recommend first off they're gonna raise the prices on you know second off you're gonna just don't even
care Eric soubry their Commissioner
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today second, second, all those in favor of the motion for approval on February 8 annual board meeting.
Morning staff reports.
Thank you share. Thank you, thank you, we're gonna start off with our property disposition partner acquisition issue this update from our inventory manager, Joe Russell.
So this is for quarter two. So from January 1 to march 31, we had a total of 18 properties disposed for those sidewalks, 14 were sold for rehabilitation, two of those being significant properties, over $25,000. We also acquired 31 properties, this time waiting for closure and
six are held for quite a
while that's it for me.
Remember, and you can join us and join us.
Thank you very much open the record there any questions on the inventory and acquisition? Alright, next political tour were important that we really excited about the most great things with these grants. And so
I changed the format a little bit on this, hopefully it's easier to follow. This is definitely the year we've had the most grants that we have. So I just want to make sure that we're looking at it. From you know, the viewer we can take all in if you have specific questions, I'm more than happy to follow up with that either today verbally or in writing after but real quick. And some of these actually are in the resolutions that are going to be coming out. So if you have specific questions, they may come up there too. But any of these seven is the neighborhood enhancement program from last year, which is 2022. Joe did a great job working with the residents of River Rouge, you're actually going to in the next week or two go out and fill some of the projects that were completed with the social media and comms team from the county. So you may see that their social media and are ours as well. So that's exciting work. You mean the construction, local contractors. So this is the same for NDP seven and NDP, the way it's work that they have to come to us. They have to meet a certain income, the resin or the homeowner, I'm sorry, yeah, they come to the landing with their application. They find the contractor that they feel, you know, came out and made them be able to pass now they come to us. Let's say there's two quotes if it's more than 25% of a discrepancy between the two quotes that are required to get up there. We then verify on our side they're licensed that they do quality work a lot of the people because this is now the fifth round that we're doing, we see the same contractors a lot. So what you'll see here too, is that we assisted seven homeowners, three of them were roofs, we got a full set of Windows, storm doors, gutters are two different properties when forgetting our porch repair. So it depends on the type of work that the contractor that they're getting. But we want the homeowner to feel good about who was coming to their property. That relationship.
So that makes sense to me. But how do you get around potential, like related party transactions or self building? Like, what's the procedure around this?
So Misha has a bit like they have to as the self certification form, like as a president or a loner, fills out a form saying all the things that you're talking about, but there's no fraud. I'm tax firm, we check that on both. I have homeowners insurance, they're signing a document that goes to Michigan that goes to the state, then the state reimburses the land bank, and then we reverse. Okay,
so it's like, it's common, like if you have like a related party related visits. So like, how am I not paying my sister, my brother, my cousin. So an inflated price if I were doing a price check to just kind of somewhat know if we are your market or
not. So I guess that's where the bullets come in. Right? So like, I
got to present. I got I got, you know, I'm not I'm not being funny. Like it happens all the time. So my job is not like,
no, no, no, no, no, I'm trying to think through this. So um, so we could check on that. But ultimately, you know, one of the one of the
things about like cooperative procurement wise helpful is because I totally feel it makes perfect sense that we want them to feel comfortable to contract, we should have picked anybody's contractor. But there shouldn't be approved contractors. And and the list is big enough. But then the question is, what makes them approved, we know their rates, our market, we've done market checks like that, I wonder if.
So what happens is that they get approved by the State of Michigan, we provide, we provide them that list, if they're going to go outside. If they go outside of the list, we have to check with the State of Michigan, they have to understand that gov, that they're in good standing. And what they're checking on the state of Michigan side is that they're paying their income tax that their
market checks on prices for actual materials, service labor,
and not the relationship point that you're talking about. So if you have a suggestion, I think,
yeah, we just took off. I'm actually just this is kind of cool. We can now we can talk.
Yeah, no, I would be totally open to that we have forced a lot of it in that situation. I will say, generally, there's only a handful of contractors that we work with. So I would be surprised. But you never know.
So that was Yeah. Yeah. As part of this part of the piece about the inflated pricing, the arm's length is helpful. Place pricing would be helpful to know because we can do it theoretically be able to spend more money, no more people,
there's a lot of things that they have to initial as the homeowner, so it might be on that list. And I can check on that. Okay, but let's look at education. No question. Yes.
