Good evening.

You are welcome to the city council.

I will lead the prayer of the pledge and then we'll go into our ceremony.

And those who'd like to participate, please do so.

Most gracious heavily father, we come to you today asking you to strengthen our city.

Strengthen the leaders, strengthen the workers, and strengthen the residents.

Father, we ask that you give us clarity and understanding tonight in this meeting so that we walk away, not confused, but understanding what our task is at hand.

Father, we know that you're able.

Councilmember Seals.

Present.

Councilmember Balls.

Present.

Mayor Pro Tem Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Osh.

Present.

Councilmember Braddock.

Present.

Councilmember Wigan.

Present.

Councilmember Hammond.

Present.

And Mayor Moore.

Present.

You have all members present.

Thank you.

I'd like to welcome everyone to our nice city council meeting.

It is being, it will be shown on our webpage as well as on when is it?

No, it'll be on it'll be on the TV.

Well that's on our page on social media.

I answered everyone, especially my colleagues, put your phone your phones on silent as well as your iPad.

Audience, if I can ask you to do the same thing, it is so disruptive when the file rings.

I know I've been guilty, so you don't have to remind me.

This is a public meeting.

We asked if you don't boo clap any obnoxious behavior.

This is a meeting that is being recorded, so please govern yourself accordingly.

Madam Clug, do we have any announcements?

Yes, Mayor, we have one.

This is the last week for yard waste collection.

If you have any left, please place them in a paper yard waste bag or a marked bin and place up the curb for collection.

We have a proclamation on the agenda tonight.

It's recognizing December 1st, 2025 as a World AIDS Day.

Do we have a representative?

Do we have a representative?

Please come to the podium while they read, while they read the proclamation to Sir and May.

Okay, good evening.

City of Saginaw proclamation, whereas World AIDS Day takes place on the 1st of December each year.

It's opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV to show support for people living with and affected by HIV and to remember those who lost their lives to AIDS.

And whereas this year's World's AIDS Day theme, overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response, highlights the challenges such as funding cuts while celebrating the resilience of communities working to eradicate HIV AIDS by 2030.

It also marks the 37th anniversary of this observance, and whereas over the past 37 years, there has been significant progress, progress in addressing HIV AIDS thanks to advancements in medical research, increased access to treatment and prevention, and a broader understanding of the virus.

And whereas we have seen countless examples how community activism and solidarity have once again been paramount in providing people affected by HIV with information services, social protection, and hope.

On World's AIDS Day, we remind that no challenge can defeat the underlying American spirit.

Together we will continue to make progress in our efforts to fight a cure for HIV AIDS and to ensure that all Americans live healthier and happier lives.

And whereas we are grateful for organizations like Great Lakes Bay Health Centers that offer prevention, treatment, and counseling for HIV.

This includes medical care and on-site laboratory, medication, insurance testing, transportation assistance, and other supportive services.

We thank them for all their commitment to support those living with and affected by HIV and AIDS.

Now therefore, be it resolved.

I, Brenda F.

Moore, mayor of the City of Saginaw, do hereby proclaim December 1st, 2025 as World AIDS Day in the city of Saginaw and urge all residents of our community to join me in appropriate activities to remember those who have lost their lives to AIDS and to provide support and compassion for those living with HIV.

In witness whereof, I have hereon to set my hand and cause the seal of the city of Saginaw to be affixed this day of December, this first day of December in the year of our Lord 2025.

Signed by Brenda F.

Moore, Mayor of Saginaw, Councilmembers Priscilla Garcia, Mayor Pro Tem, Councilman Michael D.

Balls, Councilman Eric D.

Braddock, Senior, Councilwoman Carly Rose Hammond, Councilman Bill Ostash, Councilwoman Cesanta Seals, Councilwoman Heidi G.

Wiggins, and Councilman Tobias Young, and also by our city manager Tim Morales.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Please have words.

I'm Angela Williams.

I'm senior vice president at Great Lakes.

And as you were reading a proclamation, what came to my mind is I was responsible for starting this program in 2006, where stigma is Saginaw was not embracing.

And bringing a program such as what we have here to this community has made a significant impact on people living with HIV and AIDS who, before Great Lakes started this program, would have had to travel to Detroit for services.

And what is remarkable throughout these years is the number of our patients who are still living as of first patients in our clinic in 2006.

So thank you to the city council, the county commissioners who have always supported our program and you support the efforts of Great Lakes Bay Health Center.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Madam Clark.

It takes us to public input.

The clerk will call you to the podium.

Please speak loudly and clear enough so that we can understand.

No bullying obnoxious behavior, please.

Madam Clark.

Our first speaker is Stephanie Curtis.

Good evening, Council members.

Thank you for letting me come.

You talk louder than that.

I can talk louder than that.

I know when you would feed.

Um as far as the Boys and Girls Club.

Each of you did get a packet tonight with the location of our clubs in our current school year and an Isabella Bank current competition that we are in.

But I wanted to highlight a few of our key initiatives currently.

We are currently serving across all of our clubs in the region, 400 youth daily and during the summer, 500, with about 200 being here in the city of Saginaw.

We're excited about the opportunity before you this evening regarding the adopt a park application for Crayola Park.

Our members and staff and volunteers are super excited about taking an active role in maintaining the park and supporting the beautification efforts and ensuring it remains a safe and welcoming space for youth and families in our community.

Second, um, we want to uh continue to deepen our presence and engaging with community uh events across Saginaw, whether it's neighborhood gatherings or school partnerships uh and city-sponsored celebrations.

Our goal is to show up consistently and strengthen our relationships and ensure families uh know that the Boys and Girls Club is here for a resource and to be a partner.

Third, we recently met with Cassie and Jamie regarding a little library that's located near the splash pad.

Um, our team is ready, already making plans to keep it stacked with their donated books and have it maintained for our club members and city uh members as well.

So we are excited about the encouragement uh for literacy, sharing the neighborhood connection, and appreciate the opportunity within the community.

And fourth, our biggest project, uh one we're super and incredibly proud of, uh, is the development of our teen center here in Saginaw.

We are advancing our current capital campaign to couple with the ARPA funding award uh and that momentum is super strong right now.

So the center will provide teens with a safe place uh featuring leadership development, academic support, uh career exploration, workforce readiness, and mental uh wellness programming, so it represents a major investment for the city of Saginaw and the future of our children.

And finally, um I want to extend personal invitation to anyone at the meeting.

If you would like to tour our current club, um please feel free to reach out.

