Denzel Anton McCampbell.

Present.

Councilmember Letitia Johnson.

Present.

Councilmember May Waters.

President.

Mr.

Chair, you have a corn president.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

And that'll move us on to approval of the minutes.

Members of the community should have received the July 1st, 2026 minutes.

And with that is their motion to approve.

Motion.

It's been a motion to approve sin.

No objections that action shall be taken.

For chair remarks, I would just say I know that there are still folks who are unfortunately still experiencing power outages throughout District 7 and throughout the city.

If you are experiencing power out there and you do want a status update or need resources, please do reach out to my office.

But want to make sure that folks are safe and have what they need.

With that, we'll move on to public comment.

Public requests for public comment will close at 15.

If you are joining us virtually, please do use the raise hand function.

You'll be called in order.

We'll start with folks in the room and then move on to those who are joining us virtually.

Seeing no folks in the room, um, we'll move on to Zoom.

How many folks do we have so far?

Good afternoon, Mr.

Chair.

Currently, we have five hands raised.

All right.

Let's start with our first speaker.

Our first speaker is Black Bag.

Mr.

Crowley, good afternoon.

You have two minutes.

Councilmember McCampbell.

Uh your colleague.

Angela Whitfield Callaway, District 2 representative.

I feel has abridged my rights to freedom of speech.

So I'm going to take the necessary uh actions and measures to address that situation.

Now I want to focus the attention on the midterm elections.

There's no way that Janice Winfrey should be allowed to oversee Detroit, Michigan elections ever again.

She has been caught cheating, busted, busted, busted.

She's on Zoom lying about the sending you and the other members of uh no, I don't think you were there.

You and um the other council member from District 5 were not there when she lied in 2024 on Zoom at the Detroit Election Commission members.

She said she sent the findings on the allegations of voter fraud by anonymous citizen report to every member of council, uh mayor's office, Michael Edward Duggan was the mayor, and the law department with General Corporation Council, former Michigan Supreme Court Justice, Comrade Mallet Jr.

sitting right beside her.

He is also a member of the Detroit Election Commission.

And what I found out is that absentee ballot fraud was committed in the years of 2020, years of 2020, 2022, and 2024.

Umso in 2021, when your colleagues were re-elected.

Um to council.

Thank you, next speaker.

Our next speaker is William M.

Davis.

Commissioner Davis, good afternoon.

You have two minutes.

Uh good afternoon.

Can I be heard?

Yes, you can.

Okay, I'd like to remind everyone that the Rudy Malcolm's uh service is going to be this Saturday at St.

Matthew St.

Joseph Episcopal Church.

Uh hopefully uh y'all could attend or send a representation or uh a resolution.

Uh also separately.

Um I did call your office, and someone indicated they'd get back to me in three business days.

Um Monday, when I did call, I know you have a speaker that came on and said that uh that they would be picking up a little bit more than normal for the um yard debris.

Uh, but that hasn't happened either over here, at least not on my street on Apple between Joey and Oakman.

Uh and also I think more needs to be done as it relates to doing more to help people.

Because I know myself being a senior, I have big branches that failed that you know, I was hard on one side of my yard to even get in it because the branches are huge.

Uh so any assistance I can get would be helpful.

Uh also I think uh a greater effort should be made made to help the city of Detroit retirees.

I think regular that y'all make changes and stuff to benefit Detroit fire uh the police and fire, their retirees and keep people up to date.

Uh more should be done to help City Detroit retirees general fund employees.

Uh I I am also in favor of uh entertainment tax or downtown tax or what whatever to help do more with our resources and to defer some of our costs to some of our many visitors we have because when I go downtown to open the day for the tigers, it looks pretty bright down there.

And uh frequently I see they'd be drinking and doing a whole bunch of stuff in our city.

So hopefully y'all have a good day and hopefully some assistance can come to more people.

Thank you.

Thank you, thank you, Commissioner Davis.

Uh I don't know.

I'm not sure if Ms.

Sullivan or Mr.

Washington is with us.

Um, if there is a if there is any possible way that we can just get an update by the end of the meeting just on for DPW pickup.

I know there's quite a bit out there to pick up, but just um some expectations there.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

I just want to note our next speaker has already spoken, Legendary Detroiter.

So we'll move on to D DOT Mobility Access Ambassador Unpaid Cunningham.

Brother Cunningham, good afternoon.

You have two minutes.

That number was made so you can remember it.

Uh let me read off a little thing here.

Proverbs chapter 8.

That is the book of wisdom.

Proverbs 1816, a man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great people.

Please note that you ride along with me and us, we provide the free bus tickets on board.

We provide F R E free paper, low-income housing lists.

And we chat with the people.

All these council, we appreciate for doing bus ride-alongs.