Go to summer report, where it says river ruin that $50,000? How many properties?
So we were able to help set
the number that you have under the number of
No, I'm sorry, that's the round. If you look under the q1 update, oh, come on. Yeah, you have completed seven homeowner completed assisting seven. And that projects actually done. So and because we've been so successful, and because of inflation, they've actually increased our award to 75,000. With a cap of 10,000 per property, it used to be 50,000 with a cap of 7500. So that depends on the amount. So you know, if you hit 75,000 divided by 7500, we wouldn't have been able to help seven people. Not everyone does the full amount. So our guesses, let's say they all do the full amount it will be at least 10
No, no, no, this is dark.
Yeah. And I see the young ones just spread out.
That's I'm struggling. The other piece about like the market checks is if especially if a resident is giving it has the ability to bring cold outside of the list. We want to kind of almost kind of unnecessary a little bit part of the point of government to protect people from themselves in a sense, like I get got all the time and stuff like this. Got it Okay, so that's where my brain is going, by the way, that anybody that just hit me when you said something like that, that's like I can think about people praying. Yeah, that concerns me.
No, and I totally agree on my previous employer, we actually had somebody that was a construction manager that came out and gave assistance for the same reason. There's places that that's all they're looking for, you know, so anything that we can do to alleviate that I fully agree.
underpricing jobs is a steal. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, go
for people. They just want the job where they're not paying their employers. prevailing wage. That also concerns me.
People that's like buying the business. Like, I'll get the initial job. And then oh, gosh, you
pay right. The owner for we're not worried about the workers. Right. Yeah. Totally. I agree with that. The next any other questions on NTP? Okay. That application for the early on soon. Joe is working with me on that, again for NTP 8am. I hope this is let me back up and not take up too much time here. This is ARPA money that the state received that they are allocating for Misha, again with this one. Which 1am I am i
Oh, my whole forget. Okay.
So the way that this works is that nonprofits came forward and put applications into Misha, and then we were assigned to pose. So that's how we ended up with Highland Park and Hamtramck. They actually just came to us this week. So this is an edit to the report and asked if we would take Redford, I don't know what happened to originally assigned to that area. But they believe that we have the capacity to do that. So we agreed to do that. This money, for those of you I'm sure are aware, but our funding has to be spent for funding 26. So that 500,000 up to same parameters where it has to be you have to live and own the property on another property. And you're up to $25,000 here. So it's a good chunk of change for these residents. Okay, so
it is up to 25,000 here,
and it's energy efficient. So it's through a portal, where the other application is paper. And in house, it's the reportable set up by the state of Michigan. So what happens is they put their address into the application, and then the portal sends it out to the agency that's in charge of covering so so for the rest of Wayne County, they can still apply. But they'll be sent to different like Wayne Metro, I forget who has facility to try, you know, thoughts and all certain things like that. So based on your, your address, you will get sent to the correct agency,
a number of people who are facing tax foreclosure, we get students who might have 25, fantastic utilities, so forth. Now we can also send them to the parent portal.
And Kelly actually just put it on our website today. They know how to do that. So that's a question that we have a bi weekly meetings where we meet with Misha for people to give feedback. If we're getting a we've had plenty of applications, but if we start to hear that, we can always have them come into the office, sit down with them at a computer and have them okay. Correct? Yes, I know
for sure a lot of people they don't want to tell you. But they don't. They don't have a clue
how to access that. Yeah, we talked about Office Hours. So definitely willing to do that. And also, if you guys look on the request funding, they are going to increase our board to a million dollars. So that was 500,000. We're gonna get an additional 500,000. Now the last step, is that strategic, Redford? No, that was because we had been successful thus far. And they are there's gonna be four different rounds. This was just a progress update. But all we had to do was amend the existing contract. We didn't have to apply again. So thank you. Yeah, so we will be a million dollars in total to those communities for home repair. The last thing and kind of switching gears here. I've been working with Anthony and Colin on this one is the State Land Bank Authority received funding from Governor rivers office for demolition blight remediation. So that is we put forward we went to all 43 municipalities asking if they had any projects in their community that they wanted to bring to us. We received 11 responses Have those 11 responses, seven of them were strong enough for us to put in the application. And then from that we received $427,500. In that number 427 500. Yep. Our original ask was fighting team. But that's probably bad. And the reason being is our application and the City of Detroit's, were the strongest, we got the two highest awards out of the state. But because it's done by region, we both could not get our fault as they wanted. You know, they said, we have more money, both your applications are strong. So they took a certain percentage off the
top would be you said, seven out of the 11 applications were strong that we have, like, what was the selection process.
