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Detroit City Council Formal Session, 5/6/2025
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So shut Your cell Phone. Everyone.
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Last Speaker,
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I Yvonne. Kylie, Yvonne, real quick presentation. Delta, so
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yes, are they talking about
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update from the public comment that group is here as well.
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What's that group? They'll go last, um,
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the public comment Group. I'll
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do that one last. You
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I'm saying that
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was pretty good. Good morning. Everyone all the seat of red in the building today.
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Sorority
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Incorporated. All right, let me do all the formalities first. Before we get into our presentations, we start this meeting properly. The regular session of Tuesday, May 6, 2025 will come to order with the clerk. Please call the roll customer
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free to hold the third roll. Council
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member Letitia Johnson present.
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Last name is cynical Romero present.
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Council member Mary Walters present.
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Council member Angela Whitfield Holloway
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council member, Coleman Young the second
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hospital, Tim James Tate here,
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and Council President Mary Sheffield. Council
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president did indicate that she would not be here today because of a emergency she had to take care
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of. So no, you have a quorum.
Speaker 2
Thank you, ma'am. We have a quorum, and we are now in session. Would like to introduce today's clergy. This is Reverend Casey Purcell Pierce. I apologize if I mispronounced the name, sir. He is of the Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church, sir. The floor is yours to open up today's session.
Speaker 4
Thank you. Thank you. Shall we pray Eternal God, we pause to acknowledge your presence in this space and to give you thanks for the opportunity to gather in service to the people of the city of Detroit. We thank you, God, for the men and women who have been entrusted with leadership in this city. God, God, we pray that you would grant them strength, vision and clarity of mind as they carry the weight of responsibility for those who they serve. Lord Your word says in Proverbs that without wise counsel, plans fail, but with many advisors, they succeed. So today, God, we pray for a spirit of wisdom, collaboration and understanding to guide every conversation and decision. Let this meeting be marked by Integrity, mutual respect and a shared commitment to justice, equality and the flourishing of every neighborhood and family that's across the city of Detroit. God, we ask for your grace to cover our challenges and your light to illuminate new solutions. May every decision made today reflect not not only what is practical, but what is honorable. God strengthen these leaders with compassion, compassion for the least, for the loss and the undeserved. And then God remind us all that leadership is stewardship of trust resources and people's lives. Bless this council, bless the citizens of Detroit and bless the future of this great city in Jesus name we pray amen.
Speaker 2
Man. Thank you so much, reverend. If you would like to stay, you are definitely welcome if you would have to go. We understand that as well. But thank you so much for today's invocation. Thank you for having me. Alright, we will begin our first presentation with member Santiago Romero. You have one for a organism for a business that has been in our community for decades. Floor is yours, man,
Speaker 5
thank you. Pro Tem, good morning. Everyone, good morning. Everyone, happy to see you all and yes, our pro tem is correct. I am excited and honored today to give flowers to a family, to a business leader here in our city who's done incredible work. I'm going to invite Kyle black, if you wouldn't mind there's a microphone right there, if you wouldn't mind standing and accepting the flowers that we have for you today, for folks who don't know about rollercade. Rollercade opened its doors on January 9, 1955 in the midst of the Civil Rights era, the Schaefer highway property in the Boynton neighborhood in 4217, was purchased and built as a skating rink in response to the pleas from Kyle's mother and her siblings. As a third generation owner, Kyle has run the rink Since 2012 over the last seven decades, he and his family have managed to keep the lights on during periods of disinvestments and shrinking populations feeling the city's vibrant skating culture despite the challenges, the roller cave remains one of the oldest, continually open black owned ranks in the country. It has been a popular destination for nearby community residents since it's opened, especially during its earlier days where it was known as one of the few space safe spaces for black residents, including young folks who would flock there to have some fun. It's also been known to attract many Motown stars, including members of the temptations. Kyle has said that they have a neighborhood first mindset, where they make sure to take care of people in the community first, and I know this to be true, witnessing their backpack their book bag giveaways and so much more, this approach to business is admirable and should serve as a model for others. We invest in businesses, and businesses invest in our neighborhoods. It's also one of the reasons why our office hosts our free annual front family friendly skate event there, and we've been there for the past three years. In addition to supporting this local business, we want to pour into those who pour into our community and into our residents. Roller Kate is more than just a skating ring. It is a community pillar, and I'm so, so happy that you're in four, two and seven, whether you're an advocate or an inspiring one like myself, if you're a single person, if you have a family with kids, they've got a lane for you. Check out their adult skate nights. They are family skate nights or skate lessons, or rent the rink for you and your family for your own events. Now, if you wouldn't mind congratulating Kyle joining me in congratulating Kyle and the entire roller K team for their 70th anniversary.
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You I actually, Kyle, they're all here for you, Kyle, just so you know, I am so proud and honored to be able to present you with the Spirit of Detroit award on behalf of myself and the entire Detroit City Council. Congratulations, Kyle, wondering if you want anything to share briefly or for my my colleagues have anything to share, if not Kyle, any words, if you would like to share it. There's a microphone in front of you, if you wouldn't mind clicking the button in the bottom. And when it turns green, it's on.
Speaker 6
I just want to say, thank you for the representation. Thank you for supporting us. Thank you to the soul Council for the great job you guys are doing for the city. And I just want to say, to say thank you to everybody who comes out and supports us week after week after week in the same location, doing the same thing, which is roller skating. And just thank you to everybody for the support, because we couldn't do it without the people. So people, first, City of Detroit first. Just take care everybody. Take care of your
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neighbors Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 5
Thank you, Kyle. Before you go, if my colleagues wouldn't mind taking a brief picture with Kyle and for folks that might have downtown Monroe skate rink, Kyle managed that so very, very grateful for doing that as well.
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So we'll sit down now take a quick picture with you. Okay, thanks everyone.
Speaker 2
We'll take the photos now, because we probably won't get a chance to take a picture with all the deltas. And want to let everyone know if you have a question, comment, concern, please raise your hand now. If you're at home or in person, raise your hand now. We will be cutting off the collection of public Comments shortly. You
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okay, so we will be cutting off a collection of public comments at this moment, and our next presentation is from none other than a organization is very special to me, especially in my household with my wonderful, beautiful, intelligent wife, make sure you tell her I said that Dr naturna Tate is a member of this phenomenal sorority that is none other than Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated
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Detroit alumni chapel,
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whose headquarters is also located in district one, so we also are very, very proud of you all. And today, the Social Action Committee is here to outline the seven social action priorities that has been implemented and those outcomes without further ado,
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Delta, sigma, theta E, A, C,
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our very own Edwina King.
Speaker 7
Thank you, President Pro Tem and this honorable body. Good morning. Good morning so again, good morning to this honorable body, residents of the city of Detroit and the Detroit Alumni Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated.
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Thank you. Hello, y'all too.
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My name is Edwina s King, and I currently serve the city of Detroit as an Associate Director of Legislative Affairs and equitable development for the planning and development department, but I am equally as proud to serve as a member of the dynamic Detroit Alumnae Chapter. And so it brings me great pleasure to bring grief greetings on behalf of the deltas that are employed by the city of Detroit. So I would ask, if you are a city of Detroit employee who so happens to be a member of this organization, and we're gonna include our retirees too, please stand.
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And we also have some that are attending in our virtual assembly as well. Thank you. So when thinking about remarks today, I have to acknowledge the intersectionality of what today means for us. So it's been that we stand before you first in honor of our sororities. May week. Additionally, it is National Public Service Week, but is also befitting that we are meeting in the ARMA Henderson auditorium, a room named after our beloved soror, who was also the first black woman elected to the Detroit City Council and later became council president. I so much like the women on this body, we the city of Detroit, deltas are her legacy. We're a cadre of hard working women. Close to 50 of us work for the city of Detroit, representing all three branches of government, and that's not including deltas that serve on various boards and commissions. We do what we do because we love Detroit and we are dedicated to public service. 24/7, 365, and 366, on elite year, social action. Social Action is not only what we do, it is who we are, what we love, and we each do our part to make our city a better place. So to this honorable body and our colleagues at the city of Detroit, thank you for your tireless service to our citizens and to you, we say Happy National Public Service Week to our sorors, because yes, we work as hard for the city, as we do for our beloved Delta. Welcome to our home, away from home, and Happy May week to each of you, to our residents, know that we are a sisterhood always called to serve, and it is our absolute honor to do so. Know that we are always here and willing to fight for you, and so if you ever see a woman in red, just know we're going to always go the extra mile. So again, thank you so much to this honorable body. I also want to especially acknowledge President Sheffield, who extended us the invitation to be here today. And so with that being said, I pass it to none under none other than our president Stephanie L Williams, thank you. Thank
Speaker 7
Good 
morning. I am Stephanie L Williams, the president of the dynamic Detroit Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated is a private non for profit organization whose purpose is to provide assistance and support through established programs in local communities worldwide. We are a sisterhood of predominantly black college educated women, and more than 300,000 women have joined the organization since its founding. The sorority has over 1000 collegiate and Alumni Chapter, international chapters. Detroit has one Alumni Chapter and two undergraduate chapters doing work in our community. These chapters include the Detroit Alumni Chapter, tall chapter of Wayne State University, and the delta psi chapter of University of Detroit, Mercy Lawrence Tech and the University of Michigan. Dearborn, the major programs of the sorority are based upon the organization's five programmatic thrusts, economic development, physical and mental health, educational development, political awareness and involvement, and international awareness and involvement, the dynamic Detroit alumni chapters history is we were chartered on May 13, 1939 as Alpha Pi Sigma Chapter, and was renamed Detroit Alumnae Chapter in 1958 Detroit alumni, which celebrated its 85th soon to be 86th anniversary, is one of the largest chapters in the sorority, With membership averaging close to 800 Detroit deltas annually. You
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morning. I am Stephanie L Williams, the president of the dynamic Detroit Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated is a private non for profit organization whose purpose is to provide assistance and support through established programs in local communities worldwide. We are a sisterhood of predominantly black college educated women, and more than 300,000 women have joined the organization since its founding. The sorority has over 1000 collegiate and Alumni Chapter, international chapters. Detroit has one Alumni Chapter and two undergraduate chapters doing work in our community. These chapters include the Detroit Alumni Chapter, tall chapter of Wayne State University, and the delta psi chapter of University of Detroit, Mercy Lawrence Tech and the University of Michigan. Dearborn, the major programs of the sorority are based upon the organization's five programmatic thrusts, economic development, physical and mental health, educational development, political awareness and involvement, and international awareness and involvement, the dynamic Detroit alumni chapters history is we were chartered on May 13, 1939 as Alpha Pi Sigma Chapter, and was renamed Detroit Alumnae Chapter in 1958 Detroit alumni, which celebrated its 85th soon to be 86th anniversary, is one of the largest chapters in the sorority, With membership averaging close to 800 Detroit deltas annually. You Speaker 7
success is chartering Detroit deltas have instituted programs and projects that have significantly benefited the residents of the city. These have included motivated or innovative efforts like the Detroit home for girls, which more than 40 years focus or house young girls who have been removed from their homes and and by the courts, the Detroit Delta Preparatory Academy for social justice, a College Preparatory High School. Delta prep was the nation's first school created by a national Panhandle Council organization and delta Manor, a senior citizens apartment building that has served residents since 1989 Detroit Alumnae Chapter service areas include Detroit, Hamtramck, Harper Woods, Highland Park and the growth points we proudly serve our community and are blessed and graced to be here today. Thank you. I will call up next our social action chair, sort Kimberly e Fisher,
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good morning City Council fellow sorors and distinguished guests. My name is Kimberly e Fisher, and I'm the Social Action chair at the Detroit L, M E chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated. I'm honored to welcome you to the Detroit Delta days of 2025 thank you for allowing us the opportunity to be present and recognized during today's session, Delta women have always believed in the power of policy and the importance of place. That's why we're here at the seat of city government to show our support, express our gratitude, and strengthen our partnership with those who lead Detroit forward as a chapter, we are committed to advocacy, accountability and action. Our sorority's commitment to social justice is not new. It's embedded in our very foundation for marching for voting rights in 1913 to but to fighting for environmental justice today, social action has always been at the heartbeat of delta. So before I go any further, I'd like to begin my brief presentation with a look back at where it all started, the powerful history of social action within DST, our founders formed Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated to become a viable force in the movement for 
social change. Less than two months after our founding in 1913 Delta's first public act was to participate in the women's suffrage March. By December 1927 we established the National Vigilance Committee, and in night in 1933 a coalition of organizations formed a joint committee on National Recovery to monitor hearings on the Federal Labor codes. By the end of 1963 Delta social action and education program had been revised to establish the new, groundbreaking social action commission. All of the work that we do in social action is funded by our seven social action issue priorities, which are voting and civic engagement, reproductive freedom, education, economic justice, environmental justice, health equity and reimagining public safety on a national level, in 2003 Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated became the first black Greek letter organization designated an NGO by the United Nations. For 21 years, special consultative status as an NGO has allowed the sorority to host Delta days at the UN to provide analysis and expertise in monitoring and implementing international agreements on issues of mutual concern. Our global outreach began in 1963 with the financing of the FICA maternity hospital in Kenya. Our advocacy has influenced the passing of 
HR 1073 honoring Shirley Chisholm in 2023 and HR one zero, 88 Shirley chicken gold medal act on a state level, Detroit, deltas were instrumental in introducing expungement and road to restoration efforts in the state of Michigan. This successful exposure was pivotal in influencing other Delta chapters and organizations, including the city of Detroit, to offer the same services to residents. Additionally, our advocacy led to the passage of public act 193, of 2020. Collectively known as the Michigan Clean Slate act. Our advocacy has influenced the passing of House Bill 616012, the expansion of school safety fundings and Senate Bill 367374, early voting bills. We are the bomb.com social action, and for us, we are the first to facilitate expungement and road to restoration clinics, the only divine nine organization to be a part of the City of Detroit's 2020, census complete count committee. And we're instrumental in educating Detroiters on state redistricting efforts. We also do economic justice. We have a skilled trades fair tomorrow. So we thank you, City of Detroit, city council, for hosting us and for the continuous work you in the city of Detroit. We look forward to partnering with you and all like minded organizations to continue making Detroit a city that's better for all of us. I bring back Michigan State Secretary.
