There we go.

All right.

I was about to say where we at?

Where we at?

I thought we was in District 7.

So this is the evening community meeting for the Detroit City Council.

I want to thank all of you for being here this evening.

And we're going to get started.

And first thing we like to do before we get this meeting started, we get a roll call.

Mr.

Clerk, if you can please call the road.

Good evening.

Good evening.

Councilmember Scott Benson.

Member Benson did indicate that he was a very good question.

Councilman be here today.

The clerk also know.

Councilmember Letitia Johnson.

Present.

Councilmember Danzel McCampbell.

Present.

Councilmember.

Councilmember Gabrielle Santiago Romero.

Present.

Councilmember Mary Waters.

Present.

Councilmember Angela Whitfield Callaway.

Council Pro Tim Coleman Young the Second?

Here.

Council President James Tate.

Here.

Mr.

President, there's a quorum.

Thank you.

I think we missed District 5.

Member Miller.

Nada Miller.

Renata Miller.

Yes.

My apologies.

Councilmember Renata Miller.

Here.

Now we can get started.

All right.

Thank you all for being here once again.

We want to acknowledge all of the staff members of the uh offices of the council members who are in.

Awake now.

There we go.

Okay, we are back.

Sorry about that, everyone.

I wanted to take time to introduce the staff members of my council colleagues.

If the staff of council member Callaway, you are present, please raise your hand.

Folks from District 2.

Awesome.

Awesome.

If you are here and a member of staff of council members, excuse me, Scott Benson, please raise your hand, please.

All right.

If you are a member of Council Member Mary Waters, please raise your hand.

There you go.

There you go.

All right.

If you are a uh staff member of Councilmember Renata Miller.

All right.

If you are a staff member of Councilmember Santiago Romero, please raise your hand.

Stand up.

If you are if you're a member of Councilmember Johnson's team, member Letitia Johnson, District 4, raise your hand.

All right, if you are a member of uh council president staff, please raise your hand.

All right.

If you're a member, if you're a member.

They always derouted.

They're always derived.

And last but certainly not least, if you're a member of Council Member Denzel McCampbell's team, District 7, please make some noise.

It's kind of unfair.

You know, it's first time out.

He gets the first meeting of the year, evening community meeting, but that's okay.

We're gonna make it work this evening.

Uh, we also want to recognize any departmental individuals that are here.

If you could please stand and announce your name and what department you're from, because we want definitely want the folks to be able to uh connect with you uh as needed as we go throughout this particular meeting.

We'll start uh up front uh and we'll go over here first.

Say it with your chest so they can hear you now.

I do this one more time.

Can you turn around so that so they can hear you?

Speak up just a little bit louder because we could barely hear you up here.

You were focused this way.

Yeah, there you go.

Well, the mic is gonna be floating around the room.

Good evening, everyone.

My name is Christina Floyd, and I'm the deputy director of public health for the Detroit Health Department under the direction of our chief public health officer, Ms.

Denise Ferrarazzo.

Good evening.

My name is Arthur Russian.

I'm the chief enforcement officer with BC property maintenance under director David Bell.

Good evening, District Seven.

I'm Chief James Harris with the City of Detroit Fire Department, Chief of Community Relations on behalf of Executive Fire Commissioner Chuck Sims.

Is there anyone else here who would like to introduce themselves?

Okay, here I come.

You good evening, everyone.

I'm Andrea Vaughn, District Director for State Senator Sylvia Santana.

Good evening, everyone.

My name is Keith Flornoy, Deputy Director for General Services Department.

Recreation under the direction of Crystal Perkins.

Hi.

Good evening, everyone.

Edwina S.

King from the Planning and Development Department under the direction of Alexa Bush.

Thank you.

Yeah, yeah.

Good evening, everyone.

I'm Linda Wesley, Chief of Staff of the Office of the Umbudsman under the leadership of Ombudsman Sherry Gay Dayogo.

What up, though, District 7, Willie Donwell, Director of the Property Assessment Border Review.

Lewis Moore, Property Assessment Border Review, District 7.

Good evening, District 7.

My name is Linda Jackson, and I am the newly appointed District 7 manager.

If anybody would like to see us, we are sitting outside at the table with information for our office hours.

Thank you.

Good evening, Georgia Johnson, Press Secretary, DPWBC.

Good evening, Sonali Patel with the City of Detroit Water and Sewerage Department.

Good evening.

Good evening, Evan Doherty, Government Affairs with the Mayor's Office.

Good evening, everyone.

My name is Malika Washington, and I serve as the Director of City Government Affairs for Mayor Sheffield.

Good evening.

My name is Brianna Sullivan, Government Affairs of the Mayor House.

Good evening.

My name is Maria Mohammed, Property Tax Board of Review under Council President Pro Tem Hoving Young.

Good evening, London Secretary Land Bank Authority.

Hello, Kimani Jeffrey of the Legislative Policy Division, City Planning Commission staff.

And I believe at that point in time we have introduced everyone.

You so much.

And uh I am apologetic because I should have opened up with the invitation.

And I want to bring forward none other than Reverend Phyllis Foster of Cadish Baptist Church.

I'll give a round of applause, please.

Reverend Foster, uh, thank you so much for opening up the doors of the church for us to have this meeting uh this evening.

And uh again, like for you to please provide the invitation as well as a welcome on behalf of Kate.

Shall we all bow our heads?

Almighty God, Father, we thank you for your loving kindness toward us.

We thank you that because of you, because you are omnipotent and you are omniscient and you are all sovereign.

As we gather here today for this important business meeting, we seek your presence and guidance in all we say and do.

You are the source of all wisdom, and we come to you with grateful hearts, acknowledging the good things that you have placed before us as we work together to make decisions and challenges.

May we rely not on our easy way, but on the path of with integrity and hard work that honors you.

We ask for the power of your Holy Spirit to lead our discussions.

Grant us full clarity and wisdom to make choices that align with your word and your will.

Strengthen us with our guiding light in the situations of our daily lives, and may we conduct ourselves with humidity and grace.

Help us to always keep the heart of God in mind, valuing others above ourselves and working together for the greater good of our citizenship, our city, and our great state.

Lord, grant us the strength to navigate the difficulties ahead with patience and perseverance.

Help us to remember that through you, we can find hope, strength, and peace, even in the darkest times.

May we remind ourselves that you never fail, and your mercies are renewed every morning.

Heavenly Father, bless this gathering with your presence.

Bless the Detroit City Council members, their staff and personnel, and our newly appointed mayor, mayor.

As together they step forward into the task ahead.

May we ask for your favor, trusting that your name will be glorified in the good work that is yet to be accomplished.

May the events bring about great success for your purpose and the purposes of the people.

Will you, your mighty hand guide every decision made?

In Jesus' mighty name we pray.

Amen.

Amen.

I am Phyllis Foster, one of the associate pastors here at Kadesh Baptist Church.

We welcome you into our facility.

We we invite you to join us on Sunday mornings.

We thank you.

We thank you.

We thank you.

Amen.

You thank you.

Reverend Foster, Circuit, we've been joined by Member Calloway.

