It will now come to order.

Good morning, Madam Clerk.

Will you please call the role?

Yes, I will, Mr.

President.

Councilmember Scott Manson.

Scott Messon I Councilmember Letitia Johnson present.

Councilmember Denzel and Tom McCampbell.

Councilmember Renata Miller.

Councilmember Gabriela Santiago Romero.

Present.

Councilmember Mary Waters.

President Councilmember Angela Whitfield Callaway.

Council President Paul Temp Coleman A.

Young II.

Council President James Tate.

Here.

Mr.

President, you have a quorum.

Thank you, man.

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

We will now begin the collection of public comments cards.

If you are in the public or are if you're at home, please raise your hand.

And we will uh note you as someone who would like to speak.

But if you're in public and you raise your hand, you have not received a public comment card.

Someone from my team will be coming by and providing that comment card so you can speak for this body.

So again, uh before I close it out, uh raise your hand and we will ensure you have a public comment card.

Got a hand down here, team.

Okay.

Providing this morning's invocation, we have none other than uh Bishop Ethan Shear, Senior Pastor at Greater Mitchell, a temple, a church of God in Christ.

Located at 13737 Curtis Street in City Council District 2.

Consecrated on uh January 17th, 2023, as an auxiliary uh bishop in the Church of God in Christ by presiding bishop the J.

True Shear.

Uh Pastor E, uh, as he is affectionately called by so many consistently demonstrates his love for the Lord in his daily walk and unashamedly shares that with all he comes in contact with.

Uh Bishop Shear, Pastor E, please come before us.

The floor is yours, sir.

Thank you for blessing us.

Thank you so much for this opportunity.

Could you all stand for a word of prayer?

Dear Lord, it is in the name of Jesus that we come before you this morning.

And before we ask you for anything, Lord, we must thank you for everything.

We thank you for life today for breath in our bodies.

We thank you for strength in our minds and for the grace that woke us up this morning.

We thank you for this great city for every neighborhood and every household.

We thank you for this governing body.

We thank you for our council president and every member of this our city council that has answered the call to serve.

Lord, you've been our shelter in a time of storm when we had no direction, the way was unclear.

You have been a light to our pathway.

It was you, Lord, that led us to this place of safety.

You covered us, you kept us, you carried us, and we thank you.

In fact, Lord, we can't thank you enough.

Thank you for bringing us from a season of struggle into a place of prosperity.

Lord, we thank you.

Thank you for every open door for every step forward.

We thank you for the signs of progress.

We thank you, Lord.

And we recognize that the gift that you have given us is by your mighty hand.

Now, Lord, we ask that you would continue to rest your hand of favor upon this council president and upon this entire city council as they sit in these seats, as they read these agendas, as they cast their votes, grant them wisdom, clarity, courage, and compassion.

And I pray now that they always remember every citizen they serve, from the smallest child to the wonderful body of seniors who have laid the foundation and on whom shoulders we stand.

Please, dear God, unite this group in love.

Let there be respect in their dialogue, integrity in their decisions, and compassion in their policies.

Shaped by justice and genuine concern for the people of this city.

And so, Lord, we acknowledge you today as the source of our strength.

You are the strength of our life.

Your love has carried us, corrected us, and preserved us.

And now we declare in the words of Bishop John Henry Shear that there is nobody like Jesus.

Thank you, God, for your presence, your gift of your precious son, and thank you, Jesus, for sacrificing yourself to deliver us.

Let the transparency, integrity, and unity shown by this council be so evident, so sincere that it reflects a living relationship with the Lord.

Lord, let this chamber be a place where truth, mercy, and righteousness meet as we openly confess that we would be nothing without you.

If your presence doesn't go with us, we cannot lead well, nor can we heal the broken places of our city.

And so we thank you now for hearing our prayer.

We thank you for your goodness and your mercy.

And if not for them, we would certainly be lost.

These words we pray to you this day in the mighty name of Jesus.

Let everybody say man.

Thank you again, Pastor E for blessing us this morning with this powerful invitation.

Uh, we know you're certainly welcome to join us, but we understand if you have a schedule that you have to attend to and certainly understand that as well.

But again, thank you and family for joining us this morning.

All right, the journal of the session of Tuesday, March 26, 2026 will be approved.

There being no reconsiderations or unfinished business.

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

Thank you so much.

For the budget finance and audit standing committee.

Six reports from various city departments.

The six reports will be referred to the budget audit and finance standing committee.

I will like to say that the collection of public comment cards shall conclude at this time.

For the internal operations standing committee, madam clerk.

Two reports from various city departments.

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

Two reports from the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Office of Development and Grants.

The two reports would be referred to the neighborhood and community services standing committee for the planning and economic development standing committee.

Five reports from various city departments.

All right, thank you, Madam Clerk.

The 19 reports will be referred to the public health and safety standing committee.

We will now move to the voting action matters.

Under other matters, madam clerk.

There are no items, Mr.

President.

Under communications from the mayor and other agencies, governmental officials as well.

There are no items, Mr.

President.

We will now call for public comment.

Madam Clerk, if you can please note that we've also been joined by Member McCamp.

So note, Mr.

President.

Thank you so much.

All right, we'll begin with public comment.

We have 12 uh individuals in the committee of the whole who would like to speak.

We're gonna start off with uh Craig Sheets, uh followed by Uncle Chico, followed by David Williams, Craig Sheets, Uncle Chico, David Williams.

We'll give everyone two minutes, so be please be mindful of the clock.

You'll see it.

Um sheets, if you take a look up top there on the screen, the time is going to be on the timer.

Uh, once that two minutes is up, if you can please relate relinquish the mic for the next speaker.

I have to be fair and honest.

All right, the floor is yours, sir.

Hit that mic in front of you, push that button, the one in front of the mic.

No, uh, actually on the mic.

There you go.

So is it working now?

All right, got you.

I'm here to protect Earth's water.

Um, the Great Lakes are huge importance along with the oceans.

They work together along with our major rivers.

I've got this stuff with the FBI and for our brought it to public, but missiles launched at any oil on the ocean.

If they were to hit two oil platforms in the ocean on each ocean, Gulf, Atlantic, Pacific, and hit any oil taker on the Great Lakes, the water would never be good again.

It would never recycle back.

I'm also suggesting a uh Geiger counter scintillation counter to all containers coming into our ports, and while they're here, uh scintillation counter is the better one.

You guys should look into that.

Remember scintillation counter.

They load up on a hot shot freight train.

These train routes because I know I rode trains for seven years.

I got lucky and and the railroad they uh they appreciated me coming along with them I know all the routes pretty well they go through all our food areas along rivers through the thick of trees we need those trees for oxygen.

So these particular trains do have a label they're called hot shots.

That is what they're called by the railroad so I am on my way to Ohio next and thanks for letting me speak safe travels.

Yeah the Great Lakes or something let me tell you you you people got it made us thank you so much.

All right take it all right uh team if we can make sure we have the time alert at the end of the time please our next speaker uncle Chico followed by David Williams followed by Glenn Maxwell Grant Rising I'm here to attack the city service.

The thing that happened on uh greenfield and six mile the police ride by there every day why didn't they report it?

Why did it take a citizen to come out and report it because the police are here to serve and protect us how they're protecting us by not reporting things that they see when they're riding through the city and then the other thing is uh the attitude of the people inside of this building here when you're following and trying to come down here and take care of your pertinent business the attitude is atrocious they're not they're not trying to serve the people of the city this is the city hall I remember back when we were protesting outside the police told us to leave but you had everybody around here uh with cameras and that wasn't part of the city this is my city hall I had a right to be here I had a right to be served here can we do better I'm done thank you so much apologies for your uh treatment server on about your business all right next uh speaker Glenn Maxwell followed by David Williams followed by brother Cunningham got Glenn Maxwell followed by I'm sorry David Williams followed by Glenn Maxwell I think I did that wrong in reverse David Williams followed by Glenn Maxwell followed by brother Cunningham good day to everyone uh I'm here to address a concern uh regarding sixth district court specifically uh circuit court excuse me uh criminal justice center um I have an issue with with not only the criminal justice center forcing people online to file uh their paperwork and their documents uh I went the other day to file I was not only was I directed to go online to e-file uh after filing my appeal the rest of my appeal I was told I could not file at the window in person um I did stand with my rights in hand uh I did notify the staff that they were in violation of MCR 1.109 section G3F e-filing mandates do not apply to pro say litigants e-filing applies to attorneys i'm I'm not an attorney uh I'm a pro say litigant uh the clerk made several false statements of law uh demanding that I e-file they also violated my documents by stamping them with the wrong date when you're stamping documents with the wrong date that are being put on the record for an important uh court uh date and hearing that's a problem I'd like a resolution to that I'd like not to be directed to e-file if I don't have to by law I'd like the constitution to be upheld not only the Michigan constitution but the United States constitution to be upheld as well so I came here for some assistance and help to get my things filed thank you in a proper manner.

And once we are completed with all of the individuals who have come before us, members will uh, as needed as determined, will provide comments on your uh collective issues, individually, of course, but we'll do that at the end.

So just wanted to make it uh noted.

And also, team asking again to get the notification um uh alert after the time has run out.

Asking again for that to take place.

Our next speaker is Mr.

Glenn Maxwell.

Thank you for joining us, sir.

Uh thank you for giving thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak today.

My name is Glenn Maxwell.

I live in the um LaSalle Garden neighborhood.

Uh I've been in Detroit uh since 1967 or worked in Detroit since 1967.

Uh I'm here because to speak on behalf of uh the people that have been incarcerated by uh ICE incorrectly, and I'm asking for the city and the city council for some legal assistance in that arena.

So Trump has uh wants to deport a million aliens a year to do that.

