Like to call to order our public health and safety standing committee for today, Monday, March 9th, 2026.

May the clerk please call the roll.

Councilmember Gabriela Santiago Romero.

Present.

Council Member Denzel McCampbell.

Present.

Councilmember Mary Waters.

Present.

Madam Chair, you have a quorum present.

Thank you.

Madam Clerk, given a quorum, we'll go right into the agenda for today.

We are here at a different time today.

We usually meet at 10 a.m.

But we did hear from the mayor in her proposed budgets.

So we will continue with our committee at this time.

We have received our minutes from our last session.

If there's a motion to approve.

Motion to approve.

Hearing no objections, our minutes from our last session will be approved.

Today we will be joined from DPW.

We will hear regarding their complete streets projects.

What this entails.

I know that we have a lot of Detroiters that are interested in making sure that our streets are safe for everyone to walk, bike, ride.

So looking forward to hearing this presentation, um, what the city plans to do and how we can support these efforts to making sure that we have more safe complete streets.

Um but before we get into that presentation that will happen at around 2 15.

We can now go into general public comments.

Uh for general public comment today, everyone will have two minutes for general public comments.

We will begin with the folks that we have here in person.

Is there anybody here in person that would like to make general public comments?

And then with the folks that we have online, please raise your hand now.

I will cut off public comment at 1009.

So in two minutes, I'm going to cut off public comments.

We will begin with the folks that we have here in person.

The time is on, sir.

Whenever you're ready, make sure your microphone is on.

Introduce yourself for the record, and you can begin.

Good afternoon, uh, Charlie Leduff.

Uh, I tried calling, I didn't get any calls back, so I thought I'd try it this way.

You will be voting on a contract today, 3091332.

The removal and replacement of poison fill at 5558 Ivanhoe.

Before Mayor Dugan left, he said these would cost 18,000.

This is an emergency contract for $37,000.

I'd like to know where that's coming from.

Uh it began as a request for a quote.

It is now an emergency contract.

I'd like to know how that happened.

Also, I went by the place yesterday, today, the day before the holes wide open.

I will go back and remind you when this broke in November, there were emergency uh actions taken to remove fill.

They're on your website now.

1443 Tacoma.

It's wide open in a neighborhood.

Wide open.

There's a dozen there.

I have the pictures.

If y'all just scroll through them, just there, there, there, there.

Oh, there's kids' toys right next to this one.

It's full of water.

So if this thing is the biggest scandal cooking in Detroit, this is how the city's dealing with it.

Where are we gonna get the money?

And finally, on Tacoma.

This has nothing to do with Iron Horse.

Iron Horse is a facade created by the Gayanga company.

I have it on good authority that these were done in 2022.

The documentation was forged.

Gyenga's done 2500 of these.

When are we going to get a holistic look at how bad this city's been poisoned?

Everybody's known about this for years.

In fact, Mr.

McCampbell, you were in Washington, and we had promises from the feds to look at this.

It's a gross injustice to the people.

And specifically, if we're gonna try to make it go away, please can we have the holes filled up for the safety of the children?

I say this with the utmost respect.

I have faith in you three.

I know who you are, I know what you're about, and thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you for coming down, sir.

We can ask those questions when we get to that item.

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

Public comments is now cut off, and there's nobody else here in person.

So we'll turn it over to the folks that we have online.

How many hands do we have raised and who do we have first?

Good afternoon.

We have two hands raised online.

The first is William M.

Davis.

Uh good afternoon.

Glad we heard.

Yes, good afternoon.

I also like to agree with the previous uh spoker is the speaker just said.

Uh also, secondly, um I'm looking at 6.2, the DWSD response plan to citywide flooding.

As some of you know, I I work for DWSD for 34 years.

We've had more flooding, more street flooding, more problems with lights and everything since the bankruptcy than before.

Uh I I think we need to make sure we're doing more than what we have been doing.

And and DWSD needs to give you a more detailed plan.

It is capable of doing it.

I used to do uh reports to director regular, and uh I know there's a whole lot of capabilities that they used to have before y'all got rather seasoned people.

You know, so hopefully the city can start doing a better job as relates to the citywide flooding because over here in District 7, I live in the aviation subdivision, and we uh my area regular floods.

I know most people think that you have to be next to the river to flood, but that's not the case.

Also looking at the 6.3 uh blighted violations.

Um we have far too many private violations.

We have far too many that's don't seem like no action is being ticked on because I drive around the city.

I still drive around the whole city.

I see cluster of apartments and buildings and stuff that had violations for a long time, and nobody seemed to act on it.

We used to have a whole lot of city inspectors that that went away.

But you know, we should make sure that any building that has previous violations or any building that owns that owes the city taxes, you know, property taxes, what have you, is not getting any any type of economic incentives.

We need to do a greater deal, a greater job of enforcement in the city.

We need to make the city a safe place for everybody.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our last caller is Owner Papa.

Oh, yeah, right.

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

Yes, good afternoon.

Good afternoon, thank you.

Um, yes.

Um this is public health and safety.

Your greatest concern today, right now, today, should be the dirty dirt that's around the city and cleaning that up and making people whole.

I heard a lot of things about things that are going on and um recreation centers.

And I'd like to understand from the representative from District 7.

Since we don't have a recreation center, what do what do we plan on offering the children in the 7th district?

Um they they have um I mean, any time they would go to they'd be out of their district, they might not get home in time, then they'd be truant and that that's a whole nother story.

But uh it's it appears to me that a lot of our problems are caused by things that you do.

Like the very first thing on your agenda today is about these flock cameras and you know, and I heard someone uh talking about um the green light.

The very people who house the green light were running the station illegally.

Make me understand how this whole thing is working.

Councilwoman Romero, you need to open up an investigation and find out why our seniors, although we have BCID that is supposed to be going out and giving tickets and looking at these areas.

Why aren't they doing their job?

Why why why do we have so many seniors living in squalor?

And why is it that you don't want the people who are in the the building where you all were negligent and letting things get to the point where it did.

Why can't they return?

Why aren't you offering them to return once things are better?

I I think this whole thing was contrived to move these people out the same way you use the solar and everything to move Detroiters out of their homes.

All right, thank you.

I do believe that was our final caller.

Yes, it was.

Um, to my vice chair.

Thank you, uh, Madam Chair.

Uh Ms.

Hughes, good afternoon.

Um, as mentioned on the Rec Center, and we talked about uh, you know, we had a coffee hour last week and we talked about this is my understanding, as folks may know, that there was agreement with the Pistons and the City for a rec center in District 7 at the Brendan near the Brennan pool.

Is my understanding that that commitment will be fulfilled and that we should see groundbreaking and then over the next couple of months.

Um is my commitment to stay on folks to make sure that that happens.

Um and that we do have a rec center in District 7 by the summer of next year when the construction is complete.

Um you've heard me at the table lift up the need of a recenter many times, and I'm working on it.

I would just offer the entertainment uh the invitation as I have before.

Um you you rightfully bring up issues that I'm agreement on, and I would love to meet with you further so you can know about my plans on these.

So please do give us a call at 31324-2151 so we can talk further.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Vice Chair.

All right.

We're gonna go right into the agenda for today.

And to kick us off, we do have a presentation around complete streets.

Uh so I'm going to ask our deputy director of complete streets from DPW, Christina Paltier to join us here on stage whenever you're ready.

You can feel free to take one of these seats up here.

And then I do believe we have your presentation loaded up that we will manage for you on the backgrounds.

Uh, but whenever you're ready, please uh make sure to check your microphone that it's on.

If the green light is on, it is.

Um, and thank you again for being here to discuss this with us.

Um we just heard that we're gonna have new sidewalks, which is exciting.

Um, but now we need to make sure that we have complete streets.

Uh so looking to uh looking forward to hearing what that means and what the city is doing and how we can help.

So thank you again.

Through the chair, thank you for the opportunity to present.

So I'm gonna cover what a complete street is through an agenda, um, what project we have actively going, and I'll walk through that.

Okay.

There we go.

So I'm gonna focus mostly on what we do as far as planning, safe streets for all, streetscape projects, and safe routes to school.