So we went to them and the exec gave them exactly the RFP, this is what the state is going to score us on. This is exactly what we need to see you need to own the property. It has to have a short and long term purpose to the demolition, it can't just be to get rid of the blight. You know, it has to be like we'll go and use doing a library where they're going to tear it down and it's going to become a public space. Ecommerce is removing a skilled metal factory. So again, brownfield remediation with the help of development.
Director Williams, there's no
score. We wanted to honestly, we encourage everybody I didn't, you know, really, we called everybody we did our, I believe our best to get in touch with them. So these are the seven that came forward. And that's what we're as you're about to do around to
you says seven out of the 11 We did not apply
for that did not fulfill the requirements to be included.
When I was like no bread, I'm trying to guess. What do you say? Oh my god.
Actually, the breakdown of the awards is further along in the resolutions. Like I said, I can answer questions about that. But I don't want to spend too much more time. The last thing I'll just point to is the round two of that same funding. What we are looking to do the first round, we open it up to all the 43 communities. Round two, we're actually going to use our own inventory to tear down and then there's going to be a round three and round four. In the fall that we will open back up to nonprofits and municipalities in the community
you know, there was a lot and really proud of us for the 2.5 that we're operating on right now and then the future so I feel good about that.
Washington zone and appreciate it. Great report
that you have any opens
No. New business we have four resolutions that are going to be the road today 23 National to 23 National five. I start with 23 National two and that's the approval of AIGA 20 away county treasurer for property maintenance code and motivate property maintenance funds dear board members in July of 2020 by the approved IGA between Wayne County, land bank Corporation and the Wayne County Treasurer to allocate maintenance funds for property transfer to the land bank. Pursuant to general property tax act of a fast track. The term over 2020 agreement was a three year term and that is expire have more we need renew the IGA. To do an IGA simply restate the same terms that was allocated for maintenance and land for living properties determine the renewed IGA is from the date of approval through May 1 of 2026. Kobe has been able to maintain property that attention to treasure because of the funds provided for sort of the IGA making the properties marketable and keeping local communities free from blight loosens, therefore respective Chris approval resolution between through that so
once I did send this to corporate counsel this week when I got gender and we had a couple of consents, we may have to pass on this today. So we can transition to one is section 3.04. It says that the treasurer would need to file crop insurance really best.
And then under Section 10, I don't know Crystal was one of the dresses. She's working for the pro Council. Of the search intent liability issue, the land bank does not maintain liability premises liability to the land bank as a government entities, exceptions to government immunity and premises liability. That's premises liability is an area of law that has changed into advantage of the injured plaintiffs. So as you say it's property becomes an attractive nuisance. When a child is injured, for instance, land bank could be sued in Latin for gross negligence. So that's something that we need to look at. If we're talking about liability insurance for trips to talk to whoever's handling insurance,
because we will be self insured.
But we we don't have to address that viability approval process. Just bring it up to discuss it
a technical program this resolution is just to make sure that everything else
is in terms of here in terms of how much is provided for is the same as the last contract? Is there any concerns from the guys that considering everything has gone up in price? I mean, will there be a substantial impact to how much you can get to suddenly that would stay the same? Or do you feel confident that you can still get everything that we need?
We feel confident everything's gonna price a little bit we've been able to keep a decent rate. We did know about this a little bit. Last year we used to do once a month three times. So we're finally
I would say is this agreement that's going to go to 2026. So keep that in mind while we're reviewing these other two issues voluntary and give you
three more years is that well, is that standing still? Because no, no. For three years with this thing this is agreement can go up here so we're talking six year period of time How
frequently do you guys go out with RFP from vendors that foreign services
or RFP is actually of this year? So we'll get an RFP
so you're gonna see the differences in price?
