Councilmember Scott Benson.

Scott Benson and I.

Councilmember Letitia Johnson present.

Councilmember Denzel and Tom McCampbell.

Councilmember Renata Miller.

Member Miller indicated she would not be present today, so her absence is excused.

Clerk was on Mr.

President.

Councilmember Gabriela Santiago Romero.

Present.

Councilmember Mary Waters.

Present.

Councilmember Angela Whitfield Callaway.

Council President Pro Tim Colmine a second.

Council President James Tate.

Here.

Mr.

President, you have a quorum.

Thank you, ma'am.

We have a quorum, which means we're now in session.

Before we go forward, we will now begin the collection of public comment cards.

If you would like to provide comment to this body, please raise your hand now if you're in person and online.

If you have not received a card, keep that hand up if you're in person, and someone from the team will come by and provide you with one of those cards.

So we will be closing public comment very shortly.

And before we begin the beginning the meeting, we have always start with an invocation and providing this morning's invocation.

We have none other than Pastor Quantes Presley, your third New Hope Baptist Church, located at 12850 Plymouth Road in District 7.

Many of you young folks around here don't know that this gentleman here actually served in this building about 20 years ago.

He did a great job then.

His heart was for the community at that time, and his heart is absolutely with the community now.

So uh Pastor Q, you can please come forward.

The floor is yours.

Thank you for uh joining us this morning, providing this morning's invocation, sir.

Uh thank you for having me again to Council President Tate and Council Pro Tim Young and his absence and to all of the council members into the city of Detroit.

Let us join our hearts together for a word of invocation.

God, we have come on this terrific Tuesday with hearts full of humility and gratitude.

Thanking you for the experience of another day.

In this day, we commit ourselves to a spirit of purpose and productivity.

And we ask that you would activate our gifts of reason, discernment, and decision making as we endeavor to enhance and advance the quality of life of those we are privileged to serve.

God, we ask that you would please attune our attitudes to be sensitive to how what we do today impacts the lives of the least, the last and the left out.

May all that we do and say be pleasing to your sight and in alignment with your will.

Endow us now with your wisdom, your guidance, and your direction, as we thank you for the opportunity that you have provided us to make great things happen in our world, our community, and in our society.

It is in your all-sufficient names we pray and give thanks.

Amen.

Amen.

And thank you, uh, Pastor Presley.

If you would like to stay with us, we would love to have you, but totally understand uh if your schedule does not allow.

Thank you again for providing us with that powerful prayer this morning.

Uh right.

The journal of the session of Tuesday, March 17th, 2026, shall be approved.

Uh, and before we move forward, we do have uh two presentations that are taking place this morning.

I would like to begin first with member Santiago Romero.

Uh she will present a Spirit of Detroit award in acknowledgement of trans day of visibility.

Member Santiago Romero, the floor is yours, ma'am.

Thank you, Mr.

Presidents.

Good morning, everyone.

As has been mentioned, uh today, March 31st is Transgender Day of Visibility.

In 2026, this day is especially important.

The year 2025 was the sixth consecutive record-breaking year in the number of anti-trans bills considered across the country.

There was a 45% increase in bills between 24 and 25 alone.

Between 2021 and 2025, the number in bill, the number of bills in consideration has increased by 668 percent.

Further, Lincoln Institutes of Genocide Prevention and Human Security released its third red flag alert for our country, the USA, earlier this month, in response to Trump's administration's anti-trans initiatives.

I share this to ring the alarm that our residents, trans and gender non-conforming Detroiters who live in our city, play, pay taxes, and patronize our local businesses, are afraid and under attack.

As leaders, we have the responsibility to both call out the hate and protect our residents, especially the most marginalized and vulnerable among us.

It requires us to acknowledge the fact that trans people have always been here and will always be here.

They are entitled to the same rights as cisgender folks.

Grounded in this reality, I am excited to honor a Detroiter who is leading by example and works every day to build communities of care for our trans neighbors where they can live safely and thrive with dignity.

You mattered, and you are loved.

With that, let's learn more about her work.

As the LGBTQ community liaison for the Wayne County prosecutor's office.

She has helped secure more than 78 capital convictions with 100% conviction rates.

She started a name change program.

She started a name change program that has helped transgender individuals out of Oakland County, Wayne County, Macomb, and Washington County, where she has successfully done over 800 name changes at no cost to our community.

Something that was possible due to her extreme networking and hard work to secure pro bono legal services from partners such as Ford and GM.

She's also the first trans woman of color in the country to testify as an expert witness on social determinants of health and transgender violence.

Further, Helisa has helped train Detroit police departments and Wayne County Sheriff's Offices on LGBTQ cultural competency.

All said, Julissa travels and trains also other prosecutors' offices across the country on having a trans inclusion policy like we do in Wayne County.

She has helped Nashville, Tennessee, St.

Paul, Minnesota, and Dacole County in Georgia all enact inclusive trans policies within their court systems.

For this and so much more, it is my privilege and honor that this year on Trans Day of Visibility.

We honor her with the spirit of Detroit Awards.

Congratulations and thank you so much.

For her to share a few words with us if possible.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good morning.

As a Latina trans woman of color, I'm truly honored to be here on Transgender Day of Visibility.

I want to thank the Detroit City Council and Councilmember Miss Santiago Romero for honoring me and seeing my hard work and my dedication to the city.

I want to thank my community for believing in me, allowing me to do this amazing work and change the culture here in Michigan for so many Michiganders.

This work never stops.

And though we are in a difficult place in our climate, it is important to acknowledge the process, the progress, excuse me, and the change that we have made in Michigan.

We are accomplishing great strides for the transgender community, and that will not stop.

I am so grateful for the elected officials that are allies and for the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office for believing in me and allowing me to do this monumental work and my affirming family.

I'm so humbled, grateful, and full of joy to see that people that have worked with me throughout the years have come to support today.

It lets me know that my community is visible and is seen.

I'll continue to diligently work hard and continue to make effective change for my community.

And I truly can't say thank you enough.

And to my community, please keep fighting because there's always light at the end of the tunnel.

So thank you.

Good evening, Mr.

President.

Thank you again for coming down today.

I am, as a fellow queer Latina, um, the first queer Latin elected to City Council, who is often um the target of bigoted comments.

Um I'm just so grateful for your work.

It's inspiring to me, and it just reminds me what I believe that we are all children of God, that we all care deeply about each other, and that if we just allow each other uh to care for each other, we can really show up.

So thank you.

Thank you for showing up.

Thank you, Mr.

Presidents.

I know we have one more presentation, uh, so I believe we'll take a picture afterwards, but thank you.

Thank you.

All right, before we go forward, I would like to turn the floor over to Member McCampbell.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Um, good morning, everyone.

Thank you to my colleague, um, Member Santiago Gramero for um honor and transibility.

Thank you, uh Ms.

Talusa, for all of your work on behalf of the community.

I just want to uh echo that trans folks are here in Detroit, deserve to have safety, deserve to have dignity.

Um, it's been trans folks, especially trans women of color, who have embraced me and and um ensured that I was safe and uh made sure that I have so um extremely grateful and extremely grateful for your work.

So thank you.

I just want to express my gratitude.

Thank you.

I want to thank you as well for uh bringing forward this very important issue as someone who uh has taken took a while to understand uh the uh transition for those who uh undergo this process.

Um, I appreciate you and I appreciate you because I have uh a transgender nephew uh now.

And again, it took a while, you know, when you uh putting little barrettes and beads and all those things on a little girl's hair, and you're trying to force this on.

And uh he showed us who he was.

Um, and without any fight whatsoever, we have loved him.

He has done everything that we have wanted him to do, uh, not on uh drugs, not harming anybody, living life the way we want him to live at university, doing great.

Uh so I'm here to support him, here to support all of our uh residents of the city of Detroit, fill in the blank where you live where you fall in.

We are here to support you.

So uh thank you again for bringing this forward.

And this is on behalf of say that on behalf of my nephew, uh, who has had a very difficult time, um, just trying to be himself.

Um, but it has been um a uh a journey for us all, and I'm thankful to be where we are today at a point where we accept him for who he is and providing him with the support that he needs to uh thrive and grow in this world.

So thank you again.

Thank you again.

Uh, member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I just want to say uh to Jalisa, thank you for showing up as your authentic self.

I think it's so difficult for so many people just in general to do that.

So thank you for being who you are.

Thank you for representing your community, and thank you for showing up.

It's it's extremely important.

I wish we all would do it.

I wish we all had the courage and the confidence to do it, but certainly do appreciate you for who you are.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

So, what we'll do is we will uh go through our next presentation, and then we will have photos.

All right.

And next up, we have member Benson, who is here to present a very special award, honoring someone very near and dear and close to us who served with the city of Detroit for a number of years and did so with excellence.

Uh, I do not want to uh spoil the surprise for those who don't know, but here she is walking up.

Member Vincent.

Uh thank you.

Uh, and good morning, everybody.

Morning.

It is a special honor and privilege to present a testimonial resolution to Denise Ferrazzo as a distinguished health care executive.

Now, as many of you know, uh Denise Ferrazo has been our director of health in our health department since before 2019, since before COVID.

And so coming to the city of Detroit, taking on this big role, filling in big shoes.

She's immediately hit with the greatest pandemic, probably the greatest health care challenge that the United States, the world has seen in generations, if not within a millennia.

So, and she took it head on and got us through, and we're all here.

And funny thing is, we still have the remnants from that health care, the pandemic that hit the entire world and put the city of Detroit on its knees, and the people don't remember.

We had a lot of our residents who didn't make it out of that.

And so that was a really trying time and a tough time.

And director uh Ferrazo helped get us through that.

And so, number one, I want to thank her for her strength and her ability to help the city of Detroit get through that at the time.

That was a huge deal, and it's still a huge deal.

And many of us owe our lives to the fact that we were able to attack that and and make make our way through it.

So just want to give a round of applause for that.

Help us get through that.

So, but let me read our testimonial resolution.

And Denise Fair Brazo is a distinguished health care executive.

And also, we also have her husband here.

If Rico wouldn't mind coming back, come on, though.

This is a this is a family deal.

Okay.

And as my wife tells me, as I tell my wife behind every strong woman is a man rolling his eyes.

So everyone that's rolling his eyes as man.

Um Denise Fair Ross, distinguished healthcare executive served in the city of Detroit's chief public health officer.

In this role, she leads a team of 250 public health professionals and works diligently to protect the health safety and well-being of Detroit residents.

The longest serving public health officer in the history of Detroit and in the history of our health department.

That deserves another round of applause.

Denise Share Ross was appointed by Mayor Mike Doug in September 2019 to lead the city's public health efforts.

Armed with an MBA, MPH, and FACHE, not even sure that is, she responded swiftly and decisively to the COVID-19 pandemic by spearheading a comprehensive public health response.

Her leadership helped save countless lives through outreach initiatives, rapid testing, public education campaigns, media engagement, and vaccination clinics.

She also oversees critical functions such as communical disease interventions and environmental health and safety inspections under her leadership.

The health department administers 40 services and programs, including the food rating ordinance.

That is very special in my heart.

At one time, we were openly restaurants in the city of Detroit serving poisonous food to our residents without any type of accountability, and then advocating that they could not comply with the basic requirements by law that any restaurant has to do.

And Denise Ferrazzo helped me with our food rating ordinance, the dining with confidence program to ensure that every family in the city of Detroit can dine with confidence that we're feeding their families safe and healthy food.

Denise Ferrazzo has worked tirelessly to expand her expertise in order to better serve others.

She earned a Bachelor's of Arts from University of Michigan, a Masters of Public Health from University of California, Berkeley, and a Masters of Business Administration from the Mike Illish School of Business at Wayne State University.

She's also a board certified health care management by the American College of Health Care Executives.

Tons of accolades, and here are some more.

Denise Ferrarazzo is deeply committed to advancing public health for all citizens.

She serves on numerous boards and has received multiple honors and recognition of her outstanding leadership and service.

Appointed by Governor Whitmer, she serves on Michigan's Public Health Advisory Council.

She's also an active board member of the Public Health Foundation, the Detroit Zoological Authority, the Parade Company, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and Green Hills School in 2020.

She was recognized by Crane's Detroit Business as one of the prestigious 40 under 40, named a woman of impact by the Joyce Ivey Foundation and honored as a woman of excellence by the Michigan Chronicle.

He is also and there's more.

He has also received the Michigan Avenue Award of Public Service from the Southwest Detroit Business Association and was recognized as a health champion by the city of the city by the Black Family Development and I'm going to forego this last paragraph.

But that the Office of Councilman Scott Vince and Detroit City Council hereby recognize Denise Ferrarazzo for her exceptional service to the people of Detroit and for leading with grace, expertise, and compassion while making health, safety, and quality of life top priorities.

May God continue to bless your endeavors here on out.

Then one last fun fact about Denise Ferrazzo, which many people don't know.

I'm not sure if anybody knows this.

I didn't know this until today.

She's also a former Zumba instructor who is getting up early to teach people Zumba three days a week on top of leading 250 people on top of keeping us safe in the city of Detroit.

Denise Ferrazzo, thank you.

Thank you.

I have to correct that last statement.

I was a Zumba instructor before I became the health officer.

There was another way I can talk to those.

Uh, but I this is this is so wonderful.

Um thank you so much for this incredible honor.

I am just so happy to be here.

It's really been a pleasure.

Yep.

This is my husband, everybody.

Um it's truly been um an honor working with you.

You had spearheaded so many initiatives, and the health department has been um just so pleased to support you.

I also want to thank the entire uh Detroit City Council for your partnership and service to our city.

Thank you for recognizing the health department and giving us the support that we needed.

I'm especially thankful to former mayor Mike Duggan for giving me the opportunity to lead the City of Detroit Health Department.

Um, when I started in September of 2019, I remember the staff telling me that I was the 12th health officer in 15 years.

And they looked at me up and down and said, Well, how long are you gonna stay?

And my response was as long as you will have me.

