Neighborhood community service standing committee will now come into order.

Will the clerk please call the roll?

Good afternoon, Council President Pro Tem Coleman Young the second.

Here.

Councilmember Scott Benson.

Councilmember Renata Miller.

Mr.

Chaircorn.

Thank you, Osmember Miller says she would be unavailable.

So could we get her absence as excuse, please?

Clerk was on that.

Thank you, Ms.

Clerk.

I appreciate that.

All right.

Uh negative chair remarks.

We will move right into public comments.

Who do we have in the queue, Mr.

Bo?

Mr.

Chair.

Mr.

Chair.

Yes, Dr.

Powers.

Sir, did you intend to skip over approval of the minutes or didn't I hear you ask?

You know what?

Thank you, Dr.

Powers.

That's why you're the best.

I completely forgot.

Okay.

No problem, sir.

Y'all seen if you was paying attention.

Congratulations.

You didn't pass.

You didn't pass.

Thank you.

Uh, is there a motion to approve the minutes?

Motion.

Motion's been made.

Are any objections?

Hearing none, and minutes will be approved.

All right.

We will now go to public comment.

How many people do we have in the queue, Mr.

Bo?

Mr.

Chair, we have two individuals with the hand raised for public comment.

All right, public comment is now closed.

Public comment is now closed.

Public comment.

Is now closed.

All right.

Who we have in the queue first, Mr.

Bo.

Mr.

Chair, the first caller ends in 482.

All right, 482.

The floor is yours.

Two minutes, 482.

482 going once.

482 going twice.

482 going three times.

All right, 482.

You can send your um comments in writing.

We will be glad to read them.

Who you have next to the queue, Mr.

Bo.

Mr.

Chair, the next caller ends in 039.

All right, 039.

The floor is yours.

Two minutes.

Hey, Coleman.

What's up?

Go ahead.

All right.

My condolences go out to you for your loss.

I'm a real dude, Coleman.

So you have my condolences.

My sincere condolences.

Now I'm gonna get straight to it.

Y'all cheated in.

Nini wants what the F she wants.

So I gotta take legal action now.

Angela Whitfield Callaway had me expelled from a meeting for saying smoke D.

Now, smoke D is not profanity.

The two words I put together that have meaning.

So now I'm getting ready to run it down the line.

Oh city of Detroit, elected officials and some judges are in question now.

Meaning, Janice's been cheating in 2020.

I gave the information to number 47.

Donald J.

Trump, President of the United States of America.

For one particular reason.

Nini got to get what she won't.

Now James Tate and then Solomon Kenlock and some others got a plan in place in play.

They're trying to put down to get Mary removed from office.

No.

No.

Not gonna happen.

Not gonna allow it.

And all the blacks in the city of Detroit, Michigan, gotta stand behind Mary Sheffield, the mayor of the city of Detroit.

For one reason.

What she's doing and attempting to do, bringing all the rappers, supporting some special project.

All right, thank you.

We appreciate that.

Who we got next in the queue, Mr.

Bo.

Mr.

Chair, that was the last caller with her hand raised for public comment.

All right, thank you.

We will move on to new business.

Mayor's office.

Lionel 6.1 petition and Meski Patriotic Committee of Metro Detroit.

Request to hold annual Cinco de Mayo parade and festival and fiesta from May 2nd, 2026, 12 p.m.

to May 3rd, 2026 at 8 p.m.

at Southwest Troy, West Vernon Highway on 3041 Woodmere Street.

Set up will begin on May 2nd, 2026 and 9 a.m.

and completed by 12 p.m.

the same day.

Tear down will be in on May the 3rd, 2026 at 7 p.m.

It can be by 9 p.m.

the same day.

Is there a motion move line on 6.1 to formal session with recognition for approval be put on to do business?

Motion.

Motion made are any objections.

Here in the line on 6.1, we move to formal session with recommendations for approval be put onto new business.

Lionel 6.2.

