Everyone and welcome to the regular session of Tuesday, June 16th, 2026.

It will now come to order.

Madam Clerk, good morning.

Will you please call the role?

Good morning, Councilmember Scott Benza.

Council member.

Councilmember Letitia Johnson present.

Councilmember Denzel Anton McCampbell.

Present.

Councilmember Renata Miller.

Councilmember Gabriela Santiago Romero.

Member Santiago Romero submitted a memo indicating that she would be absent.

So her absence is excused.

Clerk was so notes.

Councilmember Mary Waters.

Present.

Councilmember Angela Whitfield Callaway.

Council President Pro Tempera Coman A.

Young the Second.

Council President James Tate.

Mr.

President, you have a quorum present.

Thank you.

We have a corn present, which means we're now in session.

Again, good morning, everyone.

If you have not had an opportunity to provide a um, if you have not been provided a public comment card, and you do want to provide public comment to this body, please raise your hand and someone from the team will come by and provide you with a public comment card if you are online also would like to speak before this body during the public comment section.

Please raise your hand virtually online and we will put you in the queue for those comments as well.

We will be cutting off public comment uh collection very shortly.

So uh please note.

Uh providing this morning's invocation.

We have none other than Minister uh Bailey L.

Harrison of New Life Prophetic Uh Center.

She is a dedicated minister, speaker, and faith leader committed to sharing the gospel and encouraging a spiritual growth among believers.

Uh Minister Harrison, please come on forward.

She was got some nice shoes on that's what it is.

Good morning.

Good morning, everybody.

Good morning.

As you know, my name is uh Bailey Harrelson.

I will be leading invocation.

First, I give an honor to God who is the head of my life.

Um, to my pastor, Apostle Kadar Norton of New Life Prophetic Center, to the Detroit City Council President James Tate Jr.

for this opportunity to be here.

Um, to Kalia Humphreys, who was kind enough to consider me to lead invocation.

I do not take it for granted, and honoring every council member and elected official in their respective places.

Just also wanted to shout out Pershing High School in District Three, represented by Councilmember Scott Benson and Brought Up Career and Technical Center in District 7, represented by Councilmember Denzel McCampbell.

Without any further delay, uh let's go before the Lord.

Father, in the name of Jesus, God, we thank you for today.

We thank you for waking us up this morning, clothing us in our right mind, starting us on our way, God.

Thank you for for providing another breath in our lungs, God.

We do not take it for granted.

There are people who did not wake up this morning.

And so thank you for letting us be the very few that did.

God, thank you for letting us make it over.

Thank you for letting us make it to another day, God.

We just bless your name.

We give you glory, we give you honor.

We thank you for your sovereignty.

We thank you for your wisdom.

We thank you for in your unimaginable power and your everlasting love.

We thank you for taking on the sins of the world by Jesus Christ.

Lord, we thank you.

We lift you up and we magnify your name.

Lord, we thank you for the Detroit City Council.

We thank you for the city of Detroit and how far it has come.

God, we thank you for every elected member.

We thank you for President James Tate.

Lord, we ask that you would kill you will continue to move in him through the city of Detroit, that it may prosper and that it may flourish in its way that it needs to.

God, we thank you.

Lord, we thank you, and we and we need you to keep working through the members of the council, God, so that this city can go further.

This city can prosper more, this city can reach nations in the name of Jesus.

Well, we thank you.

Lord, we ask that you will cover the city of Detroit with your mighty hand.

Well, we ask that you would give the families justice for the crimes that have been committed unjustly in the name of Jesus.

Well, we ask that you will cover the children, every student that goes to a high school, a middle school, an elementary school in the DPS C D district in the name of Jesus.

Lord, we ask that you would release scholarships.

We ask that you will release opportunities for students to grow, that graduation weights would be higher in the name of Jesus, that reading levels would go higher in the name of Jesus.

And by this Detroit City Council and by this community being heard, and by this community lifting up their voices and saying what needs to be said, that this city can prosper, this city can go further, this city can move like you wanted to move.

Oh God, but we thank you and we bless you.

We magnify you.

We thank you for the city of Detroit.

We do not take it for granted being here.

We do not take it for granted that you have this jurisdictional system in the name of Jesus, Lord.

We honor you.

We honor you in this city, oh God.

We honor you.

Thank you for that.

This is the city of opportunity, that this is the city to hustle.

This is the city to get money.

This is the city for everything to happen in the name of Jesus, Lord.

We thank you.

Lord, we thank you.

Thank you for every council member.

We ask that they that you operate in them with creativity and innovativeness in the name of Jesus.

That Lord, they would put out what needs to be put out in the city so that it may continue to operate in liberty, up the security in the name of Jesus.

Well, we thank you.

We thank you, and we just give you glory, honor, and praise in Jesus' name.

We all said amen.

Amen.

Thank you so much, Minister Haroldson.

We appreciate you for opening us up with that powerful prayer.

And we understand if you have to leave due to your schedule, but you are more than welcome to stay with us this morning and afternoon.

Thank you again.

We'll be approved.

Before we go forward, we do have two special presentations.

And uh, Madam Clerk, if you can also note that we've been joined by Member Miller.

Thank you so much.

Uh, we have two presentations, special presentation.

We're gonna start with member Angela Whitfield Callaway, Member Callaway District Two.

Good morning.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair, and good morning, everyone.

Um, before I read the um presentation, I'd like for um the recipient of this award and his family and loved ones to please stand so we can see who I'll be talking about this morning.

So if you all could please stand so the audience can recognize you and see you.

That is Mr.

Gloucester Jr.

Raise your hand.

That's his mommy, raise your hand.

Those are his two sisters.

Raise your hand.

That's his father, and that's his grandmother.

Um I'm sorry, Godmother.

Godmother.

So thank you all so much.

Yes, we see that Godmother.

But um, this young man um makes your heart warm.

And um, he's done some incredible, incredible things in our city just to be so young.

Um, but committed to this city, and it is my honor and privilege to even read this um Spirit of Detroit award.

And it's equally my honor and privilege to be able to present it to you.

It means a lot to me.

Um, and it is truly um commendable that you will be so young.

You could have gone anywhere in the world to do your thing to um exercise your talents and your skills and your God-given gifts.

But after you graduated from college, young man, you brought all of that back to Detroit, your hometown, where your sisters can see you, where your parents can see you, where your godmother and your extended family can see all your good works, and um kind of reminds me of Jesus Christ using all of his talents, right?

All of his talents in his community first, in his neighborhood first, all of his good works, and then they spread across the world.

But he started at home, and that's what's happening for you right here, right now.

And I'm so proud of you.

So I'm gonna read this presentation.

This is the Spirit of Detroit Award presented here with as an expression of the gratitude and esteem of the citizens of the city of Detroit to Mr.

Ted Gloucester Jr.

for your outstanding leadership, vision, and commitment to empowering Detroit communities through economic development and youth advocacy.

As the founder and executive director of the foregend initiative, he has transformed vacant lots in his own childhood neighborhood into vibrant spaces that create opportunity and connection for residents.

He is a proud Detroit native and Michigan State graduate.

He returned home, and I want you all to really lock into this.

Through in innovative programs focused on financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and land stewardship.

He has helped hundreds of young people build skills and confidence for their future.

Ted Gloucester Jr.'s dedication to creating sustainable change continues to inspire and uplift the city of Detroit.

So on behalf of myself, Councilmember Callaway, the Detroit City Council, and the entire city of Detroit, your family, we celebrate you, young man, Ted Gloucester Jr.

for your outstanding accomplishments and impact in this community overall.

God bless you and thank you for your commitment and your willingness to not go to Chicago, not to take your talents to the South.

You came right back home to the area that raised you, and you're helping to maintain it, clean it up, make it safe, and buying parcels.

And I appreciate you.

We all appreciate you.

So let's give them a hand.

And that being said, um, Mr.

Chair, can he come down and make public comment?

I'm not public comment, but make a comment right here, Mr.

Gloster.

You'll go to that podium, and we're gonna take pictures later, but you'll go to the podium, you'll hit the um the button at the base of the mic, and it's going to turn green.

And before you get started, um, Ian Brock's you're running across up there.

Can you come down here as well?

This is another young man.

He happens to be on my team.

I want you to stand with Mr.

Gloster Jr.

and I'm gonna tell you why.

It's because of the work that you're doing in the community in District 2 that brought this young man to my office's attention.

Let's give him a hand.

These are some amazing young brothers doing some amazing things throughout the city and in district two.

So I want you to stand there with you because you two brothers, you two young brothers are amazing, and you're doing some incredible things.

Mr.

Glosser, you have the mic.

Yes.

Um first, thank you.

Um, you know, I want to thank God, right?

Thank God for even giving me the the spirit, the energy, the passion to want to come back home and do this work.

Um thank my family.

Um that's my stepmom right there, too, right there.

Um, but anyways, uh um yeah, I just want to thank my my family, uh thank my friends.

Yep, I want to thank my family, thank my friends.

Um thank you, Councilman McCalloway, uh Ian, bro.

Thank you.

Um thank everyone, thank my village um for putting the extra battery in my back.

Um seriously for putting the extra battery in my back for keeping me going in the times where I didn't think that I could uh when I came back home in in uh 2023 in January of 2023 after I graduated from college in December of 2022.

Uh I sacrificed a lot to you know, the comfort, the you know uh old friends, relationships, right?

Um, my old mindsets.

I had to get out of my comfort zone, embrace myself for the journey ahead.

Uh, when I was just when I thought um when I was unsure about the first summer program we did, our first skills to assets uh summer program in July of 2023, setting up that room by myself, uh being uncertain of the work ahead, but just having faith.

And that's where uh uh I strengthen my relationship with God.

Um and now we're here.

So thank you for recognizing the work that the Foraging Initiative is doing through our uh youth development program, skills to assets, uh App School program where we partner with uh schools across the city.

Uh, thank you for recognizing the work we're doing with the Foraging Neighborhood Coalition in District 2, where we are uh clean cleaning up, um cleaning up the neighborhoods, uh cleaning up the community, uh building a park uh for people to heal, um, to look to release, right?

For uh work uh are your relaxation zone, activity space, a garden, uh giving food to the community.

Um myself, my village, the foraging initiative.

We're on a mission to heal the people.

Um we're doing this through economics, uh not just teaching youth how to file LLCs and teaching people how to file LLCs and chase a dollar.

Uh, but we're showing them how to get in tune with themselves, uh, how to get engaged with a community that all ties into economics.

Because if you, if you're not right here, if you're not right here, everything else falls through.

And I'm pretty sure everyone in here can relate and understands what it's like to the importance behind healing, making sure your mind and your soul is right.

So that's our goal, healing through economics.

So uh thank you with all my heart.

Um, you know, and the work continues.

Uh, awards are a way to make the work contagious.

Yes.

So I hope this this time, you know.

I hope y'all see the work that's being done, and then we continue to make it contagious.

So thank you all.

Thank you all so much.

Thank you.

Yes, thank you.

And Mr.

Chair, hopefully, um, if you all have any comments, but I um you could please stand there because I'm sure somebody wants to say something to you.

But um, Mr.

Chair, and to everyone who's listening, there was a lot of illegal dumping on Puritan.

Is it Puritan, Mr.

Gloucester that you had us cleaning up?

Yes, it was Puritan Quincy Murland and Wildemere.

And then we went to a vacant lot and was filled with mattresses, tires, and everything.

So we needed more help to clean that area up.

But this young man just was not gonna settle for having illegal dumping in his neighborhood.

And so for all the teens or your parents who are listening, we're not we're not gonna take over, we're taking charge.

So if you want to um assist, you call our office at 224 4535.

You're not taking over anything, but you're gonna take charge of your life and your future, and you're gonna take charge of all this trash and illegal dumping and unsafe um atmospheres in our community.

So you're leading the way, and we appreciate you.

So, Mr.

Chair, I don't know if anybody has anything to say to this young man.

If not, um yes.

We'll go with uh member McCampbell, followed by Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair, and good morning.

I just want to say thank you so much uh for all that you do for our community and also for centering healing and the healing through our work as well.

Um it is I I appreciate you coming back to the city.

And I know that's a choice that many of our young folks from the city have to make, um, whether they are coming back or not, and you made the decision to come back to the city and help.

So I just wanted to thank you.

Also wanted to say that Spartans will and go grant.

So thank you so much.

Uh member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um first, I want to ask what is your Instagram, your TikTok something, because you should be the social influencer that our young people are following.

That's my Instagram is uh vast motive that is V S and Victor, A as an Apple, S S and Sim, uh motive that is M O T I V E.

That's motive.

Um, and our uh Instagram for the nonprofit, the foraging initiative.

It's a long Instagram, y'all.

Uh it's the Foraging Initiative.

That's T H E F O R I G I Nitiative.

I N I T I V E, the Foraging Initiative.

And if you didn't get any of that, you can call 313-224 4535.

That is 313-224-4535 for the TikTok and the Instagram and the website.

Okay.

There we go.

Thank you.

Um, so I just want to say thank you for seeing the opportunity for recognizing the opportunity and for taking the risk um to do it, being the person to step in to say we don't need anybody else to come in to do this work, that we can do it ourselves.

It's while it is a challenge.

Um, I believe that you will continue to be successful having the support of member Callaway of this entire council and of the city of Detroit.

So thank you.

I hope that we can get you out there to where you get have so many people following you that we can get other young people like you to come in, recognize the opportunity and see that we can rebuild areas that have been demolished that we can create for ourselves.

All right.

Appreciate you.

Thank you.

Well, I just want to say uh thank you for the work that you've done.

Um, and thank you for coming back.

I talk all the time about how when I was growing up in the 90s after I graduated, um parents were telling their children to leave Detroit and don't come back.

And the fact that you came back, it shows that it's a different time here in the city of Detroit, different mentality.

And it's it's not just because of one person or one group, it's because we all have decided enough is enough, and we're welcoming our young folks back, not just to be spectators, but to actually be players in this game.

So uh I just want to also uh remind you that uh as you elevate, uh, you become a bigger target.

There's gonna be folks who are gonna try to bring you down.

Uh, the more and more you succeed in life, there's gonna be folks who just gonna be jealous, angry, uh, all of the above.

Don't let that distract you.

Keep forward, keep moving, keep looking at your support that you have around you, of those who you know and those who you don't know.

If you don't have information about something, go find it out.

Don't just try to assume, because that is how we move together collectively as a people and as a city.

So again, I just want to thank you, uh, young man for all the work that you have done and look forward to hopefully partnering with you uh in the future as well.

Thank you.

Um, thank you so much, Mr.

Glossrin.

Thank you all.

And um, I'm just so proud of you.

And remember, it's not about taking over, it's about taking charge.

And that's what you've shown us what taking charge looks like.

And thank you for helping to keep District 2 clean and safe, and we honor you today and your entire family.

So thank you to your dad, your mom, and your siblings, and your extended family.

God bless you and continue to bless you on your journey.

Thank you.

Stick around, we're gonna take a photo with you a little bit later after we get uh um past this next presentation that special presentation for member McCampbell, member Camp McCampbell, District 7 Good morning, everyone.

Member Calloway, before you sit down, if you want to join me, okay.

Yes, ma'am, absolutely uh so good morning.

Good morning.

Uh so I wanted to um it may be a surprise everybody, maybe not now.

All right, hey, uh I just want to give this uh is a special recognition to someone who is so fitted, member Callaway that you are honoring someone of uh a young man that has done who's came back and done work in our communities, and and now to honor someone who has had decades of work supporting our young folks in the city, and that's Miss Minnie Davis, who is with us today.

Um, and and it really is an honor.

And I I know uh Miss Davis is a district two resident, and for the team here at District 7 had um it means a lot, and it's very special because Ms.

Davis has mentored Miss Yolanda Lockett, who's on our team as well, and just the years around parent support.

And again, I cannot stress how relevant this is today as we're talking about the need for our young people to do more in the city, but also to have folks to support our parents, and that's really the work that Miss Minnie Davis started doing, and through over 45 years of public service, going through parental support, uh support for domestic uh violence survivors, support for mental health, clothing uh resources, food drive, gas giveaways.

You know, I I saw that she she had a quote that said that helping others, you when you help others, you help yourself.

And that is key to what we think about public service and the service in the community and and all of her work with the Mathis Center and such and throughout the city of Detroit.

I just um it is an honor to honor Miss Davis and thank you so much for all that you do for the city of Detroit.

Thank you so much for planting the seas with the young men in motion, um, uh beginning 20 years ago, right?

And and just lifting up so many of our our young folks and so many of our families and being that center of hope.

There's a lot of times that so many folks are in a moment of despair, and there's folks like you and the work that you do that really bring that hope to say that there is something more.

There is more, there's hope uh there's more to come.

This is not the end, and this is just the beginning of a positive change.

So thank you, Miss Davis, and and it's an honor to honor you here with the city council in the city of Detroit.

Brother Fallout.

Thank you so much.

Um, member McCampbell.

Um, I've known Minnie Davis for over 20 something years now.

We worked in um the parenting network together.

We were training parents to be better parents.

Um, and um, for our own experience being parents ourselves, and so I've known her again over 20 years, and I'm so grateful to you.

Um, and I hope I didn't let the surprise out the back, but I kind of thought I did, according to one of your uh staff members.

I won't say her name, but when I saw Minnie Davis sitting there, I lit up and I saw that you were honoring her, so I did say it.

So I apologize if I let the secret out the back.

I so apologize.

But when I saw her, you know, we had this um connection and we're like friends.

Um, and so I'm so honored that you're honoring her.

And so I just want to thank you for honoring her, um member McCampbell.

And she's done so much in the community over at the um, and if anybody can get Judge Mathis to come to Detroit or come and do anything, it's her.

Yes, you know.

So, whenever we need him, she is our connection to him, and they're doing amazing things over there at the community center on Greenfield in District 2.

So, if anybody's not ever been to that community um site, we just had our coughing conversation there, and the place was packed.

Um, she's there to um give you a tour and also let you know how you could um access the facility.

So, thank you again for honoring an amazing woman, Minnie Davis.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

And just to know this is the spirit of Detroit award, and it's presented here with as an expression of the gratitude and esteem of the citizens of Detroit, citizens of Detroit to Minnie Davis, and I would just say a recognition of over 45 years of service to the children and families as a licensed foster care parent, a youth care protect uh practitioner, as well as a parent support uh groups uh facilitator, and as I mentioned, the founder of Youngman and um and motion and also all of her work with the math center, and so Miss Davis is honor for you to be here with her with here with us and to honor your work.

And I don't know if you want if you want to come up and give a few words.

Oh okay, hello everyone.

