You have a corn present.

Excellent.

Thank you for putting that pro tempere on there.

I appreciate that.

All right.

We now have a very special presentation that we are going to get into right now.

Today we honor a police officer who chose a life of service.

Being a police officer is not just a job.

It's a commitment made every single day.

A commitment to show up when others are running away.

A commitment to stand in the gap between danger and safety.

A commitment to serve the people from every walk of life with fairness and courage.

A commitment to be willing to give the ultimate sacrifice of your life every day for those you don't even know.

This officer has done that with strength and integrity.

Behind the badge is a person who has missed family dinners, worked long nights, and carried the weight of difficult decisions.

The uniform represents authority, but it also represents responsibility.

And that responsibility has been carried with honor.

Policing is not easy.

Requires patience, intense moments, compassion, and painful ones, and courage in the face of uncertainty.

Demands calm judgment when seconds matter and requires heart, even when the job tests it.

Today we recognize not just the role, but the character of the person who is worn it.

We thank you for your service, your sacrifice, and your steady presence in our community.

Your work has made a difference.

So with that, it is my honor, along with my colleagues, 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 Earl Easy Moreau, everybody.

Let's give a round of applause.

Monday, January 6, 1986, through Thursday, February 26, 2020.

I mean the date you man.

I had to read that.

All right.

You are indeed a champion for the people of Detroit.

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 lifts the spirits and hearts of the people of Detroit, Michigan, and America.

The Honorable Coleman A.

Young II, Detroit City Council President Pro Tempore at Large, with the entire Detroit City Council of Detroit, Michigan, wants to say thank you for the four years of dedicated service to Detective Earl Easy Monroe, everybody.

Okay.

Mr.

Detective Monroe, is there anything you want to say, sir?

Make sure you push that button right there until it turns green on the bottom.

I just wanted to thank everybody that had an intricate part in my journey in this 40 years for my family dealing with me, not being at certain functions.

So my partner putting up with me for the 30 plus years.

My partner slash sister.

That's my sister now.

You know, my I have good bosses that made this transition very easy for me.

If it wasn't for the bosses and my teammates that I work with, it wouldn't have been I'd probably have been gone at 30.

But I was able to drag it on because I had good people I was working with.

So I appreciate everything everybody's done for me.

Well, that's excellent.

Does anybody else hear anything they want to say?

Go ahead.

Yeah.

Just want to say, you know, in the new generation we talk about dedication and leading by example and easy and his partner.

But specifically easy today is your day.

Thank you for leading by example about the things that we do and how we handle business the correct way and the thorough way.

And that's how we make a long career.

So thank you for your dedicated service, sir.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, so we've been joined by corporation counsel.

Sir, I didn't see you back there in the back.

Is there something you wanted to say, sir?

I just wanted to say uh Mr.

President Pro Tem uh to all of the police officers in the room.

Uh one of the things I have in my office is my father's uh Detroit police officer badge.

Uh he served as a Detroit policeman for five years.

Uh my godfather uh is the legendary Frank Blunt.

So I have a close personal relationship with the men and women of DPD.

Uh and I came up for a meeting, but when I saw that this particular ceremony was going on, is this an opportunity for me as a private citizen, as a son of a DPD officer, and on behalf of the citizens of the city of Detroit to say thank you for somebody who was giving us 40 years.

40 years on the front line in this town.

That's hard work, that's dangerous service.

That's an important contribution.

Uh and I just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you for your work for your dedication.

And I heard you and you said for that last 10 years.

So good for you, and I'm glad that your team held you up so that you can complete this term.

So thank you again.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

My colleagues have anything they want to say.

I just want to say congratulations on your retirement, and we thank you for those last 10 years.

You know, once the requirement hits, we can't let good people go.

So I know your partner was happy that you stayed with her.

And I just want to say if you still feel compelled to work in that field, it's a lot of volunteerism going on.

We love to see you help out in the 7th precinct citizens council, because they do an amazing job serving district five and uh in the seventh precinct, but congratulations again, and you look very well.

Dad did 40 years on the Detroit Police Department.

I had to go off to you.

Still in shape, brother.

Keep up the good work.

That is a that is a serious commitment, a lot of motivation.

Um, just curious.

Number of hash marks on your sleeve.

How many hash marks do you have?

And do you have all of them on your sleeve?

Eight.

Do you have them all on there?

I don't.

Okay.

That's also very, very impressive.

And I want to make sure that we talk about that.

Whenever you see an officer of those number of hash marks, let you know the level of commitment.

And I'm not how many eight stripers are there out there?

Not many.

It's not many.

It is a few.

My partner's one.

Wow.

So she'll be nice.

We have three right now.

And I don't know.

Uh, commander, do you know how many A-stripers we have or more in the force period?

No, sir, but I I think we got about half of them here.

So do we have less than 50 in the entire city?

Yes.

All right.

And you got at least three here right now.

