Of Tuesday, July 7th, 2026, will come to order.

Madam Clerk, would you please fall the road?

Yes, Mr.

President.

Councilmember Scott Benson.

Councilmember Letitia Johnson.

Councilmember Denzel and Tom McCampbell.

Councilmember Renata Miller.

Councilmember Gabriela Santiago Romero.

Present.

Councilmember Mary Waters.

Present.

Councilmember Angela Whitfield Callaway.

Council President Pro Tim Coleman Ayon the second.

Here.

Council President James Tate.

Here.

Mr.

President, you have a quorum.

Thank you, every quorum, which means we're now in session.

We will allow like to continue the collection of public comment cards for those who are in attendance.

If you have not received, if you would like to address the body and you have not received a comment card, please raise your hand and someone from my team will certainly come by and provide you with one of those comment cards.

You can place your name on it.

We'll place you in the queue.

If you're online and you would like to provide a comment to the body during this meeting, please raise your hand and we will place you in the queue as well.

Currently, we have 23 cards for those who are in person currently.

Again, if you're online and would like to provide public comment, please raise your hand in person.

Raise your hand as well.

We will be cutting off the collection of public comments, cards very shortly.

But we're now getting to our uh introduction of our clergy.

Uh, providing this morning's invocation.

We have none other than a brother and a friend of mine, city and residents, the children, you name it.

He is uh often in that space doing great work.

We have senior pastor and founder of Victory Community Church, Bishop Corey J.

Chavis.

Uh yeah, we take a hand clap.

He's joining us online this morning.

Uh located the Victory Community Church is located on at 14025 Hubble Avenue in District One.

Uh Bishop Shavis is has faithfully served the Detroit community through ministry, education, and civic leadership for more than three decades.

Uh, in addition to his pastoral ministry, Bishop Shavis uh serves as the principal of the West Building of Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences, and it's the author of multiple critically acclaimed books, including the vocabulary of success and winning before the wedding.

His commitment to developing leaders, strengthening families, and empowering communities expands extends beyond the pulpit through his work as an educator and an advocate for positive change.

Uh, Bishop, thank you so much for joining us this morning.

Uh, the floor is yours, sir.

Thank you so much.

Uh, Council President, can you hear me okay?

Yes, sir.

Thank you so much again.

Uh, we appreciate you, uh, Council President.

Um, and thank you so much for having us as a part.

Uh Council Pro Tim, God bless you as well.

Um, and all of our uh council members, thank you for all of you do.

Uh we just want to appreciate you first and foremost, um, because we know that your uh uh task is uh not always simple.

Uh and we are always uh not just praying for you here uh at the council meeting, but also uh when we are uh going through our daily prayers, uh offering blessings uh to you and your family.

So uh let us pray uh together.

Let's look to the Lord.

Uh Father, in the name of Jesus, God, we uh ask right now that you would uh be with this council session.

Lord, we thank you uh for the leadership uh for our council president uh James Tate and for uh our council pro tem and for all the council members, uh the uh the work that they do uh on behalf of our citizens of the city of Detroit.

Thank you for their tenacity, uh, even in the midst of adversity.

Uh thank you, God, for uh the work they do, and thank you for the time they spend uh doing your work and your will, the time they spend away from their families, uh Lord.

We pray right now for every council member, uh Lord, that you would be with them and guide them, touch them like only you can, bless them with health, bless them with wisdom, uh, bless them with understanding.

Now, God be with the city of Detroit.

God touch the city, Lord, help us to heal, help us to grow, uh, help us to be the shining light uh in this entire state that we have been called to be.

Continue uh to watch over our children, bless the children, keep them safe and keep them from seen and unseen danger, and then God help them to hearken to the voice of both reason and wisdom as they continue to go about their daily life and living uh throughout this summer.

Now, God help us to walk in your way and bless this event like only you can.

We thank you and give your name the praise in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Pastor Shavis, thank you so much for providing this morning's invocation.

Uh, feel free to stay with us as long as you can.

I know you have a very busy schedule as a principal of a phenomenal school.

You all doing a great job over there.

Thank you again.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

I appreciate you all.

Uh, Madam Clerk, if you can please note that we've been joined by Member Vincent as well as Member McCampbell.

Clerk was on Mr.

President, Member Johnson and Member Johnson.

I wasn't sure.

So no, thank you.

Member Johnson as well.

Thank you so much.

Uh, we shall now cut off the collection of public comment parts.

Uh, and Madam Clerk, the journal of the session of Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026 will be approved.

Uh, we do have two special presentations as we lead off this morning's um city council formal session.

And member Johnson, are you uh all set?

I mean, we have two first, okay.

All right, um, member waters, are you all set?

Okay, member waters has a very special, very special, yes, ma'am.

Y'all so quiet.

This is not a solemn occasion.

We've given the award out to someone who deserves it.

Thank you.

Uh thank you, Mr.

President, and good morning to everyone.

Morning.

You know, oftentimes the work that we do here, um, as legislators.

Um, sometimes the best ideas come from members of the community, and so today I'm going to honor such a member of the community.

And to tell you the truth, I should have honored him even before today.

But you know, it's better late than never.

I hope so.

But uh, the fact that our veterans department is up and running, it's working really well.

We want to say that we really appreciate you, Mr.

Foster.

So just come down here, stand next to me, Mr.

Foster.

Mr.

Foster is an ever-present voice for the people of Detroit for months, and we know because he comes down here a lot and say a lot of things to us, and we do appreciate that because it's called democracy.

Uh, Mr.

Foster.

For months, he used his voice to come before the Detroit City Council and uplift the knees of our nation's heroes, the veterans of the United States Armed Forces, a veteran himself.

He uses his lived experiences to inform, educate, and advocate for everyone under the sound of his voice.

His passionate speeches inspire me, council member waters to create the veterans task force as well as to push for the creation of the Detroit Office of Veterans Affairs within the civil rights and inclusion and opportunity department.

Thank you, Mr.

Foster, for inspiring countless citizens of the city of Detroit.

And I just want to say a special thank you to Mr.

Mr.

Foster to you, because you come to those meetings and you sit there, and you say we need to do more to help our veterans.

I don't know if all these veterans like yourself.

Uh know that you advocated for them.

And I think we have about 25, 21,000 veterans here in the city of Detroit.

And so, on behalf of all of them, I say thank you, Mr.

Ronald Foster.

Well, you have two copies, Mr.

Foster.

All right, and thank you for serving our country.

We really appreciate it.

Mr.

President, through you and Mr.

Foster had absolutely okay.

He's not shy.

First of all, uh like to just give honor to God, send this on Jesus Christ.

I couldn't have any opportunities in life before first and knowledge and accepting grace and mercy in life.

Very grateful.

My parents, uh, my children always been an inspiration.

I've suffered a lot as uh have advocated, but very grateful.

I did want to say that um in recognition of fourth of July and recognition of these awards here.

There's a quote, and it says that we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain and alienable rights among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

And so from that, those are some of the things that motivates and pushes it forward.

Whether one gets recognized or don't get recognized is about the results, is about the impact that people get from the advocacy.

And so I'm just very grateful that Ms.

Waters is counsel while he took the time out to recognize me and to uh give these awards.

And it certainly means a lot to me as a veteran.

Um I served um in Iraq 03-04.

I actually invaded Iraq.

I've been to a number of countries.

And as I hear our citizens speak about not celebrating the fourth of July from my personal experience, I can tell you that this country may not be great or good to us, but it is much better than a lot of other countries and places that I've been to.

The opportunities are much more fluent because of service men.

We don't have to live under the fear of being rocketed or being attacked on our land and things like other nations do, and they do it day in and day out and night as we sleep.

And so I just want to just really just say I'm very, very um grateful for that.

And then more importantly, the fourth of July represents this is a legislative body during the Fourth of July.

The legislative body separated from King at that time and oppressive tyrant.

Right.

They wrote out 27 grievances to express why they left that tyranny.

They're representatives of the people here, direct representatives of the people and the people's attentions and voice.

And so I've always enjoyed the opportunity to come down to the legislative body to speak freely to those that have the ear of the voice that have the ability to push and propel the will and the and the and the intent of the people.

And I um just very grateful.

And I asked you all to just really continue to pray for my family and I and uh just thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thanks again for your service, Mr.

Boston.

Yes, thank you again for all the your service in the military, uh, Mr.

Foster, but also your service that you've provided, uh, the community as well.

Um, you are often seen at community meetings throughout the city of Detroit and advocating on behalf of residents.

So um really appreciate your uh willingness to be a part of the solution and not just uh part of the uh the concerns that we hear.

Um, but you bring those too and we receive received and we also have member Johnson who has a very special award that she's providing as well.

I'm gonna give any sneak preview.

I'll let you do it all.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair, and good morning, everyone.

If I can ask Dr.

Sharon Dumas to join me here, if you can come to this microphone here, we have we have a handheld for you as well, so you don't have to want you to everyone to be able to see you coming your way.

All right, um, I would like to present first.

I want to thank Dr.

Dumas for reaching out um to the office, recognizing that she is a district four resident, and she has a family member that we all know and love.

Um, and my colleagues have a bag that recognizes May 10th, 2026 as a Detroit holiday for his birthday.

Um, and so I just want to share a few words with you all.

At the age of four, Wonders family moved to Detroit.

By the age of nine, he taught himself to play the piano, harmonica, and drums.

And by now, you all probably know who I'm referring to.

He also sang as a soloist in his local Baptist church choir.

In 1961, he auditioned for Barry Gordy at Motown Records and signed with the Tamla label at 11, receiving the stage name, Little Stevie Wonder.

At the age, at the age of 13, his live instrumental single fingertips, part two, tap the billboard hot team 100, making him the youngest artist ever to reach number one.

Upon turning 21 in 1971, Wonder negotiated a groundbreaking groundbreaking contract with Motown that granted him complete artistic and creative control over his music, which we know is very difficult to do.

This marked the beginning of his classic period during which he pioneered the use of synthesizers and electronic instruments, reshaping RB punk.

He released a series of masterpiece albums, music of my mind in 1972, featuring you are the sunshine of my life.

And my husband asked me not to sing.

And in 1976, songs in the key of life, the massive double album that debuted at number one and spent 14 weeks at the top.

And I have to say my favorite Stevie Wonder song is these three words.

It reminds us that anything can happen to any one of us on any given day, but it keeps us optimistic.

And to make sure that we are sharing love and sharing to all of our loved ones how much we care deeply for them.

So never forget that.

Wonder was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989.

His honors include the Kennedy Center honors in 1999, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005, the Library of Congress, Gershwin Prize in 2009, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014.

He remains influential with his catalog continuously being sampled and celebrated across generations of pop, hip hop, and RB music.

Stevie Wonder continues to tour and create music, showing no signs of slowing down.

He routinely plays massive live shows across the country, celebrating his sixth decade catalog of hits.

He remains active in the broader music industry, recently earning a nomination at the 68th Grammy Awards.

And we all know that most recently he closed out the Star Studies ceremony celebrating the Obama Presidential Center Grand Opening in June of 2026.

So I present to Dr.

Sharon Dumas, and I know that she's going to present to our beloved Stevie Wonder, who we all appreciate, we adore, we have at admiration for, um, and all of the platitudes that he deserves this Spirit of Detroit Award presented on behalf of myself, Letitia Johnson, and the entire Detroit City Council.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much to Mayor Sheffield as well as the entire city council for this honor.

It is so important right now for us to remember our own.

I didn't believe that the current administration would give Stevie his rightful due.

And so we take care of our own in Detroit.

So 10 years ago, this 10 years ago, we had the street named after Stevie.

Milwaukee is Stevie Wonder Avenue as well.

And then 10 years later, now it's his birthday, is a local holiday.

So I'm so honored to be the one to walk these things through.

I know Stevie and I talked about love.

He sings about love.

And I would always say to him, there's nothing with your name on it here in Detroit.

So I'm just honored to be the one to make that happen.

Thank you.

Not um we can prepare for thank you so much.

Thank you so much for and you are an example of what perseverance leads to uh and determination, uh, especially when it comes to honoring one of our own.

So thank you again for your um uh your dedication.

Thank you.

Thank you.

With that being said, colleagues don't take a photo.

I should take two.

We'll start with Miss Doom since you're already up front.

All right, now take it off.

All right, thank you.

Everyone, please one more time.

Give it up for our awardees today.

So much.

All right, madam clerk.

There being no reconsiderations of unfinished business, we will proceed to the budget.

Finance and audit standing committee.

A submittal of a memorandum.

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

Nine reports from various city departments.

The nine reports will be referred to the internal operations standing committee for the neighborhood and community services standing committee, madam clerk.

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

Three reports from various city departments.

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

Twenty-four reports from various city departments.

Under other matters, there are no items, Mr.

President.

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

Okay, we will now call for public comment.

As I mentioned earlier, there were a number of folks who signed up in person or 22 in person.

We have 20 online.

We'll provide everyone a minute and a half for a public comment this morning.

Shelby Ambell, followed by Christine O'Donnell, followed by Madeline Smith.

And for those who have not come down to City Council in the past, City Council members will not be responding to each individual uh uh any of any of the uh requests until after all of the public commenters speak.

We want to make sure you have your time uh and not impede upon it.

Ms.

Campbell, for yours.

All right.

Oh, it's only a minute thirty.

Okay, can't read fast.

Um, my name is Shelby, and I'm here because Detroit tenants are being forced to live in unsafe housing while the city looks the other way.

Detroit has had a rental compliance ordinance since 2018.

Landlords are supposed to register, pass inspection, and obtain a certain certificate of compliance.

So I asked plainly why almost eight years later are roughly 85% of rentals still not compliant.

This is not a paperwork problem.

This is a public policy failure.

And while tenants are living with no heat, broken elevators, roaches, mice, water shutoffs, electrical problems, and unsafe buildings.

The city continues allowing noncompliant landlords to collect rent and file eviction.

It makes no sense.

You can't say you care about eviction prevention while allowing landlords to profit from illegal, unsafe housing.

Funding eviction defense is important, but it's just a bandage.

The deeper problem is that Detroit is letting landlords create the crisis first.

Um three things I'm asking you guys to do.

Require proof of compliance before a landlord can file eviction, create real penalties for repeat violators, including suspension of their ability to rent units and revisit a good cause or right to renew ordinance so tenants are not displaced for demanding basic repairs.

Ann Arbor has moved on tenant protections.

Detroit can too.

Corporations wants the want the right of people, but when they break the law, poison housing, and displaced families, suddenly there's no accountability.

Detroit tenants should not have to become lawyers just to get heat, water, safety, and dignity.

The question is not whether Detroit has ordinances, the question is whether the council has the courage to enforce them.

Our next speaker is Catherine O'Donnell, followed by Madeline Smith, followed by Daryl Stewart.

Hello, good morning.

Uh, my name is Katie O'Donnell.

I'm here on behalf of the Detroit Tenants Union to ask you all to revisit and pass the rights for a new with good cause protections ordinance as written by the DTU.

In the less than two years since I've joined this organization, I've seen dozens of residents displaced because of a lack of adequate tenant protections.

Without good cause protections for termination of tenancy evictions, residents are repeatedly kicked out of their homes for retaliatory purposes or no reason at all.

In cases like Princess Brown's, we see evictions happening after residents speak out about unsafe and unmaintained housing.

Um, in cases like Sherman Butler, we see people murdered during evictions that could have been prevented with an ordinance that would protect his housing.

Um in 2023, Mary Sheffield originally agreed to introduce this ordinance.

After two years of discussion with her in November of last year, we received a legal opinion from the city stating that state law preempts the ordinance as written.

We disagree for two reasons.

Firstly, a similar ordinance has been passed, was in place in Ann Arbor since March 2024 and has not faced any legal challenge to date.

Um secondly, we have obtained multiple legal opinions from local attorneys, including the Detroit Justice Center and Lakeshore Legal, disagreeing with the city's opinion of preemption of the law.

So I'm here asking that you all review the ordinance as written by the DTU along with the legal opinions that we've collected and provided, and you pass this ordinance to protect people's housing in the city.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next speaker, Madeline Smith, followed by Gloria Stewart, followed by Jerry Goldberg.

Hello, my name is Madeline Smith.

Uh, thank you for letting me speak.

Last time I was here, I was speaking in support of Detroit, declaring itself a sanctuary city.

Still hopeful that that will happen.

I also mentioned that I was in the process of buying a house in Detroit, and I can say that that is almost complete.

I am supposed to close maybe in the next week or two.

But um, it's kind of bittersweet how I got there.

Um tech uh basically, I said I'd never want to be a tenant again.

My experience being a tenant has been traumatizing.

And though I'm going to be a homeowner soon, I'm going to continue fighting for tenants' rights.

I will keep showing up at these meetings and making sure that no one else has to go through what I went through for three years.

I never uh gave my landlord an issue.

I paid him $18,000 in in money in his equity, right?

That he got from me in the second that I had an issue.

Um, my garden was torn up.