And it's been almost seven years in the health.

Little did I know that less than six months later, the city of Detroit would be hit with a pandemic, and the city would rely on the health department to help lead us.

So it certainly has been an incredible journey.

I want to thank the staff of the Detroit Health Department for their leadership for their steadfast support for my family, my parents, my sisters who are watching online, who instilled in me strong Christian values, a strong work ethic.

They taught me to put God first.

And if you put God first, everything else will line up.

And it certainly has finally I want to thank my husband, Rico Ratho, for his support, but also for being my calm in our many storms that we faced in the city of Detroit.

We're getting ready to celebrate five years of marriage.

So it's been five years and finally to the people of Detroit.

Thank you for allowing me to serve for trusting me to serve.

It really has been an honor.

I am very hopeful for the city of Detroit, and I'll be cheering from afar.

Thank you so much.

Let's take posts.

Oh, thank you.

Congratulations.

I am willing, right?

Congratulations.

Totally deserved so bright.

Thank you for watching.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Rico.

Rose in the middle.

Just go.

This was thank you.

Congratulations.

Totally already.

So happy for you.

I'll be like, oh, you can you can't go anywhere.

Okay.

Rico.

Oh, they're gonna be which one.

It's right.

All right.

All right.

Thank you so much.

There being no reconsiderations or unfinished business.

We will proceed with the budget, finance, and audit standing committee.

11 reports from various city departments.

11 reports will be referred to the budget, finance, and audit standing committee for the internal operations standing committee.

Seven reports for various city departments.

The seven reports will be referred to the internal operations standing committee for the neighborhood and community services standing committee.

One report from the mayor's office.

The one report will be referred to the neighborhood and community services standing committee for the planning and economic development standing committee.

Mr.

Middle of two memorandums.

The two memorandums will be referred to the planning and economic development standing committee for the public health and safety standing committee.

Seven reports from various city departments.

The seven reports will be referred to the public health and safety standing committee.

We will now move to the voting action items.

Voting action matters, madam clerk.

There are no items, Mr.

President.

Under other matters.

There are no items, Mr.

President.

On the communication from the mayor and other governmental agencies and officials.

There are no items, Mr.

President.

Thank you so much.

We will now move to public comment.

And we do have uh 13 cards in person and a number that are online.

So we will give everyone two minutes for general public comment this morning.

Just asking for those uh when your time is up, keep your eye on the clock.

I mean, time is up, please relinquish the microphone to allow the person coming next to you their opportunity to speak before this body.

We're gonna start first with Eileen, followed by Alvin Horn.

I used to you being in public comment, sir.

Uh, but then uh followed by Brother Cunningham.

So Eileen Williams, Alvin Horn, and Brother Cunningham.

Miss Williams.

You may come before the mic.

Come on down.

Be careful, be careful.

Take your time, take your time.

Um I'm here today because I I've got two problems.

One is the fraud against my home.

They they someone took out a deed on my property.

So I had I came down to the Moreau building, and the and the gentleman explained to me that uh they you know, when you put the side the anyway.

When they stamped it, they seen that that was wrong, whoever did it.

So they had to investigate.

It's been about two years, and they still haven't done anything.

I went past there because so many friends of mine have been telling me that they you know they'd have fixed the house up and they'd have moved in.

Well, I had fixed it up some, you know, but I didn't know nobody had moved into my home.

And when I went by there, they have.

So I'm gonna know what what else can I do?

Because that's what they told me to do was come down to the Monroe building and talk to them about the fraud, and I did that.

And the gentleman, he was very nice about it.

And I've called and he said that the investigation is still going on, but I I don't get no, you know, no mailing, no email, no nothing about what's going on with my property, but I'm seeing people living in my home.

Yes, ma'am.

So I it it sounds like you and we can't give you back and forth.

Just want to give you a little guidance here.

Uh, we're gonna have someone uh work to assist you.

What where's your where's your address of that?

The address, I stayed don't give me the address, I'm sorry, give me the intersection of where the home is located.

Yes, uh okay.

Well, I'm on rolls.

I mean, it's on Rosemary, you know, right there off of Dickerson.

Okay, all right.

I think someone from member Johnson's office will um provide you with assistance offline.

That's council member Johnson right there.

Okay, all right.

Okay, I thank you so much.

I'm so I don't know how to feel thank you.

Yes, ma'am, we're gonna do what we can to assist.

Next speaker, Alvin Horn, followed by Brother Cunningham, followed by Miss Betty Lyons.

Good morning, Mr.

President, members of the city council.

Over the last several years, the assessor's office has reviewed some 6100 properties, interior inspections.

Of those 6100, less than 250 of them were bought by something other than a quick plan deed.

Quick plan deeds and land contracts are perfectly legal ways to buy property, but they have their own dangers, particularly in the city where the average age of a single family home is over a hundred years old.

Uh member Johnson has spoken about the need to bring pre-sale inspections back to the city.

I'm here to support that idea.

People do not know what they don't know.

As I said, land contracts and quick claim deeds are perfectly legal ways of buying property, but they have no guarantees.

You are literally buying a house as is.

Some of what we've seen over the years, hollowed out furnaces, painted over rotten windowsills, warped floorboards, uh cracks in the foundation have been hidden.

People don't know what they don't know.

And most of us don't have the expertise to actually examine the house.

And I don't have the wisdom at all.

I don't know how we find the money to do it.

But I do know it is a necessity, particularly in the city, as I said, where the average age of a single family home is over 100 years old.

As part of city council's ordinance, the assessor's office looks at 20% of the properties of the city every year.

We've looked at over a third of the housing, housing stock in the city over the last several years.

We have reduced 90% of it from good and average to fair and poor.

By the time we're done this year, as part of the mayor's executive order, more than 90% of the housing stock in this city will be in either fair or poor condition.

That's just the reality of 100 euro homes.

Thank you, sir.

Next speaker, Brother Cunningham, followed by Betty Lyons, followed by Effie.

You can find my Cash Up, Patreon, different articles, reach out for prayer, reach out to be supportive.

I had a decent donation last week.

And gas prices are atrocious.

Food is atrocious.

I'm still in like the poverty level.

Um have some invisible disabilities, but uh God's good, I'm not gonna complain.

Uh so with a portion of the donation, I give out hand warmers, bus tickets, um, mostly bus tickets and ice water in the summertime, half off rides in the taxi cab, free rides.

If they look like they're like a senior older, if I can afford to do it, I do it often.

Here's a 31-day pass.

Um, I don't know if anyone on the sound of my voice inside the building knows someone that can use a 31-day pass for Detroit Department of Transportation D DOT coaches and smart bus.

They work on both.

Someone may know someone before I leave.

I'm leaving right after my public comment.

I'll hand that to you, no problem.

I got some four-hour passes.

Um, it takes a lot to get out if you don't have a lot of money.

I always say that the parking should be validated and bus tickets be given out to those who uh come down um to a city meeting.

Everybody don't have a pledge car, free gasoline, free insurance, or if you're paying for your insurance or car.

Not everybody has that um uh benefit.

Um, so you know that you are blessed to have a vehicle and pray for those who are riding uh D Dot.

They're not on time, often not clean, and they're not showing up.

Thank you for passing the budget.

Thank you.

Next speaker, Betty Lyons, followed by Effie, followed by Sheryl Kubiak.

Okay, we're talking about truth.

I'm gonna say my truth.

What you're trying to uplift is an abomination to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Yeah, laugh.

You are a reprobate mind, the ones who go along with this trends and men and men and women on women is evil and a satanic mentality.

No pity party for illegal immigrants.

Oh, by the way, the health department needs to have a seminar on how the STDs has exploded from this behavior.

Uh no pity party for illegal immigrants, Romero, Waters, Matt Campbell, all fighting for illegal immigrants, who are the Leland tenants are treated inhumane.

Why don't you rally for that?

How they're treated.

Put the slum lords in jail.

Take their money and make whole the people at the riverfront and the Leland tenants.

And uh that attorney Mallet, he is of no use.

He is dull-minded, he's not fighting for them.

He's helping the slum lords.

And that 600 uh million dollars that's owed to the Detroit citizens.

Why don't you fight for that?

You're not fighting for that.

No, you helped Dugan steal that money.

The Detroit residents, where is our justice?

You talking about justice?

Where is it?

For us who are the citizens, the real citizens, real men, real women.

Those are the citizens.

Frown, I'm glad because you're reacting, but you're not thinking.

You're reacting.

That's all you do.

You don't think, you don't help.

The man that came down last week, the way he was treated was awful.

It was awful.

Next caller, please.

I'm not next caller, next person.

Uh Effie, followed by Cherylak, followed by John Lasslow.

Yes, uh good morning.

How are you?

Morning.

Yes.

I'm a little closer to the mic so we can hear you.

I'm very happy to be here today.

Actually, uh most of you know who I am.

You know, I've known you for years.

You know, so but uh the reason I came here today because number one, you know, uh I retired as an architect, but I said a little sleeping.

I retired as an architect about 12 years ago.

And then when I retired, I decided I would like to teach.

So I started teaching.

You know, teaching young people, you know, trying to help them, you know, and uh making sure that they prepare for their lives and they pay attention more to the education.

So I've been there at the school for 12 years now.

And uh, and I said I'll come here because uh um I also belong to the African World Expo, the African World Expo.

Uh we have been having the event for the last 32 years.

That's my fact.

This is the 32nd year of the African World Expo.

And I was I I came here to ask the council, you know, to try to work with us because I I try sometimes to get to you.

I do.

You know, I have a packages that I I left here uh for the council, but council members.

So please look at the you know the package and see how we can collaborate together.

And uh again, there are so much opportunities that this the city council and city and the council can will um work with Africa, you know, you know, to to try to, you know, for development for for uh collaboration.

So we have to come together and try to see what we can do, you know, to build the city of Detroit and also also Africa.

Again, thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The next speaker, Kubiak, followed by John Laslo, followed by Mia Anderson.

Good morning.

Thanks so much.

Uh, I hope I'm not preempting the resolution in honor of Social Work Month.

But I am Cheryl Kubiak, I'm the dean of the Wayne State University School of Social Work.

And I wanted to come up here in gratitude to the very rich history that this body has in social work.

I had the privilege of working for council when Irma Henderson and Mary Ann Mahffey were presidents, both social workers.

And I can say that the values and the ethics that I learned in this chamber uh and around the table for those three years, really are the catalyst for the work that we do now at Wayne State.

And I hope that you know that that education that I received, I want to give back and continue to partner with you as a body as well as the mayor.

So thank you very much.

Thank you.

Our next speaker, John Leslow, followed by Mia Anderson, followed by Ms.

Logan.

My name is John D.

Lasslow, and I'm here today basically because in 2006, you guys illegally double my home tax because I didn't know the law.

Now the government should know and obey its own law.

After I found out about the law, I started appealing, and after about 10 years of appealing, finally last year, the board of review all that mafia crap brought my taxable value and my assessed value to zero, confirmed by two people, uh, secretary of board of review, uh, Michelle Hickson and Cynthia Burton.

Now that was last year.

This year they want to raise the tax back to market value and stuff, disregarding the state and local laws that limit how much they can raise your tax if there's no um ownership transfer.

I went to the board of review meeting and they use the LCD screens as cowboy bandit masks.

They have no names.

You feel in front of them, like in front of KGB, and they don't care about the state law, about the local law, about the decision they made last year.

If the mafia, the tax mafia cannot go by the law, they should be disbanded, and the home taxes should be abolished.

Abraham Lincoln wanted to abolish them, but you guys killed him when he wanted to abolish the property tax.

So I'm asking your help to make the tax mafia go by the law to increase the tax according with the law limits.

If the owner there was no ownership transfer, and I want to thank you so much, and please forward one package to my councilwoman, one to the president.

They should not ignore the laws.

The laws are for everybody to follow, and the government should not play with the people taking advantage because the people don't know your laws.

You guys know the law, you should go.

Thank you so much.

God bless you.

And the speaker, Anderson, followed by Barbara Logan, followed by Cari Jordan.

Hello, I'm calling.

I'm coming in today because I did actually speak with my council person yesterday.

Um I have a 10 lot purchase agreement with the land bank since July.

I've actually had two.

Um, they will not honor it.

One of the lots is part of the dirty dirt contamination.

I've asked them to proceed with the sale of the nine other lots because they're not under investigation.

I asked Mr.

Benson to confirm facts.

He said he just want to take them at face value with the land bank saying that it's not safe to sell me the other lots.

I asked him to call Mr.

Tim Pazalazo, who is the person who is in charge of the investigation.

He said he did indeed speak with him.

And then Mr.

Pasolazo said that the contamination does not spread past the lot of investigation, but he still wants to take the land bank at their word that they have safety in mind.

So the last couple of times I spoke, I've given y'all a little bit of tidbit about how the land bank works.

So I'm gonna tell y'all, safety is not their highest priority.

When I worked there, I was in a project management and of maintenance.

People will call in and say, this tree from your lot that you have the priority to maintain is hanging over my house, dropping lens, it's clearly dead.

I don't want damage to my house.

Can you please come remove it?

Uh the policy was no, we're not gonna remove it.

We don't have the funds, even though they had multi-million dollars of funds back in those days from you guys.

Yeah, y'all were giving it to them back then.

And it would fall on their homes, and then they Gabriel at the land bank legal will claim governmental immunity.

So I can tell you safety is not the priority.

The well-being is not the priority.

They're refusing to sell me the nine lots because their own personal preference, and I'm encouraging the body, not my council person, because he's not going to do it, because he just wants to go along to get along, but to encourage them to do what is right.

However, I did vote for you, and you did walk the alley with me during your campaign trail, and you said you would get those huge boulders, the ones that are about 12 feet long out of my alley, and I do expect for you to honor your commitment to that.

Thank you.

Our next speaker, Barbary Logan, uh, followed by Kari Jordan, followed by Josh May.

Good morning, everyone.

I'm here again.

Um I've been coming for a couple of years now, whenever I can.