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social change. Less than two months after our founding in 1913 Delta's first public act was to participate in the women's suffrage March. By December 1927 we established the National Vigilance Committee, and in night in 1933 a coalition of organizations formed a joint committee on National Recovery to monitor hearings on the Federal Labor codes. By the end of 1963 Delta social action and education program had been revised to establish the new, groundbreaking social action commission. All of the work that we do in social action is funded by our seven social action issue priorities, which are voting and civic engagement, reproductive freedom, education, economic justice, environmental justice, health equity and reimagining public safety on a national level, in 2003 Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated became the first black Greek letter organization designated an NGO by the United Nations. For 21 years, special consultative status as an NGO has allowed the sorority to host Delta days at the UN to provide analysis and expertise in monitoring and implementing international agreements on issues of mutual concern. Our global outreach began in 1963 with the financing of the FICA maternity hospital in Kenya. Our advocacy has influenced the passing of +1
HR 1073 honoring Shirley Chisholm in 2023 and HR one zero, 88 Shirley chicken gold medal act on a state level, Detroit, deltas were instrumental in introducing expungement and road to restoration efforts in the state of Michigan. This successful exposure was pivotal in influencing other Delta chapters and organizations, including the city of Detroit, to offer the same services to residents. Additionally, our advocacy led to the passage of public act 193, of 2020. Collectively known as the Michigan Clean Slate act. Our advocacy has influenced the passing of House Bill 616012, the expansion of school safety fundings and Senate Bill 367374, early voting bills. We are the bomb.com social action, and for us, we are the first to facilitate expungement and road to restoration clinics, the only divine nine organization to be a part of the City of Detroit's 2020, census complete count committee. And we're instrumental in educating Detroiters on state redistricting efforts. We also do economic justice. We have a skilled trades fair tomorrow. So we thank you, City of Detroit, city council, for hosting us and for the continuous work you in the city of Detroit. We look forward to partnering with you and all like minded organizations to continue making Detroit a city that's better for all of us. I bring back Michigan State Secretary. Speaker 7
Thank you for we were very concise. Yeah, so we are proud of us, but it's just a bit of what we've done as an organization for more than 100 as as a matter of fact, 112 years, and then as a chapter for 86 years. And so again, in honor of National Public Service Week, we would like to honor each and every one of you.
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And so first,
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we would like to present this to none other than our city clerk, Janice and Winfrey. So we're going to give it.
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And so we understand President Sheffield is unable to be here, but we definitely send our love and our gratitude. So this is for you, President Sheffield, thank you. So he who have finded a Delta finded him a wise woman. And I have to say this. So before I had my current position, I work for the president pro tem, and his office was known as the Delta office because all of the women in his office did the right thing. So,
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so this
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is for you, President Pro Tem,
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and he who has a mom as a delta, she also did the right thing. And so we're going to give this to none other than the honorable Coleman and Alexander young the second. And for a woman who also shares our advocacy for the scale trays, honorable Mary waters, we like to present this to you, and so to our sister and greet them. But more importantly, an advocate for District Two, she's not here, so we're going to give it to your staffer. But this is for the honorable Angela Whitfield Callaway and so to the one that represents the third district, my district, and Kim's district, one of the hardest working men on the east side, we're going to give it to the honorable Scott Benson. And likewise, to the hardest working woman on the east side representing the District Four. We're going to pass this to the honorable Letitia Johnson. And so for those who are very familiar with Southwest Detroit, you could not have a but a better advocate in council member Gabriella Santiago Romero, so we're going to give this to you. And no, that's not an endorsement, because it's not. But more importantly, we're going to give this to the one that represents the district seven, and again, hard working individual, honorable Fred der Hall The third and so we also want to honor someone who is also amongst our ranks. She works very hard here on the 13th floor. She's also the most senior Delta out of those in our organization, and it is none other than Ann ivory, Calvert, we love you.
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You. Thank you for your dedication to not only us at the city of Detroit, but more importantly, to our sisterhood. We love you and again, thank you for the opportunity to speak. Thank you.
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Thank you to the Detroit deltas all the work you do and will continue to do in the city of Detroit.
Speaker 7
We appreciate you so much and I forgot to include as well. We also gave one to the Honorable Mayor, Duggan, who's the mayor of the city of Detroit.
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All right,
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so colleagues, I said that we probably wouldn't have an opportunity to take this photo. We're gonna make sure we take a photo with the deltas today, and so yep, and I'm going to bring down. So we're going to make sure we go down, and we're going to have all of the ladies, if you can stay in your seats, actually, we can kind of get closer together, and then the council will be in front of you, and we'll take the photo in the opposite direction. So we're going to we're going to free, free free play. But before we go, we want to leave empty handed, because Council President left behind. She was not able to be here. But there is a but there is a Spirit of Detroit award for the Detroit Alumni Chapter.
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Colleagues. Any words before we go and take our photo again, we just want to thank you so much. Expungement skills, traders, you name it, you've done so much education. I remember water, yeah,
Speaker 8
so, so good morning. You listen. I am always, literally always thrilled to see deltas. I am Yes, so, so, thank you all so very much for all that you do and and I know that I've had an opportunity to work with some of you throughout the years. I'm a breast cancer survivor. You've done a lot of work in that area. I'm certainly quite familiar with with your school and with Delta Manor. So we share quite a bit in common. And if you live here in the D all of you are my boss.
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Thank you so much, deltas,
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and we look forward to continuing to work with you and all the wonderful things that you do. You can count on me to be there. Thank you,
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colleagues. There's no other let's go take a photo. You member Benson, just quick, I
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just want to say thank you all. Thank you for this recognition, this award today, and then just really wanted to acknowledge Delta Manor being in that space for such a long time, supporting some of my most vulnerable residents right here in the city of Detroit. This really shows the cutting edge before thinking of Your organization and sorority. Thank you All very much.
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right, everybody right here at this camera, right here, hold that,
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Hold on one more. They know what the magic word is. Slow it down, just a little bit step and move it, yeah, and tilt it towards me. Tilt your awards towards me so I can see them all, please.
Speaker 7
Yeah, just tilt them down a little bit so you can see him. They got in like here we go. Once more and 123,
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Speaker 2
Thank you all so much. We are going to continue our meeting. We're about to continue our meeting. We have a third presentation, and that is regarding the solar, solar legal update is what I have here. And I think we have representatives that are coming before us now. Come on down.
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Thank you again. DST, you
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Cooperation Council, how do you how do you top that? How do you top that? You gotta come after that.
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gotta hit that mic to the turn green. There you go.
Speaker 13
Good morning for the record, Conrad Malik, Corporation Council, City of Detroit, and if I might, as a matter of just a quick matter of personal privilege, Mr. President Pro Tem, I want to remind the deltas who are leaving that my mother is the delta. My sister Lydia is the delta. Now, on the flip side, my wife, Denise, is an AKA, and as is my aunt jack. So we kind of got it balanced all out.
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So the
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the I'm glad actually, to be given the opportunity to give the legal update, because it is not off, Mr. President Pro Tem and for the other members of the council, that something that we jointly authorize as both a legislative body and administration works in the way that we intend. And I can't, and I have to say that this is gone about as smoothly as anything that we have conceived. No one is ever, ever, ever, ever going to be totally happy with the outcomes. But everything that we said we would do, we've done. Everything that we said we would do, we continue to do and we said we were going to do, we continue to do in phase two. And frankly, the work product that is being delivered is one that I think that every member of this Council and the administration collectively can be proud of. Phase one legal update, we required all 965
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phase one parcels, including 245
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privately owned parcels. It is true that we have filed 104 condemnation complaints. We are in possession of all of the parcels and all of the occupants, all of the occupants that were in these buildings, if there were any, and it's not, and it's not 100% all of them have been successfully relocated. Site control will be timely turned over to developers to allow construction to begin as planned. The city is litigating just compensation disputes in 23 condemnation cases, including 41 parcels, 20 of which are owned by a single landowner. I'm not naming that landowner today, but this is someone that all of you are familiar with. This one person owns this land, as he owns many parcels throughout the city. So we have out of the 4120, are owned by a single person, and all of these, eventually, through the condemnation process, will be disposed of. There are 430 parcels in phase two, including 104 privately owned possible parcels. 27 of the phase two parcels have structures. Seven of the structures are owned by the Detroit Land Bank, which will soon be transferring these properties to the city. 11 of the structures were owned by Pr es, all of whom have entered into voluntary agreements. Nine of the structures are owned either by landlords or vacant five of which, five of the landlord holdings have entered into voluntary agreements. The remaining four landlord owned or vacant structures will be acquired through condemnation. The city has secured eight tenant relocation agreements to reload tenant households. Some of these properties are multi family and are required, and thus required to have more than one tenant relocation agreement. 403 of the phase two parcels are vacant lots. 322 of the vacant lots are owned by governmental entities. The bulk of these owned by the Detroit Land Bank, which will soon transfer the properties. 81 of the vacant parcels are owned by private owners. 37 of these private owners have entered into voluntary agreements with the city of Detroit. The remaining 47 lots will be required be acquired through condemnation, one single landlord owns 18 of the 47 the city has filed 47 phase two condemnation complaints, 44 vacant lots and three into three lots with structures on occupy the city may need to file an additional four condemnation cases, three vacant lots and one occup, one structure unoccupied, depending on the outcome of negotiations, the city is current in all of our filings, and we expect To begin the service of condemnation complaint in May, the process of phase two voluntary acquisitions is almost complete, and we anticipate all real estate closings will be completed within 60 days, and all relocations completed within 90 Based on the status today, we anticipate that site control will be timely turned over to the developers. That's phase one. That's phase two. We are on course. We are on time. I remember distinctly making the commitment to council person waters and to all of the members of this honorable body, that any owner occupied, that all owner occupied structures, would enter into voluntary agreements and would not be condemned. We have kept that commitment. This process has worked swimmingly. I And I think that the bottom line is, is that what we anticipated in terms of the process really has worked well, as can be expected. There is always going to be litigation. Unfortunately, the city of Detroit is burdened by land speculators, some of whom you know well, some of them are recent participants in that business, some of whom whose only desire is to disrupt this process. But it's a legal process. The process that is driven by notice. It's a process that's managed by the court. It's a process that is completely transparent. And so with that, Mr. President Pro Tem ladies and gentlemen, whatever questions you have about the process, I'll be glad to answer. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2
I may have missed it, and I apologize if I did. It was this report emailed to us? Or do you have the ability to send all of that information to us so we can have
Speaker 13
I absolutely can, Mr. President Pro Tem I'm not sure if it was emailed to you. I'll confirm that and make sure that it happens
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that will be helpful so we can provide it to residents who have questions about the program in one document itself. And then the other question I have is, I know that there have been a number of folks who did again relocate. Do Is there any data to show whether they relocated in Detroit or outside of the city?
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That was always a concern of mine.
Speaker 13
We'll send that. Can we say, Mr. Stein, whether or not is the majority. You think the majority stayed in the state, Mr. President, but we can give you the precise breakdown.
Speaker 2
Okay, yeah, if we can get both of those together, that'd be very helpful. All right, Colleagues, any questions, comments, concern, we'll start to my left with member Santiago. Thank you,
Speaker 5
pro time. Good morning. Good morning. Thank you for the update on the process of acquiring properties. Have we started the installation of solar? Yet?
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The the installation of this? No, not yet. Okay, when will
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that begin? And do we foresee any issues, given the cost of everything going up?
Speaker 13
So we got a contract council person, and so we're people are going to have to adhere to the terms of the contract. And so we don't expect costs to go up, because the contracts all have been signed and the contract, in fact, approved by this honorable body. We expect construction to begin
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end of this summer, the Chair. Thank you. So we should expect no changes, then asking for any other resources, because we have our contract sets. Yes, ma'am, thank you. The other question is, are we still working with the same organizations that we were part that we were told we're going to be the partners are going to be working with yes lifestyle and DTE, yes, ma'am, okay, and have we expanded the partners at all? Are we going to be for? We're going to stay with those partners then moving forward,
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or for phase one and phase two? Yes, absolutely.
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Okay. All right. Thank you Pro Tem.
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Thank you member Johnson,
Speaker 14
thank you, Mr. President, and thank you for the update. I would like to ask if you have any sense of the percent of vacant land that was owned by the city when we started this process, because a lot of times we hear that residents are concerned about their land being taken. And why don't we go into an area where the city owns the land? I think a lot of people just automatically assume that when we see vacant land, that all of it is owned by the city, and then we have entities that say, Okay, no, this is mine. That's mine, what have you. But if you can provide the percentage of the land that was already publicly owned that will give us a better sense of what has transpired. I appreciate you sharing the numbers relative to the individuals where you're filing kind of condemnation suits for but would like to get an understanding of that, and then just want to say thank you to the team for always being responsive to those individual concerns that do pop up, and making sure that this is a fair process that we've been going through all along. I have had a couple of individuals that you know your the team is aware of, but we've been able to work through those and address them on an individual basis, and it looks like, thus far, everyone is happy in District Four. So certainly do appreciate the hard work that you all have put into this and making sure that this is a fair process. Thank
Speaker 13
you, council person, and we will get you those percentages. I can say that for the vacant properties in phase one and phase two, the vast majority of them were owned by DVLA.
Speaker 14
Okay, thank you. And I just want to make sure they can land is identified. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank
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you member Benson.
Speaker 9
Thank you pro tem. And then thank you all for being here today with this information, just a couple questions. When we talked about the community benefits for those who are not within the actual development footprint, can we talk about how that process is going when it comes to new roofs, when it came to actually helping to secure the envelope of these homes, many of which are well over 60 to 70 years old. How is that process going?
Unknown Speaker
So I think generally,
Speaker 13
it's going quite well, but for specifics, if I might invite Tricia Stein, up you.
Speaker 15
I thank you.
