They needed to be here. But if there's anything that you're hearing here today from from the whole process, just let me know if you have questions, and I'll make sure next week I come out to the school and answer some of your questions. Okay, but thank you so much
for spending your morning with us. Okay, you are absolutely amazing. God bless each and every one of you, and thank you, Madam Chair, all right, thank you. All right. Thank you so much. Member Callaway, we're excited to have you all with us this morning. All right, we will go straight now into our invocation from none other than Miss Miss Bishop, the bishop, Dr Coletta Vaughn in the president of Detroit
Public Schools district board, we're so glad to have you in person. Thank you. Thank you so much. Good morning to all of you. Good morning to these wonderful children. Thank you, Councilwoman, Callaway for what you are doing, and to all of our council persons, if we would just stand for just a moment, if you don't mind, as we go to the throne of grace, to our staff and those of you that are part of the city government our team, we thank you for your service, particularly in times like these, we need an anchor. We need a savior. We need the help of God. Let us pray our most gracious and Heavenly Father, we gather today with gratitude, thanking you for a new day of life. We're not presumptuous. We don't assume that it is owed to us. We know that it comes to us because of your mercy and your grace, and we thank You today that a new Mercy has been bestowed upon us Great is thy faithfulness as we now bless this session of the Detroit City Council. We ask, as they serve the people, that you would grant them your guidance and your wisdom as they deliberate and make decisions that impact us all ages, in all stages of life. Our lives are in their hands, and so we ask you for wisdom, we ask You for discernment, we ask You for prophetic insight. Now, Lord, I ask that you would remember them, name by name, our president, Mary Sheffield, our pro tem, James Tate, Angela Whitfield, Callaway, Scott Benson, Leticia Johnson, Gabriella, San Diego Romero, Fred der Hall, the third, Mary waters and Coleman Young, whether they are here or not, we ask You to bless them. Grant them strength
and clarity.
God. Give them compassion and empathy, as our city is going through transition in the midst of governmental layoffs, diversity, equity and inclusion issues, those that are afraid for their homes, their jobs, industries that are shaking those that rely on the government, our schools, our communities, our businesses, we know that as they deliberate today, that by the power of your Holy Spirit, you will keep the people in front of them. Give them visions of the communities, the neighborhoods, the schools, the aged homes, the hospitals and those that are not present today. Keep them before them today, and we thank you that every decision that is made will bring glory to you and honor to this great city. Remember our mayor and those that serve with him and Lord. We thank you that every pastor, every church, every faith based representative, is covered today in this great city, but we rely on the motto of this city
that where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty, and we thank you for the liberty that is inclusional, that brings equity, that honors diversity and brings revival. Remember those that are incarcerated. Remember those that are making transitions between life and eternity. We are in the hands of this council and Lord, we thank you that they are in your hands. We ask these blessings
in the mighty and the matchless
name of our Savior
and our Christ, Jesus, the Lord. Amen.
Thank you Amen. Thank you so much, Bishop Vaughn, we appreciate you for that beautiful, beautiful invocation. Madam Chair, yes, if I might, yes. Go right ahead for the young male students who are here. You see all women here today, but we do have four men who serve on this council. So it's a Council of Nine, seven districts and two at large. The four gentlemen are just not here today. That's why you see five women we are here today, but there are actually nine of us, okay, for all the young men looking like we're the men, they're
here, but just not physically here at the council table. Okay, all right. Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you so much. Member. Callaway, okay, we will proceed. And we're going to cut off our public comment for this morning. The Journal of the session of Tuesday May the 13th, will be approved. There being no reconsideration or unfinished business.
We will proceed to the budget Finance and Audit standing committee for
the budget Finance and Audit. Standing Committee, one report from the legislative policy division.
The one report will be referred to the budget Finance and Audit. Standing Committee
for the internal operations. Standing Committee, several reports from various city departments. These seven reports will be referred
to the internal operations, standing committee
for the Neighborhood and Community Services, standing committee, five reports from various city departments. The five reports will be referred to
the neighborhood and community services, standing committee for the Planning and Economic Development standing committee. Madam President, I would like to point out we had a request to remove line item 10.2 from CPC Friday, as this ordinance actually is line item 20.1 which inadvertently had the draft ordinance attached. So we would like to this ordinance that's attached to 10.2 is the ordinance that should go along with the item 20.1 today,
and therefore this item would not need to be referred. Yes, that's at the request of CPC. Okay, their motion to remove 10.2
from the agenda.
All right, Hearing no objections. We were moved removed line item 10.2
So Madam President, there will be eight reports from various city departments,
okay, the eight reports will be referred
to Planning and Economic Development, standing
for the public health and safety, standing committee, 22 reports from various city departments. Okay? And there's a motion to move 11 point 11 to new business for us to schedule the public hearing their motion to do so this is for the curfew for the Detroit fireworks.
So moved. Hearing no objections. We will move 11
point 11 to new business for the scheduling of a public hearing,
all right, and that will be 21 reports that will be,
will be referred to the public health and
safety standing committee. We will now move to the voting action matters under other matters. There are no items, Madam President, I
Okay, we also need to move 11 point 20 as well to new business. If there's a motion to do so, this is a resolution declaring violent T Lewis day. Thank you. Member waters Hearing no objections, 11 point 20 will also
be moved to
new business. All right, under communications from the mayor and other governmental officials and agencies, there are no items, Madam President, all right, we will call now for public comments. We are going to do one minute today for public comment, as everyone is traveling to the conference, if you want to allow for sufficient time to travel today.
And so
we'll do one minute today for public comment, and we will start with you. Miss Betty Lyons, oh, my God. Okay, of course I come every week about this over $600 million owed to the Detroit residents in the overpaid property taxes you huddle with the Chinese, with the Mexicans, with the errors, and they get their complaints resolved. I come for over a year and nothing is said. Why am I not given the same respect and resolution to this money that belongs to Detroit residents, even the lawyer Conrad mallet. I wonder where he is. Where is Dugan, a man who is devious and has other other ideas for Detroit, which is negative. He and Dan Gilbert, they want to own Detroit.
They do not want
us to have our own land and generational wealth.
Thank you. Miss Lyons,
Miss Denise Boyce artisan, good morning. Good morning. Good morning. My name is Denise Boyce Hardison. I'm president of Bobby CCB touring service. I come before you today to respectfully request that the overturn the decision to terminate my company and contract with the City of Detroit's Police Department's rotation list. On May 15, my contract was terminated after I responded to a toll requested made by directly by an officer, Scott who advised me that the system was down, acting in good faith, as I've always done for over 25 years. I dispatched a truck based on his instruction. I now understand that this car did not follow usual protocol. I have built my company on service, built, I'm sorry I have built Bobby's TC between service on integrity, professional liberty, professionalism and unwavering dedication to the city of Detroit, one incident in the breakdown from within your own department should not wipe away a legacy of service or cost me my business, nor the livelihoods of my employees who have stand, who stand behind me. Since being awarded the contract in 2022 I have made some significant financial commitments to expand and improve my business. I
purchased three tow trucks. I spent $98,000 in a roof repair. The contract represents 85% alright. Thank you. I know we didn't finish. Um, if we can get your information so we can know the name of your company and reach out to the department to see what exactly happened
in this situation and how we can support you. Okay, okay, and we'll make sure we give a copy to all of our colleagues here as well. Okay, just so
you guys know I did email you guys. Okay, everything as well. Okay, okay. I look forward to hearing from you guys. Thank you. Thank you so much for being here.
Ronald Foster,
followed by Miss Williams,
good morning through the president of passing through the day. Um, just a few things say. Matthew 712 says, Therefore all things whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you even so to them, for this is the law and the province. And so I just wanted to speak today about opportunities. This last four years, the city council have been open to different opportunities in the community. I think the community have stepped up and exceeded a lot of those expectations, whether it was through CVI, whether it was through board of police commissioners, or whether it was through other venues on the agenda, backwoods and other other things the community have shown to be responsible. They have shown to come out and contribute to government in every avenue. And I think there has to be a knowledge. I think that has to be
reinforced. I think the change
of perspective has to be changed, and more opportunities need to be given to the community.
