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The Neighborhood Community Services Committee of the Detroit City Council met on October 8, 2026, to hear public comments on land bank lot acquisition and commercial property maintenance, and to consider several contract amendments, grant acceptances, and special event requests. The meeting was chaired by Council President Pro Tempore Coleman A. Young II, with Councilmember Scott Benson excused and Councilmember Renata Miller present.
Come into session with the clerk, please call the roll. Yes, sir. Council President Pro Tempore Colmine A Young. Here. Councilmember Scott Benson. Councilmember Renata Miller. Yeah. Mr. Chair, you have a quorum. Thank you. Um Member Benson is out of town, so I think we should have his um asked as excused. All right. Uh is there a motion to approve the minutes? All right. Native chairmarks. We will now move on to public comment. Is there anybody in the public wishing to make comment? Anybody wish to make public comment? Going once, going twice, going three times. Well, did you want to make public or go in there? Press the microphone to it turn green. Introduce yourself. Yeah, two minutes, sir. Two minutes. Two minutes. I'm gonna take the six minutes from the five people on the left side and two from the three people on the right side, all these busy people all year. Listen, I just really want to come to bring attention to the I don't want to say the fight, but the struggle of trying to figure out how neighbors are able to either get a lot, either purchase a lot, or stop being told two years later that it takes six months, it takes seven months. What is the real protocol from land bank or the city or whatever? And how do we streamline this where people don't hate our city because there's a disrunnal feeling of how we include myself. I got a lot behind me. I've been trying to get for three, four years now. And the last mayor, they claimed it was gonna be done. Then he said they had to wait for the process now. You know, uh, I did just get an email about two weeks ago, but still nothing's happening. What do we do in the neighborhood to try to improve our environment? Then when you cut the grass, uh you don't get even a thank you letter. I think we need to uh uh uh council member uh uh young and councilwoman uh Miller. We need to establish some kind of system where we at least say thank you to the people who are taking care of the lots. Uh and then some of those people are uh, you know, and you know I I get some of the complaints.