I think it's my reasonable service to let you guys know how I feel about your governing.

And I'm not too pleased about it because I've been coming here and I've been basically saying the same thing about overassessment of property taxes, about me losing my home as a consequence of that, without due process.

Um, I met with him, but I I spoke briefly with uh council president Tate, who was pro-town at the time, the mayor, uh the the council president.

Nobody can help me.

They send me to nonprofits thinking that the nonprofits are gonna help me.

If you don't, you who I voted to represent me, don't help me.

Why would you think nonprofits would help me?

And I think these these uh public comments should do something rather than just be a sounding board.

Answer our concerns publicly, just in case other citizens who have similar concerns would know what to do, know where to go.

You you both be representing us.

When we come here, don't want to do an investigation, don't want to do nothing.

Just listen for these two minutes, and then it's over.

That's ridiculous.

I've been coming here for two years.

I have the same concerns.

Nobody has done anything.

You haven't even discussed it far as I'm concerned.

As far as I know, you haven't come back to me and saying anything, give me any kind of direction except go somewhere else.

I think that's disappointing.

Thank you.

Next speaker, Kari Jordan, followed by Josh Mann, followed by the good morning, council members.

My name is Kari Omar Jordan, and I am honored to introduce myself as the newly elected president of the Grigsdale Farms Neighborhood Association.

I'm reaching out on behalf of a proud and deeply rooted community located between Six Mile and Seven Mile, Woodward and John are.

We often describe Griggsdale Farms as a hidden gym, but our goal is to make sure it's hidden no longer.

Our residents are actively working together to strengthen safety, build connection, and pour positive development into our neighborhood.

From grassroots organizing to community engagement, we are committed to creating a place where families want to move in, live in, and stay in.

As we join District Three, we are excited about the opportunity to collaborate with the council and with others, already doing impactful work across the district.

We know that meaningful change happens through partnership.

And so I speak directly to our esteemed leader and council representative Scott Benson.

We are ready to be a part of that work.

We would greatly appreciate your support as we continue building momentum, whether through resources, guidance, or simply staying connected to our efforts on the ground.

Thank you for your time.

And we look forward to working together to uplift not just Griggsdale Farms, and the entire district three community, and on behalf of the city of Detroit.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you as well.

Next speaker is Josh Mann, followed by Liberty, who will be our final in-person speaker for today.

Good morning, everybody.

You know what I'm gonna say?

Flock.

You guys are old enough to remember privacy.

That thing's gonna be gone soon.

And being having like grandkids, kids, nephews, just to drive from Boston Edison down to here, I had to pass 12 flock surveillance cameras that are all not just monitoring, they're cataloging everything about you, your car, the dirt on your car, how many people.

2027, they're mandating technology in cars.

In 2024, they said by 2027, all cars have to have surveillance systems.

So now between our phones, our cars, our streets, it's a complete surveillance state.

And this is nothing that anybody would want to bring future generations into.

This is gonna be weaponized and used against us.

I was next in Hazel Park the other day next to an Amazon fulfillment center.

Every 90 seconds, a drone flew over, one after another.

The dog was going crazy, and to think like this is our future, and soon the surveillance is gonna be in the sky as well.

You can't control the cars or our phones, but you can control this city.

And please research this and look into it because the decisions that are being made currently are gonna affect the future tremendously, and these need to be really considered.

And it's not about crime, it's about mass surveillance of everybody.

This isn't just for criminals.

I please, I really wish you all would think this through about the implications that it's gonna have for future generations.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So to give us a little focus.

Um the chair to everybody here if you want to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

So I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all U.S.

citizens.

I'm gonna add.

And in the name of the Father, Sons, Holy Spirit, Amen.

So I missed uh, I think it was last week the results of the property tax moratorium.

Um, but let me give you some more information to uh to look at all over Michigan and the United States.

There's a housing shortage.

Uh the U.S.

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Committee held the meeting at the end of the Biden administration, September 25th, 2024.

And I'll give uh the clerk a copy of this 21 page report, so for all council members.

But and anyone can look at it online.

The title of it, well, well, the hearing is entitled The Border Crisis, The Cost of Chaos.

But the title that you can look up uh for everyone to read the consequences of illegal immigration for housing affordability, government budgets, and American workers.

And again, the gentleman that brought this to, he was called in 30 different uh uh oversight committees um brought in as an expert.

30 different ones.

So um so basically what's happening is the value of our homes are overinflated because of anyways.

Next time takes us to our online public.

How many callers did we have?

And who did we have first?

We have 18 callers online, and the first number is ending in 039.

Okay, caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Yeah, Jared Kate, I'm right here on the phone talking to you to you directly to you, and you call Kenisha's mother, Kenesha Coleman, DPB, case number two zero dash one one two, and you said I wasn't the right representative for the family.

Well, the family didn't actually do nothing.

It was Mimi.

Um, my friend Anthony Ivy's granddaughter, Kenisha's daughter, that asked me to help her with her mama.

Now you file you, Warren Evans, Conrad Mallet, and it's Solomon Kinlock, Pastor Solomon Kenlock.

Y'all got in place to remove Mary is getting ready to run into monkey wrench roof.

I got a 45 year reputation around Detroit, in and around Detroit, they're being spanned up.

You don't got that.

When you was at Benedict in high school, I could tell you a lot about your whole childhood, your high school years.

Now, what you did in college, you went over to the police department.

Now you're here at City Council, and you're the council president.

The gig is up.

Your political career is getting ready to run into monkey branch route, me.

I don't know what Warren game is now, but I do know what I do know.

And now it's Constable Solomon Kenlock.

He don't want to talk to me, but he wants to get information on Mary, try to get her removed from office.

It ain't gonna work.

I support Mary Sheffield now, 100 and 10%.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is Betty A.

Warner.

Ms.

Betty A.

Vernon, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Uh good morning to all within the sound of my voice.

I'm Betty A.

Varner, president of the Soda Elves World Black Association.

If you are someone who are having problems paying for your prescription, there's a program at the World Medical Relief.

They have a prescription program where prescriptions cost $8.30.

And that's for a month's supply, and they will mail, or you can pick up the prescription.

They're located at 21725 Mail Rose Avenue.

That's in Southfield, Michigan.

The telephone number is 313 866.

Again, 31363.

There's an application that you have to fill out.

Or you can go to the website to fill out the application at WWW dot world medical relief dot or gw dot world medical relief dot or g you must be 18 years old.

There is an income.

It's income-based program.

If you're single, you can earn up to 44,800 per year.

Again, 44,800 per year.

If you're married, your income would be $51,200 per year.

$51,200 uh per year.

You must have proof of your income and picture ID.

And that can be licensed or state ID.

There are people who have insurance, but the deductible for the prescriptions is very expensive.

Uh this $8.30 is for any medication.

As long as they can get the medication and only will cost you eight dollars and thirty cents.

Please share that.

Thank you, uh Miss Varner.

Uh next caller.

Next caller is Jacqueline.

Jacqueline, you have two minutes.

Good morning.

Jacqueline.

I'm here.

All right.

I um wanted to comment on.

I was listening to the budget yesterday, and there's a million dollars for um a Chinatown.

And I was just wondering why are we re reinventing Chinatown when um Chinese Americans rare don't live here.

It's less than one percent.

And if the 10,000 that um go to Wayne's are that go to Wayne State, our students and professors.

Um, I hear Ms.

Varner calling all the time for the $1,500 to um just get a uh land use thing.

And I'm wondering uh why can't city council just um waive that fee for her, along with just seeing if there's something that can be passed that she can get um help for her part for the parts, and that is my comment.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is Jacques A.

Smith.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

We have two minutes.

General public counsel.

Good morning, maybe her good afternoon, good morning.

So okay, start my time.

I appreciate how you were very childish yesterday, uh, Council President Tate.

Uh, that was very unbecoming of a council president.

I also want to say to Gabriella Santiago Romero is very unbecoming of you to laugh and sneer at your colleague when he was being a professional.

Also, I was gonna say, uh, as a as a legislative body, it is very, very important that you guys use the power to be a check and balance to the executive and judicial branches of government within the city of Detroit.

I don't think that you guys are um properly utilizing that power.

There are so many things that are happening in the city, so many residents who come in with consistent concerns that are not being addressed, things that are not being um attended to, and we have so many belaboring concerns that we keep calling down here about.

I think it's very, very sad that so many people call down here and talk about housing.

We have a land bank full of properties, um, at least 750 that are sitting uh some of them could be put to productive use, and we also have commercial buildings sitting in the land bank that could be put to uh productive use.

We have a homelessness crisis in the city of Detroit.

We have terrible bus system, we have an economic crisis.

Our children are um underfunded.

Our children can't read.

We have a uh deplorable um educational system.

And I understand that it's only so many things you can do within these sex and balances, but so many things have been uh just left to left.

We just left the fan for ourselves.

Also, we need to down zone places like Kronos.

We have so many holes filled with contaminated dirt that have been the dirt has been taken out, but we have open holes that are sitting around, and we have children who are on spring break who are all around and they're gonna be close to these holes and not secure properly, which is also terrible.

I seen so many uh teenagers and young adults with nothing to do.

So they all came downtown or eventually ended up fighting stuff like that.

We have all these CVIs who make all of this money who are not coming down there and dealing with the kids who are as DPD calls and the main drivers of violence.

So I feel like we're giving out a lot of money, we're not getting a lot of results, and we need to do more for the kids and more next caller, please.

Oh, look, next caller is long-time access to the Detroit resident.

I did not hear that name, but caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Go to the next, please.

Yes, sir.

The next caller is please no more speed mobs.

Caller, the floor is yours.

Got two minutes, general public comment.

Caller, are you there?

Yes, we can hear you.

Okay, thank you.

Um, first of all, I'd like to say, since it's the last day of women's history month, I'd like to pay tribute to my absolute favorite American hero, Harriet Tubman.

Where I was admired as a child because of all the extraordinary things she did to save other people.

I was just always impressed by her and Betsy Ross also helped people that got injured in war.

So those were the those are but Harriet Tubman's my absolute favorite.

And on that note, I'd like to give the this uh Harriet Tubman Award to Mary Waters.

We don't agree on everything, but the fact that she's doing 10.2, the formal hearing on the Michigan land bank authority, and then in 11.3, she wants to do the request on blight violations and rental properties where people actually live.

That's where it's important, not vacant buildings that the land bank's trying to take that it doesn't have a right to take.

So um I uh member waters.

I uh and and it here's the other thing I don't understand about the rest of this body.

Member Waters was in the state legislature when this bell passed.

Why are you not listening to her?

And in addition to that, but I I didn't have time or I wasn't at the meeting, but ask William McConaco.

He was in the state legislature also, and when I told him that the land bank was taking people's private property when he knows how much unattended publicly on the blight there is, he gave me this look like, huh?

That doesn't sound like what we voted for.

You know, because it wasn't.

So I commend you, member waters, for continuing that and you know, shifting the priorities, which should be 11.3 and not taking people's property in the other way.

Of course, you want to make sure things are safe.

Member Campbell, thank you for the animal and wildlife hearing thing and humane solutions.

We have a groundhound groundhog migration problem from development in my neighborhood, and we need help.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is William Davis.

Mr.

William and Davis, you have two minutes, general public comment.

Uh good morning.

Can I be heard?

Sir, I like to restate.

I think the land bank uh y'all should give them four years.

Uh, you know, it's with the first year, they should start repairing the city expenses associated with their properties, be it a physical property or a lot.

Uh 25% the first year, the next year it should go up to 50%.

The third year should go up to 75%, and the fourth year and thereafter should go to 100% reimbursement of the city's expenses associated with the land bank, you know, for cutting grass and what have you.

Also, I think the city should be moving more so towards clean energy.

I worked out in Southwest Detroit for 34 years, and there was uh, you know, we have major respiratory issues there in other parts of the city.

So we should be moving to more clean energy.

And perhaps, you know, some of that should be like on buildings and structures, but you know, there's all sorts of clean energy.

And Detroit should be working towards trying to be one of the cleanest cities in this country.

Right now, it's not uh because especially in the area I worked at 48209 and 48217.

It's horrible.

Espiratory problems and people die early.

Oh, we and especially old people, young people.

You know, the city of Detroit should be trying to be more clean.

Uh we need we need to be using public service announcements and informing people that may not be familiar with the fact that they should be bagging their trash, you know.

The neighbor down the street, who's uh maybe new to this country or new to my neighborhood, they never put their trash in bags.

They have so you have paper and stuff blowing in the street, you know, things that have to clog up our catch bases and make it more likely over in aviation.

Then I said basements and streets are gonna flood.

So it's a whole lot the city can and should be doing.

Hopefully, I will start doing more.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is number ending in one, two, four.

Caller ending in one, two, four.

The floor is yours.

We have two minutes.

General public comment.

I already spoke about amen about the litter problem and the the other problems that cause it.

Next caller will be crystal right, sir.

Caller, the floor is yours.

Two minutes, general public comment.

Hello, can I be heard?

Yes.

Hi.

Um, a few months ago, before um the I know it's a lot of new people there.

Um, I did come to City Council and present um regarding the how the apartments that were from from Finkle to Six Mile, especially on the six-mile area where there was garbage and people living at homeless living in there, and it's deplorable.

Now, yeah, I know y'all, I know this is the worst part of the day for y'all, but y'all need to listen to y'all citizens.

This, if this was addressed last year, you wouldn't have news all over it and the embarrassment.

Um, because I did tell y'all that it was one owner that owned that.

Um, so I you know, y'all I know it's hard for y'all to talk with the listen to us because we're bagging our head on, but we're trying to also get assistance and help.

There's no reason it should be on the news that that neighborhood should be like that.

And y'all didn't listen.

And now this is the end result.

And again, y'all acting clinching our pearls, acting like it would y'all just know just found out about it when it was presented months ago.

Now, getting to the Chinatown thing, I expect y'all want to have Chinatown.

Okay.

I need the same respect for African town.

