All right. All right. Good morning, everyone. We will now call to order our regular session of February the 20th in our cargo, please call the roll.
Councilmember Scott Benson. However,
Vincent did indicate that he will not be present this morning. His absence is excused.
Purple so no. Council member Fred Hall, the third present. Councilmember Leticia Johnson, present councilmember Gabriela Santiago Romero. Councilmember Mary waters present councilmember Angela Whitfield Callaway present. Councilmember Coleman Young the second,
Councilmember Young did indicate that he also would not be present today. His absence is excused
verbal, so no, council president pro tem James Tate, Council President Mary Sheffield. Present Madam President, you have a quorum.
All right, there being a quorum present. We are in session and we will start off with our invocation for this morning. We have Pastor Charles de from the road church located in district two who has joined us virtually all right you can just turn your camera on. Good morning.
Good morning. All right. Good morning to you all. It's a blessing to be with you all this morning. Shall we take a few moments and pray Father we ask that Your blessings be upon each and every one of these council members God we pray for your favor. We pray for your grace, your mercy, the loving kindness God God is the lead and help direct the city of Detroit God we pray now God that you would give them ideas and thoughts that would be able to help impact the city in a major way. We pray God now for the president Sheffield God that you would give continue to give great leadership. God we thank you now as you help them navigate through this meeting, that You would bless them and their time together, that they would give you glory, honor and praise when it's all said and done, and that the city the citizens of the city of Detroit would benefit from the moves that's being made and the council God we thank you now bless each district as represented here. And God we ask for your favorite to continue to be upon this city. As you continue to propel us to be one of the greatest cities in the nation. We thank you now and we ask your blessings upon it in Jesus name we pray amen.
Amen. All right, thank you pastor day for the invocation. Feel free to stay on as long as you can. If you have to jump off that's fine as well. But thank you for that invocation.
The journal this session of February the sixth will be approved there being no reconsideration or unfinished business. We will proceed to the budget Finance and Audit standing committee for the budget Finance and Audit standing committee.
Three reports from various city departments.
The three reports will be referred to the budget Finance and Audit standing committee for the internal operation standing committee 13
reports from various city departments.
The 13 reports will be referred to the committee for the Neighborhood and Community Services standing committee six reports from various city departments the six reports will be referred to the Neighborhood and Community Services standing committee or the Planning and Development Committee
who reports from various city departments.
The two reports will be referred to the Planning and Economic Development standing committee for the public health and safety standing committee only two
reports from various city departments.
The 22 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. Yeah, no, it
was Madam President.
All right.
We will now call for our general public comment. We have several people who have submitted cards virtually and in person. I'm going to allow one minute and a half for public comment. We do have a evening council meeting in district two this evening. And so we want to allow adequate time for council members to have a break in between our formal session and our evening meeting this evening. So we will start with those who have joined us in person and if my team can kind of line people up so that we can have a good speed and flow here this morning. Betty Lyons will be first Sharon Mitchell Valencia Stottlemeyer. You walk in just line up so that you are already in place when your name is bought Cunningham.
Write your science definition
of Mayor, the head of a city or municipality I will not dignify Mr. Dugan with these undeserved titles. The head is supposed to take care of the whole not only the rich when I heard the City Council okay giving yes giving millionaire Dan Gilbert more minions I then New City Council is of no effect like Dugan. You make it sound good, but because you bow to Mr. Dugan demands are not activated. Mr. Erdogan seems to get a charge out of refusing justice by denying the return of overpayment of property taxes, but he loves to welcome strangers the Suburbans to come and apply and receive monies from Detroit to take back to their communities. Mr. Erdogan seems untrusting appointing blacks to top positions like finances, he crosses the ocean to appoint strangers. Again I say watch Mr. Dugan. causing huge reduction and the general fund, retirement fund and whatever else he can get his hands on because City Council is under Mr. Dugas control, not the people City Council. I pray you still have a soul when you look in the mirror because in my opinion, Mr. Dugan is stealing your soul. He's just as subtle as that serpent in the Garden of Eden.
Council President Sheffield esteemed council members my name is Roland Dean. coming before you was seven years of volunteer work on neighborhood advisory committees for major projects and city. With that in hand, I am here to request that you all support the package in front of you, as I understand you may or may not vote today but when you do that you support the future of health initiative. Detroit is in fact on its way if not, they're already on the cusp of being a healthcare Mecca in America. We are the home of the CSI which went on to become the national cardiogenic shock initiative. We Own Heart Health here in Detroit, and we have a lot to offer the nation. 20% of all jobs in America are in health care. This is a future for jobs and development and skills here in our city for our citizens, which can be nothing but good. Billy Preston said in a song he had nothing from nothing leaves nothing. And that's exactly what you'll get. If we don't continue to support and approve development projects that do nothing but add to solidifying the foundational and financial future of our city. Thank you.
Thank you. Awesome. We're going to cut off public comment our general public comment is now cut off and Mr. Clark if you can no potentate has joined us as well. Mr. Clark, potentate joins. Alright, go right ahead.
Yes. Hi, my name is Sharon Mitchell. Good morning, everybody, this new council outside of Ms. Sheffield, and Mr. Kane doesn't know me. I'm a resident of the city of Detroit. My family has been a resident of city Detroit. They helped build the rest Renaissance Center. They helped build the people move my family did. I've been taking care of lots for 13 years. I beat y'all plan. I did what y'all did. Y'all asked us as residents in the city of Detroit to take on his city when nobody wanted to take on his city when it was dilapidated buildings was demolished all of that I invested my money, my time my hard work into that land and that property in that city because you all asked us to do this I followed your rules. And when it came down to it, guess what? The city council Detroit land bank and the mayor and the city let me down. Y'all let me down y'all so my man that I've been taking care of for 13 years to somebody else.
Sydney got no grass. A picked up no drugs. No trace, good. Nothing. Nothing. I asked you, Michelle, to help me. You went by 2020 policy on land that was sold in 2019.
Make that make sense to me. Make it make sense to me.
Because this to me, my civil rights have been broken. I have no pride in this city no more. I was buying that land because I was proud of this city. I wanted to help make this city look good.
You took that away from me. Thank you.
You took that from my family.
Thank you. Thank you so much, Sharon. And just for the record we have worked extensively. No You know, when it's when it's policy you finished you finished your comment. Let me just say state my we have worked with you extensively with the legal department with the land bank to try to come to a resolve with you and we will continue to do that. So I appreciate you coming out. I am Miss Mishra. We can't go back and forth so you have to you do have to stop but I agree with you. Miss Miss. Miss Mitchell, your time is cut off your time. was cut off your coaching. Miss Donna Meyer.
The morning Madam President and council. My name is Valencia Stottlemeyer. And I want to express my support for the future of health project first and foremost as a resident of the city of Detroit. Secondarily, I also lead supplier diversity for Henry Ford Health as the vice president of supplier diversity there. And I want to reiterate our commitment to supplier diversity. It's been a strategic priority for the organization executed through dedicated resources within our supply chain department. We believe that the future of health will enable us to enhance our supplier diversity strategy, which today includes targeted goals, reporting and dashboards to measure and track our performance memberships with certifying agencies and other external diversity partners that will enable us to identify local and minority suppliers for the project. We also conduct marketing and outreach events both personally and virtually. We have the processes and the people in place to do this. We're excited about this project and the positive impact that we can have on the future of health in this community. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Mr. Cunningham.
31344491143134449114 and on Facebook retroactive fairness on Facebook, retroactive fairness, two words. Billionaires always win lease always get what they want. You wasting your time you're wasting your time you're wasting your time you're wasting your time you're wasting your time. All these years I've never seen the regular people when begging there's always when it's sad to say it but that's what I've seen. And I'm praying that that's not going to be the case today. I'm praying that's not going to be the case today. But usually billionaires always win here at City Council. I'm actually double duty. There's a lac meeting this morning for Detroit Department of Transportation. I got this zoom on mute in my pocket. But I just wanted to come and just speak about the bus service. I give out bus tickets, gloves and hand warmers like little care packages. If you don't want to donate any gloves or bus tickets, whatever I want on your own. You see people at the bus stops, be a blessing to them and give some hot chocolate, coffee, something these are people who are waiting to get to work school and the buses was only on time about 60% of the time. So again, keep me in your prayers. Pray for those that ride Detroit department transportation. Thank you, Councilwoman Johnson for doing the most recent ride along. It was fun. She brought doughnuts, and it was a good experience. Thank you so much, everybody.
Thank you Mr. Cotton. Yeah. Miss Moore.
Good morning. Everybody. I'm gonna thank you for helping me get into the house, my house and being patient with when I want it. But I have another problem. I need a letter from y'all. And as some other issues I would like to discuss with my kitchen. Thank you.
Thank you, Miss Moore. We definitely will continue to help you. Thank you Miss more.
Morning, my name is Miguel Mora, and I'm here trying to find out about the housing program. I was in it. I found a place and I was told by Alicia Butler that the landlord that I was dealing with was paid. But he said he was not paid. And so now I've been put out and I'm without housing for my children. So how can I get back in the program and who do I speak to and concerns about that? Okay,
sorry that sorry to hear about that. If you don't mind stepping aside and Tyler people come down and we can connect you with Chelsea Niblick who deals with situations like this while you're here. We will connect you with some help. So thank you so much for coming down. It's the Kirkwood note we've also been joined by councilmember Santiago Ramiro Soto Mr. Brinker Good
morning,
Madam President and honorable Council. My name is Larry Brinker, Jr, CEO of Brinker construction. A firm served as the construction manager for the Detroit Pistons Performance Center. As a result, I had the opportunity to witness the Detroit Pistons organization's commitment to the community and its residents. We were able to to create and implement opportunities and benefits for Detroit residents, such as a mentorship program to help minority contractors headquartered in the city of Detroit to participate in the project. I support the development as I believe it will provide additional opportunities and benefits to the city of Detroit.
Thank you. All right. Thank you. Mr. Jenkins.
Oh, good morning. Council president and council dude, just Jim Jenkins, Jenkins construction. I want to be here because I read some of the paper yesterday would would challenge me and the pistons who wants to come here the US they want to be developers and they also need some incentives. But what about them? Henry Ford Hospital said they can't do what they need to do. They got to be less of an operation as well as they won't be doing the same development. So we need to support this. And what this we also get jobs. This is all about jobs for these young people. You got I'm talking about serious job and I'm not talking about no they can make 70 a month a lot. I'm gonna make 70,000 more as carpenters and gotta get through the apprenticeship program without the apprenticeship program. There is no journeyman and you've had conflict you got carpal tunnel guys
like that, there you go. You got to do this.
We got to do this. Lesson one was all about what are these young people we have nothing. We have nothing. And you tell them out. We tell him a series of jobs when he could do the right thing for our community and and that community could come back because the same their community we talked about right now is not the way it should be right now. That I grew up with. Okay, he's me. Okay. The adult that's who you're talking to. Okay. This example. So thank you for who y'all are listening to
me. We're gonna keep order. Yeah.
Well, you don't talk about time to All right. Thank you for that. Thank you all for who y'all are for the right reasons. And let's do this because it's for the right reason our community and we got real jobs that we talked about. And you know, we don't want to be stay poor. We want to have we want to have middle class work. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank
you, Mr. Jenkins. Thank you. Yvonne, Yvonne. Mr. Shelton. You haven't put the timer on. I can't hear the timer.
Good morning. At four, you're the free yo. About how many Detroit residents who were working at the FCA still on his plant labs on the east side, the same plant that used our bond funds for that expansion Creo could not give me any numbers about how many Detroit residents had jobs at the Jefferson or the Mac plants. I've gone down to the Hudson site several times and talk to security guards that oversee that right across the street. I was also unable to find any black residents that had sustainable jobs at the Hudson site. I see people come down and as some of the same people didn't whatever it is a large project. They come down here in the solicitor, the council, but anyway, I understand because Ramon Jackson and myself we've been to Washington and we've been to Lansing. And we didn't go down into sightsee. I have a document here. It is full of affidavits from residents of this city. Many of them don't live in the city. They moved out. But they're still on the voting rolls and some of them are still voting. This isn't a rumor. This is a fact and is going to be dealt with.
Thank you Mr. Felton. Morning, council
president Sheffield, esteemed members of city council. My name is Ron Henry, a city resident for the past several years. I've worked in the city for nearly all of my 40 years of my professional career. Here to support the Henry Ford project. This is a vote about growth and prosperity versus population decline, unemployment and continued demolition in the city. This is one of the hardest cities in the country to develop in, for many reasons. So let's think for a minute What if you vote no. Let's consider history. We're the Motor City where the big three Ford started here. Ford moved to Dearborn Ford took 1000s of jobs. GM started here. GM moved to warn GM took 1000s of jobs Chrysler started here. Chrysler moved to Auburn Hills 30 years ago. Then they remember the merger of equals. They moved to Germany now they're in France to headquarters in France. Fortunately, Ford is coming back in Michigan Central Station. GM is struggling in the Renaissance Center. The building is less than half full What will their future be in a city? I was a senior executive with Detroit Medical Center for several years leading their building program. Detroit Medical Center started here. They went through hard times. They were bought by a company out of Dallas. They are headquartered in Dallas. 1000s of jobs have gone to Dallas my department alone went from 350 people to six. What happens if Henry Ford leaps? What happens if Henry Ford decides to go? Beaumont left? Thank You Grand Rapids. Thank you very much.
All right. Morning
I'm starting with
a worker Freestar Miss Hitchcock, can you please make sure your cell phones are silenced please?
I thought it was off. Hit me. A worker who I later learned was a city of Detroit contractor but she called me an all black bitch. Oh, this is the best ad Oh, he'll ever see. Black. I wouldn't have it any other way. Invictus debatable. Here's what happened. I pulled out of my garage, going for a doctor's appointment. And immediately a white man or a Mexican ran up to my car and said You can't park here. He made me do a head snap because I knew he was not talking to me. He says I have a segment took me. You have to move right now for disrespecting me. I had no idea who he was. I just knew he was a plumbing company up the alley. I told him for your disrespect. I'm gonna call and canceled my doctor's appointment. And my car is going to stay here until I get ready to move it. When he protested that says okay. I'll make you a deal. For your disrespect. You're going to pay me $50 to move my vehicle if you keep talking is going up to 100. Now here's what the situation is. I have a handicapped vehicle on my plate.
Mrs. Pratt. Unfortunately, that's your time. If you want to submit your additional comments to us we will make sure that we review them but unfortunately that is your time. Sure.
Thank you very much council president Okay, thank
you so much Miss Hitchcock.
Okay,
this is what it took to drive black people out of Detroit. Black generational wealth was stripped from our community by destroying black home ownership. And all you have to do is ride through this city to see the destruction that has been caused. Detroit City Council approved a $60 million dollar tax waiver for billionaire Dan Gilbert, but refused to refine or give credit for the 600 million property taxes that they overcharged us in the city of Detroit. My Duggins administration participated in stealing 600 million and over assessed property taxes, pause and property owners to lose homes for taxes never owed and refuse to give a credit or refund. The UN came back and asked for 250 million using our homes as collateral after the takeover of our public school system to make way for profit driven charter schools and the dismantling of Detroit Public Schools, Mike Duggan got the first $8 million
that we were intended to upgrade Detroit Public School buildings which are now abandoned sorry, is your time or do you ever run away
man? Man that is your time on the doll. Thank you. Thank you so much.
Morning all morning. My name is Tom Robbins, lifelong resident of Detroit. I would add on to the distinguished lady before me that they the Detroit switched money out of the Detroit Public School System and the library system to donate to the bone to the building of that hockey arena. We're corporate slum Lords for feeding off renters who lost their homes to billions of dollars of property tax theft. A no big booty call Mayor Mike Duggan, Paramore under the cover of nonprofits studying black infants and new mothers a tax abatement corporate welfare schools close children driven out of the city. No schools in the neighborhoods and Campus Martius we have two giant rats and statues where no black woman or man has ever had a statue in that area. We have grant money now low money that most of us in the city the lifelong residents do not qualify for a very tight Thank you.
Continuation inflated property tax assessments homes illegally and made easily available to infiltrators tow companies and corrupt Detroit police officers stealing residents cars and demanding ransom Andre spy vie taking bribes from tow companies demolition no bid corruption, deliberate neglecting destruction of Detroit neighborhood homes lost due to accelerate accelerating of property tax foreclosures from five years to three years.
Loss of have agreed upon revenue sharing from the state of Michigan neighborhood parks restrictions to make interlopers comfortable water shutoffs and repeated water rate increases. Bus Services cut corporate lighting authority into Detroit lighting department. Library Commission no longer Detroit libraries Detroit court authority no longer Detroit court. Art Institute authority no longer Art Institute corrupt land bank authorities just another way
thank you. Thank you
Edie people.
