And then after that, if there are people online want to join, you can do that by raising your virtual hand. If you're on Zoom, do that by clicking on the label called participants at the bottom center of your screen. And then the bottom of the window on the right side, there'll be a button that says raise hand. At that point, Adela will know that you're interested in speaking and we'll call it if you're just on the phone audio only you can still participate. If you press star six that will mute or unmute you which we'd appreciate the unmuting near each other here. muting and unmuting but if you want to call us star nine, spin star nine that will do the same thing raising your virtual hand so our moderator can call on you. Let me remind you too, that if you want to submit a question or a written response, please do do so by email. The address for inquires is logically enough inquire i n qu IR e at Detroit land bank.org. And if you didn't get that it's also on our website. So with that, I can see we have a forum. Let me call the meeting to order and has recall the roles
your co workers here. Random Arvato here. Carol Walters here. Patricia Brunel Shelton
here. Richard Halsey is Richard Hosey is excused. He will be here he thought in about half hour, 45 minutes, but with four of us present that we have a quorum and we can proceed to do business. All right. We have two sets of minutes to approve today. Hopefully you've had a chance to look at what Rhonda sent you. The first are the meetings minutes from the January meeting on January 24. Which I hope you have in your pile. Anyone have any questions, comments, corrections? Hearing none can I have a motion for summary report? Thank you. All in favor, aye. Aye. All opposed? Hearing none the January. Board meeting minutes are approved. Secondly, we had our special meeting in February. Again, I hope you've reviewed them any questions, comments, corrections? Hearing none, can I have a motion? So moved. Support. Thank you very much. All in favor, Aye. All opposed Hearing none, the minutes from the February meeting are approved. And that brings us as promised the public comment. So let me pass this around and
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Thank you very much. Everyone. We know both Tammy and Reginald are at a Housing Conference out of town. Have we heard from them yet? Yes, they are online. All right. Fantastic. I guess. Tammy, that brings us to you for your CEO report.
Morning, can you hear me? Yes, yes. Thank you. Good morning. Um, I would like to take my time. And I'd like to dedicate my co report today to clear up some confusion and corrects and misstatements surrounding a potential deal to save and renovate 21 houses. First and foremost, the occupied houses selected for this product. were chosen because they are occupied and they did not qualify for our buyback program. dlba prioritizes buyback for all occupied properties, but when occupants don't qualify, we need a solution that accomplishes our mission and helps the occupants. Second Kenny
two words about my program and how you qualify. Just to clarify for everybody.
So for buyback, so the buyback program is that you don't want the buyback program or occupy sorry, I'm sorry. Yeah. Oh, why buy? So for buyback? You have to have a pre existing connection to the property either your family owned it and they will maybe lost it for taxes or you you have a demonstrable connection like you were renting from a landlord and the landlord lost taxes and you continue to pay something or some sort of pre existing relationship that you can demonstrate. And you have to be living in the property. So in I'm sorry, so yeah, so those are the two high mean the two high level examples of how you qualify for buyback. Unfortunately, we have a significant number of people who are occupying land bank houses. Currently we have 1,836 houses with occupants in them. But the land bank does not evict we do not operate an eviction program evictions are extremely rare. And we work with the Detroit Police Department to assist us in removing occupants, where there is illegal activity and threat to neighbors. If removals are unsuccessful, it is only then that we move forward with a formal court eviction process we are you know the land bank is not designed, equipped or empowered by statute to function as a social service agency. Therefore we do not have wraparound support services necessary to address this precarious precariously housed population with the limited resources that we do have and the Bright Minds at Deland back we created the buyback program and the occupied property disposition program. Now as I indicated, we prioritize buyback over occupied but buyback has been extremely successful and provides a pathway to homeownership for people living in land bank houses the the program in detailed as outlined on our website and it includes free inspections to make sure the house is is inhabitable. connections to our nonprofit partners that offer home preservation courses and other classes to teach money management, Home Improvement, foreclosure prevention, that reduction and more assistance in creating a bank account and escrow accounts to save money to pay their summer tax bill. So we try to set these individuals have success. We want them to keep the home and be able to create a home for themselves and their family. And through that buyback program. More than 1100 people have entered the program and this summer we will be graduating the a class that will surpass 1000 occupants who have successfully on their deeds and have become homeowners. And our goal period is to always keep people in houses when possible. Unfortunately, buyback does not fully address the problem of House of homelessness for individuals seeking shelter in the dlba on properties. Again, buyback is designed to help people with a genuine connection to the property previous altar owner, renter family etc. However, many aren't eligible to participate because they don't meet that criteria. And entered the house when it was already publicly armed. Many are also living in extremely dilapidated dangerous houses with no gas, heat or water or if they have utilities. The connections are illegal, which is a major safety concern. And rather than let these occupied occupants and properties continue to languish in the dlba is inventory we created are occupied nonprofit and for profit programs. Through those through that program, we poster send letters, order inspections, and repeatedly attempt to make contact with the occupants to notify them that they're in a land bank on house and to try to establish next steps for them. If the property again does not qualify for bad buyback, or the occupants are non responsive to outreach, the property is considered for