Clark was out, sir.

All right, for those who would like to provide public comment to uh city council members if you're in person and you have not received one of these cards, raise your hand.

Someone from the team will come by and give you one of these comment cards.

If you're at home, feel free to uh raise your hand on Zoom, and we will again make sure that you have an opportunity to speak before the and now we shall go into our district seven remarks presentation from our one of our newest colleagues, President Council, your district seven, council member Denzel McCambo.

No, quiet.

All right, that's a lot better.

That's better.

That's better.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, uh, Council President, and good evening, everyone.

It it is great to be here with you all.

And as mentioned, it's great to host the first evening community meeting.

Um, I just want to say uh a huge thank you to Reverend Foster and the folks here at Catus Baptist Church for opening your doors and inviting us in um to have this meeting.

Thank you all so much, and to the members of clergy as well.

I also want to say thank you to my colleagues here on the Detroit City Council for being here in District 7, um, coming to all the way west uh to be in this great community and to the staff that has put together this meeting um and for all the work that the staff does day in and day out to serve the city of Detroit.

I also want to thank the city departments and our community organizations all throughout District 7.

Um, I know they are all in the room here, and all of our residents here in the district.

It is an honor to serve you, and I look forward to the great work that we're done to do ahead together.

We do have a little presentation that we put together for you all to get to know uh our office here for District 7, and we'll jump right into that.

So, next slide, please.

So, our district seven team that is back here on my left.

We're just gonna do a quick intro.

We have Ray Duncan, who is our chief of staff.

We have Amanda Hill, who is our office manager.

We have Randall White, who is our special project manager, Stacey Bryant, who is our director of constituent services, Yolanda Lockett, who is our constituent services coordinator, Miss Ladon Davis, who is our constituents uh, sorry, let me constituent relations manager.

We have Mr.

Jerry Springs, who is our constituent services coordinator, and we have Charlena Stevenson, who is our policy analyst, and we have Sean Rossatano, who is also our policy analyst.

Folks, this is the team that, and it's a dedicated team.

I will say right off the gate for the last uh six weeks now, um, has been working hard, not only to uh make sure that we're we're addressing and fighting for your concerns at the council table, but also when you call in your constituent services issues, um, I am very blessed to have such a dedicated, hardworking team.

And I just want to make sure you all know them.

And please do introduce yourself if you haven't had the chance to meet them.

So thank you all so much.

So I talked a lot about this um in the and during the campaign, but our our guiding principle is really rooted in co-governance here in District 7.

And what I mean by that is a collection of participatory models in which government and communities work together.

So that could be in through formal and informal sessions.

But what it means is that myself, the team here, we're not doing this alone.

We're actually creating structures that you all, the residents, our stakeholders in District 7, have input and go along in this process in policy making and constituent services and making our city better together.

Because I've always said it's not just about Denzel McCampbell at the council table, it is about what am I bringing to the council table on behalf of District 7.

So the other ways as we're thinking about our coffee hours that we'll talk about what your budget priorities that's ways that we're thinking about our work groups that we'll be rolling out on various issues throughout the district.

That's going to your community organization, block clubs, neighborhood associations, and taking that to the city council.

That's what co governance is about, and that's the pathway that we are really instilled for to serve you in District 7.

Next slide.

So we have a little video and special thanks to media services to the folks who came out to our community swearing in envisioning session.

We have a little video, our council corner that we want to show, and then we'll get right back into the presentation.

Thank you.

Just one second.

Yeah, absolutely.

Hi, I'm Denzel McCampbell, and I am the new council member for District 7.

And we just want the community to come out to witness the swearing in, to have some good pool, but also to have a vision and session to set the foundation of what we want to see here in District 7 so we can work together, not only at the council table, but with block clubs, neighborhood associations to really affect change across district seven.

I actually met him while he was campaigning and talking to different politicians, either who are already in office andor campaigning.

It was just something different about him.

I love this meeting.

I think I'm not only seeing someone who I've been in support of, take you know, office as one of our council members, but also just the energy of the room.

People came here to share specific real challenges and solutions.

We're all very proud to be here and the awesome work that Dizzy has been doing all throughout the community.

He's very dedicated to the safety and well-being of the Detroiters.

If you need anything, please do reach out to our office 313 2242151 or send us an email at council member Denzel at Detroit Mi.gov.

Our office is there to serve you, and that's what we intend to do.

Thank you all so much.

I promise I did not bring the media services team donuts to make me look that good.

But um, and thank you all for again for coming out to that to the swearing in and visiting the session.

Again, we're trying to build upon that foundation to make sure that we are um taking your concerns and acting on them and doing that work.

Back to the presentation.

All right.

Next slide.

All right, so just a little bit.

As I mentioned, the first 30 days we had the community swearing in and visioning session.

Next slide, please.

Also, we are uh to go into a little bit of our committee assignments.

I'm proud to chair the budget finance and audit committee and to be the vice chair of the public health and safety um committee as well.

And our chair Santiago Romero is uh chair of PHS.

Um and also Member Warders is on PHS, and uh Member Johnson is the vice chair for BFNA, and Member Waters is also on BFNA.

Um I am also proud to serve on the skilled trades task force, um, the retiree uh task force, and we will be putting forth the um disability uh task force as well, and also proud to ch uh to serve on the Equitable Development Task Force as well.

So more information to come on those also.

Next slide.

So some of the things that we've learned so far from residents is that we all are excited and need to work on our care for our seniors when it comes to home repair and making sure that our seniors can age in place and have what they need to get around our city, um, shelter bus stops and making sure that bus stops are are safe for our folks who are um using public transportation, ensuring that we have neighborhood beautification and tackling blight, um also more accurate property assessments, the building of a recreation center here in District 7, and business responsibility and accountability to our neighborhoods.

Next slide.

How are we going to tackle these?

So, really in a collaborative nature with relationship building, empathetic listening and learning, identifying the gaps that we may have in our policies and and carrying out these uh services, um, our reminders of the collection power action, what can we do together on the neighborhood level, on the community level, and what do we have to do as a council and city government, uh fostering those connections through coffee hours, office hours and special events, the task forces that I mentioned, amplifying concerns through public comment and ways for folks to get those words out, and civic education so folks can know about the processes and how things are working in our city government and on all levels of government as well.

Next slide.

And what's next?

So we're gonna continue to build out our vision and strategy.

We're gonna continue to increase our communication with you all.

If you have not signed up for our e-newsletter, please see a team member to make sure that that happens.

Um we're gonna drive policy changes and also we're gonna prepare for the upcoming budget season.

Next slide.

So what is the budget process?

And as we will talk more about budget parties at our upcoming coffee hours, but on March 9th, uh Mayor Sheffield will give her budget presentation on March 11th.

The budget city, the budget hearings for the city council.

There are 47 of those will begin on March 11th.

On March 30th, uh we will have a public hearing on the budget, and then on April 7th, the budget is voted on by the city council.

You can follow our Facebook and Instagram for updates, and there is the Facebook Instagram pages.

So please do uh it really do um engage in the budget process.

