Neighborhood community serves static community will now come into order with a clerk.

Please call the roll.

Good afternoon, Council President Pro Tem Coleman, younger second.

Here council member Scott Benson.

Vincent I.

Councilmember Renata Miller.

Here.

Mr.

Chair, there's a quote.

Excellent.

Is there a motion to approve the minutes?

Motion.

Motion's been made.

Any objections?

Hearing none.

The minutes be approved.

We will now go to chair remarks.

The chair has negative remarks.

So now we will go to public comment.

See that there is no one in the public that wishes to give comment.

Public comment is now closed.

Public comment is now closed.

Public comment.

Who do we have first in the queue, Mr.

Bo.

Mr.

Chair, the first caller is Betty A.

Verner.

Ms.

Werner, floor is yours.

Two minutes.

Good afternoon to all within the sound of my voice.

I'm Betty A.

Varner, the president of DeSoda Ellsworth Black Association.

If you are a senior or a disabled and you need help in your home, and you're not eligible for the different organization programs because you're not eligible for Medicaid.

Please reach out to uh Detroit Area Agency for the Aging DAA.

Their uh telephone number is 313 446 4444.

Again, 313 446, 4444.

They have a wonderful program that's called my choice waiver.

This MI Choice Waiver.

This program will allow you to earn up to 2900 a month and be eligible for Medicaid.

They will come out to your home, they will do an assessment, they will see uh and support you with what majority or whatever you need.

I've been fortunate of whatever I need it, they've supported me.

Um at no cost, I get all the help that I need.

And uh, if you need this help, reach out to them.

And once you get in the program, they help you with uh repairs to your home, but you must be in the program.

Do not call saying you need repairs for your home or you need uh uh uh what uh hand railings on your home or um you can't go up and down the stairs.

Once they do the assessment, then that's when all of that becomes into play.

Thank you for this time.

God bless you all.

Thank you.

We appreciate you.

God bless you.

Who do we have next to the queue?

Mr.

Bo.

Mr.

Chair, the next caller ends in 169.

All right, 169.

The floor is yours.

Two minutes, one six nine.

Yes, sir.

Great.

Please, please, and thank you for praying for Cunningham.

Um Cunningham is the underdog, the others are rich and powerful.

Help the underdog, even if you have to help him behind the scenes, God will bless it.

I repeat.

Cunningham is the underdog.

The others are rich and powerful.

Help the underdog, even if you have to help him behind the scenes, God will bless it.

Here's a quote.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are used.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are used.

That quote is by Arnold Palmer.

Thank you for my time.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

Excellent quote.

Who you have next in the queue, Mr.

Bow.

Mr.

Chair, the next caller is Cunningham.

All right, Mr.

Cunningham, floor is yours.

Two minutes.

Mr.

Cunningham.

Mr.

Cunningham going once.

Mr.

Cunningham going twice.

Mr.

Cunningham going three times.

Mr.

Cuttinghand going three times in a third.

All right, Mr.

Cunningham.

You can send whatever message you want to send to our office, and we'll be more than gladly to read it.

And we'd be more than gladly to read it.

Who's next to the queue, Mr.

Bo.

The next caller is Dante Smith.

All right, Mr.

Smith, the floor is yours.

Two minutes.

Yep, two minutes.

So I just want to say, um so this hearing is gonna happen after this meeting about the reappointments.

Well, so I could be there in person.

Um be very, very interesting.

I love the fake grilling that you guys did to Tammy Daniels and Langbank.

There's a lady, uh, her name is Ariel.

She was put out, she was evicted this morning.

She has six kids.

Um, so there's a scramble right now to get her rehouse.

Um, Mary Waters office is graciously racistly existing.

Uh Colmy Young, I don't know what you are doing with your staff, but you have the worst staff in city council.

Like, I don't know.

I'll still have a you know from December 14th that I sent out, uh message you on Instagram about well, Colonels Concrete, but I still have not got a response to Frazier Clemson runs for me when I come to talk to him.

