We are back in session.

And we are on line item 8.5.

We're going to move as quickly as we possibly can, noting that the neighborhood and community services committee shall proceed as soon as we conclude.

Line item 8.5 is property sale at 13100 and 13116 Kerchival.

There's a request for a two-week bring back.

Is there a motion?

Motion.

There's a motion to bring line item 8.5 back in two weeks.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

That now brings us to new business.

Too many things in front of me.

Beginning with line item 9.1.

And without objection, I'd like to combine line item 9.1 and line item 9.6.

Line item 9.1 is contract number 6001511-a6 100% city funding.

Amendment number six to provide an extension of time and an increase of funds for property management and real estate services contractor, Detroit Building Authority.

Contract period through June 30th, 2027.

Contract increase amount 1 million four hundred and seventy thousand dollars.

And line item 9.6 is contract number 600 7947.

This is 100% city funding to provide operations for the public safety headquarters.

Total contract amount 2,554, $554,890.

Is there a motion to send line items 9.1 and 9.6 to formal with the recommendation to approve?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, those actions shall be taken.

Without objection, I'd like to combine line items 9.2, 9.4, and 9.5.

Line item 9.2 is contract number.

We actually had an amended an amendment that was provided to us.

Pro Tim Young, I'm not sure if you received this physical copy.

Yes.

Line item 9.2 is amended and should read as contract number 6007959, 100% city funding to provide the economic development economic development services on behalf of the city of Detroit.

Contractor, Detroit Economic Growth Corporation, contract period through June 30th, 2027.

Total contract amount 2 million one hundred forty one thousand four hundred eighty-nine dollars.

Line item 9.4 contract number 600758, 100% city funding to provide annual operating agreement for the EDC and supplemental programs, including the legacy business space, small business emergency fund, Detroit Startup Fund, re retail attraction gap funding, the Green Grocery Program, and Construction Mitigation Fund.

Contractor is the Economic Development Corporation.

Contract period through June 30th, 2027.

Total contract amount $3,881,000.

And line item 9.4 is contract number 600 6432-83.

100% city funding to provide an increase of funds only for an annual operate operating agreement for the EDC.

Contract period through June 30th 2026.

Contract increase amount 150,000.

Did you mean line item 9.5?

Yes.

Okay.

Did I say six?

You said four.

Oh, yes.

So line items 9.2, 9.4, and 9.5.

Is there a motion to discuss?

Motion.

Discussion.

Thank you.

Um, can someone just come on very quickly in regards to line item 9.5 just to ensure the contract period is correct through June 30th, 2026.

And if this is correct, is this just for the EDC's operational budget?

Miss Great, do you have anyone present?

Yes.

Um, Derek Head and Samuel Coons have both been promoted as panelists.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

Madam Chair.

Yes, Mr.

Head.

Uh Derek here at DEGC.

Thank you.

I'm not sure if you heard the question.

Oh, could you repeat the question?

I also understand Mr.

Coons is with us as well.

There he is.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

Please introduce yourself for the record.

Yes.

Through the chair, Samuel Coons with HRD this morning.

Oh, good afternoon.

Um, so my question is just in regards to line item 9.5.

It indicates that the contract period is through June 30th, 2026.

Want to be sure that is accurate, and want to, if that is accurate, confirm the contract increase the use or what the funds are for.

Yes, uh, through the chair.

Um that term is correct.

This is a part of EDC's annual operating agreement that was set um in last year's budget process, but was um never included in that operating agreement.

It was a it was a um mistake on our part to not include that 150,000 dollars.

It's for um the B next program, I believe it's it's uh recurring annual allocation um that we had not included.

So it's for work that's already been done through the year, but it wasn't for uh the funds were not added into that agreement at the correct time um last year when we were going through the same process, madam chair.

Yes, Mr.

Head.

Uh yes, what Mr.

Coons is saying is accurate.

May I just clarify that's for the next up 313 program?

Yes, my apologies.

Okay, sounds great.

Thank you.

No additional questions.

Is there a motion to send line items 9.2, 9.4, and 9.5 to formal with the recommendation to approve?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, those actions shall be taken.

Thank you both for joining us.

Thank you, madam chair.

That brings us to line item 9.3, contract number 600 4747-a four.

And without objection, I'd like to combine line items 9.3, 9.7, and 9.8.

Line these line items are all associated with the grow Detroit's young talent and the DESC Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation.

Line item 9.3 is to provide an extension of time and an increase of funds to support five years of the Grow Detroit Young Talent Program.

This is for an increase of $2.5 million through June 30, 2027.

Line item 9.7 is contract number 6007 349-a1, 100% city funding.

Amendment number one to provide an increase of funds and an in and an extension of time to implement skilled trades apprenticeship.

DPSCD DESC skilled trades instruction.