If you need a low-income housing list, and you want it mailed to your crib, again, you want it this low-income housing list mailed to your grandma, your auntie, your church, your organization, any address, attention, your name, you will call this number that I'm about to give you 855-646-7432.

Again, that's area code 855-646-7432.

8556, 7432.

They will mail you the list.

Please pray for us as we pray for you.

Real talk.

And everybody who hates hate without schism.

Everybody who loves thank you, Brother Cunningham, and thank you for the information for all you do.

Um, before we move on to the next speaker, please.

Phone number in there, one two four.

Good afternoon.

You have two minutes.

Good afternoon, may I be heard?

Yes, you may.

Yeah, okay.

Um, I've called in a number of times now, and I keep asking the same question.

And but I have not received an answer.

And since we Detroit taxpayers are paying for some of this program, I think we deserve an answer.

And that is again.

But why is it that some people were getting housing upgrades as part of this solar initiative when there was no community benefits ordinance process?

There were no, there was no community benefits agreement.

You have a duty under the charter to provide equality of opportunity and to treat people equally under the Michigan and U.S.

So how is this possible?

May I please get an answer to that?

We all deserve an answer to that Detroit.

Taxpayers and residents.

But uh I thought I read a news report that it was signed off on uh in 2025.

And I can't seem to find it by searching East Gride.

Member Waters, can you help me with that?

And Member Waters, since you're at large member, can you please get us an answer about why some people getting housing upgrades and the rest of us in the city are not when there is not a community benefits agreement in place for that?

I would uh really appreciate an answer.

I think people are due.

It's not fair to address some people's questions and concerns with public comment and ignore others.

So please don't ignore me because I've asked this question multiple times, and I think that uh we the people of Detroit deserve answers to that.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Ms.

Ward.

I know you have called our office with a few questions, still working on that, but um we will try to get back to you as soon as possible.

Um next speaker.

Our next speaker is Owner Papa.

Ms.

Hughes, good afternoon.

You have two minutes.

Uh yes, I had a troubles unmuting myself.

Oh, no worries.

Oh, okay.

Thank you for taking my call.

And good afternoon, council member.

I um I I like the person you've chosen for um to to represent the 7th district.

He seems to be knowledgeable, but I'm wondering why they're trying to hold it up, Mr.

Benson in particular.

I think it predates him.

And there's also a board that also needs to be filled, and it's called the Citizens Review Board, which consists of members from the community, of which I find we're lacking in representation.

Um Ms.

Warwick asks a great question.

We seem to spend our tax dollars, our property tax dollars for things that seem to be improper.

Um, like uh, and this is the committee to see in see into that um our property tax is going to a corporate income tax fund.

I'm not sure how my tax dollars are can be considered income for someone else when um 42 million dollars of that money can be spent in our districts.

Another question was uh posed by your um representation of district seven was our quarters, and I've asked this question multiple times.

I'm wondering why or under what authority can we spend money cleaning up freeways when it's unconstitutional and against the charter, I would say if it's unconstitutional, it's illegal, and have our quarters and our children living in squalor.

We have dirty dirt holes all over the city, and we have Mr.

Benson on the rules committee talking about chaos.

I've never seen this city in this kind of chaos.

We have CVI members giving people diapers and money.

Don't we have an agency for that?

Um, I'm not sure what's going on here in the city, but I would say this is about the the most chaotic us.

Thank you, Miss Hughes.

I'll check in the freeway aspect as well.

Um get back to you.

Next speaker.

Our last and final caller is please answer my questions.

Ms.

Ward, we will we will get back to you for sure.

Uh member waters.

All right, I'll attempt to answer her question.

Uh first of all, um Ms.

Warwick, if if you could call my office and give us the names and a contact number or email address for the people who are not receiving what they're supposed to receive as it relates to the solar projects.

I would really appreciate it.

Um I can't fight for them if I don't know who they are.

313 628-2363.

And the other piece of it, community benefits um agreement, City Council, we did not do a uh community benefits agreement for the solar project.

All right, then thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Thank you, Member Waters.

And that'll bring us on to the end of public comment, but before we move forward in the agenda, we have been joined by Director Brunditch to answer the question around the tree uh debris removal.

If we can around routing it now, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Mr.

Chair.

Good afternoon, director.

If you can just state your name for the record.

Thank you so much, and thank you for joining us on short notice.

I just want to I know folks are working hard to get as much as possible up, but just if you can just give uh residents an expectation on when they may see uh their the tree debris picked up, is it that their next pickup or as um as soon as possible?

Uh I'll try to give a real honest uh response there.

Uh DPW in conjunction with the General Services Department, uh we have crews out uh that are working day and afternoon uh picking up the tree debris that uh been out there since the storm on uh on July 3rd.