You have a young lady in your office who meme loves me when I walk past.

There's a lady I talked to earlier, her name is uh call Casely.

I don't know, I can't remember her name.

She's talking earlier.

She's the only person who seemed to do some work in your office, Coleman.

I need you to do a little bit better to be citywide.

And I don't know what piece of legislation that you put out that has benefited this residents of the city of Detroit in the last four years.

I can't name one.

I just don't know.

I'm looking forward to seeing some legislation that comes out of Coleman and Young's office that benefits residents of Detroit.

Also, I'm looking forward to seeing you guys stand up on the appointment of Conrad Mallet.

But he sits in the board of police commissioners and usurps the power of the board, which is elected board.

He also has a lawyer that he appoints to the board of uh ethics, which usurps that power of that board as well.

I didn't see you like a madman.

Scott Benson's good to see you at work.

Scott, I couldn't see you in person, but it's very very good to see your work.

You missed a lot of days of work.

I've been in the city council more days than you have, and you make 101,000 a year.

We need you to show up for your constituents.

I think I've done quite a bit of work in your district, and I oftentimes don't see you.

I called your satellite office a billion times and haven't gotten answered.

So you guys are needing to tell your office to answer the phone I call because I have district three concerns into uh Angela Woodfield Calloway.

I call his office and he does not respond.

All right, thank you.

Uh Mr.

Smith, I just want to say what you just said earlier about us not responding to you, it's just simply not true.

I mean, I I mean we have literally given you a large documentation of Chrono's concrete and everything you want to know, Chrono's concrete.

And I think that document probably had to be at least over 100 pages that we emailed to you.

We can email you to that again.

I I just want to say secondly, um, I appropriated 800 million dollars to create 10,000 jobs before I got on city council.

Uh then when I got on city council, I passed uh the Green Grocer program, which is building more grocery stores in the city of Detroit.

850,000 dollars in my record speaks for itself.

You know, I can talk about my record, but we only got so long on this show for me to talk.

But uh, but so so that's already said and done.

Um, I also just wanted to say to you just personally, though, if you have any other questions or comments or concerns, please call my office at 313-224-4248.

Who do we have next in the queue, Mr.

Bo?

The next caller is William M.

Davis.

Mr.

Davis and Florida.

Oh, speak speaking of which, Mr.

William M.

David, I also appropriate 23 million dollars and drop it directly into the general retirement fund.

You know, just a little awesome FYI for you, uh Javante.

Uh go ahead.

Mr.

Davis, two minutes.

Uh, good afternoon.

Can I be heard?

Yes, you may.

Okay, I like to start off by saying I I think that uh we need more community resource centers, you know, be it converting uh old schools or what have you.

Because I I'm obviously older than everybody sitting there.

I remember we used to have neighborhood city halls.

I remember we used to have uh um neighborhood uh uh neighborhood uh places to you know, little precincts that we could go to, you know, neighborhood police locations.

We we used to have a whole lot of stuff in the neighborhoods, we don't have that anymore.

We and uh over here in my district, district seven, we don't even have a functioning recreational senate, and we actually have more school age children than any other district.

You know, there's a whole lot of more that could be done, but a simple thing is a community resource centers.

Uh, you know, we need places that young people and old people can go and get resources without going downtown.

Uh I used to like it.

We had Nakwood City Halls.

Um, we used to be able to do a whole lot more in the neighborhood without going downtown, paying a high parts, high price for parking.

Look, you know, and seniors have to sometimes pay high price of parking, still have to walk a little ways.

I'm fortunate I'm a senior in pretty good help for my age.

And uh I also agree, I don't think Tower Mallet has been a good uh corporation counsel.

And I I don't think the the corporation council should be setting on the Board of Police Commissioners.

I encourage all of y'all to occasionally go to a Board of Police Commissioner meeting.