Petition of Sour Fish Events.

Request to hold the Gordy's pumpkin rind on September 19th, 2026 from 9 a.m.

until 11 a.m.

the same day at the Riverfront Conservancy and Millican State Park.

Settle will begin at 7 a.m.

on September 18th, 2026.

They plead by 7 p.m.

the same day.

Tear down begin 11 a.m.

on September 19th, 2026, they can flee by 2 p.m.

on the same day.

Is there a motion to move line on 6.2 to formal session with recommendation for approval be put onto new business?

Motion.

Motion made or any objections.

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

Line on 6.3.

Petition of Trivium.

Request to hold the Growler Gallup on September 27, 2026 at 1 p.m.

to 7 p.m.

Same day.

At water brewery setup will begin on September 27, 2026 at 9 a.m.

and be completed by 2 p.m.

the same day.

Tear down will begin on September 27, 2026 at 6 p.m.

We can leave by 9 p.m.

the same day.

Is there a motion move line on 6.3 to formal session with record dates for approval we put on to new business?

Motion.

Motorman, any objections.

Hearing the line of 6.3, we move to formal session.

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

Okay, hold on for just a minute.

Oh done.

Let me check some.

I like to make a motion to take a lion of 6.4 through 6.7 all together.

These are various contracts involving partition equipment and supporting services.

Is there a motion?

Mr.

Chair, I need to take those separately.

Okay.

Would you rather me just take them separately, even though they're kind of basically the same?

Okay.

No problem.

No problem.

Then Lionel 6.4 Lionel, and did you want to discuss Lionel 6.4?

Okay.

Lionel 6.4, contract number 67590.

100% IPA street maintenance slash city funding to provide construction partitioned equipment and supporting services.

Contract the McAllister Machinery Inc.

DBA Michigan Cat.

Location 2480 Nova Road, Novi Michigan, 48375.

Contract period city council approval for a period of five years.

Total contract amount 11 million two hundred and thirty-four thousand four and thirty-eight dollars and zero cents.

Is there a motion to discuss line on six point four?

Motion to approve with discussion.

Motion to approve with discussion.

Chair recognized Mr.

Benson.

And actually to GSD.

Not no need for procurement office.

Okay.

I think we have Mr.

Weatherup available.

Speak to us.

As soon as you're promoted, you will be acknowledged.

Mr.

Weatherup.

Good to see you, sir.

Good afternoon, Alex Weatherup, Assistant Director, General Services.

Did you need uh member Benson to repeat the question?

Vice Chair Benz, excuse me.

Uh, through the chair, yes, please.

Uh, thank you.

Uh Mr.

Weatherup, just question on 6.4.

I got questions on the others as well.

Um, and maybe you can answer on this one.

So bulldozers identified as one of these items of equipment, uh, a number of other uh heavy pieces of equipment here.

Knowing GSD doesn't use these.

Um, can you just talk about what this contract is doing and then why the five-year uh period?

I also see that we're using uh the the uh credit card, the IPA process to purchase these.

Through the chair, happy to answer.

Uh so these four contracts uh represent the the construction equipment partition.

Partition is the word we use for the different types or groups of vehicles.

We have a light duty, heavy duty, uh, these for our construction.

Um, you are correct that GSD does not use most of these, most of these are procured for DPW, uh, but GSD fleet management is the the clearinghouse hub for all fleet purchasing, so it all comes through us.

Um the city does own one bulldozer, it is for the salt dome.

Um, and so it does not need to be replaced now, but within the five-year period of these contracts, it will need to be replaced.

So we made sure to include it.

Okay.

So this is really a four-looking contract, which is why we need 11.5 million.

Correct.

These are for our larger partitions.

We like to do five years so that we can project out and make sure everything that needs to be replaced within its life cycle over the five years can be.

Okay, and then using the IPA and a street main.

And so if we do make the purchase, then we'll put it on the credit card and then use street funding to uh repay that.