So very, very impressed.

That's also another uh milestone that we should recognize that everybody in here has 40 plus years of service to the residents of the city of Detroit.

So thank you for that, also.

Fair wins and following C's to you.

Thank you.

All right, I don't think there's anybody else that's speaking.

Who yes?

I'm sorry, go ahead, sir.

So I met Easy and his partner when I went to headquarters surveillance as a time when the city was going through some turmoil, emergency managers and that.

Some officers were shutting down Morel's bed with these two.

They didn't slow down.

Um talk about the easiest people to work with me to learn from their experience.

It's it's been amazing.

It's been an honor.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Congratulations.

Going once, going twice for hold your peace.

All right, we're gonna take pictures.

Thank you, everybody.

He's looking right at you.

Oh that's all right.

It's getting excited, like we like together.

Slide it back out right there.

Oh careful.

I'm good.

That was just my look right here for also sorry.

We're gonna look right here first.

Perfect at this camera right here in the middle.

Oh that three, two, and one.

Let's do one more.

Three, two, and perfect.

Anyone else?

Well, let's do one more right here.

There you go.

Thank you.

Perfect.

Thank you so much.

And Parton.

Yes.

And Member Benson.

Councilmember Benson.

We're still having you for this one.

Yep.

Member Miller.

Yeah, yeah.

Perfect.

Right here.

Beautiful.

Three.

Two and one.

One more.

Three.

Two and uh if you can kind of tilt your spirit of charity word, uh let's see how this looks.

Yeah, much better.

Thank you.

Three, two, and then perfect, thank you.

One more meeting.

Excuse me, excuse me.

We didn't gotta rank.

Perfect.

One on each end, Captain.

Rank.

Perfect.

Perfect.

Right here in the middle.

Three.

Two?

And one.

Let's do one more.

Now I heard?

I got mine.

All right, perfect.

Not just you two.

Please.

I'm just gonna switch something out real quick.

This camera right here.

Oh that three, two, and one.

Can I get smile from both of you?

Three, two, and perfect.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Appreciate you.

Thank you.

Oh, right.

He's all mine now.

Thank you.

Okay.

But for the record, you might want to.

But I did.

What?

Do roll calls.

No, not a roll.

Yeah, Clerk, you nodded that member Benson's here.

Excellent.

Thank you, man.

Appreciate you.

That's where you get the big bucks for.

All right.

Uh negative chair remarks.

We will now go to public comment.

We have one person.

Oh sorry.

Yes, Ben of Clerk.

You're the chair.

Approval of the minutes.

Oh.

Uh is there a motion to approve the minutes?

Any objections?

Thank you again, man.

Clark.

What would I do without you?

All right.

Now we'll go on to public comment.

We got one person, I think.

He's here for public comment.

Going once, going twice, going three times, gone.

And then we have we will move on to virtual public comment.

Mr.

Jadante Smith, go ahead, floor is yours.

Two minutes, sir.

Good afternoon.

I was something told me in my spirit to play the tape that I have a Conrad Mallet offering me a job for 35,000 with my two children.

That's ridiculous.

And it's a bribe through the Maroon family through Crown Enterprises to not do the work that I've been doing around these, uh around these folks.

Uh so council member Miller.

I appreciate how you've been fighting, but you gave your hand up the other night at your community meeting when you told me that these buildings have been in uh that that the district three uh district three area around Crown Enterprises have been M4 for 90 years.

You are correct, but it was a residential neighborhood that was incorrectly zoned, M4 for years and years.

Also, you've taken room family money, so it seems that you wouldn't vote anything against them, just like Scott Binson has and a few other people on city council and Madam Sheffield, Mayor Sheffield took 25,000 as well.

Um also some other things, Queen Mother, uh Agnes Carl Mal Hitchcock.

She has an event tonight.

I'll be going there.

I wish I could get a water mill in this building because it's a couple of you on council I would give it to.

Namely Scott Benson for right now.

Uh also uh Conrad Mallet does not deserve to be on the board of police commissioners.

She needs to be removed.

Uh so I'll be I'll be I made a promise to council a while ago about Conrad Mallet and his reappointment.

I'm gonna work on my story today.

I'm gonna make sure everybody who voted for him affirmatively has to account for that vote because he's doing negative work and the board of uh ethics, which the director came down and she spoke about this.

That they they also submitted a memorandum to city council to get new counsel for their board.

There's no way we have two elected two boards within the city of Detroit that are supposed to hold people accountable.

That corporation counsel is sending either himself or another lawyer to sit on the board of.

We just seen him come and speak about how he has a uh uh uh a love for police officers, which is no problem with that.

But in his official capacity as corporation counsel, it's a conflict of interest in to sit there.

It does not make sense for him to be able to sit there.

And in his speech, he's told me to be careful of electoral politics.

I tried to help my good friend at this point, Crash Anna Anderson unseat Scott Benson, a 12-year incumbent.