occupied sales. Only then we vet them for buyback first, and then we reach out to them a number of times before we even put it in the occupied sales pipeline. Potential occupied sales programs participants are fully aware that the properties are occupied as a matter of fact, many of them raise their hand because they want to assist these individuals. Part of the review process involved with a with a potential buyers is inspecting the property and attempting to make contact with the occupant to determine if they are willing to take on the challenge. occupants are also alerted that the property is being considered for the sale through the program. Potential buyers are required to commit to keeping the occupant in the house through through opportunities to purchase or rent post renovation or to provide relocation assistance. In some cases, the occupants do not want to work with the new owner and either leave or the situation may lead to a removal or eviction. Last week there was media coverage coverage that focused on a house where the where the press conference took place. On last Wednesday and walk you through the facts of the tickler case as they illustrate the challenges focus faced by occupants, neighbors and the land bank. The occupant in that case first came forward in 2017. She brought the property in 2012. It was foreclosed on in 2014. She did not present sufficient proof that she owned or rented the property and did not qualify for buyback. In 2021. She failed to qualify for buyback again and was notified that the house was being reviewed for occupied sales, several nonprofit partners expected and reviewed the house and all declined to move forward. In October 2022. The occupant was again notified that the house was in the popular the pipeline for occupied sales. Since 2017, there have been multiple DPD calls to that property included repeated incidents of reported child abuse and dog Molly's two neighbors were attacked by the occupants dogs on separate occasions. DPD an animal control question whether the house was habitable for the animals DTE has completely cut the property off from service after repeated illegal connections and there is no water service to that property. This is a prime example of why people should not be living in land bank houses that have not been renovated. This house is not in a condition for an individual or family and clearly dogs to live in this house at this time. This information that I just share with you is a preview of what what I plan to share with City Council in the coming weeks. As I indicated there are 25 houses that are part of this package. And we are going to be providing them a very comprehensive look at the due diligence that our team has conducted in trying to reach out to these particular occupants and either vet them for buyback or let them know that the house has been moved to occupy sales so that they can work with the potential new buyer to stay in the house once it has been renovated. I'm so I'm gonna wrap it up. But I just want to say that you know, it was very disheartening that the integrity of our program and the individuals who worked so diligently on the program was called into question. Um, so I wouldn't want to reiterate that the deal is an opportunity this this, this program occupied the Occupy program and it represents an opportunity for the occupants. They don't qualify at that buyback. They have no legal stake in the property so they cannot get funding to repair the properties. They cannot get util often utilities cut on legally because property is not in their name. They can't insure the property and without this opportunity, they will continue to be in a precarious and unsafe living condition living in an unsafe living conditions. It worked with the new buyer at the house where they're living will be fully renovated and they'll be offered a lease at an affordable rental rate. And so, again, the goal is to give these individuals a pathway to housing stability. This is why these occupants have not been evicted, even though we've known that they'd been in the house for years. We're trying to find real solutions to help people and properties. The notion that we would just continue just give them a house that is in a condition that is currently in and and that'd be a solution just completely ignores the condition of land bank houses and really completely ignores the real needs of this population. So I I and the team cannot turn a blind eye to the real issue at hand and
really are looking forward to working with our city partners and NEA and our nonprofit partners to come up with more solutions to this very difficult issue. As I said, as you indicated, Erica, I'm currently at a conference where the whole topic is about homelessness to house trying to figure out new ideas and see what other cities are doing to address this, this issue that is plaguing our country. And so while I believe again this the effort to you know shine a light on this was not done with an interest in maybe helping. It has it has still shown it is still shining that light. And I feel like we were going to come up with some really good solutions to really help this population. And I'm gonna I'm going to turn it back over to you Eric. I've done nothing more to say.
Any questions for Sam? Nope.
I have a question. Tammy. Is it Bedford who purchased the property that we approved the sale? So we
so because it's a best bet for development deal involved? 41 properties 25 were occupied 16 were vacant. Because it was over the nine these properties were going to city council for their review and approval. So yes, we approved it back in July, but because of the number it had to go to city council before any transaction could be completed.
So as Bedford a nonprofit partner, that's his experience in working with occupied
buildings. Yes. So yes, they have been they've worked in our program. And you know, I think Elise is on the call and she can talk more in more detail about the great work that they've done. But soup just really high level. They have taken I think a whole block and really reactivated it and not only did they renovate the homes they've employed, Detroiters given them opportunities to really stabilize not only their housing but their lives. At least if you are on the call, I think you would do a better job of speaking to the developer than I
and while she's joining I just want to modify they do have a nonprofit but they also have a for profit arm and in this instance they were purchasing through their for profit on previously they purchased through their nonprofit arm
and that would be because it's a mix. Correct. They're taking a bunch of occupied properties, but they're also taking unoccupied. They intend to do all of them obviously, different paths exactly
right.
