All right, we will stop Good morning, everyone. We will now call to order the formal session for Tuesday, July the 15th. And Madam Clerk, please call the roll customer
council
member, Fred Doha Detroit, present.
Council member Letitia Johnson, present
council member Gabriella Santiago Romero,
Council Member Mary Walters,
Council Member Insta Whitfield Callaway
council member Coleman Young, the second.
Council President Pro Tem James Tate
and Council President Mary Sheffield, present. We have a quorum. President, Madam, President. Member young indicated that he will be running behind, all right. We will start all right. And Member Santiago Romero is President's widow, okay. Alright. We will start with our invocation. We have joining us today in person, Reverend COVID of historic rock, excuse me, historic Little Rock, missionary, Baptist Church. I thank you so much for being here. You can come on up, sir, yes, and lead us in invocation. Just press the bottom of the microphone. It should turn green. There you go.
Let us pray.
God, this morning, we have collectively come to say thank you. We ask that you bless each and every one of us with your gifts and talents in providing leadership and guidance for the city of Detroit. This morning, God, we invoke your presence in this meeting. We ask that you breathe upon our minds, our bodies and most of all, allow us to remember the citizens of Detroit whom we have taken a vow and oath to serve with dignity, passion, pride and integrity. God, we ask that the business agenda of our meeting today be peaceful and productive, that unity, wisdom and compassion be the lens through which we govern God. Place families and neighborhoods at the forefront of our minds as we move forward in these perilous yet promising times. Bless every city, every street, every school, every soul present here today. We thank you for the hope, the vision and the plan that you have already prepared for the city of Detroit. Thank you for our past. We trust you with our future, and we lean on you for our present. God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, lead us in the forever in the path. We pray, Jesus name, I pray, amen.
Amen. Alright. Thank you so much, Reverend COVID, for taking the time to be here in person. God bless you, sir, and thank you for all you're doing over at the historic Little Rock Missionary Baptist Church continuing the spiritual leadership of none other than Reverend Jim Holly. So we thank you, sir. God bless you. Okay, member waters is present, and anybody else
that's it, okay?
Alright, we will continue. We have two presentations this morning. After our presentations, we will cut off our public comment. This morning we have with us the Mandela Washington Fellows give them a round of applause. You all want to stand? We stand there we go, beautiful. And representing this 2025
class is Miss Simba, if she can come down.
And as you come down on behalf of Detroit City Council and the residents of our beloved city, it is with great honor that we welcome you to welcome the 2025 Mandela Washington Fellows to Detroit and present each and every one of you all with a Spirit of Detroit award.
This honor is reserved for individuals and organizations whose outstanding service or achievement brings honor and inspiration to our city and without question, each of you embodies that you come from across the African continent, representing diverse backgrounds, professions, yet you are united in a shared commitment to Leadership, equity and the betterment of your communities. Your presence here reminds us that the future is global. It is bright, it is bold and it is compassionate. As you all walk through Detroit, I hope you feel the heartbeat of a city that, like many of you, has risen through challenges with resilience, innovation and purpose. We are proud to host you, to learn from you, and to stand with you as partners in shaping a more just and empowered world. Congratulations to each and every one of you all on receiving the Spirit of Detroit award, and thank you all for choosing to share your light and your talents and your gifts with each and every one of us. So again, congratulations and welcome here to the city of Detroit,
we will now turn it over to you to make some remarks.
Good morning, Council President, thank you so much for those warm welcomes. Good morning to the Detroit City Council and to the public. Here present,
am I allowed to tell them to Yes? Yes, yes.
It is an honor to be here this morning on behalf of the 24 uniquely brilliant Mandela Washington Fellows, currently based at Wayne State University.
The Mandela Washington Fellowship. Part of the you young youth African Leaders Initiative is a United States State Department funded program that brings together 700 young professionals from across Sub Saharan Africa every year. Within our cohort are economists, doctors, engineers, analysts, entrepreneurs, policy makers, public servants and change makers, representing 19 African nations.
We have spent the past few weeks in Detroit learning about leadership, about systems and about civic engagement, but beyond the lectures and classes, it is the soul of the city that has left the deepest mark. Detroit's story is one of resilience and reinvention. This city has shown us how history and hope can walk hand in hand, it has reminded us all that resilience isn't about just surviving the challenges, but it is about using those challenges to rebuild and re innovate. We are truly inspired by Detroit's ability to transform pain and struggle into possibility and strength. The Mandela Washington Fellowship has built a bridge across nations and cultures, but most importantly, between the values that we all hold dear, values of community, of justice, of dignity and of possibility. And as we prepare to return to our home countries, we carry with us new knowledges and new skills, new friends and new partnerships and a renewed faith of what can be achieved when we lead from both vision and heart. In the words of Nelson Mandela, there is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. Thank you to the city of Detroit for reminding us of that. Thank you for welcoming us, thank you for your leadership and thank you for inspiring us to dream and to act boldly. Thank you all so much. We are deeply grateful. Thank you,
beautiful. Beautifully. Okay, thank you all again, so much for for being here. We are looking forward to engaging with you all, and after the next presentation, we'll come down and ensure that you all get your awards, and we'll do a picture as well. Also want to thank Stacey for always pulling this together with Wayne State University. Let's give her a round of applause. We recognize our fellows, because this is the second cohort, correct, or, well, I know we had at least okay, that we had Okay. Madam President, we haven't gone here before as well, but we want to acknowledge all of them as they come to the amazing city of Detroit as well. So yes, member waters,
so Madam President, I want to thank you for honoring these very fine, outstanding young people. Welcome. Thank you so much for being here, and thank you for all that you do. I see brilliance all out there. That's exactly what I see. And you know, I remember in 1989 when when Mandela came to this city, it was so exciting. It was so electrifying. And I was then working at Bucha Blue Shield, and I got it, I got to tell you, I sold so many people tickets to see him, to hear him, which was at the at the Detroit Tigers field at that time, on down on Michigan Avenue. It was so exciting, such a man of wisdom and and so we are grateful to have you here today. I've thought about that moment as I look out at each of you. Thank you so much. And thank you, Madam President, thank
you so much. Member,
Durham, thank you and good morning to you all. Welcome here. Thank you for making the journey. Thank you for all you do and your interest in government and policy. I would be remiss if I did not say my policy director, Dr Esma Ishaq Osman, who many of you have seen, says that you are a brilliant, wonderful group of folks, and we just hope you keep pushing forward. You always have a place here in the city of Detroit. You are always welcome, and we look forward to what the future holds for each and every one of you. So again, welcome and thank you for visiting us. Thank you.
Alright. Thank you all right again, thank you all. Let's give them another round of applause for being there, and we expect nothing but the best from each and every one of you all. So thank you all for coming, and we will now pause and turn it over to member Callaway for her presentation, and then we'll come back to do awards and pictures at the end.
Thank you, Madam Chair, and congratulations to the cohorts. And welcome to Detroit. I have the honor and privilege, privilege of recognizing three young people. I think they're all still in high school, if I'm not mistaken, or do we have any high school graduates? Okay, one high school graduate. We'll meet him in a minute. But it's my distinct honor to recognize these three young people from communications, media and art school. I read about the three of you in an article about maybe two two weeks ago and the wonderful things that you've done with your high school podcast, and I want to learn more about what you're doing with that podcast, and maybe you can have me on as a guest. But anyway, you guys are doing amazing things with that podcast. I think you had a mayoral forum, if I'm not mistaken, but you all will tell everyone about what you did with your podcast over the last few months. But I read about you, and I thought what you were doing was so amazing, because podcasts are very popular around the world, and you are showing us here in Detroit what young people can do responsibly with podcasts. So congratulations on all that you've done. We're going to start with Micaiah, if you can, raise your hand, Micaiah for the audience, yes, ma'am.
And this is how the Spirit of Detroit awards look.
And this is for you Miss Basson or basin, is presented here with as an expression of the gratitude and esteem of the citizens of Detroit to makiya basin for being one of the first students to moderate a mayoral debate
through the high school Podcast Network hspn, on behalf of council member Callaway the entire Detroit City Council and the city of Detroit, we congratulate you, Miss makaya, for your outstanding accomplishments and impact in our community. Thank you,
Joshua, if you could raise your hand
the this Spirit of Detroit award is presented here with as an expression of the gratitude and esteem of the city citizens of the city of Detroit to Joshua Elam for being one of the first students to moderate a mayoral debate, big debate through the High School podcast, hspm, on behalf of myself, Council Member Callaway, the entire Detroit City Council and the entire city of Detroit, we congratulate you, Joshua, for your outstanding accomplishments and impact in our community. And last but not least, Corey, where are you going to college? Corey, yes, Western Michigan. Congratulations. Congratulations. Corey, this Spirit of Detroit award is presented here with as an expression of the gratitude and esteem of the citizens of the city of Detroit to you, Mr. Corey Colton, for being one of the first students to moderate a mayoral debate through the high school podcast hspn, on behalf of myself, Council Member Callaway and the entire Detroit City Council and the city of Detroit, we congratulate you, Mr. Corey, for your outstanding accomplishments and impact in our community. And we wish you all very much success, and especially you, Corey, you're going off to college this fall. We wish you nothing but success. And I don't know if my colleagues want to say anything to these three young people who are absolutely incredible.
Yes, I would love to, well, I just want to say congratulations, as a candidate for mayor and who was at the forum that you all put on. It was very, very well run, very professional, I can see the passion that you all have questions were centered around young people and youth. And so I just want to commend you all for taking that initiative to stand up and speak out for our young people and ensure that whoever becomes our next mayor is centering our young people's voices. So congratulations. And then aside from that, I had the opportunity to go over to CMA maybe about a year ago, and I was part of a podcast or interview that you all did for me about a year ago with the students. So you guys are absolutely talented, gifted, just a phenomenal group of students. And to all of the staff who works with the young people at CMA, you all do a phenomenal job. So congratulations, well deserved award, because you guys truly embody what the Spirit of Detroit is about. Congratulations.
Thank you, Madam President and Bucha Corey Josh, good to see you again as someone who participated in that mayoral forum as well. You had a very tough job, but you kept us all on time was not very easy, but I really appreciated your professionalism. It was something and one of the greatest experiences I've had during this race, but to see our young folks take charge be the ones who are asking questions, particularly about what the future of this city would look like, was very heartwarming and very heartfelt from each candidate that was up there. So again, I said it that night, but you guys did a phenomenal job. Please keep up the great work, and we look forward to the future, because the best is yet to come, particularly with bright minds like yourself. Bring that talent back here to our city so we can ensure that we're going to continue to continue to grow. Thank you so much.
Thank you, Madam
President, thank you alright, and if we can have the parents to stand because without you, they would not be here today, let's give them a hand.
We always save the best till last.
Thank you, mommy. Thank you so much for all that you do before into the lives of your children. And then, Madam Chair, if you don't mind, we have the director here, Mr. Williams,
thank you, Madam Chair, yep, right here. Good morning.
Good morning. Good morning. First, I want to say thank you to Detroit City Council and Council President Mary Sheffield. Want to say thank you to city clerk, Janice Winfrey, to all the candidates that were running for mayor that came to the forum. Want to say thank you to them. To our parents, you guys have been tremendously supportive to our young people. So thank you guys, very, very much.
And to Joshua, You
I Thank you.
All right, what a great way to start off our morning. Morning again. Thank you member Callaway and thank you Stacy and all of our Mandela Fellows for being here today. We will now proceed back to our agenda, the regular session of Tuesday, July the 15th. Will excuse me, the regular session of July 1 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 three reports
from very few departments.
The three reports will be referred to the budget, Finance and Audit standing committee for the internal operations, standing
committee seven 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 six people in various city departments.
The six reports will be referred to the neighborhood and community services, standing committee for the planning and committee for
various city departments.
The 20 reports will be referred in committee for the departments. The five reports will be referred to the public health and safety standing committee. We will now move to the voting action. President, under communications from the mayor and other governmental officials and agencies,
there are no items. Madam President,
okay, we will call now for public comment, and everyone will have two minutes for public comment. It's already cut off. Yeah, Miss Betty Lyons will start off, followed by Miss Peggy Goodwin,
to make it clear, people love Romero. She called Trump a fascist, but she is no different from Trump. Remember, there are people who love Hitler, there are people who love the Ku Klux Klan. There are people who love the very people who enslaved black people, lynched them
and name them.
The Lord Jesus Christ said to love your enemy. So there you have it. There are evil ones that I love as well. None of the candidates have fought for the justice for the return of over $600 million to Detroit residents. They are afraid of Dugan. Who knows where that money is, but they won't. They won't bring him to bring our justice to us, the preacher who is supposed to be running for mayor. Why isn't he already educating his congregation to be $35 an hour employees? Why isn't he teaching them to fish, as they say, you feed a man for one day and you feed him for one day, but you teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime, but console to make seniors pay for this incompetent mistake of an employee who should be fired for incompetence, it's like putting an innocent man on death row instead of the actual murder, remember Emmett Till remember all the great black people who get no recognition. Remember, remember,
right. Thank you Miss, Miss mines. One second president, pro tem tank.
Thank you, Madam President. I just wanted to say that I very much support my member, my colleague, member, Santiago Romero, with the work that she's done and to compare her to
Trump and the actions that he has taken. That is,
I'll leave the rest of myself. I don't want to put this on the on the body, but I will say there's a stark difference, and it's unfortunate when folks are and I understand there's pain, people have pain inside themselves, and they try to push it off on others to make themselves feel better. And it's unfortunate. I receive it as an individual who also was born and raised in the city of Detroit, has gone through a lot of stuff through my life, but I don't try to push it off on others to make myself feel better. And it's unfortunate that that happens week in, week out, and there is fingers being pointed at my colleague for doing what we're supposed to do, and is represent residents of the city of Detroit and those who live in the city of Detroit. So I wholeheartedly support the work that you have done a member of Santiago Romero, and by no means would I compare you to Donald Trump. I can say his name. I'm not afraid to say his name. There's individuals who've been arrested, US citizens, who've been put behind bars, but for some that's okay. In this auditorium, there have been people who have been disparaged and left behind, but for some folks in this auditorium, that's okay. It's unfortunate that people of color are being targeted in this country, but for some folks in this auditorium, and again, I respect my elders, but for some folks in this auditorium, that's okay. It's unfortunate Everyone has the right to freedom of speech, and so do I. Thank you so much, Madam President,
thank you so much pro tem,
Madam President, Member Santiago Romero, through you, Madam President, to your pro tem taste. Thank you so much. That means a lot. We sit here. I sit here attacked every single week simply for doing my very best to support immigrants who are black and brown, who are being attacked by this fascist government. And I appreciate you, and I don't think you understand how much others appreciate you speaking out as well. So thank you pro time. I will continue to do my work, and your encouragement is really, really needed right now. So thank you all right. Thank you so much. Council members.
Miss Peggy Goodwin.
Good morning. Peggy Goodwin, on behalf of the Detroit towing Association, I have to say, as a two time Wayne State graduate, that was a beautiful, beautiful ceremony. I My heart is please come back if you're leaving today, I don't know when you're come back. As it relates to agenda items for police authorized towing, they are 20.4 through 2013 minus 20.6 for the following companies, Troy's towing, 70s towing, BBK towing, Wayne service and Bobby's, TCB towing. I just wanted to explain that some of the agenda items might be confusing. Note that the agenda item marked amend two are for the current police authorized tow contracts where the original RFP total amount has been expended. So they need approval so invoices can be paid for these police authorized towers on these amounts that are in those men to
line items.
These contracts are five year contracts. They have not expired. But even so, the city has issued new RFPs. So we don't really understand why there's a new contract on the agenda, because the current contract doesn't expire until July. 31 2027, these new contracts were issued long before the neutral rates were approved. So I don't believe it relates to that. I do think there's an issue with the First Amendment there the towers, first amendment rights in that new contract, and also fair labor practices, because the fair rotation is basically taken away. So as the Detroit Police CFO said at a board of police commissioner meeting when he presented the fiscal year 2025, budget, Detroit Police Department is not supposed to be a revenue generating organization. So please take a look at those new contracts. These towers work very hard. They don't have a union. They need your support. I'm glad to see the board of police commissioners are revamping with their toe committee. That's been very helpful. We need to educate the community on what these towers do. Thank you very much.