Okay, it is an honor, and I do appreciate everything, but I don't do this work for me, I do it for the children, the family, the community, and I just love everybody, you know, and I just want them to feel that love.

So it's just been an honor, and it's wonderful to I thank God for Judge Mathis opening the center and giving us a safe place for the kids to come, you know, and allow us to do what we do.

And uh, we I teach the young men, you know, we lead.

Oh God, we lead with purpose, serve with heart, and we make a lasting impact in our communities, but they have to get their education first.

So I have my virtual academy that a lot of them participate in.

And if they don't have a high school diploma, they can get one instead of a GED.

But we have to service our kids.

We have to pay attention to them because they are really hurting, and there's so many of them that are trying to commit suicide, and you don't know where they're at.

So smile at a child, you know, don't holler, pull your pants up, you know, give them a hug instead.

Say, hey man, you know, talk to them, be nice to these young men because they need it.

You see, our streets are hurting, the kids are hurting.

So I just want the parents to do better too with their kids, talk to them and things like that.

But I'm not gonna make a speech because I can go on and on.

But um, thank you all.

Thank you so much.

It's such an honor, and I appreciate all of you.

Thank you.

Any other additional colleagues want to send a few words?

Yeah, Miss Davis, don't leave, don't leave, don't leave.

We're gonna take photos as well, Miss Davis.

Yeah, Miss Davis, don't leave.

But I uh I just you know, member McCampbell and uh member called thank you for recognizing this very powerful and influential individual in our community.

We say that not lightly at all.

Uh what you read, Member McCampbell could have been much, much, much, much longer based upon all the work that you've done and the impact that you've made in our community.

I have known you for a number of years as well.

We haven't worked all together as as much as we we certainly could have in the past, but I've been admiring you uh and the impact again that you've made throughout the city of Detroit and the lives that you've you've touched.

When you talk about uh young people, you don't talk about them in some generic form.

You really reach to uh identify what their challenges are and try to unpack it.

And we can't do it all by ourselves.

A lot of times they put the uh the onus of transforming the city solely on government.

Government has shown you time and time again, we don't have all the answers.

But when we work together with folks like you and uh others, uh it gives us the ability to actually again transform this community in the right way in the best way.

So thank you for allowing us to partner with you in the transformation, and we look forward to continue to work with you.

Thank you.

There's no other uh yes, yeah.

The photo now.

All right, and stay right there, but start with you, Miss Ms.

Davis.

Stay right there.

Oh, thank you.

That's mentioned much more on it.

Uh okay, thank you.

All right, so I'm happy for you.

I think it's maybe this we're good.

Oh my god, center.

No, I got you.

I got it.

Um this stuff?

Yes, yep.

Okay.

Don't forget to have a couple back.

There we go.

There it is.

Oh, right.

Oh, there's your back.

And then family called.

Oh my telling me.

We'll take another one.

Everybody in.

Y'all come over here.

Congratulations.

So right.

Congratulations.

Congrats, man.

So right now.

Everyone, let's give uh today's awardees one more round of applause.

Make their way to the exit here.

All right, Madam Clerk.

We shall proceed to referrals and other matters for the budget finance and audit standing committee.

Mr.

President, noting that I'm referencing that line item 7.2 is a duplicate of 17.1 and will be voted on later today.

There will be five reports from various city departments.

Uh college is there a motion to remove line item 7.2 from the agenda.

Is that five reports now?

Uh madam clerk.

Yes.

The five reports will be uh referred to the budget finance and audit standing committee for the internal operations standing committee.

Three reports from various city departments.

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

One report for the mayor's office.

One report would be referred to the neighborhood and community services standing committee for the planning and economic development standing committee.

Two reports from various city departments.

The two reports will be referred to the planning and economic development standing committee for the public health and safety standing committee.

Five reports from various city departments.

Reports will be referred to the planning, excuse me, to the public health and safety standing committee.

We'll now move to voting action items.

There are no reports, Mr.

President.

Under communications for the mayor and governmental agencies and officials.

Now call for public comment.

Um we do have my possession seven individuals who like to speak in person.

And we will start with Mr.

Urban Morrow, followed by Char Williams, followed by Dark Donovan McCarty, and everyone will have two minutes for public comment today.

We'll allow the clock to get up.

Come on up, Mr.

Morrow.

All right.

Uh hit that button in front of you, and the floor is yours, sir.

Thanks.

Oh, first of all, I would like to say um thank you to young lady Callaway.

Thanks to Miss Callaway for bringing that young man out.

That's what it's all about.

Building an economic base, a social base, and a political base.

I like that, and I respect that.

Now to get to the point where I came down here today, is last week.

Pastor Mo.

First of all, have you guys ever saw the movie Django?

Okay.

Anyway, last week, Pastor Mo came down here, and everything came out of his mouth was horse wretched.

You gotta come closer to the mic.

Everything that came out his mouth was horse wretched.

But he was right about one thing.

Me, Ramon Jackson, Foodale, we are those one to 600,000 citizens that's gonna come down here and complain when we see something that's corrupt or something that's unrighteous or something that's wrong, right?

Now, the next thing that I wanted to point out was you made a very valid point earlier.

You said that people were telling you back in the day to leave the city, leave the city, but you didn't.

You stayed here, and I say that to say this right here.

Everybody who I have talked to that live in the suburbs, and I asked them, why did you guys move out?

Why didn't you stay in the city?

You know what they say?

The crime, the drugs, the school systems, right?

And so then I look at that and I'm like, these are the things that we concentrating on.

Another issue is, and I wanted to say that my man um Mr.

Campbell is I was reading over that um the uh the act that she just talked about.

Uh the what is it?

The egg, the American Rescue Plan Act.

And I was like, once you guys decide, because I heard the post is close out the end of this year.

Once you guys decide, I would like to read that report.

And the last thing I would like to say in closing is what good is the music if the audience is deaf.

Thank you, guys.

Our next speaker, Shar Williams, followed by Donovan McCarty, followed by Betty Lyons.

Hello, people, citizens listen to this very clear.

I used to work for the U.S.

Census Bureau.

It was 75,000 people we couldn't account for.

So apparently they came up with a good idea to increase the population in the city.

The more people we have, the more money you can get back from Washington.

But unfortunately, the way they did it is illegal.

So when you guys recruited non-American citizens and ex-offenders to impersonate police officers, they got a three thousand dollar signing bonus when they lived in Detroit.

So the population is grew.

So this is how they get money.

The more money they have, the more the more people, the more money come in.

But the thing about it, you are mishandle this money.

You sit up and talk about integrity, character, and honesty.

See, you get upset when I come down here and speak about the truth.

Your job is to protect and serve and make sure the citizens of the city is taken care of correctly.

Comply to the Constitution, the law, and the charter.

What I see all the time.

I'm at their public library.

They are teaching these people that came home from prison how to work on the computers.

That's excellent.

But also, they have fake names.

They at these libraries on World War, preparing to take the Detroit police department test in fake names.

That's not acceptable.

So let's talk about integrity.

Tate, you sit up here every week and you say we I'm not gonna say anything because you don't want to incriminate yourself.

You don't say when people have anything to say, you say we're gonna wait.

I'm gonna wait and say everybody in the end.

You never give a person a rebuttal.

I'm speaking on me.

So at the end of the day, whatever you do in the dark, it's gonna come out.

And Shane the devil.

All I can say, all these lies.

Have a great day.

Our next speaker, Donovan McCarty, followed by Betty Lyons, followed by Brittany Blackwell.

Good morning, counsel.

My name is Donovan McCarty.

I'm the director of the housing justice clinic, Michigan State University College of Law.

Pull closer.

Okay, yeah.

Is that good?

Okay, speak up.

I'm the director of the housing justice clinic at Michigan State University College of Law.

I know I come here often to criticize you all.

And I just came here this time to thank you for the ordinance that you all specifically, uh, Councilmember Waters uh uh helped in 2024 pass an amendment to support this uh this ordinance that says it's unlawful for landlords in the city of Detroit to collect rent for periods of time if they do not have a certificate of compliance.

Uh, my organization, along with the Detroit Tenants Union, uh want to thank you because we have now filed a demand letter in 36th district court asking the court to enforce that as written by all of you, um, because it's important, right?

86% again of landlords do not have a certificate of compliance, meaning that they're collecting rent unlawfully.

Uh, so we are here again to thank you and to also because this is a public health crisis, and we are trying to address it.

I know that you all are trying to address it.

That's why this legislation exists.

Um, and so what we were what we are also asking of you today is just to extend your support in our effort to extend our support uh by communicating with the court, uh, the in the correct interpretation of the ordinance.

Um, and also if you ever want to talk with us, we're more than happy to meet any time to discuss.

I know I've had some communications with your various offices.

So thank you again.

Thank you.

Our next speaker, uh Betty Lyons, followed by Brittany Blackwell, followed by Ed Wiener King.

That young man is a jewel.

You have to protect him.

He needs help.

You are to give him those millions that you give to undeserving people, give it to him because he's doing something for Detroit.

Those other people, those thieves that come into Detroit, and you freely give money that they don't deserve.

That's wrong.

So I want to hear about this young man.

If I can give him financial something, I'm gonna call your office and I'm gonna give him something.

Stop giving these naked uh illegal people money that they really don't need.

They just using y'all because they know you have the mind of a slave and they know how to work your mind as slaves.

That's why so much go out of uh Detroit like that nine million dollar think with the help of Anderson.

He didn't say no, and McCampbell didn't say to that Troy insurance company that 22 million dollars total and that black female woman, no help for her.

That's wrong.

Why can't we say no to that Troy insurance company?

Say no for us and stop giving these white folks what they want and these fake Jews out of Bloomville Hills, all the money that they really don't need.

Stop it, stop it, stop it.

Also, we're gonna talk about this thing, the uh fireworks.

The young people, they're gonna come down and try and get a good spot, and then at eight o'clock, you're gonna tell them that they there's a uh uh a curfew.

That's gonna be a problem.

And black uh the cops in this city know that they don't treat black people well.

Next speaker, Brittany Blackwell, followed by Ed Wiener King, followed by Dolores Jackson.

Good morning to the city council members, the constituents of the city, as well as those who care about the things happening in Detroit.

I am Brittany Blackwell, the Midwest Regional Director of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated, and it brings me great pleasure to stand before each of you all today to share just a little bit about the things happening from July 1st to July 5th here in Detroit.

This is home for me from Seven Mile and Livernoid, and actually my first job as a staffer for City Council.

So coming back home, I appreciate this opportunity.

We don't often get times to talk about the work that we do, but we will start our public meeting where the city of Detroit is welcome to join us to hear about all the things that we are doing and the six organizations we have partnered with to provide for domestic violence survivors and the youth at our public meeting on July on that Thursday, July 2nd.

We will then follow with the petition that we are seeking your approval for, which is 22.2, very fitting for our founders for your approval today, as it will represent um one of the jewels of this city at Heart Plaza, which is our welcome event.

I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the 25 chapters that we have here in Michigan, but the responsibility that we will be bringing to this city of over eight states in the province of Ontario, where we will have over about 5,000 individuals gathered to bring economic development to this area.

We will also be providing a free career fair to members of the city at the Marriott Hotel on Thursday from 3 to 6 o'clock p.m., as well as a free youth summit to anyone who registers at Wayne State University on Thursday from 8 a.m.

until 4 o'clock p.m.

We are extremely excited for this opportunity as we celebrate our centennial year as a region and our 52nd Midwest Regional Conference.

Again, thank you so much for this opportunity, and I hope to see you all there.

Thank you.

My name is Edwina King, and I'm here in my personal capacity to respectfully request your support and approval of line item 22.2, petition 2026-103, which will commemorate our Midwest region conference as well as our centennial celebration.

Oh, to be a Delta Girl.

As we journey to 100, arriving closer to our destination, this historic occasion marks 100 years of service, sisterhood scholarship, and social action throughout the Midwest region.

For more than a century, Delta Sigma Theta members have worked tirelessly to improve the lives of individuals and families through our educational programs, economic development initiatives, health awareness efforts, voter engagement, and most importantly, community service.

So hosting this celebration here in Detroit is a tremendous honor.

So over the uh weekend that um Madam R.

D.

uh spoke about, thousands of visitors from across eight states in the province of Ontario will gather in our city to commemorate this milestone, bringing economic activity to local hotels, restaurants, businesses, and cultural institutions.

But most importantly, this will showcase the spirit of service and excellence that has defined our organization for generations.

And so we have worked tirelessly with city departments and stakeholders to ensure that this event is safe, organized, and respectful of residents as well as um adjacent businesses.

And it is our goal to host a celebration that not only positively reflects our organization, but most importantly at Heart Plaza in the heart of the city of Detroit.

And so at this time, I ask for your approval and thank you for your time.

Thank you so much, Ms.

Edwin King.

Our next speaker, Mr.

Jackson, followed by Minnie Davis.

I would like to first thank the council for giving me this opportunity.

Um I am part of the Great Awakening International, and it pleases me to be able to make the announcement that we are having an outreach in the city of Detroit.

We are going to be at the William G.

Millican Uh Park and Harbor on July 5th.

The event will take place from 11 a.m.

to 3 p.m.

Um, and during this event, we will have an essential cares uh booth.

We're gonna have hope in a bag where we're gonna give away free groceries.

We have a prayer tent.

We're gonna give away free clothing.

We're gonna have uh health screening.

Um also we're gonna do free haircuts.

We're gonna have a kids' fund zone where they'll have inflatable uh carnival activities, a phone machine, face painting and crafts, interactive games.

Um, we're also gonna have a game mobile.

Um, and we're gonna have snacks, and we're also gonna have an outdoor concert where we'll have probably upwards to 10 different recorded artists are gonna come out and they are going to um do a concert, a free concert for us.

So once again, it's it's always the honor to be able to give back.

I grew up in the city of Detroit, and it feels good to be able to say that we are able to give something like this back to the community, and we wanted to make the residents aware of it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next speaker, Miss Minnie Davis, followed by Josh Mann, followed by Michael A.

Humphrey.

Okay, to the council members.

Um I don't know if I should talk about the needs of the city or the events that we're having for the city.

But anyway, I do want to address the um because I work with women of domestic violence and homelessness.

I just think these shelters are a mess, and they need to have inspections on a regular basis.

If you need me to, I can get a team of volunteers to go in and clean them and make these people feel like they belong because they treat them like dirt.

I visited them, you know, myself, and then I hear so many stories, and I get at least eight to ten calls a day from homeless women, you know, domestic violence victims with their kids.

They have no place to go.

Cam is a joke.

211 is a joke because they give you resources that are don't work.

You know, why are you gonna give them something and therefore?

You already know there are no openings there.

They're not helping them.

Cam is not reaching out to these people, you know, and it really breaks my heart when I can't help them, you know.

But we need more places.

Would you all give me a school and let me give me money so I can redo the school and give them a safe place and train them or do something?

You know, I just need help to help these women.

That's all I want to say.

Oh, and y'all can reach me.

Wait a minute, y'all can call me at the Mathis Center or 313-443-5146.

I'm also doing a camping and fishing annual retreat for my young men.

I do this every year, and I'm self-funded, so I do this out of my pocket, and it costs about $4,000.

We're going up north, and we have a mental health check-in around the campfire.

I have um partner with the police officers up there, and they come and they welcome us, they mentor our youth, and they take them out kayaking, and we do a lot of other things with them.

They get historical, uh, we do etiquette, personal development, all kinds of stuff.

But thank you, uh call me and I'll tell you more.

Thank you so much, Ms.

Davis.

Someone from my team will be getting your information as well.

Make sure we follow up uh on that opportunity there.

Uh next speaker, Josh Mann, followed by Michael Humphrey, and our final speaker in person, Brother Cunningham.

Mr.

Man.

Great quote here.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Detroit's a leader city, the best in the country.

Currently, 69 cities have rejected LPRs.

Yipsilanti, Michigan banned LPRs in fall of 2022.

Why are we not on this list?

69 cities.

That's obviously a concern nationwide with this technology.

If the whole nation's fighting this in many cities removing it, and then obviously there's some major concerns.

Data centers are the other worldwide trending topic.

The people are against these ideas, and these people are not criminals, they're regular common working class people.

Why is it hard for government officials having trouble seeing that the voters are against it?

This overreach of power.

If you people are Christians, do you think this is the Christ-like way to mass surveillance people?

This is not God's way.

This is not with the Christ mind.

This is an overreach of surveillance.

Please consider how to stop and remove these things from our beautiful city.

That's all I'm gonna say.

I got more, but you heard it.

Yeah.

A final speaker.

I'm sorry, two speakers.

Um, Michael Humphrey, followed by Brother Cunningham.

Good morning.

My name is Michael Humphrey.

I'm process of restarting the college scholarship fairs with the help of infinite scholarship.org.

We had put hundreds and hundreds of Troy Public School students in college before.

Uh we put school students in college for free with a full ride.

We didn't charge them anything to come to the fair.

We didn't charge them anything to go to the college.

We gave him full scholarship ride.

That's one of the things I'm getting ready to do.

It was a very good program and a very good education program.

I met with the mayor's aide for Mayor Sheffield, discussed the job creation program that I talked about last week.

The program we create over a half million jobs for the city of Detroit to end poverty, unemployment, incarceration, and recidivism in the city of Detroit.

I look forward to meeting Ethan and every one of the city council members to discuss in detail some of the great components of the program.

The contract I do use AI to give my responses and say I should have non-disclosure documents signed and non-compete documents sign uh for the uh protection of the program.

But the reason I'm doing that is because when I taught public schools, I had a program that said uh how to build or how to um uh do a business plan.

Program was very successful when my students made five thousand dollars a month per month, 16 years old.

Uh, if you have students that can make money legally, they won't make anything illegally.

So um program was successful, but instead of honoring me and the program, the idea is to help the students, they stole it and sold it out the back door for money.

I want that happen again.

The job creation program will drop the prime rate and priest tax revenue approved quality of life, rebuild the middle class, including the black middle class, reduce unemployment, drop the crime rate, and also uh be hiring um young people and uh attorney citizens in human trafficking and sexual thank you so much.

Final in-person speaker, brother Cunningham.

Good morning, councilwoman Callaway, Councilwoman Walters, Councilwoman Miller, Councilwoman Johnson.

Good morning, councilman pro Tim Young, Council President Tate, and Councilmember McCampbell.

Um D Dot is still I make money off of it, but I'm doing a long time.

I'm an ambassador with them, but I must say Jefferson being a pilot and then the improvements they plan on making.

I think that they should focalize on buses being on time and showing up before any increases or any uh said improvements.

I just my my viewpoint.

