Detroit City Council Formal Session, 10 a.m.

    2:00PM May 2, 2023

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    Good morning. All right, the floor is yours you can lead us in prayer this morning. Okay.

    Our heads about all mines clear. Father, we thank you. We are so grateful for this day. We are so grateful for this opportunity to come together. Heavenly Father asked right now oh god that you would allow your spirit to move forward and that your will would be done. What I'm asking for an anointing on this morning Oh Heavenly Father that you would touch the minds and the hearts of everyone that is represented. Every speaker every panelist, oh God go in Heavenly Father and let the words that are spoken the representatives of your kingdom of your desire. Oh Lord, we know that you care for your people. Oh God, and as we give you the authority and the rain overall, or the minds of the hearts or the decisions or got all of the citizens of the city of Detroit, we ask that you allow your anointing to flow from the head as you have instructed all the way down to those who are can who are recipients. Oh God, what I'm asking right now that you would touch the President right now. And all of her constituents. We thank you. We praise you, we honor you. And we ask you to do these things in Jesus name. Amen.

    Amen. All right, thank you so much for that invocation. Feel free to join us virtually as long as you can. If you have to jump off we do understand. blessed day. We appreciate you. Thank you. All right. We're going to start off with our presentations for this morning and I'm going to actually allow council member Callaway to start off with her presentation first. And also if the Kirkwood no member Doha has joined us in member Callaway has joined us.

    Hello

    and good morning and thank you Madam Chair. Good morning, everyone.

    This month is nurses recognition month and we want to thank all of the nurses who are under the sound of my voice and those who are not. We none of us would be here without a nurse. And so we recognize all of the wonderful deeds and actions that nurses provide their services every single day. And they were certainly the ones on the frontline during and after COVID. So we are going to honor one of them today, along with her students and one of the teachers but if I can just see her hand on nurse T are you here? If you can just stand up for a moment. Good morning. And your students, Nurse T students are you here we just want you to stay in and good morning to each and every one of you. And is the chemistry teacher here Dr. Bridges for Renaissance High School. Hello, good morning to all of you. And if I can have the testimony. If I can have the Spirit of Detroit award for nurse tea you all can be seated

    and we have awards for each and every student and also for Dr. Bridges. Thank you and I hope I'm not butchering your name nurse T I will try to be to be ra Alexander R N. B BSN, better known as nurse T. Nurses who care founder to burry to be ra Alexander. RN BSN has more than 14 years of experience in clinical care. She is also an extremely successful businesswoman and the owner of Farmington Hills adult care and excelling nurses Academy in Michigan. Nurse T's future nurses program gives children

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    a hands on experience of nursing and health care professions through interactive workshops. I don't know anywhere else in the state of Michigan where we have and Dr. Bridges if you can join nurse tea at the microphone, right here, Dr. Bridges, but for you and your willingness to partner with this amazing nurse. The students at Renaissance would not be receiving the benefits of her skills and her expertise. So thank you Dr. Bridges. The program will introduce these crucial fields to kids directly from the source and celebrate that nursing is not only a job, it is a calling. And I would venture to say it is a ministry. Nursing is truly a ministry. Nurse nurse T's mission is to entertain children during playtime while encouraging their personal development skills on through books, dolls and games. And we appreciate you so much nurse T. And we'd like you to introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about you and the program that you have at Renaissance High School and then we'll hear from Dr. Bridges. Ken Thank you.

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    the morning Council President may shave Sheffield and her constituents I would like to say Pam, you were not her constituents. Were her colleagues. Oh, sorry. That's okay. I'll call kindly colleagues there. Yes. Yes, me. Hi. Apologies, Kylie. Just thank you for acknowledging the school and the work that nurses do on nurses on the frontline. So Happy Nurses Week coming up soon. And I just want to thank you and most of these young people here without us pouring into our youth and filling their cup. You know, they're the ones who will take care of us in the future and who will be there for us. So I just felt it was important to pour into them and to do this free program for the students just to give back and to expose them to health care before they get to college. So I do have the compassionate home care, home care and you see Kathleen's about daycare wherever contract with the Veterans Administration. We take care of the vets and veterans during the day for activities in your activities, and they go back to their homes. And then we have the CNA school excelling nursing Academy and we also have been nurse T's body bar where we take care of patients who have plastic surgery, and IV hydration. So we're trying to keep everybody healthy and improve the quality lifestyle giving back to my community and to my high school renaissance and my chemistry teacher the class that made me so nervous all the time. Thank you and I appreciate the support from my teachers because they are still in my life to this day and I am a product of DPS and I'm proud to say that I'm a product of DPS.

    Thank you.

    Thank you Doctor bridge, make

    sure your microphone is on.

    You hear me? Okay. Good morning. Thank you for having us here. And thank you for recognizing nurse t for all this she has done when she brought the program to me and she said she was thinking about having it. And what inspired me the most was the fact that she said it was going to be for free. And these kids jumped on it. I mean it is so successful that we have a waiting list of kids who want to be in the program, and prayerfully we'll have the funding moving forward for more kids to be in the program in the coming years. I've been a teacher at Renaissance for 31 years 33 years teaching altogether. And a program has like this has never been introduced for free to our program to our school. And it's helping the kids a lot because they're getting a ground start on what they want to do. A lot of these kids who interview for the position, they want to be nurses, they want to be doctors, they're not going to stop the CNA program. This is just to get their feet wet. And I thank you for recognizing her for what she's doing with our school. Thank you. Thank you Hi.

    And Dr. Bridges if it had not been for you touching her life when she was your student, she's turning a bat she's turned around her life has come full circle now she's touching your life and the two of you together in partnership are touching the lives of hundreds and hundreds of kids and I'm hoping that the program will go nationwide. Not just at one school but every school introducing students to the love and profession of nursing. So congratulations and thank you and you also have an award as well. Thank you. Absolutely. Thank you so much for all that you do. Yes,

    I just want to also commend you and I've got a very soft spot for nurses. I'm married to one certified nurse practitioner, and she's been one for about 20 years or so, and graduated from Renaissance. Oh, so you may know where to turn to what was her name at that moment. But just you know, give a shout out to all of our healthcare workers or nurses for doing the work that they do and as a member of Callaway mansion Indeed, it is a ministry because the things that you all have to go through and you do so on behalf of your patients. Again, commend you and thank you for the work in the harvest you have. Come bless you. Thank you. Thank you, Madam President.

    Yes, thank you remember girl

    Thank you. I just wanted to say really quick nurse T congratulations to you. Obviously your name rings bells throughout the city of Detroit to understand they got a nurse T Tao. Now that you implement when you're talking about educating children, but wanted to give us the same type of shout out to our nurses, a lot of times folks talk about our doctors but they forget our nurses are the ones who care for the patients who are there, through sickness and health and trying to get them to recover and that takes a lot of dedication, a lot of sacrifice and thank all of you for your work and being thinking.

    Thank you. And I join in with my colleagues and recognizing all of the nurses you as well. Nurse T I have a special place in my heart as well. Both my mother and grandmother. Were nurses. I come from a household and a family of nurses to be honest, my aunt as well too. And so we thank you for the work that you all do day in and day out. And so we honor you on today. Receive your flowers because you deserve it. And remember Callaway, thank you for bringing this to our attention today as well. With that being said, and I'm sure you want to do pictures as well, whenever you say so. Oh, gotcha. So we will. Is there any additional comments? All right, if there

    are no about the future nurses program that we have coming up,

    I only want to come to the microphone here and let us know about it. Sure.

    I don't know if we mentioned that I am hosting the first national person nurses program future nurses program for students ages six to 13 at Renaissance High School. So we are having that this Saturday to kick to kick off Nurses Week may 6, one o'clock to 5pm at Renaissance free and we have stations set up for the children that they go to the stations. My goal was 50 students we're at 222 students right now. So I am going to cover all the expenses for those children and they will have different stations where they learn hand washing, they'll have actual animal organs, hearts and lungs and then they'll get to hold in their hands and each station will expose them to nursing and healthcare

    love it didn't have anything in writing or any type of flyers or brochures make sure you get it to us so we can promote it. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you remember Callaway and again, thank you to all of our nurses. We'll do our next presentation and then we'll do pictures at the end. We're going to also cut off our public comment for today. We have joining us today. A young man young boy, Mr. George Latham the fourth if you can join us at their table

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    adorable. Good morning. The morning George.

    Good morning.

    So glad you're here.

    I'm glad I'm here too.

    Yes, yes. So today, it is an honor and a privilege to honor you George Latham the fourth for embodying what the Spirit of Detroit is all about. George Latham is a published author at the age of eight years old.

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    George Latham the fourth was born and raised here in Detroit. He decided that he wanted to be an author because he simply loves to read. This young leader at only 70 years old published his first activity coloring book entitled I can be then his second book, entitled I can be which is a sports edition, letting people know the various sports that they can embark upon. That book was released. On his eighth birthday this past February. George is an example of his book I can be because he is in addition to an author. He is a public speaker, a basketball player, a chess player, and has a red belt. In karate. I call him out George. Wow. He truly is a shining example, that Detroit is a place where dreams can be realized and where people can thrive and make a meaningful contribution to their community. George also encourages his classmates to read. He is an advocate for literacy. And also as a published, published author. George represents the best of Detroit and he is sure to inspire others to follow his footsteps and pursue their own creative passions. George, we are all inspired by you. We truly are and your creativity and your passion and your discipline is what got you here today. We want you to continue doing what you're doing. You truly represent what Detroit is all about in the best of Detroit. And I know you want to inspire your classmates, but you're inspiring adults like me as well, too. All right. So we honor you, we lift you what we congratulate you, we recognize you and say keep moving forward. All right. Congratulations.

    And yeah.