And so for him to offer me a job and tell me to un to be careful of electoral politics is very uh unethical and he needs to be removed.

I'm coming for his bar license.

All right, thank you, sir.

We appreciate that.

I have one more second.

Who the next to the queue?

Oh no, wait, no, that's right.

We gotta move to virtual.

First of all, public comment is now closed.

Public comment is now closed.

Public comment is now closed.

Who you have in the queue, Mr.

Bo virtually.

How many people and who do you have first?

Good afternoon, Mr.

Chair.

Currently, we have 10 individuals raised for public comment.

And the first caller is Cunningham.

All right, Cunningham, the floor is yours.

Two minutes.

313 4449114.

313, 4449114.

313, 444, 9114.

That number was made so you can remember it.

That is my cash app.

You can Google me with the number.

Find my Facebook, Patreon.

So I give out hand warmers, gloves, and bus tickets at the bus stop.

I just got a donation from Miss Lisa, who works at the Wrigley's Frank meets in the Eastern Market.

I appreciate that.

Any gift of any kind to purchase bus tickets or to get hand warmers is greatly appreciated.

Remember everybody, love is paramount.

I don't care how big you are, how small you are.

If a person has never harmed you or harmed anyone around you, your eyeballs and your ears, you got common sense.

Hate those.

No, don't hate it all.

Dislike those that hate you.

But if they have done nothing to you to harm you, be graceful, be peaceful, assist.

I got a gentleman that was at the bus stop.

He had some complaints about the system.

He should be speaking soon.

What's your name, sir?

Mr.

Jeremy.

All right, and I told him y'all don't bite through the phone, so don't be shy.

Um, there is a smart board meeting today at 2 p.m.

at the Buell Building, B U H L, Downtown Detroit.

Um the fast bus is smart, the one on Lewick, Michigan, and Brad.

All right, thank you for that.

Who do you next in the queue, Mr.

Bo?

The next caller is Betty A.

Verner.

Ms.

Verner, floor is yours.

Two minutes.

Good afternoon to all within the sound of my voice.

I'm Betty A.

Barner, the president for DeSoda Ellsworth Black Association.

Asking the council to consider in their budget when you start your uh budget process, please consider a fund.

Money's for a fund to assist black clubs, associations, 501c3s with their projects, and to uh help them pay the land uh youthing.

When you are uh want to do projects, some projects you must go before the city of Detroit BC department to have a land use hearing, and there's a fee of $1,500.

Uh we uh the black clubs are buying up vacant lots that are in their um neighborhood.

They are making them useful uh and beautifying them.

And for us, our organization would like to have a playscape, old school playground for the children in our neighborhood.

Well, we must uh have that land use hearing.

We don't have that $1,500.

So that uh creates a problem for our association.

And we're uh I'm asking that uh the administration will consider waiving the $1,500 fee for black clubs that are doing the work to make their uh neighborhoods and the vacant lots useful.

Also, we uh still looking for help for our think accorder project.

We want monies.

We need monies to uh beautify our thinker quarter.

Thank you for this time and God bless you all.

Have a great day.

Thank you.

We appreciate you, Ms.

Varner.

Who do we have next in the queue?

Mr.

Chair, the next caller is William M.

Davis.

All right, Davis, floor is yours, two minutes.

Uh good morning, young people.

How are you doing?

Can y'all hear me?

Fantastic.

Good.

Go ahead.

Okay.

I think that was nice about doing uh, you know, the the uh recognition for somebody to do 40 years.

Um I I think you should probably this is the community, the the committee that should probably do more of that.

And uh also, you know, there are the number of officers and uh especially uh reserve officers that may have been on the force for 50 years.

Uh I also think it would be nice from time to time for you to perhaps do something for the oldest retiree.

I'm not the oldest retiree, I just started young.

Um but you know, we we we need to perhaps recognize you know, people who who still work for the city and people who have worked for the city have been retired, even though some of us are in terrible shape because of the fake bankruptcy.

Because like say when when that officer came on board, I'd already been with the water department eight years and was already a chief steward and asked me.

And in the 1990s, I was a chief steward and organized the UEW group.

That was the first chief steward until I moved up into upper management.

Uh, we need to recognize some of the the contributions that current workers do and have that.

Hold on for a minute.

We got uh something's wrong with the clock.

It's frozen.

All right, go go ahead.

Um we need to recognize the current workers and recognize retirees, especially uh some of the older retirees that we have retirees that's 80 and 90 and older.

This should also be recognized.

The fact that it was able to survive.

And many of the people I'm talking about are people that started during the time that your your dad was uh the mayor.

So I think the city can do a better job.

I think the city should be more forcibly trying to get rid of the emergency management law.

That would do a that would help in a number of ways.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Who here next to the queue, Mr.

Bo.

Mr.

Chair, the next caller is owner Papa.