I'm gonna start by level setting on what a complete street is.

So a complete street, as you mentioned, is where everyone can walk, roll, be safe, and um, it's everything from transit to scooters to pedestrians to bicyclists.

We know 25 to 30 percent of our residents don't have access to a vehicle, so it's designing safety for all users for that street.

There's driving principles that were developed with the streets for people plan that was completed in 2022 with transportation plan.

So it's looking at safety first, designing roads with equity, dignity, and transparency, making sure we provide access for all users, economic opportunities, and then also the public health element of complete streets, just to not only to reduce pollution, just overall people's health physically.

The complete streets program focuses on eight areas.

So my team is six people, including myself, um policy development and planning for DPW.

We focus on safety programs, streetscape programs, capital planning and grant writing.

We have a new team member who focuses on evaluation and analysis.

We support the greenways team at General Services Department, work out maintenance strategies with our other partner divisions, and we hope to start digging more into GSI green stormwater infrastructure.

You can't do this alone.

It's really a collaborative effort.

We partner a lot with the Health Department around education, DPD around enforcement, Office of Innovation and Mobility for technology improvements, and we also work with our exterior partners.

So other cities, Michigan Fitness Foundation, Michigan Department of Transportation, SIMCAG, just to show a few.

Our small team really tries to break down those silos and work with all the other different departments, so it's a full, well-rounded package.

So from here I'm gonna jump into what we do as far as policy development and planning, talk about some of our past planning efforts.

So in the past planning efforts, we have our streets for people plan that I mentioned.

This is where those guidelines came on as far as what complete streets does.

You can find these to these guides online.

Also the design guide.

So it looks at every road typology and what is the appropriate interventions.

If it's a major corridor, should there be public transit?

If it's a truck route, maybe we don't put pedestrians and bikes as a focal point.

That design guide has that all broken out by the different types of streets.

But what's more exciting and how people can partner is our future planning efforts.

So the non-motorized plan, which is pedestrian bicycle, anything non-motorized, was first written in 2006.

We were fortunate enough to be awarded a Federal Highway Safety Administration grant to update our non-motorized plan.

So we can start to incorporate with community feedback at community meetings, where should the bicycle networks be, where should our slow streets be, which are basically streets that are focused for pedestrians and bicycles and move through the city.

And also coordinating again with our partners at General Services Department with Greenways.

So one way residents can participate is we're gonna start holding community engagement most likely in the next six months.

We're in the process of preparing the RFP that'll go to city council to get this off the ground and update this 2006 report.

The other planning effort that we're updating is our comprehensive safety action plan.

This plan was started in 2022.

This looks at what is the existing conditions as far as crashes on our streets, looking at the high crash network, pulling data from Michigan State Police, and it suggests interventions.

This is again those partnerships that our team works with.

We work with the safe route ambassadors as far as education, again, enforcement with police, what those partnerships are, and there's actually deliverables in the comprehensive safety action plan that suggest something should be completed in one to two years, three to four years.

So that 2022 report will also be updated.

We'll be establishing a steering community and also sharing information on this at our community engagement meetings.

So in addition to the planning efforts, as you know well, we do some guides.

We have a paint the streets program.

So we'll be updating this guide in the future.

This is an example of a slow street that I mentioned before that Noble Elementary Kids at Cherry Lawn or Noble Elementary students at Cherry Lawn painted through a Paint the Streets program.

So that traffic calming put in one of our first slow streets.

And then our next guy, which I know you worked a long time on, was the outdoor dining cafe guide.

So my team helps with the planning efforts to get the projects implemented, and then it gets directed to the appropriate division.

So now that's going to go through permitting through our city engineering permitting department.

So I appreciate all your support on that one.

The really exciting projects is the Safe Streets for All.

So in 2022, from Federal Highway Safety Administration, we were awarded 31 million dollars to address the 17 most dangerous local corridors on our city streets.

2023, we were awarded another 31 million dollars for our most dangerous bus stops.

This is 56 locations.

This funding is for design, evaluation, construction, community engagement.

So you'll see a wealth of different interventions, anything from paint and post to striping.

I'll talk about some of those interventions in a minute.

The federal funding, it took a little bit to get the grant agreement, but we are in design stage on the 2022 grant, and we'll start doing community engagement more specifically around the crash data and why we're doing certain interventions.

It's much different than a streetscape.

There's not a lot of feedback as far as aesthetics.

We can't do bus shelters, it's very data-driven interventions.

And then same with the the DSAT, Detroit Safe Access to Transit, the bus stops.

We just contracted design consultants to start that.

We'll be following up with engagement, so it'll be almost a layered approach between Safe Streets for All, the non-motorized plan, and comprehensive safety action plan.

And then Safe Streets for All Grasshet.

We were awarded 12 and a half million dollars to make Grash it safer.

This is more of a demonstration project, so paint and posts.

We're still waiting on our grant agreement from the federal government for that, but we will be working on that in partnership with the Michigan Department of Transportation.

And once we have that grant agreement, we'll work on getting a design consultant on board and start engagement around that project.

We've done preliminary engagement at over 85 community meetings for these three projects for district, department of neighborhood meetings, council meetings, bike the blizzard, precinct meetings, citizens radio patrol.

So any opportunity we can come to a community, we ask residents to reach out, and we will come to the community and share information on these projects.

So I'll talk a bit into some of the safety improvements folks can see through these.

Could be an enhanced crosswalk, signal upgrades, you could see raised crosswalks, or you could just see something as simple as in the bottom right corner, paint and post curb extensions.

Some of these interventions will be concrete, some of them you may not notice.

There'll be signals, some will just be striping.

And the next slide is some of that timeline.

So again, we're in design for the planning for safe streets for Detroit, the 17 corridors.

We'll be starting to onboard the consultants for Detroit Safe Access to Transit.

Some of those interventions you'll most likely see next year through 2028.

And again, that's Safer Grasshaw Pilot.

We are waiting on our federal highway safety grant agreement, but we think we're close.

And I do have Mr.

Gomez in the room who will be leading those projects, so you'll see him around a lot more often.

So from there, I'll move into our streetscape projects.

This is what the team was previously known the most for.

So streetscapes, this is where more of those aesthetics came in.

These were funded through bond dollars, through ARPA, and then transportation alternative program funds.

So I want to say there was about 17 across the city.

If you go to the next slide, it'll show where those streetscapes happen.

Sorry, Dexter and Art and Park, those were basically the construction of those streetscapes.

We do have a few streetscapes moving forward with transportation alternative program funding.

We're and then with some other funding sources we recently got, so we'll start engagement on those moving forward.

The best way to follow any of the streetscape improvements for the future streetscapes would be on the mayor's uh email list.

And they can follow us there, and then we try to post all the presentations for our streetscapes on our website, complete streets.

One of our other programs that comes up quite a bit is safe routes to school.

Safe routes to school is looking at improvements for kids walking to school or taking public transit.

We partner with the Michigan Fitness Foundation, DPSCD, and the Michigan Department of Transportation for Safe Routes to School programs.

They're roughly about 2.2 to 2.5 million annually.

Takes about two and a half years to get through the full Michigan Department of Transportation process for those projects.

So typically what we've done is sidewalk improvements, crosswalks, signage, and we're doing our first traffic garden at Kaiden Elementary School.

So we're trying to up our game a little bit on some of those interventions, but it is about a two and a half year long process, six to seven schools.

So I went over the four programs are the most active.

As I mentioned, there's the other, but at this point, if we want to open up for questions, I do have my contact information if anyone wants to email me.

They can reach me at P E L T I E R C at Detroit Mi.gov.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Thank you, Deputy.

Appreciate your work and your team's work.

Uh we love to see it literally.

It's so helpful and exciting when we have a bike lane or a new dieted road that is safer and now more walkable.

Uh just a quick question.

What is a traffic garden?

Traffic garden, sometimes they call them safety towns.

It's so kids can learn how to walk and ride bikes safely at a school.

Um, or in a it can be in a park.

Um, and then what we do is we partner with the safe route ambassadors with the Detroit Health Department.

So hoping to in the future be able to bring more of these to the city.