So in finding Bedford or connecting with Bedford it was an attempt to help help the situation is 15 occupied
20 or 25, occupied occupied. And again to Jamie's point. We are very well aware of our inventory that is occupied. That's why our occupied inventory is not online. On our auction and own Adele, sales. Those are vacant properties that is critical for everyone to understand. We don't auction on our online platforms are occupied inventory for a very specific reason because it's occupied. So we're trying to be very sensitive to that inventory. So we've tried to find other mechanisms that take into account that there's an occupant in the hole. So but I'll let Elise speak to this development. Correct.
Good morning. Correct that Bedford has both a nonprofit and a for profit arm. They have previous success already in the occupied realm, keeping individuals in the house keeping rent affordable, employing some of the local occupants and other individuals in the community. They've been successful taking black by black also purchasing private property and working through Wayne County's auction to be able to really scale up and impact neighborhoods. They've done this in multiple districts. And the individual who owns the company is a native Detroiter from the east side, and is looking to really be able to scale up their impact. And this is probably the best actor we've ever seen that's been able to do this on both vacant and occupied properties.
One thing that Tammy said, so finally got me to understand what we're dealing with here, and that is we read about LA New York and every other big city in the country and tent cities and that homeless population and problems that all of that brings to life. We don't see that here. You don't see people well, very intense cities to the same extent that you view in LA San Francisco places like that. But the reason is, we have houses and so you know you don't the house may be a shell that doesn't have water doesn't have electricity. Has rats is not safe in a way even for dogs to live in. But it's better than a tent. And so what we have is a homeless problem that's different in appearance from what we have in other cities. But the same kind of programs as our abuse for homelessness and homeless prevention and other cities have to be done differently here. And this program, the occupied program, finding developers who will work to keep people in the house at affordable rates, but fix it up so that it's safe for them, their kids and their dogs to live in. You know, we don't know that going on anywhere else. Terry, I'm glad you're at that conference. We're hoping you'll pick up some of the other things but when it comes to the Social Services Program, and whether they're drug treatment programs, job training programs, other educational programs, health programs, services for the homeless, that's not in our purview, but we're trying hard to deal with this one issue. Is that Is that a fair statement? Tammy?
Absolutely. Erica and I would also like to just highlight that because they are in our houses. Oftentimes they are not on the radar for the services that they really need because they are technically not on the street or not in a homeless shelter. They're off the radar. The radar of many of the organizations nonprofit that really could help them and so we need to shine a light on this and as I said, While I don't believe it was done with that intent. I feel like because it the conversation is happening. We need to really have the conversation we have 18 136 structures that have individuals living in them and quite frankly, the reality of that is that it's not a one for one, so there may be whole families. We don't know how many people are living collectively in these houses, you know, so it's a multiplier. of 1836 that are not necessarily on the radar and getting the services that they truly need. And again, to your point, Erica, we aren't we are not we don't have the expertise to deal with the wraparound services that this population needs. Jobs, mental health, substance abuse, all of the whole host of issues that impact individuals and caused them to be in this precariously housed situation. But yes, this conference has been very, very illuminating. Because they just taught me I will fully admit I'm not an expert in dealing with this situation. So just talking to other cities that are dealing with the city the same problem has been very helpful. We have a what we have currently is called a sheltered homelessness situation. They have shelter, but they still are without stable homes. So as opposed to unsheltered.
And the last question, and this really is for you. I know. Not often but sometimes we do evictions. Because of repeated criminal activity. In the in the home. That's one of our homes. Can you just speak to that?
Yeah, we do. evictions, but also we will do if the criminal activity or the danger to the neighbors is severe. We will work with the police to do a more immediate removal from the homes again, this isn't a landlord tenant relationship where technically an eviction is necessary. They're sadly trespassing on our property. And while we don't always react to that, if there's criminal activity or danger, we will and we'll ask our friends here at DPD to assist us in removing those folks. But even with that the numbers that we do this on are small 20 a year maybe, you know now we will go to court for a formal eviction. But that is sort of the next step if if there's some problem with removing them with the assistance of police. Sometimes though, the lawyer, they'll get a lawyer and say I'll see you in court. We have to react to that. And so we will go to court, but again, the numbers there are even smaller. It's very, very, very few that we're really doing that. Thank you, sir.
I have a comment a question. And the comment is since Tammy has mentioned that the occupied people are eligible probably for other services, that maybe we should start a partnership or partnerships when we start an occupied project. To just notify whoever these homeless agencies are, because maybe that could help the the partner that we have to provide services to keep
Tammy I think, I mean, in most cases we're already doing that because we're working with a nonprofit partner whose interest is in keeping them in the home and that becomes part of their responsibility.
Yeah, so for occupied yes there. That is true, but I will say that we are attempting to expand our partners that we have on this issue. So I have recently reached out to some of the nonprofit's in the city cots. And then so just to begin a dialogue to to just put out put us on their radar. How can you help us with this population? That's really the conversation I'm trying to have. So that they can understand that there is a group of individuals who you probably are not servicing because they are sheltered in our homes. And so we just began to the very early anon process beginning to talk and share information and share data. And I feel like it's gonna be very fruitful. I will say that our city partners have been extremely helpful. DPD has been invaluable as we are trying to get our hands on around and understand what's going on in these properties. And we are beginning we're going to work very closely with all of our partners to try to come up with some solutions that will really, again, help these individuals because our goal is not to see anyone without a house our goal is to see all these people in state in stable housing and the land bank houses are not stable. Again, the notion that we will just give them these houses that means so much in that makes them you know, livable, they they don't have the resources to bring these houses to that condition. And so just to saddle them with that is just to me, that's unconscionable
and provide that we operated through for nonprofit partners we always have where if someone's in the program they are enrolled with and receiving training from and supervision from and assistance from one of our four nonprofit partners. So you know, the model is there. We're struggling to refine the model in these harder cases.