    And as we stand George, on behalf of this city council in my office, we're going to present you with an award caught the Spirit of Detroit. Award, because you are the Spirit of Detroit. Right. He wants you to speak George. You know, you have something to say.

    Good morning, everyone.

    Good morning.

    I just want to say thank you so much for this award. My name is George Griffin before and I am an author, public speaker and a pen pal. I started writing books at six years old. I will continue to inspire my peers to be what they want to be in life, no matter the age. Yes. And I will always encourage them to read at least 20 minutes a day. Thank you President Sheffield for this award

    thank you so much doors and we also want to recognize your mother who I know you also manage him I know he gets a lot of bookings and requests as well. So we appreciate your work and dedication to making sure that you pursue or help him pursue his dreams as well. So if you want to say a few words, is Well,

    good morning, everyone. I am Latoya Latham. And I am George's mom in momager is what I call myself. And I'm just so honored to be here and just happy for my son and excited to see you know where he's going to move forward at because he this is my gym. And I'm very proud and grateful for this moment. So thank you all so much.

    Thank you, George. You want to tell us where we can get your book?

    Get at my website. What's your age lace on the forbes.com All right,

    thank you

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    All right. We again, thank you for being here. Again, thank you to our nurses to George Latham. I didn't want to make sure we recognize George Latham his father who is here if we could just give him a round of applause. George Latham the third. We don't want to go on notice that you are here and are helping out with his careers will too and just being a great father. We appreciate you and then also the grandmother of George Latham is here too. We see you we appreciate you guys. Takes A Village right to raise our children and so we know you all play a huge role in his development. So thank you all for being here. And again, thank you to our nurses as well. And we will proceed now with our agenda for this morning. And I did cut off public comment, okay. All right. Under reconsiderations no

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    Okay, okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

    The Journal of the session of April 18 2023 will be approved under reconsiderations

    Council, President Pro Tem Tate on behalf of council president Sheffield motion to reconsider line item 3.1.

    Thank you, potentate before you motion to reconsider just to note that the reason we are reconsidering this vote for Juneteenth Juneteenth, the ordinance is because the wrong ordinance was published. And so we have to make sure that the correct ordinance is voted upon and actually published, for our hearing to take place. So President Pro Tem,

    President move a move to reconsider the vote on your behalf and line item 16.1 3.1 3.1 3.1.

    Yeah, should be the first one.

    Oh 3.1. My apologies that dropped down to the

    motion has been made to reconsider. Are there any objections? Hearing none, that action will be taken under reconsideration.

    That was the president pro tem Tate on behalf of council president Sheffield and ordinates noting a roll call.

    And before we move forward, Mr. Clark, we are to vote this version down.

    I believe that is correct. Through you to the parliamentarian if she wanted to add to the powers

    Yes, ma'am. This is the one that would be voted down and the other one would be approved. Okay,

    then we will be walking on the correct version during our referral process. I introduced thank you so much prototype.

    President move approval of line item 3.1 to the parliamentarian I don't have to read all the language and go through 3.2 Well, 3.1 Because we're reconsidering Oh 3.2 Okay, I'm all this is when do I need to say all of the language in this particular one because we have not voted yet to reply to her to

    Mr. Whittaker on whether or not all the language must be said sir.

    Yes, ma'am. You should you should repeat what you did when you bought it in. Pro Tem say

    President and move to take from the table an ordinance to amend chapter 35 personnel Article Two Employment Division two hours of work and methods of payment to add June 10 to the city's observed holidays laid on the table April 4 2023.

    Alright, any objections if you can note myself

    with do need to do a roll call

    roll call. I'm sorry, roll call required.

    Okay. I'm sorry to interrupt, ma'am. Um, but if I heard Mr. Tate correctly, he started at the very beginning and was taking it from the table is I heard the teachers level. Okay. I just conferred with Mr. Whitaker and that ordinance has already been taken from the tapings put on the order of third reading. And the only thing that now you have to reconsider or vote down is the actual approval. So that is a step that you should be at now. So you move to approve and that's when you voted down.

    Got it. Okay, that was one. Thank you.

    All right. So Tim, were you move it is calling President poster tape

    President move approval of line item 3.2. And then we'll

    roll call please.

    Councilmember waters No. Councilmember Coleman Young the second. No. Council President shift for you. No. Council member Durazzo? No. Council member Johnson? No. Councilmember Santiago Romero. No. Council President Pro Tem Tate. No. Seven lays Motion fails. Great. Thanks. So

    that ordinance is not approved.

    And is that it?

    Okay. That is it for now. Yep. All right.

    Thank you for the president's report on standing committee referrals and other matters for the budget Finance and Audit standing committee.

    One report from the Office of contracting and procurement.

    The one report will be referred to the budget Finance and Audit standing committee for the internal operation standing committee.

    Five reports from various city departments.

    The five reports will be referred to the internal operations standing committee for the Neighborhood and Community Services standing committee

    reports for the office of contract and procurement.

    The four reports will be referred to the Neighborhood and Community Services standing committee for the Planning and Economic Development standing committee

    reports from various city departments. The four

    reports will be referred to the Planning and Economic Development standing committee for the public health and safety standing committee.

    Eight reports from various city departments.

    The eight reports will be referred to the public health and safety standing committee. We will now move to the voting action matters under other matters. There are no items Madam President, under communications from the mayor and other governmental officials and agencies. There are no items, Madam President. All right. Thank you. We will now go to our public comment for this morning. And everyone will have two minutes for public comment and we will start with Mr. Holloway, followed by Malik Shelton. Good morning. Good morning.

    I was here. Well, you know I'm here every week but last week, they bought guys from us a Latin said that they put up some canisters and filters over there. And the field was taken care of and they lie to ya. I was on the news the next day channel for some of y'all may have seen it. Some of y'all may not. They will tend to view on me and they smell the fumes. While we were interviewed. You got the news guy said I smell film at this moment. You know and you know I want to I will try to play it. I wish y'all could see the interview that they gave me over there. It's sad that they came down here lie to y'all telling y'all that they fixed it. And the news guy say I smell paint fumes right now. You know, so I don't know what's going on. But they build the wall and act like we live with it. You know? And it's sad that it's like that, that we have to deal with that and I'm letting the people on Channel 10 know that they come down here live to our city council people that being said been fixed and they haven't I want we need to bring Doug in here so he can speak to us and let us know what's going on. You know cuz he said back in and his chair and Hi. We need a new man. I don't know who go wrong, but we need a new mayor. That's for the community. Proceed Now plug the community for downtown. Everything downtown. They said they wanted to put a gun free zone in downtown. They did that in two days. But they can't fix the fumes over there that we dealing with with the people over there and it's sad. You know, I'm down here all the time, like I said, and to my issues getting taken care of. I'll be back every Tuesday. You know whether they want to see me or not.

    Thank you. Thank you. We definitely encourage you to continue to report whatever issues you are experiencing within that area either here to the Korea department. I'm sure the state of Michigan also ego and other enforcement agencies can address some of the issues that you're referring to. But we will continue to have further discussion here at the table with the Lantis forthcoming so we appreciate you Yes, they will be here at some point for sure. All right. Our next person would be Mr. Shelton.

    The morning leave Shelton.

    Good morning.

    I just like to say that in my research I find in military and field paddock and stone when they bob and bond counsel for other municipalities in the state of Michigan and harbor, Lansing, Sterling Heights and others they cross every T and dot every year anyway I but it seems like when it comes to Detroit, Michigan, they're playing very fast and very loose. And I suspect that the reason for it is that that that depending upon the the residents not being up to speed on a lot of these issues as well as sad to say some of the council. I just like to say it to reiterate again and to emphasize again that all bonds that are issued in the state of Michigan with a unlimited attaching obligation bond with a limited tax audition bond with revenue by Michigan. Transportation fun by any kind of capital improvement bond. They all require some form of notice even notice of intent to be put in the newspaper general circulation would write to referendum or resolution from the council that has to be put public notice in a newspaper general circulation and forming the public 30 days before the public meeting takes place. And that also pertains to refunding bonds they also require notice now I'm happy to hear as Mr. Councilman Dr. Hollis has has been indicated to me from his office that we're going to have somebody from Miller Canfield. I wish it was the same person that allegedly supposedly told John aglet all that misinformation that he was pulling out of his mouth. I want to I want to I want to see that. I want to know that bond comes from in the Capitol, but it doesn't matter. Because I will be here tomorrow, as well as my colleague, Ramon Jackson, and again, we will have a whole briefcase full of laws, as well as documents from other cities and municipalities. In the state of Michigan, to prove beyond not a shadow of doubt, shadow of a doubt but with beyond any doubt. And so come one come on. We're going to have a discussion tomorrow. And I'm as pleased as punch

    Thank you Mr. Shelton. Ronald Foster.

    Good morning. First off, I appreciate this body always said and I'm very grateful for it. Appreciate this you to put in a request to get a block club and it's taken quite some time from the mayor's office they call it up on my behalf and we did get a block love and establish in this process. Their community I went out our neighborhoods our neighbors are very eager to bring results in our community. We just still have a lot of red tape that is preventing growth and transforming our neighborhoods into a community. Is there any way that we could get direct access to resources in our community? One of the questions that was asked was exactly what do we need for equity. That's a question that nobody is able to give us. How do we establish equity in our community, whether it's policing cleanups or whatever the case may be? We would like to have a direct answer into what it takes to get equity into our community. The other day I appreciate being here. I understand that spirit of the award. Today. There is in our neighborhoods, there are 1000s of Lloyd George's with dreams and ambitions that lacked the resources and the abilities to manifest them and so I can't reiterate enough about the red tape. I appreciate Miss waters and her endeavors with the veterans and helping out in our veterans veterans has for us. This is from Miss Johnson Mr. dirt hill with the crime I've been coming down and watching and really seeing how effective everybody is really bad. The one thing that I really asked most is if we can establish some form of journalism, style form a direct channel where these programs can be get out the information you need to get out to the community. So that we could take advantage of it. Foster

    Kyoko is MCI Okay, Yoko. Good morning. Yeah, my name is mkhaya Coco. I'm 11 years old. I go to school at Mary McLeod was so and recently I started my own photography business. And I was wondering what type of mentorships help or resources do we have for young entrepreneurs? Thank you.