There was construction waking me up at eight in the morning, strangers coming and going from my unit, leaving the door open while I have cats.

Uh, my electricity was out, I didn't have an oven for days.

I expressed that this is not a dignified living situation for me.

And the next thing I know, I'm being asked to vacate by the end of the month.

So it's been a really traumatizing experience.

I'm glad I'm never gonna have to be a tenant again, and I hope that we can make it a safe city for tenants in Detroit going forward.

Thank you.

Well, now I'm clerking if you can please note that I do apologize.

Uh we have been joined by member Renata Miller.

Clerk was on note, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker, Daryl Scott, followed by Jerry Goldberg, followed by Lucille Belton.

Mr.

Scott.

Oh, excuse me, Mr.

Stewart.

Good morning, Council.

I'm Darrell Stewart.

And I'll come to give you a little report about the Leland.

It's over.

The media part of it is over.

But the residual effects and the repercussions are incredible.

Financial, medical, and emotionally.

That is not over.

So I'm gonna make it real brief and say this.

Like Dr.

Ball says Detroit watches out for their own.

Watch out for us.

Because that's where we are right now.

Am I right?

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker, Jerry Goldberg, followed by Lucille Belton, followed by Peter Fridric.

Take time.

Thank you.

My name is Jerry Goldberg, and I'm a long-time resident of Detroit and activist in Detroit.

I want to raise two issues to council.

First of all, this council meets well in the same weekend, celebrating a great anniversary of this country when tens of thousands of Detroiters were without power and are going to receive no compensation for the money they had to lay out for being without power.

It came to my attention that Detroit Edison has had the audacity to just apply for a new 474 million dollar rate hike on top of the 220 million they recently received.

I would ask council to intervene in this proceeding to demand that the MPSC come to Detroit to hear what the Detroit residents think about this corporation having getting a new hike and have a call for a public hearing in Detroit on the effect and the treatment and the mistreatment by these great utilities of its presidents.

Secondly, I want to extend my solidarity to the previous speakers who laid out the audio outrageous nature that 85% of the landlords of Detroit have no legal compliance certificates and are evicting tens of thousands of residents every year.

The point of putting this into perspective.

Detroit was once a city with the highest black ownership rate in the country.

With Australia City when the banks came in and carried out 65,000 foreclosures in a two-year period.

City Council should be intervening with the court demanding the right technology without presenting a certificate of compliance.

Thank you.

Our next speaker, Lucille Belton, followed by Peter Fed Friedrich, followed by James Washington.

The floor is yours.

So we do ask when you hear the bell ring.

I do ask for you release the mics for the next speaker.

Okay.

This is my first time ever came coming to a meeting here.

Thank you for that.

But I um a building at 14710 Puritan.

And I've owned that building ever since 2014.

And I would like to get in contact with the um district one, whoever in charge of the business district, so I can be updated on the new era of what's going on.

So my building will continue to be shut down.

Yes, ma'am.

Someone from my team will uh connect with you as you uh relieve the microphone.

Okay.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Next speaker, Peter Friedrich, followed by James Washington, followed by Stephen Rimmer.

For 50 years, John Conyers carried this city to Washington.

He founded the Congressional Black Caucus, put reparations on the floor every year, a bill for the wrongs, and that was Detroit seat in Congress.

Then in 2022, Sri Tanadar bought that seat, outspending eight black candidates with his own fortune and winning just 28%.

So Detroit lost its black voice in Congress for the first time in 70 years.

And the moment he had it, he went to work for the U.S.

front groups of a foreign movement, the overseas friends of the BJP, India's Modi's party wing, a registered foreign agent, and the Vishwa Hindu parasha of America, the U.S.

arm of a group implicated in anti-Muslim violence in India.

And through them, he carries water for the RSS, a fascist paramilitary that dreams of a country where Muslim six and Christians don't belong and makes it real with bodies in the streets.

So he takes their money, carries their agenda into your Congress, escorted Modi, who was barred from this country over a massacre of 2,000 Muslims through the Capitol like royalty, and wrote a resolution to brand anyone who exposes this movement to bigot.

Conyers used that seat to fight for the wrong.

And Tonadar rented it out to the front men for a movement that lynches bosoms and calls it faith.

So there's one question left for Sri Tonadar.

Whose Congressman are you?

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker, James Washington, followed by Stephen Rimmer, followed by Robert Belete.

And I do apologize if I'm mispronounced your name.

Good morning, and I appreciate you uh allowing me to speak in front of you, uh, Councilman uh members.

First and foremost, um, I was a residence of 1202 Roxbury Street, and my resident resident was terminated based on non-payment of rent.

My findings of 36 district court allowed them to evict me on non-payment of rent, but the house wasn't even compliant.

This is a huge problem in the city of Detroit, and these landlords are getting away with it.

It's the law of being compliant for the houses that they have.

So the recovery of possession states letter H number seven.

The item must be checked if the property is a residential property.

The plaintiff declares that the residential property was kept fit for use intent.

False.

These houses is not in compliance, and they are used in third district court to evict innocent bystanders and working families and single people.

So my asking of the city council to look clearly to go districts.

Thank you so much and seeing what is really going on.

Thank you.

The next speaker, Stephen Rimmer, followed by Robert Delitti, followed by Sam Schroud.

Hello, Council Stephen Rimmer here, director of Detroit Tenant Union.

Today we're calling on this council to introduce and has a right to renew ordinance with good cause protections.

Four years ago, we brought this issue to this council.

We shared our ordinance with all members of this body shortly after the ordinance was introduced by then city council president Mary Sheffield.

Only to have Conrad Mallard say we are preempted, preempted by state law.

We strongly disagree.

And we have multiple housing attorneys who disagree as well.

We have secured legal opinions from Eric Williams of Detroit Justice Center, Donovan McCarty, director of MSU Housing Law Clinic, Ben Christensen, seasoned Detroit housing attorney with years of experience in 36th district court, Adam Morton, a seasoned housing attorney from Los Angeles, who did his own intensive research on Michigan housing laws, and Richard LeMay, jurisdictor candidate at MSU Law School.

They all came to the same conclusion that Conrad Mallet is wrong.

We are not preempted, and we can pass a right to renew with good cause protections here in Detroit.

This issue is especially urgent as the Detroit tenant union has filed a legal complaint against the 36th district court.

Each year, thousands of Detroiters are evicted from properties that lack ballot certificate compliance, even though city code says they cannot during any time of non compliance.

The city of Detroit also expects renters to call and report their landlords.

But how can they do so if they know they will be evicted with nile least renewal or termination of Tennessee?

When tenants stand up for their rights, they need protection from taliation.

Thank you so much.

Robert Beliti, followed by Sam Frau.

Mr.

Rimmer, Mr.

Rimmer.

I did not interrupt you.

Mr.

Remer.

Mr.

Rimmer.

Hey.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next speaker, Robert Beliti, followed by Sam Shroud, followed by Brother Cunningham.

Hello, I'm here on behalf of Detroit Tenants Union and also a grocery delivery service I help operate for elderly folks and disabled folks around the city.

We're supporting the right to renew ordinance because this is one of the primary ways that landlords dodge accountability.

And they do so while forcing tenants to deal with things like black mold, flooded basements, and shut off utilities.

There was a phrase invoked about all people being created equal at the beginning of this ceremony.

And if that were true, there would be significantly more resources to defend tenants against landlords than the current state of affairs, which is the opposite.

So we support right to renew and we support significantly more tenant protections.

And really, if we could do without landlords, I think that would be the best thing.

Without an ordinance like this, landlords are given disproportionate power over their tenants by being able to end their tenancies for no stated reason through lease non-renewal.

There have been countless instances over the years of landlords using this power to retaliate against tenants who exercise their rights or advocate for safe and hospitable housing.

Without right to renew with good cause protections, tenants are now faced with an impossible decision.

Accept abject housing conditions or risk a no-cause eviction.

This issue is compounded by the recent statistics that only 14% of rental properties in the city are compliant with city code.

This reality paired with the absence of right to renew is nothing short of a crisis of housing insecurity and public safety.

The city of Detroit's legal department says we can't have this ordinance because as they argue, it is preempted by state laws surrounding eviction procedure.

However, we have collected legal opinions from the Detroit Justice Center as well as from individual attorneys locally and across the country that disagree with the law department's argument that the ordinance is preempted by state law.

Additionally, other Michigan cities like Ann Arbor have passed this ordinance and it has remained in force since it was passed two years ago without challenge.

The evidence is overwhelmingly clear.

A right to renew a good cause is both legal and necessary in Detroit.

We ask that you look over our collected legal opinions and reconsider the law department's opinion in order to pass a right to renew with good cost protections ordinance as written by the Detroit Tenants Union.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker, Brother Cunningham, followed by Tommy Knox, followed by Betty Lyons.

Just want to give a two-second moment of silence for Henrietta, a member of Warriors on Wheels.

She has passed.

Got some flowers on my end, Warriors on Wheels behalf.

If her family is uh listening.

Um, also 313, 444-9114-313-444-9114-313, four four four nine one one four.

That number was made so you can remember it.

Hello, everybody, and what up though.

DOT is D DOT is doing bad with the on-time service.

We need mechanics.

We need mechanics.

Um, also uh I need my vehicle repaired or uh another used vehicle to continue to do gos outreach.

Um I'll be giving out bus tickets, frozen water, cold water.

Um, just inspiring people just to help each other at the bus stops.

Um there is such a thing as bad unity and good unity.

Unity to hold me or anyone else down is wicked unity.

Unity for slavery is but that was bad unity.

Uh civil rights movement was good unity.

So don't let anyone morph the word unity is it always being good.

It's either good or bad.

Um, don't warf the word into one.

Unity is good or bad.

Choose good unity.

And um council members, it's not campaign season.

Let's do a bus ride along.

Our next speaker, Tommy Knox, followed by Betty Lyons, followed by Sharp William.

And I publicly apologize to you, Council President.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Uh our next speaker, Tommy Knox.

Good morning to everyone.

First, I'd like to thank Mr.

Love for informing me about this meeting here that I didn't know about.

Okay, I've been in business for 30 years.

My business name is Mr.

Pops Detail Shop.

I service this city, like I said, 30 years.

Yesterday, which was Monday.

Came to work and the streets were shut down totally.

I couldn't get in my business.

I could open, I had eight employees ready to work.

I had scheduled details that I made.

So it's a project.

My business is 6465 East Jefferson, right next door to the law, like one block east, uh, one block west of Bala.

So again, I walked up to my business.

I couldn't work, I couldn't do anything.

So I lost wages.

I had to compensate my employees.

I talked to the construction worker, and it's a DTE project.

He told me he didn't know nothing about it.

They just give it just a spur moment.

But anyway, closing here.

I would like to say I'm asking for a way to get assistance on how to receive compensation for our business and employees for the loss of wages and to make business like mine at least informed when they are shut down so they can operate so I can operate and prepare for the shutdown.

And again, I got details, employees to pay, and they told me they will be we would be shut down for a total of a whole week.

So no pay, no money for a week.

Thank you.

Someone from my team will connect with you as well.

Um you refuse to help Mr.

Miles.

You allow foreclosures, but yet you let these slum lords accumulate hundreds, thousands of properties and don't say nothing.

And this lousy lawyer that owes Conrad Mallet, Whitaker, Anderson, and the rest of them that sit and let them accumulate before they even have five places.

I would be all up in them to make sure they do people correctly.

You allow and sit here while satanic Mike Dugan stole over 600 million dollars of overpaid property taxes and still do nothing about it.

Whitaker, where were you?

You could have been on TV, but you weren't.

You didn't support us.

We're still waiting for that money.

Money, not no food stamps and all that junk.

We want what is ours.

And Anderson needs to stop helping that lawyer in Bloomfield Hills haul that over 9 million dollars from Detroit.

He don't even have to come and get that money, but I can't get my money.

So you need to do something.

All these people that get money from Detroit, and we get nothing.

You need to do something.

Next speaker, Char Williams, followed by Barbara Evan, followed by Shelby Murphy.

Uh-uh, let me do it.

I don't trust this.

Through the chair.

Okay.

Citizens listen very carefully.

Okay, that contract with uh contaminated soil that caused cancer.

It's freedom of information at guess who had that contract.

Okay.

So how can she be the president of the city council, not a mayor, but when they signed off on it, Mike Dugan signed off on that.

So now she's married to this man.

Now he wants to sue the city.

Make that make sense.

And another thing, pay attention to why these shades are down.

Tape me up here.

Umgrance crown while he's working on the city council board.

Okay, so Mayor Sheffield, her body guy, he's he have a fake name.

So you all have details.

They've been in okay, not real names.

What I've been complaining about, real names, but he is her personal, he was.

I don't know if he is now, but that's a fake name.

That detail, her security guy, body guy, whatever you want to call it.

So I've been talking about illegal immigrants on the Detroit Peace Department, illegal voters to the city of Detroit, the Detroit Police Department for a long time.

And pay attention to what's going on in this city.

Yeah, next speaker, Barbara Logan, followed by Shelby Murphy, followed by Queen Reese.

Good morning, everyone.

Morning.

I'm Barbara Logan again here, and I'm an advocate for former and current Detroit homeowners who are overcessing property taxes, and we haven't received any compensation.

What are the priorities?

Priorities are important.

Even as a refers to the city council, and that the more people that come here to express themselves to make their voices heard, the less time we get.

Sometimes it's a minute, maybe a minute and a half.

I think that we should be guaranteed two minutes so that we can prepare our speeches and get our voice heard and not be interrupted because our time ran out.

Give us some something.

Two minutes.

Each citizens who come down here who take the time to come down here, per and do everything else they need to do to come down here.

Most of us work, so sometimes we take off work.

We should at least get two minutes a week.

It's 600,000 people here.

That means we get 30 seconds.

That doesn't make sense.

That's not democracy.

We deserve a chance to be heard.

And now my time is up, and I hadn't even said what I came down here to say.

Followed by Queen Reese, followed by Adrian Times.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Clout influence bullying in short.

The message was very impactful.

If too many people show up, the last time we have to share our city's well-being, the health and future of our children, most importantly, but also the air quality, soil quality, animals, and the earth in general.

We are here to help you understand the collective feelings of your city.

We are here because we care about you.

We and what we get in return is blatant disregard of our hearts and souls while you are on your phones, getting visitors, leaving, or even sleeping right in our faces.

I can tell you if I were in your chair, I would not be.

It is possible you are given overwhelming workloads purposefully.

So by the time you get to us, you are exhausted and succumb to the grooming of feeling we are the bane of your existence and nuisances.

My seven-year-old niece lives in the town that rejected the data center that got sued and forced to overturn the ruling.

Data centers are noise and excessive constant light pollution and literally poisoning the residents surrounding its water.

How does my niece have a chance for a healthy life?

I stand it's AI stands for artificial intelligence.

Please show us that you're not artificial.

And this is the sound of data centers.

Every day.

Hold up a little closer.

This is my first time attending.

Thank you for being here.

And I am lost because I consider myself living in a lost community.

And we don't get no help.

We got good garbage people.

Don't get me wrong.

But we got trees, the freeway, we write off this 96 freeway.

That we hear all this noise.

The trucks almost hit by my property.

We have we don't know who's supposed to cut the grass that's growing taller than me, and I'm 5'10.

We need help.

And I just want numbers of places where I can call to try to get this going on because we do keep our block pretty good.

We do cut our grass, we got flowers.

Our block looks great, but the outside of it where the freeway that they made the freeway, that's terrible.

And abandoned houses, they don't turn to dump sites.

Drug addicts are using it on the other side of uh Davison.

So I just need some help and numbers if somebody could give me numbers where I can stop.

Thank you, Ms.

Someone from my team will work to connect you with the appropriate entity.

Thank you for being here.

Our next speaker, Adrian Times, followed by Josh Mann, followed by Mr.

Foster.

Okay, good morning.

Um, I'm here to still try to address the issues going on at our building.

Uh 375 West Grand Boulevard, the owner Key Adis Guinness, not addressing pest issues.

Several people came to be yesterday, showed me bed bikes all up and down the arms and between the legs.

Some of these people are senior citizens, they don't bother anyone.

Umsteriously, this is a 32-unit building.

Uh five people are dead with similar symptoms.

I'm having symptoms now, all of a sudden, being targeted day and night.

The owner's not addressing anything, bragging about how he can get away with what he wants to do, but yet continue to collect the rent.

Um, and as I have stated, even now, our the elevators is down this week, it was down last week.

So um, we're still dealing with major issues going on, and this owner, Kateus Miss Guinness, not addressing them.

And a lot of us feel like our lives are being hijacked since we moved into this building, you know, having symptoms we never experienced before.

And we do not want to be a statistic, end up dying off of in this building.

So um, something needs to happen with this owner.

He's allowing a lot of criminal activity.

Our phones get hacked into evidence that we our video tape mysteriously um is leaves from our uh cell phone.

We have no way a lot of us have calling out to address issues.