I I just don't see uh uh making changes to the schedule, and the system is still lackluster.

Folks are trying to get to work, school, play.

Uh bus tickets, bus tickets.

It gets to the point wherever I go, someone's asking for bus tickets, flagging me down.

So now I've had to stop and do it every Friday.

Every Friday I give out frozen water, which I had a problem getting in stores in the city.

I don't know why.

I prayed about it, prayed in the Holy Spirit.

When I got up, they say go to the suburbs.

I want to thank Hollywood Market for freezing uh cases of water for me for Fridays because when I was homeless for over a decade, I remember people gave always giving us water.

We appreciated it, but uh frozen cold water just hits the spot, and the people are really appreciative of that.

Uh, and it takes funds to do that uh and to purchase those bus tickets to contact me 313-444-9114-313-444-9114-313, 444-9114.

That number was made so you can remember it.

And uh please help me with those bus tickets.

Help me help people.

I've been doing this a long time.

Thank God for you.

Thank you so much, brother Cunningham.

We should now transition to our online commenters.

Uh good morning, Mr.

Huff.

How many callers do we have?

And who do we have first, please?

Morning, Council President.

Uh, we have 26 callers online this morning, with our first caller being caller NB169.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general for public comment.

Caller, are you there?

Hello, can you guys hear me?

Yes, sir.

Great.

Most of you are suffering from the causes of bad unity, bad unity, bad unity.

Try something different with good unity, good unity, good unity.

100 plus bottles, 100 plus bottles on Cunningham's Facebook page.

He gave over 100 frozen bottles of water and hundreds of bus tickets.

He calls it Fair Free Fridays.

Bus Fair Free Fridays.

Thank you for praying for Brother Cunningham.

Better yet, thank you all for helping Brother Cunningham.

Matthew 1042, new international version.

And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is my disciple, truly I tell you that person will certainly not lose their reward.

Thank you, my dad.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next call is going to be 1244.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes.

General public comment.

Hello.

This is my this is another May Bay Barry.

I am uh calling in regards to how can we as the citizens of Detroit be able to be to sit uh when you make decisions on like uh the car washers for the city of Detroit are spent spending more than a million dollars on car washing for the city of Detroit, and to be able to make those decisions along with you when you vote upon those those things like that, as well as how can we be a part of uh the Detroit development team that you had on a few weeks ago who are making decisions for the city of Detroit to be able to bring back grocery stores and because we are depleted of grocery stores in the city of Detroit.

We need more grocery stores, more grocery stores, more grocery stores besides for healthy eating for the people who do receive food steps that they don't have to go out into the suburbs to spend their dollars.

We also need other uh entities as far as the entertainment for the children after school, after well, school is out now for several programs for the children.

We need some um stores, bathing busters.

We need stores uh like five below those stores like that.

We need our own strip malls to be uh built up inside the city.

So, how can we be a part of the planning for the city of Detroit?

Awesome.

I will see everyone at uh Marlon King Park on June 23rd.

I'll be out there to clean as well as to uh come out and meet me.

10 o'clock until 4.

We'll be talking about different things.

So see you June 23rd at Martin Luther King Park on Rosa Park Boulevard and West Grand Boulevard.

See you soon.

And everyone have a great day.

All right, thank you.

Who do we have next?

The queue.

Our next caller is going to be Nene's friend.

All right, go ahead, floor is yours, two minutes.

All right, going once, going twice.

I'm here.

All right, go here, sir.

Hey, Coleman.

The gig is up.

I'm back to myself, I'm back to work, and y'all cheated in public officials.

Uh you notice James E.

T Jr.

got up and handed it over to you.

So I'm gonna start with JZ Jr.

And now he called Kinesha Coleman's mother, Kenisha Coleman, DPD case 20-11112 and said I was not the right representative, and he's been playing with my name.

Well, I'm young Bluff from the Brewster Projects in 1980, and I'm also real from the back seat of that black limousine at the Charlie Plaza Apartments parking garage, a nickname given to me by Detroit Madam, and I'm Joy Road Road, six mile room, seven mile room.

Now that's Joy Road from Telegraph all the way to Limwood, and then Claremont all the way out to where it ends at six mile route.

That's from Telegraph to the Firefire, far far east side, and I'm seven mile road, and I used to live at 1905 Balmoral Drive, right behind Cardinal Dearden.

He knew me or knew of me since I was 12 years old.

The gig is up, y'all busted.

Janice M.

Winfrey and filed a police report with the Detroit Police Department saying she feared for her life because of me.

That's why I'm not there, Coleman.

But I'm gonna let all y'all know.

Defense is coming into Detroit to get rid of all y'all, right after I do what I do.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is going to be owner Papa.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes.

General public comment.

Caller, are you there?

Uh yes.

Good morning, and may I be heard?

Yes.

It was very interesting.

The statement, Ms.

Johnson.

Councilwoman Johnson said the council um is is create for ourselves.

This is all while we're creating for others.

Um 22.1.

When we were young, street lights were the standard for our social gathering, you know, when the children, when the street lights came on, the children had to be in.

And in the summertime, the street lights don't even come on until 9 or 10.

I don't think that this um 22.1.

I don't think it's necessary to change um the times.

I think that they're fine where they are.

And I think the amendment is going to make our children even more sullen than they already have become.

22.7 and 22.8.

I sent some of you some information on the price of solar energy and what they're professing to is a whole lot of energy, which will cost a whole lot of money.

I see that it costs um 30 to uh um 58 per kilowatt hours, and what they're suggesting is 200.

Do they have the decimal point in the wrong place?

Or are they just trying to fleece the city?

And is 22.17 actually uh kick packs from DTE to get this contract that you guys should have a public hearing for before you sign over a 35-year contract with someone else.

I don't your first one fell through for uh some reasons that you guys aren't being honest about.

19.3.

I don't want any more pilot programs until we can have an honest conversation, comprehensive conversation around how these pilot programs have added units and all categories, especially low income because you're using low-income tax credits.

Please call her please.

Next caller is gonna be Sandra Turner Hardy.

Good morning.

Um I am calling concerning the solar project as uh the leading community organization in the you in the Hayes Houston Whittier Solar Project area.

I am calling to say that the city, first of all, I congratulate the city on moving towards renewable energy, reducing our greenhouse gases within the city.

First, no one home was taken in this area, no imminent domain.

These residents gladly signed off on uh repurposing all the vacant land within the solar area that was used as a dumping ground.

So we are happy that it's going to be put back into productive use.

But these residents have been promised that this will happen with this land, and also that they will receive upgrade energy upgrades to their homes.

If you do not transfer this over to DTE, this contract, so that this work can be completed.

You will have residents at least two areas over here on the east side of Detroit that are not made whole by the city of Detroit.

You will also have now very clear vacant land that will be used as a dumping site.

So I ask you to honor the greatest asset of the city, which is our residents and making them whole in this project.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is gonna be William M.

Davis.

The floor is yours.

You have two minutes.

General public comment.

Uh good morning.

Can I be heard?

Yes, sir.

Okay, I like to start out by saying that um I'm somewhat disappointed with how they doing the curfew as it relates to young people.

My main point of contention is the fact that I'm the oldest in my family.

When I was growing up, I remember taking my youngest siblings when I was 18, 19, and 20.

And if you are legally grown at 18, if you legally could be served in the military, you should be able to keep an eye on the younger siblings like I used to, because I'm the oldest in my family.

And I had three sisters and a brother that was younger than me.

You know, so I used to take them to the fireworks at 18, 19, or 20.

And that was all right during the time when Colin Young was mayor.

You know, what has changed so drastically that now an 18 year old is not an adult.

A 19-year-old is not an adult.

A 20-year-old is not an adult.

I think I need to be reviewing what y'all are doing.

Because y'all are, in my opinion, harming youth, uh, harming experiences that both my parents worked, and I'm not from a rich family, you know, so that both my parents worked.

Um, I you know, both my parents lived at home, you know, so I used to have to do more stuff because I was the oldest.

I was more responsible.

Uh seems like in Detroit, the 18, 19, 20 year old can't be a responsible adult.

So what are y'all saying to these young people?

You know, so hopefully y'all would revisit that and hopefully y'all would think about doing more for young people.

I'm not normally talking about seniors and city chart retirees, but we need to make sure we're doing more to help city Detroit youth, you know, with more recreation centers, more uh swimming, bookmobiles, and uh all types of things that we used to have.

You know, we can't say we're in this golden age because we've made some financial gains and we're still treating young people like second-class citizens.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

All right, caller, the floor is George.

You have two minutes.

General caller comment.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Yes, good morning, Brenda Butler here, uh, precinct delegate, coal miner's daughter, resident Chandler Park neighborhood.

I'd like to speak this morning on the uh pumping station project in the Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood.

We have been, we the community have been on Zoom calls and meetings with councilmember Johnson and her policy analysts, and we have discussed the health harms with this project in Jefferson Charmers.

We have at this time, resident Mr.

Terry Carnell that was before the council a couple of weeks ago about the blood, his uh blood testing where he has been tested with poison in his bloodstream.

We were told by the council office that the residents of Jefferson Chalmers could go to the City of Detroit Health Department satellite office in the Samaritan Center to be tested.

However, that has not come into play.

And we also have found out that the city health department does not have a program where our residents can be tested.

And we have too many projects in our community, such as Gleewa and the demolition dirty dirt that is spreading across our city, that a program must be set up.

This is also for the mayor's office that this caller, please.

The next call is going to be Miss Marguerite Maddox and Scarlet.

Ms.

Margaret Maddox Scarlet, the floor is yours.

General Public Comment.

I'm here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So please communicate, communicate, communicate.

And come up with the compromise.

Can we aim again the item?

I remember my late grandmother, my cousins, and everybody in the neighborhood.

That we we uh can got to the fire with shared at the fire with yes and when it's time to get back home.

We uh took to be that with back home ladies not cut and shook or the young people and responsible yes 18 um it's more is more responsible than the anything you know yes but you can um the maturity of uh of the eighteen year old because we are blown up more than the at that time and about the um the housing issue and the shadow issues please take it back in safety and all of us getting around the city with the water fellows and the green and with the gifts and area please dominate with the decent compromise that we please everyone I know that some of us may not like it, but I'm a team coach so please communicate, communicate, communicate with the front, and so we see the buttons ability.

Thank you, I'm done.

Thank you, Miss Meadow.

Next caller, please.

Next call is gonna be Dr.

Denise Darnell.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Good morning.

Can I be heard?

Yes, okay.

Yes, Dr.

Darnell here.

I really appreciate you um recognizing Mr.

Ted Gloster, and yes, I will be contacting my council member's office to get his information.

Uh, what he's doing is right in line with what my company is also doing, and I appreciate you recognizing Miss Minnie Davis as well.

And I appreciate you recognizing Miss Minnie Davis as well.

I do want to thank my council member, Miss Angelo Whitville Callaway for the Joe Lewis Greenway bus tour.

We had a great time.

Item 18.3.

I want to thank her for advocating additional time and funding for the United Community Housing Coalition so that they can continue assisting qualified low-income occupants who are facing addiction and other housing-related proceedings.

And then 19.2.

I want to give a shout out to Councilmember Johnson for the ARPA funding extension of time for CAS Community Social Services and their 24-hour street outreach and emergency shelter services, which would end this month, but is requested to extend through September 30th.

And as a community activist with 482 Ford, I am still advocating for Detroit voters to educate themselves about proposal S on our August 4th primary ballot to transfer the already approved millage from DPS to DPS community district.

Dr.

Carol Weaver has been out advocating for this, and I'm on this board as well, trying to help.

We certainly want our children to continue receiving art, music, and expanded career and college programming for the high schools.

Remember, this will cost nothing to Detroit voters who own their home.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our next call is going to be Galaxy 8325G.

Caller, the floor is yours.

Two minutes, general public comment.

Let's go to the next caller.

Put this caller at the end of the queue, please.

Yes, sir.

That makes our next caller, Miss Betty A.

Varner.

Miss Betty A.

Varner, the floor is yours.

Two minutes, general public comment.

Good morning to all within the sound of my voice.

I'm Betty A.

Barner, president of the Soda Elsewhere Black Association, asking the council to uh approve uh whatever the process is when uh Mr.

Davis and his sons come to the council in regards to uh opening up a mini market on uh Finkel and Wyoming, where the Mickey D's was located.

Uh it's a mini market with six pumps.

I'm asking the council to support the Finkel Corridor.

Uh help us advocate to get monies for our corridor.

Um asking for uh help.

We are need uh we have land, additional land we have purchased to expand our Diva community park, and that land needs to be cleared of some um small uh what stumps, tree stumps, and uh leveled off.

We want to expand our park.

So uh I'm asking for volunteers.

Uh some of the council people know how to contact me if you're interested in doing a good deed and helping us uh clear our land.

I'm asking uh the administration to consider waiving that um land use hearing fee for organizations who have purchased land and uh they want to uh beautify the parks, their parks, or whatever it is that they want to do, and they have to go in front of uh the city for that land use hearing.

Please uh consider waiving that $1,500 because it can reap havoc on small groups.

Uh thank you for this time.

God bless you all.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is gonna be stop black bottoming resonance with solar for DT.

All right, caller, the floor is yours, two minutes, general public comment.

Caller, are you there?

Heard.

Yes, ma'am, we can hear you.

Hello?

Hello.

Okay, great.

Can you hear me?

Yes, ma'am.

Okay, the floor is yours.

Thank you.

Can you start it at two minutes, please?

Let's take a time back in two minutes.

The floor is yours.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, first of all, I would like to suggest that all of you, when you have meetings that you inform residents, especially elderly residents, how to call in and attend city council meetings.

I've spent a lot of time trying to explain it to people.

Sandra Hardy, I'm sorry forget your name.

There is definitely eminent domain going on.

7.7 million dollars of our money spent rolling over on resident after resident after resident after resident.

I just find it so appalling as a as a resident and somebody worked for reparations made, Congressman Conyers, that you're taking people's property when you could do solar parking lots and like Michigan State University.

Also, 7.1 doing a fiscal impact on solar two.

That should have been done before you voted to take everybody's property.

Not everybody there did it.

Very suspicious.

Um and why is the solar farm switch up 22.7, 22.8 here on the new business agenda.

It should have been on next week's agenda.

So again, that's kind of proof you're rushing this to get the federal inflation reduction act credits for the money, money, money, money, money.

And that's not proper under eminent domain.

Also, absolutely no to Donald Renscher for the land bank board.

If you vote for him, that means you vote for a secret planning.

Because when he was in HRD, he was secretly planning with the land bank for that very controversial neighborhood divisive North End Landing Project.

These are out-of-town developers.

The guy's a millionaire.

So what if he was born in Detroit and he's black?

He's a millionaire and he lives outside of town and he hires people, not people in the neighborhood, who constantly mower garbage, including glass bottles, tin cans, you name it, and you say you care about the environment.

Please stop the solar madness.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is Jacqueline.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Caller, are you there?

I'm here.

I'm here.

I just want to say that I um hope that you all vote for the curfew.

Um, for this time, because from what I understand is from 8 p.m.

for downtown areas in 2014.

The curfew was um 6 p.m.

citywide.

So if it was dumb at 6 p.m.

back then in 2014, citywide, 8 p.m.

Downtown area only.

I don't understand what the fuss is about.

Um, considering what has been going on downtown, and that is my comment.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Um, our next caller is Darren McCluskey.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Good morning, council.

Okay, so in the memo regarding transferring the contract from DT from Light Star to DTE.

It cites a change, a directional change in the business of Lightstar, and it allows them to just pull out because you guys would have to sue them.

Well, Apollo Funds bought Eagle Creek, who owns Light Star, October 6th of 2025.

That's when it became public knowledge.

So you guys waited how many months?

Eight, nine months to figure this out.

Um, and meanwhile, DTE can terminate for convenience.

It's a requirement of eminent domain to have public oversight of a project if it's being transferred to a private company for 35 years under a lease.

It's showing that you guys do not have control over this.

If you guys have to scramble at the last minute, and you have to figure out a way to slip something in, and then DTE has leverage over you to raise the rates, the electric rates, and it was supposedly a competitive process.

You guys don't have control.

If you did this on your own land, you'd have a lot more control.

You had to take people's property, you had to underpay people, you had to pay attorneys 10 times more to take someone's land for pennies on the dollars, and people like me, people like Mike Kelly.

We made bank, we made a lot of money selling out.

Okay, it's the it's the people who don't even know how to read and respond to a lawsuit that you guys are screwing over in the name of tax credits and the name of global warming prevention.

You guys are screwing over your own people.

You had enough land already.

You didn't have to take everyone else's property.

Thanks.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is going to be.

One time, because we will get you that one time.

Logging in twice really disturbs our process.

Just asking you again.

It's a courtesy.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is going to be Duan Ver Jesse.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes.

General Public Comment.

Caller, the floor is yours.

Two minutes.

General Public Comment.

Good morning.

Thank you.

Can you hear me?

Yes, good morning.

Thank you.

Um, thank you for allowing me to be heard.

I'm here in support of the Detroit Solar Neighborhood Initiative.

My name is DeWine Ver Jesse.

I was born, raised, and I work in the city of Detroit at Walker Miller Energy Services, which is a Detroit-based business that's implementing the Van Dyke Lynch Energy Efficiency portion of the um solar initiative.

I just like to say, as the program manager on the project and being a boots on the ground, working with the neighbors.

I can honestly say that the feedback from the neighbors overall has been positive.

The community is thankful for having a voice throughout the process.

Blessed to be one of the chosen communities and appreciative of all the extra resources that DTE provided.

Neighbors also shared how exciting it was to see multiple homes in their community taking advantage of the program.

It created a sense of pride and collective progress.

Appreciate how the program made the process approachable, especially with trust and guidance.

Residents frequently mentioned the visual the visual impact of the solar panels across their neighborhood and how it signaled a commitment to sustainability and clean energy.

Many neighbors value the trans parents and education that was provided, and saying they felt informed, confident, and through throughout the installation process.

And if I can leave you with one thing to note that we had two grandparents and two children lives saved by the CO detectors that are Detroit-based contractors installed in their homes per the fire department.

Thank you for um having me and considering the solar neighborhood initiative to continue.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is going to be Jadante Smith.

I also want to note that we have 10 callers left with one in the queue after Judante Smith.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

Two minutes, general public comment.

Good morning.

I want to say um I vehemently stand against the way the solar initiative is written.

Um and I think that it is doing more harm than good in the way that is written.

Umar farm.

I just witnessed a birthday party or something like that.

Some type of get together where there were a vast number of kids playing outside of these solar farms, and they have to look at another form of um unsightly um things.

