um division to make sure that we can get that out to the community and share it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh member Miller.

I have a question.

The I know you said you had numerous crews out pushing snow.

Uh, do their training include where they should and should not push the snow?

Some of this seems like common sense to me.

Um, if you're pushing the snow and you know there's a bus stop and there's a mound that's three feet high.

That's just to me that you should have this an eight, something inside of you should say, well, they cannot climb over this mound.

I mean, even residents that live on busy streets like uh Charlotteville, Werner, Kirchhoff, the plows come down and they plow people driveways.

So when your driveway has three or four feet of snow, and once the ice comes down, people can't even get out of their driveways.

They call our office all the time saying they're elderly.

Do you know what it's like to pick up ice snow that's have you blocked in your driveway?

But it seemed like they would do a curve in the curve out, but they don't.

So when they're in training, is there something that talks about um homeowners that are on the streets where they're blocking their driveways as well as the bus stops?

Is this part of what they should do, or they're just out just plowing and we just have to accept it?

Mr.

Wilder.

Through the chair, uh, we don't plow the roads near them.

We uh we shovel around the actual shelters in the shelter themselves and then the path to the street where where they can get on the bus.

So DPW does the actual plowing of the street.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Uh Mr.

Washington, and I would appreciate you, Miss Whitfield, uh Deputy Director Whitfield, Mr.

Wethrop.

Uh, we also had a concern about uh finally the uh camper Stevens apartments as well as the apartment uh building that's right next to it as well, concerning their um uh elevators uh and other maintenance issues at those locations.

Uh do you have anyone available from BC who can provide us information, insight on actions, activities, even if they weren't aware up to this point, what will be taking place now that we know they're they're aware.

Yes, through the chair, if we can promote Director Bell, Director David Bell.

See if we can pull director Bell over.

And through the chair, yes, sir.

I see he's been promoted.

All right, director Bell, good uh morning.

Thank you for joining us.

Good morning, sir.

Dave Bell Director BC.

Were you advised of uh what we were discussing today?

Um, I heard that there were concerns about 1410 Washington Boulevard.

We do have inspectors en route to that location to uh look into the complaint of elevators not working.

Is there anything else that um I need to address?

Have you all how often do you do those uh inspections at uh let's just say even that location and other uh apartment buildings?

So certainly those that have seniors housing.

So um, yes, sir.

Um with senior uh housing facilities, our goal now is to make sure that we get elevator inspectors out there at least four times a year.

I can get you details on how often we have been to this location.

I will say that this building in particular has had a history of compliance, sir.

Okay.

Um uh pro Tim.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

My main management, Mr.

Bell, always good to see you, Director Bell.

Uh listen, I just wanted to ask you like, what do we need to do to have faster responses?

Because I mean, I understand you doing the best you can, but it's like every other week.

I hear somebody talking about, you know, my elevator doesn't work, every other senior citizen building, or you know, if I'm out shopping in the store or coming out the car, wash somebody jumping out at me talking about my you know, elevator doesn't work.

What do we need to do to be able to address this?

Do you need more staff?

Do you know how much that would cost?

Are there technological solutions here?

You know, can you um put sensors in the building to determine when the infrastructure needs to be repaired before it brings down so we can have faster understanding or the drone technology that we can use to inspect these builders?

Like what exactly do we need here to be more responsive?

Because a lot of these times we're having people who are CU citizens, and God forbid, you got folks who are falling down these elevator shafts, got people who are getting hurt, or who potentially could get hurt.

And so I just want to know like you know, what are what are we doing here?

Is it is is it is it an acclimation thing?

Is it staffing?

Is it a budget thing?

Is it technology thing?

Just what do we need to be able to have quicker responses?

Because we're talking about life and death situations here.

Thank you.

Through the chair to council member, council pro Tim Young.

Um, with the latest initiative uh implemented last week, I believe we will be able to address concerns.

Uh number one, we uh when the complaints come to us, we are usually out there that same day.

Um, but going forward, property maintenance inspectors will be assigned to uh monthly inspect the senior housing buildings.

Uh, we're gonna have the elevators inspect each senior building at least four times annual, which is doubling the current current ordinance requirement.

Uh there's gonna be much uh they're gonna be more collaboration between our construction elevator team and the property maintenance team on uh troubled locations.

We're gonna have tiered enforcement, including fines up to $2,000 for violations.

Um also we forwarded 99 East Forest, 1601, Robert Bradby Drive, and 430 East Warren to the law department for evaluation and legal action.

Other properties may be forwarded to law in the near future.

Um these properties that if they have major building issues, then we're gonna look at to uh get them into consent agreements so that we can move them towards compliance.

Also, we're going to have quarterly meetings with the property management representatives uh and city of Detroit officials starting this month to discuss compliance, maintenance, best practices, and and what their concerns are.

And also the the mayor has mandated that we must have a minimum of 65 senior uh buildings up to code by August, and we believe that we're gonna hit that number.

No, that's excellent.

I appreciate that.

And I also just wanted to ask you, just um, it what about the safety issue here?

Are are do you have people who are inspectors that go into buildings where they are under threat, where they are under attack?

Do we need to have policies where police officers or someone from law enforcement, you know, accompany uh these folks in some of these areas or some of these situations while they're doing their job?

Through the chair to council pro Tim Young, uh we rarely have those situations uh in rental properties, uh, and I'd say we rarely have those at all.

Um, I don't see that as being a need, but if there's ever a situation where inspector feels unsafe, we have access to reach out to DPD.

DPD is always on the spot, and we appreciate that partnership.

Good.

And then my final question is in terms of the compliance in terms of the rental registration or you know, buildings being able to register with the city.

I, you know, I heard it was a pretty dismal amount last time, a city of uh of uh companies or uh landlords or businesses that you know register with the city.

Are we going to increase that number?

And do we have or do we have a percentage and the actual number you're trying to hit?

And do you know how much that would cost?

I would just like to know, because we're going into budget season, so I like to know that we need to appropriate more money for you to be able to hit the.

I'm just really kind of trying to find out what the tools you need in order for us to increase the registration of these uh rental properties.

Because before I heard it was pretty bad.

Now they might improve since that time, but I mean, before I was hurt like it was in the single digits, like nine percent, you know, maybe 10, maybe it's more.

If so, that's fine.

Do we have a uh a plan on how much you want to increase that by and how many years it's gonna take to get there, and how much money you need to be able to get that?

Through the chair to council pro Tim Young.

Um, we are the the current number of property, the current percentage of properties in compliance is approximately 15 percent.

Um, we are meeting with the mayor's office and our project manager and to discuss uh um strategies on how to increase that.

