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Thank you. Okay. Thank you all for being here today and we've come together to address an issue of profound reparation for our community. In the spirit of curves going through progress, we get to increase meaningful dialogue hexes towards healing the wounds of the past and build a more just unethical future. Your presence here is a testament to our shared commitment to justice and empowerment. Let us listen learn collaborative as we embark on this journey together this welcome to our preparation of case this entire
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My name is Ross bland, co organizer of the Quakers to text justice. And I wish to reiterate previous statements about calling for examination of the tax capture and tax abatement policies, which I've characterized in the past as reverse reparations. money that they're taking from our property taxes that's supposed to go to schools, libraries for education, WC 3d parks, instead of giving it to millionaires and billionaires who do not reside in the city. And we want to add to our concerns that that tax money is being used to subsidize and E key battery plants in the Detroit native american residential neighborhood. In Midtown area. V battery plants, you can look it up they they are considered hazardous environmental, and city is putting $12.4 million into this project in the States. I've been told this putting 25 million into it. So Detroiters are subsidizing a plan that's going to harm the health of a neighbor. And the city administration has decided that they're not going to hold any hearings, they're going to award this money. Even though apparently this was approved for another property owner in the past. We need more diligence and stopping the wealth transfer of Detroiters, the billionaires and billionaires who live out of the city and sometimes on the west coast of this city. We need to return the money to our educational and public service purposes for which it was intended and approved by the voters. Thank you.
My name is Patricia Edwards. I'm a community advocates also black club president of the rough and wild sports community. Since I became a black club advocates, I feel like I've been retaliated against with the community. And also I filed Police Complaints and the process that they have was going through is straightaways. And we still not getting our complaints they send us to say a file and fo IA and BSA and file a Freedom Act form. And BM filing an appeal which I grog everything, I still haven't received a complaint. So is a lot of things is going on in the combat, a young do didn't want all those different floors that they have as running up and down to take care of probate wars, whatever you need to take care of. They got to go into different roles to different people is giving us different stories, and we're never getting anything resolved, which is a pain, a 14th amendment is being broken at that point. So I brought copies of everything that I have suffered, and says I own practically our property on about four different properties in the city of Georgia. So when I'm in the solar panel area, where I feel I'm being retaliated against to be bullied out my community, because they don't want to buy now. So I'm sad that I'm going to give the paperwork to the proper people. And that notice be took in regards to my behalf of being a community advocate and having property as a citizen in the city of Detroit.
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Hello, my name is Franco French from summertime. I have many complaints from our biggest issue is education. And I have little like an unserved communities from underserved communities underserved. And I want them to, I guess speak to a brain dump on the guidelines of where the money goes. So I know right now, the government is given out millions of dollars to education and I just wanted to figure out the right ecosystem to put it into because the previous year I was terminated. I went back to school and my experience is upscaling the people that they're given the money to to train people like me or black people. They've given us other nationalities and I feel like money is going to go back to our communities.
Could you speak your name again? Raphael French? Thank you Mr. French.
My name is leaving Morgan. I own spirit of trade motorsport Detroit's racing team. I was the first and only Deployer to run any toy Grand Prix. I'm here to speak on technology trends. For from auto racing to commercial vehicles, and how it can provide Johnson akin by by using hybrid upfit technology that is converted, rather than, than a business, spending a half million dollars on a truck, they can now upfit their truck for, let's say $50,000 or less. And basically, if we do a bunch of those trucks, it's equal. It could be equal to one or more of electric trucks that most small, medium, and large businesses can't afford, because they just bought, they just paid 200,000 for their commercial vehicle. That means class five, six and seven commercial vehicles.
I you know, I'm an engineer by profession. I've got I've worked on the hybrid technology on my own for 10 years. I've got it perfected. All I need is funding. Let me be able to levy Banagher Morgan, the Second Circuit to say the name of your company, also spirit of the point motorsport.
Thank you. My uncle was Lester Morgan. With Jane hillmorton. My uncle was Joe Morgan. So you know, I've been involved in politics. We're currently involved in politics in a suit for a long time, so I know which way you
would like to announce the presence of both member Hazel and member Jackie now have a quorum.
Okay, so we better get approval of the agenda. We're going to do we already get the prayer roll call. And we do have one row costumer the approval of the agenda. Three appointments prove up in minutes, like the introduction of new member tax cheat day. And the public comments rather than the public comment that never got to announcements subcommittee. Discussion,
you still have public commenters on a desire to return to public comment. Yes,
yeah, we can return to Washington. Okay, can we go to Google? Some? Second? Second. All in favor. Okay. So, next we're gonna go to we're gonna dish it to a new member of the board. We've got your cheek. All right. So what was this? Thank you for the appointment, and I'm looking forward to the uninfected services, people. Okay, so we'll go through. And then we also want to acknowledge our city council member. That's Callaway.
So announcements, coach and coach here. Do you want to do status of Michigan homes and come on? So can we go there? Okay. Well, okay, we had a meeting two weeks ago with different submissions on the status that universities can hide the harms is what harms are. And the impact is what is it comes from the harm and so we've been, we have racial universe mystery, the dude House report. And it's there's areas education, health care, public safety, economics, those are the concentrations, the focal point of policing. Those are the focal point of the there, there's, they're, they're studying that. And so they told us that we will have the final report in June, the final report, and then after we get the final report, we've combined both reports. And then we're gonna do the final report. So European has been with us from the start. And Colombian just came up with him for the early part of this year. And so both both presentations been impressive. So other than that, we look forward to doing the final report.