So that sounds really cool.

Uh well, thank you again.

Um, just real briefly for me.

I'm wondering if any if if in any of these spaces it it does feel like there is.

Um, maybe in the non-motorized transportation plan.

Um, but where can we begin to talk about or where can we talk about third places in our spaces in our streets?

When you say third places, so like plazas or more alley activations.

Yes.

It's definitely something we can incorporate into the RFP for the non-motorized plan.

That's probably the the best spot for that.

Okay, I would love that.

Um I I really it's such a privilege to travel.

It shouldn't be that way.

Um, but when you do you realize other cities really put people first and put walkability first, and there are other cities like Barcelona that win awards for just how walkable and how safe their streets are.

Um, and I believe that we deserve and that we can be the same here.

Um, so thinking about their places and how they think about their spaces, I think is um where we should go.

So that's just a note for me.

If we can please discuss discuss third places as we're talking about our streets, um, because that is where we will be.

Um another quick question.

You mentioned there's going to be a six-long process, a six-month process.

Can you talk about that again?

Is it for um and I I really did miss this.

So you mentioned I think we received funding, you're about to undergo a six-month process.

Um, can you talk a little bit more about what that is again?

Not so much a six-month process.

Um, so for the non-motorized plan and the comprehensive safety action plan.

I'm hoping in roughly six months we would start community engagement on those two plans.

So it just depends with the RFP and getting the contracts.

But you should see those contracts hopefully coming to you in the next few months.

Got it.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you for that clarity.

So that's just for all of us to know that's coming down the pipeline, prepare, get ready to engage with that.

Exactly.

And same the safe streets for all, you'll see some of that coming in the next few months, but that'll be more of an education tool than like the streetscape engagement.

Okay, understood.

Thank you.

Um, are there any other questions from my colleagues to my vice chair?

Thank you so much.

Uh Debbie Director for being here.

I love everything that's been laid out here.

I just had a few questions on the safe route to schools uh program.

Uh as we're thinking about that, does it involve lighting as well?

So, not so much through the safe route to the school project, because that's only about 300,000 per school.

So we're really limited in then the length of time, but we have been meeting with the public lighting authority to make sure their capital plans overlap with ours.

Now, where we can look at laying lighting is through the Detroit Safe Access to Transit.

Lighting is an option to be funded.

So we're working really closely with them.

And also on our C Streets for All corridors, we found out recently in the last two years, public lighting authority already updated a lot of the lights.

So we're gonna be tracking that data to see if lighting alone has created some safety improvements.

Okay.

No, that's great.

And I uh we can I know there are some additional plans on the mid block lighter, and I'm I'll be sure to inquire about that as well.

Um I also want to talk about uh the how those layout in the um and the let me make sure I get all the wording right as I so in the uh safe streets for all uh and I know there's been significant work in District 7 around um Warrendale and Warren Evening as such.

Uh I actually had a resident um who come up who does come up to me at a coffee hour last week who does um bike rides with youth and was thinking about I know Rouge Park is going through their master plan right now and a significant portion of the Joe Louis Greenway coming into District 7.

And he was really talking about uh a bike uh path from connecting Rouge Park to the the Greenway in a way so folks can safely bike between those two significant uh places in the district.

So just wanted to see if there's been thoughts around that or um how does that sound?

I'll be happy to have an additional conversation around that.

I think we're on the same path.

Uh huh.

Um so with the Joe Lewis Greenway framework, my past position.

We looked at connections to Rouge Park, and residents called out Chicago is probably the best way to connect.

So through updating the non-motorized plan, getting community to come out and confirm if that's the best route.

That's where we can get it in the non-motorized plan, and we can look for opportunities to fundraise implementing some of these programs like that connection.

And you also have the one of the I think the second slow street in D7, Cherry Lawn between Fullerton and Buena Vista.

Yeah.

That's going to become permanent.

It was paint and post.

Um now it'll become permanent through the greenway.

Great.

Okay.

Thank you so much.

Appreciate it.

And I just wanted to give a uh a plus one to the third spaces and the increases on those that the Madam Chair brought up.

So thank you.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Member Waters.

Thank you.

Um, thank you, Madam Chair.

Uh, just a couple of questions.

First, the quick one is do you know do we know how many students um walk to school in the city?

I personally do not.

We work closely with DPS C D when we do our walk audits, but we're usually more focused on individual schools.

I know.

I I just wondered if you knew, especially since you were putting up safe routes, so normally there are numbers that come with it.

Um I wanted to mention uh two um main um streets, highways, whatever, because they they both seem like that.

Uh Livinore, first and foremost, uh people often complain about not feeling safe, you know, walking across Livernoe.

And we know that we have businesses there, people trying to go in there um safely, come out to their cars safely, and oftentimes people really do speed down Livernoe.

So I wonder if we could take a look at something like what they have in Royal Local Main Street.

You know how they have the various uh pedestrians uh walkways.

We need people to get used to the idea and that Liminois too is becoming more and more busy, and that they should yield to pedestrians, and so if we have those little signs out there that says stop or whatever, people walking across, people should be able to do that.

I try to do that sometime myself when I'm coming down Wolf and I see people trying to cross, but a lot of times cars just keep going.

You know, they don't give the pedestrians an opportunity to cross, even though that that little crosswalk is there.

So I think we need to figure out a way to um to enhance that, make people pay attention to it.

Um Grasship, there are tons and tons and tons of accidents on Grasshay Avenue.

I would be interested to know the type of plans that you might have for Grasshaw if you have them yet.

Um maybe you don't have them as yet.

When you do, perhaps you can you can share those, but um now that's an unsafe place.

And it bothers me sometimes because people that are in the motor rides wheelchairs, uh or scooters or whatever you call those things.

I mean, you find them on Grashit and on Jefferson too, and I am concerned about that.

And I am concerned about that.

Um, but but Grasshae for sure is um is a major, major issue, and Jefferson is an issue because of uh a lot of our seniors try to get across the store street to the store to the gas station.

I I wanted to lift up those uh those streets.

Through the chair.

Yes, um council member, a lot of great points.

I'm trying to hit them all.

Um I'm excited to say the city was awarded a Michigan talent grant to look at Livernoy between Clarita and Six Mile.

So there is grant funding for a streetscape at that location.

We're working on the RFP for design contract right now.

And then Livernoy, the southern section around Verner is part of our safe streets for Detroit, one of our most dangerous areas.

So we are looking at the South Side of Livernoy making safety improvements with the federal funding, and then we're also working on getting the delineators replaced that have been hit along that stretch 11 Livernoy.

The partnerships is key, and again, that's where the complete streets comes in.

The Safe Routes Ambassadors have funding through the Office of Highway Safety with the Detroit Health Department.

So they do a lot of the education, but they're a very small team.

So they're looking to get access to more schools.

We partner very closely with them.

We'll be working on the traffic garden with them.

Um so anyway, we can uplift what they're doing as far as education.

So with the safe routes for Detroit, sorry, Safe Streets for All program with Detroit, we're actually creating a game, and we're gonna get a second game to the SafeRound ambassadors.

So as my team's doing education, they can also use the same information, and it'll be things like you talked about.

You have to yield at a crosswalk.

If speed limits aren't marked, it's 25 miles an hour.

So in a lot of these things, we forget I've been out of drivers at a long time.

So hopefully, between that game that can get taken to different block clubs by the SafeRound ambassadors or by my team, we can start getting that communication out.

And I think the Grasshet, um Michigan Department of Transportation did a whole study for how Grasshet could be updated.

So I'll make sure that link gets sent.

Um for the 12 and a half million dollars for a corridor that's over eight miles long, it will be a lot of striping and very light intersection treatments restricted by the federal government on not doing road diets, and we can't remove any traffic capacity with the current federal highway safety administration grants.

So we are very limited with our federal funding.

Um, but we'll definitely like to share with you what some of the design options come up.

Follow up, Madam Chair.

Um on Jefferson, specific, particularly where a lot of our senior buildings are.

Uh, could you guys take a look at that?

You know, you you've got Sheridan One and Two, you go down and and and you have others that are a little bit further east, um, 7800 East Jefferson.