Speaker 16
Through President program to member Benson, there are we're over halfway done with the energy efficiency upgrades. In phase one, we have done 81 assessments out of the 159 let me speak up here. Thank you, sir. So 159 homes are in phase one that surround the solar areas, and those three, we've done 81 assessments. Again, that's something that Councilmember Johnson was very much interested in, that we did the 360 look at the homes and make sure that we take a look at everything and get all the opportunities available. So we're halfway through all of those assessments, and we're working through the process to get them approved through our bridging neighborhoods, our subject matter experts here in the city, to make sure that they also are doing checks and balances. We've had homeowners signed off on those 11 times have signed off on the scopes of work, and six are underway right now, having that work done, three have been completed. So we feel very much that we are on track. We are able to also layer some opportunities that are available through energy efficiency dollars that DTE has. There's some other state available, opportunities that are available. So we've been able to braid and blend exactly what was aspirational that we talked about a few months ago. But we're doing it. And then for phase two, we are just getting ready to start. We have six homes that are either ready for assessment or those assessments have started. So we also are on track for phase two, and has just started that. We start at the beginning of May and and we've done it here on May 6. We're already underway.
Speaker 9
And can you be more specific about the actual improvements? I got a couple of my bosses who were here today and really glad to know that they have successfully gone through the process. And so just wanted to give more specifics on what actually the homeowners can expect and are receiving.
Speaker 16
Yeah, excellent question. Through President Pro Tem to you member Benson, you're going to hear from them directly during public comment. They are here. They want to share their story, but we're talking about full electrical upgrades. We've done a full electrical knob and tube wiring has been updated with electro boxes. We've got new furnaces, new AC, new roofs, insulation, doors, windows. There has been a whole gambit of energy efficiency upgrades. Again, meeting residents where they are, they have fully participated in this process with the assessment and sitting down, talking through the scope of work and getting their sign off. And as I said, I continue to be amazed that all the aspirational work that we talked about is now coming for to fruition. And I am very excited that you're going to hear from them during public comment, and they'll tell you themselves, all right,
Speaker 9
and then just knowing the third district out of the five solar farms this time next year, three will be located in third district. So it's really proud to know that we could play a huge role when it comes to putting clean energy back into the system. And in addition, what is the total investment into these neighborhoods as part of this program?
Speaker 16
Yeah, so the total investment not only for the development themselves, but also the surrounding is millions of dollars. So this is again, we're repositioning, repurposing land to be clean energy and eliminate blight and in stabilize that area, that most of those streets just had one or two homes on it. But then we've also been able to put millions of dollars in those homes that surround it, to really be able to invest in that neighborhood in a very substantial way, again, not just the solar, but surrounding it. And then there's local jobs. And so that benefit is also in an additive, and of course, environmentally So, reducing greenhouse gasses by producing clean energy and then also the public health
Speaker 9
benefits. Remember during the conversations when the health department came and talked about how important this is to improving the clean air within the region and within the state of Michigan. I just want to acknowledge my bosses, who were here again. I also know that there was a story on NPR about the what they saw as a downside of this, and I believe that some of those homeowners are here today. I'm hoping that we'll take this opportunity to reach out and talk to them to see if we can address those concerns and bring a resolution to what they're identifying as a problem. So thank you all for being here. Thank you to the city of Detroit for being the tip of the spear in this space. We just left Philadelphia as an organization, the green Task Force, and we heard what they're doing, and they talk about doing clean energy, but their investments are 70 miles outside of the city of Philadelphia. What we're doing is right here in the city of Detroit, which to them, was amazing that we're able to do this and have this type of impact and this type of community benefits for our residents who are here and in person. This is when you can feel it. This is visceral. This is how we do develop in the city of Detroit, and how we use equity, lead with equity, which is something we learned about we were in Seattle with the green Task Force. Just really happy to see what we're doing here. We continue to do this. Thank you
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very much. Thank you.
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Thank you. Member waters,
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thank you.
Speaker 8
I just want to know if you know, there's been a couple of groups that came down and said that is one family particularly said was their family home. I'm concerned about that. I want to better understand
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what happened with that. Did they
Speaker 8
if I don't want to just interject my own thoughts, I just want to know what really happened. I
Speaker 13
so Council through President Pro Tem to Corporate
Speaker 2
Council, if you can pull the mic down, thank you.
Speaker 13
So I'm just going to read the write up that we produce council person waters and and make sure then that it gets distributed to the members of this honorable body. 19212, Danbury was foreclosed by Wayne County, the final judgment, the final judgment of non appealable flow foreclosure was March 31 2024 the notice of judgment of of foreclosure was recorded August 19, 2024 the property was added to phase one of the solar project after it was foreclosed, after it was foreclosed and acquired by the county, then the city began the process to acquire the property from the county in july 2024, and four Chief of Staff, Raymond Solomon, visited the property more than a few times to determine whether or not it was occupied. During these visits, Mr. Solomon encountered a man who was living in a camper trailer at the property, but the house was uninhabited. The man who was living in the camper later abandoned the property, leaving it completely uninhabited. All
Speaker 2
right, we're not gonna so you can. You can leave the auditorium. If you have to scream out, we'll give you an opportunity during public comment. He can be wrong, but you can say that during public comment, you don't scream out. So you have an opportunity, not a problem at all. You have an opportunity to say everything you need to say within your time. So thank you for being here, though. Appreciate you absolutely. Corporation Council on
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August 24 2024
Speaker 13
a quick claim deed regarding the property was recorded, the quick claim deed was transferred and transferred the interest of the former owners to the county. The county had acquired the property through foreclosure, and therefore the former property owners based on the claim they had had no legal effect, and because the county was the owner of the property at the time it was added to the project, no member of the former owner's family received an offer to purchase on october 29 of 2024 the Wayne County transfer. Wayne County Treasurer transferred the property to the city through a quick claim deed that was recorded because the city acquired the property directly from the county. There was no condemnation action to acquire the property in fee simple on October 30, the city employee found a message from the former owners where she claimed to be the owner of the property per the August 24 quit claim deed, the investigation done by the project team where it was determined that the quit claim deed conveying the property to the former owner had no legal effect because of the county's tax foreclosure. At the end of the day, council person is president pro tem. This is not a circumstance where the city did anything wrong. We acquired this property from the Wayne County Treasurer as everyone on this body, honorable body knows, the city of Detroit is not responsible for the foreclosure process that is managed 100% by the Wayne County Treasurer. One thing I do want to remind this honorable body, which I know that You very well know, because of all of the property tax discussions that occur here, the process of foreclosure by the Wayne County Treasurer is based on a three year notification process. And so there was a question that came up in one of the public meetings that I attended. Well, what is the process for getting the property back once it's been foreclosed on? That's a process managed by the Wayne County Treasurer. And if you don't get it back after three years and there is a final foreclosure sale, it is non appealable, so that persons who buy the property from the Wayne County Treasurer have certainty that they are getting getting complete in full title. That's the process we manage. That is the entity that we dealt with that is the inspection that we did. That's the result that we know, based on our records, to be the case, and that completely, ladies and gentlemen, is where we are. We own the property. Got the property from the Wayne County Treasurer. The Wayne County Treasurer did whatever the Wayne County Treasurer does over the course of three years. Then the city required the property whatever quit claim deed was produced by the previous owners had no legal validity, and the quit claim deed that we received in the county was the one that the city recorded. There was nothing nefarious about this process. There was nothing about this process where there was any intent to play hide the ball. We followed the process as it was laid out in front of us.
Speaker 8
All right, thank you, Corporation council for explaining it to all of us. The second thing I just want to ask about is Greek state firms there, there are a couple people saying that they didn't agree to it and so forth. Well, they at least offer some upgrades for those that are remaining there, I just want to better understand that, because I continue to receive feedback from from that area.
Speaker 13
So unless they are in the circle of interest around where the solar farms are going to go then, no, they are not included in the upgrade process. And grixdale was not included. Okay,
Speaker 8
green, green view. What about Greenfield?
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Greenfield?
Speaker 13
Yeah, so we're working, we're working through that process, and in the process of dealing with the homeowners in the structured area that will receive benefits beyond those whose property is either being purchased or condemn.
Speaker 8
Okay, all right. Okay. Thank you. Thank
Speaker 2
you. Any additional colleagues Seeing none we want to thank you for the update to the administration, and I'm sure we'll follow up with additional questions and looking, certainly looking forward to that memo. Yes,
Unknown Speaker
sir. Response, no problem. Thank you very again,
Speaker 2
our colleagues, the Journal of the session of Tuesday, April 22 2025 shall be approved. There being no reconsideration or unfinished business. We will proceed to the budget audit, budget Finance and Audit standing committee. I uh,
Speaker 17
Mr. President, 39 reports from various city departments.
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The 39
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report shall be referred.
Speaker 2
There we go. 39 reports will be referred to the budget, Audit and Finance. Standing Committee for the internal operations. Standing Committee
Speaker 7
eight reports from various city departments. The
Speaker 2
eight reports will be referred to the internal operations. Standing Committee for the Neighborhood and Community Services. Standing Committee, seven reports from various city departments, I'm clerk. The seven reports will be referred to the neighborhood and community services. Standing Committee for the Planning and Economic Development, standing committee
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seven reports from various city departments. The seven
Speaker 2
reports should be referred to the Planning and Economic Development, standing committee for the public health and safety. Standing Committee
Speaker 7
28 reports from various city departments. 28
Speaker 2
reports shall be referred to the public health and safety standing committee will now move to the voting action items under other matters, there are no items. Mr. President, under communications from the mayor and other governmental officials and agencies,
Speaker 18
there are no items. Mr. President, thank you. We will now call for
Speaker 2
public comment. Wanna let everyone know we do have 45 excuse me, 46 public comments, a mixture of online in person. We will start with those who are in person today and our first speaker, Danielle Merces, apologize in advance to everyone if I mispronounce your name, please don't. Don't hesitate to correct me next that will be David, piano ski. Piano ski, and then third will be famous. Hadley, again, I apologize if I'm mispronouncing a floor is yours. Danielle, thank
Speaker 19
you. Good morning. This is my third time speaking on the Detroit solar scam. I'm getting angry that nothing's being done about the compensation I should be legally entitled to, I should have been eligible for the buyback program, the distressed owner occupant extension payment plan and the six months redemption period. Just like every other Detroit resident, I received from a register quickly, indeed, it states the words file page with a question mark after it and the word false. I researched the meaning of that, and it's a Windows program to hide data, and I looked up my information about it on the Register of Deeds website, no information showed up. So what are they hiding? My receipt for the quick claim deed was never signed,
Unknown Speaker
and my case number isn't in the system.
Speaker 19
That's not a coincidence. The city is trying to cover up their wrongdoing. Why would the city purchase it for $17,799.52 just to demolish it when the non homestead value is $6,246 and it still isn't demolished, which was their excuse for forcing me out. Danielle, just
Speaker 2
wanted to let you know I did not get a chance to say how long, so I do apologize for that. It's everyone will get a minute 30. A minute 30. So we started, I believe, with two minutes, cut me off. I'll be back next week. We welcome you back, but we're just going to make sure I'm fair with everyone
Unknown Speaker
that was their excuse for forcing me out. Let's, let's
Unknown Speaker
get that the clock correct first.
Speaker 2
All right, the floor is yours. Thank you so much, and I apologize in advance. So we keep
Speaker 19
going. You may proceed. Yes, so I have an invoice dated September 22 addressed to my parents, even though my quickly indeed was produced and recorded on August 23 not 24th like you said, that doesn't line up. I have copies of the Blight violations dated June 28 addressed to my parents, even though the land bank has owned the house since April 1. So the city find themselves and are threatening to sue my parents regardless. But when I go out on the website to make a payment, the account doesn't exist. I have screenshots of that, if you want to see. I have a notice of unpaid judgment dated October 9. Also that also states my parents names on it and respondents.
Unknown Speaker
Thank you. We'll make sure you have additional time next
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time the floor is yours,
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following planets will be Haley Henry,
Speaker 20
morning, God bless Blessed be in blessed three my sons don't foster care over this, I never met nobody out of no trailer, not none. I was the man in the trailer, that man standing here earlier, that left that will not confront back lies bottom line. We own that house which has chance to get all back. Every procedure of this procedure has been wrong. I've owned numerous businesses the city of Detroit, 61 West Palmer, largest tattoo shop in Michigan, first tattoo school in Michigan. I put my assets hungry for toys, feed the families. All right, I don't even know what to say. I mean, we need relocation. My son said, foster care. Over this. We did every blank education. I got hernia surgery done. I'm at six o'clock to six, six in the morning, three in the morning, at six below zero, climbing on the things. Now I have to have surgery again, and now we don't even have a home. Why do I have to go through this pain? Why does my family have to go through this? We've been there for almost 20 years. I came from Inkster and put back into the city. Foundations in the city occupy Detroit with 16 homes, 16 different families and houses stolen back, back when occupy Detroit was actually able to grab a house and recondition it from everything that we have from the city, so that when people could have a functional home delivery squatters rights, which is gone now, takes 10 years to get a squatters rights. You get nothing back. Detroit has disappointed me. I came from Inkster, a ghetto, a real ghetto. Detroit was a nice neighborhood, and this is BS, this bottom line. PS, my family's suffering, suffering. Next
Speaker 2
speaker, Dennis Hadley, Venus. Hadley Davis. Hadley, thank you. My apologies. Good
Speaker 21
morning city council and good morning mayor. Duggan, wherever you are, thank you. I'm from phase one. My upgrade has been completed. Everything is done. The contractors did a wonderful job. I have a ENERGY STAR furnace. I have an ENERGY STAR water heater. That's that's shorter than me. I have four windows that's been replaced, that's been there for 48 years, that's never been open, replaced. I have
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two carbon monoxide
Speaker 21
detectors and three more smoke alarms in my home, I feel warm. I feel the difference already in the warmth in my house. My house, we have a new love affair. We're getting married in two weeks,
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and you're all invited.
Speaker 12
Please call Thank you. Thank you.
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Haley Henley.
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Haley, Henley,
Speaker 18
everyone. My name is Haley hilly, and I've been in support of the solar program all along, and my work is complete, and I'm happy now I can go in my kitchen and cook. I had electrical work done. I no longer have to run extension cords, and I had insulation done. I don't have to worry about water in my basement. And I'm thankful for the program, and I want to thank everyone that put up the effort to make it work, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Unknown Speaker
Thank you. Thank you.
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Dear McCluskey.
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Good morning Council. Applause.
