They pro temporary on there.

Council Member Scott Benson.

Councilmember Renata Miller.

Mr.

Chair, you do not have a quorum present.

All right, we don't have the quorum, so what we're gonna do is we're gonna take public comment in person and then virtually, and then we will conclude the meeting.

We have uh Ms.

War here.

I don't see anybody else in person.

So we're gonna have Ms.

War come up.

Two minutes.

Um public comment is now closed.

Public comp is now closed.

Public comment is now closed.

All right, you got two minutes, Ms.

Ward.

Go ahead.

I uh should be go ahead.

Okay, we've had problems with it in the past.

Good afternoon.

Um I would like to thank member Letitia Johnson after I brought up to her the disparate treatment of people having their property taken for the solar farms that the city is refusing to swap lots with uh other people who are that they're trying to take their property from solely because the land was tax reverted in the past without more, even though the one they're taking it from uh never failed to pay her taxes.

So that part of state law needs to be changed, Mr.

Fred Durhall.

And um, so uh uh the city did a sweetheart land swap deal with Perfecting Church, where perfecting church got like 60 lots in exchange for only 38.

Does that sound fair to you?

Now, here's the Detroit City Charter.

Mine is so used it's missing the front page.

But declaration of rate number two says the city has an affirmative duty to secure the equal protection of the law for each person and to ensure equality of opportunity for all persons.

So all the people that you're taking land from for DTE for the you know Detroit solar scam is what I call it because it's totally unnecessary.

You could have done something like Michigan State University's award-winning solar parking lot instead of spend 7.7 million dollars on some uh uh Farmington Hills attorney to take people's property.

Uh you could have done that instead of put people through the misery of eminent domain.

And you know, how about build a system where you're actually powering the buildings you want to power instead of just putting power into the grid?

And it's very suspicious that you know uh nobody made the warehouse builders put solar on their uh big warehouses on their sweetheart deal with the fairgrounds, right?

And so uh that increased the load on the grid.

So I don't believe the resolution of necessity and the blight definition in the state of Lansing needs to be changed, and don't vote for anybody for state house or legislature who will not change it.

Thank you so much.

We appreciate you, Ms.

Ward.

Who do we have?

Okay, now we're gonna go virtual.

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

Bo?

We gotta give other people land swaps, Mr.

Chair, currently before you compose public comment.

Say that number again.

Six, all right.

Who we got first, Mr.

Mr.

Bo.

Mr.

Chair, the first caller is William M.

Davis.

All right, Ms.

Davis, floor is yours, two minutes.

Uh good afternoon.

Can I be heard?

Go ahead, sir.

Okay.

Uh I think a greater effort should be made to make sure different neighborhoods, uh, neighborhood association gets signage, you know, to identify the neighborhoods.

I'm the vice president of the Barton McFarland Neighborhood Association.

We recently got a couple of signs put up, you know, nice looking signs, but it took years, I mean, over two years for for it to happen.

You know, some of this processes need to be streamlined, and we need to be more inclusive.

I know it was this young man at the city council evening meeting, you know, on on Tuesday, you know, talking about the need for them to have a sign.

I think most neighborhoods should be able to have a sign to identify them and then make more community pride.

Uh also I think that a greater effort should be made to make sure that all these abandoned schools in our neighborhoods are either torn down or rehabilitated, or uh some of them could possibly be made to uh resource centers, you know, where you can have multiple uses for these.

Uh years ago, there used to be neighborhood city halls that was acted as a resource center.

It's used to be um neighborhood, you know, neighborhood police mini stations since it actually is.

I think it's still only one mini station still in existence now.

Some of this stuff happened up under your father.

But you know, sometimes sometimes it'd be best to go back to some of the old ways because we need to improve this city, we need to make it more encouraging, and we need to make sure that more of our dollars are turning over in our communities.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

We appreciate that.

Who we have next in the queue, Mr.

Bo.

Mr.

Chair, the next caller is Betty A.

Verner.

All right, Miss Vern, the floor is yours, two minutes.

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

This is Betty A.

Varner, president of the Soda Elsewhere Black Association, uh, advocating for our Finkel Corridor and our community.

We are still in need of uh attention to our corridor.

We need monies for our corridor.

We have been blessed.

There are people who are interested in the corridor and they are opening up businesses.

And uh we are just asking that our corridor be treated just as good as other corridors who have been blessed.

