Good morning.

Good morning.

Councilmember Denzel Anton McCampbell.

Present.

Councilmember Mary Waters.

Present.

Councilmember Gabriela Santiago Romero.

Councilmember Santiago Romero has indicated she will not be here today.

The clerk will note.

Mr.

Chair, you have quorum.

Thank you so much, ma'am.

Clerk.

That will move us on to the approval of the minutes.

Members of the committee should have uh received the minutes from the June 1st meeting.

With that, is there a motion to approve?

Motion.

It's been a motion to approve the minutes and no objections, the action shall be taken.

Now to move us on to chair remarks.

Um no remarks from me.

I know we have a full room and a full agenda here.

So thank you all for joining us in person and virtually as well.

And with that, we'll move on to public comments.

Um request for public comment will close at 1020.

Uh please limit remarks to two minutes, and we'll start with those in the room.

And for those participating remotely via Zoom, please use the read the raise hand feature, and you will be called in order.

And with that, I believe we have our first speakers here in person.

Um Travis Peters.

Yes.

All right, you may come forward, and then followed by uh Travis, we'll have Donna Anthony and then Misha Parker.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Councilman, uh thank you for allowing me to speak publicly.

Um I want to thank the uh office, City of Detroit's Office of Sustainability for the invitation to speak.

Um speaking on a manner uh regarding a um recent discussion over uh agro voltaics project.

Uh that's the combining of uh farming with the uh proposed uh solar fields that uh DTE will be building in our neighborhoods, particularly in the state fair area and uh grassy friendly.

Uh I just wanted to speak to the importance of uh uh combating food scarcity.

Um I was one of the farmers that was selected to farm and on two acres of space uh east of the state fairgrounds and um the planning and logistics that took place into that, promising uh veterans.

I'm a veteran, so uh my organization is veteran-led.

Umising veterans, workforce development, paying um in dollar amounts well above the minimum wage, promising them credits and food for their assistance in developing this space.

Um is totally um it's disappointing to go back to them and say that this is not gonna take place.

Like I said, it was two acres of space.

I had to plan uh for farm machinery.

I reached out to several organizations, one of which promised in kind uh donations that I have to match their portions.

So I found myself in a financial somewhat I don't want to call it a rut, but a financial space of accountability uh because of this proposition.

Um this pretty much disrupted our interstate uh free food distribution.

Last year, my organization uh Green Boots Gardens.

We donated over 10,000 um pounds of food.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I appreciate you.

Thank you, and thank you for all the work you do.

All right, we have Donna Anthony followed by Misha Parker and then Derek Meekin.

Then you just press that button on the mic.

Yeah.

Good morning.

I was trying to repeat good morning.

My name is Donna Anthony.

I'm a member of the Kerry Neighborhood Block Club, and I'm here on behalf to speak upon the solar panels that um should be in place in our um neighborhood.

We had agreed for um Light Star and DGE to PL our neighborhood.

23 acres point two have been cleared already, and I am here to ask the city council to let our community to develop and grow with the solar project.

I would like to see our community grow in a positive way.

This program can help our neighborhoods remove the blight and unnecessary um uh empty fields that's this vacant that we know that this would help make our community look much much better and going forward forward in Detroit using renewable energy for our community.

Thank you so very much.

Thank you.

Thank you for being here.

Next, we'll have Misha Parker followed by Derek Meakin, followed by Dwana Ver.

If I pronounced that my apology, Jesse.

My apologies if I mispronounced it.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Hi, how are you doing today?

Um, my name is Misha Parker, and I'm the president of Karen Neighborhood Block Club.

And I'm here, excuse me, on behalf of my neighbors in our community.

They're reporting to me that they haven't finished their homes that um with the solar panel project.

And I'm here to let you know that it is a beautiful project, that I did get my home finished, and I love it and I appreciate it.

And my neighbors would um like the same thing, so I'm saying that if you could continue this project so they can um get their homes as well finished, and then they they tore down all the houses behind us where the solar panel is going to be planned, and it's beautiful, and I was looking forward to seeing some more things done over there in our neighborhood as well as my neighbors.

So I would appreciate it if you could still continue the project.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Thank you for being down here.

Next, we'll have uh Derek Meakin.

Good morning, Council President and Council members.

My name is Derek Meeking.

I serve as the director of market development initiatives at Walker Miller Energy Services, a Detroit-based energy consulting and workforce development workforce development firm.

I'm here to support the Van Dyke Greenfield Solar Projects and the positive impact that these investments are making on Detroit residents and neighborhoods.

What makes these projects unique is that they are not simply solar projects.

They represent a community investment strategy that combines clean energy, neighborhood revitalization, workforce development, and economic opportunity.

Through this initiative, more than 200 homeowners in the surrounding communities have received critical energy efficiency upgrades, like the two young ladies spoke to before me, including roof roof repairs, windows, heating and cooling improvements, weatherization measure measures, and other health and safety enhancements.

These improvements are helping residents reduce their energy consumption and lower their monthly utility bills.

Equally important is the workforce impact and the implementation team is supporting this through work that consists entirely of Detroit-based companies, including Walker Miller Energy Services, SEAL, and Motor City Electric.

Together, these work have supported more than 230 jobs, with nearly 100 of those being filled by Detroit residents in addition to future project phases are expected to create dozens more employment opportunities for local workers.

These projects demonstrate what can happen when public, private, and community partners work together to ensure that the benefits of clean energy investments are shared with the residents who call these neighborhoods home.

So I thank you for your time and your leadership and your consideration, and I encourage your continued support for these projects.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next we'll have uh well not pronounced uh it you can correct me, but last name Jesse.

Uh then we'll have Stephen Hashu and Scott Alan Davis.

Good morning.

Thank you for having me.

Um you did pretty well.

It's Dwine Ver Jesse.

And I also work with Derek at Walker Miller Energy Services, and being a part of the solar um array at the Van Dyke Lynch area, the castle array, and um working as the program manager overseeing the contractors doing the energy efficiency upgrades.

Um I can honestly say from the participant standpoint, it's been um all positive feedback.

We've um completed the 66, 62, I'm sorry, homes with those upgrades.

Um the participants of uh appreciated how the program made them feel a part of the whole process working to on the designs as well as um having some stake in what was being done to their homes.

Um I can honestly say from the participants standpoint has been um all positive feedback we've um completed the 66 62 I'm sorry homes with those upgrades um the participants of uh appreciated how the program the uh made them feel a part of the whole process working to on the designs as well as um having some stake in what was being done to their homes they appreciated uh the trust and guidance of um the program implementers as well as um the positive impact of what now their homes is uh how healthier and safe there and more energy efficient their homes is if I can bring one thing to your attention we had one customer that received some carbon monoxide detectors and was blessed to make those have those detectors and they went off and uh the fire department mentioned if they did not have those install that uh the the two grandparents and two children may not have made it through the night so there's definitely a positive impact of um to the neighbors into in the community saving them on their energy deals as well as the solar array bringing them all together and then making fill being a filling a part of um Detroit thank you so much thank you next we'll have Stephen Hanshu followed by Scott Allen Davis followed by Mr.

Foster is the mic on yes it's on and before Mr.

Hansel starts just to note that requ uh request for public comment has closed good morning honorable council members um and um council camera mr hash you you turned it off one second uh one second one second okay don't touch the mic there you go in my um in my previous public comments I did I neglected to congratulate you for your uh electoral victory um I'm back again to talk about shot spotter which I believe is still on your agenda uh and my plea is that we do not fund this program any further uh it doesn't work most places that have it are getting rid of it and most important we need human policing we need police to have their windows rolled down instead of going through the communities running their air conditioning in the cars we need police on foot we need police who knows us as people um and police are in a really terrible position today because uh and and this council is not responsible for it but but you and I live with the results of it the lack of mental health services the lack of jobs the lack of food available and of course I'm for food and I'm for solar so I have to take a minute to say that I like that project uh the lack of all of these things make the police the net of last resort to caught to catch what happens in a society that does not prepare does not take care of its citizens appropriately human beings have the empathy and the capacity to deal with horrible situations machines are machines I can't reason with an algorithm.

Thank you very much.

Thank you Mr.

Hashell next we'll have Scott Allen Davis followed by Mr.

Foster followed by Maurice Sweeps good morning city council members um and thank you for this opportunity I am Scott Allen Davis Vice President of Inclusion and Economic Development for SEAL LLC which stands for solutions for energy efficient logistics we are a energy management services company that is based in Detroit but we work nationally and we've had the privilege of being a partner in the Detroit Solar Project and working in neighborhoods.

We've had some amazing outcomes and we're here to support the growth of the program um both from services to residents who have reported a 45 to a 35 dollar to 45 dollar decrease in their bill and that is really just with the energy efficiency work not including um the work coupled with clean energy and the solar project or product so we are excited about that we know working nationally that um affordable energy is an issue and coupling clean energy with energy efficiency is really the way to get to affordability for folks and also giving them an outlet to workforce and so my colleague from Walker Miller Derek already mentioned the workforce impact but I just wanted to highlight um we've been able already to um get 230 jobs 97 of them are Detroit residents and with the expansion of the work and the additional neighborhoods those are approximately 50 more jobs and we're excited to make sure that those jobs get done for people in the neighborhoods and people in our community but also to get sustainable energy for the folks and residents of Detroit.

And so my colleague from Walker Miller, Derek already mentioned the workforce impact.

But I just wanted to highlight we've been able already to get 230 jobs, 97 of them are Detroit residents.

And with the expansion of the work and the additional neighborhoods, those are approximately 50 more jobs, and we're excited to make sure that those jobs get done for people in the neighborhoods and people in our community, but also to get sustainable energy for the folks and residents of Detroit.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next we'll have Mr.

Foster, followed by Maurice Weeks.

Um understand that this is a legislative body, which means people wear student ties and a lot of other things.

It's a place where people could use words to resolve issues in lieu of violence.

Constitutionally protected means a place where people could peacefully assemble to redress their grievances.

So I think that has to be understood.

There's never anything that's unpeaceful about using words to resolve issues.

Access to 36 district court.

I would like to just advocate for our community that they have access to discovery, braiding, so they can have equal process, a fair process at whatever um situations they go on to.

I asked on behalf of our community that they can have access to crime victims compensation, which is pro uh protected under not only the Constitution, but our state constitution as well.

These people have rights.

It's not enough to have 14-year-olds shot, and we dismiss it as if uh they're gonna get over it tomorrow.

Right?

You have to have comprehensive plans and things.

There's gonna be a long road to recovery.