Is that how we'll do it?

Uh, through the chair, uh it is likely the substantial portion of of the funds going to these contracts will be street fund uh for GPW.

We list all possible funding sources just in case.

Okay.

Um and so Mr.

Chair, motion to uh send to formal regular business on this contract with recommendation to approve.

Uh discussion.

Uh why regular business?

Because we we have a colleague who routinely asks questions about these.

This is out of city, and so instead of going to new business, this would give that colleague the opportunity to ask the questions and get it done so when it gets to the table, everything will be ready to go.

Okay.

Uh I kind of can suspect the colleague you're referring to.

Uh Mr.

Weatherup, uh, would this if go on to regular business?

Would this affect these contracts in any other way or affect the or affect the reason why we you need them in any other way into the timeline or performance?

Through the chair.

No, if if there's a small delay uh to make sure that this body's informed, that's no problem.

Okay.

And member Benson, are you gonna be requesting regular business for all these contracts?

Or just aren't based out of Detroit.

Okay.

All right.

Just want to make sure.

All right, motion has been made to send line item 6.4 to formal session with recommendation to be put on regular business.

Are there any objections?

Here in the line of 6.4, I'll be moved to formal session with recommendation for approval to be put on to regular business.

Everybody got that right.

Regular business.

All right.

Lionel 6.5, contract number 600 7670, 100% IPA street maintenance city funding to provide construction partition equipment and services.

Contractor Alta Construction Equipment LLC DBA Alta Equipment Company.

Location 5105 Lorraine Street, Detroit Michigan 48208 contract paper on City Council approval for a period of five years.

Total contract amount 11 million 392,663 dollars.

Is there a motion to send line items 6.5 the formal session with recommendations for approval be put onto new business?

Motion.

Motion made or any objections.

Here in the line 6.5 move the formal session with recommendations for approval, be put onto new business.

Lion 6.6 676 78.

100% IAPA Street Maintenance City Funding to provide construction partition equipment and supporting services.

Contract contractor McQueen equipment LLC DBA McQueen location 4060 and Arbor Road Suite 2018, Michigan 48170 contract paper city council approval for a period of five years.

Total contract amount 10 million one hundred and eleven thousand a hundred and fifteen dollars and twenty cents.

Is there a motion to send line on 6.6 to formal session with recognition for approval be put onto new business?

Mr.

Chair, motion to uh send a formal regular business with discussion.

Yeah, I'll get it right to say okay.

Motion to send this one to um motion to send this to this with recommendation to regular motion to send line of 6.6 to um to session on regular business with discussion.

Chair recognized vice chairman Benson.

Sorry about that, got confused.

Thank you.

Through yourself to uh Mr.

Weatherup, is he still here?

Mr.

Weather up again.

Good to see you, sir.

Hello.

And then I see Mr.

Weatherup on this contract.

I see some small some three-wheel street sweeper models that can uh handle our non-motorized pathways, i.e.

bike lanes through the chair.

The the three-wheel sweeper is the the very generic street sweeper that most people see going up and down the roads.

So those are the ones that we have the largest fleet of, and that they do the bulk of the street sweeping.

Now the T report talks, so we're not looking for any of the smaller three-wheel that can handle bike lanes and small pathways, incorrect.

It speaks to that in the in the TDA report.

Uh correct.

So there is the option to um to procure smaller sweepers.

Uh, but I just wanted to note that the three-wheel sweeper is the generic big one you see on the streets.

Um, but we did want to have the ability to get smaller ones for bike lanes, uh, the greenways, those types of things.

If based on what's being engaged here.

Um, through the chair.

I I I'm not sure if it's this exact contract, but between these four, we were able to contract everything that we projected need for.

So if it's not McQueen with the mini sweeper, um, it's one of these other two.

And I I can find that out here in the middle.

So we can engaging with one of these four contracts to authorize the procurement of the mini street sweepers for non-motorized pathways, correct?