    All right. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you for taking that leap of faith in starting your own business. We can connect you with the DGC Motor City match. There are several smart incubator hubs that help with entrepreneurs who are trying to get their feet on the ground essentially. And so we would love to support you and wrap some services around you. So Kayla here or someone from my team can get your information and we can support you Okay, madam president. Thank you. All right. Before you leave, I see additional hands raised. Yes, we're

    here to thank you, Madam

    President. Hi, mkhaya My name is Gabriella Gabby. Councilman Santiago to middle I was a photographer do that for a very long time. And I actually had been thinking about hiring someone to help with documentary and storytelling. So if you wouldn't mind, I'm gonna make sure one of my staff members talks to you because I would like to learn more about your business and what you're looking to do, and ways to connect you to other photographers. That I know and to other potential opportunities here at the city or in the neighborhood or across the city as well. So thanks for coming in. Thank you, Madam President. Madam Chair. Whew,

    all right. Thank you. We have a couple of more hands for you. Before you Lee. Everyone was important to you. Okay. Member waters.

    Thank you, Madam President. I need that contact information. I can use you for services or events and things like that. So they're ready to hire you. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Madam

    President. Member Callaway.

    That's two jobs. What's it Well, first of all, congratulations, mkhaya and thank you for coming here. This morning. But what what's your zip code?

    48202

    or a 202? Okay, thank you and congratulations.

    Thank you. All right. All right. mkhaya. We're going to get your information so we can support you. Okay. Thanks for coming down. We appreciate you all right. Audrey Foster.

    See no Speaker No. Okay. Sir, was next fall and black Moses was the other card I have. Oh, Cassie, Mohammed. Yes, followed by black Moses. The morning

    missionary head is broke. And I want to talk about the water and the water thing is getting out of everything out is so crowded but want to say God, God is great. And I got on this beat. It says God's rent is doom. There's wood. Now, under that. We was told by the executive that every time the water raise this sewer is supposed to backup he is. Now what I want to say is that you had to understand the way he said it is however Ms. Blaine, I want to start with somebody in your office and what's his status the poor me because it would take too long to set it up. Because I think that I have a lot of solutions with you can take the money that you paying one CEO and hire three people to pay in that same position because we want to see some accountability. You know that given time when he come with a theories theory. I need someone else's explain. These things are written down. And I want to presume to

    okay, we appreciate you I know two minutes is not enough time to really get everything out. We have some individuals from my team who can sit and chat with you and see how we can support you Okay,

    yeah, all right. Okay, sir.

    Thank you be great. Okay. We appreciate you have a blessed

    day. Yes. Thank you. Right.

    Black Moses. Well, yeah,

    first thing I'm looking at this agenda here and the first item 6.1 on the agenda is a mo media LLC. owned by somebody named Don Crowley. Coincidental, but it's it's it's a contract. That I'm curious about because it's a $6 million contract and don't has a definite link to this mayor here in the city of Detroit. I didn't know anything about the contract but wonder who else did? Oh, she used to work over at voc. Mary Sheffield, I said on February 28 Centella request to appear before Council formal session to present some information that I've uncovered and discovered regarding the city of Detroit. Several matters. Your petition Logan took it to date. I have not got a scheduled date and I've been getting the runaround for a long time. Now. I'm curious as to why this council was not rejected that report LPD the one that says that the Detroit legal news is a proper form, but public notices. They got six newsstands. It's 500,000 voters here in the city and you're accepted that report isn't this puppy cut? A Googly goo? How you going to put publication for 500,000 people in six newsstands is just totally lunacy. Ridiculous. I don't think y'all want the public to know what's going on. So that's why y'all don't publish notice because I take them to detract legal news where it's a 2018 bond for 175 million. We use that notice it was somebody please tell me today where that notice is so I can go look at it and put my mind at ease. James take you over there looking down. I'm talking to you, man. For real for real, for real for real. Okay, Isaiah cabin connetion.

    Thank you. And Mr. Crowley, we did receive your email. However, we were informed that that needs to go through the clerk's office a formal petition will have to go through hardcopy you guys use me but okay you can email at City Clerk Help Desk if you're gonna if you continue to Albert make outburst like that. We're not going to allow it so let me just finish giving you the correct email and procedure. If you would like to petition the city council, what is the email Mr. Clerk?

    City Clerk Help Desk in Detroit and my dog

    All right. Thank you. So we have received it however it has to go through the clerk's office. All right, that will conclude the in person public con We will now go to our virtual callers

    Madam President. The first caller is Stephen whoring

    All right, good morning.

    Good morning. And I'd be heard,

    yes, you can. Okay,

    I first want to say the meeting from last week has not been uploaded to channel 10 which is just very unfair sexually, for taxpayers. Like elderly still know how to use Zoom. So very disappointed, but I'm in complete support at the gun free zone, especially in the river wax in the parks, where you see a lot of families it's about time we do something because this is becoming a problem and throwing all their money at DPD per pet projects does not seem to be working. But a big problem No one is mentioning is the strip clubs and see the nightclubs. There needs to be some type of war and it's those because that's been a problem for decades. And switching the topic. I like that new data reimagined. Of course I have some feedback, but I'm still really struggling to understand why the drivers wage hasn't risen. It's not that hard. I've had clients that were labeled lawyers. It's not that hard. The administration easily did it for the police. I was told we need 500 drivers in seven years to completely implement the proposal. And we're 100 drivers short and it's really started in New York despite the driver shortage. DPP is throwing that $10 million low income fare boondoggle out again which has proven not to be realistic and what hurt the system. You know, if you want to do a study on lonely compare, it has to be narrowed down significantly because most of the cities that have a program like that have fear that's like three to $4 and invest twice the amount we do so I mean, it makes no sense their proposal.

    All right, thank you,

    Madam President. The next caller ends in phone numbers 061.

    All right. Good morning. Caller 061.

    Can I be heard? Oh, well, counsel. Yes. Yeah, this is day four from the Obama weekend. I'm the founder. I've heard the word children missing quite a bit today. And I'm talking to everybody in that room. So committee, people. I respect everybody in this room in that room. I've been to eight different cities in the last two months. And I have not seen anything like drag racing and red light running in Detroit Council and community leaders and people in that room. Speak Out burn the midnight oil. Find some answers to this problem. Judges, police commissioners Mayor's Office find some answers to this lawlessness. If not, will you be there after commission after a collision? When a doctor says this person may never walk again? Or I'm sorry, he or she may not make it. Will you be there? Or will you be able to tell the family that they might not ever see that loved one again? Well, I work in the mayor's office or I'm on the city council or I'm on the police commissioner or I'm a citizen or pasture and I wish I had said or did more to stop this loneliness. God bless everyone in them game foot from the Obama weekend. You can follow me on Obama. They always for that calmness number court case.com Or you can read my article is on page 12 of the native sun every month. God bless everybody if you can call me at 586-918-3061 If you want to join my campaign, I'm not gonna stop my pursuit to help these people walk in the streets. of Detroit. God bless everybody. Thank you.

    All right, you as well, sir. We appreciate you. Thank you. God bless you. Us. Well.

    Madam President, the next caller is to hear a mod in the morning

    the morning Council. I'm this is the people's 10 Point Plan for compensation and reciprocity in a $600 million and illegal foreclosures. We demand the following and official illegal foreclosure and over tax lists to be compiled to a property owners contacted all homeowners be removed from the city tax rolls that were overtaxed immediately we want to remove immediately and not compelled to any longer pay property taxes not Oh, we demand property owners to be contacted given an IOU receipt from the city of Detroit the total amount for each house and property owner a schedule of repayment, which includes the same year exemption for over tax and illegal over taxation we demand and entertainment surcharge of $3 for each entertainment ticket, put into a phone have fun for immediate refund for homeowners. As per previous demand and for home repairs. We demand City Council assign its legislative attorneys to propose legal remedies to repay residents we demand. The city council asked the governor to allocate the $731 million in unpaid revenue sharing all by the state to Mitch of Michigan to Detroit. We demand a steady remedy over assessment practices to prevent over assessments once and for all. We demand regular audits of the land bank a revitalization department with new to charter and we demand criminal charges for investigations and charge for those person who knowingly conceal promoted and participate in over assessment and overcharging of Detroit on both the city and the county levels. We demand reciprocity and compensation now, not later, but now. Thank you and have a blessed day.

    Thank you.

    The next caller is Robert.

    The morning Robert, you have two minutes for public comment.

    Good morning. My name is Robert Shobe. I'm often been told to treat the impact area with Domantas. I'll call them following up on some of the information given out erroneously or it needs by the mayor. It's the ministry and I won't say to recall that when Leticia Johnson told me she got her information from that there was no longer air quality issue over here, after being told by the mayor and the administration numerous times. Air quality's not there. So now he has to quantify what's going on over here, as opposed to dealing with the people who are cards to make sure about the air and then the process of doing so. I don't understand, you know, this council has got to get a hold of this mayor. We got people over here having issues with reason and concerned about their health. And we've got people over here coming in here. But please, warning us and telling them they're gonna write with tickets for this and that all these things I'll discuss with them. What has ever happened, and now here we are using our resources against our lower income residents. Basically that's that's the key you tore up our neighborhood we I'm not going to tell you guys but you got to do. You tore up our neighborhood done damage to our homes, damage to our health, and now we're being harassed by other entities of the city. Whatever challenge my thing really is, you know I'm complaining. But my thing really isn't that you guys have got to hold this administration accountable. I mean, it's plain and simple. You can check with the State you got we're talking about back here. You got to talk about how many complaints. People have been caused in the city. The city said told us the mayor said in more than one they have nothing to do with air quality so people don't call you they call. You want to know what's going on. They have a website you got could have gotten that information and so good. Whoever is giving you this information that the city has come up with all the sudden, you know, you guys need to tighten this up, start doing stuff right you know better than it's not good enough.

