Councilmember Letitia Johnson present.

Councilmember Denzel and Tom McCampbell.

Present.

Councilmember Renata Miller.

Member Miller indicated in the memo that she would be tardy, which is makes her tardiness excused.

Clerk was on note, Mr.

President.

Councilmember Gabriela Santiago Romero.

Present.

Council Member Mary Waters, present.

Councilmember Angela Winfield Callaway.

Also President Pro Tim Coleman A.

Young a second.

Here.

Council President James Tate.

Here.

Mr.

President, you have a form.

Thank you so much.

There being a forum, which means they're now in session.

We will now begin to take the collection of public commenters who would like to speak before this body this morning, both in person and online.

So please raise your hand if you're in person, if you're online.

Also raise your hand because we will be cutting off the collection of public comments shortly.

Providing this morning's invocation, we have none other than Reverend Milton Aaston of New Providence Baptist Church, which is pastored by the Dr.

Everett En Jennings Senior, whose leadership has grown the church congregation from 300 members to more than 4,000 members on the road.

A new Providence Baptist Church is located at 1821 Plymouth Road in District 7.

Reverend Milton, if you can please come forward.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you for providing this morning's invitation.

So thank you for being here.

Absolutely.

Thank you so much.

Let us pray.

Dear God, we thank you today for the privilege to come before you today in prayer.

Well, we thank you for the covering and the leadership and partnerships of the city.

God, we pray for the success of those who've been given the privilege to serve on the selected body of government.

We pray that you keep a hedge of protection around them.

I pray that you allow a spirit of peace and cohesion, one that causes the agenda and business plan to work together for the good of those who it impacts the most.

In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

Amen.

Thank you, Reverend.

If you would like to stay, we would love to have you.

Um, but if you have other opportunity obligations, we understand that as well.

Thank you.

All right.

And colleagues, before we go forward, I'd like to take an opportunity at this moment to uh open the floor for Pro Tim Young to provide a recognition to someone who many of us, depending on how long you've been in this building, you have known her for quite some time.

She's done some great work uh on behalf of uh Wayne County and the city of Detroit for a pretty long time as well.

And with that being said, uh Pro Tim Young the floor is short.

Thank you, Mr.

Presbyter.

Uh Ms.

Montgomery.

She'll be great.

I'll be right away.

Excellent.

Yes.

She's so busy.

She almost missed the spirit of Detroit Award here.

Wait a minute.

Uh I just wanted to say that there is a great line that says that um you want to do something so great that the work that you do outlasts your life.

And I think that that sums Miss Montgomery up perfectly.

We are here to honor someone whose impact cannot be measured by a title alone.

From 2004 to 2026, our office manager has been the steady hand behind the scenes at Detroit Wayne Joint Building Authority.

For more than two decades, while leaderships changed, projects evolved, and challenges came and went.

One thing remained constant.

Her reliability.

An office manager's work is always not always visible.

It does not usually make the headlines, but it is the work that makes everything else possible.

She was the first one in when something needed to be solved, and often the last one to leave with something needed to be finished.

She kept the counter straight, the paperwork moving, the vendors coordinating, and the small daily problems from becoming massive ones.

When someone had a question, she always had an answer.

And with someone needed direction, she always provided clarity.

And when tensions ran high, she brought calm.

Over 22 years, she saw renovations, budget cycles, audits, and meetings that ran long and deadlines that came fast.

And through it all, she showed up with professionalism and a sense of responsibility that never wavered.

She treated the building not just as a workplace, but as something worth caring for all.

Many of us have personal stories.

A reminder call at just the right time.

A last bit solution that saved the day.

A quiet word of encouragement during a stressful week.

Those moments matter.

They build trust, they build culture, they build a team.

Longevity alone is impressive, but longevity with consistency, integrity, and grace is something rare.

So today we thank you not only for the tasks you completed, but for the tone you set.

You've helped shape the daily experience of everyone who's ever walked through those doors.

You made the work smoother, you made the environment better.

You made a difference.

Yes.

As you close this chapter, know that your efforts have left a lasting mark.

The systems you built, the standards you have held, and the relationships you formed will continue long after today.

And so it is my great honor and privilege, because of all that work of excellence, to present this spirit of Detroit Award presented as an expression of the gratitude and esteem of the people of Detroit to the significantly important and tremendously viable Cynthia Montgomery, everybody.

You know, this is not my thing, but I appreciate all of you as much as you all appreciate.

You are an asset to our great city of Detroit.

We thank you and are eternally grateful for your tireless efforts, exceptional achievement, outstanding leadership, and dedicated devotion that lives the spirits and fills the hearts of the people of Detroit, Michigan, and America, the honorable Coleman A.

Young the Second, Detroit City Council President, Pro Temp Right, at large, number one, with the entire Detroit City Council of Detroit, Michigan, are proud to present this Spirit of Detroit Award to Cynthia Montgomery, everybody.

Now you ain't clap.

Can I leave that?

Yeah, you if you won't, let's take a photo with you.

You're gonna take photos.

Okay, we're gonna take before we do that.

Any any colleagues have any other words of no, they don't.

All right.

There it is.

I'll take it.

Thank you, Miss Montgomery, for all your work uh that you've done here.

I know I'm sorry, you gotta go through it.

This is what happens when you get flowers when you can smell it.

We want to thank you for all of the work and dedication that you provided to this this county and city.

I mean, that's not easy being the joint because we don't always agree on everything in the same way, but you have uh always made sure that you approach things very sternly but efficiently, very sternly but efficiently, and sometimes that's what you need to do when you have a lot of folks who uh are are empowered to do certain things, you gotta be stern.

So we thank you for all of uh the work that you've done and the heart that you put into it over the years.

That being said, we're about to come down and take a photo with you, ma'am.

I got it.

I got what a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful recognition.

Thank you, Pro Tim Young.

Y'all give it up for Miss Montgomery one more time, please.

Don't let me get by myself.

All right, that's better.

That's better.

All right.

So, as we have uh this very, very, very um exciting update with uh Miss Montgomery about this retirement.

We have an update that we want to provide folks that's an extension from a number of uh public comments that came last week, and just an item that we've been delving into over the weeks.

Memos have been presented to the administration.

Conversations have been held as well.

Uh and there is a court hearing that's taking place uh right now, as a matter of fact, dealing with this particular issue, and that is the Leland House, the Leland House.

And so I would like for uh Ms.

Trisha Stein as well as Director Julie Snyder to come forward, as well as Graham Anderson, give us all an update on where everything stands.

Again, noting that there is a court hearing taking place literally right now.

So there is going to be a to be continued on some of this, but we need to uh have a we'd like to provide the public with a better understanding of how we're going into these proceedings.

Uh Stein, please introduce yourself for the record and the floor is yours.

Yes, sir.

Thank you uh for having us, uh, President Tate.

Trisha Stein, senior director of strategic initiatives.

Can you hear me?

Yeah, we need to can we pump up the value on that mic in particular because the rest of them sound pretty good media services.

Can you give a one, two, one, two, uh, Trisha?

Hello, testing testing.

Is that better?

Uh, you know, love because you're you're in a good space.

You can hear pretty good.

All right.

Maybe just by either.

Sorry, but the council member's telling me she can hear me.

So district two can say she can hear me.

Uh, so I want to make sure that district two is represented by everybody here.

Uh all right, better.

Good.

Thank you.

Uh good morning, uh, President Tate.

Thank you for having us.

Trisha Stein, Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives for President, or for goodness gracious, for Mayor Sheffield.

Uh, and Mayor Sheffield had us to come down today, uh, up here, excuse me, today, uh, to uh pick up from the conversation that happened last week.

Uh, there was a memo that was sent to this honorable body uh late yesterday, uh, and I appreciate that it was sent late, which is why we wanted to come down and provide a little bit more uh information.

Uh, because uh the city in the last seven days has been working very hard to um assess what will take to uh temporarily restore power in the building uh for the uh uh belongings of the residents to be safely and securely removed.

Uh and then also um uh Graham Anderson will talk about the legal proceedings and what the city is presenting right now.

And then Julie Schneider will also discuss the continuation of services that the city has provided to the displaced residents since December 10th, when there was a building failure and uh the power uh went out.

And so um we are here uh again to provide a brief update because they're currently while we stand here, corporation council, uh fire marshal, and Chelsea Neville are all in front of uh Judge Oxhome because uh since November of 2025, the Leland House has been in bankruptcy court, and uh the the expenses for that building are under the purview of bankruptcy court.

So hopefully by the end of session, there will be an update that we could provide uh from bankruptcy court, but we're here now um at least to talk on uh uh an overview of the legal proceedings, proceedings, and then the services that have been provided.

And we'd like to uh note that I um cutting off the collection of public comments at this moment.

Thank you.

Through the Chair Graham Anderson Law Department.

Um yes, as um uh how Julie Snyder informed everyone that um uh or Trisha Stein, excuse me.

Um we're currently in court right now.

So this isn't going to answer all the questions, just kind of providing an update of what is before uh the court at uh this very moment.

There's three issues that the judge is hearing at this time.

First, the tenants union, they filed a request for reconsideration of a judge's order, where the judge had previously approved 100,000 to be spent by the Leland owners for relocation.

That's the first issue.

The second matter is the Leland owners, they have a motion to allow relocation to begin for tenants provide that who have provided written consent already.

And finally, there is a report on timing of the Leland owners motion for bidding to begin.

Because as we know, they obviously declare bankruptcy.

So the next big step becomes who actually purchases the building at this point.

Um it's difficult because it's in bankruptcy court, so the Leland owners them attempting to sell within that jurisdiction.

It limits things, for example, we're not able to place a lien on the building currently.

So a lot of this is very in development at the moment, as we've said.

Uh, but we will potentially have more to inform this body by the end of formal session, depending on how long this session goes and depending on how long the bankruptcy motions heard go.

Um so if I get any text from uh Conrad or Jason Harrison, I will uh gladly uh inform your staff and uh provide any additional updates as they come in today.

If not, though, we will have additional information for next week for this body and the public.

Thank you.

Good morning.

For the record, Julie Schneider, director of the housing and revitalization department.

So we are working closely with the tenants of the Leland, as well as the fire marshal to make sure that we're balancing the safety of the residents along with their very real need to retrieve and have their belongings.

So since last Tuesday, in order to identify how we can balance those two things, we've been working to identify open and approved city contracts so we know what options we have in order to take the actions we need to retrieve those belongings.

Um doing an assessment of the Leland House building, particularly the the electrical uh transformer um that was damaged uh that was what led to the uh electrical concerns at the property back on December 10th, obtaining those the cost estimates for both moving, moving with with no electric, no temporary electricity, no elevator, as well as a temporary electrical restoration of the building, which would involve rented transformers, renter generators, under and again understanding whether or not the current electrical uh capacity of the building will allow for those those connections, as well as understanding the conditions of the elevators, so that um should we be able to restore temporarily restore electricity that that elevator works, and so two different moving situations associated with having temporary electricity at the property as well as a moving scenario where there uh remains no electricity at the property, and then meeting with our outside council to prepare an asset retrieval plan, as that will be discussed during the hearing that is that is happening today.

Um since December 10th, we've worked uh to provide the emergency evacuation that I know has been discussed at this council before, assessing housing resources, uh obtaining to uh so far we've received 21 inventory lists from the uh tenants of the Leland, uh, providing hotel accommodations, uh providing wraparound services, including clothing, food, transportation for the residents that need it, legal advocacy.

So far, 14 households have have found permanent housing, three more uh have identified housing and are awaiting moves, um, and we are continuing to work with the remaining talents and hotel to find them permanent housing solutions while we also are working to make sure that we identify um a an option that works again, balancing both the needs of of the residents, their desire to be able to supervise um or be a part of of the move, though we will be hiring professional um professional movers.

It's a it's a uh large building.

Uh our electricity would only be temporarily restored.

It's important that that when we're able to move that it be done with expediency, but also care for the for the residence items.

And so that is what HRD is currently doing to both support residents and work with the fire marshal work with law as we as we also um try to uh as we work to support the residents in this matter.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And I know that the uh memo was submitted by member Santiago Romero.

Um open up any questions uh with you.

The floor is yours, ma'am.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Through you, thank you to administration.

Um, this is exactly what we've been asking for.

Uh we needed to find a creative solution.

Um, and I'm glad we're here.

It's unfortunate that it's took tenants coming down, asking and begging for this to be the case.

But this is why collective action matters.

And thank you to my colleagues for also emphasizing the need for us to find a solution as quickly as possible.

Um huge thank you to Patricia on my team who's working very closely with HID and tenants to make sure that we are providing these wraparound services.

One major question that we have is around storage.

So we retrieve the the items.

How are we going to store them while folks are still looking to be relocated?

And can we confirm that we'll have at least two months of housing for folks while we look for them to be relocated or to find housing again.

Uh uh through council president, uh, to Councilmember Santiago Mary, I wanted to make sure I got all the questions.

Uh, yes, ma'am.

Uh so uh thank you for lifting that up because we were remiss into saying that.

That is part of what we have also been doing over the last few weeks to present to uh uh Judge Axholm at this moment.

Uh storage will be provided.

Uh the city will be uh offering that.

Uh as uh director Snyder just said, 14 households have been moved to permanent uh housing.

So their belongings will be moved to their location that they've they've uh been secured, and then uh the remaining of the households will have if they're not already moved, because there's three more and in process.

So depending on when the judge order and temporary power can be restored, uh, then uh we will store those items.

And uh yes, that is the timeline that we presented uh to the mayor and is being presented to uh the judge right now is two months time.

Uh that absolutely those covers all your questions, right?

Timeline and storage, yes.

Um for our office, the biggest priority was making sure people got their items back as quickly as possible.

Hopefully, we can get that done.

Um, but we continue to make sure that we find safe housing for them.

I think the larger conversation that is left here is I know the tenants are looking to either purchase the property themselves or gain access to it.

I think this leads to the conversation that we're having around co-ops.

Um, and how we can think creatively with the property that we currently have now, um, and how we can make sure that tenants have more control, uh, more ownership, more housing stability.

Uh, but thank you for the work that you're doing.

We will hear more after the court's decision today.

Um, but really just want to make people make sure people get their items as quickly as possible.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Uh Pro Tim Yellow.

Thank you, uh, Mr.

President.

And uh thank you, everybody, for doing more.