Michigan is good for that. Certain services as well. It will follow the relationships that Mr. has, I think a start Tammy was probably reach out to Mr. Also, and see what relationships they have to help battle you know, in the situation that we're dealing with inside the land bank calm and also
Tammy hood. We have several 100 houses still occupied in my area I know they are especially when you have a front door still open you come through the back door. And when we look at the house is when things are definitely
missing. No it's not to institutions were missing that and we need to get them back in the state of Michigan because you know the majority of the homeless is starting off with what metal okay for someone because a lot of people they have family and they rather be homeless than being with their family. And so that's something mental going on up there. You know, sometimes you can see homeless walking down the street that's talking to themselves or whatever the case may be, you know, that's not the norm, you know, and so, you know, help is needed, the state need to step in and get the institution's back up and running again, so they could have somewhere to
go, that's for sure. For sure, that's yet another contributor to the problem. But that's it. That's what Tammy saying is that there's so many contributors to the problem and that's why this hopefully this conference will give you some new approaches just at least to test right try gotta keep trying. Yeah.
And I will just also add that you know, it's easy to point the finger at the lamp and because we own the house that they're living in when we truly are not. The lamp is not the problem here property that these these individuals are unfortunate, unfortunately finding themselves there. And so we again are now going to be part of the solution as we try to assist them and finding stable homes.
Tammy are also concerned. I mean, your your presentation is so enlightening. About what really happened with this story. And the story has been so public. And I know you're presenting to city council on a couple of weeks is since there's something there's like 2030 people associated right now not many with hearing your story today is there something we can do to be proactive to correct the story so
so Alyssa, she's out today sick but actually she is working on, on that, you know, working with her connections to so that we can tell our story to the media too. And actually give the actual facts from the land bank's perspective of what what is going on What did go on and what the program really is, what the goals of the program really are.
Now, of course, I'm skeptical because I know we can kind of correction they don't do it. Nobody's ever interested in bringing it.
Like I see a what not only what they were, I know what it is. And probably radios. Yeah.
Okay, thank you, Tammy. Any other questions for Tammy? Any other topics from Tammy?
Um, well, I we before this happened, it was the it was my goal for um, we did some recent pitches of new programming that's unrelated to what we've been talking about this but very critical ideas of how we could create programs to address issues that are or are plaguing our our land bank inventory. And so Robbie, I'm going to turn it over to you and the team of young bright minds who can just tell the, the board about some of the great ideas that we had internally about ways that we can support our inventory and hopefully, you know, make it make it move quicker.
Oh, that's so kind of you, Tammy. So there were a total of five kind of ideas we were working on. And I believe I have staff here to kind of speak to four of them. either here or on Zoom. I was going to start with you, Veronica you had two of the four. You want to kind of share them briefly outside of the table
all right. I didn't bring my one pagers with me. I'll speak to them but Jesse you are back you have for anybody
who doesn't know Veronica is the genius behind these days. We have an advantage built up from a dream to have thriving programs so
let's have the extra sentimental and I'll grab of the
Alright, so the first one that I wanted to talk about was on unit thoughts, family renovations. So this plan changed a few times. But after some with multiple staff members, this is the final plan that we're kind of landing on. So the plan here will be to pre select 25 for unit structures. And as we know those four unit structures are kind of harder to sail within our current programs. So we will pick 25 and up to 25. The plan would be to take about 200,000 per structure and do exterior only in essential stabilization. So that will include Roof Replacement foundation repair, accessibility items like the porch or the stairs so people can actually enter the property's sewer line replacement and they have securement. So once all those items are there, we don't have the issue of people trying to occupy the structure. And then so when a traditional market for a small scale developer to purchase at the bottom of the one pager is a potential timeline. So we will plan to kind of start this in April, which is a few days, we will start more so like the pipeline's preparation and getting city approval and things like that and that will go all the way to August. Project will actually kick off in September and concludes rule number 25. So the plan was to basically do five properties at a time to really assess the market and it would have to make adjustments we don't have so many out there we can adjust and then move to the next five and adjust x five. So that would kind of be the plan was a four unit renovations where you get the 200,000. The plan was to well is to seek ARPA funding, whether it's through the city or state.
