Discussion.

I will turn the floor over to the city planning commission and director Todd.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Good morning to you and to member Young, uh Vice President Pro Tim.

Our President Pro Tim Young.

Um, we are pleased to be before you this morning with a brief presentation of the City Planning Commission's annual report for 2024-25.

I'm joined by Deputy Director Chris Gulach and City Planner Timory De Brule, who will be uh providing you with the uh brief overview of the document.

Uh we are trying to get a few hard copies up for your benefit, but I do believe that a supplemental copy has been emailed to each of you uh and staff if you would desire to look at if you desire to look at it.

We will be presenting uh a copy on screen when Mr.

DeBru is able to share.

Uh we try to give you give you a brief summary and then answer any questions that you may have.

Madam Chair, may I share my screen?

Yes, and if you wouldn't mind raising your hand, so Miss Great can identify you.

Oh, on the ones oh okay.

I am actually madam chair.

I am actually already in the meeting.

We're having some technical difficulties, so I am signed in under Director Todd.

Okay.

Madam Chair, the report that we are discussing today is the City Planning Commission annual report for fiscal year 2024 to 2025.

So it covers the time between July 1st, 2024 to June 30th, 2025.

Um, a brief snapshot of the document.

Um the highlights of our activities during that fiscal year, which included five zoning ordinance text amendments, three of which during that time period were acted on by the city council.

17 zoning ordinance map amendments had reviews uh were given recommendations by the CPC with 16 recommended for approval and one for denial, two rezonings of old plan developments that had lapsed as part of our project to clean up the lapse plan developments across the city, and we had 21 meetings held.

We continued working on Zone Detroit as well as partnering with our colleagues in P and D D for the Planned Detroit process.

In addition, we did 84 land sale reviews, three PD modifications, 197 B seed special district permit reviews, and 22 NEZ certificate request reports, as well as being part of the reviews for the 25-26 CDBG NOF block grant and the 20 uh 2026 to 2030 capital agenda.

As I mentioned, the text amendments, the lapse PD project, the rezonings in Zone Detroit were our primary highlights.

At the time of the fiscal year when it ended, we did have nine commissioners at the time.

We currently have some vacancies that are looking to be filled.

So we did have since then Commissioner Gwendolyn Lewis, Commissioner Melanie Markovics, and Commissioner Rachel Udabi have left the commission, and we're currently awaiting to fill their vacancies.

We held 21 meetings throughout the year, most of them held here in the committee of the whole room, with a few held at other locations for various reasons, which are listed in the report.

Given recommendations from CPC, but have not yet been acted on by council were the adaptive reuse and six general.

It has been approved since the time that the report was submitted, but it was not as of June 30th, 2025.

We do have a few images here of some of our rezonings as well as descriptions of each rezoning.

The images here though, it shows the Hittsville USA as well as Merit Park.

And the this image shows the Southwest Fight Club, which is in District 6, and those have all been acted on both by the CPC and the council.

Some of our ongoing work, or there were a number of rezonings that were recommended for approval by the CPC, but not acted on by the city council at the time of this report or by June 30th 2025.

And that included I apologize.

I apologize.

This map here does show all of the rezonings that were acted on by this uh city planning commission, and it also shows which ones were not only acted on by the city planning commission but also acted on by the city council by June 30th of 2025.

It shows that there were out of the 17, there were 16 recommended for approval, one recommended for denial.

Um additionally, we did work on the special district reviews, which we did six uh the CPC acted on six of them recommending approval, all of which were acted on by the city council during the fiscal year.

There were uh three planned development modifications during the fiscal year, and as I mentioned before, our additional activities, um BC permit reviews for work in any PC, PCA, or any of the special districts, um, the community development block grant, neighborhood opportunity fund review, uh the neighborhood enterprise zone certificate requests review, which 22 were submitted to the council, and the land sales review or land sale reviews.

Looking forward, our goals for the for this fiscal year for 25-26 includes continuing work on Zone Detroit with additional funding from the federal government pro housing grant, filling existing commission vacancies.

As I said, we do currently have three vacancies on the commission, and completing in-process rezonings and zoning text amendments, a number of which have been completed since June 30th, and assisting to host the American Planning Association National Conference, which was held here last month in Detroit, or in April.

Um we participated in that in a variety of ways.

Thank you for the presentation.

I do want to ask how you all do outreach to the community, because many items that we see here in the Planning Economic Development Committee goes through a discussion process with the City Planning Commission, and similarly to what we see happen with uh projects that go through BC and BZA.

It's you know, sometimes people here or are connected or engaged with a particular division within City Hall and maybe not others.

So if you all can just kind of share how you do outreach, um, and I'm not sure if the commissioners themselves do outreach in their districts as well.

Certainly, madam chair.

With respect to outreach, I'll just begin certainly with the formal.

As with this honorable body, uh Commission is required to have its statutory hearings on the different items, uh text amendments as well as the map amendments, certainly also for the master plan, and we'll also sometimes hold what we'll refer to as public discussions.

We treat them like public hearings, but when they're not otherwise required by state law, uh we make that distinction and we have them as a means of getting additional input and offering the courtesy to uh impacted residents to make sure that they are informed and have the opportunity to weigh in, even when again it is not necessarily required.

Beyond that, when it comes to different rezonings, we ask each and every petitioner that comes before us to do their own independent outreach, sometimes given the complexity of the matter or to the extent that the commission may be uh co-petitioning, may be initiating something along with them.

We will join them for that outreach.

We will then do independent outreach, uh sometimes uh going out in the community for uh uh uh for either meetings that we are hosting or to sit in uh on meetings that are being hosted by our different community organizations across the city.

We will also set up our own uh Zoom meetings in uh on on some topics that may occur two or three times over the course of the year, given the complexity of the uh given item.

We will also, of course, work with the Department of Neighborhoods utilizing the Doncast in the same way.

And certainly there are also those instances where we have joined you, uh members of the council at your meetings across the community in in order to do the same.

Beyond that, we use Gov Delivery, uh certainly uh the often contested uh but otherwise traditional posting of things through the Detroit Legal News and uh using both cities web page as well as our Facebook page, and on occasion, even that other thing, which I guess is now called X, um, when it comes comes out to trying to utilize social media uh and occasionally things may make it even to Instagram.

Um that's pretty much it, unless I've missed anything.

I think Mr.

Gulak's got a Chris Gulak with the CPC staff.

Uh yeah, we uh so we receive about four or five rezoning inquiries a month, and we we encourage the group to uh meet with the community, and we won't schedule a hearing with the planning commission until they've made an honest effort to reach out to the community.

They definitely need to talk to the folks immediately adjacent to the north, south, east, and west.

We also they're also required to post on the site a sign that's required by the zoning ordinance, giving details of the public hearing.

So thank you.

Okay, thank you.

Um, Madam Clerk, my apologies.

Will you please note that member Miller has joined us?

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Uh colleagues, any additional questions?

Pro Tim Young?

Uh excellent to see you guys.

Appreciate you.

Excellent presentation as always.

Uh, first, before we begin, I just wanted to say I sure is I'm sure you know what's coming.

Um I wanted to have um and I've been inquiring about changing our zoning laws primarily for the issuance of um more marijuana stores to be downtown instead of rather neighborhoods, as well as uh our how do I say this delicately, our adult entertainment uh facilities.

I don't know if the marijuana piece is as relevant because of the tax.

I don't know what that's done to the market.

I don't know how many are competitive or are not competitive.

And but can you just give me an update in terms of where that is and where that's going, and do we have a prediction of how many marijuana stores we can relocate downtown, which I think is more preferable because it is a place for business and those are businesses, and for the uh strip clubs or adult entertainment facilities.

Um to use a euphemism.

Um how many of those we could relocate in downtown area or build in that area with those zoning changes.

Through the chair to President Pro Tim Young.

Uh, we're happy first and foremost to note and with thanks to Do It that Mr.

Brule now has her uh new laptop uh after months of going back and forth now, giving her the opportunity and the capacity to better do those GIS studies that you're making reference to uh not only for marijuana uh uh but any uh number of the other topics that we may deal with as we're looking to looking at the distribution of uses across the city.

Um we can certainly set up a another meeting with you to go into greater detail uh as it concerns the uh proposed marijuana overlay that we've been discussing uh that would be necessary both for the eastern market area as well as uh for downtown.

In the same way, Member Young, we would need to do uh the additional work to follow up on those reports that were done, I believe, in the first year of your uh of the last term uh on both of those topics uh at your request at the council's request, so that we can provide you with the very latest um uh capacity, at least as it concerns uh um uh adult uses uh in and around in in the downtown or any other area where it might be desirable to set up, you know, again what we previously would refer to as sort of red light districts, or maybe uh uh otherwise entertainment areas.

Right.

Um with that I'll uh you know to Mr.

M Mr.

Brule for any additional to supplement that response.

Uh thank you, Director Todd, and through the chair to uh President Pro Time Young.

I definitely had all of this on my mind when I received my new computer just two weeks ago.

Um, and I would be happy to set up a meeting, relook at the numbers uh prior, if uh if you give me a week, I can go through and make sure everything is as up to date as possible as far as the as the current locations or changes in the locations of churches, schools, and other um other uh uses that we have offers from, and we can continue looking at that.

And I and I do believe Director Todd is correct, is um I worked on the research for the adult entertainment businesses back in 2022.

It was the first project that I did, so I I he is correct that it was in the first uh year of your last term.

So we can also look at that, see if there's been any changes or updates to the landscape of those businesses and how they're being zoned in not only our city but other cities that we can base some research on.

No, I think that's excellent, and and and and that's phenomenal.

And I also just wanted to add, and I and I and I appreciate that.

I know this is I know this is not easy stuff.

I mean, based on the mass that you saw, I mean I'm kind of got a little bit dizzy looking at some of the stuff showing me.