Uh, Mr.

Anderson, I wanted to ask you something.

Um from my opinion, what happened here was was negligence.

And if it was negligence that was let's say something that he knew, it could potentially be criminal negligence.

And we could be talking about potentially charges filed against landlord, the owner of this building.

Let me just do let me just read some of the things that have to happen.

Criminal liability happens when the landlord knew of a dangerous situation, the danger posed a substantial risk of serious injury or death.

The landlord had the ability to fix or mitigate it.

The landlord consciously ignored the risk or serious harm or death occurred.

And I just want, I mean, maybe you can't speak to this, maybe this is something sensitive.

I know I'm not supposed to speak on ongoing justifications, and maybe hit like blink fast three times to confirm what I'm saying.

But I don't want to you know mess up the investigation here, but it seems to me that could that be possible that we could be going down this round.

I mean, I think that'd probably go through Wayne County.

This is not court, they go through Wayne County.

But is that possible as well to this through the chair to pro-Tum B Young?

Uh is always you'd make an excellent judge.

Uh I know you're always reading off on your case law and everything, and I appreciate that.

I don't want to speculate too much on this because as you said, that is best handled by the prosecutor's office.

That's that's out of our realm.

Sure, when you do look at the certain elements, I think it checks a lot of boxes, but uh that that's not my position to uh make that ruling or to make that decision to pursue that.

Uh but I think one of the biggest things we'd be looking at would be the actus reason, and and I'm not sure um if anyone was actually physically harmed by this.

Obviously, we have extensive property damage.

I'm not familiar with any bodily harm that's been caused by this.

I don't believe so.

Um, that I think would change the analysis.

Um, but but at this point, I I don't want to speculate too much on that, but but always I remember you asked um corporation counsel last week about gross negligence, and he answered your question about how bankruptcy limits uh the damage is there, but your head's always thinking then okay, what about criminal law?

So I I appreciate the creativity that you and your office bring to the table.

Uh, but uh anything beyond that, I just be speculating.

And then this is a question.

I don't again, I don't want to talk too much of this, but is that also part of the reason and I'm not trying to have you climb inside people's heads here, but is that part of the reason why the city has been very measured in terms of the building in terms of taking the property in terms of other action they could take because those charges might be pending and they don't want to necessarily impede upon that by the city taking responsibilities or getting involved in places that they can't be.

Through the chair, I cannot confirm or deny any of that.

Um, however, I would say because that's an open, however, I would say we we're taking measured responses because this is such a sensitive matter and the stakes are so high that we we truly believe the the steady hand approach is the best way to move forward with uh matter of this level of sensitivity and importance.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you all for your work.

I appreciate you all.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Um Member McCamber.

Thank you, Mr.

President, and good morning.

Thank you all for being here for your work and updates on this.

Um, I just have a couple of questions just so I can make sure I have understand it.

We talked about the cost and whether or not um that there is electricity and how that will look.

What the what the city has spent and potentially will spend with the moving as such, will we then become a creditor in this bankruptcy case?

Uh through you, Mr.

President, to member McCampill, yes, absolutely.

Uh corporation counsel uh mallet intends to put us on the list uh in bankruptcy court to be a creditor.

You're absolutely right.

Thank you.

And and with the knowing the bankruptcy, I'm not well versus the bankruptcy law, but in this, I know the goal will be for, I know the owners are indicated that they want to sell this property.

Um I know the proceeds will then go to the creditors there.

Is there a possibility with the I guess with the sale it may not be, but is there a possibility that the city may take um ownership of that property as a creditor?

Uh, through you, Mr.

President, to member McCampbell.

Um, that is not the intent uh as I understand it, but the bankruptcy judge needs to rule.

Uh so I just still want to continue to um make sure we we uh uh uh you know uh continue to remember the the process uh is is in the order of operations.

So the uh plan, as I understand it, but could be discussed right now being something different.

But the plan is understood before uh was that there would be an online auction and that uh uh the owner had uh secured a broker, uh, and that is how the sale of the building uh would proceed.

However, the bankruptcy judge does need to rule on that.

Got it.

Um, thank you for that.

And I guess I have a question also that um I believe my colleague member Johnson brought up last week.

And I know BC and the consent agreement and such and the inspections on um what they were looking for.

I guess is there is there do we have anything in place or maybe we need to start to work on it that as we talked about that there was standing water in the basement and other things that really made conditions in the building really unlivable, in my opinion beforehand.

Are there things that we need to look at to strengthen so that we don't get to this point again at another uh property?

Through you, Mr.

President, to member McCampbell.

Uh, these are some of the items that uh building and safety uh certainly have looked at uh and can and to uh inspect and monitor.

And uh they are also in bankruptcy court or would be here with us right now uh in presenting.

And so I think that there are some real lessons learned, as you just point out, uh, that should inform uh future actions on uh enforcing consent agreements and uh getting through that point.

Uh so making sure that we uh learn from this uh very uh important lesson.

Thank you.

Yeah, definitely would love to be a part of that conversation because as we're looking at one of uh not only as we're thinking about a price tag for the city, right?

But we know that the residents in this building have been going through quite a lot for quite some time now, and I want to make sure as we are facing a housing crisis that that also includes the folks that are in an inadequate housing right now.

So definitely want to be a partner of that.

But thank you all so much.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, good morning.

Thank you all for the update.

So, to further what member McCampbell just mentioned, um what it'll take is for the departments within the city to work together.

BC indicated last week that they they did everything that they were tasked with doing, right?

So they were providing tickets.

Um the health department, I don't believe had been brought into the conversation.

And if not, I think that's something that's extremely important that needs to happen.

Um, I think on a regular basis, and I'm not sure if that takes for the health department to add on a division to focus on um housing as well.

Um, because I know we're not seeing the support.

I know with the travel in, we've been having these conversations, trying to bring the health department in because people are living in unhealthy conditions, unsafe conditions.

If BC has done what they are tasked with doing, where is the health department also saying this is an unhealthy environment for people to live in?

And then we respond as the housing and revitalization department would respond to rehouse people or to provide the support to get them out of the situation while also ensuring that the law department is doing what it needs to do to remove the property from the owner.

Um, do whatever we need to do to push them to be accountable to residents in the city of Detroit.

And I think that's what needs to happen.

We need to have a collaborative effort by the administration to bring all of these entities together to address the problems that we're seeing.

This is not a one-off.

This is not we're we're seeing this happen time and time again throughout the city of Detroit.

So I would really love to see that.

Um I do have a question.

Director Snyder brought up the two options, if you will, uh, the routes that we're looking at to determine how we move forward.

At what point in time do we make that determination?

Uh Ms.

President, if you mind, I I'd like to respond to both of those uh through you uh to member Johnson.

Uh first, uh, your answer is absolutely.

It's part of my job to do cross-department collaboration.

So um absolutely uh department should be working together and build out capacity as need to to ensure that we are um improving quality of life and meeting residents where they are.

So, first and foremost, uh so I thank you for that recommendation.

The second one is those two options that Director Schneider just uh uh presented, which is uh temporary restoring uh the power in the building and and presenting a uh a draft budget uh from some of the cost estimates that we're able to garner in the last uh few days versus um not restoring uh power and having movers work in that situation.

That's being discussed right now at Bankers Record, and then that will be based on the judge ruling.

Uh, what path is taken?

So we should know uh well uh hopefully we will know very soon.

And and the law department is pushing to go in one way or the other.

Or no, we're just leaving leaving it open.

Through you, uh Mr.

President Chair Member Johnson.

I since it's happening right now.

I say which route, but oh no, no, no, no.

I since I it's happening right now.

I I don't know how the tone and tenor is changing.

I do know it was our intention is to have a preference to temporary restore the power.

I I do know that.

However, I I'm I'm just hesitant to speak at this moment.

Something could have changed.

I I have we we as far as I know, we we um are unaware of what the owner was uh presenting this morning.

Uh at the February 4th hearing, the judge told both of us, uh both parties to come back with a plan today.

Um, and so I know what our plan is.

I don't know how it might have changed, uh, depending on how what the owner uh's rep has has brought to the table, uh, but it was our preference to temporary restore the power.

Okay, thank you.

Um and so that's that's what I wanted to hear what our plan um was that we were walking into court to articulate this morning.

Um, I know one of the things that we also talked about last week was giving the residents access to the units so that they could either package up their own items or be present while those items are being packaged just to make sure that everything is there, put it that way, just to make sure everything is there.

I think that was extremely important to them, and they uplifted that.

Um, so I hope we'll we'll push for that to happen as well, um, making sure that they can do it in a safe manner, of course, is important, but I think that is of utmost importance to them.

Um, so thank you all for that.

And I will say, uh, Ms.

Stein, I would love to work with you on the collaborative effort.

I think there are some things from a legislative perspective that needs to be done to give the administration um the ability to push a little more to make sure that we're holding everybody accountable throughout the city and providing the respect to our residents that they deserve.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Colleagues, any additional?

All right.

Well, thank you so much.

We do look forward to hearing the outcome of today's uh proceedings.

Um, because I know it more than likely won't be done today.

We'll still have to move forward, identifying where the funds, I'll be interested where the funds are coming from, all that other good stuff as we move forward.

But thank you for this update today, and we will uh be in conversation.

Thank you again.

All right.

There being no considerations or unfinished business colleagues, we will proceed to the budget finance and audit standing committee.

Madam Clerk.

Three reports from various city departments.

The three reports will be referred to the budget audit and finance committee.

Mr.

President, we only attorney operations standing committee, five reports for various city departments.

I'm sorry, Madam Clerk.

I didn't hear you.

I thought you had repeated budget finance audit standing committee again.

I'm sorry, Madam Clerk.

Maybe it's my ears this morning.

So I apologize.

No problem.

So for the internal operations standing committee, Mr.

President, there are five reports from various city departments.

The five reports would be referred for the planning and economic development standing committee.

Four reports from various city departments.

The four reports would be referred to the planning to the um public health and safety for to the department, the public for the public health and safety standing committee.

Six reports from various city departments.

The six reports would be referred to the public health and safety standing committee.

We will now move to voting action matters.

Under other matters, Mr.

President, there are no items.

Under communication from the mayor and governmental agencies.

There are no items, Mr.

President.

Thank you so much.

I apologize, Madam Clerk.

No we will now call for public comment.

We do have a number of public commenters who are uh calling in and come down today.

So we're going to give a minute and 30 for public comments this morning.

We're going to start with our uh individuals who are in the committee of whole or in the auditorium.

We're going to start with Miss Rebecca Fitz, followed by Althea Crawford, followed by Reverend Sharon Buttrie.

Good morning.

Get the clock up and just ask everyone to please be mindful of the time.

The clocks are there.

Because once your time is up, we're going to have to move on to the next individual.

Good morning.

The floor is yours, Ms.

Fritz.

Morning.

I'm an activist in the community.

I've been an activist for uh over a decade here in the city, uh, specifically in housing and water.

Um, I've been taking city buses for over 10 years, and the conditions have not gotten better.

Um, I was uh referred by Brother Cunningham to uh approach today in regards to this, um, the cleanliness of the buses.

Uh the fact that um I, as a disabled person, can stand for over two hours and wait for a bus on Linwood and it doesn't show up and then have to walk four to five blocks um to to try to catch another bus that also doesn't show up is um an issue.

Um my legs were broken uh two years ago, and um at that point in time, my children were taken out of the house because I was considered a hoarder because I didn't have the ability to get upstairs and clean because my legs were broken and my children in the system, and I need to be able to use the bus system in order to complete all the things that CPS requires to get my children back.

And um it's a huge uh mountain to climb, especially not being able to depend on the bus service.

So I'm asking that um more work and um efficiency be put into D dot so that I can be able to get my gifts back.

Thank you, ma'am.

And just for those who have not come down before council before, what we do is we take in the public comment, but we don't uh go back and forth.

We may have someone refer to you from our teams to address it after public comment.

We take the time to address you will not hear a back and forth with us.

Um just wanted to give you all a heads up for those who have not come down here before.

But thank you uh for coming down for your first time.

Hopefully, we'll see you again sometime.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Miss Uh Althea Crawford.

Yes, good morning, counsel.

Morning.

I'm here to talk about Cranos uh concrete mixing plant behind Buddy's Pizza.

Uh, we're asking to down zone the end of the block there because it's running right into Joe Lewis uh what is it?

What's the name of the greenway?

Yeah.

So we want to get that down zone so it won't be contrasting, you know what I'm saying?

Because the dust, it don't make sense to have health and walking and beautification, and then you got this mess behind right behind.

So if we can get that down zone, that would be perfect.

And y'all can stay on top of them about the air quality and everything.

And make sure they're doing what they're supposed to do because I'm tired of getting sinus infections because I don't have four in the last year.

So that would be wonderful.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next speaker, Reverend Sharon Buttrie, followed by Diana Morris, followed by John Lasau.

I do apologize if I mispronounce your name.

Reverend Butcher.

Good morning, Council President, and through you to all the members.

My name's Reverend Sharon Batwe.

I'm with the Detroit Him Tremont Coalition for Advancing Healthy Environments.

And we speak on behalf of the health of the residents of Cadillac Heights, District 3, and Bangla Town, and indeed all the air areas that people have to breathe that are within a mile at least of the Kronos facility.

Cronos Concrete sits behind Buddy's Pizza on McNichols between Kona and Joseph Compo.

There are six schools within one mile of that facility and daycares.

We are asking for downzoning from M4 to SD2 for the land that sits at the western edge of the current operations because we understand it's unlikely that the actual operations area will be downzoned.

But there is a wedge of land between uh Joseph Campo and Gallagher and Jerome and McNichols.

About four and a half acres.

Any one of you could call for the downzoning of that.

We're asking for your help.

If residents do it, we're going to have to pay an application fee.

And we feel that's egregious considering all the suffering that's happened in that neighborhood, people's health.

We would like to ask that you would consider this because of the uh residents' health and their needs.

Uh homes have been devalued greatly.

Many residents have been forced to leave.

People are suing the company.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Next speaker, Diana Morris, followed by Jan Last.

Um it's very um disheartening when you have a millionaire, billionaire coming in and take our land.

This was a net.

This area was residential housing.

We have this air quality issue, dust.

It just changes the whole environment of our neighborhood.

I'm also here to report my conditions that have changed dramatically.

They tore down three houses right around me.