So um, this is serious, and we need this to get looked at, and it's all we need to get investigated, like I stated by the FBI because the city police, the fourth precinct, not doing anything.

Next speaker, Josh Mann, followed by Mr.

Foster, last in-person, Julie Garrison.

And I do apologize if I'm mispronouncing your name.

Ms.

Man.

Night light make uh children feel safe.

Shot spotter makes adults feel safe.

Neither of them work.

The fact that you guys voted in the policy again makes me concerned with the intellect that you all have as our leaders.

The data is there and proves it doesn't work, but yet we voted this in.

This was crazy.

We might as well have passed night lights out to the community.

And the fact that our city's able to lobby their own votes, Mo's a CVI paid group.

His group's paid 750,000.

And if it wasn't for Mo's group here voting, or Commissioner Wood pushing those other two ladies to come talk, you would have been completely outnumbered.

The fact that that was voted is very concerning.

Then I'm over at the police commissioners' meeting, and I see the officers not even able to answer intelligently their information, their questions about drones or shot spotter.

They don't have a clue, and I'm afraid that most of you don't know what you're voting in either.org, the spirit of Detroit.org.

Please look into it because we'll do the research for you.

It is wrong that Mo was an embarrassment.

We all watched his prayer the other week.

He came in with his pants below his butt.

And that is a leader that's paid a leader in the city, a CVI group that tried to react with violence out there when we simply asked where his data.

Please review that footage.

His people couldn't even read.

He motivated them all to say that.

It was horrible and disgraceful.

Next speaker, Mr.

Foster, and our final speaker, Julie Garrison.

All right, once again, uh through the chair, just very grateful um for everything that's done, especially in light of um in front of my children.

I think that's very, very important.

I did want to just bring um awareness, awareness allows for preparation as well as prevention.

And so we're in our society today.

We have a number of major issues that we need to be aware of, especially with racial.

We had um white supremacy storm DC.

They can storm anywhere.

Those roots aren't just there.

They're every state, every community around here has issues.

So we have to be more socially conscious about what's going on.

We have to be more politically conscious with this being the election here and being more spiritually conscious.

Understanding that's the spiritual warfare, exercises and restraint, prayer, and other things to really be in control.

I asked our community to take pride in self.

If white supremacists can unite for a common cause or whatever it is, then why can't we unite for our positive cause and do things for ourselves?

Um, and the Air Force.

One of the core values is integrity first, which simply means to do the right thing, even when no one is looking.

And so we have to have more integrity in our communities.

Um hold our men accountable to cutting grass, ask them to do things in the community that the young ladies can't do.

There's a lot of things that we could do for ourselves.

Thank you for your time and patience to the last year.

Um I come to you as a citizen of Detroit, a resident of Detroit, a worker in Detroit, a mother of two that have been born in Detroit and go to Detroit public schools.

I've been married here, I had the two kids, and I've been divorced when I became a tenant of Detroit, and I moved into one of the most beautiful historic buildings in the city.

It was at one point the world's largest hotel.

It's so beautiful, but it's very old.

Um, and we've had, and I'm speaking for in favor of the landlords that we've had before, the management companies and the landlords that I've had before this current company.

Um, they have never had any problems with them.

We had a beautiful ground, we had beautiful grounds.

I had a great relationship with um this company, and when the most recent um landlord management um company came in, um I uh experienced a flood in November that took three and a half months for them to address.

I had to call B seeds in, and in that time I had another flood that was the third time that I was experiencing of this fire intrusion.

My kids have not been able to live with me since November.

I mean, mothers and fathers, you know what happens to kids when you don't have your mom around for six, seven months.

Um, it's been very disruptive in our lives.

And um, when I asked for um in the middle of all this, they offered me a renewal of lease contract and raised my rent.

Um, they are not in compliance with um the with their certificate certificate of compliance, and I'm here to support the right to renew um with good cause, with good cause.

That's the most important part of it.

You can't just convict us.

Thank you so much, Ms.

Duncil.

Uh Ms.

Duncer, where's where's your uh it's the Alden Towers, and I'm risking my tenancy by publicly speaking.

It's the Alden Towers and the Freedman Management Group.

Okay, thank you so much.

We'll be uh coming back to now go to our online calls.

Who's our first caller?

How many we have?

Uh Mr.

Hoff.

Excuse me.

Good morning, sir.

Uh, we have 20 callers online with our first caller being black bay.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Can you hear me clearly, James E.

Tate Jr.?

We can hear you.

Listen up.

The planet you comrade Solomon Kenlock and Warren Evans got in play, is getting ready to get introduced to Monkey Ranch Rule.

Now, this plan, which I'm gonna detail extensively.

I know what I'm talking about, just like this district two council member chairperson of the Detroit, no internal operations, standing committee, Angela Whitfield Callaway, representing district two, then a bridge my freedom of speech rights.

That's a constitutional right.

Now, what I'm gonna advocate for is the feds to come in here and clean up Detroit.

Now I'm a Detroit legend, legendary Detroit.

I'm young blood from the Bruce and Projects in 1980, and also Rio from the backseat of that black limousine, and I did live in 1905 by Mall Drive in Palmer Woods, Michigan, right behind Father Dearden, Cardinal Dearden.

I called him Father Dear Over in District 2.

It's up.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is going to be Karen Hammer.

Karen Hammer, the floor is yours.

Minute 30, general public comment.

Yes, can you hear me?

Yes, ma'am.

First, I want to speak.

Stop the landlords who practice not renewing tenants' leases without good cause.

They evict renters because they want to charge more money or want to make uh or don't want to make repairs.

Morally corrupt this practice hurts families, the schools children go to and their neighborhoods.

Override Conrad Mallet's preemption and honor your landlord compliance ordinance.

Next data bank moratorium with the public meetings and input on the issue.

Not with uh councilperson Benson proposed, but real scientific presentations should be made with to the public repeatedly with true citizen participation and accounting for a data center consequences.

Data centers are not for jobs or community benefit, they are money for DTE and utilities for corporate takeover and for pollution, air, water, and sound.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Let's call it please.

Our next caller is William M.

Davis.

Mr.

William M.

Davis, the floor is yours.

A minute 30, general public comment.

Good morning.

Can I be heard?

Yes.

Okay.

I like to start out by saying I think it's good to honor our veterans.

I also think the city of Detroit should do something like try to make sure all of our veterans in the city of Detroit are getting their full allotment of benefits and services that they should be getting.

Because I think we're leaving money on the table, we're leaving money on the floor.

You know, all of our veterans need to be getting all that they're legally entitled to.

And the city should help with that effort.

Also, DTE.

They are a horrible corporation.

They are not doing as much as they should be doing.

And they are giving people pennies at the people been losing power.

I didn't lose power, but I know a number of people who did.

And just to give them a few dollars, you know, they should give at least a hundred dollars for every day that you don't have power.

And I think the city should go back to having its own public power to be able to help encourage DTE to go down on some of their rates, and they constantly go on up.

Also, I believe that we actually did have a tornado on Friday in the city of Detroit.

I don't celebrate the 4th of July, but a lot of people do.

And I think it's horrible.

We have people that have lost their power and still don't even have power today.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Let's call the police.

Our next caller is going to be Betty A.

Warner.

Ms.

Betty A.

Varner, the floor is yours.

A minute 30, general public comment.

Good morning to all.

But then the sound of my voice, I'm Betty A.

Barney, the president of DeSoda Ellsworth Black Association.

Want to start off by uh saying uh giving a big kudos and thank you to honorable um council member McCampbell who um assisted uh in giving information uh in regards to trying to help us get a barber for our um annual arise Detroit event.

Uh want to give kudos to his staff, his um office manager, Mrs.

U Amanda Hill was very uh nice and courteous.

Uh I did reach out to the gentleman.

Nothing has been confirmed, but I appreciate your heart in trying to help us be successful.

I want to uh give uh congrats to uh Stevie Wonder and his family for their award and uh kudos and congrats to Mr.

Foster, uh Mr.

Foster, thank you for your service um and for your activity, and you are an intelligent young man.

Great example for your children and other young adults.

We appreciate you and the work that you do.

Uh, we are still in need of assistance for our rise Detroit event.

So please, if you can assist us in caller, please.

Next caller is Dr.

Denise Darnell.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Good morning.

Can I be heard?

Yes, ma'am.

Okay, Dr.

Denise Darnell Brown here.

I am on the August 4th ballot in Wayne County Precinct 203 for delegate to the county convention and would appreciate your consideration and vote for those in this precinct.

I continue to advocate on behalf of young people.

I attended the Zoom at noon yesterday, hosted by Julie and Kim Tandy from the planning and development department.

Plus, they were also on the Doncast last evening, giving an update on the master plan.

Councilmember Letitia Johnson, this may be of particular interest to you since you are chair of that standing committee.

Julie indicated that they are seeking an extension on their contract to go through until December this year with additional funds of about 100,000 as they seek to include four additional rounds of youth engagement in partnership with the youth affair team and other youth organizations for the master plan.

They need to print more flowers, uh flyers, maps, and other outreach materials.

After all, these will be the ones to reap the benefits in 20 to 30 years and should be involved.

So when it comes before city council, there's a line item on the agenda soon for a PDD.

I would encourage council to consider their requests in order for them to move forward with the master plan and include more Detroiters in the process.

Thank you all for your good work and God bless.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our next caller is Frank Hammer.

All right, Frank Hammer, the floor is yours.

A minute 30, general public comment.

Good morning, President Tate.

Good morning, City Council.

Morning.

I'm calling to support Attorney Jerry Goldberg and calling for city council to take to task the for-profit utilities for their underperformance uh recently in the heat waves and the incessant rate hike demands.

I also want to support the representatives of the Detroit Tenants Union advocating for genuine tenants' rights.

A few weeks ago, I raised alarm over the Trump White House meddling in our elections.

Yesterday they announced they intend to send so-called monitors to our uh primary primary elections on August 4th in tandem with the Supreme Court trashing what remains of the voting rights act.

This is aimed at disempowering black Detroiters.

I believe that the best defense is a good offense, and it would be behoove the city council to call for a rally of Detroiters, determined to defend our voting rights in the primary and the general elections.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Let's call her please.

Next call is gonna be Jadante Smith.

Right, caller, the floor is yours.

You have minute 30, general public comment.

I want to start off by saying DT sucks.

We need to replace that utility.

Um also everybody who takes money from DT, whether it be at the city level and the city of Detroit or other major cities or at the state level, I'm gonna put out your campaign finance and how much money you took, especially you, Scott Benson.

You take a lot of money from Don Defoe.

Um, I stand with Detroit tenants.

We have an ordinance this is no evictions without homes being in compliance, which we're evicting people every day, and we're having people living a substandard home uh housing conditions.

Also, what are we doing about real token?

There are still hundreds of people all around the city of Detroit who are living in deportable conditions because of real token.

Um I also like to say, uh, what is our escrow process for the city of Detroit for tenants who are having issues with their landlord?

We don't have a real and true escrow process.

Um, knowing what I know now, there are some additional protections and questions I would ask.

I would never sacrifice one neighborhood to satisfy another.

This is James Tate's quote from an excellent news article written by Jenna Brooker, uh, Bridge Detroit on Chronos Concrete, Dynamite Concrete and Crown Enterprises, uh, and concrete pollution overall in Detroit.

So uh with that being said, Mr.

Tate, would you are what are what are you doing to prevent any situations like Kronos in the future?

Have you ridden by Chronos concrete uh in the last six months in the last couple weeks since I've been talking about this for the last year and a half?

What would you have done different, even though you still take well, you've taken money from the Maroon family who own Cronos Concrete?

Uh and also I was just in a meeting with Ali Ablazeed, who was the head of the health department, Renata Miller.

I do my research to do it very well, and uh I haven't talked to Luke Schaefer, but Doncast don't provide any meaningful information.

I do a lot of research among.

Thank you.

Caller, please.

Caller, the floor is yours.

A minute 30, general public comment.

Good morning, Maddie Heard.

Yes, ma'am.

I was trying to find out do the city of Detroit have internet for the seniors for their homes.

Also, I am gonna say um the school board, Aliyah Moore is running.

And for District 11, Cranston Gina Brown Anderson is running for the 11th state district.

So for those that know me, those are my family, my friends.

Give her your vote because she is awesome.

She knows what she know what she's doing.

She know the business.

And so she's in there to run.

I understand somebody's trying to get her off the ballot.

But uh it might not work this time.

Uh also uh I had two family members to pass away.

One I know live in district uh seven.

I'm not sure where my other cousin live at, but they are sisters.

And so the family is uh looking for um is asking for donations to bury both of them at the same time.

They're both our mothers.

So if anyone can help out, it would be appreciated.

It is a lately family.

Um you notice my Facebook says lately.

That's my thank you.

Let's call it, please.

Next caller is residents matter.

You have a minute 30.

General public comment.

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

Our next caller is going to be Tahira Amal.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30.

General Public Comment.

Yeah, make sure I get right on.

Congrats to the Stevie Wonder family.

Can you hear me?

Okay.

I stand with the Detroit Tenants Union, the right to renew and attorney Goldberg.

Don't listen to Conrad Mallet.

The coalition for property tax justice with the leadership of now mayor, then uh um president Mary Sheffield now mayor.

Long way Johnson Waters and Ramiro cast the property tax reform ordinance, despite Conrad Mallet advising against the uh passing the ordinance saying that the uh city could get sued.

So I'll listen to him.

Even though it's still not fully implemented, and we advise the city council to fully implement the property tax reform ordinance.

Mallon said the city could get sued if they passed the ordinance.

I'm glad they didn't listen to them.

Those that opposed it initially was James Tate, uh Coleman Young II, uh Scott Vinson, and uh Fred Deerhall at the time that were uh initially against it.

They finally uh sided with common sense and passed it.

I support uh all tenants' rights, and we should all support them and band together.

Mr.

Fawcy, the black American soldiers were forced to represent this country while they murdered innocent men, women, and children.

Um there was a conscientious objective uh for the Vietnam War.

We support those kind of soldiers.

Thank you.

We appreciate that.

Uh last time I checked, I voted for the proper tax orders.

Who do we have next in the queue?

Our next caller is caller inning at 534.

All right, 534.

You got a minute and 30 seconds, 534.

534.

534 going once.

534 going twice.

534 going three times.

534 going three times in the third.

All right, 534.

You can call into the city.

Who do you got next?

Hello.

You just made 534.

Go ahead.

You gotta unmute me so I can speak.

Can you hear me?

I can hear you.

Minute 30 seconds, 534.

Okay, now we can, yeah.

Well, I support the right to renew.

I say uh no to the data centers and do some real environmental investigation anyway, not like the ill-advised solar farms, folks.

Does everybody here realize that our taxpayer dollars are paying 7.7 million dollars to attorneys in Farmington Hills to take people's private property in residential neighborhoods, a total violation of the charter for solar farms for DTE, even though a bunch of the people here in the council said, yeah, DT is bad, DG is bad.

Oh, but the philanthropy and all of this.

And don't believe for one second that all the homeowners gave up their property voluntarily.

That is absolutely not true.

So you uh we are paying the philanthropy through the rate hikes and probably paying just the donations to these people that sold us out.

Look at the solar panels that move at the IBEW Local 58.

That's the way we could have done solar.

But once again, why are these people voting for Conrad Mann who doesn't uphold the charter, doesn't do his job, misinterprets the charter, and does some other uh shady things as well.

Um also the master plan update.

You need to include residents in the neighborhood where they live.

This has been too much of a secretive process, and some people get it.

All right, thank you.

Uh, members know we have five members, so please stay in your seats, otherwise, we're going to have to stop this meeting because we don't have a quorum.

Uh who do we have next to the queue?

Uh next caller is caller inning in 745.

All right, 745, the floor is yours.

A minute and 30 seconds, 745.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Go ahead, 745.

Okay.

Okay, so I just have one thing to say.

I'm just gonna be brief with it.

This is Catherine Guyton, a member of the tenant union.

Um, a tenant of the leading house.

We just want to know when will we be compensated?

We are tired and we are broken and we've lost a lot, and we've gained nothing.

We didn't ask for it, but it was offered.

And so, since it was offered, we're not gonna forget it because we do need it, and we just like to know when that is all.

All right, thank you.

We appreciate that.

Who do we have next in the queue?

Our next caller is Christina, excuse me, Christina Hyman.

Say it last name again.

Hyman Christina what?

Hyman.

I'm hymen.

I'm sorry.

All right, Miss Hyman.

The floor is yours.

A minute and 30 seconds, Miss Hyman.

Miss Hyman going once.

Miss Hyman going three times.

All right, Miss Hyman.

You can send your uh questions or queries into City of Detroit.

All right.

Who you have next to the queue?

Minute 30 seconds.

Next caller is gonna be owner Papa.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30.

General Public Comment.

Thank you, Proto.

Caller.

Good morning, and yes, I am.

Good morning through the chair.

May I be heard?

Yes, ma'am.

Congrats to the recipients and then congratulations uh to Mr.

Foster, who also always shows such integrity.