Correct.

Yes.

Okay.

Fantastic.

Thank you.

I also just want to let everybody know there are autonomous vehicle street sweepers as well.

Just letting you know.

All right.

Motion has been made to send line item 6.6 to former session.

No, to formal session with approval to be put on to regular business.

Are there any objections?

Hearing a line on 6.6 be sent to formal session with approval with recommendation for approval to be put onto regular business.

Regular business.

Regular business.

All right.

Live 6.7, contract number 600 7480, 100% IPA Street Maintenance City Funding to provide construction partition equipment and supporting services.

Contractor BEC Enterprises L L C D B A Brown Equipment Company.

Location 2501, South Kentucky Avenue, Evanstonville, Evansville, Illinois, Elville, Illinois.

Well, no, no, no.

Evansville, Indiana, 4771 for a contract period upon city council approval for a period of five years.

Total contract about 756,840.

Is there a motion to send line on 6.7 to formal session with recommendation for approval to be put onto new business?

Uh motion to send to formal regular business.

Regular business.

With discussion.

With discussion.

Chair recognizes member Benson.

Just looking at this one.

This may be procurement question.

We couldn't find anybody in the state to provide.

Through the chair.

Um, yeah, so this is that contract.

Uh, we were just talking about these are the mini sweepers.

Um, and they I know they're specialized, but I'll defer to to OCP for a specific question.

Mr.

Washington.

Good afternoon through the chair.

Oh, it's good to see you, sir.

Uh, do we have anybody from OCP that can answer Benson's questions that's available?

Yes, through the chair, we do have Hillary Edwards online.

All right, Ms.

Edwards, as soon as you are promoted, you will be recognized or acknowledged.

Uh oh.

No, Hilary Edwards, uh, Office of Contracting and Procurement.

And through the chair, uh, this three-wheel sweeper relative to BEC Enterprises is a very specialized uh piece of equipment, and they were the only option we had in terms of the rotating three-wheel action to get through bike delineators as well as uh you know bus terminals and so forth.

So there was no option relative to procuring that in the state of Michigan.

Okay, it's very helpful.

Glad to know that the three-wheel motion is uh tough to pick up correct in Michigan Pop Culture reference.

Yeah, it is.

I caught it.

I got it.

Any other questions?

Comments or concerns?

All right, next time we're talking about three wheel three-wheel street sweepers.

I hope it's talking about a Thomas ones.

Thank you.

Appreciate you guys.

All right, um, motion has been made to send line item 6.7 to formal session with recommendation for approval be put onto regular business.

Are there any objections?

Hearing none, line of 6.7 will be moved to formal session with regular will be moved to formal session with a regulation be put onto regular business.

Recommendation for approval he put onto regular business.

There we go.

Amendment number one, 100% city funding.

Provide time.

Only extension to provide fire, boat, maintenance and repair services.

Contract to RR Fire Truck Repair Inc.

Location 751 Dolheny, Northville, Michigan.

4816.

Previous contract period, July 1st, 20 2023 through July 30th, 2026.

A mini contract period, July 1st, 2023 through June 30th, 2027.

Total contract increase amount zero dollars and zero cents.

Total contract about 150,000 and one dollar and zero cents.

Is there a motion to send line on 6.8 to formal session with recognition for approval?

We put on to new business.

Motion.

Do I have a motion to send line on 6.9 to formal session with recommendation for approval be put onto new business?

Um motion discussion.

Motion with discussion.

Chair recognized member Benson.

Somebody from the Office of Sustainability available.

If it's somebody else, forgive me.

Go ahead, Miss Washington.

Yes, through the chair, we do have Director Rushton online.

Okay, excellent.

I was wondering.

Can we bring this back to the end of the agenda?

I'm not sure if Miss Rushington's having technical issues.

Is there a motion?

Oh, I see she's here.

Oh withdrawal motion.

Oh, another little head flight.

A little flea flicker action there.

