The Detroit City Council Budget, Finance, and Audit Committee met on July 1, 2026, with Chair Denzel McCampbell presiding. The meeting covered consent items, public comments, multiple contract and budget amendments, a property tax resolution, and a special presentation on the city's extreme heat response. Several items were approved or scheduled for future discussion.
Budget Finance of Auditor in the Committee of Wednesday, July 1st. Happy July 2026 to order. Will the clerk please call the roll? Good afternoon. Councilmember Denzel and Tom McCampbell. Present. Councilmember Letitia Johnson. Present. Councilmember Mary Waters. Member Warders has indicated she would be tardy, but we'll be joining us soon. Okay, the clerk will note. We have quorum, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Madam Clerk. That'll move us on to the approval of the minutes. Members of the community should have received the minutes from our June 24th, 2026 meeting. With that, is there a motion to approve? Motion. Move us on to chair remarks. I would just say, as we are in the midst of a uh extreme heat, please do uh check on your neighbors, especially uh seniors and and vulnerable folks if you're able to. Um there are cooling centers across the city, um, our recreation centers, the libraries, and also various community organizations. Um, and we also um for our folks who are experiencing homelessness, there are extra services available as well. So if folks do need assistance, please feel free to reach out to our office um as well. And please do stay cool and stay safe. And with that, we'll move on to public comment. Um request for public comment will close at 1 15. Well, please limit your remarks to two minutes. Uh we'll start with folks in the room and then move to those who are joining us virtually. If you are joining us via Zoom, please do use the raise hand feature and you will be called in order. Um seeing no one in person right now, we'll move over to Zoom. And how many folks do we have currently? Good afternoon, Mr. Chair. Apparently, we have nine hands raised. All right, we'll start with our first speaker. Our first speaker is Janante Smith. Mr. Smith, good afternoon. You have two minutes. Good afternoon. I like to respond to a couple uh council members earlier, specifically Letitia Johnson, uh Johnson, uh Angela Phil Calloway and uh Renata Miller. So I do have my receipts from uh you taking direction from me, Councilwoman Callaway. Uh December 9th, 2025. I was on in District 4, so happened to be Father's District 3, Down the Street from the Night Precinct, trying to get a house that's owned by the land bank that was burned up to be boarded up and demolished. And uh Angela Phil Calloway, you asked you told me that you would call a demolition department. You told me you would call uh BC. You also reach out to the land bank. Also, uh to councilwoman Ronaldo Miller. So when you work and you put in good work, people pay you generally. Uh so I do work with the Detroit Ham Channel Coalition as a volunteer.