You all have to advocate and put our people in a better place to recover from these things if they're not protected from them in the first place.

Secondly, when they come down here, just like you all uh talk to our citizens here.

I think it's important that you take notes of your staff members here that behave inappropriately when they hear things that they don't like when they come in and potentially be coercive with threatening with something that's protected under the First Amendment.

And so those things are serious things.

These are constitutional protections, they have to be upheld on a municipal level.

If the county isn't there doing it, um holding it up to you all to make sure our community have what they need.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Foster.

And also, if you if you have experienced any type of inappropriate behavior with staff, definitely please report it to the members for sure.

Thank you.

Uh next speaker would be Maurice Weeks.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I want to address a few things that were said last week by the Honorable AC Hayes and Honorable DC Bliss.

Um, firstly, AC Hayes said last week the analysis has not been done on what we're doing in the city of Detroit.

We're leaders, and with empirical data that we have, we use this technology different than other cities.

I think it's important for the department to clarify for for the public what exactly we're doing differently, how specifically are we using this technology technology differently.

I also think this is the best city in the world, but I think the public deserves some explanation on how we use it differently than Chicago, Dayton, San Diego, San Antonio, and other cities.

Secondly, on data storage and data manipulation.

The server in Oregon that they're talking about is just Amazon Web Services.

It's not like a tiny like firm or something, it's a multinational web services company that's had dozens of breaches in the past.

Something is also admitted multiple times in court that individuals review their data and make determinations of what to send to officers.

Thirdly, DC Bliss said that they collect one second of audio before and one second of audio after in order to activate it, has to be about 30 to 45 decibels, or it won't register on the devices.

Setting aside for a fact that those decibel values are incorrect and the fact that without constant data collection or bending the laws of physics, it's impossible to start recording something like a gunshot before it happens.

The claim that conversations are not and can't be recorded is patently false.

That's not my raw assertion or conspiracy theory.

You can look up the case law, Commonwealth versus Denison in Mass Superior Court, for an example.

Finally, I want to note that it's impossible for us to know for sure what data is collected.

DPD doesn't know what the what level the decibel six uh sensors kick in or how long it's held, none of it, because the company shields all of those things as proprietary and it's fought like hell in court to ensure that they stay that way.

We are not allowed to do an independent audit of the own equipment that we're using.

The company asserts a lot of things, but when asked about the company's accuracy of get their guarantees, one analyst from the company said our guarantee was put together by our sales and marketing department, not our engineers.

Part of the reason that we have science is because humans are notoriously bad at assessments.

Every study that has been done on this technology, except for the one that the company has paid for, has shown it to be ineffective.

Thank you.

All right.

So does that bring us to the end of public comment?

Request in person.

Or shift us over to Zoom, who is our first speaker.

Morning, Mr.

Chair.

There are 18 hands raised online.

Our first caller is ending at 169.

Caller ending in 169.

Good morning.

You have two minutes.

Yes, we can.

Good morning.

Great.

I just want to say hello.

Great morning to you.

Yes, you listening.

Thank you for helping Brother Cunningham as well as for as well as praying for Brother Cunningham.

Do more banking.

Do more banking Cunningham than thanking Cunningham.

Get your feet off Cunningham's neck.

You are religious, bully tyrants.

Yes.

You are religious bully tyrants.

Religious bully tyrant, the tyrant is an absolute ruler who holds unlimited power and usually cruelty, harshly or unfairly.

The term also describes any person who exercises authority or power in an oppressive and dictorial manner.

Thank you for my time.

Thank you.

Next speaker, please.

The next speaker is legendary Detroiter.

Mr.

Crawley, good morning.

You have two minutes.

Okay, can you hear me clean?

Yes, we can.

Good morning.

Alright, the alumni naughty situation here in Michigan is getting ready to be addressed.

I'm going to address it.

Gabriela Santiago Romero, the liar, did not come to the meeting this morning.

But you're there, Mr.

McCampbell.

Now, and I told y'all Venetia Coleman did not shoot herself.

Now I got to demonstrate it.

I proved it.

I told them who did it.

She was a victim of unemployment insurance fraud.

Uh killed by someone she knew.

Murdered, assassinated.

About the pump a double dollar sign, petty a double dollar sign, 4700.

Mimi wants what she wants.

They didn't want to give it to her, so I took it.

Now I'm giving demonstrated to all y'all.

You too, Mr.

McCamp.

Especially you, because you over in District 7, my stubborn grounds.

So is District 2, Andrew Whitfield Callaway's district.

District 3 is scoundrel, Scout Benson's district, and district 4.

Daisy Tate, the one who called Khadia Shakoma's mother and said I was not the right representative for the family.

He just smoked D.

Along with all the rest of the alumni 90.

Next speaker, please.

The next speaker is Betty A.

Verner.

Miss Varner, good morning.

You have two minutes.

That's on a Saturday from 11 a.m.

to 3.

Everything is free that day.

We give uh resources, bring resources to the community.

It's a Metro Detroit event.

Anyone is welcome.

Uh we do free haircuts.

Well, in the past, we've been able to do free haircuts, free hair braiding.

Uh we give away free bikes.

We give away school supplies with the backpacks.

We've been able to give away hygiene products.

And when our students rise, we all rise.

So we give away food.

There's a bounty house.

There's going to be tents, going to be playing dominoes, checkers, big width, space, family fund event.

But we are in need.

Anyone within within the sound of my voice.

If you can help us get hygiene products, if you can volunteer your time, if you uh braid hair, we're not looking, no weeds or anything.

This is just regular grades for our young children to help them be beautiful.

And also we uh require that the hair is clean.

Thank you for this time.

Hopefully, we will receive help.

God bless you all.

Thank you, Ms.

Varner, and um thank you for all you do.

And if there are folks that can assist um that they do so.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

The next speaker is Sandra Turner Handy.

Good morning.

You have two minutes.

Good morning, City Council.

Thank you for allowing me to speak this morning concerning the Houston Whittier Hayes Solar Initiative.

I am over the Denby Neighborhood Alliance and was the community signer along with the community leader that talked with residents to get them to understand the solar project and support the solar project.

As a person that was in the environmental field for over 20 years, watching the city move away from uh dirty energy, reducing their carbon footprint by going to renewable energy was always my goal with the city.

So I support this project.

As I stated, the Denby Neighborhood Alliance signed off as the community lead on this project.

And we have been able to see significant difference in our community.

One of the ladies talked about how they tore down all the vacant houses.

Well, I was the person that lived in back of vacant land for six blocks.

I could see six blocks over of illegal dumping.

And to see the city come through and clear all this in order to do renewable energy is great.

But we need this program.

The energy upgrades made to the homes in our area has made a great difference.

We do want to make sure that they finish the energy upgrades because it's so important not to disenfranchise our residents with starting something and then stopping it in the middle.

So I I humbly ask you to continue this project, support our residents, and support cleaning up our city and making it a city that is clean, healthy, and safe, meaning that we have to move towards renewable energy in our city.

Thank you.

Thank you, Miss Turner Handy.

Next speaker.

The next speaker, just noting is black bag.

Alright, that's Mr.

Carly has already spoken, so we'll move to the next uh speaker, please.

The next speaker speaker after that is Dr.

Denise Darnell.

Dr.

Darnell, good morning.

You have two minutes.

Good morning.

Can you hear me?

Yes, we can.

Okay, good morning.

Uh, Dr.

Darnell here.

I attended coffee hour this morning, uh, hosted by my council member Angela Whitfield Callaway here in District 2.

And I heard uh Dr.

Carol Weaver speak on proposal S, which will be on our August 4th ballot coming up.

And this proposal, I'm just giving information.

If approved, will allow Detroit Public School Community District to continue providing things like art and music, PE, athletics, and all the schools that will expand career and college programming for high schools and students.

Um it will give more classroom supplies for our students and additional repairs that are well needed for school buildings.

But most importantly, proposal ads will cost nothing to Detroit homeowners who own their homes.

So it's not an increase in property taxes or for those who are renting.

This proposal will simply transfer the tax that was already approved in the millage from Detroit public schools over to Detroit public school community district.

So I just wanted to inform our voters to know uh what is coming up on the ballot on August 4th.

And we are advocating for proposal S.

And I just want you to be informed.

Thank you very much for my time.

Thank you.

Thank you, Dr.

Darnell.

Next speaker.

The next speaker is Samsung SMG91U.

Good morning.

You have two minutes.

Good morning, Samsung.

Usually using Samsung.

Are you there?

Alright, we'll put them at the end of the queue and come back to them next week, please.

The next speaker is uh caller ending in 301.

Caller in the N301.

Good morning.

You have two minutes.

Caller as we can.

Okay, good morning.

Uh and welcome to uh Mr.

McCabill uh to City Council.

I am Richard Clay, and I am here to speak against the shot spotter proposal.

Um I urge you all to please vote no.

Um do not fund shop spotter.

It is time for us to end shot spotter uh to end all these basic technology uh that have these dual hidden agendas, um agendas that we do not fully know and cannot fully control that work against the people of Detroit uh instead of for the people of Detroit.

Um this technology is uh inefficient, wasteful, and does not give the people of Detroit what it is that they desire in terms of law enforcement.

Um it is very um reminiscent of the data centers, and that for some strange reason in both these cases, whether shots, followers, or data centers, you cannot get the actual information that you need.

You cannot get all the information that you need to make a real decision, which is why it's great that the council put it off a couple of times.

Um can't get all the information.

The information that you get is blurry, it's fuzzy, it only is good when the people bringing it pay for the study.

For some reason, they don't want to share all the information.

And it is very funny that the people of Detroit understand crime law enforcement and what the issues are that we are dealing with out here.

And when you mr.

Clay.

If you have further um comment, please do send it along.

Uh next speaker.

Next speaker is Jadonte Smith.

Mr.

Jadante Smith, good morning.

You have two minutes.

Good morning, maybe heard.

I just want to say uh I appreciate Miko Williams.

He uh he helped me out uh last week at the disability, I believe was uh meeting you guys had.

So I will be meeting with Colmy Young.

I want to go and protest outside this house.

I appreciate that.

I hate to have to make him the person I protest outside of because Scott Bilson is by far.

I've ever seen as he is allegedly.

Um I do want to say I do not support uh the way that the solar has been done the city of Detroit solar is great, it's great to have solar energy, but to put the solar and rooftop should have made more sense or to use land at the city already owned versus taking people's private property, having to pay out to get that private property is kind of kind of bad.

Also, uh just looking at some of the campaign donations from our former mayor, he's taking money from a lot of people who uh are getting city contracts even to this day, especially Shop Spider.

