Good morning.

Will you please call the role?

Yes, Mr.

President.

Good morning.

Councilmember Scott Benson.

Member Benson indicated that he would be uh charted.

Uncle So Nouncilmember Letitia Johnson present.

Councilmember Denzel and Tom McCampbell.

Councilmember Reneta Miller.

Madam Clerk Member McCamillo also sent a memo indicating that he would be tardy as well.

Uncle Soul Note, Mr.

President, thank you.

Councilmember Gabriela Santiago Romero.

Present.

Council Member Mary Waters.

Present.

Councilmember Angela Whitfield Callaway.

Pastor President Pro Tim Coleman A.

Yon II.

Here.

Council President James Tate.

Here.

Mr.

President, you have a form.

Thank you, man.

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

I'd like to now take the time to uh alert everyone that if you are looking to provide a comment to this body, please raise your hand now, and someone will come around and provide you with a public comment card.

Again, raise that hand high so someone from the team can see you.

Uh because we will be cutting off public comment collections very shortly.

For those who are online as well, virtually raise that hand and we'll place you in the queue.

Okay.

We will be cutting it off a collection of public comments very shortly.

Uh and providing this morning's invocation, we have none other than Reverend uh Anthony Estings.

If you can come forward, sir, please give him a round of applause, please.

Morning.

Good morning.

A proud Detroiter, Reverend Estee serves as the rector of All Saints Episcopal Church and St.

Matthew's and Saint Joseph Episcopal Church through the uh Detroit Church Partnership.

He also serves as the associate and partnership missioner at the Cathedral Church of St.

Paul.

In addition to his ministry, Reverend Estees volunteers with the Detroit Police Chaplain Corps, providing spiritual support and care throughout our community.

Reverend Estes, the floor is yours, sir.

Thank you for joining us.

Thank you.

I invite all who are able to assume a posture of prayer, reflection, or goodwill that is natural to you.

And those who wish may join me in prayer.

Oh God, the fountain of all wisdom, whose statutes are good and gracious, and whose law is truth.

We acknowledge you as the great power and ground of all being.

We acknowledge that we dare not presume to govern ourselves if we forget that we are made in your image and share in your likeness.

We acknowledge that beyond denomination and creed, religion, and philosophy, you created us to be in harmony with you, with all of creation, with ourselves and with each other.

We confess that we have not always acted upon this truth.

And we have been spectators rather than neighbors.

Forgive us, reorient us toward the path of mutual flourishing.

Bless us as we take counsel today.

Bless our elected leaders, including Mayor Mary, and especially Council President James and Council President Pro Tim Coleman and every council person, their aides, and all those who've gathered here today in formal session.

Grant us the grace to have clear minds, open ears, patient understanding, and courageous hearts.

As we deliberate concerning public safety, give us peace that neither ignores danger nor sacrifices dignity.

Grant us the compassion that will help us keep victims and families, first responders, public safety officers, and especially our youth safe.

Even as we celebrate the winds in housing, shelter, streets, transit, water, neighborhood renewal, keep us mindful of those who are housing insecure, who are being displaced from their homes by rising costs and changing neighborhoods, who are facing other hardships, and Lord, our elders and our children, our city workers who work tirelessly to keep it all going.

We thank you for the gift of children and youth in our city.

Help us to continue to find and make opportunities for mentorship, meaningful work, and hope for their future.

Give the council grace to disagree honestly without contempt, to steward public resources justly and to always seek what serves us all.

May the things they do and say this day please you.

We ask that you hold this session in your hand for the welfare of your people and to your glory.

Amen.

Thank you so much for the message.

We appreciate you for joining us this morning for the powerful prayer.

You are more than welcome to stay with us this morning, this afternoon, but certainly understand if you have a schedule that takes you away.

But again, thank you so much, sir.

We do have two special presentations this morning.

We have one from the chief of police who'd be providing a presentation on public safety.

And we'll get right to you, Chipa.

Before we do that, we have a continuation of a previous uh um a recognition that we have, but that we had to cut a little short for various reasons, but part two is happening today.

Remember Santiago Romero, the floor is yours, ma'am.

Thank you, Mr.

President, and good morning, everyone.

I am proud to present this award today, as has been mentioned.

We needed to reschedule it.

This was set to be shared on Trans Day of Visibility on March 31st.

Um, it feels very appropriate still that we are celebrating pride this month.

As a reminder, I shared last time that the year 2025 was the sixth consecutive record breaking year for the number of anti-trans bills considered across the country.

There was a 45% increase in bills between 2024 and 2025 alone.

Between 2021 and 2025, the number of bills in consideration have increased by 668%.

The Limkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security released its third red flag alert for the USA earlier this month in response to Trump's administration's anti-trans initiatives.

Our trans and gender nonconforming Detroiters who live in our city, pay our taxes, play in our parks, and patronize our local businesses, are under attack.

As leaders in the city, we are responsible to both call out the hate and protect our residents, especially those most marginalized and vulnerable among all of us, especially our black trans women.

We must acknowledge that trans people have always been here and will always be here.

And their humanity and human rights are not up for debate.

I'm excited to honor a Detroiter who was leading by example and who works every day to build communities of care where our trans neighbors can live safely and thrive with dignity.

Harmony, I hope this award serves as a confirmation that in Detroit, you are seen, you matter, you are loved.

With that, let's learn more about her work.

Harmony Simone Harris is a born and raised Detroiter, rooted in family and community.

She formally started her professional advocacy almost a decade ago and has become an expert in HIV services, entry into care and community organizing.

She is the health equity manager at the Ruth Ellis Center.

Thank you so much.

Where she has worked for seven years and has served as a senior board member for the Trans Sister of Colors Project for six years.

As an unwavering advocate for the LGBTQ rights community, for our community and for our rights, Harmony's work is largely with and for trans women of color, but has always centered black and brown lives in her work.

She has presented at the National Transgender Health Summit in San Francisco in 2003, and at the Transgender Law Center's Black Trans Circle in Detroit in 2024 and in Dallas in 2025.

Additionally, she has presented the 2024 International Conference on HIV treatments and prevention in Puerto Rico.

Through all this, she makes sure the voices of black and brown Detroiters are uplifted and heard.

For this and so much more, it is my privilege to honor Harmony this year during Pride Month and present to her a Spirit of Detroit Award.

Congratulations, Harmony.

I did hear your name during our prayer this morning.

Thank you for being the answer to so many prayers for black and brown trans people here in the city of Detroit, and congratulations on your award.

Okay, hello everyone.

Good morning.

My name is Harmony Simone Harris, and I'm a 33-year-old Black trans woman.

I'm the oldest of five children.

Thank you.

I am the oldest of five children.

I graduated from Montford High School while then continue my studies at Wayne County Community College, and I am finishing my degree at Wayne State University.

With that being said, I am a true blue Detroit native.

This award is a reflection of the work that I do, and I'm proud to represent and advocate for my community.

Oftentimes, many times, black and brown trans women are ostracized, humiliated, and left for destitute.

But I'm a very reflection of that community.

If it weren't for a black and brown trans folk, I wouldn't be here standing here before you all.

And thank you all for having me.

I did.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

I just realized that's right.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

Oh, there you have it.

Thank you.

All right, thank you so much, Member Santiago Romero.

And coming up next, we have Chief of Police who is joining us.

So we're providing a uh safety, public safety update.

I know we had a uh fairly safe uh situation yesterday at the fireworks.

It was an unfortunate incident that took place, but thankfully our men and women of the police department are always on the job, making sure that they keep our uh constituents, residents, and visitors safe.

Chief, the floor is yours.

Thank you again for joining us, Mark.

Uh into this distinguished body.

Um, good to see you all, council president, pro Tim, and um all the members of council.

Um just want to start out by saying I have amazing officers that work for me.

Um, the men and women of BPD.

Yesterday they worked very hard.

The whole department was um there.

And so um, and with the overall collaboration.

When I say collaboration, I'm talking about everybody, hands on deck, Oakland County, um, Wayne County, CEO Evans, um, dedicating those resources.

And as I get into my presentation, you will you'll hear more about that.

Michigan State Police, you know.

Uh I say this in a joking way.

Um, my handcuffs are dusty.

I haven't arrested anybody personally in uh a long time.

So um, I give all the credit to everybody who supports me as well as this council as well, because without city council, Madam Mayor Sheffield, the resources we can't do and perform what we need to do to keep the overall public safe.

And so as I get into the first slide and standing right there behind me, of course, you all know is Michael Peterson who oversees the city of Detroit's community violence intervention program, and we'll talk about that as well because it's all about the and it's all about prevention, intervention, enforcement, technology, officers, everybody coming together.

It's all of our responsibility.

Um Jackson, next slide.

So, Madam Mayor occupied the summer.

When she was council president, we knew that she occupied the block for the past 12 years, and having the prevention and intervention piece in mind.

She rolled out the occupied the summer.

And one of the main components of it pieces safe storage and gun safety education and resources, because oftentimes this council and through media, and we heard about the horrific events of what happens when individual guns are left unsecured.

Our most precious minors and others get a hold to those weapons, and it doesn't end well.

Neighborhood safety action teams.

Well, um, Department of Neighborhood and Community Safety led under Tafari Brent with CBI being a component of it.

After hours, venue engagement and enforcement, oftentimes we'll see that where people gather, in particular um bars, things of that nature, um, into the late hours where alcohol is being served.

And after our events where it's not regulated, you'll have opportunities where violence does occur.

And so we have specifically worked with B seed to address those in neighborhoods that also bring down the quality of life.

Um, our Detroit police officers or departments summer safety surge plan, and that is where we know that as the temperatures rise as folks in the city of Detroit and around the country um start to gather.

We see block parties, and now we're seeing even other instances of where individuals who rent through Airbnb and other rental places where it's a pool party will rent and gather, and social media can take something that's very small and it can grow very quickly.

It's not just the city of Detroit issue.

We've seen recently across the country and even in some of our suburban communities as well, where you'll have um social media posts, and you'll have the police having to respond.

And even as of last night, we responded to a location on the west side of Detroit at an Airbnb where two people were shot, one fatally.

And so we continue as we monitor those locations where people gather.

Conflict resolution and retorted track.

Can you put a mic down just a little bit?

Okay.

Put it down.

Yeah, just put them a little bit more in your direction.

You keep in and um conflict resolution restorative practices, youth engagement year-round strategy.

And so Mayor Sheffield occupy the summer, includes late night basketball, giving our kids something to do, but not just basketball, but a wraparound services as well, ensuring that they're getting educational foundation and some of the needs to meet their basic needs along with their families and their other um siblings, also.

Um, so it's a holistic approach.

Next slide.

Um, as we go through that slide right there, just overall shows that the recreation centers of where the um midnight basketball is, where we're occupying, and I also have Detroit police officers, our neighborhood police officers, and others from PAL that are assisting, being volunteer coaches, mentors, etc.

Our next slide.

Next slide.

We closed out the year with record low numbers last year.

I invited council to stand with me.

I had everyone standing with me because collectively we achieved that together.

Now, when you have record low numbers, that does create a system of stress and pressure because guess what?

I have to beat those numbers.

And so we need the trend line to continue down when it comes to crime.

I'm happy to report out this year.

Um, our homicides are down 17% compared to last year.

So we're continuing the trend line down.

Last year, around this time, the city had 63.

Now preliminary numbers show that we have 52.

Still too many, but we're going to continue to work at it to get it down, even if I had one in the spirit of continuous improvement.

That's one family that lost someone.

So we don't celebrate the statistics, but we do recognize um the success.

And as we continue to um trend that down.

One of the mayor's main focus has also been when she came to office listening to the community is property crimes.

Nothing makes a Detroiter leave the city of Detroit quicker than property crimes.

So we've given a particular focus when it comes to property crimes.

And so currently, property crimes are down 9%.

Um we're really utilizing our neighborhood police officers and other officers to pay special attention to businesses along with educating community members on how to prevent property crime, such as vehicle theft while informing our residents on what not to leave in their vehicles to deter auto theft, property crime focus.

Our precincts are able to put out internal communications to get information out to the public swiftly, via our social media platform and media partners.

Back in the day, you used to see where our officers would put out those, be on the lookout for violent type crimes, and we still do that, but now we're also doing it for property crimes.

Let's go to the next slide.

That's a map right there of all of our neighborhood police officers.

And what that shows is they all have geographic integrity.

And so you can see the map, and I can provide you another picture of it as well, a hard copy.

But with that map, you can see where your neighborhood police officer is.

And so they're given our parks, they're given our um retail businesses, our um green light locations, special attentions, working in the of course they work for our neighborhood block clubs, et cetera, to ensure that they're getting um information that they need to continue to push down those quality of life type issues.

Um, for example, in the seventh precinct alone, DPD was able to get an offender off the street who committed multiple power break ins and stole airbags from vehicles.

The individual was charged with receiving and concealing stolen property, third offense lean, um, a police officer and four council breaking and entering into a vehicle.

I call these individuals like one person crime waves, where just like you all have a job, I have a job until we identify and apprehend those types of individuals where their job is to, whether it's to break in cars or whatever primary they specialize in, um, it will continue.

And so when we arrest and detained and actually charge those individuals who do that type of crime, we see a decrease when it comes to overall future um crime.

Having property crime focus, like I said, improves the quality of life for Detroiters, and currently our part one property crimes are down six percent, including robberies, burglaries, motor vehicle thefts, larcenies, and carjacking and non-fatal shootings are also down compared to last year.

Let's go to the next slide.

When I talked about utilizing our social media platform and really pushing it out, um, that gives you an example of some of the things that we're pushing out to help the community identify individuals and give us that information that we need to be able to close cases.

Next slide.

911 calls to service.

Next slide.

So with our 911 calls to service, one of the things that we've really focused on too to improve the overall quality of life and provide better police service is our co-response.

And when it comes to those types of calls with um 911 calls with individuals that are in mental crisis, um, to give you an example, we've continuously reduced our response time in that category.

Last year, the Detroit Police Department responded to 6,913 um calls with a mental health nexus, and that's our co-response unit of the 7,875 calls that was received by our 911 call center.

That will make you think well, what happened to the other calls?

Why didn't you respond?

We have behavioral health specialists, and we have a relationship with DWAN where we can triage those calls.

Not every call requires a police response.

And so we're able to get them the services that they need without a police having to respond.

Next slide.

Just continuing to show um continuous improvement when it comes to response time overall with our part one or um priority one response times.

In 2024, it was 12 minutes and 25, it was 11 minutes and five seconds, and in 26, it was 10 minutes and 52 seconds.

Um seconds count, seconds matter.

We're gonna continue to work to push that down.

Now, if you were to do an average response time and say what's the average response time for police departments across the country, you know what the problem is?

Every department doesn't measure it the same.

And so um, we measure it from a citizen's point of view, from the time that you call 911 to the time that the officer actually shows up at your doorstep.

Some departments just measure travel time.

And so if you see some departments say they have a two-minute response time, uh, more than likely they're just measuring travel time and excluding queue time.

Next slide.

Um gun detection technology.

Next slide.

Um, that right there is a map that shows our gun detection technology throughout the city of Detroit.

And in those um spots where we have gun detection technology, what we have seen is um it's changed the culture.

The numbers of shots fired has decreased over the time period that we've had it.

Next slide.

Next slide.

Um, with our gun detection technology as well, um, the time that our officers are responding has improved as well.

And so the gun detection technology, oftentimes, even before citizen calls 911, because the officers are able to get it directly to their patrol vehicle.

They're able to get there on scene right now, currently in 2026, they're getting there in six minutes and 57 seconds on average.

Next slide.

When it comes to gun tech detection technology as well, some of the things that we just want to really emphasize is what it's really not.

Members are not able to audio to monitor live audio from acoustic sensors.

Gun detection technology is an investigative tool.

And it is used to generate leads.

It is not a soul's meaning to establish and probable cause.

Recorded audio shall only be reviewable when pertinent to an active investigation involving the discharge of a firearm and members shall not arrest solely on gunshot detection on gunshot alerts.

Next slide.

Now this is a slide that I'm really, really excited about as well.

Our federal and local partnerships.

And so, as you can see, through the collaborative effort of the U.S.

attorney's office, the ATF, DEA, FBI, Homeland Security, and others, and always forget the U.S.

Marshals.

So I want to really lift up the U.S.

Marshals as well.

Our federal partners have charged over 55 individuals federally this year, conducted over 1,000 felony arrests, taken more than 190 illegal guns off the streets, executed more than 500 search warrants.

The Detroit Police Department is very appreciative of our federal and our local partnerships.

I would say, and I will say this that when it comes to the U.S.

attorney and assisting the Detroit Police Department, that we have one of the best relationships I would say in the country.

Next slide.

Wayne County Public Safety and Crime Reduction Accomplishments.

Wayne County has been absolutely phenomenal towards us.

And so I could not do it without county executive Warren Evans.

He's dedicated tremendous resources to the city of Detroit to help keep us safe.

Tremendous.

Wayne County prosecutor Kim Worthy has been a partner as well.

And then our judges also, Chief Judge McConaughey has been absolutely amazing.

This year, Wayne County Public Safety supported the Detroit Police Department by expanding and introducting the fast task force support, and that's a task force that goes after violent fugitives.

And we work hand in hand with them.

They integrated the warrant enforcement bureau web, which is a system that helps to track juveniles who are on tether house arrest and either out of purpee or who have committed a crime while um while on the system.

They've added county DPD liaisons, um, embedded juvenile intelligence specialists and provided these DPD access to their JMS system, which is the jail management system.

So I, you know, I want to always lift up our partners and say thank you to them publicly because I want them to continue to do what they're doing and some more of it.

Next slide.

At this point, I'm gonna turn it over to Michael Peterson so he can run through very quickly when it comes to community violence intervention.

Mr.

Peterson.

Thank you, Chief, and good morning to this honorable body.

Uh you can go ahead and go to the next slide.

Thank you.

Uh, so community violence intervention uh with our program and our shot stoppers program.

This is currently uh our map um that outlines where our groups are operating.

Again, they are measured based on uh the square mileage.

I wanted to make sure we highlighted the fact that right now the areas that you see in green that our community violence intervention groups cover, this actually represents 25% uh of the city when it comes to square mileage.