Um, the goal is to increase it by at least 35 percent um this year, and and and uh again, we are going to that's the the current goal, but we it might increase uh based on conversations with with my boss, Andrea Taverna, and uh that we're having uh later on, either today or tomorrow, sir.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

President.

Thank you, Member McCampbell.

Thank you, Mr.

President, and through you to Director Bell, um, good afternoon.

Uh just uh if you can uh sorry if your apologies if you mentioned this, when will those monthly inspections start of the senior buildings?

Through the chair to council member McK McCampbell, they start uh this month, sir.

Okay.

And um I have a few that I will send over to you in D7.

Um our priority for sure.

Um in addition to piggyback off of Pro Tim's question around safety.

When we're thinking we're her her complaints about leaving the door open and and folks feeling unsafe and not having secure doors and such, is that under the purview of bees as well?

Is there or is there another department we should reach out to?

Through the chair to council member uh McCampbell.

If there are doors that are inoperable, that is definitely something that would come to us.

They would just call 628-2451, sir.

Thank you.

And my final question, um, not related to a senior, but since we're having the conversation about snow removal, um, this is more so about businesses because we know that around bus stops, there may be businesses that are not made um doing snow removal.

Is that something that we just wonder if you can just talk about how you all are handling, you know, having um sidewalks that are not uh plowed or anything like that by businesses?

Through the chair to council member McCampbell.

Um, this is something that we uh will investigate within 24 hours of a complaint, and um we will uh definitely reach out to those business owners and get out there and let them know that that is their responsibility.

This is something that is it's obvious.

You you're you walk past your snow as you're walking into your business.

So as far as I'm concerned, there's really no excuse for you doing what you would do in front of your house.

And so um we this is something we're gonna address in a aggressively and in a timely manner, sir.

Thank you, Director.

And if you can just say that phone number one more time for the public, so they can also help us and make sure that we identify those businesses.

Yes, sir.

6282451, 628-2451.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

I'm gonna go to you, Member Miller, but we're really quick question of piggybagging off of what member McCampbell asked.

Is that also uh the the uh compliance of the snow removal include uh parking lots of uh of the businesses and I'll say uh specifically gas stations.

I I saw this last number of uh the snowfall that we had, a number of the gas stations in the city of Detroit uh just allowed their customers to ride and walk over it without removing that snow.

And I understand that as the snow falls, it becomes more compacted, a little bit different of a situation because of the constant flow of traffic on that particular snow.

Uh, but uh I just think when I see, you know, when I see snow, uh excuse me, when I see gas stations in the suburbs, uh they don't have the same issue, and it's the same snow that falls.

So what what is that uh what's the direction that you would have for those of us who see uh gas stations in particular and other locations with their parking lots that have snow that has now been impacted because uh they've allowed the snow to just uh continue to uh be written over without removing it.

Yes, sir, Mr.

Chair, they would still call 628-2451, and we will definitely get out there and address that matter.

And that is that is again a ticketed offense to allow the stones.

Yes, sir, it is a ticketed offense, but we will give a warning.

That is the the goal.

Every chance we get to give these business owners a warning, even though you should know that you need to shovel your snow.

Um, we we will give a warning, sir.

And that warning is for how long?

Because I know there's been times where I've asked warnings sometime take 30 days or 90 days.

Not related to snow, sir.

Uh as far as we're concerned, I think it is 72 hours.

I'll double check.

Um, I'm sorry, 24 hours, sir.

Not 72, it's 24 hours.

Thank you so much.

Member Miller.

Director Bell, uh, when your staff heads out to the camp for Stevens, could you please also have them check the apartment building uh where the park LA uh bar is?

That building has not had an elevator in about three months.

And I was wondering because um in conjunction with Mr.

Whitaker, I just had a conversation with him.

We sent notifications in front of the phone here.

He wanted to know how many uh rental unit owners were not in compliance.

I heard Member Young mentioned 15%.

You just clarify it to be 30%.

That's 85% of the rental owners that are not in compliance.

Can you tell me how much is that certificate of compliance?

How much?

How much is it, ma'am?

Yes.

Um, I have to get that number for you, ma'am.

I I'll find out and and let you know.

Can you take a guess?

Is it 200, 300?

Because I'm looking at a big hefty debt owed to the city if they're not in compliance.

Um, how much is that?

How much is it?

Ma'am, that ma'am, that is through the chair.

Um that is based upon the size of the building.

Um I I will get that number for you, ma'am.

It's it's based on the inspection cost more so the reason why I'm asking there's an owner that told me he owns 5,000 units in my district, and he was upset that two ladies with single ladies with children were complaining about feces in their basement for over three months.

And he said to me that he's sorry that those slipped through the crack.

Well, I told him his 5,000 units is like 10,000 to their basements that have hit feces and sewage in their basements for months, and it's unacceptable.

So I'm saying what we're asking from our office to uh LPD is the number of owners who are not in compliance.

I know you spoke about a path going forward, but we cannot go forward till we understand what's behind us.

And behind us is owners who have not been in compliance, who have collected rent, and then all of a sudden they're throwing people out, they're taking them to court, and under our ordinance that it is not right.

And BC have the responsibility of having a third party hold their rent for them, and they're going to court.

Do you know what it's like to go to court and to have your credit ruined?

Because you're first of all, you shouldn't even be there if you're not in compliance.

You shouldn't be collecting any money.

So I am really adamant about this here.

So I'm looking forward to those numbers.

I'd like to know how many people are not in compliance.

They need a ticket like yesterday.

I know you said a 30-day warning, but they've been in compliance for over probably a year, two years, three years, four years.

That's enough warning to get it together.

So no, they need to be ticketed immediately and understand that we as a city in Detroit will not tolerate rent uh owners that is not in compliance and are saying our residents on the street.

That can happen nowhere else in in the state of Michigan but in Detroit.

So we need to go backward and let's get those numbers because I would like to see who they are.

Thank you.

So through the chair to I'm sorry.

Thank you, sir.

Through the chair to council member Miller, uh I will get you that number.

Um, I will say that we have been enforcing on rental properties in 2025 alone.

We've issued um over uh 15,000 tickets.

We have collected over 600,000 in funds for rental properties alone, um, 27,000 in tickets issued to senior buildings alone.

So we we are out there enforcing the the the number that we we are at right now is not acceptable.

We are uh working to increase compliance, but we are out there issuing tickets on a regular basis, and we are gonna step up our game.

Thank you, sir.

All right, thank you so much.

We have uh two more, and then we're gonna move on because we have a full agenda as well as a presentation.

We're gonna go first with Member Johnson who had her hand raised first and then wrap it up with member Callaway.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um good afternoon, Director Bell.

