The committee of the Detroit City Council met on June 17, 2026, to discuss a range of items including contracts, financial reports, the solar neighborhoods project, ARPA funding, and public comments. Several motions were made to bring items back for further review, and reports were received and filed.
Present. Councilmember Letitia Johnson. Present. Councilmember Mary Waters. Mr. Trey, you have a quarter present. Thank you, Madam Clerk. That'll move us on to approval of the minutes. Um, members of the committee should have received a copy of the minutes. And with that, is there a motion to approve the June 10th, 2026 minutes? Motion. It's been a motion to approve the minutes of June 10th. See no objections to action shall be taken. Um just I do not have any chair remarks today. Um, and that'll move us on to public comment. And we'll open up public comment request for public comment will close at 115. Please limit remarks to two minutes. We'll start with those in the room, and then for those participating remotely, please use the raise hand feature, and you'll be called in order. Seeing no folks in the room, we'll move over to Zoom. How many folks do we have so far? Good afternoon, Mr. Chair. As of now, we have eight hands raised. And the first caller being William M. Davis. Commissioner Davis, good afternoon. You have two minutes. Uh, good afternoon. Can I be heard? Yes, you can. Okay. You know, I think it would be appropriate, you know, for a future rule as relates, especially the budget and audit, that whenever an administration changes, there should be actually a thorough audit of what was spent. Because I could very well imagine if y'all did a thorough audit, y'all find out there was millions of dollars that the previous administration spent that they weren't supposed to, and the way that they spend it. That's all I'm gonna say right now. Uh I'll also I think that uh we as the city of Detroit could have more control over what's going on, like say it in our restaurants, gas stations, um these food trucks and a whole bunch of other things if we actually have a strong licensing um effort here, and also we can save some money, but also uh I think that we can make sure that these different entities are living up to doing the stuff that they should be doing for the people of the city of Detroit. You know, because I know a few years back, a number of years back now, I was doing protests at some of these gas stations who were selling um age meat and trying to pass it off as being fresh. You know, we need to have more inspections because I'm older than both of you. I remember when we used to do more inspections, you know. We used to you know know a little bit better what gas stations are doing, what party stores are doing, what restaurants are doing. You know, we we need to have uh greater control over there, and don't get me wrong, I'm not uh one of those super control freaks, but I think we need to make sure that the public is safe and the public the city has options on closing down bad actors. Thank y'all, and y'all have a great day. Thank you, Mr. Davis. What I'll also say um hearing you on the audit of previous administration, but um the auditor general does do um all this throughout the year, so if there are any particular places you like attention to, you can definitely let our office know. And the same for inspections. If there are certain businesses that are of mine, um please let us know as well, and we will work to get some inspections done there. All right, next speaker. Our next speaker has their hands raised twice. Uh, with the first one being black bag. Mr.