This is uh through June 30th, 2027, contract increase amount 70,000 dollars, and line item 9.8 is contract number 600735, 100% CDBG grant funding to support the Grow Detroit Young Talent Program through May 30th, 2027.

This contract is for 1.5 million dollars.

Is there a motion to send these line items to formal with a recommendation to approve?

Motion.

Hearing no objection, that action shall be taken.

That brings us to line item 9.9.

So Pro Tim Young Without Objection, I'd like to combine line items 9.9 through 9.18.

Motion.

These are all contracts from the housing and revitalization department and the health and HHFS.

Family services.

I forgot what it stands for.

HHFS for rapid rehousing, homelessness, drop-in, emergency, emergency shelters, and permanent supportive housing.

Line item 9.9, contract number 6007185-A1 is an increase of funds only for after hours and weekend outreach contractor, Motor City Middle Mission.

Contract increase amount $798,313.

Line item 9.10, contract number 600752, 100% city funding to provide drop-in shelters, contractor, Cast Community Social Services, total contract amount six million dollars.

Line item 9.11, contract number 600740, 100% ESG emergency solutions grant funding to provide rapid rehousing services contractor, neighborhood services organization.

This will run through June 30th, 2027, contract amount, 980, 426.94 cents.

Contractor, volunteers of America, contract period through June 30th, 2029, contract amount 991,250.

Line item 9.13, contract number 600741, 100% city funding to provide rapid rehousing services.

Contractor, neighborhood services or organization, contract period through June 30th, 2027, contract amount 410,000.

Line item 9.14, contract number 600742, 100% city funding to provide year-round emergency shelters.

This is through June 30th, 2028 for $587,240.

Line item 9.15, contract number 600-7943, 100% city funding to provide year-round emergency shelters, contractor, Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries.

This is through June 30th, 2028.

Contract amount 2,348,960.

Line item 9.16, contract number 600-7944, 100% city funding.

Line item 9.17 is contract number 600745, 100% city funding to provide year-round emergency shelter emergency shelters.

This is through June 30th, 2028.

Contract amount 4004 434,600.

And line item 9.18, contract number 600 7946, 100% city funding to provide year-round emergency shelters.

Contractor YWCA of Metropolitan Detroit.

This is through June 30th, 2028 for 284,080.

Is there a motion a motion to discuss?

Motion.

Discussion.

If we can just have someone come on to share with us whether or not these contracts provide for additional shelter services, if we're able to accommodate additional families, if this is for more beds than we've had in the past, and the types of families that these contracts will serve.

If this is for single individuals, for families.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

Tara Lindser, the Housing Stability and Innovations Division Director in the Human Homelessness and Family Services Department.

A manager of the also in HHFS as the HS manager, homelessness solutions manager.

Good afternoon.

I'm not sure if you heard the question, but we have a number of contracts here before us.

If someone could just summarize the support that's being provided, and if this is additional support, uh then what we have provided in the past.

Through the chair, um Candace Morgan again.

Um all of the contracts for shelters that you have before you today are all providing housing, housing uh focused case management services, they're providing basic needs.

There um are providing transportation.

There's an array of services being provided at all of these locations to um assist um all individuals within the city of Detroit who are presenting um as being homeless or unsheltered.

Um I'm sorry, I don't recall all of your questions.

I was through the chair.

I can address I can address the second part.

Thank you.

Yep.

So we when we issued um a request for proposals for emergency shelter in our drop-in.

Um the applicants who applied were applicants that are currently operating emergency shelter and drop-in services, and so these beds will not be new beds coming into our system.

Instead, they will be um funding the beds of these these same programs for for next year.

So we'll not add additional beds, it will continue the beds existing in the per in the system.

Yes.

Okay, thank you.

Um, is are there any plans to provide support for additional beds?

I know we have um seen increases.

Um, or at least I have received perhaps more inquiries in regards to shelters.

Um, we are always um looking at the numbers and making some uh some decisions and having some discussions about um what is needed in the system.

I will say that we are focusing on outflow this year.

Um we know that we have inflow uh very well handled.

That's the front door because we have a lot of people who are seeking shelter services, but we want to focus on moving people out of the shelters out of drop-in into permanent housing.

So we have a lot of um programs, a lot of things we're bringing online to address that.

Once we move people into the rapid rehousing, which is some of the um contracts you saw before you today, we bring before you today, that is going to clear up space in the shelter system for those new people who are now um um coming to the front door for services.

So I I don't believe that there are any um new things um proposed at this time, but we are looking at the system and making the necessary adjustments so that we can adequately assess all of the people and um and uh um how would I say provide services to all of the folk who are seeking who are seeking those services?

Understood.

Thank you.

I do thank you, madam chair.

Uh hello everyone.

I just wanted to ask you what is the shelter to housing conversion rate.