Rob Land Bank Authority. Just another way to steal Detroit. Homeowners property can brighten it the Troy children's summer camp. So for pennies on the dollar prison and boot camp for our children. Opportunity for their children. No to African town. Yes. The pol town Chinatown, Mexican town and their town African Center School converted to a police station prison pipeline. David Academy appointed by lifetime achievers sambo. Dennis Archer, the first CEO of Detroit Public Schools after the takeover was rewarded with the transfer stealing of the Detroit Public Schools radio station to Wayne State University where he once served as president at a Miami mammy. Manny also canceled contracts put in place by our elected Board of Education, sale of Historic State Fair grant grounds for $9 million to build of Amazon warehouses and on and on and on and on and on and on. And pissed the eff off. What now.
Thank you. Hi Ron Strickland followed by to hear I'm it followed by Rick my horn followed by Linda Jeffries
okay I'm gonna take off where Agnes Hitchcock left and especially about her being called all black bitch
is put your mic down a little bit we can't hear you.
I'm gonna take off from where Agnes Hitchcock level. Okay, and I'm really pissed off about the fact that she was called the old black bitch. very disrespectful when you're coming on someone else's property without the decency of letting the person know a day before or putting a note notice in the mailbox or on the door now. We have rights. We've been here and most of us have been here born here. We have rights. We should be treated with dignity. How do the city council and the mayor of this city allow us to be treated like dogs? Less than dogs?
You give a dog more respect. So I'm saying City Council. You need to get it together. You will not get my vote.
I'm tired of voting for people that don't stand up for the people. You go into these jobs saying you're gonna stand up for the people and you let things like this help and tap into our seniors. I'm a senior myself. Agnes is 80 years old. They're older seniors in this crowd today. Why are they being disrespected like this? And as I said, You will not get the vote. And I will campaign for you not to get the vote. If I don't see any changes this week. Thank you
all right. Thank you, Mr. Ma.
Watership
when a member waters. Alright.
Thank you, Madam President. And so first of all, I want to know who miss Hitchcock if in fact, you got the name of the person. We'd like to know if you got the name of the person who, who called you a B
was any moment we're not going to come back. Okay.
All right. All right, it offline in a moment I'll get it.
But we will get that information from your panel, member waters.
And then I want to further say, Madam President, that city council does not run the departments, but we are happy to pass it along to the mayor. All right, because if their work is on a site, who are disrespected people who are calling people names, they need to be fired. Yes, they do. So we'll get the information from you. Michelle's got this Joanna over there in Toronto. Please give them the information and we'll take it from there. Thank you. Thank
you. Thank you remember waters. Alright, Mr. Mott.
Good morning Council. I want to thank Agnes Hitchcock for standing up. She closed this city county council county building way back when we found out we're being overtaxed and she had to shut it down and we all came here to over 1000 of us and shut City Council down. We are being mistreated. People are stealing our money. I'm still being overtaxed. We're all still being overtaxed. We know that the city is over taxing us $600 million now going on to a billion dollars, illegal property taxes. They are breaking state law illegally over taxing us and we want our money back. We're not talking about oops, I had a mistake. No. Oops go give us our money. Find us on money, or some kind of reciprocity, where Agnes Hitchcock has stood up as an elder. We get these contractors coming in here calling her names, closing off her ability to park her car in her garage and tell her to get over him. We got black churches, Council of that black Baptist vicinity civil rights organizations such as NAACP and former Mayor Coleman a young appointees on the tape on their knees by tickets administrative course. They allow hijack Detroit water and sewage departments stolen Eastern Market authority stolen Detroit and convinced them stolen. Cobo Hall stolen I thank you $100 Garbage feed. That's thank you and justice. We want justice in our city. Thank what our tax dollars making.
The Mormon Council morning I got a trade here and 1985 and I would see you know, Coleman Young out and I lived downtown Detroit at the riverfront apartments at the time and a lot of people asked me why am I down in Detroit? I said where did Detroit Pistons and that's what made me represent Detroit and I still represent Detroit till this day. I'm gonna supported the future of the Henry Ford the health project. This will put Detroit among the national and national leaders when it comes to the best health care. It will also grow the new center area positively for current business and create jobs as a player I did like I said I lived in there for a year and not for years and I would walk around the city. Back then I really didn't want to walk around the city but now I walk around the city with pride. When people ask me about Detroit and seeing the growth of it. I tell them it's a great place to live my family still lives here. And I'm gonna be as long as here as long as my man Earl Puritan who passed was a great opponent for Detroit. And so with him not being here. I'm here to represent what the pistons are about Henry Ford and what Michigan State is about, and I thank the Council for your time. Jeffries.
Good morning. I'm Linda Jeffries. I had the honor of serving as the chair of the neighborhood Advisory Council for the future of health. And I want to also acknowledge the whole council for their commitment and their dedication to this process. I also want to thank our neighbors, our friends, fellow residents, many of whom are in this room. Today. Other organizations within and without the community associations that gave us information and gave us recommendations for consideration. So I thank them for their continued interest in this project. We believe that the agreement that the majority of us signed on to really address as many of our top priorities including affordable housing, health care, home repair, rental assistance, and gateways to employment for our citizens. The free scholarship programs, the apprenticeship programs, the trades, apprenticeship, nursing assistants, medical assistants. There's more in the agreement, but we recognize that no agreement is perfect. But we do believe that this agreement does include fair, equitable and tangible benefits for the impact area, the surrounding area and the city of Detroit. Thank you for this opportunity to serve and to speak this morning.
Thank you.
Hi, good morning. My name is Daniel Kennedy. Thank you for this opportunity. My grandfather was a Detroit police officer. My father was a Detroit police officer. I was born baby of 10. On the Lower East Side Nottingham and Warren grew up in the city went to school at six mine liver Noy and I've worked in the city and around the city for the last 35 years. So I'm here in support of the future of health initiative. I think that the city of Detroit deserves it. I think the citizens of Detroit deserve it. The the If anytime you can get three different groups between health care, academia and sports and entertainment coming together that you try to work collaboratively together, to build to build new facilities to create new jobs to create new opportunities. My experience in the city is that that will just impact many, many blocks as we move out of from this project. It seems very, very positive to me so I'm in support of it. So thank you for your time.
All right, thank you. Mike Chang.
Good morning, city council. My name is Mike Chang. I'm a resident of district one on the far west side of Detroit. I'm here to speak in opposition to a component of the health of what we're all here talking about today. And that's Tom Gore component of this project. Many of you know Tom Gore is runs a private equity firm that takes a blood and sweat of working people in Detroit and across the United States. And he keeps it for himself and builds up a tremendous wealth as a billionaire. He he owns a prison phone service that profits off of our of all the people in this country you'll end up in this massive industrial prison complex that we have in the United States. It is it is criminal for us to give him more money,
Mr. saying Hold on one second. Your time was not go here.
It is criminal to give him more money. He now wants to come to the front end of the prison, the school to prison pipeline and take money from our children who are gone who need the money to go to school. They need the money for the libraries. They need the money for all the things that children need to grow up to become productive adults in this society, including if they want to be carpenters, plumbers, millwrights or electricians we we don't need to be funding billionaires like Tom Gore to do this kind of work. We know how to rebuild this city. We know how to do this. The tax, the tax break that he is giving or he that we may end up giving him will affect three generations of children. It's a 35 year tax giveaway. That's our children, our grandchildren, our great grandchildren, our great great grandchildren who will be impacted by this. This is not a short term burden on the people of Detroit. If we want longevity if we want people to come back to our neighborhoods, we need to turn the money back to the schools. I want to I got a few seconds here left. I want to support everyone here who's here to defend my comrade Agnes Hitchcock. She'd hasn't mentioned yet but her car had a handicap plate on it and then she still got disrespected. That is absolutely outrageous.
was more
troubling to the city of Detroit and good morning to all the council members and to everyone here. My name is Joyce Moore with the Virginia Park community coalition within the within the boundaries of the Virginia Park community. I am I know nothing about Tom or or his money but I do know that we voted for specific villages for schools and for libraries. And as those villages that should not it is that money that should not be given a TIF that means tax increment financing. We never voted for any of our monies to be diverted by my original purpose, which was the schools and which was the libraries. We need to know that you as council members are for us as citizens and residents and property owners in the city of Detroit. We need to know which ones are supporting tiffs and which ones are not. We need to know that in 2026 the new governor can remove the idea of tariffs if he so chooses. My other concern is that the tariffs are not just tariffs, they're 2010 20 and 30 year debt to our property taxes. That means just like the gentleman just said, our children our children's children will inherit this debt. Therefore we say no to test and to transformational. Brownfield tests. We definitely say no because now you're talking about encompassing our income tax and sales tax are using tax and our property tax. No the tests of any kind. Now I'm going to change the subject to one more 1957 Taylor, I like to have that property we send it back to the Detroit fanbase, so this young lady can get that house Thank you. Good.
Morning. Hi,
good morning. My name is anti blonde, and I'm a member of Detroiters for Tax Justice. And I am a longtime resident of Detroit about 40 years and I'm in District Three. I want to just say no for the people, no, don't take our tax money and give it to these development projects. We did vote for our money to go to the schools, the libraries, the parks, etc. All of our needs as as a Detroit community, and that's where our money should be going. And we want to end the tax captures because they've already taken $478 million out of our tax money in the last nine years. So that's as far as we've been able to document so far. And and it's beyond that we don't have the rest of the data but that's what we got to so far. So we need that paid back. That was just taken and given just given to people that have plenty of money and don't need it. And we don't need to get have it taken from us and given somewhere else than where we voted for it to go. So basically, I just want to say no please don't allow this to happen again. And and I really think we deserve to have the rest of our money returned to us during the past.
Thank you. Thank you
that's below.
Hugs are allowed with family relations Right? in public. Okay. My name is Ross bill. And I'm a former education director of the operating engineers, local 547. And I was treasurer of the Michigan State of Michigan apprenticeship Council in my time, I say give greetings to my brothers in the building trades and to those who come with an honest spirit to express their views. But we do support the building of the hospital system. Henry Ford is using their own fine Tanzania and doing it properly. However, we have to oppose not Tom Gore's building luxury housing oppose us funding, Tom Gore's building luxury housing. We strongly oppose using public tax money that deprives our schools, libraries, special needs children and other public purposes. Detroiters approved those millages for those purposes. Fact The Library proposal on the ballot in 2014 said there would be a 5% cap and that was approved by the Elections Commission and the voters of Detroit a 5%. Cap. The mayor is now taking 15% and I have done foyers asking for where any of this money has gone and the city is not giving us anything. I've asked for information that on where they're taking money from our administrative fee they have fused through explain where the debate the foundation for that either.
Thank you Mr. biller.
Your appeal prior
to two people's platform District Two resident two reports on tax incentives one from LPD and the other from the CRC have said in so many words, Detroit must rethink the way we use tax incentives in development. They highlight the excessive use of incentives, the fact that they have not worked in the last 50 years and that they perpetuate inequality. The CRC reports that during Detroit's development boom, white Detroiters have economically improved far more than any other group and then higher metro area, while black Detroiters have fallen further behind the $220 million and tax incentives for the business to build luxury housing represents more of the same. This project will gentrify the area. It will displace economically vulnerable residents, it will add to the racial inequities. That is a fact we have to acknowledge even if the pistons refuse to do so. I asked this council to do what the report says and to rethink how we do development stand with the low income and working class folks who've been on the losing end of development tell Gore's no and make him pay his fair share to Detroit because we cannot afford it and also to Where are all of the white construction workers who will benefit mostly from this project. They get 95% of the jobs. Why aren't they up there supporting those young brothers and sisters Thank you. Thank you.
Morning, Grant rising. I'm here to speak on the impact of the development project at hand and my support for it. I'm going to district that is going to be impacted by the development of a union carpenter who lives us
me just if you can pull the microphone down a little bit more.
Okay, you want me to start over? Okay. Graham rising. I'm here to speak on the impact of the development project at hand and my support for it. I'm going to district that is going to be impacted by the development. I'm a union carpenter who lives here and has lived here my whole life has seen the rise the fall and the rise again. I want to state that this will be a great opportunity for me a person who has lived in the city and every morning I have to wake up and drive an hour and a half to two hours just to get to work in the field that I love. That actually takes from my income from my family because of gas and vehicle maintenance alone. The project will relieve a lot of my burden, as well as provide income to my home as well as many others in our city. It will bring work that is much needed. It will bring opportunities for our young African Americans like myself to work in our own city to create, build and bring it back using our own hands given time, energy and effort to build back in a place that has given so much to us. That's all I have to say. All right, thank you.
Morning Morning,
I'm Chase Brett union carpenter.
I remember when I was a kid, and it was a team that played the Detroit Pistons and they played a commercial showing the city abandoned buildings, abandoned houses. And now the pistons are playing in the city of Detroit Little Caesars arena was a all union project. And this development. We know when it's done in the city of Detroit, it's all union all the time and nobody from any other city or other state should be able to say anything about this city, you know, so I'm just glad that we are trying to develop something positive for the city of Detroit because it's a good look on us. Good luck on everybody. Nobody from outside should be able to say anything. Thank you.
Good morning, everybody. John Perkins with the carpenters union. As you all may have heard from a few of our apprentices and may hear here shortly, we are in full support of this project. Not only because of how this these projects put food on our table, but the economical impact for it getting individuals interested in said industry, the construction industry where they did even though these opportunities were even possible, we're talking about that direct impact a direct access to the upper middle, upper middle class opportunities, these projects these developments these opportunities are what drive this city, we make sure that these projects are connected to our young folks so that way they can pursue a career in their desire craft. I urge you all to support this project because again, we know when development happens carpenters go to work and we want to make sure that the young men and women that stand for you stand in front of you today are on these projects as well but we can't do that without your help. Thank you. Thank you
all right. Hola. My name is Mario. I'm a I'm a first year apprentice for the carpenters. And I want to say that I was born here and this microphone. Oh, sorry. I want to say I was born here in this city. And nowhere else besides the carpenters union do I know of a place where I could make $100,000 My first year working in Detroit, building something to make my city look better. Because I remember when I was growing up downtown was horrible. Like we had abandoned buildings in downtown Detroit and I remember winning the Super Bowl was coming to Detroit that they actually put fake like window fronts up and abandoned buildings downtown. So it looked like the business was occupied. So anybody that's going to spend money to make my city look better. And on top of that, I can work and help take care of my family because I still live in each word. And some of these people that come down here and speaking on Detroit, in opposition to this project, don't even live here didn't grow up here and none of it. My mother met my father here. I went to school here. I spend my money here when this project takes off the money that comes out the taxes that come on my check is going to help pay for other things, utilities and schools that's here because I'm a Detroit taxpayer. And this is all my going nowhere else. I'm not moving to Southfield to Birmingham. No, no other places. I live in Detroit and I'm gonna make my city looked better because I live here. That's all I got. Thank you. Logging
Good morning, honorable Council and everybody else I'm Barbara Logan. And I've been here several times. Objecting to how the city council the city of Detroit is still ignoring the over assessment of property taxes that the city owes property owners. They're still over assessing property taxes. They're still not not abiding by the Michigan Constitution, in their process of assessing property taxes, and they act like Oh, it's okay that we don't repay or provide restitution for people who've been over assessed in property taxes. That makes no sense. That's illegal. That's outrageous. And I think that the city of Detroit residents should be outraged and show their out. Rage what isn't if we got to pay property taxes, Hong Kong billionaires don't have to pay property taxes. So we've got to support the billionaires. We've been doing for years and we stick that makes no sense to me. That's so unfair. So we know we got to pay property taxes, they don't have to pay property taxes. Nobody paid property taxes, just elaborate on property taxes. If they don't have consent you we shouldn't have to keep supporting them. That's right. Makes no sense to me. And I demand that y'all reinstate or reimburse us.
Thank you. Thank you so much, Miss Logan.
Good morning, honorable council president and council members. My name is Brian Jones. here on behalf of local carpenters and mineral rights Union. This morning I came here on behalf of my union and my council members, but I just realized and believe that I'm here for the people as a whole. Realize and I hear that this President this whole project seems to seem selfish, but honestly, it's a selfless project. This is really for the people. And it doesn't may not seem that way due to who may be funding it but this project in the hole is funding more than just those who are investing in it. This project is feeding multiple families you see them all standing here as I speak. And not only that, it may seem selfish because we speak on our behalf because we are the ones who would like to partake in building this project, but we're only here temporarily. Once we're done. We have no do or say on this project that then comes into those who will be hired to work in this structure in this building. We are simply advocated and we are on behalf of this project just to say that it will be a positive impact on the city. It truly well. It may not seem that way now and this is not about who was here first. It's simply about change and change will come it's inevitable. And I just want everyone to know that we are advocating for this and that it will be a positive change and there will be no worry within this project. Thank you for hearing me.
Thank you.
Thank you. Good Charles Williams.