All right, floor is yours, two minutes.

Uh good afternoon, and through the chairman I'd be heard.

Yes, ma'am, two minutes.

Yes, it's always um nice to uh acknowledge people um who need to be acknowledged.

And that was nice CT for a police officer who's been 40 years.

But at any rate, um, I'm agreeing with Mr.

Williams.

I think the neighborhoods committee is not doing enough for the neighborhoods.

I I I see things on the on the agenda that are totally unrelated to the neighborhoods.

Um I can you describe to me where the NEZs are and um and um district seven.

I would like to know where they exist or if if any exist or if we can get any Zs for our homes so that we can do the same thing everybody else is doing, you know, get abatements and money to you know repair our homes.

Otherwise, you know, it's no point in us paying taxes because if you're gonna continue to be disparaging about how you spend the money, and I believe that's why CREO has not submitted the study on the disparity that was supposed to be done because if all of the COBs are in district six and then district five, and they're none in district seven, they're three one.

How is that?

We all find that found out from the board of education that that separate is not equal, and so the community's benefit should go beyond where the where the where the development is occurring because everybody is using my tax dollars to embellish themselves, and all I'm doing is getting poor.

Okay.

I never had a money tree in my backyard to go and pluck money off of, so I have to be frugal, and you should be as well when you're spending my tax dollars.

$396,000 in an abatement for 12 years is too much.

Thank you.

We're in less than the queue, Mr.

Bo.

Thank you.

Mr.

Chair, the next caller, Cicely McCum.

Arms McClellan, floor is yours, two minutes.

Thank you very much for this opportunity, Cecily McClellan.

Uh yesterday I participated in uh a hearing on water rate increase by GLIWA.

And GLIWA was able to sustain for 10 years based on the bankruptcy with uh 4% or less rate increase.

We've seen a rate increase now of 5.2% average last year, and then this year we have an average of 6.3 uh 3%, which is both water and sewage.

We have over 60,000 residents in the city of Detroit who are below 200% of poverty and that are eligible for water affordability program.

There is nothing Gleewa is contributing now four million dollars.

There was no hint or suggestion that they were going to increase the amount they uh contribute.

The Detroit Lifeline Original Program had uh serviced all 28,000 Detroiters and had LIWAS dollars and it was approximately 30 million.

Now there's about 4.5 million, and they're only going to be able to service 4 million of the potential 60,000 residents or households that could be eligible.

This is not water affordability.

We need uh this uh committee to time in on and support water affordability.

The state of Michigan had uh is in the process of uh passing a law for water affordability now, House Bill 4555 and 5170 to 5173.

We need your support for this bill.

Additionally I'm a retiree and the grand bargain, which was part of the fraudulent bankruptcy, is uh was a grand theft, and they're still clawing back over 15.5 percent of our annuity.

We need uh to be made whole again.

I have uh our organization has submitted a request to uh council person regarding a meeting on thank you so much.

We appreciate that, Ms.

McClellan, and your work.

Who do we have next in the queue, Mr.

Bell?

Next caller ends in one, two, four.

One, two, four, the floor is yours.

Go ahead.

Good afternoon, Maggie Heard.

Yes.

Okay, congratulations to the officer who made it 40 years.

Um that's great.

Uh unfortunately, though, in District 5 member Miller, uh, we do have a problem with police responding to crimes.

And then sometimes the perpetrators start doing worse things.

I asked to have a meeting with you.

I'd like to tell you about that situation.

Also, regarding the neighborhood, it was either you, member young or member Miller or both.

After I showed you a picture of the open to trespass structure owned by the people who want to build North End Landing, it amazingly got boarded up.

I'd like to know why the land banks trying to take people's property when they have boards on their windows, but these developers that they have contracted with have boards on their windows, and that isn't a problem for them.

Also, I took that same photo, I actually printed it in color to show you how negligent the land bank is, and I took it to the land bank board meeting and handed it to them and told them the people you're contracting with has had this building like this and opened a trespass for years and they told me to call somewhere out, but they've got a contract with them.

So if you want to know why people don't like the land bank, that's one of the reasons.

If you vote, hold on, hold on, Miss Ward, hold on, hold on.

We gotta we gotta problem with the clock.

Reset the clock at the uh 37 seconds.

All right, go ahead, Ms.

Ward.

Okay, thank you.

So Mr.

Young, was it you?

How how did that get boarded up?

Did you call and like tell the developers time to do something?

They still have debris on the property, and um again, it's just disparate treatment that the city lets happen.

Um also uh Conrad Mail it.

Yeah, he shouldn't nobody should have voted for him because he doesn't uphold the charter, like charter section nine-405, elimination of redundancy.

The land bank doesn't have to go after people.

We already got BC, you know, and then you're doing uh eminent domain.

Well, not all of you.

And uh everybody take a look at Detroit Solar Scheme.

All right, thank you so much, Ms.