He's created and funded the largest police force in the world, the immigration customs enforcement ice.

Trump is all about the numbers when seeking people to depart.

However, there are supposed they are supposed to be criminals, but ICE arrests many people who have no criminal record in Detroit.

When this happens, the people need to defend themselves.

This is the innocent.

This is not innocent until proven guilty.

This is I'm sorry, this is not innocent until proven guilty.

It is guilty until proven innocent, and that's not right.

Many of these victims, Detroit residents, our neighbors' victims cannot afford uh attorneys themselves.

We need to help these people in Detroit defend themselves with legal support.

They can when they need legal support that they cannot afford.

So I am asking the city of Detroit.

Thank you so much, sir.

Um, I'm sorry, just finished the sentence.

I'm sorry, I I do apologize, but we have to give everyone the same amount of time.

That is what the open meetings acts require.

Okay, thank you so much.

Team, are we having a trouble with the alert?

Who's who's behind the Brandon?

Are we having troubles getting the alert?

The sound is going off, sir, but we'll definitely take care of it.

I'm sorry.

I said the sound is going off on this end, but we'll take care of it if it's not coming through through the speaker.

Okay, please make adjustments.

All right, our next speaker, Brother Cunningham, followed by Ann Goulet, followed by Adrian Times.

Bless you.

Brother Cunningham here.

313 4449114.

Uh, you can reach me there, you can uh Google that number, go to Facebook there.

Thank you, Mr.

Peg and Paul, for making these copies.

There is a uh meeting to my tonight, tomorrow, and the next day, the charter mandated mayor meetings, and I have flyers.

If anybody would like a flyer for each meeting, and then some folks last week and the week before, they were blessed.

I was able to bless them or uh just be good to our neighbors and give out bus tickets.

If anybody in the room would like bus tickets uh to get to and fro, and thanks for coming to the meeting.

Um, I wish that the uh council would provide bus tickets for those who come to these meetings and uh validate parking.

Um because everybody don't have money, some folks are poor and uh like myself.

So um that would be uh a good thing, and I'm still praying and holding out that uh team GSR, her thoughts on the monthly the month pilot for free fairs citywide.

Um she've been fighting a long time, and I'm praying and hoping they come to fruition, if not now in the near future.

Uh and I ask everyone to continue to pray for their elected officials and all those in authority.

Uh that's the right thing to do.

If anybody would like a ride to these meetings, um, I have a taxi cab and outreach vehicle 313-444-9114.

It wouldn't be anything new.

I have met people I never met before and give them a ride to a city meeting.

New voices are heard.

Thank you.

And everybody have a good day.

Thank you, Brother Clemen.

I appreciate you all the work that you do.

Anybody know about the next speaker, Ann Boulet, followed by Adrian Tines, followed by Sonita Lewis, I believe that is.

Good morning.

My name is Ann Goulet.

I am a licensed architect, professional project manager, and property development consultant.

For the six years that I have lived here in Detroit, I've been appalled at the way this city's executive branch oversees and manages its millions of dollars and thousands of acres of capital improvement projects.

It's precious and priceless community-owned land portfolio and its urban growth and community rebuilding initiatives.

If well managed, the development of the city's publicly owned lands and its public realm are the community's gateway to opportunity, prosperity, and equality.

Such development can promote health and visitorship, empower businesses, grow investments, and expand important quality of life services.

However, this positivity is threatened by abysmal policies that have lingered from ill-advised business restructuring and poor executive branch decision making before, during and after your bankruptcy.

For example, last week, I appeared at BZA to argue against two years of HRD, BDA, PDD, DEGC, BC, and uh BLDA work to try to sell underutilized community-owned open space to a private developer who has been super clear that he plans to completely demolish it and to change its zoning.

This landfill was never approved by you at City Council, and the endorsement of it by city officials, many city officials, clearly violates the city charter.

Further, the city attorney had the gall to tell an elected CAC rep that her playground was less important than the city's attempt to make a fast dollar.

I have at least 30 such cases on my desk right now that OIG has refused to investigate, referring them back to the city attorneys.

As I spoke, I found myself thinking, why is city council not stopping this?

So here I am again to ask City Council to impose a moratorium on city funded and city staff development projects until these illegalities can be sorted out.

Please empower a commission to address and fix these issues alongside capable and qualified executive branch managers who have finally earned their office.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

I need someone from our team to go back with the gentleman who is uh working the clock.

If you have to manually put manually put a sound uh audible uh at the end of the two minutes, I need that to happen.

I need an audible as been requested.

Our next speaker, Adrian Tines, followed by Miss Sonita Lewis, followed by Charl Williams.

Okay, good morning to all.

Um I'm here again, dealing with um apartment building 375 Westburn Boulevard in Detroit.

Uh, another person has died with similar symptoms.

Come up a little closer to the microphone.

Another person has died with similar symptoms.

Um, anyone to speak out against this owner, Kiadis Ms.

Guinness somehow becomes ill and dropped dead, like I'm becoming ill.

Um, and um he won't address issues past safety issues, drug issues that are going on in there.

The police department is like they protect him, the whole community has complained about um drug and prostitution, and they'll say that no one's calling in.

Um, he was supposed to do some repairs in my unit that was there before I moved in.

Uh, he took told his building manager, I'm not doing anything.

I don't like her.

She organized people.

Um, this is very dangerous.

What's going on?

You have tenants uh retaliate against the people that speak up.

They're retaliating against me day and night.

I don't get sleep.

And um, this is a major issue.

He has not evicted me yet, but he's doing torture tactics.

And this is about 12, 13 people have died off to spoke out against him in session every six months.

Someone's dropping dead.

This man needs to be looked into uh by the FBI um with the things that he's doing.

All right, ma'am.

Just a quick question, ma'am.

Where's the intersection where your home is?

Uh it's 375.

You don't have to give the exact address.

What's the intersection work?

The intersection.

Yeah, just trying to find out what's going on.

Uh, between it was on West Grant Boulevard between Shady Lane and Porter Street.

Okay.

Maybe six.

Someone from one of the council members' team will be uh reaching out to you.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

Our next speaker, Sonita Lewis, followed by Char Williams, followed by Ms.

Betty Lyons.

Good morning, everyone.

Good morning.

Um, my name is Cenita Lewis.

I am a nurse here in the Metro Detroit area, and I am kind of trying to bring a solution to the Metro Detroit area as long as well as the rest of the United States.

But I want to start here because I live here.

I have came up with a solution that will bring licensed health care professionals to your front door with just a few clicks of a button.

It's kind of like DoorDash, but for health care.

I was featured on Fox 2, and I just won the Motor City match for 15,000 as best innovative app.

My goal is to kind of get the word out there.

I have been winning grants, but money is cool, but I believe connections are better.

So I want to get the word out there to those who may be able to utilize the services that I will be launching soon, and to those who may want to sign up for the services, those who are caregivers, registered nurses, LPNs, and I've also partnered with the Alzheimer's Association for those who may need sitters, um, who have wandering loved ones who just want to break or want to run an errand.

I'm trying to get this out there as much as possible.

I'm trying to spread the word so people know that there will be some kind of break in the health care system so that you're not sitting in the emergency room for hours.

Someone can come straight to you, you can save money and you can save time.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Someone from my team will be connected with our next speaker, Shark Williams, followed by Betty Lyons, followed by Tinay.

The Constitution does not state non-American citizens should be on the Detroit Police Department.

And you all, I don't need you to say anything back to me because I've been speaking about a whole lot of stuff over the last past year, illegal corruption of the Detroit Police Department, ex convicts, and I call them fake police because they got new identities and fake names with badges sitting on the Detroit Police Department.

This is not acceptable.

You know what I seen last week down at the uh opening games?

I seen a whole body of them that's on the Detroit Police Department having a good smoking marijuana, drinking, drinking is legal, but marijuana see it when you go and recruit when they do recruiting, you're recruiting these nuts that have guns and weapons on the Detroit Police Department, not American citizens and these green lights, they should see everything because that's what the chief said.

We see everything.

If you see everything, why you can't see what's going on with shift changing.

This is not acceptable.

And let's talk about the building inspectors, illegal fraud with the housing vouchers.

They taking up the vouchers from the citizens who can't get them.

So I'm taking up two apartments, but they own the Detroit police department, and they make a whole lot of money because you all just approve the budget for the Detroit Police Department.

And every time I come down here, I continue to talk about the corruption of the city.

You are supposed to serve the people, not be against the people.

You all are poisoned.

What's the purpose of even sitting up on this panel when you're not complying to the laws of the constitution?

When you sit up here every week and be on some garbage, illegal, stealing from the citizens of Detroit, not making the correct decisions that you should make for the citizens, citizens in the well-being of the citizens, citizens of Detroit.

And like I said, all of you guys will be held accountable, especially you, Ramiro.

You keep stealing.

Next speaker, Betty Lyons, followed by Tina.

Uh, and our last speaker in person will be Mr.

Josh Man.

Lion King, Africa.

That's my motherland, not this raggedy, hate-infested criminally, insane founders of this country.

They can do that 1776 all they want, but blacks were built to be slaves over here.

Three-fifths of a man inhumane, raped, sodomized, disgrace, denied whatever they could deny, and they're still doing they're denying the Leland people justice.

They're supposed to get what was taken from them.

You won't even help them.

And these poor lawyers, I got another word, I won't say these lawyers, without that old Conrad and Anderson can hardly answer anything, Miss Uh Callaway has.

He can't even answer the whole list.

He needs to go back to school.

These uh Muslims, they have our liquor stores, they're selling vegetables in these gas stations, they're selling candy weed or whatever you want, gummy weeds to the children.

Why didn't Mary address that?