Um we have a newly renovated STEM room uh on our Fourney Street uh club, and it offers a lot of hands-on robotics, coding, and some really a 300-gallon fish tank.

Uh, so it's very amazing.

Um, but thank you for your continued partnership and commitment to the young people in Saginaw.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Miguel Torres.

How are you doing?

My name is Miguel Torres, and uh I have a nonprofit organization called Fiesta Keonda, and uh we do annual events in the in the community.

Um we do two big events, one for Hispanic Heritage Month, which is the third week in September, it's a three-day event.

Then also we just started another one uh four years ago at the SVRC for Cinco de Mayo on May 5th of every year.

And uh the purpose of our organization is to promote music, culture, and arts and the and promote up and coming artists in the Latino community and anybody that wants to get their name out there in music, and so we provide the platform at these two events every year, and uh we're looking for you know, and also I do a publication called Kayonda, which I left some copies uh for the city clerk, so um that comes out every month in the community, and uh it's a free publication that promotes the community businesses and also events and other things going on in the community, so uh you can look for that every month.

But basically, the reason why I'm coming here is because we do these two events in the city, and uh we're looking to partner with the city council or anybody, any businesses that you know want to participate in these two events that we do for Hispanic Heritage Month and Cinco de Mayo.

So if there's any funding out there, uh we're always you know, if you could let us know, and we you know like to know how we can apply for that for funding for because these events are free for the community, so I mean, we just want to make sure we just want to keep these events in the city and keep our community with some, you know, keep positive things in our community.

We want to keep it here in the city.

So um, so that's pretty much it right there.

Thank you, sir.

Okay, all right, thank you.

I'm sorry, we don't answer back.

We just listen.

Our next speaker is Melanie Velasco.

Hi, my name is Melanie Velasco.

Um Ms.

Morris said that these pictures might be incriminating to Saginaw.

So uh I took many pictures of some of the crazy things I've seen.

Cars and vehicles parked on grass where I just pick and choose who gets a ticket on the one of the meetings I came on the way here.

Um of those lovely road construction bull crap was right there on the bridge, right on the ground, right on the road.

So you got like 13 of that lovely.

They was able to when the wind is blowing and there's an accident, all that stuff needs to get cleaned up.

There's a pictures of here of a good place where you could uh give the homeless from freezing to death out there and the crackheads of the methods from wandering around.

Here's a sidewalk all banged all up, tripping swallow, possibly.

Okay, you got oh, and then if people are gonna cut the grass, can they uh put their rubbish uh like in bags so that it don't clog the drain and flood the waters?

Here's those ATT bullshit things.

I excuse me again.

Well, anyway, you got 13 copies of this silly nonsense stuff that you know I've lived in Montrose and I've lived in St.

Charles and I lived in Cha Sunning.

I came back, family's here, they're dying.

Not because of Saginaw's corrupt, but who do I give this to?

I'm gonna possibly leave as soon as I get all the education I can leave.

I'm gonna leave Saginaw because if I can't make it better, and these pictures and sagina don't start looking good.

People are coming here now and they want they want to see it cleaned up, and it's looking like who do I give these two?

Club.

Who right here?

Oh, okay.

Hold on, thank you.

So if Javier don't get cleaned up, I'm not here.

And y'all might.

I don't know if you will.

But anyway, yeah.

That's what I want to buy.

Yeah, I had but I love y'all.

Thank you.

She's the most gorgeous.

She should be a lawyer.

The rest of you guys could be your backup helpers.

Have a good night.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The next speaker is Mike Thompson.

Florida.

Hello all.

I'm Mike Thompson, and my family lives on North Fayette Street.

And my topic tonight is citizen involvement with a proposal that hopefully might improve how you communicate with the public.

So I'm not giving my opinion on the tax caps or anything else, ARPA or anything else.

Just from my experience, I think it would help if you did this.

The proposal is on a trial basis that you start at five o'clock and you have a committee of the whole until 6 and then take a break and then have your business meeting at 6 30.

The committee of the whole, of course, would be an hour long discussion on a specific topic where you don't take any action at the committee of the whole, and you do not have to have a quorum.

It's your chance to plan and dialogue, and I'm seeing an absence of that happening, which is why I'm suggesting that you try this.

For example, one committee of the whole might be the property tax caps, of course.

One week you might have the county land bank.

You might really need to talk to the land bank from what I've been hearing.

And another one would be the consortium of emergency assistance providers, or your own DDA or your own scenic.

Give each group some time, not just five minute presentation, and then have a good discussion.

You might say that's what you do at your annual January planning sessions, which this year will be January 23rd, I believe, but it's different if you do it every two weeks and be consistent with it instead of just doing it once a year, then you have ongoing planning.

Um it would not just be for idle talk.

An example of a committee of the whole in 1984 that I observed was about how to bring bridge the east-west gap.

You know, 1984, that was kind of bigger.

And from that committee of the whole, you ended up converting this old locker room into the Anderson Center.

You wouldn't be here right now if you didn't have that kind of discussion going on.

So that is why I am encouraging you maybe start on December 15th with the property tax caps instead of waiting until your planning session late in January.

Maybe come in two weeks and have a committee of the whole on that and get started before the new year ends.

It's just a proposal for how to do business again.

I'm not giving my opinion, except I think you should put both the property tax caps and the income tax on the ballot next spring because I'd like to see what you would do with the general fund that's about 10% higher than you have now.

Thank you for listening.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Serenity Sillac.

Hello, hello, councilman.

I am here to um announce to you that I am running for Senate District 35.

There are six of us, so um, I might not have been the first one here, but I'm hoping I'm the most memorable and for all the right reasons.

Um I'm running on making life more affordable for working families.

Um we need to lower health care costs.

We need to support our working parents.

Um we need to push forward legislation that gets us closer to a single-payer health care system.

We need to expand our existing child's care programs with the goal of universal child care, and we need to protect the principles of democracy, dignity, and self-determination.

If you'd like to have um a word with me, if you have a question, I will be here till um the end of uh the meeting and also for a few minutes after.

Um, I have uh some literature for the council members.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our final speaker is Jeff Plus.

Thank you.

Good evening, council.

Good evening.

Uh I really agree with this this one lady here that was speaking previously because I'm having the same problem.

Uh, this morning, uh snow plowers came down my street.

Instead of plowing snow, they were plowing leaves.

I ended up with a whole bunch of pile of leaves in front of my house.

Over the weekend, I picked up every leaf from my yard.

I picked up, I went out onto the street and picked leaves up by hand in the street, cleaning the street up.