Um, of that 25% for context, um, they are currently operating within areas that have statistically and historically been the most violent areas within the city.

That same area made up over 40% of all the homicides and non-fatal shootings.

So uh we clearly have our groups in the right areas and the work that they're doing.

Um, but I wanted to make sure just for context to show uh where our groups are, what they're doing, where they're operating within.

Next slide.

Uh and so with that, of course, there's a lot of things that we collect.

Of course, we measure the homicides and non-fatal shootings uh that are within those areas, but we also collect additional data.

Uh, this actually tracks and measures and shows um all the different services that are provided by our different community organizations.

Of course, at the top there, you have violence interruption, outreach and relationship building, which that trust and those relationships are at the core of what community violence intervention is.

And one of the things that's really, I think, eye-opening with this map as well is the amount of green, the amount of services that are happening outside of their CBI zones.

I can't stress enough, you know, how proud I am and the privilege that I feel like I have to be able to oversee this program.

But seeing these groups understand that they'll be held accountable for very specific areas of neighborhoods, but understanding as well, we're all here for the same common good.

And you can see they definitely step outside of their boundaries when it comes to the overall priority of keeping the city safe.

And so what we've done as well is we actually partnered with the University of Michigan as our third party evaluator.

They recently have just finalized their report and some of the things that we've seen.

I think one of the things that's really incredible about this program is the flexibility that's allowed for the teams to adapt and experiment based on trends and things that are actually happening in real time in their areas and their neighborhoods.

And then our CBI groups show success using two distinct strategies.

So the interventional, excuse me, individual intervention, as I mentioned, and as well as the community engagement and being able to be that bridge to bring resources directly to the community.

I think as a city, we've done a really good job of having resources available to community members, but oftentimes maybe they don't know where to go, how to get them.

And so our CBI groups, in addition to the violence prevention and intervention that they're doing in real time, they're also making sure that they're helping to bring these resources directly to community members that sometimes feel like they don't know where to go.

And as I mentioned before, the trust and credibility there at the foundation.

And that starts with our groups bringing on people with lived experience directly from those neighborhoods that they're operating within.

Then also those members have to have trust with the leadership of those organizations.

And those organizations have to have leadership with us in the mayor's office and city government, law enforcement.

And so again, I can't uh can't uh overstate how important that trust is when it comes to the success that we're seeing uh within our CBI groups.

So this outlines this is just a one-year look back of all of our groups.

I think it's incredible again to really highlight the fact that all of our currently seven uh community violence intervention groups uh when it comes to the measurement of the homicides and non-fatal shootings that are happening within their CBI zones have shown some level of a reduction.

Uh and some are really just uh um just head and shoulders really just working really well as far as what they're doing to reduce the homicides and non-fatal shootings uh within their areas here.

So it goes through as you can see with each of our groups how far they're doing and how they stand up against the city.

And that's one of the reasons why I wanted to highlight the uh square mileage at the beginning part uh as well, because it's not really a one-to-one.

When you see non-CBI zones there, those are the areas of the city that do not currently have any community violence intervention groups.

Uh, but as we mentioned, the areas that they represent historically and statistically have made a uh higher amount of those uh violent instances.

Uh and so lastly, just kind of going through again the community violence intervention and action, just a few highlights that we wanted to show.

Of course, our group show up and participate and walk them out Wednesdays, Wednesdays with Chief here to promote neighborhood safety and community engagement, engaging with community members that come out as I've been out there as well.

And people always ask, what is this, what's going on, and making sure that they're able to engage, uh, again, help with resources as needed on the spot.

Um, one of the things that we're really excited about and proud of our violence interrupters are able to go through a mental health first aid training that was provided by uh the Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network, uh, just to better support them.

I know, as we all know, uh especially coming out of Mental Health Awareness Month, but how important that is.

And so there's so many different layers sometimes to what's going on with residents, and so being able to get them that training to better understand how to engage with residents that may be going through crisis was something that uh we certainly recognize we wanted, but I've also received the feedback from the groups of how important that was for them, and they're very appreciative of being able to go through that training.

Uh, and then also again diving deeper on what's really happening in those areas.

And so, you know, as you start seeing the homicides and non-fatals come down, you still have to figure out well, what is going on, what are the homicides or non-fatals and things that are still happening.

And some of our groups have recognized domestic violence as one of the things that has uh really started to take over in their areas as far as what's contributing to those numbers.

And so some of our groups have started to uh also have monthly community series uh around domestic violence, arise and restore uh educational and resource uh resources provided.

Uh, and then last two things uh of the groups also collectively came together and said, what else can we do with the youth that we're working with when it comes to uh specifically the at-risk, high risk individuals that they're working with because there's usually different tiers, there's high risk, medium risk, and low risk, but majority of them work with high risk.

What else can we do to engage them and keep them busy?

Uh, it started last year in the summer with the CBI basketball, uh, and also then translated to the CBI flag football league and what they've been doing there.

You know, again, it's trauma-informed flag football.

So just not another space to get energy and exercise, but to also layer in conflict resolution, de-escalation within the sports themselves.

Again, finding creative ways to connect with these individuals and yes, keep them busy and occupied, but also get them to learn and pick up what's happening.

And then lastly, the uh just the overall public safety presence and collaboration.

As we mentioned, these groups are measured and held accountable for their areas of the city that they represent, but they come outside those borders because they understand a lot of what's happening outside of their boundaries, still contributes to what's happening within their boundaries.

But overall, the the number one goal is the better quality of life and safety of the residents.

So, you know, we're very proud that our groups have volunteered to come outside, whether it's last night at the fireworks, for example, tree lining, uh team take uh takeovers and events like that, they will still show up because they understand it's for the better good of the city.

And I believe that's it.

I'll pick it back over to the chief.

Thank you.

A topic that everyone has been talking about team takeover.

Next slide.

Um, I just wanted to show those flyers because um oftentimes folks will say, Well, how do they gather?

You're like, I like how does it happen?

And so that's an example of how it happens.

Those are some of the actual flyers that have been put out.

And um, we saw that large groups have gathered.

Um, it's not a new phenomenon.

I have really been tracking it.

And so on a national level, it's been occurring for about two years.

This year we saw it, and we saw the first incident really um on that spring break weekend.

It was the Easter weekend when the kids were out.

It was actually on opening day when we saw a lot of youth come downtown.

We actually identified the um individuals that put the flyers out, um, went to work with them from a preventative and intervention standpoint.

But um, it's very easy to create a flyer, you know, with AI now, you can create a flyer and put it out.

And so it's not just one person, but we have identified the main organizers who continuously to put the flyers out.

Um, what did we do?

DPD, we adapted.

Um, I have resources.

I have the largest police department in the state of Michigan.

And so, with that, just like with the drag racing and drifting, um, when we saw that they went past 3 a.m., we extended our hours for that detail to 5 a.m.

With the youth, we typically would come on at 7 p.m., our heavier staffing, but we saw that the youth were gathering at four or five.

And so by the time our staff had came on, I might have 500 juveniles out there, and then things have already gotten out of control.

As a result, we pivoted.

And so we have social media intelligence specialists, attractive liars, and it's not just a downtown phenomenon where they would pick parks throughout the city.

So whether it was Baldur Park, Peterson Park, Myland Park, et cetera.

And so you haven't seen any other incidents of teens takeovers because the Detroit Police Department, we adapted and we're doing a lot of things to ensure that we don't have team takeovers.

And I'll just say to the community, we're not gonna tolerate that.

It's an adult takeback.

And the mayor has been very strong when it comes to creating safe spaces for our teens to be.

But for those who don't want to go that route and want to have the um main motivation of creating chaos and public disorder, um, it won't be tolerated in the city of Detroit.

And so we'll continue with that.

Next slide.

One of the things I wanted to highlight too, um, when it comes to parental responsibility, curfew violations in January.

Um, of course, we enforced curfew all year long.

In January, we had five curfew violations.

I mean, it was winter time, not a lot of people hanging out in January.

Um, February, it was zero.

So February was cold.

March, 13 curfew violations, 15 parental responsibility tickets.

April, as the temperature starts to uptick, we had 103 curfew violations issued 60 parental responsibilities in May, 92 curfew violations, 60 parental responsibilities in June this month.

Up until yesterday, we had 16 when we had saw a downward trend.

But as of fireworks, we had a large juvenile presence that showed up.

And so preliminary numbers, as we're going through it, some of my offices just actually got off work processing juveniles.

So I was out there late last night.

I got I got out of there about 2 a.m.

But it was a it was a good event.

And I definitely thank city council for all your support when it came to Kirkview.

Um when it comes to all your support that you give us.

But we have a lot of parks in the city.

And as a result of taking the parks, investing in the parks.

I can't, I don't know one park that's not fixed up in the city.

So our our our our everybody's enjoying the parks throughout the city.

And we just have another park open with a lot of real estate, of course, the Ralph C.

Wilson park.

And so we have a staffing plan for that.

We ensure that the cameras that are at that park plug into our real-time crime center.

We work very closely with GSD as well.

And the other big venue, and you go to the next slide, is um our Joe Lewis Greenway.

And so we're working with that.

We have um bike patrol officers that patrol that, of course, working with GSD on that.

What you see right there is a live view technology trailers.

What we do is we deploy those in various parks, and we can actually see in our real-time crime center what's going on, and that works as a deterrent effect as well.

And we've seen that to be very successful.

So we've deployed that at River Rouge, Riverside Park, Clark Park, Chandler Park, Eliza Howell Park, Peterson Park, Palmer Park, Grand Circus Park, and they're mobile.

And so when we need to relocate them, we can very quickly, and we've definitely seen the benefit of that.

Next slide.

And we're gonna ensure that we control the vehicle and pedestrian um traffic, improve crowd control, um, and of course have a presence there as well.

And so we have command of Genzi who oversees that and is very very familiar with um our Greek town merchants, and we have a uh a very good handle on what's to come when Greek town comes, but we're gonna definitely make sure that we have a strong presence there as well.

I just talked about Ralph C.

Wilson part, that's 22 acres of new real estate that the Detroit police department has to um ensure that we cover.

And so I do have staffing that I have working along with their private security as well to ensure that we're covering that.

Um, next slide.

Joe Lewis Greenway talked about that aspect of it.

And um, with our city of Detroit emergency management, I have had them because the Joe Lewis Greenway stretches through multiple cities and encompasses multiple um council district areas, just ensuring that if someone has an emergency, that our officers along with the call boxes that we know exactly where they are, because that's that could be an issue if someone didn't know where they were, us being able to get to them.

So we're working through that as well.

Next slide.

Thank you all.

And like I say, I uh I constantly thank you for your support when I publicly speak where I go around the country and I'm with other police chiefs.

Um, and they ask how was my relationship with city council?

Um, because in a lot of cities, uh, you know, the police chiefs are um supported like I am supported here.

So I just let them know how blessed and how fortunate I am in just the good position, and it's a good time to be the police chief in the city of Detroit.

And I open it up for questions.

All right, thank you so much, Chief Badison, and we're so thankful to have you as our chief as well.

Um colleagues, we're gonna open up for no more than two questions per colleague as we move forward.

So again, we do have a pretty robust day today with closed session uh and an entire agenda ahead of us.

And we're gonna start with uh pro Tim Young.

Thank you, Ms.

President.

Uh Chief, good to see you, good to see excellent presentation.

Always good to see you, sir.

Um, I just wanted to ask you uh really quickly about the issue involving uh drag racing.

I just want to know first and foremost, um, from a technological standpoint.

What are we doing to be able to prevent this?

Um, I know there's been discussions about drones and that would coincide with the helicopter.

Uh, is that going to be drone swarms?

Uh is that also gonna be um is that gonna be high performance cameras?

Are we using artificial intelligence within those cameras or smart cameras?

Are we using sensors?

How exactly does that work?

And is there and is there a coordinating body between local, state, and the county in terms of the roads to be able to do this?

And then finally, what are we doing about people who are spectators, people who are watching this, people who are looking at this?

Yeah, those are excellent questions.

Um, we have to continuously evolve because they evolve as well.

And um many of the individuals that participate in that side show, as they call it, or drifting, um, they'll go from city to city, and they make a business decision also oftentimes as to what the penalties will be.

Um different cities have different chase policies.

And so, what do we do to combat it with the technology that we do have?

Our license plate readers, our helicopters, drones when we do get them will definitely be another asset.

But I will tell you that I have my air units up, and um they along with license plate readers, and we identify them.

And what I have to do as the chief is be able to show the community more so what happened, the end of the story, because oftentimes the end of the story is us getting the search warrant, going to their house wherever they live, impounding their car, taking their car because we're doing that.

I have a unit called Complex Primes.

They work on that as well on the investigative piece.

And so um, we for example, we just had a recent incident where it was posted on social media, um, where um they didn't get a chance to take over the intersection long, but I don't know if council saw it, but we had someone use a fire extinguisher and was on one of our patrol vehicles.

Uh, we basically identified that individual.

And so it'll be fairly shortly before he's brought and held accountable with that.

But the technology piece, absolutely stiffer penalties is something that I'll be pushing for coming up with ways to um afford their cars and really keep their cars.

And I would ask for, you know, I'll work is that with is that within is that within the current law, or are you gonna lobby the state to be able to do that?

Obviously, I'll lobby for increased penalties outside.

Yep.

And then one of the things balancing public safety, we don't chase for traffic in the city of Detroit.

Um, we we we we just for safety purposes, for safety purposes, for the officer safety and for their safety as well.

Absolutely.

And so with the spectators with our officers pull up, oftentimes they'll take off going all different directions very fast.

We did things where we boxed them in.

And so, you know, when we're able to box them in and pin them in or catch them that way, we have been able to successfully um arrest impound and take their vehicles, but I will be coming back before council um with a more in-depth presentation for that specifically.

No, I appreciate that.

And I thank you very much.

I think that's very important that we need to uh crack that.

I I don't know if uh Mr.

President, this is the question for um DPW uh as well as general services, but it relates to uh the issue of this because one, I wanted, I think that's important for us to be able to have more motor parks where we can have these types of things done in a positive sense in a legal sense.

I know in other parts of the state, they actually have like drag scripts and things that nature where they can you know express this type of talent and ability in a legal sense.

I know we used to do it in the airport, you know, but I think because of complications or things, we don't do that.

FAA.

Yeah, any right, right.

Thank you anymore.

So I I so I don't want to, because I don't know if we have anybody from um general service department that's a parts and rec that's online, or anybody from DPW.

And we can get them at another time.

That's fine.

I just want to focus on it.

So let me ask you this question.

Has there been a coordinating council at all between you and DPW?

And this is why DPW because I'm talking about speed humps, speed tables, speed cushions, roundabouts, uh chicane and bulb out.

That's basically about you know concrete extensions that alternate on the side of the road to form an S shape and the bulb out is located near intersections and center islands.

So actually changing the roads itself to make it harder in these jurisdictions to be able to have people doing donuts and other such things that nature.

Has there been a coordinated council as well as with um general services department for the purposes of being able to have parks to have this as well as partner up with the police officers to make this an event through neighborhood policing?

Has there been a discussion?

Is there a coordinating council about that?

And if so, what's the status of that?

Years ago, it was coordinated, and we worked to um do a pilot.

And um unfortunately the pilot didn't reveal the results that we expected.

Um what happened is it was a Sunday where we would allow individuals a space to do that type of activity.

Well, when it was over, they didn't want to stop.

And so after we shut it down, everybody was together, and then they went throughout the city and they continued to do the activity.

And so it just revealed that it just didn't have the results that we thought, and it actually made it worse.

Um, so we ended the pilot.

We could always look at possibly with bit revisited it um with the appropriate resources and coming together, um, giving it another look.

But um, that was the reason it ended there.

But to your point, when it comes to being able to um come up with mechanisms to do enforcement, um, there's different technology that some other police departments use where you can see the grappling device um rather than having an extended chase for anything, you shoot that out and it grabs the vehicles um rear axle and pulls that also um some department use um um the strips where they'll put it on the road, it can puncture tires.

But if Conrad Mallet's here corp counsel, he's screaming if he's hearing me talk about this right now because that has some risk versus well.

So yeah, but I would like to take a look at it, look at the research.

And so looking forward to working with you on that council.

Yeah, I know I've looked into that research as well in terms of doing that.

And so I think that that's do you think that the majority of these um of these events are they ran by people that live in the suburbs?

Are they ran by people who live in the city?

Do we have a partnership with uh the region to be able to hold people who don't live in the city who come in our borders and do this type of stuff accountable as well, or is this just focused primarily just on Detroiters?

No, just final question.

No, no, no, no, that no, it's my last question.

It's it's it's a combination, and so we've seen um the enthusiasts.

We say one Detroit, it's one Detroit suburbs, metropolitan Detroit.

Absolutely.

And um, we we find them from everywhere coming in.

Um, and I'll I'll tell you that we monitor social media, they put their flyers out.

And so recently we had a flyer that went out for a takeover with dirt bikes and the scooters and the three-wheelers to come into the city, and on the flyer, they advertise let's get drunk and come into the city um on our three-wheelers and um scooters and do this.

And so the Detroit police department was prepared, and we shut that down too, and we ended up taking about 12 of their bikes.

Um, we had the helicopter up, and we plan on crushing them.

So, you know, and I'll make sure I invite you guys out so we can take a look at while we do that.

Anybody wants to see them get crushed?

No, thank you so much.

And Mr.

President, I was trying to ask many questions I could to push that limit.

So I appreciate you giving me that opportunity.

I'll I'll try to I was gonna ask me questions.

He said, Stop that was all so.

Thank you very much.

I appreciate you guys.

Thank you for your excellent service.

Appreciate you.

Thank you.

And Madam Clerk, if I I neglected to note that uh we have been joined by Member McCamp, but do apologize for that, sir.

Uh member McCampbell is up next.

Clark, what's on note, Mr.

President?

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Good morning, Chief.

Um, good to see you, and uh glad to see those numbers are continuing to go down.

So thank you for all the work there.

Um a few questions.

I have more, but I'll do two, Mr.

President.

Um one, I wanted to bring up on the federal partnerships um that you talked about.

Um understanding that the department has partnerships with various federal agencies.

But earlier this month in D7, you're probably aware of the chase that happened with Homeland Security and ICE in the neighborhood on Warwick.