Uh I know I've seen Scott in a meeting way back when, but you know, all of y'all should go and understand what's going on and should be encouraging people to, if there's a compliment problem with a police officer, make a complaint, document it.

Yeah, I have a good day.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

Who in the next to the queue, Mr.

Bo.

The next caller, stop illegal DLBA nuisance abatement.

Go ahead, floor is yours.

Two minutes.

Good afternoon.

May I be heard?

Yes, ma'am.

Two minutes.

Okay.

Um, member Miller, I hope uh you can come to the Lower North End Block Club and tell us what the land bank told you, and we'll tell you what they probably didn't tell you.

But um, as I stated before, uh, for everyone within the sound of my voice, if the land bank took your property through nuisance abatement, you may be able to get compensated.

There's a class action lawsuit by the firm of Margolis and uh cross, M-A-R-G-O-L IS N Cross.

Look them up.

Um, I've been asking the council for years.

I've been telling you this is illegal, but you know, you don't you listen to some people and not others, so but maybe you'll listen to the federal judge.

It violates the takings clause of the United Cons United States Constitution, Article 10, Section 2 of Michigan Constitution.

These are the uh laws uh prohibiting taking of property without just compensation.

Uh it violates the Michigan Fast Track Land Bank Authority Act under the powers section, where I will quote, an authority shall not exercise the power of eminent domain or condemnation.

Well, when they're trying to come to your private property and say if you don't do what we want you to do, even though they don't care if they're take care of their property and make us pay for it, taking care of only the front of the property.

That's what they're doing, taking people's property.

It also violates uh uh uh recital B of the second restated intergovernmental agreement.

They're only allowed to do what is authorized under the act.

I do not understand why you have not listened to uh council member waters, who was on the in the state legislature when they passed it.

She's been telling you that.

Where's the legal opinion by Dana Nessel that she asked for in 2024?

Thank you, Coleman, for calling out Wayne County dumping uh demos on us.

Thank you.

We appreciate that.

Who do we have to ask in the queue, Mr.

Bo?

Mr.

Church and Caller's owner Papa.

All right, two minutes, floor is yours.

Two minutes.

Floor is yours.

Good afternoon.

And through the chair, may I be heard?

Yes, ma'am, two minutes.

Thank you.

Um that was that was a wonderful performance, but you protest too much.

Uh as if you didn't know that they were pushing houses off on the people in the city of Detroit to demolish, giving those houses over to the land bank so you can run this immaculate because it has been hold on for me.

Hold on, stop, stop.

Yes, that's not ma'am.

What's going on with the clock?

All right, start the clock back up again.

All right, go ahead.

Go ahead.

You know, you know, you protested today as if you didn't know that this is what they have been doing for a long time, pushing houses that should be demolished.

I had asked Miss Romero a long time ago about a uh realtor or person that was holding housing, um Munes, and it was their investigation, but uh it never came to any, you know, we got no results.

We didn't hear about how he got all of these houses, first of all, all this property and all of this property was had all of these uh violations, but uh the the uh B said couldn't tell me how much you you know they had paid, and now all of a sudden it's just disappeared into the night.

But if you look at your um um audit from plant moran, that was one of the things that uh was um uh non-compliance for the city of Detroit, and now we have seniors who are living in squalor while you're contemplating nominating these very same people who created this environment for people.

They had billions of dollars, ARPA money.

No health report was ever done.

Do you understand that ARPA money was given due to a health crisis called COVID?

Now we have to beg for you to clean the terminals where the people go.

We have to we uh hey, I don't know what you guys are doing, but the neighborhood and uh services committee, you're failing.

And yes, we had a system.

We had a system that addressed the people's issues, and then they came in from our on and and dismantled that system, and now we have you know, district managers, we get handled by people and not addressed by people.

And and so here we find ourselves, um, Miss Miller.

I don't I don't include you in this group yet.

I do see some backbone in you.

Uh, but you need some help from other council members to help you in this fight.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Who's next in the queue, Mr.