Good afternoon, Councilmember.

Apologies for not being on camera.

I just had dental surgery.

Okay, I was wondering.

Okay, excellent.

Um, thank you.

Uh Mr.

Rushton, just looking at this contract, uh, fiduciary services, 211,000 um supporting urban act.

Can you just speak to what's going on here?

Why do you need the fiduciary services?

Why couldn't you all do this in-house yourselves?

And then what we are in the City of Detroit going to be getting from this fiduciary service and out of your uh office.

Uh, sure.

The primary purpose of this uh contract was to support the mayor's um senior food access program.

We are currently piloting a program in seven different uh senior buildings, hoping to expand that in the next fiscal year.

Um, but we are looking to purchase um local product from urban farmers and also pay urban farmers to operate farm stands um in the senior buildings.

Um, and so there's a high volume of um small amounts of contracts that we uh we were advised to uh seek us a fiscal sponsorship for.

You say why um just the um yes uh smaller volume smaller contracts, so under at the time the threshold would I think was five thousand dollars.

So we may be purchasing a couple hundred dollars worth of produce each week for um these firms, as well as um their payments would be so low that it would be hard to get them through procurement.

Got it.

Okay, thank you.

Yes, and thank you for joining us after dental surgery.

You're more than welcome anytime.

All right, motion has been made.

Are there any objections?

Hearing none, lion 6.9 will be set to formal session with recommendation for approval to be put on to new business.

Lion 6.10, 100% grant funding to provide bomb disposal unit remount and repair services.

Contract of the Queen Equipment LLC location 78 North Point Drive, Lake Orion, Michigan, 48359 contract period upon city council approval through December 30th, 2027.

Total contract amount 349,988 dollars.

Is there a motion to discuss line on 6.10?

Motion.

Motion made or any objections here and we will discuss line of 6.10.

Uh, yes, to uh Mr.

Weatherup or whoever is in the administration, I like to ask why are we dealing with this?

This seems like something that'd be in public health and safety, would it not?

Through the chair, uh I see where you're coming from.

This is uh this unit is on wheels.

It's um so it's technically part of the fleet, and so it flows through the GSD fleet management team.

Okay.

Um, and so that that's why it's here today.

Okay, got I just saw a bomb disposal unit and remount, and I was just thinking, wouldn't that just go through naturally?

I mean, I'm not saying we can't do it or we shouldn't.

I'm just saying, you know, I just thought it was kind of this it's definitely not a request that we usually get in this committee, is all I'm gonna say.

It's pretty pretty extraordinary to me.

Uh understood.

Thank you.

Um any other questions, comments or concerns?

All right.

Uh do I have a motion to send line on 6.10 to formal session with recognition for approval be put on to new business?

Motion.

Motion made are any objections hearing none.

Line on 6.10 be moved to formal session with recognition for approval, be put on to new business.

Now we move on to miscellaneous line on 6.11.

Councilmember Denzel and Tom McCampbell submitting memorandum relative to tree city tree service requests, follow-up.

Um council member Denzel McCampbell has requested that we bring this back in two weeks.

Do I have a motion to bring back line items 6.11 in two weeks?

Motion.

Motion made are any objections.

Hearing none, we will bring back line of 6.11 in two weeks.

We will now move on to member reports.

Chair recognizes Vice Chairman Benson.

Mr.

Chair, did we oh no way?

We got to do that one.

What was it?

Six point six point eight.

I think it was six point eight, yeah.

Because it was about the fire boat.

Yes.

Oh no, or do or did we do this?

Did we did we do that?

I know it was six point nine, but then we we we we moved it to me, but did we pass it, right?

So right, she did come online.

She did come online.

And we did six point eight, right?

Yes.

Okay, so we can move on to okay.

You know, that's what I thought too.

I appreciate it.

Mr.

Benson, right?

No report.

Uh negative report from me.

And without objection, neighborhood community service standing committee will now stand adjourned.