The CEO of Shot Spotter gave Mike Dugan a lot of money, um, which is kind of interesting.

Also looking at Conrad Mallet, him taking uh hundreds of thousands of dollars from Lear Corporation and being a board member, and I'm sure that the contract to bring Weird Corporation to the city of Detroit gave lots of concessions to the company to uh place themselves there, which seems very, very, very big conflict of interest.

But who am I to speak about that?

You know, the residents, we don't know much.

We just, you know, we see, we can see what queer pro means, but apparently some of our legislators don't understand um what that means.

And maybe uh to find out this corruption is happening means nothing.

Also, I find it very weird that my sister-in-law was mailed out an absentee ballot a month after uh a two-week notice for her to be removed from the voter rolls from the state of Michigan was mailed out.

I think that is very, very interesting.

Uh, and how we can say a person that the state liberals would be removed from the voting rolls because they haven't voted in 20 years, and then for the uh county clerk and city clerk in the C V trait to mail an absentee ballot in the same election.

I think that is hot.

Thank you, Mr.

Smith.

Um, if if you can follow up my office on that absentee ballot issue, that would be appreciated.

No speaker.

The next caller is William M.

Davis.

Commissioner Davis, good morning.

You have two minutes.

Uh good morning.

Yes, you may.

I like to start off by saying I think it's very, very bad image for the city of Detroit Board of the Police Commission not able to review body cam on video.

Uh I think that that should be looked into and how do they come to that point?

Because the main purpose of the Board of Police Commission is to review officers in the reaction with people.

And if an entity wants to limit that, that's a problem.

I also as a former Board of Police Commissioner member in District 7, when district seven still had a hundred thousand people, you know.

I I think it'd be a good practice, a good procedure if you could look into the fact that when the new um police contracts come up, you know, for uh the the officers, the sergeants and tenants and commanders and what have you, uh, that you make sure that their contracts comply with the charter.

Uh currently they don't.

You know, it's like they supersede the charter authority that the Board of Police Commissioners should have.

You know, the you know, like it is hardening the fact that sometimes you could have an officer to have a a horrible record and still be implemented.

It's you know, it's sad that we have officers that have done a number of things and still get promoted and still stay on the police force.

And don't get me wrong, I was a union official, and I understand that's the duty of the union to represent the people and trying to get rights for them.

I was an asking steward in the 1980s, and I was a UAW steward, you know, from UAW supervisors in the 1990s.

I know he was a little boy in the 1990s, but you know, we need to make sure that we pull back from the authority that these contracts give these uh officers and make them more accountable to the top public.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Davis.

Definitely um also concerned about the uh end of access to body warrant cameras for the commissioner.

And thanks for telling folks my age.

All right, next speaker, please.

The next caller is caller ending in one, two, four.

Caller ending in one, two, four.

Good morning.

You have two minutes.

Okay, first of all, I'd like to say no five point leaving pre-sale inspection reports.

Uh it exempt the landing there.

BC doesn't even do a good job on checking out senior buildings, and it should be fire beware.

Number two, same on Walker Miller at Energy and then Scott Allen David.

And this has been a fraud on the residents of the city of Detroit, because it is not all city-owned property, it could be taken property.

There was no right to council.

They spent 7.7 million dollars on the permit, specializes in eminent domain, the vote over people left and right.

So to say that everybody agreed with this is an absolute falsity.

The people who are speaking in favor of this are benefiting from the program.

And now, and this program is a violation of the city charter because you're just manning neighborhoods.

I know a lady that was bullied.

I know some corruption stories about this solar firm stuff.

And in order to be fair to everybody, if you are gonna continue with the thing of eminent domain, you must do solar flops with everybody else.

Because the city flopped, like 38 properties they got from Perfecting Church, and for 60, they gave to Profracting Church.

The American Community Council got locked also, but they won't follow flop with all the other people.

And the GTE contract has a termination for convenience clause.

So at any time they could say, Oh, we're not gonna do it.

And then lo and behold, you took all this property from these people, citing the 1951 in rape fund clearance of black bottom case.

Anyone who votes for this and continue to vote for this, would be absolutely ashamed of yourself.

You could have done solar like Michigan State and their award-winning solar parking lot in this city full of public land.

You did not need to take people's private property.

Uh the law department didn't tell us about the flight taking, which could make a third that you cannot eliminate flight per youth that have you next speaker.

The next speaker is caller ending in 669.

Caller and then 669.

Good morning.

You have two minutes.

Yes, I can.

Uh brother cutting a 31344914, 43449114.

313, 44, 911, that number was saying, remember it.

Uh on Facebook, not enemy.

Detroit.

On Facebook, put in that enemy Detroit or putting that phone number.

Um the boss are not on time, and they're making some adjustments to the schedule.

And I just really don't understand how there can be a pilot program on Jefferson and then they increase service if the lease is not on time.

The Bitcoin Rail and PR transit should be free.

And also, there's a big need for mechanics.

For years and you do heard my voice and many others.

Um higher pay for the drivers, more drivers.

That pretty much been accomplished.

Now the problem is mechanics.

Can somebody powerful suggest a high signing bonus?

Like $10,000 or $5,000 signing bonuses for mechanics.

It just doesn't seem like you have a sense of urgency powers of these.

It doesn't think you like you care for both trying to rise, trying to um uh improve their lives.

They're on a lower uh social economic level, but they're still human beings, and they may not vote, but they stale human beings, a sense of urgency, maybe a five thousand dollar sign bonus for mechanics, and also the new drivers should get a premium pay for working the twinships the night and the weekend, a couple of dollars extra.

Thank you, Brother Cunningham.

I'm definitely taking those um suggestions into thought.

All right, next speaker.

Next speaker is ACLU of Michigan.

ACLU in Michigan, good morning.

You have two minutes.

Hi, good morning.

Can you hear me?

Yes.

Morning.

Thank you for allowing me to make my comment this morning.

Um, the ACLU has long spoken out against the use of surveillance technology under the guise of protection.

In fact, I sat before the Detroit City Council nearly four years ago, urging you all to oppose the use of shot spotter.

Shot splatter disproportionately impacts communities of color who already experience higher levels of policing.

With increased surveillance comes an increased report and detected incidents, regardless of their accuracy.

This then furthers the idea that these neighborhoods are, quote, dangerous and in need of more policing.

This cycle creates a misleading justification for over policing in communities of color.

A study out of Chicago showed that 86% of shot spotter reports led to no crime at all, amassing approximately 40,000 dead-end deployments.

Following this report, the Chicago Office of Inspector General conducted their own analysis, concurring that the evidence does not point to shot spotter, producing effective results.

Every false report creates a dangerous situation in which officers are being sent to a scene, believing that there is a potential for gunfire.

Where this technology is deployed, residents risk being stopped, detained, and interrogated based on false premises.

Additionally, ShotSpotter has a close relationship with law enforcement and has edited classifications of sounds after the fact at the request of police departments.

Even given this knowledge, Shotspotter has been used as evidence against defendants in criminal cases.

In a 2016 trial, Shot Spotter, excuse me, a shot spotter expert admitted to reclassifying sounds from a helicopter to a bullet at the request of a police department customer, saying that such changes occur, quote, all the time.

This further adds to the unreliability of the system and its data.

I urge you to vote no on this proposed expansion of the shot spotter contract and instead invest in community.

I said in 2022, and I will say again, pulling back on surveillance does not mean pulling back on Detroit or safety.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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Um the next speaker is caller ending in 467.

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Hello.

I'm here.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Um this is in regard to 5.11 about the two to three family dwelling and the possible pre-sale inspection required.

Which I believe really should be between a and a seller and a buyer if somebody wants to have their inspected and you know.

Listen, this really couldn't play though.

Um just more let's open up more corruption, the ability to cause a hardship for low-income buyers and sellers.

And you know, that's about all I have to say, really, but I I just don't think it's a good idea.

It's seems like it's more of a more chance of grabbing land houses that are in disrepair, and you know, I don't know quite what that or sign foreclosure right now is.

If that's what you're trying to do is make these people force these to get fit so they can fill them at all.

And I have bought some different items before that were in disrepair and then repaired them later on.

And I don't know if this is going to create a hardship for somebody to buy something like that to fit off.

But that's all I have to say.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

The next speaker is owner Papa.

Miss Hughes, good morning.

You have two minutes.

Good morning, and through the chair, maybe heard.

Thank you.

Um, 6.6 and 6.7 is about the solar takings.

Uh, the solar contract, which is changing and has even gone back to phase one.

It's also got terms, and it's a 35-year contract.

I honestly believe that we need a public hearing on this, and we need to find out exactly what these changes mean, exactly what their responsibility, their responsibilities are, and what our responsibilities are.

I see city funding, but I don't see any number.

What what's city funding?

See, city funding means you're taking it from my general fund.

So what do you plan on taking from my general fund to support this project?

First of all, we have plenty of land that's vacant that you could put solar on.

You don't need to take people's homes because you're not providing the energy for these homes.

You're providing energy for downtown.

So why don't you put it downtown?

We are being destroyed from within, and you guys are taking our properties and doing what you want to do with it.

These people calling and they have benefited.

How do I benefit?

I'm asking you, how does Carolyn citizen benefit from what you're doing?

And I can tell you I don't.

Okay.

I've looked at it.

5.14 is no to ShotSpotter.

We were fooled into believing that all of these cameras was going to stop dumping, illegal dumping.

Miss Waters, you were here from that beginning.

We have we still have the same issue that we had 20, 30 years ago.

You guys see we're in a time warp.

We keep going through the same thing over and over and over again.

Miss Warwick has informed you that this is the same thing they use to take us out of Black Bottom.

And I looked at a presentation from the city, and it actually had urban renewal.

You know what that means.

It absolutely means negro removal.

And you know it, Miss Waters.

You know that's what that means.

And you guys sitting here allowing it to happen is a atrocity.

It's awful.

Thank you, Miss Hughes.

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Good morning.

Oh, tell the city council is there.

Um I want to say thank you to our uh buzzwoman for Friday.

She had the AI class and it was I learned learned a whole lot there.

So if anybody get a chance to go and check it out, check it out.

And um they explained on about the uh the fraud that's going around, trying to get our fraud information.

They was telling us to go to like a reputable one like ARP and a few others.

So we're there for a while.

We got left about 12 o'clock, but I appreciate Sherry De Nego for having it uh fast there.

So she have another, and I will be going back so I can get the rest of it because we had to leave.

But uh it's very interesting.

And uh I would say for the residents, and anybody you want to learn about, especially the seniors, it was for the seniors.