So good afternoon, everyone. Sydney catolico to the Detroit reparations Task Force. I'm really excited and proud to announce that we have received our completed report from Columbia University It's about 71 pages. And I want to thank everybody that had the opportunity to join us for our town halls, all of them, you that came through and gave oral histories provide a testimony to inform that report, because they could not have written it without you, they want to also extend their gratitude for the visit, and the time that they have to spend with each and every one of you with those three locations. So like I said, we are in the midst of kind of trying to figure out how we want to release that report how we want to consume that report, and how we want to share that information with you because it does belong to you 100%. So in the next couple of days, or weeks or so, look out for perhaps an email or some type of contact to figure out how we want to get that information to you. So we have received Columbia's impact analysis, addressing the five indicated routes of harm, and we're very excited to go over that with you.
Over the Treasury corporate offices have postponed the Treasury report to the next meeting, Mr. Chairman,
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you. Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Janice Hazel, and I serve as the treasurer, among other things. So thank you, Mr. Chairman. Due to some conflicting information that co chair Callaway stated at an internal reparations task force meeting on April 23 2024, regarding unpaid invoices, the task force's ability to make copies and and obtain supplies and equipment, I move to postpone until the next internal meeting the Treasurer's Report in order to clarify that conflicting information and my concerns with the latest expense report dated April 19, provided by the Office of the Chief Financial Officer from the city of Detroit, General Ledger by scheduling a meeting with the project manager Miss Emily Vick and the necessary staff. I believe Miss Williams from the city of Detroit Office of the Chief Financial Officer, I will be following up with member Josiah Rossa and project manager every Vic on this. Thank you. So
do we need a motion to adjourn motion to postpone the Treasurer's
Report? That is the motion in a second.
Second, okay. discussion on the motion. All in favor? Okay. We're gonna go to the subcommittee reports. I chaired the finance and economic development with met two times. And when we are discussing how we paid for reparations, some of the ideas that came out is marijuana, medical marijuana tax as the US Illinois attacked certain tax revenues, from the from from sports and sports arenas, revenues and things like that. We'll also talk about land as part of it. So, but there's much more to go with this. And we met meet, we met twice. And so now we'll give you the updated schedule next month, we only can meet twice a month. Okay, until we get all these reports the next committee
we can go, Oh, my name is. My name is Jason Omar Sosa. I'm the current chair for government policy subcommittee. Currently, we meet on Saturdays at 10 o'clock, except for on the Saturdays where we have this public town hall. But just as a heads up, we do expect that that schedule is going to change, accommodate discussions, both with taskforce members who want to participate, and people in the public who want to be want to participate. And in the meantime, a brief report is the focus of the government and policy subcommittee to look at ways that governance and policy can also be reparative. So when we think about reparations, we're really thinking about repairing cars that have been done historically. And to some extent, that means potentially some kind of a direct transfer of cash when we think about reparations, overall, and we can be talking about it in terms of housing, people who have been inappropriately moved removed from their homes, how you can make those individuals hold. But we talked about government and policy, we're trying to figure out what are the aggregate overarching ways that the city of Detroit can govern? That will be in itself? Preparedness. So we've had a number of discussions and outline several bullets that I'll just go through with you quickly. One of those. One of those buckets of repair on policy has been identified as parks and recreation. And we're talking about who has access to our parks. And for what charged in just as an example, when you go to some of the other parks that are close to waterfront, if you don't have a municipal ID for those cities, then you can't access them, except on special holidays, unless you pay with the city of Detroit. We kind of let everybody in. And oftentimes the Chargers get locked out. So we're talking about is it possible to shift those policies around parks and recreation and make it mostly accessible to Detroiters, and people who want to enjoy our city from outside the city might have to pay one another bucket that we've identified as income tax structure. If you live in Detroit, and you work in Detroit, you pay at least twice the amount of income taxes that people who live outside of Detroit, but work in Detroit pay, which means that if you're a Detroiter and this largest majority black city, you're being penalized for working and living in Detroit. And we think that that should be flipped. So that's one of the areas that we're that we're focusing on to something else we talked about is let me back up a minute. There are some things that the city of Detroit has direct power to make changes. And then there are other areas where the city of Detroit does not have power, but can make recommendations as expanse. So we've identified policies around the water department when it's been a been a strong income revenue generator for the city of Detroit, Detroit residents. When you think about differentiation in strategic business, we could have been bottling water, shipping it across the country. There's a whole other conversation that's being had about whether we had to, you know, package it in London, we were whatever. We don't know what the state of Detroit's authority is. And we're not the legal minds. But we are talking about what if the water department was operating and we collected all of the revenues and decided, you know, who got water from us and what the rates were? That's just the bucket of compensation. We're not the experts. We don't know what the pressure points are. But this is what we're talking about in the subcommittee for government policy, one of the one of the biggest, and I think important buckets of conversation that's coming out of it is a long term steering committee and or an office of reparations to both ensure that the recommendations from the final report are instituted, as well as to examine each of the City of Detroit's policies across all of this departments to ensure that those policies are equitable, and if not to be recommendations on how to make them more equitable. That's governance and policy