So I'm not saying this is easy stuff, but I I I just wanted to um really kind of emphasize I think it's more perfect, I think it's more prevalent, and from what I've heard in the community, it's more um beneficial and appropriate to have those type of businesses downtown.

I'm not I'm not trying to, I'm not saying that those businesses can't be in the neighborhoods, but I think where you're saturating certain neighborhoods, where you're saturating certain communities with this type of adult entertainment, I think it'd be much better off if it would be if it would be downtown in that facility because these are businesses, and I think that there's other more appropriate businesses in the neighborhoods to have where we can have that economic development, and I think it's the best of both worlds in terms of that environment.

I now I also know part of it is uh because I think my father had a case, I think it was young v adult or young v American mini theaters, I believe, that kind of like changed that process.

They all had to be within a certain distance of in the city.

And so I think that's how they all got there through Supreme Court order.

And so I think there was a question about them being out of the city, period.

And I think that was a violation of the first amendment, if I'm not mistaken, because I think it was secondary uses, if I'm not mistaken, how that uh was supposed to go together.

So um, I think we definitely I'm not saying that we should draw the draft them.

No, I just think that we should have a little bit more in the in the community, a little bit more in downtown, which is the business district one.

But I also wanted to ask you um, has there been any discussion?

I don't know if this is through the overlay process, or this is just something that we have to do in terms of performance zoning.

So not zoning based on commercial or residential, but zoning based on actual um metrics or actual things that are produced in terms of the environment or in terms of sound or in terms of uh energy savings or cost savings or things of that nature.

Has there been that in the city of Detroit?

Is there a history of that, or is that something that's kind of more forward thinking and uh are and are those things that we could use to either coincide or also be a part of as as we're talking about engaging in more tech and technological advances.

We're talking about artificial intelligence factories or talking about chip fabs, you know, we're we're having discussion about data centers.

Could the Zoning piece be performance-based in terms of doing that?

Or is that something where it had to be combined with a smart, you know, city or art artificial intelligence type zoning and performance as well.

Again, through the chair to we have to create a whole nother orbit to be able to amend the code to even allow something like that to take place.

Certainly, Mr.

Gulak may be able to speak to some of the specifics, but we do already have certain performance standards that are in the code today when it comes to uh the very thing you indicated.

When you have certain uses, you have certain impacts, there are certain uh metrics that we will be looking at in terms of how that particular use may um perform, may enter into a different area and trying to regulate that.

Um we look at uh sustainability, uh certainly uh among some of your environmental concerns.

Uh we're often looking at the uh uh issue of uh stormwater management.

Um certainly when it comes to the more typical environmental concerns uh of impact, we're looking at traffic impacts, so things of that are on the books today, and we're definitely looking at more of that going forward.

The form-based code, which was a different approach to zoning that we piloted in Brush Park, allows us to essentially uh deal a little bit less with the traditional use-based regulation, but to really then get into design and how a building will meet the street, how it um um relates to the adjacent buildings, how it fits into a whole neighborhood context, uh meeting the type of street that is there, whether it's a neighborhood street, a connector street, thoroughfare, et cetera.

Um so again, those are things that we have been piloting over the last few years, and as part of Zone Detroit, you'll definitely see more of what you're discussing.

And again, I don't know if Mr.

Gulak would have anything to add.

Uh thank you.

Uh yeah, the as Director Todd said the the brush park form-based code is one kind of um avenue towards the performance zoning, but we haven't really done much performance zoning in our ordinance.

But we the city did secure additional funding, as you know, zoning keeps evolving and changing with new uses and uh so we do have additional funding and hope and we could uh explore whether performance zoning is a good area to explore with the new consultant.

Yeah, I I I just think it'd be important.

It and I'm not saying that we do this with with all projects or all things, but I think you know, if we're talking about in terms of uh whether it's a pump station or whether it's um in terms of or whether it's you know, in terms of a data center, or whether it's in terms of artificial intelligence factory, um, you know, I think water use effectiveness, carbon use effectiveness, energy use effectiveness, I think these are things that we should be able to measure in terms of metrics, water runoff, you know, or storm brought off, um, you know, energy costs going up because of this said project or not?

I think these are things that we really can measure that would be able to help us get some projects through because we have those metrics.

I'm not saying it's gonna be for every project, and I and I wouldn't be for that, you know what I'm saying?

Because this is the real intense process, but I think that for certain projects that are gonna have an economic or an environmental impact that we know will be large and we know that will be sustaining over time.

I think that this would be another way for us to be more transparent with the public for the impacts of what could and what could not be.

And so I definitely think that's something that I would look into.

Um other than that, I don't have any questions.

I was just gonna remind you that we do have another discussion after this.

Well, I'm done.

Okay.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Member Miller?

Good morning, everyone.

How are you?

Thanks for allowing me to come sit today.

I have a question uh on page number nine.

Uh it is regards to the report that was presented and the conclusion of out of the 12, six are in district five.

Can you tell me if all those been completed, move forward and voted on at this time?

It's there's there's there's six that belongs to district five, but it's 12 listed all together yield to uh through the chair.

Uh my quick look is that all of them have been approved except two, which is which is Glea, the the pump, the food pump station, which is on the agenda today, as well as the last one, which is the uh SIA down zoning, which is near 96 and Greenfield, those and that will be coming to council in the next month.

So actually, all these have been processed, I believe, by oh, and map 71, sorry, map 71, which is northwest uh northwest Detroit, the big uh rezoning.

So I think all of them have been processed by your body except those three.

Okay, they're not those three aren't in district five.

I do have a question regarding uh the farm and cider mill.

Um it says that it was expected to use at a nearby church.

Can you expound on that part?

Because I've been there and I don't see a church anywhere near it.

Um that is a whole block of smack dab in the middle of residential property that was supposed to be for uh a cider mill, but now it has horses, and now it has ducks and chickens, and now it has tiny homes.

I haven't seen any plumbing yet, so I'm wondering if they're gonna be like Girl Scouts or something like that.

Um will people actually be living there?

Will it be for homeless?

And I was just I walk the neighborhood, so I'm concerned about that one in particular.

Is a couple here, but they're already been voted on.

But I just want to know how do we monitor once you make a request for something like this?

Who monitors and who doesn't say here, it says um as well as expanded uses to a nearby church.

It doesn't have it's not into detail here.

So if you could just elaborate, I'd appreciate it.

Because I know they were in the news, they were in the paper.

It's been a lot of discrepancies with this particular project.

Through the chair to member Miller.

Uh, as you indicated, there's been a long history here.

This is something that's been adjudicated through the courts and uh uh judgment reach, settlement reach.

The petitioner was subsequently able to come back and um achieve the appropriate zoning to move forward with what was, as you indicate, initially billed as a cider mill within the city and what had been previously operating as such, but without the appropriate permits, thus resulting in legal actions being taken against against the operator.

Um since that time are or um I guess in some ways concurrent with the ultimate uh uh receipt of a rezoning, the um animal husbandry ordinance also went into place.

So um not direct while not directly related to the rezoning, this was something else that they were uh were now also able to take advantage of and to uh expand uh the initial concept in some ways expanded but otherwise, once again, now begin to legalize some of the things that were not being done legally beforehand uh when animals were on on property in terms of who monitors who enforces that again is building and safety engineering, and our understanding is that particularly given the legal action that had uh been taken uh a year and a half to a year ago, uh they are all over that site and working with the petitioner.

The reference that is being made to the church in that rezoning is a separate entity.

This was not a church working with the farm and cider mill.

This was an individual who had come to the city uh in the same time frame, seeking a rezoning.

So, in order to have an efficient process, because the church I think is a block or two to the north, is when we just held the hearings at the same time.

The two petitioners agreed to do it at the same time, but they are unrelated.

Okay.

So that leads to my next question.

So this body here that I sit on previously voted to not only have cider at this farm and horses.

They another ordinance came, another recommendation came down for ducks and chickens, and then another ordinance came down for tiny houses with no uh utilities.

So it just once you're there, you can just compile them on top of each other.

Do the vote come back to our body.

Again, through the chair to council member Miller.

There are a number of codes involved in this, so it's not just what is initially allowed in the zoning.

Um, well, I mean, uh ultimately it is that, but when it comes to um the plumbing, for example, uh individuals can uh have on a temporary basis, and again, you I'm not but I do apologize, didn't answer that part of your question.

I understand is that this is being set up kind of like Airbnb.

Uh, it's a temporary situation.

This is not a place where people would be living on an ongoing basis, but people can come on site and they can have this experience at the cider mill in these uh the in these mobile tiny homes.

So in that case, you'd be working under, I believe, a provision provisions within building code and and others plumbing, etc., that would allow for mobile units on a site.

Again, this is beyond zoning.

Um building and safety engineering would be the appropriate body to really uh get into the details of how you put together a composite of activities like this.

The zoning ordinance is establishing the baseline of what you can do, and then the how you do it in terms of some of those mechanical electrical plumbing issues, uh the health and safety issues, then come back to other parts of the city code where the health department may be as appropriate, but otherwise building and safety engineering would be administering them to ensure the safety uh of the operators and the patrons and then uh the adjacent public.

They say property owners.

Thank you very much.

I will definitely uh see with the BC on that because we know with ducks and chickens and horses and all these things, we bring rodents, and then that'll be our next problem that we cannot seem to even overcome in our own city with oversight.

So we when we build these things out, we have to keep that in mind, just like with the community gardens.

Where's the watering source and who's responsible to maintain the beautification of it?

We fall short on every single one of those projects, majority of the time, 95%.

And they look the way they do in our city.

So I'm I did realize you do have zone Detroit here.

I would ask only one request.

At the end of the year of 2025, there was a bucket of zoning changes that I was called the melting pot.

We're just gonna dump it all into the end of the year.

If we could just kind of like break it up some so we can have our proper community engagement, our proper uh public hearings, because sometimes it's hard for our residents to digest 25 things in one packet, and that was a lot.

It was over 25 changes at one time that we were trying to push through.

So if you guys would be conscious of maybe break them down so we can have the proper hearings.