Uh, I'm also in uh a grant.

Where is the 600 million that was stolen plus that was stolen from the residents?

Why don't we have some type of justice?

And the reason why we see such uh lawlessness going on in the city is because the people who represent us are lawless.

Uh Conrad Mallet operates in too many ways in too many areas where there should be separation of duties and there isn't.

Um Mr.

Scott Benson should be removed from any environmental uh agencies or uh uh committees or anything because he has a conflict of interest and he really never knows really what he's talking about.

His his only view is uh financial.

He cares little about the health and safety of the people, and it shows in how he votes and the things that he says.

And I would like to know from D7, uh Ms.

District uh 7 McCampbell.

Why did Mr.

Miss Varner move out?

Why was Mrs.

Varner moved out of the district seven?

And I see many people moving in.

I'm not sure if this is done because for racial reasons or because of numbers.

I really think it's racist and for racial reasons because um I see many people move in to just call it please.

Next caller is gonna be Mariah Walker.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Yes, I'm here.

Okay, good morning.

You all have shortened the time, so I prepare to see me often because we have a lot to talk about.

I'll start by saying that if you think I'm talking too fast, that means unfortunately you're just listening too slow.

My name is Mariah Walker.

I'm in E5, and I have no relationship to the topic ahead.

So you talked about the unity, and I'm tempted to choose the unity by partnering with what I thought was a good alternative to cast community and Detroit Rescue Mission.

And my question is why are the vulnerable and housed people being put in danger?

While the former council president of City Mayor provided spirit of Detroit Awards to Cast Community Detroit Rescue Mission during her tenure, she also gave one to a man she was dating named Marvin Walker of Detroit Power Detroit or elite focus community outreach group.

He's the same Margaret Walker part of D for all around the city.

So you all have been allowing him to wreak havoc amongst the veterans and unhoused people for years.

And I'm inclined to believe he thinks he may be protected by the forces that may be.

When multiple women who are residents of his housing have paternity cases on the dark, that's very alarming.

Several women who were housed by him.

When I sent a woman there from DRM for grass, who isn't licensed by BC, he is asking on his intake form.

Are your parents deceased and do you have any STDs?

And supposedly performing background checks with no consent.

That is illegal.

Imagine going from a shelter where you're sexually harassed and getting molded food where the city gives a meal.

Thank you.

Next caller, please.

Next caller is 1244.

I want to note that we have two callers in the queue for us.

We go through our list.

All right, so let's put this caller at the end of the queue and go to the next, please.

Yes, sir.

That makes our next caller, Crystal Rice.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

We have a minute 30, general public comment.

Caller, are you there?

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

So first caller in the queue is going to be residence matter.

All right, caller, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Carla, are you there going once?

Paula you there going twice.

Thank you.

All right.

Next caller, please.

Uh next caller is gonna be Christina and Mona.

Caller, the floor is yours.

You have a minute 30, general public comment.

Good day.

Can you hear me?

Yes, ma'am.

And it's Christina Hyman.

Um, yes, I would like to share an incident that happened.

Well, a good good morning, council president and Detroit City Council.

My name is Christina Hyman.

I am a founder of Beatitude Artistry, an organization dedicated to restoring dignity, belonging, and human flourishing through beauty communication and human-centered design.

I want to share an incident that happened on Tuesday, June 30th, 2026 at the Ralph C.

Wilson Centennial Park.

Um, I believe it presents the opportunities to improve um how we serve Detroit families.

Um, during this day was at extreme heat advisory.

I'd taken my two autistic children to the splash pad.

Um, it was a beautiful experience until it was time to leave.

And I did not have a vehicle.

So I notified security personnel, and there was also a DPD officer on site who advised that normally they wouldn't tell over there, so your car has to be stolen.

They reviewed video camera, footage, um, and advised they couldn't see anything.

Well, the way the cameras were directed, and there's none towards the street.

But my highest concern is for someone who may not have been able to bounce back as fast as I could.

Um, regards to getting my vehicle out and it being the holiday weekend and also in a heat advisory.

Um, I do not believe this is public safety.

I'm not sure if this is also in the uh thank you.

Next caller, please.

Our final caller in the excuse me.

Next caller is gonna be 1244.

Caller ending in 1244.

You have a minute 30 general public comment.

Can you hear me?

Yes.

Yes.

Okay, the nether maybe are here again.

Um asked him about the uh Marvel King Memorial Park.

I hadn't heard anything back from him.

Also, I would like to know if I can um find out when you're gonna have community meetings on um the um trying to get more grocery stores in Detroit.

Plus, I would like to know how can we bring entertainment for the young people so they won't be having takeovers in the middle of the night.

Um that we could restore at least uh the renaissance not to be torn down so it could be used for resource center as well.

Excuse me.

Um I would like to know about um the next time community meetings uh concerning about um uh um besides the grocery stores.

Oh, and the package our property can be utilized for uh making it to a place that young people can take their cars there and and uh the area that's kind of depleted uh housing over here that you can put up walls and so forth so that they can utilize that that that ground over by the Packers Center over in that neighborhood is that that's a let's call it council president.

That was all of our callers in the queue.

And thank you so much.

Colleagues, uh, this is now the time where there's any responses.

Uh we will provide those and we'll start with member McCamblin, followed by Member Santiago Romano.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Just really quick for Miss Hughes on your question for D7.

Um to redistricting there was a vote for changes and maps last year um or uh several months ago.

Um, and we did district seven did lose Ms.

Varner's uh community along with uh Russell Woods and Narden Park, but we didn't pick up um some areas on the north side of the district.

So just wanted to share the information.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Member Santiago Romero.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Uh just want to share with my colleagues um to our residents, um, Adrienne Adrien, who comes in regarding the property on West Grand Boulevard.

Um, she does need help.

We do need help.

We have been working with her and we have connected her and the property to our senior advocates.

Um, but uh there is more help that is needed.

Um, to that end, there was a comment made that city council needs to enforce properties and and and our laws.

City council passes laws.

We do not enforce the laws, but we can help with enforcement, and it does sound like we need to either make sure that BC is doing their job or that B seed has what they need to do their job to make sure that these properties are in compliance because when we do pass ordinances that are brought towards us, they need to work.

We need to make sure that they're working.

Um, so I think that we do need to look at um what do we have to do to make sure that we are no longer at just 14% of compliance.

We need to be more.

So, what is that that's needed because we need to meet that?

And lastly, I want to say that's something else city council can do, and our office has been doing is holding back landlords accountable, like Munoz today on our agenda.

We have um a settlement.

It's it's not an agreement, a settlement agreements per se.

It is a plan for him to fix his properties to bring them into compliance, but unfortunately, it takes this much and this long legal processing, all the things, but we are doing it.

We need to do more of it, and quite frankly, we shouldn't have to do this at all.

Our properties should be safe.

Um, our tenants should have what they need, um, and that's something that we can work on.

Uh, so thank you everyone for coming down.

We'll continue to work on that.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Any further colleagues?

I know Member Waters, you were the one who actually sponsored that that ordinance that was mentioned today about the certificate of compliance.

Uh, would you want to add anything to the those who may not be familiar with the ordinance, the origin of it as well, because it's not something that just popped, you know, popped out.

It was some hard work that you and your staff and your team put together and the body uh approved.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

And uh we certainly uh did make it a lot easier for um landlords to come into um compliance.

Um we did mimic um the compliance ordinance in um the city of uh in opera as well.

And we even cut some of their fees really, really short.

It it makes no sense that many of them are not um coming into compliance.

We've had a slight increase, maybe about four or five percent increase for those uh coming into compliance, but we are so very far behind.

And I think one of the things that has to happen is that we need to encourage our our residents, our renters, to uh let us know that uh their landlords are not in compliance.

And when they let us know, we can then send B seed out there so that BC can make sure that they do that.

I do, I was communicating with Chief Judge of 36th District Court.

They are certainly going to be doing a lot more to help us with that, help us to hold some of these landlords who come in to court.

They're going to pay closer attention to the ordinance that we have in place.

And one of the things that I do like a lot, and that is the fact that a lot of our seniors are organizing.

They've uh they've created a um a coalition.

Now, coalition, because they say that they are going to address all of their issues, that they're not going to tolerate living in deplorable conditions.

I am so very proud of them.

The fact that they've organized throughout the city, east side, west side.

They've done that, and they are addressing their concerns.

They know now that they can put their dollars into escrow uh if their needs are not met.

So we're happy about that ordinance.

We just need to get landlords where they need to be and hold them accountable and make sure it's a lot of work, uh, Mr.

President, for BC to be able to do.

Uh, but 36th district courts is they are ready, and they certainly hope that B seed is ready.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And I know member um waters you mentioned that folks can reach out to us.

For those who are watching and listening, you don't have to even mention your name.

You can send us an anonymous email if you would like to do so uh if there's fear of repercussion.

Uh, they will never know who sent it if it's uh at a multifamily unit who sent the information.

We don't need to know your name, just the information, prayerfully, an opportunity to reach back out to you to get additional details if we need them.

But uh, the more information that we receive, specific information that helps us because it's been mentioned, we're not the ones who enforce the ordinance.

We created the ordinance.

The courts enforce the orders.

We have the administration, the departments also enforce the ordinance that we put in place.

And we're having discussions back and forth.

You heard member waters, myself.

We're having conversations with the courts uh and certainly with the administration to increase that enforcement, both on the uh administrative side as well as the legal side of things.

Um but we got the ball rolling uh with the ordinance and the process.

So just wanted to make that very known to those who are not aware of how the process works.

Uh member Miller.

Yes.

Good morning, everyone with the chair.

I just want to say we do have um an amendment to the ordinance in in works in the works.

We have been working with LPD for the last actually month and a half.

And because of the federal guidelines and the state guidelines, we have to navigate in a certain direction.

And our um legal department is actually working with us to get the correct verbiage.

I will say that I employ anyone that has a problem to take their rent money to BC.

I said this when we first broke the non-compliance um uh situation here in Detroit that if you feel that you are living in deplorable conditions, you can come to BC and put your money in escrow.

But some of our residents do not want to do that, they'd rather just not pay.

And then when it's time to pay, they really don't have the money at time.

So I am encouraging every single one.

I don't care if there's a thousand people lined up, take your rent to BC, have the money in an account.

If that is really what you desire to do, so we can uh say we have a thousand people whose money is in escrow.

We can use it as some of our uh evidence or even receipts when it comes to fighting this situation with our landlords, but we have to understand that there is a time, uh it's there is some timing here.

It just actually kind of blew up now that under this new administration.

So we are giving the mirror uh her time and her due to uh try to correct it.

I know they promised to do so many thousands of homes um and uh city buildings come August.

So I'm I'm excited to see what their um outcome are, what their outcome is rather, so we can move forward with helping our residents.

I also want to say to um um he's probably driving home and can't hear what I'm saying at this time because he left.

So he's not even gonna hear it.

But Mr.

Pops, you're on Jefferson.

Uh, Mr.

Pops hand car wash.

It is unfortunate that DTE had to move forward without acknowledging our residents and or our businesses that they were gonna be closing down uh the street so they could do uh infrastructure um uh problems, and you were not notified.

I do apologize again.

We will continue to reach out to DTE and any other um utility that we could advance notice when they're gonna be closing down our streets and shutting off our power and water.

It is not fair to you or your staff when we're discussing us the survival of small businesses.

So I wish you could hear me right now, but you cannot.

Um, I also wanted to say um I did go to the young lady who called in.

I did go by Memorial Park myself to uh put eyes on the corner of 12th and the boulevard, and I do see what you're referring to.

It could use flowers, it could use additional maintenance, and I will uh look into our parks department regarding um cleaning that park up.

I did notice that there was a lot of seniors that actually utilize that park, and it does uh need some beautification efforts put forth.

Um we have our monthly meetings, and I will uh encourage you to call our office to get those um updates.

And the gentleman that came in that discussed some of our voting.

Um, let me say this just because you show up here, or you come in drones, does not mean that will be the voter outcome on that day.

Um, I have over 50 60,000 people in district five.

People call in, people email in, people come to our community meetings, people come to our coffee hours, and they make their voices heard.

So there is a large amount of um input that goes into these decisions, and just because you show up here or call in does not mean that is what it's gonna be.

So we have to agree to disagree because that's because that's how you feel, that's not how everyone else feels.

And I do take the consideration.

Sometimes we have we have to have surveys, and we have to weigh those decisions.

But a majority of our residents normally when I voting, I am coming from the majority of the residents.

So what you see here is not what you always get.

And I encourage people, everybody wanna come down, and you don't have to come down, you don't you don't have to pay for parking, you don't have to catch the bus.

We have meetings right in your area.

We have them on the east, and we rotate to the west in district five.

We have them in the mornings, and we're gonna even start having some in the evenings.

We have mandated meetings that we meet once a month in districts.

You can show up there, but unfortunately, a lot of people do not.

So I I um say to my colleagues that I know this is uh a tedious job for people to do not understand, but we are open each almost every day, there's something going on in someone's district in the morning and the evening.

And sometimes I just had my last meeting, and there was eight people there.

There was eight people showing up, and it blows my mind that people can call in and will come down here and and and say their piece, and I want to hear from you, but let's be fair.

We have evening meetings, coffee hours, mandated meetings from our uh our our mayor, mandated meetings from our council, and you're welcome to come.

The doors are open.

You'll get more than two minutes.

Sometimes you get a one-on-one.

And I'm asking that you utilize those opportunities to to confront or even say your piece or provide some type of guidance andor direction regarding uh district five.

Um, I think I tried to cover everybody that we talked about here.

Um, as far as the tenants union, I look forward to sitting down with you again and maybe come to some more conclusions.

You are doing a workout here.

I'd like to get more into understand where exactly what you're doing.

I know you were uh seemed to be productive with the Leland House.

Um, and thanks for staying here so you can at least hear my comment.

Um I pretty think that's pretty much it on my list.

It was uh so many callers and call-ins that I could not write them all down.

It's hard to captivate them all at the end, but I hope everyone um heard what I had to say.

And if not, feel free to call our office uh 2243555.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Felicity, any further discussion?

Uh member Benson.

Right, thank you.

Um glad to hear everyone's concern and engagement around data center legislation being proposed.

That is the purview of the city planning commission.

And while the working group has helped to inform and advocate and help to initiate the writing of the legislation, the city planning commission.

This is as per the July 6th article from Christine Ferretti on Bridge Detroit.

The City Planning Commission is drafting a proposal to govern data center development in Detroit.

The commission got to work on the proposal following a series of meetings across sector data center working group convened by city councilman Scott Benson.

Hopefully, the city planning commission will have a report and maybe draft language by the end of this month.

So please stay tuned.

The working group does not write policy.

The city planning commission writes policy and the city planning commissioners vote on that policy.

Make a recommendation to city council, who will then hold a series of public hearings, as will the planning commission prior to the implementation of policy.

So please make your voices heard if you are concerned and engaged and interested in the data center zoning ordinance policy.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Colleagues, any further seeing none.

And we will continue with the agenda.

Excuse me.

Excuse me, Miss Ms.

Logan.

Excuse me, slogan.

Excuse me, Ms.

Logan, excuse me.

I'm gonna ask you again, Slogan.

I'm gonna have to remove you, Ms.

Logan.

I'm asking you.

I've given you numerous opportunities.

And I'm asking the slogan.

If Mr.

If you would please remove yourself, I would appreciate it.

Thank you so much.

Okay.

Um we shall now recess to the call of the table.

We shall now come back to order.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the row?

Sure, Mr.

President.

Councilmember Scott Benson.

Pro call.

Yeah.

I think nine.

Councilmember Letitia Johnson.

Present.

Councilmember Denzel and Tom McCampbell.

Present.

Council member Renata Miller.

Council Member Gabriela Santiago Romero.

Present.

Council Member Mary Waters.

Present.

Council Member Angela Whitfield Callaway.

Council President Pro Tim Coleman.

Council President James Tate.

Here.

Mr.

President, you have a form.

We're having we now are with the quorum.

We're now back in the agenda.

Understanding committee reports from the budget finance and audit standing committee, madam clerk from the Office of Contracting and Procurement.

Council Member McCampbell for resolutions, noting that line items 17.1 through 17.3 were postponed from last week formal session agenda.

Contract number six zero zero seven six six six, one hundred percent city funding to provide MRO and safety items for the city of Detroit.

Contracted Granger, total contract amount, six million seven hundred and fifty thousand for citywide.

Contract number six zero zero seven six six five, one hundred percent city funding to provide MRO and safety supplies for the city of Detroit.

Contractor MSC Industrial Supply Company, total contract amount six million.

That's for citywide.

Contract number six zero zero seven six six four, one hundred percent city funding to provide MRO and safety items for the city of Detroit Contractor, Fast and all Company, total contract amount two million citywide.

Contract number six zero zero five five six one-a-one, one hundred percent city funding to provide an extension of time and an increase of funds for online IVR and kiosk bill payments system contractor, diversified data processing and consultant incorporated total contract amount eight million one hundred thirty-two thousand two hundred seventy-one dollars and forty-two cent.