All right. Thank you so much. Mr. Ronald Foster
and Miss Williams,
hello, good people. Um,
this question is for you through the Chair. Madam President, I've been coming down here
for quite some time. My issue was concerning police officers living in shelters, and you said that, they said, No, officers live in shelters. My question to you, did you have one of your people investigated? And they also said that
I can't hear you, madam, let you finish your minute. No, this is what I wanted to know. I I'm I'm curious to know that. Okay, I'm gonna let you finish your minute, because once I I'm taking up your time. Oh, okay, so like I said, I've been coming to these meetings complaining about the homeless people not being able to get bed spaces. And I see it every day, and I I'm not trying to be disrespectful, Madam President, but somebody, they not doing their job correctly, because if they were, you wouldn't be sitting up telling me the same stuff, telling me all the time when I come down here, there's no police officers living in these facilities. Okay, okay. Thank you so much, Miss Williams, and you came down here last time, and you mentioned, I think it was the clay apartments over off of Gratiot, or the the NSO facility. I had one of my team members actually go by there. He spoke with the leadership at that facility, and we inquired, and it was absolutely not true. They said that there was no officers there. There had been no officers at that facility. We've also put in multiple requests to the police department to ask and so if you have any specifics, if you know of any locations, if you have names, any information, please get that to us so we can make sure that we address that. Okay, well, Madam President, can't go back and forth, but we did have someone go out. We reached out directly to, I can't even think of the lady's name right now, with the NSO, but we did reach out to them directly, and we spoke with them. Not Sheila, it's the other lady. Okay, Miss Linda little, I talked to her directly. Miss Linda little, okay, okay. So any information you have, continue to get that to us. Okay. Well, if you want the information, you can contact OCI. They have a whole lot of information. You have a great day. Madam President, okay, thank you so much. Miss Williams, we appreciate you.
Okay, that will conclude all of our in person public comment, and we will now go
to those who have joined us virtually.
My apologies. I turned on my videos meeting myself. Good morning, Madam
President, there
are 20 hands. Hands raised for public comment, and the first caller is Betty a Varner, Miss Varner, good morning. Good morning to all within the sound of my voice, I'm Betty a barn the president of DeSoto Ellsworth black Association, and we are hosting with Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church. Tomorrow, there's going to be a free estate planning workshop at 7151,
Finkel, that's Detroit, 48238,
from six to 730. It'll be discussed in your last will and testament. It will talk about the lady birdie trust. Talk about a power of attorney for your health and your finances. This we are losing our generational wealth when our parents or loved ones are passing, we're leaving, they're leaving property and
there's going into flow foreclosure or deeds cannot be found, This workshop
will help you.
Thank you so much.
The next caller is Galaxy S, 22 ultra, okay, good morning. Yes, good morning. Trying to come at a different angle, because every time I come with with what I'm asking you guys, I never get a response about over here at the Chrysler. This is Holloway with the fumes and the money and all that that we're not receiving. We We got a lousy little money from when they put the plant up. We inherited all these fumes. And it's the same old, same old. We can never get a response. It's always Christ is coming to the table. They don't show up. You know, I know we ain't got but a minute, but I just wanted to bring that to your attention, that we come down here week after week, or on the phone week after week with the same thing,
and never get a response. I'm
gonna see what kind of response we get one day out there asking
for our votes. All
right, thank you so much.
The next caller is Mr. Rue Okay, Mr. Riel. All right. Everybody listen up. Now, Gina AB Walker and Janice Winfrey is cold busted cheating in Detroit elections for years and years and years. That's the mayor, the city council, board of police commissioners, school board and some judges. So now 2025, is election year. James E Tate Junior, you are not getting ready to win district one, that council seat anymore, along with Fred door Hall, he's not getting ready to beat the mayor. Dennis and Gina have been over there cheating for years and years and years and years, and years, and y'all act like y'all don't understand it. So now I'm taking it to the streets. Everybody in the city of Detroit, citizens, taxpayers and residents, everybody with their earshot, everybody listening in on Channel 10, they busted cheating absentee ballot fraud committed and occurring in
Detroit elections for years and years
and years and everybody coming down
with the symptoms. That's the root cause. All
right. Thank you.
The next caller is not that. Karen,
hello. Yes. Good morning. Good morning.
Yeah, I was watching a special on television about Detroit. Dated back some time ago, but apparently when they built the Brewster projects, Brewster Douglas project, they housed eight to 10,000 families. I think we could probably, I'm sure we could repurpose those towers at Renson, because I know you can't build projects, quote, unquote any longer, but we can build for, you know, high priced condos or whatever. But it seems to me we could repurpose those two towers at Renson, and we could house 1000s of families from in those towers, homeless families, and we could help put a huge dent in our homeless population situation. That's just a good idea to me. Maybe somebody could look that up or try to work on that and repurpose those towers. And let's put a big dent, not house by house, or, you know,
home by home. Let's do the tower,
and we can get a
lot of homeless off the street. Thanks. Thank you.
The next caller is Tahira Ahmed,
good morning. Good morning. Thank you. Member. Callaway, thank you, Council, those of you who have been helping with our situation with the illegal foreclosures, those who have helped passing the property tax reform ordinance and making sure that the law is being enacted, those who have but the law is not being enacted, and we want you to make it purposeful in that you do that Detroit has been young people has been illegally overtaxed $600 million and 100,000 homes were illegally foreclosed. The mayor has been preventing He's held in on Jennifer in Detroit on Facebook, Coalition for Property Tax Justice, we're calling on Eric Wayne, county treasurer Eric Sabri to stop the foreclosures
because the lowest homes, valued homes are
being illegally foreclosed. Thank you. Have a blessed day.
Thank you. The next caller is William M Davis, good morning. Can I be heard? Yes, you can. I think a great, urgent need is needed right now. In the last six weeks, over 10 black infants have died in the city of Detroit. And you know, I think that the health department should be doing a whole lot better job. Of course, I'm older than all of y'all, and I remember when the health department up on the coma young Archer Kilpatrick was much better than is today. You know, y'all need to be aware of what's going on. Y'all need to be doing something about the infant mortality rate, black infant mortality rate in this city. Also, last week, I went, I went to a mayoral candidates forum, which I thought was a joke, and I knew that the minute I walked in and I seen this guy in the chicken outfit that actually used to work for me years ago in the water department. You know, you can't have serious discussions with
people that's acting like that, hopefully things
will improve for everyone. Thank you. Bye.
Okay. Thank you so much. Mr. Davis,
our next caller is Steven Holling, can I be her? Yes, you can. So I'm here to speak in support of the Cosmo development. You know, I think this is really going to get downtown on the map. You know, we're one of five or three cities that actually has this, and, you know, I'm in strong support. But you know, one guy that is going to speak out against it is a felon named Theo pride who embezzled 700,000 from Detroit public schools that served three out of six years in federal prison in Ohio. You know people need to know is, I know there's the argument, what are what's that development going to do for Detroit? Well, what it's going to do, it's going to bring in tax revenue, it's going to bring employment, and, you know, it's going to bring in what? And it's really going to kind of get our downtown on the map,
you know, I think it will benefit the whole city,
and I'm in strong support of this development.
Thank you so much. The next caller is Melissa. Love
Good morning.
I know y'all don't like to see me come.
Respect will be on my name. Good morning. Cheated votes is real. Cheated votes is real. I'm Melissa love never voted November 20 or August, November 2020, or August 2024, I am the evidence that cheated votes is real. I won't be silenced. I won't be silenced also. I will continue to fight for the elderly, disabled and children. Mika Williams, you are so right. I didn't vote because I didn't want to vote, nor knew who to vote for. So yes, I desire. I decided not to, and that's why I keep coming and calling. Because why am I on the voter list when I never voted? So
thank you for Claire clarifying that for me,
you so loud and ghetto. I don't even know who even follow you,
I'll be at Triumph. Anyways,
justice will be served. It's time for the
righteous to win. And as far as pastor Sue
and these different churches take that up with God, not me.