And you know, I believe that the lights were on, but the sirens weren't on in that chase.

And the person that they chased was then impaled, impaled by a fence and damage the home there for a resident.

I talked to that resident.

They have to repair their home now.

They don't know, of course, the city was not involved with the chase.

They don't know who they can reach out to to get repair dollars.

But also I know that the department didn't get a lot of information from, or you can correct me if I'm wrong, or from ICE in that on what happened and the person that they were chasing as such.

So as we're talking about federal partnerships, it seems that we know that ICE is road, in my opinion, but we're not getting that information.

And it's also not only with the operation that they have in the city when it is for undocumented folks or even U.S.

citizens, um, but also the damage that's caused by their activities now with property damage and someone being seriously injured here.

So can you speak into that?

Like what is going on with that?

Um, because the this agency is operating with our city and causing harm to our folks.

So what are we doing about that?

Especially if you're you all aren't able to get the information necessary there.

Um thank you, Councilmember McCampbell for that.

Um so as the Detroit Police Department, um, I stay in my swim lane, and so strictly deal with our state and local ordinances, our state laws.

Um they have a specific job to do.

And um we, as the Detroit Police Department, don't participate in any sort of customs immigrations enforcement.

That's just not what we do.

Um, and so the extent of my relationship comes towards individuals who are violating um state of Michigan laws, violent laws, and things of that nature.

Um I do and can reach out to the U.S.

attorney to relay that information to him so that he can relay it to the head of ice.

Um, I typically um don't have communications with anybody um at Immigration's Cups' enforcement.

Um, but if you ask me to, I can give them a call.

But I don't have um, we don't communicate like that, but I communicate via the U.S.

attorney, he's the conduit where all of those entities report up through him.

And I appreciate that.

I I guess my point on this is that if we're thinking, so DPD, with the policies that you have about pursuits and neighborhoods, right?

And we have a federal agency that is not adhering by that and putting our folks in danger.

I understand uh the way that you are communicating through the U.S.

attorney's office, but for me, with these being city streets and city residents and such, and it's causing that damage and harm to our folks.

I would, and and I know this may just not be with you with DPD, but also with the administration, we have residents that are asking what is going on and what is the mire reprieve and who do I hold accountable for these things?

And we we don't even have the ability to even say this is what happened.

Um for me, that's the issue.

Uh and because folks are understandably upset about it.

So I'm happy to follow up in a conversation.

Like as I said, we're preparing a memo on that that we'll send over.

Um, because I that is something as we continue to see these instances happening.

Um, and I just don't want I I am from what we know, it sounds like the person that they were chasing is okay.

I'm glad that there weren't any uh kids or any folks outside when that happened.

But if that was something to happen, it would be a much dire situation.

We still don't have the answers there.

So I I just wanted to bring that up.

The other thing is on the team takeovers.

Um as you mentioned, some of those fires could be fake and AI generated.

I know that there was even one that was uh being advertised in Rouge Park while we were having our June team celebration on Saturday.

We didn't see that coming to fruition, thankfully.

Um we did see uh young folks out, and we invited them in to get food and enjoy it.

And I think that's you know, as we talked about midnight basketball and such.

But how much of I guess my question is how much of this are you saying that it is being AI generator or is fake, or it is somebody that is creating these things to honestly like dupe our youth into coming out to these uh these areas um in our instance, just because when I saw the fly, I saw the Instagram thing, I went to the page, and I know Zen's Gen Z is a little bit different now, but I didn't see a lot of things on there that would indicate that there was a real person on the organizing side.

But if you could just trust it, Councilmember McCampal, that's a that's a great point.

But um, with the majority of the flyers that have been generated, um when I say AI, you know, you can utilize different ways to create a flyer.

Um it's easy to create them now, but we have been able to identify individuals that are created them, and oftentimes they'll change their social media handle too to avoid detection.

But after we do identify them, we go to their house, have conversations with them.

We've had conversations with their parents.

Um, some of the parents weren't aware of what their children were doing, made them take them down.

And so um working behind the scenes, we've been very, very successful in the city from uh um looking at the totality of the circumstances with different approaches to be able to curtail team takeovers.

And when we deploy our officers to the parks based off of it's saying that just like with the June 10th event, you know, um many of the kids there with their families enjoying it.

And so we're able to distinguish um by getting there early whether it's um an actual issue or whether it's not.

Yeah, well, definitely appreciate the project of work and going to have those conversations with folks on that.

I definitely have more questions uh around the curfew and such, but I will send those in writing.

So thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you so much, Member McCampbell.

Any additional colleagues?

Uh member Johnson, followed by Member Santiago Romero.

Thank you, Mr.

President, and good morning to you and thank you for the presentation.

Um I have one question, but I will raise um a concern that has been brought to me.

First, I want to say um working with Team Pursuit in District Four has been absolutely amazing.

I think the uh gentlemen that are leading the organization do a phenomenal job.

They have lived experiences and it really shows how um they empathize with our residents and they go out and provide support to them as opposed to even asking for the police department to show up.

They want to show up first.

And that I do genuinely appreciate.

Um, want to recognize Quincy Smith, um, Phil Sample and Thelonia Searcy, uh, who are the three that I work with considerably, uh, just making sure that we're getting resources and information out to our residents.

Um they just I I can't say enough good things about them.

So I'm really glad to see that they're leading the way and helping to reduce uh crime in uh the ninth precinct.

Um, within that, though, there are still a tremendous number of events of crime that happens within the ninth precinct.

I've spoken with AC, first AC Hayes, uh, and he did indicate that it has dropped dramatically.

Um, and it's still high to me, right?

Uh so I'm really trying to figure out what are some other things that we can do in those neighborhoods to connect our residents with resources to provide that support to them, to make sure they know and understand everything that's happening throughout the city of Detroit.

If there's a transportation gap, how are we feeling that?

What are we doing to really connect with them to drive that crime down more and more?

Uh, and I love to see it happen sooner rather than later, because if we get to uh younger people, then there's a great chance that we can help just turn their lives around and put them on the right trajectory to make sure that uh they are good and productive citizens and not harassing um our residents.

We had a resident who came here about four weeks ago who indicated she was experiencing something that I would not expect to hear from anyone, let alone a senior.

Uh, and so we did reach out to Team Pursuit, they went out and have it had a conversation.

So, what are we doing to help really drive down crime in the ninth precinct?

That seems to be the area where officers can go and be trained and learn how to do pretty much anything because of everything that happens in the ninth precinct.

Yeah, so um as of today, crime in the ninth precinct, and also the fifth precinct, but in particular the ninth precinct is the lowest expense since I've been on the department.

I've I've never seen it that low in that particular area.

And so what we're doing is working, but I say this all the time with the stats.

Every incident is a family hurt, it's trauma, it's an injury.

And so continue to do what we do so that we don't lose ground with what we've gained, but at the same time tackling the new areas where we can improve.

And so with domestic violence, a lot of the interpersonal things that are happening inside of the house, that becomes the issue where son shoots father.

And so I know that that's a more long-term thing, teaching in the schools, even with the midnight basketball and with the kids that are playing organized sports.

It's an advantage to that because it teaches them how to lose with grace.

You know, when we brought these kids together, at first, some who had never played organized basketball actually getting the right kids and having coaches and mentors in their life.

Um when they first hit the court and somebody filed them.

I'm gonna see you in the parking lot, I'm gonna shoot you.

And so it's like, whoa, whoa, we do a restorative circle, we get that together.

Now they become friends, they they can lose and understand that you come back and you can win the next game.

You just put in more work.

That's that's just one small example.

And then also just being able to come over various programs to deal with you know the domestic violence situation that's going on.

Um and then overall wraparound services for the male abusers as well, because that's another key aspect where you have to be able to get them help so that you can break that change in behavior.

But we just see a lot, the majority of violence that we do see when it comes to violence, um, is argument-based, where a person gets into an argument, they have a weapon and they decide to sell it with that.

It's more spontaneous.

We're not seeing the the drug hits, we're not seeing even as much when it comes to game.

CVI has made a tremendous um inroads with that.

But the next piece will be how do we really get to um help an individual regulate their emotions better?

So the conflict resolution piece.

Okay, all right, thank you for that.

Um, I am aware of some organizations that are doing um work around those areas, so perhaps we can get them to come and deploy resources in concentrated areas within the ninth precinct.

So I'll connect with you on that.

Um, the other question I had, which the last one was really just supposed to be a statement, but it ended up being a question, um, is about deployment of officers.

So I've had a couple of instances where um it was the district three, district four border where an incident took place, and I'm told that it took for an officer to come from the west side to address that situation.

Um, and then it it actually may be in alignment with the what you just talked about, a situation that happened um at the recenter.

And I'm also getting information about our parks.

I know you all work with GSD, but like some of our perks are just being overrun.

Um just kind of out of control.

And so I'm wondering what role DPD plays in that, because I'm starting to get feedback from residents about the parks that are near them.

Um, I would love for you to give me the specifics on it so that I will really be able to address it.

But I will tell you that when we talked about the team takeovers and the resources and um the teams move from downtown to various parks, where they say we're gonna take over this park.

And so we may get eight flyers uh in a day that say it's a team takeover at this park, this park, this park.

And so we'll have a detail where we'll deploy, I have spotters out and um we stand at the ready.

If we do see a large group or start seeing teams actually deploy, I will take officers and shift them.

And so some may come from the west side, etc.

But they're not answering 911 calls.

That's more so a detail.

And if they need to deploy to Baldog Park, because we've seen instances at some of the parks, like um Palmer Park.

One day it was a thousand people at Palmer Park.

And so to be able to deal with that, I couldn't send like five officers.

I had to send a lot of officers to be able to get that under control.

And so Baldur Park was another instance of where they came.

Um, and you know, it's it's summertime.

We had people coming out to the parks, and so we deploy large numbers of officers to be able to deal with that.

But what I think you're talking about is more so the smaller pocket parks or just on a random day where residents may have somebody out there at the park playing loud music where the kids are trying to play cars or parked on the grass.

And so for details like that, that's why I'm having the neighborhood police officers and other officers, my traffic enforcement officers give those areas special attention.

But if you have a specific area of concern, I will make sure that I pull that up as a priority so that we can give the residents some relief.

Thank you.

But those are my two questions.

So thank you so much.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

And thank you, madam.

Member Johnson, uh member Santiago Rimberg.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Good morning.

Good morning.

I uh we'll be brief.

My first question is regarding the curfews.

When we uh pass the ordinance, um, which I did not support.

I'm glad that you feel supported by this council.

Um, we don't always agree.

I don't always agree with the DPD's um strategies, but I think in conversations we get better and we and we have better solutions.

What I really wanted to see were wraparound services for young people and their families to not just incriminate criminalize them, give them tickets.

Do you have any insights to what those wraparound services were that we were also promised would be provided to young people and their families?

I can get you that in a separate report.

But one of the things that we did put in place that I'm really proud of is that every one of those curfew violations, citation with the parental responsibility is one judge that hears it.

And so um, and that's the chief judge, William McConaco.

And so he um has that information, and I could reach out to him, but ultimately, you know, parents, if they don't, you know, they can't pay the fine or they don't want to pay the fine, it's an alternative where they can go through um per responsibility, course training, et cetera, different avenues for the juveniles, but 36th district court really works on addressing the root cause of the problem because some parents may have a substance use disorder, you know, where it's a bigger issue.

And because now they're before the court was just brought to the court attention, he will work on ensuring that they get into you know whatever specialty program that's gonna really deal with the root cause of what's causing that.

Okay, thank you.

Um, I would love to see that I believe my colleagues would as well.

We're asking questions around tickets that have been given.

I'm curious to see what supports what wraparound services have been given as well.

Um, so I look forward to that.

Uh, thank you, Member McCampbell, for uh uplifting our relationship with our federal agents.

If our federal agents are doing their job in helping us address crime, they are also creating complete havoc in our neighborhoods.

And I know often they will call DPD to keep the peace.

I don't believe that's happening.

Our protesters, our residents are being met with aggression with pepper spray, and that's something that we're dealing with here in the city.

Um, but I'm wondering if we can utilize this good working relationship that you say that we have with federal agents to ask them to not chase in our city, to ask them to mark their vehicles and to ask them to wear a badge.

Because as you know, because I've told you, many people, especially in Southwest Detroit, I have heard record agents who then say they are DPD officers, who I then ask you and you verify that they are not.

So we have people pretending to be police that makes us less safe.

That makes it hard for people to trust our police officers.

You say that you don't want to move beyond your lane unless we're asking you.

I'm asking you to please ask them to see if they can be better at keeping the peace in our city if they want our help to keep the peace when they're doing what they have to do, supposedly, which I believe they're stealing people.

We are not seeing warrants.

We're not seeing them do this legally.

So if they're gonna ask for our help, can we ask them to keep the peace in our neighborhoods by night chasing but not chasing, marking their vehicles and keeping at least a batch.

These are minimum things I think that we can ask of them if they want us to continue to have this good working relationship with them.

Um, yes, I will definitely do that.

And um, I'll take it a step further where um I will work towards um brokering a meeting so that you will be able to sit down um and have that conversation and ask directly.

Thank you, Chief.

I'd be happy to do that as well.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Member Miller.

Good morning, Senator Chair.

Thanks for joining us, Chief.

I want to say thank you for the work that you do in Detroit, you and the force.

Uh, yesterday was amazing.

I did not count the one incident that was before the fireworks, but I am glad to have partnered with you all to have a safe incident-free fireworks.

My mom and I enjoyed it.

I am because I broke my hip on a cane.

My mom had hip replacement.

We didn't have to run, duck, dive, or fear for our lives, or even see residents react to the loud booming of the M80 sounds.

But I cannot be going to tell you how amazing it was yesterday.

And it's unfortunate that one little thing seems to have clouded, which I won't even discuss today, because our news media and our um Instagram followers do enough of that for us to make us look bad.

But I want to commend you on that.

Um as far as you mentioned the Airbnb legislation.

I would our office would love to partner with you on Airbnbs.

Uh we've noticed that there's been an uptick of incidents.

I guess Ferndale got tired of it after Dearborn got tired of it.

And now I guess Birmingham side of it.

Things that we've been dealing with for years the shootings, the fights, the street takeovers, the parking people's driveways, where I had a resident come out with her gun and tell the young person to move.

And he said, old lady, you should be in the bed by now.

And committed to blocker drive anyway, because she went and got her pistol.

Those are things that we've been dealing with, especially in the circle districts because everybody wants to rent a large party.

But then when you find a body inside of a dump in the circle district that passed out drunk and died during the night, people need to understand there's a lot going on with those Airbnbs.

So we support you with that.

Um we know it's for profit.

I'm a union person.

I like using the hotels.

Um, let's keep our people working.

But it would be an honor for us to join you with that.

Um I would like to say um now that the city of Detroit, we are not only acting as parents, mentors, and big brothers and sisters and grandmothers.

We provide programming, we provide things for our children to do because of the generation that we're in.

Unfortunately, we grew up in an amazing generation where everybody took part in raising children.

So because we have to spend money to help our families, find their kids something to do.

I would like to say that I commend our mayor staff, the mayor herself for doing those things.

And um, I look forward to supporting you further with anything regarding teens since we have to do that additional job as a city of the uh city of Detroit Council.

Um, I only have one thing that I would like you to do is to uh zoom in on the drag racing, the circling of cars.

Our residents in the Jefferson Corridor have videos of people congregating in the 7-Eleven.

They are uh drag racing on Jefferson, they're drag racing on Grand River.

Um, usually late at night, one or three in the morning.

People cannot sleep.

They cannot get rest.

And that is the big the biggest thing.

So as we draw people back to our neighborhoods, um, I have to answer to them.

I have to answer to every resident who call because their livelihood is disturbed because of those incidents.

Yes.

So when I meet with them like tonight, have a meeting um at six o'clock.

Those are the questions that I have to be faced with.

So I'm asking your office to um we'll send the locations so people can live in peace, have a good night rest to go to work.

If you would um have some of your MPOs to check out those two Pacific corridors where I am constantly badgered about the late night noise.

Um, without that, I won't hold you up, but continue to do the job that you do.

And I do realize there's an uptick in some of the numbers, which we can discuss further at our community meetings.

I won't drag it out today with specific incidents.

But um reach out to our office when you need help, or if anything we can do within our neighborhoods as we continue to roll out this week, pride in district five.

We'll be contacting your office so we can um issue those um warnings.

Yes, because we're gonna bring five pride back in five.

We cannot allow parking on grass.

Uh we cannot have abandoned vehicles that house rodents.

We cannot um this is the blight department, but some of those things that officers walk past regularly uh that they drive down the streets and see those things, they do not stop.

And it looks like they just don't care.

But we have to be proactive.

We have to be proactive to get our neighborhoods back in order.

And we're gonna we need to help them have pride in where they live, no matter if you're a renter or homeowner, but we would we need the help of the MPOs and the officers for that.

So if you would draw those for district five, we really would appreciate it.

Thank you.

And um through the chair, one of the things that we have under, we have a code enforcement department under DPD, and weekly we remove or have folks remove about a hundred vehicles per week off of private property.

So we're really still enforcing the quality of life when it comes to code enforcement.

And of course, we work with VC as well, and we will continue that.

I can get you all a report so that you'll be able to really um have that to be able to uh give to your constituents to say what we're doing, but I'll get the specifics when it comes to the locations um when it comes to the drag racing, the drifting that's causing your constituents um problems.

We did have one location um that hit the news, the media big time um early in the year, and it was out of drive in the Bassar area, and so working with the folks over there, we were able to get that under control.

We haven't had any incidents since that I'm aware of, but we did some things to deal with that, and so I'm sure we can do it for you as well.

Thank you.

I appreciate I did grow up in the area right there by the city airport that one strip between Grinder and Six Mile, it was a regular everyday thing.

I mean, half the time when you wake up in the morning, there's something upside down or crunched up into a little ball, and they're right by the cemetery.

So like maybe there's a correlation there, but it's serious, and it's the biggest thing, the biggest thing is the noise.

Yes, the noise.

And and so I tell our residents all I can do is report it.

I can do is turn in the location.

Gotcha.

After that is on the police department.

So thank you very much, sir.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any further um, member Callaway?