I have a question in regards to the senior buildings um in particular, and as we talked about the elevators, can you share with us whether or not you have enough staffing to address the elevators?

And I believe there is um can you talk about the difference between an elevator inspector and an elevator operator and who is actually going to the buildings to address the elevators?

Through the chair to council member Johnson.

Um, we we have enough inspectors, we have enough in the budget.

We do have two vacancies that we believe we can fill within the next 60 days.

We have um some retirees that we're thinking we're considering bringing back on.

They are um uh we're we're have we'll be having a um what do you call that a um uh uh a meeting with the union to uh to to work on that, but uh unfortunately we are uh we and the construction industry are looking or trying to hire the same people.

And so that's that's something that's that has been a factor um for years now, but we are working on a solution to our problem that we believe that is uh bringing back some retirees, and I will say that we are having inspector elevator inspectors go out to these uh facilities.

They are not elevator operators, they they may have been elevator operators at one time, but these folks are elevator inspectors, ma'am.

Okay, thank you.

And they are all unionized.

Um, all of our all of our FTEs are unionized.

Yes, ma'am.

Okay.

Um, so can we talk about escalating a ticket?

So I know you indicated that there were three buildings that you were looking to get into an a consent agreement for.

I think there are many times that we see repeat offenders that come before us, and there's not much that's being done to actually resolve the issue.

How are we addressing repeat offenders just in general?

Whether we're talking about residential property landlords, um, senior buildings, multi-unit complexes, whatever may be the case, because at the end of the day, we're talking about quality of life issues, and we are also trying to um be sure that residents feel heard that they are able to stay within their complex, or if they have to move, we know we have a housing shortage.

So, how are what are we able to do within your department that ensures that these properties are actually being addressed and not just being ticketed?

Through the chair, the council member Johnson.

If there's a situation where we feel that uh ticketing is not effective, we are going to escalate it to the law department.

Um, if you have specific properties uh that you would like us to investigate, I'd be more than happy to look into it.

But in general, we we escalate what we feel is necessary uh to go to the law department, ma'am.

Okay, thank you for that.

That'll be part of my question to corporation counsel.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

And wrapping up this portion of the formal session, uh, will be a member caliber.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Mine is real brief.

Um, good afternoon.

Um Mr.

Bell.

Good afternoon, ma'am.

Thank you for always um being so responsive in less than 24 hours every time uh my office calls you.

I'm gonna give you one address, and I'm hoping you can send your inspectors back over there.

17300 Southfield Road, the Green House Senior Building.

Um problematic um with the elevator and the heat.

That's it for me.

Thank you, Mr.

Bell.

Yes, ma'am, thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, and thank you, Director Bell.

We will certainly be in touch.

Thank you, sir.

All right, colleagues.

Uh, without uh objection, would like to allow Pro Tim Young to uh an opportunity for his presentation.

Uh again, please keep in mind that we do have a close session at 2 30, and we have our full agenda that we have yet to um go through at this point.

Yes, president.

I'll make sure I can be brief.

Thank you.

Uh for Mr.

Michael Cunningham, I just want to say again, thank you, Ms.

President, for this point of privilege.

Mr.

Cunningham, can you please come on to the podium, please, sir?

Mr.

President, we presented Mr.

Cunningham last Thursday, January 29th, 2026 at 1 p.m.

at the neighborhood and community service standing committee, the following items for the D D dot bus riders.

These are the following items.

315 fruit flavored lit bombs, vent chat lips, a hundred pair of large socks, a hundred pair of extra large socks, a hundred and fifty pairs of large hand warmers, a hundred beanie hats with 100 matching scars, and 60 pairs of bright colored gloves with touch screen ability.

Today, on February the 3rd, 2026, it is my honor and privilege to present the remaining items to Mr.

Cunningham for the D dot bus riders.

300 pairs of gloves, 50 pairs of hats, and 100 pairs of socks.

Yeah, thank you.

And these items were not here yet.

I just want to say to Mr.

Cunningham, thank you so much for all the work that you do.

And thank you, Mr.

President, for allowing me this point of privilege.

Thank you.

Just want to say thank you.

Um through the chair.

Uh the people they remember these from last time with the tips on them.

They can use their phones as they uh tell you, I was out there giving last Saturday, giving folks uh in conjunction with Miss Tina.

Uh we had bananas, uh food bags, and in your items that we were giving out.

And it was just so cold while I was doing it in less than 10 minutes.

I could feel the tips of my fingers.

I jumped back in the car, put hand warmers on, and then put my gloves on.

And um is it's the time, it's the perfect time to help these help folks.

Um and even though I have them asking everyone under the sound of my voice, buy some bus tickets and give it to the people, buy some hand warmers, give it to the people, buy some gloves, give it to the people directly.

The people that I can't reach, you can reach.

And I have to say it three times, like I like to say thanks.

Thank you, Mr.

Pro Tem.

Thank you, Mr.

Pro Tem.

Thank thank you, Mr.

Pro Tim.

I appreciate you, and the people appreciate you.

And um, let's love let's love on each other and so the divisive desk.

Um thank you, uh all the council persons, and just want to take a one quick second thanking D dot for listening to a PI and other peons as regards to warming coaches, walling buses.

If they were gonna do it anyway, great.

But everybody, no matter if you think they're not listening or they think they don't care, keep doing it, stay persistent, and I've been doing it over a decade.

And one day and some days they do listen.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, brother.

And thank you, uh Pro Tim as well for your uh generosity and your thoughtfulness as we move forward in this uh presentation.

Uh uh, Member Kelly.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair, and Mr.

Cunningham.

Thank you for all of your service.

Um, and um, we have a box of hand warmers for you, and I want to make sure you get them before you leave since you have a cart.

You can get to your car, so we'll make sure that my staff gives you the box before you leave.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, Mr.

Cunningham.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you again for all your service and work, Brother Cunningham.

Appreciate it.

All right, all right, colleagues.

Um Madam Clerk understanding committee reports for the budget finance and audit standing committee from the office of the city clerk city planning commission.

Council member McCampbell, a resolution line item 16.1.

Uh member McKenna.

Motion to approve line item 16.1.

There's a motion to approve line item 16.1, colleagues.

Any objections?

See none, that action shall be taken.

For internal operations standing committee from the mayor's office, madam clerk.

Council member Whitfield Callaway, 11 resolutions.

Line items 17.1 through 17.11.

Uh member Callaway stepped away, Madam Clerk.

Okay, Mr.

President.

Um be the Vice Chair.

Councilmember Miller, 11 resolutions, line items 17.1 through 17.11.

Approved.

