Good morning, everyone.

I would like to call to order our public health and safety standing committee for today, Monday, March 2nd, 2026.

May the clerk please call the role.

Councilmember Gabriela Santiago Romero.

Present.

Councilmember Denzel Anton McCampbell.

Member McCampbell will be arriving late, so his uh tardiness is excused.

Clark was on note.

Councilmember Mary Waters.

Why is it?

Madam Chair, you have a quorum present.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Given a quorum, we'll go right into the session for today.

We did receive our minutes from our last session.

If there's a motion to approve.

Motion to approve.

Hearing no objections, you will approve our minutes from our last session.

Today we have a pretty short agenda.

We do have a 1 30 p.m.

Dangerous buildings hearings session.

And we do have a 1015 presentation, which many of us are looking forward to.

Um it's going to be around a truck enforcement unit.

So if you're interested, if you have any comments, questions around that, uh please uh utilize our public comment section uh to ask any questions.

Um but this is going to be general public comment.

So whatever you would like to comment on, feel free to do so.

I will be giving everyone two minutes this morning for general public comments.

Everyone will have two minutes.

We will put the time on the clock, and I'll be cutting off public comments at 10.07.

We'll begin public comment with the folks that we have on oh in here in person.

We have a few folks that are here in person.

I saw Simone's hand first, then Brother Cunningham, who brought some friends over, Mr.

Foster.

So I'm gonna have Miss Sogovac join us first, followed by Brother Cunningham.

And if you are online and you would like to make public comment, please raise your hands now.

I'll be cutting off public comment shortly.

Wonderful.

I think we're all sets.

I'll get to you next, sir.

Thank you for being here whenever you're ready.

Great.

Good morning, Simone Sagovac, a Detroit resident representing the Southwest of Trade Community Benefits Coalition and the Trucks Off Our Streets Coalition today.

I'm here today about trucks and air quality in our city.

I want to give thanks to the city that the city has begun creating safer truck routes starting in southwest Detroit.

Thank you to DPT, DPD, and our fourth precinct commander Holderm for taking steps to increase enforcement.

We do still have semis on those residential streets, and we look forward to getting to zero.

We know that's a city's goal too.

This takes resources.

I urge appropriate resources be directed to solve enforcement issues and to create safe truck routes across the entire city.

We repr uh presented to you last year and showed results of trucks and health studies.

Senior citizens have three times the asthma rate of all residents, and anyone living on or near daily heavy truck traffic has 25 to 48 percent um higher chance of asthma rate, um higher chance of asthma than people living further from trucks.

Air quality is a critical public health issue in Detroit.

We're number one for first air for air quality, the worst air quality, and asthma hospitalizations in the country.

This affects us all.

Kids can't learn the same as others.

People will not choose to move to Detroit and people won't stay.

Air quality is an economic issue.

Today ask, please dedicate the resources needed, prioritize air quality.

We need the health department at BC to engage in air permits to improve air for all of us and get our air legal again.

I'd like to also ask that speed humps be installed on Livernoy and Dragoon and residential streets no longer uh allow trucks.

Finally, um, please continue this health and safety work of air quality in the city.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Followed by if you want to join ma'am, you can take a seat so you can follow Brother Cunningham.

Thank you very much.

Ma'am.

Okay.

We'll follow EPU's direction.

Thanks, everyone.

Brother Cunningham, whenever you're ready.

313, 444, 9114.

313, 444, 9114, 313.

Fo 9114.

That number was made, so you can remember it.

Um that you can use it for Cash App, Patreon, uh, Facebook, just Googling articles about the work that's done in the community.

Um pray with me.

I pray with you.

Uh people have left positive messages.

And some folks have had negative messages, but like I said, I don't care.

I'm gonna keep doing me.

We're doing this a long time.

D dot is uh still lagluster.

Um there's folks standing around in the terminals, drivers.

I don't want to lose those drivers, so we gotta leave them there.

But uh, there's a shortage.

I want y'all to pray there's a shortage of equipment, and there should be a sense of urgency because the buses are not on time and folks are really hurting.

This morning, as I was giving out the hand warmers, the gloves, the bus tickets.

Um, Mr.

Victor Barrett.

Uh, he wanted to say something.

And what was your first name again?

Artilia.

Miss Artelia.

Um their walls drop when you're kind to them.

When I give them things that they need, their walls drop, and they they tell me what's going on in their life.

I believe one of them is unhoused, and one of them has gained housing, but I was really concerned about Mr.

Barrett.

I at one time in my life I used to own a room and board house.

And before I lost everything and went broke.

And he never forget that.

And then when I was homeless for 10 years, I was broke all get out.

I don't know where he got the money from, but he gave me $50.

I don't know where he got that money from.

But he remembered the good days and the I'm like a like almost like a social worker with the people.

I helped them do everything.

And um, he remembered.

So what goes around comes around.

He is housed now, which is a good thing.

Thank you, Brother Cunningham.

If the clerk can please note you've been joined by member McCampbell.

Clerk was so note.

Thank you.

Welcome.

We can hear next from Miss Artilia, followed by Victor.

All right.

Okay, I'll keep my mask on.

Okay.

My name is Artilia West.

I'm here.

Um Brother Cunningham has helped me, you know, in a lot of ways.

When they was walking, and I'm like, man, I need to get on the bus.

He had now, you know, gave me some bus tickets.

He's been you know very helpful then.

Well, I'm here to talk about the bus system and how it's it's not as good as it should be.

Uh viewed a lot of stuff going on on the bus.

You know, the bus is being late.

The bus drivers literally, you know, basically leaving when they want to leave, and then when they do leave, they flying like excuse me, crazy, you know, reckless driving.

I viewed, you know, elderly people getting on the bus, they're not waiting for them to sit down completely and just taking off.

Um, I'm like, what can't be done?

So I'm up here, you know, cutting him.

He was like, well, I'm not the one to be talking to about that.

So I'm like, okay.

I was like, what can be you know done?

Is this bus system is not, you know, it's not good.

It's you know, good bus drivers talking to number ones to the bus, you know, patrons is you know, any way they want.

And they wanna they make it seem like that uh, you know, pedestrians do whatever's getting on the buses, the problem is not the problem.

It's the way they talk, it's the way they it's mainly they're actually driving.

They drive way too fast.

Um they're not on time.

I waited at one point in time where a bus bus came for two and a half hours for a bus.

And I'm like, that's unreal.

This was just last year.

And I was trying to go to the warming center, and I waited two and a half hours.

I was like, this is unreal.

So if it wasn't for Cunningham, Christmas Clides and what hand warmers, you know, everything.

Uh I want to know where I'll you know he's been very, very helpful.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you for coming down and for sharing the experience of the bus in this community.

We try very hard to make sure that it's better.

So thank you for letting us know how it's actually working for us to keep doing the work.

Thank you.

Um, member Waters.

Yeah, I um she talked about this this driver just kind of just taking off before people can sit down.

Um please uh get the uh the route to us along with the bus number so that so that we can identify this driver and he can be dealt with.

He or she can be dealt with.

Can you do that?

Is it a number I would talk about too?

Can I just get uh you want to see it?

Happy just get the number of the buses and just go out, get on a report right.

Yeah, so the route and and the number the number on the bus.

Okay.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Victor.

Good morning, counselor.