Good morning, Detroit us have been overtaxed by $600 million. They didn't make that up That's for real and they need to be made whole now. There is a disparity in tax credits that go to the Go to White developers versus black developers and we need to try to figure out every which way possibly can. We can make sure that black developers get the opportunity. Detroit us doesn't do not get their fair share of the National Institutes of Health $2 trillion a year that's put together to give to universities to deal with health disparities. We are at the top of every disparity list in this country when it comes to health. And because of that, we need this MSU Research Center and because of that, we need expanded care with dignity and with pride and with those and respect and we need to housing. Detroit doesn't get his fair share. University of Michigan gets $700 million a year in research on disparities and health. Detroit only gets 70,000,020 2 million from Wayne State 70 million from Michigan State. This research center is going to expand that care and that's the reason why I say the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people is supporting the Michigan State Research Center. All
right, thank you
hello, light fell out everyone here and the morning, state and city council them. This is meetings about the human race. I don't know what's going on with Detroit. What's going on Wayne State and what's going on with time boy, but the human race need job support behind the people call me young guy and get a good no more. He left it up to the new generation. The Next Generation gonna be from your kids, my kids and the kids behind us. We need a fist the fight but Detroit. We had that 2040 years ago and planning that with water. Dennison Callaway. Whoa Johnson in the third I don't know how to pronounce her name but you have that? Yeah, we voted shot in there. Y'all are people who got the power to make the change. The man doing his job didn't it's up to y'all to force the hand to make the change. That's what the people are asking for. That's where we're at my horn and everybody over here I know these people that's why I'm speaking Renee young man died. I didn't know he died was Earl Curtin. We all grew up together. We seen changes came in this community when we was kids. The next kids want to see the change to let that be a way for our generation to say that we didn't stand by and didn't that do nothing. Please.
Thank you.
Morning, city council Good morning, everyone that came down for this amount of time. My name is Felicia garland. I don't represent anyone except senior citizens like me. And there are 10s of 1000s in the city of Detroit that are asking for help. Another project is really not going to help us we're hanging on by our fingernails here. We want to stay in Detroit we basically cannot move. So I'm here as soon as a senior citizen to make it better for my grandchildren. I have eight grandchildren and live in the city of Detroit. They go to school in the city of Detroit, and I'm here on a mission. I didn't know I was going to be here but I am here on a mission to see that they have a better life. I'm here to see that I have a better life and 1000s of us like this that could not come but I stand as a voice for those that could not come as though they sit in their homes and twiddle their thumbs and say there's nothing they can do. But look, I'm here as a representative for those people. We can do something and we do not want this billionaire to come into our neighborhoods and just dispose of us. This is our city we lived here all our lives. We paid our taxes. We were here to the good and the bad. I was born in 1956 down on Gianna and John air has been taken over by it's a hospital now. So I just it's just crazy what's going on with Detroit. You're selling us out and I don't stand I will not stand for it. I will not vote for it. I will not vote for anyone that votes for this program. That's all I have to say thank you for this opportunity.
Thank you Mr. Lewis.
Good morning, city council. My name is Thomas Lewis. I'm a member of the coalition of property tax owners and I'm here speaking I'm grateful that I came today because I've been able to listen to so much information that I really didn't know as far as this Henry Ford Hospital. I'm willing to support it, but I have mixed mixed reactions on it as far as Gore Absolutely not. My belief is when when we've paid our taxpaying dollars and you dry pants, all of these schools that are just a shell of what they were and companies have taken over. It troubles me. Now I want to shift over to the $600 million as a property tax owner that we're doing with old recompense. And I was telling the people in our coalition the other day, how upset I am about that, and I want to tell you all how upset I am about that. I intend to go roll going solo if necessary. If I have to stand in front of a building would assign by myself to tell people how unhappy I am. I'm not unhappy with individual council members because I know some of you have been very tight and very helpful to us. But as a whole collectively, we are all we are due. And I'll say companies shouldn't be able to come in and can hijack. Thank you. Thank you Thank you. Good
morning. I'm Elena who rather from District Six. Good morning to Gabriela Santiago Romero doing us proud in District Six I want to just tell you that Gore's doesn't need our money. Henry Ford Hospital will build the hospital either way, and we know the hospital is needed. Of course it's needed. They're going to build it anyway. Gore's does not need our money. I'm saddened saddened by people who think that they're doing the right thing by standing on the side of a billionaire. You can't be a billionaire without taking other people's money to have the prison contracts for phone calls in itself. Is so unnecessary. There are states that give free calls to prisoners, but this man extracts and extracts and extracts. If you think you're on the right side of history standing with him. You're not there taking our money from our schools and our libraries and giving it to luxury housing for people who will never be able to afford to live there who pay taxes in Detroit. I want to appeal to city council. I'm appealing to even when people tell us that we're wasting our time coming down here because the billionaires always get their way of appealing you to you to do the right thing. All we're asking for especially for Detroit is to get what every other city gets in that set their library taxes go to their libraries. Thank you. Thank you
the morning Council Mr. Heyman District Six member of Detroit is for Tax Justice. We need our taxes for our libraries not Tom Gore's we need our taxes for our schools, not Tom Gore's we need our taxes for our parks, not Tom boards. We need our taxes for our special needs children, not Tom Gore's we need our taxes, or our parks. We need our taxes for our transportation. We need our taxes for our public safety. We need our taxes for the public good, not Tom Gore's we need our taxes to reimburse the $600 million overpayment and over assessed taxes. We need our taxes to pay those retirees who have not been made whole. We need our taxes for the public good. And for the gentleman who's lived here for several years, who's probably in a house that has a tax abatement, which means he's paying significantly less in taxes than the Detroit is sitting in here. We have been under 50 years of tax abatements Tax Increment Financing 50 years so what you see when you talk about the abandoned houses when you talk about the neighborhoods, what you see is what has been extracted from our public taxes over 50 years. So when asked me here and say how you lived here for a few years, let me tell you that I've lived here since 1947, that I grew up on a street that lifted a wall that separated whites and blacks gay need our tax money not Tom works.
Thank you.
Adam Barrett District Six here we are again with where the trade unions show up to fight for tax handouts to a billionaire to build housing that they themselves will never afford to live in. Quick show of hands who Who of you who has actually read the transformational brownfield plan? For this project? Our interview rank and file tradesmen aware that your union has already made campaign contributions to these council members. Are you aware that your income taxes will be going directly to Tom Gore's? Are you aware that you're even if Council rejects these tax incentives, this project still moves forward and you still get the job? You and your unions are being manipulated by rich developers. I'm a tradesman to me. I'm a tradesman through I am a high rise window washer with Li building services and I have to go back to work after this but I make sure that my community's needs are met before my needs are met. My family eats before I eat. I'm tired of seeing the working class fighting for the rich so that we can get past a bone. Make the rich don't get a loan from a bank, not the taxpayer. We all want development. We want this hospital. We need more housing, but not at the expense of our children's school budget. Question what you are being told about why you should support this project and others like it? Thanks.
Solomon middens Detroiters for Tax Justice. We're not against the hospital. We're not against the research center. We want these folks to have good jobs. We're not even against the housing. But we are against 70% of the construction costs. of private housing being developed by Tom Gore's he of $9 billion of net worth being subsidized by the City of Detroit's tax dollars. The development teams core argument is that the housing piece is not viable without the tax incentives. If Tom Gore's and the pistons can't build housing without robbing millions from our schools, libraries and general operations, then find a different developer, maybe a group that has developed housing before. This is a bad deal for the city and I urge the city to reject the tax incentives proposed in the Brownfield plan or renegotiate a better CBA the folks here asking for property tax compensation highlight the contradiction of the situation that we're in the city over taxes its residents, while forgiving property taxes for billionaires don't give more than $200 million from our schools, libraries and general operating fund to tambores. The fact that we're even having this conversation is such an indictment of our economic system that only a couple of people have the capital to build housing. So Tom Gore's can bend the city to his will by threatening to pull out from the this project if he can't rob the public while doing so. I urge the city to choose a different path than the one we're on. Thank you.
Thank you.
Morning Council, my name is Sharon McClinton. I am what used to be I'm a carpenter at local 687. My interest here is a new project coming up between the pistons and health department I know we all are in this like we should be able to debate and discuss without having problems. Okay. Some of us are one one sided last summer. I get it. But my prom my thing with this project is we need this project. It helps put food on the tables have some of us whose it was fortunate enough not to be a millionaire billionaires, everybody needs to eat the whole thing. Now we don't want to end up looking like Hunger Games. Because if we don't change things gonna get keep going down, down down then everybody's gonna be complaining. Well, why city don't have this a why city not doing like other cities. We want to make our city look good. That's why we have carpenters are here today to ask that you make the proposal happen that this project passes. I have a family. I'm almost 30 years into this. No It has not been a nice ride and joy. I'm still struggling somewhat. And I know as a lot of us is this project will put food on your tables. It will improve our city the looks of our city while we can't be the number one city like everybody else, we get it. It's not a perfect world. So everybody's not gonna get what they want. we just all need to come together and try to make this project happen and be positive to everybody.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Good morning. I'm Cassandra Floyd on behalf of West Grand Boulevard collaborative and community. I wanted to share my experience with you while in graduate school at Lawrence Tech. I did a community engagement with the seniors at Northwestern High School. And I gave them an assignment to draw what they wanted to see in their community. And they started talking among themselves and I waited about 15 minutes and I said Why isn't anybody drawn anything? And they looked at me and they said for what? And nobody gonna do nothing for us. It's been like this all my life. Nothing is going to change. Our children deserve better. And we can do that by if you would please, please support and give us your no answer to Tom Gore, billionaire luxury apartments.
WG DC is asking on behalf of the community that we receive a fair and equitable CBA in exchange for our brownfield tax dollars. The future of health department development team has sent a clear message to the city of Detroit residents through their counteroffer to the neck that they have no intentions on providing a fair exchange for our tax dollars. That has been extracted from our schools and libraries. Thank you.
Thank you.
Good morning. My name is Tanya Meyers Phillips. I'm a lifelong Detroit resident and with sugar Law Center readings to this honorable body. We're here talking about the future of health development. Why ask what about the future of our neighborhoods? What about what is in this agreement that actually benefits the average Detroit resident, our seniors and what about our children and our babies for the future? What's in it? Who actually benefits from this? Those of us who read it and comb through it we know is Henry Ford as a mega corporate hospital is time bores as a billionaire. And what about the so called benefits? We can't package something as a community benefit that we already pay for it and subsidized with our tax dollars. Merely building the hospital is not a community benefit. Not for these purposes. offering something with one hand and taking it back with the other like the so called rental assistance and home repair. dollars. That's not a community benefit with the offset provision still in it is not right to take and divert our tax dollars from the least of these and give it to a billionaire Tom Gore's it's just not right. And then in terms of just pointing out as many of my neighbors have shared, and you know, this hospital is going forward either way. The hospital just wants their friends, their billionaire friends to come along for the ride. They say it won't be the same without their billionaire friend. Well, you know what our neighborhoods and our lives and our future will not be the same if you're
approved. Thank you. Thank you
it's Adams. Hey, good bone and Joanna Adams. I was on the future of health neck. And I still feel that this CBA lacks three critical components, protections for the majority of our community against gentrification and displacement. We need to submit a substantial donation to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. We need school on library captures to be reimbursed for our children and secondly, the opportunity to self determine opportunities and growth in our community by ourselves. We need our original Alas for the Community Investment Fund. And we need Fairbanks school in a community land trust. And finally, accountability. We need stronger language this CBA agreement is littered with words like encourage, make reasonable efforts, explore opportunities to elaborate to collaborate, didn't doesn't fill me with confidence that these opportunities will materialize. Without these things. The power of money status quo will continue unabated. Just as we see in most of the previous CPAs Please fight for the majority of residents and strengthen their CBA it's time to actually do more equitable development not gaslight us into believing that that's what we're getting. Thank you Miss Adams was hazy.
Good morning and thank you for having me. My name is Jay Clemen. I am a lifelong Detroiter, a wife, mother and property owner in district two and I'm a proud employee at Henry Ford. Hill, where I've served for 12 years. And the reason why I've been there for 12 years is because of our unwavering commitment to the community. I am the Vice President of Community Health programs and strategies. And I'm involved in a lot of different programs that address social drivers of health and equity issues. And my favorite programs are the ones that support black mothers and babies and giving them an opportunity to thrive. Not just survive, but thrive. In the work that I lead at Henry Ford is almost always in partnership with community partners. I'm here to support the future of health and the the many projects that are a part of the community benefits because it will help build capacity and strengthen the infrastructure for our community partners and for Detroit families. The future of health will help deliver on a collective goal that we share to make Detroit the number one city for families to have a healthy baby and to raise a thriving family. Thank you so much for your time.
All right, thank you.
Good morning,
city council.
My name is Jim Mata Lilly and I am blessed to serve as the CEO and President of the Detroit Parent Network. We are an organization that is in this community and has for 20 years been educating equipping and empowering parents to be champions for their children but not just champions for children but champions for the community change that in fact, so many voices have been lifted up in this room to address. I stand here as a Detroit. I grew up on Euclid off the Linwood I in fact as a child sat in this very room many times City Council cut my teeth on looking at community development such as the Virginia Park citizens District Council, which my father happened to be the very first director of so I know well the tension between the haves and have nots, the issues that the city has historically not necessarily worked in the benefit of community. But when I look at this community benefits package, I looked at in fact that we had community voices that were engaged in it. I know that the health and wealth of all communities sits in the health of people and if we are not creating equitable schools, communities and health systems, we will perpetually be behind and our community and our children will not have the economic development they need. So Detroit Parent Network is here to be a partner that listened, pushes and pulls developers and talks about accountability. We help raise the voices of parents to better understand legislation like being brought here. But I want to say that this is an opportunity we should not step away from is our wealth. And our future. Thank you. It's Tompkins.
Good morning. Vinita Tompkins Virginia Park community. This is my second time being at this podium witnessing CBO a CBO process the first one which was Harmon Kiefer, and now the future health.
This is the second CBO process in his neighborhood that have triggered millions of dollars for development and no tangible funding or results to the residents to live work and struggle for housing repairs in the city of Detroit, the adjacent census tracts, the union workers we have worked for it. We've been having worked for you, Henry Ford Hospital to joint venture have had funding. We have records of monies and we just asked that you dig a little deeper and have better tracking devices because the seniors trusted you with for your corporate accounting, your your your your accounting, your management, as well as your lawyers to invest in the Fund Junior Park community for housing. So for your resident, that is a patient that we want them to continue to be a part of the finest of healthcare in Detroit health, find the money. We're not asking for city money, we asked him for the money that was already allocated for housing. You're 109 year history. You have 50 years of history as a partner with the junior prom community.
Thank you
Hello, my name is Darrell Parker.
Hey Miss Galloway. I'm back to say thank you for what you have done for me. But I come with bad news as well. And so I gotta tell you this. I've recently moved into a place. I don't know if you know I've had three surgeries since I've seen you. And I've been home my house burned down I lost everything. So now you allocated the the housing people here to put me in a place I stayed in a hotel for three and a half months. It got me a place. I think I was forced to sign the paper to live in this place. Because a week later the other place called me I was like okay, I had no choice. But anyway before I moved in, this lady called me while I was at the hospital and threatened me we don't think you're going to be right for our community. And if you don't pay your rent, we're going to put your ass up out of here. That's what she said to me. Now recently, the housing department did not pay the people until last week on the 13th and that boob app but before then they sent me eviction notices. So now I'm up to get put out my place by the 22nd of this month because they were late. I know I didn't pay mine but I got mine there. And they said no matter if you don't give us the checks by the 22nd you will be put on that's what they told me. So I'm here not crying now. I'm pissed.
Gotcha. You live in the city. Somebody please. Yeah, no, definitely. I think you're in councilmember Halloweens district so she wants to respond. Yes, Mr. is
good. See you Mr. Partner. And my staff will take you to the site and get the information that you're referring to today. Okay. And thank you.
Thank you Mr. Proctor. We appreciate you sir. Thank you as well. Thank you, Mr. Barker. Yes.
Good morning Council President Tate into this honorable body. My name is Sharif Butler. I am a lifelong Detroit air. I believe my family has been here since the 1920s. But my grandparents My grandfather was first born here in 1934. I am here on behalf of City near Detroit where I proudly serve as the executive director and I am here in full support of the future of health project. Both the Detroit Pistons and Henry Ford are foundational informative to the life of city here. We started 6000 students in 10 schools. Osborn, Brenda Scott Cody. Noble Gomperts. We added Marian law this year. I say that to say because we are impacting math and English language outcomes. I took a site visit last week and 90% of my students showed at least a grade and a half improvement since start of the year to mid year. And that is thank you to our founding board member Gail Warden who was the CEO of Henry Ford Health events. Currently, Vice Chairman Arn. tellem also serves on the city of Detroit board and the Detroit Pistons has donated over a million dollars to city here since 2016. Additionally, they've brought together national partners, including the NBA Foundation, including Steve Ballmer, and we received over $1.5 million at the academic outcomes of students in Detroit in the neighborhoods. Thank you so much
Thank you, Miss Butler. All right. Thank you to everyone for taking the time to come down. We were going to turn it over now to those who have joined us virtually. And already how many callers do we have virtually for public comment?