You can engage in that through public comment.

You can engage in that through coming down to the Come and Young Municipal Center, or you can do so by joining virtually as well.

And also we will start our grounded and grounded for grounds for discussion, coffee hours this week on Friday and Saturday, and then next Saturday and uh the 28th and Thursday, March 5th.

We're having a series of four because we know District 7 is quite large, and we wanted folks to have an opportunity no matter where you live in D7 to at least to engage in this first series, and then we will go through budget and we'll have a few special guests at a few of those.

So please do uh come and join us.

And if you can follow this QR code, you'll be able to register for the coffee hours as well.

Next slide.

So please do stay in touch.

I know this may be a little hard to read, but um our phone number is 313-224-2151.

Our email address for the office is Councilmember Denzel at Detroit Mi.gov.

Uh you will be able to, there's a link here, there's a bit.ly link to access the city council services.

And we also do have a district office uh at St.

Suzanne's as well, and you can visit us there.

We want to make sure that you don't have to uh drive all the way downtown to see us if you want to come to the vis the district office, um, just give us a call.

All right.

Thank you.

Next slide.

All right.

So please do follow us on Facebook and Instagram.

I want to make sure we're getting that information out and do sign up for our newsletter.

All right, thank you all so much.

Thank you, Council President.

To the point, straight to the point.

Right.

So a little bit more.

There we go.

Uh wanted to let everyone know that we are now cutting off the collection of public comments, cards, and collections at this moment.

We do have a number of folks who are here today.

And we had some individuals who called in advance, and they would get additional time than the traditional two minutes.

We're gonna start with those who are in attendance first.

And our first one up is Brother Michael Cunningham.

Brother Cunningham.

These individuals get four minutes.

So I uh put a post up about the PDIs or about the buses, uh, why are the new buses breaking down?

And uh to summarize it.

When I drive around one second, Brother Cunningham, we're looking for the time.

Gotta make sure the time is up.

Okay, you may proceed.

I drive east, west, north, south, and I'm seeing people at the bus stops an hour over a half an hour.

It just makes me feel bad.

I do not, I'm not rich.

I've always homeless for 10 years.

I will always think of myself as a bum.

You know, always.

I shouldn't, but I I I'm sympathetic for those who are semi-unhoused, somebody who's trying to climb up the economic ladder.

It's just really hurts when I see that type of uh bus service.

Folks are trying, they're getting out to work and the buses are not on time.

And it's because they don't have enough buses.

And I've been arguing and fussing for years.

We finally got enough drivers or TOs, but now he's something else.

Now we don't have enough buses.

Is there a way that the city of Detroit can contact the federal government, write a letter, maybe ask, can we keep the old buses and the new buses so we can have enough?

Is that possible?

We have to be creative with a sense of urgency comes creativity.

Or with the Holy Spirit comes creativity.

I mean, we're looking at people, these are moms, sisters, brothers, these are human beings, they're not numbers.

It should be a sense of urgency.

There's not enough buses.

Something needs to be done.

I've gotten some threatening phone calls because I made some posts uh about I feel like things are not the way they should be.

And I'm not gonna say anything about the powers that be in my bus tickets that I purchase.

I buy those bus tickets.

And sometimes I get some donations, but don't threaten me with reducing or restricting me and call and some of the leadership has to recorded a phone call, fussing at me like a child.

I don't make no money doing this.

I do this from my heart.

I'm not calling out any names, but you're not finna do me like this.

No weapon formed against me shall prosper.

Any time to rise up in judgment, thou shalt condemn.

You're not finna do me like this.

You know, so I'm not gonna call names out, but don't disrespect me because I'm not disrespecting you.

You make 140 something thousand, you make 200 something thousand, you're in a high rise, uh, all of y'all.

I'm not talking about city council, but don't don't, don't do that to me.

Don't do that to me.

You know, and so also I like to do ride alongs with uh incumbent state, federal.

We did Shree Thunder.

Um hit me up at my hotline number 313-444-9114-313-444-9114-313-444-9114.

That number was made so you can remember it.

You can also put that in for Cash App.

You can put that in for my Facebook, and there's a message.

Always have a message on that line.

Um right now with me, I have some low-income housing lists for Wayne County.

If anybody would like one, also I say the hats and gloves there in the car.

But I got portable chargers, uh hand warmers and three bus tickets.

Those are love packages I give out at the bus stops.

So anyone in this room, don't be shy.

I think I got five left.

I would like to give it to you for you to give it to somebody in your community that takes the bus or basically pay it for.

I got 20 seconds, so 313-444-9114.

If you want to do a bus ride along or anything else, I say it in the last 10 seconds.

We need by like a low-income housing list and that kit that I was talking about.

Anybody just raise your hand and I can give that to you.

Pay it forward.

Thank you so much, Brother Cunningham.

Thank you so much for the service that you provide our community on a daily basis and have been doing so for years.

Uh and if you want to provide that name of that individual, uh, we will receive that information.

I know I certainly will.

Again, thank you.

Our next speaker up for uh the additional time would be Miss Joanne Warwick.

Went forward.

Uh good evening, everyone.

And uh happy Black History Month.

I had to come in person because I'm so happy you elected Denzel McCampbell.

We got a sound problem here.

Can you hear me clearly?

Okay.

So given it's Black History Month, I'd like to pay tribute to Jesse Jackson Senior, my former boss, Congressman John Conyers Jr., who I learned so much from, and my absolute favorite American hero, Harriet Tubman, who I was thinking the other day, she was alive while my grandparents were alive.

They were little, but that's pretty wild to think about.

Also want to show you about Black History Month.

See this lovely bag?

I got it in Colombia, the country of Colombia, which is 25% Afro-Columbian.

Their current vice president Francia Marquez is Afro-Columbian.

And Member Johnson, who did a fabulous job today.

You all did a great job today in council.

I want to see you all be like that, like you were standing up for the people from the Leland Hotel that got pushed out in the middle of the frigid cold.

I want to see you all be that way today.

Started by you, Member Miller.

Thank you.

Followed by you, Member Campbell, and the rest of you followed and stood up.

That's what we want to see.

Um, but before I switch to the other topics, um, Member Johnson talking about community land trust.

Look up Law 7070, Columbia.

They enacted some amazing land reform in favor of Afro-Columbians.

It'll probably blow your mind.

Now, everybody, mine's used, that's why it's missing the front.

This is the Detroit City Charter.

You can go to the clerk's office and pay eight dollars.

Mine's so used I lost the top, but it's our city constitution.

Um I want to get into the other stuff.

The nuisance abatement programs and the solar initiative.

Thank you, Member Waters, for fighting against the nuisance abatement program that really was not authorized under state law.

I noticed the land bank's resource guy doesn't talk about we'll take your property if you don't keep it up, even though they don't have to keep up their properties and we're paying to keep up their properties, only the front, not the back.

But they got a team of lawyers taking their properties when they really should be maintaining their own.

On that note, if you know somebody who had a property taken through the nuisance abatement program, there's a class action federal lawsuit in federal court right now about the illegality of that.