And I come and get these illegal immigrants.

We have people that have built this city and love this city, and you won't do anything for them.

No, you won't do it.

Where is that 600 million dollars?

Where is that money that the legal people and the other people and the other apartments that are mistreated and left in humane condition?

And then the lawyers help the slumlords and neglect the tennis.

It is inhumane and awful.

And that speaker, please will be today, followed by Josh May.

Good morning.

Who do I hand these handouts to I'm gonna make it quick?

Hi, I'm Tanae Hankins, and I'm coming here as a victim of neighborhood, et cetera, et cetera.

But um, my main thing I wanted you all to concentrate on is that I am a former, I just recently retired federal employee with the U.S.

Census Bureau, and I have literally been in over 10,000 homes and businesses throughout this country.

So I know what I'm talking about.

And I'm tired of being lied to and lied about my safety compromise, my city by city employees, including attorneys and police officers deliberately break breaking the law with impunity.

This illegal behavior is endangering our lives and more importantly, put our children at risk.

None of these actions could take place without the complice complicity and active interference of the corporation council and the legal department.

I urge the mayor and the city council to join this call for FBI and Wayne County prosecutor intervention into the law department, corruption, and lawlessness because you cannot ask criminals to investigate themselves.

This may also stop them from using the excuse that they cannot comment during the pending litigation and the ongoing perpetual investigation block.

Okay.

But in our conversation, he angrily declared that you're not gonna get any money.

As I was explaining to him what I felt should be necessary to counteract the fact that our identities have been stolen by our city.

He had already decided, the legal department had already decided that we're not entitled to any uh any protection.

Okay, the council has a responsibility to notify these thousand citizens that their identity has been compromised and get somebody on the outside to take a look at it so they can be handled, so the criminals can be handled, and we can stop be put in danger.

And I'm available if anybody needs other information, and I will be sending it to you.

Thank you.

What up, everybody?

So flock again.

Guys remember, like when you were young, and you could go down the block and kiss a girl in private, you could steal a cigarette from your uncle and go try that in the woods.

Privacy's gone.

I'm not worried about my privacy because I don't do anything that I need to be worried about.

I don't even plan on having children, but every generation after us is gonna be punished through these things we're allowing into play.

You have the right to remove this.

All of us grew up being able to ride our bikes around, have private conversations, hang out with our friends, do things maybe that we weren't supposed to.

Those days are gonna be gone.

Flock already has drone surveillance that's being released.

The green lights is plenty.

If you need to monitor and backfeed to see what happened at a gas station, crime intel is all we need, but to catalog this permanently on every human being in existence, this is insane.

You have the ability to stop this like other city councils around the United States, and it's not about us at this point, it's not about it's about the future generations and what's gonna happen to them after we allow this to take place.

We're not gonna be able to remove it, and it's gonna be a nightmare.

Kids deserve privacy.

You do, your family, your grandkids.

You should not be worried walking down the street with your friend of who's watching you.

If you want to kiss somebody, sneak a beer from a relative around Christmas or have a cigarette.

That's nobody's business.

Thank you.

So now transfer over to our online public commenters.

Team, how many callers do we have?

And who do we have first?

We have 19 callers online, sir.

And your first caller is Betty A.

Varner.

Ms.

Betty A.

Varner, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes.

General public comment.

Good morning to all within the sound of my voice.

I'm Betty A.

Barner, president of DeSoda Ellsworth Black Association.

Asking everyone within the sound of my voice.

My association, we are sponsoring a health fair.

Uh it will be from 10 a.m.

to 1 p.m.

This will be free for the Wayne County Metro area.

It does not matter where you live if you are in need of health insurance.

Uh please come.

You don't need any type of insurance card.

It's free for adults and children.

There will be eye exams and screenings.

There will be uh some glasses available.

There will be uh health screenings by DMC and by Detroit Community Health Connections Incorporation.

I'm trying to work out a deal.

I don't know if it's gonna happen, but we'd like to be able to offer some healthy snacks, fruits, etc.

at this event.

It will be at 7151 Finco Avenue at Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church Church, corner of Finco.

Again, that's 7151 Finco Avenue at Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church Church, corner of Finco and Monica.

Please share this information.

We do have a flyer out if you have received a flyer and honorable council members.

If your staff have received flyers, please give them the okay to share this information.

We're trying to get it out to as many people as possible.

We're trying to help people with the insurance crisis.

Thanks so much.

Next caller, please.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

We have two minutes, general public comment.

Are you there?

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

Next, please.

Okay.

Next caller is number inning in 039.

Caller ending in 039.

The floor is yours.

Two minutes, general public comment.

Caller, are you there?

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

Okay.

Next caller is number ending in 169.

Caller ending in 169.

The floor is yours.

We have two minutes.

General public comment.

Hello, can you guys hear me?

Yes, sir.

Great.

I just want to say what up, though.

What up, though?

What up, though?

Um, I hear your resurrection or I hope your resurrection or Easter Sunday went well.

Thank you for praying for Brother Cunningham.

But more importantly, thank you for banking, Cunningham.

Stop thanking and more banking.

Again, thank you for praying for Brother Cunningham.

Um, BND.

Ambassador does not pay any money.

BND.ambassador does not pay any money.

The Bible says one who is faithful in very little is also faithful in much.

Luke 16, verse 10.

Thank you for my time.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is number ending in 700.

Caller ending in 700.

The floor is yours.

Two minutes, general public comment.

Are you there?

Put that caller at the end of the queue and go to the next, please.

Next caller is owner Papa.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

We have two minutes, general public comment.

All the way are you there?

Yes, I am.

Good morning, and through the chair.

May I speak?

Yes.

I have some concerns about 18.1, 18.2, and 18.3.

We're at least 100% IPA, street maintenance, and city funding.

You need to break that out and find that so we know how much city funding, how where all of this is broken out into how much is the city funding to for 11 million, 10 million and then 756,000.

24.4 is an LLC that just became online in 2025, and they're being given or sold a lot of grouped um properties.

I'm wondering how that occurred.

And 11.18, thank you for mentioning the UN who said that slavery was the worst inhumane thing that had ever happened to the world.

So what are we gonna do?

We don't have any money by it, we just have a memo.

And then we have 11 slab 17 black maternal.

Yes, we know that black women have the worst outcomes when it comes to having babies, but I don't see any finances by it.

You've heard a lot of things from a lot of different people today.

We have problems with the police department.

We have problems all over the city for the people who are here.

Please you need to listen to the minister who prayed over you today.

You need to be compassionate about how you make decisions because I don't see the compassion in how you're using our money.

Seven seven doesn't have a rec center, and nobody seems to be worried about that.

We have dirty dirt all over the city, and nobody seems to be worried about that.

These are health issues that need to be addressed by this body, and soon, not tomorrow.

Yes.

William M.

Davis, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Uh good morning, can I be heard?

Yes.

I like to start off by saying that uh on um opening day, there was a lot of people downtown.

And I think we was able to see uh separate and unequal treatment in that there are a lot of visitors to our city that came downtown.

There was lithering, uh drinking open, you know, open liquor, drinking and what have you, and urinating in public.

But yet, you know, young people could go downtown and they get loud, they get detained or ticketed.

I think that's unequal treatment.

Uh also I think a greater effort needs to be made uh looking at some some of these schools, like over in District One, Charles Wright.

You know, we have an incident recently where a number of young people was eating edibles, and you know, we need to have a public campaign to discourage stuff like that.

You know, and we have a number of things going on throughout this whole city that is problematic.

Uh we need to make sure that we are more of a welcoming city.

Uh we need to make sure that we are doing more.

And also the fact that right now our government is opening broadcasting fact that they're committing war crimes.

You know, you know, from the Department of War Crimes.

You know, we we also have to recognize the fact that there are no illegals on stolen land.

This is stolen land.

You know, we need to make sure that we have an opportunity to do better for all of our people here.

And you know, racism still exists.

Preferential treatment still exists.

Um we need to do more to make this city better for everybody.

Uh of course, we always need to do more for the city Detroit retirees.

Yeah, have a good day.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is Yvonne Navarre.

All right, Carla, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Hi, good morning.

My name is Yvonne Varrete.

I'm a resident of district six.

I'm here to advocate for the city council to invest in um legal aid, language access, and general aid funds for immigrant communities who are impacted by um ice coming into our communities and abducting people.

Um, it's really concerning how our civil rights are being violated and how the Trump administration is expanding their presence and um spreading fear and intimidation in our community.

It's amazing to see cities like Boston, um, places in Minnesota, California that have been able to use their local funds to be able to provide legal assistance and support organizations that are uh providing mutual aid or direct on the ground relief for families who lose uh a family member and uh then have to figure out the financial aftermath of doing that and um taking care of their families.

So I hope that Detroit can continue to be a city that fights for everyone, and that um we can show that through the prioritization of these items in the city budget, and as well as investing in mental health broadly, um, seeing as not just the immigrant community is affected by this, but um folks in the city of Detroit.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is Frank Hammer.

Frank Hammer, the floor is yours, two minutes, general public comment.

Good morning, President Tate.

Good morning, City Council.

Um, I'm wanting to announce that uh the Metro Metro Detroit unions are planning a Mass Day rally on Friday, May 1st.

Detroit area unions and community organizations will gather at Roseville Park, and we'll be joined nationwide by a thousand other rallies around the country.

We will be talking about the rising prices that workers face, the ice raids, and the general attacks on labor.

We will def according in the words of Daryl Newman, the head of the Metro AFFL, we will defend all workers, put workers' rights over billionaire profits and keep our unions strong.

Newman, along with UAW Vice President Laura Dickerson and other labor leaders, will be among the speakers.