Good. Oh, good morning, Madam President. We have 50 I'm sorry. 44. Hands raised before you would cut up public comment. And the first caller is ADOS Detroit.
All right. Good morning.
Good morning and through the chair. May I be heard Yes,
you can. Good morning.
Okay, let me let me let me cover this. Number one, I thought there was an affidavit that needed to be signed by people doing business that had been doing business with the prison industrial complex. I thought that made them eligible, but I'm not sure about that. But I think we have a little bit of Jim Crow ism going along with this council. What Why are we always accepting but for projects if, if we if we continue to accept but for projects will always be beggars, begging for people to give us something that's what they sound like. Seven 713 to 17, that 13 to 17 919 needs to be put off until we have a community's agreement that everybody agrees with because this is money that comes out of everybody's tax dollars, not just one area and this is a lot of money and you owe the citizens 600 million plus, why why aren't we have Why don't we have a plan to pay that back? 18 that two and 18 that five are Arper funds for commercially private commercial businesses be torn down using our Ira dollars. I looked at the chart and there's 24 point some odd million or percentage of the billion that we got from the federal government that is available. Why aren't we talking about direct payments to residents eight that one is $9 million of opera funds for Joe Lewis Greenway, we don't need that.
Thank you.
The next caller is Beverly Jones.
Good morning. Miss Jones.
Good morning, honorable Council. My name is Beverly Jones. I am a resident of the community being affected and I fully support the future of health project. And as I listen to individuals speak up, particularly on the luxury housing as it's termed, I asked him to vigils Have you actually filled out a section aid application? They don't accept luxury housing and if these housing use the 120 that will be provided for affordable housing. Provide some luxury to the people on Section Eight, I say all four. They do deserve to live in quality housing. As far as support services, I'm a direct benefactor of the services. And in particular, and unfortunately in November, I had to actually take a family member to the ER and any improvement we can make for your services, I think is a goal for me. As far as the scholarships that will be offered to the Northwestern and University Prep High School students, why not? And for the $2 million grant that will be provided for home for repair services. For the seniors that live in my community. They need that that's a lot of roofs we can put on a lot of folks houses. And again, not to mention the $8,000 8000 jobs that we'll be providing. I can't see why we would say no to that. Thank you.
Thank you. Next caller please.
The next caller is Farrah Jackson. Phil Jackson, thank
you for joining us. You have a minute 30 Hi,
so can you guys hear me okay? Yes. Okay. So I would just like to say good morning, first of all, and as a younger generation, I'm with the Gen Z, and I pay my taxes every year. Now. I would just like to say that I'm completely for this program. I live in district two. I'm a full of residents. I have been for all my life. And I would just say I go to Wayne State and my second I'm in my second master's and I'm studying Community Health right now. So I am in complete support of the Henry Ford Hospital Michigan State and pistons development I think we need this kind of research opportunities with new hospitals scholarship opportunities for my generation. For the Detroit youth, the jobs and housing that incorporate low income housing, I just think that it would really benefit my generation just to see because you know, a lot of us my age when we pay our taxes, and we don't really know what's going on, but when we do we really appreciate you guys and just everything that you guys do. So I am definitely for this development. And I just want to say thank you guys
thank you. Next caller please.
The next caller is Miko a Williams.
Nikolay Williams The floor is yours. You have a minute 30
Yes, hi. Good morning. Can you hear me please?
Yes, sir. Yes,
after all of our heard,
I'm sorry. I cannot support this development. Tom Gore's is a loser. Have you seen the pistons team losing in the crowd chanting sell the team. Also Henry Ford sucks as a hospital. They're racist, discriminatory, and they're also leave you in the ER for hours only and you'd be done dad by now. And for these jobs, they are not enough. This development is not enough and the community benefits that the West Grand Boulevard Association and the people's platform are asking for it's very easy, and the hospital said no. So why would we give our money and we're going to get less than off the opp. And think about the CNAs the RNAs and those nurses that are discriminated against and laid off when they go to school. There's no training for them. But this hospital I'm not against development as per se but this deal is very bad. This council need to delay the decision. Why is there a rush? Why are you rushing this? I don't care who is down there. Those are slave and rent carpenters in skilled trades that get less than a year scale struggling you ain't got no money. And they do nothing. That's a shame. You that's what you were supposed to do with the hockey arena. Right? We took our kids money. And for Agnes Hitchcock. I support her if you ever call the black, a woman in the city of Detroit of Black Beach, we coming after you very good. Thank you for taking the next caller please.
The next caller is Rod Hardman.
Caller The floor is yours.
You have a minute 30
Thank you. Good morning, everyone. My name is Ryan Hartman. I am a resident of the city tre business owner and mostly developer. There's been a lot of positive things said about the future. Health Project and some challenges. You know, I think that this probably has a lot of benefits from both an economic development standpoint as well as the bit of an upbringing from a from a hospital systems perspective. In particular, though, as a board member of reed I am supportive of the project Henry Ford in the pistons, share our mutual our mission and our desire to create economic development opportunities here in the city of Detroit, and are standing with ready to do so. The opportunity to create development experience in Eco development, and grow our cadre of black and brown developers in the city is significant. And Henry Ford and piston and the pistons are willing to be a partner in that. And with that, with that partnership, I am definitely very supportive this project. I think it has a lot of benefit for the community, the ecosystem going forward. Thank you.
Let's call it please.
The next caller is Ruth Johnson.
Johnson. We have a minute 30 Can Republicans Hello, may I be hurt? Yes, ma'am. Ruth Johnson Community Development advocates of Detroit. I'm speaking about this city's Council's duty to use revenue tax revenue tax incentives and grant funds for the direct benefit of Detroit residents, groups and organizations. This council has a duty to ensure that the future of health project benefit truly benefits Detroiters and has a duty to do due diligence to properly equitably and effectively used its powers as a duty to use the CBO as a tool and tax instead of tools wisely. It has a duty not to allow developers to misuse these tools or other tools such as like tap or pilot which will in essence, not be available for other maybe more suitable housing projects. This council has a duty to require developers not to credit or offset from other things or for unenforceable purported benefits but real benefits for real Detroiters. I asked this council to make sure that this community benefits agreement actually negotiates a deal that truly benefits Detroiters including renters, homeowners, seniors, people with disabilities, those who will be displaced need housing and rental assistance to need affordable, accessible and quality housing.
Let's call it this
next caller is Stephen Harper and
can I be heard you sir? Okay. I am here to speak in support of the future of how the lack of developments like this is a symptom in Detroit's population decline. Mostly charters do not share the same views as the Detroit people's platform and each other's protects justice. We saw that when proposal P and Proposal A failed miserably feel pride one of the leaders of the Detroit people's platform is a felon who was convicted of defrauding 700,000 From deep Detroit public schools. The proposed affordable housing starts at 800 which suits legacy Detroiters especially seniors who really don't need much space. This development also, it's crucial for the new hospital construction. It's not separate. It's all the same complex and no vote can put this all in jeopardy and you know, half of the opposition are either paid by large organizations or a rich outsiders like Joan Adams, she's a member of the Detroit Country Club. And you know, that group of rich white kids that came last time. One of them's from Birmingham and then others from Bloomfield. You know. voting against this project betrayed betrayed Detroiters and you will see in 2025 and I want to use the rest of my time do the call about Miko Williams calm and you know, Miko lives off the government doesn't work and the call I mean, hard working union employees. A name like that I'm not even gonna say is just the poor.
Let's call her please. next caller is William M. Davis.
Good morning. Can I be heard? Yes, sir. I'd like to start off by saying that perhaps we need to be talking about the future of healthcare for city charter retirees. As you know, the last 10 years over 100 $250 million. A city Detroit funds that should have been going to Detroit retirees has been diverted, as you know, over a billion dollars. has been given to me and as an BNF. As you know, people that may have worked for the city for 2025 3035 years, who have not reached the age of 65 are hanging out there with no group insurance and no help from the city of Detroit as you know, over 3000 city Detroit retirees have died in the last 10 years. You know why? We help subsidize housing for you know for a billionaire but yet want subsidized housing for city Detroit retirees? We haven't used the city Trent has not subsidized or assisted save Detroit retirees in anything. Also, I'm very troubled by the fact that now today we have a contractor to come in the city can disrespect people disrespect, elderly. I'm a senior but I'm not an old senior. But you know, we we need to make sure that all of our contractors have respect for all of our people. You know, you can't just treat people like you want to just because they black. It's like we're going back to Jim Crow Detroit. Thank you.
Next caller please.
The next caller is phone number ending in 573.
are ending and 573 The floor is yours. Yeah. Minute 30.
are ending in 573. Are you there?
I relist, put them back at the end of the queue and go to the next caller. Please.
Okay,
then the next caller is Betty a Varner. Ivana
The floor is yours.
Oh, good morning to all within the sound of my voice. Can I be heard? Yes, ma'am. All right. Thank you. First of all, I want to thank the Council for all the work that they're doing in the city of Detroit. I also want to thank you for the approving the new program allowing monies for the program to make seniors and people with disabilities homes handicap accessible. This my knees was a poo last year. I'm not complaining. But we need help now. For the residents who are in need of the services, we need it now. But there needs to be a way that when residents come to the counselor to help they can get the help that is needed immediately. We are living in situations that are dangerous and that can be detrimental to our health. It could end up having some of us be in nursing homes. This is what we are trying to avoid. I'm pleading to the council to please do whatever is necessary to try to change these policies or the procedures I don't know who it is isn't the state they are the ministration but it needs to be when things are pooled money for the residents. We need to be able to get these services. So I'm asking please help us. Thank you.
Let's call the police.
next caller is Karen hammer.
Hammer. The floor is yours, man.
Can you hear me? Yes. The future for health project, expanding the Henry Ford Hospital on Grand Boulevard can pay their own way. Without our tax money. That's fine. I do not support Tom Gore's 55 billion in wealth using our property tax money, so he doesn't have to pay his property tax for 35 years. Instead, the money should go back to our schools or libraries, special needs and community colleges. There should be no tariffs or tax abatements. hire and train carpenters and others from Detroit to develop low middle income and senior housing which is decreased dramatically and not been replaced. Development has to benefit Detroiters I think public commenters for being engaged in the city. And I support all of the issues raised by Detroiters for Tax Justice and the efforts to benefit majority black Detroit. I'm a 35 year Detroit taxpayer. My children went to the Detroit public schools I've never been paid to speak. I want to thank City Council for being leaders among the first of many theatres cities voting for a ceasefire in Gaza. It makes me a proud Detroiter.
Let's call it please.
next caller is Reuben black. Mr. Rue
Rubin James Crowley Jr. The floor is yours. You have a minute 30
Good Well, it's still morning. Good morning, everyone. As to the citizens taxpayers residents. flag up the city of Detroit to the city council. Afraid do ha I don't know how you got so many trap houses over in district seven. But then identify them now. Trap houses voter trap houses in district seven. I'm not lying about nothing. The sugar honey iced tea I'm talking about it's been verified confirm. We got to voter trap houses that lead right down to 2978 was grand boulevard Gina Avery Walker. Over there the Department of Elections in Detroit City Clerk Janice went to get off his gardener to shake just down a second floor. She got one down on the Boulevard 2978 with a fire hose it probably kept with voter traphouse information. They got to have a ghost voter list. Phantom voters. That's what it looks like. Fred, you know about the Cooper Knicks. They voted 2021 You got couple votes further from the Cooper Knicks Oh, mysterious voters here 2021 election city of Detroit operation make sugar honey iced tea shake is in full effect Nene got to get what she wants.
Let's call it please.
The next caller is Candace Jones. And
just Jones The floor is yours you
have a minute 30 general public comment
and it's Jones Are you there
and as Jones
or let's put Kansas Jones at the end of the queue and go to the next caller please.
Our next caller is calling user to
follow user to the floor is yours
you have a minute $30
user too. Are you there? Can you hear me? Yes, we can.
Madam President,
Madam President, I would like to ask why isn't it more done to keep adequate lighting for Northwestern High School at the buck stops? Right at the corner Linwood. I've been asking for the last nine months. It has not been improved. And what are you going to do to start holding landlords accountable for putting people in unsafe inhabitable conditions when paying 1200 to $1,000 a month and pictures have been sent to your office. Jonathan waters Benson Tate, dirt Hall and Young's office and Callaway office, all within your district as examples currently, please get this address. I'll talk to you this evening. God bless you. I love you. Thank you.
Thank you so much. next caller please.
The next caller is real estate associate a Real Estate Association of developers
and disclosures. You have made it 30
Thank you. Good morning, everyone. My name is David Ally and I come here in a capacity as a Detroit resident. And a president of really stands for the Real Estate Association of developers. Were an advocacy group explicitly mission to support the choice talented black, brown, real estate developer community. And also mission is to create a more equitable ecosystem for black and brown developers and increase opportunities and access. I would like to affirm my support for the future of health project. Our organization has had sustained dialogue with both the Detroit Pistons and Henry Ford Health teams over the last few weeks. And through these conversations, each of these groups have affirmed a commitment to readmission and adjusted their plans to create meaningful opportunities for the choice of black and brown developers, including the decision to collaborate with these leadership to develop RFPs for certain aspects so that developers within our community can compete and earn work on a project. Additionally, Henry Ford and his estimates explore opportunities outside of the area in collaboration with the words black and brown development community. Traditionally, the barrier to access to incentives like the transformation brownfield is Brianna reach of most of our development community. And we really look forward to the opportunity to lend our experience and our expertise to help increase access and equity within this development for our city's talented black and brown real estate developers.
Thank you. Let's call it please.
next caller is any O'Byrne.
Annual burn you have a minute 30 floors yours.
Thank you very much can I be heard
Yes.
Okay. I'm challenging this honorable body to remain honorable on the issue of the development of the future city where we sought totally support the research wings that are happening with Henry Ford, hospital and MSU. The problem is with the CBA for the housing that needs to be separate, and it needs not to be done with the taxes that we have voted for. I represent a group that is 1500 households in southwest Detroit, District Six and we stand pat with the West Grand Boulevard Collaborative on this and why do we stand pat? I have an autistic father in our in our community whose child without warning and even a proper letter and suddenly bust halfway across the city. The father has no car. He can't get to his child. He was participating in school assemblies, parent teacher conferences and PTA. He can't do that anymore. of our schools in our area. Six of them. We had now we have one we cannot sacrifice what we the people. I'm a lifelong Detroiter voted for.
All right, thank you. Our next caller please
the next caller is Jason Jones.
Gonna be here
can I be heard?
Yes, we can hear you. Good afternoon.
Good afternoon. My name is Jason Jones. I am managing principal of Tecton development, which is a Detroit based Disadvantaged Business headquartered in the city of Detroit and I'm a Detroit resident taxpayer. And I send my children to dpscd school. I'm a real estate developer, an active member of the Real Estate Association developers known as Reed I happen to also be the founder of organization and I'm currently one of the members of the board of directors. I like to speak in support of the future of health project. Reid's leadership team has worked diligently diligently over the past few weeks to strike an agreement with both Henry Ford and the pistons we've come to a mutual agreement with which we are pleased and we are excited to enter into a new perpetual strategic partnership between Reed Henry Ford and the pistons, which is designed to support and strengthen the ecosystem for black and brown developers. The comprehensive framework plan or master plan that Henry Ford is committed to lays a strong foundation for coordinated development and ensures integration with existing assets and for future development. Additionally, the commitment to doing business with disadvantaged businesses is commendable, and fosters inclusion and diverse perspectives within the development process. Finally, the 30% allocation for Detroit based businesses represents a significant investment in our local economy and our community. We the joint comments from the future of health could yield over commitments excuse me could yield over 500 million and direct revenue to Detroit based disadvantaged businesses. This is critical for our businesses and for wealth creation inside our community. Overall, the project demonstrates a thoughtful approach. This is
all right, thank you.
Next caller is Chris Johnson Bagley community president.
All right. Good morning.
Good morning. Good morning to this honorable body. I really do appreciate the efforts that you all do. I have a speech prepared, but after hearing everything, I just want to say this I changed up a bit. I agree. 100% What what Ruth Johnson said, but this city needs to take a look and I'm talking about the residents and and people the city. We have to stop shutting down everything that comes the way to help. And healthcare is important. I've spent most of my life working in healthcare, and I've seen what can happen when we don't do our due diligence in making sure that it is right. Detroit Medical Center used to be one of the top leading places now because of a company outside that wants to make profit came in. It has gone down. I almost died in that system, because health care was not of importance. Henry Ford Health System has put a lot of things in place to help keep citizens healthy. That is why we need to take a look. Let go of all this other stuff and do what's best for the health and well being of the citizens of Detroit. I should not have to go across eight mile just to get health care. Thank you and have a great day.