Ward.

We appreciate you.

Uh who do we have next in the queue?

Mr.

Box caller is Celeste Turner.

All right, Miss Turner.

Uh may put two minutes on the clock.

Good afternoon.

My name is Celeste Turner, and I represent the Malvern Hill Neighborhood Association and District One.

We are requesting a formal update on the Rogel Park plan.

Many of us have participated in the planning process from the beginning, and we feel that the approach has now switched from community inclusion to diversion.

Our community remains opposed to the proposal to build low-income housing on a portion of the Rogel Park near Seven Mile Road.

In multiple prior meetings, residents clearly expressed the desire for the entire site to remain a green space.

To date, no public data has been presented to justify converting this land to housing, particularly given the number of underoccupied or closed apartment complexes already in the area.

We are also concerned about the recent zoning change correction.

We attempted several times to contact the planning department via email, but got no response back.

The community was previously informed there would be an opportunity to address this correction.

However, we later learned that the meeting had already occurred.

Our Malvern Hill residents that live directly across the street from the park were not even notified of the meeting to attend.

The city planning department changed the zoning to prevent to fit a proposal they want to push upon the community to discriminate to demonstrate community support for preserving the Roadgill Park.

We do have a petition that has been initiated and currently includes 129 signatures as of yesterday.

With more being collected.

As a community, we have several reasons to reject this proposed housing.

And we appreciate any attention that could be given to this, and we appreciate our response.

Thank you.

All right, thank you so much for that.

We appreciate you.

And uh definitely think that's something we'll probably talk about a parks update later, and we'll make sure we'll include Roquale in that discussion.

Who we have next in the queue?

Mr.

Bo.

Mr.

Church, caller ends in 039.

039, floor is yours.

Two minutes zero three nine.

What's up, Colby?

Hey sir.

Uh the other day I was on there I was down there for the internal operations standard committee.

And before the meeting even started, Angela Whifield Callaway told ETU to remove me for the meeting because I said her and Scott Vincent walked in.

I said, Here come two TV in public officials.

And then I told said something else.

It's on video.

So what I'm gonna do, man, I'm a sue.

I'm gonna call a lawsuit.

My right to uh street.

And I didn't do nothing wrong.

The meeting has started.

The lady is a hoax.

It's went to her head, so I'm getting ready to take her down a few notches, all the way down to I said say common ground so we can stand and then she keeps fronting, like she's gonna do something.

I ain't broke no law, committed no crimes in a long, long, long, long, long, long time.

I had to cuss on me ten times, nine times to the Detroit Detention Center, one time to the Samaritan Behavior Center via Detroit Beth in the hospital.

And I am who I am.

I'm Joy Road Route, six mile route.

That's the telegraph to the far, far, far east side.

The seven mile route.

From telegraph all the way to the deep, deep east side.

And that's Joy Road from Telegraph to Liverwood, then Claremont to where in that.

Now I ain't gonna play no games with none of y'all.

All y'all team TV and public officials.

That has been cheating the lections for years and years and years.

2020, I said 647.

The information directly to him.

The video.

2021.

Oh y'all TV and City Council, Board of Police Commissioners, School Board, and some judges.

2022 and 2024.

And I'm stand up 100.

I got a four and a half days.

All right.

Thank you for that so much, sir.

We appreciate it.

Who here next to the queue, Mr.

Bell.

Mr.

Chairman caller ends in 169.

All right, 169, floor is yours.

Go ahead, 169.

Can you guys hear me?

Yes, sir.

Go ahead.

All right.

Um, thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for praying for Brother Cunningham.

Betty, literally um helping Brother Cunningham.

Uh Cunningham is deserving of love.

Everyone is.

If he has not harmed you, don't let the powers that be tell you the hate.

Love is key.

I see that Cunningham has been getting folks out on ride alongside I got this information for this meeting from Cunningham's Facebook page.

Cunningham is God's child, Cunningham is a servant.

The brother was homeless for 10 years and is still helping others.

He still has joy.

If you notice over the years, he does not smile like he used to.

So enemies know that you have won that victory.

You have taken it smile, but know that he loves you anyway.

This quote is by the genius Einstein.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Again, love is a better teacher than duty.

Again, love is a better teacher than duty.

Thank you for my time.

Thank you.

We appreciate that.

Who do we have next in the queue, Mr.

Bo.

Mr.

Trenton, next caller ends in 558.

All right, 558.

Floor is yours.

Go ahead, 558.

Two minutes.

558.

Brother, like I said, if they don't bite, go ahead and tell them about the bus service.

All right, 558.

Hello?

Because you already spoke.

But we love you though.

Hello.

Hello.

Yeah.

Mr.

Cunningham.

Go ahead, sir.

Go ahead and talk.

Hello.

Who is this?

Just a tell them your name.

Okay.

Wait, hold on.

Okay.

Restart the clock.