Bell?

Mr.

Chegan caller ends in 039.

039, floor is yours.

Two minutes, 039.

Hey, come.

Can you hear me clearly?

Yes.

All right.

Y'all cheated in public officials.

Every elected official of the city of Detroit, treated in by Janice Want Street.

And I said it so many times, it's enough.

Now it's time to do something about it.

All y'all gotta get out of Nini's way.

He needs coming here to see me February the 18th, and we're going out to dinner at an undisclosed location, and I'm gonna fill her in on all the details.

Charmaine McLeod did it.

And I'm saying that knowing exactly what I'm doing.

Termay McLeod is the one responsible for the death of Kenisha Coleman, the gunshot.

No gun siblings on the entry room.

Suicide weapon not at the scene.

And I told y'all to take the tag up off her mother.

Kenita Coleman, DTB, pay zero six two zero.

Yeah, it's one one two.

Now, six times.

I said the same thing.

Termay McLeod did it.

I'm not lying.

I don't lie.

I'm not lying about sugar honey ice tea.

So when you take it upon yourself as an elected official here in the city of Detroit, it's TV then called men and the rest of y'all are y'all.

Y'all in these way, y'all all got to go.

Mr.

Rue, Mimi gave me that name for a reason.

I'm gonna let her tell it when she's ready to.

But in the meantime, and in between time, I'm about to get busy, busy, busy.

All y'all gotta go.

Did you hear me clearly, Cole?

I made that specifically to you.

James E.

Kate Jr.

and Carl Kenneth.

All right, thank you, sir.

We appreciate you.

Who we got next in the queue.

McCullough.

Say it again.

All right, go ahead.

Two bits, floor is yours.

Yes.

Thank you very much for this opportunity, Cecily McClellan, uh director of waterworks with we the people of Detroit.

Um I would like to just bring to your attention that in the month of December, the um water department set off 900 residents in the city of Detroit, and about half of those were restored.

As you are aware, and we spoke with several of the current council people or previous council people, we the people of Detroit advocate for clean, safe and affordable water for all residents, and that nobody should be deprived of water based on uh their income.

Currently there is legislation uh and lancing for uh a water affordability program statewide, and that is House Bill 455 and also 5170 through 5173.

But what we would truly like to see on the local level is that we that yourself uh uh Coleman as well as uh Vincent and also uh the new council person, Miss Miller, that you all could champion an ordinance for water affordability to ensure that the uh the city creates um a program that would ensure uh water would be available to residents and it would be codified into law.

I am a um a retiree of the city of Detroit, and I support um the RIA and the city's continued uh trying to make the um retirees hold.

And also uh I support 100% what Mr.

Davis said.

We do need uh community resource centers, we need recreation centers, we need the neighborhoods to be put back together like they once were, and where you did have these neighborhoods that uh had these elements in every neighborhood, and I think he was talking about many stations.

That makes up a community, and we'd like to make sure that we get with each and every one of you to talk about the uh uh water affordability.

All right, thank you so much.

We appreciate you.

Uh who here next to the queue.

Mr.

Chair, that was the last caller before you closed public comment.

All right, excellent.

We will now go to new business mayor's office, line on 6.1 Petition of Fraternal Order of United Irishmen to request the whole Corktown races from on March 15, 2026 from 9 a.m.

to 1 p.m.

at the same day at Roosevelt Park, so that we'll begin at 9 a.m.

on March 4th, 2026 and be completed by 9 a.m.

on March 15, 2026, tear down will begin at 12 p.m.

on March 15, 2026, and completed by 3 p.m.

on the same day.

Is there a motion to move line item 6.1 the formal session with recognition for approval be put onto new business?

Motion be made, or any objections here in line 6.1, we move the formal session with recognition for approval, we put on to new business.

Lionel 6.2, petition of Detroit 300 Conservancy slash downtown Detroit Partnership.