I would appreciate it.

Thank you, Chair, we will certainly do our best.

Thank you very much.

All right, thank you.

Um Director Todd.

I do want to ask, and if we can be very brief with this, because we do have another discussion and a full agenda.

Um, and I'm only asking this because it's on the agenda, and it was on your list of items that went through the city planning commission.

Can you just talk a little bit about the Great Lakes Water Authority project, the rezoning request that went through the City Planning Commission, talk about how long?

Um, talk about what actually the commissioners requested, required of um the Great Lakes Water Authority.

Um, just kind of share what that process was like, because I think there are times, and if you can also share if um there were environmental questions, conversation as it relates to uh the hearing that was held with the city planning commission.

Certainly, madam chair, I'll try to do it expeditiously and maybe with the assistance of Mr.

Gulag.

Uh, I believe that we were looking at I think a process that did exceed uh six months uh in total.

Um the commission was very much concerned with getting a full understanding of the operation of the facility uh from uh front front from GLIWA.

Uh I think as this honorable body knows, even going back to the uh right-of-way adjustment that preceded it, um of that was being done at the at uh uh at that time.

So uh GLIWA may we have had uh difficulty in providing all of the specifics in terms of the depth of the uh well that will be provided there, the overall design and impact of the space.

But um one of the chief things that we concluded through the from from the initial public hearing was that we felt a planned development, which of course is what before what is before you would be the best zoning mechanism, the best district, because it would give commission and council control over the design operation, some of the performance type of issues that uh we were speaking to earlier with Pro Tim Young's question, uh, and this would be the best way to try to deal with some of those uh environmental uh issues.

And I guess let me say uh in this case, environmental maybe in in in quotes.

We know that we are dealing with water system that is uh in and a pump station that as indicated through earlier public comment is intended to improve service um and to um uh lessen the likelihood for these flooding events that the city has been experiencing.

Uh but I will say that uh we did have some difficulty in getting clear, consistent information, which is one of the reasons why it did take a while to finally get this matter through GLIWA.

Uh so the design and appearance of the facility uh was certainly a huge concern.

We realized that much of the impact that was being expressed to the commission during that process was resulting from the right-of-way adjustment work that was being done that precedes even the work on the facility itself and the impact that that was having, that construction was having on community, and the commission was very much concerned about GLIWA being that much more transparent, that much more intentional and uh consistent with its engagement of both the immediate public as well as the larger public as it concerned that ongoing construction as well as what was to come, given the impact that the construction activities alone are having.

Once complete, uh there'll be very little activity, very little traffic associated with it just to monitor the facility, and that again the expectation is that there'll be improved uh storm service uh for that area and a larger area as a result.

Thank you.

Um and can you just touch on um PD moving forward and the oversight certainly.

So what we did put forward uh was uh traditional uh PD ordinance in terms of the conditions that will require final site plans, elevations, lighting signage plans uh to come back to the commission.

Should this honorable body actually approve it and advance it?

We will look at the very specific that at the specifics uh uh uh of the design as they evolve at that point in time when it comes to permitting going forward, they will be required to stay within the bounds of that PD.

In other words, if they need to make physical changes to the facility that aren't within uh the five criteria that would allow either for a minor modification, which staff could do at the staff level, if it exceeds that, then it would be a minor modification, meaning that they would have to go back through the process of having a public hearing at the commission and then coming to your honorable body in order to modify the activities and or appearance of the facility uh and its uh and and its site.

Um we also did ask for one of the one um apologize, just reminded of that.

The PD does not include the newly created public lands, if you will, the new um uh that that result from the right-of-way change, and those will now fall in the public domain where the GLIWA is proposing certain landscape elements.

So there's been a question as to who will then maintain that.

Will the city be maintaining that, or could there be some agreement with GLIWA to do that uh you know, uh in in conjunction with the city?

So um the PD will limit what can take place there.

There won't be other approved uses that you would have with another zoning district.

It can only be this use, and it must perform within the proposed scale.

Any variation from that that again goes beyond the criteria for major versus minor modification would require that it come back through uh the commission and this honorable body.

All right, thank you for that.

Any additional questions?

All right, seeing none, we appreciate you for the uh report and look forward to future updates.

I've always appreciated um seeing city planning commission hearings and hearing about things before they come to the planning economic development committee.

So thank you all for the work you do.

Our question, thank you.

All right, that now closes out our 1020 discussion.

And I'd like to call back to order the oh call to order the 1025 discussion.

The 1025 discussion is with the Detroit Land Bank Authority for their city council quarterly report from the third quarter fiscal year 2026.

I believe everyone is joining us virtually.

We have several individuals that are joining us for this line item.

And feel free when you see yourself on the screen to introduce yourself for the record.

Good afternoon.

The chair, my name is Rob Lynn, the director of planning at the DLBI.

Afternoon.

Good afternoon to the chair, Tammy Daniels, CEO of the Detroit Land Bank Authority.

Good afternoon.

There are other team members joining us.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon, John O'Hana, Director of Real Estate for the Detroit Land Bank.

Good afternoon.

And are we still expecting Reginald Scott and Gabriel Guerrero?

Yes.

Yes.

We are.

Good afternoon through the chair for Reginald Scott, Detroit Land Bank Authority.

CFO, COO.

Afternoon.

Good afternoon, Gabriel Guerrero, General Counsel here at the Detroit Land Bank Authority.

Good afternoon.

And so I'm going to need media services to help us out here.

It is difficult for us to hear them.

I'm sure it's difficult for anyone else in the room to hear them.

So if you all are able to adjust their volume so that we can hear as they present their report, it is greatly appreciated.

And with that, I will yield the floor to Ms.

Tammy Daniels.

Well thank you.

Carlina will run the slide deck for us.

Are you all able to see anything right now?

We do not.

No.

Yes.

Okay, perfect.

Can you advance to slide one?

Yeah, it's I'm on slide one.

You are able to see the first slide.

The next page.

Okay.

Thank you.

So through the chair.

Um, I just wanted to give a super high level um snapshot of our activities in Q3 and our current inventory as it stands today.

Um during the third quarter of the year, we had 83 auction closings, 167 owned it now closings, um, and our all-time sales across all programs was over 23,000 properties.

For our vacant land sales, we sold 52 lots, side lots, and 371 neighborhood lots, bringing our total um vacant lot sales across all programs and uh program to date to over 32,000 um vacant lots.

Um, our team is currently monitoring um over 4500 properties.

Those are properties that sold through one of our programs, and the um the buyer is actively rehabbing the property.

Uh to date, over almost 14,000 people have achieved compliance from purchasing through one of our various programs.

At the end of Q3, our inventory um stood at under 60,000 uh parcels.

That is by and large made up of our vacant land, which currently um at the end of Q3 was 56,571, um, with two 2,248 of those properties being side lots currently available for sale on our website and neighborhood lots of 23,968.

Those are also currently available for sale on our website um for for residents who are uh interested in purchasing.

Uh our structures, we had um at the end of Q3, approximately 829 that were salvageable but not yet sold.

Um 266 demolition candidates and 540 properties that are in our occupied pipeline during Q3.

We had uh 37 community engagement events that we attended or hosted.

Um over 10,000 calls were answered by our um front desk customer service reps, and 992 individuals came into our lobby um seeking support from the land bank.

Next slide.

So um during um Q3, uh we had the pleasure of presenting our first budget to the new administration, and we um can are excited to continue to partner with the city to advance um our mission of returning properties to vacant um to productive use.

As I have mentioned previously, we launched an internet podcast called Talking with Tammy, where we invite members of the public to join us during that Instagram live.

We answer questions, we provide real-time responses to their questions.

And most of those sessions, we invite someone to join us to talk about either their experience with the land bank, or I you know either as someone who's purchased homes or someone who works on our homes.

And so we find that that is extremely useful tool for residents to interface.

And so the next one is coming up in June, summer 20, the 22nd.

I'm sorry, no, it's the third, the 8th, this next Monday, the 8th from 12 to 1.

Um, and I invite members of the public to join us.

Uh we also continue to hold our monthly in-person community office hours.

We do that um monthly at some at a local small business where we invite residents to join us, and we have members of our various teams to help to help the residents with any of the issues that they may have.

Uh our next community office hours is June 22nd, it'll be in D6 at Simply Road.

Um, I will note that we have invited members of council to join me on the talking team talking with Tammy.

I forgot to mention Councilmember Johnson is going to join us, and council member Tate uh they have also that he's also agreed to join us on talking with Tammy.

So I look forward to having those conversations.

Um during Q3, we um invited council offices to pressure test our uh AI chat bot.

So for seven weeks, we um opened that up to council to to try and ask many you know, ask questions of that chat box and make sure that it was responsive and it would be useful to residents.

Um that seven weeks has um ended, and we actually launched the chat bot on our website um as of May 18th.

And so that is just another opportunity for residents to get 24-7 support for um from the land bank, you know, all answering any questions that they may have.

Um, just highlighting this next slide, highlighting some of the community engagements events that we took uh we participated in during Q3, um, community office hours were at the Howard Family Bookstore in uh April, and council uh the ombudsman joined us during that event.

We participated in Motor City Makeover and some the construction and demolition job fair and other panels throughout the city.

Next slide.

Our property rehab team is um you know actively working on rehabbing properties across the city.

We currently have two properties that are actively for sale in D2 and D5 on Prairie and Townsend.

Um there are four that are um currently under contract, and as you can see from the list, we have a number of properties across the city that we are actively working to rehab, and so there are more to come in the in the not too distant future.

Next slide.

I wanted to highlight opportunities for community partners to acquire property from the land bank and some of the the discounts that are at that they are eligible for, depending on the use.

Um community partners are eligible for up to 50% discount for vacant land purchases where they are using that land for beautification, a park or a garden or some agricultural project.

They um are eligible for up to a 40% discount to complete the renovation of an existing residential structure of up to four units or less.