They hired, well, I don't know who hired them, but a top gun West Bloomfield, very schmancy attorney, but you can call Margolis and Cross 734-994-9590.

734-994-9590.

It's Black History Month.

Don't take any bun more people's generational wealth.

When you were dealing with a way more serious problem today with the Leland Hotel and what happened to them.

So it's really an illegal use of eminent domain if they take your property and they don't pay you just compensation.

Speaking of eminent domain, we got two members here who voted against the solar takings.

I met a lady the other day.

She did not know the city's using eminent domain to take people's private property for DTE, who keeps raising the prices on us, it appears.

I hope we don't have a bunch of data centers here causing our uh uh the cost to go up as if the frigid cold wasn't enough.

But anyway, we got two new members.

And hopefully I'll tell you about those solar initiatives.

You shouldn't go for it.

You know what?

Do what Michigan State University did solar award winning parking lot.

We don't need to take people's private property.

The magic number here is five.

We need one more person to change your mind on the solar initiative and stop the nuisance of Bateman takings.

We don't need the land bank.

You can just take it back to the planning department, and they can do quiet title or something.

We don't need it.

Stop taking people's property.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Happy Black History Month.

Thank you so much.

All right.

Our next speaker, and just to let everyone know, I am gonna have to cut everyone off at the end of your time because by state law, uh, the open meetings act require that I give everyone the same amount of time.

So not being rude, trying to comply with the law.

All right.

Our next speaker is Jadante Smith.

I believe he is calling from online.

Mr.

Smith, are you available?

President, we have not located Jadante Smith.

Okay.

All right.

Uh how about uh Renard Manchunski?

Council President, he's on Zoom.

All right, let's get him over.

Please announce him when he is able to speak.

All right, good evening, Mr.

President.

Can I be heard?

Yes, sir.

All right, good evening, honorable members, especially Denzel McCampbell.

Uh Councilmember Denzel McCampbell, congratulations on your election to this district seven councilman.

And I believe the district seven will be served very well by someone that has experience in Lansing and Washington, D.C.

So the District 7 in Detroit will benefit greatly from that experience, along with my council person from District 6, um Gabby Santiago Romero, who does excellent work in representing the community and making sure that we're involved.

That aside, I want to uh introduce myself.

My name is Renard Mishanski.

I'm a transit justice organizer with the Detroit People's Platform.

And I'm proud to announce, at least the city council and to the uh public that I've been part of the mayor's transition uh uh committee for transit and mobility innovation.

And tomorrow, Wednesday at 5 30 at the St.

Andrews, if I'm correct, on Wayne State's campus, um, the Episcopal Church.

Um, there will be a gathering on transit and mobility and disability issues, 5 30 to 7, I mean to 8 30 tomorrow.

Um, so we want people from the community to attend and be heard.

And also with the survey that the uh administration has been putting out, this is a really rare opportunity for folks in the public.

When a mayor transitions, there's a mayoral transition.

They don't do surveys and do committees and get out to the public and input in terms of this.

They set up their own policy behind closed doors, usually with some big wigs.

This is a very unique process that the city of Detroit is undertaking.

And it is going to take all of us as residents, city council members, administrators, all aspects um whether you're part of city government or not to participate in this to make our city better when it comes to planning and land, transit, housing, and so many other issues.

What I want to speak to when it comes to transit is that I hope that this body will um reconstitute the um disability task force.

Um, under Durha's uh leadership, that meeting has taken place very consistently, and we have had a lot of reforms, uh, namely with the paratransit reform, specifically on low to no emissions.

There is a study that this honorable body put 50,000 towards, and I wanted to ask this body to please keep us surprised on this, and it's important because our paratransit riders are um deserve the same consideration for clean and low emission fuel.

When you pick someone up at a dialysis center, we don't use a car belching gasoline for 15 minutes with someone already with a mask on.

They deserve the same clean energy considerations that fixed line bus is having with our new electric and hydrogen and also our hybrid buses that are coming in.

Our air quality is terrible in the city, and people are aging in the city and shouldn't have to feel like they have to move because they can't breathe in the city.

So I ask the city to continue to make its commitments, not only to um the disability community, but all of us, especially children that have to breathe into this air, despite what the federal government wants to deny that is obvious right in front of our faces.

Um, with that being said, I'm very excited for the work that the disability task force will do.

There's a lot of um reforms that are also going to come out in terms of the first 100 days with transit.

We need to focus on frequency, reliability, and the core services and getting the buses running reliably, and then we can focus on the extra stuff, the tool, the toys.

But right now, people need to reliably get around their city, and then we can look towards connecting to the rest of our county in consideration of the millage that will be in place to fund transit.

I ask so much.

I'm gonna uh in the spirit of being fair, want to give Mr.

Jadante Smith another opportunity.

Uh, Mr.

Smith, are you available?

One once, one twice, one three times.

Right, we're gonna move on.

And we're gonna now go to our uh in-person public commenters.

We have uh 14 cards.

Um we have five who have raised their hand online.

And we're gonna start with first speaker Lindsay Hylek, followed by Kamal Clark, followed by Jabari Cook.

I like the floor is yours.

Two minutes.

Good evening, Council President and all honored council members.

Um, my name is Lindsay Pilak, and I'm here on behalf of Friends of Rouge Park.

Um, so honored that you all are starting your efforts here in District 7.

And Rouge Park is an anchor in District 7 that really is um so important to the quality of life of residents in terms of access to quality recreation, quality of life, just getting families out, um, being social, as well as the importance of the natural area uh in Rouge Park.

So, as you know, Rouge Park is the largest park in the city of Detroit at over 1100 acres, and it serves valuable ecosystem services dealing with issues of flooding that is so prevalent in District 7.

It also has so many opportunities to be a world-class park that can really support residents.

Um, we're so honored and grateful for um the support that you provided um Bruge Park last year, and we will be back again this year to advocate for more support for Rouge Park.

Uh, the city is uh in the middle of doing their master plan right now um for Rouge Park, which is so exciting.

And um, we're gonna really dream big in terms of what this community and what um the city deserves in its largest park as well as this region.

It's so important, and we thank you for everything and um to all of you and to the community here.

Please join us at the master plan meetings.

Um, the first community meeting will be on March 5th.

And um, if you want more information about the work that we do in Rouge Park, um, friends of Rouge Park, Rougepark.org, and thank you so much.

Thank you.

Next speaker, Kamal Clark, followed by Jabari Cook, followed by James Jowsbia.

Cool.

I have to reset to get the time up.

Two minutes, two minutes.

Clock, two minutes.

Okay.

Floor's yours, sir.

Appreciate it.

How are you?

Good evening.

I'm Kamal.

Um, I'm an organizer for We the People Action Fund and a resident of the beautiful amazing District Four.

Um, for me, my family experience was being a caretaker for a brother with schizoaffective disorder.

And what that meant is that for him, mental health care often wasn't what it could have been.

Often it was let's make sandwiches or let's get folks in a circle, but not actually real care um for him.

And so what that led to is a lack of a sense of purpose, a lack of agency, and a lack of equitable care.

