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The Port Huron City Council met on September 28, 2026, to discuss and act on several major items including the potential sale of the Municipal Office Center (MOC) and purchase of the former Woman's Life Insurance Building for a new City Hall, a brownfield plan for affordable housing, ordinances regulating automated license plate reader technology and e-bikes on sidewalks, and various resolutions. The meeting also included a public hearing and extensive public comment on homelessness, infrastructure, and community safety.
Please remain standing. I pledge. And to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God. Indivisible with liberty and justice. Thank you. Before we start the meeting, if we look like we just got off an airplane up here, we had another program before coming here. This evening we uh awarded uh our spirit of Port Hearing uh awards program over at the um McMoran Auditorium where we uh awarded some of Port Heron's finest. I know we got more of you out there, but I'd just like to go through and again let you know who they are and uh just publicly uh acknowledge them in the area of Brotherhood. Beth Taylor was the um the person who received uh the award this evening, and then the category of civic, Patty Samar, and then in cultural, we had Regina and Brian Spain, and in economic progress, we had Michigan Metal Coding Company, and in Good Neighbor, we had Freya J. Kim and Lifetime Achievement. We had Tyrone and Laura Burrell, and then youth services, we had Paige Voss. So we do this every other year. We used to do it every year, and we have been doing it for about how many years now? Probably okay. Well, we've been doing a long time. And so we thought that we'd change it to every other year, so it won't be too repetitious. But these all these individuals are very outstanding, and there may be some names you already know. I know sons, we all heard of that, and sons, and then interstage right. We heard of that, and then we were particularly you know excited all the time, uh, not all the time, but it's intentional to include our youth uh in here. That's our next generation. Uh the young lady, uh Paige Voss was uh the recipient. So uh that's where we had all prepared for this. So we we had the long day, we had a long day. So but we know what we're here to do, and we're here to do it tonight. And actually, when I look over the audience, sometimes we get a lot of new people in here. Um, and we don't uh we have some rules, some things that we like to go by, so it's not so much all the clapping and applause, it's still a business meeting, and we're not telling you don't, but we just don't go over and above all that you know the clapping, and then also uh another thing that I that we noted over the um the years of when we get to public hearing that is different from our comment section. So public hearing is just what it is as a hearing, and it has a targeted area that uh we speak to, and tonight it's gonna be on the brownfield plan. So uh if you have if it's anybody out there, you would be speaking towards the brownfield, it's not the comment that you came here with. So just want to make sure that we all on the same page so we can all be in this meeting together. So with that, uh roll call, please. Councilmember Archival here. Councilmember Haremza. Here, Councilmember Lamb here, Councilmember Mojrac, Councilmember Peyton. Here, Councilmember Pemberton. Here, Mayor Ashford. Present council members, you have before you the minutes of the regular meeting on September the 14th. Is there a motion? So moved, moved by Mayor Pro Tim Archibald and supported. Was that Terry Councilmember Lamb? Yes. Supported by uh second by Councilmember Land. Any discussion? Okay, hearing on roll call, please. Councilmember Archva. Yes.