I'm Victor Barrett.

I've been in um city uh resident for the last 65 years.

Um I like to thank the comments for having me come out and speak.

I like to say thank the counsel for being here and being good to the city.

I give my hat off to y'all.

I like to thank the triple for helping me sometime.

I need them.

I thank Mr.

Cutting Haven's been supportive and pay.

Socialize with me.

He's my landlord.

He's a good friend of mine.

God bless him.

Y'all stay strong.

God bless y'all.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Appreciate you coming down.

Public comments is cut off.

I Mr.

Foster, I believe, is the last person here in person for general public comments.

And then we will turn it over to the folks that we have online.

Thanks y'all for coming down.

Mr.

Foster, whenever you're ready.

Do agree that Mr.

Cunningham is a good person and probably should get a lot more support from the city in its endeavors.

Secondly, um, item five, uh, asked that enforcement should include a fine that goes directly to the community for pie holes and maybe piehoe damage reimbursement to citizens here.

Um, thirdly, at the BOPC meeting, uh always been a fan of Mr.

Mallet's uh policies.

But I will say that I was very happy to hear him speak on how a public servants should behave themselves when it comes down to public comment and um and different things like that, as well as his life story with his father and his family.

I often believe that parents generally absorb a lot of the struggle so that the children don't have to.

And so it may be a little bit difficult for people to condescend and identify with a struggle that they may have not actually have encountered their life.

So that's a testament to good parenting.

Um secondly, um, I think that's important that our city, our community, sit down and watch um former President Bill Clinton speak about um what goes on in Iraq and the consequences in Iran and the consequences of it.

I spoke short uh briefly about it some months ago.

And um, this body here has the authority to transmit transcend messages through all legislative bodies.

So it's not just about city issues here.

What happens in Iran affect our oil and gas here.

It affects a lot of other things here.

So we ask y'all to be more open to a global perspective and be more consciously politically and socially about things that go on.

That's what revolution is combining social and economics together, social economics.

That's we just ask you to be more conscious.

Thank you, Mr.

Foster.

When it comes to the truck route enforcement, sir, we are going to hear more about that shortly.

And uh, we are asking that some of the fees that are collected go into infrastructure that's ruined by trucks.

So that's a great idea.

Um, and you are absolutely correct, things all connect.

Um, so we need to be aware of how that works.

We will now turn it over to the folks that we have online.

Um, who do we have first and how many hands do we have raised?

Morning, madam chair and honorable council members.

We have 18 hands raised online.

The first is Rachel Marquettez.

Good morning, everyone.

Um, my name is Rachel Marquez, and I am a resident and community organizer in District 6.

My neighbors feel the impacts of trucks driving down residential streets heavily from damage to our homes and streets as well as damage to our health.

Proper enforcement to stop trucks from coming down our streets is long overdue, but at the same time, there's an emergency happening in my neighborhood with I subducting people and I collaboration with surveillance technology, and as we have seen some Detroit police officers as well, leaving my neighbors living in fear.

When talking about enforcement, we must also talk about these issues and acknowledge the fractured trust.

I ask that before we implement higher police presence along these routes that an agreement is signed between the city and Detroit police department stating that there will be no use of technology that have existing partnerships with ICE, no use of facial recognition technology, and no collaboration with ICE or Border Patrol.

I also asked DPD a longer question of what is their plan to amend the fractured trust in immigrant communities.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Who do we have next?

Our next caller is caller ending in one six nine caller ending in one six nine.

And just a note, we do have our 1015 presentation that we will get to after general public comments.

169, caller 169, you're up next.

We do have a few folks.

I'm gonna have to add it to the end of the queue, folks.

If you aren't unable to join us when we give you a call.

Let's add 169 to the bottom of the queue.

And who do we have next?

Next, we have Dr.

Denise Starnell.

Good morning.

Can I be heard?

Yes, good morning.

Dr.

Darnell here.

I just want to say I am in complete agreement with our council member at large, Mary Waters Memorandum, which I believe is back on the agenda for today, requesting to draft an ordinance that will regulate rental application fees for the city of Detroit.

I think to cap that fee of $50 is reasonable because that means it could be potentially less than 50.

I was born and raised here in the city, and my parents had a very successful black-owned management company with over 20 multi-units here in the city back in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.

So I know firsthand that you have to work with people.

And now as a licensed real estate salesperson here in Michigan and a real estate developer with constituents who are landlords and management companies.

Thank you.

You as well.

Mr.

Davis, you're up next.

Can I be heard?

Yes, good morning.

And some of you know, I worked for the city for 34 years in Southwest Detroit at the wastewater treatment plant.

At that time, up under wastewater, we had a division called Industrial Waste.

Being uh a chief steward for UAW supervisors at that time.

Part of my duties was to check on and look into problems.

Uh, like one of the things we did, you know, we had a number of diesel trucks at the wastewater plant.

You know, like I said, one of the things we did was to shorten the time that you run those because a lot of places they run trucks, diesel trucks, and they start them up and run them for hours.

And sometimes it's good to start them up a little early, but you don't need to run them for hours.

You know, you might want to check and see what the city is doing as relates to their trucks now.

Also, you know, in my capacity as uh chief steward for UAW supervisors, I was almost like a safety officer, and I used to go to different facilities like Marathon, you know, and complain about their pollution that was putting out.

You know, we need to make sure that what's going on in the city is not harming our people.

Uh, because like you have like in Southwest Detroit, you have the two worst respiratory areas, you know, by zip codes in the whole state of Michigan.

We need to be doing more to protect challenge individuals, you know, like say we have challenge health systems, you know, young people, real young people, real old people.

You know, the city can do and should be doing a whole lot more.

Uh also we need to make sure that these trucks are not going up and down neighborhoods, you know, neighborhood streets.

They need to be mainly on main streets and try to reduce the fact that they are the damaging our streets and damaging our air quality.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The next caller is Betty A.

Verner.

Good morning, Ms.

Vernon.

You're up next.

Uh good morning, uh, madam chair, and to all within the sound of my voice.

I'm Betty A.

Vern, the president of DeSoda Elsewhere Black Association.

Uh today I'm here.

I'm going to advocate, give some information that I just really received today from uh watching a program that comes on our Mondays at nine o'clock called Feedback.

Uh, Miss Pio's program.

But anyway, uh there is a guest on the program and is talking about his organization that they're growing and is based in the city of Detroit, but they do offer services in other states also.

But uh what he does is they provide uh services when they are major disasters.

That's one of the things that they do.

And it's the services are for everybody, but they focus on seniors and people who are disabled, like for example, when there was the floods we had from all the rain or whatever, and people are homebound and they can't get food.

Well, they make sure that people have the food.

Uh they did folks uh spoke somewhat on uh generators.

I wasn't able to get all that information because uh I wanted to get online to speak here at the council.

But the number is 313 800 8594.

Again, 313-800-8594, and they also when funds are available, they help people with their rent, their mortgage, and their utility bills.

You have to show proof of uh your address, and their website is WW dot R E S T R O U P dot or telephone number 313 800 8594.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Third caller.

The next caller is resident.

Residents, you are up next.

Good morning, may I be heard?

Yes, good morning.

Okay.

Um asking to meet with you, and I met with their staff on January 17th of last year, and I'm still waiting for some follow-up.