May Day has been celebrated as International Workers' Day since 1886, when the American Federation of Labor led a nationwide movement to win the eight-hour day.

We had 4,000 here in Detroit that same year that went out on strike for the eight-hour day.

In 2006, millions stayed off of work on May Day to honor no immigrants' day.

And last year in nearly 1,000 marts in Detroit with the sheet metal workers in the lead.

And the in the words of Darrell Newman of the Metro, just as the first May Day in 1886 challenged the robber barons and pave the way for the eight-hour day.

Our May Day in 2026 will say no to the current crop of billionaires, union busters.

We celebrate the International Workers' Day, and our and as our labor anthem says, we strive to bring the birth a new world from the ashes of the old.

Stay tuned, there'll be more.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is Jacqueline.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes to general public comment.

Okay.

Um the lots on um Tacoma between Reno and Grasship.

I see where one lot was filled in.

However, the dirt is covering the sidewalk to the street.

The others are still not covered in, along with on Harding near Charlavoy, there's an open lot, along with on um Woodhall, between Breland and I do believe it's um Linville.

There's an open lot that's not covered guarded.

So I, you know, all I can do is just keep on calling and reporting that these are not covered in.

I just understand why they can't be covered in.

I reported it to uh Mr.

Peck and Paul, um, Miss Um Letitia to Mr.

Um the um someone else.

I forgot his name.

Um Washington.

And um they asked for addresses, but how do I give an address for a vacant lot that I don't you know?

I live in district four, and um these are like in uh not even in my neighborhood.

I just ride around the city, and I see these, and that is my comment.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is Sahira Ahmad.

Right, all of the floor is yours.

We can have two minutes, general public comment.

Good morning.

Good morning, everyone.

Um, this I'm representing the coalition for property tax justice, and this is what we're doing.

If you don't push, you'll never go far enough.

So I'd like to thank the coalition for some extent.

There's a reason we're here because they have pushed discussion to the top of the window.

He's right.

But the fight isn't over.

The coalition recently launched its first 100 days plan, which calls on Detroit's mayoral and city council candidates to, in the first 100 days of their term, deliver a people-centered property tax system by one, fully implementing the property tax reform ordinance.

Two, making assessments accurate and lawful.

Three, protecting and modernizing the process to obtain the principal residence exemption and hope exemption.

Replace existing chief assessor with one with the proper qualifications.

Stand with us.

Join the fight for property tax justice.

Now I also want to let you know that we'll be having a press conference this Friday at 11 a.m.

Uh, you can find out more information on that, and we invite you to come.

Go to illegal taxforeclosures.com.

And the other thing that I want us to please be uh cognitive of city council.

We need the assessors, the assessment division not use only warranty D's in their ECF analysis.

Um, and direct the office of the assessor to follow the one percent depreciation standard.

And that would be those homes that are older, say uh over 50 years old, they need to depreciate them one percent for each year.

Uh and so that kind of thing needs to be assessed in that kind of way.

Thank you so much for all your help and seeing you at the next fellow, please.

Next caller is actually not.

Oh, yeah, I'm also want to uh let you guys know that uh that you guys need to uh include in the in the the budget uh the fund for uh uh a legal fund for for uh immigrant uh communities in here uh for due process, uh and also for general support and language access.

Uh it's it's it's it's really important that we get this in the budget.

Um, you know, not just for social moral reasons, but for economic reasons, right?

I I think you know these ice raids have uh disrupted our education system, our small businesses, uh all all throughout uh the city.

So I I I feel if if if this is not included, it's it's gonna be a step backwards for for Detroit and and uh in and in many ways.

Uh so please be sure to be sure to include that on the budget.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is Darren McCleskey.

The floor is yours.

We have two minutes general public comment.

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

Next caller is iPhone.

IPhone, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes general public comments.

Uh I wanted to hear you.

Can you hear me?

Yes, sir.

Okay.

Yeah.

The woman that uh said she was available at uh under public comment this morning.

Uh that's an example of uh how how do we connect with her?

Because you don't open up chat where we can make connections with our community people and maybe work together on some of these problems.

I don't expect you guys to be miracle workers up there, nine people trying to solve the problems of the city.

If you don't enlist us, and frankly, if we were Indians, we could sit around the campfire till midnight or into the morning if that's what it needed to be done to discuss our problems and figure out how we're gonna go together to solve them.

And this is um something that I've asked for, and I just uh it's ridiculous.

And the uh the best thing about the meeting is your public comment.

And you could be putting the transcript up on the line and let people skim it and read what they're interested in on the meeting at night, the ones that work and can't listen to the meeting.

They're citizens here too, and they they can't participate.

So you're uh it you're not using the technology uh for us if you can't even put the transcript up there and let us post our public comments up on line.

And also make sure you put them in the record.

So uh uh then 36th district court, they got seven days for me to appeal a parking ticket, and you can't get your transcript estimate, even in that time.

So the whole uh your system needs to you need people to work together to fix it.

You can't fix it by yourself.

And and I think it's disrespectful when you think you can turn people off in the middle of what they're talking about, just like now.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is blackback.

Right, caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Caller, are you there?

Yeah, I'm here, James D.

Tate Jr.

Can you hear me clearly?

Hey, sucker.

Can you hear me clearly?

I'm gonna tell you.

Mr.

Ru now.

Mini Gary that name.

And you James D.

Tate Jr.

Conrad Mallet Jr.

Warren Evans.

And Solomon Kenlock can all smoke D.

It's not gonna work.

Mary is not gonna get removed from office.

She is gonna be the mayor of the city of Detroit because she supports some special project.

Now, what Children did, and what you done did over all these terms.

You've been in there what four terms or more.

It's reprehensible.

And I'm black bag.

Who Mr.

Rue, Mr.

Overwith, your political career is ending, and it's starting now.

I'm coming out side, one more time in the city of Detroit.

And I am one of the codes.

But ain't none of them like me.

Matter of fact, it ain't another NYGGA in the city of Detroit.

Like me, how you doing?

I hey, I'm on public comment, and I'm out here telling them that I'm getting ready to turn the city of Detroit upside down, inside out, and all the way around.

You next caller, please.

Next caller is number ending in 482.

Caller ending in 482.

The floor is yours.

We have two minutes, general public comment.

Caller, are you there?

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

Okay.

Next caller is Douglas Hayden.

Caller, the floor is yours.

We have two minutes.

General public comment.

Brandy bring in 482 or a five.

The Detroit Land Bank Authority has never functioned in a quasi-governmental capacity.

Transparency and resident participation is required for any legitimacy when discretion is being used to dictate the development of our blocks and homes.

It is not a hard fleet on the 1400 block of Spring Garden between Chalmers and Grovers, since there are only six families left on our two blocks after systematically excluding our neighborhood from revitalization efforts like the nuisance abatement program.

Yeah, we had no engagement from city employees who have been given individual discretion to endorse or decline development of large areas of land that would not exist otherwise, with no valid reasoning as to why certain parcels are selected for some programs and others left untouched or placed for sale as side lines.

We began inquiries with the DOBA in 2023 with no cooperation responses or follow-through without extensive pushback.

We were only able to maneuver because of my knowledge as a former DLBA employee.

The lack of community-centered decision making and leadership is the primary reason I parted ways with the DLBA, fighting to help residents keep their property, but watching carefully calculated platform-driven decisions by Mike and his flying monkeys who continuously only spend our money in places like the financial district with Ann Arbor lackeys like Ned Stabler.

Tammy Daniels has been one of these individuals for over a decade.

Now we have five parcels of land being held for a beautification project on our block that at least three of our four families had zero participation in, nor any knowledge of, despite multiple inquiries with the DOBA in person and directly with staff.

I'm the only property owner adjacent to this land after fighting off Assumption Grotto Church, the Catholic Archdiocese and one family bypassing DOBA policies, despite the DOBA being made aware of this several times.

They are colluding to extend a cemetery.

The families on our block and surrounding streets do not want.

These individuals have never been a part of our community as they come from surrounding suburbs only for Sunday service, just as the majority of DLBA staff also do travel to their place of employment.

The motion we submitted to the court and is signed by residents is attached in an email to you all.

We want new housing that does not interfere costs or cater to landlords and profiteers, and we need your help in our district.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is cricket icon.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Caller, are you there?

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

Next caller is JM Meets.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes.

General public comment.

Good morning.

My name is Jay Meeks, and I serve as the president of the Mary Grove Community Association.

I'm here today to express my deep disappointment with the city's lack of responsiveness and accountability regarding a property damage claim we filed more than five months ago, which is before Comp 1 administrators incorporated.

In August of last year, we submitted a formal claim after a repeated destruction of a community-led environmental restoration site, our Kentucky Street Wildflower Meadow.

This is not a vacant lot.

It is a clearly marked conservation space developed with intention, care, and partnership, including with federal agencies.

Since filing that claim, we have done everything right.

We followed up, we've asked for updates, we've asked for basic information about the process and timeline, and we've consistently received the same response.

The claim remains under investigation.

No timeline, no transparency, no resolution.

After months of silence, we were then asked basic questions that should have been addressed from the start of this process.

This is just not inefficient.

It signals a system that is not working for residents.

Let me be clear.

This is not just about one claim, this is about trust.

When community organizations step up to improve neighborhoods, when we invest time, resources, and care into creating green space, we should not have to fight the very systems that are supposed to support us.

And when harm is done, we should not be left in the dark for months without answers.

We're asking for something simple accountability, transparency, and a reasonable timeline for resolution.

I urge this body to look into how claims like ours are being handled, particularly when third-party administrators are involved, and to ensure that residents and community organizations are treated with respect and responsiveness that they deserve.

I'm requesting a formal update within 14 days.

Thank you for your time.