before. THE BOARD MEMBER Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Janice Hazel gang, and I served as the vice chair of the housing and land subcommittee. Park Bernard Parker is the chair and he is out of town this weekend and next week, so I'll give the report on his behalf. We are joined by a member Edith Ford, who's also a member of the housing and land committee, subcommittee and a Nika Goss Foster, who is our citizen member She is the president and CEO of Detroit's future city. Along with we are joined with members of University of Michigan's poverty solutions and social solutions. professors at the University of Michigan, the housing and land subcommittee focus areas are not limited to segregation and housing. These are past historical harms, property overtaxation, historic redlining and continuing effects of historic and present displacement by race, the history of public and subsidized housing racialized resistance that turned into violence against black residents of the city of Detroit masterplan policies, gentrification and neighborhood planning vacant land policies. So we would love for you to join us. We have been meeting on Monday evenings by zoom at 5:30pm to 6:30pm. We are in the recommendation phase, so we'd love for you to start providing us with your recommendations of what what reparations could or would look like. Right now we are looking at stopping foreclosures for African Americans reducing 20% reducing 20% for five years to equal over taxation by the city. We are told by the mayor and the corporation council that the city cannot reimburse those residents who were over assessed between 2006 and 2016. I know my property based on the City of Detroit's analytics and I can show you how to go and put your property address in Detroit News did back in 2020 173. Properties mines over assessed by $5,404 and I'm sure that many of yours will Also, but we are told that due to the state constitution, the city cannot reimbursed residents of that money in any way not by tax credits, or cash payments. So we're looking at how we can do something in that area, providing mortgage debt payments for African Americans, infrastructure repairs to African Americans, such as our sewer lines, some of our communities like mine, aviation subdivision, and Virginia Park did get some funds from the American rescue plan to get back flophouse. But there's a lot because our infrastructure is very old. Some of them, it's 100 years old. I know my house is 70 years old. I know that many of your homes are at least that old or older. So your infrastructure on the ground is much older. So those are some of the things we're looking at the impact of urban renewal and housing and the impacts from i 375. Back when that started, and even now, so please join us in the housing and land subcommittee so that we can get some of your recommendations and any historical harms that happened to you and your family. And now I will turn Mr. Chairman, if I may, to the quality of life subcommittee. Okay, thank you. So the quality of life subcommittee, I've said, I serve as the chair, I am joined by Camille Collins, who isn't here right now. But she is the vice chair, and Yolanda Jett, who is also a member of that committee, we've been joined by some wonderful members of Wayne State University who are PhD candidates and others. I think it's up to Davenport here. I don't see her but we've been joined by other citizens who've had some great recommendations, we are exploring under the quality of life, health issues, everything related to health, as well as urban agriculture, mass transit, and how is the city of Detroit culpable in mass transit or the lack there up. We are also looking at access to healthy food. As you know, the walkability scores in order to even get developments in our communities, low income housing or other senior housing, you have to have a walkability score meaning a grocery store with within one mile walking distance schools, and we don't have that throughout the city. So we're looking at that access to clean water, as well as access and other mobility issues. So over policing criminal justice system, I see my former police commissioner, Mr. Bill Davis, who has first hand knowledge of being victimized by stress back in the 70s, and other the Big Four, so we're going to talk about that. So we'd love for you to join us, this Subcommittee on quality of life meets bi so on Wednesdays, we have been meeting every Wednesday, but we're going to cut that back to probably twice a month. And that will be on our website. If you take a look there, what the dates are. So it might be the first of the third or the second and the third, we're working that out. But I would love for you to join us. We want to hear from you on what your quality of life issues are historically how you've been impacted by city policies or no policies. And moving forward. Thank you.
This is a sidebar. So speaking, additional updates from the Subcommittee on Government and policy. Either we're gonna speak to some of them to
add some additional details that we would like to put in our final report a recommendation to start a steering committee to look at all of the city policies and ordinances to make sure they equitable. One of the concerns that we have, we have a lot of environmental problems, especially around where black people and our cities, the only city that doesn't have a truck working. So you know, you got trucks, emitting toxins into the air and we live around the plant a lot of plants, allow them to admit a lot of taxes, and also more policies on environmental issues in our communities
through the chair, and we also didn't mention discussions around and I think there's some overlapping communities, which is great. We're gonna have them share out around criminal justice and the need for reform and the three prongs around criminal justice reform in policing, prosecution and penalty. You really can't talk about reparations and the need for repair without talking about math. incarceration and the impact of the war on drugs on the dentists have politically, politically and economically on black folks. In particular, if you take one person as by way of an example, who started 10 years in the Department of Corrections here in Michigan, it's about a half million dollars in lifetime earnings that that's lost through that one individual being gone for 10 years, he's not going to a mortgage, a 401. K. College School is his property for something for every type of something that shouldn't be a crime in the first place. And so we have to look at those three prongs. And then we look at the impact to the entire community. 2020 was a census year every person counted in the census represents about $18,000, over two years. At the time of the census, there were about 8000 people in the Michigan Department of Corrections alone, who were not counted here and how they were counted elsewhere. And that was $144 million in Detroit, he lost during the 2020 census for people who were in the Michigan Department of Corrections alone, not talking about people who are in in county jails, or in federal prisons, one prisons out of state. So we're looking deeply to the impact that criminal justice reform can have for parents, how do we make those individuals how, how do we make the community at a community college at a higher level?
Also undefined as mentioned, we will be going out to the paints insurance companies who are mortgage companies and folks like that would cause havoc on our community. So I just wanted to let you know about that to also acknowledge former board member Anita Hill. Okay. So we love the Zin more committee reports more committee
reports. Mr. Chairman, if I might, I'm not sure if it was stated. But I got a call before arriving here from member Gregory Hicks. He's at the hospital with his brothers and he's not going to be able to. Okay, okay.