And again, colleagues, just note that we do have a robust meeting for the remainder of the day.

Member Callaway.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair, and um good morning to you both.

Um, thank you for your presentation.

Um, and through the chair to you, member um Miller.

Um, my ordinance for the short short-term rental was approved as to form yesterday by the law department.

So we will be rolling that out and we'll have some public comments and we'll make sure you get a draft copy of it.

But I've been working on it for about three years.

So um thank you for inquiring about um short-term rentals.

Again, it has been approved to form, and you can um have a access to a copy of it.

Um, I have a question about the Joe Lewis Greenway.

Um, we know that it spans from Dearborn, Ham Tramic, Highland Park, and then Detroit.

Who is going to what um police agency is responsible for providing um police services once it hits Dearborn, once it hits Ham Tramic, and once it hits Highland Park, is that all Detroit police?

What's the agreement um for partnership?

That is such an excellent question right there.

Um when it occurs within another agency's jurisdiction, then it's their responsibility.

And so we work collaboratively with each other, but they're gonna be responsible for um any crime that occurs or the investigation.

We can help assist if they need it with mutual aid, but they're responsible for it.

So if it's Dearborn, then the Dearborn Police Department will respond handle accordingly.

And if it's Ham Tramic or Highland Park, it's the same.

And I I do want to give a shout out to Highland Park.

They sent me some reserve officers as well.

I mean, everybody chipped in with fireworks yesterday.

Um, so even um Detroit pool, Detroit Public Schools Community District Police.

So when I say everybody, everybody helped out.

Yeah, that's great.

Um, through the chair to you, um Chief Bettison.

What about Waymo, the autonomous vehicles?

I see them all over the place.

I don't even know if we've approved them to be in the city yet.

I haven't seen anything come across, but I'll um give uh maybe an assignment to the LPD to look into it.

Um they're not regulated.

I know they're regulated, regulated at the state level, but what happens with Waymo?

How are you pulling them over?

If they you know run a stoplight, um run a stop sign, hit somebody.

I know I just read a case where a child was hit by a wall uh Waymo vehicle in San Diego, California.

Um, and I know that there's some limited regulations at the state level, but none here in Detroit.

And they're just, I mean, I think I've seen like three or four of them.

So um through the chair to you, um, Chief Bettison.

How are we, you know, stopping them if they run a red light or a stop sign?

Because nobody's driving them, they're autonomous.

No, you file you got you got um that's uh I'm gonna have to get back to you on that one.

I'll circle back around.

And so I'm not gonna make up something.

Um, but that is I I gotta get my traffic enforcement officers and um, but I definitely appreciate the question.

And so I will get you a thorough report on what we're doing about WAIBO and any other autonomous vehicles.

Okay, but that's the problem with technology, it moves at a rate that um really outpace current and local laws and you know, trying to keep up with the further advancements of them.

Um but I'll get you that answer.

Chair thank you member water thank you um president so good morning good morning is it still morning yeah I guess so anyway um so um to you member calloway through Mr.

President I just want to say I'm looking forward to hearing about the Airbnb I've had my own experiences with them uh via my family who's visiting I have some input to offer yes I do um so Chief um how many how many kids did you arrest um we don't with with curfew we don't call it a rest is detained and we hope okay in their health were um a short period of time until their parents come to get them and um that can be while trying to locate their parents too so my officers actually had to take some kids home too so you know we were we you know they they they worked late but it was a total of um and this is approximate numbers and so it's right in the ballpark but um roughly approximately 1800 so uh number of tickets uh were that you issued i would say if i have a hundred and eighty um it the curfew the parental responsibility could be fewer yeah because um a parent could have more than one kid it could be four and so we can just get one parental response one ticket well i i gotta tell you i i saw kids down here early i mean teenagers and even when when i was driving back home say after midnight i'm all in the downtown area because i wanted to see what was going on and there were just hundreds of teenagers everywhere uh without their parents that that is true so how many of our of our teenagers and or parents who knew about the 8 p.m curfew did they tell you they didn't know um did they just say they came down anyway i i'm trying to understand um if in fact we got the information to them early enough um i haven't did uh uh exhaustive um interview of them you know it's very early on and but but we but we will have the opportunity because i know who the kids are the parents are yeah um so i can what were their parents working some of them or what i at this point you know coming off last night i don't have and i don't want to speculate yeah so so here's what i just have some information um thank you chief and and through the chair just to highlight what you're referring to so some of the things that we're trying to uncover uh to your point for example ceasefire our team members we had several of them deployed to the uh processing center last night to try to uh start beginning some of the surveys to ask some of those questions to try to dig deeper to understand first of all did you know about the curfew do you know the parental responsibility which comes after your second one now your parent is involved and there's tickets and etc so we're trying to start doing that now to better understand um why they're doing it if they knew about it in some ways that we might be able to help prevent that moving forward so but that's actually in the works and same thing our team was out really late last night trying to conduct some of those and so we're hoping to get some of that information that will help lead towards curbing some of that in addition to that um our CBI group so as I was out and they were deployed in different areas and working a lot of what they were doing because I agree with you I don't know if I'm just showing my age as all teeth but I'm looking around everybody look like a team so it was really tough to identify how do you know it was 18 or under but our groups did a really good job of also when they saw a group walking through letting them know hey just so you know there is an ordinance in place right now APM you guys are past it and some of them would actually keep the teens with them and wait until their parents came and picking them up to get them out to try to help reduce some of those numbers as best we could and and so I will say the ones that I that I saw were well behaved they've just walking I don't I couldn't be everywhere of course but the ones that that I saw were were just walking around they were well behaved um I do want to see in the future uh us to I want us to be proactive uh we know that the fireworks will come up every single year I think we need to start having this whole educational piece uh right now uh with our our young people and our parents so that they know because I don't want to see in the future again what we're saying to all of our other kids who are just doing the right thing that they cannot come down participate.

The fireworks were beautiful, absolutely beautiful.

And so they couldn't be there to have that experience, some of many of them, simply because of the careful.

And so I want us to change that uh chief.

Let's start educating our parents uh and our children now.

We can do it via the school systems.

We can do it um uh with the parents, you know, at community meetings and and whatever.

But I but I do want to see that happen because I don't want to see our children deprived uh in the future uh simply because uh we have some that are just not willing to act right.

Now, the incident that that you had, they were what, 18, 19 years old?

All right, so they weren't even 16 to 17 because that those are the ones that I was fighting for, the 16, 17 year olds be able to come down and enjoy the uh the fireworks.

Is that correct, Chief?

Yes, ma'am.

And through the chair, and I'm willing to work with you on that.

Um, education is always key, and like I say, continuous improvement, and so looking to get better and better and better.

Um, I was walking and all throughout Hard Plaza, and I did see many parents with their um their children, and they were aware of the curfew.

And so I thank them for being good responsible parents, and they've coming up to me saying, Hey, I brought my kids out and they're with me, Chief.

And so, you know, not everybody's gonna get the message.

And so we can always, when it comes to communication at the at the end of any operation, when you ask people what can we have done better on, they're gonna always say communication.

And so I'm with you and look forward to working with you on that communication plan starting a lot earlier.

Oh, okay.

Well, I look forward to it, Chief, uh, educating our parents and uh and our young people, um, but expecting them to do better, not just identifying ways to shut them out, but say, hey, we want you to participate, but we want to make sure that you receive this information well in advance so that you know uh what is expected of you.

So I do look forward to that, and I'm willing to go into the schools with you wherever we need to go, Chief.

Thank you.

All right, thank you, Ms.

President.

Thank you so much.

Madam Clerk, if you can know that we've been joined by Member Benson.

So no, Mr.

President, thank you.

Thank you so much.

Uh Chief, if we can get a uh larger copy of this uh MPO slide here, very helpful.

I know they change you know, every once in a while, but it'd be helpful to have this.

Um we want to be able to provide it for our constituents as well.

Absolutely.

It'd be helpful.

Umly question I have um so it's not so much a question regarding uh safety as it relates to the you know, yesterday and major events.

It's just a day-to-day interaction.

Um you may have been made aware of the uh meeting and speaking with members of your your team regarding the incident that happened in Brightmore, where gentlemen uh family was trying to prevent a gentleman from uh demolishing a home without a permit and allowing the uh toxins to just fly in the in the air when our grandbabies were out there.

The language that was used by the resident was not, you know, um rainbows and donuts and jelly beans.

It was pretty tough language because of the serious nature of it.

Two of your officers arrived on the scene.

Again, the language was pretty tough, but it was not threatening or anything like that.

Uh supervisor came on the scene.

Also, you know, first thing was asking for the ID of those who were making the complaint, not the person who had the bulldozer who had already removed part of that home.

Long story short, uh, because the individuals who were complaining refused to provide ID, they were put in handcuffs.

And the husband uh was uh detained uh for uh about 72 hours uh as a result of when I watched the video, there could have been some movement, some activity, but it was at least verbally saying, why don't you put your um why did you try to put me in a uh headlock?

That's what the officer said.

But the video was inconclusive from my vantage point, not justifying any, you know, uh assault or alleged assault whatsoever, but my concern is um when you have a community that has been uh uh traumatized for a number of years, uh you're not gonna always get the most flowery language when you have a clear and present threat to the folks who live over there, immediately being that person's grandchild.

Um but instead of the officer and the sergeant looking to de-escalate, took it to a whole nother level.

There were so many different ways that it could have gone.

Uh and it could have gone extremely worse than it did um in this situation.

I will be giving you a call.

I know we have not talked about it because I always want to make sure I work with the staff first because I know all the work that you're doing, but I definitely want to talk to you about how your officers are de-escalating.

That's you know, I've got a great relationship with the DPD.

I've seen the great work that they do, I've heard it also from residents, but I'll tell you if I didn't know this resident personally, I don't know if I would have heard about this.

So it made me question how often this occurs within the city, and we just don't know about it.

So I will say again, I'm gonna be giving you a call, and you're all I know that's not the way that you operate.

I've worked with you for a long time.

I know you're demeaning your heart, um, but I just want to uh see what we can do to um work on the the de escalation uh that is possible uh from our from some of your men and women who may do great work 24 hours a day or you know 25 hours with or 23 hours, whatever that number is, but still you know, those interactions, those individual interactions can lead to really, really bad consequences.

So the goal should always be reduce or eliminate those the potential of those negative interactions.

And by me watching that video, it looked like there were many missed opportunities by uh personnel to de-escalate the situation and actually put the put the onus of the uh of responsibility of that situation on the person who had the forklift who was illegally demolishing that particular home.

And BC then confirmed that there was no demolition permit whatsoever.

So the family was right, you know, and and it just I just shouted up to to think about what could have happened in that situation, and then what actually did you had a father who was separated from his family for 72 hours, uh a good man, quiet man, but you know, um in the face of uh of what was in front of him, uh he reacted, he reacted, and so did the rest of the family.

But just wanted to give you a heads up, and I'll be giving you a call on that.

Thank you.

And one of the things that I'm committed to doing is ensuring that my officers get the best training and that they're the best trained police department, and so utilizing every opportunity um to either send them to training or to bring the best from around the country in to train them.

Um so you'll see more training of our officers and fear in all aspects.

So whether it's the de-escalation aspect of it, um, but you know, I'll be able to give you further insight into what I'm doing when it comes to that, but I definitely have a plan.

Um, and so look forward to having an offline conversation with you about that entire incident.

Okay, yeah, I've been speaking with uh first assistant chief Hayes.

So if you want to get a heads up on that, remember Benson, uh, we just uh um chief of police was providing the uh safety report.

Uh all members had an opportunity to uh ask questions, want to give you that opportunity as well, sir, uh, as you now arrive.

All right.

Thank you.

Thank you, uh Mr.

President, Mr.

Chair.

Uh Chief, good to see you, Michael.

Good to see you as well.

So I know that there's been lots of conversations around shot spotter.

And I just had to refresh my own memory.

Um, in the year 2015, I worked directly with the residents in the third district in the Mohican region neighborhood to advocate for Shot Spotter.

We initially had a personal relationship with Shot Spotter.

This is at the time when Shot Sparter was a pilot program within the city of Detroit and Mohican Region was one of those areas.

The community residents continue to support Shot Spotter.

And I advocated for prior to the city being prepared to take this on.

I remember having very uh robust conversations with uh your predecessor two times removed, um, Chief Craig at the time before he bought in, and we got the mayor to buy in as well about the importance at that time.

I would receive the shots data and then send it out to the block club residents, and we took a an approach where we would also leverage this information to provide human services to the residents.

And I I see you you shaking your head as in something that you all are doing now, but I hadn't heard this is something that's going on.

And so we would provide the information to Heakin Region, and they would go out and put door hangers up, saying if there are gunshots being fired, this is a dangerous neighborhood, and there's a likely chance that some human services would be appreciated or can be used.

And so wondering where are we with actually layering on that tool with ShotSpotter to provide more wraparound services, provide more human services on top of the policing that goes on after shots have been have been fired.

Um that's through the chair.

That's that's such a great question.

Um we are doing it.

And I'll I'll tell you exactly how, and then Michael can chime in as well.

And so um, you got shot spotter, shot spotter gun detection technology, and um then you have this community violence intervention group is called um shot stoppers.

And so um many of the folks that did the CBI work um came out along with community groups, and they supported police.

They have been supporting this police department for um raises for police officers, you know, they've supported us for additional technology, they supported us for shot spotter technology, but they said, hey, what about the human aspect?

You know, support us, you know, shot spotter detects the shot after it's been fired.

And you know, we know that people fire shots and it detects it.

Well, we want to prevent it before it's fired.

And so, what can we do on the prevention or the deterrent aspect of it?

And so um that's how the community virus intervention actually got its Detroit name, shot stoppers.

And so those groups, shot spotter was placed in neighborhoods that had the most shots fired and the most violent.

That's what we placed it.

That's what we do.

We deploy resources where we're having the issue.

Um, they say, you know, put the cops on the dots of where the crime is occurring.

That's what we do.

Community violence intervention, CVI.

Their zones were picked based off of where the violence was occurring, shots are being fired, and so they're layered right over top of shot spotter.

So we got shot stoppers and shot spotter in the same area.

Well, they are getting the data, and so the various groups in the areas, they actually go out and utilizing that data as well, provide wrap around resources, services to those areas.

Um, just had a conversation, but I'll let Michael Peterson talk a little bit about what the groups are doing based off of getting the shot spotter data, being able to respond, campus the neighborhood, knocking on doors, um, and and and getting resources to individuals to prevent it, or I should say deter it.

Mr.

Peterson, if you can please be briefly.

I got you.

I appreciate that.

And um, I'm not sure if you were here at the time.

I know um member Johnson had highlighted uh one of our C BY group team pursuit, um, but what I'm sorry, one of their our CBI groups team pursuit, but they've been doing a really good job and now partnering with the other group, friends and family working with the ninth precinct to get that data um and not just allowing it to be data that's floating around.

And so they're utilizing that to actually prioritize their canvassing to do exactly what you're saying as far as coming to the area, because they can see every other week they get this report right now.

And what they're doing is not just the random shots that are located, but specifically they can help identify the assault rifles or the multiple shots, which obviously means that they're either an assault rifle or switch or something like that.

And so that's where they're targeting and making sure they can actually spend more time engaging with residents in that community, trying to better understand what's happening and trying to get to it.

So this was a pilot that they had begun, took it upon themselves.

And so now we're exploring, looking at how that is and how we could um better utilize that across the other groups as well.

Um, but I think it's going to be looking to do exactly what you're referring to as far as bringing resources directly to the doorstep and to the blocks that specifically are showing um those shots being fired.

I'm glad the third district um priorities are being taken up by uh law enforcement and our CBI community.

This one last question.

This came up during our budget and the conversation with you as well, Chief, in a taxi cab coming back from Maryland, the park patrol.

What is going on with the park patrol?

So prior to getting here in my presentation, I laid out everything that we're doing with park patrols, um, dedicated neighborhood police officers, traffic enforcement, um, even went through the team takeover flyers showing how they've targeted many of our parks and to the community.

You haven't seen the team takeovers at the parks.

Um, you may have seen one or two when it came to some gatherings, but um we have had our officers there to control to confer that activity, and we will continue to do that.

And so um the parks are our priority.

Our various precincts also have officers, you know like I said, neighborhood police officers, traffic enforcement, and then other officers giving the park special attention.

And when it comes to some of the bigger parks, Ralph C.

Wilson Park, um, because that's 22 square acres downtown services.

Um, they deployed officers on multiple ships working very closely with the security to ensure that that part is covered, and then also with camera assets, pumping them into our real-time crime center, and then we had a conversation about the Joe Lewis Greenway as well.

And I know some of it goes through your area too.

And so um utilizing the camera assets there that pumps into our real-time crime center, having officers on bike patrol because that's a lot of area to cover.

I bought them a lot of bikes too, so they're able to be able to get out there on their bikes too.

Okay, I like to hear that about people being on bicycles.

Yes, sir.

So there's one last item, Mr.

Chair.

And so this past Sunday on Father's Day had the opportunity to ride the Joe Lewis Greenway, which is freshly minted um between Joseph Compound and between DeQuinder in the third district.

Now it took family by there as well.

Concern was going to be public safety.

Like, oh, that looks like it's a little off the beaten path.

Um, are there gonna be lights there?

That looks like something that might not be safe for a woman by herself or in a small group.

What are we doing?

You talked about the cameras and everything.

I just want to make sure that people understand that we are looking to prioritize safety for this non-motorized pedestrian bicycle pathway throughout the city of Detroit.

Through the chair, absolutely.

I even have um our department of emergency management, Hilton Kinkey doing an assessment.

And so I'm meeting very frequently with them as we come up with ways to ensure that that safety is there that it's enhanced, and we've already started it.

Our precinct captains, the commanders are all aware of the greenway that goes through their respective precincts, getting the officers very, very familiar, looking at the call boxes that are located there as well, and being able to come up with assets to be able to quickly identify someone and be able to find them as such as if an emergency does occur, because they may not be able to tell us exactly on the greenway exactly where they are, but we still have to be able to get to them and provide that emergency service ASAP, whether it's not just DPD with fire, EMS, et cetera.

Okay, fantastic.