Thank you.
The next caller is Galaxy Tab.
Good afternoon.
Good afternoon Galaxy Tab A Good afternoon. All right. All right. If we can come back to this caller please.
Okay, the next caller is Lisa Franklin.
Good afternoon, Miss Franklin.
Good afternoon. To the entire council council president leads the Franklin SEO warriors on wheels. As a member of the Housing Trust Fund Coalition. We ask that the city council and the powers that be implore the developers to commit to a contribution into the housing trust fund for the life of the abatement 25 million or more, we're not gonna limit you. Jobs are good. After the construction is done, we want to ensure that the development continues to give back to our residents with support of low income residents through the housing trends fund supportive seniors who are in need of repairs, and also to people with disabilities who need modifying their homes. We have given suggestions on how to make the new development as accessible as possible in parking in the through ways, doorways, exam tables and we're going to continue to do that when we need for them to give back to the community and commit to a contribution. Thank you so much. I yield the rest of my time.
Right Thank you Miss Franklin.
The next caller is Marguerite Maddox. And Scarlett
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Right Thank you so much Miss Maddox.
The next caller is Frank Hamer.
Mr. Hammer Good afternoon.
Good afternoon. Honorable City Council. My name is Frank Hamer and longtime resident in district two and a retired UAW member I'm calling to support my fellow city residents of Detroiters for Tax Justice and my city councilwoman Angela Callaway, in their opposition to the huge tax incentives being requested by Tom Coors. The future for health project includes a major expansion of the Henry Ford Hospital. I understand that they are paying their own way, not asking for our tax money. If the tax incentives are not approved. The hospital hospital plan goes forward anyways. Tom Gore's wants to build luxury apartments that Detroiters can't afford while getting 300 million from our property tax money. Gore's who is that a billionaire worth 11 point 3 billion in personal and business wealth. Tom Gore's oversees more than 40 companies with some 47 billion in assets through his Los Angeles based private equity firm, Platinum equity, or Detroit. Detroit is being extorted to subsidize a billionaire Gore's can build his luxury condos without extorting Detroiters yes to hospital expansion, no to 35 years of corporate tax abatements. Please vote no. And I too want to express my gratitude to the Council for its national leadership in supporting the call for an immediate end. To the genocide by Israel against the Palestinian people. Thank you.
Right, thank you.
The next caller is Halima Courcelles.
Hi, may I be hurt?
As you can.
Greetings, madam president, honorable body and everyone here. I'm here today to say that you must in this future of health deal back to the drawing board. As we all know the detail the devil is in the details. One, the language is not strong enough to guarantee Detroiters any jobs. We need actual jobs and we need binding language, too. Many of the so called community benefits are already either mandated by law had been paid for by taxpayers or obligated by the tax exempt status of MSU and Henry Ford. We need to remove all those things that are being double counted and add in the provisions for self determination that are advocated by the West Grand Boulevard and Virginia Park community organizations. Three, the resolution that you have before you actually named the district Detroit and not the future of help on page 62 and 64 of 1050. If I have the same document which is publicly available online, it seems that if $300 million freshers tax dollars are on the table, the city of Detroit the planning department and all the partners would at least read the resolution that they put before you. It's indicative of the disrespect that they have for this process and for all of Detroiters, and no wonder they want to take more money from our schools. They don't want anybody to read. This deal must go back to the drawing board and we must have you do it.
Alright, thank you.
Next caller is phone number ending in 337.
May I be heard?
Yes, you can. Good afternoon.
Thank you Good afternoon. This is Pat Bosch resident of district three. I would like to support the remarks made by the previous caller Halima because self in the interest of time I will not I will defer to her comments and support them. But I'd like to address several other issues that are not on the agenda for today. However, they are two agenda items that our organization and our community of District Three is monitoring, namely that the Board of zoning appeals director is interested in changing the language for filing an appeal for nonprofits and now would add a fee to filing the appeal if you are a nonprofit, and this would affect us negatively as a block club and a 501 C three nonprofit because of the democratic process, it should guarantee people the right even though they may not have the money to file an appeal. So I know that the original measure has been reduced to mailing fees, but that is still open for discussion. Because of the democratic process. The other issue is do not change the language of the childcare ordinance if the interests of social equity if you want to level the playing field then for sure the filing fee for a board of zoning appeals or a BC hearing should be waived. The matter is of that thing. Our single family neighborhoods.
Right Thank you.
The next caller is Midtown Detroit.
Good afternoon, Madam President. Honorable Council. I'm Carrie Easterday calling here this afternoon on behalf of midtown to Detroit, Inc. and our board. We would like to express our support of the future of of health initiative with with Henry Ford Health. As an organization for over three years our organization and board have balanced work to balance the needs of the individuals and businesses along with the greater good of our community in the city of Detroit. We recognize there are a diverse number of views and opinions around this, the support of this project. As an organization we have carefully weighed and looked at and had discussions around those views and will leave a favorable vote by the sanral body is in the best interest of the greater community. Henry Ford Health has been a strong nonprofit organization serving this community in the city of Detroit for over 100 years. This investment their investment and the investment by the in the city will help to ensure they will continue to be a critical resource for 100 years longer and allow their impact and service to expand even further. Henry Ford Health has been a partner supporting our organization, the new center district as well as the Midtown community for over 35 years. Their commitment to high quality health care assessable housing, education and career opportunities and community amenities reinforces their commitment to promote promote a vibrant, inclusive and supportive community.
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Good morning or afternoon outs everyone. I am in full support of the future. of health development. Having a world class healthcare and research in this city is very important particularly when we recognize that we have been long, long lead wrongly or in long lead underserved okay. This project has several properties that currently do not sit on the tax roll by this development moving forward. The council will then allow for these non existing tax tax properties to then move to the tax roll which will fund that which will feel the revenue in the general fund and this will assist in building the needed revenue that Detroiters are requesting. Now, the other component with this is that by not moving forward with affordable housing in this development, then we see that the gentrification that citizens are concerned about has the opportunity to actually consume this particular area. So all affordable housing, if we have all affordable housing component here, we can lead to disinvestment by the cash rate you have all market rate. This can actually lead to displace in the long term, long term residents. We don't really want that either. Right. So the major point in this is that we want to have the mix affordability in this neighborhood particularly so that it actually can combat this gentrification piece. And then lastly, I want to just uplift again, that our children are the future. And with the rising cost of college, it is imperative to provide our youth when we can
all right, thank you.
Next caller is phone number ending in 838.
That afternoon, caller 838
Where you you can come down
Good afternoon Council. My name is Joyce Jennings fells, and I stand here today with my youngest daughter Ashley Jennings. I am a resident and a homeowner. In District Three on Detroit's east side. My family has been living displaced as a result of a minor home repair grant that was approved by the city of Detroit for $68,000. The City of Detroit paid the contractor and the contractor never did the work, being a solutions oriented person. Since that time, I've continued to apply for programs that we qualify for. And because of the gentrification that is going forth throughout the city, we continue to be denied from programs with the allegation. That we are not in our home. However, we're approved for the tax exemption program. And if we're approved for the tax exemption, then why aren't we being approved for the home repairs? Why aren't you going after the contractor that these tax dollars were paid to to do repairs? My youngest daughter Ashley is in the 10th grade attending Cass Technical High School. This week our students are on winter break. And she wrote me a letter the other day expressing her concern. I won't tell the details about how it feels living this place homeless with the home. As we look at doing development in the city of Detroit, I support development and as I mentioned last week, my grandfather was a contractor when he was alive. He benefited from work of Henry Ford, John Daly and other contractors. I just asked that we'd be good stewards over the dollars that we have. And when we have funds to support residents living in the city of Detroit. We be good stewards and hold people accountable. God bless you all.
Thank you you as well.
The next caller is d two victimized overtax senior citizen. Hello.
Good afternoon.
Oh, great. You
can hear me. Yeah, um, as far as that can before it. I don't like it. They're gonna build that whether we give up all this money forever or not. And I also heard workforce housing being mentioned. And so if the purpose of that whole thing is workforce housing, then you know, they can live anywhere like everybody else does. And public private partnerships between the city of Detroit and things like everybody now have we gone into numerous Interlocal agreements with these different companies, because that would make the city you know, in business. And also if we have joined and we have these agreements, then we need to see these contracts so we can see who was paying what you know, and where this money breakdown comes to. Now as it relates to attacks on these ticket, amusement sales entertainment tax, let's just put a convenience thing up let's see on our trash, junk, let's update the yawn. On these tickets. We can get lots of you know, extra little fees, where we can't get taxes approved. We don't need the legislature to approve a fee for us. So that's something we can do ourselves. The other thing, like I said, the cell towers. Now that was a crock talking about we're gonna need generators for 24 hours. A day for cell towers, you know, what they used to get the solar you know, meet the solar look up. Let's save the planet. Thanks.
Right, thank you.
Next caller is phone number ending in 96973.
Yes, good morning. Can
you hear me? Yes, we can. Okay,
thank you, council president Sheffield to the honorable board. I've heard a lot of the comments. And I all the comments are warranted. But until the city, the city of Detroit is apartheid system, Civil Works political, social, economic, economic discrimination until the evils of the tax captures the land bank selling black people homes without pipes. I was at the hearings. The developers of the Godfrey hotel, the lighting company, so for those black contractors that are out there, whatever they devote, you need to keep your eyes and ears open. I was down at the City Council. I heard that people the lighting company, but Adelphi hotel had blacked putting the inward on their hard cap. So we have to right the wrong the city of Atlanta Magic Johnson talked to us in New York City last year. How he how he bring has brought together Atlanta. Atlanta has over 10,000 Black businesses at the City Council. Tom go I wrote him a few years ago. He do not need the money for Henry Ford. My mom worked for him before for 40 years. My father was a plaster. But until we deal with a systemic racism, I work in a hospital. I know what happens until we deal with the systemic racism that impacts black people, all races. We have to deal with those evils in the city of Detroit. I want to say that I'm all for Henry Ford. I used to work there to help me with my nursing degree. But the C report needs to come to the table. Unfortunately having that project and denied
right thank you.
The next caller is Julie rice.
Good morning. I am the market manager for the whole village farmers market. We've been in partnership with Henry Ford. For the last five years they provide many services at our farmers market, the most important of which is weekly providing nutritious snacks for our members that people will attend to market and read recipes. We have a partnership that is very strong every Tuesday, Henry Ford doctors come to the Parkman library and give an hour long health talk one is going on right now as we speak. We've also benefited from financial support with a micro grant. So I we are in support of the Henry Ford Health Initiative. Thank you very much and I yield my time.
We thank you
the next caller is Monica Edmonds. afternoon
Good afternoon May I be heard?
Yes, you can.
Good afternoon to the honorable body. Thank you for allowing me to speak. I do need to make a disclaimer that the following statement does not reflect that of the entire North End community. I do work for Vanguard community development organization in Detroit historic North End slash Milwaukee junction communities. What I like to say is that Henry Ford hill the Detroit Pistons and Michigan State University have been good as supportive partners to Vanguards work over the last two decades. If this honorable body approves or has the number of votes to make this project go forward. We just trust that this partnership will be a good steward to what will be awarded to them and that they will be accountable for the benefits that have been agreed upon. Now oftentimes the developer and builder have an agreement to hire so many Detroiters on the project and a often are allowed to not make those commitments because they say that they can't find qualified laborers in the city. And I'm just asking that with this approval if the body does make this approval that that those requirements be
right Thank you.
Next caller is Darman Ligon Jr.
afternoon
Good afternoon firemen
Alright, alright if we can come back to this caller please.
next caller is Stacy.
Oh, yes, we can.
My name is Daisy. I'm also a lifelong Detroiter. I'm a full support for Henry Ford Hospital in
my view in the Detroit Pistons.
These are not luxury apartments being built. Don't leave the people's platform notice. I don't know any luxury apartments that accept section eight vouchers. luxury apartments
are the ones just being open downtown that's $4,000 a month and we should not let a white woman like Joanne Adams.
Tell us about how I mean a racial equity tool like what? She has only been in a city for seven years and kicked out residents that lived in her apartments. Is she a reformer who play Golf and Country Club she's not a real Detroiter and feel pride he can fraud he stole over six figures from Detroit public school systems. And now he's talking about taking money from schools and libraries. That's a shame on Detroit people's platform. And they should not be able they should have not picked a rich white woman and a federal who stole money from the DPS as to leave versus federal. That's unjust I'm just that's kind of mind blowing. And they pay for two billboards on a large like where they get their money from. That's horrible. So this is all fraud. So that's all
thank you
the next caller is phone number ending in 124.
Caller 124 Good afternoon.
Yes. Good afternoon. May
I be heard as you can.
Well, does that last person know how wealthy the lady is who runs the land bank board who lives in Oakland County that did any of the taxpayers the valet pay for get term gorge 100 million dollar home. So anyway, folks at the City Council I think you can just drive a harder bargain. You are a coequal branch of government. But the other thing is President Sheffield I am not going to let you gaslight my neighbor Sharon Mitchell. I know what happened there. You let the land bank squirrel over. You let the land bank misrepresented the policy that was in place. I had permission to be on the call when this dude had that they sold the land to and they lied to my neighbor and said he applied first which was not true. You had permission for me to be on the call. And when they heard I was on the call. They dropped me. So I'm tired of the disrespect of my neighbors. Y'all disrespected us with that North and landing. Vanguard is not about what they say about Bishop Edgar. Ben doesn't even have the courage to speak with me and I've never been spoken with him in my entire life and he claims to be some moral religious leader. But Mary Sheffield I will not let you gaslight my neighbor who totally dropped the ball on Sharon Mitchell and you know it and I'll go before city council, we can go through all the paperwork and I will demonstrate it to everybody. And so you need to step up and stand up for your neighbors and don't be a politician be a public
in in this work, I'll actually take you up on that offer. So let's do that right here. Before the city council and we can bring the attorneys from Detroit land bank here in discuss the policy that they have in place that I did not approve or put forth and try my hardest to work with Sharon Mitchell to get that resolved. So I would love to take you up on that offer because I think that the public should be aware of exactly what took place in that situation. So thank you for calling in Ms. Warwick. And our next caller please.
We're back to the callers who did not respond last time. The first caller is phone number ending in 573.
All right, good afternoon.
Good afternoon caller 573.
All right. Can we come back to this caller please.
The next caller is Galaxy Tab A
Good morning can I be heard?
Yes, you can.
Good morning. Honorable City Council. I want to remind people which we are already known as black people. This is Black History Month. And twice I've been to some of the seminars that Dr. Umar Johnson talked about. If anybody gets a chance to please go to his similar the man the young man is awesome. Also, I'm very disappointed to hear what that man did to our senior which I'm a senior to Agnes Hitchcock. I wish I had been there. I really do. I'm 73 But I tell you what he went he went thinking about doing it again. So that's not a threat. If you know we do belong to National Action Network and we will protest injustice and shut him down. So anyway, that's all I'm gonna speak on right now. But he should city council to get on that just respecting elderly black woman I'm gonna let Dr. Umar Johnson know about definitely. Okay, that's it for right now.
All right, thank you, your work.
The next caller is Candace Jones.
Good afternoon. Candace Jones.
Good afternoon, Candace Jones.
Right, all right, do we have another caller?
Um, just the last caller that didn't respond the last time which is Thurman ligand Jr.
All right. Berman. Good afternoon. Good afternoon.
Yes. Good afternoon, Madam President. Honorable Council. My name is Thurman Legon. I am a long, long, long life district, District Three residents. I am in full support of the future of health Regarding Henry Ford Hospital, Michigan State University and the Detroit Pistons. And just just so we can reiterate these are not luxury apartments that are being built. luxury apartments would not accept section eight vouchers. The NAC is the racial equity tool. Used to create a fair and equitable community benefits agreement to try to deserve the finest and health care. So we should be thinking about the jobs that are going to positively impact our fellow Detroiters and neighbors and residents as well as the economic development that that will come from as well as the commutes that one would have to take to get excellent health care, which would be us traveling to an arbor. This will prevent that. You know, I've had to make that trip several times from my mother which is a singer and for other family members. That could be a very stressful and costly expensive one is not prepared for us a $2 million home grant repair dollars. So we have an opportunity here to make the quality of life for Detroit residents in that area. Spectacular and I think we should do it. And thank you again for your time.
Thank you. Thank you. All right. All right. That concludes our public comment.
There were just there was the one that phone number 573. We could try them one more time. Before to see if they respond this time.
What was the caller? You said five sorry,
my apologies. Phone number ending in 573. That's the last one.