You see, you you gave me for a pump fake there.

All right.

Go ahead, Jeremy.

Uh talk about the transportation.

Yeah, go ahead, Jeremy.

Yeah, I'm I've been riding the bus for a long time, and uh the buses are always way.

Um they dirty.

Um, from what I understand is that they don't have enough buses.

So it's not a driver problem, it's a a bus problem.

So I'm just wondering, uh, you know, what can we do to, you know, uh get not just uh more buses but better buses.

These buses are outdated.

Uh they break down a lot.

Um buses I rode as a child.

I don't think we've updated the buses in decades.

Um and I I use the bus to go to uh work and other things.

Uh to the point to where I have to leave an hour or two early just to make sure I make it to work on time.

And sometimes that that doesn't even happen.

Um sometimes uh the schedule bus doesn't even leave.

They don't replace that.

Um there's no accommodation for that.

Uh they used to at least give you a bus ticket for accommodation.

Now they don't even do that.

Um really much search is with the transportation.

Uh right now I grew up on the east side of Detroit.

Uh Chalmers Harper area.

And uh right now I live on the uh west side off of Woodward.

And uh I mean no matter what side of town you're on this same issue.

I told you don't argue.

Hello.

All right, thank you so much for that.

We appreciate you guys and your service.

Who we got next in the queue, Mr.

Bow.

That was the last caller for public comment.

All right, excellent.

We will now move on to new business discussion.

Chair recognizes Vice Chairman Benson.

All right, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh there was a question regarding uh neighborhood enterprise zones.

I've placed two links for the most up-to-date maps uh on my Facebook page, councilmember Scott Benson.

Those maps illustrate and indicate how we redistributed the NEZs back in 2021, and that was a heavy lift that my office did.

This was approved by Detroit City Council, and we tried to be as equal and as equitable in distribution throughout the entire city, where they were at one time heavily loaded to the west side of the city.

We were able to move those into every district now has an NEZ, and we believe they are far more equitably distributed than they were before.

So hopefully you'll take a look at those maps, and it'll dispel any myths that NEZs are only located in one area of the city.

Thank you.

You want to uh give your um your handle?

I think you said your Facebook was it your Facebook?

Council Councilmember Scott Benson.

Okay, excellent.

And they can also call your office too as well to be able to get any information.

Excellent.

And thank you for that.

We appreciate you, Mr.

Benson.

Did you want to say anything, Mr.

Miller?

All right.

We will now move on to the mayor's office.

Uh Lion 6.1, petition to Rocket Giving Fund, request a whole Rocket Classic from July 27th, 2026 at 12 p.m.

to August the 3rd, 2026 at 10 p.m.

at rock Detroit Golf Club setup will begin on May 4th, 2026 at 7 a.m.

and be completed by July 26, 2026 at 12 a.m.

tear down will begin on August the 3rd, 2026 at 12 a.m.

and be completed by September 1st, 2026 at 10 p.m.

Golf tournament with large charitable components and a day of free entry and offering reduced entry fees thereafter.

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

Motion's been made on the objections here in the line 6.2 we move to formal session.

The recommendation for approval you put on to new business.

Lion 6.9.

I mean new business.

Line 6.2 is giving me.

Yeah, I got ahead of myself there.

Uh Lion 6.2.

Petition of United Irish Societies to request to hold the 68th Detroit St.

Patrick's Day Parade and Family Fund Zone on March 15, 2026 from 1 p.m.

until 5 p.m.

the same day on Michigan Avenue, Detroit, Michigan.

Senate will begin on 4 p.m.

on March the 14th, 2026 to bear down beginning at 3 p.m.

on March 15, 2026, and will be completed by 5 p.m.

the same day.

Is there a motion to move line on 6.2 to formal session with recognition for approval?

We put on to new business.

Motion.

Motion made already objections.

Here in the line 6.2, we move the formal session with recognition for approval, we put on to new business.

Line 6.3.

Petition of Apex Events.

Quest to hold Detroit Shanrock Festival.

Fifth annual on March 14, 2026, from 12 p.m.

until 11 p.m.

The same day at 401-42101 through 421, excuse me, McComb Street, Detroit Michigan, 48226 Park right lot.

Setup will start at 12 p.m.

on March 12th, 2026, complete by 8 p.m.

on March 13, 2026.

Tear down begin at 11 a.m.

on March 15, 2026, and be complete by 4 p.m.

or March.

No, we'll uh tear down begin 11 a.m.

on March 15th, 2026 and be completed by 4 p.m.

on March 16th, 2026.

Is there a motion move line of 6.3 the formal session with recognition for approval?

With record dates for approval, we put on to new business.

Motion.

Motion made are any objections.

Here in the line 6.3 formal session with recommendations for approval, we put on the new business.

Line 6.4, office of contract and procurement.

Contract 3090802.

100% blight funding to purchase three at to win.