Thank you so much.
The next caller is Lionel
Bradford,
good morning. Good morning,
Madam President and city council. My name is Lionel Bradford. I'm the president, executive of the greening of Detroit, and thank you for allowing me to speak today. We're here in full support of the CoSM project. The Gilbert family of of companies have been a huge supporter of the greening of Detroit and our mission work. Over the past three years, with that generous support, we've trained over 200 Detroiters who we placed into viable jobs, planted over 8000 trees and engage 1000s of residents. We believe that the this development will be a gym, not only would it be an entertainment hub, but also will provide jobs for
Detroiters. It will be a win for the city, as well as
for the Cadillac square area. Thank you so much.
Okay, thank you
the next caller. We
see you.
All right. Good morning. You
we see you, good morning.
We see you, good morning. Good
okay, let's come back to this Caller, please. Okay, the next
caller is Galaxy Tab. A
Galaxy Tab. A good morning. Good morning. Can I be heard? Yes, yes,
okay, I wanted to say
I gotta turn on something. I Okay. Randy, okay, okay, I'm ready. I want to say that I have been catching the bus right, and I get down there to the high Grove transit center and Council President Mary Sheffield, it smells like urine when you trying to walk through that little hour way to go to my years or any store over there. Can you please have them to straighten that up and get it right? Because that's not right that we gotta walk through there. Matter of fact, I had to walk through the into the end to go because I don't want to go through that little walkway. Please have address that for me and keep your head up. Stand strong, running for this position, for the city, for the
mayor's position, Don't let nobody disturb you, and don't nobody take you off your square. Okay. Have a great day. Thank you so much. Appreciate that, and we will send that over to the department to ensure that they are aware of that particular area that you mentioned. So we will get that over today.
Okay, our next caller, please. Next caller is Cunningham. Cunningham, good morning. Good
honey, good morning, 331344491143134491143134449114,
43134449114, that number was made you can remember it and on Facebook, not enemy. I'd like to highlight from my Facebook page, not enemy that we had pastor Ken lock and his wife join us on a bus ride along. Also, I would like to thank every single donor that donated for the Union. I'm up to $4,000 your $5 your $10 your $20 I'm not going to embarrass anybody, but I thank you for your donation, your holy handshake, hand to hand, blessing by mail, via cash app. My Cash App is found on my Facebook page and today, yay. Mr. Jason of Mary
water's office
at large gave us tons and tons of
bus tickets to help the people.
Okay, thank you so much. Mr. Cunningham,
the next caller is one
plus CPH,
all
right. Good morning. Good
Good morning.
Okay, Ari, let's come back to this Caller, please. The
next caller is Veronica Smith,
good morning. Good morning. Honorable council members. My name is Veronica Smith, and I'm calling to encourage the citizens of Michigan to call their state Congress, person, excuse me, State Senator and urged them to vote no, to stop the Republicans tax and budget reconcili Bill Congress has failed us, also for the past four years,
Eric's agree
has given us
Excuse me, excuse me.
So Sabri halted foreclosures because we raised our voice now he's ignoring the city council's call, and we need to act again. Eric Sabri is planning to foreclose on Detroit home orders with homes less than $50,000 even though most of these homes are over excess have been over access
for several years, we need and urge you to ask him
to stop these foreclosures. Thank you.
The next caller is phone number ending in one good
Morning.
Yes, ma'am, be heard. Yes, you can.
Okay. Thank you. Mr. Holloway, please look up Detroit solar scam.com
and call 313-230-4742,
anyone who's getting polluted on by the city. Call 313-230-4742, or, excuse me, not necessarily polluted on by the city. But you know, not only has the city not been in compliance with charter section seven, dash, 201, we don't even have a proper facility for a proper health department, because the Herman keeper hospital was sold off on the cheap, and the guy still hasn't lived up to the deal. But under seven dash 202, the city is responsible for collecting and disposing of waste in the manner least harmful to the environment that should include not mowing over garbage and a robust campaign, because citizens shouldn't be dropping litter
in the first place,
but, but, but please. Miss Leticia
Johnson, the people suffering by this
great thank you. Miss Warwick.
Next caller, Marguerite, Scarlet Maddox,
okay. Good morning. You are okay.
Yes, we can.
Oh, sounds like you're breaking up a little bit. Now I
Okay,
okay, your phone is going in and out. Miss Maddox,
what's sounds
like
you're still going out. Miss Maddox,
okay, thank you. We can hear you now.
Okay,
Big, big,
that they
Okay. Miss Maddox, unfortunately, you're going out again. We cannot really hear you. It's going in and out
here. Can
I have them do it for me, yes, ma'am, yes, ma'am, okay, okay, if you
get that over to us, we will make sure we submit it, and if we get it before
the end of public comment, we'll have Ari
read out your public comment.
Okay, thank you so much. Miss Maddox.
The next caller is calling user one.
Call in. User one, good morning.
Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Good
morning. I'm very disappointed at one of the council members when someone was getting up to speak during public comment, is sitting up blowing as though you're disgusted about a public comment, my reaction to that is, if it bother you, you should go ahead and let this be your last term, and let's get new people that will not blow when somebody wants to make a public comment because that's rude and disrespectful. Also, I'd like to say you should have gave us two minutes, madam, and I'd like it that you start keeping the grass cut on these lots in your district, so that heroin and fentanyl is not hidden in there. My cousin sent you an email full of pictures, and it's been no
response.
Please let us know when you're going to get something done about that
and which count.
Thank you so much. Miss Shea. We will continue to work with you. Ma'am.
The next caller is Sonia Brown.
Tanya, Brown. Good morning. Good morning. May I be heard? Yes, you can. I'm sorry. I have two complaints. One, as we've already stipulated so, so many times we have to do something about our homeless population. This is making no sense. It makes no sense. We've got all these abandoned buildings sitting around in our city, and yet we can't seem to come together to place our homeless in some of these facilities. Many of the centers we've already been told are inadequate, unable to house anymore. That just shows how bad the situation is. There is no room to take them in the shelters anymore. So we need to correct this situation. While we're still doing mass evictions. We need to stop these home evictions period. We're putting generations out here, grandmothers that are raising their grandchildren, and as you've heard last week, young women that are still fighting to just maintain and sustain we don't need any more of our babies being lost out here. And the water department,
please clean up these messes you've made on these blocks by putting these water
lines in. Thank
you. Thank you as well.
Our next caller is mik Williams,
Good morning. Hi, good. Hi. Good morning. Yes, happy holiday, everybody. So before y'all go up to Mackinac and tell whatever lie that you all are working on, just know that people are going to be watching all over the stream. That is the only opportunity you have that will seal your fate in the debate. And Melissa love you could come and visit anytime at Triumph. We love to have you praise the Lord. You know you voted for Kwame Kilpatrick, or did you vote for Kwame Kilpatrick? You've registered to vote when you were 18. So you need to really clarify your information. Lorenzo Sewell needs to help you with your script. And once again, ladies and gentlemen, that debate just showed Detroiters are broken more than ever. As a long time resident of the city, I'm very disappointed in all of you. White supremacy has taken over full force. Gentrification is rolled in,
and there's no turning back in black leadership
still has failed. Condemn all the preachers,
damn all the
thank you so much. Nico Williams,
the next caller
is Angela Rogan suits, good
morning. Good morning. My name is Angela rogency. I am the Executive Director of the Paradise Valley Conservancy, which is a Conservancy District near Randolph and bratchet that houses the music hall fix ins vinyl, real times media, the exchange. Beatrice Buck Park, among others, on behalf of the Board of Directors, I'm here today
to show support for
the Cadillac development that you all have on your agenda today. Thank you. Okay. Thank you.