They repaved the street.

We all want these things to happen.

Then the coronas came.

That's a lot of new material.

Dust particulates.

I have been found with six nodules in my throat that I did not have.

Breathing is very short.

I'm still working.

I'm 65 years old.

What are we to do?

We need your help.

Thank you.

You're speaker John Lasalle, followed by Betty Lyons, followed by Adam.

Can you pass one to the president?

One to my representative Gabriela, please.

Hello, my name is John D.

Lasslow.

And I gotta put my glasses on.

And I'm here to remind you that this is the city of Detroit, not the city of destroy it.

You weaponize the property taxes, the home taxes, and use them against the people to destroy Detroit and to exterminate its residents.

In 1950s, we had over two million people here in Detroit.

Now we let we have less than half of a million because of your property taxes.

People can't leave in Detroit.

Just under Mike Doggins' reign of terror in Detroit, we lost about half a million people because Mike Dogan tripled our property taxes.

He knew Detroit with the same crap that Mary Schiffield is using today, claiming the home properties went up by half by 500 million dollars this year, ripping us off by another 15, 20 million dollars in home taxes when the whole city aside over a couple buildings downtown, the rest of the city ain't won't die.

But they say they run up by half 500 million.

Using the property tax as a weapon, you destroyed white what the people built for hundreds of years, schools, hospitals, public buildings.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

I'm sorry, I didn't think.

Followed by Shara Williams.

Thank you.

I have another question.

How can you validate the part?

As I mentioned earlier, once the time expires, you have to relieve your time before the mic.

Thank you, so Betty Lyons.

Over 600 million dollars belonging to Detroit residents, stolen property taxes, refused to give back to us, and continues to give these lies of why we can't get it back.

But you say something about Mexican town.

They get housing repair.

They get over a million dollars.

And Dugan bragged about I'm gonna make them whole.

We're gonna make them whole.

Now we're gonna go to the Leland House and don't act like this is new to y'all knew when this started.

Negligence.

And it sounds like constructive eviction.

They shouldn't have to pay anything.

They should be enriched.

Also, there are other senior places and on Jefferson, and you know it.

This is years going on.

You knew it.

So don't sit up here like you care.

Because it started out with a little bandage.

Now it's a gaping, stinking sore that you are aware of, and you know it.

You know it, Miss Johnson, you know it.

So I come up here speaking for also Mr.

Miles, and also Ruby Riley.

Also, Perry Columbus, who's fighting with that land bank.

You're not saying nothing about them.

When are they gonna be made whole?

Next speaker, Adam Barrett, followed by Shar Williams, followed by Brother Cunningham.

Adam Barrett, Detroit is for Tax Justice, a moratorium now coalition.

Um, here in solidarity with those fighting the Kronos Crusher.

Um, but back to the Leland.

Um, we're already using public money to bankroll private real estate development downtown with the DDA.

So, how can we argue that seizing the dilapidated Leland and fixing it up for public use would be too financially risky?

If the Leland were auctioned as planned to a private investor, who's gonna bet that the next owner wouldn't immediately turn around and request DDA tax incentives to transform it into unaffordable luxury condos.

Simultaneously, as this legal industry is unfolding, there's more updated data coming out really uh showing how the promises that were made to justify the investment of these public tax dollars into downtown development are not being fulfilled.

And we still got CRC studies gathering dust from 2024 that council paid for.

Uh that said the DDA should be dissolved that haven't even been considered the hegemonic reign of private corporate interests over Detroit's affairs and its people by DTE and slum lord building owners has to end.

The people truly need affordable housing, strong protection from capricious decisions by landlords or monopoly utility companies and gentrification.

I just wanted to point out the contradictions here and that the money flow to do this already exists, but it's flowing in the wrong direction.

Thanks.

Followed by Brother Cunningham, followed by Josh Mann.

12 years since the LBI gave this Detroit police department, the city back.

Okay, so this is for all the citizens in Detroit that lost love once from the Detroit police officers.

You should check to see where they ex-offenders, because clearly it's a lot of illegal stuff going on in this city.

They job was to protect us and make sure we were safe.

So we should get together collectively and file a class action lawsuit against the city because you endanger our lives when you allow ex-offenders with weapons and gave them a badge.

You got lunatics, murderers, rapists on the Detroit police department, protecting the serving.

Who?

So this is what we need to do.

All this right here is a charade.

This is a joke because none of this can be going on if it didn't start from the top.

Housing, they come down here every day complaining about it.

Them two officers who threaten to kill me.

I mentioned that twice.

Sure Hall of Shonda Wilson, Houston.

I'm in a six to eight Delaware.

If the LPI and this chim were the one of six to eight Delaware, ex-offender style leaving out there at three o'clock in the morning.

That's on the Detroit Police Department.

They let the 1112 sword and 1440, Jefferson and Chimers.

313 444, 9114 31344, 9114.

That number was made.

You can remember it.

That's my Cash App.

You can Google that number.

You can get to my Facebook from there and Patreon.

I'm asking you all to continue to pray for those that are taking DDO.

Um so many people see me advocating and they tell me everything, and then they're shy or feel like you guys will bite.

Um it costs money to get down here.

It takes money to park.

It takes money to take the bus down here.

And I've been saying it for a long time.

It will be a real, real, real, real, real blessing.

After seeing it for so long that we validate people's parking and maybe two bus tickets if they come down.

It's just a drop in the bucket.

What um councilwoman Callaway um just stated about um the young lady I brought down here about the buses is a blessing.

She always is a blessing.

And uh see you later on.

Um, but the bus service is still like luster, and just I know your focus and your warm vehicles, but look on the side of the road after you're done with your business when you come back.

Are those people still sitting there?

Boy, there's no place to sit down.

So are they still standing there?

So, anyway, I pray for you all.

You pray for me, and um, I appreciate each and every council person and everyone under the sound of my voice.

Thank you, next speaker Josh Mann, followed by Christopher Phillips, followed by Reuben James Prowley Jr.

Good morning.

Uh I'm Josh Mann.

Like Brother Cunningham has been saying for a long time.

People should be compensated for parking or bus fares to come down here.

There's nine of you, and there's probably nine regulars of us that come here every week.

And that's not, you know, city politics should be encouraged, and you should be trying to get more people to come in and participate.

The white Russian dude, he was taking cans back to get down here.

So if he's taking Cam back, take cans back, and then he gets dropped down to a minute and 30 seconds and can't even say what he's prepared.

It's like he's not gonna be encouraged to ever come down here and speak with you all again.

So to take a minor whatever that's gonna take, $30 to cover parking, you should have this place full and you should be encouraging.

Here's bus tickets, here's parking validation.

Period.

Okay, so then on the flock.

Where are we going with this flock?

Have we started like Detroit should be a leader in removing this out of our city, cities nationwide?

A lot of them have already pulled this technology from their city infrastructure.

Why haven't we?

Is if all we have to do is make a vote on it, that's what you all can do.

Let's vote on it.

Hands up, hands down.

Do you mess with flock or do you want it out?

It's like otherwise, we're gonna figure out where this money's going.

Freedom of information act is gonna provide the intel to see who's getting the money out of this.

Just remove it before.

Thank you so much.

Next speaker, Crystal Phillips, followed by Reuben James Crowley Jr., followed by Rebecca Dowerty.

Hello, I'm Crystal Phillips.

I'm the executive director of the City of Detroit Board of Ethics.

I'm here to support my board members who signed the letter, which can be viewed on line item 22.8, requesting that memos related to the board's ability to hire independent counsel be shared with the board members and staff.

Any excuse given for why the board should not see these memos is a bad faith argument to prevent full transparency and hinder the board from doing its job of deciding on the best way forward to obtain independent counsel.

Hiring independent counsel is the single most important factor in ensuring genuine oversight at the city.

And the only way the board can be independent of any administrative influence over its legal analysis and decisions.

The continued suppression of these important documents just shows the extreme lengths to which the board is being prevented from being fully informed and from hiring independent counsel.

I was deeply disappointed when I had to inform my members and staff that they were prevented from attending the closed session meeting on February 3rd to discuss these memos unless they were quote active participants, unquote, meaning that if they did not speak at the closed session, they would not be invited.

That council waived the privilege and allowed the board to view these memos.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Followed by Rebecca Dowerty, followed by Ronald Foster.

Can I begin down?

Is your name on the car?

Your time will now begin, sir.

I can start my time.

I ain't still to the mic yet.

Your time is now beginning.

You are cheated in public official.

And you called Kenisha's mother.

My brain friend.

Meety's grandmother, her new mom, and said I was not the right representative.

Now I'm gonna represent on you and her, Angela Calloway, and him, Conrad Mallard Jr., all y'all cheated in.

Janice been cheating in the lections every since she came in there, but I can only prove since 2020.

And I sent the information directly to number 47, Donald J.

Trump.

Yeah, he got it.

And he came up in the Western District of Michigan, found all kind of stuff, and I got a feeling a funny, funny, funny feeling.

He's gonna show his whole a double dollar sign today at the state of the union adjust for Mayor, Mary Shaffiel, Mayor, Mary.

You cheated in your member on a Detroit City Council, and I don't lie.

And I'm young blood from the Bruce Projects in 1980.

Check the records.

See, you've been playing games with my name.

And you too, James.

And you too.

Liar.

Thank you, Ruben.

Uh next speaker is Rebecca Dowerty, followed by Ronald Foster, followed by Denise Lyles.

Good morning.

I have been listening to all of the discussion, particularly around.

One second.

Uh, please take your seat, sir.

Ruben James Crowley Jr., please take your seat.

You will be removed.

Okay, you can leave.

You may proceed.

Can I begin?

Um, I have been listening to all of the conversation, particularly around the Leland House, and I appreciated Council Pro Temp Mr.

Young's comments about the legality.

And right now, I am very concerned about ICE and what's going to be happening in the city of Detroit very shortly.

It's already happening in other places.

They're getting ready to start grabbing people and deporting them.

And I would like to know what the city's plan is to respond instead of react.

Because I've been watching the news, as I'm sure all of you have.

And in Minneapolis, what they've done is react.

And the police department has not been doing their job in protecting the citizens.

They have been breaking the law by illegally aiding and abetting these illegal, unconstitutional people who have been let out of prisons and are not federal agents because we don't have a president right now.

The man who we're calling president is a demented fool.

He's not making any decisions.

So I would like to know if the city of Detroit is going to act legally, citywide, including the police department, and actually respond and protect its citizens from the threat from these people that is coming to us.

Mr.

Foster Forces.

I also want to speak on 20.19 through 22.

When task force in our city have killed both community members and law enforcement, we have to be cautiously optimistic about the grants we receive and vet the language that may be conflicting to policies that we have and receiving those.

Thank you.

Next speaker, Denise Miles, followed by Mary Leg.

Morning.

Good morning, council.

Happy to be here.

I'm speaking as a member of the Board of Ethics.

The Board of Ethics was established to be an independent oversight for the city, for the departments, but more so for the citizens that may have something that they feel have been they have been shorted on.

It's hard for us to do what we need to do as an independent oversight committee without having that authority.

I ask you all to look at independent counsel for the board.

How can we do what the citizens expect us to do if we can't have final say on what's going on?

We thank you for looking at this, and we pray that you respond accordingly, and that we can see the messages and the memos regarding the board.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good morning, Mary Lang, District 5, Harmon Street, Gateway Area.

On July 1st, 2004, the city of Detroit started replacing sidewalks on Harmon without rhyme or reason.

I contacted the sidewalk division.

I was told they replaced sidewalks that are tree damaged to a property line and to a good piece.

They do not replace sidewalks at vacant lots.

They can abandon foreclosed homes, land bank lots, land bank lots that have not been seeded.

But on Harmon Street, those rules went out the window.

June through November 2025, I made contact with Tyler Searsey of Mary Sheffield's office.

She is in receipt of 104 pitchers and waiting to get a meeting with Director Brundage.

Yet I see the city replacing portions along Harmon that seem more like a slap across the face.

Just this past Friday, the city was installing a new sidewalk in front of a vacant lot that isn't even maintained.

We have four bus stops in just three blocks and school bus pickup at Harmon and John R and Oakland and Harmon, and not a safe way to walk on either side.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Mr.

Woodfield, who's our first caller.

Good morning, Council President.

Our first caller is phone number ending in 169.

Caller ending in 169.

The floor is yours.

General public comment.

Hello, you guys hear me?

Sir.

Great.

I believe, I believe, I truly believe the prayers are working.

Thank you for praying for Brother Cunningham.

He means good for our society, fighting for improvement, the public transportation.

Keep praying.

I just want him to have one victory.

I know Cunningham is tired of losing.

He is the underdog.

This quote is from Bob Marley.

As a man, so shall he reap?

And I know that the talk is cheap, but the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

Thank you for my time.

Thank you so much.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is owner Papa.

The floor is yours.

General public comment.

Are you there?

Morning.

And through the chair, may I be hurt?

Yes.

Yes, you you've heard a lot of things today.

Whelan House is uh it's been going on a long time, so don't pretend as though it has not been going on a long time.

And I'm pretty sure that Miss Romero is has been aware of it for a little while.

Um, this council is is counterfeit against uh majority of Detroit.

We the the the gentleman that spoke about the property taxes and how you steal our money is a classic example is 18.1.

You're going to allow one person, one person who we're going to aid him in improving his property, and his taxes are now 6,900.

And after an improvement, there'll be 40,000.

But he's going to continue to pay the 6,900.

And we're going to be out 33,000 a year for 12 years.

You have several of these on your agenda today 16.1, 16.2.

These are ways that you're just stealing the residents' property tax money, as well as, and his one deal is $396,000 stolen from the general fund.

Then we then we have $22 million coming from our general fund, which is the uh property tax surplus going to fill the income tax of corporate America.

What what planet are we living on?

You guys are counterfeit and please let the ethics committee have their own.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is William M.

Davis.

William M.

Davis, the floor is yours.

General Cold Cameron.

Good morning.

Can I be heard?

Yes, sir.

Well, I'd like to start out by saying I see there's another reason why I was against Comrade Mallet being reappointed.

Last week the Board of Police Commissioners had an extensive meeting.

Prior to that, they were talking about they was gonna suspend before pay these two uh police officers was involved in calling the border control, you know, to deal with language issues.