The corridors they're looking good.

Uh money has been spent, uh, Dexter Avenue, um, uh Livernoise, uh, to six mile, uh well, six mile in Livernoise to Wyoming, and so we are asking for the same attention for our thinker corridor.

There's a uh think of business uh association that is working to do all that they can do to help improve the neighborhood.

Also, I'm asking for uh the administration to consider to waive that fifteen hundred dollar fee for uh nonprofits who want to do the work to improve their community.

They bought land from the land bank, and they need uh to go through the process to uh get the permission to continue the work that they're doing.

So please consider uh waiv that fifteen hundred dollar fee, or come up with some type of plan to help uh these associations and black clubs to achieve their goals, and again, uh think a corridor, think a corner, think a corridor.

We need your help.

Thank you for this time and God bless you all.

Bye bye.

Thank you, appreciate you.

Who do you have next in the queue?

Mr.

next caller is Cunningham.

All right, Cunningham, floor is yours.

Two minutes, sir.

Mr.

Cunningham.

It is Shunde Gob Sundorabas and the other shun that about Sunday of our son yellow.

You're about shunned up some do you know?

Here it is, Shundakyoto Shun Yoruba Sheenduck, Sundo Wilson of Russia.

Thank you, we appreciate that.

Who here next to the queue?

Mr.

Chair, the next caller is legendary Detroiter.

All right, legendary Detroit in two minutes.

Yo, Callman.

You hear the echo in the background?

Can you hear it?

Or can you hear me clearly?

Step out here on the porch.

Let me step out here on the porch over on Newborn Street, just south of Victoria.

With my socks on with the red toes on.

Now you a cheating in public official, Coleman.

Call me a liar.

Say I'm not telling the truth.

Say something else out your mouth in regards to Ruben James Crowley Jr.

That is not actual fact.

You cheated in the whole city council cheated in the school board cheated in, and the board of police commissioners is cheating in, and I'm sick of this.

Now last night I saw everything I needed to see.

And now I'm going up top.

And oh, y'all gotta go.

Because y'all all been in Nene's way.

Everyone has been in Nene's way.

It's got to get the F out of her way.

Now, this is public comment.

Open Meetings Act is being decimated here in the city of Detroit.

The city charter, Detroit City Charter is being shredded.

There's a process of gentrification going on, and I know what I'm talking about.

Janice M.

Winfrey, the city clerk, third person of the Detroit Election Commission been cheating and lying on public record on Zoom.

April 25th, 2024.

She says she sent you that findings on the allegations of voter fraud report.

And your mother got a copy of that report on the 22nd of May.

She didn't have it.

And you ain't get it.

So she learned.

And I'm telling the truth about everything I say on public record out my mouth.

And I'm black bag.

All right, thank you.

Who in next to the queue?

The next caller.

It's owner Papa.

All right, two minutes.

And to the chairman, I'll be heard.

Yes, two minutes.

Thank you for the two minutes, Tom.

It really appears that you need an agenda.

Um, and uh public comment is part of the agenda, so you need a quorum when you have public comment unless you disregard our public comments, and and you and I know that you do.

Um, you spent lots of time today on um uh secondary streets.

We we get such limited amount of time, but you can spend an hour talking about secondary streets, even bring out the the president.

Uh you have on your agenda um five dot um one.

Um, I would like to say to my council member, um we are you want to target the prison uh uh syndrome, but you don't want to target the 7th district who needs the funds for um uh the recent us because we don't have a rec center, so we would have to go outside.

We're not talking about membership affordability, we're talking about targeting those people who have no no rec center in their district, which districting in the lines seem to be a little uh skewed, and so we need to go back to that uh when you can draw districts where uh one district has no rec center and one library.

Um that's that that spells gentrification, so you you keep neglecting the people.

Five dot three.

Um excuse me, but the people have shut that down.

They've said no, we don't need an analysis, we need no analysis on that recenter.

The people have said no to that, and I think you should respect that.

Uh, thank you, Miss Walwick, for all of your good information that uh people really need to listen to, and you as well, uh Mr.

Ruben.

Uh, regardless of your um delivery.

It's still lots of information that we don't get from the table, but you talk about secondary streets.

All right, thank you for your time.

We appreciate that.

Who got next to the queue, Mr.

Bo?

Mr.

That was the last caller before you close public comment.

All right, without objection, neighborhood services standing committee will now stand adjourned.