Some of your staff members think they know what I wanted to talk about, but it isn't all of what I wanted to talk about.

And so some of this I want to bring to this committee since I brought it to council member Sheffield's office, and they didn't do anything about it.

And that is just like Member Waters, that bus driver shouldn't be taken off before people are seated.

Well, BC shouldn't be trying to get money out of people when they didn't properly serve them a blake ticket.

And really, you've got all these people legitimately complaining about truck traffic, and please remove the speed humps.

Uh, they also cause uh uh pollution and stuff.

And so to ticket somebody for grass allegedly too long and then they were never properly served.

The city's got way more important things to do.

These tickets, Chair Santiago Romero and Vice Chair McCampbell.

Will you please look into this?

If if if the people didn't serve the ticket and there's no proof of that, they've got cameras and stuff, then the ticket should be dismissed.

I was told by the deputy district manager for district five that once it goes to collections, there's nothing they can do about it.

Well, guess how I found out about these two tickets?

By getting a collection notice in the mail.

So if they can find the right address to serve the collection notice, they can do the other stuff properly.

So, member waters, I've been waiting over a year now.

Can we please meet?

And will this body address the lack of proper notice for blight tickets?

Please, and get rid of this polluting speed humps.

Thank you, Miss Warwick.

The next caller is Owner Papa.

Good morning, and through the chair, may I be heard?

Yes, good morning.

Good morning.

This is the public health and safety committee.

And I'd like to call to your attention that um I'd like to for you to answer me.

Do you under you know what the health risk are being created or have been created with the dirty dirt around the city?

And I'd like you to provide the locations of those places where we have this dirt so that people can avoid them.

Um I would also like to know what is the liability of the city council in all of this because you've known about it for some time.

And I'm pretty sure you know you have liability and the health and safety of the community more than just tearing down houses.

I also want to call your attention to, yes, the pollution in the city.

We have the worst in the city, and it's and and all of the funds and resources should be divvyed up, you know, across the board.

I know you want special treatment for district six, but we in District 7 pay taxes as well.

And our it seems to me like our representatives don't give a damn about the people in uh district seven.

Uh you're allowed to have two lactating centers, and we're allowed to have zero.

You're allowed to have two or three um uh recreation centers, and we have zero.

And you all are taking our tax dollars, our our our public and private, our our property tax dollars and making our tax dollars income for in for for corporations.

When we don't have rec centers, we don't have many of the things that people in normal c communities have.

What we have is dirty dirt that nobody wants to address.

You only want to address what you want to address.

And then your the only thing you want to give us for speed.

I I remember they used to send out cops to to to regulate.

Now now you now you want to put humps all over the neighborhood to cause three to five times more of the particulate matter.

So every time you go over a hump, you increase the pollution in our communities.

Please do what's best for the people.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Ms.

Hughes.

Um, Mr.

Mr.

Member McCampbell.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Ms.

Hughes, I would love for you to um I don't have your phone number email, but if you could reach out to my office so we can meet on a number of issues that you brought up.

Um we should have more news on a rec center in District 7 in the coming weeks here.

Um you are right that we should be that we should care, and I believe folks do care about truck traffic across the city of Detroit.

Um I plan to bring it up during the presentation and brought it up before about the having truck routes in District 7 and the number of places where trucks are being stored, and as Commissioner Davis pointed out, being idle and particular matters getting to our ear.

So I would love to engage with you on a number of um items because I believe we are on the same page on a lot.

So please do give us a call at 313-224-2151.

Thank you, Mal Chair.

Thank you, Vice Chair, and thank you uh for lifting up the fact that uh this is happening across the city, and this uh truck enforcement units would work across the city.

Um, the work that I do is for everyone.

Um member Waters.

All right, thank you, madam chair.

That's right.

When you're drafting ordinance around here, it's for everybody.

But anyway, let me just say um this.

You know, we don't just go out and put speed humps in communities.

Uh those um those uh petitions are signed by have to be signed by the majority of the people in that particular community, and and that's how it happens.

And so uh unless we can go back or someone can go back and say, hey, we no longer want speed humps.

I I'm not sure if the city has the funding to go out and remove them, but but that is how it happened.

Um the city just doesn't go out there and says we're gonna put speed humps here.

It is because they've been notified by the community.

Community brings in the petition, says that they won because they have children on the streets, people go flying down their streets, kill the children, injure the children, somebody elderly.

So those are the reasons um that it happens.

And so I I wish I had an answer for that at this time because it's driven by the community, madam chair.

Thank you.

Thank you, Member Waters.

Who do we have next?

Our next caller is Jeff Jones.

May I be heard?

Yes, you may.

Good morning.

My name is Jeff Jones.

I'm an executive director of Hope Village Revitalization.

I live in District 2 in the Hope Village neighborhood.

We like to think we're the hottest neighborhood in the city of Detroit.

And first, I want to thank this committee, especially Chairperson Santiago Romero for your progressive leadership on this issue around trucks in our neighborhoods.

HVR is a proud member of the trucks off our street coalition.

And what I'd like to lift up is the fact that the issue around trucks, truck storage, truck parking, is more than just an issue for Southwest Detroit.

In District 2, we deal with independent contractors who park their vehicles on residential streets overnight.

We have one gentleman who works for a sanitation company that removes waste out of Portigons.

He parks his vehicle on a residential street overnight.

Presently at Ben Hill Park, the kids can't get into the park because it's surrounded by soil haulers from Detroit soil, who has a uncovered soil pile that you can see from blocks away.

So these issues are serious in communities all across the city of Detroit.

There's a definite need for better enforcement, more vigorous enforcement.

And I echo some of the sentiments that have been said here today that we can do better because this is a health issue.

We're talking about the lives of residents and more importantly, our babies.

We owe our children to do better by them in the city of Detroit.

We love the development.

We love what's coming to the city, but we have responsibility to do it in the right way in the proper way.

So let's ensure that all neighborhoods get the coverage and resources they need to mitigate these impacts from truck traffic.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Jones.

Good to hear from you.

Who do we have next?

The next caller is Tahira Ahmad.

Ms.

Yes, good morning, Council.

Thank you for your proactive work in our neighborhood.

I got a um, well, and on behalf of Black History Month is forever, every month.

I just want to uplift uh our great scientist, um, Brother M.

Ho Tep.

He's a black scientist in Egypt.

Egypt is black, its proper name is Kemet, and uh 5,000 years of uh progress uh came from our great nation.

And I also for a fact Kemet is located in Africa.

That's how you know it's black.

That's one thing, but you must go to Kemet to see the proof of 60 ton uh um and 60 foot statues with big broad noses and lips, and Dr.

Sheikh Anthony Dilt did the carbon dating on the mummies that proved that they are uh black people.

Uh I got a letter from uh now to the city.

The city sent me a letter and put it well, it put it on the door.

The city will be conducting soil testing at a nearby property to verify that the field material material used after demolition meets required environmental standards.

This testing is part of a coordinated effort.

The city launched in July 2025 based on information that um unapproved field material may have been used at certain demolition sites in Detroit.

Environmental professionals will be collecting samples and send them to certified environmental laboratories for analysis.

You may notice the contractors' vehicles or sampling equipment during this work.

Um please stay off the property after laboratory results are available.

The city will issue a follow-up notice only if the field material does not meet environmental.