That's for the OCFO.

Council member McCampbell, four resolutions.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, motion to approve of discussion.

There's a motion to approve line items 17.1 through 17.3 with discussion.

Member McConnell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

If there is someone, I believe Director Ustall, if she is available just to um give her overview of 17.1 through 17.3.

All right, Mr.

Washington, who do we have available?

Good morning.

Through the chicken, yes, we can have the record stall online.

We will promote her.

I don't think she is has been promoted.

I need to turn the camera on.

Sorry, yes, uh, working on it.

Thank you.

Um the chair, thank you.

Um OCP published three separate bids for MRO, that's maintenance, repair, and operation supplies, safety supplies, and fire furnishings.

Um, we did this.

Uh we split the solicitations to ensure that we could get maximum competition for each scope of services.

Um for MRO, highest volume and spend items.

For safety supplies and firehouse furnishings, we evaluated market baskets of 50 items each.

Uh Granger was the sole award for firehouse furnishings representing 750,000 of the award amount uh in their contract.

And Granger, MSC Industrial, and Facetinal were awarded for both MRO and safety as the best combination of the lowest price aggregate total prices.

Facetinal supplied the most complete bid out of the 150 combined market basket items for MRO and safety, and the third lowest uh pricing for the highest, sorry, lowest pricing for the third highest number of market basket items and third lowest uh aggregate price.

For uh Granger, they have the second most complete bid with lowest pricing for the highest number of market basket items and second lowest aggregate price for commonly provided items.

MSC Industrial submitted the third most complete bid, lowest pricing for the second highest number of market basket items, and the lowest aggregate bid for commonly provided items.

I wanted to provide a little bit more information about the contract dollar amounts.

We are estimating about 1.6 million across all city departments or 8 million over five years.

Granger and MSC were each awarded 75% of the MRO and safety expected spend and Fast and all 25% of the estimated spend.

Um and then on top of that, as noted before 150,000 estimated spend for firehouse furnishings.

Uh we cannot predict with certainty how much each vendor will be utilized on an as-needed catalog contract.

Um therefore the total aggregate amount awarded is slightly higher, which allows each vendor to compete for business based on the best pricing and availability and service.

Having multiple vendors ensures that any at any point in time over the contract duration, city departments can select the best price and delivery times for the items needed at that time.

Departments have expressed that when uh since we went from a single award to multiple awards in the last round, uh last few years, they were able to get better pricing and uh better availability for the items, as if one vendor did not have items in stock for when they were needed, they could utilize the other vendor.

Um I want to provide some additional information about each business.

Granger is a Detroit certified business with eight Detroit resident employees.

MSC Industrial uh has 18 Detroit resident employees and has partnered with ACE Restoration, a minority-owned Detroit headquartered business with 11 Detroit resident employees.

They have been providing coaching to ACE restoration in the MRO business, including catalog management, supplier integration, and partnering to gain other public contracts, including a federal GSA award.

Currently, uh uh 70% of their current contract is spent uh and that contract ends November.

Facen all has three Detroit residents, has signed an priority hire agreement with Detroit at work to recruit additional Detroit residents for new hires.

They attended the District 4 job fair last Saturday and has uh uh stated a strong desire to partner with local community college uh and or the university to establish a career pipeline and internship program.

They have uh established similar programs with other colleges and universities.

Outside of these citywide catalog contracts, since there have been questions from council offices, what does the city do to break up contracts to create opportunities for local and small vendors?

I will note that um while not a small vendor, we do have a current contract uh with Home Depot for wood supplies and building materials.

That contract will be rebid separately uh at a future date.

OCP has also regularly bid out smaller and more specific supply contracts for plumbing supplies with local vendors, locks and locksmithing, uh janitorial supplies.

Um these are held currently by Detroit headquartered businesses.

And um over the last couple of years, uh OCP made extensive efforts to go and visit and call local hardware shops and supply and equipment shops to uh seek to do business with them.

Some common challenges have included uh challenges with uploading invoices and um responding to bids.

And so therefore we do make use of micro purchases and uh PCAR purchases and encourage regularly encourage departments to um do business with local suppliers for our for those smaller purchases.

These I will note are catalog punch-out contracts.

They have online catalogs that integrate with the city's Oracle system, allowing departments with high volume uh purchasing needs, such as GSD, uh the fire department, DDOT, and police to do frequent high volume purchases through an online catalog that automates those uh carts into a purchase order.

Um so it is a necessary and important um type of contract for a city of our size.

And in addition and outside of that, we do uh work very hard to seek opportunities to do business with smaller and local businesses.

Does that conclude your statement?

Uh yes, thank you.

Okay, waiting for the period at the end.

Uh member McCampbell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, Director.

Um, no further for me, just want to make sure that everyone was on the same page with the information here.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

With further discussion, uh, Director Eustal, the question I have is it appears that with the collection of contracts we have here, we're going to basically be encumbering but what 14.75 million dollars for um the duration of these contracts.

Correct.

Uh six.

Yes.

Okay.

And uh based upon the usage of the MRO and safety in the past, uh, can you compare contracts?

I know you can't uh necessarily say with the exact amount what will be drawn down of that 14.75 million dollars, but based upon what how it's been used, the MRO and safety in the past, what does that uh number in the past or current equate to?

Is it 14.7 or 14 million, 10 million, uh 11 million?

That gives us a better understanding and be able to predict what these dollars would look like.

Because that ultimately, if the dollars aren't spent, they didn't go back to the general fund, and I'm sure it's going to be you know potential fire sale at the end of the fiscal year to use those dollars.

So trying to understand better now on the front end what that looks like.

Yes, uh, through the chair, these are as needed contracts and dollars are not encumbered until uh a purchase is made or a purchase order is issued just in time.

So these are just in time orders.

Um, and when those uh carts are built and purchase orders issued, at that time the budget is encumbered.

Um that means that even though uh the uh last couple of years of purchase history would only estimate 1.6 million dollars per year or a total of 8 million for MRO and safety.

Um we awarded a higher dollar amount because these are as needed.

What happens with as needed contracts when they're competing for business because um for larger purchases, we do get quotes from each vendor to make sure that the city's getting the best price, especially for higher uh quantity or dollar amount um purchases uh at that point in time.

Uh, we can't predict with certainty who will win that business.

When we have uh contracts that are uh dividing a known number of roofs or sewer repairs or parks, then it's possible to take that estimated spend and divide it without too much overlap uh among the multiple awarded contractors.

However, in a situation like this where it's as needed and the vendors continue to compete for the business, we uh typically award a higher amount such that any vendor who is winning more of the business with better pricing and better service is able to do so without running out of contract authority.

Right.

So my question though was how much you said 1.6 that we've spent annually for MRO and safety, all right.

So unspent funds uh on a contract are not are never encumbered.

Gotcha, thank you.

Any further colleagues, Mr.

Chairman Member Callaway.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, I know I will be a no vote on um 17.2 and 17.3.

I um I'm very uncomfortable um knowing that the city council for Lavonia is not can't contemplating any contracts from Detroiters, they don't have to go through this on a weekly basis.

The city, the city council for Fraser is not contemplating any contracts from Detroit based businesses.

We only do that here in Detroit.

Um, and I and I and I just object.

Um give the companies that have businesses in the city of Detroit, which is helping Detroiters, um paying taxes.

Granger has a um office here in Detroit.

Lavonia does not, the company in Lavonia or Fraser.

So I just can't, and this is city funding.

This and these are not grant dollars, these are taxpayer dollars going to Lavonia.

And um, I'm a lifelong Detroiter, and I I just know um Lavonia and I I know the other cities surrounding the city.

And my father worked in Dearborn for 37 years, and he had to be out of Dearborn before it was six o'clock, before it was dark, and that wasn't so long ago.

So I can't fan I cannot sit here uh and vote for contracts going to Lavonia or going to Fraser when none of our none of our contracts go to um to their cities, and I don't feel like we have to be forced to split contracts like we did with Burgess um enterprise um uniforms with um uh company um in Lavonia that were um accused and found guilty of sexual harassment.

So um I I cannot um with my comfort level support line item 17.2, Lavonia 17.3, Fraser.

Their city council are not having these discussions.

Only here in Detroit are we having these discussions.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

So uh member War.

Um thank you, Mr.

President.

So 17.2.

How many employees is that?

Did you say 18 from Detroit?

Through the chair, MSC Industrial Supply currently employs 18 Detroit residents and also partnered with a Detroit headquartered business who has 11 Detroit resident employees.

And and how many does uh 17.1 employee?

Ranger employs eight Detroit resident employees.

Eight, okay.

And then and I think I recall you saying that in Fraser there were there were three.

Um yes, Bass and all currently employs three and has attended um Detroit or uh the District 4 job fair and is meeting with Detroit at work to increase that number.

Um and and here's what I want to suggest to you all in the future.

Um we know that 17.2 is a joint venture with a Detroit company.

So why aren't you listing that company as well?

Uh this company bid under MSC Industrial, but ACE is written into their contract.

George one second.

Oh, I'm sorry.

It's hard to, it's very hard for me to hear, Councilwoman Waters.

Oh, okay.

And and that that Detroit company uh who's in the joint venture has 11 employees themselves.

And it's a minority-owned company.

Is that correct?

Yes.

All right, so we have 18 uh plus 11.

Is that correct?

Yes.

All right.

I just want to verify.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Alex, any further?

See none.

There's a motion to approve line items 17.1 through 17.3.

Are there any objections?

Objection.

Objection, council member line item 17.2 and 17.3, Mr.

Chair, and thank you.

Thank you.

And that was Member Callaway.

Objections.

Objection, Member Miller, 17.1 through 17.3.

Uh for me is uh objection to 17.

Is it three?

Yeah, three.

Not three.

Wait a minute.

Yep, 17.3.

That's the appraisal.

Okay.

Are there any further colleagues?

Seeing none.

And line item 17.1 through 17.3 shall stand approved.

From the office of the chief financial officer, office of development and grants.

Councilmember McCampbell, a resolution line item 17.5.

Member McCampbell, line up 17.5.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh, motion to approve.

There's a motion to approve line item 17.5.

Any objections?

See none.

That action shall be taken.

Mr.

Chair.

Yes, sir.

A request a waiver on 17.5.

There's a request for a waiver, colleagues on 17.5.

Any objections.

Point of none.

Do we have a vote on them on?

Point of information.

Yes, um, member McCallum.

Uh just for to note for 17.4.

Um, I believe my original motion was for 17.1 through 17.4.

That's my motion, but um, I think I did only 17 point to up to 17.3.

Okay.

I was going by what we had in front of us.

Gotcha.

Motion to approve 17.4.

Well, if we can finish 17.5, but we were actually there on that one.

Uh colleagues, any objections line item 17.5.

Oh, I'm sorry, wait.

There's a waiver request for line item 17.5.

Any objections?

Seeing none, a waiver should be attached.

All right now, member McCamba, line item 17.4.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh motion to approve 17.4.

As a motion to approve line item 17.4, colleagues.

Any objections?

Hearing none, an action shall be taken.

Uh from the office of the city clerk, city planning commission.

Madam Clark.

Council member McCampbell, a resolution, line item 17.6.

Uh member McCampbell.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Well, motion to approve 17.6.

This is uh NEZ certificate.

There's a motion to approve line item 17.6, colleagues.

Any objections?

Hearing none, an action shall be taken.

For the internal operations standing committee from the Office of Contracting and Procurement, Madam Clerk.

Council Member Whitfield Callaway to resolutions, noting that line item 18.1 was reported out of committee with our recommendation, and also noting that line item 18.2 has been amended.

Contract number 6006992-A2, 100% special revenue funding, amendment one to exercise renewal option for one year.

Toll management services, contractor professional account management LLC, total contract amount 455,000.

That's for do it.

Contract number 6606359-a1, 100% city funding, amendment one to provide an extension of time for investigative case management software system to various city departments, including OIG, ombudsman, CREO, Board of Ethics, and BOPC, the Board of Police Commissioners utilizing General Services Administration GSA agreement, GS35 F21AX, contractor wing swept LLC.

The total contract amount has been amended from 1 million to 1 million 250,000.

That's for do it.

Council member Whitfield Callaway, two resolutions.

Callaway.

There's a motion to approve line item 18.1 with discussion.

Member Callaway.

And through yourself, Mr.

Chair, we had some discussions during internal operations, and I will defer to um Member Benson and or Member Miller through you, Mr.

Chair.

Colleagues, are there any further discussion on line item 18.1?

None for me, thank you.

Seeing none.

Um for the discussion member uh callaway.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Then we'll move to um approve line item 18.1 without discussion then.

There's a motion to approve line item 18.1 colleagues.

Any objections?

Objection, council member Scott Benson.

Any further?

Seeing none, line item 18.1 shall be approved, noting the one objection.

Member Callaway?

Yes, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Line item 18.2.

Um motion for approval.

Um there's a motion to approve line item 18.2 as amended.

Colleagues, any objections?

Hearing none, line item 18.2 shall stand approved as amended.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Uh from the law department, madam clerk.

Council member Whitfield Callaway, nine resolutions, and only that line item 18.6 was postponed from last week formal session.

Member Callaway.

Um, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

If we could bring someone on from the law department, this is a um a heavy duty uh um lawsuit.

This is involving 299 properties owned by Munos, um Gaston Munos versus the city of Detroit.

And um, if someone from the law department through yourself, Mr.

Chair, um, can maybe share with my colleagues um and me again, some background information on the agreement that the city's law department has reached with this company.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

So we've been joined by attorney Anderson.

The floor is sir through the chair Grand Anderson Law Department.

I'd ask if we could bring this to the end of the agenda to allow uh attorney Jason Harrison to speak on this item.

Thank you.

Okay.

Um that's solely for line item 18.3, correct?

Correct.

Member Callaway, so motion to thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Motion to bring line item 18.3.

Um, bring it back at the end um end of the agenda.3 at the end of the agenda.

Any objections?

Seeing none, that action shall be taken.

Thank you.

Member Kellow uh line item 18.3.4 through 18.11.

Okay, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Motion to approve line item 18.4 through 18.11, Mr.

Chair.4 through 18.11.

Are there any objections?

Hearing none, that action shall be taken.

Thank you.

Thank you.

From the office of the chief financial officer, office of contracting and procurement, madam clerk.

Council member Whitfield Callaway, a resolution, line item 18.12.

Uh line item 18.12, Member Callaway.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Motion for approval.

There's a motion to approve line item 18.12.

Any objections?

Discussion with discussion member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, just wanted to confirm the dates that are in line item 18.12.

Looking for LPD, come on now.

No, that's what we were trying to identify as well in communication if the time frame matched our recess.

Mr.

Wittersprint.

Uh excuse me.

Yes.

Um the recess resolution that you have before you is consistent with the calendar that the council has approved.

So if you if you would like the dates changed, you can certainly accommodate that, but it is consistent with the calendar that you approved some time ago.

In January.

Your annual uh council count.

Okay.

We have the calendar reflecting the calendar recess dates are consistent with the charter.

Um be in session 10 months out of the year.

So December and August are normally the months that you take off.

And given that September falls this time on starts on a Tuesday, which is your normal starting day or formal coming out of a recess period.

It was selected as September 1, which is somewhat odd, because most years uh council comes back in session of the Tuesday after Labor Day.

But the way Labor Day falls this year, the way September falls, um, we brought you in on the on the first of September, not the eighth.

But certainly we can change that if we choose to the council uh can amend can pass a resolution that extends beyond the uh the two uh the normal two months of recess that's reflected in the charter by resolution.

You can do that, and normally you would be coming after Labor Day as we indicated, but the way the calendar falls this year.

We brought you in on the first, so that's why.

So that's why.

Thank you.

Member Johnson.

Thank you.

That's I just wanted to understand the dates.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Any further comments?

Any none?

Uh Mr.

Member Waters.

Yeah, why don't we do a resolution?

No, no, we'll say a resolution.

To do for after Labor Day.

So will we have to do two resolutions?

Sure.

No, one to actually uh change the recess and then one to change this process.

Mr.

President.

Yes, sir.

You're not able to unilaterally change that recess resolution that is coming from the administration.

So if you want to change that, you probably should not vote on this item today and bring it back next week, and we will bring a calendar change resolution next week.

If that if you understand what I'm saying, so motion postponed for one week.

All right, there is a motion on the floor to postpone the vote for one week.

Line item 18.12, colleagues.

Uh, are there any objections for further discussion?

Objection.

Member Callaway.

All right.

Line item 18.12 shall be postponed.

Noting the one objection, the line item 18.12 shall be a postponed for one week with further discussion.

Uh Proton Young.

So we postponed this for one week.

We're not gonna be in a situation where we gotta stay longer because we miss some deadline or something like that, right?

No, it would be Mr.

President.

It simply will require us to change your calendar, bringing you out of recess on the eighth.

And then this resolution would be changed to to mirror that.