Thank you Miss Goodwin waltra Brown,
good morning Council. I'm very proud to see these young people making a statement for the future of Detroit. I just want to say that first, also on Tuesday May the 20th, the DNR was in here making a statement and reports about Belle Isle.
Only thing I see about that,
maybe I missed some parts of it,
about the boat house,
from my understanding, they going to be spending from 30 million to $35 million to redo that boathouse. And I can see that money being spent more projects on Bella, for the whole community can benefit from not just the boathouse, not just where somebody that's in the club. And I repeat this, the club of Detroit, boat house of all Detroiters gonna be members of the club, though, all Detroiters have to pay to be members of the club. The Yacht Club right now pays from $360 to $390 for membership. And I'm asking, if we are spending money to redo this boat club, do we have to spend money to be a member. In my opinion, all Detroiters should have access to the boat club regardless. I said before, I think the boat club should be demolished and put something there, new for the new generation. That's past history, and it only limits certain Detroiters to come in there and be a member. There's a lot of things that they're doing on the island that I agree with. They put that new pathway, which I see mothers and their daughters riding their bikes, rolling, skating. That's something that the whole community can enjoy. And going forward, I hope that the council, when you approve things like this, you you come communicate for all Detroiters to be involved in it, not just a select few who have the money to pay to be in the club. So far, like I said, I've been in Detroit ever since, I'm saying, the early 50s,
but I see, alright, thank you.
Okay, thank I like to speak with you. I'm gonna leave my contact information with you. Please miss Callaway,
capital, sir, it's you through the Chair. Yes, sir. Before you go up those stairs, I can talk to you right here. Okay, thank you, Madam Chair, and
we're going to turn that timer down a little bit so it's not so loud. Okay, all right, Marcel,
hello. Yes. Good morning, council members. My name is Marcel, and I'm speaking on behalf of the Detroit alliance against racist and political repression, we are demanding that this council pass the CPTA body cam ordinance in its untouched form. This ordinance is not just about cameras. It's about truth, transparency and justice. The CPTA body cam ordinance would require that Detroit police officers release body cam footage and any incident where bodily harm is caused that is the bare minimum for public accountability. When someone is injured at the hands of law enforcement, the people have a right to see what happens without months of delays, without redactions, without stonewalling. This ordinance would change that by making it mandatory for DVD to hand over footage in cases of harm in seven days with the option to delay another 30 days, which is still less than the three month period that the police currently have. What are we afraid of if officers are doing their jobs the right way? Why should families be left in the dark, begging for answers while footage sits locked away? Every delay undermines trust and deepens pain. I Every
not every delay. Under plan, we are calling on this council to stand with the people, not with the police unions, not with the bureaucrat bureaucrats, but with the communities who elected you show Detroiters that the city believes in justice and transparency and in the dignity of every residence, and since Nelson Mandela has been voiced today, a particular quote comes to mind, do not look the other way. Do not hesitate. Recognize that the world is hungry for action, not words. Act with courage and wisdom. We have given you the vision the community deserves action. Thank you all. Thank you so much.
Connor Roth, okay,
city councilors. My name is Connor Roth, and I'm speaking today to demand basic accountability from the Detroit Police Department. Too often after incident, incidences of police violence, the DPD refuses to release body cam footage of the incident until months after the fact, effectively hiding the truth of their conduct from the people of the city. Recently, a proposed ordinance was drafted and submitted by members of the coalition for police transparency and accountability that that would force police body cam footage obtained during any incidents of police violence to be released within seven days of the incident. It is my understanding that the draft ordinance has been taken into consideration by city council, although in a heavily watered down form, the ordinance currently being considered. Considered allows for police body cam footage to be held up, held for up to 90 days, and has exemptions that would allow the police union to prevent the release of footage that they find problematic. This is unacceptable. I'm demanding that the ordinance be considered by city council unaltered, as submitted by CPTA and made into law as soon as possible. Thank you,
Madam Chair. Thank you. And I see member Callaway back. I know that ordinance, sir. I'm sponsoring council member Callaway, and I'm sponsoring that particular ordinance on terms of the amount of time that it takes DPD to release the the footage, the damn the dash cam that is coming out of the law department. We're going to have a time certain, instead of just it being open ended, there'll be a certain time that it has to be released in. You should be hearing more about it in about two weeks. We have one more follow up meeting with prosecutor, Prosecutor worthy. DPD, Chief top medicine and the law department. So give me about two more weeks, and you'll be hearing more about it. We are going to have an ordinance. Okay? Thank you.
Thank you. Callaway,
right? Julie SEMA simmer,
good morning. My name is Julie SEMA. I'm the vice president of the Detroit towing Association, and I'm honored here today. They say their time and a place for everything. And I'm honored to be here today to see everybody here today. God made us all and this particular moment where we're at right now is a very substantial moment, not just for me, but for all you guys. I was born in city Detroit, raised and have been proudly working in the city Detroit for 37 years. It takes all of us across the country. It starts here, and we just spread out. So I just want to say thank you for everything that you guys have done. I just want to say thank you for everything that you guys have currently getting ready to do. And just don't forget where we all come from. No matter what, we're all children of God. It doesn't matter race, color, gender, God made us all so we all have to work collaboratively together. And I just want to say thank you to all of you who worked hard, and thanks for that where we all came from, city, Detroit has been my baby for a long time, and I just wanted to always say thank you for everything that I've done, as well as everybody here currently have been doing. You guys have done an amazing job, and I just want to say working so hard collectively with all of you and providing services for the city of Detroit, we just want to continue staying in business. So I just ask that you please review any contracts that are coming forth before you guys and allow us to continue doing our business, because we want to proudly do what we currently do, and that is serving the city of Detroit and probably doing so thank you and God bless
you. All right, thank you as well.
Madam President, yes. Council Member Santiago Ramirez, thank you, Madam President, I do have questions regarding the toll contracts and those call before my committee and making an emotion for LPD to help support with some research around the contracts themselves and why it is that it seems that police are undertaking the towing. It does look like at face value that we have a police department that is doing the job of our of our towers who are who have rates that we've approved that are lower than the general rates already, and I just have questions. So if LPD, that's a motion to help us with the reports around towing. Who does a towing? How much towing does the police department do, and why? I would love to understand a little bit more. That's a motion. Madam President, any objections, hearing none that will be assigned to OPD. Thank you.
Bernard machenski, Good
morning, Madam President and honorable members of council. My name is Renard machensky. I'm a proud resident of the city of Detroit and organizer with Detroit people's platform, come here this morning to speak against this increasing negative perception and regard of essential DDOT riders, these riders that use the bus and essential to their daily livelihood. When we were asked for increased funding during budget season for DDOT, these resources were for the intent of increasing frequency on our neighborhood routes so that many of us are not baking in the sun for 45 minutes, breathing included air. And I wanted to show you this map today. This is our air quality. See this orange right here? 144 is high. Our air quality is worse than New Delhi in Beijing, China today and our riders are subject to security measures that discourage entry of our transit centers, both at Rosa Parks and adjacent Hargrove, and these measures, including the installation of metal detectors, do not exist anywhere in the state of Michigan, including cities that have security issues like Flint Saginaw and others, and for writers to be subject to rude staff that will truly make their own rules, kicking out riders at arbitrary times, harassing writers that are in need of crucial services such as Housing and mental health issues have been forgotten and disregarded as less than human. How we treat children, our elderly, the poor is a reflection of our city and our community. This body here has been disrespected with the lack of transparency from our transit department, with the sudden installation of metal detectors without public oversight and public comment and a hearing that this body provides us. And honestly, when I'm asked, Why are these metal detectors been put in? What prompted it? I can't give a solid answer, because it's unjust.
Thank you.
Thank you so much. Bernard, I our
Jacob Smith, Hi,
my name is Jacob Smith. I'm also speaking on behalf of the Detroit alliance against racist and political oppression. I am also here to urge the City Council to pass the police body camera lease ordinance as submitted by members of the coalition for police transparency and accountability, this would require that the police release body cam footage anytime somebody is harmed in a reasonable fashion. And particularly, I think what's important here is without carving out exemptions for footage under the terms of collective bargaining. This would allow the police union to, basically, I would think, pull any footage that makes them look bad and get it wrapped up in arbitration. And I don't think we want that. And like I do understand that the opinions of of the district attorney and the police chief need to be taken into consideration here, but they should not trump the basic democratic rights of the people of the city of Detroit. Detroiters deserve transparency. Detroiters deserve accountability, and Detroiters deserve community control over the police. Thank you.
Thank you so much. Mccallaway, thank you, Madam Chair. And to your point, sir, all this has been driven by residents. We received information from Minister Eric Blount. We've used that in part of the discussions, so we're going to make sure it's fair for all parties involved, and that's why we've been convening the meetings with the chief of police, the head prosecutor worthy, and also my staff, LPD, but mostly with the law department and those three parties. So just give us a couple more weeks and you'll hear more. It will be a fair ordinance, my pleasure. Thank you,
Madam Chair, right. Thank you. Member, Calloway, Grace Howard, followed by Dante Smith, followed by MINETA Moore, good
morning. Good morning. Madam President, I'm here again to get an update concerning the vending and the contractors that have pushed all the vendors out of the you know, campus, marsh area. I hadn't heard from your office. We had been calling several times and didn't get in a reply, a reply. So I'm back again to find out what's going on, and can I get your cell phone number. Yes, ma'am. So also, we wanted to be put on the agenda. I don't know if that's possible, but you already know what we're asking. I think you said you were going to try to get some things itemized or something like that. Yeah, I'll let you finish. Go ahead, finish itemized or what have you. But I was thinking that we could probably maybe be grandfathered in, because we've been out there about 10 years and since COVID, we really haven't been able to do any good business out there, except for when it's something really big, which is like the Christmas events, Thanksgiving holidays like that. And to have that footprint, now that they're doing, like I said, since the draft, everybody has to go through these, you know, barriers, or what have you. And they have us outside. So we don't want to be outside. We've been inside for the last seven to 10 years, and I think that we should at least be grandfathered in for the people that are allowed to be in campus. Marches
for sure. All right. Well, thank you so much for coming back down, and I know our office did reach out and get some initial responses. My team is here. So I see Brian, I see Tyler, I see Ray. And so we're going to assist her now while you're here, and also ensure that submit this on the agenda, so that it can be tracked and referred and we can get a written response for the record as well. So if you could just step aside please, we'll make sure we call and get the information that was communicated to us, directly to you, as well as ensure that we put this on the agendas. Thank you very much. Thank you for taking the time to come down. Thank you. All right, we have jadonte followed by Renetta Moore, and then lastly, we have Ronald Foster. Just want to say good
morning Council President. It was nice seeing you over the weekend at those forums and events, I want to give a shout out to council member waters for the work you are doing on the land bank. Nobody else seems to make this a major issue. Housing in the city is a major issue. Homelessness comes from the lack of housing and the fact that the land bank is pretty much corrupt. So I thank you. Thank Joanna for the work, the wonderful work you and your entire team are doing on that. Also want to talk about the pronouns concrete facility in District Three, Council Member Benson, I reached out to your office yesterday about having a meeting with the Detroit hand traveling coalition, with lawyers present. I reached out to David Whitaker south. David Whitaker, thank you for your response and the legalities of us having a meeting with you, with lawyers present, because there's no legal there's no issue with us having a meeting with your office, with lawyers present, because we're suing a third party that we're meeting about. We're not in any open litigation with the city, so there is no conflict of interest. I was informed that you are not going to have a meeting with us, with lawyers present. That's very disappointing. We have such a terrible air quality in district three. So I have a four year old and have a six year old son, right? There are plenty of four year olds, six year olds, little children, people, upper respiratory issues in District Three, around that concrete facility, and there are ridiculous amounts of dust coming out of that facility. I have a video, a nice little five second video of a dust storm right at six mile conic coming out of that facility. So it's kind of disheartening here that you do not want to meet with your constituents about an issue such as serious as this. I even went to the Law Department yesterday to get it talked. I talked to the Detroit deputy Corporation council about this to see if it was anything in the charter to say you couldn't meet with us, with lawyers, or anything in the rules responsibilities. But it's very disheartening to hear you don't want to meet and talk about this very serious issue. I see that you put something in the agenda yesterday about criminals, but they have one BC violation. And they're, they're also, they also have about 30 acres next to their facility that is mixing concrete to crush concrete now. So they're going to expand, not not downstar is going to expand this operation. And I want to give a shout out to a council member, Johnson for the work that you're doing in your district about the air quality. Least somebody cares. So I will also implore council member,
because you're a city lot We love your help.
Member, all right, thank you. And I just think it's always very important that we provide facts here, and so very critical. I made it very clear, I am more than happy to meet with any of my bosses, anywhere, anytime. But I'm not willing to do is meet with attorneys of my bosses, I'm more than happy to bring my attorneys. If you bring your attorneys, I'll bring my attorneys at the request and at the suggestion of my attorneys that if we do have that meeting, that I would not speak as a direct result of not wanting to incur any type of litigation. And so I made that very clear, the bodies who I've suggested that to indicated they did not want that to happen. So anytime someone wants to meet with me, specifically, my bosses more than happy to do that. And once again, you can reach out to my office. Again, I understand that you are now a paid consultant of that group, so we're more than happy to meet with them. My boss is at any time, what I'm not willing to do is put the city at risk by meeting with attorneys, and not bring my own attorneys. So we're more than happy to meet with the bosses. If attorneys are present, I will meet, bring my attorneys as well. Thank you.
Thank you. I don't
alright. Miss Moore,
good morning. How you doing?
I'm here because cash community is it's ridiculous. We have water when you flush the toilet, it just goes all over. You got feces being down there. We got the pipes just bust, busting the basement, and what's going we got electrical problems. People's courts are burning up. It's ridiculous. They putting people out when they shouldn't be put out, when the guards are arguing with people, and then you give us a curfew, and you're there and you can't even get in. They turn you away. They are doing whatever they want, and nothing is being done about this situation. The kids are getting sick. They've been fed donuts and all that for breakfast and probably a nutritious meal. It's ridiculous how cash community can ship and get away with this all this time, the floors are dirty. You got ants, roaches and bugs the patio, when you ask for a boom, they say they got janitorial but it's stress out there, like, like, that's where the garbage disposal. It don't make no sense that we have to deal with this kind of stuff, and that people just get away with anything that they can do anything to our children, the seniors, the elderly, the ones that have handicap problems, the ones that have mental problems, and they just do what they want. Something needs to be done about this. People are complaining, but they're scared. Like I said, I'm not scared to come down here and talk because he's not right I said, Because I talked up dog on they should say, oh, many more. Did you look at the photo? No, but you gonna put me out? What kind of measures we have? What is they being paid for? All the money they get for each person, each head, that's all and nothing being done. Why is that being done to our children, our seniors and and people? They're supposed to be doing their job, not.
Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Miss Moore.
We're here to support and continue to help you. Okay, Miss Moore, thank you so much for coming down.
Mr. Foster,
good morning through the chair.
Well, I respect the love you guys position. I think it's important that you guys understand that your constitutional rights only starts when you're off work. The constitutional rights were made for the people and not the government, and so that's important to know. Secondly, opportunities, when we talk about our youth, the very first opportunity I had 27 years ago, came from a church. It was opportunity to be a deacon, and so when I wear this d hat, I represent Detroit, but I also like to wear for the deacons out here, the hard working people to get overlooked, to keep the church doors open, to cut the grass and visit the widows and the orphans by their calling. Fourthly, I will continue to advocate for mandated reporters to be held accountable, not just in our schools but in our healthcare facilities, amongst our seniors and amongst our most vulnerable people. They continue to be neglected. There tends to be a professional arrogance amongst healthcare workers, that seem to think they know more than the the the people that surround their loved ones. We have to hold everyone accountable in this community to have a safe environment here, and not just responsible parents, but responsible educated people as well. And then, fifthly, if you guys continue to repeat things that you hear, I will encourage you to sit down with the source and fully understand what it is that you're saying, so that you can be in a position to reply with an educated response about whatever it is that you're repeating. I still advocate today to sit down with anyone, as I've seen on TV, the book of civility, it starts at a table, you know, and so I'm willing to sit down be civil, and I've yet to get that. And so I respectfully ask you all to do
thank you so much.