Thank you.

The next caller is caller ending in 039 to our next caller.

Can you hear me?

Yes, we can.

Can you hear me clearly?

Yes.

Can you hear me clearly?

Okay, right.

Gabriela Santiago Ramira.

Today I'm gonna speak about the alumni 90.

That's uh University of Michigan graduates in key positions all throughout the state of Michigan, County of Wayne, and the city of Detroit.

Key financial position.

The CFO of the Detroit Police Department is University of Michigan graduate.

Is uh University of Michigan graduate.

Now he wants what she wants.

She wants the city of Detroit.

She wants everybody to stop saying her mother, her mama, Kenita Coman, DPBK 20-11112, killed herself.

I've said it numerous times.

As well as the ST Valley fraud that decimated the city of Detroit over the last 11 years.

Deep, deep, deep.

Gabriella, you're a liar.

You lied about the findings on the allegations of voter fraud by anonymous citizen report.

You said you viewed it on May the 9th, 22 or 2024, you're a liar.

You had a report.

I took it down and gave it to a fair draw committee on the 22nd.

But I called your office on the 20th.

They said that never received the email from the city.

All right, Mr.

Crowley Gobu.

Who do we have next?

Next, we have iPhone.

IPhone.

Yeah, that's uh I don't know why it comes out iPhone, but if you can tell me it's sending uh I tried to give public comment last week and then I got a phone call and uh it knocked me off of anyway.

I got knocked off public comment.

Then I went back on when I got off the call, but they didn't they didn't call me because they said I I wasn't in there.

Well, you've got to look at the calls, and if somebody's getting knocked off, don't say that they didn't sign in on time.

You know, that's so you need to the whoever's handling that should look at see who's signs in originally, and if they come back on, let them in.

Okay.

Uh I think a lot of the things that the city's done is to drive the poor people out.

Uh some of these people with money are afraid of people.

So the speed humps.

They could have put rubber ones and the rubber ones they did put in had a uh they weren't continuous.

They had a split in the middle of the street, so you could get take one wheel down and one wheel on that speed pump.

Those were put in expensive neighborhoods, not in our poor or neighborhoods.

And it wasn't that all the people asked for them.

I know uh they they were put where there's no children and uh with asphalt all the way across the street.

You had to hire contractors.

You could have hired Detroiters to probably anchor the rubber once in, which were better and rubber, I don't think is a toxic is asphalt.

And so this is just some of the things that are stupid.

The city, the people asked for the houses to be demolished and you went along with it.

Come up with some better solutions instead of just listening to people find out what's best.

Thank you, Cindy.

Next is Joshua Medina.

Hello, all right, Josh Medina.

Um I live in the Springwells neighborhood and I also work in the Swimbles neighborhood.

And I I just wanna um you know speak on the need for for uh for a proper trucking ordinance uh across the city of Detroit and and with that the proper uh enforcement unit to uh to to make that successful.

I also want to highlight the need for the for this unit to you know focus only on trucking and uh and you know to to aid in uh less and to and to do it so that there's less over policing of our communities um and have mechanisms in place for that unit to only enforce trucking uh and and to you know put the things in place where where the collaboration with the federal agencies like ice uh are are not happening.

Um so yeah, so I I just I just wanna uh I I just want to speak on that.

Uh the the need that on the on the trucking ordinance that we desperately need and a and a proper tru uh trucking enforcement unit that um that will aid in less less less over policing um and safer communities.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The next caller is caller ending in 534 caller ending in 534.

You're up next I already spoke, but it'd be nice if my concerns would be addressed.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Warwick.

Who do we have next?

Next is Riley.

Riley, if you can hear us, you're up next.

Riley, you've been unmuted and meet a panelist.

You just have to unmute yourself.

Unfortunately, if you're speaking, we cannot hear you.

And I'm gonna have to add you to the bottom of the queue following 169.

Who do we have next?

The next caller is caller ending in 337.

Caller ending in 337.

Good morning.

Can I be heard?

Yes, good morning.

Good morning.

This is Patricia Bosch.

I'm a resident of District 3 and I work with several uh community block clubs and organizations.

We have been concerned for a long time that district three is being scheduled for industrial uh placement.

That includes truck traffic uh along our residential streets, which um we've been told uh it's a East Howder Drive is a county road, and anything uh is acceptable on a county road that is uh going back in history to even when Coleman A.

Young was the mayor and they decided to close six mile.

TemCog the Southeast Michigan Council of Government voted against that closure, and now here it is 2026, and we say that we are facing the environmental problems that were predicted uh back when uh six mile was first closed, and also the placement of the Teilantis plant and Jefferson that adds to the truck traffic and Cunner is definitely the street that leads to East Outer Drive, and we need a strong enforcement and planning to eliminate these environmental problems.

On one hand, we say we want to increase uh population in Detroit and have affordable housing, but people are looking at the environmental impacts and know that they do not want to settle in the city of Detroit neighborhoods, so other colours have called uh peace.

Thank you.

Next caller is Jadante Smith Good morning, Mabby Hurt.

Yes, good morning.

Thank you for still letting me speak ahead of switch devices.

So I was gonna say there's a property at 1923 Fuse Street Fruit Street, FREUD Street, which is owned by Republic Services, needs to be shut down.

It's a um it's a process processor of environmental waste.

I'm gonna work to get that shut down after Kronos.

Also, Cronos seems to be down zone.

My council member Renata Miller refuses to meet with Detroit Hunt Tramut Coalition to my extent, right?

To my knowledge right now, um, which is very disheartening because she's taking her own money.

Um also I just got a call from a D6 resident this morning, and by no coincidence about an issue with her landlord and uh not being in compliance and having a broken window in her home and her her asking me about how to put her her rent escrow.

So there's probably lots of other people who are renting from this property maintenance group that are um ha living in homes that are not in compliance.

Also, I've had to deal with a water issue from Detroit Water Insurance Department from a leak in my basement uh for over a year, and I've had a ridiculous bill for over a year, and I've had to suffer through this issue, and I have not been held properly.

Brian Pack and Paul is doing a terrible job.

Keith Well is doing a terrible job.

Uh Sonali Patel is doing a terrible job.

Also, I've seen a lot of terrible issues in District 3, um, especially around uh Hazel River Street.

One of my friends is already to Hazel Ridge Street where the land bank is just leaving chop-down trees up on a street, and it's terrible.

I want to give a random shout out to uh Reuben Ruben Crowley.

Uh I I appreciate the way you fight, brother.

I appreciate all that you do.

I want to say also the Detroit Police Department uh in Conrad Mallet broke the open meetings act Thursday at the Board of Police Commissioners meeting, and they removed me from meeting for no reason.

Um I did not violate any any rules or applicable laws, and I'm gonna definitely file some some complaints about that.

Um I think we need to work on making sure the open meetings act is not violated.

Also, the land bank needs to do a lot better of a job.

And I was gonna say uh thank you to uh councilwoman waters for for uh what you did at the event the other day, but I also want to say nobody can purchase me, not a single member of any elected manager member McCampbell.

I just want to note for uh Mr.

Smith on the folks that you are talking about that are non-compliance and um they need to put their rent in uh escrol.

I would encourage folks to reach out to the United House and community um united community housing coalition and also the tenant rights council as well.