Uh and and uh DPW and GSD kind of work hand in hand uh on the removal.

Uh when a tree uh falls, whether it's into the right-of-way or falls onto property, uh GSD's forestry division has to first come out and cut that tree into more manageable size, smaller, uh smaller pieces.

Uh and then at that point, DPW is notified.

We go out to the various locations to remove the debris uh that's been set at curb side.

Uh at last count, it's my understanding that GSD had received over a thousand uh costs uh related to uh potential tree damage uh from the July 3rd storm.

Uh we're out working every day.

I I can't tell you right now as to when all of the locations will be cleared, but I can assure you that we're gonna be committed along with GSD to being out there on a daily basis as well as on week in the debris.

I can also uh assure residents that uh no one needs to be concerned about uh about uh being ticketed for having uh any brush or debris in front of your curbside.

If the amount of debris is less than what our trash contractors are required to pick up on the normal schedule day, they'll pick it up.

But most of this debris tree debris is uh much a much greater volume uh than what our contractors are required to pick up, so it's ultimately gonna be picked up by either uh DPW general services crews.

Uh, I am just gonna ask for folks to be patient.

Uh, this is probably one of the biggest uh storms that we've had uh in several years, and it's it's gonna take us a little while uh to get everything up, but we're gonna keep working diligently until all of the debris is removed.

And I also just uh take the opportunity to let residents know that obviously all of the trees that fell weren't uh at weren't at um street trees.

Uh, we do recognize that some of the trees that fell were in people's backyards, and people and residents are going to be putting uh tree debris out at curb site.

Again, no one needs to be concerned about getting ticketed.

We are gonna pick everything up uh irrespective of whether the tree debris came uh from a tree that was located in the right-of-way or whether it was located uh in the rear on private property.

Thank you, Director.

Um appreciate that information and the transparency.

I know that is quite a bit of uh there's a lot of trees and folks are working hard on that.

Uh just the one more question for myself.

Uh is the best way.

I know improved the choice the best way to report.

Is there a phone number that folks could call as well?

There is a phone number.

It's actually being uh it's actually being tracked through the general services uh department forestry division, and uh unfortunately I don't have that number.

I can get it to you uh before this uh before this meeting ends.

But all of all of the tree related costs, because uh, you know, there may still be costs coming in related to uh trees that are uh blocking portions of the street that may need to be cut.

Uh so it's not just a matter of contacting DPW to come out always and just have brush removed.

So I think it would be preferred that we just route folks to that one number uh that the city has put out uh for any tree related issues.

And I'll get that to you before uh before this meeting is over.

Okay, thank you so much.

Thank you, Director Uh Collis.

Any other questions?

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Good afternoon, uh Director Brundage.

I am just wondering if um there are just small limbs.

So I've seen you know, a lot of berm trees that lost a lot of limbs.

My tree in my front yard lost a lot of limbs that of course we picked up, but for berm trees, if there are a lot of small limbs that are in the street or if residents have put in the street now, will those be picked up by um priority waste, or is DPW helping to assist with just kind of cleaning the street?

Because I've had some people reach out to ask if the streets would be cleaned as a result of all of the um the tree limbs that are have fallen.

Uh so member Johnson, if if I understand understand you, I think you may be asking uh two different questions.

Uh and and if I if I miss uh understood your question, uh please correct me.

But relative to smaller amounts of uh tree debris or tree brush uh that might be set out at curb site, as long as it's within the parameters of what our contractors are required to pick up, uh as long as it's bundled and not less than uh not more than four feet in length, uh then that should be picked up by our trash hauling contractors, priority waste on the east side and uh waste management on the west side.

That should be picked up uh on the normal collection day.

Uh but as I mentioned earlier, if the amount is is greater than that, which is what we're seeing uh in a lot of cases, uh, then that's going to remain there until either DPW or GSD crews are able to get to those locations and get those removed.

Uh the the other point that I I believe that you were referring to, and I'm seeing this uh on my block, uh, is that a lot of uh a lot of pieces of of tree of brush or pieces of tree actually fell into the middle of the street.

Uh and I was out uh uh I think on the 4th of July, sweeping everything up in front of my street uh and getting it up.

Now we I and I I guess I'm gonna have to encourage uh residents uh uh to to take that particular approach.

DPW will be eventually back out, uh, do a second cycle of street sweeping.

Uh, but when we come through and do our street sweeping, for the most part, we're focused on removing debris uh that's closer to the curve.

That's where the sweeper brushes are.

So a lot of what I'm seeing is tree small pieces of tree debris that's actually in the center of the road in some cases, or actually spread out through the entire width of the road.

I I think the the the best approach in some cases over time, rainwater is gonna push that to the curb so it can be removed through a sweeping process.