So it's not gonna be like you know, I thought I had some more time to do some work in my office involving policy.

Haha surprise, we gotta be here until you know the August or September like that, right?

No, no, all right.

Um should be okay.

I mean, certainly the the um the administration could let you know otherwise, but uh typically it always falls after Labor Day.

It's just that the oddity of this year's count.

Right.

Yeah, and then this process is again based on our recess.

Uh so colleagues, is there a motion to um uh to address to to it uh amend the recess resolution?

Motion uh or to have that resolution drafted and sent back to this body.

There's a motion on the floor, colleagues.

See no objections that action shall be taken.

Thank you so much from the office of the chief financial officer, office of development and grants, Mr.

President.

We are on the Office of Contracting and Procurement.

Uh we we postponed that one for one week line 18.12.

Oh, my apologies, we postponed 18.12.

Yes, ma'am.

Council member with field calendar resolution line item 18.13.

Member Cal.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, this is a Michigan indigent defense commission grant.

Um, and the amount of uh over 8 million dollars.

So these are not city funds.

This is a wonderful grant, it's gonna help a lot of um um indigent um um clients, and what I requested during um internal operations standing committee meeting last Wednesday is a list of the attorneys, because um the law department is choosing the attorneys who uh will be working on these cases, and I've not gotten that through yourself, Mr.

Chair, to um, I guess to Mr.

Anderson, but I was assured that I would have a list.

I want to know if we have any women law firms, any um uh minority-based law firms, any Detroit-based law firms um who will be working on these cases.

We also talked about the possibility of law clerks.

Um, I know about the paralegals, but um the law clerks have an opportunity to um be a part of this program, a part of this this grant program, and then um after they graduate from law school and pass the bar, then possibly be hired by the law department in the same field, having the experience um as as law students.

So we talked about all of that, but I never got any responses to my questions, and I never got the list through yourself, Mr.

Chair to Mr.

Anderson.

Attorney Anderson, through the chair, uh but to council member calloway, uh attorney Ron Ramondo is out this week, but I'll ensure that you get that list as soon as possible as he returns um to your question regarding law firms.

Uh attorney Ram Ramondo is out this week, but I'll ensure that you get that list as soon as possible as he returns to your question regarding law firms.

From my understanding, the majority of the attorneys who do this work are typically solo practitioners.

Um so we we have, you know, it's a large diverse group of attorneys that do provide this work.

And as uh Rom pointed out uh last week, this is uh far more profitable than it used to be, which allows Detroit citizens to get better representation, which is what we want.

We want to make sure we get to the best finding of the facts.

Um, but I'll make sure that additional information is uh provided to you in your office as soon as possible.

Thank you.

Um thank you, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, as soon as possible, that's like open-ended through the through the chair to Mr.

Anderson, you know, better um as soon as possible.

But you know, I've asked last Wednesday.

I'm not gonna hold this up.

This is a wonderful grant.

So um, Mr.

Chair, motion for approval, line item 18.13.

Discussion.

There's a motion to approve line item 18.13 with further discussion, member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

So through you to Attorney Anderson, can you just share how any law firms um can sign up to take part in this program?

Through the chair, yeah, absolutely.

Um, it's my understanding that it's similar to working through uh the OCP process with um Ron Lamondo, um, who is uh the final uh say on determining, but of course, they still need to make sure, of course, you know, you're a qualified attorney um and and similar background information such as that.

Um, but but for my understanding, it it's not that painful of a process, and it's something that if you are an up-and-coming attorney, this is a fantastic way to learn and grow your career.

I started my career in litigation on the civil side, not the criminal side, but that's something I always encourage young attorneys is start in litigation.

You can you can do something else later, but it's hard to not start with litigation and go back to litigation.

Um, I'm very happy to be here and not litigating.

Um, but um uh it's it's a beautiful thing that some people really love to uh do.

Um so thank you.

Thank you.

And additionally, is there typically an RFP or something similar that goes out seeking law firms?

Through the chair, it's my understanding that if we're not fully staffed, so to speak, where we're close to it.

Um, but I I believe if there was um a need, there would be more of an outreach.

But uh it's my understanding at this time that that we're uh comfortably staffed.

Okay, thank you.

Uh and certainly look forward to the response to member Callaway's questions.

Absolutely, I'll make sure you receive it as well.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Uh Pro Tim Young.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I remember a long time ago when I was at the state senate, feels like the ice age now.

But when I was there, I remember being in the minority having a discussion about indigenous energy defense.

And I was proud to be able to be one of the people who actually appropriated money from that committee on the judiciary appropriations for that purpose.

And so um, I'm really excited about this being a grant by this of having money for a grant.

Um, I will send you a list of questions I have about metrics, just in terms of you know what this actually does for people, how this helps people, and uh also more importantly, what this does in terms of the wrongful conviction rates of the city of Detroit and how this is going to address the 10% of the budget that we are spending uh on um reverse convictions uh that we that would have to spend because of that.

So I'll ask you more about those questions later, but I'm really excited for this grant looking forward to supporting it.

Thank you.

The chair, thank you, Proton.

Thank you.

Any further colleagues?

Seeing none, there's a motion to approve line item 18.13.

Are there any objections?

Seeing none.

Action shall be taken.

And through the chair, I know Jason Harrison is available now if we wanted to stick with that topic at the chair's discretion, of course.

Thanks.

He's online via sale.

Okay.

Thank you.

So yeah, are you okay with revisiting an item now?

All right, so we shall motion to discuss line item 18.3.

That is going back up the agenda dealing with the properties uh concerning Munos.

Yep, motion to discuss line item 18.3, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

There's a motion to discuss line 18.3.

Um, member Callaway, the floor remains yours.

Yeah, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

And um good afternoon.

Um to you, Mr.

Um Harrison.

Um we had a long discussion regarding this line item, and um thank you for being with us um this morning.

If you could just share um because we we entered to we entered a lot of discussions regarding um monthly um agreements with this um with Munals, and it's a very um robust one.

Um and we plan to through the um through the chair to you, Mr.

Harrison, um, have a report from the law department on a quarterly basis.

I've already written it down on our calendar and my staff has it, so we'll make sure that you're um back before us um every quarter about this particular case involving 299 properties in the city of Detroit.

Um so if you could just um briefly share with um my colleagues and myself again um our discussions from last Wednesday regarding this particular settlement.

Chair, good morning to the honorable city council.

Thank you, uh Councilmember for the introduction.

Yes, this involves litigation that the city of Detroit brought against Mr.

Munoz uh and a couple of his corporate entities that he is an owner or a member of, as well as multiple other defendants.

Uh the law department filed this lawsuit in December of 2025.

Uh Mr.

Munoz did not properly answer the lawsuit, so we filed a default successfully uh signed by Wayne County Circuit Court Judge, Chief Judge Pro Tem Farhat.

Uh we then uh proceeded to move forward with a default judgment motion, and at that point in time, uh Mr.

Uh Munoz retained counsel and responded to us uh asking us essentially how we could work this out.

Uh at the time that we filed the lawsuit, and and just for the honorable body, we we mentioned this to the internal ops committee last week.

At the time of the filing of the lawsuit in December of 2025, only 10 properties were named in the lawsuit.

So in response to Mr.

Munoz's attorney, uh, based upon the information that had been given to the law department by B seed, we said the only way that we are not going to move forward with a default judgment at this point in time is if you add the other 275 or so properties that are currently out of compliance based upon BC documentation to some form of a court order that requires you to do certain things.

So uh to the honorable body, we did attach the court order to the settlement memo that was submitted to this honorable body in June.

Uh just a brief summary of it.

As council member Callaway uh indicated there's approximately 299 properties.

It's my understanding that there may have been some redundant addresses in there.

So it's somewhere between 285 to 295 properties.

Uh wherein Mr.

Munios is required to abate 10 of those properties each month.

Um if he abates 10 of those properties each month based upon a reinspection from B seed, the city of Detroit would agree to reduce the blight tickets by 50 percent uh for a given property.

The city of Detroit will not agree necessarily to uh reduce the Detroit water and sewers balances, uh other BC fees that are owed to uh the city of Detroit, including fees for reinspections, permits, uh biannual use fees, uh, and also taxes owed to the city.

So there's there's three exceptions here where Munoz is required pursuant to term three uh of the court order that's attached to the settlement memo, where he must go to the Detroit Water and Sewers Department, he must go to the BC department, and as we work with the county now uh reviewing the balances for potential taxes owed to the city, uh those are not waived simply because he uh abated 10 properties per month.

Also, as council member Callaway indicated, there will be a monthly meeting pursuant to terms four and seven of the court order signed by Judge Farhart.

Uh the next monthly meeting will be with, and it's actually our only second monthly meeting thus far, but the next monthly meeting uh will be on June 14th with Mr.

Munoz and his attorney, as well as representatives from B seed.

Um BC was to assign a project manager and a supervisor, uh similar to what uh the honorable bodies probably recall with the Kefalinos agreement.

Uh Mr.

Bell has done that, and Mr.

Russian has done that.

Uh both his supervisor and a project manager are assigned to monitor compliance on a monthly basis.

Um our next meeting is on July 14th.

Um the other uh uh deliverable that the city will provide is if he does comply uh and a successful reinspection occurs and he pays 50% of the blight tickets old for a given property, a certificate of compliance will be issued.

Uh the other thing that the city has agreed to uh to address one of the other concerns uh in the city that has been brought to our attention, uh, both by this honorable body and other departments is we will provide the HRD department will provide a list of housing candidates when a given uh set of properties have been complied with uh on a monthly basis.

So if he complies with uh a banana 10 properties per month, uh HRD will be working with us to provide viable housing candidates to Mr.

Munoz for these properties.

Um I I think that is a a fair summary.

I'm happy to answer questions, but that's a fair summary of of what this order essentially indicates that was entered by Wayne County Circuit Circuit Court Judge Farhat on May 27th of 2026.

And obviously, one of the terms that you'll see under term 10 of the order is that it is contingent upon this honorable body's approval.

Thank you, Mr.

Higgs.

Thank you for the discussion.

Uh question, how how many of these properties are currently occupied as far that are subject to this agreement?

Thank you through the chair.

Uh thank you, Council President.

Uh Council President, I think we tried to answer that question yesterday back to your office.

I defer to B seed on how many are occupied versus unoccupied.

Uh we certainly are working on that answer.

I'm not certain that B seed has responded as of yet, as I just reached out to them upon speaking to one of your uh staff members, council president, uh, yesterday evening, actually.

So I apologize for that.

I don't have an answer as to that.

I do know as a lawyer of record that some of these uh residential and residential properties are occupied.

I just don't have the number, but I'm certain we'll be able to get that answer for you relatively quickly.

Uh is B seed project manager Clinton Deeringer has been working with Moon Mr.

Munoz even prior to the lawsuit being filed in December of 2025.

It's just a matter of retrieving that number getting into you as quickly as possible.

Well, definitely quick uh quicker uh than it will be for me to vote on this item because I need that information prior to.

Uh I'm getting right to it, I'm just so uh so I need to know that information.

And the reason why that's important is because my question is do we have a plan uh that starts first with those occupied properties?

Um when we start talking about the rehab, or can any uh kind of the the company pick and choose which ones they decide to rehab first?

I care most about the conditions of the homes where the people are currently occupied, and I want to know if something of that nature was built into this agreement.

Um, because he this this landowner has uh shown disregard uh for our community and for the residents and the tenants.

And so that's uh very very important for me to know before uh this vote goes forward because I will ask for a postponed if we don't have this information.

That's critical.

Well, if if if I may, council president, uh, through the chair, the I think term 2A of the court order that's attached to the settlement package indicates quote, the defendant shall evade 10 properties per month beginning on the date of entry of this order, end quote.

So there's no specific disquest discussion about occupied versus unoccupied.

However, I don't know if there's an ability uh to have the BC project manager uh brought into the session uh to try to get you an answer, uh council president right now.

His name is Clinton Derringer.

I did indicate to him yesterday he may be called into this session.

I'd be happy to hold on.

I don't want to hold up this honorable body, but certainly want to get your question answered.

We'll pivot to Mr.

Washington.

Mr.

Washington, do you have the individual available to provide us with information?

Uh, because I'm curious, even for the law department, why would we not focus on those who are those properties that are occupied first, you know, in terms of this agreement?

Was there something that was put forward and the court said no, it's not feasible?

Um just looking for more uh details in that direction.

And uh the other question I would have is how many citations, how many active violations are in play currently?

Uh and then what would this 50% reduction look like in terms of uh rebate discount for immunos?

Uh but Mr.

Washington, if you can just let us know who's that person that we should be porting over.

Uh through the chair, um, I'm actually on the phone with BC now, but we just need a moment if we're able to bring this back to the end.

Okay.

All right.

Um I supplement that answer, uh, council president.

I just want to I absolutely need that information.

So that information is not available.

All we're doing is talking right now, and we'll just circle right back around to it.

And I'd rather preserve your uh responses for the full discussion as opposed to bifurcation.

Uh, if you don't council president, okay.

So, member Miller, if you don't mind, I know you have some more questions on this particular item.

No, no, I did not.

Okay.

Through the chair, um, in IOS, we asked for several lists from Mr.

Munez.

I don't believe we received any of them.

Um, I think this is a sweet deal.

Too sweet deal, too sweet of a deal for a slumlord like this.

I have no intention of supporting it at all because if he has 299 properties, get the opportunity to do 10 a month.

Our residents do not get that type of time.

Our residents lose their homes by uh every three-year notice.

This is unacceptable for a slum lord.

I have uh our department is putting in some um uh memos on people with a thousand properties, 500 properties, 200 properties.

Obviously, he cannot afford to rehab them.

And I did ask for a list of how many of the taxes were current and not.

And I asked that everyone that was past the three years be taken immediately, the way we do our residents.

So we shouldn't even be talking about 299 if they are not paid past the three years.

And we would have to home.

I'm not supporting this, and I I just don't think it's right that our residents get treated with um, we have a structure that we abide by when it comes to our residential properties.

But when you have someone with 299 who has went negligent for numerous years, it's unacceptable.

And they should be prepared for this call.

They knew it was coming because we told you last Tuesday that we had questions and that we wanted those answers.

So here we are again, and we're supposed to act like we didn't ask for nothing when we did.

I want to know are the taxes behind on 299 properties.

If they are, they should not be included.

His opportunity to do 10 a month.

I do not, I do not support this at all.

It is not right that we continue to give slumlords this grave opportunity to get it right.

They need to feel the pain when they come before this body that we will not accept this in Detroit.

Because if there's people living in these properties and he's not compliant, with the amount of 299 properties.

We need to have a different we have to set a standard here, and and we need to start today.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, I am curious to know if we have a full understanding of what is within his portfolio.

I'm sure it's more than 299 properties.

Um at least that's my understanding that it's more than that.

So, attorney Harris Harrison, are you do you know how many he has in his portfolio?

I know that some may be under a property management company, and perhaps in in the names of an address.

Thank you, the chair.

Thank you, Councilmember Johnson.

The the the court order that's before uh the Senate Bobody uh includes uh two categories properties that are owned by uh Mr.

Munoz as well as council member Johnson properties that are managed by him.

These properties were certified by B seed as being properties that were out of compliance.

So that's my the first response to your question.

Secondly, he certainly had more properties than the 290 or so that are mentioned in this court order.

He had been previously, based upon information given to the law department by BC.

When I say previously, previously to the filing of the lawsuit in December of 2025, Councilmember Johnson, he had been working with BC to bring properties in into compliance, of which he did.

So the orbit certainly was larger than the 290, uh 299 or so, but this is the list, so to speak, that was given to the law department by C by B seed is being the most egregious properties uh as being properties that were out of compliance.

And that is why uh we use the lawsuit to try to include uh this this additional 290 or so uh properties to try to get him to uh agree to a strenuous agreement um that would require him to abate these properties.

When we originally had filed the lawsuit, there was only 10 properties named because the law department was informed by BC that these were the most egregious.

But as we went along in the lawsuit two or three months in and we moved very quickly, uh we used our leverage because of the defaults that have been issued by the honorable court against Mr.

Munoz to include the broad swath of properties that BC let us know were at issue at this point in time.

Thank you.

And I'll ask um Attorney Harrison uh another question and then yield the floor.

I do have a question for BC, but I will um yield the floor for uh council president to ask his question.

Attorney Harrison, did you indicate what happens if he does not comply with the court order?

So if he's not bringing 10 properties per month up to code, what happens?

If he does not comply with the court order, council member Johnson, uh the city of Detroit can go back into court and proceed with the default judgment motion, which is currently adjourned.

The reason why we adjourn the motion is because he agreed to broaden the scope of a lawsuit from 10 properties to 299 properties, which is a huge win.

I mean, if we can get him to agree to 299 abatements versus the 10, that's just huge for us.

Um number one, number two, and this this is uh it's probably something that everyone already understands, but I want to say it because it's very important.

The other huge win for the city of Detroit, if this honorable body votes for this, is that these properties, council member Johnson, are now under the jurisdiction of the court.