Um folks need any more information, please let us know.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Who do we have next?

We're now returning to caller ending in one six nine caller ending in one six nine in one of these maybe.

Hello, can you guys hear me?

Yes, we can hear you.

Okay, great.

Yes, you under the sound of my voice.

Thank you for playing for Brother Cunningham.

Better yet, thank you for actually doing something and helping Brother Cunningham.

He is very appreciated.

This quoted by the honorable late Reverend Jesse Jackson is there.

Our occasion.

Well, my grate turned into a raisin.

And my joy bill lost its resonance, please forgive me.

There are occasions.

Well, my grate turned into a raisin and my joy bill lost his residence, please forgive me.

Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

Thank you for my time.

Thank you.

The last caller is Riley.

Riley, you're up next.

Can you hear us?

Riley, if you can hear us, you are up next in the last caller.

Unfortunately, we cannot hear you if you have unmuted yourself.

If you wouldn't mind calling us tomorrow for general public comment at our uh formal session or sending your comments uh to the clerk's office, we will be able to receive those.

Given that that's our last caller, correct?

Correct.

Before you put off public comment.

Okay, so we can go right into our 1015 presentation for today.

I am going to invite over DPD to join us if you would like to take one of these seats up here, and then whoever is here to present for the 1015 presentation.

Uh please feel free to join us.

Uh there are three seats in the front of the room here.

If anyone needs to present, um, I suggest that you join the Zoom and we can give you it.

Looks like we have your presentation already.

And as folks settle in, if you wouldn't mind um making sure your microphone is on, it'll turn on once you push the button in the bottom, and then it'll turn green once it's green.

If you wouldn't mind stating your names and titles for the public, and then you can go ahead and get started.

Good morning.

I'm Officer Battersby with the Detroit Police Department.

Good morning.

I'm Augusta Gudeman with the Department of Public Works.

Um freight specialist.

Thank you both for joining.

We have your presentation online whenever you'd like to begin.

Great, thank you.

Thanks for your time this morning.

So some months back, we started taking a look at the motor carrier unit from the Detroit police side.

Um, and in uh cooperation with Augusta's group and obviously some uh residents.

This is what we've come up with that we want to present to you today.

Thank you.

Oh, there we go.

So I know it's hard to see from here.

The dark blue lines, the thick dark blue lines are trucks that we're getting over 15,000 trucks a day through the city.

The thick light blue lines are our residential streets where we're averaging over a thousand trucks a day uh going through our city and our neighborhoods.

That is alarming in so many ways for me, uh, especially due to the fact that the, like I said, the thick blue line are a thousand plus trucks a day through the city streets, not just the highways.

And then officer, these are not truck routes, right?

These are just routes that have these number of trucks that are riding through them.

Okay, thank you.

Next, please.

While digging into this, uh, currently there's 18,000 trucks a day that go through the city.

That's gonna go up to 20,000 trucks a day uh here in the near future.

The problem that I don't think a lot of people are aware of is currently the hazmat trucks have to drive an hour past Detroit to go up to Blue Water Bridge because of the hazardous uh approvals they have, and that's gonna change the Gordy Howell Bridge is gonna accept those same trucks as a Blue Water, so now those trucks no longer have to make that extra hour trip, and they're gonna end up in our city.

Uh some of the limitations we're facing right now.

Michigan State Police.

Um, they can only enforce the highways.

Uh we're worried about our residential streets as well.

Uh, they're also only have 12 motor carrier units to um to assist Oakland, Macomb, and Wayne Counties.

The state does.

The state does.

Okay.

Uh Wayne County, they help us out as well, but they can only do county roads, and they can't enforce city ordinances.

So, again, another issue.

limitations we're facing right now Michigan State Police they can only enforce the highways uh we're worried about our residential streets as well uh they also only have 12 motor carrier units to um to assist Oakland Macomb and Wayne counties the state does the state does okay uh Wayne County they help us out as well but they can only do county roads and they can't enforce city ordinances so again another issue that's why we've wanted to develop this motor carrier unit currently right now we can't enforce motor carrier rules uh and we're not writing ordinance against them next please this was alarming to me once I started doing the research uh 11% of the motor uh carrier accidents were in the city of Detroit uh which is a lot uh and obviously not enforcing them that that number is gonna grow we also seen a 90% increase in uh citizen complaints to the city in the last five years uh this is just not an east issue it not just not a west issue it's a citywide issue uh this unit would focus on motor carrier only uh that's a primary focus of it next please as I just stated uh we would focus on truck routing enforcement weights and measures and equipment inspection uh what this looks like to start would be six officers sworn officers three would probably provide support to the east and three would provide support to the west side uh obviously it would be just uh motor carrier uh vehicle enforcement next please here's a breakdown of the cost for this unit this includes everything uh including the wages the fringe the equipment the vehicles the officer salary uh the cost of training everything I wanted to put this in here and be transparent uh coming along with the next slide but here is a breakdown of a two year cost that it would cost the city to start up this unit it's at 1.9 mil next please this is what our neighboring departments are doing currently for their cities when it comes to motor vehicle enforcement for commercial uh if you don't mind uh so Dearborn minimum 280 000 maximum 650 000 they're running for uh three vehicles taylor is doing 360 000 to a million uh redford is doing 380 000 to 500 000 and Lavonia is doing 350 000 to 600 000 those are in fines and that's what the city is taking in for fines because of commercial motor carriers uh in talking to them they all support us fully getting this unit because it would help them out significantly well uh a great deal as well because they're all coming through our city uh and they can't catch every one of them uh as a matter of fact Lavonia when I spoke to them they said they're doing a small corridor of 96 and 275 and that's it and that's what they're generating for carriers next high please the reason I wanted to put that slide in is the startup cost is if we did the bare minimum like every other like the other cities do our unit would pay for itself back in a year and a half and after 1.5 years it would become a self-sustaining unit it would pay for itself to me that's significant to the city that we're not putting money out for a unit it would pay for itself literally next slide please conservatively again conservative estimate if we if those six officers did the bare minimum 5.4 million dollars would be drive uh rev revenue would be generated for the city of Detroit uh moderate estimate 13.5 million what's significant about that is those fees and fines go to general fund and park schools libraries goes back to the city uh again this is based off of operating this unit with six officers to start three eat through three west and determining after the fact if more is needed but it's a it's a starting point um so these six officers would be able to obviously be citywide function but primarily folk if three focus east three focus west next any questions for me or Augusta thank you for going through that um officer bad asby you know this is a lot of work and really appreciate the research that you've done uh to get to this point um Augusta just want to turn it over to you

So these six officers would be able to obviously be citywide function, but primarily folk if three focus east, three focus west.

Next any questions for me or Augusta.

Thank you for going through that.

Umfficer Badisby, you know, this is a lot of work and really appreciate the research that you've done uh to get to this point.

Um Augusta, just want to turn it over to you as someone that we've been working with very closely around the truck routes uh ordinance at one point, um, but the truck routes that we are uh that we're passing now that we're establishing now.

Um we've talked about potentially we talked about the importance of this unit to make sure that we're enforcing those routes, um, but also potentially investing some of the fees into infrastructure.

Um wanna give it to you to talk a little bit about what that could do, if that would be helpful, um, if you think we could reinvest that money back into the roads that are being destroyed by trucks.