    Thank you

    the next caller is whatsoever.

    The morning whatsoever.

    The morning can I be heard? Yes, ma'am. The morning Council President and council members. That was a wonderful prayer that was given this morning. I'm sure you you all need to have a disclaimer. Creo is not working on behalf of the people in the city and it needs to we need to revamp it do something with it because it's not working for us. Well, council woman waters you're making a request to Lansing, for you know to make Detroit another area that is treated other than other areas. Could you please Why you have access to the legislature ask them to reenact residency requirements for the city. You can see that the city is not doing well if we don't have people who live here working here. People are complaining about health issues and nothing is being done. But did that Detroit downtown can complain about a shooting over a weekend and we can you know, we have the ability to go and try and resolve that issue when you're not resolving any of our other issues. 3.1 is a very interesting Rican reconsideration. But you did you reconsider it reconsidered it for the wrong reasons. The citizens Wow paying a million dollars to people who more than majority of them don't live here is is not the way to celebrate or commemorate Juneteenth what would be better would be to have everybody work for free. On that day. I submit that as a resolution for the for the City Council. 10.6 You forgot about the young man GEORGE You forgot about his father. Oh, you're waiting to June 17. Two we have black male Awareness Day. That's when we're going to recognize black men. I get it. This this council is operating and the city clerk is operating in a way in which is not transparent. The city clerk can't do her own job. That's why we don't have minutes please do not give her anything else to do. Please make sure she does her job.

    Thank you

    pro tem take Thank

    you, Miss Hewes. Thank you so much for giving us a call at every meeting and every on every day. We appreciate your activity. I would like to discuss with you personally, one on one some of the issues that you just outline. So if there's a way that you can reach out to my office, I would appreciate it and I again will give you a call personally to discuss some of those issues. Phone number 313-224-1027 Again, 31322410 to seven or you can even email us at council member Tate at Detroit mi.gov. Councilmember tate@detroit.gov Thank you again. Appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. President.

    Thank you pro tem. Alright, our next caller, please.

    Madam President, the next caller is calling user one.

    Good morning. Caller user one.

    Madam President, we can move to the next caller. Okay. The next caller is Linda Bowie.

    All right. Good morning, Miss Linda Bovee.

    Good morning everyone. I am calling in support of 16 point 14 The acceptance of the cash by retail and food services for businesses. I totally support this and I hope all council members will. In fact I believe every council member should have probably signed in on this one. I am also totally against the gun free zone in certain areas because if your job is to protect all of Detroit and all of Detroit you have a gun free zone. I am not a gun holder or carrier and I believe there are far too many guns in the city. But if you're going to protect just a certain demographic, that is certainly inappropriate. Your job is to continue to protect all the citizens in every area of Detroit. I am totally in agreement with the problem with still Lantus. You need to stop depending on the mayor to give you information and do all those things. He has proven he cares nothing about the people in this city. That's been proven more than one time. Use your own staff and do your own homework. I am also in total agreement with to hear our man's 10 Point Plan is time for city council to start doing the job. of protecting every citizen in this city and not just a few. Thank you so much.

    Thank you all right. Thank you our next caller please.

    The next caller is Cunningham

    All right good morning Mr. Cunningham.

    Can you still hear me?

    It's kind of go ahead. We can hear you now.

    Thank you so much to everyone at home 3134449143134449114. If you have written to coaches as an ex many of you have text message and call me and let me know that you spoken with people on the buses and you got on the bus after 6pm weekly and on the weekends. I'm talking to you at home on Facebook forced to subservience Cunningham on Facebook forced subservience, Cunningham. I sent a correspondence to Councilwoman Johnson. I know you guys can't go back and forth. And I was planning on sending you correspondence to council president. So Detroit department transportation at the Rosa Parks Transit Center have now restricted the purchase of regular bus tickets. I'm only talking about regular bus tickets that I bless people with on the side of the road. I've been doing it 10 years been a long time on the side of the road, those waiting at the bus stops etc. To one ticket per day. So I don't have the drive now in town every every day get one ticket. This started just a few days ago, and I just felt like it was a slap towards me because they always gave me a hard time. There's nothing I can do but pray about the situation and I don't think that it's fair to get a one four hour pass per day having to drive downtown. The scripture says Don't let your good be evil spoken out, lay down and said I heard that you're selling the tickets. Now I know that we'll just a bold faced lie and usually I don't want to dress the lies but that's out of my character. This is my giving my ties my offerings. I give it to the people. I've been doing it for years it was hurtful. But I think this policy that they have now is very, very bad. And also talk to the Mr. Rhodes and maybe the council woman he works for can be of assistance. Thank you. Have a good day.

    Thank you Mr. Cunningham, if you can email that over to me as well so that we can get it over to DDOT and director Oglesby to see when that policy was put in place and if there's any room to possibly change that back to what was currently in place or what was previously in place. So please email our office or call us so we can have that information. Madam President. Yes, Member Santiago Ramiro.

    Thank you, Madam President, Mr. Cunningham, if we could be included as well. Rosa Parks transit center is in our district and as the chair I'm very interested in also working with my colleagues on this issue. So thank you for letting us know. Thank you, Madam President.

    All right, our next caller please.

    Madam President, the next caller is Karen Winston.

    Good morning Miss Winston. Huh? Yes, Mr. Winston. Yes.

    Hello, can you hear me?

    Yes. Oh,

    yeah. Good morning. I had a couple of things. I was just sitting going through Oh, char and I'm just confused about our independent agencies because I'm seeing seeing a lot of department is an independent agency and the law department has not been independent. We had inspector general auditor general Budman and it's one more but it's not the law department. So I just want to quickly get that straight because we were hiring a lot of law, you know, attorneys that weren't even city workers so we can't have you know, that's that's a conflict of interest when the same attorneys are, you know, our same ones handling every aspect of city law. Then you know, I just don't think that's proper. Ah, let's see, we should have by now, we should know all of these commissions. We should know. Oh, I see. They did change it. So now, it did say 11 and 13. Now it says 13 and 13 or something like that. But we're still not separating the board's from the authorities you know from from the Commission so we got to do a little better job we can't put a title on Commission's and then say it's an authority, you know, so I just like to see us follow closer. To the charter. And please clean air. Thanks.

    All right. Thank you.

    Madam President. The next caller is Brenda Hill. Good morning.

    Good morning. How are you? How's everyone? Yeah, so that thank you, for all those that are doing the work of the people, those that are moving the city forward. I'd like to also thank them. I didn't get her name, the one that's teaching the young people about nursing. You are absolutely right. That and we need nurses. We need more nurses. So anyone who's helping that along, I appreciate and young Mr. Mr. Latham, the fourth. So proud of him. I hope that you all can mentor him and keep him as he grows along the way. He's the fourth which is about 100 years of black family. That is so great. And Miss Young Miss mkhaya, who's out there trying to be an entrepreneur in photography. I appreciate those who stepped forward to give her and cutter encouragement, but maybe guide her and give her some jobs. I appreciate that as well. I have a problem with this. The Lantis Chrysler mess. Leticia Johnson, a couple of weeks ago said she heard they were filters. This is my thing. If you have a smell in your house, you will immediately eradicated Chrysler's over there, getting billions and billions of dollars. They built a wall around a portion of the city and they ignored them there. They have children over there whose respiratory systems have not yet fully developed. We have folks and older folks who have respiratory problems. What happened there is one day that wasn't an issue with fumes and smells and other issues. And then the next day there was you all need to stop period. This

    madam president the next caller ends in 534. Madam Chair,

    yes, before we move to the next caller. Yes, Monica Callaway.

    Thank you Madam Chair to miss Hills point about the nurses. I hope that we can work with workforce development. And Miss Freeman while she's still here until July, to maybe come up with a program to train folks how to be nurses because just this week, we have 600 nurses from the Philippines coming to Henry Ford Health Systems to fill vacancies for nurses. So actually there is a need for nurses in the city of Detroit. I'm hoping the administration will know that read that article in the Detroit Free Press that appeared on April the 28th 600 nurses from the Philippines for the Henry Ford Health Systems. We are in need of nurses and all these $15 jobs $15 A job on per hour. These jobs that we're promoting through workforce development, it's not going to get it you can't live off of $15 an hour. That's my opinion. So I'm hoping again, Miss spring, if you're listening or anybody in the administration, maybe we can add additional programs to our workforce develop instead of training people how to clean out alleys and clean up trash. Maybe we can teach them how to be nurses. Nurse T is a fine example who can lead the program. Thank you Madam Chair.

    Right. next caller please.

    Madam President, the next caller ends in five three for

    the morning. Caller 534.

    Yes, good morning

    all right, Miss work. Are you there? Well hear me. Yes, we can.

    Okay. Yeah. Just recently President Joe Biden issued an executive order on environmental justice to apply to all of the federal agencies. So it seems to me it's time for the EPA to step in and take a serious look at what this lens assumes are doing to the residents nearby.