Okay, we will go to our online callers now.
Morning Madam President, were 23 hands, 22 hands raised before you would cut off public comment and the first caller or phone number ending in 169, you nine.
Caller 169, Good morning.
Hello. Can you guys hear me? Yes, great, great. I just want to say, I appreciate you all. I appreciate you all. Thank you for praying for brother. Cunningham, P R, A, y, not. P R, E, y, I check out all the videos and the pictures on brother Cunningham's Facebook page. He is still giving out bus tickets and ice cold water at the bus stops. Bus fare, if you didn't know, is $2 for four hours. Yes, bus fare is $2 for four hours, and Cunningham gives out three bus tickets at a time for you uppity or sadity people who have always had money don't understand how $6 could feed a person. So the bus tickets are a blessing some of these people that get on the busses to some of these people that get on the busses and get the bus tickets, income is only $700 how could anybody survive off of that? Do uppity people need to contribute to something to the cause? Thank you for my time.
Thank you as well.
The next caller is Galaxy S 22
Good morning.
Good morning. Can you hear
me? Yes, we can. You
know who this is, Council, Sheffield, I surprised you when I came to that door. When you came down my street, didn't I? You know, I stayed right there. I was looking at y'all through the door. But again, I just want to let all the callers that was making comments. We don't have a health department. We've been catching hell over here for the fume now it's in our system. It's messing with our bodies, and we keep they keep dragging their foot saying that we going to have a meeting, and I had a meeting yet with them. They ain't give us no more money. They gave us money through a grant, and we had to use their people, which is sad, and they messed over us, a lot of them workers. It said that we have to keep coming to you guys with the same old stuff, but we can find money to give to everybody else, but what about the people that's paying you guys salary? I don't want to hear a bunch of banana in the tail pipes when it's time to vote. I want I want something done. I'm tired of here. I've been in this city close to 70 years, and we've been catching Hell, yeah, and it's sad. We have to keep going through this. We have to keep going through this, but then we can fight for everybody that come here. But what about us that been here? Yeah, it's sad that we have to deal with that. I don't want to keep hearing we're going to have a meeting. I've been hearing that for years with Christ over here. The city got money, they should give us some money. They give money to everybody else, to billionaires and stuff. That's our tax dollars. Why we can't get some our tax dollars to fix up our in our community. I'm tired of downtown. You got everything downtown, but we live in the community. What about where we live in? What about the good ones that's still over here that stayed here. It's sad that we have to keep dealing with that. I don't want to hear no excuse.
Thank you so much. Mr. Hollowell,
the next caller is Mr. Over with
all right. Ruben Crowley, good morning. Well,
Mimi wants what she wants as Kenisha Coleman, DPD case number two, zero, dash, 11112, daughter, one, who asked me for help with her mama. Now the Detroit Police Department's homicide unit, under the commit under the command of Rebecca McKay, right now, has covered up three murders, Kevin Samuel, Isaiah, white and Kenisha Coleman, the citizens of the city of Detroit. Hundreds of 1000s of black citizens have been cheated on by absentee ballot fraud on April the 25th 2024 at the Detroit Election Commission meeting, Detroit City Clerk and chairperson of the Detroit Election Commission, Dennis M Winfrey, is on public record lying, lying about the sending of her report, the findings on the allegations of voter fraud by anonymous citizen report to Every member of council that's y'all the mayor's office, as the mayor and the law department, that's Conrad mallet, Jr, general Corporation Council, who was sitting right beside her when she told the lie, the lie, which I have confirmed, because I called all the council members, six of y'all, said y'all didn't receive the report. The Mayor's office said they didn't receive the port report, and the Law Department said the same thing, they didn't receive the report, but Conrad Malley, Jr was sitting right next to Dennis M Winfrey when she lied. And I'm Mr. Rumi gave me that name. Thank you.
The next caller is Mrs. Mayberry.
Miss Mayberry. Good morning. Good morning.
How are you? Can I be heard? Yes, okay, I would like to know. I have one concern about the Detroit princes. I was on that boat on this Saturday, and it started to storm right before we got ready to dock, but it didn't start raining until I got off of it. But anyway, we need to have at least some stairs or something to go down into the tunnel so you won't get wet. You know, saying on that end, besides for the ramp is another block away just about to get under the tunnel. And we, I would, I'm advocating for Mr. Willie Ferris to have his cart having slow moving carts to help handicapped people to get off of the Detroit princes. And it's such a long walk from the walkway to get to the princess as well as walking through that tunnel is too dark. You don't have any lights under the tunnel to get to the Detroit presses that we shouldn't have a viable place that we can walk without being hit by a car. All those police cars could be, you know, on top of where the Ford auditorium used to be, and the walk going back to the parking lot. The parking structure itself is it's past the underground parking structure for people who are handicapped. It left a lot of people kind of stranded on that Saturday that I seen trying to get from the Detroit princes, trying to get off of the boat and not be caught in the rain either. The like I said that a walkway,
which I recall, the the
city walkway. I mean, you know, the riverfront walkway is so hot, you know, for seniors to get there, to walk that long walk.
Okay. Thank you so much, Miss Mayberry, and if you could just reach out to us, we can connect you and ourselves with the operator of the princess to get your concerns addressed. Thank you, Miss Mayberry.
Our next caller, please. Next caller is to hear Ahmed.
Okay, yes, good morning to the idea of, can you hear me now? Okay, home repairs. I'm one of the illegally overtaxed indigenous Detroit homeowners $30,000 which does not allow me the ability to repair or keep up the maintenance on my home. Expensive repairs have been caused because of this. Homeowners have been given a mere fraction of what we deserve, earned in need. As a result, the core policies insensitive and ignorant program directors and employees who act like repair dollars are coming out of their pockets. There is a quid pro quo hierarchy, as demonstrated by what Coleman Young said when he admitted to refusing me home repairs for statements I'm making public comments saying it was said in confidence, and you, Mr. Young, lied for about political before, political reasons about getting me home repairs six years ago, you weren't even in office. So you should stop lying for political reasons. We are on a countless different other repair list for 12 years. As you know, Madam President, you know me when I came to you 12 years ago about repairs from my home, your hands off. Approach on matters like this led to the deaths of those two children and in that homeless situation, because you know that the homeless situation and system is broken, just like the repair home repairs system is broken. One lady got $65,000
grant money to repair her home. I got 12,500
to repair my home for 17,500
and you weren't at all.
Thank you, Mr. Mod
caller is what my Go ahead. The next caller is William M Davis.
All right, inform the city council. Can I be heard? Yes, we can hear you. Okay, I still think that there's a need, an urgent need, for the city of Detroit to do more to help the city of Detroit retirees this whole massive recovery that the mayor frequently talks about has been and continue to be on the back of the city Detroit retirees, because, you know, we took we had our cost of living retroactively took back to from us. You know, that's 2.25 we had a car, you know, we had a pension cut of 4.5 we had an innuit car back of 15.5% of our money that we should be having the house spend on our children and our grandchildren. You know, this city is horrible, as relates to city Detroit retirees. You know, just during the time that the bankruptcy, the mayor's salary has gone up 45% over $75,000 but yet ours have not gone up one penny. You know, we nothing has been done by the annuity clawback at the very east. At the very least, that should be action should be taken. That should be completely eliminated. At the very least, the interest rate should be retroactively eliminated. You know, each month, more and more city Detroit retirees die. Is that the plan does it let us all die? You know, more needs to be done. More needs to be done by some of the city return retirees who do not have health care. And, you know, not old enough yet for it, it, you know, because when I was working, I worked from February of 1978 to February of 2012 the last time I called in Sick was 1992 October 8. But yet, you know, some people, some new people, don't seem to have the consistency to do anything productive and show up. Thank you.
Thank you so much. Mr. Davis,
the next caller is, we see you.
We see you, good morning,
morning and through the Chair, may I be heard. Yes, you can. Carolyn Hughes, yes. Mr. Davis, was that a rhetorical question? Do they want us to die? It's not you do. It is obvious in how you spend our funds, we have a woman coming down saying she's a vendor, and we've spent millions of dollars on that fountain at this park, but they aren't allowed access. It's beginning to look as though you had the honorees from the Mandela project. I hope they're still there and they hear the people on the phone crying out for you to do your job, to take care of the people. Mr. Tate defended Miss Councilwoman Romero, and Miss Councilwoman Romero takes care of her people. You should try and do the same. I saw you leave the table when they got to talking about brightmoor. I'm not sure why you left the table. This is something you've been advocating for. You all sound so corrupt. Why can't we have a why can't we get the video from police officers? What is the problem with it? What is what would they what would they hold it for? And my question to this council is, who's who pays for those videos, who pays for the devices, who pays for the data to be stored, who pays for all of that? And if we're paying for it, why do we need all these voices into how we construct our ordinances? You construct ordinances every day. You're talking about an ordinance of a curfew for our children when you're not dealing with the problems that our children are facing, which is homelessness. You have a contract with the Detroit land bank today to deliver more properties to the Detroit land bank when Detroit land bank is causing many of our issues, our blight issues. They're causing our homeless issues. What they're causing and we're still doing business with them as if we have to you, we are out of the bankruptcy, I was told, so now we don't need to deal
with them. Thank you so much.
The next caller, not at Karen,
hello, hello. Yes, good morning.
Good morning. Yeah, everything. Mr. Davis, the Miss Hugh says, you know, I concur. Whitney Clark, district five, write in candidate for City Council today. Ayers returning council member at large. I would suggest her, Todd Perkins for mayor. Those are my choices. Yeah, the pensioners president, Sheffield, you've had a representative the last three months come to our meeting, and they have a fast track resolution that they propose, but it's nothing but rhetoric. All it does is says we're going to get you first in line and get your grandkids first in line. But what would truly help the pensioners is to restore us to ourselves. You know, restore salaries, restore our pension checks. Stop taking money out of our every month I get a check, you get a piece before I get it. So let's stop that and and let's stop that interest, 6.7% interest rate, because we can't finance that and continue to, you know, have a substantive lifestyle, property taxes. There's another one we're getting hit on. You know, $600 million been taken, just like our pensions been taken. You know, it's like, it's okay, and we're going to move on. But so you guys are going to have pensions coming. You guys are going to have Social Security coming, and if you're lucky, it'll be available for you. If not, you're going to have to just get a thicker skin and deal like we're dealing, you know. So as a civil servant, you need a tough skin to effectively serve the constituents. You know, it's not a personal attack on you when the citizens come to you and they tell you about issues that they're experiencing, and you don't have to speak to them condescendingly, as some of you do, some people talk like they're drill sergeants, talking down to you know, lesser people. It's not a personal attack. You want to be in that position, you want to get that pension, you want to get that salary? Toughen up your skin, deal with it, but we've had to deal with it, and hope you have a pension and Social Security waiting. Thanks. Thank you.
The next caller is you matter.
You may proceed.
Good morning. May I be heard? Yes.
Okay. Well, as always, I have said to members of this council, I welcome any clarifications to any misunderstandings I may have. And I note member Sheffield just left the room because last night at a at a meeting, she said that I lie about stuff, really. What do I lie about? I'd like to know about that. So member, Sheffield, I know your staff is there. Let's meet and talk about it and about the lackluster services from your staff. And absolutely I agree with the last caller. You know, if people been asking for services and then you don't respond, or you send an email and never follow up, you know, don't be surprised if people get upset. And exactly, if you don't have tough skin, you're in the wrong. You shouldn't be a public servant. That's what the 14th, the first and 14th Amendment is about. You're supposed to be able to handle it also, Mr. Tate, you say you gotta treat people equally well. You don't, because you showed that today when you commented when you didn't like what the lady said, both times I was battered and falsely arrested by police officers. Surprise, surprise, the prosecution didn't produce the bad cops video. So thank you, member Callaway for working on that. Also, I see you want to use eminent domain for stormwater issues in brightmoor. That sounds like a more appropriate use of eminent domain, possibly than your ill advised Solar Initiative where you know you don't, won't even bother putting solar on your own properties first, and said you want to take people's property, and then you claim you care about the environment, but Poor Mr. Hallowell has been coming here for years. You don't seem to care about the stellantis fumes. Home Repair grant won't fix the air and that concrete crushing that is just horrible, that children gotta be in that sea of dust, and who's going to pay for the dirty dirt Northland mall stuff put in the demo holes if you really care about the environment.
Next Caller, please. Next caller is Charles miles. Charles miles, we have two minutes. General public. How? Public comment. Yes,
can I be heard? Yes, okay, well, I'm calling in again. It's about these property taxes. Why is it that the city of Detroit refuses to do something about property tax in the city of Detroit. You all know about this situation been going on for over decades. Most of you been in office long enough, as long as y'all been in office. Y'all know about this problem exists. Why won't y'all do anything about it? Y'all keep talking about it. Everybody calling in. Y'all just say thank you. And y'all do absolutely nothing. Why is healing the successor? Lie to the people and keep increasing our taxes, the mayor and the city council, y'all sit back and do nothing. Why is it? Why is it that you can't do nothing about it, cheating people out of their property taxes that you know, we pay, we pay property taxes for services, and we're not getting all the service that we pay for, and then we've been overpaid. You got a special tax on the bill right this year for $260 for everybody, special tax bill. Just get y'all $260 free. Why don't y'all get these values right? Why is everybody probably value so low, but they paying the price of hundreds of 1000s of dollar houses anywhere else in the state of Michigan. Why is it that you guys refuse to do anything about this issue, and all these expired food being sold around the Detroit City at all these gas stations, grocery stores and liquor stores. Why are you doing nothing about all this blight everywhere at these gas stations, liquor stores and grocery stores, you're not doing anything to these people that own these gas stations, grocery stores and liquor stores. Nothing at all in district one. James Tate, you know about that store right there on Grand River? And what's that? What my you do nothing about it. They don't get no tickets, trash everywhere.
Next Caller, please. The next caller is Mel. Caller,
the floor is yours. You have two minutes. General public comment.
Caller, are you there? All
right, let's go to the next caller and put this one at the end of the queue, please.
Okay, the next caller is phone number ending in seven zero,
alright. Caller, the floor is yours. We have two minutes general public comment.
Malik Shelton, can I be heard clearly? Yes, sir.
All right, the 14th amendment was never intended for babies born in the United States whose parents were illegal immigrants. The 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship rights to those persons born in the United States, was intended for enslaved American blacks and their descendants and to void out the infamous Dred Scott decision, when the United States Supreme Court ruled in 18 157 that black people in America had no rights worthy of Respect. Again, the 14th Amendment was ratified in 18 168 to protect the citizen rights of native born blacks in America who were recently emancipated from chattel slavery via the 13th Amendment and the city of Detroit needs to declare a health emergency crisis. Detroit has consistently, constantly range within the top five or six for all categories pertaining to poor health and serious and or fatal health, diseases and maladies. Yet the health department won't even provide regular, up to date health reports on the city's health crisis,
let alone a plan to address it. Yet,
we always seem to get responses from certain council members on immigration. But I can't seem to get a whisper. We can't seem to get a whisper
on writing up department. It's not doing its job.
Next Caller, please.
Next caller is calling user one. Call in.
User one, the floor is yours. You have an have two minutes. General public comment.
Holler, are you there?
Can I be heard? Yes, ma'am, good morning. Good morning.