Yes, thank you for that question.

Um, so I'll start out by just caveating that I think there's definitely some research that needs to be done on the part of the law department to understand fully where you know what we can actually do in terms of the revenue that we would receive, um, what the limitations might be legally from the state or from the city side.

Um that being said, if we were to find that the revenue um could be invested into infrastructure, it would make a major difference.

Um I think first we could focus on the areas that we know um trucks uh are degrading our infrastructure.

I think that would be you know where we would start.

Um, but you know, the city um in our department certainly has a slate of infrastructure projects um that you know could span years.

Um and we could do things like install speed humps um to to support um you know preventing trucks from going down residential streets.

We could make changes to um to intersections where we know there are a lot of trucks um to better uh control the direction of traffic that they're making.

Um, you know, it would give us a lot of tools to better manage the flow of truck traffic, in addition to, of course, the enforcement work that the um Detroit police department is doing.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I uh I believe it makes sense to use the fees to sustain the the units and anything else.

Want to figure out how we can invest that back into infrastructure.

Um and then officer, you mentioned the general funds.

Unfortunately, we don't fund schools and libraries, but uh we've talked about maybe having officers at uh schools when they're leaving and supporting that, however, we can, right?

But yes, investing it back into city services.

Um I'll ask a few and I'll turn it over to my colleagues.

Um would it be possible because we've had a lot of residents ask for regular um traffic enforcements?

Could this unit uh work on traffic enforcements?

It's been asked in the past, or is this gonna be simply just for trucks?

These would be sworn police officers, so they would be also be able to do regular traffic enforcement as well.

Okay, understood.

Um with that, then comes the question of and the very real reality of um a lot of our immigrant communities and is southwest particularly, um, wanting to make sure that we are um aware of the sensitivity of what's going on in our communities right now.

I the question was can there be an agreement of no use of tech, no collaboration with ICE.

We already have these in in place.

Um I'm trying to figure out uh can we ensure that there's like an additional training, more training.

I guess how can we help more?

Um when it comes to residents feeling like they can't trust police.

I I just this is such a big problem right now.

Um because again, we have the policies, it's it's the enforcement piece that just seems to be the problem across the board here.

Um have you thought about what what we can do, what DPD can do if we do have this enforcement unit in our in our communities and how we can make sure that our our residents trust them or that we are being sensitive to to the fear right now that's that's that's in our communities.

Well, again, because their primary function is going to be commercial motor carrier, it's got nothing to do with uh uh enforcement of any type of federal agencies or anything like that.

Uh my concern would more be for them is if one of these hazmat trucks comes over this bridge and doesn't get on the expressway correctly and makes a left hand turn, it's gonna be in one of our neighborhoods.

And we should know and be able to force what's in that truck or on that truck and the danger to the community.

That's what I'm more concerned about creating this unit versus you know, any agreements made with anybody, it's got nothing to do with that.

It's about keeping citizens safe on east side and west side.

Yeah.

Uh I know I used to work at one of the metro bases on on Sherwood.

They just redid Davison.

And it's already U-shaped again from the scrap haulers coming down McNichols to Davison.

It's it's outrageous to me.

And it it, you know, it's a safety issue for the it's the citizens, it's a safety issue for our community.

Car accidents, it it reduces so much.

Yeah.

Um so that's the way I'd like to focus with it.

Yeah.

Keeping everybody safe.

And and like I said, one of the charts that really concern me was 11% of the accidents in Detroit with motor carriers.

Yeah.

They're 80,000 pound trucks that we're dealing with.

So yeah.

And I and I'm with you, sir.

That's that's why we're here and I support this.

I think we need to also be uh sensitive and aware of our roles and what this looks like.

So I think just a suggestion, um, maybe this unit be very clearly identified as mortar trucking units with the sign on your uniform.

Because as we continue to build the enforcements and the oversight um for other officers that might not be as focused as you are, sir, on safety, and because we've seen others utilizing their power um to to harm our communities.

So let's just build what we can and stay focused to your points, but also let's acknowledge what's going on and see how we can work around that.

Um, but thank you.

I will turn it over to my colleagues to see if we have any questions because I'm gonna rattle off, Vice Chair.

Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you both for being here this morning.

Um I just wanted to I just want to make sure I'm I'm operating with the most accurate information.

So I know we established the truck routes um in Southwest.

Have we established other routes across the city as well?

Yeah, so we um made signs.

We established the truck routes in October of 2025 in Southwest Detroit, like you said, um, using uh traffic signs.

So right now, the ordinance that we have in place basically enables the Department of Public Works to establish truck routes and restrict routes from trucks using signs.

Um so we do have in other parts of the city, we do have signs that um restrict truck movements.

Those are largely placed along residential streets where we do see some issues.

Um, but there hasn't been a comprehensive effort in any other part of the city to determine you know, these routes should be truck routes and these routes should be restricted.

Thank you.

Thank you for that.

I just wanted to make sure I was on the same page there because I I would like knowing now that you say the signs, I know now I know the little this this uh strike through with the truck.

Okay, yes.

Um would also love to see that comprehensive across the district, and I bring that up because um in District 7, we did have the universal uh truck uh depot or warehouse open up on Plymouth Road, and that's where we've gotten a lot of complaints from.

Um I know there was already the concern about the opening with air quality around it, um, but we have folks in our neighborhoods that are rightfully concerned about the streets, the air quality um around that, and also along Plymouth Road when you go further down to Rouge Park, there is a I think it's like a truck park or such that folks are there, and you can tell around there, and I think it's right near across from the sixth precinct, um, that and the road there is uh not an abyss.

So I I would love to see as we move this along as we move along, establish a unit to see more comprehensive of those truck routes.

So also I think it also helps our residents to be vigilant if they're seeing trucks um in places that they're not supposed to be, um, that we can make sure that they are being held accountable there.

Um the other question I had around um around this is what should right now with uh even without the comprehensive, and this is for officer if you want to answer as well.

What should residents be looking out for?

Um, and what would this motor carrier unit help to hold trucks accountable for?

So would it be trucks in neighborhoods, are there any type of activity that folks should be looking out for that uh this will be able to capture?

Yes, sir.

So uh currently I'm like there's no motor carriers supposed to be in the neighborhoods overnight, they're not supposed to be parked there.

A lot of them they they go there and try and find a spot to sleep and they leave their trucks running all night.

Anything, you know, long idling trucks, trucks not where they're supposed to be.

Uh trucks parked in businesses that are no longer in operation, but they're using their lots.

Uh things of that nature are things that the citizens need to make us aware of so we can address it.

And that's one of the reasons these motor care this motor carrier would address those areas.

And then if we find consistent issues, we can start putting up signs and you know, no truck parking or um develop routes where they can get around those neighborhoods where it's safe for everybody.

Because again, the concern is is the streets, you know.

If they're going down the street, they shouldn't go down, and you know, in in two years the streets you shaped versus flat, then we're we're all at risk.

Absolutely.

So that's the main focus.

And thank you for that.

And so right now when we're not able to enforce that when folks are seeing it.

Is that the case?

Correct.

Okay.

A question on the budget side, since we are going into budget season.

Um is it the view of DPD?

Is there any place in the current department of budget that you could see this coming from, or is it that you all need new revenue to make this happen?