Um there's the there are a number of them right there now, and I'm concerned about their safety when they come out and walk across the street.

So uh maybe you guys could at least take a look at that, where our senior buildings are.

Through the chair.

Um, I can say in 2018 I worked on Complete Streets Wayne when it started, and the East Side Bike Network was actually um effort to slow traffic.

In a lot of ways, it was more about slowing traffic and reducing crossing distances.

But what I can do is is have one of my team members look at has it helped from a safety perspective, and then work with our traffic engineering division to see if there's some small improvements we can make to even improve safety more.

That would be great.

Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Member Waters, Vice Chair.

Uh just a quick question.

Um, Deputy Director, did you say the federal government is prohibiting folks from doing road diets with their funder?

In our federal grant agreement amendment, we had they added language saying we cannot remove lanes of traffic or reduce capacity, road capacity.

Do you know when the start on when that was implemented?

It we just had to we just finalized that specific grant agreement in the last few weeks, but it's been an ongoing conversation for the last six months.

And I know you're in a role that you have in carrying out the the function of need of work, but I would just say that is absolutely ridiculous to uh to do.

And I'm just like, as I have conversations with residents and business owners, like for example, on Plymouth Road, um, as it feeds into Rouge Park, and as we're talking about a rec center coming there and more to do and screw uh streetscapes and such, or folks want to walkable areas, like road diets are essential to do that, and uh for administration to prohibit local governments from doing that is absolutely ridiculous.

So I just want to get clarity on that.

Thank you for letting me know.

Thank you, Barbara.

Right.

Wholeheartedly agree.

Our our residents are asking that we that we do more of that, that we do more of this, that we do more of our diets, that we invest more on people and and roads, and not just think of uh of vehicles that are on the roads.

Um administration's change and and I have high hope.

Um, and we are here locally doing what we can.

Um, so speaking of locally, um, and thank you, Member Waters, for bringing up the fact that people are on wheelchairs, they're they're on strollers, they're biking.

Um, we heard the budgets recently.

Uh deputy, is there anything that you need from us?

Do you feel good on your budget?

Is there any room for opportunity that we can help you on, or or what do you what do you see um opportunities looking like, or do you feel like you're supported?

You have grants coming, it sounds like, but can we help with anything at all?

Through the chair, I would always defer to my director Brundage on that.

Um, if you do hear concerns from residents on improvements for safety or lane reductions, um bike lanes, just understand we would need to probably look for funding to implement those things.

Okay.

Um then we mentioned education.

Um, and one thing that I did mention the director, I'm not sure if we heard back, maybe we did, um, but just emphasizing more support on education as we are doing um sticks and polks and paints um and we're bringing in parking um Warren Avenue.

Um we we invested money in and for a few months there.

People did not know whether to park in the parking lane or in the parking spot, or you know.

Um we we understand it now, it's it's gotten better, but I think there is opportunity for education and just like what our roads look like and how and how to move around our about our roads.

Um just wanted to share that.

Um, and just really want to thank you for the work that you do.

Um, this work is complicated.

Um, you would think it'd be easier, but Ford Streets is a state street, but you still work with us to try to make sure that we're addressing those issues.

Thank you.

Um, Livernoy, uh, as was mentioned by member waters is massive, it needs to be addressed.

Um Warren Avenue, you know, we're slowly working on it.

Um, but just really want to thank you for your efforts, and we're gonna do the best that we can.

And wanted to offer our annual celebration.

I'm not sure if you've already joined us in the past, you may have, um, but this is in August, or might do it in July this year.

Um, but you mentioned opportunities to do outreach in the community.

We usually have two to three hundred people to join us.

We're outside, it's you know, thankfully so far it's been a beautiful day out.

Um, but that's an opportunity for you to come and share the work that you're doing and and get feedback from from district six residents um and others that might be joining us throughout the city there.

Uh so we can share that information with you as well.

The chair, thank you for the invitation.

It's really important to my team that we meet residents where they're at.

So any way we can elevate the voice in any way the council can help promote any of our community meetings, we really appreciate.

Thank you.

Thank you, Deputy, for joining us.

I think that's all that we have for you.

I hope you have a good rest of your Monday.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And just uh again, this is a uh a reminder for for me and my colleagues.

Um work is coming down the pipeline.

Let's create opportunities to engage uh with DPW so that they can hear from our residents directly how they want um our streets to be shaped.

Uh so thank you again for joining us.

I will now move us along to the rest of the agenda.

Under unfinished business six points one.

This is a memo regarding city cameras, flock and the and our public spaces.

We've been asked to bring this back in two weeks, so without objections.

6.1 will be brought back in two weeks.

6.2 is a memo regarding the DWSD response plan to citywide funding.

Uh we did receive the response to this.

I would like to review it before receiving and filing.

So if there's a motion to bring this back in one week, motion hearing no objections.

6.2 is going to be brought back in one week.

6.3.

This is a memo regarding a request for information on blight violations.

Uh this is a memo through member waters' office.

We've been asked to bring this back in two weeks.

If there's a motion, motion hearing no objections.

6.3 will be brought back in three weeks.

6.4.

This is a memo requesting updates on ordinances from our office, member Santiago Romero, and the enforcements around the ordinances.

We asked around the fugitive dust ordinance, the language access and the health care facility ordinance.

We did receive the response, and I feel comfortable receiving and filing without objection.

6.4 will be received and filed.

And just a note why we're doing this.

We want to pass ordinances that work and that can be enforced.

And if they're not, we want to make sure that they are.

So just noting why we sent over that memo for our work.

For 6.5, this was a memo relative to requirements for implementing the pre-sale inspections for residential properties.

We have received the memo for this.

For anyone that's interested, um, if there's brief discussion.

Thank you.

For 6.5, member Johnson did ask a good question around pre-inspections.

Uh, for folks who may not know the city did require at one point there to be a pre-sale inspection.

This was then removed.

And member Johnson was asking why, and if we could bring it back.

This is a question that was asked uh by our council presidents as excuse me.

Our council, our mayor, when she was council presidents, I believe, asked the same question or when she was on city council.

She asked the same question.

Um, so I think many of us have this curiosity.

So check out the response to the memo.

Um, and I think this is a conversation worth having.

But the response was received, and we can receive and file.

Motion to receive and file.

Hearing no objections, 6.5 will be received and filed.

6.6.

This is a memo relative to a request for uh a member a memorandum regarding an eviction moratorium.

We've been asked to bring this back in two weeks.

Motion hearing no objections, 6.6 will be brought back in two weeks.

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

We did receive the information if there is a motion.

Yes, we did.

Um, member waters.

I look for it.

Okay, when did we receive this?

We have a draft.

We receive the information.

Well, it's it's okay.

March 4th, Member Waters was the response was sent back from LPD.

All right, I see it.

Receive and file motion.

Okay.

Hearing no objections, 6.7 will be received and filed.

6.8 is a memo relative to a request for information on commercial buildings with liens and fines on the on the demolition list.

We've been asked to bring this back in one week.

Motion.

Hearing no objections, 6.8 will be brought back in one week.

6.9 is a memo requesting information regarding public restrooms.

We have not received the response yet.

So if there's a motion to bring this back in two weeks, motion hearing no objections, 6.9 will be brought back in two weeks.

And just for everyone to note, we would like the city to provide restrooms for the public.

We think this is important.

So if we can provide these in our public areas or in our parks, making sure that they are accessible and working for us.

Um we're asking those questions.

For 6.10.

This is a request for information on quick claim deeds for City of Detroit's residential properties.

We've been asked to bring this back in two weeks.

Motion.

Hearing no objections, 6.10 will be brought back in two weeks.

This brings us down to new business under the office of contracting and procurement.

7.1.

We have a number of demolitions under new business.

7.1.

This is contract number 308, 7855.

This is utilizing 100% bond funding.

This is for emergency demo at 8863, 8890, 8899, 80905, and 8919 Woodmont.

The contractors inner city contracting, they are located in Detroit.

This total contract was for 50,000.

And this was for construction and demolition.

To my colleagues, would we feel comfortable?

Would you like to go through these line by line or should I read them all together?