And so to President Pro Tim, uh, we had a we had a conversation.

Uh you agreed to meet with myself, uh the triumph coolish representative, and we have still not gotten any um any right any any meeting set up or anything like that.

I love to have a meeting set up.

I love to have you keep your word, uh, especially as an elected official.

That is almost all you have besides your vote.

Um, also to councilwoman uh Angela Wilfield Calloway.

I have reached out to your office as well about a meeting, also to councilwoman Renata Miller, also reached out to your office about a meeting.

Um you like to have these meetings so that we can relate to your information that I don't speak about a council.

I only get two minutes every single week to talk about there are plenty of documents and plenty of information that are foyer and that is um privately held.

We love to talk about about Kronos and Crown Enterprises and how they are not using their their property correctly.

Um also I have a friend who's opening up a barbershop in district two.

I'm gonna have him reach out to some folks down in District 2.

So Angela Fucallaway and also Marshal Bullock.

And I'll see the rest of my time.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is going to be Cindy Dara.

Cindy Darrell, the floor is yours.

Two minutes, general public comment.

Apologies, sir.

I was looking at my list and not the screen.

She dropped off.

Our next caller is going to be Michelle Jackson.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes.

General public comment.

Good morning.

My name is Michelle Jackson, and I am calling in reference to the sanitation pump station on feud.

I am really looking towards Councilwoman Johnson.

That's my district.

Mary Waters, uh, she's for the whole Donyers Jr., not Congress Jr.

I'm sorry.

Please forgive me.

Thoman Young Jr.

I do apologize deeply.

So just question to the whole group Was there a health impact study done in the particular area for the residents for that particular sanitation slash pump water waste station that's coming about?

If not, can we please get one in place before some of these things are moved forward?

Um last week, I think something was passed.

Um, not really sure.

All of you guys voted.

Yes.

Quick thing.

Um health risk for residents living near a popular um proper operating municipal pump station are generally considered very low with most measurable hazards, dropping the baseline level beyond a 400 meter radius.

However, environmental health studies highlight specific areas of concern regarding airborne emissions, quality of life symptoms, and a risk factor tied to symptom failure.

U.S.

environmental protection agency.

I don't know if you guys use them.

Airborne emission and odor risk, quality of life subject and health impact.

Um quality of life, respiratory and um irritative systems.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next call is gonna be Kendall Kuhnman.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Good morning.

My name is Kendall Kuneman, and I chair the energy waste reduction of the Detroit City Council Green Task Force, and I'm here to provide comment and support of keeping the solar neighborhood initiative moving forward.

This project is transforming vacant lighted land into clean energy sites while improving the quality of life in Detroit neighborhoods.

It is also delivering direct benefits to residents through energy efficiency upgrades like roof repairs, windows, heating and cooling improvements, and weatherization.

More than 200 homeowners have already seen lower utility bills and safer, more comfortable homes.

Um approving this amendment is critical because it allows the projects to continue on schedule and preserves important federal tax credits that help reduce costs for the city.

The initiative will generate clean energy for 127 municipal buildings, create jobs for Detroiters, support workforce training for local students, and improve public health through cleaner air and reduced emissions.

This is a smart investment in our neighborhoods, our residents and Detroit's clean energy feature.

Um please support this amendment.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is going to be Tyson Gersh.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Hi, can you hear me?

Yes.

Okay, thank you.

Um, real quick, anything related to the solar takings, strongly disagree with.

I'm appalled to be living in a city where local government would behave in this way.

Uh Conrad Mallet needs to go.

I I am shocked that city council continues to entertain um the antics of general counsel and the law department in general.

Um David Bell also has to go, which brings me to the next point.

Um, the master planning process, the pending zoning text amendment overhaul, and also the proposed changes to the BVA rules, all three of those are deeply problematic.

Uh, the proposed changes to the master plan, especially District 5 in the north end would designate the neighborhood as uh the policy directive uh build more housing, which would essentially strip any regulations or protections that the master plan provides.

Um, currently there's a numerical standard for density uh against which requests for variances are held.

Um, the new proposed, I guess, like nomenclature and coding system of the draft master plan is a complete removal of those protections and gives a free pass to uh pursue any density uh a developer wants.

Um, and there is no um, there's no mechanism to what's the word I'm looking for.

Just basically keep it in check, um, right?

Because the variance requested has to be the BZA can only approve it if that request is consistent with the master plan and changing the um land use designations and the master plan to build more housing, uh removes anything, right?

We have got to talk about that stuff.

And David Bell, I guess, has commandeered the entire zoning text amendment um proposal process and is trying to push through the exact same thing from last year that received enormous public.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is gonna be L Sorry.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Caller, are you there?

Caller, are you there?

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

Yes, sir.

That makes our next caller, Melissa Love.

Melissa Love, the floor is yours.

Two minutes, general public comment.

Melissa Love, are you there?

Yes, I'm here.

Melissa loves speaking.

I've been talking about, I've been talking about the shelters.

Man, the shelters are pitiful.

Mary Waters, you like you was gonna go in there and clean it up.

You are like you was gonna do something about it.

You could at least ask me to clean it up.

I don't mind cleaning it up.

I don't mind.

Um, also these grocery stores.

We do definitely need grocery stores.

All this stuff, y'all people talking about, this is no representation.

I don't understand why y'all sitting on this body.

Like, what are y'all doing?

We don't have no representation.

Enough is enough.

We are sick of this.

We sick of it.

This store on the corner of my block.

Wyoming eaten.

It needs to be cleaned up.

They need to get some type of ticket or something.

They are open till about 3:30 in the morning.

I am sick of it.

The hood need help.

Y'all are y'all a jump.

A joke, a total junk.

Enough is enough.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next call it please.

Our next caller is going to be LaWare Council.

All right, one council.

The floor is yours.

Two minutes.

General public comment.

Good morning.

I am the one council, founder of the Detroit Area Disaster Recovery Group.

We are a long-term recovery group, service in the Metro Detroit area.

We are also a community-based climate and environmental justice organization, volunteer base, helping Detroit area residents prepare and recover from disasters with love and care.

I am coming today because our beautiful communities and soil are being invaded with arsenic and lid.

Both have been found positive in a blood test at alarming levels to our neighbor, Terry Mellons, who spoke on public comment about the fugitive dust at his home as a result of the Glee Pump Station construction.

Historically, the lower, the low voter turnout and lack of community input is directly impacted by the blatant disregard for the time we invest as community to address the issues that are affecting us.

Councilwoman Johnson, my community met with your office for the better part of a year discussing these specific topics.

The actions taken last week to approve the Glebal Pump Station zone without our knowledge is an example of this harmful behavior.

We have sent an email to your office requesting a response because we found out this action was taken by a reporter who was reaching out to us for comment while we were in the process of communicating with your office.

This invite is to the full body because this was a unanimous decision.

We would like to invite you to a personal listening session to our community this Thursday, June 18th at 5:30 p.m.

at Wayne County Community College, 5901 Connor in the Cooper room, as we raise our collective voices in United Detroit front for our public health and safety.

We cannot continue to have our voices ignored and have decisions made on our behalf while we are in the middle of engaging and making the proper noise that we should make.

We do hope to see you all there.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

The next caller will be Tahira Ahmad, and then we have our callers in the queue, sir.

Mr.

Maya, the floor is yours, two minutes.

General public comment.

Good morning.

Um to here I'm at with District 2 representing the coalition for property tax justice.

I want to thank uh member uh Campbell for coming to our coffee and stories.

You and part and parted a lot of important information and thank you for being so courteous and accessible to the community.

Thank you, Member McCampbell.

Uh also I want to uh highlight the fact that we are still, as many Detroiters uh probably know by now, Detroit homeowners were illegally over taxed $600 million and 100,000 homes were illegally foreclosed.

I'm a member on um the dignity restoration project that we spearheaded.

We were able to give 20 homeowners, $5,000 each who were uh illegally foreclosed.

If you were illegally foreclosed, we would like to um help you by uh giving you um $5,000 um if you were illegally foreclosed um and meet the criteria.

Call us at 313 438698.

Again, 313, 438, 8698, excuse me, and the general public come help us fight for getting our 600 million dollars back in our illegally foreclosed homes that they're probably reselling from the land bank.

Um we have coffee and stories the first Saturday of every month this July 4th.

I'm not sure uh the July what we'll be doing then, but you can call us at that number again, 313-438-8698.

Uh we're also asking uh the city council to uh uh uphold the um next caller, please.

Our first caller in the queue is going to be Galaxy A 325G.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Caller, are you there?

Caller, are you there going once?

Caller, are you there going twice?

Caller, are you there going three times?

Unfortunately, we're gonna have to move on if you would like to provide your comments to the clerk's office.

They will be placed on to public record.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is going to be L Spelt E L.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Yes, I can I be heard, please.

Yes.

Yes, this is D'Amico Williams.

I am a community activist in the city of Detroit.

I'm breaking my council public comment sabbatical uh today to speak against the curfew and to implore the council not to impose this curfew.

Uh, after what we heard yesterday, this is all inspired by uh teen takeovers and the threat of um young people that will crowd downtown Detroit that the police cannot control.

Also, this curfew is made possible by the parade company, the Detroit River Front Conservancy, and the gatekeepers that will be snorting coke and doing wild sex party orgies on the rooftops while our Detroit Legacy citizens are being excluded from downtown Detroit and being part of this family tradition.

I am urging this council to please invest in more law enforcement.

I am working with AC Hayes to open the parks up for our community, uh, for our people to come down to the parks.

We need why can't you all contract private security that are already downtown uh to partner up and to uh monitor uh the premises?

And also, uh, I just want to say the discrimination, the segregation of our uh legacy detroiters and our young people is absolutely horrific.

I don't have to worry about ice snatching our kids other than our local police officers, and it is a shame.

And you all do absolutely nothing for these young people.

You took away everything they had, and I don't want to get into that, but this curfew, we can have a safe fireworks uh season if we all pitch in together and warn people that they should not be doing some hot things around our community.

And finally, what I want to say is is that Scott Benson, you data center uh corporate puppet, you need to make it a task force and not a working group that's secret.

You did that with the water, you did that with the community benefit agreements, and you also subserved us uh with the solar.

So you need to make it a data set uh uh passports where you can be held accountable.

All right, next caller, please.

That takes us to the end of public comments, sir.

All right, it takes us to the end of our public comment.

Uh, colleagues, are there any remarks?

We would like to provide.

Let's start off with member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, so to the residents who called in in regards to the fruit pump station, um, yes, we have been having this conversation for two years and have been working with the community for the last year to identify community benefits.

There is a resolution that culminates all of the conversations that my team and I had relative to providing benefits to the community, including um support from the health department to provide those tests for residents in the immediate area.

Um, we did in regards to the conversation or the the comment in regards to elevated arsenic uh blood levels, the testing that we received from the Great Lakes Water Authority, as well as the test results from Green Door initiative did not show any elevations.

Um, so we'd love to continue working with the community uh to make sure that any individual who has concerns or challenges um that we work through that.

Um, but just want to make sure that everyone is aware that uh we've been in communication with the residents of the Jefferson Chalmers community for a number of months working and having discussions going back and forth relative to the various items that were requested, noting that this project did not trigger a community benefit um agreement, but we did work with a variety of entities um both within City Hall as well as outside of City Hall to provide support to residents in the Jefferson Chalmers community.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

So then we have uh member Miller followed by Member Callaway.

Thank you to the chair.

Good morning, everyone.

Uh in regards to the caller regarding having a special meeting.

I had a morning mingle on Friday, which was open to the public from 9 to 11 at the Inter Harmony Cafe.

I will also be today at Considine from 6 to 8.

Uh that is June 16th.

I will be at the Considine next Tuesday, June 23rd, and the following week on the following day, June 24th, for our community meeting, 6 to 8.

And then if you still cannot catch me, I will also be at Creek Cafe from 9 to 11.

I am open to the public.

I am out in the district.

I am from the East and the West.

Feel free to contact me at any time.

Feel free to have that conversation.

There's no need to call for a private meeting.

That is not going to work because I am extremely busy learning my role here.

I've only been here a little over five and a half months.

So please, when you continue to call, I'm going to continue to give you that schedule.

I'm open at least six times a month to have a conversation with anyone.

Feel free to stop by.

I will give you my undivided attention.

Thank you.

I look forward to seeing you really soon.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Member Callaway.

Um, thank you so much, Mr.

Chair.

Um the young man who was here in person um is now gone.

Hopefully, he is still listening regarding um landlords collecting rent illegally um out of compliance with our um our own ordinance.

And so I'd like for him to call me at 224 45 um 35.

I'd like to hear more about the lawsuit um that you guys are um planning to file.

And I'd like through the chair to Mr.

Wittercour, Mr.

Whitaker through LPD.

Um, Mr.

Whitaker, I have a question for you.

Um, we do have an ordinance on the books.

It's not being complied with by the majority of the landlords who own properties in the city.

Um, reading an article now from the Metro Times, and it says about 85% of the rental properties in Detroit are owned by landlords with no legal right to collect rent.

These same landlords are going to 36th district court and getting um judgments against these tenants.

And so um, through the chair to you, Mr.

Um Whitaker, is there a possibility?

Um, I don't know how it would look to put a moratorium on rent collection by landlords who are not in compliance with our ordinance.

Mr.

Whitaker, uh the chair.

Mr.

President, I I think what the gentleman said is that they were trying to file a lawsuit to get the enforcement of the ordinance um in the district court because the district court had not, at least for what I understood, they were not enforcing that ordinance.

So I think his lawsuit, the lawsuit that he alluded to was designed to meet that need.

So I don't know how it's being handled, but the city council and the city has done what it can do by passing the ordinance is up to the it's up to the courts to enforce it.

Okay.

So my question was through the chair to you, Mr.

Whitaker, whether or not this um the council can um put forth a moratorium on rent collections for those landlords who are doing business in the city, renting properties in the city of Detroit, um, and not in compliance with our ordinance, not the court's um ordinance.

I know that's where it lands, but we also have an obligation to our residents and our tenants, sir.

Um, and we have to hold our landlords accountable.

So I think it would be the court and the city in a partnership to hold our landlords accountable.

And the only thing I can think of is not allowing our landlords to go even go to 36th sister court and file these judgments against these tenants where they're not even in compliance with our ordinance.

Mr.

President, I think the council has asked us in the past to draft um more terms in the past, and I think we've indicated that it sees the council's authority to impose such a moratorium.

I think what the individual that the lawyer that came here and spoke, I think the the method that he's going about trying to get the court to enforce the ordinance would be the way in which you would succeed in having that done.

I don't think the council has the ability to impose on a what amounts to a contractual relationship between a tenant and a landlord oppose a moratorium that would interdict between that transaction between those two individuals.

Okay.

So I don't think you have the authority to do it.

I understand what you're trying to do, but I think the most effective way of achieving what you're what you want to have happen is the lawsuit that the law lawyer indicated that they were filing.

Whether or not it will be successful, that will remain uh up to the court to do.

But I think that would be the method by which I would indicate would be most effective in achieving that goal.

Okay.

Through the chair to you, Mr.

Whitaker.

My last question on this, and I'll put um some of this in writing.

Um, I know we have an ordinance that requires restaurants to have like a placard in their window, and it indicates because they're in my community, and it has a placard in the window, and it lets you know that this restaurant has passed the most recent inspection.

It has the initials of the inspector, it has the information about um the inspection, and it has the date that that restaurant was inspected.

Do we have anything?

If not, I'm gonna ask for uh I'm gonna make a motion that um the LPD looks into the possibility of having a similar alms.

I don't know if we could put it on the house itself, but when a person is looking at a house, they don't know if that house or the landlord is in compliance with our ordinances.

They just are looking to have a roof over their head.

How do we alert tenants that this particular house is not in compliance?

I'm looking at perhaps having you, your department or um LPD, look into the possibility of having something in the window saying whether or not this house is a comp is in compliance.

If it lacks that sign in the window, then the tenant could go to another property and not be bamboozled into renting this property that is probably not in compliance, first of all, because they don't have the sign in the window, and second of all, probably not in good conditions.

And because sometimes these tenants are desperate, they'll rent it not knowing that it's not even in compliance.

But if we have that sign in the window, like restaurants have today, because of the city ordinance, um, it would help tenants to make a better housing decision.

Um, through the chair to you, Mr.

Um Whitaker.

Mr.

President, we'd be happy to undertake that.

I know that we contemplated something similar.

I think member waters had had asked in the past that we do something.

I believe it was member.

I know that we we had that thought in the past.

I'm not really sure what's reflected in the in the ordinance that we crafted, but that might be there already.

If not, we would be happy to explore it.

Okay, so through the chair, that is assignment.

I'm asking LPD to take a look at whether or not we have a sign um requirement for landlords renting properties, and that will indicate or trigger to the tenant whether or not they should even be looking to rent this property.

We'd be happy to do that.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, Ms.

Whitaker.

Thank you.

And just further uh member Callory, I think it's a great idea because we've got to figure out how to get, and it sounds like it was initiated earlier.

Sorry to look.

Um it sounds like it is uh and I we've got to figure out how to get uh the uh information uh to the tenant or potential tenant uh sooner and more effective.

The only challenge that I I have is that it may give an impression of almost like a scarlet letter for folks who have that type of um uh signage on the home that they're staying in.

Uh it may inform them, but it also may provide too much information into their business to the public uh and create um an unintended consequences for that particular family.

But I do believe that uh identifying the best way to get that information to the tenant or potential or prospective tenants, I think is important.

It's just I'm I'm feeling a little uneasy about the potential scarlet letter effect for the um the the individuals who are living there.

Discussion, yes, ma'am, member Calloway.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, I don't know what type of information you were thinking about, but I was just thinking saying something saying in compliance.

It doesn't have to um provide any like personal information, but maybe we can have a further discussion, but it's needed because right now um the majority of our landlords are not in compliance.

We have to do something to help our tenants because we we're chasing our tail because every every week we're um approving contracts for attorneys to provide um representation to low-income tenants, but we're chasing our tail because we're continuing to fund that, which is about to expire through our landlord and tenant and our right to counsel.

So this is like um insanity.

We're doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results, but until we make a uh a decision, we're gonna continue to get these results.

So I understand what you're saying, but I wasn't thinking about um like detailed information.

I'm just looking like something in the window saying this house is in compliance, and this is the number to call if you need more information.

That's all I'm thinking about right now.

What we're doing is just not working.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, Ms.

Whitaker.

I'll look forward to the work product.

So there's a motion on the floor, colleagues.

Any objection with further discussion on this particular item?

Uh approach and young.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Um, I just wanted to ask Ms.