Next caller, please.

Caller ending in 338.

The floor is yours.

Two minutes, general public comment.

I'm here.

Good morning.

I'm here.

Good morning.

My name is Denisha Roberson.

I am a lifelong resident of Detroit for almost 37 years.

I'm here today because my cousin lost his life in a violent incident connected to Detroit life life nightlife earlier this year.

Um, and that experience led me to start asking questions about what in nightlife settings can be strengthened to prevent these types of tragedies.

So as a result, I've been developing a framework uh called J Lynn that stands for Justice Aligned Licensing and Enforcement for Night Life.

It is a voluntary prevention focused approach.

It looks at how venues operate things like security practices, crowd management, and overall preparedness.

J Win aims to make those indicators more visible and consistent.

It is not enforcement based.

It is designed to support venues that are already trying to operate responsibly.

Um, and it encourages stronger and more structured safety practices around the board.

Uh, I am currently in a pilot development phase, and I have begun engaging with community leaders, um, nightlife stakeholders, public safety professionals and violence prevention efforts across the city.

And I'm here today to introduce this into public record as a part of the broader conversation currently happening around um reducing violence and strengthening the safety in Detroit nightlife spaces.

Uh and thanks for your time.

Thank you.

Oh, you still have time, ma'am.

You're all right.

If I'm do apologize if you'd like to provide the rest of your comments uh to uh clerk's office that will be placed on the public record.

Uh but if you would like to you still have 30 seconds left.

You would like to call back in after you were disconnected, please uh do so.

Oh, she was done.

Oh, the time was up.

Okay, my apologies.

I thought I saw 30 seconds.

All right, next caller, please.

Caller is Kamal Shawarwa.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Appreciate it.

I feel like I come enough to where my name is getting pronounced well.

Um so yeah, I wanted to call in just to express uh some gratitude for um some things in this budget and budget season.

Um, one is just the the overall engagement of the public and like posting the schedules and keeping us up on um some of those things.

Um, and then also to just uh expressing support for things like right to council, um, some of the programs for mental health co-response unit, um, as well as um the occupy the summer and other programs that are being considered for our young people.

Um, and also too want to express some gratitude for um some closing resolutions made by council members around committing to address mental health moving forward, um, and want to continue to work with all of you on that.

Um, so I do want to extend an invitation uh to something that we are cooking up, which will be our mental health expo, which will be Saturday, May 16th.

Um, we will email notice out, um, and it will be something that'll be on social media as well for people to R T VP for.

But we do want to start working with council members, other community leaders, um, and folks at the state level to really think about how we can beef up um mental health services in the city of Detroit and really address um some of the issues we're facing.

Um, and with the rest of my time, I actually just want to express support for the previous public comment.

Um, for me, I I've done a lot of work with high school leaders, so I know that like the teen takeovers is like a big conversation right now um in terms of how we're addressing that.

Um, so definitely would love to connect with the previous commentary, but also other um council members and leaders that are thinking about how we kind of engage our young people um in ways that are a little bit more generative than I think what we're seeing right now without kind of creating over policing um situations that could ultimately result in more harm.

But with that said, I will forfeit my time and I look forward to speaking to all of you soon.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is the Zoom user.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Caller already there.

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

Okay, next caller going back to the number ending in 700.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Are you there going once?

Jeremy James, can you hear me?

Disconnecting.

Playing games.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is Darren McCluskey.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Are you there going three times?

Fortunately, we'll have to move on.

You would like to provide your comments to the clerk's office, it will be placed on the public record.

Next caller, please.

Okay.

It takes us to the end of our public comments.

We return back to our agenda.

My computer just left it up.

Okay.

Under standing committee reports for the internal operations standing committee from the law department madam clerk.

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

Formal session, line item 17.1.

Line number 17.1.

Uh, member Benson.

Oh, yeah, stepped away.

Madam Clerk.

Uh, if we colleagues, uh, can we post uh uh postpone line item 17?

Well, do you want to move through member Callaway?

Mr.

Chair, can we move to bring this back?

Um, because he just left, and I don't want to move it if that's not his um desire.

So can we just move it to the end of the agenda or later on in the agenda?

That's what I was looking for.

If we can postpone this item to the end of the agenda, noting that he did want this one postponed.

Okay, I want to make sure that uh he's clear uh with uh the direction wants to take this one item.

Okay, any objections, colleagues, to move this to the end of the agenda.

Seeing none that action shall be taken.

Uh for the neighborhood and community services standing committee for the office of contracting and procurement, madam clerk.

Council President Pro Tim Young, three resolutions, line items 18.1 through 18.3, noting that they are all contracts for the general services, contract number 6007594, 100% IPA, street maintenance slash city funding to provide construction, partition equipment and supporting services, contractor McAllister Machinery Company incorporated doing business as Michigan Cat, total contract amount 11, 234, 438 dollars.

Contract number 6007678, 100% IPA Street Maintenance slash city funding to provide construction partition equipment and supporting services, contractor McQueen Equipment LLC, doing business as McQueen, total contract amount 10 million one hundred eleven thousand one hundred fifteen dollars and twenty cents and contract number six zero zero seven four eight zero one hundred percent IPA street maintenance slash city funding to provide construction partition equipment and supporting services contractor BEC Enterprises LLC doing business as Brown Equipment Company, total contract amount 756, 840 dollars.

Council President Pro Tim Young, three resolutions.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

It has come to my attention that there's some more discussion around these items.

So I like to move to postpone line items 18.1 through 18.3 for one week.

Thank you so much.

There's a motion to postpone the vote for line item 18.1 through 18.3 uh with discussion.

I thank you for that.

Uh Pro Tim my office did have questions on this particular these particular items and didn't get an opportunity to get the responses um because of budget yesterday and um prep for this morning.

So thank you for that.

Colleagues, there's a motion on the floor.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken for the planning and economic development standing committee from the planning city planning commission, madam clerk.

Council member Johnson, in introduction of an ordinance, line item 19.1.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I move that the ordinance be read twice by title, ordered printed and laid on the table.

Thank you so much.

Any objections, colleagues?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

From the city planning commission, madam clerk.

Councilmember Johnson, a resolution set in a public hearing.

Line item 19.2.

Line item 19.2, uh member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Move for approval to set the public hearing for a date and time to be determined.

Colleagues, there's a motion for approval for date and time to be determined.

Any objections?

Line item 19.2.

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

From the city planning commission, Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Johnson, in introduction of an ordinance, line item 19.3.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I move that the ordinance be read twice by title, order printed and laid on the table.

Colleagues, there's a motion for approval line item 19.3.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

From the city planning commission, Madam Clerk.

Council Member Johnson, a resolution set in a public hearing.

Line item 19.4.

Line item 19.4, Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman for approval for a date to be determined.

Colleagues, there's a motion on the floor for approval.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

From the city planning commission, Madam Clerk.

Council Member Johnson in introduction of an ordinance.

Line item 19.5.

Line item 19.5, Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I move that the ordinance be read twice by title, order printed and laid on the table.

Colleagues, there's a motion for approval.

Line item 19.6.

Any objections?

19.5, Mr.

Chair.

Oh, 19.5.

Colleagues, any objections?

I was going ahead of myself.

Seeing none that action shall be taken.

From the city planning commission.

Council member Johnson, a resolution set in a public hearing.

Line item 19.6.

Line item 19.6, member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Move for approval for a date to be determined.

Uh line item 19.6.

Uh setting a public hearing for uh line item 19.6 date to be determined.

Colleagues, any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

From the housing and revitalization department, madam clerk.

Councilmember Johnson, a resolution line item 19.7.

Uh member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman for approval.

This is the annual home home ARP, CDBG and C D B G C V new and revised awards.

There's a motion for approval for line item 19.7.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Mr.

Chair, I'd like to request a waiver on line item 19.7.

Colleagues, there's a request for a waiver on 19.7.

Any objections?

Seeing none, a waiver should be attached.

From the planning and development department, Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Johnson, a resolution, line item 19.8.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman for approval.

That's a motion to approve line item 19.8.

Colleagues, any objection?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Under resolutions.

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

Formal session, line item 19.9.

Thank you.

Line item 19.9, Member Vincent.

Thank you.

Uh discussion on line of 19.9.

Oh motion to send back to committee.

The administration then seeking additional time for discussion on this topic.

Uh with discussion.

Oh, you said we'll you want discussion or send back?

Discussion to and motion to move back to committee, send back to committee.

The administration is seeking more time to have this conversations on this topic.

Thank you, sir.

Colleagues, that's a motion to send line item 19.9 back to committee.

Any objections?

See none, then action shall be taken.

Uh for the public health and safety standing committee from the office of contracting and procurement, madam clerk.

Councilmember Santiago Romero for resolutions, line items 20.1 through 20.4.

Contract number 3091451.

100% blight funding to provide emergency commercial demolition of 3916 Joy Roll.

Contractor DMC Consultants Incorporated.

Total contract amount 81, 890.

That's for construction and demolition.

Contract number 6006103-82.

100% city funding.

Amendment 2 to provide an increase of funds for additional reporting add-ons for EMS software platform for managing fire and arson records.

Patient care reports, personnel management, properties and inspection and reporting.

Contractor, image, trend LLC, total contract amount, 1 million 832, 312 and 11 cents.

That's for fire.

Contract number 6006277-83.

100% grant funding.

Amendment three to provide an extension of time only for Gordy Howe International Bridge Health Impact Assessment.

Contractor Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation Total Contract Amount 1 million.

That's for health.

And contract number 6005805-A2.

100% major street funding.

Contractor, Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority.

Total contract amount 2 million 428, 321 dollars and 21 cent.

That's for public works.

Motion to approve 20 point 1 through 20.4.1 through 20.4.