Apologies. I was muted
the next caller, Lauren Stovall, all right. Thank you.
Okay, good morning. Can you all hear me? Yes, we can. Thank you. So my name is Lauren Stovall, and I am the legacy preserver of hot Sam's downtown Detroit's oldest men's clothing store, and my comment is in regards to the CoSM development proposed for downtown. Our store, hot Sam's, is located on that Monroe block where the CoSM is being proposed to be built. And so while we are excited for this attraction to come to this area, which has been a bit dormant and lackluster for a bit of time, we are hopeful for what this attraction could bring, mainly by way of foot traffic. And so while we support this effort, we do request and encourage the developers to include and consider the existing businesses in their development and in their promotion, and so also in the overall process. So things such as parking planning and even passes to partake in the chasm would be appropriate. So I'm encouraging a working together, a partnership with the developers for the businesses that are already here, so that these businesses feel the actual benefit
of this development. And so we are excited and we are hopeful,
and we are supportive of what the CoSM could bring.
Okay, thank you so much.
The next caller is Whitney Clark, good morning.
Good morning. May I be heard. Yes, you can. Hey, awesome. Good morning again to everybody, and I hope that everyone had a wonderful weekend. I'm just considering this, this mass exodus of our of the last influx of our seniors out of the workforce, the baby boomers, the silver wave, and how we bridge this gap, it was so wonderful to see Bishop bond, you know, praying this morning, and they're in person to hope that she's still there to hear an idea that I propose as to how we can bridge the gap that exists between the baby boomers getting ready to retire and our children. I propose that we bring our trades back. I believe that will be a great opportunity for our children to be able to work out of high school again, getting them ready to work a little bit earlier, since most people now we're going to have to work a little bit later and ask for the project that's being discussed.
We support only the projects
that
produce jobs for Detroiters. God bless you and God keep you all. Thank you. Okay, thank you.
We are now back to
we see you. We
had before and didn't respond, so the
only remaining we see you,
okay, good morning.
We see you. Good morning.
We see you, going once,
twice, and we see you. Please submit your comments to the clerk's office for public record. Madam President, my apologies. One who had
had their hand raised it so
the last caller would be vanetta Mayberry, okay. Miss Mayberry, good morning.
Good morning. Good morning.
Madam President, I would like to know about the date and the time that we're going to be doing the raising of the Juneteenth flag. Are we going to do it for the first month, the first day of June, or Flag Day, or on Juneteenth day? And I also like to know about that the houses that are those infill houses in the fifth district and over encounters, Tennessee Navajo Kitchener area that have been built during the Empowerment Zone during that particular Time, those houses are encapsulated that homes are not going to be demolished or whatever that I built, that I helped to build, in 1995 those homes were built during the coma young era.
I want to know what we're going to be doing with those. I will send you the rest of the information on those houses that we have on the east side. Okay, thank you so much, Miss Mayberry, and we will get the exact date and time of the raising of
the flag as soon as I get it from the administration, and I'll be sure to get with you on that. Not Present. Yes. Member Johnson, thank you. If you wouldn't mind providing or miss Mayberry, if you can, if you're still listening, if you can provide your information. I believe I know the properties you're talking about, one Tennessee and Kitchener, but want to be clear, and would love to follow up with you. I believe many of them are part of a scatter site development project. But if you can reach out to my office, the phone number is 313-224-4841, 82244841, so we can get the clear information from you and share with you the status of those properties. And as it relates to stellantis, I just want to remind everyone that since I have been in office, we did add an additional $3.3 million for home repair for residents in the impact area. For stellantis, Mr. Holloway, if
there's anything specific that you have questions about, please reach out. We're happy to assist. Thank you, Madam President, thank you. Member Johnson, all
right, the clerk will know. Member durha has joined us as well all of our public comment today. Ari,
it is, I do want to point out were
a few hands still raised, although they had raised their hand after you had cut off public comment. Okay.
All right. Thank you so much.
All right, we will proceed now back to our agenda for this morning.
For the budget, Finance and Audit, standing committee from the Office of contracting and procurement, Council Member der Hall a resolution, line item 17.1, contract number 6006188, dash a one, 100% city funding Amendment One, to amend the fee schedule for payment processing platform for online Treasury payments by Detroit residents. Contractor is paymenters Corporation, total contract amount, $0
that's for the
ocfo office. Council member der Hall, a resolution.
Member der Hall, thank
you. Move for approval for line item 17.1
any objections,
hearing, no objections. The one resolution will be approved request a waiver for line item 17.1 hearing, no objections, a waiver will be
attached to 17.1
from the office of the city clerk, City
Planning Commission. Council member der Hall,
two resolutions, line items
17.2 and 17.3
council member durha, thank you. Line item 17.2 is a resolution of authorization for a neighborhood enterprise zone certificate, application for the rehabilitation of a 67 unit residential apartment building located at 66 Adelaide Street in the cross winds a neighborhood enterprise zone area has been recommended for approval by the CPC, as well as committee line item 17.3 is a resolution of authorization for any z certificate application for the Construction of four new single family houses at 1500 1514, 1526, and 1540, McClellan and one new duplex at 1507 Park View in the Churchville McClellan neighborhood enterprise zone area also recommended
by the CPC, as well as committee Move for approval for line items 17.2 and 17.3
any objections.
Hearing no objections, the two resolutions will be approved request a waiver for line item 17.2 and 17.3 I'm going to object a waiver on 17.2
and 17.3 if there's no objections,
a waiver will be attached to 17.3
under resolutions council member durhall, on behalf of Council President Mary Sheffield, a resolution noting that this line item was
postponed from last week formal session nine item, 17.4 council member Durham, thank you. And this is a resolution of authorization providing City Council ARPA allocations for fiscal year 2026 motion to briefly discuss line item 17.4 we had opportunity to speak with the administration. It is still being worked out and would need to be postponed for one more week.
I moved to postpone
line item 17.4 or for two weeks, or for one week. I'm sorry, pardon me, there's a motion to postpone the ARPA resolution for one additional week, as they're still being details worked out with the administration in LPD.
Any objections?
Hearing? None. Line item 17.4,
will be postponed for one week
for the internal operations standing committee
from the mayor's office. Council member Johnson,
three resolutions. Line items 18.1, through 18.3, Council Member Johnson, thank you, Madam President, Move for approval. These are appointments to the historic district commission. Line item 18.1 is for Katie Trudeau. Line item 18.2 is Adria
Simmons, and line item
18.3 is Allen machelsey. I
Hearing no objections.
The three resolutions will be approved,
any waivers for those
from the Office of contracting and procurement.
Council member. Johnson, a resolution line item, 18.4, contract number 6007126, 100% city funding to provide temporary staffing services, to support elections, contractors, Premier Staff Services Incorporated total contract amount, 253,300 $253,368
that's for elections. Council member Johnson, a resolution.
Council member Johnson, thank you. Move for approval.
Hearing no objections. The
one resolution will be approved
from the law department. Council
member Johnson, five resolutions,
line items, 18.5 through 18.9
council member Johnson, thank you, Madam President, Move for approval. These are various lawsuit settlement requests.
All right. Any objections? Objection Member
Santiago Romero, 18.9
clerk would note. Clerk will show note, Madam President, any further objections?
Hearing, none the five resolutions
will be approved
from the Office of the Chief Financial Office, of development and grants.
Council member Johnson, a resolution line item 18, point 10. Council member Johnson, thank you, Madam President. Move for approval. This is to submit a grant application to the Michigan Economic
Development Corporation for fiscal year 225,
the make Michigan home grant.
Hearing, no objections,
the one resolution will
be approved. Madam President, I like to request a waiver on line item 18 point 10. Okay. Hearing, no objections, a waiver will be attached to 18 point 10
for the Neighborhood and Community Services. Standing Committee from the mayor's office.