Great, so that what's stopping all of these is money. I mean, what a great idea but
because Okay, so we will be excited for it. The other one pager is for building home based childcare centers, using our modular single family project plan that we have started with the state. So if you recall a few months ago, we received funding for the State of Michigan miss the state of Michigan through Michigan to do one single family modular unit. And through that experience, we realize it's way easier to do modular than it is to do renovations. Our project actually is moving right now it's at the factory and the unit will be delivered on site early June. And we did all of that through our computer. So we didn't have that actually, is amazing. I know all the hard work we have to do with our renovation program. So knowing that we can do these a little faster and then be able to utilize the land that we have in our inventory and the land bank. The plan was to connect with the Office of Early Learning and they've identified childcare deserts, which is a map if you don't have time to look at that later. But there's a map of the childcare decors have been identified as the highest needed neighborhoods and then hide needed but are all high higher control. You can look at that. But when we were doing this, picking at lots and then at last would be combined and so for the lots, so we basically ended up with 40 single family structures that will often include a skylight so the house can have like a playground or a kid's room. We will connect with the Office of Early height to identify. They have a program where people will come and they'll go through training and become like a certified home based childcare provider. And then it will be able to get one of these structures whether it's whether it's through a purchase or through a lease option to you know, proceed with the program and be able to actually establish the center. So this is
brilliant, go a long way to developing neighborhoods spoofs open childcare centers
thought a picture at the bottom is our actual window we're doing right now.
Will own that
it will be so the Office of Early Learning has identified a nonprofit that we could possibly need it to and then that will kind of like monitor because you know, you have these home based child care providers, but when they don't succeed, that it just got a house, you know, what if it's not being used for that matter, so it will be deeded to that nonprofit who will kind of manage the pipeline once we
know that's the
very variable as opposed to them in live. Yeah. Yeah.
We'll see finding that will keep
you up to date. That's great.
So the third idea is really kind of borrowing an idea we've seen work really well in Flint is to really support neighbors to do maintenance in neighborhoods. Oftentimes, they're already doing it but it's really to sort of provide that support to them. So my colleagues Savannah Robbins is on the line and she was one who kind of pioneered this idea for us. So you want to share a bit, Savannah?
Sure. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for having me. I don't have my one pager from here but I can share my screen well guys be able to see it if I share it. Great. Can you see that now? Okay, great. So I wanted to share with you guys about the proposed community based lat maintenance beautification program. This is a program that would provide pay a paid stipend to Detroit block clubs. And community groups to clean beautify and maintain 6000 Olympic own lots over two seasons, each lasting for six months, from May to October. Participating community groups would be eligible to receive a paid stipend of up to $500 per lat maintained with the opportunity to maintain multiple lots. Each season would begin with an initial cleanup event with dumpsters provided by the dlba for debris removal. The lots would then be maintained by the community groups on a bi weekly basis throughout the season. There'll be funds available throughout the season for ongoing DPW pickups if repeat dumping should occur in a community group service area. In addition to the community maintenance this program also provides funds for vendor contracted maintenance on an estimated 18 150 additional properties. These funds would be spent on maintenance needs that go beyond the scope. of the community groups or on maintenance needs in areas without participating community groups. These maintenance needs would include excessive debris removal, urgent safety issues, tree maintenance, and fence or concrete removal. So we have an example down here. The difference between something a community group would be able to easily clean up by themselves with some shears or some lawn tools where on the other side we have about 12 feet of heavy wet debris that would most likely need to be picked up by a vendor. The proposed program budget is just over 8.3 million with 3.8 million for the community base portion of the program and 3.7 million budgeted for vendor contracted maintenance. Go back up to the top here. 10% administration costs would cover EZRI licenses for survey 123 That is an app that would allow community groups to submit geocoded photos of their work and staff for monitoring and administration of the program including one in person inspection per season. This program we believe this program supports the goal blight elimination across the city but it also aims to increase a sense of safety and community pride on a neighborhood level. This program would also build and strengthen relationships between the Detroit land bank and the community.
That's it. Thank you. Oh, Craig it That's a wonderful idea. Yeah, it is.
We talked about that. How the black gloves to keep the no those next door, those homes next door to them, you know, say up to par. But once again, it's not the responsibility but if they're going to be given some kind of stipend, you know, they'll be more than welcome to you know, want to participate and help out.
Sure. And a lot of us are already doing that. So help me do more by Exactly. Thank you.
So the fourth and final idea is really one that's born from the realization that at this point many of our most sort of attractive commercial rehab or large scale infill sites are really hampered by severe environmental contamination. And my colleague, my colleague, le Schneider, really took a effort to catalogue many of the most sort of a catalytic options and work to put some numbers to what it costs to, you know, get these sites to a point where we could actually move forward on the rehab or the development. Ellie. Hi, good morning, everybody.