And um in instances where they are purchasing vacant land to create affordable housing, they are eligible for up to an 80% discount if at least 25% of the units are um no more than 50% of AMI.

I will note um council member Johnson, we have been working with a number of CLTs to take advantage of that discount.

Um those deals continue to uh work through the process, and we are I think um figuring out a nice cadence and those are working out nicely.

Finally, um I just wanted to highlight some things that are coming up, even though they're not Q3, but they are coming up soon, and I wanted to take the opportunity to share that with the listening public.

June 8th, as I said, is talking with Tammy.

And I'm gonna have as my guest the uh national president, his name is Ashley Thomas, the national president of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers.

And so that will be on this Monday at 12 o'clock, June 13th.

The land bank is excited to host our first developer conference.

The event is sold out, uh but and we have gotten a great response, and so hopefully we would we will do this in the future.

And so I just I'm excited to share that opportunity with um small-scale developers who are looking for opportunities with the land bank, and then on June 22nd, as I indicated, our next community office hours will be held in D6 at Simply Roasty, which is at 4240 Cass Avenue from 10 to 2 p.m.

And with that, I will turn it over for questions.

All right, thank you so much for the presentation.

Um I'd like to start out with the community land trust.

Um I know you mentioned it, and you have several organizations that are going through the process to be formalized as a community land trust, but looking to acquire land.

I've also um recently learned that uh there are some lots that are marketed that community land trust may be interested in, and as a result, the cost of the lot is significantly higher than it would be if they were purchasing the the lot directly from you all where it was not a marketed lot.

Can you help me understand the difference?

Why some lots are marketed, why some are not?

And I know when we previously had the conversations around community land trust, the intent, of course, is to focus on lower AMI housing, um, whether rental or preferably uh homeownership opportunities.

Um we talked about that being the intent, and as a result, you know, providing that support, and you all created the CLT policy.

So can you share the rationale behind lots that are marketed versus those that are not and the cost associated with those that are marketed?

Through the chair, I'm gonna turn that over to my colleague John O'Hanna, who um manages the marketed uh pipeline, and she can talk about um the decision to market a property versus not.

Yes, thank you, and thank you, uh Councilmember Johnson.

Um, so we most of what we market comes to us through wait, actually.

My my thing says my voice quality is poor.

Are you able to hear me?

Yes.

Okay.

Uh so most of what we send through marketing comes through our planning and analysis team as they review uh our inventory, where it's located, um, what what and in partnership with our city partners.

So everything goes over to the regional team meetings with recommendations for marketing or just to leave it in our uh inventory to be sold if it's eligible as a side lot, if it's a neighborhood lot community, uh they're sold as um neighborhood lots.

I believe if I'm not mistaken, the CLT policy included all neighborhood lot communities and land, and um anything that we otherwise take for marketing gets recommended or approved by the city.

And so uh and and with a with an additional recommendation as to um I believe the marketing team was before you earlier and talked about if there's an enhanced marketing recommendation, do they want to see um increased housing, low density uh commercial, um you know, mixed use developments.

So that's that's pretty much how we determine what gets marketed.

Also, if there has been a heavy interest for multiple parties for properties, it's best to also put it on the market because we'd like to give everyone an opportunity, and that's the way we've been selling most of the vacant land that we've got uh we've got interest on.

I don't know if Robbie wants to add anything else, but uh, if not, I'm I'm happy to turn it back over to you, Councilmember.

I think you covered it, John.

All right, thank you.

It sounds like we need to have some additional conversations about the intentionality around um lower income housing in the city.

Um and if the city or some department is actually approving those, the land that's being marketed, I'd love to uh know who that is, and I'm assuming HRD uh and have a conversation with them because I I just want to make sure we don't lose the intent around the creation of the CLT and the CLT policy, the CLT ordinance that we've been working on for the last two years, um, but hoping to cross that finish line just to make sure that we are all in alignment.

Um I did also see that side lot sales were pretty low for the quarter.

Um can you all talk about why you think that is?

I mean, it's I think it's interesting that you're selling more that you've sold more um homes via the auction than side lines during this particular quarter, considering the number of side lots that are in your inventory.

So through the chair, we did just upload a number of new side lots, but I'll turn it over to my colleague Robert Lynn to kind of talk about like um trends and um and our sales across the different platforms.

Thank you uh so much, Tammy.

I I think I would say that um you know, as Tammy mentioned, we did do a large uh upload of new side lots and neighborhood lots, including uh a little over 1,000 side lots and 6300 neighborhood lots, bringing the total number of lots listed among the programs to a hair over 33,000.

Um I I think what you're seeing uh council member is that um you know, under our policy, after a side lot goes unsold for six months, it moves to the neighborhood lot program.

So within that 33,000 lots, nearly all at this point are neighborhood lots.

There are only a couple thousand side lots because everything else has moved on to neighborhood lots over time.

Um, and I I expect that you know, long term we will see uh this trend sort of you know um persist because as we list lots, some will sell uh to the neighbor next door, but most will not, and then they'll be available to all neighbors.

Okay, and can you just kind of talk about what that communication is like for the adjacent properties just to make sure they're not missing any communication or missing the opportunity to purchase the lot as a side lot prior to it going into the neighborhood lot pipeline?

Sure, you know, uh we do multiple rounds of postcards to every neighbor who can buy it as a side lot to let them know that's listed, um, that we have upcoming side lot fair, but then also to let them know that it's about to move to the neighborhood lot program.

This is really your last chance.

You know, I would say that we also offer a discount to the adjacent neighbors so that once it does move to the neighborhood lot program, we'll still sell it to them at that side lot price long term.

Okay, all right, that's good to know.

Um my other question is in regards to, and I guess it's not a question, the 266 demo candidates.

Well, I am going to turn it into a question.

I know that there's been a lot of discussion around um bringing on a thousand new houses and um the cost associated with doing so.

I still firmly believe that it costs less to rehab a house than it costs to build a new house.

Um, are you all working with HRD or any department within the city to take those from being demolition candidates to potential rehab properties?

So um through the chair, those properties have been assessed and determined that that demolition was the appropriate path.

I will flag though that if some we are that if someone wants to come forward in a and attempt a rehab, um, we we do have the ability to pull properties out of that pipeline and make them available for um individuals interested in rehabbing, you know, extremely the distressed property.

Um I'm also gonna turn it back over to Robbie Lynn to add any additional context or color to that answer as he works very closely with the um construction and demolition department moving properties back and forth between our pipelines.

Thank you so much, Tammy.

Uh to the chair, I would say that um that's exactly right.

We do have an ongoing process for moving properties back and forth.

I'll also say that you know we've gotten some encouragement from the mayor's office to um review that list more thoroughly.

So we're you know going through them again with um secondary and tertiary um inspections to really find any properties we think uh may be saved to move them back into the sales queue.

And Robbie, can you talk about how a resident would know?

So, how would they know that it's owned by the land bank?

How would they know who to reach out to if they wanted to potentially put an offer in and and plan to rehabilitate the property?

That is a great question.

Uh council member.

Um, to the chair, I would say that we uh have an interactive map on our website where residents can see every single property we own, whether it's a structure or a lot, um, can get expressed interest through that uh mechanism.

I'd also say that you know, when we do uh acquire a property, we begin a sort of routine inspection process where we are visiting the property uh every 90 days, and we'll leave a poster saying this is you know land bank owned and can call us for maintenance uh or purchase inquiries.

Okay.

All right, thank you.

Pro Tim Young.

Thank you so much, Matt L Chair.

Hello, everyone, good to see you.

Uh I just wanted to ask you really quickly, first and foremost, the number one issue that I get is involving um side lots, and um how Detroiters are able to get access to them.

A lot of people I talk to say they want a side lot, they try to purchase a side lot, they can't get a side lot.

I have people who talk about stories about how they cut the side lots, they maintain the side lots, they take care of the sidewalks, they do everything except own them.

Can we talk about what we're doing to be able to improve, expedite that process, what you've already done, and what you're doing to further improve, expedite and enhance that process so the citizens of Detroit can have access to those lots.

Um, through the chair to Pro Tim Young.

Um let me first say um I appreciate um the question I would ask that um if I can reach out to your office if there are specific residents' names and contact information, sure we can get that we can make sure that we address any outstanding issues.

Um I'm gonna again turn it over to my colleague Robert Lynn, who you know, he again runs the inventory and talk and is aware of the side lot um pipeline and the efforts that we make.

We can talk in detail about the efforts that we make to contact residents and let them know um of the availability of a side lot in the next to them.

Um thank you so much, Tammy.

Uh, through the chair to uh Pro Tem Young.

Um I really appreciate this question.

I'd say, you know, I mentioned earlier to Councilmember Johnson, we have about 33,000 list lots listed.

We have another inventory of about 16,000 lots that are not listed for sale presently.

Um, and we are working to resolve those.

Um those 16,000, approximately a third are not listed because they have a fence, a driveway, a garden, some other type of um resident encroachment we want to resolve with that neighbor before we list it, you know, a publicly to all residents, and we are launching a project this summer to really work through those.

Uh, another third are uh involved in in city-led holds, um, you know, ranging from everything from green stormwater infrastructure in Brightmore to uh airport expansion to affordable housing projects with HRD.

And the last third is really a um wide-ranging set of barriers from delinquent tax bills to uh demo liens, and we are kind of working to systematically resolve those so that we can make them available.

I I think our our goal is to reach a point uh in the you know near to medium future, I'll say where all those lots are also available to residents through some form, be it side lot, neighborhood lot, some sort of land-based projects program for infill developers, uh, et cetera.

No, I think that's excellent.

And uh I think what happens a lot of times, you correct me if I'm wrong.

What happens a lot of times is that the Wayne County, the a lot of these properties go into foreclosure and they're bought by made through LLCs and major corporations to the Wayne County tax sale.

And that's what a lot of people are saying, because the land bank takes the properties that are in the worst condition.

These are the properties that no one wanted to buy, that no one wanted to have.