And now I got all these leaves piled up in front of my house.

And I took pictures if you guys would like to see how bad this looks.

I'm really upset.

I call I contacted uh a lot of the city departments this morning about cleaning the mess up, and uh the only response I could get was to come here and talk to you people about it getting cleaned up.

I went out there to do it myself, and uh I'm 75 years old.

76 years old and losing track.

76, and I I thought I was having a heart attack.

I couldn't continue with it much longer, so I had to quit.

But it's a real it's a real mess.

And uh almost the entire one driving lane in front of my house, it just covered with leaves and branches, little branches, so but most of the cars have to drive around it.

They can't eat, they don't even have a way to get through really unless they drive through those leaves.

So and I don't think I don't know if you guys can discuss anything that can be done about it.

I'd like to know that's what I'm here for.

I'd like to find out whether something can be done if what you people could tell me.

Could uh could could possibly the city come and clean up the mess and then send that my neighbor the bill for the leaves that he didn't want to rake up.

Is that possible?

Can I get an answer?

No.

We really don't answer.

But we have, but we actually have a department head here.

Um is probably gonna tap you on the shoulder as soon as you sit down to talk to you.

Okay, because I talked to environment environmental okay, and uh they did not they said you're just stuck with the mess, that's what she said.

So I do everything to keep my yard looking nice, and it's I can't believe the mess that it made.

It's all all the leaves are in my at a lot.

I shoveled a lot of out of my easement, but there's still a lot in the street, and it doesn't look very Christmassy.

If I can say that, it looks pretty bad.

We will make sure you get a response.

Uh somebody will talk to me here in the here.

I'm sure.

Okay, thanks.

I'm sure.

Thank you.

That takes us to remarks of council.

Oh far today.

Thank you so much.

Council Parsons.

You now have three minutes as well.

Three minutes.

Get everything you want to say in your three minutes.

And tonight we will begin with Councilman Astay.

Thanks, Mayor.

Um, Mr.

Plus, I feel your frustration.

I've had the same thing happen to me before.

And then it froze, and I couldn't take care of it.

So our city staff will talk to you and you probably tap you on the show.

So appreciate it.

Um stuff does happen, and that's why we're glad that you come and bring it to our attention.

Anything like that in the future, contact streets.

I did contact and they had me talk to environmental, and then uh another one council meeting.

All right, okay.

They'll they'll they'll contact you.

Okay, thanks.

Yep.

Um we did have a proclamation tonight, and I want to talk about that a little bit more.

Um, I want to thank Great Lakes Bay Health Centers and everything that you do do in the community.

Um, they are just down the street from me on Hoyt Avenue.

Uh that's where a lot of these services are provided at the Hearth home, which is now Great Lakes Bay Health.

Um HIV prevention.

I'd like to talk about that a little bit tonight.

It is called PrEP or pre-exposure prophylactic prophalassis.

I'm not a doctor.

But if they can help you with this as well, and also if if this pill is taken or there's actually a shot now, if it's taken, it's 99.7% effective against HIV if taken daily.

So that that is very important.

Um, too, they can also help you with some other things.

It's called doxy prep.

And these are things that we probably don't talk about a lot in the community, but these are things that are available.

What is doxy prep?

Doxyprep is something that you've if you think that you've been exposed to an STI or an STD.

This is an antibiotic that can be taken the next day to prevent that.

So those uh those diseases are also things that they can help you deal with, give you information on.

So I suggest you give them a call at 989-753-9011 if you're interested.

Um let me see here.

Just a few other things uh that went on over the last couple weeks.

I had the opportunity with our mayor and Mayor Pro Tim.

We went to the East Side Soup Kitchen for their Thanksgiving Day meal.

It was a wonderful event.

There's a lot of donations that you can take there too, so they're always looking for clothing or toiletries or undergarments.

But I want to thank Diane Keenan and the entire staff at the Eastide Soup Kitchen for everything that you do every day for the community, not just on the holidays.

Also, we did have some fun.

So we had the Christmas parade.

It was a nice day.

The sun was shining, so it wasn't too cold.

But uh thanks to city staff like Rachel Hazeska who sets that up for us, and also a special thanks to Bill Georges, the owner of Mike's Record for always providing the flatbed.

And this year again had it wonderfully decorated with Christmas trees and such like that.

Anyone who's interested, there's something else is coming up.

The county parks is going to be having a Santa's holiday hike.

That'll be Friday, this coming Friday on the 5th from 5 to 6:30.

Looks like here Santa's gonna be there along with lots of food, snacks, and hot cocoa.

And I am done.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Next, we have Councilman Breta.

Uh thank you, Madam Mayor.

Um, just real quick, I don't have much to say.

I'll just say fire at the Hispanic um story as far as Hispanic Heritage.

You know, I live downtown, so I really enjoyed the Hispanic Heritage uh festival that they have there.

I'll be looking forward to the food trucks.

I think I'm gonna hit all of them so far.

So you know, I'll be looking forward to it.

And the music be, I mean, they'd be all the way to about like 9:30, 10 o'clock, they'd be out there examining.

So I really would like to see that stay in our city as well.

But um, far as that though, I'll just like to you know say that you know I'll appreciate all the people that's putting in the good work in our city and just continue to highlight and put and get behind those people.

Other than that, that's all I have.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next we have councilwalling weakens.

Thank you, Mayor Moore.

Uh, thank you to all the public speakers today.

Appreciate your input.

Um we love hearing from our community, and thank you for giving back to the community, letting us know what you need, because that's why we're here.

Um just a couple of announcements.

There is another uh citywide collective uh food distribution that's gonna happen on the 6th, no, um the fourth.

Yes, Thursday, Thursday the fourth at Mount Olive, which is located on 6th Avenue, North Sixth Avenue in Saginaw.

That's going to be from 11 to 1 p.m.

If you know anybody that has uh food insecurity, lives in the city of Saginaw, um, they can go and come there.

It's going to be like a drive-thru setup, and I'm sure like our our last one we had, there were also walk-ups because not everyone has a vehicle.

So that's from 11 to 1, and that's uh on the fourth.

Uh the NAB a place that's that's does a lot for the community on Russell Street here in Saginaw.

They're gonna have pancakes and story time with Santa and the elves, and that's gonna be on uh Saturday, uh 126 from 11 to 1 p.m.

I was able to go last year and it was a good time.

It was just a fun time with the community.

Got to see a bunch of cute kids and have pancakes, and it was really jazzy Santa.