And then when your bike patrol officers are prepared, let them know.

More than happy to go on a bike ride with them.

We went one a couple years ago.

I hope they're better prepared this time.

Oh, okay, okay.

And um, I got me a bike too, so I'll go out there with.

I don't know if I can keep up with you though, but I got a bike.

Right.

All right.

Thank you so much, Chief.

We appreciate you uh coming and providing this uh safety report and look forward to uh additional communication to and from uh the respective offices.

Anything you must say before we wrap up?

As I close, um, you know, I'll I'll get on you all calendar, and when I see things that um are a concern, um, that I feel they can um what the community really needs to know.

I'll ask to come before you briefly and just give an update and I it may even bring some partners with me as well.

Um, so just to keep everybody informed and thank you.

Thank you again.

Thank you for all you do.

Look forward to the safety route out there.

Thank you, Chief.

Mr.

Chair.

All right.

Um something I was supposed to say before uh member McCammer.

Uh sorry about that.

Uh I just want to, I know it was mentioned on this presentation over on the occupy the summer.

I know we have a long agenda today, but uh maybe even next week if we could hear from the administration on those four plans.

Um, as you all know, with D7 not having a right center, just wanted to discuss some ways that we could expand that more of the activity to the district.

We'll do, sir.

We will um reach out to the administration so we can get that on it.

Thank you.

This is the thing I was gonna say.

We will now close uh the collection of public comments.

That was the thing.

All right, madam clerk, we will now proceed with reconsiderations uh under reconsiderations.

Council member Miller, a motion to reconsider line item 4.1.

Uh member Miller.

Good morning, theater chair.

I would like to say because I was unable to attend the 630 meeting.

I had to be here all day, but I had a community meeting at 6 p.m.

with my residents, and there were 75 residents waiting.

I wasn't able to attend for the vote.

That is why I put the motion in.

But today I wish to withdraw the motion and um because I've received further information since the meeting, and I am satisfied.

Right.

Alex, there is a motion to reconsider.

I'm sorry, to withdraw, excuse me, line item 4.1 from the agenda.

Any objections?

Saying none, that action shall be taken.

And that takes us beyond line item 4.2 as well.

So yes, ma'am.

That's why I said we're gonna move right past.

Thank you so much.

There are no objections again.

That action shall be taken.

Uh we shall now proceed to the president's reports on standing committee referrals and other matters for the internal operations standing committee member.

Four reports from various city departments.

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

Two reports from various city departments.

The two reports will be referred to the neighborhood and community services standing committee for the planning and economic development standing committee.

17 reports from various city departments.

The 17 reports would be referred to the planning and economic development standing committee for the public health and safety standing committee.

25 reports from various city departments.

25 reports will be referred to the public health and safety standing committee.

We will now move to voting action matters.

Under other matters.

Any communications from the mayor and other governmental officials and agencies.

Each one will everyone will get two minutes to public comment today.

Dana Lund, first speaker.

Megan Owens, followed by Betty Lyons.

Hello, how are you doing?

Good morning.

Good afternoon.

Okay, one minute.

No, no, it's 1159.

No, sir.

Closure.

Go ahead.

Yes, sir.

Uh, my name is uh Mr.

Dana Lund.

Uh, I'm just here to just ask a couple questions why is it and what's going on with the police department and why I never get an answer from the city of Detroit about what's going on.

I've been going through this since uh 2016, and my case never started until 2019.

I've been abused by the city of Detroit police department, but uh he got up out of here before I could ask any other question.

Uh, do the city council controls the commissioners board?

One.

Can you pull that mic up just a little closer to you?

Does the uh city council controls the uh commissioners board?

No, sir.

That happens every Thursday.

Okay, one.

Uh what is it that when uh officers get hurt by a citizen, everybody steps in and takes care of the uh police officer, but when the police hurts a citizen, they do nothing about it.

They you guys protect the police more than you protect the citizen.

And why is it that the officers can get away with hurting the citizen?

What is what is it really with their job?

I I assume as I grew up, I'm in my 60s now.

The police are supposed to serve and protect, not abuse and kill.

I can't get that answer, and I've been trying since then because I've been going to the doctor since they was having a seizure one night.

Well, it was in the morning, and uh two officers.

I it's best not that I give their name, I don't know.

And uh while I was having that seizure, thank you, Mr.

Long.

They roughed me up, they kept me in handcuffs, Mr.

Lum.

I can't hear you then.

I know.

So what your time, your time is now expired.

I'm not familiar with your case.

It sounds like you were just kind of walking through it.

Uh, so if you can uh someone from my team will get your information, we'll see if we can connect you with whomever can assist you.

It sounds like it there may be a uh some type of litigation that may be in play as well, but unsure.

First time I'm hearing about it, but someone from my team will uh connect with you and we'll see.

Okay, good.

I've been trying to get in touch with you guys, but I can't.

I got you, buddy.

Now you're here, and I got I'm directing someone from my team to connect with you.

So there's no need to try anymore.

Who am I to speak with?

Turn around.

There they go.

All right, all right.

Next speaker, Megan Owens, followed by Betty Lyons, followed by Sonita Lewis.

All right, now I can officially say good afternoon, right?

Good afternoon.

It is official.

Thank you so much for the opportunity.

Um, Megan Owens, uh Director of Transportation Riders United.

Wanted to take just a brief moment to stand in support of the resolution 23-1 in support of countywide public transit.

Appreciate you guys taking up this.

But then also to expand the transit throughout the entire county.

So I appreciate you taking up this resolution.

Strongly urge your support of it.

We put together a Connect Wayne County website and information.

We've been going out doing presentations to community groups, to uh civic leagues, to uh uh festival that fairs and festivals and farmers markets and wherever else we can to make sure that voters are aware of this measure.

Um, I'd like to uh offer some materials for uh for each of you.

And if there's anything that we can do to help you communicate with your uh with your communities, be very happy to do so.

Thank you so much.

The next speaker, Betty Lyons, followed by Salita Lewis, followed by Josh Mann.

Uh yesterday I was at the birthday celebration for RJ Watkins, the founder of WHPR radio.

Brilliant man, not recognized enough.

Now, uh uh policeman Bettison ought to know the history of this country from the black slaves.

Blacks have received no justice.

So when they approach blacks, and I'm including him, because last year, when I heard him say in a black church, when I find you, you're gonna be locked up.

That's how we are approached, and that's how we're looked at.

Okay, I'm getting back to that over 600 million dollars in overpaid property.

No proof in black and white that we signed off that money.

But satanic Mike Dugan and the council set up there and let this man steal our money, over 600 million dollars overpaid property tax.

No justice again for for us Detroit residents, no justice.

Same thing as the history of this country.

You don't help Mr.

Um Miles, Romero, with your satanic spirit, no matter how hard you try to assist Satan's goal to defy God, you will lose.

You are losing.

A male is born a male and is a male, a female, a female.

You're not gonna change it.

For you are not gonna overrule my father and savior, Jesus Christ.

You're wrong, and you have a reprobate mind.

You are evil.

You and your partner, Mike Dugan.

Yes, again, you won't help the blacks, but you're and even waters goes on TV talking about protecting illegal people.

Thank you so much.

Our next speaker is Sanita Lewis, followed by Josh Mann, and our last in-person speaker, Mr.

Ronald Foster.

Miss Lewis.

Morning.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon, everyone.

My name is Sanita Lewis.

I was here a few weeks ago.

I'm not sure if you guys remember me.

Um, I created a platform that allows licensed health care professionals to come to your front door with just a few clicks of a button.

And so basically, um, just a little background again.

I have been a registered nurse for over 10 years, not just here in Detroit, but I have been a travel nurse.

And what I have seen consistently is overcrowded ERs, uh, healthcare worker burnout, and crazy bills once they leave without a results.

So I created a platform to where we have um licensed healthcare professionals come to your door for non-emergency purposes only.

Um, working in the ER, I've seen a lot of patients who are there and it's not an emergency things that can be handled at home and just not even at an urgent care.

So I created this platform, but to make it really quick, because I said this the last time I was here.

Right now I am visiting senior buildings.

I have two senior buildings that I've that has uh approved me to come and do an end service for the seniors because I know it'll probably be a little hard for them to look at a phone and try to navigate that to have a nurse or a nurse and professional come and assist them with whatever health care needs they may have.

So, what I have came up with is I want to um input tablets in a common area in these senior businesses, and I would like um you guys help because I don't know like the permits and how that works to see if that will be okay for a certain amount of buildings just to start out, just to help the seniors with um accessible health care for those who don't have the means to get to and from now.

The platform is not only for seniors, but um, I know they will be a big chunk of the use once it actually goes live in about two weeks.

That's all.

Thank you so much.

Uh someone from my team will connect with you uh to get your contact information to see how we can see.

Sure.

Our next speaker, Josh Mann, followed by Ronald Boston.

Good afternoon, everybody.

It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

A lot of Detroiters have been living on their knees for a long time.

It's a shame that more people don't come here and speak up against problems.

Every other community worldwide is fighting data centers, artificial intelligence, flock cameras.

71 cities nationwide have removed flock.

We should be on the top 100, the first 100.

We should have been on the first 10, but unfortunately, we're not the great questions, great dialogue with the chief.

He seems to forget that what he was claiming was his pilot program for the drifting and drag racers was my pilot program.

I was the one that created that on my private property, and he fought for me.

Before Romero was in office, the whoever was before her.

We had meetings and they bragged about my results, reducing crime by 73% on my first event and 91% on my second event.

And then he says, Well, some of the people still went out and did it.

This will not stop crime.

This will help detour it.

This will curb the problem.

Just like the graffiti park that I have in Romero's area.

I've kept over 2,000 pieces of graffiti off of the streets.

It did not solve the problem.

It drastically reduced it.

Instead of budgeting task force for criminalizing people, we need to offer safe spots for people that aren't criminals to display this creative drag racing, creative pain instead of criminalizing them.

This is the wrong approach to it.

We need groups like Detroit 300 in New Era Detroit to work in a positive community resource to engage people to develop themselves mentally and spiritually to realize like there are better ways to do this without disrupting the city, the community, and our futures by becoming criminals.

I'd love the opportunity to host another drifting and drag racing event just to refresh everybody's memory.

Thank you so much.

The next speaker, final speaker in person, Mr.

Ronald Foster.

Good morning.

So it's not the right thing.

Jesus is the same to anybody that believes in him, both the Jew and a gentile.

So we'll say that.

But I want to say, as far as this uh presentation this morning, I think that it's important that this body catches up with technology.

Right.

The last um co-op or community over government, community input over government surveillance report was done in December of 2025.

Right.

And I think that dealt with the mobile sale tower.

Most technology that is approved here.

That's a very large city was approved under the basis of surveillance, violent offenses, right?

Felonies, kidnappers, not to just be randomly used for any type of crimes that we see fit.

Secondly, when it comes down to the park cameras, I was really disturbed by that.

I like to have a balance.

I want our parks to be safe and secure, but I don't like the idea of cameras being within range of somebody's bedroom or bathroom without oversight, without people having the ability to monitor or or know exactly what it is that we are surveying.

And so Shaw Stoppers, uh, we'll say it's probably the most honest technology that the city's bought.

They don't look and see or have all those things.

And it is a deterrent.

When it comes down to our perks, I think that it's important that are part that you guys learn and understand you have to empower block clubs, block club leaders to engage people at the local community parks.

It's not a police thing, right?

Put things out there and allow the community to engage themselves.

And last there was an issue with very star construction.

The vendor and district five, I did pass information over.

Hopefully, I guess so.

Thank you.

We should know transition to our online callers.

Mr.

Huff, good morning.

How many callers do we have?

And who do we have first, please?

Morning, counselor and council president.

Today we have 24 callers on law with our first caller being Mr.

William M.

Davis.

William M.

Davis, the floor is yours.

We have two minutes, general public comment.

Good afternoon.

Can I be heard?

Yes.

I am pleased that the in general we did not receive any bad pressures related to the excellent fireworks display last night.

Also, I'm still somewhat bothered by the fact that you know our Detroit Board of Police Commissioners used to be one of the premier organizations in the whole country and used to see a lot of recognition.

But things have changed.

I think that you know, by not being able to immediately review body cam uh footage that made us one of the best uh boards in the country.

And also the fact that when I was elected, we had our own board of police commissioner attorney.

Right now, there's a number of things that make our board of police commissioners and the city look bad, uh, especially with the corporation council being there, because you know, you cannot serve two masters, you know, you cannot do a good job representing both sides of the table, you know.

So that's a problem that should be really looked at.

Uh, also I think sometimes it appears as if the city is really greatly over surveyed, you know, like say we have so many surveillance groups or so many opportunities for people to have their civil rights abused, and uh, I need to make sure that we have a greater control over our police department and a greater control over civilian input and civilian power.

Uh, just like we should make sure we always keep um a deputy police commander or someone that's a civilian.

Uh also we need to do more with mental health.

There's a lot of mental health challenges in the city that need to make sure that they're getting the proper service and not going into the criminal justice system.

Thank you for your time.

You next caller, please.

Next call is going to be caller ending at 169.

Caller ending in 169.

The floor is yours.

Two minutes, general public comment.

Hello, can you guys hear me?

Yes, sir.

City council, thank you for praying for Brother Cunningham, Detroit Department of Transportation, D dot.

Thank you for praying for Brother Cunningham.

Yes, you listening to me.

Thank you for praying for Brother Cunningham, agape is the Greek word for the highest, most selfless form of love to represent unconditional sacrificial and action-oriented love that seeks the best for others, expecting nothing in return.

Thank you for my time.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is going to be Betty A.

Warner.

Miss Betty A.

Warner.

Ms.

Betty A.

Verner, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Uh good afternoon to all within the sound of my voice.

I'm Betty A.

Varner, president of DeSoda Els World Block Association, aka D by that stands for we're dedicated.

We're involving and we are believing always in our neighborhood and community.

I'm excited because tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday, we are going to uh receive our boat boulders that I have been advocating for for a long time.

So I'm excited about that.

And I want to thank the council and mayor Mary Sheffield for uh allocating monies for that neighborhood beautification grant, because this is how we are getting our boulders.

These boulders uh cost us over 12,000, and we were able to get monies to cover that cost through that neighborhood beautification grant.

And we were able to get monies to cover that cost through that neighborhood beautification grant.

We have been very successful with that grant.

We have received four.

And it is a tedious application, but uh the city and Wayne Metro, they have people that will assist you if you reach out for the help.

So I'm asking any, well, I'm just stating any presidents or organizations, black clubs who are eligible for that grant.

I would at say state to you, please apply.

It works.

And I am so appreciative.

So thank you to all who voted to have that some of that alpha money go through to the neighborhood beautification grant.

Still in need for monies for our think of quarter.

So I'm still advocating.

And when Mr.

Dabich and his son comes before the uh council, please support uh us getting a mini mile.

So Mark.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is going to be Hazel Flood G H C O Hazel Flood.

The floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Are you there?

Are you there?

Let's put Ms.

Flood at the end of the queue and go to the next caller, please.

Yes, sir.

Our next caller is going to be Karen Hammer.

All right, Karen Hammer, the floor is yours.

Two minutes, general public comment.

Karen Hammer, are you there?

All right, let's put Karen Hammer at the end of the queue and go to the next, please.

Next caller is going to be Sandra Turner.

Sandra Turner Hardy.

Sandra Turney Hardy, the floor is yours.

Two minutes, general public comment.

Good good morning.

I'm sorry, a truck in down the street, and the dog started barking.

But my name is Sandra Turner Handy.

And I am calling concerning the Sickler project.

And I want to talk about making our residents whole when it comes to the solar because of the fact that we need to continue the project at this point with uh going on and signing contract with DTE in the hopes that we can fulfill the promise we have made to our residents concerning upgrades, energy upgrades to their home.

And I am in full support of the solar project.

I am just supporting the city and moving away from fossil fuel and moving towards renewable energy.

It shows that we are being progressive about health and safety within our community concerning greenhouse gases.

So please move this forward so that we are able to complete the solar project within our projected areas within the city as the residential organization, Dempie Neighborhood Alliance supporting the uh Houston Whittier Hayes Project.

Our residents are ready and supportive of this.

The caller before me that talked about residents, black clubs in our city.

We must start giving some uh encouragement and support of our residents who are starting black clubs, becoming invested and committed in our communities in helping to reduce the crime in our city because they are aligning with our MPOs and doing the work in community to reduce crime.

Please give them some consideration.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is going to be owner popper.

The floor is yours.

Two minutes, general public comment.

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

Our next caller is going to be Jadante Smith.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

We have two minutes, general public comment.

Good afternoon, Mabby Hurt.

Yes.

I was going to first start off by saying to Ann Ivy Calvert, uh Colme Young's mother and chief of staff.

Please stay professional and do not email me about things that I share personally on my personal Facebook page that I'm able to share.

Somebody sent me a flyer by AI, happens to have Pro Tim on that flyer.

Pro Tim is on the flyer.

I didn't make the flyer.

I'm able to share whatever I like to.

What I would like is to have a meeting with President Pro Tim, as I've been asking for since budget season.

I also like to have a meeting with President James State and also uh members, uh Angela Woodfield Callaway and Ronaldo Miller with the Detroit Ham Trump Coalition about Chronos Concrete.

Love to have a meeting with you guys about uh Chronos down zoning the upcoming vote.

I'd like to have this meeting before the vote comes before you guys, before the information is in front of you.

I don't like anybody to have plausible deniability.

No reason to wait till a situation comes before you guys to talk about it.

We're talking about everything else.

Also, I went down to the fireworks and some of the way that the children were handled.

Unexcusable, uh, in my opinion.

Also, the way that you guys roll back that curfew to make sure you are targeting more young people, terrible.

Also, to live in peace, terrible.

I was talking to Captain Thurkeel, who I know about just not violating the children's rights.

And here comes one of the Live in Peace leaders talking about don't antagonize anybody.

Terrible.

Also, uh, you guys got a special session later for the solar farms, terrible.

We need to make sure there were uh tending to this contaminated dirt.

Also, I'm just gonna come.

I was gonna wait.

I'm gonna come out.

Julie Snyder owns a piece of land on Concord in Detroit, Michigan, next to nine uh cedar investment owned lots, which are owned by the Maroon family.