We will go back to public comments. Got two minutes. He was he's got the mic.
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My name is to hear on the coalition with Habitat justice, with reparations. With Reverend Dr. Joanne Watson, she's gallerist has left bless his soul for helping us. I'd like to have you all here for 20 point plan whenever you can. But two things that interests me. City council member Scott Dixon is under FBI investigation now going for the second year, Dan Coleman, after Hall ran up to Lansing, to lobby for the land value tax, the land value taxes and another rip off and effect. And it's illegal. So they're, they're lobbying for the state to change the Constitution to allow for it to be on the ballot. So why don't they go out there to lobby for the state to change the constitution. So we get paid that guy $600 million, one month to pay 100,000 homes that were illegally foreclosed and we were able to catch, they're so busy doing the mayor's bidding that they got doing, I did go up there and lobby for the Michigan to change the state constitution. So we get paid nothing for them to change the state tax to just kind of lay down your debt. The final thing here, we want our money, and we want it now. And we want to be able to repatriate some of us don't want to stay here in America that we always try to help get us get help from America to credit enough that has us here as well as in the criminal put yourself in jail. Hey, I bet we want our money. So we paid 300 got to figure out what we want to go back to diamond and buy us a house and we are peacefully and happily ever after. And we find we want money to steady where we may want to go maybe some of us may want to go somewhere else. And we want that money to go to the people. Throw indigenous people that allow us to combat it. Thank you.
All right. Hello, everybody. I need a female female co chair of the Detroit chapter and then Cobra and Preston at the reparations labor union in homegrown Detroit will have a tomorrow and you're all welcome to come to see me and or go on Eventbrite for the virtual meeting and the in person will be a cousin of us on living. As to the comment that the Great. Alright, I won't do that to her because I'm watching the time. Yes, one of the recommendations is change the state constitution, we can't be reimbursed. But Michigan is only one of three states that can take your money and not reimburse you. If it's a constitutional issue, let's change. That's the recommendation.
Hello, my name is Kevin Johnson 30
year resident of country, a member of the TVOC Training Council. Watson was a mentor of mine, citizens, Daniels, they have one of the first reparations in Washington. And I'm here because it helps to have an organization like yours United culture Development Center, where I write business grants when used to build up the community through their own activities. My question is about a city being sold out, you know, in a rent going up, the lease is going to the government, they've given up the government given a $25,000. Grant to home, so to families and citizens, why wouldn't we be paying off some on credit? We haven't seen as many young and old people going back to school, getting a trade, but then they can't get any of the housing, the credit is bad, we got prisoners coming out of jail. And they can't they don't have any homes. And we have 25,000 dogs when they can do and no one's being helpless with that. And also the Jews can get $50,000 and go back to their home country. And they grants I must be excellent. I'm also a rat why this is true, because I graduated on a Wednesday in college, and also signed up your program. No, I call them a couple. I'm just wondering, what are we really going to do, by the time we get all this through, they will be the bottom of our city, they buy property to us through property companies will keep it for five years. And you know, we need help. We're working hard with young people, old people and people getting out of jail working for the Skills for Life, which is ruining, but they weren't in and they try to get it, get it going. And then they get there and they can't get the house. And then they still want to sell us the fact the house next door for life for the people. So I'm feeling that, you know, maybe this volunteers to help you out. I'm sure a lot of us really, really, really need to get the movement before they steal a whole CDL.
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Good afternoon. My name is Portia Edwards, I am representing the Detroit grassroots coalition. As the co founder of that or grassroots organization, I am here to strongly and strictly advocate for black Americans, those that are from this soil. Okay, there's a gentleman here who has a flag on his arm, representing black American pride. That is who we are, we would not have this discussion if it wasn't for black Americans. And when we're talking about historical harms, let's focus on those from the very beginning. It is time for us to do our homework, my people, it's time for you to trace your lineage. Lineage matters, okay? That is who you are. You want to trace your lineage from one bellybutton matures to the other belly button and you keep going and you keep on as far as you can. This is not about tethering on to the hearts of black Americans. If you are first generation, second generation, third generation, you're not a black American. Okay, you cannot Burg be born into an ethnicity. And we are a specific lineage of people who have a specific lineage of harms that must be addressed. Okay. I don't want to do touch on the subcommittee reports type, very tired and insufficient. I've been asking. I've been traveling, visiting family and things of that nature. But to come back after two months, and to hear the child have not done anything. It's just sad and pitiful. But I'm looking forward to the hard support that's coming from Columbia as well as University of Michigan, let's not negate the harm that they themselves have also imposed on black Americans as well. So we need to make sure that we are not telling on other people to our hearts. And we're talking about things that we're dealing with in present day, think about if somebody else can tether in and say yeah, I'm dealing with the same thing. Think about it. Okay, this is about black Americans or black Americans only. Again, I'm representing the Detroit grassroots coalition, please do get in contact. We are here to apply pressure on these members. Janice, you have been late multiple times meetings. And so I'm paying attention to you as well. Thank you.