There's a motion to approve line items 17.1 through 17.11, colleagues.

Discussion.

With discussion, member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Mr.

Chair.

Um, I believe line items 17.1 through 17.

I didn't look at it.

Yep, I didn't look at it.

I apologize.

Been running on this morning.

Back to Kirk.

We need to come back in one week.

So I'd like to make a motion to postpone line items 17.1 through 17.5.

There's a motion to postpone the vote for one week.

Also, can we do 17.10 and 17.11 as well?

Uh move to postpone line item 17.1 through 17.5 as well as 17.10.

We actually are going to have that special session on Thursday.

So if we can get it moved to the special session on Thursday.

So move, Mr.

Chair.

Sorry, Dr.

Powell.

No problem.

Mr.

President.

Hold on.

Let me let me state the motion first.

There's a motion to uh send all of the names line line items 17.1 through 17.5 as well as 17.10 and 17.11 to the special session with discussion.

Um Mr.

Whitaker.

Uh Ms.

President.

Yes, sir.

I I came to the mic because you left 17.11 off the first time, but while I'm here, do you intend to vote on Thursday or what you okay?

Yes, sir.

So the the uh notice will so reflect.

Okay, thank you.

And for those who are watching, uh, this is the confirmation hearing for the seven individuals that are being put forward by the mayor's office that uh require city council approval again.

That will be this Thursday at 2 30 p.m.

in the committee of the whole.

Okay, all right.

So we still have a few items in their uh line item 17.6 17.7 17.8 17.9.

Those are items that are still live, colleagues.

Any objections?

Seeing none, those items shall be approved.

Uh from the Office of Contracting and Procurement, Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Miller, a resolution line item 17.12, contract number 6007 four-five three-a-one, 100% city funding, amendment one to provide an extension of time and an increase of funds for legal services.

Original contract was an emergency purchase, contractor Brooks, Wilkins, Sharkey, and Turkle PLC, total contract amount 150,000, and that's for law.

Council member Miller, a resolution.

Thank you so much, Member Miller.

There's a motion to approve line item 17.12.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken from the law department, clerk.

Council member miller, 13 resolutions, line items 17.13 through 17.25.

Member Miller, line item 17.13 through line item 17.25.

Motion to approve.

So motion to approve the items, line items again 17.13 through 17.25.

Any objections?

Objection, member Santiago Romero.

Objection to 17.20, 17.22, and 17.24.

Then noted, madam clerk.

I have that, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Thank you.

See no further objections.

Those items are approved.

Under resolutions, madam clerk.

Council member Miller.

Three resolutions, line items.

Member uh member called this.

Sorry about that.

Council member Whitfield Calloway.

Six resolutions, line items 17.26 through 17.31.

Member Callan.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Uh motion to approve.

Um couple of these are for the extablishments of task forces and the establishment of a new one.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

I like there's a motion for approval for line items 17.26 through 17.31 with discussion, Mr.

Whitaker.

Yes.

Um because 1730.31 is a removal.

Um, we would ask that you take that matter up first before you vote, particularly on 7.29, because there's the same same position, and so you have to remove one before you can put someone in that position.

So 17.31 is first, then we can do the others.

So member calloway, can we uh uh restate the motion for line item 17.31 first.

Okay, so for line item 30, um 17.31 motion to remove uh Maria Mohammed from the property tax border review.

Motion to approve that item motion to approve.

There's a motion to approve line item 17.31, colleagues.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Member Callaway?

Yeah, thank you, Mr.

Chair, and um approve line item 17.29, the appointment of Julie Castone to the property tax border review.

The motion to approve line item 17.29.

Any objection, colleagues?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Member Callaway.

And um, I think that's it, not unless we're doing 17.30, the um reappointment of Todd Taylor to the entertainment commission.

No, we we did not approve line item seven because we restated the motion.

We did dealt with 17.31 first, okay, then 17.29.

So those other items are still active.

17.26 through 17.30.

Is there a motion?

Motion to approve, sir.

There's a motion to approve line items 17.26 through 17.30, colleagues.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Uh believe that's it.

Okay.

Under resolutions, madam clerk.

Council member miller, three resolutions.

Line item 17.32 through 17.34.

Member Miller, line item 17.32 through line item 17.34, please.

I'll make a motion for Ty Taylor for the entertainment commission appointment up.

Just are you either approval or approve a motion to approve?

All three though.

Yes, all three.

For let me to read them out.

Okay.

There's a motion to approve line item 17.32 through line item 17.34.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Under resolutions, madam clerk.

Council member Johnson, a resolution line item 17.35.

Thank you so much.

Uh member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Move for approval.

Um actually, Mr.

Chair, uh, move for a discussion.

Um discussion for line item 17.35.

Thank you.

Um through you to the clerk.

Uh, I I'd actually like to amend this to add member Santiago Romero.

Clerk will sell note that Mr.

President.

All right, thank you.

Any objection to the uh amendment, colleagues.

See none, that action shall be taken.

Member uh with discussion, member excuse pro tem yeah.

And forgive me for being a little bit azimuned here, but I just want to make sure I'm not on any of these task forces, right?

Well, we're just dealing with line item 17.35.

I was only talking for the ones that passed or the ones that we vote on.

I'm not on any of these, right?

I I can't tell you.

Oh yeah, I yeah, I may answer that.

I just want to make sure I was no, I'm gonna wake up tomorrow.

We include that.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

Umson, line item 17.35 as amended.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Move for approval as amended.

This is to re-establish the equitable development task force.

Thank you so much.

There's a motion to approve line item 17.35 as amended.

Seeing no objections, that action shall be taken for the planning and economic development standing committee from the office of contracting and procurement.

Council member Johnson, two resolutions.

Line items seven eighteen point one and eighteen point two.

Contract number six zero zero seven six one eight, one hundred percent city funding to provide home repair loan program design consulting services, contractor, the ownership initiative consulting LLC total contract amount 108,000.

That's for housing and revitalization.

Contract number 6007573.

So lease agreement to rent 931 seldom as a construction staging area for development of 900 to Schola contractor Manaha Proceda LLC.

The rent for this contract is 500 per month.

That's for planning and development.

Council member Johnson, two resolutions.

Thank you so much.

Uh member Johnson, line items 18.1 and 18.2.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Move for approval on line items 18.1 and 18.2.

I think this is a motion for approval on line items 18.1 and 18.2.

Any objections?

Discussion with discussion, member calloway.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Just um, is there anyone here from I guess it would be um HRD?

Just I was listening to the discussion last week on this particular line item 18.2.

How was the 500 arrived at?

I mean, is that market value for that property?

I know um I know the city owns it.