Council member Angela Whitfield Callaway, on behalf of council
member young six
resolutions, line items, 19.1 through 19.6
council member Calloway, thank you. Motion to approve. Madam Chair, okay, these are all various events that have received departmental approvals. Are there any objections?
Hearing? No objections. The six
resolutions will be approved. Request a waiver. Madam President, third, 19.5,
19, point five,
Hearing no objections,
a waiver will be attached to line item 19.5
Madam Chair, yes,
may we also request waivers for items 19.2
19.4 and 19.6 I so moved,
Hearing no objections, a waiver will be attached to those items. The clerk will know we've been joined by member Young as well. Clerk will So note, madam president from the Office of contracting and procurement Council. Member young a resolution line item, 19.7, contract number 6007129, 100% city funding to provide a comprehensive assessment and inventory of the city's municipal art collection contractors, building conservation associates, Incorporated total contract amount, $59,630,
that's for general services. Council member young, a resolution.
Council member Young, thank you, Madam President, I moved to approve line item 19.7,
any objections.
Hearing none the one resolution will be approved for the
Planning and Economic Development standing committee from the City Planning Commission.
Council President, pro tem James Tate, an introduction of an ordinance. Line item, 20.1
pro Tim Tate, Madam President, I move that
the ordinance be read twice by title, ordered printed and later,
Hearing no objections that action will be taken from the City Planning Commission. Custom
president pro tem, James Tate, a resolution set in a public hearing. Nine item, 20.2
president pro tem, taking Madam president I moved to set the public hearing for July 3, 2025
hearing, no objections. The resolution
for the scheduling of a public hearing will be approved
from the historic designation advisory board council
president pro tem James Tate, a resolution. Line item 20.3 president,
pro temp tape, madam. President, I move approval. Line item 20.3 All right. This is for the extension for the study for the proposed Rosa and Raymond Parks, flat Historic District, Hearing no objections. The one resolution will be approved
from the housing and revitalization department Council. President
Pro Tem James Tate, two resolutions, nine items, 20.4 and 20.5
President Pro Tem Tate, madam. President, I move approval of mine items, 20.4 and 20.5 please. Okay. Motion has been made. Any objections,
hearing, none the two
resolutions will be approved
for the planning and development department.
Council. President Pro Tem James Tate, two resolutions,
line item, 20.6 and 20.7
president, pro tem Tate, madam. President, I move approval of line items
20.6 and
20.7 please. Discussion.
Member Benson, thank you, and good morning. I need to make a modification
to
the language in line item to the ARPA resolution. Okay, we're taking up 20.6 and 20.7 the ARPA resolution was brought back for one week. You're welcome.
Is there any discussion on line item 20.6
in 20.7
Hearing no objections.
The two resolutions will be approved. President, yes, pro tem, request for a waiver on line item 20.7 please,
Hearing no objections, a waiver will be attached to 20.7
moving to the public health and safety standing committee from the Office of contracting and procurement Council Member Santiago Romero, 10 resolutions noting that line item 21.1, was postponed from last week formal session. Contract Number 6005836,
dash a one, 100%
opera funding. Amendment One, to provide an extension of time only for abatement and demolition of commercial group, 222, contractor, inner city contracting, LLC, total contract amount, $410,453.47 cent that's for construction and demolition. Contract number 3082015, 100% blight funding to provide an emergency demolition for the residential property. 14768, Woodmont contractor, salad bean, trucking and excavating. Incorporated total contract amount $21,260, that's for construction and demolition. Next contract is contract number 6004506, dash, a, two, 100% opera funding. Amendment two to provide extension of time and increase upons for commercial environmental due diligence to support the city's blight remediation efforts. Contractor V manic and Smith fruit Incorporated. Total contract amount, $854,572 that's for construction and demolition. Next. Contract line item 21.4, contract number 3082972, 100% blight funding to provide an emergency demolition for the residential property. 14185, chapel. Contractor, DMC consultants incorporated total contract amount $17,920 that's for construction and demolition. Next contract is contract number 3083708, 100% city funding to provide 80 Dale latitude, 7230, Rugged Extreme tablets and accessories for the EMS operation contract, the staples, technology solutions, total contract amount, $302,168.80 cent. That's for fire. Next contract is contract number 6007134, 100% major street funding to provide asphalt for pickup for DPW contractor Ajax paving industries Incorporated. Total contract amount $266,250 that's for public works. Next contract is contract number 6007138, 100% major street funding to provide PW 7067, residential resurfacing contractor, Fort Wayne contracting Ajax paving industries, Incorporated group, joint venture. Total contract amount, $6,046,460.88 cent that's for public works. Next contract is contract number 6007132, 100% city funding to for to provide PW 7066, bus route improvements for East Jefferson Avenue. Contractor, JB, contractors incorporated total contract amount $1,396,171.10 cent that's for public works. Next contract is contract number 6006105, 100% opera funding to provide construction improvements for destor Avenue, streetscape. Contractor Angelo la freight construction company, total contract amount, $9,456,750.50 cent that's for public works. Last contract is contract number 6006301, dash, a one, 100% major street funding, Amendment One to provide an increase of bonds for business, surface removal, milling and related construction services. Contractor, Georgie, concrete, LLC, slash, major contracting group, joint venture. Total contract amount, $11,334,415 $134,415.82
cent. That's for public works. Council Member Santiago Romero,
10 resolutions,
thank you, Madam Clerk. Council Member Santiago Romero, thank you, Madam President, motion to approve 21.1 through
21 point 10. With discussion. All right. Discussion, President protein, thank you president. Discussion for line item 21.1, thank you colleagues for your patience on this particular item. I know it's been here for a number of weeks. Member, Santiago Romero, thank you as well for holding it. I would like for someone if Mr. Washington can potentially have a group is that counts or someone on want to just kind of talk through challenges I have with line item 21.1, it is a his a building that has not been deemed historic. And I'm very cautious in doing that, because I understand, once we go down that route, it makes it much more challenging to redevelop. But there's a lot of history of this building. It was either the first or certainly one of the first black printing presses in the state of Michigan. And the exterior of the building is beautiful. I mean, the red brick is stunning, still, part of the building had had to be demolished, from what I understand you to no roof on the top of it. And I do see that there's some some some challenges on the interior of the building as well. But my question is, instead of demolishing this building, why can't we go in, trash it out, and then board it up to allow for this space to be repurposed, redeveloped at a later date, when we have some developer that wants to move into this very hot area of of the city and old Redford, and then would also have a touch of history added on to it as well. So I saw an email here that group exec council said she
did not feel comfortable with directing folks
to go inside. So I want to walk, walk through that. Colleagues, if you don't mind having a conversation,
please, thank you. Pro tonight, Mr. Washington, yes, through
the chair. We do have group exec Council online, okay, we will promote group, exact counts.