I don't need two minutes but I was intrigued by the discussion about regaining control of the water and sewerage department. I am sure that means trying to change the ruling and over billing, the ruling in a bankruptcy proceedings and so forth. But this has been a long fight the city ever since the city bowed to pressure to expand into the suburbs. The Suburbs felt that they should take control going back In 1978, when communities outside of Detroit came together and put money into a campaign to take DWSD, and they fail, time and time again, in the 90s, every two years bills was introduced to take the water and sewage department from Detroit. They all failed. Finally, a federal judge told them, if you take it, it's all unconstitutional. I'll rule against you. And so they shut their mouths and start trying to build alternative systems. Hence, the Kern County Water Authority in the Flint water crisis, as one example. So I think right now from when I've been out, talking to folks, when in the legislation for affordable water suburbanites are complaining now louder than they ever have about the water rates. Yeah. And their folks are part of that. And so they used to believe Detroit was ripping them off. But Detroit was always saying, it's your city that's marking it up at the local level. I think there's probably more room politically, to take control back, because we still own the entire system. We just don't have the rights of ownership. And anything you're interested in doing. I'm interested in joining in with you on that play.
I hope you'll join us on our committee. All right, folks, we have to be mindful two minutes because we want to have breakout sessions. So we give you two minutes.
This is real quick. My name is David Piper, I'm gonna Detroit resident. I'm a proud black American. I'm indigenous to the soil. And one thing that I have, this is my first reparations Task Force. I've listened to lift all program. But I have yet to hear anything about cash payment, reparations, for old, old money for the descendants of slaves. This is what I want to hear. This is all I'm about. I'm about black first. So I'm hearing lift off for everybody else. But I'm not hearing anything for us and about us. Thank you.
Mr. Chairman. Madam Mayor. Mr. Chairman, may I put the gentleman that just spoke? Please know that we are municipal Detroit reparations. I invite you to get involved with the national organizations that are answering the question that you raised federal reparations. HR 40, has been in Congress for 3435 years since I helped to write it back in 1989. So those questions that you are raising are federal reparations. So I invite you to look into look into the federal matters. It's not going to be answered by Detroit's municipal reparations. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
It is important no. That has been the case and that's why we're here.
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good afternoon. My name is Leslie Piper. And
this is my first meeting. So I'm very excited to be here. I'm really looking forward to as I phone the homeowner here in Detroit. I would love for the task force, maybe bring up certain
grants that are easily accessible so we can fix our houses. I think that would be my interest, and free.
Okay, good. Good afternoon. My name is Tyler Musgrave. I'm a black American on my father's side, to make even my mother's side. I actually do research on reparations at your event. I'm a graduate student there. I'm also going to be a mayor Fellow at the city of Detroit for the innovation technology department. I guess I just I'm here to kind of bring forth to the committee around. There's a booming technology sector happening here in Detroit. And I'm finding quickly, by attending some of the meetings like today, there's a black tech Saturday. It's a beautiful event. I don't know if folks have been to it. But I'm concerned. Because there's a lot of recreation of harm that is taking place in the city in terms of, you know, I think recently blacked, there was a $1 million grant that was given to a company here in Detroit, to put up cameras in the grocery stores and convenience stores to surveillance the communities. You can already on the baseline say that it's problematic, right. I'm also during my time at the Department of innovation, I'm going to be working with the digital divide. I'm in digital literacy, particularly with the 60 or 66 years and older age group. And so I guess I'm just coming here to talk to you all in the community, because I think there's a lot of intersection with reparations as well as like the technology sector that is coming coming forth here, Detroit. So I just want you all to put that on your radar because there's a lot of things that are going to be popping up here. Very soon.
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that no birthday, I wanted to say I appreciate City Council standing reparations Task Force to understand the important stuff. Secondly, I appreciate Dr. takeI in this interview, and his perspective there and Detroit repair. Now I think it's important that we understand Detroit reparations mean, issues that pertain to Detroit in the repairing of Detroit citizens locker star. LeBron Detroit is survived radio came up north during the 1930s 40s for manufacturing jobs, they participate in World War Two. Majority of those residents were direct descendants of slavery, they lacked skills, they lacked education, they lacked a lot of other things necessary for them to survive when they're off. And 1960s We had a riot here. That was a response to unequal houses and not equal opportunities and equal job or tools lack of education. Once the audit industry left, a lot of our citizens that lack of skills and trades did not have the means to continue on and go on. And the government is response to demands rage and outrage of inequality here with social services. Social Services came in order for social services to be applied to families, the man could not be in a household, there could be no resemblance of a man in the household. And those policies still exist today. That's where the damage just was begin and the destruction of families here. And as we continue to move forward, our Master lady there spoke on House deals and policies that had been in place for 30 or 40 years. More importantly, in 1967, President Lyndon Johnson commission commission here, they're supposed to stick to the conditions here. It's called a Kerner report. I think we need to start with the current reported online a lot of the damages that was done, as well as a lot of the recommendations that was done to repair blacks is is here and it says this has a tendency to have a lot more to say but I appreciate you all. Watching them again. Brother find your name. Mr. Foster Rondo foster column. Hey,
folks, I just want to say this, we only him to make recommendations, and we do our report. That's what the main who said make recommendations or housing, economic development. I just want to say that
net announcement for,
for the organization and for the people. My name is Lavonia, and I'm the president of the DC Metropolitan metropolitan Congress of black women, I just want to share information. With everyone here. I have been asked and really blessed to be asked to be a part of the Congressional Black Caucus, that conference that's going to take place September the 11th 13th, and 14th. In Washington, DC. That's where the Congressman John Connor really spearheaded his whole piece, in terms of reparation, you're having a national meeting, and they've asked my organization to be a part of that. I'm saying to the bed, that we we should be a part of that discussion. So I will never go by myself without you. So I'm saying to anyone who wants to go to Washington, DC, there is going to be a reparations national discussion, not only with
what the Congressional
Black Caucus, but California, which has one of the most outstanding results, a conference conversation and outlines of I've read and read it all, not even 770 pages. But it is a template that we are working on in the Congress of black women, founded by surely children. One of our online items, is reparations. So we're here to support what you do,
how you do it,
and provide information once again, Congressional Black Caucus, founded one of the founding members of John Conyers, the writer and initiator John Conyers of HR 40. He and what's the name Sheila Jackson Lee, now, they're having a update this year in Washington, you're all invited. Would you please with those details for September as well? And, and others will take the author's.