Whitaker, if they don't have their certificate of compliance, can the tenants then put their rent in escrow?

I believe that's what's in the ordinance now.

Yeah, that's what the the past you have to put your your your escrow in with B seed.

And and I don't know whether or not the tenants fully understand how to comply with the ordinance.

That may be a problem as well.

But um there might be education, there might be education uh campaign.

And and I think that the when when when Ms.

Diamond from that administered to write the council, I think she was talking about getting the word out as to how to how to access them and how to prepare the tenants for um or to put the tenants in the best way in the best position to to maximize their rights.

I think an educational campaign can be done, and it's my understanding that they're trying to do that now.

No, I appreciate it.

And in secondly, I want to say part of it is because you want to reduce the barriers of entry for landlords and be able to register through the property registration ordinance, but another part of it is the fact that I think we need a step-by-step process that I don't think we have in terms of if you have this many violations, you go from getting fines, you go from being suspended, you go from ultimately being uh debarred from being able to be in the landlord business because you didn't follow proper registration requirements.

I don't think we have something like that as clear in a step-by-step process.

I know my office is working on some stuff like that.

I'll probably send it over to you what we have and we can talk about it in and clean out the edges, make sure it's clean.

But I just wanted to ask you is it do you think that would be something that would also be effective long term?

Because I looked at the property registration ordinance in every every year that I've been here, it's been dismal.

I mean, it might be 10%, it might be 11 on a good day, it might be single digits on a bad day.

And so I just think we need to have some sort of rules of role, like you get this many violations, and if you don't, you can't be a landlord.

Yeah.

Mr.

Chair.

I'm done.

Thank you.

Um Member Miller, followed by Member Waters.

Thank you to the chair.

Uh Mr.

Whitaker, thank you for this.

As everyone knows I've already shined the light on this as big as it could possibly get.

I've only been here a few months, and I brought early on to the forefront that out of 80,000 properties, only 15,000 were compliant.

It's not only new.

70,000 landlords are not compliant with our ordinance.

It could be for oversight, it could be a lack of um going out to actually view the property under this new administration.

I am confident that we are moving swiftly to get those landlords uh fined who do not choose to be compliant.

We're looking at $300 per single family house, not to mention a two-family, a duplex or an apartment.

We're looking at over $22 million lost every year because of this.

Through your department, we have identified that in case Ms.

Member Callaway wasn't uh aware that we are stumped because we are fighting it in in the court systems.

We do not have jurisdiction over the courts.

We cannot make them not um uh throw our tenants out in Detroit.

We cannot until we have uh uh another ruling from the state and the judicial system when it comes to landlord tenant.

But I believe it all falls under oversight.

Detroit lacks oversight on so many things, and because we do not have the manpower or maybe even the finances to get those people out to those houses, we're gonna continue to have the same conversation.

So I'm looking for you because we are still in talks with our um way to move forward to create an amendment to some of these ordinance.

We've done it two times.

We're working on our third amendment to try to get something passed.

But until we get some type of understanding on how we're going to prevent the over to create oversight, um a letter in the window would be amazing.

But who's gonna put it in there?

Who's gonna they're gonna take it out the window?

We need to have a uh uh a booklet or something saying these are not compliant.

We need a list of everyone in the city that's not compliant, kind of like when you go to the state and you want to pull up housing that's uh uh available.

You can pull up rental properties that are available to rent, but we need to maybe create our own list of non-compliant landlords so people can go on the site and see that these are not compliant and let's put it out there because until until we hit them in the pocketbook, it's gonna continue.

Because they I had a landlord tell me I have 5,000 units in this area, 5,000.

He told me that the two ladies that were complaining about the sewage in the basement that went to the second stairwell that had been there for three months.

To him, it was like water under the bridge.

I'm sorry I missed those two, but you're two out of five thousand meant 10,000 to them, and they're gonna continue to mistreat our residents, take advantage of them, and disrespect the money that they're collecting.

But I look forward to sitting down with you and the reign of the law department to actually push this, these amendments that we're trying to get through, because we do have to do something.

I mean, sometimes we need to just hire higher people.

We gotta hire them to go out and knock on the doors.

Uh, Mary Waters started it.

Um, member waters when that child fell through the floor and fell in the basement and drowned in the sewage in the basement.

Those are the things that we only we react to when there's a problem.

We have to be able to foresee those things and get some stuff on the books that really help our residents.

So, member Callaway, I think you for bringing that back up again.

Our office is diligently trying to create amendments to this ordinance, and even I've had some judges actually reach out to me to see how we can move forward to stop them from evicting our residents and forcing them to pay.

Our judges are just saying, out.

We're gonna you have to go.

And they're continue.

But I will say, only reason why I didn't go forward because you just mentioned it, that in on our books.

If you feel like your landlord is not a compliant, I encourage you to come and put your money in escrow.

Put your money in scroll.

Force the city's hand to collect that money, create an account so you can have your money.

But we know a lot of people want to get over, they want to say, I'm not paying because of this, but they they're really not paying it.

So it goes both ways, but they have to protect themselves.

And the only way we've moved forward is to create that escrow account.

And it's right here in the city of Detroit in this building where you can bring your money and say, Hey, put my money to the side.

I'm not paying.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We do have a special session that's scheduled.

Uh uh session.

It's a close, that's right, closed session.

So the document we signed off on closed session is scheduled for today.

And we do this is in the midst of a motion, so please let the comments be germane to the motion that's on the floor.

Member Waters.

Thank you so much.

Um, I'll just be very quick.

And I just want to remind all of us that we passed two ordinances in an attempt to to help people, the the tenants' rights ordinance that I created and the compliance ordinance that I that I created, and that my colleagues, all of us uh supported for the most part.

Now, the prior to that uh compliance ordinance that we did, the fees for landlords were about $1,500.

We we took the time to narrow that fee.

Now it's about $195 for one unit for the inspection and 225 for duplexes.

We are trying to get our landlords to come into compliance.

Now, right after the compliance ordinance passed, um a small number of them did come into compliance because BC did a um had a really big meeting, inviting all of them in, told them what they needed to do, and some of them did exactly what they were supposed to do.

The issue that we have is basically uh what everybody's laid out.

They have no respect for this city.

That's the bottom line.

They don't want to come into compliance because if they did, they would be there.

Do you know how much we lower the fees in order for them to come into compliance?

And they have not done so.

The purpose of the tenant rights commission also was to teach people uh how to help defend themselves when it comes to these landlords.

And it is it is truly a very difficult uh process.

It is certainly going to take all of us uh weighing in to make sure that we educate our residents so they know that they are they there are tools um to help them.

The other piece of it is that yes, they can put their their monies into escrow, but we have to teach them how to do that as well.

They just don't know.

All of that has been laid out uh in the ordinances that we passed uh last year.

And so I wanted to point those those out.

Um we need to do a better job of letting them know maybe we need to have um BC uh go back out and do another educational piece.

Um landlords are running, they are hiding, they don't want to come into compliance.

We are so far behind as it relates to other cities that even surround us, they're at 90 and 100% in compliance, but we can't seem to get the same thing.

And Mr.

President, you know, over there with real token, uh, all of those homes over there, member Callaway was just crazy.

And so, what is it that we need to do?

We've given them the tools.

How do we enforce them?

Anyway, I I just wanted to say that because it is pretty frustrating.

Uh, the fact that we can't seem to get them to do what they're supposed to do.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, not yet.

Uh we wanted to go, member member Johnson, followed by Member Callaway.

Then we're gonna close this up because we have an assignment.

That's what this is.

It sounds like we're all on board with the assignment, and we have to move on with this agenda ladies' job.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I just wonder if BC has done any public service announcements or um informational materials that have been provided to the renters.

The renter, so the city's website tells you if a property is um a registered rental property on the main page, Detroit and my dot gov, you can scroll down, put an address in, and it'll tell you if rental it'll it says the rental enforcement status.

Um, one of the things we've been doing is making sure our renters are asking for and looking for a certificate of compliance.

I think the renters really um should be aware that if they are renting a property, there's a requirement for it to be in compliance, and they should be seeking that certificate because the I think the landlords have already shown us they're not going to go through the process if nobody's really pushing their hand.

So the city, if BC does not have the information, they don't know if the property is a rental property, then what are they doing to enforce it?

The renter really has to communicate and share with us that it's a rental property to be able to push the landlord to bring it up to COVID and help us to get to though the higher percentages that we seek.

I think the greatest challenge is the deplorable conditions that people are living within, and there are times when renters won't say anything because they know the the rental rates are going to increase.

That's the tragic part behind all of this, right?

Um, and so I think we should we should require that BC does public service announcements on an ongoing basis to share the information, and then our residents can ensure that they have a certificate of compliance for that property that is updated.

I'm not sure how else we get there.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

And I'm trying to speak on this issue, Member Callawa.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um what's happening, and we all know it is predatory rental practices, predatory rental practices.

Um, and I just came up with that, just thinking about a person's journey, renting, getting in this city, finding a property, getting in.

If you have just gonna use a single mother with children or single father with children, you're looking desperately for a place um for your children, because you have to have an address to even enroll your children in school, right?

And so it's like a vicious cycle, but it is predatory rental practices that we're allowing because these landlords have and will continue to thumb their nose at the city, this legislative body and all of our ordinances, they don't take us series.

Um, because we don't take, I'm speaking for myself, um, our own ordinances seriously because if we did, we would insist on enforcement, which we don't.

So um, and a lot of times tenants are concerned about being retaliated against and evicted, and that's what's happening.

A lot of these folks are filing complaints, um, asking the landlords to make the improvements, and the landlords consider them a headache, and then they evict them and they go to 36th district court, and that be they become their partner in this crime because this criminal was happening, but um, we'll continue to chase chase our tails until we do something different.

Um, and and we pay millions to um what's the lady's name?

Dawn Crowley out in Birmingham to do all this media.

I think she got six million dollars, and maybe we should have some billboards to tell people if you are living in um inhumane conditions, um, below standard conditions.

This is the number to call.

We need a one-hit eight a one-800 number so people can feel comfortable calling.

It could be confidential, but um, because they don't know about putting their money in escort like member um waters just alluded to, and then member um Miller brought up a database.

We need to create a database.

We pay millions to a company out in California to create a database for our website, and that is lackluster, but we renewed that contract without my vote last year.

But um, so that's that's that's all I'm gonna say.

Um, we got to get real serious about protecting the least of them.

Doc requires us to do that, protect the least of them.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, Mr.

Whitaker.

Thank you.

All right, colleagues.

There's a motion on the floor.

Are there any objections for the work assignment?

See none, that action shall be taken.

Thank you.

Uh any further regarding comments on public comment.

We should close out this session, this section of the meeting.

Uh, colleagues, I've been there was gonna be a request, excuse me, a request to take up two items uh at the top of the meeting before we go through the entire agenda, and that is line items uh 22.1 and 22.2.

Uh, that is the curfew as well as the uh Delta Sigma Theta request for approval.

Um, Madam Clerk, we can go to line item 22.1, please.

Councilmember McCampbell in ordinance, noting a roll call, item 22.1.

Also noting that this line item was reported out of committee without recommendation.

Right.

Um member McCampbell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I move to take from the table an ordinance to amend chapter 29, minors article three, regulation of minors in public places and adult responsibility for violations, division two curfew and of the 2019 Detroit City Code by Add and Sections 29-3-14 and 29-3-15 to provide for a supersede and curfew for all minors beginning at 8 p.m.

on Monday, June 22nd, 2026, being the scheduled date for the Detroit annual fireworks display or any rescheduled date and continue until 6 a.m.

for the following morning, applicable only to the area within the bound within and bounded by the Detroit River, Third Street, the large freeway, also known as M10, the Fisher Freeway, also known as I-75, the extension of the Fisher Freeway, I-75 Easterly to Grasshire Avenue, Grasshirt Avenue, Werner Highway, Shane Street, Atwater Street, and Arita Franklin Amplet Theater laid on the table June 2nd, 2026.

Hearing objections that action will be taken.

Council member McCamp.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I move that the ordinance be placed on the order of third reading and considered read.

Hearing no objections that action will be taken.

Councilmember McCampbell.

Discussion.

And with discussion, Member McCampbell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

For it's just uh this report is discussed this ordinance, right?

Just to make sure.

Yes, sir.

Okay.

All right.

Thank you.

Thank you, Member Johnson.

Um, so I want to let folks know for this ordinance.

Um, I know I'm it's kind of weird, I'm introducing this, but uh, but I am not in support of this ordinance uh change.

Um, as I you know, we had this discussion during committee.

Um I think about this in a number of different ways.

I think overall, this sends a message, and I know folks that say do it, we do this every year, but I think especially in the time that we're in the discussion that we're having.

I think it sends a message for a premier summer event that we're having downtown that certain youth are not allowed to come down.

And what we know that I shared this, you know, um 34, so it was uh not too long ago.

Uh, but you know, I would get with my friends and we would plan out all the fireworks that we would go to.

It was not with my parents, but we would go to those fireworks around Metro Detroit, including Detroit.

And when we look at this as a way to say, oh, we want to prevent violence from happening.

What we actually know is that you know, with the leadership of um Madam Mayor and the efforts of the city council, what we've seen is that confronting and actually calling our youth in has made an impact.

You know, many of us attended the Occupy the Summer event that happened on last Friday, and we saw so many young folks out there with programming things to do um that we did not have incidents there.

So I would just urge us to think about what alternative ways that we can actually call our youth in and provide a safe space for that.

Now, I understand that this is an ordinance that is all about responsible adults and folks accompanying uh adult accompanying folks um downtown.

But we know on a Monday evening that there are folks at work, their parents at work, and then as noted, the responsible adult definition is ordinances for 21 and up.

This leaves all 18 to 20 year olds, and also we know that the family dynamics across the city that 16 to 17 year olds are usually the folks that may be taking their siblings out to events like this.

Um, and also I would say, you know, I always like to make a decision that's data informed as well.

Curfews are not effective.

We see data that says that.

And we also have seen the data in the curfew that in the way that this curfew has been in place, that incidents have actually they increased from 24 to 25.

So I think we have to actually have a conversation about what is the approach that we have as a city.

I know this is an emergency ordinance for one event, but it it really fits into the overall uh conversation that we're having there.

So that is why the point I wanted to bring up.

I will be voting over against this emergency ordinance, and just wanted to share that with my colleagues.

Thank you so much.

And I see uh first assistant chief Hayes.

I was told that you wanted to say a few words as well regarding this particular ordinance.

Feel free to come down as we uh make our as he makes his way.

I will uh turn to Pro Tim Young.

Got his hand up.

Thank you.

No, um, I was gonna just get ready to say we should deliver from uh assistant chief.

I'm gonna I'm gonna keep this uh super brief.

Um I just wanted to say I understand everything that uh member McCampbell said.

He made a lot of good points.

Just from my standpoint, I think that what happened downtown with that 14-year-old that got shot and nearly lost his life.

You know, thank God he didn't.

We can't have that, and we have to have a very strong symbol that we're not going to tolerate that.

Now, as someone who sponsored the uh curfew ordinance rigidly decriminalized the curfew ordinance, I understand it.

We can't just answer every single problem with criminalization.

I know the city is also working diligently to be able to bring back midnight basketball and keep the recreation centers open.

I think uh member uh waters had brought that up previously about keeping recreation centers open later.

So I think the administration is take that information to heart.

So we want to continue to keep that process, but we have to send the stance now because we're in a very fragile place economically.

We just got out of bankruptcy.

We are starting to do things economically in terms of growing our businesses, in terms of growing our neighborhoods, in terms of investing our neighborhoods in terms of housing.

People have to know one that they're safe, but secondly, though, that their children are safe.

The most precious valuable asset we have in this city is our children.

And if we're not gonna do everything we can to protect them, why are we here?

And so I personally think this is a good thing.

I'm in full support of this, not just deterrence for the fireworks, but also for downtown, period.

I know we're gonna have some disagreements in terms of how that's gonna be expanded throughout the city, and that's fine.

But I just want to make it clear why I'm supporting this and why we need to make sure that we are aggressive about this.

I you know, it's you know, it's kind of like um we're gonna be um uh iron fist in a velvet glove about how we approach this, but this is something that we have to do to protect our children and protect the citizens and make sure they're safe.

So that's my all I have to say.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Assistant Chief Hayes, the floor is yours, sir.

Uh good morning to this honorable body.

As uh Councilmember McCampbell uh indicated, uh, he had uh some concerns as it relates to this, uh, and this event being uh unwelcoming to the youth.

Um this is a family event, and by tradition and by design, it is certainly welcoming to all Detroiters.

Uh every year, families come down, uh, not only to the downtown footprint, but also Bellal to watch the fireworks together.

Um that's the spirit of the night, and it's what we want everyone to enjoy this experience.

The show starts around 10 p.m.

And a curfew before that has always been in place and in plan.

It's not new.

Um, as we said, we've historically come before this body asking for this, all in the spirit of safety uh to protect our young Detroiters, um, our youth that are down there.

We see what's trending.

Um also was an indication that uh we've had an uptick in curfew violations as it relates to um our youth that are in violation of of our current ordinance.

Um we see what's happening and trending around the nation as it relates to these team takeovers.

Um, and full transparency as we're working with this, they're watching us now and us going through this, and there are flyers saying that the team takeovers are coming, they're planning to come over and shut the fireworks down.

We can't have that.

Uh that event means too much uh to this community.

It is a tradition of that we have to protect.

We talked about different viewing areas and opportunity, certainly at the urge of this council.

Madam Mayor, when not only when she sat on this council, but also in her role now and talking with the community, open up additional areas uh on our beautiful waterfront to do just uh to view the fireworks, and we have done just that uh this year.

Uh we have two public places for viewing, Irma Henderson Park, uh as well as a portion of the river walk.

And then lastly, Ralph C.

Wilson Park as well.

It's a ticketed event to members of the community.

With this larger footprint and response, um, Demiko Harris, one of the callers and mentioned I've been working together and advocating for more spaces to view.

Uh, we still have a community, uh a commitment to this community and a responsibility to make those places safe.

So we're spreading deep DPD resources and other city resources even further out, and being mindful that we cannot compromise our neighborhoods in the community.

Um this curfew uh helps tremendously.

Um again, 16 and 17 year olds, as responsible as that they may be, uh, depending on family dynamic, they're still minors, and what they do falls on the responsibility of their parents.

So, what we've done with this proposed or superseding curfew uh ordinance, now a responsible adult that can be a brother, a sister, uh, a faith leader, a cousin, uh, anyone at that age of 21 who can assume responsibility to give them direction, to help them with conflict resolution to shepherd them uh in this space with thousands of people, if not hundreds of thousands of people that will be uh in our viewing area.