He was a really cool dude.

So it was uh really nice to to do that.

Um they also have a pantry pickup, I believe it's the third Thursday of this month.

So again, if you have food insecurity, um that's gonna be on the third Thursday of this month, and you can get information uh by contacting the NAB.

Um in general, like I I did get to volunteer at the soup kitchen.

It was uh a a couple a week or so before Thanksgiving, it was a group of uh a lot of good businesses uh volunteers were there, got to take my daughter, and um I appreciate everyone that volunteers there on a daily basis.

Um I do encourage, like there are a lot of volunteers around the holidays.

If you can contact, and if you're interested in volunteering, ask them what their light volunteer days are because there's always a need.

So there's millions of ways to get involved.

Uh a lot of people doing great things in this community.

Just reach out, try to find something to give back.

So thank you for the everyone that does.

That's all I have.

Thank you.

Next we have Council Warning.

Thank you.

Um to Mr.

Plus, um, I apologize.

You so if if you want to reach out in the future um to council and you have pictures or something to to send, um, the best way to do that is we we have a form on the website.

You can't attach a picture, but when you fill out the form, send it to all council members, we can respond and you get our individual emails.

One thing I will say is that our spam filter auto-blocks like large files.

So if you try to send too many, it won't work.

So in the future, we you know we'll have a back and forth if if that's something that you need to transfer a digital file.

Um so uh the other thing I wanted to mention uh is to um Mr.

Thompson on the citizen engagement proposal.

I think that's a fantastic idea.

Um I also agree that we don't get enough opportunity to kind of go topic by topic and engage our community stakeholders in an open environment where people can come and speak where we can inform each other as council members and kind of take that time to delve into the issues most at hand.

Um kind of like single subject meetings, but committee the whole meeting.

So I'll I'll I'll follow up with my fellow council members because I I think maybe not that particular format at that particular time or that particular that often, but I agree that there needs to be some other opportunity for for for essentially deep diving and open discussion on topics rather than you know needing a motion and maybe it's brought up under miscellaneous business and then it's rushed because it's at the end of the meeting.

I I agree.

I think there should be more opportunity for engagement.

Um the last thing I wanted to mention is um for those in the community who have been following the federal budget fight, um, obviously a lot of that affects nonprofits organizations, our own community here in Saginaw, and it's far from over.

Um there are large programmatic changes, particularly to HUD uh the Department of Housing and Urban Development that I've been following that are very, very scary.

They have a lot of implications for housing and lack of housing.

Um potentially uh aggravating our issue of homelessness here in the city.

So stay alert, pay attention, uh contact representatives if you feel so inclined.

Um because there are potentially major changes that could impact our community.

Um changes that with those programs and with that funding.

If if you cut a program by 60 or 70 percent, you have to cut staff.

You don't get that back.

That's toothpaste you can't really put back in the tube.

Um so I'd urge people to you know inform yourself on those programs on those topics and where in your community those uh organizations are having these conversations and where we're gonna need folks to come together in the future.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next we have Councilman Young.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um I'd like to first start with uh last week.

I did a ride along with the police department, and I was uh very informative to see how their technical systems tie in with the laptops, the radios, the camera systems, then also to hear a call come in to see how is dispatched out, how they respond and how they uh report it.

So that was uh very informative.

Um I'd also like to mention that not this Saturday, but next Saturday, there'll be a local developers meeting at uh 2040 Jane's and uh this is where the the uh neighborhood and neighborhood services and inspection department, so that's the zoning, the inspections, everyone will be there.

And um calling out to a lot of the landlords, local developers, and anybody who's in the interested in acquiring properties, you know, uh sometimes it could be intimidating to get a vacant property or a vacant piece of land.

There's a lot of people in the community who want to do that, but it's an intimidating process, so to make it less intimidating.

You know, this has been an initiative of mine that I'd like to thank the staff for uh getting behind.

This also ties into a lot of the ordinance changes to make it more development friendly for the uh local uh developers to just acquire properties and develop them and not be so intimidating.

So if you have any questions or uh they'll also put out information for existing landlords who maybe want to upgrade their housing because they're our state and federal funds to upgrade the HVAC units, uh the roofs, windows, things like that.

So you have all this information in one place, so if you're interested in getting properties and develop them, a lot of um businesses come from housing, you know, for daycares, AFC homes, and they have different uh requirements and inspections that the city may require, so you have the opportunity to get all that information in in one place.

And uh my hope is that it will like uh spur some local development, you know, so that residents will start grabbing these empty lots and getting the vacant properties and and it's a partnership with the city, they're here to help you get your businesses open.

So that's my hopes of that.

So that'll be uh next Saturday, uh December 13th from 11 a.m.

to 1230, and that'll be at 2040 James.

So I'll be putting that information out again, but it'll happen before we have another council meeting.

So I feel like it was important to put that out uh right now.

So that's all I have.

Thank you.

Next we have Councilwoman Shea.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Um I attended uh an event with the mayor.

Um, it's a couple of weeks ago.

We were here at the Anderson Center.

Uh it was with the gingerbread houses, and um it was a great event.

It was uh a lot of kids and a lot of families.

Uh the weekend uh right before Thanksgiving.

And um I don't know who the winner was that actually won the actual event that had the best gingerbread houses, but I know a lot of parents had to pop a lot of kids' hands because the kids wanted to eat all the candy.

But gingerbread houses were beautiful.

Um it was so many people out there weekend uh before Thanksgiving just to see the city of Saginaw residents out and about um here at the Anderson um offering old town Saginaw.

Uh Saginaw was bustling, it was a beautiful night.

It wasn't it was pretty chilly, but just to see people out and about in Saginaw was a beautiful thing.

Um I don't know if we had any incidents, but I didn't hear about anything, and I live over here in the neighborhood, and it was a beautiful evening just to see Saginaw for two nights uh have a great time for this just in the spirit of the holidays.

Um I enjoyed myself and um and it was just a we had a great time.

Um we gave out a lot of it wasn't really candy.

I think we just gave up yeah, okay.

She called it swag, but it was a Saginaw.

Yeah, it was Saginaw swag.

So uh people were excited to get it, but I think they were more interested in the in the gingerbread houses, but uh it was a great thing to see.

Um the uh also the um the parade was pretty cool to be a part of that with the council members, um, Mayor Pro Tim and Bill and Heidi.

Uh we also had a great time on and during that parade, and we gave out a lot of candy.

It was a lot of people out there um at the parade.

