The meeting convened on May 14, 2026, but lacked a quorum. The chair proceeded with public comment in person and virtually, then adjourned. No formal business or votes were conducted due to the absence of a quorum.
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.