Any objections?

Discussion.

With discussion, member calloway.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Do we have anyone on from um contracts and procurement for line item 20.1?

Do we know who owns this property?

We're paying a lot to demolish it.

All right, Miss Sellers.

Uh you have anyone available for line item 20.1.

Good morning.

Through the chair, we have Eric Cooper on.

All right, if we can promote that individual, please.

All right, we're looking for that individual to accept the promotion.

Please accept the promotion.

We bring you on.

All right, there we go.

Good afternoon.

Good morning.

Good morning, Eric Cooper off subcontractor, Mr.

Chairman.

Thank you so much.

Member Callaway, if you can please uh repeat your question.

Thank you, Ms.

Chair.

And um good morning, sir.

Um, a couple questions on line item 21.

Is the demolition of a property at 3916 Joy Roll for close to 82,000 dollars?

What is the property?

Is it privately owned?

Does the city own it?

Do you know through the chair?

Mr.

Cooper.

I think he's been acting up this morning, everyone.

Sorry.

All right, there we go.

We got you back.

Mr.

Cooper, if you were speaking, we heard nothing.

Oh, now he just disappeared.

I'm gonna try to bring him back.

He dropped.

All right.

All right.

Um Callaway, if we can return back to that item up.

Uh I see him and he's all right.

All right all right, we're gonna sneak this in.

All right, Mr.

Cooper.

Sorry about that.

Um I didn't quite catch quite catch all of the question.

I believe the first question was um who the owner of this based upon the information that we have here in OCP.

This is a privately owned property.

Member Callaway, you may have missed the remainder of the question.

If you can please restate.

Okay, Mr.

Pooper, who owns the property?

What's the name of the company?

Is it an LLC individual?

Who owns the property?

Because we're spending our dollars to tear down, and and I've always objected, and I'm gonna object to this one, privately owned properties when they own other properties throughout the city.

And we never we we are never able to recoup what we're spending to tear down, remove greedy graffiti from privately owned properties.

This is no different.

So who owns it?

If not, I'm going to move to bring it back to maybe give you a week to answer my questions because I have um five questions.

Through the chair, um that information uh we don't get that in OCP, but we can reach out to the department to get that information for you.

Okay, um, Mr.

Chair, I move to bring the postpone this line item for one week.

I have about five questions.

Well, Miss Sullivan maybe better who can provide that information.

So thank you, Ms.

Jimmy.

Through the chair, we have Raquel Harrington on.

All right, we can promote Ms.

Harrington.

Good morning, ma'am.

Just introduce yourself for the record.

Good morning, Raquel Harrington with construction and demolition department.

Right, member Callaway?

Yeah, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Good morning, um, Miss Harrington and Mr.

Cooper.

Um, my question was who owns the property at 3916 Joy Road is costing um the city eighty-two thousand dollars to to um demolish it.

Has the demolition occurred because this says emergency commercial demolition has the demolition already occurred?

Yeah, through the through the chair, yes, the demolition has already occurred.

It happened on 217, 2026.

Uh our record show that it is privately owned as far as who owns it.

I can work to get that information over to you.

Um, and we can bring it back uh at the end when I get that information.

It should be in our records.

Okay, thank you thank you so much, Ms.

Harrington.

And my other question through the chair is um, do you have a system in place in demolition and construction to recoup the dollars that the city is spending to demolish privately owned properties and also to remove graffiti from privately owned properties?

But I think that's under GSD.

So it's just a general question.

Any plans or any processes in place to recoup the dollars that the city is spending to demolish privately owned structures?

Ms.

Harrington through the chair.

Through the chair, from my understanding is that once these are demolished, we go and we charge the privately um the privately owned properties.

Those owners are charged on the back end to make sure that we get that.

So they're sent a separate bill.

Uh I can't really speak to how that process works.

I'm not sure if I would defer you to law or defer you to uh procurement on that one.

And that was what I was gonna ask uh member calloway if we can get Mr.

Anderson to come on down and give some color to this question or response.

Yes, Mr.

Chair, hopefully we'll put our our foot down um moving into this new administration under the leadership of our mayor Sheffield to start recouping some of the dollars that we're spending to demolish privately owned structures and some of these owners, Mr.

Chair, and I know you're probably aware they own other structures throughout the city, and um, but they wait on us because then it becomes a a hazard.

We don't want anybody any bodies found in the property, so it becomes an emergency, Mr.

Chair, and it forces the city to take action.

But some of these um um um property owners play games, they drag it out, drag it out till we don't have a choice but to demolish it, and then they walk away.

So yourself to Mr.

Anderson, Mr.

Harrison, how are we recouping these dollars?

If so through the chair to council member uh Calloway, you you're absolutely right that that is something that does happen far too often and does put the city in a very difficult position because of course you know safety is the number one priority, but at the same time, we do want to make sure that we uh recoup uh the money that we uh return to the city.

I did the blank team provide a memo to you uh the recent cost recovery.

I I don't have those numbers in front of me, but but I do know that the the law department is working to bring in the most cost recovery that we can on these demolitions, especially with uh the the commercial bad actors that um are frequently doing this over and over again.

Uh but I I wish I had a more detailed uh information in front of me right now.

I don't right now, but I I'm happy to have more details next week, and of course, I'm happy to email you and this entire body of those uh cost collection efforts that we've made over uh the years.

Thank you.

Um so much, Mr.

Chair.

Um, thank you, Mr.

Anderson.

Um, I still would like to postpone um any movement on this for just at least one week so I can get my answers um my questions answered because I I got a feeling, sir, that um uh we are doing this way too often and we don't recoup our dollars.

I know Mr.

Chair, about a year or so ago, um corporation council did um contract the services.

I think the Allen group, I think they're the third-party collectors.

I don't know how they've been you know successful or not, but they were the ones who I think were charged with collecting some um some um some of these dollars for some of these um business owners or property owners.

So um I still would like to bring this back in a week so I can um have my questions uh more thoroughly um answered, Mr.

Chair.

Thank goodness uh attorney Anderson, do you know if a uh report is available that could show the um outcomes of the uh action of the contract approved for the Allen brothers in this space?

Yeah, through the chair, I absolutely can reach out to the Floyd Allen group and uh both get the most recent update of their efforts and be able to present that to this body hopefully by next week.

Okay, and I would hope that it would be as much reaching out to them, but we should already kind of have information in house through the chair.

I uh real time through the chair, I'm sure we do council president, but I would want the most up-to-date uh information for this body.

Okay, member Calloway, is there a motion for this assignment?

Yeah, um, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Motion to bring back line item 20.1 in one week.

There's a motion to uh postpone the vote for line item 20.1 in one week.

Discussion.

Any uh with discussion, uh member McCampbell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I'm a supporter of bringing it back in one week.

I also had a question on this, and I can follow up on it.

Um I've I've have taken issue with the emergency demolition process, but I'm just wondering for the admin what led this to be an emergency demo um as I'm looking at the properties of the uh as I'm looking at the photos of the property.

I think Miss Uh Harrington could respond to that.

Ms.

Harrington.

Hi, through the chair.

So we uh I do not have that information in front of me at this moment.

I am working to pull up the information along with the property owner information as well.

So if you can give me a little bit of time, I'm happy to circle back uh and give you all that information.

We're gonna postpone it for one week.

So uh no worries for today, so we can move forward in the agenda.

Uh but we I think it would be appropriate for that um uh uh action to be taken that motion to request that uh memo, but let's close this one out.

Colleagues, a motion to postpone the vote on line item 20.1 for one week.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Member Calloway.

Would you want the uh report from the Allen Brothers?

Um that would be wonderful, Mr.

Chair.

So through yourself, Mr.

Chair to Mr.

Anderson, if we can get that report from the um Floyd Allen group um regarding the third party um collection um process and how we have been successful, I hope.

Okay, the chair will do.

It sounds like that's a motion.

Motion, sir.

All right, there's a motion.

Uh any objections, colleagues, saying none, that action shall be taken.

And certainly looking for that information before we come back uh next Tuesday for the vote, please.

Absolutely.

I'll make sure this whole body gets a council president.

Thank you.

Colleagues, we still have line items 20.2 through 20.4 uh that has been moved for approval.

Any objections seeing none, that action shall be taken from the office of the chief financial officer, office of development and grants.

Councilmember Santiago Romero, two resolutions, line items 20.5 and 20.6.

Member Santiago Romero.

Motion to approve.

These are both various greens.

There's a motion to approve line items 20.5 and 20.6.

Colleagues, any objections?

See none, that action shall be taken.

Request to waiver, Mr.

President, on both items 20.5 and 20.6.

Thank you.

There's a request for waivers on both items, colleagues.

Any objections?

See none.

Waiver should be attached.

We will now move to the new business portion of the agenda from the Office of Contracting and Procurement, Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Santiago Romero for resolutions.

Line items 21.1 through 21.4.

Contract number 6001625-A4.

100% general fund amendment four to provide nine-month contract extension to complete final 11 ad shelters.

Contractor Brooklyn Outdoor LLC total contract amount 4 million 104,957 and 46 cents.

That's for transportation.

Contract number 600746, 100% city funding to provide specialty uniforms and other specialty items.

Contractor Alley Brothers uniforms, total contract amount, 275,000, 324 and 40 cents.

That's for police.

Contract number 6007534, 100% MEDC funding to provide supplemental grant funds to Toyota Mobility Foundation, Sustainable Cities Challenge Grant Partner to deploy clean freight vehicles to reduce emissions in Eastern Market, Office of Mobility and Innovation, Contractor, Eastern Market Corporation, total contract amount 100,000.

That's for transportation.

Contract number 600722, 100% city funding to provide specialty uniforms and other specialty items.