Before the lawsuit, there was no jurisdiction of the court, and Mr.

Munoz is now under the jurisdiction of the court because he was named by the law department personally in this lawsuit.

What that essentially means is that if we file, if we go forward with the default judgment, because as you indicated, council member Johnson, he doesn't follow his monthly process of abating 10 properties or over two or three months, he doesn't follow the process of abating 20 or 30 properties.

What the court can do is grant the cities uh default judgment, which we asked for a couple of things.

Declare the properties the public nuisance, issue other equitable remedies, and either including holding him in contempt, uh requiring him to come in and show causes to why he shouldn't be held personally liable for the abatement of these properties.

There's just a host of things that we can move forward with now that these properties and Mr.

Munoz are successfully under the jurisdiction of the court.

Um the other huge win here is that there are list pendants filed on approximately 120 of these properties right now.

Uh the law department's moving very quickly.

We should have the other 170 or so filed uh in the next two weeks.

What that means is that these properties cannot be sold uh unless the properties are abated, because most real estate title companies will not insure uh in a in the process of a transaction to sale, they won't insure uh the property because of this lawsuit, or if they will insure it, they will have to issue an exception that says, okay, we're gonna allow this property to be sold, but there's an except exception here that says the issues associated with the city of Detroit's lawsuit must be resolved.

So though those are a couple of the huge wins.

The court jurisdiction, the filing of the list pendants, uh the payment of the DWSD water bills, the payment of back taxes, uh, and the payment of uh uh extraneous B seed fees that are owed to B seed, uh and in the honorable body should know, and I appreciate Councilmember Miller's uh response.

She did indicate last week she wanted to know what the balances are.

There was a paragraph, I believe, on page five of the settlement memo, where we informed city council that we were actively compiling these balances, whether it be for the DAH, whether it be for BC, whether it be for DWSD.

We just spoke with the county again yesterday, as they're feverishly working on the exact amount of the balances owed for taxes on properties.

Number one, number two, whether or not that property is in foreclosure, number three, whether or not there is a payment plan in place.

Uh, because of the broad swath of properties, these things just take time.

Uh, we've been told by the internal departments we should have those balances next week.

Uh the county has indicated that they need a couple of weeks, but because we were moving very quickly and we filed this motion with the court, and the court entered this order on May 27th.

We didn't want to hold this settlement memo back from city council.

We want this honorable party to be aware while simultaneously compiling those three balances that I know council members are interested in.

Thank you for that.

And the last thing I'll say is um through you, Mr.

Chair, if we did not require that rent be escrow for all these 299 properties until they receive a certificate of compliance, we certainly should have.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Got a few questions uh about uh this particular deal.

One in particular is uh the question uh how many of these properties of the 299 uh are we aware of that are occupied?

Yes, sir, Mr.

Chair.

I don't have that uh number.

I will have that number by the end of the week.

Okay.

So I'll I'll say that that's a little concerning for me, just not pointing fingers at any one individual, but for us to get this far uh in a deal and then place it before us and not know how many of the properties are occupied, or at least not be able to convey that information easily and um have it readily readily available.

Uh does make me question if that was even considered, you know, the occupied individuals uh as we uh move forward within this process.

Um with that particular question, um, the consideration of the occupied um properties.

Uh was that a consideration, Attorney Harrison?

How do we address the issues of the occupied versus non-occupied, noting that I'm sure women and children are in those occupied properties that are in disrepair?

Um what how do we prioritize or get him the company to prioritize those properties that are occupied versus uh a random one that may be on the street that may not have much going on?

Thank you, uh council president.

Uh the two A of the court order issued by Wayne County Circuit Court judge, uh Chief Judge Pro Tem uh Farhat indicates that 10 properties per month have to be abated.

Terms four and seven of the Wayne County Circuit Court order indicates that monthly meetings must occur.

We certainly chief we certainly uh president could council president could certainly um indicate to Mr.

Munoz uh based upon consultation with the BC that we want X properties completed on a schedule going forward.

In other words, if there's occupied properties on the list, of which I'm certain there are, we could prioritize those, give that list to Mr.

Munoz and saying we want these to take priority.

Uh if you recall, uh council president, I'm sure you do because you were involved.

Uh the Kefalinos agreement, uh, we we've done a very good job.

BC's done a very good job.

And the only reason I highlight that, that is the purpose of the monthly meetings.

I think actually with Kefalinos, they're every six weeks.

As issues come up and within the the gambit or within the four corners of the agreement, there is room for us to do things simply like certainly like the thing that you're suggesting.

Let's prioritize the occupied properties.

Uh let's put those at the forefront of the list, uh, and let's have those abated at 10 per month.

I think is is one of your lawyers.

I think that's certainly something we can do, and that's certainly something that would held to be would be held to be within the four corners of this agreement.

Yeah.

So so uh you know, without going too uh far down this particular lane, with the court uh already in intervening, do they have to intervene to make that particular change?

Because it's already laid out what the conditions are to Mr.

Munos.

And it didn't specifically say that had to occupy had to deal with the occupied properties first, especially if it's not codified, dealing with an entity like we have uh here before us.

Uh to me, everything needs to be written out, be very clear uh on the front end as opposed to trying to peel it away because they will fight us every time it appears and refuse to do things that they don't want to do.

No, thank you, council president.

That is not something that we would have to go back to the circuit court to ask for.

We we've gotten from the circuit court what it is that we think we want, which is an identification of the orbit associated with Mr.

Munoz.

If the parties now want to say we are going to prioritize the occupied properties, I don't believe that that would require us to go back to the court.

Uh the only thing it would require us to do, council president, is to operationalize that.

And that would only mean that the BC project manager and the BC supervisor that have been assigned by Mr.

Russian and Mr.

Bell, as well as myself and my colleague in the law department, would get a list to Mr.

Munoz and his attorney right now and say, here's where we would like you to start.

But no, I do not believe that would require us to go back to the circuit court.

Okay.

Uh Director Bell, uh, any information yet on how many occupies.

You're on mute, sir.

No, I will have that information within the next couple days, end of the week at the very latest, sir.

Okay.

Um I'll go through the questions, but I'm going to ask for a postponement because this is very important information.

And I'll tell you the article that ran in Bridge Detroit talked about lessons learned.

And I learned lessons.

One of those lessons I learned when there was a deal that was entered into for uh property swap, land swap for um Stillantis.

There were a number of properties, and it was not communicated to me uh how many of those properties were occupied, unfortunately, by that slum landlord who owned those, how many of those properties.

I said I would never go into another deal without understanding how many people uh and families are being affected.

It's not just the land, it's not just the neighborhood, it's the families of those homes.

Bless you, who lives in those in those uh structures.

So stay fast on this one.

Um again, we'll go through colleagues, but I'm going to ask for, and I would hope colleagues would back me up on it a postponement for one week.

We get this very important information about occupied properties, which should have been on the front of all of our minds as we enter into this, not just clearing the books.

Um Pro Tim Young, followed by member Calendar.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

Um good to see you everybody.

Good to see you, Mr.

Bale as always.

Good to see you, Mr.

Harrison.

I first of all I just want to ask out there.

Uh Mr.

Munoz uh is a paying for 100% of this, correct?

Taxpayers will not be paying for any of these abatements.

Correct.

At all.

Through the chair, that is absolutely correct, uh, Councilmember Young.

The orders.

I'm sorry, no, sorry, go ahead, Mr.

Harrison.

I apologize.

Go ahead.

Go ahead.

Yes, the order specifically names Mr.

Munoz.

He is now under the jurisdiction of the court, and the language indicates that he is responsible as well as his corporate entities for abating these properties.

That's even if demolition or rehabilitation is required, right?

So them demolition, and I would I would defer to the correction orders that that are housed within uh BC as relates to um each of these properties.

Uh if we get to a point where demolition is required, that's certainly something that that would be within the realm of abatement.

Uh abatement can be fixing based upon the BC correction orders, fixing the properties, or abatement could include potentially demolition.

Uh both of those terms are interpreted under the public nuisance statute in Michigan.

So I think it would answer your question, it would require anything that abatement requires.

So if they can't be fixed, they would be fixed, but if they have to be demolished, they would have to be demolished.

Will we be reimbursed for that?

So if it requires demolition, yes, we would seek a cost recovery action against him, um, wherein he would have to pay for that.

Um so yes, the the the order clearly requires that Mr.

Munoz pay for any of the public nuisance abatement required with the given properties that are on the list attached to the order.

And that's for demolition and rehabilitation, too, right?

That is correct.

Okay, and now I wanted to ask you how do you plan on enforcing this?

Because I'm I'm looking at your uh court order compliance rate, the baseline is 35%.

You can reject this, you know, if if you choose.

But I'm looking at a baseline of 35% when top cities are above 60% when demolition is required uh for property owner compliance is 15% for a baseline when it should be um it should be it should be less than 10%.

And then when it's coming in terms of your rehabilitation after legal action, a baseline of 20 to 30 percent, we should be above 50.

And so I just want to know what are we gonna do as what are you gonna do with the law department to be able to hold him accountable for this?

And is this gonna require uh more people that are on the ground that you're gonna need to be able to hold him accountable for this in terms of the law department?

And then if that's the case, do we have a value for money analysis of what we're getting for those extra bodies?

This point that through the chair at this point in time, Councilmember Young, I'm not aware that there would be any more bodies, so to speak, as you indicated, required to enforce this order.

And the reason is, and and you know, I hate it, uh I hope I don't sound redundant.

Mr.

Munoz is under this honorable court's jurisdiction.

That that's all that's the infrastructure that you need.

If we get to a point in the administration of this order where he is not complying, we can file the mo we can go forward with the motion for default judgment that is currently adjourned.

Uh pursuant to this to this uh order and what we have before city council right now, or we can move for a motion for contempt.

There's a host of things we can do, but the best option has been put forward.

There is a motion for default judgment on the table right now with the court that was adjourned because he agreed to include a broad swath of properties that Mr.

Bell's group has indicated are out of compliance.

That's the only reason why we didn't go forward with the default judgment.

And the default judgment's important because the circuit court judge can render all of the properties, some of the properties or all of the properties of public nuisance.

He can hold Mr.

Munoz personally liable, meaning instead of taking the money out of his corporate bank account, it goes out of his personal bank account, which he would have to produce to the court.

There's just a host of things, a host of control that you get now with court jurisdiction over both Mr.

Munoz and all of these properties.

So if we get to a point where compliance is not occurring, we would go back into court.

Um and and ask the court to make that ruling.

And that that's the benefit of having an agreement like this in a court order uh issued by Judge Farhat.

Okay.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Um, Member Benson.

No, thank you at McCampbell, then Benson.

Oh, you were next.

Oh, I was all right.

I'm juggling a lot.

Member Callaway, followed by Member McCampbell, followed by Member Bens.

There we go.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair, and thank you, Mr.

Bell and Mr.

Harrison, for your work on the settlement.

Um, and I would encourage my colleagues to um get the list of the addresses that we received last week.

I I know uh Mr.

Harrison, we got that list, and I went through that list, and there are 16 properties located in district two, and I highlighted those, and we've started to go buy some of those properties to see if they are occupied.

So I didn't wait on you to tell me, Mr.

Harrison or anyone else, whether or not the properties in my district were occupied.

I'll have my list um ready by the end of this week, letting you know which ones are occupied in my district, and I would encourage my colleagues to do the same of the 299, 16 are in district two.

Um, and also we had talked about um Mr.

Harrison, whether or not this individual, Mr.

Munos, who received the Spirit of Detroit award, um, to my surprise, um, whether or not he should be allowed to continue to purchase properties when everybody knows that he's a slum lord and has been been one for a while, receiving a spirit of detroit award.

Mr.

Harrison through the chair.

Ernie Harrison.

The chair, thank you, Councilmember Callaway.

Um, I indicated last week, uh, there's certainly, I don't believe will be a situation where the city uh is engaging in selling properties to Mr.

Munoz.

And I would I would defer to HRD or other uh enterprise departments that are responsible for doing that.

But when a party engage when party A and Party B engages in a private transaction and the city's not aware, I don't know that there's any way to preclude Mr.

Munoz uh from buying properties, but certainly um if the city uh is aware that he either owns an entity or that he uh personally is attempting to purchase a properly from the city of Detroit, uh I'm I'm sure there's something that the city could do relevant to uh ensuring that he doesn't purchase it.

Sometimes the way these transactions occur, and I know you're aware of this, Councilmember Callaway, individuals mask themselves through multiple corporate entities.

That's what we were dealing with.

That's what we were dealing with, multiple organizations that we've gone after uh on the public nuisance side.

Uh I think there may be a different response as it relates to contracting, which I deferred to um uh Sanders office or the purchasing director's office uh relevant to how we will preclude doing business with Mr.

Munoz if that was a prerogative of the city.

Thank you.

Thank you so much through the chair to you, Mr.

Harrison.

Thank you.

We also had a discussion on whether or not there's any fraud involved in any of these transactions, knowing that some have probably taken place between you know the private parties that you indicated earlier.

But um I certainly will want um to know whether or not you know any fraud is involved in any of these transactions with Ms.

Munos um acquire any of these um properties.

But thank you so much for all of your work.

Um and thank you, Mr.

Bell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you so much.

And we have uh in the queue member McCampbell, followed by Member Benson and then colleagues.

If we can end debate because we're gonna postpone this vote and bring back next week, will allow us to have even further conversation more further conversation uh in between the meeting as well as next uh Tuesday.

Uh member McCampbell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Absolutely.

Um do that.

Uh I do have a question for attorney Harrison.

Um, if you have it, how do what prompted the actions around the initial 10 properties?

Thank you, Councilmember uh McCampbell for the question.

Uh the process for finding the public nuisance lawsuits by the law department involves referrals from BC.

It can it could involve referrals from the public, it can involve referrals from this honorable body, the city council.

Um Mr.

Munoz, I believe came on the radar screen for the law department based upon referrals from B seed.

Uh they have been working with him for quite some time.

He did bring some properties into compliance pursuant to uh Mr.

Deeringer's project management responsibilities for Mr.

Bell.

Uh it got to a point where BC gave us a list uh of the most egregious properties, of which there were 10.

That's why we filed those 10 lawsuits, excuse me, not the 10 lawsuits, but one lawsuit with 10 properties, and then we use the lawsuit as we traditionally do, uh, council member McCampbell to expand the scope uh into Pierce or to bring, I should say, more properties that are owned by that given owner or corporate entity and try to reach some form of a consent agreement, or as we did here, a court order.

So we started with 10, but there was clearly way more properties on the radar screen uh in Mr.

Bell's team allowed us uh to have that information, and that's when we got to a point of leverage in the lawsuit.

We had entered, we had uh entered a default with the Wayne County Circuit Court, but then as we were proceeding to the default judgment, that's when Mr.

Munoz retained an attorney contacted us.

Uh we said, you know what, if we're gonna agree to anything, we're gonna have to include a large swath of the properties that are out of compliance pursuant to B seed certification, and that's what we did here.

Thank you for that.

Um thank you for that background.

So in District 7, we have 88 of the 299 properties, 30% of those.

Um definitely will drive by some of them uh as my colleague recommended.

We'll be driving for quite a while with how many properties we have in D7.

Um, so I do I also you know we'll do our due diligence by I would echo uh the council president, like knowing how many of these uh houses are occupied, because we also know the background of this particular individual on some of the tactics that have been reported and what they will use and some of the tenants that they would have that may prevent folks from coming forward as well.

So that that all of those things give me pause to the settlement because of course we want these properties to be abated, but just even us getting to the aspect of um where we are now, it it makes me not trust that this will actually happen.

And I I understand that you you say that there are the ways that it go back to the default judgment, but you know, as I've talked about with you settlements before, um you know, with folks that are untrustworthy, and uh I would say this person has earned that tag.

Um we just prolonged the process of our residents being made whole and actually have an adequate housing.

Uh so I do have a question on if this settlement is not approved by council, what happens then?

Harrison.

The chair, thank you, uh, Councilmember McCampbell.

It as I indicated before, and there there's two huge wins here if this honorable body approves this settlement, Councilmember McCampbell.

The first one is, and and you you discussed it somewhat.

Attorney Harrison, we are getting long in this meeting.

He just asked a simple question.

What happens if you do not approve it?

Not the benefits of it.

Uh we we've heard it.

Just really want to streamline because I got to get us out of here.

Thank you, Council President.

That's that's what I was trying to answer.

There's two huge benefits, uh, Councilmember McCampbell that get taken away uh if this settlement isn't approved.

One is jurisdiction over Mr.

Munoz, so that the law department can go into court uh if he does not do what he's supposed to do on a monthly bi-monthly basis.

Two are the list pendants that are filed right now with the Wayne County Register of Deeds.

To date, we have 120 list pendants filed of the 299 uh property lists.

What that means, council member McCandle is that these properties either cannot be sold unless the properties are fixed and abated, or if they are sold, a title company will make sure that the properties are abated by listing what they call quote an exception, end quote.