And uh I I enjoyed it.

Um Linda Wesley was there, that's my girl.

She was with councilwoman President Brenda Jones.

Um the staff was there, it was pretty it's good.

It was good.

It's good information for seniors.

But as far as like uh, yeah, I know the land bankers off the chain.

You know, they still harassing people and people that had been trying to get property that was taken care of property for over thirty years.

I'm gonna say nineteen ninety-nine, and they had emails and then had all that.

So I appreciate you all talking about giving the properties to the people that's been taking care of them, because we have been doing that like uh like uh district two manager said this is two city council here and said she said, yeah, and Councilwoman Mary Water, how you always saying to give it to some hire us, give it to us.

We've been taking care of them anyway.

I mean, it's like oh Lord, I got pictures of the law, okay.

Thank you, and thank you for sharing our information from the um bus personal office as well.

Uh next speaker.

Uh the last speaker is Miss Cindy Dara.

Miss Cindy Darr, good morning.

You have two minutes.

Yeah, uh I wanna uh reiterate uh what Caroline Hughes was saying about the solar property.

You need to know exactly what those uh I I can't say we have to pay for decommissioning if they decide and they can cancel the contract.

I mean, why is it that we have to do all the pain and uh it does you guys better figure it out because I worked at the incinerator, they were they were polluting here when we were working there and they didn't even put the scrubbers on until after uh people made them.

We were working on it or they were running it, the thing and the uh dropping asbestos and toxic uh dioxination.

Uh so if you you listen, the gun thing, the shot fire.

Well, why are the police allowed to sell their old guns?

They're 10 mil millimeter to the street while they buy 11 millimeters with bigger balls.

Yeah, that's what I heard.

Check that out.

Uh this uh thing on the school millage.

Uh I I went to a meeting and they put the literature that they send out to most importantly the RS4 CP F C D Village proposal have cost nothing to Detroit voters who own or rent their house.

Well, their landlords they're gonna raise the rent to so that is not exactly true.

And uh the problems that you're trying to cure are problems made by the government's policies since I came here in 1967.

I'm telling you, now you do things and you're creating the problems with the way you do the tax foreclosures, the taxes.

Thank you, Miss Cindy.

Uh that'll bring us to the end of public comment.

Thank you all for um coming down and also joining us virtually to uh give public comment.

I know many of the things that were discussed will be on the agenda um for discussion.

Um and um, yeah, so thank you all.

Member Waters, do you have anything?

Are you good?

All right.

That'll move us on further into the agenda on to unfinished business.

Um we have been asked to bring back for 5.1.

We've been asked to bring back 5.1 in two weeks.

Is there a motion?

Motion.

We've been motion to bring back 5.1 in two weeks.

Seeing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Uh for 5.2 and 5.3.

These are uh memos requesting um information regarding after hours.

Um establishments, is there and I believe both of these have been received.

Is there a motion to receive and file 5.2 and 5.3?

Motion.

Motion to receive and file 5.2 and 5.3.

Seeing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Moving on to 5.4.

This is a submitted memorandum relative to requesting a draft ordinance concerning a waiver of blight fines and fees assessed by the Department of Appeals and hearings.

Um this is from Member Angela Whitfield Callaway.

Uh is there a motion to discuss?

Motion.

Just want to check with uh law on the status of this.

Is there a motion to bring back 5.4 in three weeks?

Motion.

There's been a motion to bring back 5.4 in three weeks.

Seeing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Next, this will bring us to um 5.5.

Uh believe this is from member Santiago Romero's office.

Uh response to a request for ordinance to address federal overreach.

Um, this has this ordinance has been drafted by LPD.

It's my understanding would now need to be referred to law for review.

So is there a motion to refer to law for review?

Motion.

There's been a motion to refer to law for review.

See no objections, the action shall be taken on 5.5.

And now moving to 5.6 from member Wilfield Calder.

Oh, yes.

I mean, sometimes when items are referred to the law, they get brought back at point in the future.

So they don't follow up to say.

Thank you, madam parliamentarian.

Appreciate you.

Uh is there a motion for 5.5?

Is there a motion to bring back 5.5 in three weeks?

Motion.

Submit a motion to bring back 5.5 and three weeks.

See no objections that action shall be taken.

Thank you for that.

Uh for 5.6.

This is from Member Withfield Callaway.

Uh memo relative to the request for a report concerning demolition costs and collections.

Um is there a motion to discuss?

Discussion.

Thank you, Member Waters.

Um, for uh LPD or law, is there a status update on this on 5.6?

For the chair.

Yes.

We get a two-week bring back on this item.

Is there a motion to bring back 5.6 in two weeks?

Motion.

There's been a motion to bring back 5.6 in two weeks, saying no objections that action shall be taken.

And next to 5.7 from member waters.

Uh memo relative to an ordinance draft request or protection for Detroit from EMS service charges.

Is there a motion to discuss?

Discussion.

Uh thank you, Member Waters.

I'll defer to you on this and LPD as well.

Through the chair.

LPD.

Uh this one has been provided.

Uh it was available uh and it was emailed to you on Friday.

I don't think it's up on uh e-scribe yet.

One of those where it probably makes sense to bring it back in a week in order to give everybody a chance to read it, unless you already have some, unless the committee already has some other intention.

Um thank you.

Member Waters.

Thank you.

I agree.

Um let's bring it back in a week.

Uh perhaps then it will be uploaded to east graph so that uh the community can review it.

Um and then that gives us some time to place it on the agenda for next week.

So is that motion to bring back in one week?

Motion to bring back in one week.

Thank you, Member Waters.

There's been a motion to bring back 5.7 in one week to ensure that it's uploaded to East Gribe.

Um, thank you so much.

See no objections, the action shall be taken.

Um for 5.8 and 5.9 from the Office of Contractor and Procurement.

We've been asked to bring back in two weeks.

Is there a motion?

Motion.

The motion to bring back 5.8 and 5.9 and 2 weeks has been made.

Seeing no objections that action shall be taken.

That'll move us on to 5.10 from member Santiago Romero.

Um we've been asked to bring this back in two weeks.

Is there a motion?

Motion.

Motion bring back 5.10 in two weeks has been made.

Seeing no objections that action shall be taken.

And 5.11.

This is regarding pre-inspection.

For 5.11 from member Johnson.

Is there a motion to discuss?

Motion.

I know we referred this to law, just looking for an update.

Oh, through the chair, we should be prepared with this in three weeks.

Three weeks.

Please.

Is there a motion to bring back 5.11 in three weeks?

Motion.

There's been a motion to bring back 5.11 in three weeks.

Seeing no objections, that action shall be taken.

For 5.12, this is from Member Santiago Romero.

Memo relative to the information on DPD storage requirements.

This has been received.

Is there a motion to receive and file?

Motion.

It's been a motion to receive and file 5.12.

Seeing no objections that action shall be taken.

For 5.13.

We've been asked to bring back in one week.

Motion.

This is regarding the shot spotter gunshot detection technology.

Is there I know myself has some questions and their additional question out there?

Is there a motion bring back 5.14 in two weeks?

Motion.

Thank you.

And then moving along in unfinished business.

That brings us to 5.15.

This is the status of uh from the Office of Contract and Procurement.

Um this is a revenue agreement.

Contract number 6007 813.

Revenue agreement for the removal and sell of scrap materials from PLD infrastructure.

Um is there a motion to approve 5.14.

No, 5.15.

We brought that.

We're bringing back 5.14 in two weeks.

5.15.

This is related to uh public lighting department infrastructure removal.

Okay.

Oh, we can discuss.

No.

Motion.

There's been a motion to uh send 5.15 to formal with a recommendation to approve.

Uh seeing no objections, the action shall be taken.

5.16.

This is uh supplier.

This is to add to suppliers for the Detroit supply schedule.

Um we've been asked to bring back 5.16 in one week.

Motion.

It's been motion to bring back 5.16 in one week.

Seeing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Thank you so much.

That brings us to new business with 6.1 from the Office of Contractor and Procurement.

This is a resolution authorizing contract number 6005790-A5, 100% ARPA funding amendment number five to provide an extension of time only for basement backup protection program phase two.

The contractor is LGC Global, located in Detroit on Woodward Avenue.

Uh previous contract period was through June from November 1st, 2023 to through June 30th, 2026.

Amend the contract period will extend that to September 30th, 2026.

Total contracting amount is 1 million seven hundred and five thousand.

Um this is for DWSD.

Uh is there a motion to discuss motion.

Thank you so much, Member Waters.

Um, and I believe we have folks on from DWSD.

Uh to the chair, I would just need oh your mic.

Your mic.

Oh sorry.

To the chair.

I just need the name.

I think we have um Miss Silonali Patel and Sonya Clifton on the chair.

I don't see either online at the moment.

Mr.

Washington.

Good morning.

Through the chair.

Um, are we able to bring this item back towards the end of the agenda?

All right.

Is there a motion to put 6.1 at the end of the agenda?

Member Waters.

Is there a motion to put 6.1 at the end of the agenda to come back to it?

Motion.

All right.

There's been a motion to bring back 6.1 at the end of the agenda.

That'll move us on to 6.2.

Um this is contract number 6004040-84.

100% RPA funding.

Amendment for to provide an extension of time and updated terms and conditions for community help court wraparound services.

Contractor is Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation, located on East Congress in Detroit, Michigan.

Uh previous contract period is January 1, 2022 through January 30th, uh June 30th, 2026.

A mid the contract period will extend to November 30th, 2026.

Total contract amount is 12 million 325,590 and 28 cents.

This is for the health department.

Um is there a motion to discuss?

Discussion.

Thank you, Member Waters.

Mr.

Washington, do we have folks on for 6.2?

Yes, we have Terry Daniel's online.

I believe she's online under Daniels T.

All right.

And Miss Clinton should be drawing shortly, but I would defer to Terry for now.

Thank you.

We'll promote uh Miss Daniels.

Good morning.

Good morning, Mr.

Chair.

Good morning.

Uh good to see you.

Just want to a quick question on I know this said I understand the extension of time, but if you can just go over the updated terms and conditions for this.

Uh to Mr.

Chair.

Uh the terms and conditions basically are to have DESC bill us uh in enough time to complete the ARBA billing.

So it's just the the terms and conditions is just um an invoicing requirement.

Got it.

Okay.

Thank you.

Member was you have any questions on this?

No.

Okay.

Is there a motion to approve 6.2?

Motion and add to new business.

Motion.

All right.

There's been a motion to uh send six point two to new business with the recommendation to approve.