Speaker 10
Okay, so in 2023 you guys came out with an RFP mentioning an RFP would happen in the future on city land for solar, that was part of your Detroit climate strategy. That's not even two years ago that it was mentioned that it could be an RFP. You guys have 1800 acres that's in lots, over 10 acres in size 457, acres that is not mowed or maintained. You have more than enough land already. You didn't have to take people's property. You wouldn't even have to mess with the likes of Mike Kelly, and I will say his name because it takes someone like Mike Kelly to be big enough to fight back against you guys. People like Danielle don't stand a chance, unfortunately. And you guys are really positioning neighbors against each other. You're giving some people something so they turn on the rest of the neighborhood, so you guys can just roll through and take it anyway. The last two big condemnation projects that have happened, 375, I 375 it's taken 10 years to determine what to do with the land, how to redevelop it. Gordie Howe has taken 18 years. This project's been rushed through, really in less than a year from its conception to the date of condemnation. If you guys have all this money, I would like to know what's happened to Mr. Sky, Mrs. Key plant. It's still there. It still stands, and it was just said by by the attorney that this site controls, turn over to private developers. That's been taken away. You're not allowed to do that thanks to the reversal of poletown.
Speaker 22
Years ago, as many of you remember, the city spent $400 million to prep the steland as plant with promises that they would be environmentally sensitive and care for the neighborhood, and they failed for years and years, and there was not accountability at the local or state level to penalize them to protect the health of People who had to be hospitalized from respiratory problems.
Unknown Speaker
We have a problem with
Speaker 22
somebody who's been a serial land abuser in this city for decades, the maroon family now trying putting in a cement mixing plant operating one on East Side at six and Conant and they've cleared 43 acres of land of all houses, all vegetation, and despite their current denials, they plan to put concrete crushing there, and we're going to go through the same thing that the people that George Perdue has talked about from the school craft community, and nobody is standing up for us on these issues. The cement mixing plant does put dust in the air. There are problems with it. But again, the Maroons who can allow the train station to sit in blighted condition for decades, who can allow over overgrowth on parcels in southwest Detroit for years, there's no accountability for the health of the people. Thank
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you. Study lines
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over six. Oh, wait a minute.
Speaker 2
Where's the two minutes? It's not two minutes. It's a minute 30. Yes, ma'am, it's only one a minute 30. You may be gone, yes,
Speaker 23
ma'am, over $600 million in overpaid property tax, stolen and coveted by data nessa and Mike Dugan, even attorney Conrad mallet seems to be an enemy of justice. He won't speak to that and explain what's going on there. No, he won't do that because he's like a puppet for Duggan. As far as that $75 million tell that person to leave the retirees and the workers alone. He want to do the old clawback, where he needs to go to Dan Gilbert, Mike Dugan, those fake Jews, the Mexican village and its millions, the millions of immigrants that come over here with benefits that I can't get, and stop stepping on the backs of us who have built this country and continue to stay in Detroit and work in Detroit, you will not trick us again. You made the mistake with that money, then you pay it back. And again, I say always, remember Detroit, and they seem to always want to put us back, putting other people in front of us, which is unfair. And I will say again, remember Emmett Till Tuskegee Airmen and the Cunningham person.
Unknown Speaker
Rosalyn,
Speaker 21
good morning, honorable Council, I stand before you as a fourth generation of Detroiter, mother of five, but I hold multiple environmental titles before you, but I stand here in representation of Michigan leader, Conservation voters. This is air quality week now I came to actually talk more about the ordinance pertaining to ensure black and brown communities sought to buy, but I wanted to just put a little pin on what I heard pertaining to the solar project. I don't hear equity. I don't hear environmental justice being moved at the forefront, I hear immediate domain, which I hear residents are being forced out of our communities, and then you don't even know where they're being placed. I heard that then, but I want to put on the air quality format. I think we do need to be more focused on identifying the new industries you're putting in residential areas in my district, specifically off of Jordan Hubble. We have a church right here in just an alley, and right next door are four corporate entities that are impeding on the health black mothers and black babies are dying at the highest capacity. But guess what? Air and water is at the forefront of that. So as you guys look at new industry, new zoning, can you identify those that impede on our health, that do not focus on the residents that have been there and the residents that choose not to go anywhere. We love our city, but as we move forward, make sure health is at the forefront. Thank you and have a great day.
Speaker 2
Kayla win born, thank you for joining us this morning. Good morning.
Speaker 12
Good morning. My name is Michaela Wimborne. I am with UPA, and I'm here today to talk about Detroit air quality. The air quality is the air quality in Detroit needs work. The air quality affects me because I live and play in Detroit, and it can affect my health as well. The air quality is one of the main causes of most asthma. My friends that have asthma that that affects their health and their asthma because of because of this air. In the future, if this air doesn't get fixed, it could hurt my kids and grandkids and affect my parents who have grown older. Something we can do to help this problem is companies that have above the city's limit for air emissions be shut down immediately. We are the future generation of Detroit. We have to keep us safe. Thank you for your time this morning. Thank
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you. Thank you.
Unknown Speaker
It's a lot of courage to do that. Thank you.
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Good Daniel Hughes,
Speaker 24
morning. My name is Daniel Hughes, and I learned that the air quality in Detroit is pretty bad. In fact, it's the sixth worst air particle pollution in the United States, but the most polluted places are the stellantis plant and other places it its effects are giving people asthma and asthma attacks, which can lead to death. My future hopes are US Michiganders as a community, work together to purify and filter our air. You may be asking how I have found there. There. You may be asking how we could do that. I found that there is carbon and Styrofoam, another big polluter, and we could turn it into activated carbon by burning it and adding things to it, which is used in air and water filters. And we could use these as fake dirt for fake plants because it absorbs the pollution and filters it.
Unknown Speaker
Great job. Great job.
Speaker 2
Great job. Mr. President, yes, before we go to you. Member Johnson, thank
Speaker 14
you, Mr. President, I'd like to nominate him to join the green Task Force. It is and
Speaker 2
you were looking for a youth member watching intervention. All right, salaam,
Speaker 3
hello, everyone. I'm Salam Bay dune. I'm with clear the air, a coalition of organizations and residents fighting for the right to breathe clean air, not only in Detroit, but the whole state of Michigan. Today, world asthma Day marks a day during air quality Awareness Week where we are fighting for the right to breathe clean air, Detroit was rated F and the worst air quality in the state of Michigan. So with that, we continue to see industry get permission to pollute, which is affecting the health and well being of US residents. We need the city to step up and clean our air some specific, specific priorities I would like to see the city address include one the need for air quality regulation and policy changes that take into account cumulative impacts and all of our sources of pollution in the community, to pass a semi truck ordinance to regulate truck routes and decrease health and safety concerns. Three, have a funding month model that supports air quality improvements and directs profits from corporate polluters directly into impacted communities, rather than the state. Thank you again, and once again, this is World asthma day, and we're really impacted here in Detroit and Wayne County. And I consider, or I ask you to consider these, these policy resolutions. Thank you. Thank you.
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Sean Harris,
Speaker 2
hello Council, thank you for allowing me to speak. I want to first off, thank Ms Jackson from uprep Academy Middle School. And also miss low Hawk, those are their students, and we've been had the portion opportunity to work with them, as you can see, I mean, even the children are able to display a level of knowledge and understanding about how they're being impacted by poor air quality and poor health conditions and all of the things that have already been mentioned about the cumulative impacts that we all know that we're suffering from. And so I just want to remind us all, as we start to think about a potential semi truck ordinance and a potential buffering ordinance as well, and we're also going into the zone Detroit to put together a new master plan for the city, making sure that our zoning qualities reflect protection of residents, that we're not putting heavy industry next to residential communities, that we're allowing For buffering zones to be put in between those spaces, and the main reason is because of them, and we have to remember that that's who we're here to protect. And if you go back to that document that governs this city, that city charter, it starts with our duty to protect all of us, right? But most importantly them, because that's why we all do this. That's why I show up to work every day, that's why you guys show up to work every day, so that we can make the city better, and then we can protect the future of our city and make sure that our city can not only grow but prosper and be healthy. Prosperity isn't just about material will. It's about our physical health, physical and mental and spiritual well being, and we've got to be able to do that together. And so we're here to work with you guys.
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Ruling, James Crowley Junior,
Speaker 1
say, Mr. Rule, the time is beginning. Derek, let the time run. I don't need a minute and 30 to tell you that you are fraud to your face in front of everybody. You call conditions mother.
Unknown Speaker
You call these mom
Speaker 1
and saying, I want the right representative now. Imma represent on you and him. The Teeter, the liar talking about threatening with physical violence. He's a whole liar and a fraud cheated in over there. Fred Doha, now, y'all just had the little crafty Conrad coming here talking what he was talking it's a whole game here in Detroit. They've been cheated in Dallas. We're been cheating in the elections for years and years and years and years, and Gina Avery walk over at the Detroit Department of Elections. Ain't no b absentee ballot with Mary Elaine Beck the signature on it, anyone, and they just kicked with Mo Jackson off the ballot, and I'm pissed off because he's turned in 1000 signatures. Ain't no way to kick them up with that so corrupt entity of the city of Detroit can smoke dick.
Speaker 2
He said time is up. Thank you. Bye, Felicia. Felicity Mason,
Speaker 12
hi. My name is Felicity Mason. I'm here today because I'm homeless and I'm having issues with the house. I've been calling him. Speak up. Hear me now. I'm My name is Felicity Mason. I'm here today because I'm homeless. I've been calling cam since November. I haven't been able to get no shelter. I can't get help with housing without a shelter. And I did go to a emergency shelter when it was very, very cold, and they had me in a gym with a whole bunch of men. And I have three children, seven years old, four years old in 10 months. So I was not able to stay there due to the fact that it was a pedophile in the room. I'm trying to figure out, what do I need to do to be able to get housing? Y'all a lady just lost her children due to not having housing, and I'm sitting here trying to do everything I can to be able to put myself in a position it's hard when I don't have no help. And y'all keep telling me to call him. Call him, and Kim is not doing anything. So what do I do from here?
Speaker 2
Thank you so much. Remember waters, so much. Don't leave.
Unknown Speaker
I do need all of your information.
Unknown Speaker
I don't see my staff. They left out for a moment.
Speaker 2
Miss Mason, you just sit right here. You stand right here. Yeah, yeah, yes, ma'am,
Speaker 8
yeah. I'm speaking to you. Hello, right here. Yes, Mm hmm. I want to get all of your information. If you could leave it with us, please, so we can try and help you get a place to live. We've gotten pretty good at
Unknown Speaker
Thank you. Her. She has a team, and right there on the side. Oh, okay,
Unknown Speaker
I don't know next speaker, Bobby Johnson,
Speaker 13
so yes, I did bring Felicity Mason down here because of the simple fact she's been sleeping in her car, and now she's sleeping at my house. There's no reason for cam and for us to be around here, and these young girls be out here. We we've given away millions of dollars. We have a lot. We have a homeless situation that is occurring. And right now you have more than a few homeless girls that are out here during Christmas, when you guys were on bank break the land bank evicted, illegally evicted, a person off a plain view that made that young lady homeless too. We sat out there, we fought, we argue, but Miss Daniel sent her crew to put them out of that house during Christmas in the winter, this young lady has came. She's been calling cam since November the 11th, okay, cam has not done anything if we're up here approving all these big billionaires and millionaires. What about the little people? What about these single women? What about these single families that are out here? Them, people living in in their cars, living in shelters. We have a vicious CPS cycle, and that's how these children are coming into foster care. I have adopted three kids out of foster care because of situations like this. The thing about it is, you're up here to do a job, to prove a budget that is supposed to be sufficient for the people of the city of Detroit. That's what you work for the people of the city
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of I would say, if you
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have that information, you said it happened in November. I don't know if you reached out to anyone on council to provide us that information, because we would jump on it just like we're jumping on it today. So if you have information, I'm saying that not just to you, but anybody. If you have information, don't hold on it. Don't sit on it. Don't wait to come to count, come to council. You can always give us a call if we don't respond. Hold us accountable for that is now a responsibility, we cannot. We can't be. And I went broader in my house. We appreciate you. I'm just, I'm just letting you know if, and that's for everyone. If you have information, please reach out to us, and that'll give us an opportunity to work on it as council, because we are not the executive branch. Before I go to you, go to member, thank
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you, Mr. President, and to you. Ms Johnson as well. I know we'll work with members water's office as well, but thank you for bringing her down here today. You do have our cell, though. You like myself. I know you got member water cell as well. So because you are out there, when you see stuff like that, call us right away. If it is a you know situation, whether it's with cam or homelessness, you always have an outlet to me. You know that same thing with member waters and Joanna and that way. That helps us fix if there are broken pieces or inefficiencies in those departments right then and there. That helps us as well, because we can go right directly to them and say, No, listen, we have a community leader right here to ask somebody homeless living in their house right at this moment, and they've called cam and it's not working. So if that is the case, you know that allows us to solve that, not just for that individual, but other individuals as well. But thank you for bringing her down there today, and we'll work with member water's office as well to make sure that we get her somewhere. Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you. Member waters,
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all right, thank you. Karen Suber,
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good morning members of the city council, and thank you for allowing me to make a public comment. I really appreciate the comments that I pull that mic closer to you. Sure. Good morning members of the city council, thank you for allowing me to make a public comment. I do appreciate the comments of the others, as well as a third generation Detroiter, I suffered through some of the issues that I've heard today, including near homelessness, but we managed to avoid losing our home, but ultimately, my message today is one of gratitude to you and the city of Detroit. I am a product of Renaissance High School, and as someone who is the fifth graduating class from Renaissance high school, I can say that it's stead. It's my education has kept me in good stead wherever I have been throughout the world. I've probably been to about five continents, to Harvard Law School, and ultimately, I can say that being from Detroit, the education I received, the grit that I I proudly earned, is something that stays with me. And so as you look to solving some of the issues the all the issues you confront, I encourage you to continue supporting our wonderful education system here in Detroit. And again, this is a message of gratitude and thank you. Thank you.