Now, you know, the former city council woman um presented that not when she was up for the city council, but she was also asking for African town.

It got turned down, but y'all turned up for Chinatown in the blackest city.

I want y'all to really think about that.

The blackest city does not have representation, and this is what I do.

I promote black businesses, and I plan to open up a sword that reflects our culture for black-owned business because it seems like y'all don't want to do it.

Y'all keep turning things down that that's all things right.

But I do commend y'all for the contractors that y'all said that we need to find city residents for those contractors.

I do give a commitment.

I'm not gonna say all of y'all are bad or anything like that, but some of the things y'all do was right, and I applied to Mary Waters for all the things you do in Callaway, who's in my district.

But that's six mile, yeah.

Yeah, that was something that was presented to y'all months ago that y'all should have done about.

Now it's a problem.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is JM.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

We have two minutes, general public comment.

All right, can I be heard?

Yes.

Thank you.

My name is Jared Mooney.

I'm the board president for the brush park neighborhood association.

Very briefly, the gentleman that spoke about the privacy.

Duly noted, please, city council.

You're the tip of the spear on uh defense and protecting sentence three on privacy matters.

So if it's not on your radar, that's uh that that was some worthy commentary.

I'd like to talk to you today about the budget.

Uh specifically, we have some pedestrian safety issues within Brush Park, uh, district five, obviously, and we're requesting that uh we have a race crosswalk put in place at the park and um and adjacent on Brush Street.

Uh and also at our intersections, uh, what they technically call daylighting.

It's a very inexpensive uh solution to help aid um pedestrian crossing.

We have had a uh senior citizen pedestrian fatality.

We have um a lot of a lot of issues with with this in Brush Park, which I'm going to move to.

I would like to request that we have increased uh parking enforcement.

And uh with that, I would like to request the city council look at an additional revenue of dynamic pricing.

The city council for San Diego, California recently passed this for their their city and for Pepco Park, their major league baseball stadium.

They're forecasting 6.28 million dollars in revenue uh to address uh illicit parking and all of that.

Right now in Brush Park, you can come here and the ticket is much cheaper than parking at a garage.

So we do uh respectfully request that city council look at that, and perhaps with some of this revenue uh apply it to our other physical needs or other security needs.

The last thing I'm gonna say, we are going to send all of you uh a PDF that has this request and a company data to back up this.

So please have your staff uh be on the lookout.

Once again, my name is Jared Mooney, Brush Park Neighborhood Association.

Thank you.

I do appreciate next caller, please.

Next caller is owner papa.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

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

Yes.

Um to Miss Lyons, our elder, I say the congregation says amen.

Um Ms.

Callaway mentioned yesterday about uniforms, green uniforms that had been bought for the police, and now we're going to do something differently.

And now I see specialty uniforms on the agenda again.

360,000 and 275,000.

I'd like to ask this council what is uh the the police union responsible for?

We buy their uniforms, we uh defend them, we uh indemnify them.

Uh 27.2 and 27.3 are zoning changes that you make for particular people.

Coronos should be down zone.

It is not a a inhabitable, you can't live around them.

And uh, Mr.

McDaniel, my question to you is yes, a million dollars they've she's asked for for uh streetscapes and sidewalks.

What kind of funding are you asking for for the 7th district?

Seeing that we have no recreation center and a lot of the services are being delivered through recreation center, so the disparity is great, even though you know that they have 130 million dollars of our property dollars.

You're going to beg the pistons to build us a recreation center.

You need to delegate some money for the youth for the summer, extra money just for the youth in the 7th district because we don't have a recreation center.

Buses are not clean.

You you you awarded Ms.

Fair an award today about a pandemic that you all said was the worst, Mr.

Benson.

Uh health issue, but we still have people with um HIV and uh with number one in SIDs, and um what can we say?

Next caller is Shannon Hester.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

We have two minutes, general public comment.

Yes, good morning, and thank you for the opportunity to address this honorable body.

For decades, neighborhoods near the airport have been marginalized from the city's overall progress.

The airport's failed expansion and subsequent closure of six mile, devastated the area's vitality, separated neighborhoods, shuttered a once bustling commercial corridor, and negatively impacted accessible travel.

Current efforts to develop in the airport vicinity without engaging the community, perpetuate a deceptive practice of backroom deal making and wreaks of urban renewal.

To date, there has been no comprehensive planning study for these areas, hindering full public participation and preventing the creation of a listing development strategy.

I urge you to stand up for the common good and demand full transparency in all airport expansion and redevelopment plans.

I implore you to postpone any regulatory actions, land sales, public right-of-way or zoning changes that will exempt public or private development of AVI aviation related uses until a planning study is completed by the city's planning department.

Additionally, I request that any future developments within a three-mile radius of the airport require a formal community benefit agreement.

You possess the power to in long standing in equitable practices that have disenfranchised airport area residents for generations and deprive them of the growth potential that other Detroit neighborhoods are now experiencing.

Thank you for your time and commitment to safeguarding the residents of Detroit and ensuring that all neighborhoods rise higher.

Thank you.

Next caller is to hear I'm uh caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Yes, good good morning.

I'll first I want to uh thank um uh mayor Sheffield for honoring our the coalition for property tax justice agreement, 100 days, first 100 days agreement.

And the reason is the reason why Alvin Horn has had his little public comment, which is very rare, it's kind of strange.

But um we're still there.

I don't know.

No, I don't know what yeah.

Can you hear me?

Yes, yes, ma'am.

Okay, can I have my time back?

I don't know what happened.

I didn't do anything.

We can hear you, but so you know.

So let's let's oh hold on.

Let's pause.

Let's go back to uh 120.

Let's go back to 120.

12.

Okay.

Yes, ma'am.

I hope you heard everything though.

I said okay.

I want to thank Mary.

Uh uh Mayor Sheffield.

Um, when assessing the property values, the office of the assessor only physically inspects 20% of the houses and and make a determination of how much those houses are worth.

And uh that's the problem here.

That's why we got illegally over assessed $600 million and 100,000 homes were illegally foreclosed.

Uh, the assessor is not qualified.

Uh Alvin Horn should not serve as Detroit Chief Assessor because he has not passed the required Michigan uh master assessing officer examination under state uh law.

So he's he's not uh uh the assessor under Michigan state law not being honored.

Is that individuals who uh an M O A O uh certification should act as the assessor of the um the record?

So he doesn't know this information because he's not qualified.

That's why he's getting on here with public comment.

So we want to thank um uh the mayor Sheffield and the specific formulas we want uh being uh adhered to to assess properties properly so that we don't have this mistake again and pay us back our 600 million dollars and return those hundred thousand next caller, please.

Next caller is Veronica Smith.

Veronica Smith, the floor is George.

You have two minutes general public comment.

Good morning.

Haven't said reset yet.

Good morning, Zaronica Smith from Coalition of Property Tax Justice, and I too want to thank the mayor for what she's done in terms of our hundred days campaign.

But I'd like to reiterate the five pillars that we had on that campaign.

Place an MMA old qualified individual as Detroit's Chiefs assessing officer.

Two, enforce the property tax reform ordinance passed in 2023.

Three, stop overassessing lower valued homes, mandate the assessment division not to use only warranty D'Or.

Protect owner-occupied exemptions, remove the LLCs from the PRE rolls, five return the money to over tax homeowners.

Now we know and recognize that may require some state legislation.

On another note, hands off of Bell Lyle, hands off Bell Isle.

If the Detroit retirees are required to pay back their error in their pensions, those judges should also be required to repay the error in their pensions.

And lastly, several city departments are getting together sometime today or this week to clear off debris and garbage from uh abandoned apartment complex on Greenfield.

My question is where was the city inspector?

This did not just happen.

It's been going on for years.

What is the duty of the city inspectors?

Thank you.

Let's call a thing.

Next caller is Christanna Gina Brown Anderson.

Good morning, may I be heard?

Yes.

Greetings.

My name is Cranston Anderson.

I am a lifelong Detroit resident, community advocate, and taxpayer.

As City Council reviews the proposed budget over the next seven days, transparency, fiscal accountability, and effective oversight must be priorities.

Departmental funding should be carefully scrutinized to ensure compliance with legal requirements for a balanced budget budget and alignment with residents' needs.

While public input is essential, comments from Detroit District 3 residents are too often ignored, allowing corporate level wages and salaries to be paid with taxpayer dollars does a disservice to our community.

Detroit is not a corporation with unlimited resources.

Too often decisions appear to be driven by money and power rather than the basic needs of higher working Detroiters who live, work and invest in their neighborhoods.

It appears that there were many promises made during the 2025 election.

But we but be cautioned.

There will be much resistance to come and remain of those promises need to be paid with our tax dollars.

In addition, negotiating with companies polluting our air and contaminating our soil and water is on becoming of an elected official and rezoning down zoning, cross-zoning, up zoning of our neighborhoods to satisfy political promises, failure to properly represent Detroit.

Please, I like to draw your attention to the many people that come before you that were formerly employed by the Detroit Land Bank, and they talk to you about the number of properties that they own, the number of lots that they own.

This at that time we thought was not allowed to happen.

Employees of the Detroit land bank hogging up all the land.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is Darren McCleskey.

Good morning, Council.

Okay, thank you for the full two minutes.

Um I agree with the prior caller that a basic 30-second response would be warranted.

I don't know what rules need to change for that, but it'd be very helpful from you guys.

Um I'll be reaching out to the lady who spoke on behalf of Brickstad Farms to see if they truly do support what's happening with the solar tickings.

Um I'm remote today.

I'm calling in from Florida.

Or guess what?

There's lots of solar panels, but there's something else.

There's lots of sun.

So just as an update for you guys, solar is continuing forward.

The city on 313 Day was a day of celebration in the city.

They filed two huge use restriction eminent domain cases that involve over a hundred properties each.

Um taking people's rights, they're taking rights for properties that the band that the city placed on those properties years ago in some cases.

So um I've also filed an RIG complaint against the just compensation values for the hundreds of lots taken for a uh substandard price given uh giving fraudulent statements by then uh CFOJ rising and backed by former mayor Duggan.

The OIG says they can't do anything because those people aren't there anymore.

So I guess something that happens that's wrong can't be corrected once they leave.

Um, by the way, if you guys want land, one two zero nine zero nerd and work.

You guys didn't even know you owned it.

The Catholic church has been maintaining it, they sold it to you guys in the 70s or 80s.

Five acres right there you could use for solar.

Didn't even know that you guys owned it.

You guys don't have your records right, you don't have the basics taken care of.

You're taking people's property when you don't have the basics under control.

Please fix that Detroit solar scandal.

Next caller is sound.

Are you there?

Let's put that caller at the end of the queue and go to the next, please.

Okay, going back to long time access.

General public comment.

Caller, are you there going once?

All are you there going twice?

Are you there going three times?

Unfortunately, we have to move on.

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

Next caller, please.

Okay, please no more.

Caller the floor is yours.

Two minutes general public comment.

I believe that may be someone we've heard already.

Hello.

I already spoke.

Thank you.

Please take care of the dirty.

This disconnect that line, please.

Thank you.

Next caller.

Last caller going back to Sam's podcast.

All right, caller the floor is yours.

We have two minutes.

General public comment.

Good morning, Matt.

Be heard.

Hello?

Yes, ma'am.

I uh this morning I woke up and um I noticed there's some trash strode on side street and further down the street from me.

And I usually have my cameras hooked up where I can see everything, but I didn't have it on at the time.

So people is coming in here.

And there's two license places in there because I've I've dug through trash before where they left keys and addresses and things.

So those two license places in there should be checked by whoever it was through this garbage over here.

And what we need to do, uh I'm tired of seeing all these signs posted time.

We'll buy your house, we'll buy your house.

Do the suburbs have all that uh places littered with signs.

I'm sure the city can have something open up.

There's another lady that has advertising that they don't need these signs posted all over the city of Detroit.

I wish you always speak on that.

I know some people got supposed to get fined some years ago for putting signs up everywhere, you know, like it's their property, or there they they don't even live in Detroit.

So I would like for you all to look into having those signs removed and let them pay the city some money.

Let the city make some money for the advertisement and then our city.

And then the tree still hasn't come down.

President Tate, that's on Des9 County.

I uh I just hope that the wind don't blow too much more hundred because the sidewalk is lifted up.

Like I said, former uh mayor.

Um that was up on the mayor Duggan.

He uh came out here.

Please get the tree before it falls on another house.

We haven't failed, but I needed that.

Are there any comments you would like to provide based on what you've heard?

Member McCampbell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh appreciate the folks who are calling for public comment.

Also, um, I know a lot of the comments are around enforcement and items that are carried out or uh with various departments.

So want to make sure folks um if you have if especially if you're in district seven for folks if you need to be connected to those departments, or um, I know there's also their improved Detroit app as well.

If folks are using technology, um, you can reach out to my office at 313-224-215-1 to make sure that the appropriate department knows about that, and then we can follow up for that to make sure that those actions are actually taken.

So I just wanted to make that note for folks who are calling in.

Thank you.

Any additional colleagues?

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair, to the young lady who called in about the Komena Young International Airport.

I did receive your email and just want to let you know we'll follow up with the email with the information that you requested.

And also just wanted to say thank you to uh Chief Assessor Alvin Horn for coming out uh expressing support of the um pre-sale inspection requirement.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Any further comments?

Seeing none, we should now go into the agenda.

There was a request, colleagues.

If there are no objections to take up line item 20.9 first, that is a resolution, uh, sponsored by member Santiago Romero.

Hello, Adam Clerk.

Santiago Santiago Romero uh resolution, noting that line item 20.9 was postponed from last week's formal session.

Thank you, Mr.

President's uh discussion for 20.9.

Uh, as has been mentioned.

This is a resolution to recognize March as the national social work month.

Uh, thank you to our dean at the Wayne State School of Social Work for coming in to support this.

Our members of at the National Association of Social Workers and Staff at the School of Social Work at U of M and all of our social workers here are here this morning to recognize March as National Social Work Month.

