The Neighborhoods, Community Services, Public Health and Safety Committee met on Monday, August 3, 2026, from 1:00 PM to 2:14 PM in the Council Chamber. The committee considered 33 agenda items, including numerous deferrals, amendments, and emergency passages. Key discussions centered on grant forgiveness for the Fraternal Order of Police Foundation, funding for homeless shelter beds, a public-private partnership for downtown riverfront parks, a lease for a new JSO District 3 substation, and dredging of Deep Bottom Creek.
Hi everyone, as soon as uh all our members take their seats, we'll go ahead and get started. And I see Mr. Delaney walking in as soon as he gets seated. We're gonna start off with introductions. Um starting with that side, please. No pressure, Mr. Delaney. Afternoon, y'all. Bill Delaney, Mayor's Office. Brandon Russell, Council Research. Mary Stepopoulos, Office of General Counsel. Heather Reber, Council Auditor's Office. Good afternoon, Michael Boylan, District Six. Good afternoon, Chris Miller, at large group five, and I should have mentioned this. Uh welcome to the Monday, August 3rd, Neighborhoods, Community Services, Public Health and Safety Committee meeting. Kevin Carico, Councilmember, District 4. Good afternoon, Jimmy Peluso, District 7. Randy White, District 12, just visiting. And we have one more here. Yes, sir. Mr. Chair. I'm sorry, I was down. Yeah, uh Matt Carlucci at large group four. Sorry, I was down there. Well, that's fine. Wrap up something. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Okay, well, we'll now go to public comments. So if we can take up the public comment cards. Um joining us is uh councilmember Tyrone Clark Murray, the vice chair. So we'll we'll have a good crew here. And I just want to remind Mr. Oliver and anyone else who will be speaking today. Uh please stay on the bills that we're taking up today. Uh, if you can focus your comments on the bills that are up for consideration today, that would be much appreciated. Otherwise, uh I'll remind you of that. Um, so we have we have two cards. We'll start with Mr. Carnell Oliver. Um, it's it's your time at the podium, sir. Uh yes, my name is uh yes, my name is uh Carnal. Address is on file. I want to get to more to the nuts and bolts of the city and where I look at how funding affects communities, especially American freedmen communities. Uh the two line items is two is sorry, zero five thirty-five, five thirty-six, and zero three seven seven. It covers heritage communities. It covers voting rights. One of my things is that in order to make a movement where dollars respect key interest groups, is that we have got to put policy in place. Let me look for example, district seven.