Request the hosts to hold the Grand Circus Park opening day 2026 on April 3rd, 2026 from 8 a.m.

until 6 p.m.

the same day at Grand Circus Park East.

Setup will begin at 8 a.m.

on April 1st, 2026 is completed by 8 a.m.

on April 3rd, 2026.

Tear down will begin at 6 p.m.

on April 3rd, 2026 and be completed by 5 p.m.

on April 4th, 2026.

Is there a motion to move line of 6.2 to formal session with recognition for approval be put onto new business?

Motion to approve.

Are you objections?

Here now, line of 6.2, we move to formal session with recognition for approval, we put onto new business.

Line of 6.3, petition of SHAR Incorporated.

Request to hold the fifth annual SHAR slash echo Juneteenth.

Community celebration on June 13, 2026, from 2 p.m.

until 6 p.m.

the same day at 1851 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, 48208.

Tear down will begin at 8 a.m.

on June 13, 2026 and be completed by 1 p.m.

on the same day.

Tear down will begin at 6 p.m.

on June 13, 2026, and be completed by 8 p.m.

on the same day.

Is there a motion to move line on 6.3 the formal session with recognition for approval be put onto new business?

Motion made to approve or any objections here in the line of 643 be line of 6.3 be moved to formal session with recognition for approval be put onto new business.

Lion 6.4 Petition of the March Nunan Rush.

Request to host the March Dunan Rush.

I said Rouge.

Oh, sorry, this is my chief of staff back there.

I said Rouge.

Rush.

Rouge.

You know what I meant?

Guess what?

Our President Protect Pray.

How about that?

Uh March 22nd, 2026, from 12 p.m.

until 8 p.m.

on the same day at Canfield between Cass and Sacket.

Second between Canfield and Temple, Temple slash Cass Park setup will begin at 8 a.m.

on March 22nd, 2026 and be complete by 11 a.m.

on the same day.

Tear there will begin at 5 p.m.

on March 2 March 2022, 2026 completed by 8 p.m.

on the same day.

Is there a motion move line on 6.4 the formal session with recognition for approval we put on to new business?

Motion made or any objections.

Here and line of 6.4 be moved to formal session with recognition for approval, put on to do business.

Office of Contract to get procurement.

Line on 6.5, contract 67645, 100% grant funding to provide site renovation for Joe Lewis Greenway Project in Area of Junction and Clark Contractor, Major Contractor Group Inc.

Location 1222.149,165.89 cents.

Is there a motion to move line on 6.5 the formal session with recognition for approval you put onto a new business?

Discussion.

Chair recognizes member Vice Chair Benson.

Can someone come in and give us an update on what's going on with this?

I think construction should be hold on for a minute.

Mr.

Weather app.

Oh, sorry, but was there anything you wanted to say?

I didn't mean to cut you off.

I'll just I just ask for an update.

Give us an update what's going on, the construction, what we should expect for a 1.5 million.

I was just trying to name the person we we should be talking to.

Which is Mr.

Weatherup.

Good afternoon, Alex Weatherup, Assistant Director General Services.

Do you need Member Benson to repeat the question?

Uh through the chair, uh no, thank you.

Uh this is um a construction contract work on part of the drillers greenway.

This will be connecting Clark Park uh on the south end along the uh the Fisher Service Drive on 75 west to Junction Avenue, and it'll be a shared use path, be new lighting, new trees, and some trailhead work at the park.

All right, so there will be trailhead work.

Can you describe the trail ahead work?

Is it and is it possible to actually bring up a photo of the document or a site plan or rendering so we can see what we're getting for our 1.5?

Through the chair, I do not have a rendering handy.

Uh I apologize.

Next time a JLG contract comes up, I will be ready and have that for you.

Um but the trailhead is usually uh it's um seating and signage.

Um it's not never anything usually too large.

And so we're looking to put the trailhead at Clark Park for this segment.

Correct.

Okay, and what kind of amenities will we see?