Good morning. Lawan counts, group executive of construction and building operations. Good morning. Thank you, ma'am. Good morning group is that counts. I wanted to kind of talk through the challenges that we both have with this particular building. One with me wanting it to be preserved, an opportunity for us to preserve it, if not being for development today, but certainly down the line based on the history that was inside of that building, you concerned in sending people inside of the building to trash it out and then board it up for future redevelopment. Talk to us a bit about why is that a concern? I know I saw some of the photos, and then photos were taken inside. It means people were inside of it. So kind of talk to us about why the desire to
demolish it, as opposed to trying to preserve this. This building has a piece of our history through the chair. So my concern really is overall safety this particular location, while, yes, we did have a consultant going in to take photos, there were portions of the building that the consultant themselves would not actually gain entry into because of their own concerns of their safety. We the consultants, are known to go in a lot of structures that I would normally send my own team in to begin with, but part of their responsibility is to tell the story of what the structure looks like, so that we can make these types of decisions from a safe distance. And there's a difference between sending a consultant in who is not necessarily doing anything that would agitate the structure, as opposed to sending a full scale crew in to remove debris. The area where the consultant took the photos from, they were in a covered portion, but there is a significant amount of the roof that is gone, and it leaves the walls subject to potential collapse, because there's nothing to structurally support them from staying in place where a roof would provide that kind of backward pressure to keep them from coming in. I'm concerned about sending anyone in because of that. There's areas throughout the location where the floor is a concern as well. And so we'd have to be careful, you know, making sure that people are not in those particular areas, and then we're not really completely certain how widespread this floor deterioration really is. Um, so that's my concern. Now, can something be done? Of course, with any amount of money, you can do something. So I did not say that I would never send my people in, but I did say that prior to them going in, we definitely would have to have some sort of investment to to at least formally stabilize the location so that I could be assured of the safety of my team before I sent them in. A lot of structures look fine from the outside. That's because we're not able to see, you know, the overhead view, or once you go inside, you can see just how bad they really are. And this is definitely one of those locations. Could it be saved? Yes, with enough money, it could be saved. My concern is, how long is that going to take? Because we do still have a facility, a location that could potentially be a collapse hazard. I don't I can't say when. I can't say if it's going to happen in the next two months or the next 10 years, but they're definitely because without of that roof in place. It becomes a significant concern for me, not just
for my staff, but also for the public at whole because I don't know what's going to happen or when it could happen. Thank you for that response, and I know that part of your formal title was construction and demolition. So construction is part of it, so not just demolition. Right now, I'm only hearing demolished, and it's unsafe. What has been done and what is anticipated, knowing that this question now is being poached, what's been done to try to determine if there is an opportunity to save this building, when we look at the ARPA dollars that are being utilized, is there a cost analysis on what it would cost to stabilize this building versus demolish, haul everything away, send it to the landfill. I have not seen that. I've seen and heard from your credible knowledge of the subject, but have not seen a true analysis on what it would take to actually say this building,
any reflections on that at all? Will we get us to that point, allow us to do that in a safe way, but a reasonable way as well, through the chair? Unfortunately, the way that the ARPA dollars were assigned to us, we did not have that type of flexibility that the ARPA dollars were assigned to us based off of the particular addresses that were provided, that we provided, as well, as you know, the intended purpose, had that decision been made at the time, there was a group of projects that went through the gray box process, which we Did very minimum renovation or rehab too, in order to stabilize them for what was considered to be possible future development. This location was not included in that list. This location was deemed at
that time to be too, too great of a hazard to transition into any other development program. So I know what it was originally, but now here we are, and the building hasn't been demolished yet, and the dollars still exist. So you're saying there's no opportunity to do anything other than demolish this building with the dollars that have been allocated. And there's no other
option, if you will, to
determine to truly analyze the true cost of stabilizing versus demolition through the chair, the direction that I've been given, as far as my access to or the department's access to ARPA funds. We are where we are, whatever projects we have currently under contract. There is no change or pivot that would be a discussion for what could happen with those dollars. Should they come I mean, should they be pulled back? And if it's able to happen between now and when those dollars were supposed to have been appropriated, which I thought they were supposed to have been appropriated this past year,
that's that's a question for someone outside of me, that would probably be more from finance, right? So I'm just asking, so when I ask these questions, not so much directed as one individual. I'm a council member, and we as a body, vote, while there is certainly influenced by a council member, the the vote is determined by a majority. And so the same when it comes to the administration, I don't just look for it to stay in one sole location, is really try to figure out as a team how to get us as close as possible to what is being requested. So is there? It sounds like you you weren't looking to do anything different. Weren't looking to try to match up with what was requested. It was you were told that's what this money was to go towards, and you're moving in that direction.
Is there anybody else
that you would recommend me to speak with that can help me walk through this and get an analysis
through the chair? This was the first that I'm hearing that you want to do an analysis on the structure. So this is that's definitely work that so we can do. So it's not so much me wanting to get analysis, me wanting to save the building and whatever it takes to get to that point to make a determination. So I'm not directing. I just said analysis today, but just trying to figure out how to save the building has, has always been the concern. And so creativity on both ends. I guess it's necessary. But I haven't heard
how we're trying on your
side of the fence to try to save the building. It sounds more demo, Demo, demo. Well, through the chair, you're right up until this point. That was my that was the only direction that I had. If this is the direction saving the building is a completely different it's a completely different process, and the biggest issue is going to be the funding. If that is the direction that it wants to go, some we
have to have, again, with finance,
some kind of understanding of where the the where the funding would come from to be able to support that. Okay, so Mr. Washington, any assistance with this particular question, as I mentioned, is not just in group executive counts corner. This is a question I would hope that she would have communicated to others that could help walk through this. But it sounds like it's just been there in that space, because if I'm if I'm objecting, if I'm asking for a deferment, if you will, or a pause on the demo, it's not just for pause, it's just find out if this building can be saved. That's always been the goal. So is there anyone that can help us do this? And I don't want to hold up colleagues. I mean, I know this has been a multi week postponement, if colleagues will allow us another week or send it back to committee, I'm fine with that, so that we don't hold up things here right now, but that still is my question on truly getting an analysis. But if there was no history in this building, I would be a little bit less hesitant. But the fact that you don't get this type of structure that has the history in it just anywhere, any day anymore,
and we're demolishing a lot of our historic buildings in our community, and that's it. That's a concern of mine. For the chair, yes, for clarity, I would like to make it clear that I placed a hold, a demo hold on this property back in September, that has not been lifted at this point, and we continue to sit in a hold pattern until some kind of decision could have been made about what to do with the property, whether it should progress to demo or if there were going to be some other solutions. So to give the appearance that there was no attempts to help support the property, is is kind of not accurate. While it is not it was not the direction for the construction and demo department to actually proceed with determining how to make that happen. We did make every effort to
secure the property so that it was not pushed forward in any demo activity, and it continues to sit that way, even I give credit that it was paused, it definitely was paused. I gave credit there, but my question, my whole soul, push and motivation, was to preserve the building and to ensure that this building does not have to come down. And so, duly noted, you all did pause, and I again, thank you for that.
So Mr. Washington, is there an opportunity to assist in this effort to save the building?
Yes Today,
yes through the chair. And we do have
Terry Daniels from the Office of the Chief Financial Officer. If you would like to hear from her today as well.
That's my colleagues. We can if you want protein, okay, we can promote her as well. You.
All right. Good morning. Miss Daniels, good morning. Have you been
able to listen in to any of the conversation
thus far? Probably the last two or three minutes. Did you have a turn it back over to you? Yeah. Thank you so much. So it may be a better question for someone on the executive side of things, but I'm trying to save a bill that has historic significance for our city and our culture, and it is in a challenging state for certain, certainly on the inside, the interior, the exterior, to the point of group is that counts from the exterior looks, looks pretty good. So my question is, is there an opportunity for us, and it the demolition would have happened through ARPA dollars, and that's what it's slated for. Is there an opportunity for us to do a true analysis to determine if it is more cost efficient to demolish it or to preserve that particular structure? What would that cost truly be, and can those dollars, instead of being
pushed towards demolition, can
be utilized for preservation of that particular structure
through the chair to council member Tate, because the property was currently scoped out and contracted for demolition prior to the Treasury obligation deadline of 1231, 24 if we were to remove that property, then we would in essence, be deobligating Those funds, and We can't
enter into a new contract to
review costs associated with preserving it, or the cost of preserving the building with arpa. But I thought when we had ARPA dollars, there's already a contract for this particular type of service. We can enter into a contract for that particular service as long as we've already, again, had a contract for that service with ARPA dollars, and I know that we have had trash out contracts.