I would like to complain that the lot off of Lynwood and West Graham Boulevard, all of them have not been cut, and this is Mary Sheffield district. It should be done. I shouldn't have to keep asking the same thing for three years in a row, and that you want to run for mayor, and you can't even keep heroin and fentanyl, stop it from being sold in your district. You will not stop this, that even if we contact you all, nothing is done. I also am disappointed that I had to watch a woman being beaten on a bus last Tuesday, and nothing was done to help this woman. No cameras taken. The gentleman was allowed to run and get away. This is horrible how your city has become. Why is it that a woman with her children gets to be beaten on the Dexter bus and have to wait over 30 minutes, once you're downtown on Michigan Avenue for the police to come, and he didn't do anything, I'm truly sick and tired of having to come, and then you all just cut the phone off. You don't do anything. You got glasses broken out at a glass shelter that's on Linwood and West Graham Boulevard. Why won't you get something done instead of saying, call my office, this is BS, and you know it's BS,
do your job if you can't take
the Thank you, Miss Shay. Next Caller, please. The next caller is phone number ending in 434,
caller ending in 434, the floor is yours. General public
comment, Hi. Can I be heard? Yes. Oh, hey, hey, hello, hello.
Congratulations, Detroit. I want to say congratulations to the city of Detroit, even though micro, on the inside, it may look like we still going through our difficulties, but you are resilient. You come back, but on the macro, you got to be rated. And for those that don't know what that means is, is that the rest of the world sees how great Detroit is becoming growing their resilience and everything you can reach out as far as the globe is and get support back here at home to help those that you're asking to help you with when you see that they're falling down, falling short, don't hesitate to find a way to get together. Because I want to say to the council president, Miss Mary Sheffield when I call and there's a problem on the floor, like a young person trying to start a business and become a vendor in campus martial Park, and they've been denied because of some red tape and boundaries. Instantaneously, that Tyler ready, your staff is on point, instantaneously, and we need leadership like that, especially from a strong black woman like yourself. Thank you, council president, continue doing the great job you're doing. Keep up the good work and Detroit all your hands down. Be resilient. You got great leadership.
Thank you, next caller,
please. The next caller is Cunningham,
Mister Cunningham, brother Cunningham, floor is yours. Two minutes, you know Republic, 313444911431344491143135,
491143134449114, that number was made so you can remember it. I'd like to say about a Chief of Staff. I'm not going to say who's Chief of Staff, but they have promised me something, and they've been gaslighting me, and I wish this council chief of staff would not gaslight me.
It's not right,
it's wrong, and I should be treated fair. I know that you're busy, but every time I see you, you say you're going to do such a thing, and you never do. Just be honest if just don't tell me that you're going to do something and don't do it. I'm used to treating people like I want to be treated. So I'm asking everyone, under the sound of my voice to go to Rosa Parks Transit Center and the Hargrove Transit Center, go through the metal detectors and sit down. They are refusing people to sit in the cool or sit in the you know, in the winter time the warm, but right now, they have water bathroom and sit in the cool for a moment. That's not right. Taxpayers pay for it. I want to thank Councilwoman Gabriella Santiago, Romero GSR for the bus tickets. I was not able to come in. I had a bus ride along with the City Council candidate. I endorsed no candidate or incumbent, but I get them on the busses. And thank you team GSR for boarding the busses with us and doing a bus ride along last week. And also Councilman der Hall at an event notified possible that there was a possible ride along, but I was never notified, so it was just a miscue, and hopefully you guys didn't do that right along Without me, honorable Councilman der Hall,
donations are needed.
Next caller please are
the next caller is Cindy Dara,
Sandy Dara I
yeah, I went swimming
at bow Isle, and there, I think they dumped all the demolition concrete from the south field demolition of Northland. Because I I could not believe it. There were so many small, real, sharp concrete and big and small, all sizes, in the water and on the beach. If I want you to look at our lease to the state and see if we can't take back, Bella, I was prosecuted during the newspaper strike, and I tried, went through three lawyers trying to get the videos, because we had advanced Guard videos showing that they were taping the cops that were at two o'clock using their videos, and then they decided to come back and attack they wouldn't release those. So Rosemary Robinson helped write that law at the state for those body cams. And maybe you can reach her and make sure that she doesn't maybe she'll have something to suggest anyway. So I want you to help me get the fence fixed between my neighbor and myself. When they came and stripped all those topsoil, took everything, dumped the gravel next door, and then use that truck, I think, to in load the everything in my front yard. Including my mailbox and the fence. And now I they left a sharp steel sticking out on the sidewalk. I need to help, because we had to dig those out for three days and and i It's too heavy for me to pick up there, over $100 100 pounds. Would you send somebody over on bulk pickup so they could pick those things up, because I can't, and you shouldn't have they made it dangerous when they came into my yard.
Okay? Thank you so much, Miss,
darling. The next caller is Aaron McCloskey,
right. Good morning.
Morning, guys. Can you hear me? Yes, we can.
Okay, um, I know I always talk about the solar takings, but the fact is, it'd be really nice to have some sort of documentation of when people are served, because a lot of the properties that have been taken did not have proper service, serving the wrong people, attacking wrong addresses. I just really think that it's a huge liability to the city that nobody's talking about that could really come back to haunt you guys. Speaking of defendants in the solar takings. Julie Sema, I don't know her at all. She spoke earlier. I know that she's in the news for towing and whatnot. She was one of the defendants. So it'd be really interesting to see how that case shook out. Because, you know, it actually went to court. It didn't actually, you know, settle before that, the nuisance abatement memo that you guys are stopping the land bank from doing nuisance abatement, I think that's a step in the right direction. You guys have police powers already through B seed, use them, and if you're pulling back a nuisance abatement, I understand the real token takings and that. But for the general person, just very interesting that you're using blight and that excuse to take land for solar, but then you're pulling back on nuisance abatement, almost like it's an overstep. I'm the party to one nuisance abatement proceeding as part of a class action against the city and you guys are quieting title now, I liken it to you stole a car, so now you're going back to ask for a title to the car, because you guys know that you overstepped with the nuisance debate when proceedings and, more importantly, the excess Taking of the profits after selling that property anyway, eminent domain should be used for much better uses the funds should have been used better, not for the solar takings. Thanks.
Thank you as well.
A next caller, Mikk. A William,
good morning. Mika
Williams, yes, hi, good morning. Can I be heard? Please? Yes, you can. Yes, I am still calling in concern for Miss Shea about the area of Lynwood and West Grand Boulevard at the Valero gas station, there needs to be a cleanup behind the alley and also on the corner, it is full of debris and trash, and either you need to call g, SW and BC to make the owners of that gas station pick up their trash and their belongings and put it dispose of it. Also on that corner, that apartment building needs to be regulated. You need to find out who the owners are, because it is just open and is also open for drug activity and area, including the Family Dollar and trailing further down on the corner in that motel. Also, I want to say, Please do not do the ordinance charging more parents that they don't have the money that they're already paying on their water. You're causing homelessness and more poverty, and you've been wanting revenge on on that woman ever since. So now you're going to punish all the parents for children you have no knowledge about this is crazy. We need to put the brakes on that, and the tow contracts that needs to be parked and placed on hold that is not a priority. There is already city trucks that are operating illegally and also illegal activity where we were supposed to be protected for those towing fees. Also, I want to say I am still under a no cop zone. I am still infiltrating no cop zones in our city to protect our children, because you will not snatch our church. What was that scene over there? Cooley, why would you bust up those people? Those people are known over there, and they have a nice event every year. You're breaking up black. This is just like stress. Isn't this why we stopped having stress? Isn't why our former mayor, he stopped stress so that black people could have a good time and wouldn't be on the court beat up by a 55% white police force, causing more incension and trouble. Release the body cam footage and stop this madness.
Thank you. Vi.
Next caller is Eden bloom,
okay. Good morning.
Good morning. May I be hurt. Yes, you can. Great. Thank you. First, want to express solidarity with those fighting against the KRONOS Crusher and also recognize Kenny, who has been calling on this stuff for years. My name is Eden bloom. I'm on the east side of d5 and I'm calling about the avidus fire that took place on June 30 in 2025 this year, right? This wasn't just a fire. Was a public health warning that has not received the attention it deserves. Around 2am flames erupted at the site. My family and I, we're about a mile away, and I just woke up in the house, kind of filled with smells, and I closed up the windows and stuff. I had no idea what was going on. But the problem is is, like, it's so frequent, right? Like we get these kind of smells all the time. This fire just really brought this into my awareness. I woke up the next morning, and all of a sudden we're seeing the flames on the on the TV. So what I'm concerned about is this facility sits like right in a mostly black, low income neighborhood. I've knocked on the doors there. I've met the women and children that were breathing the stuff in. What we need to do is we need to get more transparency. We need to know more about the damage that the fire caused to the equipment, the environmental Fallout, potential, health impacts. We need in V immediate investment in air quality monitoring, and not the stuff that we got tons of. We need vapor monitoring around these sites. We need vapor monitors, something that is going to give us heads up if there's a vapor leak, which they've had problems with in the past. And we need a serious reconsideration about where these plants are at in relationship to the folks that are living nearby. And I know there's, there's an industrial area there, but there's folks that are really close there, and we're a mile away, and we're smelling this on a regular basis. It needs more attention for the safety of Eastside families. I want to thank you for the time and again. Just recognize that throughout this I've been sitting here listening to all these comments and air quality is a pretty recurrent theme. These issues are out there and need to be addressed by y'all please.
Thank you so much for calling Ian.
The next caller is phone number ending In 989,
okay. Caller 989,
caller 9899, nine. All
right, caller, 989,
okay, we can continue and come back, please,
okay. The next caller is Jacqueline Miller,
Good morning, Miss Jacqueline Miller,
I is Jacqueline Miller, good morning.
Okay, let's come back to miss Miller as well.
Okay, the only other caller was the previous 1989,
which I will unmute again, okay?
Caller 989, good morning.
Caller 989,
all right. Caller 989, if you have a public comment, please submit that to the clerk's office for our public record and we'll go back to miss Jacqueline Miller, okay.
Miss Jacqueline Miller, good morning. You.
It's Jacqueline Miller,
all right, Miss Miller, if you also have a public comment, please submit that to the clerk's office for public record, and that will conclude all of our public comments, and we will now proceed to our agenda for this morning. I all
right for the budget, Finance and Audit standing committee from the office of the assessor.
Council member der Hall, two resolutions. Line item 17.1, and 17.2
member deer Hoff, thank you, Madam President. Line item 17.1 is a resolution of authorization for a request for a one year extension for a NDC certificate for the 1348, Bagley project recommended for recommended for approval by the committee. Line item 17.2 is a resolution of authorization for a one year extension for any z certificate for 1350 Bagley. Bagley, as is notated on the agenda, however, that should read 150 Bagley, instead of 1350 Bagley, the clerk shall know the Scrivener area as well move for approval for line item 17. Line items 17.1 and 17.2 I point
two. All right. Are there any objections?
Hearing, no objections. The two resolutions will be approved,
request a waiver for line item, 17.1 and 17.2
all right. Hearing, no objections, that action will be taken
from the Office of contracting and procurement
for the internal operations standing
committee council member Johnson, a resolution line item 18.1,
contract number 6007203,
100% grant funding to provide community outreach For eligible Detroit residents experiencing housing instability. Contractor United Community Housing Coalition, total contract amount 225,000 that's for law council member Johnson, a resolution.
Thank you, Madam Clerk. Member Johnson,
thank you, Madam President. Move for approval,
Hearing no objections. The one resolution will be approved.
Request a waiver for that one please.
Request a waiver for line item 18.1,
okay and Hearing no objections, that action will be taken.
Thank you from
the law department council member Johnson. Five resolutions, line items 18.2 through 18.6
council member Johnson,
thank you, Madam President. Move for approval. These are various lawsuits, settlement requests and a request for legal representation and indemnification.
All right, any objections,
hearing, none the five resolutions will be approved from the Human Resources classification division.
Council member Johnson, a resolution line item 18.7
member Johnson, thank you,
Madam President, Move for approval. Line item 18.7 is a request to amend the 2025 2026 official compensation schedule for the police investigators, the photographers for the police investigation support,
okay, any objections,
hearing none. The resolution will be approved.
Request a waiver for line item 18.7,
and Hearing no objections, a waiver will be attached to 18.7
under resolutions.
Council member Johnson, two resolutions, line items 18.8 and 18.9
member Johnson,
thank you, Madam President, Move for approval. Line item 18.8 is to reappoint Brenda brace ful to the Detroit Civil Service Commission, and line item 18.9 is to reappoint Edna bell to the Detroit Civil Service Commission. All
right, are there any objections to the two appointments? Hearing? No objections. The two resolutions will be approved.
Madam President, request a waiver for line items, 18.8 18.9
Alright, Hearing no objections that action will be taken for the Planning and Economic Development Standing Committee under unfinished business.
Council president pro tem James Tate, an ordinance noting a roll call, also noting that this item was postponed from last week formal session
Pro Temp tape, Madam
President, I moved to take from the table and ordinance to amend chapter 50 of the 2019 Detroit city code zoning by amending article 17 zoning. District maps, section 50, Dash 17, two district map number one to revise the zoning classification for two parcels, commonly known as 560, and 580, Civic Center Drive, generally bounded by John C Lodge Freeway to the north, Third Street to the west. Civic Center Drive to the south and Washington Boulevard to the east from the existing b5 business a major business district zoning classification to the PC. Public center zoning, excuse me. Public center district zoning classification laid on the table may 27 2025
Hearing no objections that action will be taken. Council member, Tate, Protem. Tate, I
move that the ordinance be placed on the order of third reading and considered, read,
hearing, no objections that action will be taken. Pro Tem Tate, I move the ordinance be passed as submitted. All right. And Protem, did you postpone this last week? It was, I can't recall, was it for you or someone else? Okay, I know we postponed it last week. This was making sure there were no additional concerns or questions for this item. Okay. This is line item 19.1, regarding the Detroit Regional convention facility authority, rezoning. All right, there being a roll call. Madam Clerk, if you can, please call the roll council member Johnson Yes.
Council Member Santiago Romero Yes. Council president pro tem Tate Yes. Council member waters, Council Member Whitfield Callaway, yes. Council member youngs. Council President Mary Sheffield, yes. Council member Benson, yes. Council member der Hall, yes. Seven years That motion passes. Madam President,
okay, the ordinance is approved. President, pro tem
Tate. Madam President, I move that the title of the ordinance be confirmed, Hearing
no objections that action will be taken,
and I do see you, Director Todd, did you want to add anything
good? Excuse me. Good morning. Madam President, honorable body. No, I was just here
in case needed. Okay, thank you so much, Director Todd, you're welcome
right under unfinished business.
Madam President, this item will be actually under the City Planning Commission, okay, noting that this line item also was postponed from last week formal session Council President, pro tem Tate, line item 19.2
Pro Tem Tate, Madam President, and move approval of line item 19.2 please. All
right, this is, I'm sorry, I thought someone said something. All right, this is authorizing alterations in a PC zoning district at the Huntington place Convention Center. Are there any objections?
Hearing none. The one resolution will be approved
from the Office of contracting and procurement
council president pro tem Tate, a resolution noting that this line item was postponed from last week formal session. Contract Number 6007185, 100% city funding to provide after hours and weekend outreach. Contractor, Motor City, mitten mission total. Contract amount, 767,000 that's for housing and revitalization. Council President, pro tem Tate, pro
Tempe, President, I move approval of line item 19.3,
all right, so we'll move to discussion. I know member Callaway postponed this last week. Member Callaway, yeah, and I
thank you, Madam Chair, and I still have additional questions. They didn't provide me with the information that I really need. And this, they used to get funded with grant dollars. Now it's shifted to, you know, 100% city funding. Don't mind them being in St Clair Shores, but I'm not so sure that they're really doing all of this work, as they're saying, with the number of staff members that they say that they have in 2023 they received 230 $400,000 from CDBG. Then now it's moving to 100% sitting funding. And I don't know if we can continue to support this effort through city funding. I want to know, what about the grant dollars? Did they not qualify? And so I don't know if Mr. Gulak is here or miss Hardy Madam Chair, but I still have quite a few questions about the level of services that this organization saying that they are providing. I just I have a lot of concerns. We have a huge homeless population, and they're saying they're doing all this work after hours, but it doesn't show me what zip codes they're servicing. I never see them in I don't know if they're driving in a marked van or what. I never see them in the community. And I remember when this company, first this organization, first came before us, they were doing all their grant, all of their fundraising, and now it has shifted to the responsibility of the city to fund this nonprofit out of Saint Clair shore. So I just still have a lot of concerns. I know we have a homeless population, but one more week bring back would be my motion. So hopefully they can answer additional questions that I have after reading what they submitted to me, which to me, is very lackluster. Thank you. Madam Chair,
okay, thank you so much. Member, Callaway, Mr. Washington,
Yes, Madam Chair, I was just going to know that we do have Tara listener online if the body did want to hear from a representative. Okay, no.