Hi, I'm Alicia Jones, and I'm the CEO of harmony point Information Technology Center. And as you talk about reparations, I want to make you aware of data. Forbes magazine in the Brookings Institute, says that by 2035, between 2035 and 2050, the per capita income for African Americans will be zero in this energy gauge, but looking at per capita income for African Americans between 2035 and 21. We're talking about them going back to the slavery era, and giving us the 40 acres and a mule and making sure we get reparations, they're planning on taking us back to the slavery era. There is no more time for discussion, if there's a working model, follow it. But right now, I'm saying to you, if a four year old, by the time that four year old turns 18, that data will be real. Now, if you've not heard about it, it was released in 2017. is a social construct. We need to come together as relieve Lavonia. What she's saying is absolutely accurate. We need to get on one accord. And so I'm here to invite you to black enough. If you're not familiar with that. It's an annual event where black people come together. On Pingree Street, black, the novel will be held on May the 25th. It is important for us to come together and get on one accord. And that's what I'm saying they're trying to take us back to the slave error. If you didn't know it, and they didn't tell you. It is a social construct for us to become slaves of the fourth women report anything. That's not accurate. Look, we need to get on one accord. Thank you. Okay.
Two minutes here. We try to move this thing forward. If we want to get to the breakout session, Mr.
Chair, thank you,
Keith, where we're managing the time is
our friend Hello, everyone. My name is William Davis. And, you know, we need to be looking at a number of things a number of directions. You know, of course this historical banks, you know, that white people have done to us city government, state government, county government done to us, but also, you know, I said we need to look at more recently like I'm gonna see the chart your time. And you know, during the fake bankruptcy, where we had that racist Rick Snyder came in to designate the central Detroit You know, not only was my country but but the city lost control over the Detroit water and sewage, lost control of our lost control of Bella, I think one of the things we also need to be pushing for is to make sure that some of our so called Democrats do something about the emergency management board. You know, they come in, you know, for the white Democrats, they get rid of law, you know, they will feel the right to work, but they still haven't done anything with emergency management, we need to make sure that we get a fair equitable return on the lease agreements with the Detroit water and sewage, they should be paying us $215 million a year. If they did that. Our whole economic opportunities would increase. You know, we do a number of things. But we have to have the willpower and the stamina to stand up and push our issues. Far too often. We wanted to scout out and be willing to let some white people I know my time races, but I'm not, you know, let some white people just give us a few pennies. And let us just go away. We need to stand up and demand Lord. Thank you.
So So after the handsome young man in the back, public, we're gonna cut off public comments.
Wonderful comments about
the public sector is still in that.
Yes, good afternoon, I wanted to dispel some misinformation that was spoken from some of our commenters. Number one, the social services does not deny on being able to be in the house. I have a caseworker for the state of Michigan. Actually, if you report that the male is in the house, we do not go after them for child support. So that's this information that was spoken. Secondly, there is no credit required homeowner loans through Bank of America, the NAACP sued them for not giving mortgages to blacks. It's called the Community home solutions, you do not need a credit score, and you do not need a new paint downpayment. So you don't need that $25,000, you can apply directly through Bank of America. They're doing it in six cities across the country, la Detroit, I believe it's Charlotte, Philadelphia, and six cities, but Detroit is one of them. So you guys need to take advantage of that ASAP. The only problem that I have with that is that they allow other non black people to apply. So that's another issue. Again, that's a nationwide issue was not just to come here to Detroit. And I want to thank all of my community members to please stay on task. This is strictly about Detroit, and the harm that has been done to Detroiters. It's not about slavery. It's not about anything else. But the harm that has been done to Detroiters. So we're spinning our wheels, wasting our time discussing other things that are not going to be impacted here through this committee. So we need to stay focused and stay on task and he says stick together and not be fighting against one another. Thank you very much.
My name is Kent take care, okay.