Why would that not be allowable in this state? And again, maybe my knowledge is not what I thought it was we would have to review to see if we have specific contracts to do the work that would be needed to preserve that building. Yes, we may have trash out contracts, but if there's any construction that needs to be done to preserve that building, that would
require a new contract, which we're not able to obligate after the ARPA obligation deadline and what do we have contracts that ARPA contracts that allow for preservation. We would not be able to enter
into a new contract that we've with a vendor that we already have contracted with with ARPA dollars. Through the Chair I would defer to miss counts to
let you know if there are any contracts that
are specific to preservation,
and if they are, they may be location specific through the chair, and that's exactly the case. We did have prior contracts where we
performed the gray box and
the trash out services at other locations, but they were at pre determined locations.
I was still like, forced to get back if college,
yep, all right, and we, we can think it warrants more discussion so we can bring this item back another week. Member young, yeah, I just want to just ask just some questions really quickly. I have no problem preserving this, and I have no problem it costs extra money to spend it. I have no problem spending that money. I just want to know, have we done the structural analysis to make sure that we can preserve this? What would be the end goal. If we preserve it, are we rebuilding it back to what it was? Could we do that if? If not, are we rebuilding a new building? Would it be better if we had a historical marker? Can we have a historical marker next to it? Because it's not necessarily in the Federal Registry of Historic buildings. I just, I just want to know, God, know we have to do the cost benefit analysis, and that's important. But I just want to make it clear to me, it's not so much about the cost. I understand the preserving history. We need to preserve history, especially now the climate that we're living here with history overall under assault, particularly black history. So I have no problem with that. I have no problem spending the extra dollars. I just want to know, if we go about doing that, are we actually going to be able to preserve the building, or is because the integrity of the building is such that we have to actually tear it down and rebuild it. We rebuild it. If we do rebuild it, are we going to rebuild it back to what it was? Are we building something different? If not,
can we put a historical marker next to it? Could we rebuild it back to what it was and put a historical marker next to it. What does that look like overall
through the chair?
We have not done an engineer type study survey in order to be able to determine exactly what we would need to do, but based on my experience, you would not have to completely demolish now, How extensive is the the
overall stabilization effort
going to be that? I can't tell you either, but I'd imagine it's going to be fairly significant. Okay, okay, so would the cost benefit analysis also include the structural integrity, or would that be a separate, different analysis, and will we have to contract out for that? Or could we do that in house and with the time it takes for us to be able to do all that? Would that put ARPA funds in jeopardy?
Or could we be able to do this and use the ARPA funds accordingly
in enough time
through the chair, you asked a couple of different questions, the first one, the first one is, no, we could not do this in house. This effort would require us to contract with outside consultants. Would we have to go through the procurement process? It really significantly depends on what the final determination would be. Now I can tell you, just based off of the conversation that we're having right now, before I would prepare the scope for what that consultant services would be, I would definitely want to make sure that the entire group, or those who are interested in being a part of this discussion would have their input. Because I don't. I wouldn't want to put out what I would think to be a reasonable request for engineering study and then that come back from the group that that didn't meet their needs. So until I knew exactly what the expectations would be of the group, of what we should end up with in the end, I
couldn't tell you if we can use some of our current consulting contracts that we have, or if we would actually have to put it out for bid. Okay, so, and let me just ask, excuse me, I guess it just be for clarifying that I'm going to be done with this. Those would be two separate and apart studies, right, the engineering aspect of what you're talking about, and the cost physical analysis. So they would probably come out at different dates, or would it be holistically, and all that would be done in one report, and we could count on that coming out in one day. Because I'm not trying to, I'm not trying to hold this up any further if I don't need to. If you could do this without the engineering study, God is saying we're under time here and done properly, that's fine to me. But if you're doing this, I would like it to
be all done in one report, so we can get the report and then move accordingly. Just for efficiency sake, is that possible? So through the chair, yes. Typically what we would ask for would be for there to be the the the actual assessment study, as well as the engineering estimate. So the engineering estimate is, is, is more like a ballpark number as what we would expect the work to cost. And then that's the that's different from the actual construction costs or construction estimates. You know, the construction estimates are going to get into the actual down to the bolts of it, where an engineers is basically saying, this is what, you know, my best estimation of what I think this, this work should cost, and that's typically what you would get behind one of these sorts of studies. But this is not that that study is not going to be a fast response. It's going to take several
weeks, if not, a couple of months in order to do the survey and then create that engineering estimate.
I know I said I'd be dumb. I just want to ask one question, President Pro Tem, would that be acceptable to you
what I just said about them doing that? Or no, no, you just
translated what I was asking for.
Okay, so that's literally what I've been asking. I just wanted, I didn't know that being said. Well now, okay, thank you. Thank you so much. So we will, President proton, one week
is fine for you.
We can postpone it for one week. If more time is needed, we'll hold it again. Okay, please. Thank you. All right. We will postpone for one week. Line item, 21.1, motion Hearing no objections that action will be taken. Thank you. Thank you. Pro Tem,
any discussion on the remaining items, 21.2
through 21 point 10?
Are there any objections on 21.2
through 21 point 10.
All right, Hearing no objections.
The resolutions will be approved
from the Department of Public Works Administration.
Council Member Santiago Romero a resolution. Line
item 21, point 11.
Council Member Santiago Santiago Romero,
motion to i.
The Motion to approve.
Okay, this is the installation of banners on Schaefer highway for the Church of God Detroit
for their 100 year existence.
Any objections?
Hearing none. The one resolution will be
approved. Request a waiver, Madam President, on items 21.6 through 21 point 10,
any objections to a waiver.
Hearing, none. That action will be taken from the
Department of Public Works, city engineering division. Council Member Santiago Romero, four
resolutions noting that line item 21 point
12 was postponed from last week formal session.
Okay. Council Member Santiago Romero motion to approve
21 points 12
through 21 point 15. All
right, any objections? Discussion? Madam Chair, yes. Council member Callaway, I'm sorry, where are we? 21 point 12 and 21 point 15. I had questions about 21.7
Can we go back to 21.7
because I was out with the students at Detroit achievement Academy.
Let me see with item is 21.7
it's a $6 million contract.
Was it a waiver on this one? Yeah. Okay, so that was approved, and it was a waiver attached to that item, so we cannot go back to reconsider that vote.
She wants to discuss. You can still talk about it, discuss or make your statements regarding I just have concerns about this. When it's a $6 million contract and I want to know. I'll go ahead and drop my questions. I tried to run back over here. I should have sent you a text, Madam Chair, my bad, but if I could do it over, I would have brought this back in a week so my questions can get answered. But $6 million I want to know. I want to a list of all of the and I'll put the questions in writing to formalize it. But I want to know, for the resurfacing, there's areas in district two that have been in need of resurfacing for probably a decade and a half. So I just want to make sure the areas that I'm concerned about are on this list, since this is a multi year $6 million contract, and also, what is the balance in the
major street funding?
Because we spent a lot of money out of this, this bucket of money, and is there no end to it? Since I've been on this council, there's millions coming out of this particular pot of money. So I want whoever's listening, I don't know if public works or or the finance department needs to answer that question, but I will put them in writing. But I just want to know what is the balance in
the major street funding? Because we pull out quite a
bit for these large contracts. Thank you, Madam Chair. All right, thank you council member Young. This is a little bit different. I'm going to support this, but I just want to say, in the future, I think we need to have a conversation about the materials that we use for these roads as well. That's not necessarily in this contract, but I think just in terms of whether it's polymer, whether it's rubber, whether it's self healing concrete or bio concrete, I think these are discussions that we need to have in terms of how we make our roads saving money in the future, so we can address that as well
as take advantage of the innovative technologies that exist
out there. So just want to put that out there. Go ahead. Thank you. All
right, thank you member young
and thank you member Callaway,
yes, thank you. Also, I think I was out with the children. There was something about River Rouge. Have we gone? I know
it was in district seven, but have have we also covered that one as well?
Don't see it?
21 point what
we're on, 21 point 12 through. 21 point
15. Let me finish the vote for this, and then we can go back to emails that you missed, and I'll try to find Thank you. So we're on 21 point 12 through 21
point 15. These are various requests
to
for easements and
and encroachments as well.