I think um from last year that was my first parade, so this is my second parade this year, and I think that the parade this year was much bigger than the one last year, so we had a lot of people out this year, so it was great to see uh people coming out to the parade.

So I think this year it was just more people coming out in Saginaw, just participating in the events.

So I was happy to see Saginaw coming out to participate, seeing the kids out.

Um I think we're we're on the up and up, guys, we're on the up and up and seeing Saginaw out and about, and it wasn't anything negative, it was all positivity and in the spirit of the holidays.

So they made me happy.

Um I want to encourage people to uh a lot of people still saying there's nothing to do, but people were out and doing things.

There are a lot of um this is an artifact right here, and I'm not for sure where exactly we get these.

Or are we getting these from the city?

These are at the city hall.

So they picked these up from the Anderson.

So pick these up, these have a lot of information in them.

So make sure you get this and you can find out where we're having all the events in Saginaw.

Next we have council involves.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

I don't have a lot to say today, but I would like to uh thank the lady from the boys and girls club for coming speaking.

Um Frederick Douglass once said it's easier to build strong children than repair broken men.

And our community centers here in the city of Saginaw is uh charged with trying to help build strong children.

Um we had the opportunity to uh put some of the ARPA money into the community centers.

Uh all the community centers actually closed when the ARPA money got here.

Uh it was my bucket, me and some other council people, and we chose to put money in the community centers because we know it's easier to build stronger children than it is to repair those broken men.

Um that's my passion too by being in the Big Brothers and Sisters program.

You know, I see so a lot of kids will have your parents at uh fathers at home, and you can see what way they're gonna end up if somebody don't mentor these kids.

So I want to commend the boys and girls club, big brothers and sisters program for doing what you do.

Thank you so much.

You know, see it would be nice to have a statistics of uh all the kids that come to the community centers to find out where they at 10, 15, 20 years later.

You know, we don't you know sometimes people think they pour in the kids and it don't work or something like that.

But this way we even know that what it happened.

Um I guess I'm one of the first world community kids, so y'all can see what happened to me.

But you but you don't know what happened in between that time.

But uh eventually uh I got to the point where I I started caring about my community the same way those people cared about me when I was at the first work community center and simpatan as a kid.

Um I had a guy uh um uh I was in a car accident as a kid, nine years old.

Um four people in the car, my grandfather and two of his friends.

I'm gonna survive with an accident.

Um the guy that stayed around a corner, Arthur Redeemer had the opportunity.

He wanted to tell me he said he'd been trying to want to tell me this for years, but he finally had the opportunity to tell me that he pulled me out of that car.

And uh you can imagine the most emotions that I felt when he told me that.

You know, I asked him, you know, did you see the other people in the car?

He said, Man, they was gone.

You know, I said that's my grandfather, and uh, you know, I'm really uh it really tore me up a little bit knowing that this guy wanted to used to be his brother and I went to school together and I never knew this.

And he's like four years old to me, so he told me that and it brought about all kinds of emotions, and it made me think about uh some of the things that I do in the community by working with kids, and maybe that's one of the reasons why.

Somebody pulled me out, so I'm trying to pull some other kids out too.

So uh thank God for the opportunity that I have, you know, team to do that today and to serve on this city council and to be able to put money in uh community centers so we can help build a better city with Persagna.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next we have Leb Pro Tim Garcia.

Good evening, concerned citizens of the community.

Thank you for coming this cold evening on the first of December already, end of the year.

Um thanks to the boys and girls club for updating us.

It's always good to hear how the ARPA dollars turned out.

Um we've had some of our other past recipients come too, and so it just helped us know that we're doing good and we did great things with that money, like it's it was a blessing and a curse to it, and I came in at one of the hardest times, but I'm glad I did because I've learned a lot um with these past three years.

Um sidewalks, pictures, thanks, Melanie, for keeping um updates for us because sometimes we don't know.

Sometimes um citizens call us and you know make us aware we can't be everywhere at all times.

So it does help when we have our citizens contact us.

Um I know you guys know the beautiful Saginaw sign out there, but it does have a purpose on our um community website.

So if you ever want to go on there, it doesn't just look cool out there.

It actually has a purpose, and um you can pay your bill, you can look up property, you can report us concern on there, um, the road closure.

So there's a lot of great things on there.

Also, there's some surveys on there you could do um that we appreciate the feedback, and they take about five minutes.

There's a couple of them that I see on there that we need um for our streets, and um there was another one on there.

So if you want to go on there and help us with that because that reports any concerns or things so that way when we get the funding and stuff that we can make you know those decisions with higher up and let them know that this is what's going on in our city.

Um and it really does help for the feedback.

I always do all my um extra coupon ones when I do my stuff because it does help and people don't realize it.

Um also it was a busy holiday.

Um, some of um the council members we were giving out turkeys on North Michigan at McDonald's.

It was cold, but we were out there giving back to our community.

We did the East Side Soup Kitchen and then the braid, the parade, of course.

It wasn't as cold as the past years, but um it was really nice.

It turned out really great, and um I'm quite happy to see all the people that came out and supported us, and Friday night was really busy.

I didn't watch the fireworks because I was already too cold, but I mean it was amazing to see both sides of the city down here really booming.

People online I rode one of the little buses because I got made a one way, and I'm like, forget it, I'm taking the bus.

But it was really warm.

It was a great time.

I'm glad I went and um really quick.

Uh Santa's out second annual Christmas giveaway, 701 has Avenue, Saginaw, Michigan, this Saturday from 11 to 2.

Um, it's really nice at the church.

They give each child a toy according to their age, they get to select one.

So if you know anybody still that's in need um this Saturday to make sure you go out.

And then Friday also um heart of the city.

Um Saturday is where I'm sorry, um, from noon to two, that's 7:30 South 14th Street.

Uh newborn to 16 years old.

You get a box of groceries to each family.

They're gonna have hot dogs and chips, and they're having uh raffles too.

Uh gif giveaways such as TVs, gift cards, food, and meat boxes at 1220, the raffle stops.

So if you know anybody, send them that way.

Thank you.

Okay.

So by the time it gets to me, everybody can thank uh my public speakers.

You know, it it's always good to hear.

And I do believe people think that we everywhere.

I wish I could be.

As for the gentleman, Mr.

Jam, I sympathize.

Because when I shove up my snow, it never fails.

However, I've learned how to adjust, but I'm not telling you to adjust.

You know, I learned how to adjust.

Um, it has been a busy last two weeks.

Um a multitude of things have happened, but the one good thing happened is that on two on two Fridays ago.