I know it's just for temporary staging purposes, but when I saw the 500 figure, I just kind of thought that's kind of low in my estimation, but I don't know that much about how um these lease agreements are entered or negotiated.

But um, I just kind of want to know is this the market rate?

Because that's that's very, very low.

And and how long are they going to be using the property?

And then are there before and after pictures?

Because is this just for a vacant lot?

So if there's anyone on from planning and development or HRD.

We can get somebody for you.

Uh Mr.

Washington, who do you have for us in line?

Through the chair, if we can promote John Trong, JP Mansoff, and Peter Proceda.

Okay, promote those three individuals.

Good afternoon, uh to uh council president uh Tate uh to council member uh Whitfield Callaway.

Could you repeat uh the the last one of the questions?

I caught the first half, but uh my computer goes blacked out when uh when it transfers us.

We're gonna give your your colleague an opportunity to introduce himself as well.

Can you see yourself on the screen?

Please introduce yourself for the record.

Uh good afternoon, JP Mansoul, uh Central Region Development Director in Housing and Revitalization.

Hi, this is Peter Precida from Monaghan Preseda.

Afternoon.

Member Caleb, will you please restate the question?

Yeah, thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Yes, I just want to know how was the $500 rate um arrived at, and then also what is the size of the lot?

And does the city, I guess the city owns the lot?

And also um, do we have before pictures?

Because sometimes after a construction company um has used city property, there's been some damage.

I can only speak to what's happened in district two.

There's been some damage to some properties that when construction um when they put the cranes out there, the large equipment, they cause damage and they just leave it.

And if the residents or if I don't say anything, it just it doesn't get repaired.

So do we have before and after pictures so we can make sure that we hold uh Mr.

I guess Mr.

Posito, Monaghan Procedo, LLC uh responsible if there's any damage to the property, what is the size of the lot, and is this a fair market rate per month?

It seems to be low to me.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Those are my questions.

As to the pricing, uh, this project is a supportive um construction staging for uh a city sponsored project.

Generally, as to uh the pricing for us for lots are you typically see around 500 to 2,000 a month, just depending on the size.

Uh, this is just a portion of the lot for 931 Seldon.

The total square footage on that is uh 42,000 square feet.

I think this is only about half of that.

Um, as to um, I think there was another question as to before and after uh a portion of this lot right now is rented to invest Detroit um for their activities for uh construction at the the school across the street for that project as well.

Uh long term as well, the current uh or assuming this contract gets approved, uh the tenant actually is going to be the future redeveloper of this site, it's under contract, but we are the owners of the site uh as it stands right now until that deal closes.

And I don't know if I missed any other questions, I apologize.

Come through the chair.

No, you got them all, but you're saying the this the square footage is 21,000 square feet and for 500.

How how long is the contract for?

The least it is uh scheduled to go until October 28th to meet um to fit with the construction schedule.

I'm sorry, through the chair, I didn't hear you, sir.

What did you say from October of 2026 through uh it goes until October 2028 for two years?

Yep.

And through the chair to yourself, is it total access?

Is it certain hours?

Because that's for $500 a month.

That's not a lot of money for 21,000 square feet of property.

And I know I know it's not, but why not 2,000?

Why 500?

How is that rate arrived at?

And we're talking 21,000 square feet of property that this company will have.

Is it limited access to unlimited access?

I just didn't see it.

Is it unlimited seven days a week?

Is it limited certain hours?

How does that work?

Through the chair to yourself, Mr.

Trong.

Uh yes, they would have uh unlimited access to it.

Um they are bound by you know construction schedules um that are regulated by the city.

All right, hopefully, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, hopefully have some before and after pictures.

I'm just gonna take a trip over there and see because that's a lot of square footage for just $500 a month.

Um, you know, we need money around here, and that doesn't seem like that's a fair rate for the city for the developer, yes, but not for us.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, Mr.

Trong.

Thank you.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um Mr.

Trong, uh, can you can you share um if you know what percentage of the lot is being utilized by Invest Detroit for parking?

I I do not want to misspeak.

Um, I I do want to go back and review that.

It's approximately 60 percent of the lot is currently utilized for parking by Invest Detroit.

We're we're taking the other uh the balance of it, so you know, 30, 40 percent.

Thank you.

And I know um last week when we discussed this, it was indicated that this will become part of the project that um we're using for staging currently.

Has the department already identified a sale price?

Whoever can respond.

I would have to go back to the details.

I don't know if JP Mansoff you've got uh the overview on the deal sheet for the future phase.

Yeah, I'd have to go back and look at the purchase agreement um to get the exact pricing.

Okay, um, Mr.

Chair, I would like to uh move to postpone line item 18.2 to the end of the agenda.

Thank you.

Uh we'll like there's a motion to postpone line item 18.2 to the end of the agenda to allow those individuals to just provide a response to uh colleagues.

Any objections?

Seeing none, we should postpone 18.2 until the end of the agenda that action shall be taken.

Line item 18.1 again, colleagues.

Um, it has been moved for approval.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Mr.

Chair, I'd like to request a waiver for a line item 18.1.

As a request for a waiver on line item 18.1.

Any objections?

Seeing none, a waiver shall be attached.

Member Miller.

Mr.

Chair, I'd like to ask for a waiver for 17.29 and 17.31.

As a request for waivers on line items 17.31 and 17.29.

Any objection, colleagues?

Seeing none, those action shall be taken.

Thank you.

Madam Clerk from the City Planning Commission.

Councilmember Johnson in introduction of an ordinance.

Line item 18.3.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Line item 18.3 is to amend chapter 50 of the 2019 Detroit City Code zoning by amending article 17, zoning district maps, section 50-17-49, district map number 47 to revise the zoning classification for a parcel generally bound by Richton Street to the north, Patoski Avenue to the west, Dwayne Street to the south, and Homer Street to the east, commonly known as 4094 Dwayne Street from the R2 district, two family residential zoning classification to the SD1 Special Development District, small scale mixed use zoning classification.

I move that the ordinance be read twice by title, order printed and laid on the table.

Thank you so much.

Colleagues, any objections?

Seeing none, line item 18.3 has been approved.

From the city planning commission, madam clerk.

Councilmember Johnson, a resolution sending the public hearing, line item 18.4.

Line item 18.4, Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Move for approval to set the public hearing for a date to be determined.

There's a motion to approve line item 18.4 for day to be determined.

Any objections?

See none.

That action shall be taken.

From the city planning commission, I'm clerk.

Council Member Johnson and introduction of an ordinance.

Line item 18.5.

Thank you so much.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh line item 18.5 is to amend chapter 50 of the 2019 Detroit City Code zoning by amending Article 17, zoning district maps, section 50-17-48.