I think we shouldn't we shouldn't
Why don't what what about math isn't what about just like automated automatic pass through like a pair of whoever the increased costs are is $1 to dollar pass through? I think you just made language stages you can verify it if you like or because faster is
that is that between you're saying that wouldn't be an automatic testing
would you have to go positive vendors your man and it wouldn't be so much fun
okay I mean, we didn't think about that. We haven't touched our general fund. But we definitely would definitely look at it long as you think is reasonable.
Everybody's all prices are going up. Everything's balanced.
Right now. We got to
know how big is the budget. Whether we
will pull it out.
Those resolutions
23 folks?
Because I didn't realize it was not at 53 sounded like we got to burn through and you're getting quotes, like something like that and just trying the whole fund balance room. Mr. Stretch, thanks for the May it's not the same pot of money. Yeah, that's good.
All right, let's go to 2303 approval exemptions. The $427,000 SLPA by elimination grant. There were minerals in January 2023 way kind of limit and apply for grant money through the state land. Authorities first round about the next program with the goal of providing demolition funding for seven communities throughout Lake County. Recently, Wayne County Land Bank was awarded the SBA grant in the amount of 14 $27,500 to spare bookstores demolitions administered by the local jurisdictions, properties or municipalities both are the seeds of E commerce with volume trading Harper Woods Taylor and Robbins as well as Van Buren Township, a list of parcels that word was a brief description of the project, can we find Exhibit A and B directories for the grant provided the way how to live it up to the work directly with local municipalities to aid them for completing pipe removal? Demolition projects will immediately increase safety and property values for surrounding neighbors additionally, demolition will allow for future development for these reasons set forth above the way that it recommends the board itself the funding for SLPA from this FDA to approve resolution 23. Question How was he corresponding? First of all,
I was gonna say me every time he sees us got 15 dilapidated.
Steel Mill factory
history
yes not sure yet. We got the biggest. The most put together applications
jumped on it right. Yes.
Motion order. I will entertain a motion I will make a motion to support for resolution 23. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye.
You shouldn't know that Tony was not annoying for them.
Thank you. Resolution 23 days Oh for approval. That's that was a $75,000 Vista any P grant your board members in December of 2020. To wake up a little late apply for funding for Michigan State Housing Development Authority state rather than NDP. Rent to a individuals and families in Wayne County. Lake County Land Bank has previously been awarded. Grant administers third, fifth sixth and seventh round funding to the porch project in our neighborhoods and Highland Park ecourse and were recently in Wayne County Land Bank was wondering grant permission $75,000 to continue the ports project contains a map of the approved boundary can be found on the next page. They have been approved. The proposal is to provide these Harryhausen enhancements to remediate current blight and prevent future deterioration in 2022 and EP seven programs completed several projects. These projects the system roofs, gutters, windows, doors and digital roof. One repairs and a new port NDP grants are an opportunity for the White House to live and just strike on the fly and assist communities additionally, NDP grant process is strongly between Mr. And the way kind of led me to complete projects together on an annual basis. For these reasons set forth above that I may recommend the board accept the funding permission to continue our forest project and up funding and approve resolution 23 days or
23 days before I entertain a motion for approval
support a one favor resolution for us
thank you so much for it and the last resolution for today is 25. approval to submit request for proposal to Sapa for by elimination route route power to the board members. The board of directors on April 10 2003 and state thority released the second request To propose opportunity for leveling authorities allowed us to apply five elimination funding. Under these terms stipulated by this LPA, the Land Bank Authority must have the approval of the Board of Directors by way of resolution to submit an RFP for consideration that they wish to submit an RFP and amount of million dollars for the purpose of demolishing dilapidated structures throughout Wayne County, if awarded funds will contribute to reduced supply in some of the most distressed communities in our area. For this reason, the land bank recommends respectfully request approval resolution between green and 05.
We haven't report 23 05. Support, support, discussion? Hearing none, call for vote. All those in favor. oppose the motion.
Thank you very much board. I will be the new our new business.
This time, open up for public comment, public and like to speak. You have three minutes to address the meeting. Anyone?