Any objections on
these items,
hearing none the four resolutions will be approved.
Did you find your item? Member? Callaway, yes, thanks
to your assistant. Miss blessing line item, 9.5
9.5 Yeah, 9.5
contract. Oh, that's a referral that was being referred. So I just had a question about
it appropriate to ask the question you can but it's not on the agenda for today. It's being referred. Go ahead. Okay, so it's not about the contract, it's about I was at River Rouge yesterday, and I went on the bike trail, and I got a chance to go over to the Tuskegee Airmen statue, and the body of the statute is still missing. I remember about a month or so ago, DPD, under the leadership of top medicine and Assistant Chief Franklin Hayes, they said that they had actually found the statue because they had been cut off at the feet. The feet are still there, but the actual statute is missing. If we did find the statue, when will the statue be reattached to its base? Because it was not there yesterday, and it looked really bad for all the children who were there. I couldn't explain it all. I could tell them it was stolen. We did find it, but where is it now? Madam Chair, so I don't know if that's a question for
DPD. I don't know who in the administration can answer that, but if we did find it almost two months ago, where is it? Thank you, Madam Chair, okay, thank you. And as this is being referred to Committee. I hope they're listening in and can assure that that question is addressed prior to it coming back to us next week, Tuesday as well. Thank you. Member Callaway,
okay, under resolutions.
Council member Johnson, two resolutions, line items,
21 point 16 and 21 point 17.
Council member Johnson,
thank you, Madam President. I believe that is 21 point 16. Yep, 21 point 16 and 21 point 17. Move for approval on
21 point 16. This is a resolution urging the establishment of a voluntary Special Needs registry,
okay? And
21 point 17. You take them
separately. Okay, all right, we're taking a 21 point 16 discussion council member, young
I'm a supporter. I just want to ask, why is he voluntary? Why we're not 21 point 16 Through you, madam president, to member young, it is really just encouraging people, essentially, to identify if they have someone who is of special needs in their household for the police department and fire department, so that they are aware as they respond to calls for that particular address,
they know the individuals that they may be providing service to, and they can respond accordingly. No, that's absolutely because this is such an important issue, and I think that what you're doing is good. I just think just for what you said, just to make sure that we can have a level of safety and protection for
those that community, that you want people to be able to know who they are so they can do that. I'm not gonna stand away. I just want to make
that clear. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Any objections on 21 point 16?
I'm sorry. Discussion, discussion, still. Member young and
member Johnson, can I join you on 21 point 16, Yes. Clerk will note. Clerk, what's on note? Madam President, and
Hearing no objections, 21 point 16, the resolution will be approved. Council member Johnson, thank you, Madam President,
I would like to postpone for one week line item. 21 point 17. I just received a response, okay, there are no objections. We will postpone 21 point 17 for one week. All right, for the request to speak before the Detroit City Council, we're going to also need to postpone this for one week, as we just referred this to our attorney, Attorney Graham, to look at so that he can provide an opinion on how to proceed. This was a legal matter that is before us, and if we can allow him an additional week to review this petition motion, all
right, so there are no objections, we will postpone
for one week. Line
item 22.1,
under the consent agenda.
Oh, before we do that, we have two, I think two, walk ons correct that we refer to new business, Madam Clerk, Madam President, we have walked online item 11, point 11, which is the curfew ordinance amended chapter 29
for my minors, for the Detroit fireworks Santiago Romero, a proposed ordinance,
okay, and this is just to schedule the setting of a public hearing for this ordinance. Council. Member Santiago
Romero, thank you, Madam President, I move that the ordinance be read twice by title, ordered printed and laid on the table.
Okay. Are there any objections
hearing? None that action will be taken. Member Santiago Romero, I believe, Madam President, other this was approved, then we will need to walk on the resolution to set the public hearing.
So Council Member Santiago
Romero, a resolution setting the public hearing. Member Santiago Romero, thank you, Madam President,
I'm checking now with my team. I
do not recall when this is to be scheduled. I'm gonna assume it's gonna be
moved on to new business. Okay,
first, oh, motion to move the resolution to new business scheduling of the public hearing. Yes, hearing, no objections that will be walked on
to new business. Good morning.
Attorney through the chair, Graham Anderson law
department, TBT is fine at this time. Council member, thank you.
Okay. Thank you.
Right. Any objections for the
scheduling of a public hearing for a date to be determined. Oh, she
better for for a date to be determined.
She wants you to motion to i. So moved.
Okay. Any objections?
Hearing, none that actually will be taken.
And Madam Clerk, we have the madam president. We walked on nine. Item 11, point 22 new business, which is the resolution declaring may 27 as violent T Lewis day
in the city of Detroit, Council Member Santiago Romero, a resolution. Director Whitaker, Madam President, it should be an
amended resolution that was circulated to you
so you should approve the amended version. Wanna
make sure, Madam Clerk, you have a copy of the amended version. Madam President, we are in receipt of the amended version. It was originally
uploaded, missing one of the pages,
so I have copies of the actual amendment, and it has been uploaded publicly. Okay? Mr. Calloway, yes. Discussion, thank you, Madam Chair. I'm respectfully requesting to join you on this resolution. I am a member of Gamma Phi Delta Sorority, Incorporated, founded by violet T Lewis and her sister, Elizabeth Gardner, from 1943 with the headquarters located at 2657
West Grand Boulevard,
across the street from Motown. So Madam Chair, if you will, so kindly allow me to join you on this resolution.
Yep, if the clerk would note, we'd be honored to have member Callaway join as well.
Purpose so No madam president
with this. You all would like this to be on behalf of the council. If everyone, yep, okay, we will just put this on behalf of the council.
Madam Clerk. Madam President clerk will So note, okay, I'm fine. On behalf of the entire council, that makes it, that makes it stronger,
is there a motion to approve the
amended version of this resolution?
All right, Hearing no objections. The resolution will be approved.
Waiver. All right,
there are no objections. A waiver will be attached
to the resolution
under the consent agenda. There are no items, Madam President, we will now call for
member reports
Council. President,
I'm sorry you said
to suspend
any objections to any objections on
suspending member reports. Objection,
Kirkwood note clerk was on note. Madam President, there are no further objections in our reports will be suspended. Madam President, yes. Um, wonder if I can just make brief discussion regarding the CoSM project that we voted on today. Thank you, Madam President. I did just want to say a huge thank you for bedrock and their partnership regarding this project. They do understand that I do not take these votes lightly, and when we are investing in downtown, want to make sure that we're also seeing investments in our neighborhoods. So very happy to say that we were able to secure $1 million to cut to commitments for affordable housing. This will fill the gap that we currently have on the preserve on Ash affordable housing projects. This project has 60 units of affordable housing, 3060 and 80% AMI, just want to say thank you to bedrock for being willing to work with us to really make sure that we're providing additional
benefits besides the continued growth downtown. So thank you, Madam President, thank you. Just also want to say to that project, we've been working with them as well and excited about the housing investment that we also have advocated for, as well as the the educational portion of that which would allow for free trips and transportation for our Detroit youth and our seniors to have access to that facility throughout the year. So we have been working with them to ensure that there are significant community benefits associated with that project and to allow as much access on a free basis to the community as possible. So thank you for that as well.
All right, so we will continue since member reports have been suspended to the adoption without committee reference. There are no items Madam
President, under communications from the clerk, a report on approval proceedings by the
mayor, the report will be received and placed on file under testimonial resolutions and special privilege. Council member Benson, eight resolutions,
line items, 21.1
through 27 27.1 through 27.8
All right. Motion has
been made, and these are all testimonial resolutions. Are there any objections? Hearing? No objections. The eight resolutions will be approved. There being nothing else to come before us. Those who are traveling, please be safe. As a reminder to the public, the committees will be canceled this week. everything will resume again the following week, and
be safe, and
enjoy this policy conference. Thank you, everyone. Have a blessed day. This meeting will now stand adjourned.