Through the chair to um um councilman uh Coleman.

I don't have those numbers before me at this time, but it is something I can get you.

You said you wanted the percentage of shelter to housing rate, yes, the shelter to housing conversion rate.

So shelter residents placed into permanent housing divided by shelter residents.

Okay, we can definitely get you that.

Um Tara, did you have something you wanted to add to that?

Through the chair.

I do not have any, I don't have that percentage off the top of my head, but that is something that we do track, and I can and we can um submit that uh by close of business today.

No, that's excellent.

Yeah, I I I I would appreciate that.

Um, also, do we have a um average length of the time of homelessness?

So average days from homeless entry to exit, and do we have a median length of the time of homeless?

How many days people are homeless in the median?

For the chair.

Um, so the average um number of days that households are in emergency shelter and from 2025 is a hundred and a hundred and eight days.

Okay.

I don't have the the median, um, but that that's the average 108 days is the average.

Do we have the housing placement rate?

For the chair, that is information that we will get you that percentage that move from a homelessness situation into housing.

That is something that is um tracked, and we can get that to you by end of day.

There's no problem.

And do we, and this is my final question.

Do we have the eviction to homelessness rate?

So homeless entries from eviction to divided by total homeless entries.

Through the chair.

So how our data system, which is the homeless management information system, tracks people's prior living situation before coming into homelessness.

Um doesn't note if they're coming from an eviction.

Okay.

What we what we do know through the helpline data is that households typically, once they're evicted, they typically have at least two situations where they go to live to stay with family or friends prior to coming into the shelter system.

And so the vast majority of folks go from eviction to staying with family or friends, and then once they're no longer able to stay there successfully, then seek out emergency shelter.

Um, so I don't have that direct correlation, but that is something that on the Detroit Housing Services side, they would track for not just folks seeking shelter, but folks seeking resources, how many of those households um are calling because they had a recent eviction or a pending eviction.

No, no, I I I I appreciate that, and I and I appreciate that answer.

I and I know in my mind, I know for us to be able to get further granular details, you would either have to contract out, I would assume for a certain service for you to be able to get that type of information so you know somewhere else that provide that, or you'd have to use some sort of artificial intelligence just for an estimate of what that is.

And that's not even a direct number, but just an estimate of what that could be.

Uh, my final question I wanted to ask is what is your turn away rate, and will this uh decrease that?

And what I mean by that is the person denied shelter due to capacity divided by the persons requesting shelter, and will this reduce that?

And do we have a percentage of what that reduction is through the chair?

So that when the um so when the drop-in center started in December of 2024, the program model that it was operating was that um no one would be turned away.

Yeah.

Once we once the um we had that we had the tragic um deaths with the children in February, and we really started to increase our access to these services 24-7.

We have seen a drastic increase of the number of people utilizing the drop-in centers for that immediate shelter, which we we wanted, right?

At the end of the day, that's what we wanted.

That's why we had these 24-7 services to prevent a tragedy that like a prevent a future tragedy from occurring.

Right.

Um, because of that, though, we have had a lot of folks come in who have never been into our homelessness system before and seen a drastic increase.

Those folks tend to not stay for very long.

Um, but they do come in.

And so what we are working on right now with our drop-in center is reformatting the drop-in center so that within the first three days you receive extremely intensive, very prescriptive services connections, referral connections to hopefully resolve whatever it is, the crisis that's happening with you, and they might not and you may not need emergency shelter, so that we have emergency shelter space at the drop-in for those households that really don't have any other options.

That being said, the drop-in centers, because they have been so overcapacity, um, these contracts also will include um uh a hard limit where they won't be able to take anyone else after they reach a certain capacity point, and really that's just to prevent overcrowding.

There's been issues, you know, with maintaining certain standards of cleanliness, all of those issues, and it's really difficult to do when you're drastically over capacity.

Um, and so it will not guarantee that somebody will always have a spot.

Right.

What we are doing, as Ken Jesus Candace has mentioned, is really working on our outflow capacity now over the next year and really strengthening that arm, just as we strengthened our inflow or access arm over the past year to try to move people quicker through the system, or honestly prevent them from meeting emergency shelter in the beginning by connecting them to those services.

Um and so those are all things that we're working on overall, but it will not these contracts will unfortunately not be able to guarantee that there will always be a shelter space for an individual.

Well, well, listen, I I I appreciate that.

And uh I just wanted to say, yeah, I understand that, and that was never that's not the reason why I'm asking this question.

I mean, between COVID, between uh inflation, between energy prices going up, between the poverty rates of it of over more than a third of the city living in poverty, you're gonna have a lot of people who are gonna have exposure to homelessness, and so you can't guarantee every spot.

I would never say that you could do that.

We financially can do that, but I don't think we we could do that just in terms of tamping down the need without other economic stimuluses and programs that would come into that effect.