My name is Barbara Olson IV s IV. I had I've been living in Detroit for about 30 years. I'm from Atlanta, Georgia. My, my my father was Reverend Herman be dead yet. And Martin Luther King Jr. was his best friend. His father was they build this church and everything. I found these three Tayto, which the Baptist Church with Reverend borders, and Miss Hodge and both the owner across from there, my Luther King Jr. Used to walk the neighborhood where I live. My brothers and sisters used to well with him, used to come to our house down off of Boulevard Georgia Baptist Hospital, down on forest road. But going back, that's enough about that. And I'm 76 years so. And I live came to Detroit because my mother got sick. I have family been here forever. From Washington, Georgia, and from Georgia. And Bailey street. They live on Bailey Street. I live on Princess Street. And I have 18 I had 18 sedans that my mother passed thena power. And I have one left that I'm trying to go and live with her until she passed, I passed and I want to go home. So therefore I had I had bought these houses and thing. I have eight kids of my own. I have adopted three kids, the remote kids after my kids left. And but I was trying to take and get this lot next to my house. And I have pictures of it here that I was I was trying to get the light, they taste the light and sell it to this these people here. And I went to the land office and I talked to them I go every month or every six months of things because they said that they couldn't give give me a lot because they had to finish fixing the house burned down twice next to me. It burned my house on that side of my house. It just glass does pop up and blind. They say go isn't my insurance. I call all these counselors and everybody asked them to help me with that. They say go get a loan, how you gonna get a loan to pay. I have a grandson that lives with me now he's 18 and he has autism. And he runs up my life be like crazy, because he got to have his phone and his little normalcy thing. So he did get a job downtown and Joe Joe's. So cuz I told him you gotta go, you know, have paid for the bill. But what um, and I tried to take him get the lot. They give it to this person. And so after I get this, I find out this person they and then I say okay, why don't you give it to them. And I've been coming here for ever since the house burned down the first time. I wanted to get the house then I mean, let the land
there's this disease in the city of Detroit in the city of Detroit. So you're dealing with the Detroit land bank? Yes. Okay. You know, this is the Wayne County. This is a separate, completely separate when we don't have properties in the city of Detroit. We only deal with outside of Detroit.
I take it I pay my taxes in this building. Well,
here's the reason why. If what happens is the city's collect the current tax bills, if they're late if they're delinquent. We come to the camps. So you're paying the utility bill, but it's, it's because it's literally the county collects delinquent tax. So there's two land banks. Well, really in Michigan, there's three here. There's the state land bank, in the city of Detroit land bank, just for the city. And then there's the Wayne County, land bank, all those 42 communities in the county. So what you're dealing with is the Detroit Land Bank, which is a separate land bank from this this group, you know, going out to Detroit?
Well, it might be separate and things like that, but I know it just like the, you know, like the.
So, thank you. I have a meeting. I have a meeting every month with the director of the trade. So after the meeting, I'll come I'll get the address from you, and find out what you want to get accomplished. And then I can see if we can help you out from there. Because
don't you pick the first right of refusal in that property and get that a lot goes up? They don't give you the first right of refusal.
last mistake.
The confident person. Yeah, this person get them.
person as a sideline? Yeah. First time, yeah.
That was my first, and what's your address?
No. No,
the address is a lot. That's okay. If you don't summarize.
The fine print. This is the showing.
So your question is you own a house, and you wanted a big lab, but you weren't notified? And it was sold to somebody else?
They didn't say I was qualified for it. Because I have both and lived across the street based in my house. I had put this concrete for the house. They said no. Maybe they need to educate the house a lot.
So what's the question right now they're not maintaining it.
It says a lie on the land off because they got it. So I started
addressing this issue after the baby, our staff here, Director, car wreck staff will be able to help assist you going forward.
Our stay here doesn't mean we're going to leave.
Okay, anyone else from public? Comment today I ever consideration. Value Chain motion for
the VPN? Since you said that, you know, you're gonna help me with the land. I had gotten some tickets when you were deployed about tickets. I have some tickets that I got saying that was trash in my yard and stuff like that. I was trying to put a fence up
and talk to my journeyman and we're gonna tell you Okay. All right. Jeremy,
