The Internal Operations Committee of the Detroit City Council met on February 4, 2026, to address public comments, interview candidates for reappointment to several city boards and commissions, discuss a contract amendment for H1B visa sponsorship legal services, and approve numerous lawsuit settlements and administrative items.
Yes, you did. We did receive it. Thank you. Councilmember Renata Miller. Madam Chair, there is no quorum. Okay, seeing that we don't have a core, Mr. Clerk. Um I'm gonna go ahead and do the invocation, but we can proceed to public comment. All right. So do we have anyone in the audience for public comment? And you'll have two minutes. Anyone in the audience for public comment? See no one in the audience for public comment, Miss Um Ellis. Do we have anyone on the line for public comment? Good morning, madam chair. There are nine hands raised for public comment. Okay, we'll go to public comment right after we do the invocation. And I wanna thank um attorney Peter Rhodes for providing this word for the day. And that's how we start every Wednesday with just a word of motivation. It could come from the audience, it could come from someone from someone's staff, just a way to um keep us encouraged because sometimes um these jobs can be very, very difficult and all the responsibilities attached to them, and we know certainly the things that are going on across the country. Um we certainly need the Lord to intervene. So that being said, you absolutely do not have to bow your head. But dear God, help us to remember to always put you first in our financial decisions. Help us to be good stewards of the financial resources that you have placed in our hands to manage for your glory. Amen. And not the our own personal finances, but the city's finances as well. So that being said, if the clerk can note that uh member miller has joined us at the table. Clerk's own. Okay, is there a uh motion for the approval of the minutes? Okay. Hearing no objections, the minutes shall be approved. There are no chair remarks, and I don't see anyone in the audience for public comments. So, Miss Ellison, Miss Ellis, who is first for public comment, and we have nine folks on the call for public comment. The first speaker this morning will be Jante Smith. Mr. Smith, good morning, and you have two minutes. Good morning, maybe heard. Yes, sir, you can be good morning. I just wanna I gotta ding you, Angela Wilfill Calloway, for the way you talked to Crennessana Anderson other day, talking about uh you gave her Scott Benson's phone number. I did not like that. That was very D class A. I forgot to get you yesterday. That's not nice, not okay. Scott Benson doesn't do anything for district three. I do more work than Scott Benson does. I deserve a salary. I'll say that, I'll come out and say it out of my mouth. I deserve a salary. I've done way more in the last six months than he's done in the last 12 years. I wanna say to Renata Miller, Councilwoman Miller, I really appreciate your advocacy for district five yesterday.