They're demolitions and do you want to ask the questions for the demolition block?

Do you guys have questions per contract?

Or should I do it per the block?

Any feedback?

Member Waters?

No, you can do it for the block.

What is the one that was raised earlier?

That will be the one.

Charlie's question.

Yes.

Okay.

What was that to my vice chair?

7.14.

7.14.

All right.

So with that, I will read through the block and then we can discuss.

So for 7.2.

This is contract number 308356, utilizing 100% bond funding to provide emergency demolition at 11606 Broad Streets.

Contractor here is inner city contracting.

This is for 19,400 for construction demolition.

100% bond funding for emergency demo at 4936 Martin.

Contractor Cellubine Trucking and X Excavating.

They're located in Detroit.

This is for 21,715.

This is also for construction and demolition.

Contractors inner city contracting for 26,444 for construction and demolition.

All the demolition contracts would be for construction and demolition.

Contractor Celebean, this will be for 17,536.

Contract number 3089525.

Mitchell contractors sell a bean.

This is for 17,118.8 contract number 3090164.

100% blights funding for emergency alteration of 15801 Livernoi.

Contractor inner city contracting.

This is for 127,500.

Contract number 3090580.

100% blight funding for emergency commercial demolition of 3037 Jerome.

Contractor is inner city.

This is for 34,530.10 is contract number 3090622.

100% blight funding to provide emergency demolition of commercial property.

11351 Hamilton.

This will be for 16,863.12.

Contract number 308962.

100% bond funding for emergency demolition of 14632 Dolphin.

Contractors Inner City, this will be for 19,500.13.

Contractors inner city contracting for 148,000 with 500.

And 7.14.

This is contract number 3091332, 100% splite funding to fill removal and replacements of five five five eight Ivanhoe.

Contractors inner city contracting, this will be for 37,298 for construction and demolition.

I will pause there so that we can discuss construction and demolition contracts.

If there's any discussion on items 7.1 through 7.14.

Vice Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

So a couple of things as and I brought this up before around the emergency demos.

So I'm still maybe confused.

The process and that.

So that's one question.

The question on 7.14.

I know it's brought up in public comment, but I'm thinking about one.

If this is to fill removal and replacement, um, what was left behind by the previous contractor that is needed for us to um pay another contractor to fill this.

Why wasn't it done before?

And why are we on the hook for this when I would assume that that was covered in the previous contract?

Thank you, Vice Chair.

We can ask that question to the administration, Mr.

Washington.

Do we have anyone to discuss our construction and demolition contracts?

Yes, good afternoon through the chair.

We do have Gert Malil from construction and demolition.

Um I will also note for item 7.14 that there is a request to remove that item from the agenda.

Um this one actually falls under the administrative approval um part of the ordinance under uh the chief procurement officer.

Um, but I would defer to construction the demo for the other questions that were mentioned.

Okay, so we can invite Gerton to join us as a panelist.

Um, but before discussing Mr.

Washington, we're removing 7.14.

We had questions on that though.

Um, it sounds like you mentioned that it's going to be approved through the the OCP process.

Is it a I mean I don't I don't sorry, what is the amount of this?

Yep, so the amount of this one falls under the 50k uh threshold um that was recently changed through the procurement changes that we made via ordinance, I believe last year.

Um, on the agenda, it reads as a notice of emergency.

Um, that should not be the case.

This is actually um from my understanding a regular demolition related item.

Um, and so typically the way it works for the other gen uh other items you may see on the agenda that are under 50k, those are notice of emergencies, which will continue to appear on the agenda, but because 7.14 is not a notice of emergency and just a regular demolition and falls under the 50k threshold.

Um, it did not need to go through this approval process.

But I'll defer um to GERT um as well as Eric Cooper if he can be pulled down from procurement.

Understood.

So I understand that, and I I think we're gonna still have some questions around um around infill as well since um that question was asked of us.

I think I heard my vice chair um are you were you ready to go into questions then?

Okay, so then with that uh to Gerton, I believe if you wouldn't mind uh stating your name and uh title for the record, and then I'll turn it over to our vice chair.

Through the chair, yes, Gert Millill, planning strategy specialist for the construction and demolition department.

Thank you.

Thank you, and good afternoon.

And I uh I just want to make sure that I have all of the right correct information as I'm looking at um the number of emergency demos that we have come before the committee.

Uh if you can just go through how you all come to the determination of emergency demos and uh and what that process looks like.

And yeah, just want to just get a full picture of that.

Yeah, so well, sorry, through the chair.

Um we originally we receive an email notification from B seed.

On that email, we have a signed emergency letter with Dave Bell's signature.

We have photos, we have uh a parcel map, and that is what we act upon.

And after that, we release it out for RFP.

Uh then that goes out.

Uh OCP handles the bidding process, and then we receive uh an awarded contractor.

After that, we still have to make sure that the utility the utilities are cut, so the gas and the electric are cut.

And once we have uh an award letter and we have a utility clearance from DTE, um then we issue a notice to proceed to the demolition contractor, and the property has to come down within three days.

Thank you for that.

And are these properties are they a mixture of um properly owned properties or you know who are who are the owners of these?

Through the chair, yes.

Um it'll be privately owned or um DLBA owned, and it the structures might be commercial, they might be accessory structures like a garage and uh obviously residential as well.

And through that emergency process, the emergency process also deems them to be dangerous buildings as well.

Uh through the chair, yes.

Um they're a threat to public safety and health.

So um we have a faster turnaround time for the procurement as well because of that.

So yeah, okay.

Got it.

And I and you know, I see some of these photos and such.

Um that it definitely you can see from the eye that they are needed to come down.

But again, some of these photos that I see are um are from the appearance from a warmer time.

Uh if what I could just tell from the cold and snow that we've had recently.

So uh I just will for the uh I keep stating it for the administration as much as we can.

Um, because I also know that sometimes with these emergency demos, they come in increased price for uh taxpayers to come down or to have them come down.

So as much as we can go through the process to make sure that we're paying the appropriate amount for demolitions and and um demon knows that our truly emergency as that.

Uh I would look I would look positively upon that.

So I just wanted to clarify and get more information on that.

Thank you, madam chair.

Did you want me to ask my question about 7.14 or just on the previous items?

I think you vice chair.

I actually have a question on what you're discussing right now, if you wouldn't mind.

Yep, so it sounds so what I'm trying to understand.

So we have a dangerous buildings process.

I I think to my vice chair, because I know that there was um the apartment complex on Pearl and Werner.

Um that you know I actually know very well, and that was demoed.

Um, it had fire, so it would so I guess to his points, you know, when do we decide to go through the hearings or to just go through and and demolish?

I'm assuming you have criteria that that you go through that that deems it dangerous that has to go down as quickly as possible.

Uh through the chair.

Uh we strictly carry out an order.

Uh we don't have a say.

We're uh we're not in B seed, so we only act upon the email notification that I mentioned from B seed uh with the signed emergency letter with the parcel map and with the photos.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you for that clarity.

So we need to have this discussion with our director.

And um, I'm grateful that our director actually reached out to me last week.

I have not been able to respond.

Um, but I think we are ready to sit down and have a conversation around these processes because we are beginning to send back, and we have for a while sent back a lot of properties to BCED instead of demolishing to work with owners to try to salvage them.

Um and I do believe our director is is willing to meet with us to talk through that process and what we want to see moving forward.

So I will get back to him, and this is a note for all of us that are in this committee um that he does seem interested in in listening to us and making sure that we are um only demolishing properties um that that we think cannot be saved.

That was it for that, Vice Chair.

If you want to go through your next questions, yes, for 17 7.14.

I just would like to get again.

But I think one with the concerns around the dirty dirt and and such around these demos being filled.

I just want to get a view on what happened here and what is the cause of the need to have another contractor come out and feel this.

So this was uh this was the 5558 Ivanhoe property.

This was one of the uh gang of properties that required uh backfield remediation.

And um right now it is currently an open hole, um, as was mentioned in public comment.

And um it is currently waiting uh some environmental testing to make sure all the uh dirty dirt has been removed out and just to make sure that the open hole is basically uh cleared of the all the bad dirt that was in there before.