Madam Chair, thank you. I would like to talk to not today. My motion is to bring it back in a week. I really want to talk to the organizer, the person who founded this. And I remember when it was founded, Madam Chair, and she was out there grant fund, I mean, raising her own dollars. And I'm just trying to figure out when and where did it shift now to be something that we're funding with 100% city funding. This should be grant, and it should go through HRD, through their grant programs. They have lots of grants. They get all kinds of grants. So I'm wondering, why are we using 100% city funding on this particular program? It should be shifted to grant funding. If it can't be supported with grant dollars, it can't be supported. So I would make a motion to bring this back in one week so I can have a conversation with the person who actually started the program.
Okay, all right, so before we bring her back, I do see Tara. Tara is on and tear. If you can speak is this regarding the new kind of implementation, regarding a 24 hour outreach that the mayor talked about, about with the seven point plan. And then if you can also speak to who also bid on this proposal. If we had any Detroit based outreach teams that bid throughout this process as well,
good afternoon
to the chair. So this Motor City Mission was selected through an open and competitive procurement that we had. This activity is connected to the seven point plan that came out of the tragedy that happened in February. And so it is, it is to ensure that there is somebody that a team of folks, that can talk to somebody when they need access to emergency housing once the Detroit housing Detroit housing resources helpline has closed. So they only operate when that helpline is closed from 6pm to 8am Monday through Friday, and then 24 hours on weekends, as well as during holidays. So this is a new service that we're making available that came out of the seven point plan. And this was this provider was selected through an RFP process. There was a few other providers that submitted applications, Wayne, Metro Community Action Agency was the other, another provider that I remember off the top of my head. And then there were some call center agencies that applied through the RFP as well. But this was the most competitive, the most competitive bid,
okay? And just to remember callaways point, do you have a location of where the this contractor is throughout the city of Detroit, as far as zip codes. Are they city wide? Do they just respond to calls and then go to those areas? And then, how are you measuring the success of this particular contractor? How many people they touch? Are they referring them to shelters? How are you guys measuring the outcomes
to the chair so they are city wide. They what happens is when somebody calls that number after hours, they then speak to the resident, see if they have some something that can help them resolve their housing crisis. If they're not, they're saying they're unsheltered. They will go out to the residents, so regardless of where they're at and then we look at number of engagements, we look at callback times, we look at connections to the drop in center. So that's the main function for folks who are on shelter, is connecting them with the drop in center, making sure that there's transportation, whether the agency providing transportation or providing a ride share or a cab in order to make sure that household gets to the drop in center. So that is the main it's really that providing that real time services for households who are it's in the evening time, it's on the weekend time, and they need immediate connection to primarily, primarily shelter. So the drop in center is what they're connecting residents to. So that happens throughout the city of Detroit, okay,
all right, and I'm turning it back over to member Callaway, but just, do you have a report that you can submit to council, just regarding how many people they they serviced, etcetera, just to see what has been done to date
to the chair, absolutely we we have a smart sheet tracking system that we do for a number for all the calls.
Okay, perfect. Thank you member Callaway.
Thank you, Madam Chair. We have a call center. We just set up a 313, number, I think is 1-866-313-2520, that member Waters was very interesting, instrumental in making sure it happened. So why are we paying another service outside of the city to provide a hotline service that we already have? I think we can hire a couple more people with almost a million dollars. This is a two year contract, and it's 760 $100,000 that's a lot of money. And they may say they have 12 intern social workers. I don't I just don't understand the basis of this contract or the purpose of it. We have our own hotline number. If we need to hire more people, we can take the same money and hire people Detroiters to do this work. We're answering the phone and guiding them or directing them to comments, I'm sorry, service centers, we can do that. We don't have to go outside of the city to do that, and outside of the hotline number that we've already set up that we're paying for, we can make it 24 hours, seven day a week as well. And that's my recommendation. And this is all city funding. This is a lot of money. We can't continue to spend money like this. If we can find grant dollars, or if this organization can find grant dollars, I think they should do that, but to put this on the city entirely, we already have our own hotline number. If we have to expand the numbers or the times and the days it operates, we should do that and hire some Detroiters to man the phones. I just don't support this contract. We still have a homeless problem. I understand that, but this, to me, is not getting to the core of the problem, and to me, is wasting city funding. I can see if it was Grant, but it's not. They should go out there and apply for grant dollars to provide this service, even with the seven point plan. I remember hearing all that when it was rolled out, but we already have a hotline number we just established. We can guard that up so Madam Chair, thank you so much,
Madam President, thank you so much. Member Callaway, Member Santiago Ramiro, thank you, Madam President. Just want to remind us all that grants, many times, come from the federal government, and we should not expect grants to come to us anytime soon, especially when it comes to outreach like this. I have also witnessed this organization do their work. They are at the parks, they are at the streets. They are meeting homeless people where they are. And I truly believe that the city should be investing our money, even if it is our monies, into the things that we prioritize, which, for me, it is making sure that people are safe and taken care of. So I understand the importance of this program. I have seen them in action. I understand that our phone line is one that I have heard not great things about. I agree it needs to be funded as well, but I don't believe in in just talking about scarcity. We do have resources. We're the ones that oversee the budgets. We see where the money is. We can reallocate funding to the things that we prioritize. So I just wanted to share my witness of this program, seeing how it helps Detroiters. Thank you, Madam President.
Thank you Madam Chair. My motion is to bring it back. I still have quite a few outstanding questions. What they provided is lackluster in terms of responses to the question that I asked. So when we bring back this my motion, Madam Chair,
okay, all right, still discussion. Thank you, member, member Johnson, followed by member, thank
you, Madam President, through you to Tara listener, can you give more background information as it relates to the call center? The question that member Callaway raised as it relates to this particular contract and what has already been set up
through the chair, so for right? So right, what is set up right now, and it's changing this month to make it more streamlined, but what was immediately set up after the tragedy in February was that when someone calls the 866, number, and that helpline is closed, it's after 6pm it says, if you are unsheltered and you need immediate assistance, you can, you have two options. You can go to your closest police precinct, or you can contact a contact another number. That number led to Motor City and mission, who was responsible for answering all the calls that happened after hours when the helpline was closed this month, pending, pending decision on this contract. What we're going to do is make it streamlined so they don't have to call another number. We're going to have a, you know, it solution where they can simply press one and get forwarded to to this after hours team. So it's still 866, number that people contact, and then they'll be able to get talk directly to somebody once the helpline is closed, which is an outreach team that can respond in real time to people who are in a housing crisis. So that's what's that's what's right now, it's set up where you could get the away message you hear the number. You call that number, then Motor City tracks all of those calls. They also can text, so they track all of those calls, all of those texts, and then try to divert, see if there's another safe place for folks to go. If they can't divert, there's not another safe place, they'll go in the community, meet with a family and then connect them to the drop in center. So those services would still continue under this new contract, we would just streamline it so that it can be less tedious for the resident who's in crisis.
Thank you. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you. Member der Hall,
thank you, Madam President. And again, I kind of echo some of my echo the sentiments of my colleague, Member Santiago Romero, in the sense that we brought this back from last week, and I understand that there may be more information needed by member Callaway, again, my concern is services. We understand the need of our residents across the city. This has been a trusted provider that we have utilized before. And you know, again, I'm always concerned with any gaps in services that may be provided, and noting again that they may be doing the work right now. I also think it is equally important to pay our vendors and to ensure that we are many remaining responsible contracting with them. I do want to ask Miss lynsr, we had this conversation last week, and you may not have these specific numbers now, what does service look like for the past week with this organization, noting that this contract is being hung up right now
through the chair so they've continued their services as is. I don't know how much longer they'll be able to continue those services as is, but they have. They have not changed their operations at all, over, over the past, over the past week. I don't know how long that can stay like that, but that's to answer your question. It has not changed.
Okay? Thank you. Thank you. Madam President,
Madam Chair, all right, thank you. Member Callaway,
this organization said they had almost 1000 calls in six days. And I need to know where the calls coming from, not anyone's phone number. But we need definitive we need numbers information, zip codes, what part of the city are they actually covering? They had 935 calls in six days. That's a lot of calls. So before we move forward, I want to know where are the zip codes that's being impacted the most if you've received 935 calls, how were those calls directed? What drop centers did they refer them to? So I can do my due diligence, but not to give me any information, I can't take that. I don't trust these numbers. I hope they are true and that they were able to guide these 935 people in six days to drop centers or shelters. We I need to, we need to see numbers. We can't just blanketly approve this contract without getting numbers. Where are they guiding the people? They didn't get any of that. We don't need. I don't need people's names, but where are they finding? 935 people. How are they engaging them? Where they direct them to, which drop centers are seeing the most traffic. It's none of that in this report.
Okay, all right. Member Calloway, any response? Miss Tara linster,
to the through the chair. So those 935, engagements were not duplicated. So I think that is an important note. So there are, there are households that are seen multiple times. There are households who are not interested in emergency shelter immediately, and so they're going to continue to develop rapport with them, engage with them. You know, it's that's part of, it's part of those services. So it's not simply the calls, but it's also the the outreach services that occur. And so they were, they were not, they were not deduplicated. So
were you finished?
Sorry, I thought I heard somebody. I didn't. I didn't know if I was being interrupted, but so I think that's that is for the number in terms of where the calls are coming from, in terms of zip codes. That is information that when we look at our tracker, I don't have, I don't have off the top of my head right now. I mean, we do have outcomes as the number of folks being referred to drop in centers or shelters, the number of folks being diverted. We have folks who are calling from outside of the city of Detroit that were unfortunately not able to serve. And then we look at and then there's number of calls that they really don't need immediate services. They just are looking for some types of resources. So those are the outcomes that we track, as well as, how many folks get transportation to the drop in center out of the calls that come in? All
right? Member Callaway, thank you, Madam Chair, bring back in a week. That is my motion. Okay?
There's a motion to postpone this item for one week. Are there any objections? Objection? Council member Durham, any further objections? Hearing? None. We will postpone 19.3 for one week. Thank you, Madam Chair. All right. Thank you
from the Office of contracting and procurement.
Council member der Hall, a resolution line item, 19.4, contract number 6007237, 100% grant choice, CDBG funding to provide Choice Neighborhoods planning grant, sub recipient, agreement, contractor, Detroit Housing Commission. Total contract amount, $547,499 $147,499 that's for housing and revitalization. Council member Durham Hall, all right. Council
member Durham, thank you, Madam
President, Move for approval for line item 19.4
are there any objections to 19.4
hearing none. The one resolution
will be approved. Request a waiver for line item 19.4
Hearing no objections that action will be taken
from the housing and revitalization department.
Council member der Hall, three resolutions, line items 19.5 through 19.7
member Durham, thank you, Madam President. The 19.5 is the second amendment to a memorandum of agreement between the city of Detroit and the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office and Bagley development group. 19.6 is approving a commercial facilities exemption certificate in the area of 16900, East Warren Avenue in accordance with public act 255 and 1978 on behalf of Bible fair and 19.7 is a memorandum of agreement between the city of Detroit and Wayne State University, Museum of Anthropology for the donation of artifact collections Move for approval for line items 19.5 through 19.7
any objections. Discussion, all right. Discussion started with member Benson, alright. Thank you very
much. Looking at line item 19.7 I request this be postponed for one week. We are providing artifacts, and via this MOA giving them, giving ownership of the artifacts over to Wayne State University, a fine institution with the great anthropology department. My concern is that we have a Detroit Historical Society, and we've just given the capital investment to Wayne, to Fort Wayne for the maintenance of our own to be historic Detroit, the Detroit Historic Society for their maintenance of city owned artifacts. I'd like there to be a conversation between the Detroit Historical Society and Wayne stay in the city to find out if there's a way to ensure the city of Detroit maintains ownership. There roles and responsibilities via the anthropology department, and they have on staff, anthropologists and archeologists, but we want to ensure that we see ownership stay with the city of Detroit, and in a conversation with the Historic Society war, they also want to have that conversation. So let's request a postponement of one week online, 2.7
All right, any discussion on this member? Santiago Romero, thank you, Madam President, through you, I have similar questions as my colleague, member Benson, just wants a little further explanation of what we can expect through this partnership. And also want to make sure the city maintains ownership it does says that we maintain ownership at the time of excavation, and just want to make sure that I know exactly what that means. So support this being brought back. Also have some questions regarding 19.7
Okay, further discussion. Member, Benson,
I thank you very much. I had a conversation with the board the Detroit Historic Society, and they prepared to have a quick, expedited conversation to ensure that these questions can be asked and to see if we can't, as a city, maintain ownership with that partnership, since we have the ability and the facilities which thank you to my colleague, member Callaway, made that investment capital investment to ensure that our archives can hold and keep the water out moving forward. Thank you.
Thank you. Member Benson, and if there are no objections, we will postpone 19.7 for one week, Hearing no objections, that action will be taken and any additional discussion on the remaining two items, 19.5 and 19.6
any objections.
Hearing no objections, the two resolutions will be approved, request
a waiver for line items 19.5 and 19.6
Hearing no objections that action will be taken from the planning and
development department. Council member der Hall, four resolutions line items, 19.8 through 19 point 11. Member durho,
thank you. 19.8 property transfer between the city of Detroit and the Land Bank Authority. Line item 19.9 is the amendment to a development agreement for Midtown West project. 19 point 10 is the transfer of jurisdiction, surplus and property sale of 5669, new very street. And 19 point 11 is the city acquisition of property, part of 17601, mile row. Madam President, I'd like to move 19. Point 19.8, through 19 point 10 for approval.
You want to leave out 19 point 11? Pardon me? You leaving out 19 point
11 as well? No, I'm going to open that up for discussion. Okay, on 19 I want to move 19.8 through 19 point
10. Okay, so we just moving 19.8 through 19 point 10 for approval discussion, and we're going to move that for discussion. Member Santiago Romero, thank you, Madam President, would like to bring back 19.8 This is transfer of property, transfer of a number of properties that are in District Six. So we'd like an opportunity to be able to speak with PDD about these items before moving them out.
Any discussion on postponing 19.8 present?
Yes, I'm not sure if there's anyone here from the administration that can potentially address questions relative to 19.8
director Brown, are you guys here for 19.8
i No, okay, no, Mr. Washington,
yes, we have John Truong online from PDD.
Okay, you
uh, good afternoon. This is John Truong, the housing revitalization department with the real estate division
council member. Did you want to ask any questions now? Or sure I can Good afternoon. John. Good to see you. There are a number of properties in District Six that are a part of this project. Property transfer. Just wondering, if you wouldn't mind talking about the purpose of the transfers, there is a few on Cochran, Michigan Avenue. There's also a few that are going to be transferred over to crown enterprise. So just wondering, if you know what the purposes are,
yep, overall, there are going to be, let me assume. Just want to make sure that count correctly, 115 properties from the DLB to the city's ownership. 100 or two of those are for DWSD bio retention project. There's an additional eight properties as part of the parent T appeared in Normandy new park, and that's in district two. In district seven, there's the weaver Penrod Park expansion as it relates to the one crown property at 17288, Moran, that was part of the property exchange agreement as part of the Fiat Chrysler automotive negotiations. Forget what year it was, 2019, and so that property is owned currently by the dlba. And so to keep in alignment with that agreement and contract with Crown enterprises, that property will be going to the city and then be disposed to crown enterprises, is a vacant home. I believe it is caught fire a few times, and their goal is to demolish and secure that building. As it relates to District Six properties, specifically that are going from the city to the dlba. That would be, that's correct. There's, let me see, there's one, two on background, 1234567, I on Michigan Avenue. And that would be for a land assemblage for development. We work in partnership with the dlba to kind of analyze, you know, properties where maybe they have vast majority ownership, or, you know, the city and vice versa, for future development. And there's also one more on 4052, Western in District Six, and that is noted as a side lot, which is zoned r2 and we proactively, sometimes we reactively, see deals. I know that at PD, there's times when maybe Pro Tem or other members of PD may ask us to proactively for better pricing options for side lots. And that's, I can take a pause there if there's any more
questions through the Chair. Thank you. And 30 218, Vinewood is going to the land bank.