Seeing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

All right, that'll move us on to 6.3.

I'll actually read both 6.3 and 6.4 together.

Um this is a resolution authorizing contract number 6.3.

Contract number is 3092 666.

Notification of emergency, 100% blight funding to provide emergency commercial demolition of 720 or East Jefferson, aka building 105, Floriculture Barn only.

Um the contractor is uh Celebean Truck in the Excavated uh located in Detroit.

The contract period is upon City Council approval through December 31, 2026.

Contract amount is 43,569.

This is for construction and demolition five point uh six point four, my apologies, is contract number three zero nine two six six zero uh notification of emergency 100% blight funding to provide emergency commercial demolition for 17893 de Quinder.

Contractor is SC Environmental Services LLC location is one two three four, they're located in Detroit on Washington Boulevard.

Um contract period will be for December 31, 2026.

Contract total amount is 33 32,847 dollars.

This is also for construction demolition.

We've been asked to bring back 6.2 and 6 6 point sorry this Monday.

All right.

We've been asked to bring back 6.3 and 6.4 in two weeks is there a motion.

There's been a motion to bring back 6.3 and 6.4 in two weeks.

Seeing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Uh move us on to 6.5.

A resolution authorizing contract number 6007584, 80% city funding, 20% grant funding to provide high resolution cartridge image stations, uh, brass tracks, equipment and related services.

The contractor is leads online located in Plano, Texas.

Contract period is through June 1, 2033.

Uh total contract amount is 700,000.

This is for DPD.

Is there a motion to discuss?

Discussion.

All right, there's been a motion to discuss uh for 6.5 and Mr.

Washington.

Who do we have for 6.5?

All right.

Good morning, sir.

If you want to just uh turn the mic on and introduce yourself for the record.

Um through the chair, my name is Robert Millennium, the director of public safety IT.

I want to ask, I believe we have someone online, Captain Heather Cameron, and there may be another sergeant online from her team who can help discuss this better.

Thank you.

Captain Cameron has been promoted to panelists.

All right, thank you.

But is there anybody else?

Um the chair, I'll allow Captain Cameron.

I believe she has a sergeant online that might help discuss the technology as well.

Just one second.

Sergeant Panacki and I are both here.

I'm working on getting my camera open.

Thank you.

Good morning.

If you can just uh introduce yourselves for the record, please.

Good morning.

I'm Captain Heather Cameron with the Detroit Police Department Investigative Operations.

Sergeant Mike and I the officer in charge of the night of you.

Thank you both.

Uh thank you all for being here.

Um and I know last week we had a similar to lease online, so if you all can just go through um this contract, just an overview of it.

Um, through the chair, what I'm gonna do is first I'll tell you this is a different lease online is a company that owns the software.

This is a totally different solution than what we presented last week.

These online last week was dealing with actually tracking pond shop and shop property that went there.

This contract you have before you today is regarding gunshot when I mean bullet casings and uh bullet casings and what the process is for that in night.

So what I would love to do is is allow DPD to explain how they use that and the benefits has been within DPD.

So Captain Heaven Cam, if you don't mind speaking, and Sergeant, if you don't mind speaking to that directly, thank you.

Captain Sergeant, you can go right ahead.

Yeah, I'm gonna let the sergeant um explain the technology and I'll explain some of the benefits.

Yeah, so this brass traction machine we've had for several years now.

Um this machine uh is uh able to collect the cartridge piecings that are put on evidence uh in a nutshell, uh take digital images um and put into a database to see if any other casings uh matched within um either a day prior to or several months or years.

Also, if there is not any casings that are connected, they're still put in this uh storage database if any future incidents were to happen.

Okay, and in the further all right, uh through the chair, Captain Cameron, if you want to speak of the benefits of this for this technology is for the department.

Captain, yeah.

So there are several benefits to the shot, or I'm sorry, with nine.

Um, and so it's not just the brass tracks machines.

We have one brass tracks machine that is uh older and needs replacing, and we are asking for a second machine to speed up our productivity.

Um the benefits are immense.

We can track prolific guns, we can track prolific areas of shootings and redirect our patrols if necessary.

Um there were some questions asked about uh what we what we use the technology for, and it's used in a way that um lowering our gun crime essentially.

We've recovered so far this year, we've recovered over 2700 firearms.

Asked about uh what we what we use the technology for and it's used in a way that um assist with us lowering our gun crime essentially we've recovered so far this year we've recovered over 2700 firearm um we can connect a firearm to a location based on casings and um it helps uh it gives us the investigative leave we need to close homicides and non-fatal shootings thank you anything further to the chair no thank you and um just uh uh question for me on this uh as you all put you know the images and and the storage in that does this what is connected to the database is this like a national a nationwide database or um like that if anything pops off in a different city or anything like that is it connected that way or if you can just walk through that the national database it's the ATF database um and it's connected to the other 400 item sites around the country got it okay thank you uh any questions reporters all right is there a motion on six point five motion to um send a formal without recommendation there's been a motion to send six point five to a formal without recommendation uh send no objections that action shall be taken to the chair can we request to go to the new business or we have to wait because it's gonna be in motion it's been a motion to send to new business without recommendation um send no objections that actually shall be taken all right thank you to the chair appreciate that have a wonderful day you too take care thank you captain thank you sergeant thank you all right that'll move us on to we're actually take up 6.6 and 6.7 together I will read those in um 6.6 is a resolution authorizing contract number 6006943-a100 city funding to amend terms for phase two solar photo vitalic if I pronounced that you all can correct me uh energy development on city owned property in the Houston with your neighborhood to permit permit assignment of solar projects to DTE electric company and increase solar energy rates uh contractor is light star renewables uh located in boston uh contract expires 35 years from when solar project sites begin commercial generation of solar energy and the solar equipment has been properly decommissioned from the city property the amended cost of energy is um 285 dollars per megawatt less energy sales proceeds this is for public lighting and then 6.7 is contract number 600 6343 dash a one 100% city funding to amend the terms of phase one solar the photovoltaic yep uh energy development on city owned property in the state fair and grass or finley neighborhoods to permit assignment of solar projects to DTE energy company and increase solar energy rates the contractors light star renewable located in Boston contract aspires 35 years from when the solar project sites began uh commercial generation from solar energy and the solar equipment has been properly decommissioned from city property um amended cost of energy is um uh 260 dollars per megawatt at grass or family at 240 dollars per megawatt at state fair less energy sales proceeds also for public lighting is there a motion to discuss motion it's been a motion to discuss and um I believe we have multiple folks coming forward if you can just all if you all can introduce yourself for the record please I'm Mr.

Trisha Stein, Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives, Mayor's Office.

Good morning.

Through the Chair, Brian Picapal, Director of the Department of Neighborhoods.

Thank you.

Good morning, Sarah Patton, Solar Project Manager.

Morning, Regina Greer, Chief Deputy CFO, Office of the CFO.

Good morning.

Thank you all, and I'll turn over to you.

Great.

Through you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you for the time today.

What we'd love to do with our time, and as you see, we've got a few folks to present.

Uh, give an update on uh the solar projects, uh, which two years ago City Council approved uh for phase one, which included three areas, and then um phase two is about six months later was additional two areas.

So we want to give an overview of all of them, and then um we'll do that uh at a at a pretty high-level overview and then get to the contract amendments, which are the 6.6 and 6.7 items up.

So we do have a uh presentation.

Uh so the first map is uh the 165 approximately acres uh that was a response to the community that uh applied to host solar.

You heard from a few of those um residents this morning in public comment, uh both in person and online.

Uh the neighborhood groups applied to to um host solar, these were areas that had decades of disinvestment, and we're dealing with blight and illegal dumping.

There'd be one house on a block uh on a street uh for blocks and blocks, and so you'll see on the map the uh shaded areas are the uh solar uh boundaries, and then around it uh and the red uh outline and and red uh lightly shaded areas are the um uh impact areas, and that is uh where we really found that they were more stable, dense uh blocks, uh and that's where the investment of energy efficiency upgrades, and you also heard from residents today that have received them or about to uh and so that's how the definition uh in the five areas uh came up of the boundaries, the residents and the neighborhood groups defined not only the solar areas but also the impact areas.

Um just to give an overview of of why uh and what it is.

I told you why and what it is, it's a hundred and thirty million dollar capital investment in these five neighborhoods, uh, both of uh to delete to uh uh to eliminate blight and illegal dumping, to um invest in uh energy efficiency for those uh surrounding homes, to develop uh solar and um help uh and fight climate change uh to help meet the city's goals for uh carbon uh reduction in emissions.

Uh night 2019 city council passed a DHD ordinance that set uh goals, and this is our best way to achieve them.

While we did close Miskerski prior to bankruptcy, uh that's the funding that is uh funding this, that is the uh utility conversion fund.

Uh we also closed the incinerator, so we are being very serious and intentional about our emissions reductions, about our public health.

Uh, this is an uh intentional uh response to the community to uh complete that and and continue to uh develop clean energy and uh produce public health uh benefits.

A few additional benefits uh that we certainly talked a lot about uh two years ago, they were aspirational at the time.

Uh and I'm here to tell you uh some of the folks are here uh and you heard from them uh directly uh that we we uh said that there'd be a hundred jobs for Detroiters created, and that is exactly what has been done, and training opportunities uh for workforce development.

Uh and that is that's happening now just with two areas that DTE is under contract.

Uh there's over 230 jobs total, uh hundred and four of them are for Detroiters, and if uh the contract amendments go through, uh there will be additional jobs and uh not only total but for Detroiters.

Uh additionally, uh the property values uh in O'Shea, which has been up since 2017, they continue to see property assessments uh uh be increased.

Right now it's a 40 percent increase than the five solar areas, so we intend to stabilize these neighborhoods and also increase property values.

The energy efficiency upgrades also uh increase for the equity in the home.

And then the last one that I want to talk about and um that uh Tapira will talk a little bit more about is the food production and that there is uh uh there will be uh food developed at the sites that are now under uh DT's contract, and then there is also um an urban farm expansion that will happen with the contract amendment.

I'll save the um finances for Deputy Chief uh Regina Greer at the end to talk about the savings and the cost, and now I'll turn it over to Sarah Patton to talk a little bit more about the energy efficiency upgrades.

Thank you.

So talk about a little bit of the impact area.

Is that better?

Um ish we have issues with the mic.

Um we want to use that one.

Thank you.

Okay, is that better?

Great.

Um, so talk about a little bit of the energy efficiency upgrades that our homes received within the impact area.

So that's that red shaded area.

Each home, which is 209 homes throughout all five areas, received an average of 35,000 worth of upgrades.