Um so right now that is the current status of uh that Ivanhoe property.

And um uh it should be fenced off by the contractor.

Um but if there's any more questions that you guys have, we can uh we can put that in uh in writing for you guys.

So just let me know how you how you'd like to proceed.

But thank you.

I definitely have questions that I'll put in writing.

I I definitely have more.

I uh looking at this being a $37,000 contract for uh backfill also brings some concern.

It brings me concern that uh the city is now on the hook of the actions of a contractor.

Um and also uh I I have questions around if um what's the timeline or the additional testing in addition to uh if we have been very I know you said it should be fenced, but have we verified that it is fenced, and the same for the various sites that are currently have holes in it to make sure that folks the folks safety are there.

So I definitely will submit those in writing.

Um I know this will be taken to a different process, but I'm deeply concerned around it.

I know um member Warders and and other folks have been um there was a memo created around this, but madam chair, I we should probably get an update on the dirty dirt ASAP, um, especially even though this will you know is appeared on our agenda and then we won't be taking action on it, but there's money being spent on this now uh and it was not the fault of taxpayers.

So thank you, Vice Chair.

I too have so many questions and we've been asking.

I think the reason why we have not been told everything is because there's an investigation going on right now.

Um but I agree we we all are wondering, and I think we're all just being paused because of the ongoing investigation.

Although I think it's coming up soon.

I think they've gone through all their extensions.

Um so this this investigation should be wrapping up soon.

Um, but I'm I'm ready for that to happen for us to be able to have the discussion um that and and to answer these questions.

Um because a question that was asked is what is the plan?

Um, and we all have that question.

Um, and and and really the question too is how bad is it?

Um, and and that's what's what's being figured out right now.

Um, member waters, did you have any questions?

Uh no.

Okay.

So then thank you for the question on 7.14.

Um, so our panelists, there's a few like 7.3 is a residential property.

Just to confirm, we do we do let private owners know um once properties been demolished, correct?

Um through the chair, um are you are you saying once we demolish a property we notify the private owner?

Correct.

Um I believe they they receive a notification uh a demo notification letter that their property is on a demo list before before it gets demolished.

Yes.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

I think seeing no other questions for 7.1 through 7.14.

Motion to remove 7.14.

It's been a motion to remove 7.14.

7.14 will be removed from our agenda.

And just real quickly to oh, vice chair, do you have any real quickly to my team?

Miss Evangelista, do we need to remove any other request line items or are we okay?

Uh to the chair, that was the only request I got.

Okay.

Great.

Thank you.

Seeing no other requests for or questions for 7.1 through 7.13.

Is there a motion to approve?

Motion.

There's a motion to approve 7.1 through 7.13.

Are there any objections?

Hearing no objection, 7.1 through 7.13 will be approved.

Sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

Thank you both for joining us.

Moving us along, 7.15.

This is contract number 6007671 utilizing 100% city funding.

This is to replace churnout gear.

The contractor is fire acquisition company.

They are located in Ohio.

This is a three-year contract for 4,300,000.

And this will be for fire.

Is there a motion to discuss 7.15?

Motion to discuss.

Thank you.

To the administration, who do we have to discuss 7.15?

Through the chair, we have Deputy Commissioner Stokes online.

If we can please bring them over as a panelist.

So the chair, he's been promoted to panelists.

Thank you.

Yes.

We also have Elisa Malil.

Okay.

If we can also make them into a panelist.

Good afternoon, Honorable Council.

Good afternoon.

I'm sorry.

I hear you.

I cannot see.

So folks wouldn't mind stating your names and titles for the record.

Yes, uh, my name is uh Robert Stokes.

I'm deputy commissioner with the Detroit Fire Department.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Madam Chair.

Um Elisa Millel, Chief of Staff, Detroit Fire Department.

Thank you.

Good to see you both.

And thank you for joining us.

We are discuss discussing 7.15.

Um, just if you wouldn't mind sharing this as a rather large contract.

Um, what we can expect from this contract, and um if if Ohio is the only place that we can go to, understood.

Um, but just wondering um what we did to try to keep the money here and what can and what we can expect from this contract.

Yes, through the chair.

Uh, with this uh type of contract here, essentially every 10 years, our PPE, such are all the items that are identified in a contract, needs to be replaced because of uh most of this equipment will expire, and it's all based on NFPA standards, but for the size volume of the department that we have, we typically couldn't find anyone in close proximity to handle this volume of uh uh of uh clothing.

So this is uh specialized turnout gear, which you will see on all the firefighters uh that are working out here in the city streets.

Um and essentially this is to make sure that they are properly uh covered in the correct ensembles, and you won't see this probably for another 10 years.

Uh most of our PPE is good for 10 years, and some of the other items that we just recently uh upgraded was uh SCBA bottles, those will be good as well for at least 15 years.

So these are kind of like the infrared infrastructure turnover that typically happens as far as main purchase items for the department.

Understood, thank you.

Uh this makes sense to me.

Uh we just always try our best to keep funding in the city if possible, but understood.

Um, I understand if we don't have the services here.

Um, are there any other questions from my colleagues?

Seeing nine.

Is there a motion to approve?

Motion hearing no objections, seven point fifteen will be approved, sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

Thank you both.

Thank you, council.

Thank you so much.

Moving us along to 7.16.

This is contract.

This is contract number six zero zero five zero eight eight.

This is amendment number three utilizing a hundred percent grant funding.

This is to provide a program administrator for coordinating, managing medical and supportive services for low-income underinsured and uninsured persons living with HIV in the Detroit Metro area.

The contractor is Matrix Human Services in Detroit's.

This will increase their amount by 25,000, bringing their total contract to 4 million, 188,842 with 24 cents.

And this will be for the health department.

I see Mr.

Washington is on.

Who do we have to discuss?

7.16.

If we can please make them panelists, Madam Chair, they've been promoted to panelists.

Thank you.

Actually, while they join us online, um, there are a number of health department contracts that I will go through while we have them with us.

So and we'll ask for discussion once I've read through these line items.

Uh for 7.17.

This is contract number 6007681.

Also 100% grant funding.

This is for program administrator.

For Oakland Livingston Human Services.

They are in Pontiac, Michigan, and this will be an increase amount.

Oh no, this will be a total contract amount of 2,250,863 with 39 cents.

7.18, this is contract number 6007683, utilizing 100% grant funding for program administrator and coordinating and managing medical supportive services for persons living with HIV.

This will be for Wayne State University, and this will be a 1,129,046 and 92 cents contract with the health department as well.

7.19.

This is contract number 6007684, 100% grant funding for program administrator to support services for persons living with HIV.

This will be for Wayne State University.

This total contract will be for 1,101 with 200 1,295 with 89 cents for the health departments.20.

This is contract number number 6007685.

100% grant funding to provide program administrator for coordinating and managing medical and supportive services for persons living with HIV.

Contractors, Wayne State University.

This contract is for 2,506,525 with 95 cents.

This is contract number 6007993.

100% grant funding to provide program administrator and coordinating managing medical and supportive services living for persons living with HIV.

Contractors Oakland Integrated Health Network.

This will be for 1,422,909 with 79 cents.

This is contract number 6007 696, 100% grant funding to provide services for ending the HIV epidemic.

The contractor here is health emergency lifeline programs.

They're located in Detroit.

This contract is for 463,635.23 is contract number 6007697, 100% grant funding to provide service for ending the HIV epidemic.

The contractor here is Henry Ford Health Systems in Detroit.

Again in Pontiac.

This contract is for 225,635 and 70 cents.

And 7.25.

This is contract number 600701, 100% grant funding to provide services for ending the HIV epidemic.

This will be for Wayne States, and this will be for 509,998 with 50 cents.

And again, this will be for the health departments.

Is there a motion to discuss 7.7.16 through 7.25?

7.16 through 7.25.

Thank you.

And I we do have our panelists, if you wouldn't mind introducing yourselves, name and title for the public.

Elizabeth Johnson, Office of Contracting and Procurement.

Good afternoon, Leah Smith, Director of Administrative Operations, Detroit Health Department.

Thank you both for joining us.