Sorry, I'm kind of
that would be, that would be going to land by get apologies there. There's that'd be land assemblage for development as well.
Okay, and do we have any idea what that development is just yet, or are we just setting aside properties?
We're setting aside properties as per, you know, just to be proactive when we kind of do an analysis for land assembly.
Okay? Understood. Thank you. This is helpful. I just do want to share concerns about how we hold land for future developments. The land bank holds a lot of land in core city or in Cork town, and we've got folks that are reaching out to who are ready, with the funding, with the projects, to be able to build many times, single, single housing, a home for folks that are trying to develop in the city. So just Just a note of concerns of how we do this work, and I know that we've got the MOU in front of us soon, but just really curious about what these plans are in the future. Would like to have some insight so that we're better able to support residents and whatever future projects we have in the city. But thank you, Madam President, those are all my questions for this item, and I feel free. I feel fine moving this along. Okay, thank you. Member Johnson,
thank Madam President, through you to Mr. John Truong, can you give a little bit more background as it relates to the property on Moran? Why is this transaction happening now? And are there additional properties that we anticipate being transferred as a part of the FCA agreement
through madam president to council member Johnson,
to be candid to you, I don't have quite the history from 2019 as I wasn't at the city at that point in time. I know that this is kind of just outstanding from that PA or the property exchange agreement, to the best of my knowledge, I believe this is the last piece to crown as part of that agreement, but I could, I would have to use some more digging. I don't want to misspeak.
Okay, thank you. If you can, please share that information with us as soon as possible. I won't hold it up, but we'll just note that if anyone requests a waiver that I will be objecting to it, because I would like to see the response from the planning department relative to this prior to moving forward. Thank you. Thank you, Madam
President, okay, thank you member young, followed by member Calloway.
Member Young,
thank you Mayor, currently
strong. Thank you, sir. Good to see you as always. I wanted to ask you really quickly about the DWSD bio tension. I think that this the transfer for the bright more storm water improvement project. I just wanted to ask you, is there going to be any portable concrete that's going to be involved in this at all. I'm hearing about bios. Are we going to have a conversation about, I don't know, more rain gardens? Are we going to have more trees that are going to be plant? Just kind of give me the overall layout of what this project would be in terms of green water infrastructure.
Apologies, through madam president to council member Coleman, a young second, I do not have answered that. I don't know if Malik Washington, as a representative from DWSD that could better answer to the specifics,
yes, through the through the chain, yes, yes. I do believe director Brown, his team may be in person,
yeah, he is here. And I asked him if he was here for 1938
but he's coming down now. So
thank you, Mr. Washington, got a little too far.
Thank you very much. Good morning. Gary Brown, Director of the Detroit water and sewer department, as most of you know, you have already unanimously approved $25 million of Dr money for the construction of this project. What we're here to do today is give DWSD the tools necessary to finish acquiring the private property. Obviously, we're talking about the public property that's already in the land bank. We we expect to get that as a part of this deal, but we have 62 pieces of private property. Several of the owners cannot be found. We believe they're out of the country, and we need to clear the titles on those properties. We've been working for a year and a half, two years with the community. Most of the homeowners are eagerly awaiting acceptance of our offer. They they want to move forward, but there are a handful of properties in which we need to clear the title and work out a deal with at least one of the residents in the in the in the footprint of this development, who we have given land bank property over Several years, and now we need that that property to finish this project. I can tell you that we've changed the footprint to accommodate, uh, folks in the community, so that we had a consensus about the project. And right now, what we're here to decide today is, Can DWSD have the tools necessary to finish acquiring the private property so that we can spend the next three to four months getting the environmental done, doing the demolition on the vacant structures that are there, and in this in the spring of next year, with the 25 million that you've already approved, we'll begin construction on the bios that will mitigate flooding, not only in this area, but for miles around this particular area. So the merits of the project have already, you know, I believe we've met with each of your staff individually. There's no there's consensus on the merit of the project. It's just, can we move forward urgently now to acquire the private property, to get the environmental done, to demo the vacant structures that are on this property, and then be ready in the spring of next year to begin construction with the $25 million that has already been, uh awarded to us.
Yes, no, excellent, and I appreciate that. Is the one to ask you, does this also include a great infrastructure improvements as well? Are we talking about expanding the pipe and talking about detention retention ponds that are being built as well? Just kind of talk about it? I know we had this conversation earlier, and it's okay if we're not, but I know we also had a conversation about thirsty concrete, or concrete, you know, absorbing water that comes in is, is or is any of that, or any new technology being invested.
Yeah, there. There are retention ponds being put in, but more importantly, there are pipes that will be put underground that will take the storm water out of this area. More importantly, take it out of our storm sewer system, build capacity in it for the for the area, and push that after secondary treatment, push that storm water directly into the Root River. That's the benefit of the green infrastructure project, is that's going on here, okay? And
that includes check valves and everything of that nature as well. I just want to make sure that I think that's a really big issue, and I don't mean to step on my colleague, member takes shoes at all. I just think that's a big deal. I want to make sure that we get that done as soon as possible. So I thank you for that.
This is phase one. There's a phase two that will even
is this also part of 340, $6 million that we received in the grant from the federal government. Okay, yes, I just want to make sure. And then my, my final question is about crown. I just wanted to ask, is there going to be any discussion and conversations about carbon capture there's going to be on some of these properties for the emissions? I don't think that's a DWSD question,
but there are trees.
There are trees that are, will be going on this property, that will capture carbon, obviously, and we're going to do everything environmentally that's to our advantage on this particular project.
And I and I think that's a good thing. I think you need more air filters. I think that's a good thing. But the reason why I am stressing this is because I think that it's important with the concerns that people have issued for a while in that area, and I don't think that a lot of people expected to have that concern when they were first talking about building of this new plant. And so I think we need to do all that we can and take advantage of the new technology we're trying to achieve sustainability and air quality that's healthy. I think this, even though it's kind of a new or nascent technology, I think we have the opportunity to be able to invest in it. I think we should be able to look at that in all I know, there was a conversation long time ago about retrofitting some of these trucks. I don't know if that's the situation now, that was long time ago, but I think those are some of the discussions we need to add so that we can put the citizens, you know, burdens, at risk in terms of what we're doing to mitigate the negative externalities of environmental damages that are taking place through pollution.
Yeah, and it's our hope that we're going to make this property advantageous to developers that might want to put low income housing around these ponds and then have retail follow it. But the bottom line is you'll remove the drainage charges. That will be a huge benefit to developers to come in on this particular property and and make other retail as well as residential housing available to Detroit. But
also I just want to say, I know I said that was final question, I swear. But I also just want to say, couldn't they also just signed up with easy pay as well in terms of the reduction in terms of the reduction in terms of the drainage fees or drainage charges that people, especially with our ecumenical community, yeah, installments,
yeah. Easy pay is, is for any customer, regardless of their income that has an account with DWSD and may be behind it bill so in any customer. But what I'm talking about is we're charging $760 an acre every month for drainage charges. And when you eliminate that kind of cost over a 20 or 30 year period for a development, it's extremely advantageous for developers to come in and save cost in their in their development costs. We all know that development cost is extremely high into the city of Detroit, as it is around the country, and if we can reduce costs, it makes the property more valuable.
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Member Callaway, followed by pro Tempe,
thank you. And good afternoon. Director Brown, good just a real quick question. I thought I heard Mr. Truong say there were some properties in district two. We have a list of all the properties that are going to be impacted, like by addresses, because I haven't seen that list. Is there a list available?
No, there's there's that. And so this development that is in bright more will build capacity in the sewer system that will extend far beyond bright. More into the Oakman Joy Road area, for sure. It's not going to reach District Two, but it will build capacity, which eliminates flow going to the wastewater treatment plant, which benefits everybody and so, I mean, you know, the papers are filled this morning with a similar situation going on in Macomb and Oakland County right now. Well, this type of green infrastructure project is what is going to solve those kinds of problems. So we're, we're leading the way with green infrastructure, as as many of you have heard me say, we, we have this once in a lifetime opportunity to be the greenest city in America, because we control so much of the land, and so let's take advantage of that and build these projects which are environmentally friendly, and build capacity in our system. We know storms are coming. They're going to be more intense. How can we make more room in our system? This is the way to do it environment, without building a gray structure that holds sewage in someone's neighborhood. None of us want that, and you wouldn't allow it anyway. So yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna do this in a green infrastructure way through
the chair to Mr. Brown, thank you for that. I did read, I think a couple days ago, was happening in Oakland County, with that, with that feces, water going back into their system, and that's been in the news for the past three days is eminent domain going to come into play for any of these properties.
There are several,
we hope not, but we need the tool to be able to negotiate a fair settlement on some of the properties. We have to be fair to everyone, and I think we're being very generous in our offers to not only the renters but the homeowners. But I can't let someone, you know, hold me up for a million dollars for property that I may have the city may have given them, you know, a couple of years ago. So speculators, we can't allow them to come in and take advantage and hold this project up. So we need the tool. I'm confident we're going to negotiate a fair deal with everyone. But there are a couple pieces of property that we can't find. The owner. We they have properties all over the city. We believe they're out of the country, and so we need to clear the title on those properties in order to get this project going. And so there may be eminent domain for sure on those two properties, but I'm confident we're going to settle so that it's a win win for you know, folks in the community and and us in DW Steve, the city of Detroit,
through the Chair. Thank you, Mr. Brown, are any of the properties? How many are currently occupied? We know how many are, and while he's looking for that, do we know whether or not any of these, any of these properties, are owned by real token, because they don't hold title to any of the 408 properties that they link lay claim to that came out last week, that they don't hold title to any of the properties,
yeah, that they're selling. That's that's the issue here, with being able to clear the clear the title on all
the properties that shouldn't be difficult because they don't have the title. And
there are a couple of farms that are on the property and and we've already negotiated a deal, they're just waiting to
to have a settle. Thank you. And the community engagements are through the chair to yourself, to yourself, because I know you said phase one and phase two, is there going to be cute community engagement, because that's what's been a problem over there on livernoing. You know that, where those streets were torn up a few months ago, they're getting repaved now, and the business owners didn't know what was happening. The surrounding community said they never got notification. So I just think it's always important that we let as many people know who's going to be impacted by the development. Let them engage and notify something in their mailbox, something something on the site.
I know the pro tem Tate is very confident that we've done the necessary community engagement. Brian leads a team of five folks at DWSD that have been working on this for more than a year and a half, working with the community to make sure that you know everyone was well is as many people were satisfied as we could. Make sense,
yeah? And the only reason I ask because I just know what happens in my neighborhood, and we don't get notification like we should, at least it's not adequate notification. It doesn't expand as far as it should. And then they're calling my office, and I don't have answers for them, but thank you Mr. Mr. Brown, thank you Madam
Chair. Thank you President.
One second member, pro Tempe, and then I'll come. Okay.
All right, thank you, and I appreciate the interest of colleagues about what's happening in Brighton more for certain need, all hands on deck when we start talking about revitalizing the neighborhood that has been ignored, not given the necessary tools that they've needed to move forward, but I will say, as a member of this body and attended numerous meetings, had numerous conversations with my neighbors in bright more this is one of those projects that is almost an outline. We've gotten tremendous support from the community and from some of our neighbors who are so called hard to please, so to speak, because they have been let down so many times in the past. But we do have, again, overwhelming support. And there are some unfortunate, some folks who don't agree and not necessarily agree with the project, but agree with, you know, cost. And it is again a situation where looking at it, can be held hostage, so to speak, by individuals who want to charge us far more for vacant land than they received than their costs they received from the city. So I think that's a challenge there. In addition to that, this is an opportunity for the landscape to change in the bright more community and storm water infrastructure as well. So this is, again, when, when, when? If we're talking about the neighbors, if you need some folks who are in support in the neighborhood, I can get you that as well. So yes, we have been very much engaged in the conversations. And look forward to the movement of this particular project. What it also did was it freed up a number of land bank properties that were on hold for well over 10 years or so because not certain exactly where this project was going to be located. So didn't want to sell land bank properties, and then ended up having to buy them back. And so now we're in a situation where we know exactly where this project is going to take place. Neighbors are excited about it. It gives us an opportunity for, you know, true development, but and then we're also working on ensuring, to the best of our ability that neighbors in the neighborhood will be able to work on this particular project. So we're talking about checking a whole lot of boxes with this project, and I'm excited about it and looking forward to us moving forward. Thank you. We're excited
also. Alright, thank you so much. Pro Tem member, Benson,
thank you. Just looking at the transfer agreement. Like to have a conversation regarding the pea I like for this to come back towards the end. Not that I'm looking to not vote today, but I do like to have conversation before we do have a vote, just specifically regarding a property transfer as well as the pea and hope that somebody will come up quickly so I can have that conversation. My motion will be to move this, to bring this back to the end of the agenda.
Okay, all right, before we proceed with that. Member
waters, thank you, Madam President, I just have one quick question regarding renters. Will they be displaced and and relocated?
Yes, there, there's relocation assistance and a very generous amount of rent that will be paid for, I believe, a year, as well as dollars available for moving expenses and and they're eagerly awaiting this opportunity.
All right, thank you. Thank you. All right, thank you.
Member waters, member Penson, one
last piece on the pride more, because I do want to say this is a very exciting project, and glad to hear that the community is in support, just with the graphics of the potential optics of this. I mean, it looks like it could be a game changer for that neighborhood and just a narrative around right now, right more, all the, all the renderings that we've seen and identified standing water with lush plantings, there's an opportunity to actually stock this with fish. Is a question may Maybe yes, maybe no.
Well, I don't know the answer to that, but we certainly we can check
so just wondering the opportunity for local fishing in Detroit, within the city, not at the river's edge. Just wondering, thank you.
Okay, all right. Member, Santiago Ramirez, thank you, Madam President. Just a quick question for clarity, are we discussing 19 point 12? Did we move that for approval as well? No, we did not move 19 point 12. Okay, thank you. You're welcome.
Okay, so member Benson would like to bring 19.8
to the end of the agenda. Is there any objections to move this to the end of the agenda? Hearing none that action will be taken. Thank you, Director. There was a motion to approve 19.9 and 19 point 10.
Are there any objections on 19.9
and 19 point 10?
Hearing, no objections. B2 resolutions will be approved.
Request a waiver for line items, 19.9 and 19 point 10,
okay. Hearing, no objections, a waiver will be attached to both items. And thank you gentlemen for joining. You all can jump off.
Thank you so much. Member Durham, thank you, Madam
President. Move for approval for line item 19 point 11, that is the city acquisition of property part of 176, 01, mound row. Move for approval.
All right, any objections, what's wrong?
Hearing, no objections. The one resolution will be
approved. Request a waiver for line item 19, point 11.
Hearing, no objections, a waiver will be attached to 19 point 11 from the Detroit water and sewage department.
Council member der Hall, a resolution line item 19 point 12.
Member durha, Move for approval of
line item 19 point 12 is a resolution of authorization for the necessity of the council and the acquisition of private property, including by condemnation, for the benefit and use of the public for the DWSD bright more stormwater improvement project.
Yeah, this is attached to the previous item. Member, Benson, would you like this one postponed as well, since this is relative to the other item? Or are you okay with moving this one forward motion? Okay, so we will postpone to the end of the agenda. Yeah, we will move it to the end of the agenda. Yes. Member young,
yeah. I'm sorry that to ask this so late in the process, but I just wanted to ask just member take it to his recollection, has the public and has these constituents been fully engaged about this process and the condemnation process, and is this something where that they're okay with, or do you think there needs to be more discussion and debate before you move forward with this?