Now that is the 15 to 25,000 from solar, but the rest of the funds came from DTE's energy assistant program.

They layered on top of our solar program.

Um each home received their own assessment.

They can get things like insulation, windows, furnaces, and everything listed on this screen.

Again, that's 209 homes.

We've completed a hundred so far.

41 are in construction, 44 are pending, um, and then the remaining 24 are still just working through their assessment and scope process.

Of the 209, we wanted to show you some demographics of who are receiving these upgrades.

44% of these homes, 65 and up.

So they are seniors, they are the majority of what's making up the population in this area for income.

90% of them report income of under 50,000, and 58% actually report income of under 20,000.

24% of them have children under the age of 18, and 40% of them reported having a disability.

So again, that's the 209 homeowners.

This is their demographics.

This is who is receiving energy efficiency upgrades.

We wanted to show you what we've accomplished so far.

So the stats on the screen is of the hundred completed homes, about seven in ten households received a hot water tank.

Over half of them received things like insulation, health and safety measures, um, which is very important.

So that includes like mold and asbestos remediation or sewer line fixes.

So this is just a snapshot of what those first 100 received.

And very excitingly, in the Van Dyke Lynch neighborhood, that house was solar ready.

So this is 8105 Nuremberg.

Uh, they had a roof, they had electrical, so they opted to get solar on their roof.

So that was very exciting for this program to give this homeowner rooftop solar.

So this is getting power directly to their home and whatever else they need is they can take from the grid.

And then lastly, before I turn it over, we wanted to look at what a difference uh these upgrades have made to homes.

So of the again of the hundred completed homes, we did a data comparison of their electricity and gas usage one year prior to getting upgrades, and then now that they've received upgrades uh upgrades, we've looked at their um usage again.

We do receive this information directly from DTE with the customers' consent.

Uh we saw an average of 25% reduction of their electricity usage and gas usage of 22% reduction.

We cannot see financial data, however, the homeowners do report that to them to us themselves, and we saw them reporting an average of 35 to 45 doll savings a month on their DTE bills.

So it's really all the upgrades are really helping the comfort and the uh enclosure of their homes, and they're seeing a cost difference with doing these.

And with that, I will pass it over to Tefira.

Yes, uh third chair here.

So um you see the Van Dyke Lynch and Greenfield Park construction timeline here.

Uh we are well underway in Van Dyke Lynch.

The next uh slide is gonna show a few pictures of that.

Um, but uh yeah, construction is under site.

So um here's some before and after pictures of this neighborhood.

So again, this is Van Dyke Lynch where there's about 40 acres of um uh low use um areas, vacant property, um, and so this is um before, during, and now we're we're totally have the panels installed, uh very exciting.

Um, and you see at the top corner uh the renderings from uh what the uh the neighbors designed, what trees they wanted to see outside of the solar array, what they wanted to see under uh you heard from uh this morning you heard from one of the farmers who uh had agreed to work on uh several of these projects who will now see expansion in his property as well as um bringing farm stands to this neighborhood and bringing fresh food access uh to the Van Dyke Lynch neighborhood.

So that's uh where we are today.

Uh and that's an overview of uh of the solar project.

Now uh Corporation Council Mallet and I want to talk about what's on the agenda and the contract amendments and and how we got here.

Um it was an open and competitive bid process uh that we did two years ago, and at the time we selected two vendors, and we did that on purpose.

We did it uh for a contingency.

Uh, we wanted to make sure that as we were responding to residents and we we made commitments uh to their uh request that if something were to happen with one of the contractors, we would have uh a contingency and have another developer that could potentially step in.

And as you have just saw from the uh timeline and the pictures, we do have a second developer that is uh delivering the project on time on budget and is ready to step in.

And um, with that, I'm gonna turn it over to Corporation Council Mallet to tell to you about how we got here with our uh second contractor, which is LightStar.

Thank you.

Uh, Mr.

Chairman and Member Waters, if if if you do if you will look at the slide contract amendment, uh you'll see exactly, I think laid out in sufficient detail the moment we are in.

The amendment is necessary because LightStar Renewable, Mr.

Chairman, is no longer in the business.

They are now project creators as opposed to project implementers.

The amendment uh uh uh ensures that this project can move forward in time uh to be sure that the tax credits that we depended on when we first structured this deal remain available so that we can complete the work that we started.

Uh as Mrs.

Stein pointed out, DTE is the other vendor.

We selected them as this body well knows, and an open and competitive bid process, uh which uh uh lends to the comfort that we feel now in terms of going forward.

The amendment approves the transfer of State Fair, Grasshield Finley, and Houston Whittier to DTE.

The update pricing uh to reflect current equipment and labor costs and allows DTE to complete the remaining uh energy efficiency upgrades for the homes.

And when we make the reference to the levelized cost of energy of energy, this is the fixed rate uh based on the Michigan uh public service commission rules and regulations that DTE will apply to this project if this body approves it.

I do want to point out that we work very diligently not to be here.

Uh when we started out with LightStar, we were really excited about their approach to dealing with this particular project.

The introduction of agricultural opportunities on the land that was going to provide the solar power that would allow us to meet our 2019 commitments really captured our imagination.

What we did not know, uh, even though uh LightStar had done this work numerous times, uh clearly based on the financials that we reviewed, we thought sure that they were going to be able to complete this process.

But in fact, uh they were even then looking at being sold, bought by private equity, and ultimately that's exactly what occurred.

It's important for this honorable body to know that in and remember that in 2025, the fall of 2025, we spoke to uh members of the Detroit City Council and indicated that LightStar had not yet signed the uh uh VPPA, the virtual power purchase agreement uh that was very much a part of the contract requirement that we needed to go forward, which would have committed them to a price, clearly with an escalator, but nevertheless allowed us some assurance what the price of this project ultimately was going to be.

In December of 2025, we sent a letter to LightStar and said, look, uh our patients has come to an end.

Uh, we want to end the relationship.

Lightstar at that moment then said, listen, if you do not withdraw your letter, it is unlikely that the sale uh that we anticipate to Apollo will go through.

Now, there are three reasons, Mr.

Chairman and and member waters as to why we uh uh withdrew the letter.

First of all, time we did not want to create any further delay.

Second, we were certain costs had increased, and we wanted to keep as close to the budget as possible.

There was a commitment from them as to what the price range would be.

We believe that commitment even then was a serious one.

And finally, we knew that if we didn't withdraw the letter, that the city of Detroit would be the scapegoat that LightStar would use to explain the failure of the sale, and perhaps we'd then be sued for loss of economic opportunity.

That was not as much of a long shot as some persons might believe.

The City of Detroit, as this honorable body well knows, has been the subject of spurious lawsuits time and time again.

If you can get past summary judgment, uh you end up in a situation where you are forced into a settlement, and this was one that we thought that we could avoid, because frankly, even though we are certain that the prices were going to increase, we still did not have any evidence available to us that LightStar's commitment was attached to capability.

Once this sale was approved, they then announced that they were no longer in the business of project implementation, and at that point the uh foresight uh that the strategic team had used to make sure that we selected uh two divenders made itself uh evident.

Admittedly, the situation is not optimal.

There are significant downsides if decide if we decide not to go forward.

Any possible lawsuit against LightStar is going to be hard fought and it's going to be extremely long and expensive.

Coupled with the fact that those uh vacant parcel land loaners, frustrated by price, would sue the city, claiming that they were paid less than fair market value, and that they had lost valuable economic opportunity.

Now clearly we believe that those lawsuits are in fact spurious.

We believe that they will not be able to carry the day.

Nevertheless, in the circumstance that we are in, and this honorable body well knows that even now, despite the fact that this has been a two-year process, we're still in court with a couple of these vacant parcel landowners as they continue to try uh to disrupt the process as best they can uh as best they can.

These lawsuits are not likely to win.

However, the argument will be made that the city proceeded in bad faith, that we knew the fair market value was incorrect, and we determined to take valuable land based on the fraudulent premise that LightStar, in fact, would do the work.

We believed at the time, we believed up until December of 2025, in fact, and at some point up until March of 2026, that LightStar was going to do the work, and that what they really were doing was trying to position us about price.

Once they announced they were no longer run the business, uh we then pivoted.

It's likely that the plaintiffs will try to form a class and explode the amount of damages uh demanded.

And while I'm confident at the end of the day, the city would prevail.

We are bringing the amendment to this honorable body because all contracts have to be approved uh by the Detroit City Council.

And an amendment of this consequence really bears a public scrutiny, and we are grateful for the opportunity.

The increased cost that you are uh uh uh examining today is the result of time and circumstance, and based on everything we know at this point, this is the best pathway forward.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

And with that, we'll conclude our comments with Deputy Chief Regina Grayer with that we'll talk about the fiscal impact.

Good morning to the chair again.

Um the fiscal impact statement was prepared by the Office of Budget that I believe you actually have in front of you, uh, which does show that uh for fiscal 27 there is no uh no in net impact to the city's budget.

And then looking at the future years, 28 through 30, the estimates show on on what you see uh for the 477,000 um and then the three million in the additional two years, uh, we will continue to have to on an annual basis um review and analyze um and update the forecast based on the electricity cost and the revenue that the city will get because the expectation is as uh electricity costs increase, that is additional revenue on the city, which would actually reduce or decrease um some of the city uh expenditures.

And with that, Mr.

Chair, we'll answer uh questions.

Uh, we are here to um ask for your support and your approval to uh for the contract amendments.

Uh the timeliness is that uh as corporation council mallet said the tax credits uh that were uh available for this project do expire on uh July 4th, 2026 uh per the U.S.

Treasury guidance.

Uh so uh that is um uh the timeliness and to ensure that these projects uh don't cost any more money and uh be fiscally responsible for the city to um continue our commitments uh to the residents and to um complete these projects to meet our goals.

Thank you so much, thank you all.

Um we will open up for questions.

Uh begin with member Waters and then uh go from there.

So good morning.

Morning.

Um the benefit of those that are listening from the community.

Um did you condemn any owner occupied properties?

No, ma'am.

All of the uh all of the owner-occupied properties uh uh actually was negotiated price, just you remember it was it the yeah, through the chair to member waters, uh on average it was a hundred and thirty thousand dollars to the owner occupants.

There were thirty-two of them across the five areas, and as Corporation Council Mallet said, all of them were voluntary.

Okay.

Um because that's important for the community to understand you you hear them call in all the time about saying that people are people's uh properties are being taken.

And I remember when you first came to us for this um with this project, uh I insisted that you go out to the communities and have people to actually sign off on it and buy into the project.