Contractor Enterprise Uniform Company, total contract amount, 360,000 770 and 75 cents.

That's for police.

Council member Santiago Romero for resolutions.

Motion to approve.

Discussion with discussion, Member Callaway.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I remember a time when we had our um uniform companies based in Detroit.

I see we have one based in Detroit here.

Why can the one that's based in Detroit?

And that's line item 214 have the entire contract.

Why do we have to cut this contract in half to give one half to Lavonia?

I'm not understanding that.

We used to do our own uniforms right in Beerboards.

I mean, right here in Detroit on East Grand Boulevard.

Why are we cutting our uniform contract in half to go to Lavonia?

Why not give this entire contract?

Which is city funded to this Detroit-based company.

Lavonia's not sending any of their uniform um contracts to Detroit.

Name one.

Nobody can.

So I'm gonna um make a motion to bring this back.

I would like to send it back to contract contracting and procurement.

I just want to know why the company that's been around in Detroit during our uniforms, probably for a hundred years, sir.

Why can't they have the whole contract?

Discussion.

Well, Member Calvin, we can have them come before.

Yes, that that and and so anybody from contract procurement on who can answer that question.

Why are we splitting it to give Lavonia a quarter of a million dollars to do our con to do our uniforms?

That's that's my question.

I want to keep all the money in Detroit.

Before we go forward, I did get a request to further discuss from Member McCampbell, member McCampbell.

We can have OCP, and I would say all party DPD as well.

But okay.

So uh Miss Sullivan, do you have anyone available who can provide member Callaway with response to the question she has?

Through the chair, we have Captain Jason Adams and Lola Clark.

Okay, we will promote them.

Good morning, sir.

Please introduce yourself for the record.

Good morning, Captain Jason Adams, Detroit Police Department Management Services.

All right, did you hear the question or do you need to restate it?

Yes, I did.

Okay, the floor is yours.

Uh to the chair.

The reason that we have multiple vendors is it's the orders and the needs are too much for a single vendor to provide.

Uh the timeliness of orders and the volume of what's needed from time to time is um can be overwhelming for one vendor to have to supply all that stuff at once.

Yeah, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I'm gonna um make a motion, Mr.

Chair, to postpone um line item um 20.1 to 20.2 and 20.1 to 20 um 20.4.

Discussion.

So member calloway, just for clarity, what numbers again?

Um, yes, sir.

It's special uniforms, line item 21.2 and 21.4 for special specialty uniforms.

Okay.

With discussion, uh, pro Tim Young, followed by Member Benson.

Pro Tim.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Uh uh, good good to see you, sir.

Always a pleasure.

I just wanted to ask you, are you saying that this is a capacity problem?

Why they have not been able to receive the contract?

Is it's is it scale too?

Pardon me.

Okay, to the chair.

The the contracts are scaled.

Uh Enterprise has a uh slightly greater capacity to handle our orders, but the uh the volume of what they have in inventory and what they have available, our needs will exceed that at times.

So we may have to get items from multiple vendors to fill a need at a certain instance.

Right, right.

So so so it's capacity, right?

Yes, is the build is it's is the is the ability to be able to do that.

Do you have a certain metric that you measure in terms of what that is and how that is, and do you have that on a um dashboard that people can actually see?

So you can say, listen, this company didn't get this because they didn't it have this type of scale that it needs for this product, and here's how we measure that and where you can see where this where the citizens can actually follow that and see what that is.

Uh to the chair, we do not have a dashboard that uh records our orders and the status of those orders.

Um, but through our experience, we have found that through all of our uniform vendors that we have a tendency to have items back ordered, and uh if we rely on just a single vendor in any circumstance, we may not get what we need.

And so that's based off our experience of processing the request and the invoices when we receive the product.

No, I understand it.

I just think that might be something you might want to look at doing just in the future.

So people can so we have these questions, people can be transparent.

We can see why this is and why you're not doing this.

So we all kind of are working with the same information.

So just thought that might be a recommendation.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Umber Benson.

All right, thank you.

Uh through yourself, my colleague, just looking at line 21.4, that is a Detroit-based contract, just looking to see if we can't keep that one for a vote.

Um just to ensure that the Detroit-based contract can get a good look today.

In addition, just making sure that we have a line of uniforms that are available while 21 contract 21.2 uh is looked at.

Thank you.

We'll we'll return back to the the motion.

Uh, because I did still have additional uh discussion on that item as well.

Uh so uh sir, the uh trying to determine how do you how you make the determination on which contract you reach or which vendor you reach out to first?

And I think the the the concern I'm hearing from a colleague is when you have two, and it's I'll just say my concern is what you have if you have two contracts, two vendors, uh one is Detroit based, one is outside of the city.

Uh the goal would be to uh first ensure that the Detroit contractor has the ability uh to fulfill that obligation and the capacity, and then if there's any additional uh uh challenges with that vendor at that moment, then you would pivot to the other vendor in Lavonia.

Uh, but I'm making that up because that's what I want to see.

What is your process that actually takes place to determine uh which vendor you uh reach out to first with two contractors uh involved?

To the chair.

We rotate vendors.

We place an order with one vendor and then we alternate to the other vendor that is also contracted for that.

Another consideration is the amount on the contracts.

The projections are used or made for our needs for the time period, and there's good cause that we will exhaust both or have the and so we try to balance it out.

If uh, for instance, it's a smaller order and there's less funds left on one of the contractors uh contract, then we would go to that one to try to balance out not only the the fairness of placing orders, but also to uh utilizing them for their capacity.

And then my other question is um my colleague indicated that in the past we did use one Detroit vendor.

How long have uh we as the city utilized uh this particular process uh where we have redundant contracts to uh address any concerns with capacity?

Uh to the chair, I believe we entered into contracts with two additional vendors other than enterprise um in 25, maybe maybe 24.

And the reason that uh we pursued additional vendors is because we were exceeding the capacity of what enterprise could provide for all the orders that we place.

Okay, but enterprise is still in play right now, so that would take us to three vendors uh to the chair.

Our existing uniform contracts, which are our base uniforms, we have three vendors for the specialty uniforms.

There were five companies that did, but only two could adequately meet the needs that the city has, and that was Alley Brothers and Enterprise.

Gotcha.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

All right, member Callaway.

Mr.

Chair, Kelly.

Okay, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I want the entire contract to go to enterprise.

They've been around almost a hundred years.

And and I and I and I would have to venture to say I don't think um enterprise is allowed or permitted to bid on any contracts in Lavonia and expect to win to do any of their police officer uniforms.

I doubt that very seriously.

And they're not going to go in Dearborn as a black-owned company and get one contract to do any of their uniforms.

So I'm advocating for this smaller company, but they've been around probably a hundred years.

Allie probably just some former police officers retired from the city of Detroit, and they know there's a little um a business that they can open and get these contracts.

I want the entire contract, like it used to do, go to enterprise located on East Grand Boulevard, who've probably been around 50, 70, 80 years.

We do not have to split our contracts and split it with Lavonia.

Lavonia doesn't split their contracts with Detroit, and we should not be compelled or forced to um split our contracts with Lavonia.

We should give the I'm advocating that we give the entire contract to Enterprise.

They've been doing them.

We're not getting anything from Lavonia.

We can't send any of our police, we can they will not send any of their uniform orders to Detroit.

I want to see, and that's what I'm gonna ask Enterprise.

I'm gonna ask Enterprise.

That's why I'm asking Mr.

Chair to bring it back in a week so I can do my due diligence to find out has Lavonia ever had any of their police uniforms sent to Enterprise to um to alter or to upgrade.

I that's my question.

And I'm really concerned about what we're doing here.

They don't split their contracts with Detroit, and we should not be compelled to split our contracts with them.

And that's how I'm gonna do that for the next four years while I'm sitting here.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

But that is my motion.

That is my motion to bring it back in a week so I can go over to enterprise and um find out if they've ever had an opportunity, Mr.

Chair.

And this is just a fair question.

We have to advocate, these are city dollars.

This is not grant, this is not our this is general fund money that we continue to send out to Lavonia, but I can assure you that none of their general fund dollars make make its way back to Detroit, and we have to stop it.

So I'm gonna do my due diligence to make sure that it stops for the next four years.

See what kind of votes I get, but not my votes, but the people's votes.

I want our taxpayer dollars, Mr.

Chair, and thank you for allowing me to speak to stay in Detroit for the next four years while I'm sitting on this council.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

But that is my motion.

Thank you.

We just have to be mindful, uh colleagues that there's a procurement process that we have to go through.

There's bids that are involved.

Um while we I certainly share that same sentiment.

We also have to ensure that enterprise bid on these particular contracts.

Um, and if they did not, that may have self-uh eliminated them uh along the part of us.

Again, I'm not certain if that's the case, but just want to ensure that we um are mindful as a body of our procurement process, right?

Member Callaway, is there uh you have a motion to uh postpone for one week?

Yes, Mr.

Chair, that's my motion.

Which items, ma'am.

Um, line item um 20.1 and to keep it fair and 21.4 because I still want to go and talk to the folks over at Enterprise to see if they've gotten any contracts from LeVon if just make sure this process.

I'm sure it is fair, it is fair, but I just want to make sure.

Member Calloway, did you mean 21.2?

Yes, 21.2, Mr.

Chair.

Okay, 21.2, just for clarity.

Which items again?

21.2, postpone for a week.

Just that one alone.

Just that one.

All right, thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

There's a request.

There's a motion, excuse me, to postpone the vote for line item 21.2.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Uh member McCampbell, I know you had your hand raised for one of the items.

Oh no, I'm okay, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Okay, colleagues.

There's a motion on the floor for approval.

Line items 21.1 through 21.4, minus line item 21.2.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Mr.