And so, because of that, that's what really caught me to form our very first black male leadership team, who you see right here, um, who are really asking the question of amidst all of the federal cuts to health care, amidst the transition right now, that's really exciting in the city of Detroit.

What opportunity do we have to actually address the mental health of black men and boys, and particularly our young people?

And so I want to, of course, uh extend the invitation during this budget season for us to fund uh community groups and nonprofits that can pilot um and expand programs that are specifically to address that gap for black men and black boys and dismantle trauma and also too to be working to bridge that gap that we see.

Um I also want to extend an invitation to the room um that we are gonna be having a meeting Thursday on this very thing of how do we actually, of course, organize and strategize around us.

And so you'll see some guys with clipboards and flyers, Kyron and uh Tim, um, and I think James has them as well.

Um so if you're interested in helping us out and working together, we don't want to just come here and complain about things.

We want to work about work on it and collab.

So I heard a lot of really important folks in this room, and there's a lot of other folks that maybe didn't speak that are really really vital to what we could do.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Brother Clark, certainly looking forward to connecting with you.

As you know, we have the Protect Your Crown campaign, been working with the mayor as well as we are trying to identify uh ways to improve our um social net for those who have mental and emotional uh issues.

So I know you know Kalia, she's in the back.

We'll make sure we get that information.

Oh, appreciate it.

Um yeah, I also just wanted to say um, as well, I've been working, I am sponsor of the co-response mental health program with the police department, so the police department can actually recognize people that have mental health and be able to address them accordingly uh through de-escalation and nonviolent tactics.

So I definitely want to look forward to working with you as well.

I just wanted to say before I'm gonna miss, we are joined by uh student minister Troy Mohammed from Muhammad Mosque.

Can you just stand up real quick?

Just so everybody can see you.

Can we just give you a round of applause for all the work the nation does in the community?

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good evening, council.

My name is Jabari Cook.

I'm a political organizer with Jenju, volunteering with We the People Action Fund.

And I'm an ICU secretary for Henry for a hospital.

I'm advocating for more funding to nonprofits and behavioral health organizations that can pilot and expand programs for black mental health, specifically focused around dismantling trauma and creating fireplace-based program, moving black men to more civic engagement.

Honestly, as someone who's interacted with the healthcare system all their life is still equivalent to constantly running from the police.

There's nowhere to go without being institutionalized on the healthcare system, is rigged.

So it's hard for a lot of people in these situations to actually handle and go through grief the way they should.

Working in a hospital has given me a more is given me a more direct look at the healthcare system and just made me jaded, honestly.

It's hard for people to, it's hard for people to grieve, dying family members knowing that they can't afford the places they have to stay.

It's hard for people knowing that they can't afford the hospital bill, knowing that every single action that happens to this person, everything that happens to that person, everything they ask for, everything can be taken away from them.

They could be institutionalized, taken away, and they won't know where to go.

Anybody in this room who's dealt with Henry Ford knows the frustration that they have to deal with.

They can move patients around anywhere they have to, and it's extremely hard for people to find out where their family members go, especially under situations where mental health is the focus because they don't have proper structuring.

They put these situations on people and they seek us in these situations and they don't give us any room to go anywhere.

You can do everything right and still be stuck in the wrong situation just because you can't afford it.

And that's not fair for people.

People need places and people need structure to actually go and care for people without being without the fear of being institutionalized by the healthcare system, and they need somewhere to go where they can actually get care for these things in the city in Detroit where people die constantly.

Thank you, Mr.

Cook.

Next speaker, James Jaswia.

Good evening, counsel.

Uh I'm James Joswak, volunteering for uh Ginger Root along with We the People Action Fund.

As a Wayne State student witnessing the stress and paranoia surrounding looming budget cuts on departments, specifically public health at Wayne State.

I recognize this issue as the emphasis on the job economy being hard to face as new graduates struggle to find new jobs.

Public health is one of the biggest examples of this change having an impact of the conversations with staff within the department, the lack of programs available due to cuts, put students who need experience in awkward and awkward situations.

I believe if city council were to dedicate a budget, it could help create a pipeline for public health students at Wayne State to not only find work that pertains to their field and finance and be financially compensated, along with having the opportunity to do work within their own communities in Detroit.

Something that focuses on nonprofits that can expand programs for mental health for black men and boys for the opportunity to dismantle traumas within the city and community while creating civic engagement.

Thank you.

I think we just saw each other last night, right?

Didn't we just see each other last night at the event?

I thought so.

See all right.

Uh next up, Mr.

Casel Flood.

Thank you for joining us.

Followed by Minister Troy Mohammed.

Good evening, Council members.

Good evening.

Um President Kate.

But currently I'm over here in District 7 where my brother's been living over here for about 50 years.

And I came out tonight because I normally don't do night driving to see our new council person.

McCamp.

Because there's some issues.

We live right there on Ashton and Cathedral.

There's been a lot of problems.

One of the problems, yes, it's beautiful, they're building that new addition to the fire department, which I think is beautiful.

But with all the trucks that's coming down the street with the Cooley um high school building, it's potholes.

So when I leave our house, I have to take the service drive.

If someone could go out and fill those potholes, it's right where they're doing the construction uh for the firehouse.

Also, on that street, uh Ashton, from Joy Road to Pitch Patrick, only everybody walk in the street.

And I was wondering why, and I know why in some areas there's no sidewalks where they demoed house and didn't replace the sidewalk, or they're broken.

People walk in the street, and when the five trucks come down the street, you know, they have to make a move.

Because I see it all the time, and that's a safety issue.

And the other thing, they speeding a lot of it's a lot of men.

It ain't us, uh speeding down the street, and it's one particular person lives on that block.

I I reported to the precinct, but they can't ever catch him.

But it's not safe because Ashton, if you know, is right off the South Hill Freeway, and it's the fastest street to get to Chicago.

So they can address at least the part holes for now.

I appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Sir Campbell.

Uh thank you, Ms.

Flood, and I appreciate you coming out.

Um I we have a team member that will come up and get more information from you.

Um, Miss Lodan, who's in the back waving her hand.

Um, I I have been in, I've been in have had multiple conversations with the contractors at um the Cody High School and such to make sure that that traffic is not impacting folks.

So I'll follow up with them and um we can definitely get some um get that information over to DPW as well.

Uh and um on the potholes.

So we will follow up, we'll get your information, but thank you so much for coming out.

Thank you, Member McCampbell.

Uh Minister Troy Mohammed.

Floor's yours, sir.

Yes, sir.

I want to begin by giving thanks and appreciation to our new mayor of the Honorable Mary Sheffield and this esteemed council.

Very appreciative of all of you and the work that you do.

Uh my name is Minister Troy Mohammed.

I represent Mohammed's mass number one, which is a seven-mile nevergreen.

I'm also a lifelong Detroit resident.

Today, as the representative of the Honorable Minister Lewis Farrakhan, I wanted to talk to you briefly about the history of the Nation of Islam.

The Nation of Islam was founded in this city, the city of Detroit.