    Also,

    I've deep concerns about items 7.1 a $6 million contract for emerald media services. What are they doing for $6 million? That could help out a lot of people that could do a lot of home repairs. I mean, what are they advertising that is so important that we can't be helping the elderly and other people who need that money. Second of all, I'd like to congratulate Mr. George Latham, but I'd also wonder how he would feel if only a select group of students in his school got asked to participate in an a big school project. And then he was invited in the end and it got rolled out upon him and he didn't get to get to participate in. That's what happened us in the Lower North End with North and landing when the equal treatment of everyone would have been to let everybody sit down and participate at the table from the get go. And that's just what I'm asking from this council. And all neighborhood planning studies be equally accessible or accessible to all who want to participate and at the city networks with selective groups of residents and stakeholders that they chose not to community. So think about would you do that to George Latham exclude him from involving something in his school or planning his own neighborhood? Is that what we would treat him about what this country is about? Because Joe Biden also said, This is a country where we're treated equally and with dignity and respect, and that's not what we have.

    All right, thank you.

    Madam President. The next caller is Miko Williams.

    The morning

    Hi, good morning. Thank you for taking my comment, counsel. I am you're calling from the resignation of these Detroit police commissioners who are involved in scandals such as towing citizen complaints. Not keeping a safe and absolute failure to abide by the law. Chairman Brian Ferguson, Jason's Hernandez quantas Presley, Willie bail Lisa Carter, Andy Holt Linda Barnard. And the chief James White, the Assistant Chief, David Lavallee. They all shall be resigned and they should be removed. We are not being safe. Gun zones don't work. We do. People work. All of us in the city work we are all concerned about violence. After we've been through a terminalis summer. We already have done free zones on the Riverwalk. We already have enforcement. They shut off downtown. They don't let us we shouldn't even have a curfew. We can't even enjoy our own city because of acute Cleveland because they're not doing their job. How do we get the tire marks and those drag racing marks out in the middle of the street they look for help. And then also I don't agree with cashless places such as Little Caesars and other places. I have cash and such. And I don't trust these with these digital hacks and things of that nature. You know, we all should be having an option Were at place in the city of Detroit. They have cash on me because they don't deal with the banks. And also, in regards to this Solanas, you know, environmental racism has always happened in the city of Detroit look at Marathon and the others. The maroons and such they pollute our air, poisoned our water and we get to pay and we still have to suffer. The council is not going to do anything or powerless. The mayor is at his knees. Just the land is in these corporate car companies. Again, we need to fight smart, play smarter. And do better stop eating the chicken.

    Thank you,

    Madam President. The last the last caller before you end up public comment is calling user one.

    Good morning calling user one can you hear me? Yes, ma'am. We can.

    Good afternoon, Madam President. Thank you for doing a wonderful job. I said you and Mary waters, Councilmember Durer Hall and Kate a email and I have not gotten a reply. And I like for madam council president Sheffield, can you please have Mary waters to answer? I sent a request showing all of you all why it needs to be a line item. So that housing revitalization when they get funding from you all can start holding accountable. These housing agencies that are putting those of us who are disabled or handicapped and elderly and veterans in inhabitable living, where you have to fear for your life. People being murdered, stabbed so much. So it's on the news that I've sent copies of, can you please reply when this is going to take place? I do not support a gun. zoned for Greek town. Why not do it for all of the city. I also sent in closing pictures of being on a bus that had toxic chemicals. spilt on the flooring. They had a foul fumes that that breathtaking and the driver would not do anything and DDOT pays their drivers $15 an hour. Why not train just not just for LPN? Why not for barbers? esthetician and cosmetologist, something that is never funded. Can you answer this for me, madam president and Mary waters? I like to hear you. Please, and thank you for your time.

    Thank you so much, Miss Shea and we did I'm looking through my email now we did Ford over the complaint regarding d dot two d dot. And then our office is currently in the process of getting a memo prepared regarding your other questions. So stay tuned for that it should be on the agenda sometime this week or early next week. In customer waters. I'm not sure if you have any response or any thing you would like to say.

    Thank you Madam President. I I believe that we need to have a specific conversation in my office with this Shay so that we can make sure that we are addressing her specific concern. She said a number of things just now. And so we'd like to do that Miss Shay. So if you could, please call us we would appreciate it at 313-628-2363 so that we can address it more directly. Thank you.

    All right. All right. And that was our last caller for this morning. So we will now conclude our general public comments and proceed to our agenda for this morning.

    Understanding committee reports for the public health and safety standing committee from the Office of contracting and procurement.

    Madam President, the clerk's office would like to note that line item 16.6 is a duplicate of line item 16.5. were requesting then line of 16.6 be removed from today's agenda

    16.1 be removed. Point 6.6 be removed. All right. Is there a motion to remove 16.6 So moves. Hearing no objections 16.6 will be

    removed madam president that leaves us with 12 contracts up for vote today from the public health and safety standing committee. First up we have contract number 3061296 100%. City funding via rental vehicles for COVID-19 operations, contractors enterprise FM trust, total contract amount $35,000. And this contract is for the health department. The next contract is contract number 30645431 2%. City funding to provide an emergency demolition for the residential property at 4767 open contract is SC Environmental Services LLC. Total Patrick amount $16,150. And this contract is for city demolition. The next contract is contract number 60048211 2%. City funding to buy ammunition for the Detroit Police Department contractors Vance outdoors Inc, total Patrick of $1,172,800. And this contract is for the police department. The next contract is contract number 30653931 2%. City funding to ride my low range simulator firearms training for Detroit Police Department Training Center contract is Milo virtual F A C incorporated sort of hands up amount $35,965 And this contract is for the police department. The next contract is contract number 30650031 2%. Two major street funding provide payment for the completion of the coachable streetscape project contract its major contracting Group, Inc, total contract amount $563,226.90. And this contract is for public works. The next contract is contract numbers 60045321 2% major street funding to write blank aluminum street signs contract is Mondale metals Inc DBA. US standard sign total contract amount $297,397. And this contract is for public works the next contract is contract number 6005149 revenue provide the removal and sale of ferrous and non ferrous scrap metal contracted spheres processing and trading company revenue amount is 55 to 85% of scrap sales. And this contract is for public works the next contract is contract number 60049471 2%. City funding furnish emergency complimentary ADA paratransit services contract is the Del Rey United Action Council, total contract amount $1,082,653.38 And this contract is for transportation. Next contract it's contract numbers 60049491 2%. City funding to furnish emergency complimentary ADA paratransit services contract is big star transit of Michigan LLC, total contract amount $1,622,790.90. And this contract is for transportation. The next contract is contract number 60049531 2%. City funding to furnish emergency contract, or FDA paratransit services contract is SW transport company LLC DBA checker, transportation total contract amount $1,219,580.40 And this contracts for transportation. The next contract is contract number 60049481 2%. City funding to write mercy complimentary ADA paratransit services contract is Mo transportation LLC, total contract amount $1,598,314.86 And this contract is for transportation. The last contract is contract number 30631981 2%. City funding to provide emergency purchase of specialized vehicles to supplement contract transportation for deedat service Braun vans, e 350, e 450. And a transplant contract has Hoekstra transportation Inc. total contract amount $1,121,126.05. And this contract is for transportation. Councilmember Santiago Romero 1312 resolutions note a removal of line item 16.6 line items 16.1 through 16 point 13. Also noting that line item 16.1 was postponed from last week's formal session.

    Thank you so much, Mr. Clerk and Member Santiago Ramiro.

    Thank you Madam President, motion to approve with discussion lineitem

    16.1 16.1 discussion?

    Thank you, Madam President. Just wanted to ensure that protan takes concerns were addressed last week there was questions around the funding source. So just wanted to make available when he discussion that may still be needed before we move forward.

    Thank you, Madam President. Thank you Madam Chair as well for the opportunity. So we did get a response back from the administration regarding this particular item. And it just did pose additional questions once I read the responses. So I was a Through you, madam president. I would like someone from the administration who could respond to questions that we may have

    on this is the Washington morning Madam

    Chairman, Council, we do have Andre Blair from the health department on my

    right we'll move him over.

    Right, good morning, Mr. Blair. Good morning. Right potentate. Where's yours?

    Thank you, Madam President. And thank you for being here. Mr. Blair. Got a question again. If you can explain just so we can level set the rationale of why the city of Detroit has indicated that this purchase will be 100% city funding, and this is requested to provide rental vehicles for COVID-19 operations. I do understand that the service has already taken place due to the emergency nature of it. So if you can kind of walk us back and talk to us a little bit about the rationale and when was this contract actually executed? Absolutely. Executed excuse me not to contract this services. My apologies. Yes,

    absolutely. Through the Chair. So these services were well let me start with the first part the services were executed and paid for back in October of 2022. And in speaking with finance, so our agency CFO, what finance is doing are starting this fiscal year COVID related purchases are flowing through the general fund first, in the end, they are meeting with grants and being reclass to the appropriate COVID grant funding or arpa. So that's the same thing that's happening with this. So this charge for 35,000. Finance and grants are working together to reclass the expenditure to the proper COVID funding grant. So ultimately, it will be charged to COVID.

    Alright, thank you. And the question I have following up with that is when did the process change?

    That was oh, so through the chair when I was speaking with finance, they started that process. She said fy 23. So I would assume July one.

    We're not sure though, because as far as I'm hearing about it on those colleagues have heard about it prior to that, could this be late to gathering that information? So but you're not exactly sure when it actually went into?

    She just seemed she's specified that it was fy 23.

    So this this current

    fiscal year, yeah, this current fiscal year.

    And then so how would this body know when we see on the language that's before us 100% city funding? How would this body know and you may not be asked I'm surprised but you're the one that's being asked to respond to these questions. This is more of a contracting procurement question, but how would this body know if those dollars had been transferred? Grants? Because all we see here is 100%. City funding. I know we do receive a quarterly report for ARPA, but seems weird that we would have to wait that long after we repeat after we initially approve a contract, potentially for 100%. City funding only to find out later that it was then paid for through a COVID arpa funding.