This is one night.

We're looking to move three hours uh back to 8 p.m.

And again, with this event going off at 10, it would also uh compromise the safety plan that we have in place.

With the curfew starting at 10 and then 11, our officers would then enforce the curfew and would no longer be on the post to manage traffic, to manage crowds for people to get home and come in as they now be processing uh any curfew or juvenile violators.

One of the things that we really want to highlight is before this body, uh there was a move to uh, although urge uh and insist on parental responsibility, it was decriminalized.

So that those uh that there was an area of opportunity or came across our radar or an encounter to which they were cited for parental responsibilities, it was resources working with 36th district court to get them help, uh, family dynamics, city research resources, uh in efforts to uh again get them the help that they need to change that incorrigible behavior, uh if they uh are the parent of a youth.

We can't do this alone.

And our strategy uh, if I can back up, uh, when we encounter a youth, uh again, there's a parental responsibility ticket, but there are still some carve outs to which if we encounter a youth who uh is in this 16 and 17-year-old within this age frame, uh, they may not be cited.

The ordinance, there's a carve route for those that are coming to or from school, to or from work.

And also uh through HRD.

If we encounter a youth that is unsheltered or homeless, uh, we in no way, shape, or form would criminalize that.

We would bring the city resources to get them the help that they need.

Again, conflict resolution.

We still uh with this unique event, we have youth and quite frankly, residents that come from all over, some even from Canada, from Ohio that come over.

So we have a lot of groups, uh, and conflict is highly possible.

So, with that, not only with DPD there, we have our CVI groups, all of them will be down there to help uh and mitigate uh any conflict.

The Office of Neighborhood and Community Safety, uh, who uh has been an invaluable partner to DPD since its inception, as well, will be on the ground uh helping again mitigate issues.

So, this is the fireworks that we want.

Uh and an uneventful uh but joyous occasion uh without conflict that we can have.

And then for those that want to come but can't, uh instead of violating a curfew, there's an opportunity.

It is the televised event that they can watch it and see it as well.

Um, this is only in the spirit of safety.

Uh, and should this be approved, uh, we would then go into a robust media campaign, both print, digital, and social, talking through the do's and don'ts, clearly identifying uh the hours uh of this superseding curfew, the requirements if you're coming down, a few other things as well as parking, knowing that anyone that comes to our city, you will not be charged cash to park on the city street, uh, those type of things, the traffic routes, and then lastly, the area so that if you do have a uh a youth that's down there in the missing children area where they will be in each of the viewing locations, both Heart Plaza, the Riverwalk, Irma Henderson Park, as well as the Ralph C.

Wilson Park, um uh for the fireworks.

Uh just one caveat, and it's that we are asking for uh that the one day, which is Monday, and in the event that weather does impact the event, we ask, and it's been stipulated uh or spelled out uh in this uh request as well, that then it would transfer to the next day, uh whether permitting uh that the uh event does happen.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

AC, I uh so we have in one hand the policy, and the other hand we have the execution of that policy.

And so I think that's where the for some there's some some some turbulence there, if you will, the potential of misuse of that policy.

I think we all are on the same page.

We want to make sure we keep our families, our babies, young folks, uh all of those who are out uh enjoying themselves safe.

This ordinance essentially says that I mean it pushes us in the direction of families.

We want families to come and enjoy the fireworks.

I don't see it as a prohibition against families, but when we start again talking about the execution and application of the ordinance itself, uh I won't give you an opportunity to explain how that's going to happen.

I mean, in some somebody's mind, it could be that you're going out carding folks who look like they may be 18 uh through 21, or let's just say 21 and under.

If you have a family or group of individuals young, and then you have an older uh person who very well may be 18, might be 20, not 21.

Are you going out and you carting them?

Or does this does this now provide you a tool to help curtail some of that negative behavior that you may see going on in individuals, and you have an opportunity to then be able to possibly address it before it becomes something more challenging.

And that's that's when you start seeing it at a at a lower level.

You don't allow the the the forest to become engulfed before you start to put out the flames.

Yes, thank you.

Uh Council President, uh Sir Chair, that is a uh a great question, and it is the latter.

Uh, this is a tool once someone has come uh across the radar or has garnered the attention of DPD.

We are not carting individuals that are down there, but it is a tool of deterrence uh that if we encounter someone, whether it be a fight, a a large ruckus that's there, then at that point, once we start individu uh interviewing individuals, uh and if we find out that they in violation, then at that point uh we will uh exercise uh the authority uh granted um in this superseding curfew.

We are not walking around and and uh profiling individuals uh alone our youth just because they have a youthful appearance.

Um it would be that there's a matter of conflict, uh a and an incident in which DPD uh is summons.

Um, and then at that point, if we find that they are in violation, then at that point we will uh we would take the appropriate action uh for the violation of curfew.

Okay, that's that's what we call the news burying the lead, right?

Explaining how this is going to actually be executed as opposed to the blanket uh statement of uh what this ordinance is.

But uh any additional comments, um, member Callaway, followed by Member Waters, followed by let me get my list.

Callaway Waters, young uh Miller, Campbell, McCampbell, excuse me.

All right, um, Member Calloway.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair, and good afternoon.

Um, AC Haynes and police commissioner Darrell Woods and Director Um Brent.

Um, I support the um ordinance.

It is very responsible ordinance.

Um, it's an ordinance that's going to protect who it needs to protect and keep safe, who it needs to keep safe.

Um, and um sometimes the best viewing spot is from your home.

And I'm hoping that we have some community groups who will have one of those pop-up TVs um at their location, be it outdoors or indoors, and make those spaces in the neighborhood safe where everybody can come together if you can't come downtown for whatever reason, um, create some safe watching spaces or viewing spaces.

Um we've got a lot of vacant land.

Um, and uh I would hope that we some churches, um, some nonprofits, some community groups will get those uh again pop-up TVs, um, have some hot dogs, some hamburgers, and make it a safe, fun um experience for our kids, our youth, um, to watch the fireworks.

And I remember growing up that the curfew was when the lights came on, the street lights came on, and that was it.

Nothing else said, right?

And and but things have changed, times have changed.

And um, so I do support the ordinance.

I supported it last year, and I'm gonna continue to support it because it's an ordinance that is responsible, and its whole goal, its whole um intent is to keep people safe.

And what's wrong with that?

Um, and and and people may not agree in terms of how we endeavor to keep people safe, but if we didn't do it and something jumped off, then you know, um, we're gonna have a problem.

We'll be it'll be across um um the world that we had issues at our fireworks, and that's not been the case.

And I I read the numbers, I know how many um folks were arrested, I know how many um parents were penalized, or I don't want to say penalized, but held responsible.

So I thank you for keeping those numbers, but I absolutely again support this ordinance.

It is a very responsible ordinance, and I know it will endeavor to do what it is um um set out to do.

Uh I I know that it's written to keep people safe, and there's nothing wrong with endeavoring to keep people safe.

So again, I do support this ordinance, and I will be submitting a um a written statement um saying that, indicating that.

I'll put it in writing.

Um, but it's a good responsible ordinance, and um let's continue to not just on Monday, June the 22nd, but let's continue to do the work that we're doing to keep us safe all year long.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you all.

Thank you.

Member Waters.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Um, I do not support the ordinance.

Um, we don't want to see all of our children uh penalized for what just a few.

We need need to begin to educate our children about what independence day actually means.

What is this all about?

So you you laid out several things, but let me just make some comments here first, and then I go on to a couple other things.

We can't curfew basketball or tour giveaway our way out of real legacy issues confronting this city that I love, Detroit.

Truth is the black family structure in Detroit has been devastated by street values that favor in-house disrespect for parents and children that make it easy for our children to disrespect our communities, schools, the police, and one another.

Self-hate has pulled up on Detroit, enabled by Detroit poverty, which our mayor spoke about at the chamber, and Detroit illiteracy fueled by failing schools and corporate values that favor profits over the people, a majority Detroit.

A sun still shining at during 8 p.m.

curfew will only make five votes at delusional law in order.

Bullhorn leaders feel good.

Detroit deserves better.

Pairs stand with your children on this fireworks night, go to parent teacher conferences, take charge of your home no matter what you don't have.

Love what we do have, and that's one another.

I would not vote for an 8 p.m.

curfew.

It will only invite daylight law breaking.

So if we all think that these children are just gonna stand back, especially our 16 and 17 year olds.

If they are under 16, I can see, I can see that.

I don't like the fact that we're changing it and making sure uh prevent a 16 to 17 year olds from participating in fireworks.

And you say a tool of deterrence.

The thing that we do most of the time, we wait too late to educate people.

There should have been some sort of public service announcement from the mayor uh over a month ago saying, hey, we're gonna have fireworks on June 22nd.

Here's how you should conduct yourselves.

If you do not, you will be held accountable.

These are the kinds of things that we have to do in advance to help to educate our children, let them know that bad behavior is not going to be tolerated.

But we don't do that.

Here we are again at the 11th hour, and we're imposing a curfew that most of these children are not gonna even know exist.

So they're gonna come downtown.

They are coming.

I can assure you, they are going to come.

And so I don't want to.

That's that's that's my passion.

I don't want to penalize the rest of our children.

We need to be teaching our children, educating our children.

If we expect bad behavior, we get bad behavior.

And this is exactly what we're saying to our 16 to 17 year olds.

We we know you're gonna act up.

It's what we're saying to them.

No, tell them we expect them to do better, and that's what they should be doing.

Now they all 16 and 17 year olds get to be deprived unless there's a family member that can come down.

They might have a mom that works, a dad that works, maybe the neighbor can't bring them, perhaps.

Um anybody, maybe there's nobody that can bring them so that they are supervised.

I just don't, I just think that we have 16 and 17 year olds that know better.

Do we have a couple of bad apples?

Sure.

That's in everything.

But I don't want to see all of our children not be able to enjoy this experience uh because of a few.

And that's that's where I stand.

Um, Mr.

President and colleagues, I can't support it.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Approach him young.

Thank you.

Uh, first of all, I just wanted to say uh I'm sorry, member Benson.

I know you had all you also advocating to keep the recreation centers open as well.

I didn't mean to miss you.

So charge that to my head and not my heart.

I apologize.

Um, I also just wanted to say, secondly, I just want to know what is your plan specifically in order to make sure that we're gonna keep these areas safe.

And what I mean by that is are we gonna partner up with CBI in order to be able to have that?

Are you gonna partner up with maybe you know, child psychiatrists or mental health professionals or social workers to be able to spread this out?

So it's not just a law enforcement, you know, type of response, or is it gonna be a law enforcement type response, but it's gonna be something like you're gonna either drop them off back at their house, or you're gonna drop them off at a rec center or uh or a pick up basketball game or something like that.

Just kind of tell me what your plan is and how you plan on implementing this.

Okay, uh, through the chair.

Uh once we encounter uh a youth that is in violation uh of this.

Um that was a different uh multi-pointed question.

So I you asked CBI.

So, yeah, CBI will be a part uh and present down there uh to uh again minimize any conflict resolution and and and issues that way DPD doesn't have to get involved.

Uh however, when we do, uh they will um be taking uh to uh I believe it's the Coleman Young Recreation Center, uh, of which there that's where they will be processed.

Uh, and then the parent will be called, and then we will uh take the appropriate action as it relates to parental responsibility.

But yes, uh you also mentioned um throughout the entire footprint, and when you said safety going uh from the most basic form, uh there will be magnetometers at each of these locations, or they are all weapon uh-free zones, uh signs posted as well, and they will walk through the uh evolved single point of entry, uh multiple points uh for safety reasons if we need to evacuate that they can get out.

But yes, everyone will be screened for weapons uh and in that space, and again, in efforts that it's a clean, sterile, weapon-free environment, and everyone uh have a good time.

And as it relates to uh those uh you said mental health and those other areas, yes, uh our mental health co-response, uh as well as I mentioned HRD, also will will be there uh to get those that we find that are in need of resources.

Again, everything is in the police matter, and for that, as Chief Bettison often indicates we have friends.

So our friends from the mental health uh from D Win.

Uh uh again, our mental health co-response, uh HRD and other city entities, uh, the Office of Neighborhood and Community Safety.

We will all uh be leaning in to make sure that this is a safe event uh for all uh in helping those.

Uh we will not miss the opportunity to help those that we find in need.

You sent me something.

You sent me something about uh there was another team takeover that was planned for this specific event.

So it so it's not like it's hypothetical.

This is actually here.

Are there deterrence that we're using towards our social media in terms of letting people know that you know you can come down here if you want, but there will be consequences if you act up.

Uh through the chair, yeah.

So um we do this not only we do this every year, uh, once council approves this again, a robust uh media campaign that we are prepared to do uh at the once this vote is decided, that we will again begin communicating uh through social media through uh digital media through printed media as well uh as we educate everyone who's contemplating attending this event, what the rules are, um, so that no one is surprised.

Uh and again, we are uh abundantly clear as to how uh individuals can come down and certainly conduct themselves uh at this family-oriented event.

And do we know who leads these team takeovers?

Do we know who's behind it?

And do we know are they even residents of the city of Detroit?

And what is like the penalty for those individuals who they're leading this stuff?

Okay, well, I'm gonna uh if if I may, I'm gonna uh allow some of my uh colleagues up here to speak.

Uh, and then uh I'll bring it home.

All right, go ahead.

First of all, good afternoon to uh Steam Council and uh through the chair to uh pro Jim Young.

Uh yes, uh we we've contacted and we've had meetings and several conversations with some of the top organizers, right?

We know there are four specifically uh who have been actively involved, and many of them have changed uh their strategies, you know, as a result of having these sit-downs and having conversations about you know potential consequences of irresponsible organizing, right?

Uh so they've complied, to be quite honest with you.

Uh, as one who has attended on the ground every uh teen gathering.

I don't even like calling them takeovers because how can you take over something that's already yours, right?

You know, but I I have I have attended every one of these attempted teen gatherings.

Uh myself along with Dr.

Chanel Hampton, we've been on the ground along with our CVI leaders who have done an outstanding job making sure the most high-risk and then some of the most violent and dangerous young people do not attend them, which is why we've had the most peaceful so-called teen takeovers in the country.

In fact, we've become the model that folks from all over the country and the state are asking, how are we doing it?

And we've already thwarted over 15 teen gatherings, over 15 of them, right?

You know, many of them in in your districts, in fact.

And we get in tell uh from a community side every day.

We we have community folks who are working diligently in the algorithms of these young people, communicating information to us about what the young folks are trying to do, right?

So we do have information that there will be a team takeover.

In fact, it says we're going to shut this, you know what, down uh between the hours of 1011 for the uh for the fireworks.

And so our teams will be out there mitigating violence, de-escalating violence, peacefully and respectfully and lovingly engaging young people, right?

That is our that is our strategy because our focus being uh public safety leaders on the non-law enforcement side of the work, which is why you guys allowed us to create this office and funded it.

That's what we're about.

Uh, you know, we have you know, we have strategies in place to engage the young people.

And our concern is not just young people being violent or committing violent acts, but also we don't want young people arrested, uh, council member waters.

You know, we don't want to see young folks arrested.

Now the mayor has been intentional and outspoken for months about the fact we cannot arrest our way out of this.

She has been criticized and demonized and attacked by the media for holding up intervention, prevention, and transformation more than any other mayor in this country and in the history of the city.

So that's been our message all year long.

We've been about prevention and intervention, providing resources to address the root causes of criminal genet behavior.

That's what we've been doing, right?

This is what this office is all about.

You know, so hopefully after July 1st, when we get our liaisons, think thankful to you for uh for approving our budget.

We can even do more of that work at a much higher level.

But we have a plan in place.

Let me also speak to this.

I was here and I advocated for uh the changes in the uh in the curfew violations and and the penalties that come along with it.

And one of the things that we committed to do, I don't know if you guys remember this, but one of the things we commended to do was to have parenting, coaching, and developmental programming for parents who uh who violated more than once, right?

Well, I'm in the process of helping to set that up.

The 36th district court, uh, McConaughey's docket uh under director wave.

Uh we've established a relationship between the court and Detroit Parent Network who will help lead that charge.

And I'm also looking to resource to help resource that independent of the taxpayer dollars, right?

To make sure we are addressing those root cause issues that may lead to you know some of these curfew violations.

I've even set up a questionnaire, which has been tweaked by our ceasefire team and my CBR director, Michael Peterson.

We created a questionnaire that we're going to use to engage parents uh at the seventh precinct, uh, the day of the fireworks, trying to get an understanding.

Why are you violating curvy?

What do you need?

What help do you need?

We have a questionnaire for the parents and a questionnaire uh for the uh for the children.

And this is on the community side.

This is not law enforcement, this is on the community side, trying to understand exactly why our families are having these challenges and exactly why our young people are having these challenges, so we can help provide to your point, Councilmember Waters, so we can help provide the proper resources and help and support for the families and children and not just lock them up.

You know, so we have a comprehensive strategy uh uh as we build out this uh counseling of uh parental counseling and developmental and corrective action piece.

I'll be happy to share that with you guys as we perfect this model.

But we're looking at doing things way beyond just enforcement, but also addressing the root cause issues that create the problems in the first place.

Thank you.

And uh I I would say this, uh, Mr.

President, I'll be very brief.

Uh, and I thank you, uh uh President Pro Tim for lifting up uh the young man, the 14 year old.

Uh, because I went to his hospital bed.

Uh uh director Brent went to his hospital bed.

We went there together to pray with this young man who the bullet was inches away from his heart.

Yeah, and uh we prayed with them, we supported them, wrap our arms around them and things of that nature.

We and while we we went down there in the midst of that, and it was somewhat to your point, President Pro Tim.

It was someone from ceasefire who rendered the first aid first to this young man and was able to get the police to come uh assist.

So it was boots on the ground.

And so, in the thick of all those things, as they were trying to take over Grand Circuit Park uh down there.

We down in the midst of these young people.

Uh some of them we was able to put in Ubers and all of that stuff that we paid out our own dollars to just to get them from down there.

So this is about love.

This is not uh uh politics, this is about love.

And we love our children, we love our uh uh our citizens and our community.

And so uh and I was with uh the mayor on Occupy the Summer, uh, and thousands of young people came through there.

I was at midnight basketball uh when the mayor and uh many others came out for midnight basketball, whooping with the cops, all those things are going on, absolutely.

And we celebrate the mayor and this council for being courageous for those things, but this is just one day, and we allow the police to be the police.

That's what we uh uh have them being.

They the police for a reason, they have the intelligence, you know.

We are uh, you know, uh President Take got some credibility in this paper.