I mean, the trailhead uh on East Warren is pretty impressive.

What kind of amenities can we expect at Clark Park for the Joe Lewis Greenway?

Through the chair, I apologize for not having the specifics on the trailhead itself.

Um I'm unsure I don't want to speak out of turn, but I can get that to you before next Tuesday.

All right, and then 1.5 million dollars.

What are we expecting as far as street furniture, free amenities, lighting, landscaping, uh new paving?

Well, what are we looking what are we looking at here?

Is it gonna be a protected pathway?

Non-motorized through the chair, everything you said, um, yes, is correct.

Um, it is a shared use path not protected, but it does have new lighting, new planting.

Um it'll have uh new concrete um and curbs, and then again some some seating and signage at the park.

Okay, and this is going shared path within the right-of-way along the I-75 service drive.

Correct, up on the Fisher.

Okay.

And so are we on the north side of 75?

And so we're gonna be able to do that.

Correct, and it'll it'll be in the middle of the street or the north side or the south side of the service drive.

It should be on the north side of the service drive.

So on the right hand side, if you're driving west towards junction, and then it'll connect to the pedestrian drip bridge on junction over the freeway.

Okay, and that pedestrian bridge, will that be a connector to the new Gordy Howe bridge?

Correct, yes.

Okay, and so does this terminate at the pedestrian bridge.

It is uh I believe it should connect through.

I apologize.

I know that it does connect uh ultimately to Riverside Park on the east side.

I'm not sure exactly how it connects back.

I believe it might be a terminus point at the at the bridge.

Again, I'll I'll be very prepared with the the site plan.

Okay, and then does that pathway actually lead on to the Gordy Howe bridge, that pedestrian path over 75?

Does it lead directly to the uh through the chair?

I don't know if it directly, you know, a butts to the bridge, but it will be connecting.

There is bike paths and a connection onto the bridge.

Okay, and how far is that from the bridge entry?

Hmm.

And are we identifying this as a connector to the Gordy Howe, or will that just kind of be common knowledge?

Or will you actually be the programming be around that?

I guess it's a whole different department though.

Uh through the chair, the the there will be signage along the the Joe Lewis Greenway that it does connect to the bridge.

That's something where we want to make sure is um very well known.

Um, I'm getting an update here that it is about a quarter mile from the bridge.

And I apologize.

Um, there will be signage and programming, and it's gonna you know the programming and the signage is to highlight the connection.

We want everyone to know that they can get to Windsor through the Joe Lewis Greenway and across the bridge.

Okay, fantastic.

And then the start and completion date that's planned for the construction on this.

The construction start date and plan date for this segment.

Through the chair, you got me today.

Um not details, I apologize, but I will forward all this information over to you.

Okay.

Are we looking to have this up and running this year?

Um this year through the chair.

I don't believe so.

The contract itself goes through February of 28th.

Um, so I would be looking at spring 27.

Oh, and I'm getting an update.

Let me just make sure.

Uh if approved, the construction would start in April.

Okay.

And we expect it to be done this year, or do we expect it to take until 28?

That's just uh just in case date.

Uh 28 to through the chair.

The 20 2028 is adjusting case date.

I would suspect 27.

And again, I'm getting update.

Uh 18 months uh from April of this year.

So 27.

Okay.

All right.

And Gordy Howell, is it open this year or next year?

I believe it's supposed to open in the end of 26th.

Show says as opens this year.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

Thank you.

Yeah.

You got it.

That's it.

All right.

Is there a motion to move line item 6.5?

The is there a motion to move line on 6.5 to formal session with recognition for approval, we put on to do business.

Motion.

Motion on any objections.

Hearing the line on 6.5 and move to formal session with recommendations for approval, you put onto new business.

We will now go on to member reports.

The chair has negative member report.

The chair will now recognize Vice Chairman Benson.

No report.

Chair now recognizes Member Miller.

No report.

All right.

And without objection, neighborhood community service data committee is now adjourned.