Thank you, Madam President, through you now the neighbors in bright more excited about this particular project. We've had numerous meetings over the past two years. There certainly are a number of frequent flyers who show up, so to speak, at the meetings, but they we have, typically a newer folks who go out and spread the word as well. So we in district one, our district one monthly meeting, we've actually focused on it and featured it and had a presentation that exposed it to folks that are even outside of the bright more neighborhood as well. And it's just, again, a lot of lot of folks are excited about this, as then mentioned, this can be a true game changer. Will be, not can be, will be, in addition to the bright more framework that we have worked on with the community as well. So again, this is now about, how do we revision the community that has been left behind for a number of years? But do so in a way that also includes the neighbors, and they are overwhelmingly on board with this particular project. Thank you, Madam President. I don't
mean to layer the part. I just want to make sure, just so I'm clear just speaking. Because you know, whenever you talk about condemnation, eminent domain, people have a different response to I just want to say, as part of the condemnation process, are they okay with that, too, and that how that's moving out and everything
as well. That was Through you, madam president, that was made very clear early on that would be the potentially the situation, and the neighbors themselves not want to see progress in their community be held back by one or two individuals who don't want to respond responsibly. Thank
you. Thank you. Okay.
Discussion member, Santiago Romero, thank you, Madam President. I know we're going to bring 19 point 12 back, and I am fully in support of this project. I just have reservations around condemnation, just in general, and have voted an objection in the past, so we'll be doing that as well. But that does not seem that I don't support this project. That's just where I stand around governance, condemnation. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you so much. There's no further discussion. We're going to bring 19 point 12 back towards the end of the agenda and Hearing no objections that action will be taken for the public health and safety standing committee from the Office of contracting and procurement
council member, Santiago Romero, 13 resolutions. Line item, 20.1 through 20 point 13.
Contract number 6007226,
100% grant funding to provide abatement and demolition of planned commercial site at 12115, Cloverdale contractor, inner city contracting, LLC, total contract amount, $200,860
construction and demolition contract number 6007236,
100% general funding to provide water treatment services for facilities maintenance contractor, Chardon laboratories Incorporated. Total contract amount, 325,000 construction and demolition. Contract Number 6007239, 100% city funding to provide paint supplies and paint equipment repair services contracted the Sherwin Williams company. Total contract amount, 250,000 construction and demolition contract number 6006987 100% special revenue funding to provide police authorized towing services. Contractor choice towing Incorporated. Total contract about 2,250,000
desperate police contract, number 6006990
100% special revenue funding to provide police authorized towing services. Contractor seven, DS, towing and storage incorporated total contract amount 2,250,000
that's for police. Contract Number 6005107,
dash a two, 100%
city funding. Amendment two, to provide an extension of time and an increase of funds for legal instruction to students, civilians and law enforcement entities operating under Detroit Police Department contractor Ruth Carter law bllc, total contract amount 196,000
that's for police contract number 6006989,
100% six. Special revenue funding to provide police authorized towing services. Contractor Bobby TCB towing service incorporated total contract amount, 2,250,000 that's for police. Contract Number, line item, 20.86006988
100% eight, 100%
special revenue funding to provide police authorized towing services. Contractor Wayne service incorporated total contract amount 2,250,000
that's for police. Contract number 6004592,
dash a two, 100% special revenue funding amendment two to provide an increase upon only for police authorized towing services. Contractor seven, DS, towing and storage incorporated total contract amount, $487,525
that's for police. Contract Number 6004594,
dash, a two, 100%
special revenue funding, amendment two, to provide an increase of funds only for police authorized towing services. Contractor choice towing Incorporated. Total contract amount, $800,475
that's for police. Contract Number 6006986,
100% special revenue funding to provide police authorized towing services. Contractor BBK towing and recovery incorporated total contract amount 2,250,000
that's for police. Contract Number 6004593,
dash, a two, 100% special revenue funding amendment two, to provide an increase of funds only for police authorized towing services. Contractor Wayne service Incorporated. Total contract amount, $554,225 that's for police. Last contract is contract number 6004591, dash, a, two, 100% special revenue funding. Amendment two, to provide an increase of funds only for police authorized towing services. Contractor BBK towing and recovery incorporated total contract amount, $721,250 that's police. Council member, Santiago Romero, 13 resolutions. Thank you, Madam Clerk.
Member, Santiago Romero, thank you, Madam President. I will be breaking these up into different sections. Motion to approve 20.1 through 20.3 and 20.6 Okay,
any objections.
Hearing no objections, the resolutions will be approved. Member Santiago Romero, thank you, Madam presidents, the rest of the contracts are all regarding. The police authorized towing motion to approve 20 points for 20.5
20.7 through 20 points 13.
Okay, any discussion.
Are there any objections?
Objection councilor Scott Benson, all moved contracts.
I'm sorry, you said all of them all moved contracts. Okay.
Objection member Johnson, 20.4 and 20 point
10, 20.4 through 20 point 10,
20.4 and 20 point 10.
Okay, Madam Clerk, okay, so note, Madam President,
any additional objections.
Right, seeing no further objections. The resolutions will be approved request a waiver, Madam President, for 20.1 20.2 and 20.6
Okay, any objections,
hearing, none, the waiver will be attached to those items.
Moving along from the public lighting department,
Council Member Santiago Romero, a resolution. Line item, 20, point, 14.
Member Santiago Romero, motion to approve this is to sell surplus conduits to DTE Energy.
Are there any objections?
Hearing none. The one resolution will be approved
from the Public Works city engineering division. Council
member, Santiago Romero, a resolution. Line item, 20 point, 15.
Member, Santiago Romero, motion to approve. This is a petition for vacation. Okay, Hearing no objections. The one resolution will be approved under resolutions.
Council member waters a resolution. Line item 20 point 16.
Member waters,
motion to approve. All
right, this is a resolution in support of the tenant empowerment bill package in the Michigan Senate and State House member waters may be added to this as well. Yes,
okay, any objections to the resolution? Hearing no objections, the resolution will be approved, and Madam Clerk, if I can, please join member waters
clerk will So note. Madam President, thank you.
From the Rules Committee,
Council Member Whitfield Callaway, a resolution. Line item, 21.1,
member. Callaway, thank you, Madam Chair, this is setting a public hearing to amend the rules of order of the Detroit City Council. Date to be determined.
Okay, are there any objections on scheduling a public hearing? I know. Dr powers is here. If there's any questions, you have anything to add. Dr pollins,
I have nothing to add. I'm only here if there's a question or clarification needed,
okay, thank you say, Okay, any discussion on scheduling a public hearing for proposed rules that will be changed? Okay? Hearing none the resolution will be approved. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair, thank you. Member Callaway, moving now to the mayor's office under the new business agenda.
Council member young, a resolution, line item 22.1 member Young,
thank you, Madam President, I moved to approve line item 22.1,
alright. Any objections, this is a city approved event. Hearing, no objections, the one resolution will be approved. Request a waiver, Madam President. Hearing, no objections, a waiver will be attached
from the Office of contracting and procurement.
Council member Benson, five resolutions, line items, 22.2 through 22.6
contract number 6007103,
100% grant funding to provide training for residents on how to utilize the data from the Air Quality Network, creating and implementing outreach programs and teaching city residents about local, state and federal environmental policy. Contracted the Green Door initiative. Total. Contract amount, $185,829
that's for BC. Contract number 6007121,
100% city funding to provide an emergency vehicle alerting system or enhance drivers awareness of approaching emergency vehicles. Contractor pause Incorporated. Total contract amount $1,518,660
that's for fire. Contract Number 6007241,
100% city funding to provide nitro and vinyl medical gloves. Contractor, boundary medical LLC, total contract amount $398,020
that's for fire. Contract number 6007224,
100% city funding to provide aluminum street sign blanks for the Department of Public Works, contracted Michigan State industries. Total contract amount, $303,041
that's for public works.
And the last is contract DSS number nine, architectural engineering and planning supply schedule, 100% city, major street, state funding. Amendment, one total maximum order limitation is 81,300,000
council member Vincent, five resolutions.
Member Benson, motion to approve session. All right. Discussion
for my colleagues, any discussion? Colleagues? Yes. Madam Chair, yes. Member Callaway, is there anyone on for fire? For line item 22.3, regarding $1.5 million for vehicle alerting systems,
right? Mr. Washington, do we have someone on the line?
Yes, through the chair. We do have Tony Watts online.
Okay, we will promote Tony watts. You.
Good afternoon.
Tony watt, special projects director for Detroit fire.
Good afternoon. I will turn it back over to member Callaway. Thank you, Madam Chair, good afternoon.
Mr. Watts, good afternoon. This is regarding line item 22.3, $1.5 million contract to a company in Chicago, Illinois. Can you tell us a little bit about this contract? What type of vehicle alerting systems will this help them avoid accidents?
That's that's the intent. The the haz alert system is a it's a transponder that is installed on the fire vehicles, and it gives a notification to vehicles that are in the area of a fire engine when the lights go on. It's about, we set it at a one mile radius when we did the testing, and currently it's it's working on stellantis vehicles, Mercedes vehicles, as well as ways and Google Maps, and so any individual that's in the area of an emergency vehicle would receive a notification on their
screen in their vehicle.
Okay, that's through the chair. So assuming you're assuming that all vehicles are equipped with this screen, because a lot of vehicles may be older models, what happens with that group of drivers who don't have the screen or that capability in their vehicles?
Great question through the chair. The technology is currently on vehicles, post 2019, in the categories that I explained earlier the this is relatively new tech. They are looking into ways to connect it to cell phone connectivity, as well as subscription apps such as Spotify or Sirius XM. And so the technology is kind of new. We're getting in at it on at an early level, with hopes of kind of evolving with the technology. But right now, you're correct. It's only 2019 vehicles or or later in the categories that that I explained earlier.
A lot of money through the chair, city funding, again, 100% city funding. There are no grant dollars. I hardly ever see any grants being generated or apply for. To my, to my knowledge, through fire, is city funding. And that's, that's $1.5 million for it experiment. That's technically what you're saying, to see if it will work on cars. You know, 20, 2019, and older, I'm just concerned that we're spending money on like, an experimental basis, and I get it, we want to avoid accidents at all costs. But to what I mean, to what degree I mean, we got to start saying no to some of the city city funding. This is a three year contract, $1.5 million for an experiment that may or may not work like all new technology, because it's new. What other cities through the chair, the size of Detroit, is using this emergency vehicle alert system. Do you know Mr. Watts
through the chair? I can get some more detailed information on that for you. I know Dearborn recently added this tech to 300 of their police, fire and Public Works vehicles. Um, and they're still tracking metrics on that as well, but I can get you information on some other cities nationwide that that have have used this technology.
Okay, thank you. Mister watt, and through your through the chair to yourself. Mister watts, how many vehicles are we contemplating we're going to outfit or upfit with this device? Because is it a device that goes on to the vehicle
through the Chair? Yes, it's a it's a device. It's a transponder that provides real time mapping as well as sends out the notification. PD was exploring using there's a inward facing component that'll let emergency vehicles know when they're getting close to each other as well. So again, like I said, it's evolving technology. But to answer your question, DFD was looking at installing this on all of our frontline response vehicles, which is about 100 and 106 if I'm not mistaken, I have to get that information for you. And then PD was also looking at exploring this on on, I believe, 700 of their vehicles. And again, I can't quote DPD or PD, but I can get that information for you as well.
Thank you Madam Chair. Thank you member Young.
Thank you Madam
President. Mr. Watts, correct. Yes sir. Well, it's good to see you, sir. I just want to ask. I'm reading this right here saying, According to OCP, the department has been spending 500,000 to a million dollars in accidents alone, and more in legal costs. Is that per accident, or is that per year?
I would have to check, check with, with some of my cohorts on that. But I know, for me, in managing the collision avoidance strategy, that was one of the things that that was very important for us, return on investment, one life saved, one lawsuit, you know, and it more than covers the cost of the equipment. I believe the equipment is about $585
per vehicle per year,
and that's the subscription. And so if we're able to avoid one accident, one one casualty, I think that's our return on investment.
And do we know how many lives would be saved potentially? Has there been an analysis of how many lives would be saved potentially from this.
So that's a tough one for us to track with metrics. But the metrics that we are tracking is how many vehicles are contacted with this technology, along with some of the other items that we're exploring. But has alert I did pull our monthly report, and to date, we did. We're running a continuing pilot on this from October of last year. To date, we have made contact through Haas alert with 90 over 97,000 vehicles in that 10 month period, testing it, testing the Hazel alert, with 10 systems on our response. Vehicles, no, I
just think this is a really good thing. I know that, you know, usually when you hear the siren, you're supposed to pull over, you know when going through. But there might be people who are distracted. There might be people who might not pay attention to it, and I think to always have that little extra technology that's there to let people know that a fire truck is going through, for them to be alerted and for them to do the right thing was to pull over while they're going through. I think that's something that's necessary. I 96% of car crashes or car accidents are due to human error. So until we start half seeing the advancement of autonomous or automated vehicles, I think that technology that we have to be able to let us know when these trucks are in the vicinity, for us to be able to pull over, not just to protect the people of the lives that are pulling over, but also for the people that they're going to be able to say in the burning building, or when they're going to save, you know, in the house, you know, and providing emergency services personnel. And I live on Grand Boulevard. I live right off, excuse me, Grand Boulevard. So I see these emergency vehicles going through all the time and going to people's houses. So I think anything we could do to save lives the good thing. And so I just want to say I am totally behind this, and I support this 110%
Thank you. All right. Thank you, Sir Vincent. Member Johnson,
thank you, Madam President, and good afternoon. Mr. Watts, I do. I wanted to elevate what member Young did as well as it relates to the incidents that we see coming through the internal operations committee during emergency responses. I do want to ask, though, are we advocating to for the technology to go through the radio system so that similar to the alerts that we see on television, so it will turn all of our radios down so we can hear and know that there is an emergency vehicle that's near our vicinity. That would be the most ideal situation, because I think many people who do not hear the sirens don't hear them because they have their music up loud, and it does not say to them that I need to move over and get out of the way for this vehicle to prevent or help to minimize the number of incidents that we see in emergency situations
through the chair. Great, great point. And yes, it does the testing that we've done. It gives, it gives that reduction in the volume. It gives that ping on the notification to give the driver a moment of pause to, you know, at least, just, just take a minute to look at their environment. And let me be clear, this is, this is one part of of a kind of a layered approach that we're trying to take to this where we're dealing with we're utilizing technology, communication and training to try to touch the community, to touch the drivers and in our in our department, and as well as maximize This and other technology to just make that experience much more user friendly, so to speak.
Thank you for that. I would love to see the expansion of the technology, though not for specific types of vehicles or utilizing particular apps similar to the way we see it on television, you could be watching pretty much any channel on television where there is a break in the viewing to alert the community of an emergency situation, whether, whether you know someone that may have been kidnapped, or what have you, if We can get to that, that would be phenomenal, because it says to all of us, regardless of which app I may be using, whether or not I'm using a navigational system or tool in the vehicle or on my cell phone, that it automatically helps to send A signal to anyone in the near vicinity turns our radio volume down, almost like when you go into reverse on your vehicle and you're about to hit something, where you hear the beeps and it alerts you to let you know that you're about to hit something. But I do appreciate the thought the idea around the technology, and hope that it will help us to reduce the number of incidents that we see with emergency vehicles and the number of lawsuits or settlements that come before this city as a result. Thank you. Thank you. Madam President,
thank you. Member Johnson,
Madam Chair. Member Callaway, yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Madam Chair. Mr. Watts, so is this software that we're getting? Are the actual devices that we're getting for the 106 vehicles, and once we place the order for the 106 device vices for the vehicles that we're talking about today, then do we have to put out for bid for a company to come in and install the devices on the vehicles? Because is that going to be another contract that comes before the council? Because this is $1.5 million for, I guess, the devices, the alert systems, or is it or is it software
through the chair, a great question. So the the 10 that we're testing now part of that program, they were the folks over at Lyndon garage were trained to install these it is a transponder that that follows software. So there's a transponder that's installed on each vehicle, and then the software tracks the mapping of the vehicle so that it can send out the message when their lights go on. The we already have internal personnel that are trained to install that equipment, and so that will not be any addition to this contract.