Can you hear me and see my screen? Okay. Great. So As Rob mentioned, I manage the marketing pipeline, and we have several properties that have high potential to really catalyze development in their particular neighborhoods, but currently, there are significant environmental barriers that are preventing us from being able to move forward with the sale of these properties. So our hope was to highlight a handful of these properties, and to use ARPA funding to complete phase one and phase two testing on these sites and complete abatement as well so that the sites will be ready for developers to hit the ground running and to activate these sites to create housing and amenities and improving the health and safety of the neighborhood. So there are two structures and one land base site that we want to prioritize. There are a lot of unknowns when it comes to the actual cost of doing abatement on these sites. We spoke with colleagues at DGC at Eagle several of our partners in HRD, as well, and put together some estimates of site costs and left some wiggle room for the possibility that we might be able to add on some additional land based infill sites. So the sites that we were looking to focus at 130 East Grand Boulevard, you'll recognize this site as you go towards Belisle. It's a really interesting unique property with several structures on it 1.2 acres total, but in the past, it has how house to dry cleaning and bombing and underground fuel tank storage. So it is highly toxic site. Yeah, so both phase one and phase two testing had been completed on this site. And we do have interested developers, but again, I think that the cost of doing the abatement is a barrier right now to moving forward. The next site is a former autoshop 13 200 Joseph compound. This is in the Bangla town neighborhood. It's significant because it's one of the only publicly on structures that's left in the community and through the framework plan. There's high interest in really preserving this property. It has kind of a unique facade to it. And there's an interest from the local business development group in turn transforming it into possible mixed use and our workforce development. So phase one, testing has been completed on this we would look to do phase two and to stabilize the property as well as complete abatement. Finally, there's a large land base site in the cultural center right near the DIA at John R and Palmer American community developers has expressed interest in the site doing a 250 mixed income, infill development that would cost around 40 to 45 million. Right now soil remediation would need to occur on the 15 parcels of the site in order to address environmental concerns related to past use in the area as a dry cleaner that was found through phase one testing. So our goal would be to tackle these three sites. We've also identified a handful of infill sites in the island view area. And because of those being just more simple and base sites, we can act quickly to remediate those. We do end up having some excess funding leftover from the other three sites. If ARPA dollars are secured for this, the proceeds of any sales through this program would need to roll back into the program. And so having these few extra sites available as an added possibility, gives us some flexibility in terms of how many sites we can tackle and make sure that we use that program yet that funding. So we are estimating a total program cost of 3.6 million, including about 300,000 administrative cost to hire support to do this and then leaving some room for contingency.
The Great idea, other great ideas.
Robbie, can we thank you for bringing these? I mean, you got you, everybody. All these people who are working here are so smart, and so creative. It makes you so proud to hear the kind of stuff that you're inventing. I mean, these are not anything. This is not some massive government agency with hundreds of people to come up with ideas. It's just really very entrepreneurial. And it really is. So now the bad question, what's next to try to make these real?
So we are really at I think the sort of got the sort of like urging of the board we've been looking at a lot of outside funding streams, whether it's funding from the state, county city, federal government or foundations, and I think right now, we are working to identify sort of alternative options to fund many of these as we've been you know, talking to the county for example, about funding and the maintenance program. We are looking at funding from the state to to handle the commercial site program, for example, and also looking for funding for the rehab in cell sites as well.
And, obviously, our money keeps coming back up. I mean, I know we don't have it yet. And I know everybody in the world is applying for it. But we have well developed programs so I guess you just keep or stick around and wishing any kind of a hero of any becomes available. That fair statement at me.
That is absolutely a fair statement. We will keep raising our hands and keep putting our ideas in front of any anybody who has money that they need to spend. I'm so I'm just so proud of the team that they came up with these wonderful ideas, again, on ways that we can engage the community ways that we can transact on properties that are as as I think Robbie call them catalytic they can change make significant changes in the landscape and so we will continue our efforts to get those these ideas funded.
I know that our budget round, I mean, you've testified and it'll be voted on over the next month or whatever it is it takes counsel to get to it. And I know none of these are in it. But that doesn't mean you can't go back for more after we get past the initial initial phase. And that's why am I confident. I think that was a great presentation. Robbie, thank
you to the staff who've done Yeah, no
it is so impressive. The things you guys come up with. I mean, we know you do a great job on your day to day stuff. But this is above and beyond and creative and exciting. So thank you all right. I think that brings us to the end of your report, Tammy?
Yes. I'm all set. All right. So
now we go into the new business solutions for this. The quite a few guys have been busy. And the first one is to enter into a purchase and development agreement with all business management solution. Um, okay, Carla.
Yes. Our business management solutions they will be purchasing a bundle. It consists of a structure on wit comb and a vacant lot on oil. The applicant is also purchasing the two adjacent site lots she's going to rehab the structure and she's going to do lot beautification on the coil lots she does have experience with other dlba property.
Any questions on the first resolution on the property uncoil. And I have a motion please. Support. Thank you. All in favor. All opposed? Hearing none, the APM solutions resolution is passed. Next up is the agreement with Fayolle Valle de la
ba Villa they own a one to six Walden. They're purchasing the adjacent structure. There was a discrepancy as to the ownership. There's an additional structure on the other side of the property. We did a survey and we found that that did belong to 8126 Walden they are going to turn it into their guest
strange look at the map. It's a really weird leftover canopy sprocket. Yes. Any questions? On belvilla? None. Can I have a motion please? Florence. Thank you. All in favor, aye. Opposed Hearing none, the resolution protocol Villa passes. Next up is birth Detroit.