There are many of us on city council who have social workers in our office.

Myself, Member McCampbell, Member Johnson, President Teats as well, and I myself am a proud social worker, and happy to read this on the record.

Whereas this year's social works month theme is social workers uplift, defend, and transform.

This embodies the fact that social workers positively impact the lives of millions of Americans daily in our hospitals, schools, child welfare agencies, community centers, and in our federal, state, and local governments.

The theme shines a light on the spirit of social workers who transform the lives while bringing hope, healing, and justice to the communities they serve, especially in times of profound change and challenges.

We follow a code of ethics that calls on us to stand for equity in every community, uphold human dignity, and fights against all injustices.

Social workers are on the front lines defending all vulnerable populations, including immigrants, our LGBTQ plus individuals and those facing discrimination or poverty, while uplifting vital social safety net programs and ensuring the rights of everyone.

Social workers confronts oppression and racism, advocate for human rights and advancing their policies for all persons by eliminating barriers that prevent individuals and families from thriving.

Social workers care for those that are experiencing mental health issues, recovering from substance use disorders, and support the well-being of our children.

The profession continues to grow with over 800,000 social workers in the United States who are transforming the lies every single day.

Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Detroit City Council identifies March 2026 as National Social Work Month, and we call upon everyone to join the National Association of Social Work, Social Workers, and Detroit City Council on celebrating the vital work that social workers do every day.

Thank you, Mr.

President's motion to approve.

Thank you.

There's a motion to approve line item 20.9 colleagues.

Any objections?

See none, that action shall be taken.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Mr.

President, just briefly, I know I won't uh disrupt a quorum, but any social workers in the house that want to join us, we'll take a quick picture over by um our mayor young.

Uh thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Are you up back, Jackie?

Are we up back?

All right.

So we now go into the agenda.

Um take it from the top.

Under the standing committee reports, Madam Clerk for the Budget Finance and Audit Standing Committee from the Office of the City Clerk, City Planning Commission.

House member McCampbell, a resolution.

Line item 17.1.

Member McCampbell, line number 17.1.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh, move to approval discussion, please.

As a motion to approve line item 17.1 with discussion.

Member McCampbell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Just want to note for this line item, it was recommended to formal withdrawal recommendation.

I just want to talk about this for one second.

Um, as you know, their uh budget finance audit.

We do receive the neighborhood enterprise zone certificate applications and per state law, uh, the city council cannot deny these uh uh certificates.

Um but I wanted to have uh to bring to discussion um as we see these certificates, and I've talked about this in committee.

Um the spirit behind this uh law is to spur development around building and rehabilitation and in distressed areas.

And there's been a concern of mine that we constantly are getting a lot of these certificates in areas that I will say uh are already have quite a bit of activity.

Um so I just want to bring this up that what is underview of the the cities is to actually take a look at these zones, and if we see that they have fulfilled their duty around NDZs to change them or get rid of them.

So I just want to bring that up for discussion and to um because there has been something we talked about in budget finance and audit and to really see how we are effectively using this tool to spur activity in neighborhoods that that need them.

So I just want to bring that up and thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Discussion with further discussion, Member Calvin.

Thank you so much.

And um I kind of know where through the chair to Mr.

Um to Member McCampbell.

I kind of know where this area is.

Um, is it your is it your opinion that this is considered a distressed area because it's also declared historic.

So I'm not sure um if this would even qualify if it's not really considered distressed um through the chair to you, Mr.

Member McCampbell, or you don't know.

Member McCampbell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair, through you to member Callaway.

So it is uh both so this, and that's why I want to speak on the spirit behind the law that is to encourage that activity in those type of areas that need more of that uh economic or housing development.

Um, but this is a historic district, um, and it is also an NEZ.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, Member McCampbell.

Discussion with further discussion, Member Benson.

All right, thank you.

Uh, with the an approval of NEZ, what type of um support to the operations, i.e.

the tax liability annually, would the owner or developer receive from this NEZ.

Um, if we could get someone from LPD who can assist with that particular question, essentially, or maybe law department.

Mr.

Gulag, uh heard your name a couple of times.

Is he here?

He is here.

Good morning.

Please introduce yourself for the record and uh can we re-ass the question as as needed.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh Chris Gulach, CPC staff.

Um, to answer council member Benson's question directly.

Uh well, to give a little background, uh, a develop us a developer bought a house in Corktown.

I think they bought it for 350,000, and they want to put in about a hundred thousand and then sell it for about six hundred and fifty thousand.

So they would they would make a profit.

And so the the NEZ would be when they go to sell it, the buyer would get the NEZ tax break for 17 years since it's in a historic area.

So the taxpayer, if they don't have the NEZ, uh the buyer, the tax would be but be about 21,000 a year.

If they do get the NEZ, their taxes are about six thousand a year.

So it's a substantial uh discount uh for the buyer's property taxes.

Okay, okay.

But thank you.

And so for me, I I support the NEZs, I support uh when people buy property in the city of Detroit time trying to reduce the operational cost, and that's the biggest burden that we see in the city of Detroit when it comes to purchasing property in our more stable neighborhoods, and so a 21,000 dollar tax liability versus a six thousand dollar tax liability, that's there's not much of a decision there.

Now, if I'm looking at property in Gross Point, if I'm looking at property in Birmingham or maybe even Ferndale, what is my tax liability from a similar cost house?

Do I make that investment in the city of Detroit?

Do I bring my family here?

Do I pay my income taxes?

Do I become a part of the fabric of Detroit?

Or do I make that investment someplace else because the tax liability is just too high?

21,000 a year on top of a mortgage, that may be the decision uh threshold.

Do I move to the city of Detroit or do I not?

And so I'm hoping that we're looking at how can we more, how can we better attract families and residents to the city of Detroit because our tax liability is extraordinarily high.

Um the conversation on the 11th floor is how we're working to reduce the property tax liability to attract more.

People don't want that commuting to the city.

They also don't want that 21,000 annual tax liability on property.

So I'm hoping that we can look at what does it take to get people into the city of Detroit when it comes to operating a home, our auto insurance to challenge, our property insurance is a challenge, and our high tax liability is also a challenge.

And so this is a way to help reduce the cost of operating a home because property taxes are part of that.

That is just part of the operation of a home in Detroit's extraordinarily high.

Uh, and through yourself, Mr.

President, to the assessor's office.

What would a comparable price property cost per for property tax liability in Birmingham and let's say Harper Woods?

What would a homeowner pay in those two areas just without any NEZ or any other tax incentives to help reduce the cost of operations of that property?

And those are the municipalities with whom we compete.

And that's very important.

When it comes to a decision making process, who are we competing with?

It's not automatic that people move to Detroit.

And obviously in the past, people have actively moved out.

We need to keep people here, and this is one of the ways.

And so I'm hoping that people can also look at what does it take to get people into the city of Detroit.

But I'm hoping for that answer on what is the competing cost to operate properties outside of City of Detroit in our competitive municipalities.

Member Benson, are you looking for that answer before you vote on this particular?

I would like to answer on that one before we vote.

I think that could be very helpful when it comes to people, how they make a decision on moving forward with these type of incentives, especially for single family homes.

Yep, gotcha.

So uh Mr.

Washington, uh, I know Member Benson was seeking someone from the assessor's office.

I know the assessor was down here personally.

Not sure if he's made his way back to the office or he has someone sign.

You have anyone in the queue or we can bring this item back at the end of the agenda, Mr.

Washington.

Um, through the chair, um, if we can bring this back to the end, I can reach back out to the assessor.

Okay, Mr.

Chair, before we do that, um member McCampbell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, and yeah, well, definitely love that answer as well.

Let me just make a couple of things clear here.

Um the NEZs as they exist.

Um what I'm saying as we look at the process as we look at taxes as we look at property taxes in the city of Detroit.

Um, I believe the conversation will have to also um include NEZs as well.

Not saying that this changes right now, and I understand that folks will uh be paying a high property tax if they were to buy this property without uh the NEZ certificate.

But as we're having conversations that yes, we have to bring down property uh tax rates here in the city of Detroit.

We're also having a conversation that we are limited with the budget and the needs that we have for our residents here in the city of Detroit as well.

So we do have to manage and find a balance and act that we are encouraging people to move into the city, but also that we have enough funds to take care of the needs that we hear in the city of Detroit.

So what I well, the reason why I want to bring this up for discussion is to make sure that this is on the minds of my colleagues because we have this discussion in uh budget finance and audit, and I know uh PED as well around NEZs, and I think we should be talking about this as an entire conversation around property taxes here in the city of Detroit.

So thank you.

Thank you for the discussion, member waters.

Thank you.

Um, I just want to say uh a couple quick things.

One that he was not planning to live in the property himself temporarily.

Oh and and and two, I want to ask him if he was gonna flip the property.

He was like, Yep, I'm gonna flip it.

So I I took issue with it, frankly.

So I wasn't willing to vote yes on it.

I know that the law says that we can't deny it anyway.

I'm not sure why they bring it before us in that case.

So, but at any rate, that that was my rationale for it.

See, it's one thing to get people, give people those breaks who are gonna actually live in that property, live here.

And I know he says he's gonna pass on to whoever purchases that 750,000 home.

So I don't know, you know, where they're gonna come from for that's that's a very, very expensive home.

Um so, but that was my rationale, Mr.

President.

Mr.

Gulag, before we uh send this item to the end of the agenda.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I just to provide more feedback to you.

I think law department would say you can't deny the certificate.

I think the council's main uh options are either to reduce the number of years.

This is historic area, so you can you can grant the certificate anywhere from 11 to 17 years.

The resolution before you says 17 years.

The other option moving forward is is to is to eliminate zones in the future, you know.

That's a policy decision, whether whether Corktown or Brush Park or other parts of the city need an NEZ.

That's a policy decision.

Um but just to give respond a little bit to Councilman Benson.

I think um I don't know that the mills for Birmingham, but if um the NEZ one is very generous, it's half the state average.

I think the state average is about 35 mils, so it's half the state average.

So on one extreme you have the NEZ, which is very generous, and on the other extreme, Detroit's property taxes are high at 65 mils.

So uh so 18 mil, the NEZ would bump their you know their uh tax to about 6,000 a year.

If you bump it up to 32 mils, it's about 12,000 a year.

I assume Birmingham is about 50 mils a year, I'm guessing.

Uh so that would be about 16,000 a year, but Detroit 65 mils would be 20 about 21, 22,000 a year.

So you just kind of go up gradually.

Uh so I just threw those together, but the assessors might have more information if they if they're able to join later.

He actually has been able to join us in person right now.

Uh Sessor Horn.

Good afternoon, Mr.

President, members of the city council, Alvin Horn, Deputy CFO and Assessor for the City of Detroit.

I heard part of the conversation regarding the NEZ millage and the net the need to engage an NEZ in the historic district.

Yeah, we're gonna allow Member Benson to uh re-ask the question.

Thank you through yourself, Mr.

Chair.

So Mr.

Horn, and thank you for being here today.

Looking at a home in Corktown, which is going to be redeveloped about 100,000 of investment into the home, which will then look to sell for about $650,000.

The estimated tax liability without an NEZ is $21,000 a year.

With the NEZ, they're looking at about $6,000 a year.

That is a huge difference when it comes to your decision making about do you locate in that house?

So my question is what would the tax liability be on an equivalently equivalently priced home in Birmingham, in Harper Woods, and those are just two of our competing municipalities.

How much would someone pay for a home in those municipalities versus Detroit if none of them received an NEZ?

Uh through the chair, thank you for the question, Councillor Vincent.

Uh, as Chris Golak uh mentioned, the millage rate in Birmingham is substantially lower than it is in Detroit.

Uh Detroit's homestead millage is somewhere around 63 mils.

The homestead millage for Birmingham, I believe, is 19 mils.

Uh for Southfield, it is 25.

Or Nova, it is 31.

So the Detroit's homestead millage rate is substantially higher than our sister cities than our peer cities.

Um a $600,000 home in the city of Birmingham, assuming new sale, new construction.

So the uh if the $600,000 is true cash and the assessed and taxable with three would be $300,000 on that $1,800 rate, it would be somewhere around $17,000 to $100 a year.

For putting information, please repeat that.

How much?

A $17 mil is somewhere around $8300, $830.

I'm just I'm calculating my head, sorry.

$17 million on a $300,000 tax bill.

Somewhere around between $1,700 to $2200.

So even less than what an NEZ would cost that same home investment.

And so in addition to the challenges that we do have here in the city of Detroit, even with the NEZ in place, we are still three times more costly than an equivalently priced home in Birmingham.

And the reason I bring this up, that's just the challenge of housing location theory or decision making matrix in the city of Detroit.

If we want people to move in the city, we have to have value add, which means we have to be able to compete.

And unfortunately, in certain situations, we don't.

We have all the great amenities.

We have the sports teams, the cultural assets, the bike lanes, which everybody wants.

But what we don't have is a competitive pricing model.

And the NEZ allows us to have that.

And the concern always should be are we able to provide services based on our revenue generated from property taxes?

And as we've seen over the years and decades, property taxes play a smaller and smaller role when it comes to our general fund makeup.

And so income tax, corporate tax, utility tax, those all play a larger role when it comes to how we fund our services in the city of Detroit.

But the ultimate decision comes with those who are prepared to buy and pay our property taxes, which many people over the years have said I cannot afford to live in the city of Detroit because I can go to Birmingham and pay $1,700 versus the $21,000.

I mean that that's just a kitchen table conversation that people have.

And oftentimes it it's it we just can't compete.

To compete, we have our NEZ, which still makes us three times more expensive, but what it doesn't do is make us 13 times more expensive, which is what the NEZ does.

And so that's why I'm a strong supporter in these situations.

And sometimes it doesn't make sense, but in this one, it makes a lot of sense.

We want to get a family into that home after the developer bills it and flips it to most likely a family, because it doesn't make much sense when it comes to making that investment property.