But but but you know, they got a 30-day suspension, you know, and it's not even 30-day termination, you know, it's a 30-day suspension, then they go back to work and do whatever they want.

You know, this is crazy.

You know, we need to make sure that we are protecting our people.

We need to make sure people feel safe.

We need to make sure what exactly is the policy that they use because the sergeant, as I understand, is gonna sue the city about even being suspended.

Is there a conflict of knowing what is and is not actual policy?

During the time I was on the board, we never suspended nobody 30 days, you know, and then look to come back to work with no problem.

Either you suspend them or you don't.

You know, this is like smoke and mirrors.

Somebody needs to be taking a closer look, and the board of police commissioners need their own attorney.

Comrade Mallet shouldn't be there blowing smoke and you know, up mirrors.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is zone user.

The floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Hello, can you hear me?

Yes, we can.

Morning.

Hey, good morning.

I'm calling in.

My name's Charles Miles.

I'm calling in about the property tax issue with uh the city of Detroit, misapplying payments, and also this assessed value rates that uh Alvin Horn has defrauded the whole city of Detroit on their millish rates.

I'm trying to wake the city up to look at your tax bill and look at your assessed value and look at your millage rates.

Some of these people are paying 140 meals when the state limit is only 60 to 80.

Uh, and that's way too high.

Uh, you overcharging people.

I don't understand how you guys can sit here and be in office and don't even know how a bill is even calculated, and to know that people are telling you every week, every day that something is wrong with their bill, and you guys are doing nothing about it.

You got comrade mallet.

We don't need no ex-judge to be up in here trying to tell y'all what the laws are when they're clearly being deceived, and they know that they are lying to you all, and you guys are listening to them like they got, and they're not God, and they are lying to y'all every day, even with the Leland House.

And then y'all trying to trick us with this uh time limit.

Ain't no way I've been talking for a minute and a half.

Next caller is Sahira Ahmad.

Caller, the floor is yours.

We got a minute 30, general public comment.

Yes, good morning.

Thank you.

Um, for um the people who are speaking about the property taxes.

Uh, I want everybody to know that uh Detroit homeowners and you probably already know we're illegally over taxed 600 million dollars, and 100,000 homes were illegally foreclosed.

The property tax reform ordinance needs to be um uh it needs to to be uh um enacted and not enacted, but it needs to be um uh accepted as uh it was passed, and we want to stop overassessing lower value homes from being overassessed, protect owner occupied exemption and homes over corporations, return the money to over tax homeowners, and we want you to also replace the assessor, the chief assessor, Mr.

Horn with a qualified assessors and Detroit homeowners.

Uh, you can't you need to appeal your property taxes by March 9th.

Our property tax appeal project is in swing, and you can do it online from now on.

We have uh you want to go to um Detroit uh property taxes.

Go to uh property tax project uh dot com property tax project.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is Galaxy Tab A.

All right, caller.

The floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Good morning.

Can I be heard?

Yes, ma'am.

I want to speak on this African town.

We don't have an Afghan town anywhere.

Queen Mother Joanne Watson.

They used to be on City Council, had one to African town downtown.

But other than that, we have all these other towns, which is most recent that I can remember, it's Bangalore Town.

And I've been in this town over here since 77.

Why was the name Bangletown?

Also, you have uh people that get in these houses, and there are homeless people out there, and these houses, and now like I said, Scott Benson.

No, I gave him 14 houses that could have been rehab for the people.

And if then I'm from what I'm hearing, the land bank is giving money to fix up the houses.

So I'm sure that these houses one reason that is just today.

I watches them do this house, and it belongs to the land bank.

People could have got that house that's homeless.

Number two, the house down the street from me, two family flat.

They just got it last year.

They have it in the year, they got us for sale sign up there, and trust me, it's gonna go for at least what 300,000.

What they're gonna say anyway.

So these people that that's homeless and need these homes, that's where they should be going to.

They've been in the city, they didn't just come from New York and nowhere else.

These houses should go to the resident.

Um, thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Ruby.

Uh, next caller.

Will be Ash Rose Ashro.

You have a minute 30 seconds.

Ashrow, you're up.

Hello, can I be heard?

Uh, yes, you can.

Hi, my name is Ash Davis, and I'm a Detroiter in 48208.

ICE is here and is going to keep getting worse until we do something about it.

Trump and his allies will detect Detroit, whether we call ourselves the sanctuary city or not.

We do not do ourselves any favors by trying to avoid provoking the beast.

We need to follow Washanaw County's lead and pass a resolution prohibiting ice on county property without a valid judicial warrant.

This includes buildings and parking areas.

They also need to be banned from other sensitive locations, such as schools and churches.

Government officials need to do more, risk their positions and reprisals, and fight dirty.

You need to be prepared to violate the federal supremacy clause with the federal government that tells you that they are above the law.

We demand that the ice snitch cops be fired.

Anything less is not acceptable.

We demand transparency about current collaborations between the city and ice.

We demand the end of collaboration, aiding and abetting, and new no 278G agreement.

We demand city property be declared ice-free zones.

We demand no mass agents.

Most importantly, public officials need to be calling on unions, churches, and constituents to mobilize against ice terror and the concentration camp in Romulus.

Detroiters will be violently abducted and sent there to starve, be tortured, and possibly killed.

We need a movement in our streets and neighborhoods that fights against Trump's terror and not just letters and resolutions that DPD and ICE will ignore anyway.

We need to do everything in our power to combat ice and kick them out of our city.

We need safety and care, not abductions and concentration camps.

Thank you.

All right.

So thank you, Ashley.

Uh, next caller.

Caller is Betty A.

Varner.

Good morning, Miss Varner.

You have a minute 30 seconds.

Uh good morning.

Good morning to all within the sound of my ear and honorable uh council member waters and all the council members.

Um I'm here advocating uh for um black clubs, uh associations and 511c3, especially the smaller groups, to ask the council to uh create a fund in the budget to uh help uh these organizations who have projects in their areas to help them to be successful when they purchase these vacant lots to make them useful and beautiful.

Uh we need help with the um land use hearing fee.

Uh I was told it's $1,500.

For example, my organization, DeSoda Ellsworth Black Association.

We have purchased vacant uh lots to extend our park, and we want the objective is to uh purchase playground equipment.

We must first go before the city for a land use hearing that's gonna cost us $1,500 that we don't have.

We feel that we're being set up for failure.

All administration, you should waive that fee.

So please help us and consider my recommendation.

And I did submit my um uh request.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is D from Detroit Action.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Um hi, how you doing?

Uh I'm D O D trait action.

Uh today I'm asking you all to please help our communities by taking a stand against ice.

Um, I see the fear that Trump's xenophobic and fascist laws are instilling into the hearts of my neighbors and other immigrant communities.

Um needs to be done is creating ice-free zones.

Uh letting ICE know that they won't be allowed here.

No mass agents.

I didn't uh ask them to identify themselves, uh, that they will have warrants, uh, that they cannot enter places of worship, schools, and places that are staples of our communities, places that people are currently afraid to go.

This cannot stand.

Let's ensure that their safety is secured.

Um, we need transparency about how the city and ice are collaborating, and we need this the aiding and betting to end.

Um, we need to make our city into a sanctuary city.

We have one of the largest black and brown populations in the nation.

And let's show solidarity uh for them by kicking ice out of Detroit.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

The next caller is Mark Smith.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Good morning.

Can I be heard?

Yes, yes.

Um I'm calling today about the firing of uh Kim James from the cannabis affair.

I just want to personally say how disappointed I am in that.

Or somebody's done I should hello.

Yes, sir.

Not sure what the interference is, Mark.

Uh but you may proceed.

Okay, so I just wanted to say that I was kind of disappointed about that, but more so I'm disappointed about the lack of information about it.

We don't know who's in that position.

Nobody is communicating with us.

So we kind of in limbo.

She's done so much for us and kind of helped bridge the gap between cannabis owners and the city.

Now we're in a in a limbo situation, and nobody's communicating with us.

So now we can't do nothing but just come up with false reasons.

So if somebody can get back to us with some clarifications on that, I would really appreciate that.

And lastly, I just wanted to say personally.

I know listening to these calls, y'all.

They when y'all hear it.

I just want you to know that I appreciate the work that y'all doing.

Keep going.

God behind y'all, and let's get it done in this city.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is Augury.

Audrey, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

All right, Brennan.

Let's go to Hi, I'm sorry about that.

Can you hear me?

Yes, ma'am.

Good morning.

Great, thank you.

I'm calling in to comment on the Kronos facilities.

And I know there were several in-person comments on this as well.

And so I would like to echo the comments that were already made.

And just regarding that area, I want to add on that there are also several parks, a library, an animal shelter.

Many businesses, both old and new restaurants.

I know there's a music venue there now.

And uh as was mentioned, the Joe Lewis Greenway is right there.

And so it's really a community area, and it's not one that's appropriate for heavy industry.

Um as the other commenters stated, um, people are seeing health effects, it's dirty, it's emotionally stressful as well as physically, and it's not a respectful way to treat that neighborhood, especially the old time residents who have been there.

Um so I just want to echo calls to down zone the land and stop that facility from growing and to please um be super vigilant in enforcing it and um know that we as community members will also be vigilantly um keeping a watch on it and doing what we can to minimize the harm there too.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is Jacqueline Miller.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Hello, my name is Andries.

I uh was visiting Detroit over the weekend from Cleveland getting a wedding dress, and I was pulled over by an officer who blatantly lied on a ticket.

He pulled us over right on what we're downtown.

He was flashing lights on children that were in the back seat, and he lied and said I had no proof of insurance, and that I ran a red light, and that I had no ballot registration when I showed him all of my information.

I don't appreciate that because I've been trying to convince my own friends to move to the city of Detroit.

And he took a great moment and destroyed it.

And he didn't even explain the ticket.

Also on the ticket because I have to come in 14 days, and I have no court date, and I'm from out of town.

And I've never been in a place where I've got a ticket, it's not been explained, and that an officer with a camera would just blatantly lie and say I had no proof of assurance after redoing the insurance.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is iPhone.

Yeah.

Oh, I am.

Uh I agree.

Ethics needs their own lawyer.

I I got a disappointment years ago when I tried to use the ethics board.

Not very helpful.

So uh it would be helpful.

They need their own lawyer.

Now, uh, I was told that that uh agreement you have right now with the land bank.

And I don't know if this is hearsay, but they have the right, the land bank can go in to and without a warrant and condemn houses and uh kick people out of their homes.

You know, uh I guess uh we don't need I to come in and destroy us.

We're destroying ourselves.

I'd uh that's ridiculous.

That's you know, and that the thing is once you let you let our country go after one person or one group of people in Scapegoat.

And and uh they'll continue.

But anyway, I want to say also that I was uh I live on Peterborough and they had a meeting uh two days ago, I think, or yesterday.

Uh but Stephanie Shang and she sent me a uh a little memo that didn't tell me where it was, just that if he was gonna meet with people at three o'clock or two o'clock, three o'clock.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is call in user one.

Call in user one.

The floor is yours.

You have a minute thirty, general public comment.

Can I be heard?

Yes, ma'am.

Good afternoon, member Kate.

I hope that you will remember that this is the week that Tatiana Williams children froze to death, and it needs to be something to give memory so that this will never happen again when somebody needs city council as a full body.

Their children or themselves shouldn't have to freeze to death, regardless of where you live.

I'm looking forward to working with you, Member Young and Member Johnson in the future to see if we can bring some new skill trades that benefit all districts.

However, I want to thank you for over the years of you being respectful.

I will not moving forward, have anything to say with the individual that's been elected for the fifth district because she disrespected my aunt's name, and I got zero tolerance for anyone disrespecting a 95-year-old um hard worker of Detroit that's a retired doctor when you can't pronounce her name correct and then accuse me of falsifying my aunt's name.

I take offense to that.

So moving forward, I'll only deal with you, young and Johnson as I'm moving away from you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is Darren Bigletsky.

Caller, the floor is yours.

We have a minute 30, general public comment.

Good morning, counsel.

Um gonna be a little facetious here, but if you care about the Leland Hotel so much, why don't you guys just take it for solar?

It's blighted, it's tax reverted, and you displace about as many people as you displaced with all the other neighborhoods solar.

Um my reasoning that you probably don't want to do that is because it would turn into a legal flagmire, and by affecting a bunch of little people, you can get away with more.

Um, okay, so if you look at 8.2, I think on the agenda, law department.

You guys are paying 444,000 to one individual, Mike Kelly, to get 27 parcels around the airport for solar.

These are all costs that are added to this boondoggle of a project over $16,000 per lot.

Meanwhile, a bunch of people, a bunch of people from Detroit that had generational homes, lots taken by force with eminent domain, got 2,500 or $3,500.

Meanwhile, Mike Kelly in Gross Point got $16,000, more than $16,000 per parcel.

What is wrong with this picture?

Everyone needs to go to Detroit Solar Scam.com to learn more.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Uh next caller is Jamika.

The floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Hello, can I be heard?

Yes, ma'am.

Hello, my name is Shamika Brown.

On September the 14th, 2025.

I was drugged, sexually assaulted, and left partially nude near the Detroit Riverwalk.

Detroit police officers ticketed me.

They treated me like a criminal versus the victim of a crime.

I have been completely ignored, undeserved, disrespected, laughed at, and I feel violated by the city of Detroit leadership and government officials.

Why would residents that visitors of Detroit feel safe when the police department plays a role in abusing us?

Is the damn shade when the police need to be policed?

If you're a woman in the city of Detroit who's been date raped or mistreated by the Detroit police department, please contact me.

I have a group on Facebook with viable information.

It's the Detroit date rape awareness group.

I will not stop publicly addressing this matter until I am acknowledged and policy changes are made.

Last least, a black woman's pay should not follow deaf ears.

And I implore you on the city council to address me and my concerns.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And members of first I'm hearing about the uh the issue you brought up.

Certainly, uh my heart goes out to you for the allegation that's been put forward.

We want to look into it.

And please give me a call in my office at 313 224, 1027.

We will follow up.

Not sure if you even reach out to the Board of Police Commissioners, but we're gonna do everything we can to investigate this uh issue and concern and see what comes about as a result of that investigation again.

313 224 1027.

This is council president take.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Okay, we're down to our last two callers.

Uh phone number is ending in one, two, four.

Caller ending in one to four.

The floor is yours.

You have a minute thirty general public comment.