Okay, through yourself, through the chair to you, Mr. Watts, the individuals who will be installing this device, these devices at the Lynden yard, are they going to get a pay increase? Are you going to negotiate, because that's another skill that they're getting to implement someone else's software. So are they going to get some type of certification. Will they qualify for additional dollars because they are now being responsible for upgrading city owned vehicles with technology from Chicago? So how does that work? Will they get certification after they get the training, and do they get a bump in pay? Or is that something that needs to go to labor for negotiation,
because that's an increased skill
you through
the chair. Absolutely, I agree that that's definitely worth the discussion. We have had it at a very low level, and there are a lot of similarities with this transponder and some of the other equipment that's already outfitted on the vehicles, and so, yeah, that's definitely a conversation that needs to be had, and there needs to be clarity in that space. So I agree with you absolutely we need to have that talk.
Okay, so I guess through the chair to yourself, I don't know, maybe the law department or LPD through the chair, because that's an absolute conversation needs to be had we put a lot of on our employees, and they don't make any more money after they get all these skills, and they deserve to make more as they upgrade their skills. And this is going to be certification in somebody else's product that they're going to be responsible for not only installing, but probably repairing and monitoring to make sure it's working. So that's an upgrade in their skill set. So I don't know if the law department needs to I don't know in the labor through the chair to Mr. Anderson. I don't know if labor negotiations are coming up. I mean, I don't know if we're talking about a handful of employees who are going to get this special training to i to add these devices to these very, very expensive vehicles. Because, yes, through the chair to mister Anderson, I suppose I don't
through the chair. Graham Anderson, law department, could you clarify the question, Councilman Callaway, um, it's this is regarding skill sets that employees acquire, and how we maximize their value afterwards to reflect in their pay. Is that correct? That is correct, sir, through the chair, through the Chair. Yes, that would it. Would most likely be union negotiated, which I'm not sure when the next contract negotiation is upcoming. But of course, we definitely want to capitalize on the skills our employees have and make sure that they're properly compensated. But I cannot provide anything in additional detail at this time, but as soon as I know something more, I'd be happy to let you know
through the chair to Mr. Anderson, because I'm always on Wednesdays during internal operations screaming about bringing things in house, and we're bringing this in house, and we know that if they're going to be trained to do this work, they deserve to be compensated, and then they need to get certification, or some type of, you know, certificate that they can use on their resume, because they know how to use this, you know, this Technology, that's new technology, according to Mr. Watts, so best discussions, I think we need to have. Thank you, Mr. Anderson, and through the chair to you. Mr. Watts, thank you. Are you the same? Mr. Watts, that's been working on ordering all those drones to help out demolition and construction, or you're
not him through the chair. I am the same person, and that is still in motion.
Okay, so you and I should talk, because you were on a great track there getting all these drones, and I want to make sure we don't get distracted with the drone, so I will call you Mr. Watson. Thank you and thank you, Madam Chair. All
right, thank you. Member Callaway, any additional questions?
All right. Member Benson has moved for approval 22.2 to 22.6
are there any objections?
Hearing no objections. The resolutions will be approved. Five resolutions will be approved. Madam Chair,
the administration is requesting a waiver on 22.2 through 22.4
any objections. Objection to the waiver request on line item 22.3 Madam Chair,
Okay, any other objections?
All right, hearing none. 22.3 that waiver does fail in the remaining ones are approved. All
right. Thank you. Mr. Watts,
thank you. Dr powers, wanted us to go back to the rules item to ensure that there was an actual date given for the public hearing.
Yes, if I may, through the Chair, just clarify that when what you have, really in front of you is an eight page resolution to approve the public hearing. And we weren't able to put a date for the public hearing in this resolution, of course, because it has to be four weeks out from today, and that would make it into into the next month into August. So therefore it would have to be in September, and you should at least make it clear that the public hearing date is to be determined.
I thought, I thought I said that. I Yeah, you didn't hear it through the chair. You didn't hear but I did say it. Thank you.
Okay, that's what I was I wasn't sure if you said it or not, but Okay, okay, so to be determined. Okay, so we have that scheduled for a date to be determined.
Okay, we will continue now
and formal session, okay,
okay, we will work to get that scheduled for September from the Office of contracting and procurement.
Council member young two resolutions, line items, 22.7 and 22.8 contract number 6002731, dash, a, two, 100% city funding. Amendment two, to provide a renewal for software support and maintenance for animal care control operations. Contractor HLP incorporated total contract amount, $384,984 that's for general services. Contract Number 6007234, 100% IPA funding to provide uplifting services for nine animal transport vehicles, contractor, national fleet Services, LLC, total contract amount, $294,421.32 cent. That's for general services. Council. Member young, two resolutions. Member Young,
thank you, man. President, I like to move to approve 22 point line, 22.7 and line 22.8
any any objections,
Hearing no objections. The two resolutions will be approved.
Madam President, yes. Thank you. Madam President, I would like to request a waiver on line items 22.7 and 22.8
Hearing no objection. A waiver will be attached from the law department.
Council member Benson, an ordinance.
No need a roll call line item 22.9
member Benson,
Madam President, this item will not require a roll call.
This is to schedule a public hearing so member Benson,
Madam President, I move that the ordinance be read twice by title order printed and laid on the table.
Discussion. Okay, yes. Member Benson, alright,
thank you. So this is an ordinance that would transfer responsibility of prosecuting certain misdemeanors from the Wayne County prosecutor to the city of Detroit. This has been now introduced. It came out of committee. We are looking for feedback. I am from my colleagues on this. I had a number of conversation I understand there are a number of concerns. We're really looking forward to having more conversations about that to try to allay any concerns about this. We've had. We now have support from members of the CBI community regarding the advocacy around delayed sentencing, around restorative justice and support of the specialty court, and in close conversations with Judge Holmes at the specialty court, Chief Judge mechanical is in support of this, and has put that in writing. Chief medicine is in support. We have a number of prosecutor worthy is in support, and so a number of members supporting. And members of the business community. Have a number of business organizations that are supporting as well, but still want to have more conversations, and I want to make sure that my colleagues are comfortable with this one, because it can have just the narrative around it, I believe is being can be misconstrued. I want to make sure people understand what we're trying to do and why it's important. So still looking forward to those conversations as well. But do want to introduce that and this public hearing.
Okay? All right, Colleagues, any objections to scheduling a pub? Well, excuse me, any objections to approving this item, that action will be taken. And member Benson for the scheduling of a public hearing,
motion to set a public hearing for 28 July, 2025
any objections Hearing none that action will be taken. Thank
you, colleagues, discussion, yes, and just want to make sure that colleagues, you have concerns, please reach out. We're also reaching out to offices, and we've got a number of conversations. Just really want to have these conversations. And I see Mr. Anderson is here, who is helping with the conversations and with the actual writing of the ordinance, and hoping to understand as well through the Chair, just to echo the sentiments by council member Benson, I'm happy to have conversations with everyone's staff. I think this is a very valuable ordinance that will make things more efficient at the city of Detroit, and I really believe this will be a positive thing moving forward, I'm happy to have any conversations about the details. Thank you. Thank
you. Thank you. All right. From the Office of Development and grants
Council. Member Young.
Member young, a resolution,
line item 22, point 11, go ahead.
Thank you. Madam President, I like to move to approve line item 22 point 11.
All right, this is to accept and appropriate the fiscal year 2025, public parks and Greenway Infrastructure Grant. Are there any objections? Hearing no objections. The one resolution will be approved.
Madam President, yes, I like to request a waiver on line item 22, point 11, Hearing
no objections, a waiver will be attached.
Okay, we postponed two items or brought to the end of the agenda. Two items, yes. Madam
President, you brought you bringing back my item 19.8 and 19, point 12,
right? Member, Benson, did you receive the documentation that you were requesting?
No, I have not. And I believe that Mr. Lockhart is here. I asked
him for some information. I believe he's off doing the research now.
Okay? Mr. Washington,
yes through the chair. I do believe Mr. Brandon Lockhart should be in person.
Oh, are you?
Brandon Lockhart, Senior Advisor in the mayor's office on the chat team
member Benson, all right. Thank you very much. And so knowing that this is part this property transfer is part of a larger resolution, I wish we could divide the question on this one. For now, I just have a number of questions regarding the property transfer on Iran. Number one, what does the P A actually say? Number two, this transfer for the large portions of property on this site were done a number of years ago. Why we just now seeing this property come before this body at this late stage? And the other question is, how many more properties are out there that could be part of this the PDA, for this geographic area,
got it. So I'll try to answer as many of those as I heard, and we can just revisit as we go this particular property. The reason why it's come so late, what happens is, as these properties come into the ownership of the land bank, they then transfer them over to the city for us to sell to crown based off of the PA agreement. So this particular property, we just came into ownership this year, there were some issues with squatting and other things that took place there. The house burned down. It became an issue. Had to be demolished. So as we've think, last year, we did about seven properties in the same pa agreement. There's roughly about 100 plus properties in the area. Most of them have already been taken over by crown at this point. I will have to get back to you with a number of how many are actually left, but we're talking small handfuls at this point. Okay? And then
the timeline. And I guess my question is going to be, would this be considered an option or first right refusal? What's our legal definition here? So providing round first right of refusal on the they have an option on these properties
already, or they have options on this property. So before my time, based off of what I've seen, there's an agreement that was put into city council in May of 2019 as a part of the FCA deal. And this is a part of the land swaps that we had to do in order to get that deal done. So my understanding is this is for another 15 years. So it will expire in about 2034 they've already from what I've seen previously, a mass probably 80% 90% of the land in the triangle area, which I believe is surrounded by Jerome Street, Conant, and I think that's what McNichols, East, McNichols. So within that triangle,
I'm very familiar with that area. And then what is the legal obligation. Are these, since this was part of the pea are we legally obligated to honor and provide first right of refusal or the actual let them execute the option when these properties do become
available? Yes. So as these properties come into our ownership, we have to let them know and give them the option to purchase at $87,120
per acre. Okay, and then what is their obligation for the disposition of these properties? Looking online, the Google Search indicates this property is, board is dilapidated. Are they required to comply with the dangerous buildings ordinance and then demolish? That's their goal.
Yes,
they are, they are expected to demolish and follow all the same standard procedures. We would make anyone
else okay. And then, do we have the list of all the properties that they have an update? Have an executed option on
I could get you a list. I have the map, but there is no list, so I can
the map and the list would be very, very helpful. Point of information to the parliamentarian. Can this be? Can the question be divided on this resolution? There is, is it possible to
get the parliamentarian copy of the resolution, and maybe this can be answered by LPD, because what I would like to do is get more information on these properties, not saying that I would vote no on this, but I do want to understand what's going on. And I would also like to release the bright more these,
if I may comment through madam president the chair, if beginning of what we bring back, that would be acceptable as well too. It wouldn't, it wouldn't cause a hindrance for the rest of the project.
Discussion member
Benson, and so then that becomes maybe a challenge for my colleagues who would like to see other, because this is a multi pronged resolution with different projects resulting from the approval of this. And so what I'm not trying to do is hold up others, but I also do need to get information about the property and the PA and the larger context around that piece. Madam
President, yes. Director Whitaker,
since it's come as a unified resolution dividing the contract, like we've said many times, it's not the prerogative of the council, so having it come back in a week divided makes a lot of sense. So you can then have multiple resolutions, some of which you want to vote up or down. All of them up or whatever, but, but you're not able to divide it yourself at the table,
okay? So discussion, can see discussion, so we can request that this resolution come back in a divided form. That
will be up to the administration. Yeah, it
could be up to the administration, and if they refuse to do it, then you you act accordingly. If, if, if the part that you don't like about it is objectionable. Typically, resolutions should come individually anyway, so that there you're not faced with contradictions within us one single resolution. So it's probably advisable that if you've got multiple projects and embedded in a single resolution, that they be subdivided, so that you have the option to vote your conscience on each individual project, as opposed to all of it united in one, okay,
and here's been my concern. So if this is to for your this council on this one, if we have obligated the season obligated via existing pea and that portion will be to we're not to pass, to continue to honor our obligation. What? Where's the liability for the city at that point?
Well, breach of contract. I mean, if you've got a contract, it requires you to take a certain course, and you don't follow the promises that you have agreed to within a contract, you've got problems potentially, you know, the other side can can ask for specific performance or take some other action in court. So it's a good idea to follow your promises. That's what I always say. Okay, thank
you very much. Um, motion to postpone the vote for one week, a motion to provide a draft resolution where the questions are divided.
And member Benson, do you? Discussion, okay, discussion. Member proton tape,
thank you. Get somebody from the water department to talk about, I don't think there's any time implication for a one week postponement, but what he's definitely like to know that information in advance before we approve a postponement for this particular item. All right, Mr. Smalley,
good afternoon. Sam Smalley, Deputy Director of Detroit water and sewerage, through the chair, there is not an impact if we wait one week for the resolution
I'm missing the actual number where it was just the water department, DWSD,
1912
1912 that's necessity resolution.
That's the necessity resolution. So how would I let that one go? Never mind.
Is your motion to postpone both 19 eight and 1912 Yes, okay. Okay. Is there any objections to postponing for one week 19 eight and 1912
member young to speak
to postponement, I just want to make sure this is just for one week. Yes, sir, right. We're not going to have this repeated. Okay, so make sure. Thank you.
Yeah. So discussion, yes, ma'am,
to address my colleagues concern, no, there's no intent to continue this on this for me, it's what I'm looking for one week in the next motion will be to provide a draft resolution that divides the question for city council to vote next week as well. Okay? On 19 eight, all
right, Hearing no objections, we will postpone 19.8 and 19 point 12 for one week discussion. All right. Member Benson through yourself
to the administration. Is there a problem with providing a draft resolution that divides the question on 19.8
uh through madam president to council member Benson. The only concern I just want to clarify maybe the city clerk or pro temp can answer is if I'm understanding correctly, if you want me to carve this resolution to maybe two separate resolutions that I believe I would have to submit to ped again, and I think it would have to flow through that. I don't know if anybody can confirm that or correct me.
Discussion through yourself, to the President, to Mr. Whitaker, I I'm not mistaken. They could submit the draft resolution. It could be accepted by this body at the table next Tuesday as well. So we can handle this transaction at this table. I haven't referred to Committee again.
The answer is yes, correct. Okay,
so then my question stands to you,
yep, yes. Roommate, I'm president to council member Benson. Yes, we can. We can amend this resolution and then split into two. Thank you.
All right, is there any objection to member Vince's motion?
Hearing none that action will be taken discussion member Johnson, thank you,
Madam President. I'd just like to reiterate or request from previously that any additional land or lots properties that were part of the FCA agreement with between crown. If you all can, please share that information with me as well. Thank you. Thank you, Madam President.
Thank you. Member Johnson discussion member Benson, I'd like to
ensure that some share with all
of my colleagues as well. Please.
All right. Thank you
for the president's report on standing committee referrals and other matters for the budget, Finance and Audit standing committee
three reports from various city departments. The three
reports will be referred for the internal operations. Standing Committee,
20 reports from various city departments.
The 20 reports will be referred for the Neighborhood and Community Services. Standing Committee,
one report from the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Office of Development and grants. The one report
will be referred for the Planning and Economic Development standing committee, five reports from various city departments. The five reports will be referred for the public health and safety standing committee,
11 reports from various city departments. The 11
reports will be referred to the committee under the consent agenda. There are no items Madam President, we will call for member reports.
There's a motion to suspend any objections. Objection the clerk would
know. Clerk will still note Madam President,
under 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 Johnson a resolution, line item 33.1
council member Johnson, thank you, Madam President, Move for approval,
Hearing no objections. The one resolution will be approved, and if there is nothing else to come before us today, I know our closed sessions for today were canceled, but there are no closed sessions this afternoon.
They were canceled because of the
opposing council had a conflict. And so they actually reached out to reschedule. Okay, so there's nothing else to come before us. Is there a motion to adjourn this meeting is adjourned.