That's going to be a home for a family, not a home for an investor.

So this is why I advocate for this type of incentive to help our middle class families stay and move to the city of Detroit versus moving out to our suburbs who are more competitive when it comes to pricing and operating a home in those municipalities.

Through the chair, if I could uh member Vincent, I'm assuming you're you're talking about the NEZ rehab, which is the lowest of the three.

Yes.

Yes.

It is based on the taxable value before any rehabilitation of the property begins.

So it's basically the shell.

They're taking the shell and they're taxing it at that rate for 15 years.

And once that uh once that abatement expires, then what the local assessor does is we basically figure out what the CPI is for each of those 15 years, and we bring that taxable uh value forward.

So you don't get the jump.

Um the assessment goes up based on the market, but the taxable stays frozen.

Um at the end of the 15 years, it's not a true uncapping in the sense that property sold.

So the taxable value proposed whatever the assessed is, you take that original taxable value, you bring it forward based on the CPI for each of those 15 years.

So you come to a taxable value.

Certainly to say we'll capture an increase, but it's not the type of uncapping increase that we see now.

All right.

So colleague, I'm gonna ask if we can either take this item to a vote or postpone it, whatever we're gonna do because we do still have a two p.m.

uh executive session, and we're gonna have to have an abbreviated, unfortunately, executive session today to allow for us to move over to the uh state of the city.

So uh definitely going to to allow the conversation, but I want to be my want us to be mindful of what the day looks like.

Uh member McCampbell.

Uh I'm sorry, you still have the 40.

Yeah, anything else you want to add?

Um, no, and that's just my argument for why we need these.

The can we we're not competitive and we need to be competitive.

And the conversation when it comes to property tax relief is about how do we lower that so we don't need these.

But currently, we need these type of incentives to get residents at this level, and we need middle class families to stay and to move into the city of Detroit.

And this is the kind of incentive that gets them there.

Okay, through the chair, if I think no, sir.

Member McCampbell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I will I would just say as I go back to the what I originally said, um my point of bringing us for discussion was not to get rid of any Z or the use of them.

Um, it was to make sure that we are taking a look at where NEZs exists right now in the city of Detroit.

And as we move forward in the conversation about property taxes to take into account um that we are seeing a lot of applications in certain neighborhoods where folks are moving to that they have more means um to cover a tax bill than other neighborhoods that folks don't have the means, and that we have folks coming down here that are not able to pay their property taxes as they exist currently.

So to take all of this into the current conversation that we're having around property taxes.

I understand that folks may move into maybe look at Birmingham.

Um, but I will say that there's other factors that may lead folks to move into Birmingham, and there are other factors that may move for lead folks to move into Detroit that are not around property taxes.

So I understand that I completely understand the use of NEZs.

I support the use of NEZs.

I just want to make sure that some of these NEZs have existed for decades, and we have to make sure that they are still there for the use that they were attended.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Colleagues, there's a motion on the floor for line item 17.1.

Are there any objections?

See none, that action shall be taken.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Mr.

Chair.

Uh yes, sir.

On this about five years ago, this body approved uh brand new maps for NEZs throughout the city of Detroit, reapportion, um, made them far more efficient.

Alvin Horn was a big part of that.

Myself and the current mayor worked on that, and this body approved it.

That comes up, I believe, every five years to try to remove the political aspect of that.

And we should be seeing a reassessment for the very reason that Member McCampbell addressed about those NEZ neighborhoods on the NEZ homestead, not the NEZ rehab, which is a different type of NEZ, but we uh recognize that we need to look at these every five years to ensure they're doing what we want them to do, which is to incentivize and keep and help people into neighborhoods that are frankly.

The conversation has always been around stable neighborhoods.

We also needed to encourage and incentivize the stability of existing neighborhoods.

All right, thank you.

Sounds like this is a discussion that needs to take place in committee, not informal at this moment.

Well, we're trying to get through this agenda.

Thank you so much.

We shall now go to uh line item 17.2, madam clerk under resolution.

Council member Benson, a resolution line item 17.2.

Member Benson.

Oh, this one member McCampbell.

Mr.

President.

I'm gonna say I believe this resolution was originally was Member Benson, and then we received one that had member McCampbell's name on it.

So that's what you see.

When your script says Member Benson, it originally was Member Vincent, but we received a change to Member McCampbell.

So uh it that should be member McCampbell.

Yes, all right, member McCampbell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Move to approve.

It's a motion to approve line item 17.2, colleagues.

Any objection?

Discussion with discussion, member Johnson.

Very quickly, this resolution should actually be in my name.

Um it is um a request that came from my office to LPD.

Um, but we can address that later.

I just wanted to put that on the record because it did come from a district four resident.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

All right, there's a motion on the floor, colleagues.

Any objection?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Madam Clerk, if you could note the um name of the sponsor of the uh resolution, clerk will so note Mr.

President.

My apologies when I mention member Benson.

Member Johnson is correct.

The residue LPD submitted two resolutions.

One is in member Johnson's name, and the other one is in member McCampbell's name.

The one from Member McCampbell was submitted at a earlier date at a later date prior to the one that was submitted in member Johnson's name, and that was why it came on the agenda as member McCampbell's name because that resolution was dated later than the resolution dated for member Johnson.

Thank you so much for the clarification for the internal operations standing committee from the law department, madam clerk.

Councilmember Benson, a resolution noting that this line item was postponed from last week formal session.

Member Benson has stepped away, madam clerk.

Councilmember um Winfield Callaway on behalf of council member Benson.

A resolution noting that this line item was postponed from last week formal session.

Member uh Callaway.

Motion to approve, Mr.

Chair.

Uh motion to approve with uh discussion, please.

Um looking to bring this item back for one week.

Um, from what I understand, there was a request uh to do so based on questions that we uh we asked.

So colleagues, can we get a one-week postponement for line item 18.1, please?

Motion.

There's a motion for one week postponement 18.1.

Seeing no objections, and action shall be taken.

Thank you.

From the law department, madam clerk.

Councilmember Whitfield Callaway, 15 resolutions.

Line items 18.2 through 18.16.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, madam clerk.

A motion to approve these various um settlements and lawsuits.

There's a motion to approve line items 18.2 through 18.

What through 18.16, madam clerk.

Yes, yep.

Yes.

All right.

Um, with discussion, please.

Uh colleagues, so we can please bring back um line item 18.4 in one week.

Um, and that will be connected to 18.7, and that also 18.4, 18.7, 18.8, 18.9, 18.10, and 18.12.

These are all connected.

I'd like to bring those items back.

Um postpone uh for one week.

I would love to get a closed session on this particular item.

And I don't I know that we won't have an opportunity to do so in one week.

Um to the chair, would you be willing to send those back to committee meeting to allow us to have that closed session?

Yes, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you so much.

Colleagues, I think a motion to uh send back to committee line items 18.4, 18.7, 18.8, 18.9, 18.10, as well as 18.12.

There's a motion.

Any objections?

See none, then action shall be taken.

Any objection to the remaining items, colleagues, Mr.

Chair.

Uh member McCampbell.

Uh uh McCampbell objection to 18.5, 18.6, and 18.11.

Thank you.

Any further?

Seeing none.

The remaining items shall be approved.

Under resolutions, clerk.

Councilmember Benson, two resolutions, noting that both these line items were postponed from last week formal session.

Line item 18.17 and 18.18.

Member Benson, 18.17 and 18.18.

Motion to approve discussion.

Thank you.

These both items were postponed from last week.

There's a number of issues.

Uh out of the internal operations standing committee.

Line item 18.7 was moved with a recommendation to deny that is at the urging of LPD who wrote that opinion based on the information included.

18.8 uh was moved with a recommendation to approve based on conversations with our law department.

I continue to urge a uh vote to deny for line 18.7, which is the resolution uh to waive attorney client privilege from legislative policy division.

And Mr.

Chair, I'd like uh Mr.

Whittaker to be able to speak to why LPD is urging and why internal ops is urging a uh vote to deny um 18.17.

Mr.

Whitaker.

Um Mr.

President, I we have indicated we thought it necessary to deny this, given the fact that we thought that the privilege needed to be maintained based on the conversations that we had in close session.

Thank you.

All right, colleagues.

Line items 18.17 and 18.18 have been moved.

Are there any objections?

Member Scott Benson motion uh vote no on 18.17 objection member Johnson 18.17.

Objection member Santiago Romero 1817 objection McCampbell 18.7 objection waters 18.7 mr.

President that motion fails.

Okay.

Uh it does not sound like there was any objections to line item 18.18.

So that action shall be approved for the for the planning and economic development standing committee under unfinished business.

Council member Johnson and ordinance note in a roll call.

Line item 19.1 member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I move to take from the table an ordinance to amend chapter 50 of the 2019 Detroit City Code zoning by amending article 17 zoning district maps, section 50-17-49, district map number 47 to revise the zoning classification for a parcel generally bound by Richden Street to the north, Hitaski Avenue to the west, Dwayne Street to the south, and Homer Street to the east, commonly known as 4094 Dwayne Street from the R2 district, two family residential zoning classification to the SD1 special development district, small scale mixed use zoning classification laid on the table February 3rd, 2026.

Hearing no objections, that action will be taken.

Councilmember Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I move the ordinance be placed on the order of third reading and considered read.

Hearing no objections, that action will be taken.

Councilmember Johnson.

I move the ordinance be passed as submitted.

There being a roll call required with the clerk.

Please call the roll.

Councilmember Santiago Romero.

Yes.

Councilmember Mary Waters.

Yes.

Councilmember Angela Woodfield Callaway.

Yes.

Council President Pro Tim Coleman second.

Yes.

Council President James Tate.

Yes.

Councilmember Scott Benson.

Yes.

Councilmember Letitia Johnson?

Yes.

Councilmember Denzel McCampbell.

Yes.

Eight yes.

That motion passes, Mr.

President.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

The ordinance is approved.

Councilmember Johnson.

I move the title to the ordinance be confirmed.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Mr.

Chair, I'd like to request a waiver.

Request for waiver on line item 19.1 colleagues.

Any objections?

Hearing none, a waiver should be attached.

From the Office of Contracting and Procurement, Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Johnson for resolutions.

Line items 19.2 through 19.5.

Noted that line item 19.2 was postponed from last week's formal session.

Thank you so much.

Contract number 600 7474-82.

The lease agreement rental rate, second amendment to extend and expand the right to my menerals from properties owned by the city of Detroit.

Contractor Detroit Salt Company.

That's for planning and development.

Contract number 600707.

So lease revenue to provide for lease of 127 Campbell from the City of Detroit for Gordy Howe International Bridge Project Staging.

Contractor BNA Constructors USA JV total contract amount.

That's for planning and development.

Contract number 6004900-A4, 100% opera funding.

Amendment 4 to provide a time only extension for managing the single family scatter site home ownership program.

Contractor CHN Housing Partners total contract amount 2 million 875,000 housing and revitalization.

Contract number 6007424A1 and contract number 60079-A1 for two emergency approved contracts pertaining to the expansion of emergency shelter bed capacity for contract number 6007424-A1.

It was for a shelter for bed capacity for individuals experiencing homelessness from 56 beds to 88 beds.

The contractor's neighborhood service organization and contract number 60079-A1 for the expansion of emergency shelter bed capacity for individuals experiencing homelessness from 50 beds to 77 beds.

Contractor, all things women, total contract increase amount 203,484.

And for contract number 6007424-A1, the contract increase amount was 471,947.60 cents.

Council member Johnson, four resolutions.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman for approval.

Any objection, colleagues?

Discussion with discussion, Member Benson.

Line of 19.4 for yourself, either to the chair or to the administration.

This extension is through June 30, 2026 for the ARPA funds.

Uh time only, but will we be able to extinguish these funds or extend these funds uh within this extension, or do we need additional extensions?

Uh Mr.

Washington.

What do we have available?

Yes, through the chair, we have Rebecca Labove online.

All right.

If we can promote her, please.

All right.

Ms.

LeBo, thank you for joining us.

Please introduce yourself for the record and we can restate the question as needed if needed.

Thank you.

Rebecca Labove, Housing and Revitalization.

I will forget housing and revitalization.

Member Benson, if you can please restate.

Thank you.

On line 19.4, these are ARPA funds.

This is a time extension only, but the extension runs only through June 30 of 2026.

Do we expect to expend these funds within this time period?

Or will there be the need for an additional extension to uh expend these funds?

And I don't want to send any money back to the fence.

I'm sure nobody else here wants to either.

Through the chair, we do expect to expend the dollars by that date.

There are 12 specific home buyers that are associated with the balance of funds left on this contract, um, all of whom are under purchase agreement and have been preparing to close on their homes.

Um, say for some final pieces that were needed from the sellers of the homes.

Um we were able to get the loan modification executed um to the rental development that is selling the homes um last month, and so now the Kyle and his team who are working on this are moving into actually setting closing dates with those buyers, and we know who they are.

We have the dollar amounts uh ready to go with the title company, so we don't expect that we would need additional time to expend these ARPA funds.

Okay, and just now thinking about this is this the scatter site situation where the homes were rent to own and now there's the issue with the the back taxes, which are being brought forward and paid, and is that that issue?

Yeah, through chair, they are the scatter site home sales um for low-income housing tax credit homes that are occupied by by low-income renters looking to purchase um these dollars are not associated with folks um that have back taxes to pay.

Rent to own and now there's the issue with the the back taxes which are being brought forward and paid and that that issue yeah through chair they are the scatter site home sales um for low income housing tax credit homes that are occupied by by low income renters looking to purchase um these dollars are not associated with folks um that have back taxes to pay these are buyers who are uh just ready to close and and getting the final pieces together but I'll I'll let my colleague add through the chair to member Benson different portfolios okay for different portfolios we are focusing on some different um or focusing on different funding sources so the other scatter site contract that we have spoken to you about is a CDBG funded one okay that's being used at Grassha Methougal and that is one that has had some issues with back taxes but at Brightmore that's not a particular issue okay thank you colleagues there's a motion to approve line items 19.2 through 19.5 any objections seeing none that action shall be taken request a waiver Mr.