District map number 46 to revise the zoning classification for certain properties generally bound by an alley to the east, residential homes to the north, 15th Street to the west, and Marquette Street to the south, commonly known as 6106 15th Street, 6116 15th Street, 6122 15th Street, 6128 15th Street, 6134 15th Street, 6140, 15th Street, and 6146 15th Street from the existing R2 2 Family Residential Zoning Classification to the R3 Low Density Residential District zoning class classification.

Mr.

Chair, I move that the ordinance be read twice by title, order printed and laid on the table.

Thank you so much.

Line of 18.5 has been moved for approval.

Any objections, colleagues?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Madam Clerk from the City Planning Commission.

Councilmember Johnson, a resolution set in the public hearing, line item 18.6.

Line item 18.6, uh member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Move for approval to set the public hearing for a date to be determined.

There's a motion to approve line item 18.6 for a date to be determined.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

From the city planning commission, madam clerk.

Councilmember Johnson, an introduction of an ordinance, line item 18.7.

So much, Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Line item 1818.

Is to amend chapter 50 of the 2019 Detroit City Code zoning by amending Article 17.

Zoning District Maps, Section 50-17-9, District Map number eight to revise the zoning classifications for certain properties generally bound by Melbourne Street to the north, Oakland Avenue to the east, Mount Vernon Street to the south, and Kingsley Street to the west.

Commonly known as 656 and 662, Melbourne Street.

From the existing R3 low density residential district zoning classification to the B4 General Business District zoning classification.

I move that the ordinance be read twice by title, order printed and laid on the table.

Thank you so much.

Line item 18.7 has been moved for approval, colleagues.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

From the city planning commission, clerk.

Council member Johnson, a resolution set in the public hearing.

Line item 18.6.6 member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Move for approval to set the public hearing for a date to be determined.

I believe that's 18.8.

18.8.

Yes.

There's a motion to approve line item 18.8 for a day to be determined.

Any objections?

See none.

That action shall be taken.

For the public health and safety standing committee from the Office of Contracting and Procurement.

Council Member Santiago Romero, seven resolutions, line items 19.1 through 19.7.

Contract number 3088925.

100% blight funding to provide an emergency demolition for the commercial property.

14441 West McNichols.

Contractor inner city contracting LLC.

Total contract amount 25,800.

Construction and demolition.

Contract number 308 9299, 100% blight funding to provide an emergency demolition for the commercial property.

4420 St.

Alban.

Contractor intercity contracting LLC.

Total contract amount 73,500.

100% blight funding to provide an emergency demolition for the commercial property.

7089 Michigan.

Contract number 3089527, 100% blight funding to provide an emergency demolition for the commercial property.

11780 Ohio Contractor Adamo Demolition Company.

Total contract amount 292,655.

That's for construction and demolition.

Line item 19.5.

Contract number 308 9760, 100% blight funding to provide an emergency demolition for the commercial property.

115 Harper Contractor Intercity Contracting LLC.

Total contract amount 29,000.

That's construction and demolition.

Contract number 3089764, 100% blight funding to provide an emergency demolition for the commercial property.

12751 Harper.

Contractor Intercity Contracting LLC.

Total contract amount 28, 850 dollars.

That's construction and demolition.

Last contract is contract number 6007531.

CDBGDR funding to provide traffic signal connectivity and backup power services.

Contractor Motor City Electric Utilities.

Total contract amount 9 million.

CIOGS, and that's for public works.

Councilmember Santiago Romero, seven resolutions.

Thank you so much.

Line items 19.1 through 19.7.

Member Santiago Romero.

Motion to approve.

There's a motion to approve line items 19.1 through 19.7, colleagues.

Any with discussion, member McCampin.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I just want to bring up Thomas that made in PHS.

I understand uh many of these um these demolition emergency demolitions were going recess and such.

I do hope as we're moving forward that um demolitions moving forward go through the regular process.

Um, so we can vet them as necessary.

So I just wanted to lift that up on that.

Thank you so much.

Guys, any further line items 19.1 through 19.7.

Seeing none, those items shall be approved from the building safety and engineering and environmental department, madam clerk.

Mr.

President, this item was reported out of committee yesterday, and it should have been a concur with departmental findings.

Okay, what's the uh move on that?

This is a new one for me.

I haven't heard that one before.

Pardon me, Mr.

President.

Oh, we will get a motion to concur.

Sorry, can we get a motion to concur with the departmental findings?

Motion.

Thank you.

From there's a motion, seeing no objections that action shall be taken from the office of the chief financial officer, office of development and grants.

Council member Santiago Romero, three resolutions, line items 19.9 through 19.11.

Line items 19.9 through 19.11.

Member Santiago Remember.

Thank you, Mr.

President's motion to approve 19.9 through 19.11.

These are all various grants.

There's a motion to approve line items 19.9 through 19.11.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Request a waiver, Mr.

President, on all items.

It's a request for a waiver on line items 19.9 through 19.11.

Any objections?

Seeing none, waiver shall be attached.

From the general services department, madam clerk.

Councilmember Santiago Romero, a resolution line item 19.12.

Line 19.12, Member Santiago Romero.

Motion to approve.

It's a motion to approve line item 19.12, colleagues.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

From the Department of Public Works, City Engineering Division.

Councilmember Santiago Romero, six resolutions, line items 19.13 through 19.18.

Thank you so much.

Member Santiago Romero.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Motion to approve.

These are all various petitions for vacations or approachments.

There's a motion to approve line items 19.13 through 19.18.

Any objections?

Discussion, Mr.

Chair.

With discussion, uh member Johnson.

So line item 19.17.

We had some questions about it.

Um and have not yet received a response from the department.

So I'd actually like to move to bring line item 19.17 back to postpone line item 19.17 for one week.

There's a motion to postpone the vote for line item 19.17 for one week.

Any objection, colleagues?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Are there any other objections or discussion on the remaining items, colleagues?

Seeing none, those items shall be approved.

Mr.

President.

Uh member McCampbell.

Oh, my apologies.

If we could just note an objection for myself on 19.7.

Uh 19.7, sir.

Yes, yes, sir.

Great.

Leave we're gonna have to re reconsider the vote on that one.

Already we did.

Uh-huh.

All right.

Got it.

We got to reconsider.

Yep.

Would you like to reconsider the vote for line item?

What was that again, sir?

Uh 19.7.

Colleagues, there's a request for motion to reconsider the vote for line item 19.7.

Any objections?

Mr.

President, another term.

Sorry.

Not an objection to the reconsideration.

Sorry about that.

With this any discussion.

Seeing none.

Right.