It would be new revenue to make it happen.

Okay.

All right.

Um, and then uh speaking on the uh Madam Chair's question on you you addressed it.

But I just want to I I just want to reiterate, just as we are in a place with um needing to build trust as such, I would reiterate that as much as we can educate the officers and the public on that this is a dedicated unit for those actions would be best.

Um and to keep it towards that that would really impact because again, uh, what I see with this unit as well is that as we talked about is that we're not gonna be or the offices are not gonna be able to be everywhere.

So if there's someone parked on Archdale, um we need folks that are uh able to trust that if they are calling to say, hey, there's this truck in front of my house, that they also won't be impacted otherwise um by the motor carrier unit for just you know being somewhat visual in the community.

So just wanted to lift that up.

Um, but I believe that's all the questions I have for now.

I might have more come up, but I'll turn over.

Thank you, madam chair.

And one of the things, these vehicles would be marked clearly, motor carrier unit.

Yeah, they yeah, you know, and it's just like Michigan State Police when you see theirs on the side of the road, they clearly say traffic enforcement unit, and that's who does we would do the same thing.

We would identify them clearly so everybody knew that that's what their main function was.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

See no other questions.

Um, just finally for me, there's a question of budget.

Um, I guess where are we in the process?

Have you spoken to the administration?

Are you looking for us to ask for this?

What are the next steps um to try to ensure that this does happen?

I would say both.

Okay.

Uh we did present it to uh the Madam Mayor on Monday.

Okay, Zoom.

Um, and last Monday, I'm sorry, uh, and wanted to present it to you guys and ask for any assistance we could get.

Okay, understood.

Thank you.

Uh well, I am definitely in support of this.

I I it's needed.

Uh we are passing routes, and then if they're not enforced, it's incredibly frustrating for residents.

Um, this is a huge health and safety issue.

Um, as folks called in, we have very high asthma rates, we have weird throat cancers, dementia.

It's it's this is personal folks.

I I live right off the bridge, okay?

This is this is very personal for a lot of us.

Um, and I do believe that we deserve and that we can live in a safe and healthy city.

I do believe that.

Um, and I think this is gonna help us get there.

Uh so to the administration, please, if we can make this work, uh, so that we don't have to move things around when it comes to city council, it's already there.

Um that way we can look at other funding priorities that we have for our residents as well.

Uh, because 1.5 is is a lot of money, and when it comes down to the budget, it is hard to to come up with.

Um, so if we can use um revenues that we know we have, um, that would be excellent knowing that it can be paid for back, um, knowing that we can make money from fees, um, and hope that the law department can figure out a way that we can invest that back into our infrastructure into city services.

Um final question that I have, I guess.

I think this is for us.

Um, I guess too um my vice chair's question is you know, when are we gonna get to D7?

I'm I we're being reached out.

When are we gonna get to D4?

Is the next step for us the ordinance finalizing that because I I think once we do the ordinance, it's gonna state establish the routes in you know, high traffic areas.

Just want to ask that to make sure that's the case so that we can work together to make sure that that gets done sooner rather than later, so that we can prioritize which neighborhoods are next.

Yes, it's a good question.

So, as you will be familiar with, but perhaps not everybody listening.

Um, one of the the reason we were able to really focus on the Southwest area is because um your office and your prior um person's office helped us identify funding to like do a comprehensive study of the area.

So we actually did two full studies, um, hopefully um in Southwest is one of the most dense and complicated and complex areas when it comes to truck traffic.

So um I'm crossing my fingers we don't need two studies um in every area, but um those studies are really important for us to understand the flow of traffic, where um routes are being where trucks are being generated, um, where they're going so that we understand where do we need trucks to be because we do need truck routes, um, and you know, how do we uh create restrictions that aren't just gonna move the problem off to the next street?

Um so all that is to say that that funding really supported us being able to focus on Southwest and every area is gonna be a little bit different, but um having additional funding to do those kinds of studies and better understand different areas is going to be important as well.

Um, some of the revenue if we were able to pass this unit, for example, some of the revenue might be able to support that um and have that be a way to kind of build build that momentum um and get us there.

So um I think I think funding is important and the ordinance is important.

Those are both next steps.

Okay, thank you.

That's helpful and that makes sense.

Uh so we'll continue to work with you and establish the ordinance, a flag for my colleagues.

Let's ask, would you say it's about a hundred thousand dollars for a study, or do you have any idea how much it would be for a study?

Um I would probably need to go back, yeah.

I don't want to throw it.

It looks like 250.

Okay, so we will keep that in mind about 250.

Vice Chair.

Madam Chair, thank you.

I that was a question I had, and also if you can let us know.

I know we did it, that was by district, if it would look um how much it would look for us to just do a citywide study as well.

Um, I would rather like let's just do it all, as especially as we establish an ordinance and establish a unit.

Let's just get all in one bite.

Okay.

I'm gonna figure out the number though, vice chair.

Okay.

That looks like absolutely, yes.

Okay, sounds good.

Uh, all right.

Well, those are our questions.

Thank you for this work.

We really appreciate it.

Um, have a good rest of your Monday.

That is it for our 1015 discussion.

We will now go through the rest of the agenda rather swiftly, folks.

It's not too bad today.

Under unfinished business, uh 6.1.

This is a memo requesting a legal draft for an ordinance to regulate rental application fees in the city of Detroit.

We have been asked to bring this back in one week.

Motion.

Hearing no objections, 6.1 will be brought back in one week.

Under new business, under the Office of Contracting and Procurement, 7.1.

This is contract number 6007 624, utilizing 100% city funding to provide window cleaning services for Jason Hargrove and Rosa Parks Transit Centers.

The contractor is Allied Building Service Company of Detroit's.

They are in Detroit's.

This is a three-year contract for 233,000.

And this will be for construction and demolition.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss 7.1?

Discussion.

Discussion, Vice Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I it's gonna come up for me every time with these type of contracts.

As I'm looking at 233,000 for window cleaning services.

Would have we taken steps for this to be an in-house um task for our city workers?

That's a good question, Vice Chair, Mr.

Washington.

Who do we have to discuss 7.1?

Good morning through the chair.

If we can promote my apologies, we can promote Rocky or Heritage of Construction and Demolition.

Okay, if we can make Recall into a panelist.

Thank you.

Good morning, be the chair.

Can I be heard?

Yes, we can hear you.

Perfect.

And what was the question?

Thank you for joining us.

I will turn it over to our vice chair.

Good morning.

I just want to think um ask a question around was there conversations or um actions taken to see if we could have this function be in-house with current worker or city workers or bring it on uh folks to help services.

I mean, that you're you're just gonna consistently hear that from me.

Uh constantly with contracts and contractors, but wanted to speak on this specifically.

Yes, so through the chair, great question.

It all comes back down to what our scope is.

Uh this is a specialized service that is needed to clean and uh maintain that three-story buildings.

I'm sorry, am I yes, to clean and maintain those windows of the single-story transit and the um three-story uh rosa park facility, and it's just not within the scope of our team right now.

Um, and so it so we can't long story sure, it can't be done in-house because that is outside of our scope.

Thank you.

And so, do we for your department?

Do you all carry out any type of other um window cleaning on other city buildings?

Basic window cleaning when it um comes to regular maintenance of our recreation centers, our firehouses and things like that.