Yes, Park Detroit. They're doing a 10 year vision. They're doing a multi neighborhood and midwifery clinic strategy there you're going to do to community birth centers. And they're purchasing three properties here on heritage place that additional properties will be placed and an option pending PDD review. They may need to add a couple of more properties to this plan. They plan to have outdoor space and flower garden and walk walking paths for the families and labor a community garden and farm to table nutritious food for the mothers and labor as well as a playground for the children. And they have been they have funding Yes, the project costs are $1.6 million. They have 130,000 So far, they will raise the additional funding as part of the option.
Any questions?
That I have motion please. So moved. All in favor. Post hearing on the sale to the option to birth Detroit is approved unanimously. Next up is the purchase and development agreement was five the block.
Yes, Mr. Trey little Viva block is purchasing one structure and for lots on tuxedo he's going to rehab the structure and provide a community garden on the adjacent lot. He has renovation experience but his lender and advisor they do have extensive experience with the dlba he was approved for a hard money loan and we've also taken a look into the lenders finances and they have over a million dollars to lend it to the applicant.
Any questions about by the blog? We're not going to have a motion please. Some sports thank you all in favor, aye. Opposed Hearing none the by the block resolution passes. Next up is the agreements with Jeffrey Cruz.
Yes, Mr. Pruitt has two separate purchases that will be a part of one resolution. Mr. Cruz owns apartment buildings on 13310 Plymouth as well as 10201 Plymouth Road, he's purchasing two lights behind the one structure and then three lights behind the other. He's just going to beautify and make these a green space for his tenants.
Any questions about Jeffrey cruise? No none could I ever have a motion to place? Order All in favor Aye. Opposed Hearing none the agreement except the cruise is next up was Chris Laura development.
Yes Chris Lord development is a part of HTG TV shelf living with our Dad this is our second HGTV show deal. The applicant is purchasing these seven properties on Evanston. She's going to rehab these for the duration of the season. Her partner is her father who has a busy general contractor with 35 years experience
and what's the name of the show?
The show is flipping with my dad
have any other any other more relevant questions about Chris? Okay, good. I have a motion please. For All in favor, aye. Opposed Hearing none the Chris Laura flipping with my father. Resolution is a perfect next step is looking at the whole picture foundation.
Yes cwp as green space this is a purchase and a swap the applicant is purchasing two lots on domain Street and then she's also swapping the third lot for the lot across the street. The applicant is just using this for green space garden project and the lot across the street that she owns. She's swapping with us there's private ownership surrounding that lot. They have application in as well. So once the swap is complete then we will have a second deal for those owners.
But you didn't want to build it the two phases into this. You want to wait and see what happened. We want to wait for that to be complete and then we're going to do that and they want to go ahead with us even if for some reason. The second one bolsters.
They will once we have the transversal they own all of these so then we'll be able to sell these three lots and our ownership. Yep.
Any other questions for hearing none, but I have a motion please. So moved.
Thank you all in favor. Aye. Opposed? Hearing none the purchase and development agreement was looking at the whole picture foundation is passed. Next step was favorite name. I'm still looking for an explanation. The Ninja and the sense of I'm trying to know okay, we tried. Now you're gonna talk about the project. Yes.
The applicants I'm gonna beautify and enhance the neighborhood. They're turning a lot into an urban garden with fruits and vegetables. They're also going to offer a space for events. They will they're not going to phase this all out. They're gonna work on all the plants simultaneously and they plan on inviting neighbors to engage in the project, but they do have funds in the amount of $347,000 in their trust for the project.
Any questions for Carla about this project? No. Okay, hearing none, because I have a motion. Remote Support. Thank you very much. All in favor of the ninja phone trust. Posts are none. The motions there. Next up is Northwest Territories.
Yes. Northwest Territories, LLC. They're targeting the Elijah McCoy neighborhood they're taking their rehab to sell model to this neighborhood. They estimate the renovation costs are going to be about 140 to 175 part structure they have $2 million and available funds. They've taken this model in the north end with some of our properties and they've been able to rehab and sell those
as well. So we worked with these guys before. Any questions about the Northwest Territories motion? Hearing none, could I have a motion? Some or all in favor? Pose Hearing none the Northwest Territories motion carries. Next step is rested in nature.
Yes rescue Michigan he now is a successful dlba community partner. They're coming back. I think this is their third project. They're purchasing 37 properties in the Nolan neighborhood to create a therapy for us. This is part of a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for almost $200,000 as well as an additional $60,000 donation from plantwise. This has significant support from another number of partners including Councilman member Scott Benson.
It's really cool. Really cool. It's gonna be a big piece of
it is we toured their other projects really nice. So this pretty much the whole neighborhood it's gonna have
fantastic it's gonna change everything. All right. Other questions about rescue Michigan nature now. I have a motion please. For thank you all in favor, aye. Opposed Hearing none the rescue mission Richard project is approved. Next up is the SP Global LLC resolution.