So we love the city of Detroit, and we are uh committed to the city of Detroit.

Everything that we want to do to bring our city up, we want to be involved.

And thankful to God, we've been involved with a lot of you council members in the past.

So today I wanted to invite the council members as well as the residents of the city of Detroit uh to our yearly event, which is Savior's Day.

It'll be held this coming Sunday at Huntington Place.

Uh it's actually a three-day weekend.

It starts Friday, Friday, Saturday, all residents can come.

No charge.

Uh Sunday, it is a lecture that'll be given, and you can go to NOI.org or get some flyers from the back of the room.

But we want all of our people involved.

Our topic this Sunday is uh making our community a decent and safe place to live.

And this is something that we're all interested in doing.

So I think it's a very valuable message for the residents of the city of Detroit.

We have members who are involved in the community violence initiatives.

You know, so we want to press this and and keep doing it as much as we can.

So please, if you're available, come on out to Savior's Day 2026 at Huntington Place.

I love to see you all there, and I love to see all our residents there.

Thank you for this time.

Thank you.

Minister Mohammed, we also have that document coming your way as well tomorrow.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Tim Brent, followed by Donald Stuckey, followed by Stephen Wallace.

Floor is yours.

Hi, uh honored council members and residents of Detroit.

My name is Timothy Bent.

I am here with Ginger Root Black Male Leadership Team under We the People Action Fund.

Share with you a little story yourself.

If you take yourselves back to the pandemic 2021, was still in school.

And unlike or much like a lot of other black men at that time, I was dealing with different mental health issues that arose from being disconnected from my community, uh way too much uh social media intake, um, being the topic of conversation on my job sites.

I work with HNTB, a private construction consultancy out of Detroit, and I work 12 hour days, six day weeks, usually during during the summer, um, and going into the summer of 2021.

That was a schedule I look forward to.

I was on site, I was asked a lot of questions about George Ford protests and other things that related to my identity.

Um, and during that time, I found that a really hard thing to try to continue in my school and my work.

Um, and specifically being a construction worker, mental health access is one of the hardest things you can get to because those are appointments that are during the day.

You often have to take time off work, which is is not sustainable for a lot of people.

Um, so I want to invite members to the opportunity to really invest in black men and boys' mental health throughout the city by prioritizing funding nonprofits and behavioral health organizations that can pilot and expand programs for black men's mental health, um, and also working with D Wynn to provide incentives, increase wages, housing grants that help build a more sustainable behavioral net behavioral health network.

There are providers in this city that are underpaid and overworked, and they need the funding to continue their work in the city where they deserve to work.

Thank you so much.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Our next speaker, Donald Stuckey.

Good afternoon, members of city council, and congratulations to all of you on your wins.

Um I did wanted to uh briefly mention that this uh November, sorry, excuse me, this August, voters in Wayne County are going to be considering a countywide transit millage that is going to provide dollars and get rid of all of the opt-out communities in our county.

So that means a person, if they have a doctor's appointment in Lavonia or if they have a uh a job opportunity in Westland, they'll be able to get there and be able to connect our whole county just like they did in McCone County and just like they did more recently in 2022 in uh Oakland County.

The concern that I have is that prior city councils have taken extra dollars that they have received from the city from the state or from the federal government and replace city dollars with those uh with those other funds instead of expanding the pot in growing it so that we can have more dollars for public transportation.

So my my hope is that if voters approve additional dollars for public transportation in Wayne County, that this council is going to be committed to using those dollars to add to the pod and not replace.

So that is my only request.

And and on another subject, I would ask that the city council would make public transit one of your top three or four priorities.

Because just as Brother Cunningham has said, and just as many of us have been saying for years, the buses are not coming on time.

People are waiting out in the cold.

It's gonna get we live in Michigan, it's gonna get hot, and so we need buses that are gonna come on time so that people can be able to get the job opportunities and people can have an opportunity to live um to live a better life in our city.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Our next speaker, Brother Stephen Wallace.

Good evening, everybody.

My name is Stephen Wallace, and I am a resident of District 5, and I was raised in District 4.

While being in District 4, my uncle who suffers from schizophrenia disorder, live with us as my parents were as caretakers.

Over time, the burden became too great, and my uncle would eventually leave the state and move into another family member's home elsewhere.

Living with him greatly shaped my view of the world as I witnessed just how little there was available to him and to witness my parents as advocates for a loved one.

Now as an adult, I'm gonna pay it forward for my uncle and advocate not just for those who live under my roof, but my community.

And that's why I'm here today to request city council commit and pledge the funding to nonprofits and behavioral health organizations that can pilot or expand programs for black mental health, dismantling trauma in five play five place-based programs moving black men into more civic engagement.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next speaker, William M.

Davis, followed by Denise Darnell.

Good evening.

Work at the District 7.

Many of you may know me, but most of y'all do not know the over 4,000 city of Detroit general fund retirees that have died in the last 12 years.

Think about that.

You know, some of them would have died anyway.

But some of them could have been helped.

Some of them could have been saved if the city had been stepping up doing this job better.

You know, like I worked for the city for 34 years at the wastewater treatment plan.

I started as a helper with a shovel.

Won't tell you what I was shoveling.

But sometimes it seems like y'all are shoveling stuff on us.

Because, you know, during my 34 years, I had seven promotions.

You know, I went from a helper to a manager.

But you know, during that time, I could have got other jobs.

I could have made more money going elsewhere.

But what kept me and a lot of city retirees on those jobs is the fact that we had an outstanding pension plan.

We had a promise, a promise that, you know, that we was gonna get this and get that.

Well, we didn't get much.

You know, shortly after I retired, the city goes into bankruptcy, which was a fake bankruptcy that Governor Snyder put in put in place to steal City Detroit assets.

I think y'all still should be challenging aspects of that.

You know, how could the city of Detroit be involved in getting a $50 million lease from the Great Lakes Wather Authority and paying a third of it?

That's crazy.

You know, there's a whole lot of things y'all should be challenging.

You know, there's a whole lot of stuff that's going on.

I mean, we we give Bell out for free.

You know, they you know, we should at least have some control.

We should at least get part of the money the people pay to go there.

There are a lot of things we could and should be doing.

I think it should be a more aggressive job of helping CD truck retirees.

Many of us are giving our life and we lost our generational wealth.

Thank you.

Our next speaker, Denise Darnell, followed by Dan Green.

Well, good evening, City Council.

Good evening, President Tate.

I was at Councilman Denzel.

And I heard who is here tonight make a very important comment that night, and it really struck me about developers here in the city of Detroit.

That the city should work with those of us developers that were born and raised in the city of Detroit and have a vested interest in the city to come back to life and be revitalized.

We don't have to go out of state.

We don't have to go overseas.

We can consider those of us who have an interest here in the city and work with the land bank.

And I'm really hoping that the memorandum that uh council member at large, Mary Waters wrote, uh specifically the part about community engagement and the language in the land bank agreement to enhance provisions for community engagement to ensure that the board remains responsible to the needs and the concerns of residents and stakeholders here in the city of Detroit and line up with our mayor's uh emphasis on neighborhood engagement and revitalization.