Good afternoon. Caller 573. All right, going once, going twice. If you could just submit your comments to the clerk's office we will make sure that it is a part of the public record. That will conclude all of our general public comment for this morning and we will proceed to our agenda. Colleagues if there's no objection, I would like to go straight to the future of healthcare projects. To the future of health projects. There's no objections. Okay. And I know we have representatives here that would like to make a presentation. Before we do that. I do want to let colleagues know that we did receive several support letters and documents between last night and this morning and so based on kind of just receiving so many documentations within the last 24 hours. I think it's best if we would postpone for one week to allow any additional concerns questions and the ability to be able to digest all that was sent to us within the last last day. I've been at the table this morning trying to look at some of the things that I think will be helpful to allow an additional week to go through some of what was sent and talk through any outstanding concerns or questions that colleagues may have. Um, but with that being said, you guys can come up whoever is here for a presentation to give an overview. If there's any questions from colleagues today that we want to address. We can do that today. And then hopefully again, take this up next week.
Good morning, council president and council members. I'm Denise Brooks Williams
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I would like to move forward with our presentation if that is acceptable. If not, we can do it next week. Just whatever you would.
I think you can go ahead and proceed with that. Okay.
All right. So I'm looking because I'm just clarifying with our team who is going to advance and ready Maria. Okay. All right. So again, Denise Brooks Williams with Henry Ford. Health System and I have had the privilege of working very closely with this process on behalf of our joint team. We are privileged to be able to address the entire council today and would like to take you through a brief presentation recapping the project but also more importantly, allow you have an opportunity to ask us questions if you have any of those. As we said on several occasions I don't think it's up yet I apologize.
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I can proceed without it but I would love to give you the benefit of being able to see the deck I don't know if we passed it out. Do we have hard copies
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all right, we can go to the next slide. I want to echo what I heard. I think it was pastor Williams who said it most importantly, why the future of health is so incredibly important. If you look at the disparities of disease that Detroit has face and I am a district to resident and have lived in the city of Detroit pretty much my entire life with the exception of a few years on the west side of the state. And it is unfortunate that we still are plagued with many, many, many disparities as residents in the city and primarily black residents. And so the future of health is not about buildings and facilities it truly is about the advancement of healthcare for this community. Henry Ford Health System as you can see, with the slide that we've put in front of you, this is a 15 year count, right? But if you just look in general at the tremendous tremendous impact that our organization is able to make in the community, 275,000 surgeries 42,000 babies being delivered and we know that there's some in the room that maybe were one of those babies are the babies of their family, almost a million 1,600,000 Edie visits almost 2 million of those. And we've talked quite a bit about the central focus that the IDI has in this project but the other thing we're extremely proud of, and we think it's important to remember is that we have been in the community for over 100 years and I only say that we don't say it to get points or kudos but to say we're not going anywhere. That doesn't mean that we will do the project no matter what but we are not going anywhere. We are deeply committed to serving the community and we do believe that this project represents a three legged stool, as we've called it, that embodies the evidence that we have that we need to work together to be able to bring it about it's not one versus the other. And it's been said repeatedly today, perhaps that we can do the hospital without the rest of the project. And so I'll talk a little bit about why that is not the case why we need to have all components of it to be successful. The other piece that I think is important, we already employ Detroiters we do contribute to the tech space by making the choice to have our corporate to have our corporate offices in Detroit which means that all of our employees are subject to contributions to the tax rolls. And we would continue to do that. Obviously, throughout this project. We also want it to be known that we have been committed in the community the entire time. And so this investment is just a continuation of that commitment. We've highlighted a few of those here for you but I'll call a couple of them out our West pavilion, which was in 2009. We had our Cardinal Health distribution center, which was in 2014. And most recently, our Brigida Harris cancer pavilion, which we know that some council members were incredibly influential in bringing that to fruition we can go to the next slide. When we look at this project, right, we've tried to illustrate it in numerous different ways around who it will benefit and what those impacts will be. This view allows you to look at from the patient's perspective, what are the things that would be gained? So we've talked quite a bit about a partner in this is the Gilbert Family Foundation and what they bring to us is an ability to have a world class rehabilitative center right in the new center area. That is something we do not have today. It is not something that will happen no matter what it will happen if this project is able to go forward and as a result of that there will be a tremendous benefit to the community because you're bringing resources that don't exist today. The ability for us to have private rooms we haven't talked a lot about that and that's not coming from a perspective of luxury. We have all been blessed to live through a pandemic and understand what that did around infectious disease and the ability to have people be in a space where they can heal and be able to do that in a safe space. So being able to have those private rooms again, not a foregone conclusion, something that will be an incredible benefit to our community. We've talked about those that live in the community and some of the benefits that they will have part of this will be the ability to park at convenient care that's right in their neighborhood. And the last thing that I will talk about is just the concept of the state of the art facility. So we have a rendering as we're envisioning it today, but to have this asset in our community, for our community and with people we hope that are in the community being trained and being able to be a part of that workforce is definitely a benefit. We can go to the next slide for the neighbors. So we know that as we went through the community benefit process we were restricted in our conversation to talking about the surrounding areas. So we spent a lot of time trying to say what are the direct advantages and benefits that they're going to realize? And those benefits again, outlined here. I won't read it all to you. But what we know will be of great benefit is our helicopter being relocated, so the helo pad moves to the other side of the road as a part of this project. The ability to relocate just the traffic, if you can imagine the traffic that comes to the campus today, both in bringing patients there, but also just the goods and services and things that are being delivered. You're able to reroute and redirect all of that out of the neighborhood and into an area that is much more comprehensive and makes more sense to do it as opposed to doing it where people have to dwell and live. We will have a bridge to the legacy campus which will still be able to provide valuable services in the community so that we don't anticipate that there would be blight, which we know that that is a huge positive component for the neighbors as well. And then the last and most important thing, of course, is the actual services and benefits that will be there. You've heard a lot of discussion about what we believe is the transformative power that will be brought by this project because again, it's not about buildings, but it's about what we'll be able to do in the buildings that's going to be the benefits so we can go to the next slide.
So this is intended to be a life changing project and by that we mean we're going to bring to bear we also heard the pastor speak about the revolutionary research that will be in the research building. It does manifest and come together as buildings but we want you to think broader than that. So if you think about the hospital component of this, we're able to bring a two and a half times expanded emergency room, state of the art medical technology, private rooms, as I've mentioned, and then this concept of doing better by our neighbors and being able to relocate services in a way that makes more comprehensive sense. We've also talked about the efficiency of this site, right addressing things that we know we're plagued with now from an environmental perspective, so there will be numerous advancements in that way as well. The research building So as you've heard, right we sit in an environment where from a health status perspective, our life expectancy mine included as a black person is less than it should be. Not perhaps because I live in the city of Detroit, but it certainly is exacerbated by some of the challenges that are faced being in the city. In addition to that we've talked about maternal mortality that black women face. We've talked about infant mortality that is higher for our children. We've talked about cancer rates that are higher, we've talked about asthma rates. The research facility will help us to address those issues and be able not in a building but it'll be the people in the building. But we will have a place to codify that work. In our joint venture with Michigan State University. So the last piece of this and this has been the piece that we know we've talked the most about is the housing. And why does housing matter in this project? Housing as we know can be a form of insecurity. I've heard Madam President addressed today by a few families who are dealing with that we have affordable housing in this project because it could help to close the gap for some of those vulnerable families. We've heard people speak about Section Eight. We've heard people talk about the deep affordability. It's not the whole project, but it is a part of the project. So when we've envisioned the housing we envision it broadly so that it does cover the continuum. Of who could be benefited by it. We have at least 700 new jobs that are going to come as a result of this project. We are not suggesting that all 700 people will live there but we would love it if they did. Because that means is vision that we have of a livable workable environment where people have green spaces people do have the choice to live by where they work, live by where they receive their care live by where they decide is a vibrant community that they want to be a part of. It's a vision that we have that says that we can have a world class campus that mirrors other cities that you can choose to look up that have been able to do just that put the house, the hospital, the research and the housing together. And we know that that's not all we've put in the vision we've talked about the retail component. Obviously once you bring together a community like this, you will have tremendous possibilities for small businesses and we've committed both in the CBA and outside of that to continue the work that we do to try to bring that to fruition. So the vision is that all three of them work together. We've talked quite a bit through this process about the partnerships that are pre existing. Our relationship with Michigan State University is 30 years and we hope plus, but at least 30 For us to formalize what it means to have a strong academic partner. We need this research facility to be able to do that. You've heard the vulnerabilities of not having the abatements tied to housing, but I would remind you that those abatements also support the research facility. So when we say that we need to have it all come together, we need to have it all come together. We have envisioned it being separate because that truly is not what we think is transformational for the community. And we don't think that brings forward the best possible outcomes for Detroiters. The next slide, talks about the voices that we've tried to hear. So we know that we had the privilege of being able to sit with the NEC that was led just famously by Dr. Linda Jeffries, and we know that we didn't always agree, but we tried to be respectful and we hope they were respectful of us as well to answer the questions that they posed. But prior to that for nearly a year, we've had our team invested in the community and speaking to many, many people so that we could bring as many voices to this work as possible. So this slide helps you to see that you had over 1000 residents over 200 organizations you've had the privilege of hearing some of those voices today, but I know that some have come forward to you and letters and I'm sure that there are people that have approached you even beyond that. But we have tried to listen broadly to what people think what helped us to shape a good project and I just want to lift that in that we heard jobs and we know that our CBA brings forward jobs. We heard just sustainability there was a lot around what we would do to improve and enhance the environment and you would see that in the buildings that we're proposing. We also heard housing, the idea that we can renovate our current corporate headquarters 600,000 square feet of potentially under you know or not utilized space. If we go forward with this in the concept that we'll do it no matter what if we did not have the support that we're asking you for. That site just becomes empty. And we'd have to find another purpose what we're proposing gives purpose it would allow it to be rehabilitated and turned into housing. We also take two non tax revenue generating parking lots essentially. And we're able to make them a part of the tax rolls by bringing them into the fold as a part of the housing component. So our vision again is one that's not just perhaps what we want to do, but it also does lift the voices that we've been able to listen to and I know it's greater than 1000, but at least 1000 We can go to the next slide. So if we look at the CBA itself, and I know that you guys have had the benefit and the opportunity to look at it. This is an attempt to summarize what we have called an impressive set of benefits from our perspective. $604 million and this does use the pillars that we were able to identify and were graciously agreed to be spoken with with a neck so this was the framework in which we did our work. It covers housing. I have Richard Dodd who will follow me so I will not go through the housing components in detail but I will say that we did significantly listen and we sought to respond to what we heard around shaping the housing mainly in its affordability to the community. Health care. We've talked a lot about world class health care, and we had a caller today that spoke to the opportunity that we have is Henry Ford Health System and we accept that challenge. We're not perfect in what it is that we do, but we do it with strong and deep commitment and this project will continue to elevate and lift, lift the health care that we're able to provide. We heard about career opportunities in education being pillars and things that were extremely important to the community. Our partners with Michigan State University while we were at the table brought forward an additional set of scholarships to help address some of the unmet needs that we heard were in the community but in addition to that, we've talked about apprenticeships and mentorships and ways that we can lift the community in employment so that they can be able to contribute to the community in ways that are better than perhaps they have today. And then from a community building perspective, we talked about the numerous possibilities that exist to partner you've heard some of those partners speak today. Some are existing but some spoke about new potential partnerships that we've discussed. That will come as a result of this great work you have on this document as well what we're asking for we understand that we're not coming without a request for support, but we hope that what you can see from the benefits that come directly through the project, some been sustained, some being new, none of them I think should be assumed to be taken for granted or what happened anyway, they all will come as a result of the hard work that we'll do. But there is an offset to that request. As I mentioned you do have city Detroit net benefit of $118 million against the request of 287 million of investment and the breakdown of those investments are there. Next slide.
I'm nearing the end but if you look at the future of health and its net benefit broken down, we're proposing a $3 billion mission driven investment and we've called it mission driven all along because a lot of this work is hard work for those of us that do it. We see it as a way not to just build multiple buildings because it's actually more than three even though there's three partners, but we see those buildings as advancing the work that we think will allow us to close the gap in the city of Detroit. The contributions are many 8000 construction jobs during the construction portion of the work 700 permanent jobs as we've discussed 662 New mixed income units that do have affordability at the core and center of what we've discussed a new expanded hospital and an Advanced Research Center. And again, this just breaks down the 100 and 80 million that I mentioned but numerous benefits for the city. And for the residents of the city of Detroit. I'm not going to go to the last slide. And this again just goes to strengthen our request and to say that we see this as one project. We see it needing to be approved as one project this intersection here the future of health is what we are asking you hopefully to see and support our vision and help us to make it a reality where we would have a new state of the art hospital that would be expanded and its comprehension and its services. In a moment my colleagues, Norm Dr. Norm Beauchamp from Michigan State University, and Richard her dad from the pistons will ask for just two minutes each to be able to speak about the research component of the project and the housing component. And so with that, Madam President, I will step aside if it's acceptable for them to come forward. Okay, thank you.
Thank you, Madam President. And thank you honorable council members. My name is Lauren Beauchamp I oversee the two health colleges for medicine at Michigan State the nursing school as well as public health and I chair the relationship between MSU and Henry Ford. Reverend King back in 1966, said that of all forms of inequality, injustice and health is the most shocking and inhuman and he was intentional and saying inhuman, recognizing that the color of one's skin one zip code determines whether their babies would be born healthy, whether cancers could be detected at a time where they could be prevented or how long someone lives. And tragically, that exists to this day. And we're not going to get to a better today or tomorrow by doing more of the same. It really has to be through research and discovery. And so I'm here today to commit to the council and the people of Detroit, that we feel blessed to be part of this community. And in the research that we do, we will listen, we will learn and we will have community led and community participatory research. The second commitment that we want to make is right now it takes 30 years Excuse me 15 years to go from what's right for people to its implementation. And by this partnership with Henry Ford Health we can go from discovery to the best in care in this community. So much faster. The third commitment that I want to make is that we're not going to move the dial on health disparities. Unless more of our doctors, our nurses and our scientists look like the people that we're trying to care for and have the same lived experiences. I want to let you know that Michigan State actually stands out as medical schools that train clinicians of color and we'll be more able to do that here in this community. And we're able to hasten the pace of that with the scholarships. So thank you for the opportunity to present and contribute to the health of the people of Detroit. Thank you.
Good afternoon, Madam President, Chairman Tate and the rest of the members of this honorable body. I'm Richard ADAD. I'm the Chief Operating Officer with the Detroit Pistons. And I'm going to start today the same way I heard so many public commenters. Start. I live here in Detroit. I own a home here in Detroit, and I work here in Detroit. In district five. And I'm able to do all of that, because we as an organization seven years ago, were able to move the Detroit Pistons organization back from Auburn Hills, back home to Detroit, where we always thought it belonged. And that was the starting point for this project for the Detroit Pistons, because that was the first step. And I was committing not just to represent Detroit, but to be in Detroit, and to do everything we could to maximize the impact that we have here in Detroit. That's why we brought the team down here. That's why we built a headquarters down here. That's why we brought all of our employees here to Detroit. And a key part of that was us building a partnership with Henry Ford, partnering with Henry Ford to build the pistons Performance Center, developing the pistons Performance Center, in connection with the Center for athletic medicine to Henry Ford developed but also in a way that's open to the community in a way that is open to our neighbors. We brought retail components. We brought event space that does 300 Plus events a year we've hosted everything from engagement parties to baby showers to block parties to barbecues at the pistons Performance Center, and that's because we're truly committed to making an impact in our neighborhood. And that's why we're here. That's why we're part of this project. That's why we're here before you today. We've heard some of the public commenters refer to what we're trying to do here is build luxury housing. And that's that's far from what we're trying to do. We're proposing to develop a mixed use component here. That includes deeply affordable housing for 20% of those units. It includes market rate housing for the other 80% of those units, quality market rate housing 80% of which is still going to qualify as workforce housing, based on the state definition and based on AMI, that housing is a critical component of this project, because we're proposing to deliver almost as many units and 663 units as this project will generate new jobs. What that will do is mitigate and protect against the type of displacement and gentrification that you see with other projects. When projects create jobs and provide economic investment without a housing component. We've seen that that can result in displacement. If we were looking at a $2.7 billion development without the housing component with the jobs that this is going to generate. We could see how that could result in displacement. We're delivering the housing here to protect against that and to make housing affordable and achievable for all Detroiters. We plan to market the housing to all Detroiters and we're proposing to do that as part of this development to integrate and connect and build on everything that our partners at Henry Ford and Michigan State are doing. We've heard some of the commenters talk about how this is just a project for us to make money and for us to get rich off of you you've heard from the EGC and from LPD and other reports that they've done. Even with the incentives that we're requesting here. The projected rate of return on this project is 4.5%. I could walk down the street to Huntington or anybody in this room could walk down the street to Huntington and open a savings account that gives you a higher rate of return than that 4.5% That's not what this is about. For the pistons. This is about us coming together with our partners to make a positive impact in our community and our neighborhood. And it goes back to everything that Denise and Dr. Beauchamp said about this being a mission driven development. The goal here is to invest in this city and in this community to expand the zone of development out from downtown and out towards the neighborhoods to deliver the finest level of health care to Detroiters to deliver the 700 Plus jobs that this is going to generate, to make housing affordable and achievable for everybody who fills those jobs. And ultimately, to transform this neighborhood in a positive way and build on all the great work that Henry Ford and Michigan State and the pistons have already done and plan to continue to do. Great.