That seems like insider trading.

You guys should look into that.

I'm gonna send it out to anybody who has two years to listen on city council.

Why is Julie Snyder, the head of HRD, who is a department that deals with land, owning a lot next to nine maroon-owned lots in the I-94 Industrial Park Complex, and she doesn't even live in Detroit.

Next up, we have Frank Hammer.

Frank Hammer, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes.

General public comment.

Frank Hammer, are you there?

Let's put Mr.

Hammer at the end of the queue and go to the next, please.

Next up, sir.

We have Blackbag.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

James D.

Tate Jr.

Reuben James Crowley Jr.

Gig is up.

Good political career.

I gave the announcement that it was ending.

It's over with.

I'm missing over with too.

I got a whole bunch of monikers here in the city of Detroit, Michigan.

UNS scoundrel, Scout Benson.

And the mayor, Mary Sheffield, have been cheated in by Janice M.

Winfrey.

Detroit City Clerk, chairperson of the Detroit Election Commission.

And Daniel Baxter.

Assistant to the director of the Detroit Department of Elections, Janice M.

Winfrey.

Overseen over saw by Janice Him Winfrey.

Gina Avery Walker.

She needs to appear before you, the council.

Public, and explain how Mary Elaine Beckman's ballot was counted in that 2024 United States presidential primary election.

Well, Mary Elaine Beckman didn't get a ballot over in Germany.

She's supposedly an overseas citizen voting from Germany.

She didn't get a ballot.

Now, Angela with Phil Callaway.

They cheated in too.

Coleman A Young the second cheated in the whole board of police commissioners.

Cheated in the elected ones.

And the point was appointed by a cheating in mayor.

City council is cheated in the school board.

Cheated in.

Next caller is going to be KCP.

All right.

KCP, the floor is yours.

Two minutes.

General public comment.

Good afternoon.

This is Casey Peller, resident in District 4 and policy manager at Detroit Disability Power.

I'm here today to speak on behalf of our organization and strong support of the resolution supporting the Wayne County Transit Millage.

Uh that's going to the Internal Operations Committee this week and urge the full council to adopt it as it moves to the table.

This millage would fund public transit in Detroit and connections across Wayne County.

This is going to be on the primary ballots August 4th, and the vote by mail ballots are arriving this week.

Um Detroit, as you all know, has been building transit momentum, and this is another huge opportunity to continue boosting it under the anticipated local agreements.

DDOT stands to receive an estimated seven to 10 million dollars in additional annual operating support, and that's a really important boost towards uh doubling D dot.

That's money for better reliability, more frequent service, stronger connections across the county and for Detroiters, especially those of us with disabilities and for seniors and youth.

These improvements are not nice to have.

They can be the difference between you know accessing class, a job, a doctor's appointment, family members, and just being out in the community versus being left behind and isolated.

This millage also does something that the current system can't, um, because it connects Wayne County.

17 communities across the county have no fixed route service and very very extremely limited service for seniors and people with disabilities.

Uh, and this would close those gaps and have a countywide system.

So this is incredibly important for Detroiters uh across the spectrum to be able to access um Detroit but beyond the borders as well.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Excuse me.

Next call is gonna be please don't put us at risk for talks of toxic solar smoke.

General public comment.

Are you there?

Caller, are you there?

May I be heard?

Yes, you may.

Okay.

Uh thank you.

First of all, I'd like to say to Miss Sandra Handy Turner, uh, why don't the and the tell council, why don't the rest of us Detroit residents get these efficient energy efficiency upgrades?

And how is this fair to the rest of us if there wasn't a community benefits ordinance?

And um, also, should we trust DTE who uh received a hundred million dollar court ordered fine from the Eastern District Federal Court on February 17, 2026 for Clean Air Act violations?

Also, um, you're rushing this because you're trying to get these federal renewable energy credits under the inflation reduction act, but really really didn't say much of that.

Uh when you were talking about this when they were rushing the approval of these uh phase one and phase two solar farms.

Um also didn't tell us about the definition of blight that you were using, which uh uh if a property is blighted under that definition, it can never be eliminated.

So that's fraud also.

And for those of you who don't know, and you really should look it up because the New York Times just printed an article that the people in Boyles Heights, Los Angeles are suffering a toxic miasma, meaning toxic vapor.

Because why a huge warehouse that had solar panels on top of it caught fire last Wednesday?

It's still on fire.

And the first report I read said people were tweaking the solar panels, and then the fire started.

Well, it's gotten so severe that even the governor of California has issued a state of emergency, and they're giving people air purifiers, and yet the city has rushed to cut all the carbon capturing trees down.

You ignore the concrete questioning plant and all of this.

Do not put us and other communities at risk of toxic solar.

Next caller is gonna be Darren McCluske.

All right, caller.

The floor is yours.

Two minutes, general public comment.

Good afternoon, council.

I apologize in advance for any children you may hear in the background.

So let's look at this.

Let's look at this solar thing from beginning to end.

I don't necessarily blame you guys for doing what you're doing.

You were presented with a very unique situation in a political climate where money was given out basically freely for these projects, and then it was allowed to be reassigned and purchased on the open market.

Your predecessor, Mike Duggan, decided to take advantage of it.

And then once it was determined that it needed to happen, you guys basically fit the shoe, fit the foot into whatever shoe would fit.

You rammed it through.

So here we have you completely wiped out zoning rules.

Number one.

That's insane, guys.

You completely leveled zoning for an entire neighborhood.

Multiple entire neighborhoods.

Then you said, where's the seed money gonna come from?

Oh yeah, we're decommissioning a power plant.

Except you haven't decommissioned it.

It's still there.

I drove by it on my boat over the weekend.

It still stands there with busted out windows, looks like crap, and somehow you found 10 million dollars there.

Then you decided to make this all these community benefits.

Most of the people could have gotten those upgrades because they're low income.

There's a gentleman who's gonna speak later today.

He already you're asking for his income.

It should be irrelevant to that if it's actually coming from the solar thinkings.

But here's where it goes wrong.

You guys took people's property.

You guys are hoarders of land.

You have more land than you know what to do with, and you took private property.

That's why this is wrong.

Detroit Solar Scam.com.

Check it out, everyone.

Educate yourselves.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller will be Teresa Williams.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes.

General calling comment.

Are you there?

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

Sir.

Next caller is Bobby Johnson.

It's Bobby Johnson.

The floor is yours.

Two minutes.

General public comment.

Greetings, uh, counsel, and thanks for um you uh pro uh President Tate and um Coleman for coming to D7.

Thank you very much.

I came here today because I'm tired of hearing about our children are doing wrong while nobody talks about what we're doing wrong as adults.

We were told that nearly 180 youth people were arrested or detained.

My question is simple.

What were they arrested for?

Were they arrested for violent crimes?

Were they arrested for carrying weapons?

Were they arrested for solving someone?

We were so many uh simply walking around, standing with friends, gathering in a public space, or just violating the curfew.

The people of these of Detroit deserve to know answers, not fear or headlines because if thousands of young people came downtown, the overwhelming majority of them themselves were peaceful.

We are not painting an entire generation as criminals.

We keep hearing about teen takeovers, we don't hear enough about teen achievements, we don't hear enough about team graduating working summer jobs, helping their family playing sports or leading the community.

We celebrate civil rights movements, but who led the sit-ins?

Who led the boycotts?

Who led the marches in the street demanding change?

Young people did.

Yet today we treat them, treat young people as suspects before they done anything wrong.

Meanwhile, our children are surrounded by liquor stores, vapes, marijuana, dispensaries, gambling, advertisement.

Adults have endless places to go, but where are the places for uh children?

Our children are dealing with trauma, anxiety, depression, violence, and hopelessness.

They need mentors, counselors, jobs and recreation opportunities instead of handcuffs, curfews.

The Ford fireworks began at 10.

Our miners were in at eight.

I'm asking the city.

That's all our next caller is going to be Joanna.

Caller, the floor is yours.

We have two minutes.

General public comment.

Good afternoon, everyone.

Um, I appreciate each and every one of you sitting up there today.

You asked all of the right questions from each district, which bring us all together in each community in each district.

So I do appreciate that.

My name is Joanna.

Um Littlefield Eden Black Club president in District 7.

I want to say shortly, I'm not going to take up too much time.

Mr.

McCampbell, if you can have someone from your team to reach out to me, I would greatly appreciate that.

Um I wanted to touch on what Miss Betty said for district seven as well.

Um I have spoke with a few more community leaders, uh, the Bethum community um president, Miss Brooks, about uh the mini mart.

We don't need minimum, we need food, we need a grocery store.

We don't have a grocery store in this area.

Um, so I would like, or you know, some of the other communities in District 7 community members and uh neighbors would like a grocery store.

We don't have one and walking distance, Mr.

McCampbell uh just recollection.

Thank you so much for the um bringing up the recreation for district seven.

Um we definitely need one.

And um, I'll take the rest of my time with uh one of your staff who contact me with which I would hope that is rain.

Thank you and have a great day.

Thank you.

Next caller will be the caller ending in 669.

Caller ending in 669.

The floor is yours.

Two minutes, general public comment.

Caller, are you there?

What up, though?

Can you hear me?

Yes, sir.

313 4449114.

31349114.

313, 444, 9114.

That number was made so you can remember it.

Uh, I'm asking everyone under the sound of my voice that would like uh some material, digital materials as regards to the Wayne County Millet to send me a text as so many have done so.

I will text you that information.

I do not get paid by any uh organization for the decade plus long time.

I've done this from the kindness of my heart.

So please pray for me as I pray for you.

Uh yes, on the Wayne County Military.

And so I'm free to say yes, vote yes, Wayne County Miller.

Um, thank you, Miko, for the uh fireworks event that went well.

Thank you, Ms.

Chantel Watkin Sheffield, for the financial donation for bus tickets.

Thank you, Councilman McCampbell for his donation for bus tickets for the free fare Friday.

Frozen ice water and bus tickets at the bus stop.

The needs are very great in this economy, and I can only afford to give out um hundreds of tickets every Friday.

I can't give out hundreds of tickets every day.

I was depressed for a moment about it, but I'm doing something, and so I'm still helping folks, not at the magnitude that I want, but God is good.

And what I do with the little donations that I get, I pay them forward.

Uh lastly, love me or hate me without a schism.

And you are not an automaton or a robot.

Feel free to love.

Our next caller is going to be Tahira Ahmad.

Caller, the floor is yours.

Two minutes, general public comment.

Good afternoon.

Thank you.

Uh, and and uh gentleman that's handling this part, letting us speak.

And and uh he's doing a fantastic job.

Uh, the guy that just spoke, I don't know your name, but anyway, I'm calling on behalf of the coalition for property tax justice.

Property depression uh depreciation is an important factor in property tax assessment since we've been illegally over tax 600 million dollars and 100,000 homes were illegally foreclosed.

That's almost a city.

This is uh important to get these people get our people compensation for this.

Um, also I heard recently that uh the um uh refund for uh illegal foreclosures um was opened back up until July.

I hope that the um city council members can give us an update.

Are these people now uh eligible again?

Because there was a deadline.

Are they now eligible to uh July um to get compensated for the illegal foreclosure?

The amount uh that they were to receive uh from the treasurer's office, and also we must replace Alvin Horn.

Uh Mayor Sheffield, replace this man.

He is the reason why we have this problem.

600 million dollars.

Alvin Horns should be should not serve as Detroit's chief assessor because he's not qualified.

He hasn't passed the MMAO certification.

No other city allows a chief assessor, especially when he's caused this kind of hard to be a chief assessor without having the MMAO certification.

We deserve better than this, Mayor Sheffield.

If you uh replace him, we'll be eternally grateful.

And then we won't have to take other measures.

Michelle Jackson, the floor is yours.

Two minutes, general public comment.

Can you guys hear me?

Yes, ma'am.

Yeah, I'm sorry, it's just a little bad on my end.

Okay, so um, thank you.

Um, my name is Michelle Jackson.

I'm a resident of the city of Detroit.

I'm calling in about the solar and the contract with DTE.

Just wondering if you guys have actually been over to the first site, the Lynch site.

Um, Van Dyke and Lynch.

Have you done a walkthrough?

Ask some questions.

Some stuff is already put up.

Uh looking at the contract or some information.

It looks like we are getting less and paying more, getting less and paying more, getting less and paying more.

We need you guys to look at the contracts to ask questions, too.

Maybe you guys need to negotiate.

Maybe that's not your problem.

Maybe that's not where you need to be.

But the solar farms, we need to look at that.

Our urban farmers are not gonna get what they're we're supposed to get.

I do know that they are getting some type of compensation.

However, this is not the plan.

So whoever had a plan, we need to stick with the plan.

If Long Star can't do it, we need to find somebody that can do it just like Lone Star.

DTE is a billion-dollar company tax credits and ain't paid on it in 12 years.

If I'm wrong, look it up, send it to me.

Somebody tell me I'm wrong.

Let me know that DTE has paid taxes.

I do know we have a DTE, which is the DTE side, and I also know we have a foundation that's philanthropical.

And I also know that they do a wonderful job in taking care of our city on the philodropic school park.

So I just want to say I am not against solar.

I am not against the solar farm.

I am not against the project.

I just think we need to ask some more questions.

And why is it that all these contracts come to y'all when it's the emergency?

Two weeks does not give you enough time to make an informed decision on something for 35.

Thank you.

Let's call it please.

Sir, before we go to our caller in the queue, um, our final caller is going to be Zoom user.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have two minutes, general public comment.

Hello.

Hello.

How y'all doing?

Okay.

Today uh calling in.

It's Charles Miles.

I got an issue with the city of Detroit in court.

I know, but you all know about, but it's something going on with the city of Detroit that they never showed up to court.

It's been over a year.

So what's going on?

I mean, seem like I don't know, this city being ran corrupt.

Like, you just won't even show up to court.

I waste my money and the lawyer fee and all this stuff, and you don't even show up to court, and you still try to push forward to take somebody's property when you know that all this inaccuracies.

It's like you, I mean, you control the judges.

I mean, this is crazy.

I got the receipts, and the judge can't you don't even show up to court to answer.

So, what's going on in Detroit?

I mean, it's crazy.

And then another thing about these gas stations and liquor stores and grocery stores selling expired food.

How is that crazy?

And people getting sick off this stuff.

They don't know.

Everybody don't look at the expiration date.

They're expecting to get some expired food with a shiny fresh looking package that's expired.

I mean, why is you not sending people out there to check it out?

What's y'all paid off by these people?

They selling cigarettes on a green light camera, loose cigarettes, spired food.

You see them coming in, it's recorded.

I mean, what do we have to do?

We got to call the federal government to investigate for you guys to run your own city.

I mean, this is these concerns that you know about because I'm telling you about it.

And I got video of it, it's all over the city.

I got thousands and thousands of citizens complaining the same thing to you guys, and you're ignoring it.

I mean, what's going on in Detroit?

I mean, what's so hard for you to investigate this stuff?

There's a gas station right on Wyoming in six mile with a whole front door full of expired products, and in front of that, as soon as you walk in the door, you can't miss it.

Stacks a pallet of it.

Why not?

Let's call it please.

Turn it to our callers in the queue.

First up is Hazel Flood.

Hazel Flood, the floor is yours.

You got two minutes.

General public comment.

Me.

Can you hear me?

Yes, ma'am.

Okay.

Alawanna says president of Garden Homes Community Organization in Council District 2.

This parking issue that continue to exist for residents Stopo, the John Jones family at 1992 , Stoko at the new prospect Baptist Church uh taking the whole uh alley from them.

Um Pimber between Stopo and Santa Rosa.

The church had installed a gate on the fence on the Jones fence, and then they had to unlock it when DTE need uh access and a plumber to get to the Jones backyard.

I have known Adrian McKinney family for over six decades, and this is why I afford this parking uh situation to District 2 Councilmember McCalloway, district manager Marshall Bullock, and deputy mayor, um I mean manager Sean Davis regarding this issue.

And my request I had a DPW director, Mr.

Bondrich to install no parking sign next to the church parking lot on Stoke Boat to free up the congested March.

Um May 30th, 2026, signs installed, but they're still parking there and in front of Mr.

Jones' house where the parking allowed sign is placed, leaving them nowhere to park.

Now I want to know their invent inconvenience if they lead to Ron Aaron.

Where's the documentation for me approving this alley encroachment for the church?

And the church, I know the church has a parking lease uh with the city for 166,500, which doesn't answer 2027.

Have municipal parking activated the maters on Livinoids to drive to drive patron to the church lease free parking lot.

We we leaving parking pressure on Livinois.

The Jones want their alley back, and the church needs to move their fence out the alley.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller will be Karen Hammer.

Caller, the floor is yours, two minutes.

General public comment.

Caller, are you there?

Going once.

Going twice.

Aaron Hammer, are you there?

Going three times.

We're gonna have to move on.

If you would like to provide your comment to the clerk's office, it will be placed onto public record.

Next caller, please.

Next up, we have owner Papa.

Right, caller, the floor is yours.

Two minutes, general public comment.

Uh good morning, and to the chair, Mabby Heard.

Yes, yes, and uh did old Miss Uh uh Tahad.

Uh he's very good.

And um listen, you had a presentation about the safety from the ordinance that you that you gave.

And and he came in, the the chief came in and talked about everything but that he gave 180 tickets and and and and parents' tickets and and the children tickets.

I don't think that you should be able to do both.

Either you, you know, the Michigan had a responsibility law that was racist to the people in the city of Detroit, and so you are employing the same racist tactics that the state of Michigan has employed for decades on black people in the city of Detroit.

You're you're interested about ICE, but you're not interested that the FBI had a hand in Fred Hampton and many of our leaders.

So you're insensitive to to the black experience, even though you're black.

Uh uh, Mr.

McDougall, uh, councilman McDougall.

You you had a question about the police and the facial recognition and the wrongful arrest uh detainees and Ms.

Waters has another one on her on the agenda today.

Um we need answers.

I didn't see any answers, uh, councilman, and I would like you to direct me where the answers that you received are and uh non 9.8 is the very reason why the citizens don't trust you because you are getting a report about how you have illegally seized and condemned people's property and allowed the land bank to participate in it when uh it was the the the report was given already by the attorney general to let you know that the land bank cannot be involved in what you had them involved in, and that's probably why this is confidential.