And the exception would say whatever the address is must be abated as a part of this sale.

The reason why that's possible is because the list pendants entails and means and announces to the world that there's litigation as it relates to this property.

If the settlement isn't approved, you don't have jurisdiction over Mr.

Munio's.

Pendances on file uh with the Wayne County Register of Deeds, uh, because it's it's because the settlement isn't approved, and that's the order entails that right.

Term 10 of the order by Judge Farhart says that this deal is contingent upon city council approval.

So it would be though those would be be the two major loss benefits uh here uh if we don't have the settlement approved.

Yeah, thank you.

I you know, I would just say, and thank you for that.

I would just say if someone going in to get to buy 300 properties, um, and having no um for forethought and actually keeping them uh up to repair and good order.

Um, again, that makes me not trust that this will actually go through.

Um, that we'll be back here at the table that that monthly meaning that they will not be completed and we'll be back and forth.

So at this moment I'm not in support of the settlement, but I know there's been a motion of postpone it, but just want to state that I will follow up uh with additional questions.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you so much.

And our final voice on this one today would be member Benson.

And then thank you, Mr.

Chair, and then quickly, what's the timeline on this?

Do we have a timeline?

Uh, for do we have a timeline to either approve or deny this?

Or does is there a sunset for this agreement?

No, yeah, I think the language through the chair, thank you, council member.

I think that's council member Banson.

I'm sorry.

Um I I believe the language of the order says under term 10 that the terms codifying this order are contingent upon the approval of the Detroit City Council.

So if the honorable body wants to bring this back, that is not going to hurt us.

Uh, we can still look at this next week uh and hopefully get some of these questions answered uh so that we can continue forward in trying to prosecute this on the civil side uh and get some results get some resolution to these two over 290 properties.

All right, thank you.

Thank you so much.

Colleagues, is there a motion to postpone the vote for one week on line item 18.3 motion.

See no objections, that action shall be taken.

Thank you, gentlemen.

Thank you.

All right.

Um, Madam Clerk from the Human Resources Labor Relations Division.

Council member Whitfield Calloway, a resolution.

Line item 18.14.

Calloway.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair, Madam Clerk.

Motion for approval.

There's a motion to approve line item 18.14.

Any objections?

See none, that action shall be taken for the planning and economic development standing committee from the office of contracting and procurement.

Council member Johnson, three resolutions.

Noted that line item 19.1 was postponed from last week.

Formal session agenda.

Contract number 600 6838-82.

100% city funding, amendment two to provide an extension of time and an increase of funds for services for the Motor City Match Program.

Contractor Economic Development Corporation.

Total contract amount, 8 million for housing and revitalization.

Contract number 6007937, 100% grant funding to provide wendell AC unit installation.

Contractor Blue Horizon Construction LLC.

Total contract amount 378,050.

Housing and revitalization.

Contract number 6005921-82.

100% grant funding.

Amendment two to provide an extension of time for residential redevelopment of vacant parcels in North Courttown neighborhood.

Contracted the community builder incorporated, doing business as TCB Affordable Housing Incorporated total contract amount, one million.

That's for housing and revitalization.

Four resolutions.

Thank you, Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Move for approval.

There's a motion to approve line items 19.1 through 19.3.

Colleagues, any objections?

Hearing none.

Um did not call it.

There's an objection, member waters.

Which one?

19.3.

19.3.

Any additional from colleagues.

Items 19.1 through 19.3 shall be approved, noting the one objection on 19.3 from member waters.

From the Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority, Madam Clerk.

Council Member Johnson, a resolution noting line item 19.4 was postponed from last week's formal session agenda.

Thank you.

19.4 member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Move to postpone line item 19.4 for one week.4 with discussion, member Miller.

Wanted to comment on 19.4.

I know we are bringing it back again in a week.

But I just wanted to put on the record that although I read the documents and they were saying 25% union.

I just wanted everyone to know, in my opinion, it appears more like 10%.

If we're considering the insulators, the laborers and the elevator operators.

I think this contract alone here for this developer.

He needs to understand what unions look like.

Because if you do not have the Teamsters who's pouring the concrete, and the carpenters who's doing the framework and the bricklayers who are actually doing the exterior, the roofers, the plumbers, even the fire suppression people.

And the drywall and painters.

We're looking at seven different trades that are being ignored.

And the minimum amount of the electric um the electricians for IBEW.

It is an insult to claim that you're working with union workers in Detroit.

When it probably only, if you ask me, maybe come to less than 10 workers.

That is listed on the letter that I received.

It is an embarrassment that our body would even be approached in this manner with the lack of union workers on this project.

And we must continue to set a standard if we're to have our workers receive compensation.

They need to take care of their families right here in Detroit.

And to say you're bringing uh Detroit workers where who are they?

Where did you find them?

And so I do not support this today, tomorrow, or next week, if they do not come to the table correctly, especially when it comes to the carpenters, the teamsters, the bricklayers, the roofers, the plumbers, the fire compression, the drywallers, or the painters.

Without those, you have no development, and you have to do your due diligence in providing income for our residents in Detroit.

Thank you to the chair.

Thank you.

Uh, line item 19.4.

Are there any objections?

And none, then action shall be taken.

From the housing and revitalization department, madam clerk.

Council member Johnson, two resolutions, line items 19.5 and 19.6.

Line items 19.5 and 19.6, member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Move to postpone line item 19.5 for one week.

There's a motion to postpone for one week line item 19.5.

Are there any objections?

See none, then action shall be taken.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Move for approval on line item 19.6.

That's a motion to approve line item 19.6.

Are there any objections, colleagues?

Hearing none, an action shall be taken.

Mr.

Chair, I'd like to request a waiver on line items 19.1 and 19.6.

There's a request for a waiver on line items 19.1 and 19.6, colleagues.

Are there any objections?

See none, waiver shall be attached.

Uh from the planning and development department.

Madam Clerk.

Council Member Johnson, six resolutions.

Noting that line item 19.7 was postponed from last week formal session.

Member Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman for approval on line items 19.7 through 19.12.

There's a motion for approval for line items 19.7 through 19.12.

Colleagues, any objections.

Hearing none, then action shall be taken.

Uh, for the public health and safety standing committee from the Office of Contracting and Procurement.

Council Member Santiago Romero.

Member Remero.

Mr.

President.

Yes, Councilmember McCampbell, on behalf of Santiago Romero for resolution, noting that line item 20.1 was postponed from last week formal session.

Line item 20.1 is an amendment three to the five-year security services schedule three.

It's 100% city funding.

Amendment three is to ask suppliers for Detroit Supply Schedule Number Three Security Services.

The schedule period for May 7, 2030.

The maximum order limitation is 56 million 245, 185.36.

Contract number 6007830, 100% city funding to provide HVAC services for DDOT facilities.

Contractor System Corporation Total Contract Amount 4,800,000.

That's for construction and demolition.

Contract number 600791, 100% FTA funding to provide bus wrap repair, furnish and install.

Contractor Acting 4 Pretty A Graphics Incorporated.

Total contract amount 360,000.

That's for transportation.

Contract number 6007873.

100% city funding to provide concrete work as needed for a bus shelter stops.

That's for transportation.

Councilmember McCampbell for resolutions.

Member McCampbell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh motion to approve.

There's a motion to approve line items 20.1 through 20.4, colleagues.

Any objections?

Objection, McCampbell 20.2.

Any further colleagues?

Um objection, council member Callaway 20.2 with the discussion on line item 20.5.

Um objection on line item 20.2.

Councilmember Callaway.

Um you have further discussion and further discussion point five.

Or we know we went to 20.4.

We didn't go to 20.5 yet.

No further highlights.

Line items 20.1 through 20.4 shall be approved.

Um get a request for a waiver on line item 20.4, please.

Colleagues, anyone request for waiver?

Thank you.

Request for a waiver on line 20 on line item 20.4.

Hearing no objection.

A waiver shall be attached.

From the department of public works, city engineering division, madam clerk.

Councilmember Santiago Romero.

Councilmember McCampbell, two resolution line items 20.5 and 20.6.

Um member McCampbell, 20.5 and 20.6.

Motion to approve 20.5 and 20.6.

There's a motion for approval, colleagues.

Are there any objections?

Discussion, Mr.

Chair.

Discussion, member Callaway.

Um line item 20.5.

Do we know who this individual is, who the uh principal is of newt holdings?

Um, this is some work that's um going on in district two, and I can't find any information on newt holdings LLC.

Do we know where they're located?

Ms.

Washington, anyone can be promoted that can answer that question for member caliber.

Yes, through the chair, we have Richard Dorothy online.

All right, we'll promote Mr.

Dorney.

We don't see them yet.

Um, Mr.

Washington through the chair, are we able to bring this back at the end?

I was going to um move to postpone this for a week.

Can bring it back at the end of the agenda, but I'm still going to move to bring it back in a week.

And then again, it's line item 20.5.

Yes, sir.

Is it a motion, ma'am?

A motion to postpone line item 20.5 for one week.

There's a motion to postpone the vote for one week for line item 20.5.

Colleagues, any objections?

See none, then action shall be taken.

Thank you.

Mr.

Chair.

Uh member McCampbell.

Thank you.

Um, request a waiver on 20.3.

Oh, yeah.

So we are still in the midst of the vote.

Oh, sorry.

No words, no words.

And then again, it's for line items 20.5 and 20.6.

Line item 20.6.

Are there any objections?

Hearing none, that action shall be taken.

Member McCampbell.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Sorry about that.

Uh request away around 20.3.

That's a request for a waiver on line out of 20.3, colleagues.

Are there any objections?

Hearing none, line item 20.3.

Shall have a waiver attached.

We'll now move on to the new business portion of the agenda from the mayor's office, madam clerk.

Council President Pro Tim Young.

Six resolutions.

Line items 21.1 through 21.6.

Pro Tim Young.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I like the move to approve line item 21.1 through 21.6.

There's a motion to approve line items 21.1 through 21.6, colleagues.

Any objections?

Hearing none.

That action shall be taken.

Do record isn't there one that's coming up real soon on that list.

Nope, not that one.

No, the earliest one, Mr.

President, then will be July 25th, and that's for the Department of Elections.

Yeah, you want to get a waiver on that one?

Sound like we should be fine, but you know, we should be fine.

No, waiver.

Mr.

President, I'd like to request the waiver online item.

21.1.

As a request for a waiver on line 21.1.

Any objections?

Hearing none.

That action shall be taken.

I also like to request the waiver on line 21.3.

There's a request for a waiver on 21.3, colleagues.

Any objections?

See none.

Waiver should be attached.

For the Office of Contracting and Procurement, Madam Clerk.

Council member McCampbell, two resolutions, line items 21.7 and 21.8.

It's contract number 6007352-81.

100% general funding.

Amendment one to exercise a renewal for me medical services at Detroit Detention Center.

Contractor Park Pharmacy Incorporated.

Total contract amount 7 million 44,420 dollars.

That's for police.

Contract number 6007897.

100% solid waste funded to provide recycling education, technical assistance, and outreach to Detroit citizens.

Contractor Green Living Science.

Total contract amount 225,000.

That's for public works.

Council member McCampbell, two resolutions.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um motion to approve the discussion.

Now there's a motion to approve with discussion.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

For to for um 21.7.

I know it's related to Detroit Detention Center Health Services, but also we've been getting reports around the lack of AC in the detention center.

Um air conditioner, and a lot of folks have um have some medical concerns there.

So just wanted to um see if there's anyone available to speak to that and what's going on there and what remedies are being made.

Uh Mr.

Washington, do you have anyone available?

Respond to that particular question.

Well, go ahead, Mr.

Washington.

I'm sorry.

Yes, um, we have Captain Shelley Eggers online.

I believe she may be under Captain Commander.

Uh my college, Commander Stacy Alvarado's account.

Thank you.

We'll promote that individual.

And I did still have additional questions and didn't want to spend the time in um formal session to ask them.

Uh we had some that were submitted, waiting for them to come back as responses.

So we'll be asking for a postponement for one week on this item as well.

But in the meantime, the air conditioning is very important today.

All right, Mr.

Washington, we do not see that individual on the screen.

All right.

All right.

That's very helpful.

Good afternoon, Commander.

Thank you for joining us.

Please introduce yourself for the record.

Good afternoon.

Um Stacey Alvarado, Commander Management Services Division.

Um through the chair, Mr.

Washington.

Um, Captain Eggers is under Eggers.

E G G E R S.

All right, we're looking to find Commander Eric's.

All right, there we go.

Moting the individual now.

Commander Edgers, are you there?

Yes, if you can turn your screen on, that'll be helpful.

Yeah, I was trying to locate that.

There we go.

I'm still there we go.

Are you able to see me?

Okay, great.

Please introduce yourself for the record.

Hi, I'm Captain Eggers from the Detroit Police Department, Detroit Detention Center.

All right, thank you.

Member McCampbell.

Thank you so much.

Good afternoon to you both.

Uh wanted to bring this up.

I know 21.7 is related to the health and well-being, but uh folks uh who are detained at the Detroit Detention Center.

Um we have gotten reports and concerns around the lack of AC, especially since we have been in the midst of a heat wave and just wanted to know what is being what actions are being taken to ensure that folks aren't um you know overheating or uh facing the consequences of extreme heat.

So floor is yours, Captain.

Okay, yes.

Um so that building um does not have air conditioning in it where they are um housed.

However, we have um a lot of fans in there.

We have um the windows do open as well so that you know it does air out in there.

Um we give them water every 30 minutes and or as needed.

Um I personally uh gave them ice last week myself when it was hot.

We were walking around making sure they had ice.

Um we gave them bags so they could use it to cool their bodies off, and uh we have a nursing staff inside of there also who checked on them more so um throughout the shift, and as well as I did.

I walked around with my supervisors to make sure that um people were in good health and spirits considering the heat.

Thank you for that.

And do you all have any now that the detention center is under the city's control operation?

Do you all have any plans for a long-term fix to this?

Well, actually, our chief uh police came over on Friday and looked at it himself specifically.

Um, yes, he does have some plans.

He's working on that, and uh, we are working with him to ensure that uh we have a solution for that.

Okay, and is there someone who is you know recording and keeping track of the internal temperature there for you know folks who are detained for staff there and as well?

Yes, we track it hourly on us on a smart sheet dashboard.

Okay, uh well, I will follow up just to get that data and just um additional information on the long-term plans there.

Um, yeah, still uh appreciate the actions that I've been taking.

Still concerned that this if we're thinking about a hundred degree weather, um uh it may still fall short.

So I'll I'll follow up with questions on that.

Thank you.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Yes, sir.

Can you get out?

21.7.

Yes.

Member Milk.

I have a question.

Are they able to be outside on the yard for most of the day while it's extremely hot?

No, currently we don't have um individuals um outside of the um facility.

Are we able to tour it also with you?

I'm sorry, I didn't catch what you said.

Forgive me.

Are we able to tour the facility with you?

Sure, I I see no no issue with that.

I think that'd be up to the police department, you know, the chief to decide, but I see no issue with that.

Okay, thank you.

Uh-huh.

Yes, ma'am.

Thank you.

Member Cal.

Um, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um, the 3.6 million dollars um is for what services are there services or for um it's medicine, prescriptions.

Uh Captain.

Yeah, so that is um a variety of cost.

Um that is considered that's to pay for the nurses, that's to pay for their supplies.

Um, that is to pay for um detainee care, that is to pay for everything that they do for us, everything and um through the through the chair.

Now that you can answer this question, it's probably a contract and procurement question.

Hopefully, we'll bring this back in a week.

Um, we could not find a Detroit-based um pharmacy to uh or company to provide these services to our detention center.

We are in Gross Point now, almost a four million dollar increase.

I know that OCP did go out for fed on this contract.

Um there was conversation with the health department.

It was not something that they were able to obtain.

And Captain Eggers, correct me if I'm wrong.

This is not for prescription medication.

This is for the actual services that are provided by the medical staff.

That is correct.

The chair to whoever can answer this question, how many detainees are at the Detroit Detention Center on any given day?

So that does vary.

Um we can hold up to 200 people.

We vary between say 80 and 130 a day, but it can be higher or lower than that based on um what's going on.

Our goal is to get them out very quickly.

Okay, and then my last question through the chair to yourself, whoever can answer the question.

What is the demographic of the detainees?

I would definitely say um it's very diverse.

Um we do get um more males than females, um, but there are days we get more females, um, and it's definitely diverse as far as culture and religion as well.

Um thank you.

And my last question through the chair to everyone can answer this and the racial makeup.

Can you hear me?

The race.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Um, it definitely is diverse.

Um, I wouldn't say it's one particular race over another.

It's diverse.

Predominant race.

In the detailed African American.

Okay.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Yes, ma'am.

Thank you.

Postponement on line item 21.7 to get those questions.

Thank you so much.

There's a motion to postpone the vote for line item 21.7 for one week.

Any objections?

Hearing none, that action shall be taken.

Thank you so much.

Line item 21.8, colleagues.