Caller, are you there?

Caller ending in one two four going once.

Going twice.

Going three times.

Caller ending in one two four.

Are you there?

Unfortunately, we're gonna have to move on.

If you would like to provide your comments to the clerk's office, they will be placed onto public record.

This now closes out our general public comment for the day.

Colleagues, we have one more, sir.

Sorry.

What you see here?

Yes, sir.

Yeah, we are one more.

The last caller will be just Dante Smith.

Shadante Smith, Mr.

Smith, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Mr.

Hello, may I be heard?

Sir.

Good afternoon.

I was gonna say I thought, well, good morning.

I was morning still.

Thank you, Brandon.

I appreciate you.

I dropped off a few times.

Um, I want to say uh I've been doing a lot of critical research on a lot of key subjects and different things, and what I found is very alarming.

I do want to start off also saying Cronos Concrete needs to be down zone.

Gabriela Santa Girl Meryl is respectfully as I can say.

I brought the people.

Is that is that enough residents of district three over this long period of time that you just need to see in order to realize that this needs to go also to Mr.

Kimani Jeffrey in the CPC, Mr.

Chris Gulach as well.

You guys are able to submit that down zoning request for free.

We'd love to see that.

Also, I'm just gonna put it out there.

Uh the Board of Ethics needs to have that have an independent council, so does the Board of Police Commissioners.

Uh Conrad Mallet's influence should not be over these boards.

Also, I like to say that Abenash Roshmail from LGC Global is bid rigging.

He is paying elected officials on the Detroit City Council for uh votes on his contracts.

He's gotten over in just the year of 2025, he's gotten in my estimation 25 to 30 million dollars to contracts through uh American Rescue Plan Act dollars um for Detroit Water and Source Department Sewer Repairs, and he's giving he's doing giving out campaign donations and the amount of 2400 in a queer pro quote vote system.

He's giving uh Scott Benson money on a Monday to get a vote on a Tuesday for $8 million contract.

I will be going to the FBI about this information.

Thank you, Mr.

Smith.

If you're making allegations of that level, I would definitely encourage you to go to the FBI, go to the office of inspector general, whoever you have to, but when you allege those type of uh comments, uh we should take them seriously.

And so we're looking forward to you um going to those enforcement agencies so they can move forward on your allegations at this point.

All right, that now closes out our public comments for the day.

Uh colleagues, before we move forward in the agenda, I would like for us to uh return back to the Leland uh apartment situation.

We have been joined by corporation counsel uh and his team.

Um, the fact that you're here this early, I don't know if that's a good sign or a bad sign.

Um with the hearing starting at 10 o'clock.

I have a feeling this might not be great news though.

Uh good morning, Conrad Mallin Corporation Council City.

Troy with me is my uh associate uh the supervising attorney for Blight, who was the original attorney on the Leland House case in Harrison, and obviously all of you are aware.

Graham Anderson.

Actually, Mr.

President, uh, and to the entire body, uh, it's good news.

Uh the judge accepted the plan as presented.

We are now meeting with the tenants union and with debtor's counsel to formalize uh the plan, reduce it to writing, and submitted to the judge uh by next Tuesday.

There will then be a hearing uh on the plan as submitted.

Uh uh, particularly for the secured creditors on March the 10th.

Uh, and so we should be moving uh forward uh forthwith in the next two weeks.

Number one.

Number two, and this is very important.

Debtors counsel admitted today that the sale of the building could not take place unless the tenants' belongings were removed.

Now that's important, Mr.

President, for this reason.

For the city of Detroit to become on the list of creditors that would benefit from the sale of the building.

Secured creditors might come forward and object and say the city should not be first.

In fact, the city should be last.

And if we were last, we might not get any any distribution whatsoever.

In this instance, debtor's counsel has said the sale cannot take place without the tenants getting their belongings out of the building.

Therefore, we're going to be arguing to the judge that we need to be first and not last, that we should be able to be paid back for the effort that we made uh to return the tenants' belongings to them uh uh and and take advantage of the opportunity that all the secured creditors are going to benefit from, which they could not receive unless the city of Detroit uh did what is what we propose to do.

So I think it was a huge step forward, Mr.

President, today.

I mean, everything in court uh takes more time uh than we would like.

Uh I believe that we'll be able to report back to this body uh in the next three weeks that uh the court has endorsed the plan, submitted by the city, approved by the tenants union, approved by debtors council, and then give uh this honorable body a schedule of events.

Uh, and we met with uh by happenstance, some of the uh residents, and at least four of them reported to me directly uh that all they wanted was to get their belongings, and that the city of Detroit is gonna help them do that.

Uh, they're very pleased to participate.

So I think, Mr.

President, uh, while we might have wanted something more defin uh definitive uh from the court this morning, uh it was a good day for the city of Detroit.

Thank you so much.

Definitely, definitely a step in the right direction.

Appreciate uh all the hard work to get us to this point.

As we always say, we're not done yet.

Not done yet.

Not done yet.

Uh so one of the concerns that we've had, and I think we've talked about it as well, just ensuring that uh those tenants um are secure in the fact that the items that in fact they left behind are those same items that are in storage or will be placed in storage.

Just wanna make sure that we're really thinking about you know, they're uh not just retrieving the items statutorily, but making sure that they're um they have reasonable assurance that all of those items that were left behind are the same items that are going to be in storage.

And then also the category, the the cataloging, if you will, of those particular items.

I say that because I know just when we moved this term, my office, member Miller's office, as well as member McCampill's office.

Uh, we did have a moving service that we you know uh utilized through a contract, and some of the items were moved in certain places, right?

We we had to find them afterwards.

Not a big deal for us.

Again, we're grown enough to take care of that.

But when you may have an heirloom or something of that nature, at least you may have forgotten that you placed it somewhere else versus uh where you thought it was, that becomes a little bit more complicated for us.

So just hopefully we're thinking about those moral safeguards, if you will, if not legal, uh, as we move forward with this particular process.

Uh I'm sure that Trisha Stein and Chelsea Neblet, uh, Mr.

President, have heard the concerns that you voiced, not only from you, but from other members of the honorable body as well as from the tenants themselves.

We do have Chelsea did mention that she is getting inventory sheets as best she can from the tenants.

Uh, I'm sure that process once we actually have movers identified, have a schedule for the tenants to go into uh their residences for the tenants themselves to pack up uh personal belongings that they that they believe only they should be uh uh in touch with.

Uh, I think all of those things would get flushed out.

Uh, but I'll make sure that I mention that to the team members again.

Thank you so much.

You're welcome.

Colleagues, any additional before we move forward.

All right.

Seeing none, I heard it.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you so much.

We appreciate the uh effort and the time spent on this particular item.

I also wanted to address, I know that uh this is that time where we address some of the public comment uh items.

There was a mention about uh Kim James, and Kim James and I worked very closely together.

Uh Madam Clerk, if you can know that we've been joined by Member Benson.

Clerk was so no, Mr.

President.

Thank you so much.

We I worked very closely with Kim James uh through uh the medical marijuana ordinance as well as the adult use uh cannabis ordinance as well.

And I just want to thank her uh for all of her efforts.

Uh she has been uh extremely strong in the area of um information, but also relationship building.

So she built strong relationships with folks uh within the industry and one particular time and you know, uh specifically, uh this industry was being taken over and dominated without a shadow of a doubt by those who lived outside of the city.

But with Kim uh with uh Kim James's assistance uh and again legal knowledge, we were able to craft a legacy ordinance for Detroiters, uh, not asking people, not pushing people in the industry.

That's not the goal, but if it's going to be legal, we want to ensure that residents of the city of Detroit had an opportunity to participate and uh potentially succeed.

Can't guarantee success, but we want to give them the best opportunity.

And so I just want to, from the bottom of my heart, didn't get a chance to do it last week because we went very long, but thank uh Miss Kim James for her efforts uh in this space.

Um I know that the the adult use um legislation would look tremendously different without her uh fingerprints on it, and I just myself personally want to again thank her for all of the work that she is uh committed to.

Looking forward to the next person who's sitting in that space, so we build that relationship as well.

But today is about uh my comments today is about uh Ms.

Kim James again.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Alice, any additional comments regarding uh public comment today.

We'll start with Member McCampbell, then we'll go to Member Johnson.

Member McCampbell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I just want to note on a couple of things that came up.

Um it was mentioned, but just to reiterate that for folks on property taxes and assessments um for the more the March border review um for folks to please do get their appeals in.

I will even say if you haven't done that appeal in the last five years, I'm just recommended that you do so.

Um the deadline for that is March 9th at 4 30 p.m.

You can submit it via email.

You can submit it here at the Common A Municipal Center, or you can send it in by mail.

If folks have any questions, feel free to reach out to my office at 313-224-2151, or you can reach out to the assessor's office at 313-224-3035.

I also it was a note made about the accessibility of folks coming down to council and knowing that it is it does cost for folks to come down.

I do want folks to know as you heard, you can give public comment um via Zoom and online.

Um, and you are heard just the same.

I know uh so I just want to encourage folks as well to utilize that also because we don't want folks to have to turn in cans to come and be before their city government.

So thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, Member McCamlin.

And just to kind of touch on what you mentioned about the online option, we are one of the uh few uh city councils that still allow for this hybrid brand of communication.

Most are only allowing folks to come back.

Uh, once uh we came back from the COVID um pandemic, uh, we were we are one of the only uh municipalities that are allowing for uh these comments to happen virtually.

So we want to be as uh open, transparent, and flexible with our residents, but there are some limitations when we start talking about um you know uh providing free bus fare-free parking, uh that does include a budget, and we've got to be mindful of where we put those dollars.

Thank you again for that, member McCampbell.

Uh, member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I just wanted to add on to what you mentioned about um director Kim James, I believe.

Um I had the pleasure of working with the director when I was on the board of zoning appeals a number of years ago, and um it was at the time when medical marijuana was um what everyone was looking to bring to the city of Detroit, had a great working relationship with her, but I just wanted to make sure that the callers know that this body does not have anything to do with hiring of staff uh that works for the administration.

So um, I know they called in twice, and I believe I've gotten emails as well.

Um, but just so they know City Council has um nothing to do with hiring staff of the administration.

So um we appreciate the sentiment that has been shared as relates to the work uh that has been provided to the city, but just to know we don't have anything to do with that.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Member Santiago Remember.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Uh since callers mentions uh what the city is doing regarding ice um and the policies that we have in place.

Just a reminder, we have been working on this uh since Trump got re-elected, and the city essentially has a lot of policies in place that would make us a sanctuary city.

We are just not calling ourselves that entitled.

Uh so our police do not ask um anyone regarding their immigration status.

Police are not supposed to call into federal agents for translations.

That is why they did get um in trouble for doing so.

I agree we do need harder uh consequences, uh, but please do take up this conversation at the Board of Police Commissioners.

Um, who really does have the oversight when it comes to policing.

Um, but as a city, we do have the policies in place already.

We are enforcing those.

Um, but I do believe that that we lack the the real consequences.

That is a whole different conversation again to be had at the police uh board of police commissioners table, along with their police unions and the protections that they have.

Um, but just want to know for the public.

Um, I hear you.

I I deeply deeply agree uh that we need to work to protect um and just want you to know that we are our office also meets regularly with our police chief and the mayor's office um to make sure that we're holding folks accountable and that we are protecting undocumented immigrants.

Uh so thank you, everyone for ensuring that we continue to do so.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you so much.

Any additional colleagues before we move forward in the agenda?

Seeing none, we shall now again close out that portion of the meeting.

All right, madam clerk.

Understanding committee reports from the budget finance and audit standing committee from the office of the city clerk, city planning commission.

Council member McCampbell, three resolutions, line items 16.1 through 16.3.

Thank you, ma'am.

Member McCampbell.

Motion to approve.

Um, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh motion to approve items 16.1 through 16.3.1 through 16.3.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken for the internal operations standing committee from the Office of Contracting and Procurement.

Council member Whitfield Callaway, a resolution line item 17.1.

Contract number 600704, 100% city funding to provide payment car industry PCI compliance services, contractor plan and Moran PLC total contract amount, 65,000.

That's for do it.

Councilmember Whitfield Callaway.

Member Callaway, line item 17.1.

Thank you.

Motion to approve line item 17.1.

Thank you, ma'am.

There's a motion to approve line 17.1.

Colleagues, any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

From the law department, I'm clerk.

Councilmember Whitfield Callaway, eight resolutions.

Line items 17.2 through 17.9.

Thank you, ma'am.

Member Callaway.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Approval.

Um motion to approve line items 17.2 through 17.9.

These are various settlements and lawsuits.

Thank you.

College, there's a motion for approval of line items 17.2 through 17.9.

I believe I heard with discussion.

Member Benson.

All right, thank you.

Um, yourself, um, is someone from the airport available for line item 17.9.

All right, Mr.

Washington or Miss Sullivan.

I'm not sure who's with us today.

We have anyone available for the airport.

Mr.

Washington, good morning.

Good afternoon through the chair.

We do have Director Jackson Watt online.

We can pull him over, Tane.

Mr.

Chair, we also have the law department, and what they could be available to answer questions and supplement anything from Director Watt.

So the chair.

Yes, sir.

Can we please promote Bruce Goldman from the law department as well?

Who's that?

Bruce Goldman.

Jim in the room, the takes Bruce Goldman as well.

Mr.

Chair, we also have those who are in the room.

No, I just I just mentioned, yeah.

We're gonna have all hands on deck if it looks like feel free to come forward to the mic.

And uh director Walks, please please introduce yourself for the record.

Somewhat airport director and uh council president, uh there is one more individual that could join.

Uh it's our uh legal counsel outside legal counsel, uh loyal law, uh Benaloya is also available to be moved.

Okay, they can raise their hand, please, so we can pull them over.

Mr.

Goldman, if they have the ability to turn your camera on, that would be appreciated.

Uh, my apologies.

Uh my camera is not working.

All right, Mr.

Aloyo.

Uh, please introduce yourself for the record.

I uh good morning, Benjamin Aloya.

I'm the uh principal attorney for a loya law, and I am litigation counsel on this matter.

Thank you so much.

Uh member Benson.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

And just looking at the uh the name of the uh the plaintiff in this uh lawsuit in this settlement.