What is it one?

We had two Fridays ago.

This city was lit up like a Christmas tree.

This city, if nothing else, we represented the city of Saginaw.

We and Councilwoman Seals, we had the opportunity to sit in the lobby, which wasn't in the code, but we sat in the lobby, uh, and we gave our swag.

I believe in showing people that we love our own city.

So, in order to show somebody, we gotta talk better about our city, and talking better about our city.

Everybody that came through that door, they came to our table, got us got a little bitty mini candy cane, which meant a lot to them.

They said, Welcome, seasons greeting from the city of Saginaw.

They were they were totally amazed.

Some people think we don't have class, but we got a lot of class in Saginaw.

Okay, we got a lot of class.

Mr.

Thompson, you are you're on the same page that we're on.

The committee that's working on the stuff that you were talking about, does plan to do those types of things real soon.

Okay.

So I want everybody to understand we hear you.

We do hear you.

But sometimes we can't move as fast as you want us to.

And if you just give us a little bit of time, it's gonna get better.

The one thing I've learned is is that the mouth will say anything, but behavior don't lie.

And for anybody that knows me, if I say it, I'm gonna do it.

If I can't do it, I'll let you know I can't do it.

The one the the thing for me, Saginaw is my home.

It is why I work, live, and play.

And in order to make it better, I'm gonna continue to do the things that I do to help make it better.

This is not a threat to anybody, but anybody who don't want to see us move forward, you're crazy.

Saginaws on the upswing.

Thank you so much, madam clerk.

Yeah, that takes us to reports from the manager, Mr.

Manager.

You now have the floor.

Thank you, madam mayor.

So we do have our citywide meeting coming up.

Our next City of Saginaw Citywide meeting will be held on Wednesday, December 10th at 5.30 at the Saginaw Water Treatment Facility, 522 Ezra Rust Drive, right next door.

Please join us to hear an update on the water tower project and to learn about the past, present, and future of the water treatment plant.

The meeting will conclude with a brief tour of the facilities filtered yet, filter gallery.

We'll also share additional updates on upcoming community programs and events.

The main discussion topic for the evening will be the water treatment facility and the major projects currently underway, including the water tower project.

An attendees will have that opportunity to tour the filter gallery firsthand.

The Saginaw Water Treatment Division provides high-quality drinking water to thousands of city residents as well as 20 surrounding communities throughout Saginaw County and portions of Bay and Tuscola counties as well.

We want our residents to stay informed about our current initiatives and to learn more about the history and operations of the important facility.

So hopefully everybody can get a chance to attend.

City Council voted to forward to move forward in cooperation with the City County School Liaison Committee to develop a city of Saginaw Youth Council on October at our October 20th meeting.

The schools have selected an appointed student representatives and held an organizing meeting.

The kickoff meeting will be on December 15th and will include introductions.

Meet your mentor, mentee.

If you recall, uh the goal is to have each student assigned to a council member.

So we will be able to have an opportunity to meet that if you're able to attend.

Meet that individual, and also a discussion of session topics and expectations.

The plan speakers for the first meeting are Karen Lawrence Webster from the Saginaw County League of Women Voters and City Councilwoman Heidi Wiggins.

So you can see Councilwoman Wiggins or any member of the school, City County School Liaison Committee to learn more about the organization.

Pre-meeting work for the students will include Do You Know Your City, a form prepared by the League of Women Voters, and they'll have that ready at the first meeting.

They have their schedule, so you should have an opportunity to get that.

We have committed to have our department heads available for specific meetings, so I think they have that schedule all worked out.

We've got that to our department heads, so looks like a great opportunity, and it sounds like they've got some good students appointed.

And finally, we do have a guest this evening.

The Region 7 Area Aging Area Agency and Aging provides various services to the community, including programs to help older adults remain independent, care management, Medicare Planning, and various other services.

Mayor Moore sits on the board, and we have Dinah Altam, who is our chief executive director here today to speak with council so that you can learn more about the organization.

Good evening, Council members.

Thank you for having me.

You all received a blue packet.

I'll go quickly through that at the end because there is an ask.

Before that, though, I I did want to come and introduce myself.

You might wonder why do we specifically need to know the CEO of Region 7 Area Agency on Aging.

We do some wonderful work together with your county, which of course affects your beautiful city.

And so making sure that we build relationships and that all of you are aware of the breadth of services that we offer at Region 7 is very important because they are available to your city residents.

And so let me start with this.

Partnerships like ours bridge the gap, many gaps anyway, that are created by the social determinants of health, which we are all very aware of, how they affect our residents, the clients we're taking care of, the people we know who need services, etc.

Region 7 helps fund the following services for the City of Saginaw and Saginaw County, congregate nutrition, home delivered meals, case coordination and support, caregiver case management, senior center operations and senior center staffing, adult daycare, and caregiver training.

There are also several more services, more than I could name in the time here today, that are available to older adults and persons with disabilities who live in your city and are in need.

And so I want to make sure that you know it's as simple as dialing 1800-858-1637 and ask the question.

Whatever that question is, what help you need, what help they need, if you just have them call.

So what happens often is someone will look at the brochure, they'll look at the website, like my my need doesn't fit what they do.

I encourage you to have them call because it is very likely that we have things that can, you know, we have resources that can help them.

For instance, it's not listed everywhere in our brochure, but we have a loan closet where we can loan durable medical equipment.

And if we don't have what someone needs in there, we're going to work very hard to try to find that for them at no cost to them.

And there's so much more.

So again, if there is a need, you have an older adult, a person with disabilities, an adult with disabilities who has needs that you're you know they're struggling to get met.

Please have them call us.

Another important part of our partnership is advocacy.

Mayor Moore, of course, brings the city's needs to our attention at our board meetings and and keeps us abreast of those needs, how we can help your older adults and persons with disabilities.

We then take that and the information that comes from our other board members from our other nine counties that we serve.

Um in addition to Saginaw County, and we advocate, we advocate to keep the funding coming for those programs that I listed off.

And there are some others that are available on different years, depending on what grants are available that we can offer as well.

We also have some emergency funding that we can offer.

So some of the places that we advocate for services for older adults include, but are surely not limited to the Michigan Commission on Services to the Aging, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, the ACLS, their Michigan Bureau of Aging Community Living and Supports.

We also belong to a couple of very important statewide organizations that help advocate, and that is the PACE Association of Michigan and the Area Agency on Aging's Association of Michigan, also known as the 4 AM.