Good afternoon, Chairman. Good afternoon. This committee My name is James Beasley, I'm a resident of the city of Detroit via lifelong deployment of my comments I like to focus in on is the state of our education program. Because if we're going to talk about reparations, reparations, with education is the lowest hanging fruit that we have on our tree. First of all, we need to realize what's going on now, with education. I represent a group of research educators from a two sigma research group, we look at the numbers and the numbers tell us exactly what's going on. And if we look at every since himself was put in and stuff in Michigan here, on average, we've been losing three school years per year. So in essence, we're moonwalk and we're going backwards. If you look at where we've been from a safety standpoint, when slavery was when Emancipation Proclamation was written, it was against the law to teach the slave learn how to read. And so we started from zero at that particular point. So when you start to take a look at broken promises, this the United States is made towards when you look at reconstruction reconstruction as the 17 years, and they broke the promise, after that came Jim Crow. So that meant that we had our own institutions and with our own institutions of teaching each other by the time we get to 1964. With the Coleman report, we close the achievement gap in terms of black white education achievement to one standard deviation now was back in 1964. Since 1964, up until now, because we're moving too fast. That number is As expanded, not achievement gap is now over 10 standard deviations has gotten worse by a factor of 10. So we got to ask ourselves what's going on? But we take a look at the school system, do we have one or not? We got a superintendent in place that the school board doesn't even come before the people and say, we're going to be reviewing this country, what happens? He's got his contract renewed twice. And both times when he did, they went and closed in closed doors in closed session, I used to be chairman of the Cable Commission and City of Detroit are the two reasons. Okay, only two reasons you can go by that personnel and evil, but I'm willing to offer you our resources to this committee, so you can have the numbers to work towards. This is the last
good afternoon I'm Z Cunningham. 20 years ago, I was director of data for Detroit City Cloud has taskforce on global trade. We were charged with implementing e 4.1. The economic program for global trade with Africa, Asia, Latin American and Caribbean. In the Empowerment Zone, that program is funded program never implemented. It was supposed to create, as I say, 50 new import export business inside the city of Detroit. And between 15 and 20,000 jobs on the continent of Africa that day, there are over a quarter of a million sizes, working and more than a quarter million in cyber making goods and services for African countries. My proposal is we revisit that program. And if we manage fully, it's in the budget document known as jumpstarted, the mode of study 9495, which should be in most public libraries, and as a part of the city council record. I'm proposing that we take the Renaissance building, which is soon to be issued, which has hundreds of 1000s of square feet, cubic inches of business class a business. I'm proposing that each and every African country and every country in the Caribbean have a trade mission in those offices. And that those hours has been used to reconnect us with Africa in the Caribbean, the very area that was the North Atlantic slave trade that built capitalism, not just in this country, but the world. This would allow us not only to capture state and federal money, but also funding sources in other parts of the world through direct foreign investment in the city of Detroit, for our people. I'm proposing commercial space in the Renaissance, there is no better than four
times so we have a failure really.
Yes, we have three hands raised online, are firsthand is one of the coldness.
Everybody in that room here is clear. Yes. Yes. You know, your storage. Okay. Department of Elections have been cold busted to meeting international absentee ballot voter fraud, the 2024 presidential primary election for 12842 Suffolk Street. Now, I've heard everybody talk. And I want everybody to include everybody in that role. It's no longer a matter of what was done. Was absentee ballot fraud. It's no longer question where it was done. Was the Detroit Department of Elections, no longer a question of why it was done. The T. And how it was done was data entry into the computer database to cities database. There is a person who enters focus information into the city, this base and now the question is who did everybody has written here include? One question, you could argue is talking about artists moods. So what's going on Detroit was bad was this but good. It's one question now who? Who put the information into the city's database? That's going to be the straw that breaks The camel's back. All the symptoms that you complained about can be traced to growth in the election of Detroit officials, every elected position in the city of Detroit is highly suspect highly, highly suspect in a question, because their achievement in the department of Elijah, and those that don't know me, I see verses in a row. I see Mr. Foster's in a row. I see Mr. Davis is in the room, who people don't know. My name is Ruth, we go back room. Got a whole bunch of monitors. But we got one question that everybody needs to read these ads now who put the information into the city's database.
Our next event is Cecily McClellan.
Thank you very much for allowing me to speak. One thing I'd just like to reiterate, it may be helpful that the tasks were would reiterate the the language that stated on the original reparations when it was voted upon that defines that this reparation is basically permissible, and that it will cover primarily in the area of Housing and Economic Development. And I recognize economic development is a very large area need further development. I also think the taskforce needs to provide structure and outline to the citizens. So it will be helpful. So we will know how to submit our recommendations. You know, I told her is the preliminary data and for this report to be generated, there has to be some period in which recommendations that in and a report will be generated. I would like to just piggyback on what Mr. Davis has talked about in terms of the municipal bankruptcy and the great harm that was done to the retirees who in essence, were the backing of the bankruptcy and lost over $5 billion. And many of those retirees are still suffering. And it is immediate and an action that can be taken to this committee that could restore and make our seniors our elders work for the city many for 30 years to be restored and made whole and why the city is enjoy enjoying this rebirth of newcomers. The folks that made it possible need to be compensated. Further. It can't be said enough in terms of the Glee wa agreement. That is a very unfair, devastating agreement to the bankruptcy. Battle. I mean 50 million a year, which Detroit pays 17 million so it's only 33. It needs to be recalled renegotiated and Detroiters need to be compensated for the water system. Oh,
it's time is Max. Our final hand is Laurel Hill.
Hello, my name is Nora Hemphill attorney neuro Hemphill. And as I continue to go, where to see where mama Cecily was speaking, which is a speaker before us, Mr. McClellan. She was speaking about reparations and if we were equitably compensated for the Detroit water and sewage department that we would get about $215 million per year for an equitable payment of the Detroit water and sewage primary from glue. And I have a quick question as to please. The references taskforce committee. And so this after my public comment, because I was unable to hear the first part of the meeting, has the references pass for the Senate? If so, until where and what are the parameters of that? As Mr. McClellan spoke before, we do need a direct end date of when public implement scuzzy public comment and public input and and when the process variety report is going on and also, when that report will be done. So, we duly a clear process there parameters so that the public can properly give input and properly participate. Also, I appreciate that this is a meeting where the public is actually able to give input and to have comments, those of us who are viewing online. However, we need to please ensure in future meetings that we are able to number one here and number two, we are able to participate To give public comments, those who are not able to attend the meeting, it is imperative that the public that the residents of each raise those ones who cannot come to meetings, I'm usually at the meeting the person but sometimes, obviously things happen and there are other people who cannot make it out that we are able to participate. We are able to hear what's going on, and we are able to give comments. Thank you.