President for 19.2 that's request for a waiver on line item 19.2 any objections seeing none a waiver should be attached colleagues can I get a waiver on line item 19.4 mr chair can I also get on uh 19.5 as well motion there's a request for waivers on 19.4 and 19.5 colleagues any objections hearing none waiver should be attached from from the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation Madam Clerk Council member Johnson a resolution line item 19.6 member john thank you mr chair move for approval for the amended and restated project plan and issuance of bonds by the economic development corporation for the music hall expansion project this is to set a public hearing on April 16th there's a motion to approve line item 19.6 colleagues any objections seeing none that action shall be taken request for a waiver mr chair quaiver a waiver requested for line item 19.6 colleagues any objections seeing none a waiver should be attached from the planning and development department madam clerk council member john to resolutions line items 19.7 and 19.8 member johnson thank you mr chair move for approval it's a motion to approve line items 19.7 and 19.8 any objections seeing none those actions shall be taken under resolutions madam clerk council member benson a resolution line item 19.9 uh member benson 19.9 a discussion uh with discussion uh mr chair at the urging of the administration a motion to uh postpone the vote for one week on line item 19.9 they're currently uh in negotiations um i'm hoping that these bills die in the house and in the senate um i know there's tons of consternation from our municipalities around the state who do not want to be preempted including Detroit and the opposition these bills were signed off by six of my colleagues via simcog as well as the mayor of Detroit but they are currently negotiations and at their urging I'm going to uh motion to postpone this uh so they can continue discussions uh there's a request for a postponement for one week for line item 19.9 colleagues any objections seeing none then action shall be taken under resolutions madam clerk council member mccampbell or resolution line item 19.10 uh member mccamp motion to approve as a motion there's a motion to approve line item 19.10 with discussion member mccam uh thank you mr chair just to note 19.10 should be a uh member john's name all right if madam clerk if you can note please will so note mr president thank you thank you colleagues any objections to 19.10 with discuss further discussion member benson to which bills are these because there's a little bit of confusion in the information i saw on which of these bills and member campbell may have cleared it up uh being this is from member johnson but which bills what do these support member johnson mr chair thank you um this is um for mishda to create and operate the my home readiness program to provide grants to local units of government to cover costs associated with the adoption of land use policies master plan updates zoning tax amendments and similar actions to encourage the increase of housing supply and affordability and just discussion and so these are the the converse of house bills 55 29 which simcog and mml are opposing the the this is the alternate bills um package which the municipalities mimale and simcog are supporting to to provide more support to cities versus preempting thank you just wanted to verify colleagues is a motion on the floor for line item 19.10 plus you any objections see none that action shall be taken for the

This is the alternate bills um package, which the municipalities, Mimemail and SimCog are supporting to provide more support to cities versus preempting.

Thank you.

Just wanted to verify.

Any objections?

See none that action shall be taken.

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

Council Member Santiago Romero, two resolutions, line items 20.1 and 20.2.

Contract number 6005876-a1.

100% grant funding, amendment one to provide an eight-month extension of time.

Contractor Community Logic Software Incorporated, total contract amount 390,000.

That's for public works.

Contract number 600 6408-a4, 100% ARPA funding.

Amendment 4 to provide an extension for time only to provide stabilization of commercial structures within the city of Detroit.

Contractor BMC consultants incorporated.

Total contract amount 634,000 11.

That's for construction and demolition.

Councilmember Santiago Romero, two resolutions.

Member Santiago Romero.

Motion to approve 2021 and 20.2.

It's a motion to approve line items 20.1 and 20.2, colleagues.

Any objection?

Discussion.

With discussion, member Callaway.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Chair.

Is anyone available from public works regarding um line item 20.1?

20.1.

We have anyone available.

Brundage online.

We would promote him.

Ms.

Uh Director Brundish, uh, we're trying to promote you.

If you can accept the promotion, please through the chair.

Um, Mr.

Washington.

Yes, are we able to postpone this item to the end?

I'm flying for Director Brundis now to accept invitation.

Okay.

Uh that's line item 20.1, correct?

Member Callaway?

Yes.

Uh-huh.

Colleagues, is there a motion to uh send line item 20.1 to the end of the agenda?

Motion.

See no objections that action shall be taken.

Uh line item 20.2, colleagues.

Are there any objections?

Seeing none, then action shall be taken.

Request a waiver, Mr.

President for 20.2.

There's a request for a waiver on line item 20.2.

Any objection?

Seeing none, then action shall be taken.

From the Department of Public Works, City Engineering Division, Madam Clerk.

Council Member Santiago Romero, six resolutions, line items 20.3 through 20.8.

Member Santiago Romero.

Thank you.

Motion to approve.

These are all various requests for easements and vacations.3 through 20.8.

Are there any objections?

See none.

An action shall be taken.

Under resolutions, madam clerk.

Councilmember Santiago Romero, two resolutions.

Line items 20.10 and 20.11.

All right.

Member Santiago Romero.

Thank you.

Mr.

President.

Motion to approve.

There's a motion to approve line items 20.10 and 20.11.

Any objections?

See none.

And action shall be taken.

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

Council member Santiago Romero, a resolution, noting that this line item was postponed from last week.

Formal session, line item 21.1.

Mr.

Chair.

Mr.

Chair.

Before we go to you, Matt.

Is there a motion?

Member Santiago Romero.

Motion to approve 21.1.

There's a motion to approve line item 21.1 with discussion.

Member Callaway.

Um not on that.

Um I have a 20.11 resolution declaring March 18th as dawn Icing Day on my agenda.

Is that not on anyone else's agenda or did we skip it?

We just approved it.

Okay, well, it should be in my name.

I only heard um line item 20.9 through 20.10.

I didn't hear 20.11 because it should be in the name of councilmember Callaway.

It was moved.

Pardon me.

We did move.

It was moved.

Moved in whose name, sir.

So the resolution it was under uh Santiago Romero because it was in the committee, but I believe your name is on the actual resolution.

Okay, so I would need to see my name on the agenda because I don't see it.

I just see um it's in the name of Santiago Ramiro.

So if we could make that correction, it usually is in the person of the you know, the name of the council person who was bringing the resolution, not in a because they chair, it shouldn't be in their name.

Madam Clerk, Mr.

President, to you through Member Callaway.

Um apologies to that.

Member Callaway is absolutely correct.

Her name, this is her resolution should have said member Callaway.

So apologies to you, Member Callaway.

Member Callaway, um, we're in the middle of a vote.

So if you want to have any comments, we'll first deal with the vote that we're in right now, and we'll give you the opportunity to provide comments.

All right, colleagues, there is a motion for approval on line item 21.1.

Any objections with discussion, member McCampill.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Is there someone from DOT available?

I see uh director Kramer.

Come on down.

Oh, thank you.

Please introduce yourself for the record.

Uh good afternoon, Ralph Kramer, Director of Down.

Thank you.

Member McCamp.

Thank you, Director.

Uh, good to see you this morning.

Um, just uh want to say full full support of this resolution for the free bus for students.

I just want if you can just go into um as you all are looking at this pilot, like what are you all thinking about?

Because we had a conversation around student safety overall on the buses, and as I think this opportunity as we've discussed to think about ways to improve that safety.

So if you can just go into what you are, think about student safety around this pilot as well.

Absolutely, through the chair.

So the resolution before you regarding the six-month pilot of student free rides, uh provides uh something that's required by the ordinance, uh the city fair ordinance allows this uh period.

Um, and basically would set this uh to you know, show your ID and ride for free for any any students, which basically anyone that's uh up to 18 years old.

This is an opportunity for us under uh Mayor Sheffield's leadership to uh learn more about how transit uh DDOT in particular uh can work uh more effectively uh for students and their families, not only when it comes to uh attendance at school, but also thinking about after school programs and even in this case, this pilot obviously extends through the summer.

So um even any activities, job opportunities uh that they may uh want to partake in.

The um pilot provides a great opportunity for us to continue some of the conversations we've already started started having with students, families, uh the DPS CD, charter schools, private schools, um, about the needs of their students in their community and uh thinking about things like improving uh safety uh and opportunity.

Maybe we would have um um adults basically that could ride the buses for some of these routes that have uh more concentrated student rides or issues where students are feeling unsafe.

Um that's one of the things that we're hoping to uh have this opportunity having uh the fanfare around this program.

This this temporary pilot provides an excellent opportunity for us to draw attention to the fact and also to get more input and feedback um from all of those partners that uh also um uh in addition, supports changes to bus stop amenities, uh in some cases, even the routing of buses, the schedules, those are all things we're gonna be learning about over the next couple of months, and then bringing that back uh to the council as part of the permanent program would actually require a ordinance amendment to change the fair with whatever uh system uh program is developed.

And so lining up all of these improvements uh to set with uh the next school year, so starting a thinking about September, early October of 26.

Uh, this provides a great opportunity for us to learn more about that, uh, hear from the council um and and really come back with a package of improvements and changes uh to go along with that ordinance, which then also would include uh a fiscal financial impact uh analysis as well.

So hopefully that answered the question through the chair.

Absolutely through the chair, thank you so much, Director.

And and I'm glad to hear um it sounds like that is what a pilot is for to see how we can uh make sure that the floor program as we roll it out is um as effective as possible uh for our students and writers as a whole.

So appreciate that.

And also um, you know, I would just uh uh as the administration as such as you all are learning more about the the pilot.

Um hope that there's robust conversation with uh DPS CD, not only superintendent, but the school board as well.

So thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, Director.

Thank you.

Um pro Tim Young.

Thank you.

I just want to say personally, I think this is a credible program.

And from my understanding, this is in part comes from the truancy rate that's been happening within DPSCD.

And so this is more of a partnership for us to be able to provide trans retention.

I just want to know is there ever a plan for us to be able to revitalize the goal line program?

And if so, would this coincide with that?

And if so, how that's a lot.

Through the chair.

So the um the without any specifics on that program, I can say this resolution resolution really is focused just on invoking this opportunity for the six-month pilot to have students ride for free.

Um, and as mentioned with the previous question, I think it provides opportunities for a discussion about all sorts of ways that the excitement and energy around this can lead to um a strategic thinking.

I know um Madam Mayor has brought on some uh um really energetic additional team members.

Uh Dr.

Hampton, I'm sure I'm forgetting some other folks as well.

But there's just been an incredible amount of uh additional energy and focus on thinking about uh not only students but youth in general, how the city can support them better.

So this is a great opportunity for us to learn more about that and and maybe talk about other programs that uh that could uh grow alongside it.

No, I think that's very important.

I also wanted to ask, um I think that's good.

I just also want to ask who is gonna accompany the kids at all on these buses.

Are you gonna have somebody to accompany them with these children?

And then secondly, has there been an analysis in terms of what this would do to uh chronic absenteeism and on time performance as well.

So uh through the chair.

The uh accompanying students on board is something that was kind of part of the last question.

This idea of possibly having uh adding uh other adults again is the best way I can think of described to it along some routes.

Now, uh, as you all know, um, whether it's uh DPS CD or or students who attend other schools, uh, the the idea of a neighborhood school is something that doesn't apply to the majority of students.

So we have students that are basically crisscrossing the city to get to whatever school they might go to.

Uh so it's it's not practical for us to say we're gonna have uh an adult on every bus on every route, right?

But uh we're already starting to receive more data from DPS CD and some of the other schools about the patterns and where their students are coming from to get to whatever schools might be.

And that does is consistent with uh uh DPS CD in particular, has a focus on a couple of their schools that have the highest absentee rates.

So thinking about you know, looking at those schools, are there spots where we could have uh volunteers or adults that are riding again to help improve the feeling of safety on the on the routes, and then continuing our partnership.

I'll say DPD provides security for us at the transit centers and out on the street.

We have the opportunity to work with them to target particular trips and routes um as necessary, again, kind of based on this feedback that we're really looking to receive.

Well, I think that it's an opportunity for I don't know either through an authority or through a coordination council, but I think it's an opportunity for you to be able to partner with uh DPS and the police that they have there as well as DPD to be able to provide uh police or have a car follow just in case we want to make sure these kids are safe and we'll make sure that nothing happens, and then God forbid.

And so this is my final question.

I just wanted to ask.

Uh you or also you probably could have maybe somebody from CBI also be able to participate in following through.

But I just also wanted to ask you so the pilot will take it through September and give data on the truancy improvements, is that correct?

And is and are you using artificial intelligence at all to be able to collect that?

So through the chair.

So, yeah, the pilot is through uh up to 180 days.

That's what the the uh ordinance allows through the resolution.

That's also the limit that the FTA places on temporary freight changes as well.

So, really, either way, after six months, if we're gonna continue anything forward, it would require an ordinance amendment and a fair equity analysis with the Federal Transit Administration.

But specifically to your question about the truancy rates, that is something that we're partnering with the schools to track, and then we'll see if there's any change based on you know, starting April 1st.

We'll take a look at any of that data.

Um, the first pilot or the pilot program is going to be you know, show your ID and ride.

So we'll be able to track the number the number of students that take the rides, but uh we're hoping that the permanent solution can have more of a scan or a pass that allows us to more precisely track exactly which students from which schools, not personal information, but at least knowing what school we can attribute the rides to, and then you can compare if Cody has a great improvement and it's based on a lot of rides happening there.

Maybe Mumford doesn't have that improvement, and it's because there aren't those rights.

That's the precise data we're hoping to put in place with a permanent program.

Okay, so I see what you're saying.

You're basically just using that you you're you're tracking, but not necessarily artificial touch because the issue because it can see me talking about the issue of data.

I mean, that's part of why you would anonymize that data have programs to do that differential privacy.

We had to get into cybersecurity right now.

All right, thank you.

I appreciate that, sir.

Uh, I am done, Mr.

Uh Chair.

Thank you.

There's a motion for approval line item 21.

Uh, member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh, thank you so much for being here.