Yes.

Uh, when it comes to be outside of the facilities, no, we do not.

Okay.

I would just say I I think as I'm uh again, as I'm looking at this being 233,000, and saying that we do have basic window cleaner services.

Um, I would be in favor of seeing us think about expanding our workforce to carry out this function um for city workers.

Um, so I just want to make that known here.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Are there any other questions for 7.1?

And then I to our vice chair's question.

Raquel, do you have any idea if the city provides that kind of so you're saying we do no outdoor, no outdoor window cleaning?

You're the chair.

I don't want to misspeak, but when it comes to the capacity and the scope of the buildings that we are hiring this specific contractor for, we do not have anyone in our on our team with the capability to execute what we're hiring them on to do.

Okay, thank you.

So to our vice chair's points, these are skills that can be learned and maybe brought in in-house.

Okay, well, thank you for that.

Are there any other questions for 7.1?

There was a motion to approve.

Are there any objections?

Objection of 7.1.

There's one objection from member McCampbell.

Hearing no other objections.

7.1 will be approved, sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

7.2.

This is contract number 6007 687, utilizing 100% city funding to provide material handling services for the public lighting departments.

Contractors VMX, they are located in Detroit.

This will go through February 23rd, 2028.

And this contract is for 156,000.

And this again is for the public lighting departments.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss 7.2?

Are there any objections?

Hearing none, 7.2 will be approved, sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

These are also specialized services for handling wires and services for the lighting department.

7.3.

This is contract number three.

Excuse me, this is contract number 600 7616, utilizing 100% FTA funding.

This is for shoemaker roof repair and replacements for D dots.

The contractor is McDormitt's roofing.

They're located in Southfield Detroit.

This is for two years.

This is a total contract of 331,800.

And this will be for transportation.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss 7.3?

There's been a motion to approve.

Are there any objections?

Hearing none, 7.3 will be approved.

Sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

By the way, Raquel, we can still see you.

You are free to go, ma'am.

You no longer need to.

Okay.

See you.

Have a good rest of your day.

Thank you.

Just making sure you don't you're not caught off, you know, that you're still on screen.

Um moving us along.

We approve 7.3.

Moving us along to 7.4.

7.4.

This is contract number 600 7714 utilizing 100% city funding.

This is to furnish car and lights, truck parts, and service.

The contractors, Jefferson Chevrolet, located in Detroit's.

This is a two-year contract for 90,000, and this would be for transportation.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss 7.4?

Motion to approve.

Are there any objections?

Hearing none, 7.4 will be approved, sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

Mr.

Washington.

Can we please request uh item 7.2 through 7.4?

Got a new business.

3 to 2 through 4.

Yes, uh, if we could.

Uh are there any concerns with sending those to new business?

If not, is there a motion to send 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4 to new business.

Motion to send 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 to new business.

Hearing no objections, those three will be approved and sent to new business.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Washington.

Moving us along to the departments of appeals and hearings.

7.5.

Is the dangerous buildings findings and orders for January 16th, 2026?

7.6 is a dangerous buildings findings and orders for February 6, 2026.

And 7.7 is a dangerous buildings findings and orders for January 23rd, 2026.

Is there a motion to receive and file 7.5 through 7.7?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, 7.5 through 7.7 will be received and filed.

Under the Department of Public Works and Administration, 7.8 is a petition of visit Detroit.

Detroit Metro Sports Commission to request and hang approximately 22 single banners on Washington and Jefferson from April 13th of this year through the 20th for the purposes of raising awareness of the special city of Detroit sporting events.

The hoops pro 16.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss 7.8?

Motion to approve.

Hearing no objections, 7.8 will be approved, sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

Can we send this to new business just because it's getting close?

Thank you.

7.8 will be sent to new business with the recommendation to approve.

Thanks, everyone.

Under the departments of public works, city engineering division.

Is a petition of 4630 Crane LLC, a request to vacate with the reservation of utility easements.

This will be for the North South and East West public alleys.

For 7.9.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss 7.9?

Motion to approve.

Hearing no objections.

7.10 is a petition of Wayne State University.

Request to for encroachments within the full width of East Canfield.

This will be for an installation of a pedestrian bridge.

Petition of Wayne State University for petition of a pedestrian bridge.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss 7.10?

Motion to approve.

Is there hearing no objections?

Is there a motion for new business for 7.10?

Motion to send to new business.

Thank you.

Hearing no objection, 7.10 will be approved.

Sent to new business with the recommendation to approve.

I know that a lot of residents in Midtown, a Wayne State area are looking for pedestrian bridges.

So excited to see this here before us.11.

Moving us along under miscellaneous 7.11.

This is a memo relative to request for resolution concerning Black History Month.

This is really celebrating Black History Month.

Is there a motion to approve to new business?

Motion.

Hearing no objection, 7.11 will be approved.

So I'm gonna just can we pull that back, Dr.

Powers, if that's okay with the body.

In case they're gonna do something later.

So um, Madam Clerk, that's just gonna be approved to formal session.

Ruthie, thank you.

I don't want to miss any kind of people coming out to support.

Um okay, so that will be approved.

This brings us down to member reports.

Member Waters.

Um thank you, uh, Madam Chair.

No report.

To my vice chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I just want to um it came up a little bit in public comment of what Mr.

Foster said, and and on Friday, uh, you know, we participated along with Council President Tatum and members of the legislature on a hearing for seeing hearing from community members who have been deeply impacted or directly impacted by our broken immigration system and also um the rogue enforcement of ICE.

Um, we heard from asylum seekers who um who are now being sent deported back to countries that they will face violence and persecution and even death.

We heard from folks who are who were in experience deplorable conditions in detention centers.

And I just want to bring up the connection and uh what a lot of folks are going through, even when we talk about detention centers and what we heard for the conditions in the Huron Valley um um uh prison and and moat there and and folks experiencing health issues as we see that now ISIS uh ranks at the top of uh budgets that are larger than many militaries in the world, and yet and we also hear from folks here in this committee and in the city, and rightfully so about the need to fund services and programs that we need as we think about ARPA dollars that are running out, and yet money is going to ICE, uh money is going to a broken immigration system, money is going to bomb folks in other countries now that we are now in yet another war.

Um, we have money for bombs that we don't have money for our communities and cities where we need that work to actually and those services actually happen.

So I'm bringing this all up to say of how these issues are so connected and the quality of life and the protection and safety of folks in the city of Detroit and across the country, and that we need to make sure that we are pressuring folks on all levels of government, including us here at the table, on making sure we have a prioritizing our people and not prioritizing deaf bombs and separation of our families.

So I just wanted to make that known and and and be committed to pushing for that here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Member McCampbell.

I wholeheartedly agree.

Um, and just want to say thank you to the folks that are working with us every day on the local issues.

So very grateful for the conversation that we had here today around truck traffic enforcement, making sure that we are very aware of the connections and how these things all work.

Um, and um, for something light and fun, just want to say thanks to Sergeant Knox for joining us our skate night.

That was a lot of fun.

We got in some seats together.

Um, so while we work hard, it's important to have fun and to be in community.

So that was a lot of fun.

Thank you for joining us.

We will now be at recess till 1.30 at just a reminder at 1.30.

We do have dangerous buildings, and with that, we will resize till 1.30.