They usually got like basic things missing, like roofs, or they have no plumbing, or like the properties that you would not want to buy, these are the properties that the land bank either has.

And so that's how we kind of have this issue, the properties that were the worst properties, then those properties get demoed, and then you have these lots that are there.

And so I think that that's what people need to understand is that some of the things they're talking about didn't have anything to do with the land bank has to do with the Wayne County tax sale and people that bought these properties through the tax sale.

But I would like you to, I just want to know from your perspective, what kind of information are you putting out there to be what kind of metrics are you showing to be able to counter that?

Now, I did them.

This is an estimate.

This is not this is not biblical fact.

So don't take that as such.

But just from the estimate that I have seen and looked at based on um, based on uh who you sold uh or your purchaser profile.

Uh I think that you had an estimated number of 30,000 lots that were sold, and I think 88% of those with the Detroit residents, non-Detroid buyers is 12% or 30 or 3600.

Your Detroit homeowners are 75 to 85%, about 22,500, 25,500 in there.

Your Detroit-based LLCs was 8 to 15%, so 2400 to 4500.

The out of state investors were like 5 to 10%, so 1,500 to 3,000.

And then the corporations, that's corporations greater than 10 million of assets that they hold.

It's about 2 to 5% or 600 to 1,500.

I wanted to ask you, is that close to being correct?

And if it is, are there plans to be able to put that out in a transparent way where residents can be able to understand that?

Are there dashboards that are available when you're going out to your communities and you're talking?

Because I know you're out there in the community, because when I'm out there in the community, I've seen a land bank or bundle land based people a couple times, either coming out the facility or going in the facility, or we're there at the same time.

And so has there been has there been discussions at all about that so people can understand?

So we're all kind of dealing with the same facts.

And you know, to really further that point, I would say that almost the exact inverse of what we see with the county tax auction sales, and that um there's fewer than a quarter are bought by residents of the city, and the most are bought by outside investors, be them in in, you know, the uh Wayne County or abroad.

Um I would say this is like a standard part of our um presentations when we talk to residents, when we talk to um you know community groups, but I I think to your point, um, this is a message we need to shout even louder because I think there is a lot of confusion between the um buyers and outcomes of land bank properties and uh other foreclosure product uh processes.

Yeah, yeah, I I think that's good.

I also wanted to ask you from a metric standpoint do you have an estimate of the purchaser income distribution?

So the average amount of properties that are bought by people based on their income.

So I I I again this is the estimate.

This is not um fact here.

I'm I'm not saying this is true.

I'm just saying this is just an estimate that we've that that uh that me and my team kind of put together here a little bit.

But it it like the the estimate is that for those in terms of uh 25,000 dollars or less, 20 to 25 percent purchase these properties for 25,000 to 50,000, that purchasing percentage is 40 to 45%.

And then from 50 to 75,000 is 20 to 25%, and then greater for 75,000 dollars in income is 10 to 15%.

So you're right around where the people in the city of Detroit that make that because average, I think uh citizens of Detroit make like 36, 37,000 a year.

So that average is where the majority of people are purchasing the properties from the land bank.

Now that's an estimate.

I don't know if that's true or not.

If it is, we need to be able to have that message being told to the community so they understand that.

And secondly, I also just wanted to ask you um who in the budget, is it who on the team is dealing with the issue of community outreach, and what are we doing in terms of the high touch aspect to be able to let people know that they can buy these properties that they have first divs of being able to buy these properties next to them?

Do we have street teams that are out there?

Do we have your staff that's knocking doors?

Are you partnering up with a company to go out there or contracting out with people to go out there?

Are you hiring, you know, folks off the street, you know, pulling up on people and saying, hey, you know, you want a summer job or whatever, come knock on these doors and hand out these flyers.

But you you're from a high touch perspective.

I know you got the thing on the internet.

I know we have the you know the notifications.

I'm not I'm not asking.

I know you do mail and things that nature too, and that's a great thing.

But I just want to know in terms of people who may not have gotten the mail or may not have access to that technology or whatever.

What are we doing in terms of reaching out to them?

And is there a um increasing of that effort?

And do we have price points of how much that costs?

Um so through the chair, um, our community um, our community engagement team is uh tasked with making sure that we are out in the community, advising people of our programming, the opportunities to buy and purchase from the land bank and providing them with the tools to do it as easily and as in a streamlined process as possible as in as in as streamlined a process as possible.

I will note um before we talk about street teams, etc.

I just wanted to go back and mention um not only for you, Pro Tim, but also um Councilmember Johnson, that we have just our board just made a modification to our side-lock program to allow uh residents to purchase.

They used to be able to purchase two um lots that were adjacent to their property, and that's now been expanded so they can purchase three.

So I think that one will address um maybe some of the stagnant sales that you know residents will now have the ability to purchase more lots adjacent to their property.

So that may um want to address more of the stagnant sales, and that's an enhancement of the program to make more land available to Detroit residents.

Um, Councilmember Young, on your question of street teams, um we we will here's what I we will um we will investigate that opportunity um because we have so many lots available.

I need to figure out what a budget realistically, what a budget would be in order to touch, because that that touch is important to touch all these residents so that they could be uh they could be made aware of the side lots.

We are planning though, um, in lieu of that, right now we are in the process of planning side lot fairs where we'll be in the community um and making uh the side lots available for so they can apply the purchase on site in the community.

We we we used to do it all the time.

We will be um out this summer um across you know multiple districts, who probably had at least two.

We'll do you know, multiple districts at each side lot fair where the community can come in, apply the purchase so that they and on the spot, you know, fill it out and and and begin the process to acquire those lots.

So um that is traditionally how we try to um you know solve for that problem is is for us to go into the community, bring our entire team and do those transactions on the spot.

Um, but I will commit to having our team like research what that would need to look like to have a street team go out and knock on all the doors to make people aware of uh the availability of side lots in their community.

No, I think that's excellent.

I appreciate I appreciate that.

I I'll also just wrap up.

I would also just recommend that you also uh either through community partnerships or just going out and reaching out to people.

I recommend you go to union halls.

You know, I I know I had some very interesting conversations with union members about the lots that you're trying to get and things that nature, you know.

I think that would be I think that'd be really good, not just in terms of your labor unions, but also in terms of your police and fire, your professional unions.

I think that would be good as well as your churches, your ecumenical communities.

I think that I think as well as your block clubs and things that nature, I think you know, it as well as your um neighborhood associations and your business associations.

I mean, I I've seen you in a couple of those already, but I but as it but I'm sure that would really be good because I've gotten because I you you would be surprised the places I've gone where people ask me about getting a lot, and people didn't understand the process in terms of the land bank at all, and people who are been around politics for a very long time, and so I think that that's something that'd be really beneficial, not just for the the public, but also beneficial for you and for what you're trying to do and what you've been doing.

So people know that you know you haven't just been sitting twiddling your thumbs.

You've actually done a lot in the community and what you're doing and the funding that you receive and the funding that you generate on your own as a the uh as an authority.

I think that'd be beneficial for a lot of people to be able just to understand and educate this in a better picture and understanding of what's going on in the city of Detroit.

So uh thank you for that.

I am done.

Thank you, madam chairwoman.

Thank you.

Um is there anything further you all would like to share with us?

If not, I just want to note I have a couple of outstanding requests.

Um to you all.

I believe Mr.

Reginald Scott uh took one of my requests, and looking forward to getting a listing of uh properties in the district.

All right, very good.

You have it.

Okay, thank you.

Any anything further you'd like to share?

No, through the chair, we are all set if you have no further questions.

We thank you for your time and attention.

All right, we appreciate you.

Thank you for the report.

That now closes out the 1025 discussion.

And pro Tim, is there a motion to receive and file both the um city planning commission's annual report as well as the Detroit Land Bank Authorities third quarter fiscal year 2026 report?

Motion there's a motion to receive and file.

Hearing no objections, those actions shall be taken.

All right, thank you all.

Have a great day.

Thank you, you too.

We are now going to move to unfinished business and move as quickly as we possibly can.

Beginning with line item 8.1, contract number 600752, 100% city slash grant funding to provide tenant support for residents of affordable developments in Detroit around transitions and housing status.

The contractor is United Community Housing Commission.

United Community Housing, maybe it is commission now.

Um this is through December 31st, 2026.

Total contract amount 100,000.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss?

Motion to approve.

There's a motion to send line item 8.1 to formal with recommendation to approve.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Without objection, I'd like to combine line items 8.2, 8.3, 8.8.

8.10 through 8.12.

There's a request for a one-week bring back for these line items.

Is there a motion?

Uh motion.

There's a motion to bring line items 8.2, 8.3, 8.8, and 8.10 through 8.12 back in one week.

Hearing no objections.

Wait, wait, uh motion to discuss with discussion.

Pro Tim Young.

Thank you.

Um, Madam President.

I I just wanted to make sure I just wanted to say about this.

I first of all I just want to make clear um that the workforce pilot is a tool intended to support assets needing stability, and this was the project to promote workforce housing.

If this pilot is approved, the building will have extended and more affordability and a steady revenue stream.

This pilot ensures stability with the asset opposed to foreclosure.

The existing residents all will stay in place at existing rents, and the housing for heroes program will be a part of this project.

It will set a good precedent.

For my understanding, this project is in receivership now.

They're talking about this particular going in bankrupt if going bankrupt into bankruptcy.

If they don't have the the pilot credit, then what they're talking about the affordability rate would be in jeopardy.

If they don't have the pilot credit, if they don't have the pilot, as well as they don't have the um these they don't pass for the uh neighborhood enterprise zone as well as the uh commercial rehabilitation uh tax credit.

And so I just want to make sure that's why we're commercial rehabilitation exemption certificate, excuse me.

So that's why we're having this process.

I also know in budget, I think the pilot issue is being dealt with in budget.

So I just want to make that clear for everybody that's watching this process.

That's what's happening.