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Mr. Michael Cunningham, floor is yours, sir. Morning,
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313444911431344491143134449114, that number was made so you can remember it and on Facebook, not enemy again. On Facebook, not enemy. So I was making ghetto flyers myself, taking the flyers, copying them, and doing it myself. Lot of stuff I'm doing the community. I was doing it myself. Council President over the table said that they DDoS by the flyers. They've been doing that for a few years now. Thank God for that. So I go to not just detail. I go to smart meetings as well. And they have a sounding board. There's a bus that Detroiters use all the time. The grass hit the Michigan and the woodwork fast busses. And so guess what? They provided me flyers now. So that was the first day that I didn't have to make my own flyers. And I thank God for that. I thank God for the conversation I have with Councilwoman waters in regards to all the homeless people that I speak to, because I give out the bus tickets and I'll try to lot of folks don't have a phone, but when I write it down, it'll have a mama number, a sister number, the cousin number, someone who has a phone that doesn't get turned off. And so I can make sure I can get that taken care of. I still in need. I get a bus ticket, bus house, but my van is dying. It's 260,000 63,000 miles on there. I've saved up $2,500 I'm not just sitting on my on my hands. I'm doing I'm doing the best I can do. But I want to keep my mission going. So if anyone can do that, help me repair the vehicle or purchase another 131349114,
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thank you so much, everybody. Thank you Good
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morning. Thank you, brother.
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We shall now go to our online commenters.
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We have 29
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callers. Yes, good morning, Mr. President, the first caller for public comment Ecology Center.
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All right. Caller, the floor is yours. 30 general public comment,
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good morning. My name is Catherine Savoy, and I do work for the Ecology Center and environmental health organization here in Detroit. I am also a 35 year resident of the city of Detroit. I'm a homeowner, a taxpayer, and I'm also, significantly, a mother of a daughter who has asthma. My daughter is an adult now, but she suffered as a young person, and I can tell you about the many long nights with her, with having asthma attacks, taking trips to the ER, trips to the urgent care, missed days of work, missed days of school. And I'm not the only one. There are many, many children in our community that are suffering. Today. Is world asthma day. This is air quality Awareness Week, and so I am part of clear the air and asking you to please help us to address the concern of all the polluting industries and all the trucks with their diesel exhaust in our community. I live in southwest Detroit, where this is an enormous problem, but it's not the only part of the city that has this concern. So I'm asking you to help us hold industrial polluters accountable. You've heard about stellantis, Marathon, the cement factory, so many more that are affecting our health and well being. Put our health over the profits of these industries and help us make a difference. We want to see you pass a designated truck ordinance that designates roots and reduces impacts on residential areas of the trucks. And we want to see you pass cumulative impact policies such as those in Chicago that assess all of the community cumulative impacts of all the pollution our community.
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Next Caller, please.
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Next caller is Stephen Holling,
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can I be heard? Yes.
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And regarding Ruben Crowley's comments, I'm happy Ramon Jackson was kicked off the ballot. I mean, a two time felon, Maga election denier has no business being on the city council election. I mean, he had no chance anyways, but still he got kicked off the ballot. Um, so, as I mentioned last week, despite the fact I'm keeping my business in Detroit and all my employees and team here, I decided, in the end of June, I'm moving to Miami, Florida. And you know, the reason why is because we failed the city in public transit. You know, we can't, don't even have basic bus service technically, and the basic bus service we have is awful, and we waste so much money on so many programs that haven't done anything for the city. You know, it's just you can't get any developments off the ground. The populations decline. You know, they're still on problems in the city, even if Mike Duggan was the best mayor. I mean, there's still problems. You know, in Miami, we don't, there's none of those problems. You know, they don't have families dying, freezing to death. They don't have, they just don't have any of those problems. And they have an actual transit system, an actual train, something that Detroit never is going to probably never have. So that's why I'm making that move.
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Next Caller, please. The next caller is William and Davis. William
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and Davis, the floor is
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yours. Uh, good morning. Can I be her? Yes, okay, I'd like to start off by saying that the best mayor of the City Church has had in my lifetime, of over 60 years, has been coming a young senior. Uh, also, you know, I like people to know the fact that the city chair retired Junior funds did get a small, very small addition on our pension check, and we're going to be discussing that tomorrow at the next Detroit active retired employee Association meeting at 8850 Woodward at Saint Matthew, Saint Joseph, episco church starting at 530 because just since the time that Mr. Duggan has been in office, over 3000 general fund. Retirees have died, you know, we gotta what is less than a half of one of his days pay, and his pay has gone up 45% his pay has gone up over $70,000 but yet, but yet, we can't even get $500 from this man. You know, we need to be working on and we need to be looking at who we're going to be voting for and why we're going to be voting for the you know, city Detroit retirees to live in the city are strong voting block, and our families, our friends and our relatives, are also a strong voting block. So I invite city retirees and candidates to come out. We're going to be picking. We're going to be selecting who has helped us and who hasn't. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Next Caller, please. The next caller is Zenaida Flores. Caller,
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the floor is yours. We have a minute 30 general public comment.
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Caller, are you there?
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Alright, are we let's put the caller at the end of the queue and go to the next public commenter,
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Okay, the next caller is phone number ending in 169,
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caller ending in 169, the floor is yours. General public comment,
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hello. Can you guys hear me? Yes.
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Okay, great. I just want to say hello everyone, thank you for praying for brother. Cunningham. Um, he has received a few cash apps, one from Mayor Orio Canada, Jenkins for $50 thank you, mayor candidate for the gift of $50 I got the information for this meeting from his Facebook page, I use an older post. The Zoom ID remains the same. I see Cunningham. I've seen on Cunningham's page, he is still fundraising for a new used van, which he uses to do his outreach. I see that he has raised about $2,000 and believe in God through the people, the need will be met. He is not just sitting on his hands. He is doing something. He is actually saving, um, there's more than 260,000
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miles on Cunningham's van. There's more than 260,000
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miles on Cunningham's van. I repeat, there's more than 260,000 miles on Cunningham's van. If anyone has a new used van or own an auto repair shop, Please reduce the price of the van, or reduce the price for the fixing of the van. Um, I also seen on Cunningham's page that he praised God for GSR, she will be on the ballot to come to compete back in August. Um, everyone. Thank you for my time and thank you for listening.
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Thank you as well. Next Caller, please.
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The next caller is Grace e Jennings
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call the floor is yours. You have a minute 30 general public comment.
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Caller, are you there? All right,
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I already, let's put the card there. She is. Jenny,
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good morning, everyone I first want to acknowledge and honor all mothers that are still alive, those who have transitioned to eternal life as we approach Mother's day this week. God bless all who are here by way of mothers and those who stood in the gap for mothers. I also would like to speak as a mother of four daughters that lives in the area identified as the Van Dyke Lynch area for solar I know two of the residents have come down, and I'm very concerned that even in the representation of who has been brought forth. My concern is that we're bringing people who don't have the mental capacity to understand everything that's going on, nor the experience on my block alone. We have a nurse, we have a PhD, we have residents even with just the three households that have multiple master's degrees, and we need to have a true conversation about what's going on with the illegal land transfer and land grab that's going on throughout the city of Detroit. There are too many families and individuals becoming homeless as a result of wicked people reigning in authority. Let's do what is righteous to keep people in their homes. God bless you.
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Next Caller, please.
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The next caller is to hear Ahmed follow.
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The floor is yours. Have a minute 30 general public comment,
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yes, good morning. City of Detroit is causing this homeless crisis. It starts with home ownership. We need to have our homes back. If you stolen six, $600 million from us, that means we can't fix our homes. I've been battling to try to get home repairs that is due me, because I've been over taxed $30,000 illegally, and I've asked Coleman, young junior and to help me, because he's city wide, he told me, walk up to me and told me, I'm the reason why I haven't helped you get home repairs, because what you say in public comment, so I've been retaliated against. He said I said that. He said that was said in confidence. So he's admitted to saying that to me, and I appreciate you being honest enough to say that, Mr. Young, but when I call it, when I called your office, your mother attacked me instead of trying to help me. So this kind of corruption and acting like he trying to help people, it's, it's, it's criminal. Stop it. We have paid millions of dollars illegally foreclosed homes, and then you still won't even enforce the law. The Coalition for Property Tax Justice has got you guys to even endorse it and work toward you refused to endorse to enforce the law. So stop acting like you helping us. You need to be removed out of office all of you.
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Next Caller, please. The next caller is Betty a Varner. Betty
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avarner, the floor is yours. You have a minute 30 general public comment.
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Good morning to all within the sound of my voice, I'm Betty avarner, president of the soda Ellsworth black Association. I'm going to speak on that my Association. We're going to be participating in the Motor City makeover, and that's going to be Saturday May 17, and we're going to be cleaning up the park and the surrounding areas from 9am to 12 noon. We're going to have a hard stop at 12 noon, and we're going to break bread from 12 noon to 1pm we need all the help that we can get. So if you want to participate volunteers, you can meet us at 6439, Ellsworth, we're going to be working on our flower garden, and we also are still in need of our landscaping boulders. We are going to start having our meetings in the park this Saturday, and we're going to be having our first event on the park, God willing, is going to be in July, and so we want our landscaping boulders so that our park can look nice, the neighborhood can look nice, and we're in the process of purchasing for additional vacant lots so that we can expand our park. The dream is to have playground equipment, if we get the approval from the city of Detroit.
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Next Caller, please.
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Apologies I was muted. The next caller is not Karen,
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hello, hello. Yes, good afternoon. Good morning, Jim.
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I'd like to
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speak to Mr. Davis. I plan on making that meeting tomorrow. There's a lot of things that are not being addressed, as it relates to the retirees. Hopefully, when you guys, the current Council and the current city employees, hopefully 10 years down the line, after you retire, they won't come back and snatch some of your income, and if so, I'd like to see how you handle that. If you handle it as well as the current, remaining live retirees are doing that one time. That was a one time increase, $460 barely a grocery bill for a month, not even a grocery bill for a month. So that didn't help much, even though we we accepted, of course, but we would have liked to seen triple that, and we like to see that permanently, month to month, not just a one time here, get off my back, type of deal. In the mean, while we have council members who are trying to arrange for their post, you know, after they die, they want to arrange to be recognized for what, recognized for the havoc that you've caused. That's the only recognition. I say you should get. Poor air quality, poor education, poor people. They all walk in the same circle. They all exist in the same circle. It's all relative. If you're poor, you're going to get all these poor all these poor things thrown at you because they think you don't have such enough to object to it. Definitely retaliation. Retaliation goes on from inside the city to the outside. Anybody that speaks up, you retaliate. That's not so that's not public service. That's self service. Thanks.
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Member Young, thank you, Mr. President, I'm sorry I wasn't here. I was in the restroom, but there were some comments that were made by Miss Ahmed, and I was wondering if Miss to mister Washington, is Mister Rico razzo available to just be able to answer, give us an update on that situation. What we'll do is we'll go through the rest of the
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if he's available, you've already put the call out, Mister Washington, if you're listening, let's gather mister razzo for the end of public comments, we will allow member young to ask the question. We will proceed from there. Thank you, Mr. President, you're welcome, sir. All right. Ari, who's our next call.
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Next caller is Simone sago back, the
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floor is yours. You have a minute? 30 general public comment.
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Hello. Thank you council members. My name is Simone sagovac. I'm a 34 year resident of Southwest Detroit. We are supposed to be equally protected under all laws, but in Detroit, we are not equally protected from polluted air. Detroit and our neighbor communities host most polluting industries in Michigan. We host these for all of Michigan's benefit and beyond, but we bear the concentrated pollution. Our polluted air is not fully accounted for in air permit decisions that bring more pollution and not in enforcing city laws that we have. Our polluted Detroit air is causing health to fail and early deaths of Detroit residents. Children are dying walking home from school and in their sleep from asthma attacks, and many don't realize that having frequent allergies may be a sign that asthma is coming and to take precautions. Council has options to improve protections in our air, and I highlight these priority actions you can take enforce laws already on the books to protect us, ensure policies are fully funded. Allocate more home repair resources to protect people from Detroit's polluted air and ensure new policies include protections for air and separate residents from industrial impacts like land use zoning, buffering and truck routes, and I ask city leaders also engage in state air permits to protect us from the cumulative impacts we have, ensure industries are using best practices to limit pollution. And I'd like to add planting more trees that then we are taking down we aren't doing that, and our oxygen and clean air depend on it. Thank you.
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Next Caller, please.
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The next caller is Frank Hammer.
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Frank Hammer, the floor is yours.
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Good morning. This is Karen hammer. Morning.
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I want to say no on the maroon plant, as Mr. Blonde has described. You need to make retirees whole so monies can be allocated. You need to fund the DP Detroit public schools and libraries and give more money to transit like the Double D program. You need to completely fund free right to counsel that tenants are being evicted, evicted by unscrupulous landlords. Use the ARPA dollars air quality I support the Ecology Center program and what Simone seven yet said, air quality. Bad Air pollution is not just concentrated in Detroit. It contributes to worldwide carbon dioxide and we also need to focus on erasing the causes of homelessness. We need low income housing, not just the 80%
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of the
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Livonia, Warren and Detroit. We need the right to counsel, and we need good property tax assessment that doesn't pen and penalize the low income areas and let go the higher income properties. Thank you. Thank you.
Speaker 26
Next Caller, please. The next caller is ms or ms,
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all right. Caller, the floor is yours. You have a minute 30 general public comment.
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Caller, are you there?
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All right. Ari, let's put that caller at the end of the queue and go to our next public commenter,
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the next caller, then it's we see you. All
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right. Caller, the floor is yours. You have a minute 30 general public comment,
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and through the Chair, may I be hurt. Yes, thank you, oh, Council Member Benson, the young man that you saw that, Mr. Hughes, who spoke about solutions to the air quality, and you notice none of the young people came up and mentioned anything about a district. They said Detroit, any solutions that are implemented in Detroit should go not in pilot programs, but to the entire city. Before there was marathon, there was Usher.