Thank you. That will conclude the presentation. All right. So we will turn it over to my colleagues for questions. Any questions or comments that we would like to raise now? I did. I'm not sure who wants to come up to respond. I do have a couple of questions I wanted to ask regarding one is the offsetting of the compliance fees. I know this was something that was different in this CBO agreement who could speak to that particular portion of the agreement.
Morning Council, members of the council I'm about to speak to that.
Alright, great. And just so my concern was that this is the first time that I was able to see in agreement that the offsetting of fees so in fact, if the Henry Ford and pistons has not reached the executive order, compliance fees typically are paid however those fees can now be offset towards on repair grant contributions or rental assistance. And so if you can speak to why that decision was was made and if you guys are willing or able to possibly remove that from this particular agreement,
of course, so first a bit of clarification, the offset that's provided in the collective bargaining or I'm sorry, the community benefits agreement only pertains to voluntary contributions that would be made by Henry Ford. By virtue of them voluntarily complying with the executive order. So as it pertains to the pistons or MSU are those components of the project, there wouldn't be any offset of their EO contributions under the current proposal or otherwise and that's just because as a matter of law, they're mandated to comply with executive order. As it pertains to Henry Ford, though the thought was a lot of what they're incurring, particularly with respect to the infrastructure costs are ordinarily borne by by the city government. Right. So we're talking rights of way right away work in terms of what's beneficial to the public. Things like sewer lines, things like sidewalks, these are things ordinarily that'd be put on the city's back. And so in exchange, essentially for then incurring those costs, were agreeing to to offset their contribution under the EO to that proportional amount. And the thought is because they're providing a public benefit, that that that makes sense. And because they're a nonprofit entity, you typically would not fall under the penalty provisions are the contribution provisions of the EO that that offset is frankly a win win situation for the sake.
Okay, so again, though, is there a willingness to remove that particular offset as it relates to the home repair fund in the rental assistance and so an understand is just for Henry Ford that the issue that I have is a project is being delivered as one project and we're going back and forth between, you know, who is contributing to what so I just think it would be fair if for these particular important funds, that community continues to raise whether it's horrific repair or rental assistance that that FOSS be removed, that there is no offsetting of, hey, if the compliance fees are paid, we'll pull from this as money that will be contributed to those particular funds.
Right. And I have discussed that with the development team and I believe they are willing to remove that portion of the CBA that offsets as pertains to the Home Repair and the affordable housing contribution so that those would be separate and you know, not subject to any sort of double dipping type argument.
Okay. And then lastly, on the offsetting, is there any offsetting for infrastructure costs, or it'd be for it as well to there is, and can you explain that because that portion I was not aware of
for them, so there's $55 million dollars worth of infrastructure work that's considered part of the project. A portion of that is for the part of the development that's east of the lodge. The other portion, the majority of it is for the South Campus, which is west of the lodge, immediately south of the current hospital. So those infrastructure costs run the gamut. Everything that you can imagine sewer sidewalks, utility related infrastructure costs, I'll defer to the development team if, if you'd like to hear more details of those. But generally speaking, I mean, these are site readiness type costs that are ordinarily incurred by the state and local government and you know, just out of the general general fund pressures that we have in the city, the thought was that if if the development team would be willing to incur those costs, that we would allow them to be offset against the yield contributions, again, only made by Henry Ford, not as it pertains to the pistons or
NASA missions against the executive order, voluntary Executive Order compliance, okay. Just wanted to be like, Okay, thank you. And then I have a question for, I think the pistons regarding the Housing Trust Fund. I know this was something that has been raised by community was also a part of one of the five demands that were sent to council as kind of like the baseline, if we can at least get one of these things. I know I also submitted a memo requesting $3 million over five years for the Housing Trust Fund and I have not received a response on what you know the commitment will be or what your thoughts were around that investment. So if you could speak to that as well. Yes.
Madam President, we've received the request. We understand the importance of the Affordable Housing Trust Fund, both to you and to the rest of this council, and to the community. That's that's why we committed right out of the gate on this project, to deliver 20% of the proposed residential development at deeply affordable levels. That's why we've committed through the CBL process to increase the period of affordability for those units and to accept project eight vouchers, as well as to deepen the level of affordability to do some units at 30%. And we've we've spent a lot of time talking about this and working on this and we will commit to $1.5 million in total investment toward the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. That's what we're willing to do.
Okay. All right. I have additional questions, but I know colleagues also have questions. So I will yield to my colleagues and I will start with councilmember waters.
Special today. Thank you, Madam President. Let me just first say that we've learned the hard way to view dog and pony shows of the cynical eye. So it's okay I'm quoting King cities like Detroit droll substance of King speeches and life. But nonetheless, we appreciate your remarks. I will review this CBA with an eye for majority chart as to community benefits. So I wanted to say that up front. So pistons are renting land from from Henry Ford, is that correct?
That's correct member waters.
So how much will you pay me for for this land?
So we've worked with the CDC and the DGC to deliver our projections as to that we are working to finalize that because it's all subject to the approvals that we are pursuing from this honorable body.
And so then I would want to know from here forward, how will the profits be used since they will be making profits off the land rental? Does anyone know? How many children and seniors live in the impact area? Have we done a study on that? We have maybe you can ask the question maybe Henry Ford can but
Good morning again councilmember waters i We do not have the answer but I didn't want you to see are looking to not know we were saying that. We can certainly try to see you're saying specifically the impact area that we used for the CBA you would like to know the number of seniors and children. Yes. Okay. All right.
I certainly would like to know that. Number. Oh, what happened? Anyway for Ford. If the housing is separate, is it true that you move forward anyway?
We're going to have Jerry Darby, answer that
through the chair, Jerry Darby vice president of planning development design at Henry Ford Health. So this project was viewed as a full integrated academic medical center and the planning of this was done in integration with planning with the pistons and with Michigan State University, and all of the the activities around the campus including discussions with the community and so forth, so we viewed this as one engage one project from the beginning. We've done the planning that way, including all of our projections, all of the needs. For the hospital to be developed the way it is currently planned, as well as the research building and the housing if we pull the housing out of this, we lose $55 million for the research building and the East Side campus parking. Those alone would reduce the size of the research building by multiple floors. It also impacts the research building and its viability quite honestly on the east side of the campus, without the housing on the side, and Henry Ford needing to consolidate our services that are currently in one Ford place. Being its inefficiencies and changes due to COVID and all the other elements that happened downtown where we need that efficiency to be able to bring our clinical care together that's currently in those buildings to bring our research together. That would be together with Michigan State and the research and to consolidate our administrative spaces out of that space so that that allows us some significant efficiencies, which we're not able to achieve inside of one Ford place at this point. So again, that impacts the financial outcomes of the entire project. So not having the research building on the east side of the campus. Quite honestly, if we were to build a smaller research building it wouldn't be where we would put it. We wouldn't put it in that parking lot on the east side of the campus, we would have to find a way to integrate it more closely to the north side or the west side of the lodge. So it completely changes the way we would look at the East Campus from the hospital perspective. Again, all of these things are tied together, how we can recruit the type of philanthropy we get. The donations that we've already received would all need to be that are committed to us but all need to be reviewed, and and all likelihood would change as part of the development of this project as we go forward. And then finally, all of the pieces that we put together have taken us years quite honestly, multiple years of planning effort and engagement to do this. Delays in a project of $3 billion are on the order of magnitude of we would say $5 million a month for every delay each one of those dollars are things that currently are going into clinical services, emergency department, you know, new private patient rooms and all of the lights. So each one of those things would need to be reviewed as part of the process for us to for us to pull out the housing as part of this project.
In the waters. Yes, thank you, Madam President. I have been trying to wrap my mind around who's going to live and then housing. I mean, actually, I also know that you cannot afford cannot force your employees to live there. So who's gonna live there? Um, I know that there are certain number of units that are 30 to 60% of AMI. I know that the remainder of them are what? 60 To 8080 to 100. Can you share that with the community so they're clear, and most people don't understand what AMI is anyway. So break it down for them if you would, please.
Yes, thank you for the question. Member waters the first question of who will live in the housing we expect to market this to all Detroiters? We of course expect some of Henry Ford's employees, some pistons employees some Michigan State employees, some of the people who fill the 700 Plus jobs that this project is going to generate to live in these units but the plan is to market it to all Detroiters and this will be affordable and achievable, really to all Detroit ours based on the different levels of rent that we're proposing to deliver here. And in terms of I'm sorry,
yeah, go ahead and explain that the levels, you know, 30% of the income 60% of their income 80% 100% What what is it? It's yeah, so
So the affordable housing component which will be 20% of the total residential development, that averages out to rent being offered at 50% of the average median income. So what that means is people who make roughly $16 an hour in a full time job, or roughly $33,000 a year, will be able to afford to live in those homes at 100%. of AMI, that is affordable to people who are making $80,000 a year or more and the way this breaks down 20% of it is averaged out at 50% ami. That's a mix of 30% ami 50% Ami and 70% and the other 80% 80% of that is below 120% ami. So the end result is a development here that combines deeply affordable housing with quality market rate housing that we believe Detroiters deserve and the goal is to make this affordable and achievable. To any Detroiter who wants to live there.
You know, one of the things I don't want to see happen, which is what I've been seeing with a lot of the senior buildings here, one of them right downtown, where developers take advantage of the low income status, the vouchers and so forth, and then you start to evict people and you keep jast enough, you might keep just enough on one floor so that you will continue to qualify for those incentives. And I don't want to see that happen. So how did you manage to protect that number one but number two, you haven't even applied for your vouchers this yet. We don't even know if you're gonna give them
Yeah, member waters to answer your first question. We commit that that's not the plan. That's not something that we're going to do. And in terms of vouchers, we've we've had a lot of conversations with Mr. And with the city department that oversees this. You're right. We haven't applied yet. We plan to pursue project based vouchers, and that's going to help us deliver the deep level of affordability that we're proposing. To deliver here. Yeah.
So you're applying for site based vouchers. That's right. We need to put some protections there for our residents who move into that building. Are you open to us identifying some way that we protect people who move in and to the facility? Because Talk is cheap. You know, you you say one thing then you next thing, you know, we have people we already have a high eviction rate. I am really deeply concerned about that. Just last week, I was at one of the senior buildings and it's almost empty because they've been evicted. I mean, I just I just find that that is troublesome for me, you know, as a leader here in the city, and you know, we want to see development that is true. We want people to have nice places to live but we want people to be able to remain there are people don't make the kind of money that Lavanya makes, that even Warren makes and we are included. With that. That's how our our our AMI is determined. And so we need developers coming in that's going to help us protect the residents. We are losing people in the city because they cannot afford to pay the rent. And so we have to try and identify ways to help keep them in their units. It is suggestions.
Yeah, member waters. We agree with all of that we share your concern. We share your objectives here and in terms of you know, the concern about the enforceability of our commitments here. We are entering into an affordable housing agreement with the city of Detroit, the city will be in position to enforce that and hold us to the commitments that we're making here. I believe there's a city attorney here who can speak to that in greater detail, if you would like but we agree with you on all of that. And we're committed to have the same objectives that you just identified. So
So you said your return on investment is about what 4.5% That's right. Are you sure isn't that more than and then and then when when does it began? Because I want to I want to know when when the taxpayers ROI begins as well.
Yeah, I may ask Miss bridges from the EGC to speak to that. Those are the DT ugcs calculations. We worked with them on the underwriting but the DGC is the one who calculated the rate of return here. So if you don't mind member waters.
All right. Thank you to this honorable body Kenyatta bridges from the Detroit economic growth Corporation. I also want to mention before I get started that Edwina has her hand raised on the zone. So when we looked at this project, and we did our underwriting for this project, without the incentive project, the the returns came in at negative 6% returns. It was this project that obviously incentives that really allow this project to achieve a feasible return and those returns typically come into play after the projects have been placed into service because as you know, these are performance based incentives and they do not become active until the project is constructed. So the returns will not start to be generated until after those projects are placed in service. Alright, so for just for the community purpose, that means that you will, the pistons was began to realize their, you know, return on investment at that time, and Detroiters when they will be realized on a brand on a building by building basis as well as Detroiters and City of Detroit will start to realize their returns. Once the taxes are starting to come in on those buildings. And the reason I am pointing that out, is because oftentimes, Detroiters feel as though we've just gone into our pockets and given away their tax dollars and that they don't have any return. So I really believe that it's critical that we break it down to the taxpayers in the city to understand that we're not just it's not just given away their money that in fact, there's a return on investment for them. It's just delayed a little bit. I think that is so critical. Because they say most of them say oftentimes, well, you know, you give away our tax dollars and we don't get anything back. I need the taxpayer to understand how this all works is so critical. So when we look at this project, this project achieves a number of really policy objectives that are very important to this honorable body. One being the affordable housing, the other being fiscal returns to the city of Detroit. And with this project, we are standing to realize $118 million and net fiscal impact to the city of Detroit. And when I hear when I listened to some of the comments that have been made, there were comments that that were made that DPS would take a hit and I just want to reiterate that Detroit public schools are not being harmed in any way by this project as well. Detroit Public Schools stand to receive up $26 million over the life of these incentives. So when you just kind of look at the project and its totality, this is a net return on investment to the city of Detroit and its residents. Alright, then just finally, madam president before I don't take ball the Michigan State University now, of course I do. Appreciate the research opportunities. And I want to make sure that you allow community participation that we've had some conversations about that. So Michigan State University tell us how you are tied to the pistons and how you please break it down so that people understand why you need the pistons project. Why can't you do it alone? Yeah, thank
you and please accept my apologies for my comments. Please, the partnership with the pistons helps us because in thinking about one social determinants one one way that we seek to improve health is built environments and people having access to affordable housing. That's one way that we see this helpful. The second is by virtue of the funding that will come in to support this. It provides about $40 million to support the research building. This will be the biggest Research Building Michigan State has built outside of the F rib and trying to make the finances work for that is has been a challenge and this will really help us with that. So sambad is also that combined funding mechanism that will help us in this effort.
You were so quiet I hope that people heard you those that are listening or
I'm sorry about that. I if I if I need to restate any of that I'm actually because Okay, I will thank you. Thank you, I tend to be I'll do better. Thank you. So what what I was talking about is first when we think about improving health, the social determinants of health, right where people live access to education, and we see that as a part of this. Creating more affordable housing is one way to improve health and that's aligned with our public health mission in coming here to the community being a part of the community. The second is is that this is the largest research building, Michigan State will build as funded not through like the F rib and the economics of this are very difficult to how you fund the building. And as a part of the funding that will come in for this. There will be tax deductions that will help us to the tune of about $40 million, which helps us fund the research building and make it sustainable.
And these tax deductions are coming from where they're
coming from. I believe it is deductions from state income tax of individuals that will work in the building
strictly for those that will work there. Right.
That is my understanding guess I
you know, I needed to make sure that we broke it down so so how much money are you needing from the pistons and or whomever in order to get this done to build this recently? I'm a breast cancer survivor myself. And I do remember when Henry Ford was trying to build the Cancer Center. I wasn't in elective office at the time, but I'm I went down and had a conversation with the community and told them how important it was to have such a center. And so I believe that that I contributed to that in a major way because I had a personal story I could tell to them. And so here in this city, we Detroit is don't necessarily like people who are you know, say they're doing research and all those kinds of things. And so we just want to make sure that that folks are are protected. Number one that that they are not being used for any special purposes unless the community knows about it. How much money are you getting from the pistons for this in order to build this app? I know somebody is contributing to to build on this research center.
Yeah, there won't be funds that come from the pistons directly to Michigan State to fund this. Michigan State is doing it. Okay. Michigan State will take the lead and that's a part of our contribution. And then Henry Ford is also helping to fund some of the research building as well as to help us find the researchers that will be in that building. Because that's something we'll find together. And
then what I'll just say finally, I'll just make one final comment. I want to make sure that we that the researchers reflect the city I know that you have some very fine doctors right now a Henry Ford, who are quite capable of your research. And I'll be looking forward actually, if they should move forward to their participation in the research center.
Absolutely. And pleased that is something we'll hold ourselves accountable to and to your other really important point, that we have community advisors that help shape what we work on and hold us accountable is important and that's something that you know, thank you Madam President.
Thank you. Member Callaway. Excellent. Madam President. I'm sorry we know yes I'm sorry. Go right.
That's perfectly fine. Good afternoon honorable body Edwina King planning and development department. In response to member waters inquiry about the demographics of the area for seniors and children. There is someone from the planning department, Aaron Goodman, who could provide you with that information. So we definitely want to share that and it's based off of the last census held at the city to join.