Uh, I look forward to being able to uh vote this out.

I know we have some issues that we're gonna have to deal with working with budget and our counterparts over there working that out.

I look forward to doing this.

This is a credible program.

I think we need more affordable housing.

I think this would be really good in terms of dealing with that issue that we have and meeting that goal of um hitting 1,100 houses a year that we need to achieve our affordable housing goals and deal with the issue of the housing crisis that we have in the city of Detroit.

Thank you, madam chairwoman.

Thank you, Pro Tim, and my apologies.

I was going to open those two line items up, line item 8.2 and 8.3, because I know we've not had a discussion about them in PED.

We did have a very thorough and lengthy discussion in the budget finance and audit standing committee two weeks ago.

There are outstanding um reports that are being presented to council, and we hope to have them back in one week so that we can um move on these two line items.

But thank you for that.

Um, and there is a motion to bring all of these line items back in one week.

Hearing no objections, those action shall be taken.

Line item 8.4 is status of council member Denzel McCampbell submitting memorandum relative to legal questions regarding public acquisition of 400 bagley.

Pro Tim, the response has been received.

Is there a motion to receive and file line item 8.4?

Motion received file line item 8.4.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Line item 8.5 is property sale of 196 Vinewood.

Is there a motion to discuss?

Motion discuss.

Discussion.

I believe Mr.

Trung is online joining us for line item 8.5.

Miss Great, do you see Mr.

Trung?

Okay, he's here now.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

Please introduce yourself for the record.

Yes, good afternoon.

This is John Trunk, the Housing Revitalization Department, the real estate division.

Thank you, Mr.

Trung, for joining us.

I when I um Googled this address, I wasn't sure what I was supposed to be looking at.

Is this land?

Yes, it's a it's a portion of their parking lot.

It's uh it's kind of a weird parcel.

The applicant owns uh residential properties on the other side of the street.

Uh, and you what you probably saw in Google Street View, right?

Anybody in the audience you know that searches it, you'll you'll see a parking lot and this service is their tenants.

So the it is a slider, yeah, it's a sliver of vacant land that uh you know accounts for a portion of the parking lot.

So it's adjacent to their existing parking lot.

Are they currently using it as a parking lot?

Yes, yeah.

Their parking lot is currently, I think three parcels altogether.

Okay, all right, thank you for that.

Um is was the parking lot gated?

Correct, yeah.

It is okay.

All right, Mr.

Trung.

I'm not sure if you know the status of the property or land that is owned by the plan then development department, but I thought it was very interesting that it was already gated.

Um, and that these folks have already been utilizing it without any benefit to the city.

Um, so not sure how long this has been going on.

Glad that they are now looking to um pay the city for it, considering they've already been using it.

But I'm just curious to know if there's a way for us to get in front of this just to make sure that um the city is not only uh being compensated for the use of its land, um, but that we are also being accountable and responsible for our land um throughout the city.

Understood.

All right, thank you.

Any additional discussion seeing none.

Is there a motion on line item 8.5?

Motion on line 8.5.

There's a motion to send line item 8.5 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

Motion to send line item 8.5 to formal recommendation to approve.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Without objection, I'd like to combine line items 8.

Before I do that, I'd like to uh recess the planning and economic development committee to the call of the chair.

All right, huh?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I got slapped at that, which looks real brand new.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

All right.

Neighborhood community service, standard committee will now come into session.

Will the clerk please call a role?

Council President Pro Tim Coleman Young.

Here.

Councilmember Scott Benson.

Councilmember Miller.

Mr.

Chair, we do not have quorum.

Thank you, madam clerk.

Uh, neighborhood community service standing will now stand at recess to call the chair.

I'd now like to call back to order the planning and economic development committee.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?

Councilmember Letitia Johnson present.

Councilmember Gabriela Santiago Romero.

Mr.

Santiago Romero did indicate that she would not be present.

Clerk has noted.

Council President pro temporary common A.

Young the second.

Here.

Madam Chair, you have a quantum present.

Thank you.

Having a quorum present.

We are now back in session and resuming with the agenda.

Without objection, I'd like to combine line items 8.6 and 8.9.

There is a request for a two-week bring back.

Is there a motion?

Motion combined lines 8.6 to 8.9.

And bring back in two weeks.

Motion bring back line 8.6, 8.9 in two weeks.

Hearing no objections, those actions shall be taken.

Line item 8.7 is a request for a removal.

This was property sale at 1755 14th Street.

This has already been approved by City Council.

Is there a motion to remove line item 8.7?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

That brings us now to line item 8.13.

Line item 8.13 is a request of the Great Lakes Water Authority to rezone land located at 700 Connor Street, 692 Connor, 686, 682, 678, 672, Connor, as well as 703, Navajo 693, 687, 681, and 68 675 Navajo.

From the current R2 2 Family Residential District, two R5 medium density residential district or PD Plant Development District.

Is there a motion to discuss?

Motion discussed.

Discussion, thank you.

If we can ask you all to join us at the table very briefly, as well as Mr.

Fazini from the City Planning Commission.

And if you all will please introduce yourselves for the record.

Afternoon.

Good afternoon, Madam Chair.

Naveed Moram, Chief Operating Officer for Great Lakes Water Authority.

Afternoon.

Good afternoon, Madam Chairman.

Paul Ransom, Life Cycle Project Manager with GLWA.

Afternoon.

And Deputy Director.

Deputy Director Sam Smalley, Detroit Potter Insurance Department.

You're on mute.

He is not on mute, but I'm wondering if that's media services.

If sorry, Deputy Director, will you please reintroduce yourself?

Deputy Director Sam Smalley, Detroit Water Insurance Department.

Thank you.

So I wanted you all to come to the table about this line item.

Of course, you've heard from residents in the community who are extremely concerned about the environmental impact of residents in the community.

Can you speak to what work you have done as it relates to the construction that is already taking place that has already taken place?

Can you talk about any environmental uh assessments testing that has been done?

And I'm not sure if you have any results of those tests.

Absolutely.

Um thank you again for having us.

Um I'll kind of start and yes, we definitely heard a lot of the public comment around the fugitive dust and the environmental impacts.

So in any of our projects, all of our projects, there is an environmental assessment that is done where physically contract our contractors or uh our designers go out and grab soil samples from the areas of impact of the project, and they conduct laboratory analysis on those things and generate a report to identify if there's any special mitigation strategies necessary for us to ensure that when we do construction, we are taking the appropriate environmental measures that's regulated by the state.

So there are part 201, which is a regulatory requirement of the state.

So we develop a plan, and then as a result, we submit that plan, and as part of permitting that plan is reviewed and ensured that it's in alignment with the city ordinances and requirements.

So all of that has been done.

But before you proceed there, I want to ask was that testing done on every site that is being utilized by the construction crew?

So not just where you're proposing to put the um the pumping station, but there are staging areas where large trucks are being staged.

Has the soil been tested in those areas as well?

So industry standard kind of grab samples from the entire impact area to ensure that we get a representative sample of all the areas that are going to be impacted as part of construction.

So there are, I believe there are seven samples that I saw in the report that were taken from different parts of the project.

Um the two properties adjacent to each other residential properties that we had, they have the similar soils.

It's a very common industry standard engineering practice to only grab a handful of representative sample, but ensuring that the samples are from the areas of influence, meaning areas that are going to be either excavated or parked or disturbed in any way, um, so that the engineers and the environmental assessment and the scientists are all making the best decision of mitigation to ensure that there is no um human health impacts.

Okay.

Um and I know you were about to add something else, but before you proceed, um, so Ms.

Cartwright did mention that she shared this information with me.

I sat down in our home over a year ago now, I think, and um she shared this information with me.

I then had a conversation with Paul Ransom.

And Paul, I believe, had a conversation directly with Ms.

Cartwright.

Um can you share if there was a conversation that um proceeded after our conversation and if there was any additional action that was taken?

Madam Chairman, Mrs.

Curry did call me and I had that a discussion with her.

She had requested um she wanted a results from the soil sampling.

Um we ended up putting those on the website as requested so that they could be viewed.

And uh believe those copies are out there for anyone to have.

Okay, and you never had any additional conversations after that.

Mrs.

Cartwright and I have had multiple conversations.

I don't know that any specifically in regards to the dusts.

Okay.

All right.

Um you may proceed.

Thank you, madam chair.

Um, uh as I was so the part that I wanted to kind of bring to closure is that so this 184-page document is an environmental assessment that's done.

It guides us on what measures need to be taken, either environmentally or as it relates to construction, to ensure that we are in compliance with state laws.

And in parallel to that, making sure that our practices aligned with City of Detroit ordinances is for fugitive dust.

We have gone back, we heard at our last public hearing that there was concerns about fugitive dust.

We have gone back and reviewed our plan against that and our strategies against that, and we are in compliance with every requirement that's out there.

In addition to that, one of the things we are doing is we're taking an additional measure of having when so one of the things I want to highlight is a lot of the dust that's being noticed right now is the construction dust of, for example, as part of construction, we bring in stone to create a base layer so that the contractors can drive on and don't disturb the soil.

There is dust that comes off of that, but that is clean soil is not clean soil, it's clean stone that creates fugitive dust.

But the fugitive dust again is within the limits of what we're allowed to do for a construction activity.

As it relates to excavation, one of the measures we're going to take place is that we're gonna go over and beyond the um requirements of the of the fugitive dust plan requirement, which is we're gonna add more water spraying and more methods to be able to sustain the fugitive dust to minimize any potential um opacity issue, meaning visual visual issues with respect to dust being emitted.

So we are taking all measures that we can, and we are in compliance with both state regulation and local city ordinances that was recently, I believe was modified, and we did review to the modified ordinances of the fugitive dust, and we are still in compliance with that as well.

Okay, all right, thank you.

Um anything, Pro Ken.

Yeah, thank you.

Um good at all, everybody, good to see everybody again.

Um from my estimate of this, I understand why we have the infrastructure.