I'm 100% for it.

God bless you.

Thank you.

Next speaker, Dan Green, followed by Arthur Edge, followed by Ronald Fawcett.

Uh good evening, counsel.

Um happy to be here.

Um, born and raised in District 7.

Um I did a lot of door knocks for Denzel.

Um, so I'm very happy to see him here uh in this role.

Uh and with that, um I was able to learn a lot about people's need uh for third spaces.

And I was really excited to see uh the Rec Center uh being planned.

And I I hope that's something that is uh put into action.

Um, you know, these spaces outside of our home work and school, that's where we always go.

We need more than that.

Um, and that's something I constantly heard uh talking to people in this community.

Um we need the space for all ages in our community, uh older people, young people, people my age, you know, uh us millennials, we need that too.

Um and uh here with Ginger Root, we the People Action Fund.

Um, one of the important things for us is black men mental health, black people's mental health, um Detroiters mental health, uh, and having things we can engage in week to week.

Me having this space has definitely impacted me.

Um and seeing the black men who come into our spaces and have that lack of community.

Um, I imagine others feel that lack of community, uh, where all they can all they do is go to work, go to school, right?

So I look forward to uh updates on that recent.

I hope it's something uh that continues to happen, and uh we will hope to ensure uh that is something that moves forward.

Uh in addition to other things, uh a lot of the gentlemen talked about before around uh funding for nonprofit behavioral horror uh behavior health.

Um something really important to me in restorative justice, uh restorative practices and harm does happen, but how do how do we reduce that harm, but also how do we respond to that harm?

So uh thank you for your time and appreciate you.

Have a good night.

Thank you.

Our next speaker, Arthur Edge, and our final in-person public commenter, Mr.

Brown Foster.

Good evening, everyone.

Evening I want to thank this honorable body for coming over here to District 7 and the great job that you're doing.

And Councilman McCampbell, we're here for you.

Anything that you need, we're there for you.

So we're gonna make District 7 and the rest of the city as great as we want it to be.

The number one city in the country.

But what I want to speak on tonight is I am president of the Troy 300, one of the CDI teams here in the city that you uh gave funding for.

But every Wednesday at our headquarters uh for the rest of this month, and then starting next month every first and third Wednesday.

We invite the community out.

The DPD is there.

We want the community there, and Detroit 300.

We have to work together to stop this unnecessary violence in our city.

So I'm inviting you out whenever you can.

We meet at on Grand River at 15920 Grand River every Wednesday for the rest of this month, and starting next month, every first and third Wednesday.

And we all can work together, the city, DPD, the community, and Detroit 300 to curb this violence to make our city safe and the quality of life we expect.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Commander Newson, the D7 district managers.

Um kind of being district seven, too.

But Romans 12, 16, it says, be of the same mind, one toward another.

Mind not tie things, but condescend to men of lower states.

Be not wise in your own conceits.

Um in the Colonel Report, there was a quote it said our nation is moving towards two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal.

The triggers for the civil unrest was policing practice, inadequate housing, unemployment, exclusion of colors from the democratic process, transportation.

Martin Luther King quoted.

He said, This is a physician's warning of approaching death with a prescription for life.

And so we have to do better in how we are addressing our citizens.

I would like to see D Win be more involved in diagnosing social issues and social disorders here, and not just putting it on the citizens here.

There is a contributory um effect in this city.

Secondly, um, and that's in accordance with DSM 5.

Secondly, civil disobedience, the peaceful and intentional breaking of a law that a personal group believe is unjust, done publicly to bring about social or political change, often by accepting the legal consequences to highlight the law's unfairness.

Peace should never be met with violence.

Okay, civil disobedience should not be retaliated with violence, harassment, or coercion.

Hebrews 11-1.

Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

In 1988, the DNC, Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke very much about keeping hope alive.

It was about maintaining hope despite adversity.

Embrace your work, fight for progress, never surrender, believe in the possibility of a better future, and find common grounds.

Keep hope alive.

Thank you so much.

That takes us to the end of our in-person public comments.

We will now go to our online public commenters.

Who do we have first?

Leave the number we have is five.

First caller up.

Telephone number ending in 169.

Caller ending in 169.

The floor is yours.

We have two minutes, general for public comment.

Hello, can you guys hear me?

Yes, sir.

Cunningham needs bus tickets.

Cunningham needs bus tickets.

That is, sir.

I know he's usually pretty brief with his comments.

We'll go to the next caller, please.

Thank you so much for calling in.

Next telephone caller is Joanna Little.

Caller, the floor is yours.

We have two minutes.

General public comment.

My name is Joanna.

I'm the Littlefield Block Club president from the 7th district.

Big congratulations to Mr.

Campbell.

I was not gonna vote.

This was our last time.

Gonna be, we didn't want to vote.

But when you came out, um, not you, Callaway came out.

I'm sorry, and we was helping Callaway.

I said we're gonna do it.

We helped Callaway.

And then we find out that uh you were uh in the district and not Callaway.

Um I had to pray on it.

God said yes.

So my family prayed for you.

So big congratulations.

I'm glad it showed me and other people that uh our vote does matter.

So keep voting and stay in there because it does matter.

Um, I see a lot of faces that I did one up there.

Um congratulations again to Callaway as well.

Um through her process of getting back in.

She uh helped my son um to learn how to count as well as responsibility.

I wanna uh thank Miss Ladon Davis for reaching out as well as Linda Um Jackson for reaching out to me from the Campbell team.

Um, I like what y'all are doing.

Y'all coming um in and sticking to your word um of what you um asked or told us that you were going to do.

So you're sticking with that.

I appreciate everything that you're doing.

I'm not going to be able to mention my concerns, but I will um be at some meetings to um address some of my neighborhood concerns.

I would like because I can't see my time, so I don't know how fast or when to stop.

Uh, and I don't want to be rulely pressed and mute, so I'm going to end and I'll see you at um one of your next meetings.

Or Ladon, I will be in contact with you soon.

Can you please get that 313 um information for me, Ms.

Ladon?

I wasn't able to get it.

I would like to reach out and attend those meetings as well.

Thank you.

And um, thank you and big congratulations.

It's a big thank you so much.

Thank you for calling in.

Uh Mr.

President.

Member McCampbell.

Thank you so much, man, for calling in and for your uh kind words.

I just want to give you that number 313-224-2151.

That's our office number 313-224-215-1.

And we will also be in your neighborhood this Friday at 10 a.m.

at the Howard Family Bookstore for our coffee hour.

So if you can come out, please do join us.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is Betty A.

Varner.

Betty A.

Varner, the floor is yours.

We have two minutes.

General public comment.

Good evening to all within the sound of my voice.

I'm Betty A.

Varner, president of the Soda Elsewhere Black Association, asking and advocating for uh black clubs and association that the council will consider um uh advocating and putting money aside to assist the black clubs and association with the land uh escaping hearing, uh land use hearing.

I believe that's the proper name of it.

And there's a fee of $1,500.