My first question is why are we doing this this way?

I'm happy that we're hiring.

I'm happy this is happening.

But as you read this, even as I read this, it's it's not very clear what's going on or how we are administrating this.

So I'm just wondering why are we doing this in this way?

Um, if you would wouldn't mind explaining to us, because we're seeing a lot of different contracts, and in my mind, we need more than one person, we need more than one service provider.

Um, but is there a different way of processing these payments of getting this work done?

Um, or just please help us understand why we're going through this in this in this way.

Through the chairs, so the way that our Ryan White Pardee and ending the HIV epidemic subrecipient awards are awarded is through a notice of funding availability, so a NOFA.

So what happens is all of our partners apply for the funding, and then they are scored based on the application that they are granted.

The reason why we have so many subrecipients is because for Ryan White Part A, we are required to provide services to the counties of Le Pier, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St.

Clair, and Wayne County, including the city of Detroit, because we cover the Detroit eligible metropolitan area.

And so that is why we have so many contractors for the Ryan White Part A funding.

For the ending the HIV epidemic funding, we have targeted areas of service in the City of Detroit and Wayne County.

So many of the so that's why we have a smaller amount of subrecipients for the ending the HIV epidemic funding.

This is historically how we have always awarded this funding, and it's and it has worked the best for the clients as well as for the department.

Many of the subrecipients that we contract with are able to provide services that we ourselves are not able to provide.

So many of the things that they assist our clients with, especially through the Ryan White Part A funding, is um outpatient ambulatory health services, early intervention services, emergency financial assistance, food bank and home delivered meals, health insurance premium and cost sharing assistance, medical case management, which also includes treatment adherence for clients who need it, medicational nutrition therapy, housing services, non-medical case management, medical transportation, legal services if needed, mental health services, psychosocial support, and home and community-based health services.

So as you can see, um all of these subrecipients provide a wide variety of those services that we that I just talked about.

Not all of our subrecipients provide all of those services.

Some of them only provide one, some of them provide numerous numerous services that I just listed out.

So ending the HIV epidemic funding is more specialized, as I talked about.

And so many of the projects that we give money for for those subrecipients are focused on rapidly engaged medical care and achieving viral suppression.

And so some of the numbers I want to share for fiscal year 24 for Ryan White Part A.

We had 3,676 clients received services across the Detroit Metro eligibility area.

1,145 clients achieved viral load suppression, which was 86.2%, and 549 of those clients were city of Detroit residents.

So that's just um some numbers to show the benefit of having so many subrecipients and being able to touch so many people at one time versus having just one subrecipient and not being able to touch as many clients.

Okay, so are you saying that we're doing that with three different Wayne State contracts then?

So the three different Wayne State contracts are actually with three different branches of Wayne State.

So we have the Wayne State University Adult Services Clinic that we work with, as well as the Wayne State Horizons Clinic, and then the Wayne State Umide Grace Clinic.

Okay.

Thank you for confirming.

Um I just with all of this, how how are you doing evaluating each program?

Exciting to hear how the outputs are going, but are you able to?

It sounds like you are then able to manage and evaluates and collect the data and make sure that we are providing the services that we're funding.

The chair, yes, that is correct.

Actually, more than one time annually, our HIV STI project staff goes out and they do subrecipient monitoring on a regular basis.

And this monitoring is not only financial monitoring to ensure that the funding is being spent correctly, but also programmatic monitoring to ensure that they are actually providing the services as stated in their contract, and also that the clients are pleased with the services.

So many times if we have a site visit from HERSA, which is the funder for these two programs.

Okay, thank you.

That's helpful.

Um I will just say just seeing so many providers, I want to make sure that we are also being accountable to the services being provided.

So thank you.

Um those are my questions from these contracts.

Do we have any others?

Doesn't that look like it?

Um is there a motion then to approve 7.16 through 7.25?

Motion.

Hearing no objection, 7.16 through 7.25 will be approved.

Sends to is there a motion to send these all of these items to new business?

Motion hearing no objection, 7.16 through 7.25 will be sent to new business with the recommendation to approve.

Thank you.

The emergency demos.

Um, Mr.

One second, member waters.

I'm so sorry.

Mr.

Washington.

Yes, may we also request that item 7.15 be moved to new business.

7.15.

The four the the four million dollar contract, please do talk to the rest of my colleagues by tomorrow because it's a very large contract.

Um so yes, as long as they're briefed and prepared.

Um, I feel comfortable moving this out if there's a motion to do so.

Motion hearing no objection, seven points fifteen will be sent to new business with the recommendation to approve.

Thank you.

Uh member waters, you were gonna mention something.

Um yeah, I was I was gonna mention the emergency demos, but I wonder maybe we don't need those to go to new business.

No, ma'am.

Okay, nope, and I'm requesting the grants because they're grants and looking at the dates.

Um nothing else for these items, and I'll move us along moving us along to 7.26.

This is contract number 600708, utilizing 100% city funding to provide stainless steel strapping seals, brackets, and other hard wire for DPW traffic sign shop.

Contractor is Dinah Engineering LTD.

They're located in Canada.

This is a two-year contract for 167,220, and this will be for public works.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss?

Motion to approve hearing no objections, seven points 26 will be approved, sent to formal with the recommendation to approve seven points twenty-seven for seven points twenty-seven.

We have an amended contract that should read as contract number six zero zero seven four ninety-eight, utilizing 100% city funding to provide small aqueous parts cleaning machine lease and services.

The contractors safety clean systems, they're located in Romulus.

This is for a two-year contract at 500, excuse me, yeah, at 55,000.

Two-year contract for 55, and this will be for transportation.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss?

7.27.

Motion to approve.

Are there any objections?

Hearing none.27 will be approved, sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

And 7.28.

This is contract number 6007691 utilizing 100% city funding to provide installation of bus shelters and benches.

Excuse me.

Contractors Nora contracting, they're located in Detroit.

A two-year contract for 557,000 with 100.

And this will be for transportation.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss 7.28?

Discussion.

Discussion.

Vice Chair.

I just have a quick question on.

I know it was talked about before, but do we have an idea of the locations of these?

Mr.

Washington, who do we have to discuss?

7.28.

I do believe that Director Kramer Kramer is joining us.

Do we see him online?

Um Madam Chair, I do not see him online at the moment.

Okay.

Um, Mr.

Washington, is there anybody else from DDOT or transportation?

Through the chair, can we bring this back to the towards the end of the agenda?

Towards the end, sure.

Uh without objection, we will come back to 7.28 at the end of the agenda.

And Mr.

Washington, you can let him know our question is going to be if he knows where the shelters are going to be, or if there's any idea of where those will be.

Thank you.

Um, okay.

So we approved seven points 27.

There was a motion to send to new business.

If there's a motion to do so, hearing no objection, 7.27 is going to be sent to new business with the recommendation to approve.

We will come back to 7.28.

7.29.

This is a supply schedule amendment for additional suppliers for engineering, construction management, planning, and program management services.

The schedule period, this would be for five years.

And this total amounts will be for 81 million 300,000.

And again, this is going to be a supply schedule amendment.

Uh, to the administration, is there anyone from public works that's able to discuss this contract with us or the supply schedule with us?

Through the chair, we have Pamela Crump online.

If we can please move her over as a panelist, and if there's a motion to discuss 7.29.

Motion to discuss.

Thank you.

And through the chair, um, Director Brundage is on as well.

And if we can make our directors a panelist as well.

The chair, they've both been promoted to panelists.

Thank you.

Pamela Crump with Office of Contracting and Procurement.

Good afternoon, Ron Brandus from DPW.

Good afternoon.

Thank you both for joining us.

Um, we are discussing 7.29, just the amendment to your supply schedule.

Um, and I know that we're adding three additional vendors.

I just if you wouldn't mind sharing with us uh the need for additional vendors, um, and what we can expect, um, or if there's anything different that we can expect from the supply schedule.

Uh Madam Chair, I'm gonna ask Ms.

Crop to start the conversation off by identifying the three companies.

All right, well, they have four companies that we want to to the chair that we want to add to the supply schedule, and this is a supply schedule for uh engineering, planning, and um for engineering and architectural services.