That action shall be taken.

Line item 19.7, colleagues.

Can we get a motion for approval?

Motion.

There's a motion to approve line item 19.7.

Uh, with this uh, there's a motion to approve line item 19.7 with discussion.

Uh member uh pro tem young.

Um I don't mean to put member McCampbell on the spot, but so I apologize.

I'm just I'm just trying to, I'll just try to get it.

I but correct me if I'm wrong.

I'm assuming that part of the reason why you have opposition is because the way it was just collecting data.

Yes.

And what that data is being used for.

So could I just wanted to say I understand that?

And I think that's a significant thing.

I know the Psyogs ordinance has specific prohibitions in terms of that data not being able to be used for the private sector, not being able to use for ice and that aspect as well as because it can't be used for that.

It can be used.

I mean, you know, I'm not saying this is a little bit John Rachel here on everybody said, but if you wanted to basically the contractual aspects of it, it could be used to set up a private surveillance day.

That's not what they're doing with this or social credit scores they have in China, where you know, basically uh based on your you know your uh behavior, your banned for certain services, your banned for certain things.

We're not there yet.

I'm not trying to convince you one way or another.

I'm just telling I'll just say I understand there's a lot of need for improvement there.

I also think the issue of predictive policing, even though I personally don't have a problem with that.

I can understand what other people could, because it's kind of like a minority report type situation in terms of predicting what people would do before that's actually happened.

You can also use this data in terms of you know determining good things in terms of health care in terms of uh where hospitals need to be built, in terms of fixing roads.

Uh, you can also use the determines of if you want to the data terms of where prisons should be built and the traffic in terms of how to have as well.

So there's a lot of ways in which this data can be used.

So I think we're having those discussions as we move forward.

I support this the way that it's written because a lot of what we're talking about is banned.

There's some things I would actually like to be able to open up a discussion that we should use.

It is also part of the smart city process.

I don't think we're there yet.

I don't think this uses artificial intelligence.

I don't think we're building a digital infrastructure yet, or using this in terms of you know, um, the internet of things we have you know, machine to machine connection talking to each other yet, but I think it's part of that process.

So I just want to say I understand where you're going.

I'm for it because of that.

I just want to make sure I think that's in where you're going, and I understand why you build this item.

Thank you.

There's a motion again for approval for line item 19.7, colleagues.

Any objections?

Objection.

Madam Clerk, if you can note that we have one objection um by member McCampbell.

Clerk will so note, Mr.

President.

Thank you so much.

Seeing that there's no other additional uh objections, that action shall be taken.

Under resolutions, madam clerk, line item 19.19.

Mr.

President, this line item was walked on previously in a formal session on January the 13th and was approved.19 from the agenda.

See no objections, we shall remove line item 19.19 from the agenda.

That action shall be taken.

We'll now move on to the request to speak before city council.

Council member McCampbell, a resolution noting that this line item was postponed from last week.

Formal session, line item 20.1.

Thank you so much.

Line item 20.1.

This is petition of Mr.

Wayne Ramakan.

Uh request to speak before the city council in regards to seek uh council support for reforming unfair practices by the Wayne County Treasurer's Office.

Member McCamp.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair or Mr.

President.

I on this uh line item or well for discussion on this.

With discussion.

On this line item, I know we had um asked for a breakdown from LPD on Mr.

Chandler, but also Mr.

Uh Ramakan, but I don't think we've gotten that yet.

Yes, sir.

Uh Mr.

Whitaker, I know you you did provide a write-up.

I believe these write-ups uh were provided this morning.

If I'm not mistaken, and I know for a fact one of them, but I don't know both of them.

Again, just catching up to speed.

Um I took it from last week that we were only responding to Mr.

Chandler's.

So we didn't provide a writing on this petition.

I don't know if law did or not, but but we only provided one on the the item that follows this one.

I was under the impression we're gonna do both of them.

Uh just to I didn't understand that.

Okay.

So we didn't provide a response, so you can postpone it another week and we'll do that.

That was going to be my request.

Colleagues, can we get a postponement uh for one week on line item 20.1, please?

To allow for LPD to uh provide a write-up.

Okay.

the the the item that follows this one i was under the impression we want to do both of them uh just to i didn't understand that okay so we didn't provide a response so you can postpone it another week and we'll do that that was going to be my request colleagues can we get a postponement uh for one week on line item 20 point one please to allow for lpd to uh provide a write up sure there's a motion to postpone line item 21.1 for one week to allow uh for write up on line for a line item 20 point one see no objections that action shall be taken colleagues can we give the uh assignment uh to conduct the write up for line item 20 point one to lpd and law motion discussion there's a motion with discussion uh pro timelo yes um i just wanted to ask um this whitaker i appreciate you know your thoughtfulness and willingness to write this up but this to me seems more like an issue that's more if it's this 20 this is 20.1 correct this even more like this issue that's more um prevalent to wayne county i mean i i i don't feel that we should we're in a position to be commenting on the business of wing county and vice versa so i i just want to understand why are we writing this up shouldn't we just not be dealing with this this they're just not dealing with it at all uh mr would i think the i think the same comment could be made for both of these petitions uh okay but the the i think your rules allow for for writing to assist you and it's a matter of courtesy is is what i said last week that you want to respect the petitioner and give them the benefit of the entirety of your rule in that regard so not that you should take a lot of time up with it requirements are and I think the rule has it going to law but I think we'd be happy as I indicated last week to to uh to undertake it if you choose so we'd be happy to do the writing that you suggested now correct me if I present me out now correct me if I'm wrong I just thought that uh line on 20.2 is more relevant because they're actually talking about city government and city business in terms of the charter and what have you whether you want to support it or not is something completely different I'm not telling people one way or the other I just matter it was more uh pertinent because it's actually talk about the city government rather than what we're talking about here is more about stuff from the Wayne County Treasurer that's something that should be had over right with Wayne County they have you know I'm assuming they got public comment ways which you could do that over there that that's that was all I was trying to get so and I'm done I 100% agree I think the the the the what we're what we're trying to do is establish a cadence uh for these items so we don't pick and choose we don't cherry pick which ones to send so we're I think the tone and tenor from the body was that we send all of them forward to get a write up to ensure that uh again we're not cherry picking those and we don't have anyone saying we like this person we don't like that person like they as fair and transparent as possible so uh again college there are a motion I believe I heard a motion to send yes you uh any objection to uh the motion for an assignment uh for a write up to uh the law department for uh line item 20 point one seeing none that action shall be taken and again uh attorney anderson we are we did postpone this for one week so uh hopefully you'll have this write up for this body uh in one week towards to uh make a decision on this item through the chair through the Chair Grand Anderson law department we did an internal review of this and we see no reason as to why there'd be anything legally that would prevent admissibility of this conversation for moving forward I think it would be up to this body to determine the weight um if that's something that they consider worth your time and relevant enough to consider but our internal review we found nothing that would legally bar these issues from being discussed at the table.