This was also an opportunity for people to uh leave a community, that neighborhood if they wanted to do so.

And so uh as long as we were not forcing any owner-occupied people to leave their community against their will, then um I I think that we've done our job.

Yes, ma'am.

Um can you report to the to this body uh the vast majority of persons uh who moved uh also stayed in the city of Detroit?

Absolutely, uh, through the Chair of the Member for Waters and the Corporate Council.

I'm also responsible for the census, which I know both of you know that, uh, and my colleagues, so I feel very strongly about that.

While it was not a requirement, it certainly was in my best interest on two points uh to ensure that residents stayed in Detroit.

So uh the vast majority uh that moved uh stayed in Detroit, absolutely.

Um for those from the community who are listening, and I believe that they still are um it is not in the in the benefit uh of this city from especially from our fiscal perspective to deny um peep the completion of this project.

Am I thrilled about what has happened?

No, I I am not, but I certainly cannot sit back in and not support those remaining residents um in those com in the in that community.

So um, and that's why I stay in today um Mr.

Chairman.

We um we started this and we need to finish this.

You were not here uh during that time, but it is something that has to be done.

Otherwise, we could potentially see um an area that's that becomes a dumping site, huge dumping site, uh if we uh don't continue to provide um those upgrades.

Um so uh those are my comments.

Thank you, Member Wardas.

Uh and yes, you are right.

I was not here with the uh original iteration of this.

Um I will say for me, um, definitely understanding one, the need to have renewable energy.

I um someone who uh thinks that we we must take bold action against climate change.

Um and I know the city has been working to do that, and solar is an important part of that uh and understand the impact that it has ahead on residents and and such as well.

Um I do have a few questions on some of these would kind of tell into the original, some of this will go into the the amendments here.

Um you mentioned uh 320 jobs and uh I think there's around a hundred.

So that falls below what we typically try to get for 51 percent.

So just if you can give insight on some of the reasons for that, are there as we're going through the amendment process?

Do we have additional commitments to though you said that there will be additional jobs coming on?

Do we have commitments that those will be Detroit jobs or um you just want to insight into that?

Through the chair, I love this question for a couple of reasons.

So thank you for asking it.

Nobody's ever done this before.

We couldn't call another city and say, tell us what happened when you hit this or what happened when you did this.

So we made a commitment to uh a hundred jobs, uh either direct jobs or training opportunities for Detroiters.

Uh and that was across all three of the phase one at the time.

We've got two up and running right now, and we've we've done over a hundred Detroiters.

Is that enough?

No, I'm with you.

We need to push and make sure that there's opportunities.

I will tell you that there's a cohort of seven uh uh students that just started workforce development and and on-site uh job uh uh observation uh at the Van Dyke Lynch.

I'm hoping that that provides a pathway that we and those are all Detroiters.

I'm hoping that it provides a pathway for more job opportunities.

Um and I agree, I think that there should be um uh higher commitment.

Uh I also know that DTE and their subs are in the room.

You've heard from some of their subs at public comment.

Um I'm happy to uh have them answer you directly.

Uh but I I it's certainly something that I want to push for as well as a Detroiter.

And then the second uh why I love this question is to also talk about all of the construction jobs are labor and their union jobs uh that are uh across uh operating engineers, laborers, and and electrical workers, which I feel is something that's important too, and that there's a pathway uh for entry in there and then also mobility uh and and uh and and and make sure just to close it out that as many opportunities for Detroiters either from a training workforce or uh jobs as possible.

Thank you.

Uh appreciate that and no member waters chairs the skill trace task for us, and I um have the honor of uh being on the task force as well, and I think as we you know, I always think about opportunities of like and knowing that um going back to the commitment was a hundred, um, but also saying that if there is, you mentioned if there's a training cohort, but if there's it is anything additional that we could do, especially now that we have an amendment before us, right?

Um I think that would be good to see.

Um I also have a question around, I'll put these questions together is around the cost and also the ownership of this.

Um there's been you know a lot of conversation about assets of the city as we think about water, as we think about Bel Alaas, we think about so many things, and I think what us being a uh innovative in this way of thinking about solar, how do we be a city that is leading on renewable energy?

I do have some concerns around the ownership piece here.

Um seeing that the contract, the contract doesn't end until there's decommission of the actual solar panels and the infrastructure there, and that's where I'm kind of caught up in that if this is a large investment, a very large investment.

What has been the thought of it's great, like is it great to have folks that are experts in this area to build out and maintain, but where is the contract of us actually owning the solar arrays and equipment?

Yeah, th are you done?

Yeah.

Because I'm excited to answer this one as well.

Uh but I want to make sure you finished it.

Uh because we spent a lot of time two years ago talking about this.

So I I do want to um also put it back on the record.

So the city owns, these are our projects there.

City uh again, response from our residents uh to develop solar city projects, city ownership, uh, which is what uh Deputy Chief uh Greer talked about is so as we um uh develop utility grade solar that then is uh in uh on the grid and sold in the regulated market uh as that increases the revenue to us increases as well, can be an offset to the to the cost.

So these are our projects.

Um to answer your second question about decommissioning, um, I'll I'll have corporation council mallet talk a little bit about the termination clause that that we can then um invoke.

But uh it is 35 years because that is the anticipated life span of solar.

Um we've also we're very transparent and intentional about our community engagement, and that will not stop.

We we um have quarterly meetings with these communities to tell them what's happening.

There's a website that DTE has open and dedicated uh for folks to see the projects and and so if and we talked about this, if in 10, 20 years the community says this was great, this stabilized our neighborhood, we have another idea, then they should bring that to the administration and and then we should talk about it.

It's why we wrote the termination clause the way it is, uh, because then the community could say uh as city land we we should think about uh returning it to green space or different, but right now this is the highest and best use for this uh 165 acres that was mostly uh vacant, uh blighted and illegal dumping.

So, Mr.

Chairman, if I might also uh determination that uh uh Ms.

Dyne uh made reference to.

We can do it any time now.

There is a cost associated with making that decision, and that is we have to buy the equipment.

It just we just don't terminate and walk away.

If we decide to terminate, and as Ms.

Stein uh uh indicated, put that property to uh to a different use, then we would have to buy the equipment as it exists.

If we wait the 35 years, the cost associated with will be completely uh uh de uh uh depreciated, uh and we can then at the end of that process make whatever decisions that we want to.

So we have the right.

Uh obviously uh just because we have the right doesn't mean that it's not gonna incur a cost.

Thank you.

All right.

Um additional one, and I have brought this up before, um, thinking about just wanted to get clarification and um on talked about the energy in the market, um, also the equipment, and knowing that you know, we have as a city, we have a benchmarks that we're uh trying to reach for clean energy.

Also know that utilities across the state have a benchmark that they have to reach for a clean energy mandate.

Um and just want to get clarification on does this solar project help DTE get to their clean energy mandate set by the state?

Yeah, through you, Mr.

Chairman, and we did have a conversation about this when we spoke directly, and I I did confirm with DTE, this project absolutely could help them reach their green energy goals.

Yes, it is part of their migrate my green power.

Gotcha.

And so that's also I want to get because you know I was at the uh prior festival yesterday and I saw that DT has a program that uh folks will pay uh a dollar per month um to help with green infrastructure um and clean energy here in the state um and in the city as well.

So I'm I'm kind of and I want to get more information on this.

Uh so if we are making a city investment, knowing that this is helping us, I understand you this is helping us get into our clear engine benchmarks, that we are helping the utility get to their benchmarks, but also there's an aspect that our residents are also helping out with an additional fee if they opt into this uh with the my green program.

I'm just trying to make sure that this is the best use, right?

And and for a city government, right, to also be in a role of helping the utility get to their clean energy mandate set by the state.

So I know that's a whole convoluted thing there, but I'm I I want to just be very clear, because that is that's a concern of mine.

Um because uh also as we see increasing energy rates across the board, across the state, and I know we all in this room feel it.

Um I just want to make sure that we're doing the best with the city dollars and also um making sure that we're helping our residents, including the residents that are impacted by this project, but as you heard folks call in um across the city as well.

Um so I don't know if you have a response there.

I I would love to get more information on that, but yes.

Yeah, through you, Mr.

Chair, I uh I I I feel comfortable that I could respond to this, but since the subject matter expert is in the room, if you could um I would love to bring up Damahoney uh from DTE um because those are two different things.

Anyone uh you and I could participate in the voluntary green power, that is separate from the Detroit Solar Neighborhood Initiative.

Is that clear?

Do you but the government?

Yes, and we can we can bring it.

And so I would be remiss.

Uh that's uh want to make sure.

So we'll spot down.

And as he comes up, I will say completely uncertain that those are separate things.

But what I'm what I'm thinking about, if I'm uh if I'm a Detroit resident reading in the free press or uh media tomorrow, right, that we uh approve or whatever the action is and they see this is a 130 million dollar investment of tax dollars, and then also are seeing a bill come in that is higher, and also if they are a part of that program, and knowing that this is helping with the clean energy mandate, some folks may have some issues.

No, it's good to clear up and decomplect.

Yep, absolutely.

If you are welcome, good morning.

Uh if you all or good afternoon now, uh can introduce yourself for the record, please.

Sure.

Uh Mr.

Chairman uh Daniel Mahoney, Director of Policy and Regional Affairs for DT Energy.

I'm joined by two of my colleagues.

I'll let them introduce themselves.

Um, director of renewables.

Good morning.

We also have uh teammate on the virtual um meeting as well.

What if you could just say their name and we could uh sure yeah, Knox Cameron.

Okay.

Sean and Knox are two of the individuals inside the company who are doing the work that you just described, helping DTE increase our electricity sales to meet the state's clean energy goals.

50% of our electricity sales will come from solar or wind by the end of the decade, 60% by 2035.

We'll make sure to get them promoted.

Uh to the chair, I don't see them online at the moment.

Um may help C A N O X.

Yes, I don't see them online right now.

That's okay.

We can proceed.

Please do.

Thank you.

Mr.

Chair, maybe for the purpose of Sean, could you just repeat your question?

Yeah, I just wanted to if you can just break down how with this project, how this project lends into the clean energy mandate.

Um and because uh let me just start with my concern and then maybe we can work backwards from that.

My concern is that this is a a bit uh large part of study for the city of Detroit, uh which also is a large part of the city of Detroit, that means it's large part for the residents because we're we're purveyors of the tax uh their tax dollars.

So seeing this, um us making an investment that also helps we have a clean energy mandate or benchmarks to reach, you all have a clean energy mandate to reach.