Alright, thank you. Member Callaway.
Um, thank you. Thank you Madam Chair. Real quick. I have some questions that I could submit later. But this sounds like an all or nothing type of agreement. And understand from one of you and thank you all for being here. You've been working on this for a number of years. Have you considered a plan B? Because when work when you work on agreements and projects, if it doesn't happen this way, then perhaps we'll look at it this way. And that's called Plan B. I remember some months ago, there was a situation that came before the city council. And the gentleman said there was not a plan B. And then after this particular vote didn't go the way that he had anticipated with his Plan A all or nothing type of plan a he was able to come back with a plan B and we're better off for that plan B. So my question is, is this a all or nothing type of agreement? And has there been any consideration given to a plan B on alternative? Sure.
We absolutely looked at many, many alternatives. When we went through this and determined that this was the best way we could create the most transformational project, integrated project integrated academic medical center that met the needs that the community articulated to us about the impact in the community and impact in the neighborhood. If we weren't asked to get approved for this, as I indicated, we certainly would continue to develop we're committed to the city of Detroit and we will, unfortunately, it would have a major impact on what we would be able to develop which would remove a significant amount of funding. It would likely mean that from what I would call an economies of scale for the hospital for us to move across West Grand Boulevard. We need to have a large enough project that it can almost operate and function as as its as its own. Operationally to be efficient and effective. That's what would be required. And in all likelihood, the size of that would not be able to be achieved if we don't do the entire project. And so then we would be looking and have looked at redeveloping adding hospital beds adding Oh ours, expanding our emergency room, but more likely back on the north side of the campus. And if we do that it's a much more phased development. Because we can't build something of this size and scale while we're still operating our current hospital that operates that has 877 licensed beds on the North Campus. So is it possible? Certainly did we look at all of those opportunities? Absolutely. And is it something that could happen? You know, we're committed to Detroit. Absolutely. But it won't be the same impact and it won't provide the same services. Yes.
Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. And thank you, sir, thank you for your response. So I like alternatives. I like Plan B's I don't want to feel like it's like an all or nothing type of situation. My next question is I don't know who can answer this, but I don't know if it would be related to Henry Ford or to the Michigan State Research Science Center. But this is a predominantly African American city in terms of his population, and demographics. My question is to I guess, Henry Ford Health Systems or Michigan State, what is your outreach in terms of connecting with African American medical schools, my hairy Morehouse College. So can someone answer that because I don't know what your relationships are, but those are two outstanding medical schools. Yes, thank
you. Those are two outstanding medical schools and the way that we've connected with those schools is to look at our our young people from Detroit that go there for undergrad, but then may want to go into a career in medicine. And so we work on pathway programs. And these are things that we're developing. We have one for example, with Xavier, in Louisiana, with a goal then that those students could stay here in our state. of Michigan and go to our medical schools, but not have to pay the out of state tuition rate. So one way that we've tried to do this is to create pathway programs with those schools. We also have relationships with my Harry as we talk about education, and certainly that, you know, building on that is something that, you know, we try to continually do, but we can do more. Madam
Chair, you can do more, and I hope that you will do more. It doesn't sound like you have a robust type of partnership or outreach with just two schools that I've mentioned, there are more than just the two schools that I've mentioned here this this afternoon. My Harry and Morehouse. My second question is and thank you for your answer. My second question is on the goals to be easily
councilmember yes yes, my colleague has.
I'm sorry, Councilmember Callaway. I just wanted to add from a Henry Ford perspective specifically as a relates to my Harry and Morehouse. We were fortunate that we have a medical director of diversity within our Medical Group, Dr. mattina Caldwell, who's also a district two resident and she's come to a few of the meetings as a content expert, but she has established relationships most of the historically black colleges both I think is Dr. Bo Chapman, from a pathway perspective, right? So those that are only doing undergraduate education, but then for those that do, you know, grad graduate level for medical school, we recruit so we are, you know, fortunate to have physicians that come on our staff for residency and then also sometimes they just are graduates. We don't get them right out of, you know, training, but they come to us in the future path. So we do have them within our physician community. We recently had our CEO Bob RHIT, who actually went to Morehouse School of Medicine, in the thoughts and conversations around what could be deeper partnerships and relationships. So we acknowledge to your point, that while we have relationships today, the opportunity to do more has been presented to us specifically in Henry Ford Health System and we have been working through that both with Dr. Caldwell and with Bob.
Thank you. And thank you for your response, but I'd like to see some numbers in terms of your recruitment efforts to recruit African American doctors, residences, or residents from just these two. Let's just focus on these two particular medical schools. I like to see those numbers very much interested in especially Morehouse medical school, have a lot of friends over there. And Spelman College grads who I'm very very interested in your connection with medical with Morehouse medical school. My last question is, I think the gentleman from Houston, this is my last question. There was a question about a $3 million contribution to the Housing Trust Fund over a five year period. So that's it because that is $600,000 per year over five years. And then I think you said that it wouldn't be 3 million it would be 1.5 million. So you're not you're saying that you're not committed to that three point million dollars over a five year period, which would be $600,000 a year, but you are committed to half of that. And why is that
member? Callaway? That That's correct. And that's in addition to the significant commitments we made through the CBO process. That's in addition to the $2 million that we've committed to fund home repairs, which the neighborhood advisory council that Dr. Jeffries chaired, identified as a top priority for seven of the nine members of the neighborhood Advisory Council that's in addition to the $500,000 in rental assistance that we committed to based on the next request that's in addition to the $300,000 in micro grants to neighborhood nonprofits and community organizations that the NAC requested and that's in addition to all the other commitments we make to the CBO process.
Thank you, Madam Chair. And thank you, sir. I am proposing instead of a 35 year tax abatement that we start off with something less than that so we can have more of control over it. I've found since I've been on the council going on three years that sometimes we award tax abatements And then after we awarded we have there's not like a claw back type of mechanism. So I'm hoping that we can maybe not award a 35 year and and I have a statement and and a memorandum anybody's Welcome to have a copy of it. But it's a 35 year tax abatements troublesome to me, and I'm hoping that we could decrease the number so we can have more control over it. We awarded a 35 year tax abatement to another developer and he demolished a building that he promised to preserve and then when he got to that
he said he could not because the ceiling. The roof was caving and so he kept his tax abatement. We don't have any anything in place in the city that I'm aware of, to enforce these to enforce these tax abatements For claw them back. If the developer does not stick to their commitment, I have other questions and madam chair on Thank you very much. All right, thank you. Miss bridges if you want to respond and then we'll see everyone has their hands raised so we will go to everyone and keep in mind we I know we have our evening meeting tonight and we haven't even started our agenda. So try to keep responses in the chair. I just wanted to respond to a councilmember Galloway's comments around the timeframe for the tax abatements Councilmember Calloway we did look at reducing the tax abatement portion of the project which is the public act 210. The neighborhood enterprise zone those particular abatements Do not run out 3535 years the maximum on those are 17 for the NEC. We looked at if we could pull back on those when we looked at that, pull them back on those would reduce the debt service coverage ratio for the project. And it would put the position the project in a position where it could not get financed. And it would also increase the rents on the market rates by about $2,000 a month so it has a really negative impact if we try to pull it back, which is it creates a unfeasible project in terms of the TPP which is 35 year that is statute. And that is really determined by the Michigan Strategic Fund. So we make a recommendation at this level and the Michigan Strategic Fund will issue the final approval on the TPP. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Doha. Thank you. Thank you, Madam President. Good afternoon. So you are one of the questions that I have just revolves around statements that are made relative to tax incentives and abatements where there's this narrative that the city is giving money to folks as it were going in back into bought and giving money to developers relative to tax incentives and abatements. My question is this land right now, particularly the residential piece that were proposed that you guys are proposing and that's in front of us? What what are we generating off of that right now for the city, relative to revenue? How much money are we making off that land as it exists? If this was not to go through how much money would we generate off of that land? Currently?
Member Darryl hall I can I can answer that and then Miss bridges may want to come and chime in in more detail, but that land is currently tax exempt. It's not generating any tax revenues for the city of Detroit. That's both pieces of land that we're proposing. To develop the mixed use commercial and housing components.
So if there was nothing built on this, and let's just say for the next 30 to 35 years, Henry Ford decided to keep the land as is or if they even decided to build a parking lot on it. How much will we generate off of this land Can anybody answer that $0 Okay, so how much money are will we generate from this project that will go into possibly going into our tax base after the end of the abatement?
I'll ask best bridges to speak to them.
Thank you, through the chair, when we look at the total revenues that will come into the city of Detroit, or the total impact we're looking at $180 million over that 35 year period. A significant portion of that is the income taxes. But when you look at the property taxes which you which you are speaking upon right now, we're looking at about 17 point 3 million of that being in property taxes. And then there was another question that was asked when would these tax dollars be realized when you look at the construction side of the house, the tax dollars will be realized immediately once construction began in terms of income tax.
Thank you. Through you, madam president. I have another question just particularly on the affordability aspect. When we talk about the affordability, how it's structured, and I know there was a lot of questions about what could possibly happen if this was not followed. This is from I understand that on page 12 in the CBA, under affordable housing for the CBA agreement structures out how these are supposed to be lined out if this residential property to that fear that that affordability may not exist. What will happen, let's say if the developer breaks the agreement, and there there are not the specific numbers or percentages of units that exists within this agreement, if an agreement is broken, what will happen to this agreement, what will happen what fines or penalties or what will happen to the developer if they do not preserve that affordability through the entire amount of the agreement.
So Brian Cole from the law department will address that question. Thank you.
Hello, honorable body Brian, CO the student Detroit law department through the council president to member durchaus question. There are penalties built into the Affordable Housing Agreement that had been negotiated with the developer on this project. I believe a copy of that was submitted through a scribe so you should have a copy of that. And those penalties are consistent with clawback provisions that we typically have in our certificate agreements where there's affordable housing involved, as well as additional penalties that exist for general failure to meet the affordability. So there's a flat penalty, I believe it's 20% of the rental income as well as a requirement that the developer pay the differential between what would have been affordable rents for the units that are income restricted, and the actual rent that they received. So it's not just allowing the developer to walk away with the money that they would have collected or be able to pay back to the city what they should have, or what they reaped by not having the humans affordable. There's also a penalty on top of that, to disincentivize such bad behavior, and that again, that is standard in what the city includes, in its affordable housing agreements. Similar to what you've you've seen on other marquee projects, I've gone through the CBO process. And then as mentioned, there's also an ability to clawback proportional amount of the tax abatement for the units that were not maintained as affordable, which was part of the basis that the city and the central body considered as part of granting the tax abatements. So again, usually those terms are mixed between the Affordable Housing Agreement where there's not a tax abatement and our standard tax abatement, certificate exemption certificate agreements in this case, as in, you know, the district Detroit, which went through the CBL process, those have all been integrated into one full agreement. And I'm happy to answer any other questions you might have on that topic.
No, thank you. I appreciate that. I mean, because one of my you know, as we hear about private funding of developments like that, one of the thoughts that I have, and we've seen private developments come they do not have to put affordable housing and that relative to their development, but because of this agreement and a Texas in them, that's the affordable housing component exist. And so that's one of the reasons why I'm looking I was looking at that. The second question I have is just a Henry Ford when we talk about the expansion of the hospital and I'll tell you why I bring it up. I know we've seen this presentation come in front of PD many times now. Over the past few months, I can almost anonymous or to that I'm nauseous to see it so much. But you said something today that was interesting. You said we think a lot about the development but we're not talking about the people and that sparked a thought that I had a personal thought even relative to my own dad who goes goes to the hospital in the emergency room often whereas on a few trips, I can highlight that he went to an emergency room because there were not enough beds, and he was or he was staying there. He had to stay in emergency for two days, which is the case of other many other residents across the city of Detroit because there are simply not enough beds have we, as we've seen, become exacerbated about a COVID response. So I want to I really want to get deeper though into these beds and talk about what that is going to mean particularly for this area here in the city of Detroit, about providing that bed in this new emergency room facility. How many do we anticipate that we will still be looking at some of the same issues relative to beds where folks come there to emergency but then they have to stay in the emergency area for two days and that becomes the hospital room. are we anticipating that are this does that alleviate some of the problem and specifically in this area as we talk about healthcare
through the Chair if I might, Councilmember dr. Hall, your your point that you're raising is and I'll just illuminate it for everyone. You're talking specifically about the fact that someone might be in the emergency department admit it for care because we've decided that they need to be in the hospital tower. And yet that process is slow so they could end up being in the emergency department for an extended period of time. This development can help in a couple of ways. One because of the expanded space of the emergency department. If in fact that happened and sometimes that happens simply because the bed that's designated for that individual isn't available literally being occupied by another patient. The environment that unfortunately someone might experience today is not optimal, because it might not be private space. It might not be you know, an area that would at least still give them the comfort in this new expanded space. We will have extended stay capability, which is what you're asking. So no, it's not the intent that it would have to happen in that space. But if it did, they would be able to be in a private space where they would be able to be cared for an environment better than they are today. So we are always working on throughput to not make it happen. But if it were to happen in this new space that would absolutely be better environmentally than it is today.
And that is a general concern. Obviously I can be the difference between life and death if a person has difficulty breathing or if they have heart troubles, and I don't see them driving all the way to West Bloomfield and we don't want to be able to have those issues alleviated. My last question that goes just relative to the development that we talked about and just the update. We talked about, you know having retail, we talked about having minorities in that space, have we as we've seen what other developments come before this committee and the opportunity for minorities not to just be in retail, but be involved in the development. We have a lot of minority developers here in the city of Detroit. What does that look like now relative to this project? What else? What did those conversations look like in conjunction and partnering with minority developers here in the city of Detroit if this process has passed, and it is to come into fruition? Well, they have input where they have the ability to work on this project, as well.
Yes, through the council president and to member der Hall. The answer is absolutely. Both the pistons and Henry Ford have an extensive engagement and discussions with the Reid group of minority owned developers primarily black and brown developers and both the pistons and Henry Ford have now entered into agreements with Reid to build strategic relationships, both to include read members as advisors and find ways for them to be involved and help shape the project but also to work together and collaborate to build an ecosystem and build a bench and how to train and develop young black and brown developers who aspire to work on developments like this. So both the pistons and Henry Ford have have made those commitments with Reid and are excited to be working with Reed as we move forward on this project.
And I'm glad to hear that that was a concern. And just my final question while you're there, we talk about jobs. We saw the carpenters up here today. And one of the things that stuck out to me was just that one young man that came down here saying I work in Detroit, I live in Detroit. And you know, we hear it all the time, you know, and everybody has their point of view, but that was just one of the things that stuck with me because he was very passionate and very serious about what he was saying wasn't scripted. No one wrote that for him. That is what he felt at that point. What is union participation look like for these 8000 some odd construction jobs? What are your engagement with the unions? And how will we ensure that even minorities young black and brown men and women in our unions and in the construction field will have the ability to work on this particular project? Just as he articulated that he wanted to?
Yes it through Madam President and to member Darryl Hall. And the answer is we've had extensive engagement with unions on both the piston side, the Henry Ford side and the Michigan State side. And you also heard this morning from Mr. Larry Brinker Jr, whose construction firm build the PPC for us and the Center for athletic medicine, or Henry Ford. And one of the aspects of that development that we were proud of stuff is we're able to work with union labor and with minority owned businesses to develop mentorship programs and apprenticeship programs, not just to put Detroiters and specifically minority Detroiters to work in building that project. But to train them and develop them and give them the tools to work on more projects in the future. So that's, that's something that are the pistons and I know for Henry Ford and Michigan State, I can say this as well. That's not something we did just for that project. That's not something we'll do just for this project. That's who we are. That's that's core to our fundamental values. And that's something that we're committed to do on this project and on everything that we do.
Thank you, Madam President.
Member Johnson
Thank you, Madam President. And good afternoon, everyone. I have two very brief questions because I have had an opportunity to discuss this with you all in PE D. I'll have my first question actually go to miss bridges. And member Daryl Hall mentioned both of my questions. But I just want to delve a little deeper in the two parcels where the three residential properties are going. So we talked about currently there are no taxes that are being paid on those parcels because they are in the hands of Henry Ford. Health Systems. And they are a nonprofit entity. You mentioned the after the abatement has expired. What's the basis what's the baseline of taxes that will be paid of any considering that the pistons is acquiring the property? And I'm not sure that I fully understand the agreement between the pistons and Henry Ford Health Systems as relates to one port place and the parking lot. But are we starting? Are we saying that they will pay zero taxes for the life of the tax abatements for those two parcels? And and if not, can you give a little detail about what the baseline taxes are or will be for the pistons for though both of those parcels then you.
Here with the chair, I don't have the chart in front of me at the present time, but there will be taxes that will be paid. Once that lands transfers to the business. It comes on to the tax rolls because it's transferred from a tax exempt organization to apply