Okay, thank you. Okay. Unfinished Business next time. Unfinished business is no unfinished business, new business. Go to each board member was
I think the only thing Mr. Chairman, this is Jay fan speaking. We have a new business is the breakout sessions and this is an opportunity for folks who want to participate in the subcommittee's here's an opportunity for you to learn a little bit more about what it is that we're talking about to start sharing your recommendations so we can start integrating those ideas to the extent possible into what we're thinking about so I don't know if we can we missed a chair? Can we get a quick roll call of what subcommittees are present so that people know what their choices are?
Okay, all right. Okay. Good motion to adjourn
is Mr. Chair Yes, the intent is that the breakout sessions will be carried out until four o'clock and at four o'clock
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this is Lesley Nice to meet you. Thank you so much Gentleman so I know I spoke in there about homeowners and it would be great if we could get our houses you know apply for grants.
Oh anguishing for that okay? I work for Mac development. And I start working right now. My first thing was day for lightning I hate MAC MAC African Development Corporation and we own the common law
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time and look online again accept media rights restoration community committee meeting. So while we're waiting to get our report back ideas are hard. So we want to make sure we're really good and reasonable
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me we're talking about how to how to syndicate and they say in addition last year I didn't I didn't even provide enough imagination and then finally guys, I was like oh, that's HR and I was like okay she went on my head so now she's saying obviously she had it personally and I might use it and my other issue is what I was gonna say this the same as she told me my boss
yeah because if you don't ever say us in black since the talk is I need to buy your own house
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you write your email and I'm gonna say you somebody that's what I do. Now you name now you didn't pique my curiosity. I'm like I know they were doing that job.
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and I'll talk to people like see we also have to talk to us federal money, we need to talk to him like Rashida to leave. And then
everybody nobody has reached out to me. They don't respect me as a whole.
Yeah, you might have to get the data together for like, this is why when I'll be teaching our teenagers, and I can add receipts and receipts because we can talk all we want but if it ain't on paper, it didn't happen. record conversations. If you tuck it in the conversation, you don't have to tell them to record it. That's the law. I'm keeping this myself from me on Monday or Tuesday as
they see me
at the end, a takedown for this week, so I haven't put enough they banned me from replacing the federal credit is now building a building, but I'm trying to give them like a mountain I don't know that Randy
were you know when I'm gonna have to hit you up to this I got one spare record is I don't use my phone anymore and I and I put it where a light jacket and put it in my pocket because it picks it up real good to see ya I'll have you with me better when I had to take it somewhere girl and it's voice activated so I don't even have to go to turn that now and you'll be and you'll be praying because I can't say go around believing that I got my grandfather's spirit kids ain't gonna be out now. We have problems with that in our neighborhood and I can't take it because we gentrification center sell the developer everything people pay me rent developer just come in put them out in this section so hi there money was a great Yeah, and we talked about was 340 45 Okay all right. So you're gonna hear from me on the side I liked his stuff. Like even gave me some mails to get started with my past Don't be like dang eat up I'm like guys people shall not be in it. Oh prayer spirit nice talking to you when we don't be praying. Yeah, because we don't get to ask yeah
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well, you know what I gotta come to like our next meeting public and then I'm gonna try to get some people to be like on a different so I can't I found that I can't ask for people to be You can't be like a citizen public member of a committee because like a median Gospel we got to get rid of hair out I think people should get cash reparations because she got from Detroit future city. Because you know people
when they say the police aren't she's saying that people shouldn't get reparations because
they don't know what to do with their money. I say let me stop
policing black people about what we do if I want to get plastic surgery from my reparations money, my money
I like people to stick it up for red sands and let it run is most people take care of example, emphasis on a rapid race with a white male mother logging on to oldest residents 20. Day Fix day houses or started the kids or grandkids business nobody
cares though at the end of the day
a good day
if you don't watch
what you say. I mean, I grew up with them. So I definitely see it all the time. And especially I'm an African American Studies Department.
Just like when I went to Memphis to protest as a young man and yeah is black with the black offices today as they always wanted to people recently got to be police. Then they got in this unit Scorpion yummy. Oh, they fell so elevated. No white officers told them you don't have to follow the rules so they felt accepted by the white man so they were not being killed.
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don't matter on this planet has the genes of Lucy the DNA and only reason they white like that is because we're Africans they're moving out. They were in different environments
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know you want chaos. We got to learn that you got to pray for rock and mountain that is that is one person for me to say that you were able to solve this problem today? Two weeks ago that's all we can do. Hold on
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so to wrap up this activity as I hand it back to the Chair, thank you for this nation and these breakouts in the subcommittee's I hope that you found it a meaningful expanse. Some of the questions were around living sustainably involved. I don't know that we've had questions, answers to those questions that we paid into it. And now those are questions that we know we have to have figured out look for us to be following up with you as committee chairs or will probably be edited or somebody's personal and we're trying to make sense of what is both beautiful and manageable. Long term. We'll make sure to get a good clear orientation and what the expectations are. And we'll try our best to set subcommittees thanks for watching. What the company's people's view of the chair. So
folks, it's a wonderful day. And I tell you this we have we can't go on forbidden to deal with the site. You deal with each other. God bless everybody. Can we move forward from this point all the way up? It was the weekend
