The Committee of the Whole convened on September 24, 2026, at 10:00 AM to address a range of agenda items including general public comment, two public hearings on zoning map amendments, property sales, and committee referrals. The meeting featured extensive testimony from residents, business owners, and community advocates, with significant debate on land use proposals.
September 24th, 2026. Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll? Councilmember Letitia Johnson. Present. Councilmember Gabriela Santiago Romero. Present. Council President Pro Tempera Comene Young the Second. Thanks for putting that pro tempere on there. Here. Madam Chair, you have a quorum present. Thank you. Having a quorum present. We are now in session. Good morning, colleagues. Is there a motion on the minutes? Motion to approve the minutes. There's a motion to approve the minutes. Hearing no objections, that action shall be taken. And we are going to move into public comment. General public comment. If there's anyone joining us who would like to make a general public comment, please raise your hand. Whether in person or virtually, please raise your hand. Public comment will be cut off in one minute at 10.05. Good morning, Ms. Great. How many hands do we have raised virtually? Good morning, madam chair. We currently have nine hands raised for virtual public comment. Okay, if we can set the clock for two minutes for general public comment. We'll get started with the individual we have here in the committee of the whole. He has stated that he had given the owner a certificate of compliance. I said, Why would you do that when there's systemic pest issues going on? No inspector came out, like they stated that the person had come out. And um I have a statement here from another tenant, uh medical statement about being bit up with bed bugs, uh, that you guys can have a copy of from the um the uh the doctor, and he's uh like I stated threatening to evict me after um the city contacted him. Um he's threatening to evict this lady for us coming out with this stuff that's going on. Um he already threatened um the director of the renters association, Steve Reimer, Osby Jackson, city inspector was present for that, and Ray Simpson from Mary Sheffield staff saw it, how the owner threatened people and told him them to stop talking to the residents. There's a lot of issues going on in this building that uh the city inspector saying they only inspected 15% of the building. This is an old building. Many people are moving in, still dealing with bed bugs that were already in that unit. Uh three, four, five, six families. And this has been going back decades that this owner is covering up. And women complaining still about being spied on in their units. The staff is very sexually provo perverted. When you speak out about any of this, you get retaliated upon. And as I have stated that um you're welcome to the copy of this is lady um information. Three of the families there from the Philippines on the visa, scared to tell that they have bed bugs. They just moved in last month. They're afraid of losing their status and their position, uh uh living in there. So this owner, like I stated, continues to harass me, threaten me with tenants all night, all day. Over 22 people have left the building, seven are dead with the similar mysterious symptoms that I'm having.