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It was over here in the seventh district,
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this air quality
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problem lies in your lap. Councilman Benson, you are the green Task Force person. We have the sixth worst air quality in the city, and you continue to compound the problem with speed humps all over the city. Do you understand that speed humps add to the particulate matter in every neighborhood, which increases the pollution? I'm not sure if you knew that, but you should have known that, because you all voted on it. Speed humps are adding pollution to our neighborhoods with the stop and the go. It's also wear and tear on our cars. This entire council can say that they are failures to the youth. If you have no vision, people perish. You have no vision. Mrs. Poppy has no vision. Mr. Tate, no
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next member, Benson,
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thank you. Through the pro tem to the administration, actually the LPD going to request a report to be generated. Is asking for if we, if we can identify a correlation between air pollution and speed humps in our neighborhoods. Thank you. Thank you.
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Next Caller, please.
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Next caller is Steven Boyle. I'm
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sorry, before we go, there, is there a motion, no
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objections, that action shall be taken. Just want to make sure we get it fulfilled. Sure we get it official. All right, next caller, please. I'm sorry. I
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am Steven Boyle. Mr. Boyle, I'm currently living in district seven. I'll be in district two with redistricting. I find it amazing that people that are candidates for office. I actually don't take advantage of calling in and sharing their positions on many of the issues that stand before City Council regularly. It's an opportunity for the public to get to know who you are and what you stand for. One of the problems I've had for a long time is actually watching how this game plan of dereliction, to develop, to demolish, to develop, has played out, and it's played out since 2008 at least as far as I've seen, and even further back, I believe, as we started seeing the Detroit City future Detroit, future city plan, painting out areas of the city for reduced services because they felt that they were not populated properly. I think that the solar farm project has basically capitalized on going after those areas to $15,000 to only owner occupants, is great because it shows how grant funding would actually work in the city of Detroit. But we don't get grant funding. We get zero interest loans. Now, where does the money go back from making payments on those loans? Who's
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next? Caller, please. Next caller is Teresa Landrum, all
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right. Caller, the floor is yours. You have minute 30 general public comment,
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afternoon Council. Theresa lander from Southwest Detroit, 42 and seven. First of all, I would like to congratulate the roller K roller rink, and Mr. Kyle Black, who was represented today and given the Spirit of Detroit award, but I'm here today to support Councilwoman Leticia Johnson and her proposals. One of recognizing May 5 through May 9 as air quality Awareness Week, and two recognizing may 6 as world asthma day, as mentioned by previous callers. We know we have a problem in air quality in Detroit, in fact, during COVID and the last two years, we've lost two young residents, nine years old, from asthma attacks. I'm here to ask the council to please include buffer zones, truck designated truck routes and Health Impact Assessment in anything that you do when do address air quality awareness, as mentioned by one of the young people consistently, Wayne County and Detroit is a death in air quality, as we see that Detroit has the highest asthma hospitalization rates in the nation. And so as I speak to you today, I know the council has that on their mind about how they can address the issue. We have many hot spots across from the east to the west, from the South to the North. So thank you so much for hearing me today. Thank you Next
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Caller, please. Next caller is phone number ending in 601
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caller ending at 601 the floor is Hello,
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hello, hello.
Speaker 38
Can everyone hear me? We can hear you? Yes. Can everyone hear me? We can hear you again, yes,
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okay, you can hear me.
Speaker 38
Yes, we can hear Can everyone hear me? Okay, thank you. My name is Vanessa peak, and I am a resident of district three, and this past weekend, we noted this tree just started to appear on Mount Elliot, along our business district, and today, more trees came, and there's a company by the name of Premier group associates. They are installing trees in front of businesses, and quite a few. And the business community has not been notified, nor has the community. And the number of trees that that they are planting is a concern from from the standpoint of the community, has not been informed. The business community has not been informed. The upkeep, the number of trees in the distance of each tree is even going to make it more challenging. We're already challenged with getting the business community to maintain their landscape, but it appears that the number of these trees that are being planted are planted in such a way that is going to make it more challenging for landscape companies to do the work that they do and to maintain the landscape. Also, I contacted premier group Associates today to have conversation with them as to the planning of these trees, without communication with the community, without communication with the business community. And the number is not working, and I'm asking someone to follow up with us. We appreciate what is being done, but you know we need we Thank you.
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Member Benson,
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thank you pro tem and so my office will work directly with the administration to identify the source of these trees. Then I will remind the public, as well as my colleagues, that new trees are critical to clean air. I'll say that again, trees are critical to clean air, and having a robust tree canopy helps reduce heat islands and clean our air. Thank you. Thank
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you. Next Caller, please. The
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next caller is phone number ending in 989,
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caller, ending in 989,
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floor is yours.
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Caller, ending in 989, are you there?
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Yes, hello. May I be hurt? Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 38
Okay. So just wanted to say, Mr. Mallet said we did everything we set out to do, but that's not true. I have a copy of the city's addressing climate change in Detroit, document from 2023 on page 12, it says using city owned sites and facilities with large surface areas to deploy solar panels will enable the city to source clean energy directly and reduce emissions from municipal energy use. The three year target was to issue a request for proposals for the deployment of solar energy on city owned sites. There's no mention in this document of the use of eminent domain, and I question people on the green energy Task Force, if you thought this was okay, also you are relying on abuse of the Blight excuse, because I'm sure Conrad know that knew there's no precedent for taking people's property for solar farms. And so, you know, when I think of eminent domain, the initials are Ed, makes me think of erectile dysfunction, and in this case, we have elected official dysfunction because you couldn't get up the due diligence enough to figure out a way to do this without taking people's private property. And there's no excuse in this city if it were another city, maybe another thing that Mr. Malet said is not true, he said, at one point he said, we're not going to negotiate.
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Next Caller, please.
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The next caller is Energy Alliance, group, team,
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all right. Caller, the floor is your minute 30. General public comment.
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Thank you council members for the opportunity to speak. I also want to say, acknowledge the young speakers that spoke today. Of course, that's always difficult to do. And also want to remind everybody that this week is Nurses Week, so please pay attention to our nurses. The Energy Alliance group is a Michigan based company. We've been around for over 13 years, and have been working in Detroit for the past 13 years. We are one of the neighborhood solar partners, assisting the city with these solar installations, and we work with many municipalities across the nation. I'm just calling in to address some of the concerns about land Graham eminent domain neighborhoods did not agree. I think Detroit should be proud in being a leader in this transformation. It was clear from the get go that the neighborhoods themselves were the ones that applied for this opportunity. It was not the city that came in and did a land grab. It was also every neighborhood member had to sign up for this. It wasn't 99 out of 100 it was all of them. So I congratulate Detroit on what they're doing. They are a leader. Thank you.
Speaker 26
Next Caller, please. The next caller is Mr. Ronald foster
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Mr. Foster floor is yours. You.
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Call, are you there?
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Mr. Foster? Are you there? All
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right, we'll put Mr. Foster into the queue and we'll go to the next caller, please. Okay,
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the next caller. Meek a Williams. Gray
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Williams, the floor is yours. You have a minute 30 general public comment,
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yes. Hi, good morning. Damico Williams, private citizen, taxpayer, resident, Legacy Detroiter, voter and also concerned citizen. Just want to give an election update. Shame and I condemn those sell out preachers that stood up on that stage for Doug and for governor. I could not believe that you would sell out this but that's believable, that they sell out the city and literally stand with a man of evil. They have compromised their moral values. They never had no moral values, aided by swindle Wendell, Anthony, Charles Ellis and the rest of Wayne T Jackson and the rest of the men and women, so called men and women of immorality. It is a shame, you know. And then also, I don't see the clock on, but I would like to turn up the knob even further on, Gabrielle and Santiago Romero, you are not a jasmine Crockett or AOC. Those women are being vilified for not representing their communities or with their constituents running around the country doing political stunts. It is out of control. You must own that you did not pay the fee and you were told to pay the fee again. Accountability starts. District Six deserves better. Southwest Detroit never had representation until Raquel Lopez and you failed that mission in honoring her seat. And also, I just want to say to everyone that, oh, we thought Gabrielle was going to stand with Ramon voted fraud Jackson and Sayonara. Sayonaras,
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next caller, please.
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Next caller is Renard ski.
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Renard ski, the floor is yours. You have a minute 30 general public
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comment. Mr. Monsie, are you there?
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All right, yes. Can I be heard? There? He is, yes, sir. Floor is yours?
Speaker 40
Alright? Sorry, I had technical difficulties. Good morning, Mr. President, or afternoon and members of council. My name is Rena murchski, District Six, resident and organize with Detroit people's platform and coming out of the budget season. Just want to thank this body for their work and increasing funding for DDOT. And we just hope that the service improvements that DDOT are talking about will actually come to fruition. I just want to speak to another matter when it comes to fairness in treating DDOT writers the same respect and dignity in the same policies that queue line and people mover riders enjoy, I think it comes to time to address the disparity in fair policy between those three systems. We have a state run or state subsidized queue line that's using our tax dollars and all the arguments that were used against DDOT for low income fare program, not even a free, fair program, but a low income fare program, goes out the window when it comes to the people mover in the queue line. Issues when it comes to crime and safety are always talked about in the DDOT context, but not in the queue line or people mover context as well, and this assumes that there is some sort of criminal and element on DDOT busses or more prone to violence. And I beg to differ on that designation, because most of us are community members and taxpayers getting to or from work and where we need to be, although at a slower pace and we need better service. So we need more parity and treatment between all of us. Thank you.
Speaker 26
Next Caller, please the next caller, Anna Anthony,
Speaker 2
alright. Caller, the floor is yours. You have a minute 30 general public comment.
Speaker 41
Oh, yeah. My name is Donnie Anthony. I'm from District Four. Hey there. Shout out to the sister Johnson. I'm in phase one of the solar field, and I am very happy with the progress that's going on. I have met with the people, the contractors. I had questions. I called to them, they addressed them, and I am so glad that the council people approved who up and down since nine o'clock waiting. Oh, that's all I have to say. Thank you so much for letting me speak.
Speaker 2
Thank you. Thank you for joining us. Next Caller, please
Speaker 26
the next so we have come through all the callers who had raised their hand before public comment cut off. We have a few more who speak when they were called on and the first one is Miss or MS,
Speaker 2
all right. Caller, the floor is yours. General public comment, minute 30.
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Caller, are you there?
Speaker 2
One, once, one, twice, going three times.
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Call. Are you there?
Speaker 2
Unfortunately, we're gonna have to move on. If you would like to provide your comments to the clerk's office, they will be placed on to public record. Ari, who's our next caller, sir,
Speaker 26
last caller who had their hand raised before you had cut off public comment. Mr. Ronald Foster,
Speaker 2
alright. Ronald Foster, the floor is yours. You have minute 30. General public
Speaker 42
comment. Oh, good morning through the chair to the President. Pro Tem. I was just calling to say that. Just a few things. I think those are good presentations today. I'm always advocating for uplifting any good work. I just want to speak out about tokenism and the harm that tokenism does to a community when you uplift things, it still needs work done. It gives the appearance that those things are still being worked on. It gives the appearance that you guys are addressing social issues. It gives the appearance that you all are are working on equity. This community deserves more than just an appearance. It deserves more than just a token of representation. Of the things that we are asking for now, all of these appearances, all of these representations that you guys have, let's put numbers behind them. We got 600 some 1000 people in this city, everybody that y'all represent is showing how good of a job they done. Let's put some numbers behind all of these awards and things that we giving out so that we can measure the work now, so the community don't have to take your word on how good of a job that people are doing in this community and what they're doing uplifted. Let's have some accountability across the board.
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Let's call it please.
Speaker 26
Mr. President, that was the last caller who had raised their hand before you would
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we I miss you. You said
Speaker 26
that was it? Ari, yes, sir, that was the last caller. There were a few hands still raised, but they had raised their hand after you would cut off public comment. All right, thank
Speaker 2
you so much. Appreciate the assistance there, sir, and we shall now close out public comment, understanding committee reports from the internal operation, standing committee from the law department.
Speaker 7
Council. Member waters, 11 resolutions. Line item 17.1, through 17 point 11.
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Member waters,
Speaker 2
but again, line item 17.1, through 17 point 11. You know what? Before we do that. Well, you know, we're going to, we're going to, let's wrap this up, and then I'll, I'll go back to your question, because I did forget that we were seven point 17.7 point. All right, you're 17.0 thank
Speaker 8
you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, these are various settlements. Move approval.
Speaker 2
There's a motion to approve line items 17.1 through 17 point 11. Discussion with discussion member Johnson,
Speaker 14
thank you, Mr. Chair. I do have a few outstanding questions for line item. 17.3 17.9 and 17 point 10. I am still awaiting information from the law department, and would like to make a motion to send those three items back to committee again. Line item 17.3 17.9 and 17 point 10, 17.3
Speaker 2
college, that's 17.3 17.9 and 17 point 10 as a motion to was that send back to committee. Member Johnson, motion to send those items back to committee, any objections, seeing none. That action shall be taken as a motion on the floor, any discussion regarding the remaining items they removed for approval, seeing none the remaining items shall be approved. Mr. Chair, I
Speaker 14
have an objection to 17 point 11. There's,
Speaker 2
is there a motion? Because I didn't call, it didn't go nope, I didn't call. Okay, alright, there is there? It appear any objections? Any objections to remaining items.
Speaker 14
Objection member Johnson, line item 17 point 11,
Speaker 2
they shall be noted by the clerk. Clerk, so no, Mister President, thank you. Line Items 17 point 11,
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it appears that the remaining items shall be approved.
Speaker 2
Thank you so much. All right, before we go to the next grouping of items, want to bring up Mr. Washington, I know member Young had a question regarding one of the public comment member young floor is yours. Thank
Speaker 6
you, Mr. President, Mr. Washington is is Mr. Rico razzo available?
Speaker 43
Good afternoon through the chair. Director Razzle is actually out today, but we do have director Schneider online, who may be able to address
Speaker 6
director Schneider. Yes, sir. Okay, excellent. Thank you.
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We'll pull her over.
Speaker 2
Director, when you see yourself on the screen, please introduce yourselves for the Introduce yourself. Excuse me for the
Speaker 44
record. Juliet, director of the housing and revitalization department, my apologies, my my video doesn't seem to be working right now.
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Think we can go without it at this moment.