Oh, I know I'm butchering this.

Oh, is it attonator?

Attenuated.

Thank you.

Attenuated trailers with arrow board display.

Contractor, MDNSIX, LLC, DBA, American Trailer Mart.

Location 325 West Huron Waterford, Michigan, 48328.

Contract period city council approval through December 31st, 2026.

Total contract amount 83, 83, 390, 800, 394.00.

Is there a motion to send line 6.4 to formal session with recognition for approval to put onto new business?

Motion.

Motion with discussion.

Chair recognized Member Benson.

All right, thank you.

Through yourself to the administration.

Can we just talk about the three new trailers and their life expectancy?

And then how many do we have in our fleet in total?

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

Go ahead, Mr.

Weatherer.

Through the chair, I was able to hear the question.

Um these three trailers have uh a life expectancy between 10 to 20 years based on use.

How many do we have in our inventory right now?

So this crew, we have uh we have three of these longer attenuator and just for um context.

These are the aero board trailers that are very long and they provide extra protection for the workers who are down on the freeways cleaning up trash.

Um, and so we have three right now.

One is in in bad shape, and so we're we hope to have these three new ones so that all five of our crews have one.

I missed that.

How many uh do we have an inventory now?

We have three right now.

Um, we're looking to get three more and then retire one of the old ones for a new total of five.

Okay, all right, thank you.

Uh any additional questions from my colleagues?

Motion to approve and send the formal motion without objection.

This body will approve and send to formal line item six point four.

Through the chair for clarity, is this gonna be new business as dated?

Motion new business motion got objection, new business.

The contract was submitted in February 6th for city council agenda and has been amended.

So this is an amendment submitted as contract number 6007 six one five.

100% street funding by tree trimming and removal service.

It should read as 100% major street funding.

What's the difference on this one?

2 million Baker Road, tree trimming removal services, Green Street.

I miss what's the difference on this one?

I'm missing it.

It was told in neighborhoods last week that all trench tremendous would be three years for three million.

But okay.

Should be three million dollars.

Got it.

So it says two and the correction.

Okay, it should be three million dollars.

All right, motion to discuss.

Motion to bring that motion to term once LPD and GSD provide a plan for how we're going to expand our forestry department and start trenching program hiring and training Detroit residents.

You want to just I know there's a presentation coming up soon.

I saw the mim not sure exactly what the date is, but that is what I hope to gain from them.

We willing to open that uh motion to bring back after the discussion, which is next week on March 5th.

I think it should be added with all the other trim trimming.

I think we had a total right now of 20 million for I think uh eight contracts.

This might be, I'm not sure the number, but it might be already in the in the um basket with all the other ones.

This one is want to bring this back in one week after so we can discuss this after the discussion.

I'd like to see it um in the in the because we they are um pro tem um president tape moved everything into one cluster.

I'm not sure why this one is separate.

It already came before us, so this one is a correction, so this is in the existing bucket of contracts updating this one to correct it.

Yes, so we can see we can bring this back in one week, which would move it with the discussion of forestry next Thursday.

Yes, thank you.

Motion to bring back in one week.

That objection, that motion will pass.

All right, line item 6.6 uh submitting resolution authorizing to submit a grant application to Michigan Department of Natural Resources for Cisco Year 2026 Trust Fund Grant for Hope Park General Service Department here about requested authorization from Detroit City Council to submit a grant application to the Michigan Department of National Resources for the fiscal year 2026 trust fund grant.

The amount being sought is 400,000.

The state shares 400,000.

The requested amount there's there is a required cash match of 400.

So the total amount for the project will be 800,000.

Motion to approve motion.

That objections body will approve and move the new business out ofjection.

All right, line 6.7.

Submitting resolution to authorize request to accept and appropriate the fiscal year 2026 supporting healthy aging through parks and recreation grant.

Sharp sharper.

The National Recreation and Park Association NRPA has awarded the City of Detroit GSD with a fiscal year 26 supporting healthy aging through parks and recreation SARPR grant for a total of 2500.

There is no mass total project cost of 2500.

Motion to approve send the formal new business.

Motion.

So the total project will be $800,000.

Motion to approve some formal new business.

Motion.

This is a 2026 trust fund grant.

The amount being sought is 400,000.

State shares 400.

City required matches 400.

Total project cost is $800,000.

Motion to approve and send a formal motion.

Discussion.

Discussion on that motion to the to the administration.

This is Williams.

So the chair, we have Alex Weather up on.

Mr.

Weather up.

Good afternoon.

I am pulling the I apologize through the chair.

I lost my notes, so I'll pull that right up for you.

All right.

That would be great, just so you're not waiting on me.

I apologize.

All right.

Mr.

Chair, we're on line out of 610.

We're waiting for 69 to uh for information.

So motion bring back 69 to the end of the agenda.

That objection.

Well, 610.

Thank you, Mr.

Vice Chair.

Okay.