    Yeah, through the chair. Unfortunately, that is a process I don't really have an answer to. I just know this is the process. Now. As far as notification to council, I'm not sure if purchasing has something in place that they will be doing or finance or grants. I'm not really sure of that part.

    All right. So I appreciate the information that you've provided us. Madam President, we can go through you to Mr. Washington and see if there was someone from procurement that could join us to respond to the questions because it's on their level at this point.

    All right, Mr. Washington. Yes, Madam Chair. I do believe Donald Bryan is online from I'm sorry, what was the name? Donald Brian. Donald Brian.

    Yes, right. Yeah.

    All right. We have promoted him.

    All right. Good morning. Mr. Brian.

    Good morning. Fortunately, I really can't speak to why that change took place. I kind of inherited this contract after some changes were making. Unfortunately, I'm not able to give the answer. a correct answer. What happened and why it happened? I'm sorry. I'd have to get that from our leadership.

    Madam President, I don't want to hold us up any longer in this contract it is it appears that if we postponed again another week just to get the response. Hopefully all finding next week we can actually come with the response, the actual answer to the questions and then we could get this addressed and disposed of however this body deems necessary. So thank you so much, gentlemen. And Madam President. It's no offense to the chair move. to postpone line item 6.1 for one week.

    All right. There's a request to postpone 16.1 For one week, Hearing no objections. This will be postponed for a week. Thank you and to the administration. If you guys could please be prepared to address our pro Tim's concerns and questions. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Member Sagal Ramiro,

    the end, thank you, Pro Tem for your diligence. Regarding those questions. I have them as well. So thank you, Madam President. I motion to approve one of them. 16.2 through 16 points. 13. Noting that we have removed 16.6.

    Alright, just discussion. Really quick question. Thank you to Mr. Washington. Do we have anyone on from DDOT that can just give a brief overview where we are today and I see a lot of the paratransit contracts are before us. Is there someone from DDOT one?

    Yes, Madam Chair. We do have director Opus be online

    we can move director Oglesby over please

    can you hear me?

    Yes, we can. Good morning. Good morning. Great thank you for being here. I just wanted you to give a kind of high level overview for the public. I know that we are back approving the emergency contracts that came into place because it's been about five or six months now. So can you just speak to where we are today and what the strategy and planning is moving forward with paratransit?

    Absolutely. So I won't recap everything that through the chair. I won't recap everything that took place a lot of people know but we went into the mode of emergency and brought on a local companies to make up the 70% that was not approved by City Council. We had to push put this together very quick, quickly. And I will tell you, it's been very successful. With the local companies providing the service while we oversee every other part of the of the business. We have statistics that we showed and we will be bringing on to you on a regular basis. But Delray Shachar mo transportation. We're the ones that believe that we're up for bid Del Rey. Yeah, that's right. So that's it. We've been moving forward in that mode. Now simultaneously, as we mentioned, and as directed, we have went out and we've went we're going through the RFP process. The response was fantastic. The committee has went through and gone through the evaluation process. We look forward to coming to you with the results of that shortly. But we are moving along and we anticipate that we will be moving forward with that additional additional 70% filled and the way that the RFP promised and we anticipate that we'll be moving full steam steam ahead. July 1,

    July one Okay, great and how are you are soliciting feedback and evaluations right now for the current vendors? I'm not sure if some of these vendors are also bidding on the RFP that is currently out now. But how are you soliciting? evaluation and feedback currently?

    Um,

    I think that the procurement department but I could probably answer that better than I can because there's a process to go through with the RFP process. So I don't want to say anything that goes outside of the process and puts anything at risk for for how we're moving forward. So if somebody from procurement could probably answer that one

    Do we have anyone on for procurement from procurement?

    Mr. Washington.

    Madam Chair, we do not have someone from procurement online at this time. But if we could bring this back to the agenda, hopefully we can get someone on.

    So director always be you can just speak to overall just how you are evaluating service. Oh, I can do that. Really? Yeah. That's not really a procurement. I'm just curious, how are you soliciting feedback based on you know, evaluating overall services right now?

    Yes, no, I can speak to that. I'm sorry. We were on the I was on the topic of actually selecting the next step not the, the other portion. So we do have, I can speak to the performance performance tracking and input. Customer service has been taking input. We've been utilizing that information to enhance our service. We have a performance tracker that gives weekly trips, preventable accidents, preventable injuries, vendor on time performance, customer complaint scores, and we evaluate and score each provider and that will that is how we decide how many trips they get per week. It makes it gives us the ability to manage appropriately. The complaints are drastically down. Since we've come on board. We want to get the amount of complaints down to zero of course, but we're doing the best that we can under this emergency process. But we do have a customer oriented score card we have a cost effective scorecard we have a reliability and on time performance measure. We indicate whether each provider is doing well for example, on reliable on time performance, with the most recent information that we have with the most recent seven days. Big Star gotten a check or gotten a Deray gotten a mo received an A and people's Express received an eight which is fantastic. That's between 96.9 and 97% on time performance, so that is reduced the amount of complaints but when we do get a complaint, we act accordingly and swiftly.

    Right Thank you in that will be taking into consideration for the current RFP that is put out or no.

    So the current RFP that's put out this will be the scorecard will be the same. We anticipate through the new RFP that the service that we have today will be a lot better depending on who receives it. But more importantly, the structure it really doesn't matter who receives it. The requirements in need is the same. So we want to make sure that we have the appropriate vehicles, the appropriate training the right behavior of the operators. And of course, the in house portion of cups customer service, and we top it all off with safety. So we will have even better service. We're doing great. We're going to be even better. January, July 1,

    July one. All right. All right. Thank you Director Oglesby. For that update. Just wanted to make sure that the public had another opportunity. I know it was discussed in committee, but this was such an is such an important issue for so many people. So thank you for being here. And I have no additional questions. Councilmember Santiago Ramiro has moved this for approval. Are there any objections?

    Madam Chair?

    Yes, member Callaway, what line items are being moved for approval? Member Santiago. Merrill has already moved line item 16.22

    through six ruling 13

    all the way through 16 point 13.

    Okay, Madam Chair. Yes, if you can show me as a note on 16.3 This is councilmember Callaway for the record 16.4 16.7. And I have a question about 16 point 13 which I am also a no on

    and we have to finish the vote first. So the Kirkwood note member Galloway's. objections, so no, are there any other objections? All right, hearing none. The 12 is that correct? 12 resolutions 11 resolutions will be approved.

    A president requests a waiver for line item 16.9 through 16 point

    12 Okay, a waiver has been requested 16.9 all the way to 16 point 12 These are all of the paratransit contracts. Any objections? Hearing none, that motion is approved.

    You had a question or

    discussion on 16 point 13. Before you move to approve it, I asked. We've already moved it to what I asked for discussion on 16 point 13. I said I was a no vote on the ones that I missed. So Dr. Powers, I said it before us.

    You can we can still discuss it but I think we had opened it up for discussion for all of the line items. You know,

    you had you had the discussion then you asked for the vote. And then the noes were being recorded. And once you open the vote the any discussion or debate ended. Right

    well I'm of course I'm going to still allow member Calaway to speak but we did open all of them up for discussion. Member Santiago removed Ramiro moved them for approval in discussion. So I must have finished discussing Madam Chair. The floor is yours. You can go right ahead.

    Thank you line item 16 point 13 I just simply had a question about I can't pronounce his last name. I don't think I'm gonna get it. Right. Peter dominance or not Peter? Host is a Hoekstra. Is he any relation to Peter Hoekstra for them line item 16 point 13. Former US congressman, do we know that because I've been looking on Lera and it looks like there's something going on there. That's why I said I had a question about 16 point. 13. Hoekstra, transportation is

    this to Mr. Oglesby. Whoever who is to Washington, whoever approved

    it. It wasn't ogles B or contracts and procurement.

    Mr. Washington.

    Yes, Madam Chair. We do have Tony lemon online.

    All right, we can bring over Miss limit please.

    Thank you very much.

    You see the morning Let's limit

    the chair Good morning, Tony Stewart limit the Deputy Chief Procurement Officer for the office the contract and procurement. All right.

    Mr. Calloway go right ahead.

    Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm just wondering whether or not this company Hoekstra, transportation out of Kent would Michigan which is 24 miles from where Mr. Peter Hoekstra lived, Holland, Michigan. Is it any does he have any involvement with this contract or with this company? US former US congressman.

    Through the Chair, I do not have any information on the former US congressman. Having a relationship with this organization,

    company. Okay, so I'm looking at Lera. And so I'm concerned about, you know, US Congressman can get wet. You know, they can start companies all the time. But getting this contract from the city of Detroit using 100% city funding. I just have questions. So I want to make sure that my note vote is registered for 16 point 13. Is that correct?

    Yeah. And so how do we how do i What do I do at this point about this particular line item?

    So we we've already voted right on this item reconsideration.

    What

    do we do about 16? Callaway once they can rise? I'm gonna make sure that it is recorded correctly. Thank you. You already have her as a no vote. That's my thought. So you already had been recorded as a No

    Okay, so excellent. I'm so glad about that. But my question to you, thank you Madam Chair through the chair to miss limit, not that you have to know anything about the US Congressman Miss limit. Do we know anything about the agents or principals of this particular company through Lera?

    So through the chair, we have Richard Hoekstra as the person who signed but I do not have the other information that you have.

    Okay, thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, Miss. Lemon. You're welcome.

    All right. Thank you, and thank you Director Oglesby, as well.