I just wanted to uh make sure it's transparent why we do in this, why it's important, and what this means for city airport uh moving forward, and then how the city is being reimbursed for the cost of this settlement plus uh land development cost moving forward through the chair.

Uh the airport department uh actually had to acquire this property because of safety concerns, but uh during uh the environmental assessment that was completed back in 1994, it gave us the ability to go out to a natural line of delineation, which was Gilbo Road.

And at that time, um, we were given authorization to to uh take this property uh for the safety concern.

The net result of this uh this acquisition is that the airport will be left with some usable area for uh future airport development, and uh uh uh one of the locations actually we we are going to be building a new air traffic control tower in that location.

So uh uh the net result of of the overall acquisition is property is going to mean uh uh potential expansion of the airport um into uh more commercial opportunities and then Mr.

Watt, can you talk about the reimbursement process and how the city will be repaid?

These dollars will be coming out of the general fund, but there is a repayment process when it comes to the airport development as per our airport layout plan.

It's exactly correct, yes, sir, through the chair.

So so uh the FAA, uh, this is a program that's been ongoing for 30 years.

Um you can think of this account as like an revolving account, meaning that uh we when we were given authorization to acquire this property by the FAA, um, or the FA mandated that we acquire this property, by the way.

Um, they've set up what we call as like a revolving account.

And uh what we do is we we submit for reimbursement, and those reimbursements come in at a rate of 95% paid by the federal government, five percent us, and all costs associated with the acquisition of the properties in this area is consistent with the uniform relocation act, which makes them eligible for uh reimbursement at that 95.5 rate.

And then so what would that mean for the actual cost of the city on this settlement if it were to be approved by city council today?

Councilman, you just asked me a question that that's the one thing I will pull it up right here.

It's five be five percent of the total price, which was 444,000.

Was it uh Ben, could you give me that number?

A little less than 25,000.

Can we say?

It's correct, yes, sir.

Okay, I just wanted to make sure that was uh clear to everybody and why we're doing this, why it's important.

That's it for me.

All right, thank you so much.

Any additional colleagues?

I say member Johnson.

Member Johnson?

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, I did have a question about 17.9.

Um, and I'm not sure that you all have the answer to the question.

The question really is just trying to understand it if any of these parcels were um acquired by the owner as a result of a land swap with the city or the the land bank and answer that question through the chair.

And the answer to that question is no.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Colleagues, any further seeing none.

Um here, member McKellow.

Sorry about that.

Uh just a quick question.

Are there any um occupied homes in this uh impacted by this?

No, there were no occupied homes uh with it.

Let me be very clear through the chair.

There was there's no occupied homes in this particular request.

There were occupied homes that were acquired as part of the many take overall project, but not with this request.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any further colleagues?

Seeing none, there's a motion again for approval.

Line items 17.2 through 17.9.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Thank you.

From the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Office of Development and Grants.

Council member with the Ocallaway, a resolution, line item 17.10.

Uh member Callaway.

Motion to approve line item 17.10.

As a motion to approve line item 17.10, colleagues.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Madam Clerk, if you can note that we've been joined by Member Miller as well.

Clerk was so note, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

From the human resources classification and compensation division, Madam Clerk.

Council member with field calloway or resolution line item 17.11.

Motion to approve.

Member Callaway.

Motion to approve line item 17.11.

Thank you.

There's a motion to approve line item 17.11, colleagues.

Any objections?

See none, and action shall be taken.

Under resolutions, Madam Clerk.

Council member with Phil Callaway, two resolutions.

Line items 17.12 and 17.13.

You member with Callaway.

Um thank you, Mr.

Chair and Madam Clerk.

Um, these are um 17.12 is uh resolution for the reappointment of Rick Prius to the public lighting authority, board of directors for a term beginning uh immediately and ending December 31st, 2029, and then line item 17.13 is a new appointment of David Bonner to the public lighting authority board of directors for a term beginning immediately, ending December 31st, 2029.

Motion to approve.

Thank you.

There's a motion to approve line items 17.12 and 17.13.

Any objections?

Seeing none, an action shall be taken.

Mr.

Chair, um, request a waiver on both 1712 and 1713.

Oh, it says a request for a waiver on 17.12 and 17.13.

Any objections?

Seeing none, waivers should be attached for the planning and economic development standing committee, madam clerk from the housing and revitalization department.

Council member Johnson, a resolution, line item 18.1.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Move for approval on line item 18.1.

This is to approve a plant rehabilitation certificate on behalf of BD Venture Studio LLC.

There's a motion to approve line item 18.1.

Any objections?

The none that action shall be taken.

For the public health and safety standing committee from the Office of Contracting and Procurement.

Council Member Santiago Romero, a resolution.

Line item 19.1.

Contract number 6007588, 100% city funding to provide general contracting services at City of Detroit facilities.

Contractor Calasante Construction Services Incorporated.

Total contract amount 750,000.

That's for construction and demolition.

Councilmember Santiago Romero.

Thank you.

Member Santiago Romero.

Thank you.

Motion to approve.

There's a motion to approve.

Line item 19.1.

Colleagues, any objections?

Discussion.

With discussion, Member Callaway.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Is there anyone on from construction and demolition?

I have a couple questions regarding this particular contract.

We have anyone available from construction demolition.

Yes, through the chair, if we can promote Gert Mulil.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

Please state your name for the record.

Name is uh Gert Millell.

I'm a planning and strategy specialist for the construction and demolition department.

Thank you so much.

Member Callaway, the floor remains yours.

Thank you.

Um, Mr.

Chair.

Have a couple questions regarding um details of this contract.

I read some details, but they just weren't um enough for my satisfaction.

So which facilities are we talking about under this particular 750,000 dollar contract that will receive which kind of services?

Um to my knowledge, this is um basically all the facilities that we have uh that are city owned.

So we currently have three other general contractors, which include DMC, Gandal, and W3.

Uh Cole Sante is the fourth and final contractor.

Those uh the three contractors that I mentioned before Calasante have already been approved.

So this is the last one, and we asked for multiple general contractors so that we have a sufficient capacity and we retain competition among the available pool of contractors basically to respond efficiently and effectively to any tasks uh for any you know anything that falls under general contracting.

If you have anything specific, uh, I would be glad to respond in a thorough email.

Through the chair, which facilities?

Do you have a list of those that you can share?

And um which and which kind of services because that's pretty broad.

Specifically, which services and for which facilities.

So if if they're in my district or one of my colleagues' district, we can help track it and monitor it and just um be able to answer our constituents' questions about it.

Your answers are kind of general.

So do you have a list of the facilities under this particular contract?

Um at this moment in time, no.

I do not, but uh, I will be happy to email you over those facilities so you can have a little more clarity.

Mr.

Um, Mr.

Chair, thank you so much, sir.

Mr.

Chair, I moved to bring this back in a week to give um this gentleman an opportunity to ask um answer my questions, and I have about three more in addition to the two I've already asked.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Mr.

President.

Thank you.

There's there wasn't a motion just yet.

Motion.

Uh member Santiago Romero.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Um, I also highly encourage colleagues to look at the last session where we asked the questions around facilities.

What exactly will be happening?

What services will be done?

Um, this is as he mentioned for general um for all city Detrait facilities.

We have many.

Um, and the services include mechanical, HVAC system, electrical system, structural work, plumbing work, fire and emergency systems work.

So, as he mentioned, this is to help with uh capacity, and we asked the question of well, why don't we have these in-house?

These could be Detroit workers, you know, city staff that can do this work.

Um, and what we heard was that we do have city staff overseeing, supervising, managing.

Um, and again, we have a lot of facilities.

So these contracts are to support with additional added um capacity.

Um, but again, all these questions were asked during committee.

Highly encourage folks to check it out.

Um, it says that in-house, we have around 40 40 employees that do this work.

Um, but we we need more.

So this is what those contracts are supporting.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, um, member Callaway, is that a motion?

Yeah, motion to um postpone um line item 19.1 contract 600 7588 for one week.

Thank you.

Colleagues, there's a motion to postpone line item 19.1 for one week.

Any objections say none.

Line item 19.1 should be postponed for one week.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We'll now move on to the new business portion of the agenda from the mayor's office.

Mr.

President, um first, can I um ask if you would move line item 23.2 to new business?

That item actually belongs under the mayor's office.

It is in the wrong spot, it's under referrals, however, the item was moved from the neighborhood and standing committee on Thursday, as well as line item 23.5.

Line items 22 23.2 and 23.5, correct?

Correct.

Comics, is there a motion to move those items to new business?

Line items 22, excuse me, 23.2 and 23.5.

Discussion with discussion.

Um, member Benson.

All right, looking at 23.5, that is a contract.

Why the need to move the new to new business today for vote?

Mr.

President, through you just to member Benson.

That item was actually both of those items, um, council member Benson were moved Thursday.

They just fell on the wrong area on the agenda today.

Okay.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Thank you.

Uh pro tummy on.

Thank you.

Uh Mr.

Uh President, Mr.

Chair.

Uh Madam Clerk, it's for my understanding that those two items were supposed to be on the agenda, but I got it got lost in translation, and they're not.

And so we're gonna have to, I'm gonna make a motion to be able to move these on as walk-ons because they were supposed to be on the agenda because we already voted for these last Thursday.

So when sessions over I have to walk on to walk, what we just took off the off the agenda now to walk on to be able to approve, right?

Correct.

Correct.

Thank you.

Discussion with further discussion, member cow.

Um so are we talking about the one for general services tree trimming?

Okay, because um through the chair, um, I had quite a few questions.

I Mr.

Weatherup, when he was here two weeks ago said he would get me the information regarding where those trees are to be removed and trimmed.

He said they were going to be on city-owned properties, and he would send me the list that day.

I have not gotten that list, sir, and that's been two weeks ago.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

I know there's going to be a motion to postpone all of those tree trimming contracts.

Um, but this now puts everything in the same yeah at this point.

Thank you.

But we can talk about that.

There's a motion again to move line.

Is there a motion?

Because there was discussion.

Is there a motion to move line items 23.2 and 23.5 to new business?

Motion.

Any objections?

See none, that action shall be taken.

Thank you.

Madam Clerk.

From the mayor's office.

So for the mayor's office, council president pro Tim Young, two resolutions.

Line item 20.1 and moving line item 23.2 to 20.1, line item 20.1 and 23.2.

Is there a motion?

Motion to motion to approve line item 20.1 and 23.2, Ms.

President.

Thank you.

So Mosh is motion to approve uh line item 20.1 and 23.2.

Any objection, colleagues.

See no objections, then action shall be taken.

From the Office of Contract and Procurement, Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Santiago Romero, nine resolutions, line items 20.2 through 20.10, including line item 23.5.

Contract number 6007698, 100% grant funding to provide service for ending the HIV epidemic, a plan for America, Ryan White HIVAIDS program, contract matrix human services, total contract amount 1,792,722.

That's for health.

Contract number 6007692, 100% grant funding to provide a program administrator for coordinating and managing medical services for those living with HIV in Detroit metro area.

Contractor, Deaf Community Advocacy Network Incorporated, total contract amount 369,681 dollars and 28 cent.

That's for health.

Contract number 6007694, 100% grant funding to provide a program administrator for coordinating and managing medical services for those living with HIV in Detroit metro area.

Contractor, neighborhood legal services, total contract amount 188,599 and 92 cents.

That's for health.

Contract number 6007695, 100% grant funding to provide service for ending the HIV epidemic, a plan for America, Brian White HIV slash AIDS program, contractor, community health awareness group, total contract amount 1,25,451 dollars.

That's for health.

Contract number 6007681, 100% grant funding to provide a program administrator for coordinating and managing medical and supportive services for persons living with HIV in the Detroit eligible metropolitan area.

Contractor, Matrix Human Services, total contract amount 4,426,822 and three cents.

That's for health.

Contract number 6007661, 100% grant funding to provide a program administrator for coordinating and managing medical and supportive services for persons living with HIV in the Detroit eligible metropolitan area contractor, community health awareness group, total contract amount 3,679, 367 and 9 cents.

That's for health.

Line item 20.8 contract number 600 7659, 100% grant funding to provide a program administrator for coordinating and managing medical services for those living with HIV in Detroit Metro Area.

Contractor Wellness Services Incorporated.

Total contract amount 265,620 and two cent.

That's for health.

Contract number 6007565, 100% city funding to provide DPD firing maintenance services at 8441, Spinoza and 4704th Street.

Contractor, Metal Treatment Technologies LLC, total contract amount 150,000.

That's for police.

Contract number 6007622, 100% grant funding.

To provide accident coach repair service, contract at Midwest Bus Corporation, total contract amount six million.

That's for transportation.

And the walk on, which was formerly line item 23.5.

My apologies, Mr.

President.

This is neighborhood.

Yes, ma'am.

This line is yes.

Council Member Santiago Romero, nine resolutions.

Thank you.

Member Santiago Romero, nine resolutions, line items 20.2 through 20.10.

Motion to approve.

There's a motion to approve line items 20.2 through 20.10.

Any discussion?

With discussion, Member Benson.

Line 20.9 to the chair to the committee chair or to the administration.

Just was there a question of can we do this in-house versus outsourcing this service?

We have anyone available from the administration provide information.

My apologies to the chair.

20.9.

20.9, Mr.

Chair.

Okay.

For 20.9, we have Captain Jason Adams as well as Commander Stacey Alvarado.

We'll pull those individuals over.

Mr.

President.

Yes.

Um just for clarity 20.9 is regarding the fire range through you two.

Member Benson, is that the question that you're asking?

Okay, thank you.

Thank you so much.

I see uh we've been joined.

I can't see your name.

I'll apologize because it's blocked by the closed caption.

Please introduce yourself for the record.

Good afternoon.

Captain Jason Adams from the Detroit Police Department Management Services section.

Good afternoon.

Member Benson, the floor is yours, sir.

All right, thank you.

Um Captain, just looking at the contract, 102,000 for two years to uh help manage our firing range.

The question is why can't we do this in-house?

75,000 a year.

It would seem that we could hire somebody or give somebody a nice pay raise to take on these responsibilities and do it in house.

Uh, to the chair, this type of work is specialty work because it involves lead abatement.

The company that was contracted follows all local, state, and federal laws, uh, EPA regulations and OSHA and MyOSHa to do proper late abatement.

I believe this is beyond the normal functions of what we asked the city uh departments to do.

Okay, thank you.

Uh member Helloway.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Chair.