But you are doing illegal things to people in the city of Detroit, and we would just like you to stop.

And I thought that the police were only going to interject in the children if they were causing.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is going to be Frank Hammer.

Break Hammer, the floor is yours.

Two minutes.

General public comment.

Break Hammer, are you there?

Going once, Frank Hammer.

Going twice.

Frank Hammer.

Going three times.

Are you there?

Fortunately, we're gonna have to move on.

If you'd like to provide your comments to the clerk's office, it will be placed on to public record.

Next caller, please.

Yes, sir.

Next caller is going to be Teresa Williams.

All right, Teresa Williams, the floor is yours.

Two minutes, general public comment.

Um, yes, thank you.

Okay, I want to talk about the data center, something we absolutely do not need here in Detroit.

There's no benefit to that.

Uh, the master plan that those two young ladies mentioned last week, they got the right name for it, master plan, because it feels like we're slaves here.

Anytime you tell us that you're gonna do a study after all of this time with our own money to see if you should put money in our neighborhoods.

How insulting is that as far as the ARPA funds are concerned, for that other lady that could come and say she didn't know that you could use ARPA funds for small business, and let me put this on there.

Detroit residents small business, not any just small business, but regardless of what I'm saying concerning that, she doesn't know the law because I've read the law.

So either she doesn't know it all this time or she straight out lied.

And if either in any event, I need to use Donald Trump's uh uh mantra, she's fired, she needs to be fired.

The other thing is um DPS, the fire um fire department, the civic jobs that are down there.

We need an audit on those people that are actual residents of Detroit that holds don't hold those jobs.

I have heard complaint after complaint after complaint about people not being able to get on the police force.

Detroit residents, young people, because they have bad credit, or you are 30 seconds off the time.

This is ridiculous.

We can't even police our own sales with our own tax dollars.

Our young people are not being employed.

We need to investigate that.

We need to have an audit, and the other thing is uh councilman Tate.

When we come down there concerning serious matters, and you try to characterize that as social media, shame on you next caller, please.

Sir, I should note that Frank Hammer is who um he's on here twice.

Can we go back to him?

We went once.

We're gonna do it one more time from here on out, one and only.

Yes, sir.

Um trying Frank Hammer again.

Frank Hammer, the floor is yours.

Two minutes, general public comment.

Thank you.

Can you hear me?

Yes, sir.

Yeah, I was not unmuted the last trial.

But I'm glad to be on.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, President Tate and City Council.

Over two and a half years ago, city council endorsed the resolution crafted by council member Gabriela Santiago Romero demanding a ceasefire by Israel and humanitarian aid for Palestinian victims.

In that time period, over 75,000 Palestinians, adults, and children have continued to be murdered by the Zionists.

As a decades-long Detroiter and UAW member, I'm glad to report that the UAW and its convention at Huntington Place last week made a decisive break with with the Israel Israeli genocide by voting to end the UAW's investments in Israeli bonds.

This was a courageous move by the UAW delegates, which includes our UAW Ford locals, 600 and 900 in nearby Dearborn.

And so doing, they joined 124 nations calling out the illegal actions by Israel.

Those who lend unquestioning support to Israel's apartheid state will not be silent.

They're already busy accusing the my union of anti-Semitism.

The UAW's divestment decision is part of a broader boycott divestment and sanctions movement supporting the right of Palestinians to self-determination.

This is a moment for city council to reassert its support for the Palestinian people.

I appeal to city council in line with this 2024 ceasefire resolution to issue a solidarity statement in support of the UAW's historic decision.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

That is that was our last caller, sir.

All right.

That concludes our public comments.

Colleagues, any comments we would like to provide.

Start with Pro Tim Young, followed by Member McCampbell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair, President.

Um, I received a flyer talking about the no data centers, zooming calling protests.

I just want to make some corrections.

First of all, in the bottom corner, there's a picture of Emma Lephart.

Her name is Irma, not Emma.

And her last name is Gooch.

Second of all, there's a picture of Marcel Ty.

Just let them have a picture.

Oh, no, no, no.

I gotta cry.

I was talking about me too.

I got I got usually I will it talks about me, so I gotta correct this.

It has a picture of Marcel Tide.

I don't look at it in Marcel Tide.

This is not Marcel Tide on a picture.

All us black folks don't look alike.

This is not Marcel's head.

I just want to say that one.

I'm also looking at a picture of Daniel Mahoney from DTE.

This is not Daniel Mahoney.

It's not what he looks like.

Uh also I just want to say there's members that says members of a secret DTE data center group.

Um, and it has my name on there.

I have never been, nor have I ever been considered to be a member of the work group.

I sub I respect uh Scott Benson and support Scott Benson, but I have never been a member of this work group.

Uh also it also says here in March uh that they that um there is a two-year AI moratorium.

There is not a two-year AI moratorium that passed in March.

There is a two-year moratorium that passed on data centers and not just artificial intelligence data centers, data centers, period.

So you have the right to protest, you have the right to call in, but it's important that when we do this, that we get these facts straight.

There's a great quote from Lynn Olsen from the Citizens Research Council.

It says the right to criticize government is also responsibility to know what you are talking about.

And so if you wanted to criticize, that's fine, but you have to get the facts right.

And I just want to take that opportunity to do that.

Thank you.

Uh, Mr.

And also just want to say, and I also respect the work that uh member Scott Benson is doing, all data centers.

This is no way trying to throw shade at all in the work that he's doing or anyone of that nature.

I just want to make it clear, I am not part of the work group, nor have I ever been a part of the work group.

So let's get our facts together because facts matter.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you, sir.

Maybe this was created by AI.

Not sure.

Let's say we're set.

Um member McCamby.

Member McCamber.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh Miss Just for Miss Oliver.

If you know you have our office contact, just follow up with us.

Um, definitely happy to continue working to see how we bring more fresh options to um the area, especially in the north area, north side of the district, but all across the district.

Um, Ms.

Hughes, on your comment, just to be clear.

Uh, you know, because I know you know because you have you attend our meetings that I'm one of the members that ask a lot of questions around the curfew and will continue to do so.

Um, we are 80 percent plus black city, so all of my decisions and my advocacy is center around black folks and also uh everyone in the district that I represent.

When we talk about ice, as I've said before, ICE, the immigrants that are most um that are hidden around us are black immigrants that are continue to be targeted in the city of Detroit by ICE.

And when I talk about that chase and that pursuit, the damage that the home that was damaged was a black family that has no recourse now.

So, this aspect around I'm not speaking up for black Detroiters is absolutely wrong and inaccurate.

And I know you know this because I talk about it all the time in community at this set and at this session.

Now, on the aspect of us of you wanting the answers that we got back on the memos, send us an email on which memos, and we will get that summary for you over to you.

So I just wanted to make that record clear about where priorities lie.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Member Kelloway um, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

This is um, I don't know if it's appropriate to give an assignment to LPD in law at this time, but it does go to um a conversation that we just had um with um chief bettison.

So um through yourself to Mr.

Whitaker and to the law department.

Um, and we we will send a memorandum with the assignment, um an ordinance to um regulate uh Waymo Autonomous Vehicles.

I just looked up the state laws very, very um laxed um and lackluster.

There's not very much meat there.

Um so I'm thinking we can get ahead of it, and then the Michigan um the state of Michigan can follow our lead, um, like we've done with our um human trafficking ordinance, making it a requirement here in the city to have the 1-800 number and the one three one three number posted in our um hotels and motels.

So that's an assignment through the chair to you, Mr.

Whitaker and to the law department.

I don't Mr.

Graham Anderson, um, looking at the ordinance, possible ordinance to regulate Waymo autonomous vehicles.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Colleagues, there's a motion on the floor with discussion.

Member Callaway, I think that's a good idea.

One thing I would take out is the the Waymo part and just autonomous vehicles because there may be another company that comes around and may do the same.

Yeah, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

So um autonomous vehicles, i.e.

more.

Today thank you, Mr.

Chair.

There's a motion on the floor, colleagues.

Any objections?

See none, and action shall be taken.

Any further colleagues?

All right, seeing none, we shall continue along in the agenda for the internal uh understanding committee reports.

Madam Clerk under the internal operations standing committee from the mayor's office, council member with field calloway, two resolutions, line items 16.1 and 16.2.

Uh member calloway.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, madam clerk.

Um, motion for approval with discussion.

There's a motion to approve line item 16.1 and 16.2 with discussion.

Member Callaway.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Line item 16.1.

There was a question whether or not, and this would go from through the chair to Mr.

Whitaker or to law, whether or not there would be a conflict of interest or ethical violation to um continue the appointment of um Catherine Richardson to the tenants' rights commission.

Um, understanding that she does work for the city of Detroit, and I think the administration.

Mr.

Wisconsin, um, we did look up the ordinance, the tenants' rights ordinance.

There is no requirement that the individual be uh, you know, no prohibition for a city uh person who is a city employee serving on that board, and this would be a joint appointment.

So long as it's your honorable body and the mayor selects this person, it would be consistent with the ordinance and the charter and everything else that we could find.

Thank you, Mr.

Whitaker.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, member Waters.

Thank thank you, Ms.

President.

So um members of the tenant rights commission believes that it's a violation of the city charter along with the ethics ordinance.

Can you please clarify that, please?

Because if you're being paid by the city, you ought not to be a voting member.

Please verify that just so that the record is clear for everybody.

Mr.

President, Mr.

Whitaker.

Since learning of this this morning, we have undertook uh a search of all those sources.

We don't find anything there that would allow you to eliminate this person from contention.

She has served in the past.

This is a reappointment, and we don't see anything that stops it from being a continuation.

From our for my record, it seems to be a reappointment.

No, no, she has not served on the tenant rights commission.

Okay, that I do know I because I know her and and I'm supportive of her, but I wanted to make sure that we could eliminate some of the things that are being placed out there.

So, you know, for the record.

Yeah, we we found no prohibition in any of the language.

There is a requirement that she be a Detroit resident, as far as we understand she is a Detroit resident.

But aside from that, we don't see anything that would prohibit her from serving.

All right, thank you.

Bless you.

It's a motion for approval for line items 16.1 and 16.2.

Any objections?

Discussion.

Uh with the middle of the vote.

Before the vote.

Well, we were in the middle of the vote, though.

Okay.

We can go ahead and go for the vote.

Then you want to re reconsider.

Okay.

Uh we're good.

Yes.

Yes, ma'am.

All right.

I will open back up for discussion.

A member Sancha Romero, my apologies.

No worries.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I just was going to ask because this is going to impact my votes.

Um, and forgive me, I have been only I'm catching up, but I have heard that there might have been some concerns that we have received.

And just want to clarify have anyone else received concerns from the tenants' rights commission regarding the appointment of Catherine?

Yes, I'm seeing yes.

Okay.

Um, so because of that, um, I would get no votes on disappointments.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

All right.

Uh there is a motion for approval for line items 16.1 and 16.2, colleagues.

Any objections?

Objection, McCampbell.

Objection, Member Santiago Romero.

Oh, 16.1.

Member Santiago Romero is that both?

It's on 16.1.

Any further colleagues?

Hearing none.

Line items 16.1 and 16.2 shall be approved.

Mr.

Mr.

Chair.

Uh member Calvin.

The administration's requesting a waiver on both 16.1 and 16.2.

The request for a waiver, colleagues, on line items 16.1 and 16.2.

Are there any objections?

Hearing none, waivers should be attached.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh line item.

I'm sorry.

Uh, from the Office of Contracting and Procurement, Madam Clerk.

Council member with the Ocalloway, a resolution line item 16.3, contract number 6007 238-R.

So revenue agreement to provide revenue contract for disposal of obsolete IT assets.

Services include recycling, refurbishment, and resale with payments issued to the city.

Contractor resource partners, total contract amount of zero dollars.

NASCOR do it.

Councilmember Santi, excuse me, Councilmember with the Galloway.

A resolution.

Member Cowan.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, madam clerk.

Motion for approval.

Another motion to approve line item 16.3 uh with discussion, please.

Thank you so much.

All right.

So I think I see some folks from IT here.

I did see that uh the previous contract that we have for this service.

Um, we weren't really able to calculate exactly how much we uh obtained in terms of revenue, but it's uh stated that we should improve that amount by two to three times.

Um it was estimated about a a thousand dollars.

So through to anyone who can answer the question, why do we suspect that we would uh estimate it to two or three thousand dollars if we weren't sure how much we had before or we we obtained before?

So come on, come on up it, come on down to state your name for the record and you may proceed.

Good afternoon, through the chair, Brandon Sledge Mellon, uh director of departmental technology services and do it.

You may proceed with the response.

Thank you.

Yes, so uh the vendor that's coming in uh as opposed to the vendor that went out.

Um we were getting between 20 and 30 dollars per laptop uh with the vendor that's coming in.

They offered us much more um better pricing, so between 60 to 70 dollars per laptop.

It depends on the model, but that's why we estimate the cost will go up, or I'm sorry, the revenue will go up.

So, but looking at our inventory that we have, I know we cycle uh a lot of our electronics.

I think it's like a five-year turnaround, if I'm not mistaken.

What does that number look like?

I mean, we should have an idea, not just yeah, we should be three to you know, two or three times what we had before.

What what is that potential amount that we're looking at?

Yes, so based on the inventory that we have to cycle out.

I'm sorry, yes, through the chair.

So it really depends because not everything is usable, so we don't necessarily know right now, you know, over the term of the contract in each year how much is going to be usable and how much is going not going to be usable.

So the only thing that's getting recycled are the ones that are not usable, the ones that are still usable after that four-year period, they're put back into the environment, and we get good use of them.

Okay, so why do we need this contract?

We don't know what that number is.

Why can't we just do this ourselves?

Because then sound like it may not be a large number, or maybe it is.

I don't know.

Again, that's what I'm missing from the information.

I mean, we could do it ourselves, but there's other items that get recycled that we can do ourselves.

So this also includes scrap metal, includes recycling phones, including recycling network equipment.

So not things that we just don't have a means of where to put that stuff.

Okay.

Thank you so much.

Uh, with further uh pro tem you know.

Thank you, Ms.

President.

Uh, this is a revenue contract.

So, for my understanding, isn't it also because they would be able to know how to maximize the amount of revenue that we would be able to receive versus we're doing it on our own versus the cost that we would incur if we did this in-house.

I mean, couldn't they all all could we get a maximum uh revenue by contracting it out this way through this process?

Through the chair, yes, sir.

That is correct, and I apologize.

I ran upstairs to catch this question.

Sorry, but uh in there.

Yes, you are correct.

So that you know, there this is a recycling contract, so there's we can't do this in-house.

So uh the vendor that's before you, they provide the best price.

Yeah, and my other question is I'm not trying to steer contracts in any way.

So I understand the implications of that.

Yeah, I'm not trying to put anybody in order to zoom, forgive me.

I'll just ask it in general.

I saw that human IT, which is the African American company in the city of Detroit that does this, didn't get the contract.

You just explain to me why that is and what programs are available for people who are small businesses that are like that in the city of Detroit that apply these type of contracts that don't get that so they can make the changes they need to make so they can maximize their opportunity to get win the bid in the future, yes, sir, through the chair.

So uh we wanted team IT to be part of this.

We were actually going to propose two awards.

Uh we had some issues with uh clearances with human IT.

Um, so we actually held these for a while before presenting it to council.

Uh eventually they pulled their name from consideration, so they asked that their bid not be considered anymore.

So that's why we brought uh resource partners in front of you today.

Okay, I would say in the future, you know.

Um this is really more of a procurement question, I think, but right.

Um, you know, uh small businesses specifically in technology need to be registered with the city of Detroit via the procurement portal and make sure that they're on the lookout for any any bids that may be coming.

Oh sorry, I thought you would procure me, brother.

I I oh no worries.

I I apologize.

I'm sorry.

Um, do we have anybody from uh OCP that can answer that question?

Mr.

Wash available?

My apologies again.

I'm sorry.

Good afternoon through the chair.

Yes, we do have Jamila Watkins online.

All right, we will promote that individual.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

This is Jamila Watkins with the City of Detroit Office of Contracting and Procurement.

Thank you for joining us, Pro Tim.

Yes, um, I wanted to ask you what are we doing to be able to make sure that companies like real IT that didn't get this bid, what are we doing to be able to make sure they get the education that they look that they need to give to the training that they need to maximize their opportunity to get this bid again?

Because these are the type of businesses that we want to be able to get these type of bids, the minority-based businesses, African-American-based businesses, that's that part of that DBE spin.

What are we doing to be able to make sure that those type of programs get given these type of jobs?

Well, we do uh conduct outreaches on a regular basis through the chair.

I apologize for that.

We do conduct outreaches on a regular basis, and this particular RFP, this has been a long process.

So this was put out last year.

Um, and I don't remember a real IT showing any interest in it, but just know that um for all of our RFPs, RFQs, we do conduct regular uh outreaches to reach out to the community, and we also do partner with our department our requisitioning departments to make sure we are inviting um Detroit-based businesses, certified businesses, etc.

Oh no, I appreciate it.

I wanted to ask you what is your black spend, your black media spend ratio, and what is your minority media spend ratio?

And what I mean by that is dollars paid to black owned media outlets divided by the total media owner spend and dollars paid to minority owned media outlets divided by the total media owner spend for these type of contracts in particular, or any general through the chair.

I that is information I will have to ask and bring back to you if you would allow me.

And also, because that is kind of a complicated question.

If you would not mind submitting that in email, because I don't I want to make sure I don't miss any of that.

Sure, absolutely.

I'm not expecting it by this session anyway.

So I'll just say until you get it back to me as soon as you classible can.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I'm done.

Thank you, sir.

Done.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any additional colleagues?

All right.

Uh there is a motion for approval for line item 16.3, colleagues.

Are there any objections?

Seeing none.

Then action shall be taken.

Thank you.

From the law department, madam clerk.

Council member with Callaway, two resolutions, line items 16.4 and 16.5.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

These are um settlements and lawsuits.

I'll motion for approval.

There's a motion to approve line items 16.4 and 16.5.

Any objections?

See none.

That action shall be taken.

Uh from the board of review, Councilmember Whitfield Callaway, a resolution line item 16.6.