I was told that we have to go and have this hearing with the city BC department, and we feel that um, you know, it's reaping havoc because we don't have this money, and we have been asked to buy up these lots, these vacant lots in our community to make them uh beautiful and useful, and we would like to uh purchase uh uh playscape equipment, and that equipment is expensive, but before we can even start working on that, we have to raise $1,500.

So please consider uh the council coming up with some type of plan, even administration, work with the council, weigh those fees for 501c3s, be um creative, help us out so that we can continue to do the work we're trying to do in our neighborhood.

I heard the honorable uh council member Callaway say that there's some gonna be some good news, and I was gonna be happy about my thinker corridor.

So I'm waiting to get that news, and I'm asking that the administration continue to focus on our corridor.

We need monies.

Work with our Finkel Business Association.

We are being noticed.

So please help us with our think of corridor.

And I don't know how much time I have, but there is a miss burner.

Two minutes.

But we know we're gonna hear from you again, and we're gonna make sure we stay in contact with you.

Thank you for calling.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is calling user one.

Call in user one.

The floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Call in user one.

Are you there?

Going once.

Going twice.

Going three times.

Call in user one.

Are you there?

Fortunately, we're gonna have to move on.

Oh, there you go.

Can you hear me?

Hello.

Yeah, we can hear you, yes, ma'am.

Yes, ma'am.

Welcome.

Start a time over again, please.

Hello, ma'am.

Yes.

So I would like to see you all offer um a new skill trade for Detroit eyelash technician training, like it's in Texas, Arizona, Tennessee, New York, Connecticut.

And I hope that member Johnson will consider it.

Member Campbell, as you are on the vocational committee.

We need to be the first to offer this for our city.

I also hope that council will do better at making sure where there is public high schools.

You're not keeping the walkways done.

Um Lynnwood and West Grand on north and south side of the street.

Uh the north side was not shoveled.

Children falling and slipping, and when you make council member Miller, uh staff aware by email photos, nothing is done other than just giving excuse.

You don't have to see somebody in person to tell them and show them pictures and evidence, and this needs to be corrected.

It's garbage out at these um garbage containers in front of the bus stops that haven't been picked up in the last week.

Pictures have shown this, and it needs to be corrected.

Finally, member Tate, I would hope that now that you're president, you will start taking better notion and making sure when council member staff is not reaching out and doing what they're supposed to do to make sure their areas are cleaned up and brought up to code.

You will oversee that as to why they're being negligent.

I can care less if you knew, just getting the office.

I don't give a damn about that.

You signed on to do a job.

Thank you, Ms.

Shay.

Appreciate you for always uh being taking part in our our meeting.

Appreciate Mr.

President.

Uh member McCampbell.

Just uh skill trades was mentioned.

I do want to um remind folks that we do have our skill trades task force meeting tomorrow, February 18th at 4 p.m.

Um 4 to 6.

This is happening at the Carpenters and Mill Rice Training Center at 11687 American.

But folks can also join via Zoom, and that is chaired by Member Waters.

Um member Miller is the co-chair along with myself as a co-chair.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next, well, this is the last caller.

Janice D.

Hazel.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes.

General public comment.

Good evening.

I'm Janice D.

Hazel, and I serve as the president of the Aviation Subdivision Neighborhood Association.

After graduating from the University of Michigan, I served on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

with Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, Senator Donald Regal, Congressman John Conyers, and in multiple presidential administrations, including President Obama's White House and the Reagan and Trump administrations.

I retired and removed and returned home to the house I grew up in in the aviation subdivision.

Many of you may remember my mother, Gladys Hazel, who was president of the Barton McFarland Neighborhood Association for years advocating for our community.

Tonight I'm asking that we move forward on the task force council woman Mary Waters committed to at our September 2025 meeting.

Illegal racing cars and motorcycles in aviation subdivision is dangerous.

On my street, Oakman Boulevard, speeding vehicles, lose control and land in residence yards just inches from our homes.

This is not just a nuisance, it's a public safety crisis.

Second, we request city support to provide land for a neighborhood solar project for residents' homes to help low-income homeowners reduce energy costs and advance clean energy and equity, similar to the city's neighborhood solar program to power municipal buildings.

Third, we ask for funding for a Joy Road retail survey between Wyoming and Schaefer, similar to the study being conducted between Greenfield and Evergreen on Joy Road, so we can drive intentional economic development.

Fourth, we urge the creation of a therapeutic aquatic recreation center with heated pools for seniors and residents with disabilities and other services.

There are very few physical therapy clinics in Detroit.

We have to go outside the city for therapy.

Warm water therapy.

Thank you so much.

I do know that there was a uh comment that Member Miller would like to make before we uh exit.

I just wanted to address the last caller.

I'm not sure which name she's going by today, if it's Miss Shay or Miss Money or whatever one it is.

I just want to say my office has asked you for your name, your address, and your phone number, and you have not been diligent to provide it.

We have a protocol, and the first thing we ask you is your name, your address, and your phone number.

You have not been forthcoming.

I knew you were going to call today.

You told me that you were, so I am not going to go back and forth, but we did call out for how those services done and was told that it was.

As far as the pictures you sent, I am not familiar, but I will take your call.

Feel free to leave a number.

You said your phone was broken, that you were using your cousin's phone.

I said, well, give me a number where I can call you back.

I even offered my number, but you refuse to talk to me on the telephone.

So at this point, I am just gonna say, feel free to acknowledge it publicly if you like.

But I am a phone call away, and I am also available in person.

Feel free to set up an appointment, and I would gladly talk to you, but I will not continue to indulge in public display of bad behavior.

Thank you.

Member Miller, I know there may be some folks who are looking for your phone number if you don't mind.

Just giving it out to folks.

My number is 224505.

2244505.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And I want to also thank all of you for coming out this evening.

You could have been anywhere else, but you decided to uh participate in this civic opportunity.

Uh, we we hear you, we're listening.

We're also going to make sure we take a heed to the items and issues that you brought before us.

Uh, also want to remind you that Savior's Day is this Sunday, uh, February 22nd at Huntington Place, uh, starting at 2 p.m.

It's Savior's Day and the theme, very important.

We must make our community a decent and safe place to live.

Again, Savior's Day, February 22nd, Sunday, 2 p.m.

at Huntington Place.

And as we depart, the last voice that you hear is going to be none other than uh Councilmember Denzel McCampbell, District 7.

Y'all give it up.

Give it up.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you to everyone who came out this evening to District 7.

Again, um, I appreciate you and for the honor of representing you.

I do not take it lightly.

I hope from what we shared today about our intention around our team.

Um, you see that.

Uh please, if there's if you have any issues, any ideas, any solutions, because I know our solutions are in our neighborhood.

Please do reach out to our office.

Please join us at our coffee hours.

And we are going to really put in great work for District 7 and the city as a whole, because I'm always thinking about all sides of the city, both west and east.

But thank you so much for being here tonight.

Thank you to my colleagues.

Thank you to the staff.

Thank you to Media Service and EPU as well.

And God bless you all and be safe tonight.

Thank you.

Meeting is adjourned.