    Madam President,

    yes, if I may, just for the record member Callaway. They may be in relation to somewhere deep down and family I know get these last names and they sound right. But exactly. Company started by Mark holster, or John Hoekstra as well. So just wanted to I don't know if that affects your decision and just wanted to give you some information on that from what I know. Thank you.

    To the chair to Mr. To

    the chair. All right him and

    thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for that. Member der Hall. I'm on Lera. And I'm looking for those names. I think there is some relation not that it has any bearing on my decision because I'm still a no vote. But I'm just thinking it's just very important that you know, when we're dealing with a former US congressman, and they're coming into this not saying that he is and you can't stop people from getting contracts. I just think those types of things need to be brought to the attention of whoever attention it needs to be brought to. So through my due diligence and my research, that's what I'm finding. Thank you Madam Chair.

    Right. From the law department.

    Council member Whitfield Callaway introduction of an ordinance line item 16.4 14, noting that this item was postponed from last week's formal session.

    All right, it's your script for this parish as it should have. Okay, for Callaway,

    thank you Madam Chair. Through the Chair, I'd like for attorney long to speak to line item 16 point on 14 if we can. Thank you.

    Turning that's move for discussion. Please. All right. motion has been made to discuss 16 point 14 And good morning attorney law.

    Good morning Tanya lon from the law department. Subsequent to this matter being moved to the entire body. A request for amendment has been made to the ordinance. It is my recommendation to this body that this matter would be sent back to committee so that that additional language can be completed and discussed and when that is recreated as a whole ordinance that it come back to this body and its new form for introduction in the setting of a public hearing.

    All right. Did you want to discuss what the amendments are now we're at least give us a heads up with what was changed?

    Yes ma'am. If I may remember this Kelway it to the chair. It is to add a kiosk option in the cashless business which would make a particular business outside of the scope of portions of the ordinance if you had the ability, ability to convert at the point of sale. Okay.

    All right. So member Callaway, you want like to send us back to committee so that the committee can review the changes that were made. If there are no objections, there's a motion to move this back to the work committee was this and like health and safety. Their motion to send us back to committee

    so move Madam Chair.

    All right, Hearing no objection 16 point 14 will be sent to committee and is there a motion to remove 16 point 15 So move Madam Chair, Hearing no objections that will be removed from our agenda. From the Department of Public Works city engineering division.

    Councilmember Santiago Ramiro a resident two resolutions 916 point 16 and 16 point 17

    Councilmember Santiago Ramiro, thank you Madam

    President motion to approve 16 point 16 and 16 point 17 These are both various requests for encroachments

    motion has been made. Hearing no objections, the two resolutions will be approved. We will now move to the new business portion of the agenda under resolutions,

    Councilmember waters and amended resolution not 17.1 noting that this item was postponed from last week's formal sessions.

    Councilmember waters

    Thank you, Madam President. Discussion. Yes, discussion.

    Madam President,

    I'd like to make a motion to return this item to committee.

    Motion, any discussion?

    All right, hearing none, member waters would like to send this to and this was in public health and safety as well. That's correct. Okay. So we will send this back to committee if there are no objections, hearing none that will be sent to committee for the president's report on standing committee referrals and other matters for the budget, Finance and Audit standing committee,

    two reports from the office of the city clerk slash City Planning Commission.

    Those two reports will be referred to the budget Finance and Audit standing committee for internal operation standing committee.

    I have reports from various city departments.

    The five reports will be referred to the internal operations standing committee in for the Neighborhood and Community Services standing committee.

    Five reports from various city departments. Alright, before we

    refer those I think 21.1 needs to be moved to new business.

    Yes, ma'am. I'd also like to, if I may, I'd also like to move 21.1 and 21.3 and 21.4 to new Visio, 21.1 21.3 and 21.4. These are various events. public debates,

    right motion has been made to move those to new business. Are there any objections? Hearing none, those will be referred to new business. For the Planning and Economic Development standing committee

    10 reports from various city departments

    that sent a report reports will be referred to the Planning and Economic Development standing committee for the public health and safety standing committee.

    10 reports from various city departments.

    The 10 reports will be referred to the public health and safety standing committee and we can take up all of the referrals and also the Juneteenth ordinances well. Okay.

    Madam President, first of all we can do the items that were just moved. Only 1.1 21.2 and 21.4. Councilmember young, three resolutions.

    Councilmember Young,

    thank you ma'am. Brian. Did I move to approve line item 21.1 21.3 and 21.4.

    Right motion has been made to approve and these are various events all of which city departments have approved. Are there any objections? Hearing none, the three resolutions will be approved. Yes,

    thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to put it together. I would like to request a waiver for title 21.1 21.3 and 21.4.

    Motion has been requested for a waiver. Hearing no objections. The motion is approved for a waiver.

    Mr. Clerk Madam President, the clerk's office has two other more comments they need to go on. First one is for a PHS referral and this is what contract number 6003073. This item was mistakenly omitted from today's agenda. So we're just requesting that this item be referred to PHS.

    All right, everyone should have a copy of this one. Not for vote is just to be referred to Committee it should have been on the agenda today but was left off. Is there a motion to refer contract 603 0732 public health and safety Hearing no objections that will be referred to Committee.

    Madam president lastly we do have the ordinance the amended ordinance for the June 10. Holiday. A copy has been passed out to all council members are requesting that this item be moved to new business for introduction

    some of them President

    All right Hearing no objections. This will be walked on for new business to introduce for a public hearing

    for Johnson and Johnson in introduction of an ordinance and this and this is with a change to the wording

    of the member Johnson.

    Thank you move that the ordinance be read twice title ordered, printed and laid on the table.

    All right, Hearing no objections that action will be taken.

    Councilmember Johnson and the resolution setting a public hearing.

    And Mr. Clark, we would like to schedule the public hearing for Tuesday May the ninth at 10:20am.

    Purple so no. Alright. Member Johnson.

    Thank you, Madam President Move for approval.

    motion has been made for approval to schedule the public hearing. For Tuesday May the ninth at 10:20am Hearing no objections, that action will be taken.

    Madam President, that's all I have for new business. We do have

    the waivers

    resolutions to waive privilege and confidential reports I didn't get.

    Madam President, we do have to first up we have the resolution waiving the privilege on the law departments memorandum regarding a proposed ordinance to amend chapter 44 taxation. If this can be moved to new

    business for a vote,

    is there a motion? Motion has been made. Hearing no objections this will be added to new business.

    And then the second one is for resolution waiving the privilege on the law department memorandum regarding an ordinance request establishing gun free zones in the city of Detroit.

    Is there a motion? Motion has been made. Hearing no objections these will both be added to new business

    councilmember Johnston, two resolutions.

    Councilmember Johnson Thank you madam president Move for approval. motion has been made for approval for the two resolutions. Any objections? And again, this is waiving the privilege for the property tax opinion. And then the establishment of the gun free zone. legal opinion that was drafted through the chair. We're in the middle of a vote. Hearing no objections. Is there any issues here?

    Through the Chair Graham Anderson law department just wanted to make the law departments opinion clear on this? All the law department is reluctant in the circumstances to waive privilege. However, that said there's no doubt that the gun control matter is under the Michigan legislators control so just wanted to make that point clear. I apologize on the timing. Thank you.

    All right. So we were in the middle of waiving the privilege via the resolution. Is there any objection in doing that? Okay, hearing none. So just open up for discussion now. Dr. Powers. Are you sure? Yeah. Okay, so we're gonna finish this vote, Hearing no objections. The motion is approved and I saw two hands. Councilmember young and then potentate.

    Thank you, man. I just wanted to say about the issue involving the gun free zones. It recently came to my discovery that there is a case involving more we just talked about Israel. I told Mr. Whitaker just now, Morgan v. United States DOJ, which says that if you are using gun restrictions, in a zoning ordinance, that that does not occupy the field of preemption regulation. Because when a zoning ordinance is the application of the regulation of zoning, when it applies to businesses, activities or dwellings it as long as that's done in the general sense, it's fine, where you would apply that into the specific or particular or individual sense of regulation of buildings, activities or dwellings that would enter into the field of preemption. So they upheld that ordinance to restrict firearm sales in a certain neighborhood based on that now, that took place right after the Heller decision of the Supreme Court, which determined that gun ownership was an individual right, but the reason why I'm bringing that up is because now we're having even though we're having a discussion about banning firearms in the group says, you know, you're gonna have some people who are going to feel that this is fringed upon their Second Amendment rights. So I think that that it COVID that this decision came right before Heller so I still gotta have that, but I you're gonna have that conflict, but think for the sake of debate and argument for this discussion. There are local ways in which you can have restrictions on firearms in certain areas based on case law. That case law that said Morgan, the United States DOJ was a federal district court involving Redford city of Renfrew Township. Thank you, man. All right, thank

    you remember, young president potentate.

    Thank you, Madam President. And to you through you to law department. You indicated Sir, there were some reluctancy that you were wanting to communicate to us from the law department about releasing the privilege and can you talk to us a bit about what that reluctancy is I know that initially that we've had members of the law department come before us and leave it's even the corporation counselor deputy Corporation councils that may have been before your time not sure what they say they slap you know, that privilege on there as one as a courtesy to kind of make sure we cover everything but it doesn't always apply. But when the request is made, it's a case by case so why why is there reluctancy on this one,

    through the chair Graham Anderson law department. The reluctancy is just it's for anything that is privileged there. is always going to be a level of reluctance it is those were Corporation consoles words themselves. I was reading when I asked him how his feelings were on this. However, this isn't a matter of litigation or anything like that. So we are comfortable enough allowing this but however there just always is going to be some level of reluctancy or any privileged information that the law department speaks on. And also let me know too, that this isn't something where we you know, redact certain wines here or there. It's kind of an all or nothing so that's that's the reasoning.