Uh but the police is the police, and that's what we uh support them for.

And so thank you for your consideration.

And I I pray that you roll up your sleeves and get out there with us, like many of y'all have.

And because I'm gonna be out there in the thick of it.

I'm not getting paid one dime.

I'm not, I don't get paid in uh uh board of police commission.

I don't know what type of sniping y'all give us.

I don't even look at it.

And and I don't get paid.

I'm not a CVI person, I'm none of that.

I'm a person who loves the citizens of the city of Detroit.

And I encourage you all uh to be able to pass this.

Thank you so much.

Um member Miller, followed by Member McKim.

Thank you to the chair.

I want to say uh thanks for joining us, Chief Deputy Um Haynes.

I thank you for coming today and director uh Brent and Commissioner Woods.

I support this ordinance wholeheartedly.

And I commend you on your efforts for providing those viewing spots, although it's not the same, but you're going through necessary steps to give other options.

But on that day, I beg you and thank you for trying to provide a safe environment and free of incident.

If you have never been to the fireworks, years there have been patty wagons lined up along Jefferson, ready to house our youth and our disruptive individuals.

It has been it's really sad to see young people being ushered into those wagons.

But if you ever been there and you have a crowd of young people that throw M80s, we know M80s do.

It's like a bomb.

And the CI residents run and take cover because they think it's gunshots.

It is the most disheartening thing to see seniors running, ducking, diving, kids running, people with strollers running when those M80s and those fireworks that those kids throw into crowds.

So I am speaking not only for myself, but for every district five resident that contacted my office, that emailed my office, that have my several phones to text.

This is District 5.

And it lines all along Jefferson, downtown, into my district.

And my residents are saying no more.

Not bombs and things going off before then.

I say to the news media who constantly look to embarrass us on national TV.

We're constantly exploited for bad behavior.

The Instagram videographers and all the children that video those fights that take off.

Those are embarrassments to our city.

And I refuse to turn television on the next day and see on stations across the country showing how our city cannot control what goes on in our environment.

So because we live in a generation where rules do not apply and structure do not exist.

They plan everyone that we've had because I'm on social media.

This it happens in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, it's just not here.

This is a structured takeover that is meant to cause confusion, contention, and ill will on our city.

And if we're going to be the world classy that we claim to be, we have to have that world-class behavior.

And in my lifetime to see downtown come back from where it was, I am truly honored to be a recipient of what we have today.

And we should not allow anyone to distort our image, to distort our purpose, and to go against what we're trying to do.

So as we continue as city council and the mayor's office to be parenting advocates, mentor advocates, we take on multiple roles.

Because when I grew up, my parents knew where I was.

And I knew that I better be where I was supposed to be on time, or there was something that I had to deal with.

Unfortunately, the laws have allowed kids to do what they want to do.

You can't even discipline your children anymore.

So with that being said, they run their households.

And unfortunately, we have to be that additional training ground for parents and their children.

So I look forward to an incident-free fireworks.

I will be there in the midst, even with my grandson.

And we're going to have a family fun time at the fireworks.

And I am excited about June 22nd, and I support the ordinance wholeheartedly.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh, question for AC Hayes.

Um, because I heard two different things.

If folks are found in violation of the curfew, are they going to Common Young Recreation Center or are they going to several priests?

Through the chair, this uh for this event, it will be the Comey Young Recreational Center.

Uh throughout uh any other day or throughout the other uh uh incidents that happen uh throughout the rest of the year, uh the seventh precinct uh is where they'll be conveyed.

Okay, thank you.

Sorry for that.

No, no problem.

Um, thank you for the clarification.

Um, I do appreciate efforts that decriminalize our curfew overall.

I I also want to stress for folks, contact going to a police police precinct as such, also does have an impact on young folks.

I want to stress that for folks.

Also want to note opposition to this ordinance change does not mean that we don't care about or I'm speak for myself, does not mean I don't care about public safety.

What I'm saying is that I don't find it effective to put this in place.

The data that we have seen, we have seen an increase in incidents with this curfew in place, and I appreciate all the efforts that the uh Madam Mayor has rolled out that director Brent and the CVI folks that are engaged in because we are seeing an impact in that, and I've appreciate folks that are going out directly to engage you on that.

But it was at issue here is this ordinance change, would I which I do not feel like or do not see actually getting to what we all want to see?

Is folks enjoying um all that they should be able to enjoy throughout the city of Detroit, just not fireworks, right?

And I appreciate that folks can watch on TV, and that's their choice.

But if we know that fireworks are best seen in person, right?

So that's what I'm bringing forth here.

Is not an aspect of do you care about public safety?

Do you want folks to be safe or not?

My question is, and with the question before this council is is this effective to achieve that goal or not?

And in my view, it is not because the data shows us that.

So I am still in opposition.

I would be voting no, and I'm my door is always open.

I continue to have conversation on how do we actually get to a place where we don't have to come back every year to say we need this ordinance in place because we're afraid of what our kids will do downtown.

That is what we're saying.

And with that, I will yield back to you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you so much.

Member Johnson will close it out.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, so I just want to say thank you for everything that's being done to protect all of our residents from our youth to our seniors and everyone in between.

I know it is a tremendous job for all of you, and it takes all of us to come together to create safe environments.

I have a question for first assistant chief hayes.

Um, what are we doing to open more of the parks along the river on the east side to give residents the ability to go out and enjoy the fireworks and not want to be involved with traffic trying to get downtown?

Thank you through the chair.

We are continually assessing.

Uh, this is the first this year with those two parks and our plan.

We look to grow even more.

Uh so uh when we speak and visit this event next year when we talk through this.

Uh, I hope to come back with you with an additional additional parks again on that riverfront area so that those may see it.

That is a commitment of Chief Madison uh to make sure that we create additional uh viewing spaces, but again, being mindful of the resources that it takes to do that.

Uh we didn't want to haphazardly open a space that we could not secure again.

When we talk about magnetometers that are in the place, we put bike racks and to ensure no one sneaks in with the weapon.

It's uh it's a bit of a comprehensive build out, but our commitment is to continue to grow this area and find additional viewing spaces, i.e.

parks uh along the riverfront.

Thank you.

And I look forward to working with you on that because we have so many amazing uh parks that we've invested in on the east side um along the water that I think people would love to be able to uh enjoy and see the fireworks.

So um I am going to start having conversations with residents who live adjacent to those areas just to make sure that they are um also in support of allowing the parks to be open for families that perhaps they can't make it downtown, but would still like to uh partake in the festivities and to see the fireworks in person.

So look forward to working with you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, and thank you, colleagues, for that robust discussion.

We now turn back to Member McCandle.

Member McCampbell, excuse me, as we move forward through the ordinance uh approval process.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman Campbell.

I move for the the ordinance to be passed or submitted.

There being a roll call required, Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?

Council member from Mary Waters.

No, with the statement.

Don't note it.

Councilmember Angela Whitfield Callaway.

Yes, with the statement.

No note it.

Council President James Tate.

Yes.

Councilmember Scott Benson.

Yes.

Council President Pro Tim call me on the second.

Yes.

Councilmember Denzel McCampbell.

No with the statement.

Noted.

Council Member Reneta Miller.

No.

Yes.

Sorry.

Yes.

Councilmember Letitia Johnson.

Yes.

Mr.

President.

That motion passes.

Thank you so much.

That ordinance is approved.

Member McCampbell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

That's the title to the ordinance be confirmed.

Hearing no objections, that action will be taken.

Thank you so much.

Is there a waiver?

Um line item 22.1.

Motion.

You mean 22.2?

No, no, no, 22.1.

Oh, okay.

There's a motion on the floor, colleagues.

Uh, any objections to a waiver being attached.

Seeing none, a waiver should be attached to line item 22.1.

Now on to line item 22.2, madam.

Council President Pro Tim Young, one resolution, line item 22.2.

Pro Tim Young.

Thank you, Ms.

President.

I move to approve line item 22.2.

There's a motion for approval for line item 22.2 colleagues.

Any objections?

See none.

That action shall be taken.

Ms.

President.

Yes, sir.

Mr.

President, I'd like to request a waiver on line item 22.2.

That's a request for a waiver on 22.2.

Colleagues, any objections?

Hearing none, a waiver should be attached.

All right.

Now climb back up to the top of the agenda.

Uh from the budget uh finance and audit standing committee for the office of chief excuse me from the office of the chief of investing from the office of the chief financial officer, office of development and grants.

Councilmember McCampbell, one resolution line item 17.1.

Noting a revised resolution was submitted for this item.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair discussion.

With discussion, member McCampbell.

Thank you.

So uh this line item is related to uh funds, additional ARPA funds that were found um to allocate it to transfer to a different line item, one being for Wayne Metro and one being for uh uh whatever the city council decides.

And as we discussed this in budget financial audit, um the breakdown here is 2.7 million for city council and one million for Wayne Metro.

Um it is my as discussed during the cut committee.

While the city council does not have the ability to change those amounts, it would be beneficial for us to have a discussion about our feelings around that amount allocation and if we need to work with administration for any type of amendments.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh, with further discussion, have member Benson followed by member Miller.

All right, thank you.

Um, who from the administration is available to speak to this resolution?

Yeah, if uh Terry uh is the Terry Daniels is Ms.

Daniel, please chair.

Yes, sir.

We can promote uh Ms.

Terry Daniels, please afternoon.

Please introduce yourself for the record.

Good afternoon, Terry Daniels, Office of Development and Grants.

All right, thank you.

Ms.

Daniels, thank you for being here.

Looking at the resolution provided by the administration, uh, under the one, two, three, four, five, six, seventh, whereas it indicates reassigned one million dollars to Detroit Housing Services Program to expand summer youth programming.

Um, in conversations with the administration, this money is to support housing, but the resolution indicates summer youth programming.

Um, can you please reconcile this for me?

Uh, through the chair to council member Benson.

Uh, well, we have submitted uh a corrected resolution to reference Detroit housing services and that the funds would be used for the call center helpline and for direct services.

Okay, and that was submitted via email to the chair, yes.

That was submitted uh through an email this morning.

Okay, now I'm looking at something from Mr.

Washington that came in 1159 a.m.

Is this what we are referencing?

Yes, sir, and do my colleagues have that correction, Mr.

Chair?

Alice, if there's no one who has the information.

Please raise your hand.

Make yourself known.

Member Miller.

I made a contact on that.

You do not have it.

I do.

For those who do not have it, please let it be known.

Okay.

All right, Member Benson.

All right.

And then just wanted to verify that the 2.7 million dollars is really up to the is to the individual council members how they wish to use that money.

Through the chair to council member Benson.

That that is correct.

Uh that 2.7 million would be divided nine ways.

It comes out to about 300,000 per council member.

Okay.

And then back to the resolution, the housing services program support the call center helpline and provide direct services to Detroit residents.

So this also can be used for triage uh when someone's home burns down, uh, those type of direct help.

The direct help can be uh hotel rooms, things of that nature to immediately get support for our families who find themselves uh in an outdoor situation.

That is correct.

All right, thank you.

Um member Miller.

Uh thank you, Terry Daniels, for joining us.

The one million that is recommended by the administration, is that a mandatory or is that a vote by council?

Do we have to accept that?

Uh through the through the chair to council member miller, that is a recommendation by this administration.

Um, but it is the decision of this honorable body how they will um spend that that million dollars.

But it is the the administration's recommendation that we have an additional million dollars go to Wayne Metro for uh continuation of services.

Thank you uh for that answer.

Also, I noticed that a lot of the money was coming from the small business launcher.

I know that's part of from uh motor city match, and I was thinking, has there ever been a conversation where that money could have gone back to small businesses?

We have a lot of struggling small businesses that's trying to survive on our corridors that could use some help.

Um, this money is allocated for small businesses, but it's going back into the Arbor Fund, which I understand.

But is there any way that it could not have gone to the small businesses that we support or suppose a support?

Uh through the chair to council member Miller.

Um, as you know, the Motor City Match program is is an application program, and they go through different cohorts of um small businesses going through um technical assistance and um giving them assistance to get their businesses off the ground, and so that can take a year to 18 months for businesses to go through that technical assistance, and so there isn't enough time to add a new cohort since these funds have to be expended by September 30.

September 30th.

Great.

Thank you, Mr.

Aynes.

So we got answered.

You're welcome.

Uh member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um so it was brought up during public comment.

Um Miss Minnie Davis, who received a Spirit of Detroit award?

Um that there are some challenges with CAM.

And I know that Wayne Metro is the entity that's doing the intake for CAM, and I know we had a couple of contracts.

We had a couple of contracts that were approved last week for Wayne Metro.

Um I have some concerns about Wayne Metro's capacity.

Um, I have some concerns around the work that's actually being done by Wayne Metro to allocate an additional one million dollars to them.

Um, and so colleagues, I think we should really consider having all of the money be redirected or reallocated based on um how council members would like to see the dollars reallocated so that it is 3.7 million as opposed to the 2.7 million dollars.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Uh uh Pro Tim Young, excuse me.

Thank you.

Yes, uh, I just wanted to ask one.

I'm looking at these uh these places where we can reprogram these funds for, and I just want to know do we have the uh the asks, the amount of money that these programs are asking for in order for them to be fully funded, or how much they need, or how close if we were to give the maximum amount of dollars that we have to these programs, how close they would be to fully be fully funded.

I know that I took all the money I had last time we had this and I put it into mental health co-response partnership.

It was a million dollars that I put into that, and so I just want to know do we have the asks that these programs are asking for?

Uh through the chair.

Where are they through the chair to council member young?

Yes, we have reached out to uh those project directors on the um list of projects that we can reallocate funding to, and we do have the maximum number of dollars that they could safely spend between before September 30th.

Okay, are we gonna get those?

Are we gonna get those amounts in the future?

I can send that to you today.

Okay to the entire council.

Okay, no, I I I appreciate that because I'm looking at some of this stuff.

I'm looking at Renew Detroit.

I'm looking at uh Lee Plaza.

I know that's gonna be probably a little bit more of a touchy subject, but I just want to know how much money they're asking for because I think that's an important project I would like to see in terms of more housing, more housing units, particularly where they're at, but down payment assistance as well.

That's something that a lot of people in my community ask about and use.

So I mean, you know, I definitely think that's something we should discuss.

I probably don't think I will do what I did last time with the co-mental health program.

I might split my dollars more, but I just want to know what those asks are so uh I could be able to see that.

And I just want to ask also about the Detroit Small Business Launcher.

Is that like an incubator program?

Kind of just explain what that is so the audience kind of knows what that does and why we're investing this amount of money in it.

Uh through the chair to council member young, we're actually reprogramming uh surplus from funds from that project to fund um to potentially Wayne Metro and to give council the 2.7 in funding to put towards projects that they'd like to um see move forward.

So we're taking money from that.

That's correct.

Those are surplus funds.

The the the pri the program, the project is over, and these funds have been identified as surplus funds.

Okay, so if we're taking money, so okay, so for first of all, forgive me for that.

So we're taking money from that, that's about a million dollars, right?

And then with 2.7 million dollars is for council.

Where is that where's that million going to the million for Wayne Metro?

The there's a million go to Wayne Metro.

Okay, I got it.

So a million's going to Wayne Metro, and the rest of it is going to us, right?

Up on approval, yes.

Okay.

And do we have any sort of metrics in terms of per dollar what we get back in terms of benefits and multiplier effect in terms of the amount of money that we send to Wayne Metro?

There are outcomes that are measured um for this particular well, for actually all of our Wayne Metro projects, we have outcomes that we could share.

Is there a scorecard that we can put together something that we could put online?

Like, I'm not dissing Wayne Metro.

I'm sure they do fan, I know they do fantastic work.

I just want to be able to have this so when I go to my constituents, I can tell them look, this amount of money we gave to Wayne Metro.

This is what we're getting in terms of this amount of dollars.

This is the ROI that we're getting.

This is the amount, this is what it does in terms of reducing the social determinants of health.

You know, this is what it does in terms of making sure that the neighborhoods are more invested in AF the services.

This is what it does in terms of making sure that the neighborhoods are safer in terms of a climate accident or disaster takes place or what have you.

This is the net present value, so the amount of dollars today that'll be invested, what that cost is in the future.

You see what I'm saying?

These are the type of things that we're doing in terms of growth metrics that we can have potentially, you know.

Um, that's that's that's what I'll that's what I'm talking about.

You know, your total factor production, your uh relative strength index, you know, so you're not overloaded in terms of funding, or you do the people aren't overwhelmed, or in terms of the maximum amount of of money that we're investing that we're getting back, and so if I have that, it's a lot easier for me to talk about why we're spending these monies and these dollars and where they're going to.

And so um, I'll I'll send you more of what I'm asking for.

So, you know, we don't have so you don't have to guess, but I just want to say otherwise I appreciate it.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I am done.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, um, good afternoon, Miss Daniels.

Um, I have a question.

Can any of um the money that's being uh assigned or allotted um to each council member be used for home repairs because every single day, every single day, um, I have someone we have someone, my staff and I to call about home repairs and support.

Because every single day, every single day, I have someone, we have someone, my staff and I, to call about home repairs and support.

I was in my community on Saturday, and I have a 95-year-old who can't get out of her home because she doesn't have a ramp.

It's just basic things.

And I have another one whose gutters are falling down and you can't get up to her porch because one of the steps is missing.

It's crack.

And so I'd like to use the $300,000 to help folks make their home safer.

Um to address gutters falling down and um ramps and porches and steps and windows.

Is it possible to use these dollars for those purposes?

Through the chair to council member Callaway.

So money can go into that project.

That project has been um vetted to be able to see to receive up to a million and a half more dollars to provide services to about 75 additional households.

Through the chair to Miss Daniels, I'd like to be able to identify those folks who've been calling since I joined this council in 2022, and I've not been able to help them.

So would I be able to identify um specifically those folks who are in need of the repairs that we're talking about?

Or is it going to go and first come first serve or those who are on a waiting list?

Because that that wouldn't do me any good.

It wouldn't help me at all.

My residents well uh through the chair to council member Callaway.

Um there is a long-running wait list.

The renewed Detroit program would be working from um a list that they already have of people who have um who are in queue on a wait list.

All right, that wouldn't help us out at all.

So I have to look at another way through the chair to you, Miss Daniels, to use the $300,000 because the folks who I would be desperately trying to advocate for probably would probably are not on the list or wouldn't be at the top of the list.

And that's who I'm advocating for.

So I know all the people on the list are in need of repairs, or they wouldn't be on the list, but I certainly will want those who I personally know need repairs to benefit from whatever portion um of ARPA dollars um that will be assigned to district two.

So thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, Ms.