Speaker 6
Thank you, Mr. President, um, Director Schneider, good to see you. Always. Good to hear from good to hear from you. Um, I just wanted to ask you really quickly, can you just kind of update us on the situation Yvonne Miss Ahmed and the house that she is trying to that she's seeking repairs for
Speaker 44
through the chair to council member, Council Member young HRD provided home repair grant to miss Ahmed in with work that was completed in August of 2022 that work involved some some repairs to the home And and and roof, particularly the soffit, fascia overheadings That work was greater than the the amount that we we have a limit in the the grant amount that someone can receive and receive and then also receive repairs again within the next 10 years. And we do this to with limited resources and great demand for home repair grants to make sure that we are able to serve as many households in need is as possible. So miss some mod was over that amount actually was more than double the amounts. The limit is $10,000 and and the repairs received told over $20,000 so that work again was completed in August of 2022 and so Miss amog would not be eligible to receive additional repairs that that grant focuses on emergency repairs, and so it does not focus on cosmetic repairs or other items. We're really trying to address
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items related to to health and safety,
Speaker 6
right? And it was $15,000 from housing revitalization department, and it was $6,000 from the Community Health Corps at the request of our office, correct? I my office, correct. That
Speaker 44
was the request request, but due to a number of factors, that ended up being 21,000 from HRT,
Speaker 6
right? I just remember, I just remember that we have that we had worked with you to be able to appropriate that, and I appreciate your professionalism and being able to get that done. I want to make that that clear, but that was something that HRD is, something that Community Health Corps decided to do, but that we had advocated on behalf of Miss Ahmed to be able to receive, for her to receive those funds.
Speaker 44
Yes, that's, that's a correct understanding of of the events that took place in order to get those repairs done, right? And
Speaker 6
I just want to make sure, just for clear, that was, you said that was August of 2022
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that's when the repairs were completed, correct?
Speaker 6
Okay, excellent. Um, thank you for that. I appreciate. Thank you. Mr. President, thank
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you. Thank you, director as well.
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Without any further colleagues,
Speaker 2
the public for the public health and safety standing committee from the Office of contracting and procurement.
Speaker 7
Council member, Santiago Romero, six resolutions, nine items, 18.1 through 18.6
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contract number 3078931,
Speaker 7
100% blight funding to provide an emergency demolition for the residential properties at 1116, and 1126, Waterman contractor Detroit next incorporated total contract amount 52,000 that's for construction and demolition. Next contract is contract number 6007114, 100% city funding to provide vault toilet cleaning services. Contractor Ben curry, mechanical LLC, total contract amount 270,000 that's for construction and demolition. Next contract is contract number 3082973, 100% blight funding to provide emergency demolition for the residential property. 13652, steel contractor, Detroit, next incorporated total contract amount 16,000 that's for construction and demolition. Next contract is contract number 3082975, 100% blight funding to provide an emergency demolition for the residential property. 2506, Algonquin contractor, guyango company, total contract amount, 18,680
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next contract is contract number 6006905,
Speaker 7
100% major street funding to provide road design services contractor, fish back. Thompson car and Huber incorporated doing business as fish back total contract amount, $1 million that's for public works. Last contract is contract number 3082978, 100% blight funding to provide an emergency demolition for the residential property. 99 03 Mendota contractor DMC consultants incorporated total contract amount, 32,400 that's for construction, demolition. Council Member Santiago Romero, six resolutions.
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Members Santiago Romero, motion
Speaker 5
to approve 18.1 through 18.6 there's a
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motion to approve 18.1 through 18.6
Speaker 2
any objections Seeing none, that action shall be taken.
Speaker 5
Request a waiver, Mr. President, for 18.2 and 18.5
Speaker 2
as request for waivers for line items. 18.2 and 18.5 Colleagues, any objections, seeing none, waivers shall be attached. We'll now move to the new business portion of the agenda from the mayor's office.
Speaker 7
Council member young, three resolutions, line items, 19.1 through 19.3
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member Young,
Speaker 6
thank you, Mr. President, I move to approve line items 19.1 through 19.3
Speaker 2
motions to approve line item 19 items 19.1 through 19.3
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any objections, any discussion,
Speaker 2
seeing, none. Those actions, those those motions, those items shall be approved. Excuse me from the Office of contracting and procurement.
Speaker 7
Council Member Santiago Romero, two resolutions, line items, 19.4 and 19.5 contract number 6007056, 100% grant funding to provide burn state Crisis Intervention Program to manage Youth Violence Prevention and other community policy programs. Contractor, Detroit Public Safety Foundation. Total contract amount, 360,000 that's for police. Last contract, the CSS three nine architectural engineering supply schedule, 100% city, major street funding services will include architectural, civil, electrical, mechanical, structural, geological and environmental engineering, construction, engineering and inspection for design, construction management and program Management Services. The total maximum order limitation is 81,300,000 Council Member Santiago Romero, two resolutions.
Speaker 2
Member Santiago Romero, motion to approve this. Motions to approve line items, 19.4 19.5 colleagues, discussion, any discussion with member Johnson. Member Johnson,
Speaker 14
thank you, Mr. Chair, through you to the administration regarding line item 19.4, I know there was a fair amount of discussion in committee. I'm just wondering if there's an opportunity to collaborate with the current CBI groups that are working throughout the city with this effort. I don't believe the communities that were identified had a CVI group working within them, but I could be wrong, but just wondering if that is happening, or if there's an opportunity for that collaboration to take place.
Speaker 43
Mr. Washington, yes through the chair. If we can promote Captain Amber Roberson as well as Commander Stacey Alvarado.
Speaker 2
Promote those two individuals. Please, when you see yourselves on the screen, please introduce yourselves for the record.
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You Good afternoon. Captain Amber,
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Commander Stacey Alvarado, management services.
Speaker 2
Don't know if you heard the question or if you would like for member Johnson to repeat I did
Speaker 45
through the chair, member Johnson. This is a grant that was previously submitted and awarded with the foundation as the sub recipient agreement and additional named partners. It's not that it's not possible that a CVI group could be considered in the future, but they are not currently listed as a partner under the approved grant.
Unknown Speaker
Mr. President, yes, no.
Speaker 14
Will you to Captain Alvarado. Um, and so I'm just wondering, maybe not necessarily a partnership, but an opportunity for them to work within the same footprint as the CBI groups I did see the partners that were listed. I'm just wondering if we can help to lower primaries in those particular areas, especially engaging young people and helping to facilitate that
Speaker 45
through the chair. Absolutely I'm sure that Captain Roberson as well as Commander Rodriguez are very open to the CBI groups in their area to help combat crime and to reduce youth violence.
Speaker 14
Okay, thank you. We'd love to have some offline discussion with you as it relates to that. Thank you. Thank you,
Speaker 2
Mr. President, thank you. Any further colleagues? Seeing none. There's a motion on the floor. No objections. Line Items 19.4 19.5 shall be approved
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request a waiver. Mr. President for 19.4
Speaker 2
as a request for a waiver in line item 19.4 any objections Seeing none a waiver shall be attached from the Office of contracting and procurement.
Speaker 7
Council member young three resolutions, line items, 19.6 through 19.8 contract number 6004434, dash a one, 100% city funding. Amendment One, to provide an extension of time only for my cat. Diesel engine repairs. Contractor, McAllister machinery company, Incorporated doing business as Michigan cap total contract amount 600,000 that's for general services. Next contract is contract number 6007139, 100% city funding to provide parking spaces for city employees during the Detroit Grand Prix. Contractor last parking, Midwest LLC, total contract amount $76,550 that's for municipal parking last contract is contract number 6006974, 100% IPA funding to provide airport heavy broom, sweeper and snow blower. Contractor, MB, companies Incorporated. Total contract amount $1,068,993.66 cent. That's for general services. Council. Member young, three resolutions.
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Member Young,
Speaker 6
thank you, Mr. President, I like to move to approve line items 19.6 through 19.8
Speaker 2
Thank you. As a motion to approve line item 19.6 through 19.8 Alex, any discussion, any objection, seeing none line items 19.6 through 19.8 shall be approved. Mr. President. Member Young, thank
Speaker 6
you. Mr. President, I like to request a waiver online item 19.7
Speaker 2
as a request for a waiver. Online item 19.7 any objection colleagues Seeing none, a waiver should be attached from the law department. Council
Speaker 7
member Vincent, an introduction of an ordinance line item 19.9
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member Benson, Mr.
Speaker 9
President, Mr. Pro Tem. I move that the ordinance be read twice by title, ordered printed and laid on the table.
Speaker 2
Right any objections Seeing none that action shall be taken from the law department.
Speaker 7
Council member Benson, a resolution setting a public hearing. Line item 19 point 10.
Speaker 2
Member Benson, move to set a public hearing TBD as a motion to set a public hearing date. TBD for nine out of 19. Point 10, any objection? Colleagues, seeing none that action shall be taken from the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Office of Development and grants.
Speaker 7
Council member, Santiago Romero, two resolutions, line items, 19, point 11 and 19 point 12. Member
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Santiago Romero,
Speaker 2
motion to approve. Motion to approve line items 19, point 11 and 19 point 12. Colleagues, any discussion or objection,
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seeing none those actions shall be taken.
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Request a waiver for both items. Mr. President, thank you.
Speaker 2
There's a request for a waiver for both line items 19, point 11 and 19 point 12, any objection colleagues Seeing none waivers shall be attached. I remember young,
Speaker 6
Mr. President, I'm sorry if I did this on late notice, but I had a request for a walk on. Yep,
Speaker 2
we're going to get to those just shortly. Okay, for the president's report on standing committee referrals and other matters for the budget, Finance and Audit Standing Committee,
Speaker 7
Mr. President, would you like to do the walk ons before you get to the referral items?
Speaker 2
Didn't know we had to, but I will. You don't have to. I'm just asking. I mean, I'll do it now. Yes, we're here.
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Remember young you got it. Excellent.
Speaker 6
Thank you, Miss Christina, thank you, Madam Clerk, got all your special panel back. Um, this is basically just a walk on for the four pro fleet event on May 13. 2025, 8am to 10pm on May 14. 2025, I would they're starting to set up now, but this is just something that they're that they're having. And so I wanted to be able to make a motion. So I want to be a so I wanted to take the time to make a motion on this item. Is that appropriate? Now, uh, we're going to walk this item on right? I gotta move it to new business. New business. Just, sir, okay, there a motion? Is
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there a motion to move to new business?
Speaker 6
Yeah, I like to make a motion to move this line item, 9.3 new business.
Speaker 2
There's a motion to move this item to new business, as described as from member Young. Any objections Seeing none that action shall be taken. All right, for the president's report on standing committee referrals and other matters.
Unknown Speaker
Yes, ma'am, Madam Clerk,
Speaker 7
I am in receipt of two additional walk on items. Two resolutions for member Johnson, would like to walk on line items, 25.4 and 25.54
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vote today they are listed as referrals,
Speaker 2
yes, ma'am, line items 2025 point 2424 and 25 point 25 is there a motion to walk those items on? Member Johnson, seeing none that action shall be taken.
Speaker 7
And Mr. President, those two items, one is the resolution that will be recognizing air quality Awareness Week, and the other one is a resolution recognizing may 6, 2025 as world asthma day. Council member Johnson, two resolutions.
Unknown Speaker
Member Johnson, thank
Speaker 14
you. Mister President, Move for approval with discussion as
Speaker 2
a motion to approve the two items with discussion member Johnson,
Speaker 14
Thank you, Mister President. I just want to read a brief portion of both of the resolutions, but also just want to start out with saying thank you to all of those who called in, who came in to provide public comment, to appeal to all of us to address air quality in the city of Detroit, in the state of Michigan and in the world. Just period and so line item 25 point. 24 is a resolution recognizing air quality Awareness Week, whereas clean air is essential to the health and well being of all individuals, communities and ecosystems, and whereas since the US Environmental Protection Agency first recognize air quality awareness week over two decades ago, the week has been recognized across the country as a time To educate the public on the importance of protecting our air quality and to promote actions that improve air quality, and whereas air quality Awareness Week emphasizes the importance of working together to improve air quality and protect public health While recognizing the interconnectedness of air quality, climate change, transportation and environmental justice, whereas all individuals, businesses and governments, are stakeholders with an important role to play in improving air quality through reducing emissions, improving energy efficiency, supporting clean energy initiatives and stand informed about the air quality levels through tools like the air quality index. Now therefore, be it resolved that the Detroit City Council hereby recognizes May 5 through the ninth, 2025 and as air quality Awareness Week. Now be it further resolved that the Detroit City Council encourages all members of the public to participate in the various community events for air quality Awareness Week, which are listed at clean, clear the air. M, I, dot, O, R, G, forward slash, a, Q, a, w, that stands for air quality Awareness Week. Now be it finally resolved that the Detroit City Clerk provide a copy of this resolution to the mayor the Detroit health department, clear the air. Detroiters working for environmental justice, Eastside community network, the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center, just air the Green Door initiative, Michigan Climate Action Network, Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition, the Michigan Environmental Council and southwest Detroit environmental vision, and appreciate all of the work that those organizations do in furthering the importance and making sure that we are all focused on cleaning the Air. I also would like to note that, unfortunately, last Thursday, the Senate approved an effort to overturn an EPA rule tied to the Clean Air Act designed to limit seven of the most hazardous air pollutants that are emitted by heavy industry. The party line vote marked the first time in the 55 year history of the Clean Air Act that Congress has moved to weaken the power of the landmark environmental law. So just would appreciate support of my colleagues for line item, 25 point. 24
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Wow. Thank you. Member Johnson,
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any objection, any further discussion,
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seeing none. Any objection
Speaker 2
Seeing none. Both line items, 25 point 24 and 25 point, 25 shall be approved. Mr. President member Johnson,
Speaker 14
if given the approval, I would love to share a little bit more about line item 20 point
Speaker 2
25 point 25 Absolutely, very important. Thank
Speaker 14
you, Mr. President. So line item 25 point 25 is a resolution recognizing today may 6 as world asthma day, whereas Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease that affects more than 260 million people worldwide and is one of the most common chronic diseases among both children and adults, and whereas nearly 28 million people, about one in 12 living in the United States have asthma, and the prevalence of asthma is disproportionately higher for African Americans and persons living below 100% of the federal poverty level. And whereas the burden of asthma on Detroit is much higher in scope and severity when compared to the rest of Michigan and the United States. And a 2024 report from the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America found that Detroit ranked as the third most challenging place in the United States to live with asthma. And whereas Asthma is a major non communicable disease that causes significant morbidity and in some cases mortality, especially in underserved communities and low income populations, and whereas recognizing world asthma day reaffirms our commitment to advancing public health, supporting individuals and families affected by asthma, and encouraging research and policy solutions to improve asthma outcomes, now therefore be it resolved that the Detroit City Council hereby recognizes may 6, 2025 as world asthma day. Now be it finally resolved that the Detroit City Clerk provide a copy of this resolution to the mayor and the Detroit Health Department. And I do want to say that I unfortunately had a cousin who died as a result of a asthma attack, and my husband has an extreme case of asthma, and so certainly recognize the environment and the impact that it has on us, on our loved ones, and doing what we can to continually work to improve the air quality in the city of Detroit. Thank you, Mr. President, thank
Speaker 2
you. Member Johnson, we've already approved the colleagues. There were no objections. But I would like to join you on that if you don't mind me, John, name a council if you don't mind in the name of the council motion. And that would be for both colleagues. That's where I want my name for both. See no objections. We shall place both of those items in the name of the Council. Thank you for your leadership on that member, Johnson, remember young
Speaker 6
Yes. Thank you, Mr. President. I know we moved my walk. We walked on our item to do business. I was wondering, can we also take that up for approval? Is that okay? So I like to make a motion for, I'm sorry, Madam Clerk. Mr.