Thank you so much thank you all right um clerk we would now move on to the second request to speak before council so Mr.

President um before we get to that line item so for point of clarity line item 20 point one is to remain postponed for one week yes ma'am thank you council member whitfield calloway a resolution noting that this line item was postponed from last week formal session line item 20 point two clerk member with calloway has uh removed ourselves from the table oh I'm sorry council member miller a resolution noting that this line item was postponed from last week formal session thank you line item 20 point two thank you line item 20 point two member miller this was uh this is the petition of James Chandler to request to speak before Detroit City Council regarding petition to discuss incorporating a proposal into Detroit city law and it's potential incorporation of the Detroit city charter a motion to discuss please motion to discuss there's a motion to discuss line item 20 point two mr whitaker I do know that you did provide a response on this particular item yes sir we we did and as we indicate in our response um the petition is rather expansive but also extremely vague and it covers issues far beyond the ability of council to to address either through its charter ordinance or otherwise and although we um we do not think it would be a tremendous use of your time we do um

And as we indicate in our response, um the petition is rather expansive but also extremely vague.

And it covers issues far beyond the ability of council to address either through its charter ordinance or otherwise.

Speaking, I don't think there's anything legally prohibiting you, but we do know that the issues asked or requested to speak on greatly accede your authority.

Okay.

Uh Mr.

Whitaker, if if this body does indeed decide to uh honor the request uh outside of public comment, everyone has an opportunity for public comment just for the record, uh, but for this additional uh time uh that uh will be pulled outside of public comment.

I got a couple of questions, just again for the record, so everyone understands is there a certain time limit that that individual shall receive uh if provided that opportunity, it's up to the chair.

Okay.

Um the other is if this body does approve uh either one of these um requests as we move forward.

Uh is there a particular entity uh committee or the full body uh during formal session or closed session, however, we would determine is there a um clear indicator of where this speaker would have an opportunity to speak before the body.

I I think the rule, this rule, as you know, was addressed at at your last meeting of the last term.

Uh uh, so the change in the rule gave the authority to your body to direct, do it go to uh the standing committee, or does it stay in the in the committee of the whole uh doing formal session?

So that would be determined by your vote.

Okay, and again, colleagues, that's not one in particular that is all of the uh request to speak uh outside of uh general public comment.

Yes, president further discussion, member Miller.

I have a question.

Um, since this seemed to be fairly new, what authority does the council have to support or advocate for any type of reforms?

Considering we don't know what this person wants to address, even though not specifically, specific practices you want to address.

Mr.

Whitaker, um Mr.

President, I think it would you know you can always ask the petitioner for for more clarity.

We couldn't really determine exactly where it was going with some of the the uh expressions made in the petition, and certainly you could ask for more clarity.

Um we could send a message through you can ask us to send a message to the petitioner for more clarity if you choose, but I think given the nature of the discussion, uh it would it would greatly seed maybe the parliamentarian, you can speak to it, uh parliamentary.

Um under the uh rules that became effective January the first, 2026, there's uh additional requirements when the petitioner requests to speak before council.

There's um, for example, um the petitioner shall include a paragraph stating their standing andor interest in the subject matter, the relief, and the issue associated with each petition request.

I think that was uh that addressed your question.

Um council member, yes, sir.

Is there more there's more if you want me to read the rest of it?

Okay, with further colleagues, any further discussion?

Okay.

Um is there a motion for line item 20.2 motion to do what, sir.

What is the motion?

I'm asking I'm asking if there was a motion to approve, is there a motion to move forward?

Is there a motion?

Okay, motion move forward, I'll follow that.

There's a motion to approve line item 20.2 with discussion with discussion.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Would it go to IOS for that discussion if it is approved?

Mr.

President.

I think I think the motion for clarity should specify where you want it to go.

So if you if you're gonna approve the petition, question is do you approve it for remaining before the entire body?

Or do you approve it going to the committee?

So we will do the approval first, though.

I didn't make that determination, correct?

Either, either way.

Okay.

Colleagues, that's why I want to first know what that action would be on the item.

There's a motion for approval for line item 20.2 with further discussion.

If colleagues want to move it to committee, if colleagues want to have it here with further discussion, or if colleagues want to move forward on the vote today.

I can't move.

Motion to move the committee.

Discussion with further discussion.

So there's a motion to move uh line item 20 to approve and move line item 20.2 to committee with discussion.

Member Johnson.

Thank you.

Um, Mr.

Chair, through you to Pro Tim, since Pro Tim moved it to committee.

Um, I'm wondering which committee, because there are so many different items that are included within the request.

Which committee are we proposing motion to motion to move to motion to approve, move line item 20.2 to neighborhood community services standing committee.

So there's two motions that uh I've been corrected.

We have to do separately.

So first we shall there is a motion to uh approve this item for a discussion before city council.

Any objections?

See none, then action shall be taken.

There's a further uh another motion that has been made.

Uh member pro tem if you can restate the motion to send to motion to move line item 20.2.

No, no, motion to approve line item 20.2, move it to neighborhood community service standing committee.

There's a motion to send line item 20.2 to formal, excuse me, to neighborhood and community services standing committee for the opportunity for the individual to speak.

Any objection?

See none, an action shall be taken.

So much.

We'll now move on to the new business portion of the agenda from the Office of Contracting and Procurement.

Council Representative Romero, a resolution line item 21.1.

Contract number 6007258-WS-741-R, 100% CIP funding, SRF to provide water system improvements, contract, major contracting group incorporated total contract amount 12,898,000.

That's for DWSD.

Councilmember Santiago Romero, a resolution.

Motion to approve.

There's a motion to approve line item 21.1.

Any objections, colleagues?

See none, that action shall be taken.

Request to waiver, Mr.

President.

Request for a waiver on line item 21.

Umjections.

See none, a waiver shall be attached.

Uh Madam Clerk from the Office of Contracting and Procurement.

Council President Pro Tim Young.

Six resolutions, noting that line item 21.7 was postponed from last week formal session.

And also knowing that all contracts are for the general services department.

Contract number 6004353-A3, 100% bond, capital IPA and city funding.

Amendment three to provide an extension of time only to furnish fleet vehicle uplifting services, upfitting services.

Contractor can't feel equipment service incorporated.

Total contract amount 12 million 249, 363 and 40 cents.

Contract number 6004396-A1.