Daniels.

Thank you.

All right, uh Ms.

Daniels, a quick question regarding.

I mean, my uh we've talked um talked to the administration uh several times about the uh benefits of the basement backup protection program.

It has benefited so many residents in our city.

Uh that's where I allocated the funding that uh came to my office during the uh previous uh uh fiscal year, uh, the need for basement backup uh protection.

Um I know that that was widespread throughout the city of Detroit.

Uh, how was that?

Um I know it's an item that is in consideration or it's in the on the list, but talk to me why uh more of those individuals who have that need uh were uh not chosen over Wayne Metro's um uh selection.

Uh to the chair, um again, we have to look at capacity.

Um, even though uh the basement backup program is on the list, um, they've said that they can do um approximately 50 households um through through September.

So if we were to give Wayne Metro the million dollars, and there were still funds that council members decided to fund basement backup with, we could actually do both.

So why only 50 in terms of uh contractors?

Uh that's what the department said their capacity was through 930.

No, that's what I'm asking beyond just the blanket statement.

What's the what's the the issue?

I mean, capacity is it the fact they need additional contractors, the fact that because we're talking spread wide, it's spread citywide, not just in one particular area.

I mean, the again the need as we know is far outpaces what we've done thus far.

So there are two contractors that are left as this project was finishing up.

So if we add more money to it, we have two contractors that can take on this work.

So we have to look at their their capacity to um be done with the work by 9 30.

Okay, so but we didn't we didn't look at that prior to today, because it sounds like it's kind of pushing us in the direction of Wayne Metro outside of just looking at the entirety of what our you know platter possibly could be, knowing all of these things that we're talking about, all of them are are our well-intentioned and certainly in need.

So I don't want anybody to think who's watching right now that none of this stuff or one program is more important than the other.

All of this helps our residents at the end of the day.

Um, but I'm just trying to identify if there were additional vendors that received uh contracts uh to address this issue of basement backup uh challenges that we have in the city.

Um what would talk to me about the impact of capacity at that point because that's what it sounds like it's the the vendors, but you know, we can move forward with the contract and increase that capacity as opposed to the one we currently have.

Uh to the chair, we do have a vendor capacity because the previous contracts expired, we can't enter into new contracts.

As you're aware, um, as far as the ARPA guidelines are concerned, we can't enter into any new contracts.

We have to use existing contractors.

So there are two remaining contractors that um have active contracts.

Wow.

Okay.

Further discussion, member Johnson.

I see Mr.

Corley coming down as well.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, so just very briefly to that.

Why wouldn't we be able to extend a contract?

Um, we've we've seen contract extension requests before us when a contract has already expired.

So could we not extend a contract for some of the other vendors that were utilized to implement the basement backup protection program?

Uh to to the chair, excuse me, through uh through the chair to council member Johnson.

Um I'm not aware of um extending contracts after they've expired.

Um that could potentially be um an audit finding if we were to do that.

Um so it could it could cause a an issue where we would have to pay funds back to um to the federal government.

Thank you.

Uh Mr.

Chair, I wonder if if someone from OCP might be able to respond to that because we see contracts that have expired come before us frequently, asking for an extension of time and increase of funds in different situations.

So we could get OCP.

Thank you.

Yeah, Ms.

Washington, if you can get uh someone from OCP online for us, we'd appreciate it.

And uh while we wait for that individual to come forward, Mr.

Corley, thank you for joining us.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

If you have to know city council, so um if council work to approve this resolution, um, of course, the one million dollars will go to Wayne Metro.

The 2.7 million will go into an account in non-departmental, like a placeholder, because administration will be waiting for console to um figure out how you want to divide the 2.7 million.

Um, once you do that, you would communicate what you want to do that 2.7 million to us and LPD, and we would prepare the resolution um for the allocation, like we did last year, you know, cancel uh last year, um, had about 9.5 million to allocate the different um you know programs.

And so LPD prepared a resolution for you all to do that.

So we would do the same here.

Um, and then I guess the only other thing um with um the risk of maybe muddling the waters, so the 2.7 million, you know, if you were to divide that by nine, of course, that's 300,000 per counseling member.

You could collectively as a body could agree to allocate and a greater amount to a particular program if you feel that will have a greater impact, you know, on the program.

So you don't necessarily have to um allocate 300,000 for each council person.

You can say, you know, half can go here, half can go there, or whatever, a third or whatever.

So that's you know, of course, that's something you all had to agree to do.

I'm just you know giving you that that that indication that it's it doesn't have to be uh 300,000.

So that's so much, Mr.

Corley, as we uh wait for someone from OCP to arrive, member Miller.

Mr.

Corley.

We have waited for this day since March in budget to find the additional funds that was available.

I don't think this body wants to share a million dollars.

We want it all.

We want to be able to allocate the whole 3.7 to our projects that we see in our district.

Um, that is the intent that I believe that we should be presented with because we didn't get a lot during budget.

We we were modest and cooperative.

So for me, I'm just saying I'm like, how do we get here to I mean, Maxie?

You are you suggesting we do this or are you supporting uh desires?

But Ms.

President, so I'm just um giving you another perspective.

Um, if you agree with a million going to Wayne Metro, that's one thing.

If you do not, the administration will have to come back to you with a revised resolution.

And I don't know, you know, if they would be willing to do that.

That's something you have to you know discuss with administration.

Um, but if you keep the million going to Wayne Metro, you got the 2.7 million that's that's remaining.

All I'm saying is that it just does not have to be 300,000 per consular member, it could be uh a large amount going to whatever program that you feel would be more impactful.

I'm only saying that because here it says it's for uh case management support, call center, et cetera.

Yeah, not like a direct, we're gonna put a roof on someone's house that's leaking.

That's why I was excellent.

Okay, thank you, sir, Ms.

Kurley.

Thank you, Mr.

Washington, just checking to see uh any ETA on someone from OCP joining us.

Oh, we got the director.

Thank you so much.

And director, please introduce yourself for the record.

Good afternoon.

My name is Sandra Stahl, Chief Procurement Officer.

Thank you.

Uh member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh, through you to Director Stahl, um, I was just wondering if there is a way for us to extend the basement backup protection program contracts with the various vendors that we had in place um in order to add additional funding to them to be able to address more than the 50 households that it was indicated the program could handle at this point.

Um through the chair, those contracts are set to expire June 30 of 2026.

Uh, as you are aware, there's a very strict prohibition on new obligations for ARPA funds after that December 2024 deadline.

Um these contracts have already exhausted the single 90-day administrative extension that I am allowed by city code to do.

Um if city council were to desire to use your funds towards basement backup protection.

Um I suppose the only thing that we could do is walk on for approval any extensions and have them approved pretty much the same day.

I think that would be the only feasible way to do it.

Okay, sounds like a plan to me.

Um, so I will say that when we first have the conversation about this, I did as I always indicate that basement backup protection is um the area where I would like to focus any dollars on, um, just because I do understand how beneficial it is for residents throughout district four um and residents throughout the city of Detroit.

And it's something that is very costly to do.

Um, and so if we can add more vendors to be able to shift or reallocate more dollars to the basement backup protection program, I would ask that we do that.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Director, you saw through the chair.

I wanted to clarify my understanding of your comment just now.

We can't add any new vendors, those would be new obligations.

The director saw right.

Um, no, for clarification, I was not asking to add new vendors, but to extend contracts of vendors that have been utilized to implement the basement backup protection program.

Understood.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And just for clarification for my knowledge, that is possible, correct?

Because this would sound like you said, uh Director You stall.

I wanted to note that there have been desires in the past of um directing those funds towards specific uh locations or households.

And it would uh that is uh that may not be able to happen, but in terms of you know, just the understanding of the rules, and I would want to go back and confirm with law and ODG, um, who have been very, very carefully monitoring how we spend our ARPA funds in a way that is compliant.

But if the contracts were available, i.e., not expired, and funds were added, then anybody who has already applied but could not you know uh have the repairs completed, they would they those households could then um have those repairs.

Yeah, but that uh the director you saw the you're saying that there's no ability to direct those those services uh under ARPA, but that's what we did in the previous um allocation where each council member was provided a million dollars.

Uh oh, sorry, go ahead, Terry.

Council Chair, may I?

Yes.

So in last year's reallocation, each council member got a million dollars.

However, um we weren't able to cherry pick residents by district.

So the surplus funding or the reallocation went into the entire pot, and the entire pot was based on um residents who are already in the wait list queue.

So I just want to pause you.

So you're saying that what I was told was incorrect, but we were told was not the truth, because we were told that those dollars were to go towards the area that we designated, and in district one, I'm now my team went out and we identified folks for without a shot of without we didn't have every individual, uh every household, and maybe that's what we should have asked for.

But you're saying that that one million dollars that was allocated uh to my office to uh reissue that there's no guarantee that all of it went to the area that I directed it towards as was provided to us?

No, we did we did not, we were not able, we are not able to hand pick which residents will get the money based on district.

It goes into the pot and and folks who are queued up in the wait list in the order that they're on the wait list, that's how the services are rendered.

Okay, so this is how we start getting sidetracked.

Um, Mr.

Whitaker, um, can you can you please come forward?

Because that is not the ex that was not the at least my understanding uh during the budget process, uh, because now it sounds like there is a little hocus pocus that took place.

President, yes, sir.

My understanding is the way Ms.

Daniels explained it.

That was my understanding.

So I would love to see what that uh that but I'd be happy to look at the at the rules and and give you an opinion.

Because when when when it was deterred what we talked, uh I would even say with the department, it was indicated that uh those dollars would be focused on district one.

And maybe somebody else was told something different, but I was told district one residents would be the beneficiaries of that one million dollars and basement backup protection again, not putting in their pockets, certainly not going to me and my office, but going towards that program which was approved um through the ARPA program.

We'd be happy to check it, check it out and give you an answer.

Okay, thank you.

Um we'll go to uh pro Tim Young had his hand up first and then we'll go to the Ohio, okay.

Yeah, but just being checked.

Um I don't know who this would go to, but I think it's more I have more questions about ARPA and in terms of the fiscal return.

Are we measuring how many dollars of new tax revenue were generated for every dollar of ARPA spent?

And do we know how many Detroit residents were lifted out of poverty per 1 million dollars of ARPA spent?

And will these dollars also go through those metrics if you already have them through the chair to uh council member young?

Um these dollars that we are programming or reprogramming are part of the 1808 26 million, right?

Um, so there will be a final report based on the entire 826 at the end.

So we're not doing that real time yet.

We're gonna wait till the final report is with which all the money is spent and the final report is done, correct?

Now there are metrics that we have.

Okay, but there will be a final report once all is said and done.

Do do you have those metrics that we can use now?

Are those estimates or are those solid numbers that could we be presented with that?

Because it's good.

The reason why I'm asking that is because it is going to be a lot easier for me to go to the community and tell them that we are spending this amount of dollars in these places, and this is the result of what we've had.

I could tell them that this many les residents were lifted out of poverty when the city is 31 to 34 percent, uh 313 was read this by living in poverty now.

If I could tell them that I would pull this many residents out of being housing burden, which means they're spending 30 percent more of their income on housing, that's about 52 percent of the citizens in the city of Detroit.

It's gonna be a lot easier for me to talk about these dollars they're being spent.

I'm trying to put you in my mind so you know what I'm experiencing when I'm going out in my community, because I know there's some of this stuff that I'm gonna advocate for, people are gonna have questions about.

Now we all know it's transformed this city, but we need to be able to have that measured so I can tell them where and why.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

All right, thank you.

Uh member Waters uh thank you, Mr.

President.

I I um it was certainly my understanding based on what she's saying, it was the same thing during budget season, even for the million or so dollars that we received.

We could only use it for those projects that were outlined by the OCFO's office, saying, hey, here's where we can put those dollars.

Uh I specifically recall when I did basement backup protection, and I wanted to identify group east and and west, just so that um those companies who were doing provided basement backup protection uh would be able to receive some of the dollars.

But then of course, I also learned during that time that um I couldn't divide it up that way.

It had to be um done a certain way.

So that is that was my understanding then because if we try and steer uh uh create new projects at this time, it's gonna be too late.

We will lose the the opera dollars, we won't be able to use them.

And I know that the OCFO's office did provide a list that we can choose from, place the money uh in one of those uh projects.

And um, but but yeah, otherwise, otherwise we we miss out if we don't select from a current project, there's just nowhere else to um to place those dollars.

And they did give us a list of the uh available projects.

I don't know if my colleagues received the list or not, but they did provide a list.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

And basement backup protection is on that particular list.

So I I was referring to the location of where it's being allocated.

So we're on the same.

So colleagues, uh so this item has been moved uh before us, and without us going any further, I know we have directors you stall, but this is with us at this moment.

Uh colleagues, uh, what is our desire for this item?

Are we looking to move forward with what has been presented to us?

Are we looking to do something different than what we have uh in in front of us at this moment?

Also noting that week by week we get closer to that deadline.

Uh, so to keep the reality in front of us.

But this is uh, you know, we've had long robust discussion about this.

What's what's our move?

And and I'm I'm open for us to have that conversation, though it has been moved.

Um we're not voting just yet.

Discussion with further discussion.

Member Ben, Mr.

Chair, just to wrap this up.

Um, I am okay with moving forward.

I had uh one of our good residents in the city of Detroit who was her whose home burn down last week, and they needed these emergency services um from the Detroit Housing Services.

Um, I am pleased with the flexibility to be able to individually identify where $300,000 will be moving within the third district.

And so I am prepared to vote today.

But if my colleagues have any trepidation, would like to extend that conversation, I'm open to that as well.

But my support today is to move forward with what we have on the table.

Thank you so much.

Um member Callaway.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I um would like to um add more to the amount for each council district.

We know where the issues are.

We know what needs to happen if we had additional um resources and ARPA funding.

I'm not comfortable with that amount going to Wayne Metro.

Um and to um council member Johnson's point.

Um, and I know um it's been said through um through yourself chair, Mr.

Chair, to by Ms.

Daniels.

If they have the capacity, I don't necessarily agree with that based on some of the um information that I get from residents or folks who have tried to access the resources that they um are supposed to be providing.

So um, what is it that we can do to um add more to what is um assigned to the council?

Um I'd like to see more than $300,000, sir, because we all have issues in our own respective districts and $300,000.

Um it's not going to go a long way, but if we have the opportunity here to decide how those extra ARPA dollars can be used, I'd like to seize the moment.

So thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

And that would mean that you would be rejecting what is before us.

So we would have to receive a another recommendation coming from the administration.

I'm gonna just make that very clear on what our moves are for everyone.

Uh, did I see another hand?

Uh member, member McCampbell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I would be because we have the opportunity if needed, there are folks that are interested in dedicating more to the housing services.

Um that would that could be their will.

I would actually be in favor of um the city council having an entire amount, and then we could dedicate if you want to dedicate what I'm hearing to housing services, you will be able to thank you so much.

Um, and we're going to now turn to our next two hands, and it's on the screens, and then we're going to move the way that we're going to move for this body.

I'll start with um director you stall, followed by Ms.

Daniels.

Yes.

Uh Director, uh sorry.

Um, through the chair, I did uh want to uh clarify that we do have two basement backup contracts have that have been extended for a few months that would be eligible for additional funds for the additional funds.

We're being told it's only uh a lot the capacity is only 50.

That's what we're being told.

And the the issue that we have here, some of us we want to see that number increased.

Uh that DWSD can speak very well too because of their experience with these vendors and um the uh many of the same uh some of the same vendors have taken on additional work with the CDB GDR work.

And so um it's an assessment of capacity by the department with the spend that with the very hard spend deadlines um for the ARPA funds, but they can speak more to it if um council would like.

Thank you so much.

Uh Ms.

Daniels.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, I am in no way uh trying to rush this honorable body to make a decision.

Um, but as we all know, every day that um we delay that's less time that we have to uh spend these dollars and be at risk of sending it back to um to U.S.

Treasury.

So I just want to make sure that you know everyone is aware that um last year we had more time to you know kind of figure out where the money was going to go and what we're gonna do.

Um we just don't have that luxury um at this point in time.

We are at the tail, very tail end of spending these dollars.

So I just I just I get I can't um um just say how imperative it is that um we we get to the finish line and and get these these dollars reprogrammed because we um we just don't have enough time.

We don't have a lot of time left.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um colleagues, uh can can we get a postponement on on this one until the end of the agenda.

We'd like to have someone from the water department come before us to allow for uh more discussion on the capacity motion.

Um there's a motion to postpone this item to the end of the agenda.

Any objections that action shall be taken.

Thank you so much.

Uh please stand by because we'll be coming back to you.

Thank you.

All right, madam clerk.

Um for the office of the city clerk, city planning commission.

Councilmember McCampbell, a resolution line item 17.2.

Uh line 17.2, member McCampbell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Motion to approve this is an NEZ certificate application.

As a motion to approve line item 17.2, colleagues.

Any objections?

Seeing none, then action shall be taken.

Moving along from the housing and revitalization department.

Councilmember McCampbell, a resolution.

Line item 17.3.

Line item 17.3, Member McCampbell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Motion to approve this is a pilot.

Uh application.

A resolution.

Thank you, sir.

There's a motion to approve line item 17.3, colleagues.

Any objections?

See none.

An action shall be taken.

For the internal operations standing committee from the mayor's office.

Councilmember Whitfield Callaway, one resolution, line item 18.1.

Woodfield Callaway, line item 18.1.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

This is the um appointment of Donald Ryncher to the Detroit Land Bank Authority beginning immediately and expiring June 30th, 2030 upon City Council approval motion to approve.

As a motion to approve line item 18.1.

Any objections.

Seeing none, then action shall be taken.

Request a waiver, Mr.

Chair.

Is a waiver necessary.

If it's not, then but I was requesting one.

Okay.

Yeah, uh discussion on the way.

Okay.

Okay.

This this has this doesn't have anything to do with uh Erica Hill, right?

This is a different appointment.

This is just this through the chair, it's just an appointment to the land bank.

Yeah, right.

This is just for Donald Render, not Eric Hill, right?

Okay, never mind.

Thank you.

Discussion.

Uh with further discussion, um, member Benson.

Just for further clarification, this is a mayoral appointment.

Yes.

Okay.

May Eric Hill would be a city council.

Okay, thank you.

I just want to make sure I didn't get my wires crossed.

Thank you, guys.

I appreciate it.

Gotcha.

All right, colleagues.

That's a request for a waiver on line item 18.1.

Any objections?

See none.

Waiver should be attached.

From the Office of Contracting and Procurement.

Councilmember Whitfield Callaway, two resolutions, line items 18.2 and 18.3.

Member Callaway.