Seeing that this lens to that, I think the question comes down to if I'm a resident that is not impacted by this area, right?

Uh, but thinking about how does this help me when I'm also getting a bill that the energy rates are going up.

If I'm also a part of the migrant program to opt in into like what is the case that we are that we say to those folks.

Sure, yeah.

Let me just begin with describing um the state energy policy around uh the renewable portfolio standard.

It's a sales-based target, meaning that again, as I described, as we progress to the end of the decade and then into the middle of the the next decade, there are these two milestones, 50% and 60 percent of our uh electricity sales need to come from either solar or wind uh defined in state statute as renewable energy.

Right.

Um in parallel with meeting those compliance targets, uh DTE owns and operates a program called Migrant Power, which is a voluntary program where our customers can go above and beyond the current state mandates uh and you really get all the way up to a hundred percent of their personal energy usage coming from wind or solar.

That does come as a fee-based program, uh, as you articulated.

The way the state policy works is um the sales from the renewable energy program, migrant power are deducted from DTE's denominator, if you will, of the RPS.

That creates an affordability benefit for everyone else because we have specific customers uh paying into a voluntary program and thus buying down the cost of us transitioning our overall fleet to the 50 and 60 percent standard.

I'll let Sean offer any additional comments.

Yeah, I think also what's really important is these are dedicated projects, and when we retire the RECs, they are in the city's name.

When folks take service from our regular electric rates, DTE is retiring those recs as a part of our compliance bucket.

So with the voluntary program, as you pursue your decarbonization goals, you will get credit because those recs will be retired in the city's name.

So that was another big value proposition of going this route with these assets because they actually get retired in your name and decarbonizing your specific load.

Mr.

Chairman, can could we have uh Ms.

Don expand on that just a little bit or is not there?

Uh Mr.

Chair, um I do see him online as KWC, but he keeps uh declining being promoted to panelists.

So if he can hear me quickly, um just to when they get the notification to accept.

Okay.

Well, we'll see if we could get them uh promoted, but uh best done if you have an additional uh that actually uh through the chair, uh that was my request is that uh Knox was here uh two years ago and he was talking about the migraine power program and he was the one uh and he's saying it's not allowing him, so we'll just uh continue.

Uh but there are additional credits that the city uh could get from this initiative, as uh was just said uh part of the legislation that you're referring to.

There is a um uh in bet uh additional credit that the MPSC is not ruled on.

It is mentioned in the uh impact study.

It is something they talked about two years ago.

It is something they talked about two years ago, so there could be an additional credit that also is um available uh uh for the city to invest in these types of projects and help to um not only meet our goals but meet uh the state requirement goals for DT.

Right.

And as and Mr.

Chairman, to your point, as the owner.

Yes.

So that's the important point that we that that Ms.

Dying made earlier.

We're leasing this, this is our project.

Uh the credits that get produced are our credit.

Gotcha.

Okay.

All right.

Anything else, Member Waters?

I will say uh for you all we did get a request for um college to bring this back in one week.

Um if I understand that there is a timeline to get to July 4th.

Um and I have a commitment to get that out of here to meet that, but we did get a request to bring back in one week if that's possible, Member Waters.

Mr.

Chairman.

Member Waters.

Yeah.

Oh what would be wrong with just send it to formal.

Um we could.

I mean, that's the that's the way I can't make any motion.

But I just I'm just I'm just saying that we um we did get asked to bring back in one week.

I what I'll say is that if we can bring back in one week and with a commitment that we get it out of the committee um next Monday to still but regular chair, I'm so sorry, but regular business would be in one week, correct?

If we got it out of the committee and send it to formal for regular business, it would be next Tuesday.

It would be next Tuesday, but I think the request was that we keep it in committee and to is that from the chairperson?

That's from um I believe it's from CP's office.

CP?

Mm-hmm.

Really?

I can't make a motion, so I will I certainly would like to know why.

Hmm.

Well, let me let me just ask um what's the timing again uh through you, Mr.

Chairman.

So we what we could do is that if we bring it back in one week and send to new business next Monday, it will still make it to uh on the agenda for next Tuesday.

Uh uh through you, Mr.

Chairman.

If I can ask him what is the timing, I don't I don't want to see I don't want to see us get into a fiscal impact.

Yeah, so uh through you uh Mr.

Chairman, if I may, uh to member waters.

Uh two issues uh for timing is one is the Fourth of July.

Uh so we do want to make sure that we are being timely with that uh and and ensure that uh these projects need to be committed uh and uh have them uh under contract and signed uh and DT is ready.

Uh that's why they're here with their subs uh to do that work.

Uh and it has to be by the fourth of July.

The second reason is you you heard it today.

The residents came and they talked to you about um some have got their energy efficiency upgrades, some have not.

Ninety-seven of those 209 homeowners have not had their energy efficiency.

They have been waiting for over a year.

Uh also you heard from Sandra Turner Handy.

She has seen this uh the the disinvestment of our neighborhood.

Now the homes are cleared.

Now the home there there's vacant land, and and uh DT is committed to getting these projects under contract and getting them fenced, and so we can um maintain them as an asset for the city to be developed.

So we've this is why we're bringing it, and we've got a timing uh issue that we are asking for your support.

Through your member to you, Member Waters.

Well I can say is this is that um if we could do the one we bring back, I would be in support of still moving a new business for next Tuesday.

That'll put us at June 16 for consideration between by the four uh council, uh which I believe was still give us more than enough time to meet the July 4th um aspect here.

Since you were so nice, okay.

I mean all right, but we we have to get it out.

I mean I don't know.

I mean the CP asking, uh I don't get that one at all.

You have my word that we would get this out next Monday.

Uh-huh.

Okay.

All right, then motion.

Um, there's been a motion to bring back six point.

Uh let me just make sure I get the line items right.

It's been a motion to bring back 6.6 and 6.7 in one week.

Uh seeing no objections that action shall be taken.

And you all have you heard me here as on record.

You have my work that we'll get this out next Monday.

We'll be back.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

All right.

As folks shuffle out.

We'll move along to with actually take up 6.8 through 6.12 together.

These are requests for vacations and encroachments, I believe.

This is from the off department of public works and city engineering division.

Um 6.8 is a resolution authorizing petition of Jubway, Inc.

to request to vacate with the reservation of utility easement, a portion of the North South Public Alley bounded by East Philadelphia Avenue, John R.

Street, Uclick Avenue, and what we're at.

This is uh for again.

This is for um just make sure.

All right.

This is for uh the Department of Public Works City Engineering Division.

6.9 is a petition of Alejandro Leon, a request of vacation with the reservation of a utility easement north-south public alley bounded by Bangor Street, Herbert, Scott, and Horatio.

Uh 6.10 is a petition of Corktown Development Properties LLC request for encroachment within the southerly part of the east-west public alley adjacent to the property, commonly knows known as 172A Michigan Ave.

6.11 is the petition of Davis and Ham Trimic Building LLC request to vacate with the reservation of utility easement uh north-south and east-west public alleys bounded by East Davidson Shields, uh, loose and sunset Avenue.

And 6.12 is a petition of Haywood Development LLC request for multiple encroachments and pedestrian access easement within the northerly part of McComb Street and the southerly part of Clinton Ave for the proposed bouliards with cover, proposed billiards, proposed canopy, proposed canopy supports with spread footings, proposed pedestrian access with vehicle or drop-off canopy and snowmill systems, all adjacent to the parcel commonly known as 1236 St.

Antoine Street.

And that will all right.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss for 6.8 to through 6.12?

There's been a motion to approve 6.8 through 6.12 and sent to former with a recommendation to approve.

Seeing no objections, still action shall be taken.

That will move us on to 6.13.

Um this is from member Santeo Gramero submit a memorandum relative to the drafting of a bubble zone ordinance for health clinics.

Um we've uh actually um is there a motion to refer this to the law department?

Motion.

There's been a motion to refer 6.13 to the law department, seeing no object three for yeah, uh seeing no objection that action shall be taken.

Then is there a motion to bring back 6.13 in three weeks?

Member Waters.

Uh motion to bring back 6.13 in three weeks.

Motion.

All right, thank you.

There's been a motion to bring back 6.13 in three weeks.

Seeing no objections, that action shall be taken.

And that'll bring us on to member reports.

Uh member waters, do you have any member reports?

Well, okay.

Which is going to be June 17th, 46 p.m.

Adams Butter, which is at 1050, 10500, Linden Street.

That's Wednesday, June 17th from 4 to 6 p.m.

Um coach here.

It's um waters, my campbell and Miller.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Member Waters.

Definitely encourage folks to come out to the skill trades task force meeting.

Actually, I know what you're about to say.

We have to go back.

Yes to one.

All right.

Yes.

Yeah, one of the eight.

All right, yes.

I'll just say my member report real quick and then we'll go back.

Um I would just thank everyone who attended the disability task force meeting on Friday.

Um, and also is let folks know on June 20th.

We will be having the District 7 Freedom Festival in celebration of Juneteenth at Rouge Park at the corners of Joy and Spinoza.

We'll have free food music performances and such.

So please do come out to that.

All right.

With that, we will go back up to, I believe this was six points.

Yes, to the chair, we do have Sonali Patel on.

All right.

We can uh promote her.

Good afternoon, Mr.

Chair.

Good afternoon.

Uh if you could just say your name for the record, please.

Yes, Sonali Patel, public affairs director at the Detroit Water and Swords Department.

Thank you.

And uh thank you, Miss Patel.

I just have a I know you were before us last week.

Is this a similar um amendment for contract for back uh the backup protection?

Yeah, somewhat um so last week we were in front of um committee informal in order to extend the Moore Brothers contract.

Um, and that was because we were able to identify some leftover funding that was allocated to basement backup protection program, and so we combine those funds.

It was about 210,000 to extend more brothers with time and money to be able to service some additional homes.

Uh this extension request is in order to extend LGC, a different contractor, just with time.

At this point, we do not have additional funding identified, but we want to keep them on for a couple more months in case any ARPA funds are identified to be allocated to basement backup.

So this is a little bit of a safety net um in case any funding can be utilized for the program.

Perfect.

Okay, thank you for that background.

Just wanted to double check on that.

All right, um, member waters.

Uh I know you do you have any questions on 6.1?

Are you good?

I'm good.

Okay.

Is there a motion to uh send to new business with a recommendation to approve?

Motion.

There's been a motion to send to new business with a recommendation to approve.

Uh seeing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

All right.

I think that's it.

Seeing no further business before this committee.

Is there a motion to adjourn?

Motion.

Adjourned.

Thank you all.