I understand why we need it.

I'm not saying we don't.

I just what my concern is is where it's being built at.

This kind of has a little bit of a NIMBY type of feel to it, and I just want to know does it have to be built in this particular area?

I think there's 18 miles of land that's vacant to see training about 50,000 point two uh acres.

Could we build this somewhere else and it have the same effectiveness?

Or is it kind of like edge computing where you gather that data at the actual site for its most effectiveness with this infrastructure?

Um thank you for the question.

I would tell you, I wish we could build it in another location.

Um the reason this location is identified as we walk through the alternatives during our presentation.

I appreciate the re um the question, is that we have to intercept the the existing infrastructure that's been there since the 50s.

Um there are two major interceptors that come to an existing pump station, which is adjacent to the pump station that we are proposing.

And I mean to cut you out, but so isn't some of the infrastructure like older than that.

Like I know there's there's some infrastructure that's like made out of clay.

Like we're talking about like 1800s in some cases.

I mean, I'm not saying in your particular situation, but I know people have told me like, you know, it's like a nightmare underneath the city in terms of building, just because the age, I just I just want to make sure people understand like the grasp of what this is.

I mean, 1950s can sometimes be kind of terrorist.

Absolutely.

So this is some of the newer infrastructure relative to but that's what these interceptors are.

Before before these large interceptors, these 16-foot interceptors, to your point, in the in the in the 1800s, late 1900s, sewer systems used to discharge right into the Detroit River.

Right.

Um at that time, it was considered as food for the water source.

Um, and then there was diseases that broke out.

And then there was um fires on the rivers because of the industrial waste that took place.

Because of that infrastructure was built out where we convey all that flow to the treatment facility to ensure that we are treating it to the quality that is necessary.

So the interceptors that we are intercepting are some of the newer, if you may, but still close to 100 years old infrastructure.

We have to intercept those pipes so that we can do the maintenance of the structure that's existing again, constructed in the 30s, um, to ensure that it's operable and available when we have rain events.

Okay.

No, I I I I I appreciate that.

I think I think that's a real good point.

Um I just I support this.

I just water really, I just really feel like I should go talk to constituents of that particular area before I really move forward with this.

I'm not saying that we can't move forward with this today.

Uh we probably could be able, I I would suggest, I mean, you know, you know, I'm not trying to tell you what to do, but uh I would suggest that we move this forward without recommendation, and then the whole body could be able to have that discussion in terms of why we don't recommend this, why move forward, what's the best course of uh uh action.

I know we had discussions about um about uh fugitive dust.

And you know, I I I I had a lot of more questions just to turn to your more granular level, but I'm not gonna run through all of them because I don't because I don't think that really it kind of defeats the purpose of why we're here.

I think they're probably asked about environment that can really kind of break down in terms of fugitive dust violations or dust completes or truck cover compliance or PO25 or forever chemicals or uh cancer risk, uh these are or asthma bird rate, you know, or um residents within 500 feet or a cube or a cumulative pollution bird is a lot of stuff that I have a lot of questions that I have.

I don't think it's appropriate for me to try to play like stuff the schwab with you here and levy all this in one meeting.

So I'll probably send this to you in a writing.

Maybe we could bring somebody in and they could kind of go through all of that alongside.

Either you can bring somebody or we can have somebody from the city who knows the environment, kind of come alongside and answer that.

Uh just so we can have a thorough as understanding about air quality index and visible dust events, you know, you know, or um uh yeah, either they would answer that, and I'll submit this so everybody can kind of look through it so there's no surprises here, and we just kind of go through that process.

But that's what I would prefer.

God, because again, I want to make sure I'm clear about this.

I understand why this is needed.

I understand what you're trying to do.

We can't have another thousand-year flood with basements backed up.

I understand how this would help that tremendously.

I just think there's been a lot of issues in that community, not just with the terms of environmental issues, but the way which infrastructure has been built, the plans that people have for the infrastructure without doing the best job of um of including or discussing or communicating with the residents, and so I feel I owe that to them.

So, or at least at least a sit-down conversation with people in the area that I know.

So that is uh what I would like to do, hold on for just a bit here.

Let me make sure I clean something here.

Uh also uh B seed inspectors to go out and determine whether there's a violation of the fugitive dust uh ordits as well.

So I think that's a partnership that we would do.

I'm not throwing all that on you.

Obviously, that's kind of stuff that we have to do eternally.

So uh that's the end of my statement.

Uh, if you want to postpone this for another week, if you want to move forward recommendation, uh is a recommendation.

These are just things I'll just think it out loud.

Mayor Chair Will, but thank you.

And thank you, everybody, for your presentation.

Thank you, Pro Tim.

And um, I do want to respect um the residents who came out and share this additional information.

So I would like to ask if we can bring this back in a week so that we can evaluate that.

I know there were some questions about community engagement.

Um, and I know that our office hosted several meetings.

Um, I know that the Great Lakes Water Authority has been hosting quarterly meetings.

And one thing that I said some time ago is that I advised for the Great Lakes Water Authority to bring someone on their team who could better have conversations with the community about what's taking place because it's very technical.

And I think there are many times when I've been in the room with you all, and I didn't understand what was going on.

I didn't understand what you all were talking about, and that's why I suggested that that someone who has the expertise, who has the knowledge of the system, but who also could break it down so that we could all understand what was happening.

Um that never happened.

Um, I am going to bring somebody on my team who can have those conversations with the community who understands this system very thoroughly.

Um, and because we all know we don't want to see 2021 happen again, but there's a way, there's a process that we can go through to bring everybody together and having a good understanding not only of what needs to be done, but what is required and expected as residents in the community.

I know that you all agree to having um someone from the community who keeps a watchful eye on the construction process, um, who has direct communication, uh direct line of communication with you all to be able to address any concerns that the residents are seeing.

So, and I know that we've had conversations about other things that you are willing to do as it relates to just aesthetically improving the area with landscaping and things of that nature.

One thing that the community has been asking me to have ask you all, and I wanted to do this publicly.

Are you able to provide support for home repair in the area of where this project is taking place?

If you are, if you are not, tell me why you are not, if you are not able to.

But there has been a request for support, recognizing that you know there are these environmental impacts for the immediate community surrounding this site.

Similar to what we did with Stellantis.

And a lot of people were calling in talking about the odors, the smells that they were experiencing, and we advocated and pushed for some support, additional support for home repair to help create that envelope for their home so in their home, they don't have to be concerned about external, the external environment impacting their home and their the air quality in their home.

Are you all able to provide that support to residents?

Um thank you for that question, and I think we have had some dialogue as it relates to that um already.

So GLWA is a public body.

We are a public authority that our revenue sources are cost recovery model, meaning that the expenses that we in Burr endure for water treatment and water delivery and water receiving and treatment for discharging into the Great Lakes are paid for through the ratepayers, which are the local residents within Southeast Michigan.

Um, as part of our obligation, we are not able to utilize those dollars for any additional work similar to your local municipality that's not able to make home improvements to even sewer lines.

Similarly to that VSGLWA, because we are a public body that has funds and fiduciary responsibilities to how we utilize those funds, we aren't able to make home investments.

However, when there is construction project that's happening, if there are one of the things we do as part of our construction project is we do surveys of the homes adjacent to the property.

If there's damage as a result of the construction activity that occurred from the pre-to-post-activation, that's something can be reviewed of, but not as it relates to home improvements just because of other reasons associated with that adjacent to the project.

Umson, I think you you're well aware we have had over two dozen community meetings, and we have discussed with residents and tried to address many of the issues that have been presented over um over this project.

I believe that the ultimate comment is the mass majority of the comments we hear is the understanding of the project.

There is a group of individuals that has challenges with the project going forward.

We have discussed what could be done, and the ultimate answer is don't build the project here.

Um we have had further discussions around that.

We have done every measure that we can within the boundaries of our ability to do and as a public entity.

Um we have provided that pro we have provided whatever benefits we could provide as part of this project.

Um I'm not sure exactly what else can be done at this point.

Uh we have made every attempt to meet where residents are, understanding that it's construction.

The project now has been sitting for two years.

We we relocated the utilities in preparation to break ground, hoping that this ordinance will go through, recognizing the challenges we have had.

Um but this also delays the project, continues to delay the project, and it continues to cause more hardship because we can't move the dirt surface to concrete surface until we build something.

Um so therefore it's going to be more disruptive to the community longer and longer.

What we're forgetting is that this is a five-year project, and it's still a five-year project, even though since we've been for two years working through the communication.

So what I don't want to happen is in a couple years from now this this time that we have spent discussing it, um, is lost on the impact that the community is experiencing today, which could be prolonged, and it's it's not something ideal from our perspective either.

We want to get the project done, minimize the disruption to the community as fast as we can with the limitations we have.

Again, environmentally, I think the questions that came up, those are legitimate, but all of those things have been something that has been reviewed, and there is nothing else environmentally that we could do.

If there's a third party, that the city of Detroit is very experienced in their soils and construction activities that happen.

They have reviewed our phase two plan that is part of the permitting process.

I don't know what else could be produced to inform the residents.

We have shared it on site, we're very transparent.

We're providing everything we can.

If this is ultimately not the desire of the project to move forward, we we really need to ultimately know so we can make better decisions with the funding sources because our system, as you indicated, um, council president Protam, um, our infrastructure is old.

We need to make investments in our infrastructure.

So if there's other places we need to make that investment, let's let's do that to ensure that when the next storm comes, which is just right around the corner, right?

Um, the probability of us getting a thousand year storm is today.

So it it can happen in us prolonging this project and prolonging investment is not ideal for GLWA.

And and it certainly isn't ideal for the 70 percent of District 4 residents who had a backup in 2021.

That's fair.

Um and so I understand that I have all the while understood that and has I've taken my team and I have taken great measures to have conversations with residents in that immediate area so that we could help them as well as the rest of the district, right?