I do appreciate the support being provided to um our young people.

I wish it was a different six-month period so you could really evaluate them going and coming from school because this also encompasses the summertime, but I'm hopeful that this will um give D dot the information that it needs to improve uh service and frequency for those routes that um our kids are going to and from school.

Um I did have a brief conversation with Dr.

Hampton, so I'm looking forward to um the additional supportive services that the city is going to provide to our school students as we continue to expand this pilot um in just the relationship with DPSCD and uh charter schools throughout the city.

So thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Alex says a motion for approval line item 21.1.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Request a waiver, Mr.

President.

Waiver requested for line item 21.1.

Any objections?

Seeing none, a waiver should be attached.

And Mr.

President.

Thank you.

All right, we should be return back to line item 20.11, noting that it has been approved to allow member Callaway to add uh commentary as needed.

Member Callaway.

No, not a commentary.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Just a correction request um through yourself to the um the clerk.

It should be in the name of Callaway.

Clerk was so note, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

March 18th being declared as Don Ison Day, former U.S.

attorney.

Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Mr.

Mr.

Chair and Madam Clerk.

Thank you.

You're welcome, member.

So we are now uh from the mayor's office, madam clerk.

Pro Tim Young, three resolutions.

Line items 21.2 through 21.4.

Uh pro Tim Young, 21.

Uh two through 21.4.

Thank you, Ms.

President.

I move to approve line items 21.2 through 21.4.

Colleagues, there's a motions for approval.

Any objection?

See none, that action shall be taken.

Request to waiver, Mr.

President for 21.3.3.

Any objection?

Say none waiver should be attached.

Thank you.

Thank you.

From the Office of Contracting and Procurement, Madam Clerk.

Council Member Santiago Romero, three resolutions.

Noting that line item 21.5 was postponed from last week's formal session.

Contract number 6005361-A2.

100% city funding, amendment two to provide an increase of funds for ADA complimentary repair transit services.

Contractor Dale Rate United Action Council total contract amount 18 million four hundred forty-seven thousand one hundred twenty-two dollars and forty-nine cents.

That's for transportation.

Contract number six zero zero seven four eight two, one hundred percent grant funding to provide accident culture repair service.

Contractor ABC bus incorporated total contract amount, two million.

That's for transportation.

And contract number six zero zero seven seven four two, one hundred percent grant funding to provide services for the women, infant and children weight program, contract community health and social service center, join business as Chaz.

Total contract amount 1, 143,600.

Councilmember Santiago Romero, three resolutions.

Motion to approve.

Objection.

Any further colleagues?

All right, seeing none, the action shall be approved.

Request to waiver, Mr.

President, for 21.6, 7 and 8.

It's a request for a waiver for line items 21.6 through 21.8.

Mr.

President, we did not do line item 21.8 was 21.5 through 21.7.

So that's what I meant.

21.6 and 21.7 is a request for a waiver, colleagues.

Any objections?

Objection on line item 21.6, Callaway.

Okay.

Uh with that being noted, there shall not be a waiver attached to 21.6, but no objections to 21.7.

A waiver should be attached.

Mr.

President.

Uh member Santiago Rumer.

I made a mistake and they should have also asked for 21.5 for a waiver.

As a request for a waiver on line item 21.5, colleagues.

Any objections?

Seeing none, a waiver should be attached.

From the Office of Contracting and Procurement, Madam Clerk.

Council President Pro Tim Young for resolutions.

Line items 21.8 through 21.11, noting that they are all for the general services department.

Contract number 6007670, 100% IPA, street maintenance, city funding to provide construction, partition equipment and supporting services.

Contractor Alter Construction Equipment LLC doing business as alter equipment company.

Total contract amount 11 million 392,663.

Contract number 6005312-A1.

100% city funding.

Amendment one to provide time only.

Extension to provide firebolt maintenance and repair services.

Contractor, R and R fire truck repair incorporated.

Total contract amount 150,001 dollar.

Contract number 600725, 100% grant funding to provide bomb disposal unit remount and repair services.

Contractor McQueen Equipment LLC total contract amount 349,988.

Contract number 6007688, 100% city funding to provide fiduciary services for Office of Sustainability Contractor, Detroit Economic Growth Association.

Total contract amount 211,500.

Council President Pro Tim Young for resolutions.

Pro Tim Young.

Line items 21.8 through 21.11.

Motion to discuss.

It's a motion to discuss.

Mr.

President, you want to postpone line item 2012.11.

21.11.

Did you want to speak to Y or that?

So there's a motion.

So I like to make a motion to postpone line item 21.11.

Yes, please.

There's a motion to postpone the vote for one week line item 21.11.

Colleagues.

Any objections?

See none.

Line item 21.11 shall be postponed for one week.

So Tim Young.

Thank you, Ms.

President.

I'm sorry.

I forgot to say that's to provide fiduciary services to the for the office of sustainability.

Just want to make that clear.

Okay, so motion to approve.

Line item 21.8 through 21.10.

There's a motion to approve line items 21.8 through 21.10, colleagues.

Any objections?

Objection.

Um member Callaway.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Line item 21.9.

Object.

Member Callaway.

Any further colleagues?

Seeing none.

That action shall be taken.

Okay.

Thank you.

From the office of the chief financial officer, office of development and grants, madam clerk.

Council President Pro Tim Young, a resolution, noting that this line item was postponed from last week's formal session.

Line item 21.12.

Thank you, Ms.

President.

I move to approve line of 21.12.

There's a motion to approve line item 21.12.

Any objections?

See none.

That action shall be taken.

Request for a waiver on that item approach, please.

I like to make a motion request a waiver on line of 21.12.

Thank you.

There's a request for a waiver on 21.12.

Any objections?

Seeing none, waiver shall be attached.

From the housing and revitalization department, madam clerk.

Council member Santiago Romero, a resolution, line item 21.13.

Member Santiago Romero.

Motion to approve.

It's a motion to approve line item 21.13, colleagues.

Any objection?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Request a waiver, Mr.

President.

This is to support our lead-based peak hazard reduction program.

As a request for a waiver on line item 21.13, colleagues.

Any objections?

Seeing none, a waiver shall be attached.

Under resolutions, Madam Clerk.

Mr.

President, for line item 21.14 and 20 21.14.

Councilmember Johnson, a resolution.

Council Member Johnson.

Line I'm 21.14.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Move for approval.

This is a resolution recognizing Michigan Severe Weather Awareness Week, which was last week.14.

Any objections?

See none.

That action shall be taken.

You want to waiver on that one?

That's a joke.

Request a waiver in advance for next year.

Right.

Uh clerk.

Under resolutions, Councilmember Whitfield Callaway line item 21.15, a resolution.

All right, McCalloway, line on the 21.15.

Motion to approve, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

There's a motion to approve line item 21 point 15.

Any objections?

See none, an action shall be taken.

Uh under request to speak before city council.

Council President Pro Tim Young a resolution, noting that this line item was postponed from last week's formal session.

All right.

Pro Tim Young.

I moved to remove line item 22.1.

As a motion to remove line item 22.1 from the agenda.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

For the president's um, madam clerk checking to see if we have any wall.

Mr.

President, yes, you do have an item that you refer back to the end.

Yes, ma'am.

A line item 20.1.

If we can return back to that item, colleagues, we did postpone that one to the end of the agenda.

Mr.

Washington, if you can have uh the representative before us, Mr.

Brunditch.

Sorry, through the chair.

I believe Director Brundage has been uh in and out of meetings.

He may be trying to rejoin us.

Um, I know we're at the end.

If you want to postpone this one week, we can't say a request to postpone this item for one week, or do you want to move forward?

That is again line item 20.1.

Mr.

Chair, discussion uh with discussion, member Callaway.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I requested that um we bring this back.

I had questions, but I'm sure I can get those questions answered.

So if there's no reason for us to bring it back, um I'll be comfortable with getting my questions answered by Mr.

Brunch, it's probably by the end of the day.

So you're okay with moving forward with this item?

All right, yep.

So, madam clerk, line item 20 point one.

Council member Santiago Romero, a resolution, line item 20.1.

Member Santiago Romero.

Motion to approve as a motion to approve line item 20.1.

Any objections?

See none, that action shall be taken.

Thank you.

Madam Clerk, I know I have a resolution before us canceling internal operations, but it looks like we've already dealt with that in that line item that we just had.

So Mr.

President.

Okay, I'm hearing no.

So Mr.

Whip.

Very high was for two other committees, which was neighborhood and BFA.

This resolution for a walk on is for IOS.

Gotcha.

Okay.

Uh is there a motion to walk on the resolution canceling IOS for April 1st motion.

Any objection with discussion.

Member Benson.

Is this redundant?

That committee's already been canceled.

What are we doing this way?

Hasn't been canceled.

Yes, this week.

That's for this week.

Mr.

President.

Yes, sir.

As typical, we normally do this by resolution.

And I understand that member Callaway has issued a notice to the clerk to cancel, but it's no normally done by resolution so that the public has full understanding, particularly those that come for public comment that you're taking this move.

So it is not necessarily required under the open meetings act to do this, but this is custom and practice.

That's why you just voted on the other two.

Okay, so we've been in situations where other committees have been unilaterally canceled.

Right.

Typically, I'm sorry.

So I'm I'm hoping that if we're going to start doing this now, that this custom extends to all committees moving forward and not just as special times.

Mr.

President typically is done when you don't have a quorum and you don't have time to do this.

Okay.

But when you have time to give a notice, you should, because the public needs to advance notice that they shouldn't come down to travel all the way down here.

You're letting them know in advance when you have an opportunity to vote, you should.

That is true.

But when you have an opportunity to do this, and this is what what we typically do, or you typically do.

We we typically prepare it for you.

That's why I know it's done.

I Mr.

Whittaker, I get it.

That's why I'll say again.

I'm hoping if this is customary, what we are accustomed to, that we will hold to that.

We've had situations that are not that's not been a situation where we've had quorums and unilaterally committees have been canceled.

And so hoping that chairs will take notice and then follow this type of custom moving forward.

If not, then we shouldn't have to do redundant motions if a committee's already been canceled.

That's just my point.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Discussion.

Uh with further discussion, and member Kelloway.

Thank you.

I um hope that we'll just abide by the OMA, the Open Meetings Act.

If the resolution is not necessary but customary, it's not required.

Um, so if we're not violating the open meetings act, we shouldn't have to do resolutions.

That's something that I guess the body before I joined created.

But if it's not required by the OEM OMA and customary, I I would think that the OMA would probably um trump customs.

I don't know.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Colleagues, there's a motion on the floor to send to new business.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Whitfield Callaway, a resolution.

Member Callaway.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Motion to approve.

There's a motion to approve the walk on.

Counseling uh internal operations for April 1st.

Any objections?

Seeing none, then action shall be taken.

Uh for the president's report on standing committee referrals and other matters for the budget.

Ma'am.

Before you do that, we do have another walk-on from you.

You like to walk that on now to new business?

A resolution requested the mayor to modify the proposed executive organizational plan.

I don't have that one in front of me.

Oh, it was passed out yesterday for the record.

Passed out yesterday for the record as a walk-on, cast on yesterday.

So let's I remember this one.

Let's make sure we bring it to the table on the day of y'all.

All right, so this is a resolution requesting the mayor to modify the proposed executive organization plan, noting the two items uh that have been submitted.

Colleagues, is there a motion to um place on to new business?

Motion as a motion, any objections?

See none that action shall be taken.

Madam Clerk.

Council President pro Tim Young on behalf of council president James Tate, a resolution.

I pro Tim Young.

Okay, so uh motion to approve the the mayor's modified executive organization plan.

The resolution, the resolution walk as you motion to move the walk-on resolution through the chair, there's a motion to approve the walk on send it to the business with discussion, Mr.

Washington, yes.

Through the chair, um, just for my clarity, is this the LPD resolution with the body's recommendations?

It is, sir.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

Are there any objections?

But discussion with further discussion, member McCampill.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um uh on the resolution agreeing with your rationale of uh change the name of the homeland security.

Um just wondering was that was there any thought of dropping a homeland security aspect completely?

Yes, um there was, but there was some talk about funding um that was uh tied into it and with the name.

So if there was there's a desire to move further on it, I welcome that.

Uh, but at this moment, uh I did I decided to move and can repeat the name, but uh ensure that it the emergency management services is the emphasis because they do two totally different things.

Absolutely.

Yes, sir.

And and and quite honestly, there are other uh departments around the country that has a similar language that does this similar function that's totally different from uh the federal uh homeland security department.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any further colleagues?

All right, there's a motion on the floor for approval.

Any objection?

See none, that action shall be taken.

All right, madam clerk for the president's reports on standing committee referrals and other matters for the budget, finance, and audit standing committee.

Submittal of five memorandums, and the five memorandums shall be referred to the budget finance and audit standing committee for the internal operations standing committee.

Six reports from various city departments.

The six reports will be referred to the internal operations standing committee for the neighborhood and community services standing committee.

Six reports from various city departments.

The six reports will be referred to the neighborhood and community services standing committee for the planning and economic development standing committee.

Six reports from various city departments.

The six reports will be referred to the planning and economic development standing committee for the public health and safety standing committee.

11 reports from various city departments.

The 11 reports will be referred to the public health and safety standing committee under consent agenda.

There are no items, Mr.

President.

Uh colleagues, is there a motion to suspend member reports?

There's a motion to suspend remember reports.

Any objections?

See none, that action shall be taken under adoption with committee reference, madam clerk.

There are no items, Mr.

President.

On the commission communications from the clerk.

A report on approval of proceedings by the mayor.

Report will be received and placed on file under testimonial resolution and special privilege.

Council member Benson, two resolutions, line items 33.1 and 33.2.

Member Benson.

Motion to approve.

There's a motion to approve line items 33.1 and 33.2.

Any objections?

See none.

That action shall be taken.

Uh here no object uh there being no further business to come before this body, this meeting shall stand adjourned.

This meeting is adjourned.