So the four companies are DLZ, OHM advisors, PEA group, and HDR Michigan.

And so uh this supply schedule covers various various departments.

So when there's a need for any of the three services, architectural engineering or planning services, if there's a need, then uh the the uh those uh firms that are pre-qualified will have a chance to uh to uh submit a proposal on whatever tasks that the department is uh needs to feel.

Okay, and then this amendment that we're looking at is only amending um the suppliers, correct?

We're only adding the additional vendors to the chair, that is correct.

Okay, thank you.

So we're gonna stick to our limitation of 81 million with new vendors to the chair, that is correct.

Okay, thank you.

Are there any other questions?

Hearing none.

Is there a motion to approve seven points 29?

Motion to approve hearing no objections, seven points 29 would be approved, sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

Thank you both.

Under the office of the chief financial officer, Office of Development and Grants.

7.30.

This is to submit a grant application to the U.S.

Department of Transportation for the fiscal year 2026 builds grants, the improving capacity on and this will support the improving capacity in Southwest Detroit's Werner Commercial Corridor grants.

Is there a motion to approve with discussion?

So move.

Thank you.

To the administration.

Oh, director, are you here to discuss this?

Uh Madam Chair, yes, I can.

All right, thank you.

If you wouldn't mind, just for the record, introducing yourself.

Here, Ron Brendan, director of DPW.

Uh, Madam Chair, we're applying for a $16 million grant uh to construct the streetscape uh in West Vern.

I mean in um in district six uh the limit for West Vernon from Woodmere to Central.

Uh this is actually uh a unique uh project uh that in addition to uh if the grant is approved, in addition to the uh streetscape work that we'll be doing on West on on West Werner, uh we're also gonna be removing the existing uh unprotected bike lanes on West Werner and moving those onto the alleys uh within that same footprint.

And we'd actually be building out uh the alleys as part of this particular project uh to eventually provide a connection to the Journal West Greenway.

Understood.

Thank you for that confirmation.

Um and a follow-up to do to do can you just share with us the engagements with residents um in how we decided to go with the alley.

Uh sure, we the engagement with the community actually goes back to 2024.

Um, one of the one of the uh pieces of feedback that we were constantly receiving uh was that we they felt that uh uh some of the community felt, especially the business community felt that uh because of the bike lanes and the amount of congestion that any opportunity to create potentially wider sidewalks or to to maximize uh the potential for parking on the street parking spaces, and it was just to a certain degree being impacted by the existing bike lane.

So a big component of this project um uh there are a big component of the project that came out of that uh that outreach component uh was when we saw that there was an opportunity uh to to move the bike lanes from the street onto the alley as part of this project, opening up possibilities to potentially widen sidewalks uh for the business corridors, and then also potentially uh increasing the amount of on-street parking within that football.

Understood.

Okay, thank you.

This is exciting.

Um is a very scary street to bike on.

Um, so I understand uh trying to move this to the alley.

Um, but okay, those are my questions.

Seeing no other questions, is there a motion to approve um to new business, please?

Motion to approve and sent to new business.

Thank you.

Hearing no objections, 7.30 will be approved, sent to new business with the recommendation to approve.

Thank you, Director.

Thank you, madam chair.

Moving us along to the LPD legislative policy division 7.31.

I believe we have already sent a resolution to the body.

Is this is there a motion to discuss?

Motion to discuss.

Thank you.

7.31 is a resolution recognizing Black History Month to LPD.

Is this difference um than what was sent out earlier through this body?

I don't, I believe it's been reviewed and placed on uh I'm not sure what changes were made, but I believe it's been reviewed by us and returned pursuant to the body's request.

Okay, personally aware of how much was changed, if any.

Okay, no worries.

So then we can move this through the process and send this to new business.

Um, if there's a motion to send 731 to new business, hearing no objection, 7.31 would be approved, sent to new business with the recommendation to approve.

7.32.

This is a report relative to the require relative to the requirements for implementing pre-sale inspections in the city of Detroit.

Motion to receive and file.

Hearing no objection, 7.32 will be received and filed.

Under the departments of public works, city engineering division 7.33 is a petition of Narcos Property LLC, a request to vacate with reservation of utility easements.

They are requesting to vacate 24th streets.

Um line northernly of Ruskin Street and line southernly of Toledo Street.

They are requesting an outright vacation with reservation of utility easements.

7.35 is a petition of the Rock Economic Development Group.

They are requesting multiple encroachments.

And this will be for decorative pavers.

So 7.35 is petitioning for multiple encroachments for existing tree grades and decorative pavers.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss 7.33 through 7.35?

Motion to approve.

Motion to approve, hearing no objections, 7.33 through 7.35 will be approved.

Sent to formal with the recommendation to approve.

Under miscellaneous 7.36, this is a memo requesting a report concerning DPS debts.

Response has been received.

So this can be received and filed.

Hearing no objection, 7.36 will be received and filed.

7.37, we've been asked to bring this back in two weeks.

Hearing no objection, 7.37 will be brought back in two weeks.

We will now go back to 7.28 before ending in member reports.

And I believe, do we have Dr.

Kramer online?

We do.

Is there a motion to discuss 7.28?

Motion to discuss.

Thank you.

We have our director on with us if he wouldn't mind seeing your name and title for the public.

Robert Kramer, director of D dot.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

Thank you for joining us, sir.

Uh, we're all very curious.

Do we know where the locations are going to be for these shelters?

So this contract uh provide services here.

So we have a uh a short list, maybe I would call it of 110 locations.

Um, unfortunately, we haven't uh completed the process for state and federal approval.

So there's a process of title six review in SHIPO.

Um so we have to finish that process first before we can even order the shelters.

So that actual line will come back to this council for you to approve ordering the shelters that match these locations.

Um for the 200, uh this this contract will also allow us to install uh up to 200 bench locations, and that's a program that we um we've actually already installed about 25 just directly with our staff.

Uh and we've ordered all 200 of them.

This is using the um a portion of the two million dollars that the council set aside as a one-time item for the current year's budget for our stop improvements.

And um those locations we can provide a list, but as you can imagine, the 200 are spread across the city, but also in that case, um each one depending on the road's jurisdiction also requires permitting and approval along the way.

So this contract just sets us up to have the services available to install these amenities.

Um but specifically with the shelters, we will come back with the list of the 100 sites for the council to approve before ordering them.

And for the 200, we're gonna keep working through those sites as per minute allows, but we can share a copy with the council.

Okay, thank you, Director.

Vice Chair.

Thank you, Director.

Yeah, we'll love to see the list of 200.

Um, you know, in the previous conversation, I know, and I think when we we had a previous conversation about a grant for C then as well.

Um, just hope that the view has been.

I would love to have seen that all stops, but also especially on those routes that are 45 to an hour uh between um coaches arriving.

We'll hope that there will be some um priority of those as well.

Yeah, absolutely appreciate that through the chair.

Um, so we do use the uh similar um criteria looking at the amount of boarding activity um that are stops, um, but I do appreciate the comment uh you provided uh last week about also uh I'm trying to uh cross tabulate that um with some of the stops, especially if um seniors or students are using them more along the lower frequency routes.

Thank you, thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Vice Chair.

Thank you.

Is there a motion to approve to new business 7.28?

Motion to approve to new business.

Hearing no objections, 7.28 will be approved, sent to new business with the recommendation to approve.

Thank you, Drecker.

We will see you soon.

Have a great day.

We are now down to member reports.

Member Waters.

Okay, to my vice chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I would just say uh with to this morning's presentation from Madam Mayor, we are now in our budget season.

Uh and we will start our various committee uh our various hearings uh for the budget.

So I encourage folks to participate.

Um, you know, some of the things that we heard today, I'm sure will come up in those hearings.

Uh uh, so please do participate and and and come out to those or join virtually.

Um so looking forward to this very robust process.

My first time, so we'll see.

It'll be fun, Vice Chair.

Um, and for my member reports, it's going to be sixty degrees today for the first time in a long time, so go enjoy the sun, everyone.

If there is nothing else to come before us, we are now adjourned.