But I I think the easiest and the the fastest way uh would be for residents to uh if they're able to to sweep that up or get it to the curb and then uh then it's at a point where it can be picked up by either DPW or our contractors.

So um I think I've experienced the same thing that you have on your block.

Um, but what I've seen is a fair amount of limbs that are at the curb, and I'm not sure if residents have pulled them to the curb.

Um so my question to you is are we asking residents to bundle them?

Because that is the the request or requirement for priority waste in order for them to be picked up, because I'm seeing small limbs um, but a fair amount of them that I think it would be helpful for an entity to come pick up as opposed to residents putting them in a yard waste bag or or if the request is to have them bundled, I just want to make sure we're communicating properly to residents.

So thanks for that that clarification and allow me to clarify.

Uh what I was trying to convey uh is that uh again we have two different levels uh of service as it relates to removing tree debris uh from curbside.

The contractors, if you want to uh potentially speed up the process and be assured that it's picked up on your weekly collection day, uh if it's if the quantity and the size is small enough whereby it can be easily bundled or even potentially put in the yard waste bags, you can do that and it'll be picked up uh by the contractor.

But if the volume is such or it's just too inconvenient to to bundle it, it can remain there and it'll eventually get picked up uh by DPW crews.

It's just that it may not occur uh on that weekly schedule on that next weekly schedule collection day.

Okay.

All right, thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Member Waters.

Yeah, just a quick question.

Are there any uh designated situations or area that are receiving priorities uh with uh cleanups?

Uh I'm sorry, do the chair the member water can you repeat that question?

Are there any designated uh priority areas that are receiving uh pickup cleanup?

Uh designated situations, you know, there might be some situations where there has to be a priority.

What areas would that be?

Uh through the chair member waters, we're really not seeing uh uh any one specific area of the city where we we saw uh really uh much larger, you know, uh occurrence of trees falling.

Uh you know, this the wind hit throughout the entire city, uh west, uh, east, north, and south areas of the city.

You know, we've seen areas uh throughout all all neighborhoods throughout throughout the city where tree damage occurred.

So uh I'm not aware uh of any area that appeared to receive a higher volume of damage compared to other neighborhoods throughout the city, if that's the question.

All right, thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, Member Waters.

Thank you, Director.

Appreciate the information and all that the uh uh that you're doing and the workers are doing to ensure that this gets cleaned up.

Appreciate you.

Thank you.

We'll get that phone number to you.

Thank you.

That would be great.

All right.

That'll move us on into the agenda for unfinished business.

Um for 5.1 and 5.2, these are budget memos from my office.

We have been in contact with the administration.

Um, this should begin to us fairly soon.

So for 5.1, is there a motion to bring back 5.1 in two weeks?

Motion.

It's been a motion to bring back 5.1 in two weeks, then no objections.

The action shall be taken.

And for 5.2, is there a motion to bring this back in one week?

Motion.2 in one week.

See no objections that action shall be taken.

Moving us on to new business from the Office of Auditor General.

Uh this is a report relative to the performance audit of the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners.

Uh, we are working to get the best date that works for both the OIG, the OAG, the OCFO, and the uh Board of Police Commissioners.

So is there a motion to bring back 6.1 in three weeks?

Motion.

It's been a motion to bring back 6.1 in three weeks.

Seeing no objections, that action shall be taken.

Moving us on to 6.2, uh under miscellaneous.

This is from Russia Johnson's office.

Summit uh memorandum relative to the request for fiscal analysis of the proposed resolution concerning property tax reductions.

Um there a motion to discuss.

Motion.

All right.

Um defer to you on LPD.

Um Mr.

Corley.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Good afternoon, uh city council.

Um, please bring this back in two weeks, and we will be working with um the office of treasury and the OCFO's office to do this, but please bring it back in two weeks.

Uh motion to bring line item six point two back in two weeks.

See no objections, the action shall be taken.

Thank you both.

Now we'll move us on to member reports.

Are there any member reports?

Mr.

Chair.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Just want to let District 4 residents know that Occupy the Summer is coming to District 4 on Friday.

This Friday, July 10th at 5 p.m.

at Corrigan Park, that is on the corner of East Warren and Altar Road.

So again, Friday, July 10th at 5 p.m.

Occupy the summer with Mayor Sheffield.

It's taking place at Corrigan Park in District 4 on the corner of East Warren and Altar Road, and we look forward to seeing you all there.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Member Waters.

No report.

All right.

And I would just say um we will District 7, our monthly meeting will be Thursday, July 23rd, virtual at 6 p.m.

Um, so you can join us from the comfort of your own home.

And with that, uh seeing no further business before this committee, is there a motion to adjourn?

Short as ever.

Yes, motion.

This is Bill Bush to adjourn.

Send no objections.

This committee stands adjourned.

Thank you all.