Um, being respectful, being mindful of the fact that they are enduring all of the construction, um, they are enduring having another facility in their neighborhood, but at the same time recognizing that we have to harden the system, we have to improve um the system so that we don't keep having backups.

That's correct.

That's I'm aware I know there are five projects that are going on today, five conversations that are happening so that we can move this forward, address the issues because again, I will say in 2021, what I heard was we don't want another backup happening in our homes.

That is what I have led with and made sure that we were having internal conversations to address that, noting that it has to be addressed in multiple ways to be able to get us out of this situation.

I have prayed to God that a 2021 does not happen on my watch, and I'm grateful that it hasn't.

I don't know how much time I have before something does happen.

I don't want to see it happen.

I I respect the residents and their advocacy.

Um I know they have been doing a lot to understand the project, to understand why here in this location.

We've tried to have those conversations as well, noting that we're talking about old infrastructure.

And quite honestly, if I could pick it up and move it, I'd move it somewhere else myself, right?

Um, and so we're going through that process.

Again, I'm bringing somebody on my team to have these conversations with the residents because when we started having the conversations, it was said to me that these conversations happened before I got elected.

The community indicated that they were never engaged.

When I found out about it, I hosted meetings.

Now, if people don't want to engage with the work that we do, I can't make them.

I can't make them.

But we try to provide all of the information to our residents and work through the challenges, work through the concerns.

And we've continued to do that.

And so that's why we have this the benefits that we've been talking about to the community.

I'll say whether home improvement, home repair resources come from the Great Lakes Water Authority or somewhere else.

We're working on that.

We continue to work on that.

We have some resources that are coming from other entities, but we will continue to work on it.

I will say to your point around being a public entity and not being able to utilize your general fund for home repair.

City of Detroit is the same way.

So when we provide resources for home repair grants, it's always from a federal grant, a state grant.

Um, it's coming from other sources, not the general fund to be able to provide for home repair.

So we'll continue to have those conversations.

Um I am also of the understanding that this petition request that was submitted is still being reviewed.

Um would give you an opportunity if there's anything you wanted to share.

No, okay.

All right, thank you.

All right, pro Tim Young.

Yeah, I promise I'll make this quick.

I just wanted to say there are other things that we could do in terms of whether it's a detuttle system or sewer separation or a green infrastructure, so that's bioswells and perfect concrete, um, whether it's uh smart sensor networks or regional storage basins or just expanding the capacity of the pipe.

The issue with that is cost, and so for from what I see is there are other things that we could do, but when you're looking at some of these other upgrades, it's pretty it it's so this stuff is a pretty pricey, uh has pretty pricey price tags or the deep title system.

We just already talked about the infrastructure that needs to be a disaster.

But you're talking about this this estimate, it's not biblical gospel, but estimated at three to eight billion dollars.

Sewer separation is for four to ten billion.

Uh the pump station upgrades are about like you know, 500 million to one billions.

It's still expensive, but not quite the same level of the cost as the other reforms would be.

So I just want to let people know that in the public, there are other things that can be done infrastructure-wise.

I think it's just the cost is so prohibitive that this would be the best thing that we could do in terms of costs and in terms of actual performance.

I think it's just um constituent outreach that I think that I need to be able to go out there and have that conversation because the people don't want it, the people don't want it.

So I need to go out there and talk to them about that.

But I understand what you're doing, and I understand why it's needed.

So I I so I think that you know we'll have those discussions later, but that's all I want to say.

Um Madam Um Chairwoman, you want me to make a motion to bring this back in a little bit?

I do, but but I want to just share with you that when I mention the five projects, um, one of them is sewer pipe upsizing.

That is one of the five projects, and our office is working on a resolution to get all of this in writing so that all of it gets done and ideally gets done around the same time, too, with the the thought and the intent of getting the Jefferson Chalmers community out of the floodplain.

So those five things all essentially work together.

That includes this pump station.

Otherwise, the community will continue to be in the floodplain.

The community will continue be to be subjected to backups that they have seen on a fairly consistent basis.

So we've we've gone through the the conversation about if you didn't do it here, if you don't do it here, where do you do it?

And where the pipes run underground.

We've talked about what it looks like, and and apparently the plan and development department um was involved in that conversation, although the Great Lakes Water Authority is saying we are willing to amend what the building looks like.

Um, so there are a number of different factors that are going into addressing the sewer system, keeping water out of residence basements in Jefferson Chalmers and throughout District 4 and District 3 as well.

So it's uh it's a significant problem that has to be addressed.

Absolutely.

Pro Tim.

No, I was just gonna say also, you know, because they're living in the floodplain, it it's hard for them to get in shirts and housing as well.

And home repair grants.

And now I'm done.

And home repair grants that the city has provided.

All right.

Uh motion to bring back light on is line item 8.13.

Okay, motion to bring back light on 8.13 in one week.

There's a motion to bring line item 8.13 back in one week.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Thank you.

Moving on to new business and line item 9.1.

Line item 9.1 is contract number 6006294-a1.

100% opioid settlement funding.

Amendment number one to provide a renewal for on-site behavioral health services in homeless shelters and warming centers.

Contractor Self-Help Addiction Rehabilitation Inc.

Contract period would be through June 30th, 2027.

Contract increase amount 75,696 dollars and 42 cents.

Okay.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss?

Motion to approve line on 9.1.

There's a motion to send line item 9.1 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Line item 9.2, 100% city funding amendment number two to add suppliers for Detroit supply schedule number 11.

Residential home repair services.

Oh sorry.

Without objection, I'd like to combine line.

Oh no, never mind.

Um is there a motion on line item 9.2 uh motion to approve line 9.2.

There's a motion to send line item 9.2 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

And without objection, I'd like to combine line items 9.3, 9.4, and 9.5.

These are motion to combine line 9.3 through 9.5.

Without objection.

Thank you, sir.

These are 100% ARPA funded contracts for home repair services for low-income Detroit residents.

Line item 9.3 is to prove to provide an extension of time and to amend contract terms and conditions.

Contractor CHN housing partners.

Line item 9.4 is to provide an extension of time and an increase of funds for roof and window replacements.

Contractor 1800 Hansons and line item 9.5 is to provide an extension of time and an increase of funds for roof and window replacements.

Contractor LGC Global Inc.

Is there a motion to discuss very briefly?

Which one line 9.9 they're all combined?

So motion discussed.

Thank you.

Discussion.

In particular.

Chief Razo and Angelina Sanders is slated to join us.

Good afternoon.

Afternoon, Council members.

Please introduce yourself for the record.

Yes, through the chair Rico Rosso, Chief of Home Repair Neighborhood Services, Human Homeless and Family Service Division.

Thank you for joining us.

Can you share with us what the inspection process is for um these types of contracts?

Sorry, I may have missed the question for all three or just 9.3.

9.3.

9.3.

Yes.

So any work that is that has a permit attached to it.

The contractor will file with building and safety to uh open up that permit.

Now we have the one-day permitting process, which has been great.

Um any any of the work performed, an inspector will come out, review, um, and address any items that need to be corrected or approve it.

We close out the permit, and the contractor is paid for the work.

And so the scope of work related to uh the Detroit home accessibility program does include um porch repairs, rebuilds, handrails, uh we have the wheelchair ramps that have been constructed, both uh wood wheelchair ramps as well as aluminum wheelchair ramps.

If the homeowner doesn't want a permanent one, uh we've had wheelchair lifts as well that have been installed as part of the scope of work.

Um, so all that is combined in the scope of work for this program.

And Chief Razo, do you know how much has been spent thus far for line item 9.3?

Is the extension for um closing out, or are we actually looking to provide additional additional um funding for uh projects?

And I'm not sure who has my name up here incorrectly, but um this is council member Letitia Johnson just so you all are aware through through the chair.

The first part of what you stated cut out.

I don't know if it was on my end, so if you could repeat the question, that would be great.

The question was how much of the funding has been spent thus far, or how much is still available and asking if the increase is for to provide additional um support for home repair, or is this to close out the contract?

So through the chair for 9.3 this is just for town out the contract, correct?

Yeah, all of the houses have been identified.

We're gonna get to 250 households.

We as of Tuesday we're at 213 completions, so this just provides an additional month for all of the work to be completed and closed out.

Okay, all right.

So all of the funding has been utilized.

Allocated, yes, okay, to the chair.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

Pro Tim Young Young.

All right, seeing no additional questions, is there a motion on line item line items 9.3, 9.4, and 9.5.

Motion to approve line items 9.3 to 9.5 and send them to formal session with recommendation for approval.

There's a motion to send line items 9.3 through 9.5 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

Hearing no objections, that those actions shall be taken.

Thank you, Chief Razo.

I will be reaching out to you about a resident who reached out to me.

Thank you.

Look forward to it.

Thank you.

Line item 9.6 is contract number 600787-R.

100% grant funding to provide tenant-based rental assistance and supportive services for a households experience in homelessness at scattered site market rate units.

Contractor, Wayne Metro Community Action Agency, contract period through June 30th, 2029.

Total contract amount 5,48,466.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss?

Motion to approve line 9.6 is send the formal session with recommendations for approval.

There's a motion to send line item 9.6 to formal with recommendation to approve.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

And line item 9.7.

Madam Clerk, there was a correction letter that was provided for line item 9.7.

Have you received it?

Yes, the clerk office has received.

Okay, thank you.

So line item 9.7 is contract number 6007355-A1-R.

This is 100% city funding.

Amendment number one to provide an increase of funds to include right to council in CAM hotline and exercise one-year renewal.

Contractor, Wayne Metro, Community Action Agency.

Contract period is through June 30th, 2027.

Contract increase amount.

1 million 375,000.

Is there a motion to approve as amended?

Motion to approve is amended.

There's a motion to send line item 9.7 to formal as amended with a recommendation to approve.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Line item nine point eight.

Motion removed line nine point eight.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Is there a motion to suspend member reports?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Is there a motion to adjourn?

Motion to adjourn.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

We shall stand adjourned.