Okay.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

I did.

Oh, by back.

Okay.

Thank you, Mike.

All right.

Line on 6.10 request to accept is a request to accept an appropriate cash donation from McAlvey merchants and associates.

McAlvey merchant and associates has awarded a cash donation to the office of abudsman in the amount of $500.

There is no match requirement for this donation.

Is there a motion to discuss line on 6.10?

Motion.

Motion made are any objections?

Here now we will discuss line on 6.10.

Uh to the administration.

Why are we dealing with this at all?

This is $500.

I just well under the limit of why this is coming before council.

Why are we dealing with this at all?

All grants and exception of donations do have to go through city council.

Okay.

Even ones if low is $500.

I mean, I mean, I understand being transparent, but it's a little bit excessive.

Uh member Benson, did you want to have something you want to say?

It says is this part of the oversight process.

This is part of the oversight process.

Okay.

Member Miller.

Jab something you want to say?

Okay.

Yeah, I mean I don't see why this raises to the level, but I think I made that pretty clear.

So, all right.

Uh, is there a motion to um to send line item 6.10 to 4?

We we sent us man of clerk, we send this to 6.10, right?

We don't receive and file this, right?

We send this like a light item, right?

Okay.

Not as a memo, so let's should move.

Yeah.

Okay.

Uh uh, Mr.

Keller, Mr.

Anderson.

Did you want to contribute anything to the legal aspect of this at all?

Are we all are we covered there?

Are we okay accepting this?

It's just this just really unusual to me.

Um attorney Phil Keller, LPD, uh to pro tempore young.

Um, yes, it's it's required by the code.

It's it's section 17-4-2, I believe.

Um, all the all the grants have to be approved by city council.

Okay.

Through the chair, I echo brother council.

All right.

Excellent.

And thank you, Mr.

Keller, putting pro-temporary on there.

Appreciate it.

All right.

Um, with that being said, uh, do I have a motion to see line on 6.10 to formal session with recordation for approval, we put on to new business.

Motion.

Motion admitted or any objections?

Hearing none line on 6.10, we move to formal session with recordation for approval, we put on to new business.

Um member Benson, what were we waiting on?

We're waiting on something.

We're supposed to bring something back.

6.9.

All right.

Let's see.

Uh give me just a second here.

We're looking for the uh location of that actual one.

Okay.

All right, Mr.

Weatherup.

Always good to see you, sir.

Do you have the location of that grant for us?

Through the chair, yes.

This will be at the Walker Williams Rec Center.

Okay.

Apologies for not having that.

No problem.

Anything else, Mr.

Benson?

That's it.

Mr.

Miller?

Nothing.

All right.

Is there a motion to move line on 6.9 to formal session with recognition for approval be put onto new business?

Motion?

Motion made.

Are there any objections?

Here in the line 6.9, we move to formal session with recommendations for approval, we've gone to new business.

We will now move on to member reports.

Uh negative member report from the chair.

The chair recognizes vice chairman Denson.

No report.

All right, chair recognizes member Miller.

Good morning, everyone.

Tomorrow I would like to say that we're having our morning mingle with Councilman Renata Miller at the Commons.

That is tomorrow, Friday, February 27th, from 8 a.m.

to 11 a.m.

We're asking that you join us for a relaxed atmosphere of open dialogue and some things about the future for our city.

We look forward to seeing you out tomorrow again, 8 a.m.

to 11 a.m.

with the morning mingle with the councilwoman.

Also on Saturday, February 28th at 10 o'clock in the morning to 12.

I will be hosting a council member at large, Mary Waters for her deed fraud protection.

That will be at the Considine Little Rock Recreation Center at 8904 Woodward Avenue.

That's 8904 Woodward Avenue for the Considine Little Rock Recreation Center, where I will be hosting with Mary Waters for her town hall meeting deed fraud protection.

Look forward to seeing anyone out that may have any issues, or someone you may know that is having issues with anything dealing with deed fraud and their property.

Um I would like to say I am I created the home preservation and foreclosure prevention task force.

This falls under prevention for any type of um things that we may be dealing with never negatively to protect our legacy and our property.

Look forward to seeing you out.

Thank you.

So that sounds like a lot of fun.

Um I do have one question though, and I'm the chair, so I'm gonna take privilege.

But um, this is involving uh line item 6.10.

Um I just want to add, I think that this isn't a cash donation.

From my understanding, this is a grant from McAlvey merchant associates, and I just wanted somebody online to be able to clarify that this is a grant, not a cash donation.

Do you have somebody from administration that can answer that?

You're the chair, we defer to the office of the ombudsman.

Oh, okay.

You know, they you know what they actually wrote, I'm looking at something.

No, they actually wrote a check.

Okay.

All right.

With that being said, are there any other are there any other comments, questions, or concerns?

All right, without objection, neighborhood community, sir, standing committee will now stand adjourned.