Chair, waiver on line item 21.4.

Request for a waiver on line item 21.4.

Objection.

Uh any objections?

Objection, McCamp.

Right.

There's a objection, so uh no waiver should be attached.

Uh, from the Office of Contracting and Procurement, Madam Clerk.

Council President Pro Tim Young, a resolution, noting that this line item was postponed from last week.

Formal session, line item 21.5, contract number 60078, 100% city funding to provide fiduciary services for office of sustainability, contract of Detroit Economic Growth Association.

Total contract amount 211,500.

That's for general services.

Council President Pro Tim Young, a resolution.

Pro Tim Young.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

And I just want to say I'm sorry, it was Captain Jason Adams.

I didn't mean to forget your rank.

Sorry about that, sir.

Didn't know who I was talking to.

Um, I will move to approve line item 21.5.

This is a motion to approve line item 21.5.

Any objections?

See none, that action shall be taken.

From the department of public works, Madam Clerk.

Council member Santiago Romero, a resolution, line item 21.6.

Member Santiago Ramer.

Motion to approve.

This is a request for banners.

That's a motion to approve line item 21.6, colleagues.

Any objections?

See none, that action shall be taken.

Request to waiver, Mr.

President.

It's a request for a waiver on line item 21.6, colleagues.

Any objections?

See none that action shall be taken.

Madam Clerk, if we can return uh back to line item 17.1, which we postpone to the end of the agenda to allow member Benson to uh provide any insight uh on the item that he uh postponed.

Yes, Mr.

President.

Councilmember Benson, a resolution line item 17.1, noting that this line item was postponed from last week's formal session.

Uh council member Benson.

Thank you so much.

Member Benson, motion to approve as a motion to approve line item 17.1.

Colleagues, any objections?

See none, that action shall be taken.

All right, Ms.

Oliver popped up on the screen.

Yes, thank you.

Can we please request a waiver on item 21.1?

It says a request for a waiver on line item 21.1.

And that is children.

approve line item 17.1 colleagues any objections seeing none that action shall be taken all right popped up on the screen yes thank you can we please request a waiver on item 21.1 says a request for a waiver on line item 21 point one and that is shelters any objection or is there a motion motion all right there's a request for a uh waiver for line item 21.1 any objections saying none a waiver should be attached for the president's reports on standing committee referrals and other matters for the internal operations standing committee madam clerk or reports from various city departments the four reports will be referred to the internal operations standing committee for the planning and economic development standing committee four reports from various city departments those reports will be referred to the uh planning and economic development standing committee for the public health and safety standing committee six reports from various city departments six reports will be referred to the public health and safety standing committee under consent agenda there are no items mr president we will now call for member reports start uh with member mccamble thank you mr chair uh no member reports from me thank you member callaway thank you thank you mr chair i'm inviting everyone to come out as we unveil the street name and memory of and in honor of um viola luizo who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 she was eulogized at that site in 1965 and Martin Luther King and and several other dignitaries attended that funeral um it is now a school it was a Catholic church before but now it is Pembroke Academy and we are asking everyone to come out on the corner of Mansville in Pembroke at 11 o'clock we will have our Secretary of State there we'll have other um state representatives state senators there I will be there and host of other folks will be there and we're inviting everyone out it will start at 11 o'clock sharp and then we'll have a very small reception um very um casual reception in the gymnasium and the gymnasium was the chapel and all of the stained glass from 1965 is in place intact and not one paint is missing so um and the chapel is there too we want everyone to come out again that's this Saturday at 11 o'clock for the unveil of the street name for um Viola Luizo and then on April the 13th we'll be doing our coffee and conversation at J Zoo and that is on Oak Street right across from Ud Mercy again that is Monday April the 13th we'll have our coughing conversation at 8 a.m it lasts for um one hour and that completes my report Mr.

Chair thank you thank you member Johnson thank you Mr.

Chair just want to let everyone know that next Tuesday April 14th we will be hosting our um evening city council meeting in district four april 14th at 7 p.m it will take place at Fountain of Truth at 9801 Chalmers again fountain of truth at 9801 Chalmers we hope to see you all next Tuesday evening thank you so much Mr.

Chair thank you member Benson all right thank you please sign up for your dining with confidence free training we have your one day training and certificate examinations and these will be held on March 30th April 13th which is the Spanish um translation April 27th May 11th May 18th which will also be in Spanish June 8th and June 22nd and you can go to Michigan works Detroit at work to sign up thank you thank you member waters just a quick announcement regarding um skill trade task force meeting the next one will be um april 15th at 46 p.m at 2161 West Grand Boulevard labor's uh international union april 15th 46 p.m 2161 West Grand Boulevard and co chairs uh waters miller and matt camera thank you so much thank you member santiago romero thank you mr president before going into my member reports would like to ask for a uh waiver for 21.3 this is the Toyota grants college there's a motion there's a request for a waiver on line item 21.3 any objections seeing none waiver should be attached member Santa Bramar thank you Mr.

We are going to be at Limit Direct Center on April 16th at 5:30 to continue to hear about future zoning plans for the city and to provide feedback.

We invite everyone for our second annual dance day events this Saturday, April 11th, are going to be at Patton Park, and we're going to be joined by GIP Masters and Vominos for some dance lessons.

And we will also have lunch.

We'll be there from 12 to 2 p.m.

And last for April, we are going to have our office hours at Kemini Rec Center on April 20th from 4 to 6 p.m.

My staff will be there along with our D6 uh B seat inspector to come by if you have any questions on property maintenance or concerns.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Uh first I'd like to say that uh we're gonna have coffee with Coleman.

That's uh at um cred cafe Friday, April 10th at 6340, East Jefferson Avenue at 1 p.m.

to 3 p.m.

So we have coffee with Colvin, that's council cold, council president pro temp right at large.

Coffee with COVID is gonna be small business opportunities and how to get a city contract.

So it's coffee with Coleman, small business opportunities and how to get a city contract.

Sandra Ustall is gonna be there, the chief procurement officer and deputy CFO.

So again, it's gonna be coffee with COVID, small business opportunities and how to get a city contract with Sandra Ustall, Chief Procurement Officer and Deputy CFO.

This is Friday, April 10th.

So Friday, April 10th, this Friday, Friday, April 10th, 6340 East Jefferson Avenue, 6340, East Jefferson Avenue, 6340, East Jefferson Avenue 1 to 3 P.

And you can also email at Office of Colby Young at Detroit Mi dot gov.

That's Office of Colby Young at Detroit Mi dot gov.

And that is going to be Coffee with Colvin, Small Business Opportunities, the How to Get a City Contract with Sandra Ustall, Chief Procurement Officer and Deputy CFO at Craig Cafe Friday, April 10th, 6340 East Jefferson Avenue, 1 p.m.

to 3 p.m.

Be there.

Thank you, Ms.

President.

Thank you.

My member reports are just uh comprised of the budget process.

So 2 p.m.

Mr.

Whitaker, you can come join us because I know we signed the uh document for the special session.

2 p.m.

We will for the public be reconvening for our final leg of the executive session prior to approving the budget uh today, which must be done by midnight tonight.

But sounds like we're doing pretty good at this point.

Uh Mr.

Whitaker, I know we did again sign a uh document for a special session.

So if you can walk us through uh what that looks like this evening.

Uh yes, Mr.

President.

You signed a resolution that will allow you to vote on all of the documents related to the budget at four o'clock this evening.

We uh sent up a rough draft of the um the closing resolution yesterday to your offices.

If you have any clarifying language that you would like us to include in the in the in the closing resolution or additional language, please provide it to us electronically to um Ed King and Lakeisha Barcliff in our office.

They're working on it now to try to polish it up and hopefully you'll have a draft of an improved draft by two by your two o'clock um session.

That's the goal.

Okay, thank you.

And so four o'clock is the time that the uh session is supposed to be four o'clock is the time that you'll uh session there is an effort to try to have uh four o'clock be a productive session.

Although given the past history, we won't rely on that.

But but the goal is to try to move things ahead uh much faster than years past so that we don't have to wait to mid midnight to actually have a vote.

So what would that entail?

I mean, for for some of us, we're not sure what that means.

How can we speed that up?

So we know we have the executive session that's taking place at 2 p.m.

Um where we're still hopefully gonna be doing some that's a working meeting as well.

Right.

Uh, and we'll go into uh four o'clock potentially, right?

I've got to call that meeting.

Um, but walk us through the mechanics of the transition from executive session to the special session and expectations.

not sure what that means how can we speed that up so we know we have the executive session is taking place at 2 p.m where we're still hopefully going to be doing some that's a working meeting as well right uh and we'll go into uh four o'clock potentially right i've got to call that meeting um but walk us through the mechanics of the transition from executive session to the special session and expectations the executive session at two o'clock uh will allow hopefully uh the finishing touches to the schedules that you're gonna be asked to vote on and it's necessary for council to pass a balance budget so we have to make sure that all of the numbers balance out all the the the additions that you're asking or changes to the budget that you're you're asking for has has to has to balance out so the uh the fiscal staff and LPD and uh the mayor's budget director will work that out make sure that everything is balanced but the goal at two o'clock is to arrive at your final changes so that they can prepare the schedules uh we will in the policy section of LPD will be working on the closing resolutions there are documents that that the mayor will put forth that was spelled out in the in the special session um and all of those items will be voted on at four o'clock or sometime thereafter depending upon the readiness of those documents thank you so much thank you mr whitaker and that closes out my member reports uh madam clerk under adoption without committee reference there are no items mr president under 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 there are no items Mr.

President thank you so much colleagues if there are no further business before this body this meeting shall stand adjourned seeing no objections that action shall be taken sorry