That one eye is me. This is the Sara Elizabeth Ray house that I had mentioned we had marketed this property originally or put out an RFP we had not received any offers. This is a house and a lot this snare Elizabeth Rae who had refused to give up her seat on the Bob Lowe boat. And when we initially offered it, we didn't have anybody bid on the property. So we connected with Alyssa team Robbie actually an ally connected with Alyssa team. And we put a piece out in cranes with the backstory and so that was successful and we had Shannon steel come forward and express interest in the profit. And so this is coming to by resolution because we are asking for a sale for $1. And this instance, Shannon steel has demonstrated she's an original originally from the city of Detroit. She born and raised and educated and then went on like primary school and then went on has become wildly successful, was a stockbroker in New York and then has come back to Michigan has is very interested as a woman in this property and the history has sufficient proof of funds would like to dedicate the lot as Memorial Garden to Sara Elizabeth Re. And so we're asking for a sale for $1. She's actually already started on she asked for an access agreement to the property so that she could clean out the interior which she's already done. She's already invested some money in preserving the roof. And so we're asking for sale for $1.
Cool. And at the end, her plan is both to have it available for the community garden and to have someone live there, I guess. Low income or
affordable affordable housing for elderly, right.
Um, any other questions for John? All right, could I have a motion please? So all in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none the Sara Elizabeth crave resolution. Next up is the corrective transfer on Glendale.
Yes, Erica, this
is one of mine. This is a bad credit. I think the board has seen too often in recent months is the case where the property was held by the state of Michigan and then improperly foreclosed upon by the county and sold to a third party on the home is now occupied by Mr. Mitchell and he has invested a great deal in the home to bring it up to code and our hope was to get Board approval to transfer the property to him to give him solid title. I should note the board previously saw this address last fall when our plan was to transfer it to the county but between the time we got Board approval and we're moving on the transfer they kind of changed their thoughts about dealing with an occupied home and so asked that we deal directly with the occupant rather than work through them.
I mean, it looks like he's keeping it in decent shape. I mean, this isn't the problem property. It's just a question of their living title. Absolutely. And the other question is about Greendale here none can I have a motion? Please support
me so move.
I'll take it either order. That's all in favor, aye. Opposed? Hearing none the Greendale correctly transfers approved. And Robbie, you have another one on Vermont.
Yes, this is very similar, but slightly different back pattern. This is a series of what appeared to be sort of bureaucratic failures. Property. This was a property that was foreclosed on by the state 30 years ago, however, does not appear that the occupant was ever given notice of this foreclosure, and the city assessor was never noticed to take off the tax rolls. And so the resident has been paying their taxes now for more than 30 years, and also got a mortgage on the property somehow
somehow
hired this person
very lucky. Lucky as the case maybe, but our hope was to get Board approval to transfer the property to the occupant to give them clean title.
Yeah, and I like all this Christmas decorations, so we'll be happy to have it cleared up. All right, any questions on Vermont? Could I have a motion please?
Someone support thank
you very much. All in favor, aye. Opposed Hearing none that Vermont motion carries. And now moving more properties to the city. plan projects are exactly
this is a transfer of 18 parcels to the city parks team to allow for the expansion of a number of parks including Benny AK Park, the Fitzgeralds, Greenway, Stoltz Park and the jobos. Greenway.
Always good thing, and if I recall correctly, you usually put these in terms of Tammy needs to be satisfied that they have the funds. That's important. We're constantly moving properties back and forth to the city. And a lot of it has languished in the past not so much predecessors. But to put that clause in the resolution is pretty important.
To me anyway.
All right. Any other questions? That I have a motion for the plant the transfer for the plant Park projects, so move forward. Thank you all in favor. All opposed? Hearing none. The transfers for the parks are approved. And finally, the exchange of property with Brigitte Crawford.
Yes, this is a proposed land swap with Miss Crawford who bought the sideline next to her home, which was severely overgrown. After she did extensive abatement of the site cutting down a number of trees and overgrown with a bunch of dumping it became apparent that the driveway where the house on the other side was actually present on this lot. We are now in the process of selling the home next door and Miss Crawford I think in a hope to avoid conflict with her future neighbor wanted to see about swapping this lock that she's already approved for us back to us so that she could acquired a lot behind her home next to her existing garden. Thanks.
Any questions on the Bridget Crawford? Here you're not gonna have a motion please. So for all in favor. All opposed hearing none. The Bridget Cropper resolution is groups I don't believe we have anything for this session.
I do not know I think this is a holdover perhaps from last time, so that's fine.
So it was good to ask that the option always be to ask the question. All right. Anyone have anything else for the result pair of the organization or anything else?
I just want to add when you guys are out there and you're going into these homes, I know you're not on site. Try to wear some kind of rubber boots that you can take home and wash off so you don't contaminate your house. And gloves, cuz you don't know we often touch things even though we don't want to throw the gloves away when you get out of there. And always wear masks. These homes have been so contaminated now. God knows was blowing in those especially soon as it gets warmer. That advice in the colder season things guy started rolling back in the spring
and one of these days is gonna get warm promised me to have
So stay safe stay safe. Stay
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No, I'm all set. All right. I will say that. I'm the one up well, the upside of the conference is that it's 80 degrees today. I had to do what I'm sorry. I had a rough
time. I'm sure. I'm sure there's a very worthwhile conference in February in Alaska. You should look
I'll do that for you Eric.
But I have a motion to adjourn. So moved. On very. Very now we stand adjourned. Thank you everyone is really appreciate it.