    So let me ask this question, because I know member waters did not request the privilege on the document that was slapped on by the law department. What was the rationale for placing the privilege on there?

    Through the Chair? I don't know the specifics. of why that this memo itself I didn't author it was slapped with privilege on it. But I do know that just we are comfortable laying that back for the public to see because this is something that and I think that's the main thing is this is a matter that the law department understands the public wants to hear about needs to hear about and it's important for them to understand and there's nothing that was a level of privacy that really needed to be keeping the cards close to our chest. So we did feel comfortable releasing this and thank you member waters for encouraging the public to see this information because I think it is very valuable.

    Thank you. And I agree with everything you just said it just when you never you start off the statement or even interrupt the vote and say no as a word of caution. That now raises the level of questions. And you know, now hearing your explanation. It seems very benign.

    I apologize, but I know you're the messenger.

    We accept the fact that that's what it is. So I'm glad we had this conversation and

    I apologize on my time being pro time, but I just wanted to make sure I got those words. And before things were in thank you Dr. Powers for your forgiveness as always as well. No word. Thank

    you, Madam President. Thank you, sir. All right. Thank you pro tem.

    All right, Mr. Clark. Was that all we have? Yes, I saw it. I am. All right under the consent agenda. There are no items Madam President. All right. We will now call for member reports. Before we do so I wanted to just briefly pause and recognize just a wonderful member of my team are working. She just graduated from Wayne State University with her bachelors of Art in Public Policy. And urban planning. Yvonne, Yvonne, right, raglan. Just want to say congratulations. She has been serving this city. So we are our office in the residents throughout Victoria. So we'll so we acknowledge you and appreciate you and congratulations. All right. And we'll go to member reports and start with councilmember DuBois.

    Thank you Madam President. And good afternoon. Good to be back. I want to first say congratulations to my alma mater, Detroit High School Fine and Performing Arts otherwise known as DSA for recently celebrating their 30 years and for inspiring and transforming lives through our education. I graduated in 2002, which seems like a lifetime ago now. Getting older, but again, we appreciate you know, all of their support Dr. Reynolds who was over there, who was there as a teacher when I was there, who was now the principal is doing an amazing an excellent job. So shout out to DSA out unfortunately, I was unable to be at the event but we recorded a video and presented them with the Spirit of Detroit award as well, recognizing their 30 years of achievement and goal achievers. So next I want to talk about something that happened over this weekend that many may have heard about was was significant to our district, which was the demolition finally the demolition. Of the Redmond Middle School in the seventh right off of the Southfield freeway. There were some issues and concerns and some safety issues that we will not go deeply into. But after close to 20 years of this being vacant. Now it is demolished and the residents are happy. So I want to give a special shout out to the White House and her demolition team as well as DPS for bringing this together. Then I want to remind everyone that our policy session is coming up on May the eighth from six to 8pm again this will be at 4924 Joy road again 4924 Joy row. This is policy session number four and this month's topic we will cover the 36th District Court that will be our focus. Finally, I want to remind residents of D seven please come out Tuesday May 16. It is our mandated City Council charter meeting or mandate a charter city council meeting from seven to 8:30pm. We will be holding this at New Providence church which is located at 18 to one one Plymouth Road that's 18 to one one Plymouth Road Again, that's Tuesday, May the 16th. Please come out and participate. Hopefully all my colleagues will be there. And that is May 16, from seven to 830 and New Providence church. That concludes my report. Thank you Madam President.

    Thank you member Doha member Johnson.

    Thank you, Madam President. Just want to say a very special thank you to a number of residents in District Four, particularly in the Jefferson Chalmers community who posted a prayer breakfast on Saturday morning, focused on the water infrastructure and how we as a community can come together to address the challenges that that community in particular faces, but that the city face on a continual basis. So they did a phenomenal job having residents come out to talk about the challenges and their quality of life that they're dealing with in that area. And so we look forward to continuing to have conversation with them and continuing to provide support to address the issue. So just wanted to give a big a huge shout out to Jay Jorgensen to murder Curtis and they have a special guest Monica Lewis Patrick come out to speak to the residents so it was a phenomenal job and just look forward to continuing that conversation. And just also want to share with residents in District Four particularly around still Lantis and the Mac engine plant that we are continuing to have conversation to make sure that we're addressing the odors that are coming from the plant and recognizing that you know, residents are sandwiched between two still Lantis plants. Jefferson North and MEK engine and just the environmental impact that it has on our residents in that area. So we continue to have discussion, continue to push to make sure that we are addressing in a positive way, improvements to their quality of life and air air quality as well. So thank you, Madam President.

    All right. Thank you, member Johnson. Member Santiago Ramiro. Thank you, Madam

    President. I just want to remind District Six residents that our office community office hours are continuing for the month of May we're going to be joined by Detroit at work and the office of contract and procurements at each location. We are going to be at the limit the Rec Center on Monday May 8 from four to 6pm. We also invite residents to join us tomorrow at the mosque Furqan which is at 4981 cabinets and 42 time from six to eights for our monthly District Six in person meeting. We're going to have presentations from Detroit at work, the Office of contracting and procurement housing and revitalization and the Detroit Grand Prix that are going to have their indie show car there and it's going to be exciting to see as well as we're going to be giving away free smoke detectors and want to celebrate that me is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. We have a resolution coming down the pipeline to recognize that and then want to invite everyone who was able to join us for the 58th annual Cinco de Mayo parade this Sunday. I will be there with my team celebrating thank you so much for an unprecedent

    Alright, thank you councilmember Santiago mural. Councilmember young.

    It is my honor and privilege to serve but I have no memory. All right.

    So President Pro Tem Tate

    negative report.

    Councilmember waters

    Okay, so thank you, Madam President. I just want to and just in case some people are listening who happened to live in a land bank home or know someone who lives in a land bank home this Saturday, May 6 at 12 noon, we are asking that they come out to the Samaritan center. We want to help them to remain in their homes. We are doing a workshop there to assist people and I want my colleagues to know that we did offer to work with the land bank they refused to do so but guess what? Nevertheless, the show must go on. It is it is our job to make sure that people who want to live in those homes those occupied homes will have an opportunity to do so. And so that's this Saturday, May 6 at Samaritan Center at 555 Honor Avenue. Thank you Madam President.

    Thank you member waters member Callaway.

    Thank you Madam Chair. I just want to first of all start my report off with wishy my daughter, my communications manager. My Spelman sister, and my sorority sisters are very, very happy second anniversary today so congratulations and iwi Jalen, upcoming coffee and conversations. Monday May the eighth is going to be at the live six homebase which is located at 7426 West McNichols road again. Our coffee and conversation for May the eighth Monday at 8am 7426. West McNichols road next Monday and our walk at Palmer Park is this Thursday for one hour from 8am to 9am. And we meet at the Palmer Park community building, which is I think, located on mural placements. And I'm excited about returning this Thursday. You guys held it down for me last Thursday. I appreciate you. And hopefully some of you got a chance to go to the disc golf tournament championship which is also held at Palmer park over the weekend. Our district two virtual meeting will be Monday the 15th from 530 to 635 30 to 630 and the number to call is 87483275107. Again, our virtual call for May is Monday the 15th from 530 to 630. The number is 87483275107 and also our motor city makeover. cleanup time is this Saturday, May the sixth and that's for districts one, two and three May the sixth is Motor City makeover. For districts one, two, and three. And also join me this Saturday at the Adam butzel rec center for E scooters safety lessons and that is going to start at 10am Again that is this Saturday e scooter test drive and safety guidelines event. At Adams butzel rec center which is located at 10500 Linden street and I will be there and I will be there from 12 to three and I will be riding the E scooter for the very first time. So come and join me. Thank you Madam Chair.

    All right. Thank you remember Callaway. Yep. All right. So our office will be hosting a community conversation regarding the closures and impact of the Grand Prix. I know people are excited regarding it coming back downtown to the streets of Detroit but does cause a lot of impact as we all are experiencing with our staffs, having a park in the other garage and taking the people mover over every day. So we will be hosting a community conversation with the impacts that it will cause on residential areas next week. Thursday the 11th May 11 at 6pm with various representatives from the Grand Prix and city department so that people are aware of possible closures and impact that it will have on both businesses and residential communities. Again, that will be next Thursday, May 11 at 6pm virtually if you would like more information please contact our office and we will also make sure that we send that out via email and on all social media platforms. Also our renters, our rent rights workshops are just taking off. We are just so pleased to have this partnership going into various residential buildings helping organize tenant councils for residents and understand their power and rights as tenants. If anyone is interested in a renter rights workshop, please contact our office at 313-224-4505. Again, if you are in a residential complex or development and you would like to have us come in and host a renter rights workshop, please contact our office at 313-224-4505. Lastly, Belle Lau will be before City Council next Tuesday for their annual update just so council members are aware next Tuesday during our formal session build out we'll be here for them and that is all I have for our member reports. And we will proceed back to our agenda. Under adoption without committee reference, there are no items Madam President, under communications from the

    clerk a report on approval proceedings by the mayor.

    That report will be received and placed on file under testimonial resolutions and special privilege.

    Council President Pro Tem tait five resolutions line items 28.1 to 28.5. Noting that line items 28.1 and 20.2 on behalf of councilmember Benson, and also line item number 28.5 is listed on the agenda under councilmember Young. However that should be Benson as well. Council President Pro Tem take

    Oh Tim Tate

    President move approval of the resolutions.

    All right motion has been made or approval. Hearing no objections, the two options. You did all of them at once, okay. The five resolutions will be approved All right. That is it. If there is nothing else colleagues to come before this committee, is there a motion to adjourn? This meeting is adjourned everyone have a blessed day.