Speaker 7
President, yeah, that was the next item after this was approved for member John, yeah, we want to go back to you, because the motion was made to walk member Young's item on to the new business agenda. However, there was no motion to actually approve that item. So if you would, Mr. President, Council. Member young, a resolution, and this is for the four pro fleet event.
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Member young, a resolution.
Speaker 6
Member Young, thank you, Mr. President, I would like to make a motion to walk. I'm making make a motion to approve, to approve. Line item 9.3,
Speaker 2
Alex, says a motion to approve line item 9.3. Discussion with discussion Member Santiago Romero, thank
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you, Mr. President.
Speaker 5
Just wondering, anyone from the administration can just confirm that there was outreach done in the neighborhood. We constantly hear of complaints about events happening in the neighborhoods. Just want to make sure that they were properly notified of what's happening.
Speaker 43
Mister Washington, yes, through the Chair, if we can promote your Kima five
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and you see yourself on the screen, please introduce yourself for the record.
Speaker 46
Good afternoon. Yakima, five, manager of special events. I'm sorry. Good morning this afternoon
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and we cross the the
Speaker 2
Thank you. I'm sorry that was member. Santiago. Santiago, thank
Speaker 5
you. Proton, through you to keep my just wondering if you wouldn't mind confirming the outreach that has been done in the neighborhood for this event. Were they notified of the street closures happening, because, if not, we will hear about it afterwards. And it makes for a difficult or it makes for difficult partnerships if we put on events without letting the residents know about the street closures,
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hey through the chair, which even this is member
Speaker 5
we just walked on. This is in events that the central Central Michigan will be having. This is the
Speaker 6
Ford pro fleet for the four pro fleet event in Michigan Central Station,
Speaker 46
central they're in touch with the community over in Port Town, and we also have some representatives from GSD, because something spill out to Roosevelt park that they make sure that the community has the outreach that they need to let them know about the street closures. Because there's also a transit we have a transit item that goes over there. That's an electric vehicle that goes through downtown. I'm trying to look through their packet to see we usually make them send us a template to show us what they're going to use for our reach. We know that it's not complete because the event is not approved, but I will definitely make sure, with that member Santiago, that everything has been shared with the community, and their setup is not to begin until tomorrow. They should have began reaching out last week, but I will make sure that that is done
Speaker 5
through the Chair. Thank you. I think I heard they're already setting up. If that's the case then, and this has not been approved, we're discussing approval now, but I just want to make sure that the community has been informed about the street closures.
Unknown Speaker
Okay, I will reach out personally right now. Okay,
Speaker 5
when is this event again? Remember, young to the chair, may 14, may 14. The 14th, that is, that's next week,
Speaker 6
May 13 and may 14. I'm sorry. Okay,
Speaker 5
so then the community should have been already informed, if not. So I know we're at the end of the agenda. Now, if you're able to get a confirmation quickly, that would be wonderful. I will try as well, if we can just go through the rest of the agenda. Pro Tem to give us a few minutes to just confirm. I'll try to reach cornetta right now to confirm. Thank you. Thank
Speaker 2
you. So we sounds like there's a postpone this item to the end of the agenda. Any objections? Seeing none. We should postpone line of 9.3 until the end of the agenda. All right. Amount of clerk for the president's report on standing committee referrals and other matters for the budget Finance and Audit. Standing Committee,
Speaker 7
one report from the Office of the Chief Financial Officer. The one
Speaker 2
report will be referred to the budget Finance and Audit. Standing Committee for the internal operations. Standing Committee, 14 reports from various city departments, 14 reports will be referred to the internal operations. Standing Committee for the Neighborhood and Community Services. Standing Committee,
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six reports from various city departments, six
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reports will be referred to the Neighborhood and Community Services standing committee for the Planning and Economic Development, standing
Speaker 7
committee, 14 reports from various city departments. The
Speaker 2
14 reports shall be referred to the Planning and Economic Development standing committee for the public health and safety Standing Committee, Mr. President,
Speaker 7
there will be 25 reports from very various city departments, excluding line item 25.4 to 25.5 which was taken up under new business.
Speaker 2
The 25 report should be referred to the public health and safety Standing Committee under the consent agenda. There are no items, Mr. President, we will now move to member reports. Member durhall,
Speaker 4
thank you, Mr. President, we just want to invite everyone to please join us for our 24th policy session, taking place Monday May the 19th, 2025, from 6pm to 7:30pm at the Edison library located at 18400 Joy road. Again, this is taking place Monday May the 19th, from 6pm to 7:30pm at the Edison library located at 18400 Joy road. The topic of discussion will be redistricting. So we are inviting all district seven residents as as well as anyone that would like to come, but to have that conversation about redistricting. As many of you know, the district boundary lines are changing, and the primary election, which is on August 5, is fastly approaching. And so this would be great information for folks who do not know what the new boundary lines look like and what changes have happened. So again, please come out Monday May the 19th, from 6pm to 7:30pm at the Edison library for our 24th policy session. Always a good time to fellowship as well as learn alongside fellow residents. Other than that, that concludes my memory report. Thank you, Mr. President.
Unknown Speaker
Thank you, sir. Member Benson,
Speaker 9
thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to remind people, Please save the date for our free estate planning workshops. We'll have one of the main library on May 17, two to 2pm to 3pm at Chase library on May 20, 6pm to 7:30pm in Connolly library, may 29 from 6pm to 7:30pm and you can register at the elder law and Advocacy Center At 313-937-8291,
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and please remember that this is a critical service that's provided for free, and this is just another example of how residency in the city of Detroit has its privileges. Estate planning. A full plan costs about $2,000 and these are provided to you for free, and these are your tax dollars at work from ARPA funds. Just want to thank the Biden administration for making these funds available to the residents of the city of Detroit and those who are taking advantage of this tangled title process. And you heard about that earlier today. In addition, want to thank the green Task Force and my colleagues who attended Philadelphia with us to learn more about sustainability and bring back best practices and lead best practices in the city of Philadelphia when it comes to sustainability, and see what they are doing there. And we got some great information. People were energized. We took decision makers from the city of Detroit from the administration side as well. They were also energized. We're going to be implementing some new programs and some new best practices right here in the city of Detroit to benefit our residents. Thank
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you. Thank you. Member Johnson,
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thank you, Mr. President, I just like to take a moment to give condolences to the family, friends and loved ones of Angela brown Wilson, many of you may know that Angela worked for the city of Detroit under the archer administration. I believe she worked in the planning and development department. She also was an extreme advocate of the east side of residents on the east side for nearly 40 years. Angela, most recently, was actively involved and engaged as an employee and just an amazing, phenomenal advocate at East Side Community Network, we are looking forward to providing a testimonial resolution in memoriam to her loved ones, but would like to request a moment of silence Angela transition this past weekend, and we just want to share how much we loved and appreciated her and her work and her just the heart that she had for residents on the east side she and I had numerous conversations about housing for East siders, and just making sure that everyone could afford shelter on the east side. So we will certainly continue that legacy and the work that she was doing, particularly with East Side Community Network. And would just like to ask for a moment of a moment of silence.
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Moment of silence, colleagues,
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thank you, Mr. President, thank you.
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Member waters.
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All right so thank you, Mr. Chairman, just one quick one Wednesday, May 21, skill trade task force meeting, which will be held at 2711 auto drive east. That is going to be at the Farwell recreation center. That is may 21
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from four to 6pm at 2711
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auto drive east. That's the fire will Recreation Center. All right. Thank you.
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Thank you. Member Santiago Romero,
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thank you, Mr. President, just want to invite District Six residents to our monthly office hours for May. We will continue our office hours on May 12, from four to 6pm we are going to be at Clement direct center with the land banks land reuse team. We often hear of a lot of questions concerns around the land bank so we will have staff. Please join us if you have any questions or concerns, so that we can help you in person on Wednesday, May 7, tomorrow, from six to 730 please join us for our monthly d6 meeting. We're going to be at class act Detroit that's at 6114, 28, streets. We will not only hear about some home repair programs available to Detroiters from HRD, but we're going to be joined by our pro tem to hear about his protect your crown initiative really important for us to continue to uplift mental health, as well as just overall health in our communities and planning ahead, we want to invite you. May 14, from six to 730 we're going to be holding our next building power training series, all on mutual aid. We're going to be at St Stephen ame, and on Thursday, May 15, at 11am we're going to be at Perry Outreach Center in 42 and seven for our coffee hours, if you are still planning ahead for us in May on, may 21 Wednesday, from 11 to 1pm we are partnering with Henry Ford Health for a District Six hiring event. So come dress to impress with your printed resume at UAW local 22 on Michigan Avenue for on spot interviews and job offers. Thank you, Mr. President,
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thank you. Member young
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negative report,
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thank you so much. And also want to thank Member Santiago Romero for welcoming us into District Six, though it is the protector crown is came out of my office. It really is something we all can get behind, because it's about mental health awareness. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and now is the time to ensure folks have the information that they need. But as we know, it's not just May, where mental health awareness is important throughout the entire year. So looking forward to joining you and any other colleagues as well as we deal with the address the issue of mental health awareness and concerns in that space. Also want to thank member Benson and the green Task Force for inviting us to join them in Philadelphia, had an opportunity to meet with the mayor, city council president and other council members, folks from the regional transit system there, and real heavy on recycling, learned a lot, looking to compare and contrast some of the things that we're doing here in Detroit, to see how We can adjust them, and also, again, sharing more information on what we're doing with those folks, our colleagues in Philadelphia as well, but very, very, very informative meeting and got a lot out of it, looking forward again to implementing some of the things that we found out there. So again, thank you. Green task for the great, for the great work that you do. You included Kerwin as the chair. Great job. We'll give
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him a hand clap for that. You did a great job.
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That takes us to member reports. If we can go back to the item that we were discussing in Neighborhood and Community Services, I Okay, Madam Clerk,
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Mr. President, we have
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a resolution for member young, which is for the four pro fleet event.
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Okay, three, I believe it is
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all right. So to mr. Washington, want
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to make sure you
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or would you prefer? I guess we're at this point where we can have Miss Fife come back. Yeah, there we go. She looks like she's still on the phone information for us
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through the Chair. Yes,
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sir, yes. Miss Fife did indicate that Michigan central did send out a notification through their newsletter and communications that they send out to the Presidents within the community she's on the phone now to to try to determine how frequently that communication was sent, but it was sent out.
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Okay? Thank you. Member, Santiago Romero,
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thank you. Thank you. Mr. Pro Tem I was not able to get the confirmation, so thank you for confirming that on your end to the administration. And it looks like maybe now we can get to know what the frequency was, if we were able to get that information
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five, okay, through the Chair. I just got off the phone with Michigan central so that communication goes out through their through their letter newsletter that they put out. They say they don't have a regular one. It goes out as necessary. This is a private event. There's only one road closure right in front of Michigan Central, but it goes out today.
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Okay? Just want to make sure that residents know. Thank you for time.
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Thank you. All right.
Speaker 2
Is there a motion for approval, once again, as a motion to approve this walk online, at a 9.3 any objections or further discussion, seeing none that action shall be taken. Thank you. Is there a waiver on this? But you know what? Just to make sure she's still clean and clear for communication, I would prefer to not be a waiver attached to it. Yeah,
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I don't think a waiver is required. It would a way we would do is would shut down her ability, or any of our ability, to object to any issue. But I don't think it stops
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you from, yeah, Mr.
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President, remember
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young the event is listed for the 13th of May. However, the actual approval of this item has to go before the mayor. If it does not have a waiver, it will not go to the mayor's office until Monday. If you put a waiver on it, it will go to the mayor's office today, and the approval can be granted tomorrow at the earliest. Okay, so you don't do it a waiver that it will, the time frame will, it won't be approved in time enough for them to move forward. Okay,
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I know, if you don't mind. Member Sanchez Romero, and before
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discussion, briefly, confirmation. Thank you. Pro time just heard from cornetta From Michigan central team that she will also let people know, so that makes me feel very comfortable moving forward with the waiver. All right, remember
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young Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you for your patience and understanding. I would like to request a waiver online Item 9.3 please. All
Speaker 2
right, colleagues, there's a request for a waiver online on 9.3 any objection Seeing none a waiver shall be attached. Thank you. Thank you. Under Madam Clerk, under adoption without committee reference, there are no items Mr. President, under communications from the clerk,
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a report on approval proceedings by the mayor.
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Report shall be received and placed on file, testimonial resolutions and special privilege. Council
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member durha, on behalf of council president pro tem James Tate, a resolution line item 30.1
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member Durham, thank you, Mr. President, Move for approval.
Speaker 2
Thank you so much, sir. There's a motion to approve. Line item 30.1, any objections? Seeing none that action shall be taken, Hearing no objections. Oh, I'm sorry. There being no further business coming for the body colleagues. Is there a motion to adjourn? So moved see no objections that action shall be taken, disputing is adjourned.