You'll see some advertising coming out soon for the 4 a.m.

The purpose of that is basically what I'm doing here, but on a broader scale, to make sure people know because the greatest the worst thing that I could hear as a leader is that my services are the greatest, the best kept secret, right?

And we get that a lot.

That is I am very hopeful to change that.

It should not be a secret.

We don't want it to be.

Thank you.

Do you do anyone have any questions?

I'll love Dynamic Gateway.

Thank you.

She got away easy.

I just say anybody have any questions.

I worked at Region 7 for three years.

I was an information and assistance specialist.

Oh, and I actually just collaborated with Jessica, our director here at the Commission on Aging, and I had a client because I still do home visits as a social worker for Medicare.

He and she needed a shower bench, and um you guys were able to get it from the loan closet, get it to Jessica and Jessica bought it back to Saginaw for my client.

So you guys are doing great work, and I always recommend you guys.

So if you had any more of these, if I could get some to carry with me.

Um I serve us a lot of areas in Saginaw, Midland and Bay City too.

So I'm always passing information because like I said, I worked at first hand for three years, and you guys do great work.

So I'm nice to see a new director.

Thank you, and thank you very much for sharing that.

Yes, counseling by the only question I have.

Um what what is what age is considered elderly for requirements for service?

That's a great question.

And I wish I had one answer.

Okay.

It depends on the program.

So what I'll say it does depend on the program.

Some of them start at 55, which I'm dangerously close to.

So you know, um, but 55 and some 60 and some 65.

So it just depends on what service that they're looking for.

But again, I say if they're 55 or older and not disabled, have them call us.

If they're any age 18 and older and disabled and need help, have them call us.

Alright, thank you.

Absolutely.

Any other questions?

Any other questions?

He isn't.

I actually could y'all eat all A T.

No, I'm afraid I've wild for that.

I thought you knew that P car.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you for that report.

And Madam Mayor, that creates a management update.

Do we have any questions for our city manager?

Yes, Council on the Mr.

Manager, whatever happened to the Ojibwe Island Committee that was tasked with the reopening of Ojibwe Island.

We are actually getting the we have a list of potential projects that staff has, and we're probably finalizing those estimates right now.

Once we wanted to wait until most of the fall work was done or summer work was done for engineering, so we're getting that right now.

Some of the projects we already added anyway, but um we'll be able to get that back to the group so they can make uh you know talk about it at the rest of council.

Uh to continue with that question.

So the next step is to take a list of projects towards aimed at at opening Ojibwe, and that will come before council as a list of possibilities.

Yeah, yeah, it'll be a list of possibilities.

I don't think there's a chance to necessarily fund all of these projects because it's a pretty extensive list, and some of the work um probably would uh take several years to complete, but we can bring that list back to council and whatever um it's chosen to fund.

We do have some funds left that were allocated previously because some of the bids came back less than anticipated.

So there's some funds available still from that previous shore stabilization project that could be allocated.

Um but I think with the amount of projects that we talked about, we won't be able to fund everything, so it'll have to be a point where um council makes a decision on which ones to fund, and then I think uh staff as part of that part of those projects from staff, we have some suggestions about uh ways to reopen.

Yeah, one more question so they say I guess I I guess I'm out of the loop when you say uh uh project suggestions.

Um I I mean there was a uh committee that was formed to address the motion that was passed, I think in March of this year about reopening and revitalizing Ojibwe.

So are they all projects gearing towards those outlined goals?

And when can we expect uh communication on that?

Uh yeah, they they would go towards that goal.

A lot of it's access improvement, payment improvements, additional parking, things like that.

And um, I know we uh got with engineering.

I would expect it within the next few meetings.

Bill's nodding, so thank you.

Councilman Ashday.

Thanks, Mayor.

Um I do have a question for the manager, but I do want to tag on to what we're what to ask of Ojibwe Island because Councilman Braddock and myself are a part of that committee.

And one of the things you did miss too is that we are trying to safely reopen the island.

Um, so it's safe for everybody.

And so that was kind of the list and some of the things that we had, and was it actually a focus and also what I hear from the public?

So it's open safely.

And I know we don't have it now, but you did provide 911 call logs once before, but I know they're kind of hard to generate, I've asked for them.

But uh that if anybody wants to talk to me about that, we can talk about it after.

But I do want to ask um a comment and a question for the manager.

The comment is City Hall and the water treatment plant looked fantastic.

Mayor talked about the lighting ceremony.

What I noticed is the trees and stuff that were taken out of front, and we just cleaned it up.

You could actually it you it it created depth, and everybody was talking about that too.

So thank you to all that were involved to make all of this happen.

Um the question I have is is a couple of council meetings ago.

We created a program to waive fees for water um and penalties while SNAP was not active, and so SNAP is now active again.

So did we keep any numbers on that?

How successful was our program?

It's still ongoing, so it'll through December.

That's right, it's got to go through another cycle.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

So I'm a little premature on the ask thanks.

That's it.

Any other questions?

No, I just wanted to uh let uh the counsel know that I'm on that committee too, and that's a committee member of that committee.

But Mike it up there right forgot you the last one.

Don't get right down.

I'm on the committee.

I'm not sure.

So all four of us are on the committee.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Participating member.

I want to be honest.

Wow, well, let me say this to councilwoman Hammond.

We are actually last year, there's a lot of work being done.

So that's one reason why I didn't really open up.

And we've talked about it.

We've suggested days that we would bring back that we can open it up.

We just gotta get the manpower to help.

And we've got citizens who stepped up who said that they'll come out and they'll help.

So that we can't.

We don't we don't want a lot, we don't want any danger.

And so we want to make it safe so when families go out on Sunday, and that was something that councilman balls, because that's how he met his wife.

And that's how you bring over that up, you can drop me on that's how he met his wife.

And so he said he loves going out there with his grandchildren playing.

And so we really were trying to get it open, but because of all of the work that was being done, uh he can attest that we're not sitting on it.

We're just waiting to see to see what stuff is gonna get done.

We know that a lot of stuff got done because we we're in a we to me we were rushed, but it still looked good when we opened up for the fourth of July.

But we wanted to make sure it was open for that.

So I mean, but we are moving, maybe not as fast as everybody would like us to, but we are trying to do something to get it open back up.

Am I right or wrong, team members?

You're right.

Mr.

Manager, any other questions from Mr.

Manager?

The consent agenda has been available on the city web page and our page.

I know I'm in the city web page.

I need a motion to approve the considered agenda leaving room for exceptions.