Um, but so I understand that I would just ask you for a number.

One because the constant refrain that we hear that I hear at least of this committee, and when I'm out there is about what are we doing about housing and what are we doing about the people who are actually hurting?

Here we have where we're investing in, and this is not just the only time we made major investments of tunes of millions of dollars or over uh in this project, but I think also not in terms of housing, but also in terms of homeless, but also how is this actually tamping down the demand in terms of homelessness?

How is this actually being able to reduce people who would be being turned away who are not being turned away because of this intentional investment that we're making so people understand we're not just throwing money at this problem, it's being tracked in terms of how we're investing, in terms of who we're trying to get this out to, and in terms of who's benefiting from this long term, and then you can also talk about I'm not gonna ask these questions because we gotta get moving, but you can also have the discussions about the amount of jobs that folks have been able to get because they have them out of shelter, the income increases that they've had, the reduction of income inequality in the city from a macro perspective, um also in terms of upward mobility economically that these folks have had as well from this, and so people can see that just because you're homeless doesn't mean that you're staying there.

We actually have programs, economical development that's helping people get what they need, and then through the recent um employment solutions investment that we made, we're also making sure that we reduce the rate in terms of the skills mix match in terms of people that have skills and talent, but they're not um but they don't match the jobs that are available from them to be able to work, and so we're doing all that at the same time through coordination, through partnership and through investment.

And so that's basically what I was trying to get at with these questions and these metrics.

Um that's all I have to say, uh, madam chair.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any anything further you all wanted to add?

No.

No, madam chair.

Okay, all right, thank you.

Pro Tim, is there a motion to send line items 9.9 through 9.18 to formal with recommendation to approve?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, those actions shall be taken.

Thank you.

And uh we will continue, I'm sure, to expand upon the work that we're doing.

Um, but appreciate all of the work.

And I know I see you all in in different meetings in different settings, so thank you.

Thank you.

Line item 9.20.

Line item 9.20 is to amend chapter 50 of the 2019 Detroit City Code.

This is for the property commonly identified as 11400 Connor Street and 11055 Glenfield Avenue.

This is two.

This is for introduction and setting of a public hearing to amend the zoning classification from R3.

I am on line item 9.19.

Did I indicate that?

Okay.

Um from the R3 low density residential district zoning classification to B4 General Business District Zoning Classification.

Is there a brief motion to discuss motion?

Discussion, thank you.

Uh to Director Todd, can you just briefly share with us um what the intent is for this request?

Certainly, Madam Chair.

Uh good afternoon again to you and to President Pro Tim Young.

The request that is before you comes from the airport.

Um representing the American Institute.

Um that particular use is being classified essentially as a trade school, which would first be permitted in the R5 district, but it was concluded consistent with their recommendation and supported by the planning commission that a B4 general business district location would be more consistent with the zoning at that location.

Uh both um both for its context as well as the use.

But the property will be owned and maintained by the city airport.

All right, thank you.

Thank you for that.

Just wanted to get that out to the public.

We'll certainly have some do some engagement with the residents in that area for them to be made aware of what's being proposed as well.

Thank you.

Madam Chair, and I'm sorry, I didn't speak aviation institute of name.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Pro Tim Young, is there a motion to send line item 9.19 to formal for introduction and setting of a public hearing?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Line item 9.20.

Submitting report and proposed ordinance to amend chapter 50 of the 2019 Detroit City Code.

This is for the property commonly identified as 15321 Wyoming Street, generally bounded by Keeler to the north, Wyoming to the east, Finkel to the south, and Watchburn to the West from the existing B2 Local Business and Residential District Zoning Classification to the B4 General Business District Zoning Classification.

Is there a motion to send line item 9.20 to formal for the introduction and setting of a public hearing?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

That brings us to line item 9.21.

Line item 9.21 is a request for city council approval of termination of the springing interest agreement.

This is for the Detroit Wayne County Port Authority.

Is there a motion to approve or discuss?

Motion to approve.

There's a motion to send line item 9.21 to forma with a recommendation to approve.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

And I will ask for a very brief discussion on Tuesday.

So that folks are more aware of what that is.

Um we've had a fair amount of discussion about it during budget hearings.

Line item 9.22.

Submit a report relative to administration of Detroit Community Outreach Ordnance Report.

Is there a motion to receive and file?

Motion received the file.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Line item 9.23 is property sale of 16 residential homes by reverter.

Is there a motion to bring line item 9.23 back in one week?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Line item 9.24 is the expansion of the Central Business District Area Renaissance Zone.

Is there a motion to refer line item 9.24 to the legislative policy division as well as it to the legislative policy division and bring back in one week?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Is there a motion to suspend member reports?

Motion.

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

And if there is nothing further to come before this committee without objection, we shall stand adjourned.

Excellent.