Line item 16.6, member Callaway.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

This is an amendment to the 2025 and 2026 homeowner property exemption policy, otherwise known as Hope, and in guidelines accordance with MCL 211-7U.

Motion for approval.

Any objections, comments?

See none, the action shall be taken.

From the human resources, labor relations division, Madam Clerk.

Council Member Whitfield Callaway, a resolution line item 16.7.

Member Callaway.

Thank you.

Um motion for approval, Mr.

Chair.

There's motion to approve line item 16.7.

Colleagues, any objections.

See none, and action shall be taken.

For the planning and development stands, planning and economic development standing committee under unfinished business.

Council member Johnson and ordinance, not in a roll call, line item 17.1.

Councilmember Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I move to take from the table an ordinance to amend chapter 50 of the 2019 Detroit City Code Zoning, Article 17, zoning district maps by amending section 50-17-73.

District map number 71 to revise the zoning classifications for the properties commonly known as 2040 telegraph 19254 through 1953 Woodbine, even numbers only.

Numbers only 24224 24270 and 24290 West 7 Mile Road 19225 Woodbine 191419160 and 19191 Winston 19120 19140 and 19180 Brandview 24620 West 7 Mile Road 19185 Lenore 1900 Fenton 19301 Shiawasi 19255 Shiawasi 19130 and 19220 Appleton 19143 and 19173 Berg 1980 Telegraph and 24540 and 24570 Shiawasi from a combination of the existing B2 local business and residential district and PD Plan Development District Zoning Classifications to a combination of the R1 single family residential district R2 two family residential district R3 low density residential district and R5 medium density residential district zoning classifications and to repeal any regulations for development of the existing PD zoning districts or portions thereof subject to such revisions laid on the table April 7th, 2026.

Hearing no objections that action will be taken.

Councilmember Johnson.

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

Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Councilmember Johnson.

I move the ordinance be passed as submitted.

Please call the roll.

Yes.

Council President James Tate.

Yes.

Councilmember Scott Benson.

Councilmember Denzel McCampbell.

Yes.

Councilmember Renata Miller.

Yes.

Councilmember Letitia Johnson.

Yes.

Councilmember Gabriela Santiago Romero.

Yes.

Councilmember Mary Waters.

Council Member Angela Whitfield Callaway.

Nine days.

That motion passes, Mr.

President.

The ordinance is approved.

Um member Johnson.

I move the title to the ordinance be confirmed.

Hearing no objections, then action will be taken.

From the Office of Contract and Procurement, Madam Clerk.

Council Member Johnson 18 resolutions.

Line items 17.2 to 17.19.

Noted that line items 17.2 through 9 are for housing and revitalization.

And line items 17.10 through 17.19 are for the human homeless and family services.

Contract number 6001511-A6.

100% city funding.

Amendment 6 to provide an extension of time and an increase of funds for property management and real estate services.

Contractor Detroit Building Authority.

Total contract amount 14,220,000.

Contract number 6007959.

100% city funding to provide economic development services on behalf of the city of Detroit.

Contractor Detroit Economic Growth Corporation DEGC.

Total contract amount 2,141,489.

Contract number 6004747-A4.

100% city funding.

Contractor Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation.

Total contract amount 10,500,000.

Contract number 6007958.

100% city funding to provide annual operating agreement for EDC and supplemental programs.

Legacy Business Space Small Business Emergency Fund.

Detroit Startup Fund Retail Attraction Gap Funding.

Total Contract Amount 3,881,000.

Contract number 6006432-A3.

100% city funding.

Amendment 3 to provide an increase of funds only for an annual operating agreement for EDC.

Contractor Economic Development Corporation.

Total contract amount 4,056,000.

Contract number 600747.

100% city funding.

To provide operations for the public safety headquarters.

Contractor Detroit Building Authority.

Total contract amount 2,554,890.

Contract number 6007349-A1.

100% city funding.

To provide an increase of funds and extension of time to implement skills trade apprenticeship.

DESC Skill Trades Instruction.

Contract number 6007935.

100% CDBG grant funding to provide youth wages for the Grow Detroit Youth Talent Program GDYT.

Contractor Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation.

Total contract amount 1,500,000.

Contract number 6007185-A1.

100% city funding.

Amendment one to provide an increase of funds only for after hours and weekend outreach.

Contractor Motor City Midmission.

Total contract amount 1,565,313.

Contract number 6007952.

100% city funding to provide drop-in shelters.

Contractor Cast Community Social Services.

Total contract amount $6 million.

Contract number 600740.

100% ESG funding to provide rapid rehousing services.

Contractor Neighborhood Services Organization.

Total contract amount 980,000, 426 and 94 cent.

Contract number 6007954.

100% home ARP funding to provide permanent supportive housing.

PSH services.

Contractor Volunteers of America.

Total contract amount 991,250.

Contract number 6007941.

100% city funding to provide rapid rehousing services.

Contractor Neighborhood Services Organization.

Total contract amount 410,000.

Contract number 600742.

Contract number 6007942, 100% city funding to provide year-round emergency shelters, contractor, all things women, total contract amount 587, 240 dollars.

Line item 17.16.

Contract number 600743, 100% city funding to provide year-round emergency shelters.

Contractor, Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries total contract amount, 2,348,960.

Contract number 600744, 100% city funding to provide year-round emergency shelters, contract Freedom House Detroit total contract amount 587,240.

Contract number 6007945, 100% city funding to provide year-round emergency shelters contractor, neighborhood service organization.

Last contract is contract number 600746, 100% city funding to provide year-round emergency emergency shelters contractors, YWCA of Metropolitan Detroit total contract amount 284,080.

Councilmember Johnson, 18 resolutions.19, Councilmember Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair MOOC for approval.

There's a motion to approve those items with discussion, please.

Discussion.

That does include the workforce uh program that we've been working on in uh Brightmore B next.

It's expanding to uh district seven, but have some questions about the uh budgetary breakdown um and uh understanding how uh the dining with confidence also plays into this um request.

So uh can I get a postpone it for one week on this particular item, please?

Motion thank you so much.

There's a motion to postpone line item 17.8 for one week.

Seeing no objection, yes that action shall be taken.

Discussion further discussion discussion.

I heard member Callaway followed by member.

Um thank you, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, I was just doing a little bit of the math, my staff and I, and on the agenda today, Mr.

Chair, we have over $13 million in services to address homelessness.

I think if we could maybe um and these services um I'm sure are needed.

Um, but um if we ever really get serious about um addressing homelessness, a lot of these organizations um would be put out of business, sir.

And it's $13 million going on services to serve homeless, but none of these, nothing for permanent housing, it's just drop-ins, um, um, temporary, and I believe um one day soon, hopefully um the city will really get serious about addressing homelessness and um take the same $13 million that are offering services and shelters and put that same $13 million into housing.

And I got 21 buildings in historic Palmer Park that are in need of some of these millions of dollars that could permanently house our homeless population.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Uh number uh through the chair at a question about 17.10, the outreach program in St.

Clair Shores.

I was just wondering how many of Detroit residents actually get the opportunity to use that facility, uh, considering it's not in our city.

Mr.

Washington, do we have anyone available for 17.10?

Yes, through the chair, we have Tara Lisner as well as Candace Morgan online.

We will promote those two individuals.

Good afternoon, and when you see yourself on the screen, please introduce yourself for the record.

Good afternoon, my name is Candice Morgan.

I am the homelessness solutions division manager with HHFS.

Afternoon.

Good morning good morning.

Uh yes, yeah, Chair.

Yeah, one more.

I'm sorry, go ahead.

I'm the housing stability and innovations um division director in the HHFS department.

Thank you.

Member Miller.

Chair, I was wondering, uh, do we have uh any type of data to see how many actually Detroit residents get the opportunity to use the facilities in 17.10.

I know sometimes um while Detroiters recommend refer and bring in people from all over our city, it's difficult for Detroit residents to go to Birmingham, Franklin, or Troy to get those homeless uh opportunities.

So because it's on the border of our city, I was wondering if you have some data regarding that through the chair.

Um thank you for the question.

Um the facility that you reference um is not a residential facility, it is an administrative uh building.

Uh since last year, MCMM uh does have a location in uh Detroit proper over on West Grand Boulevard in Woodward.

All of the calls which we have, um MCMM actually does our after-hour services for the helpline.

They answer the call the calls and provide uh referrals um depending upon need.

Um they have received about 13,000 calls, and all of those calls or I believe like 81% were incoming calls, they all came from the city of Detroit.

Um, all of the residents that uh or the folk that we service are residents of Detroit.

If we receive any calls from anyone who is not, then we refer them to the proper services in um their area.

So that was the only place we could find to take those calls outside this like $800,000 uh for that contract through the chair through um all the contracts went through our procurement process and um the recommend the the recommended um providers have went through that process, they are the highest scoring individuals, um, and those are the ones that we bring forth for um for consideration.

So this particular this particular um provider uh received this award last year, and they were the provider of record at that time.

We are asking um to uh move them forward um just through an amendment.

Thank you for your the information.

You are welcome.

Thank you, colleagues.

Any further I see none.

There is a motion to approve line items 17.2 through 17.19 minus 17.8, which we were postponing for one week.

And Mr.

Chair.

Are there any of Mr.

Chair?

Uh member Alright thank you, Mr.

Chair.

If you could show me as an objectional, I was about to ask.

Okay, okay.

Are there any objections now?

Okay.

Um the clerk could show council member callway as objecting to line item 17.10, motor city mid.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any further comments?

Oops, say it out, say it out loud.

No, yep.

Into the mic, and you know, it should you hit it, but remember uh exception is well 17.

Any further colleagues objection one number?

Yeah, you gotta say member water.

The the clerk needs to hear you.

The clerk needs to hear you 17.14.

Was it 17.14?

I think yeah, okay.

It appears that all of the items have been approved.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Line item 17.2 through 17.19 minus 17.8 shall stand approved.

Mr.

Chair.

Uh member Johnson.

There's a request for a waiver on line item 17.4, as well as line item 17.9 through 17.19.

There's 17.

And which other ones?

I'm sorry.

17.9 through 17.19.

On line item 17.4, as well as 17.9 through 17.19.

Are there any objections?

Objection, member Callaway on line item 17.10, motor city mid.

A um request for a waiver is denied for line item 17.10.

Yes.

Uh member um waters.

Um I made an error, so I don't, I'm not sure what to do.

It was 17.

I didn't need your vote against the NSO.

Okay.

So which one are you looking to reconsider, ma'am?

Which vote?

17.14.

Okay.

So there's a re now yet.

Well, we did the votes.

We're now in the midst of the recon of the waivers.

Well, then um this waiver now, so we have to reconsider.

So no waiver on objector to 17.14 waiver and 17.10.

So you're so right now you're objecting to a waiver on 17.10.

Just so that I can get back to reconsideration.

So do can we go straight to the actual item?

Right?

We don't have to do the reconsideration.

We don't have to do the waiver at this moment, correct?

Or should we change that's fine?

She wants to reconsider afterwards.

Any reconsideration would take place yet.

Yeah.

Waivers.

No, after you you announce the result.

I did that part.

So we've already announced now we're in the waiver portion of it.

But member waters is looking to reconsider the vote with line item 17.14, correct?

That is correct.

And I did we did not apply any waiver just yet to 17.14.

Right.

So I'm going to object to the waivers for 17.10 and 17.14.

Because I mean to one, uh, reconsider my vote for 17.10, and then reconsider my vote for um 17.14.

So what I was saying, why don't we just reconsider the vote for 17.10 and 17.14?

That's that takes precedence.

That better work.

We've already voted on it.

Yes, ma'am.

That's where we were at, but now she wants my colleague wants to reconsider the vote for line items.

It may change with those, though.

That's why I'm saying no on 17.10 and 17.14, so that I can go back and fix it.

It was 17.

Okay, all right.

Then 17.14.

Yeah, that's what I would say.

Dr.

Wilders.

So we're gonna move forward with the waiver rec uh recommendation again.

Which ones do you have?

No 17.10 and 17.14.

So 17.10.

I think we already did.

Oh, okay.

I think maybe member calloway did that.

Yep.

So 17.14.

There's a request for a waiver online.

There's a a objection to a waiver on line item 17.14.

Yes, thank you.

All right, so waiver should not be attached.

Sounds like giving a vote on line item 17.14, though, right?

I reconsideration.

Yeah, that's where I was saying that we motion to reconsider 17.14.

Yes, ma'am.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

So there's a request for a reconsideration for line item 17.14, colleagues.

Are there any objections?

Hearing none, then action shall be taken.

Line item 17.14.

Member Johnson.

Motion to approve.

It's a motion to approve line item 17.14.

Are there any objections?

Hearing none, that action shall be taken.

Is there a waiver requested for line item 17.14?

Request to waiver for line item 17.14.

All right.

There's a request for a waiver for line items 7.4.

We already did that one.

Uh as well as 17.9 through 17.19, uh, minus 17.10, which is already determined will not receive a waiver.

Are there any additional objections?

Hearing none, waiver should be attached to those items that have been mentioned.

All right.

Uh from contract and procurement, madam clerk.

I'm sorry, Mr.

President.

That's just a typo.

They actually should be for the city planning commission.

Yes, ma'am.

Councilmember Johnson, a resolution line item 17.20.

Um member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I move that the ordinance be read twice by title, ordered printed and laid on the table.

Hearing no objections.

That action shall be taken.

From the city planning commission, madam clerk.

Council member Johnson, a resolution set in a public hearing.

Line item 17.21.

Councilmember Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Move for approval for the public hearing to be scheduled on July 9th at 1030 a.m.

Is there a motion for approval line item 17.22?

Are there any objections?

Hearing none, then action shall be taken.

From the city planning commission, madam clerk.

Council member Johnson and introduction of an ordinance.

Line item 17.22.

I think we did that one.

I believe we're on 23.

Let me go up then.

Line item 17.22.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I move that the ordinance be read twice by title, order printed, and laid on the table.

Hearing no objections, and action shall be taken.

Now from the city planning commission, madam clerk.

Councilmember Johnson, a resolution set in a public hearing.

Line item 17.23.

Line item 17.23, Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman for approval for a date to be determined.

There's a motion to approve line item 17.23.

Date to be determined.

Hearing no objections, the action shall be taken.

From the housing and revitalization department, Madam Clerk.

Council member Johnson to resolutions, noting that line item 17.24 was reported at a committee without recommendation.

Councilmember Johnson, two resolutions.

Councilmember Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Line item 17.24 is a request for a commercial redevelopment district for Fort Shelby Hotel.

There is a request for a one-week postponement.

So I am prepared to make the motion to postpone line item 17.24 for one week.

There's a motion to postpone for one week to vote for line item 17.24.

Any objections?

Hearing none, then action shall be taken.

Councilmember Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Move for approval on line item 17.25.

There's a motion to approve line 17.25.

Any objections?

Hearing none, then action shall be taken.

From the planning and development department, Madam Clerk.

Council Member Johnson, a resolution, line item 17.26, noting that this item was postponed from last week.

Formal session agenda.

Line item 17.26, Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Move for approval with discussion.

There's a motion to approve line item 17.26 with discussion.

Member Johnson.

I'll just open it up to see if there are any additional uh questions or concerns, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Colleagues, any additional questions, comments, concerns regarding this item?

Member Callaway.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

I I think maybe um LPD should come forward.

Um I requested a report on the number of liquor licenses, the over it here at the state level.

Um, and um, we had a report that was provided in 2024 regarding the number of liquor licenses that the city of Detroit um that's over the limit out of compliance with the state.

Mr.

President, Mr.

Woodham.

We did provide a report, I think yesterday or the day before, well, last week, I guess, indicating that this particular license is a different type of license than the one we reported on a couple of years ago for you.

This license is one that was carved out by the state in 2016 that allows for businesses that need um that are specially um uh they can seek a special license for businesses that want to distribute liquor as a part of their business for dining, etc.

If they're located in certain areas, certain uh development areas within the city, they can apply to the state for a special license.

This license is not transferable if the business should close for any reason that license is extinguished.

So this is to allow for businesses to that want to locate, particularly restaurants that want to locate in development areas to not have to be strung out trying to find a license to buy, but the state is allowing for them to get a special license for that purpose.

So this particular license that are before that's before you today really doesn't apply to the report that we gave.

Thank you.

Member Kelly.

Yeah, thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Whitaker.

Thank you.

Um, Mr.

Chair.

Yeah.

Any additional colleagues.

Hearing none, and there's a motion for approval for line item 17 point 26.

Any objections?

Hearing none, then action shall be taken.

From the Detroit Wayne County Port Authority, Madam Clerk.

Council Member Johnson, a resolution.

Line item 17.27.

Item 17.27.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Line item 17.27.

Um needs to be referred to the law department prior to a vote to take place.

So I'd like to make a motion to send line item 17.27 back to committee to allow that process to take place.

There's a motion.

Member Johnson, did you want to send it to the law department now as well?

Uh the ball rolling, or you want to wait until the committee?

That's fine.

Okay.

There's a motion to send line item 17.27 to the law department for review and analysis.

With discussion, uh pro Tim Young, followed by Member Benson.

Thank you.

I'm a little bit unclear about why we're doing this again.

I for my understanding, we move this out.

This has been something that I have been anticipatedly waiting for for a very long time to do development on the port.

And I don't understand what the hold up can see.

We've been going back and forth with Crown Enterprises or the Maroon family for a very long time for us to be able to get port development.

This would be able to allow us to do this.

Is this technical changes that we're seeing through this?

We're just trying to cross our T's and dot our I's legally to make sure we're on the same page, kind of really just you know, go through why we're bringing this back for another week.

And if we do bring this back afterwards, that will be the time to vote this out, correct?

Mr.

Whitaker.

Mr.

President, I think dotting the I's and crossing the T's when dealing with this entity is always necessary.

Okay.

And I think I think to act precipitously, this document was sent to council, and it should have, in my opinion, been sent through the administration, so that the law department vets it before it gets to you for approval.

I don't think you should rely on LPD either.

I think this has to go.

The consequences of this is maybe long, maybe far reaching.

So you need a thorough analysis by the law before you take action.

Thank you.

I don't know if the law department is supposed to speak or not.

I think you just I think you you summed it up.

Mr.