Moved for it.

It's been moved and supported.

Do we have any exceptions?

Okay.

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

All those opposed, nay.

Madam Clerk.

Onto board commission and committee reports.

Do we have any reports from anyone who attend any meeting that concerned the city and the community?

Madam Clerk.

How about appointment of board commission and committee members?

I need a motion to approve one and four leaving room for exceptions.

I have an exception.

Number one.

Okay.

Any other exceptions.

I don't have a motion yet, ma'am.

Huh?

If you don't have a motion and a second to approve the other three.

Oh, that's right.

So move.

Second.

It's been moved in support.

Now do we have any exception?

One.

Any other exceptions?

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

All those opposed, nay.

Madam Clerk, number one.

Number one is the city manager reappointment of John Milne to the Brownfield Redevelopment Authority with a term to expire December 31st, 2028.

That was Councilmember Balls.

Yes.

You I um this particular person came to the city council meeting.

Uh I thought we were having some issues with the skate park.

And the comments he made was not appropriate for a member to be on any type of committee, I think, representing this city.

For him to come here and to speak to where he spoke to those people who had permission from the city, had money to uh paint the escape park, and for the skate park to be uh taped off where no one's so they can do their work.

And somebody, one of those persons hit an elderly person in the head with a skateboard, and for him to come here and make those statements that he's made like they was doing something wrong, is really appalling to me.

And I just don't think that anybody that acts that way towards this city and the members that's doing good work to be appointed to another committee.

That's just how I feel because that could have turned into a really volatile situation uh with the people that was out there.

Because it got to be a little racist.

And I don't want stuff like that happen in our city.

And I don't want anybody that's wanted uh put few to the fire by the comments that he made when he came here and said that because it could turn into something that I think that wouldn't have been right for our community.

So I'm I um I can motion to uh not appoint Mr.

John Mims to this brownfield authority.

On the floor, do I have a second?

May I the motion would be to approve.

You always word a motion in the positive, and then if you want to decline the reappointment, you voted down.

Okay.

Okay.

So my motion would be to decline.

Your motion would be to approve.

There needs to be a second before anybody else can discuss, but then if you want to decline the reappointment, you do it via the vote.

So not via the motion.

You would vote nay on the motion.

Okay.

All right.

So is there a motion to approve that you can continue your discussion?

So we have a motion to approve.

Right.

We have a must to approve what we got on the date.

Is there a motion to approve?

No, I have a motion to approve.

So why are you saying we'd take one at a time in?

You approve the other three already, so it's just this one right now.

Okay.

All right.

I'd like to make a motion that we approve the first three.

I mean the second three, two, three, and four.

You already did that.

We're only dealing with number one.

All right.

Thank you.

So is there a motion so you can continue discussion on the approval of number one?

Do we have a motion to I can make a motion to approve?

So I want to discuss some.

We at least begin to discuss.

We did all of that.

Correct us if we're wrong.

So you approve two through three already.

You took the vote on that.

Number one was the exception.

And so that's the one we're voting on.

Correct.

But you need a motion before you can do anything.

Motion to approve.

Thank you.

Second.

It's been moved and second discussion.

I said everything I want to discuss.

Yes, Councilman.

Yeah, I um I also I think that was one of the first things when I became a counsel uh member uh spoke about because that particular individual has said that if that organization had gone through an existing organization, that probably wouldn't happen.

And that bothered me because it's like almost like a gatekeeper.

You know, you're not free to express how you feel artistically in the community unless you go through another organization.

And I didn't I didn't appreciate that comment that was made by that individual as well.

Hold on one minute.

Any other any other comments on this side?

Okay, thank you.

I'm sorry, my interpretation was slightly different, and I I hear what they're saying, and I do appreciate their uh insight.

I guess I heard it a little differently.

I I guess my interpretation was him saying that uh that normally cities uh use a uh a different type of entity, um they use the entity that uh more formalized uh not uh a freelancing type entity, like uh I guess we use more of a freelancing type entity or organization, and um we should have used a more formalized entity.

I guess that's my interpretation of what he was saying, and so um I didn't take it as anything really negative.

I I guess I didn't see it as anything negative that he's saying, and I'm trying to go back to the process now.

What exactly did he say?

And I I didn't I didn't hear I'm not for sure if I heard anything negative from what he said.

I I don't I'm sorry, I didn't I didn't I didn't hear I didn't take that as a negative thing.

Sorry.

Anyone else hold on to any people?

Um just I guess I do remember the the the comments that were made, and I actually did make a comment about his comments.

Um, and it did seem a little one-sided, like the the permits were were were given, the permissions were given, the okay was given, and then it was still stated.

Well, if they'd just gone through this this organization, it would have been better.

But we have people in this community want to do great things, and it's not just a one alley, and that's the beauty of this community.

We have a lot of branches and a lot of ways to do great things.

Um, so I think the limited thought process uh behind some of those comments, it gives me pause to appoint him.

Anyone else?

Yeah, I just want to uh well uh thank you for adding that extra information because they are not freelance.

So I just want to address that statement to be attached to artists that are accredited and were sanctioned by the city.

That's not freelance.

So I just wants to correct that.

Any other discussion?

Call for the vote.

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

All those opposed, no.

Roll call vote.

Councilmember Young.

No.

Councilmember Seals.

Aye.

Councilmember Balls.

Nay.

Mayor Pro Tem Garcia.

Aye.

Councilmember Ostash.

Aye.

Councilmember Braddock.

Nay.

Councilmember Wiggins.

Nay.

Councilmember Hammond.

Nay.

And Mayor Moore.

Aye.

I'm sorry.

Aye.

Yes.

You have four yes and five no.

That motion is denied.

Madam Clerk.

On to resolutions.

Our first on the agenda is the appointment of Travis Harris trustee and Ronald Wrangell as alternate trustee to the Saginaw Area Stormwater Authority Board of Trustees.

I need a motion to adopt.

So moved.

Second.

Any discussion.

All those favorite thought by saying aye.

Aye.

All those opposed, nay.

Madam Clark.

Our second resolution is approving the city of Saginaw's annual apportionment of $8,981 for the Saginaw Area Stormwater Authority budget for fiscal year 2026.

I need a motion to adopt.

So moved.

Any discussion.

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

All those opposed, no.

Madam Clerk.

Takes you to miscellaneous business.

Do we have any miscellaneous pieces that we need to handle tonight?

Hearing then I need a motion to adjourn.

So all those are crazy by my thing.

All those opposed, no.