Um, and a follow-up to my colleagues' question.

Why Colorado?

Nowhere in Michigan, not one company in Michigan can do this kind of work.

We have to outsource it all the way to Colorado.

Uh, to the chair.

Uh, surprisingly, there are not many companies that do lead abatement for ranges.

The uh rec went out for public bid, and there was very little interest.

It is really a specialty type of work.

Another question through the chair to you, sir.

So are they coming in from Colorado or are they going to um subcontract the work to someone possibly who can do the work here in Michigan?

Or maybe a combination of both.

The parent companies in Colorado, but they may utilize local vendors to assist because some of the equipment they use is quite large.

Okay, so they're not shipping equipment to do this work from Colorado, because there are some come subcontractors in the state, possibly or in the Midwest, who can do the work, who has the equipment, so the equipment doesn't have to come from Colorado.

Is that correct?

So to the chair, the the equipment that they would use local would be uh heavy machinery, such as um skid steer to to move the sand berms so that they can be put into the device to separate the lead and brass from the sand.

Uh that type of equipment would be very cost prohibitive, I imagine, for company to ship from Colorado.

They may rent that locally, but uh the the specialty work, I believe, will be conducted by uh MT2.

Okay.

And then my last question through the chair to your to yourself, sir.

So if we have a company in the state of Michigan that has the equipment, then possibly you could say that since we the company has the equipment that somebody knows how to operate and repair that equipment.

So there's two types of equipment to the chair uh for this.

There's the special equipment to separate the lead and brass from the sand, and then general uh construction equipment.

The specialty equipment is really what it is not common, and that's what the company has provided.

Um the contract is to handle the entire service, which would be to remove the berms, do the lead and brass abatement, and then return the berms so that they can be used while following all EPA regulations.

And so it is really a specialty work.

I'm not aware of any companies that showed interest from Michigan that could provide the entire service to the specifications and the requirements that the city expects.

All right, um, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Colleagues, any further seeing none.

Um I think we had a motion for approval.

It was line number 20.2 through 20.10.

Any objections?

Seeing none.

Mr.

Chair, um Callaway objects to line item 20.9.9.

Clinical so no, Mr.

President.

Thank you so much.

Seeing no further objections, the motion passes.

Line item.

I'm sorry, uh, from the Office of Contract and Procurement, Madam Clerk.

Council President Pro Tim Young, nine resolutions.

Contract number six zero zero seven, six seven six, one hundred percent city funding to furnish small injury repair, contractor Kirk's Automotive Incorporated, total contract amount 135,000.

That's for general services.

Contract number 6007609, 100% major street funding to provide tree trimming and removal, contract robust tree service, total contract amount 3 million.

That's for general services.

Contract number 6007610, 100% major street funding to provide tree trimming and removal services.

Contractor PPM tree service and arbor care LLC.

Total contract amount two million general services.

Contract numbers 6007611, 100% major street funding to provide tree trimming and removal services.

Contractor Owen Tree Service Incorporated, total contract amount, two million general services.

Contract number 6007612, 100% major street funding to provide tree trimming and removal, contract rainbow lawn and tree service LLC.

Total contract amount 3 million.

That's for general services.

Contract number 6007614, 100% major street funding to provide tree trimming and removal services.

Contractor tree service of Troy LLC, total contract amount, three million general services.

Contract number 6007653, 100% city funding to provide furnish light duty general repair and body work contracted by Maxi Ford.

Total contract amount 750,000.

That's for general services.

Contract number 6007648, 100% city funding to provide furnish light duty general repair at body work contractor, Dane Sellers Ford, total contract amount 750,000.

That's for general services, and contract number 6007607.

100% major street funding to provide tree trimming and removal, contract grace outdoor services, total contract amount 3 million.

That's for general services.

Council President Pro Tim Young, 10 resolutions.

Thank you so much.

And again, you did uh include 23.5.

Yes, I did, Mr.

President.

That's the last one I just read.

Thank you so much.

Uh Pro Tim Young.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I move to approve line items 20 point 20.11 through 20.18 and 23.5.

Thanks so much.

With discussion, please.

Discussion.

Thank you.

So I know that there is some concern.

I know I have some, and I've heard from colleagues concerned about the tree trimming contracts.

Um, and I would just ask for a postponement for one week on line items 20.12 through 20.16, as well as 23.5.

Motion there's a motion, colleagues, to postpone the vote for those items.

Any objections?

Seeing none, those items shall be postponed for one week.

With further discussion, uh Pro Tim Young.

Yeah, I just wanted to say we're gonna be having a presentation soon coming up with working with the Department of General Services at presentation on trees.

Well, you know, playing trees will probably include tree trimming as well, but we'll have that presentation.

So we'll make sure that we um recognize that a quarter might be present as well uh during that presentation.

But I want everybody know that.

Thank you.

Uh member Miller.

I'd like to hear from LPD regarding the forestry department and the expansion of it in their opinion.

Um when we officially receive these contracts, it all stated for two years, and they they mentioned that they were going to be expanding their department and looking for ways to hire Detroit residents, but then it turned to three years.

I don't know why you need three years to figure this out.

So therefore, that is why I put the memorandum in, and I look to see the forestry department hire Detroit residents with a pay that supports taking care of their families.

$18 million is a lot over three years to cover tree trimming.

I mean, even DTE has a training academy for tree trimming.

Surely we can hire some people to trim our trees and even plant trees.

I am a gardener by trade, and the president of a garden association is not that hard.

So I look to get some um uh uh opinion from LPD and how we can possibly expand our forestry apartment department immediately.

We only have 20 employees, which they stated, and had I been reversing this, I would have voted no when it was in neighborhoods.

Thank you.

So this these items that the tree trimming contracts are coming back in one week will allow for the opportunity to have those discussions um offline with LPD.

But I know you do have a memo that you would like to submit that indicated all those items that you just uh laid out, which it also includes the um postponement, if you will, of these particular items.

So um can you let them off the hook that today to to allow to have those conversations?

Okay, all right.

No, no, you don't have to.

No, we're gonna we're gonna actually uh want to um request for that item to be moved to new business so that it can be referred.

But we want to first take care of these two this item here, and they'll be next.

Uh with further um uh pro Tim Young.

Yeah, I mean a quick I just want to say that that presentation uh came at the request of member Benson.

So I want the member Benson's leadership to be provided for us to be able to have that presentation.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Uh member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Through you to pro Tim.

Um, did you indicate the date that that's going to happen?

The presentation?

No.

Okay.

Thank you.

With further discussion, Member Benson.

We had a confirmed date, hoping we can have that before budget.

So hopefully between this week or next week.

That's that's the goal.

That's the goal.

I'm not provisioning that's goal.

All right, thank you so much.

Any further colleagues?

See none.

Uh there's a motion for approval on line items 20.11, 20.17, and 20.18.

Any objections?

See none, that action shall be taken.

Madam Clerk, can we take up uh member miller's uh walk on?

It is dealing with trees, just seems appropriate at this moment.

Mr.

President, I have that her walk on is actually a statement that I have, which will be filed into the record.

Okay.

All right.

Is there so do we have to we there's no need to motion to approve this?

Correct.

There is an action, it appears there's actions that are requested in in this memo.

Yes, what would uh Mr.

President?

Um through what we would do is file this on behalf of the clerk office.

This will be filed with the business of today for a council's journal.

However, it's not a resolution item for a vote today.

However, unless uh member Miller is willing to want to read her statement into the record, she can do that also.

Okay.

So the only reason again I asked this question is because the this memo uh requests one for us the body to hold this item, but then there is there's actions that are in this because I think I have to make a motion.

No, there's no Mr.

President, yes, ma'am.

For partner clarity of member members, Miller's memo.

Um, the re is requesting for a memorandum to GSD.

However, then they're saying the memo is submitted in opposition.

So is it submitted for um to go through general services, or is it being submitted that member miller um just want to submit that she's opposing to these contracts?

Because if that's the case, then yes, we will motion to refer this to neighborhood.

If that is what the correct, if that's what to be done.

Thank you, Member Miller.

Just wanted to know what uh were you looking to uh have just a statement at this point, or are you looking to it sounds like because you were looking to have Mr.

Whitaker provide information?

You're looking for this to be referred.

That's what it sounded like to me.

Yes, this is call for action.

So for me, it is to be investigated purposes of the fundings for the forest department.

So your performance your postponement to me was accurate pending those discussions.

Okay.

Um so no, this is not a stance that I oppose.

This is to move forward to try to resolve this.

Okay.

But so there'll be a conversation offline that you're gonna have with Mr.

Whitaker and others, is what you're saying.

Yes.

Okay, all right.

We postponed it.

All right, thank you, madam clerk.

We this this letter on this memo will be placed on the public record and will allow for the conversations to take place with LPD and uh various departments.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Thank you, Member Miller.

Uh LPD, Mr.

Whitaker.

So I thought it was an assignment.

Oh, yes, it's okay.

Yeah, so we'll clarify.

I think it's very clear the intent at this moment.

We'll clarify the process as we move forward.

But the long story short is the tree trimming contracts have been postponed for one week to allow for those conversations to take place.

Thank you.

Yes, sir.

With further discussion, um, pro Tim Yeah.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Yeah, thank you for your patience.

I just want to say uh we sent a request, and director uh perk is requested that the date be March the 5th.

So that's when we're gonna have this discussion.

The memo was posted and was sent to all members, and it was posted on East Gribe.

So I just want to let everybody know that.

And that is the tree trimming contracts, correct?

Yes.

Well, the trees, tree road treatment general, yeah, treaty journal.

All right, thank you.

All right.

Discussion.

Further discussion, Member Benson.

Oh, he's fine.

Oh, they're looking.

Thank you.

From the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Office of Development and Grants, General Clerk.

Council Member Santiago Romero for resolutions, line items 20.19 through 20.22.19 through 20.22.

Motion to approve.

There's a motion for approval, colleagues.

Any objection?

Discussion with discussion, member Callaway.

Quick question.

Um, so I see that um the um city of Detroit um police department is getting a grant.

Um is the grant coming from the state of Michigan, or is it through this for the name of the grant, the Dearborn Auto Theft Unit Grant?

That's the name of the grant that is coming from the Michigan State Police or a total of 56, and we have to match it with 96,000.

Nine.

Which line item, Member Callaway?

What line item?

Um line item 20.19.

Um, Mr.

Washington, do you have anyone on for line item 20.19?

Yes, we have Nathan Miller online.

So much, we'll pull that individual over.

Good afternoon.

Please introduce yourself for the record.

Lieutenant Nathan Miller assigned to the Detroit Police Department Commercial Auto Theft Section.

Thank you for being here.

Member Callumway.

Thank thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um good afternoon, Lieutenant uh Miller.

Real quick question.

I see that the grant from the Michigan State Police is for 56,000, a little over 60, 56,000, but it requires a match of 96,000.

Why a huge jump in the match from the city um versus the amount of the grant from the state?

Through the chair.

Um so this grant is one of three auto theft grants that the Detroit Police Department participates in.

The largest is the commercial auto theft section.

And I have a member from Dearborn assigned to the Detroit Police Department commercial auto theft section.

So with this grant, the Dearborn Auto Theft Unit Grant, there is a large cash match because this year there's only a 37% match from the state.

So it is a state grant, and the Dearborn Auto Theft Unit acts as the fiduciary of the grant.

So because we have one member assigned to their task force, we receive the reimbursement from Dearborn after they receive the reimbursement from the state if that answers your question.

Okay.

Thank you.

So why is through the chair?

Why is the city of Dearborn a fiduciary for the city of Detroit for this grant?

Through the chair, um the Dearborn Auto Theft Unit has a number of members from various departments.

So they have participants from Redford, Lavonia, Dearborn Heights, and Detroit, just so that they're able to target auto theft in the general area and not just within Dearborn.

The member that I have assigned to the Dearborn Auto Theft Unit is responsible for investigations of auto theft in the sixth precinct specifically, but he also assists with investigations into auto theft throughout the region.

Because as many of us are aware, auto theft and crime in general is not limited by borders.

So we want to make sure that we're able to partner with all the agencies in the area that are investigating auto theft so that we can um pursue that auto theft nexus in and around the city of Detroit.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, Lieutenant Miller.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

You any further colleagues?

Seeing none.

There's a motions for approval for line items.

Uh for the eight resolutions.

I'm sorry, four resolutions, 20.19 through 20.22.

Any objections?

Member McCampbell.

Uh objection to 20.19.

Madam Clerk, if you know, Member McCampbell objection for line item 20.19.

Any further?

Clerk will so note, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Seeing none, those items.

Uh did not.

Member Pallowa.

Yes, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, Callaway objection to line item 20.19.

Thank you, sir.

Madam Clerk.

Clerk, so note, Mr.

President.

Thank you so much.

Um, seeing no further objections, those resolution shall stand approved.

Request to waiver, Mr.

President, 20 points 20 through 20 points 22.

There's a request for a waiver on line items 20.20 and 20.22, madam.

Through 2020.

Through 20.22.

Any objections?

Seeing none waiver shall be attached.

Uh for the internal operations standing committee for the president's report on standing committee referrals and other matters matters, madam clerk.

10 reports from various city departments.

The 10 reports will be referred.

The various departments, excuse me.

The presenters report on committee referrals and other matters.

10 reports from various city departments.

The 10 reports will be referred to the internal operations standing committee for the neighborhood and community services standing committee.

10 reports from various city departments, excluding the two that were moved to new business.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

The 10 reports will be referred to the neighborhood and community services standing committee for the public health and safety standing committee.

Five reports from various city departments.

The five reports will be referred to the public health and safety standing committee under the consent agenda.

Mr.

President.

Yes, before you go to the consent agenda, we do have a resolution to walk on through member waters, and it's a resolution to the suspension of a rules meeting.

There is a memo that is improved.

There we go.

Right here.

A walk on from uh member waters uh seeking a suspension of the rule um that requires the rules committee to meet within the first 60 days of each calendar year.

Um discussion, please.

Thank you so much.

Member Waters, I know this item is coming before you remember we suspend the rules with a bit of commentary on why this being requested.

All right.

So thank you so much.

Um due to the scheduling uh problems and time constraints, the rules committee cannot meet by February 28th.

Can you get a little closer to okay?

All right, geez.

I said uh due to the uh scheduling issues and time constraints, the rules committee um is unable to meet by February 28th.

Um to be in compliance with council rules.

So the rules committee will meet next week after former session.

Uh we have prepared a resolution to suspend for one week the rule requiring the rules committee uh to meet within the first 60 days of each calendar year.

Okay, thank you so much.

And it does appear to be while you're suspending within that first 60 days.

You're you're still moving forward after that, it sounds like just for clarity.

Yeah.

Thank you so much.

Any further colleagues?

Seeing none, there's a motion to walk this item on to new business.

Motion.

There's a motion.

Any objections?

See none, that action shall be taken.

Is there a motion on the resolution?

Motion to approve.

There's a motion to approve the walk on by member waters.

Any objection, colleagues?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Uh now under consent agenda, Madam Clerk.

There are no items, Mr.

President.

Thank you so much.

We'll now move to member reports.

We'll start with Member Miller.

Today at 6 o'clock, district 5 will have their monthly meeting at Butso Family Center on Kirchhoff in Detroit.

That'll be our second monthly meeting tonight at 6 p.m.

at the Butzel Family Center.

Look forward to seeing you out.

All are welcome.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Member Santiago Romero.

Thank you.

Mr.

Chair, just want to invite everyone to join us for our annual skate nights at Roller Key tomorrow.

We're going to be at 21:30 Schaefer in 42 and 7.

We'll be there from 5:30 to 7:30 for pizza skating, some family fun.

We also invite you to join us for our March office hours.

We will be joined by the Office of the Embudsman.

We are going to be at Equity Alliance on Monday, March 2nd from 3 to 5 p.m.

And then on Monday, March 16th, we're going to be at Kemini Rec Center.

Uh so if you need any assistance from any of our offices, please stop by.

So tune in to learn more.

Um wants to also share just a quick congratulations to Amber.

Um, not sure folks knew this, but she has become a citizen.

Um just want to say huge congratulations to Amber.

Folks don't know.

Um, yes, congrats.

This is a long time coming.

It's actually a really really hard thing to do.

Um, and she has served the city uh well, and just congratulations to Amber.

Um, and then Mr.

President last uh just have a few waiver requests um that I would like to make.

Uh while I still have the floor uh for 20 point 10.

This is a waiver request for the D dot repairs.

Colleagues is a request for a waiver on line item 20.10.

Any objections as we scroll.

Any objections?

Seeing none, a waiver should be attached.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Three just one final request is waivers for 20.2 through 20.8.

These are all the HIV support contracts.

Any objections?

Saying none, waiver should be attached.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

That's it for me.

Thank you.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

First, I want to say thank you to Chief Rico Razo for coming to our monthly community meeting.

To share information about the critical home repair program, uh, whose application will open up on March 9th.

The application process opens up on March 9th and closes on March 22nd.

So we are encouraging everyone to begin pulling your documentation together for the critical home repair program.

Um it is for seniors.

I believe in disabled um households.

So if anyone is interested in more details, I see uh Ms.

Lyons looking at me asking for more details.

Please uh reach out to the office.

The phone number is 31324841, and we'd be happy to share that information.

Um I can provide that information to you, Ms.

Lyons, uh, before we leave, but just want to make sure the residents are aware that they can uh get information about the program on the city's website on the housing and revitalization department's site in particular.

Uh again, application process opens March 9th.

I also um am elated to share that on Thursday.

The I believe it's the Department of Neighborhoods that's having a conversation about the Jefferson Chalmers residential seawall program.

This is the $1 million that Senator Chang um provided to the community to assist with repairing or replacing seawalls along the canal.

That which we all know um compromises the entire community.

So this is an effort to build a complete or continuous seawall to help address the water issues that that community has uh been impacted by, had been devastated by over a decade now.

And so um the conversation will happen on Thursday.

You can always reach out to the office to get the virtual link information.

Again, the office number 313 224841.

Um, the deadline to complete that application will be March 23rd.

Um, but please join the virtual call so you can hear all of the information and get the details on who can apply and how you apply.

So again, excited about that, and thank you again to Senator Chang for the support in the community as we work to address this issue by building a continuous seawall in the Jefferson Chalmers community.

That concludes my report.

Thank you, uh, Mr.

Chair, and I just assume that member waters is going to take the lead on the event happening this afternoon.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Member McCampbell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I also have uh an event that I believe member wires will mention.

I just want to also give her um kudos and uh thanks for having the series of D for all town halls.

Um residents as we mentioned at coffee hours are talking about it.

They're very excited and looking forward to the one that we're having at D7, but I'll let her mention that.

But uh, I just also want to say that the D District 7 Community Advisory Council is meeting this Thursday, February 26, at 6:30 p.m.

at the Carpenter and Mill Rice Training Center at 1687 American.

So that's the community advisor council for district seven.

And then inviting folks out to our next coffee hour this Saturday, uh February 28th at the Metropolitan Church of God, which is located at 1340 Schaefer Highway at 10 a.m.

Again, that's this Saturday, February 28th at the Metropolitan Church of God for our next coffee hour.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Member Waters.

I'm up next.

All right.

So first of all, I'm excited to hear about uh the seawall and district four.

I'm a strong supporter of Jeff Chalmers um area.

So thank you, uh Member Johnson, for announcing that.

The um skill trade um uh task force meeting was absolutely great.

It was extremely well attended.

I want to thank my co-chairs, um both um member McCampbell and uh Member Mellon uh for being there and for participating, and we look forward to doing many more of these uh together.

So um today, oh let me just say this.

Our our town hall in Southwest Detroit at the Kimenee Center was also a home run.

It was well attended.

People were there to garner the information.

They were just uh excited that we had uh experts there to help educate them on how to protect uh their properties.

And uh so that went um very very well.

Now, today at the um which is uh February 24th, um, in District 4 with Member Johnson from 4 to 6 p.m.

We're doing um a deed uh fraud um town hall, which is gonna be at 5555 Connor, which is the Samaritan Center.

555 Connor, which is the uh Samaritan Center.

On Thursday, we will be in uh District 7 from 4 to 6 p.m.

And we will be at Central Baptist Church with um member Matt Campbell.

Uh Central Baptist Church is located at 9620 Sorrento.

That's Central Baptist Church, 9620 Sorrento.

And that's this Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m.

Now, Saturday, this Saturday, uh February 28th, we will be in District 5 with uh Member Miller from 10 a.m.

to 12 at the Considine Little Rock Recreation Center, 8904 Woodward Avenue.

Again, that's this Saturday, 10 to noon.

We'll be at the Constantine Little Rock Recreation Center, 8904 Woodward Avenue.

And I just want to say to my colleagues, you know, so many people are being affected by this deed fraud.

Um, somebody also sent me a video from from the city of uh New York, where the their uh council uh going through this the same thing right now.

It is lead fraud.

So it is a national issue, but we want to get people to the place here that they know how to protect themselves by signing up for the uh register of these um alert system.

Uh hopefully we can continue to push our state legislators to put some uh put legislation in place.

They are working on something.

I'm not sure where they are uh in that process, but it's absolutely um critical that they pass this.

Um Chief Judge uh Bill McConaco reached out yesterday, he'll be sending someone to the remainder of our deed frauds, and we will also have um I'm not sure which day our Wayne County prosecutors sending someone, but so is she.

And then we were very thrilled to have a law department to come out and and tell us um that they're gonna be working with us.

Uh we have other people who have uh probate experience, uh register of these, um representative.

We're hoping that uh he sends another representative for the remainder of those.

And then we we want to make sure that people understand how to sign up for the Wayne County Register of D's Alert System because that is all that we have in place, other than an educational piece to make sure that they're protecting themselves.

And so with that, uh Mr.

President, I thank you for the time and I thank my colleagues for engaging me.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um member Benson.

All right, thank you.

Uh just a couple of items.

Want to continue to advocate for residents to sign up for our free workshops on life and legacy planning.

We have a March 19th virtual uh date, which is hosted by the Matrix Human Services.

That will be virtual.

That will be on March 19th at 5:30 p.m.

and another virtual meeting on April 2nd at 10 a.m.

This is hosted by Wayne Metro.

Please do a simple Google search on life and legacy planning, City of Detroit, and you can sign up there.

These are fantastic workshops that give you access to free estate planning services, wills, powers of attorney, powers of health, as well as Ladybird deeds.

This is how we hope to preserve our wealth, which is when it's predominantly locked in our homes.

Please sign up for your estate planning.

And this is something that we typically don't talk about around the kitchen table, but it's something is so important, and we're doing this for free.

This is worth about $4,000 on the open market, and something you can get here as a resident of the city of Detroit only.

In addition, wanted to report out as one of the Sim Cog City Council representatives, myself and member Miller attended the uh Miscan Mystical League, Sim Cog, as well as the Michigan Townships Association press conference this morning at Simcog.

I also want to thank our chief planner, Mr.

Marcel Todd, who attended with us as well.

And as an urban planner, he understands the importance of preemption and what they're trying to do in Lansing.

And while they may think they're trying to help us, they are not.

And so we have this press conference was attended by over 100 different elected officials throughout Southeastern Michigan.

And we saw over 50 municipalities, either townships, tarot townships, villages, and cities represented as well, all standing in unison, both Democrat, Republican, and Independents, all standing together, saying we do not support preemption.

And while you may think you're helping to build affordable housing, you are not.

The residents in our different municipalities, we know best.

And as a local elected officials, we know best as well.

So with that, I've also passed to my colleagues a document with the QR code requesting you to sign on to the petition from SimCog MML as well as Michigan Township Association supporting our fight against preemption.

So please take a look at that.

Last saw that it was making its way down the table, it's been sent out via text as well.

Just want to thank those who came out today and how important it is that we attend and make our voices heard.

I had a chance to speak on behalf of Detroit today.

And as I understand, we have five of my colleagues who have signed on, hoping to get all nine to sign on today.

And there it is down the down the line there.

Hopefully, everybody had a chance to sign on.

And it's been signed off by the 11th floor as well, to my understanding.

And so we as a city, looking like we're standing in unison against preemption from Lansing.

We know best at the local level, and thank you all for supporting and signing on today.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Member Keltler.

Um, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, the Detroit Health Department can help identify and prevent lead poisoning in your home.

Learn how our lead how the lead safe program can help protect you and your family.

And the question is what's invisible and harms our children?

That's lead.

Call 313-8760133.

That's 876-0133, and receive the free lasting um free led testing services.

Again, it's free.

Get your home tested, get your children tested.

The health department 876 0133.

Next, in celebration of the Heart Health Month, we'll be hosting our third annual community walk at the University of Detroit Mercy McNichols campus, which is right on the corner of West McNichols in Livernoy.

This Thursday, February 26th, from five until we walk two miles.

Stop by, get active, connect with your neighbors, and take steps toward a healthier lifestyle.

All ages and fitness levels are welcome to join us.

That's this Thursday, February 26th at the U of D Mercy.

Um, it's the indoor track on the corner of Livernoy and West McNichols.

And then this Saturday, please join me at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, um, February 28th from 8:30 to 2 p.m.

for the 2026 men's substance misuse prevention, mental health and wellness summit.

Breakfast and lunch will be provided for free.

There will be wellness screenings, free haircuts, and prize giveaways.

For more information, you can call my office at 224535.

Again, this is the 2026 men's substance misuse prevention, mental health and wellness summit at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church.

And then lastly, the early application period is now open for senior citizens solid waste discount, allowing eligible residents to secure the discount in time for it to be reflected on your summer property tax bill.

You can call 224 3560, and the application is open through April the 15th.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Pro Tim Young.

Native report so much negative report for me as well.

So we'll move forward now to uh communications from the clerk.

A report on approval of proceedings by the mayor.

The report will be received in place on file.

Um clerk, I forgot to do the under adoption without committee reference.

There are no items, Mr.

President.

Thank you so much.

Uh, under testimony resolution and special privilege.

Council member Benson, two resolutions, line items 29.1 and 29.2.

Motion to approve.

Member Benson.

Motion to approve.

Thank you.

There's a motion to approve line items 29.1, 29.2.

Any objections?

Seeing none, those actions shall be taken.

Under testimonial resolutions and special privilege, Madam Clerk.

Council member Benson, on behalf of Council President James Tate, two resolutions, line items 29.3 and 29.4.

Motion to approve.

Thank you.

Online items 29.3 and 29.4 is removed for approval.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Under testimonial resolutions and special privilege.

Councilmember Waters, three resolutions.

Line items 29.5 through 29.7.

Member Waters.

Motion to approve.

It's a motion to approve line items 29.5 through 29.7.

Any objections, colleagues?

See none.

Shall be taken.

Under testimony resolutions and special privilege.

Council President Pro Tim Young, a resolution line item 29.8.

Pro Tim Young.

Thank you, Ms.

President.

Move to approve line item 29.8.

It's a motion to approve line item 29.8.

Any objections?

Theme nine, that action shall be taken.

Like to hear no further objections.

Um, with the further discussion, member Sandiaga Romero.

We wrap up.

Uh apologies, Mr.

President, but I we are being informed that there's something in PHS that did not make it to our committee today to our formal session today.

Uh, it is the Detroit's uh water and sewer department trucks.

Um, just to confirm through you, Mr.

President, to member McCampbell, to my vice chair.

Did this move out of committee yesterday?

Um, through the chair, yes.

I believe it did move out of the committee and we place it on new business.

Okay, so Mr.

President, is it possible to?

I'm not sure if we have to move it back on, um, move it to new business, but it should have been on our agenda for today.

Damn clerk, do you have that resolution?

No, I do not have that resolution, Mr.

President.

Is it a uh 911 emergency because of the administration then they didn't chime in on this?

They didn't chime in on this.

Um, this is us doing our due diligence on what was moved out of committee yesterday.

Um, and since we are seeing no other flags from the administration, let me move forward.

Um, but to just want to flag that um sounds like they are okay with us moving forward um if they are not stopping us uh right now.

Mr.

President.

Uh first we go to Madam Clerk, then we'll go to Mr.

Washington.

Clerk.

Um, through you, um, I was informed that that item was approved yesterday.

Two committee, however, was not moved to new business.

It was moved to formal session of next week.

Okay.

Oh okay, Mr.

President.

If that's the case, then we will take that up next week.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

All right, colleagues.

Uh seeing that there is no further business to go before come before this body.

Uh this meeting shall stand adjourned.

Meeting should stand adjourned.