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Detroit City Council Formal Session (began at 10:30)
Speaker 1
aggress month in which Joelle will be invited to participate where we conduct this continuous lean community. And so we do continuous learning. And there's always the opportunity to engage the lean team on direct support projects. So with that, I'll hand it over to Joelle to present his Greenbelt project.
Speaker 2
Thank 
you, Madam president's while drove goes up, if you wouldn't mind briefly. Thank you, Amy. Just so folks know why I have interest in this. So I studied business and undergrad at Detroit Mercy University, where I learned about lean manufacturing for the first time that has its origins in Toyota, and the whole purpose of this program through the city which combines lean manufacturing and sigma six or six sigma. It's about making processes easier. As governments work as government offices, we often hear complaints from our residents saying that we haven't heard back from your office. We haven't heard back from departments, things are taking too much time to get done. And quite frankly, I believe government should be efficient, should be quick and easy to manage so that people are able to solve their problems quickly and be able to move on with their lives. So our office is working very hard to simplify processes and systems to make things more efficient, efficiently and quickly so that we can better serve our residents. And Joe well as our resident services manager. I may be messing up his title much longer than that has been working very closely with our residents. Every single day thinking about how to get services done for them quicker. So today, I'm really grateful for him to share with the work that he's done with our lean team here in the city. Thank you, Joel. Thank you, Madam President.
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you, Madam president's while drove goes up, if you wouldn't mind briefly. Thank you, Amy. Just so folks know why I have interest in this. So I studied business and undergrad at Detroit Mercy University, where I learned about lean manufacturing for the first time that has its origins in Toyota, and the whole purpose of this program through the city which combines lean manufacturing and sigma six or six sigma. It's about making processes easier. As governments work as government offices, we often hear complaints from our residents saying that we haven't heard back from your office. We haven't heard back from departments, things are taking too much time to get done. And quite frankly, I believe government should be efficient, should be quick and easy to manage so that people are able to solve their problems quickly and be able to move on with their lives. So our office is working very hard to simplify processes and systems to make things more efficient, efficiently and quickly so that we can better serve our residents. And Joe well as our resident services manager. I may be messing up his title much longer than that has been working very closely with our residents. Every single day thinking about how to get services done for them quicker. So today, I'm really grateful for him to share with the work that he's done with our lean team here in the city. Thank you, Joel. Thank you, Madam President. Speaker 3
Customer. Thank you, council president. Thanks for listening today. Again, my name is George has claimed I'm a community and resident Services Manager for the office of councilmember Santiago mero. I've been in this role for about two and a half years. And during this time with the city I've been interested to explore how we can improve residential casework tracking and resolution. We all understand residence like the heather issues resolved quickly and effectively. So as I started my Greenbelt, I focused went toward casework intake and processing. This efficiency is important for a few reasons, but it's really most 
crucial and time is of the essence like when we're dealing with deadlines or dealing with family or home emergencies. And so my approval objective was to reduce the response time for first of all the residents from an average of 3.3 days to below two and a half days without compromising the quality of service. So through the last few months of implementing lean improvement tools, we've not only been able to reduce our follow up time below 1.3 days, we're also closing cases in less than three days. So how do we achieve this? Next slide please? So a few few of the improvements used we created a casework entry form to streamline our casework entry as seen on the slide. We modified our casework tracker sheet to ensure our data was entered appropriately. And we made use of Smartsheet for Mr. Produce metrics. Next slide please. And additionally, as a way to make our casework metrics accessible, created a team hub. So within this metrics dashboard you see here we can easily see how many cases are open, how many have been opened and closed, and what average times are in a given time periods. But in 
addition to displaying those metrics, keeping the top of mind our team hub also allows us to store all of our offices work resources in one place, with a lot of internal external tools that either we have the city created, that we use to help resolve constituent cases as well as drive our policy work forward. See a few examples there.
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crucial and time is of the essence like when we're dealing with deadlines or dealing with family or home emergencies. And so my approval objective was to reduce the response time for first of all the residents from an average of 3.3 days to below two and a half days without compromising the quality of service. So through the last few months of implementing lean improvement tools, we've not only been able to reduce our follow up time below 1.3 days, we're also closing cases in less than three days. So how do we achieve this? Next slide please? So a few few of the improvements used we created a casework entry form to streamline our casework entry as seen on the slide. We modified our casework tracker sheet to ensure our data was entered appropriately. And we made use of Smartsheet for Mr. Produce metrics. Next slide please. And additionally, as a way to make our casework metrics accessible, created a team hub. So within this metrics dashboard you see here we can easily see how many cases are open, how many have been opened and closed, and what average times are in a given time periods. But in +1
addition to displaying those metrics, keeping the top of mind our team hub also allows us to store all of our offices work resources in one place, with a lot of internal external tools that either we have the city created, that we use to help resolve constituent cases as well as drive our policy work forward. See a few examples there. Speaker 3
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slide, please. So just to recap, some of the changes we made we have a case for entry form a drop down Oh. We have a case for entry form a drop downs, which prevents mistakes and helps us to collect more data. We have live casework metrics, which means live reporting and no longer having to reference our spreadsheet to get a picture of where we're at. And we also have a team dashboard essentially house resources for our team to advance all of our work time please. So, next slide again. So some of the Lean tools that we use during the initial phases include process mapping, which is a diagram to visually display our workflow process and illustrate how we take in cases an excellent failure modes and effects analysis to identify flaws in the process and help us learn which steps are most important to address excellent and standard operating procedure which are detailed work instructions to inform cases consistency and how we open and close cases. So these Lean tools gave me a method to analyze how we work and without them I really wouldn't have been able to gain the insights that led to 
the improvements that we made. Next slide. So up next, I plan to create a public facing version of the resource and to have that we have for our team in order for residents to really have access to a lot of simple tools that can help make their lives easier. That's it but really, thank you all for listening. I appreciate the opportunity to share about this with you all and shout out to Councilmember and team Ray TJ, how to rock a Trish, Kristen, and really appreciate it. Thanks. Thanks for all sport guys.
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slide, please. So just to recap, some of the changes we made we have a case for entry form a drop down Oh. We have a case for entry form a drop downs, which prevents mistakes and helps us to collect more data. We have live casework metrics, which means live reporting and no longer having to reference our spreadsheet to get a picture of where we're at. And we also have a team dashboard essentially house resources for our team to advance all of our work time please. So, next slide again. So some of the Lean tools that we use during the initial phases include process mapping, which is a diagram to visually display our workflow process and illustrate how we take in cases an excellent failure modes and effects analysis to identify flaws in the process and help us learn which steps are most important to address excellent and standard operating procedure which are detailed work instructions to inform cases consistency and how we open and close cases. So these Lean tools gave me a method to analyze how we work and without them I really wouldn't have been able to gain the insights that led to 
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the improvements that we made. Next slide. So up next, I plan to create a public facing version of the resource and to have that we have for our team in order for residents to really have access to a lot of simple tools that can help make their lives easier. That's it but really, thank you all for listening. I appreciate the opportunity to share about this with you all and shout out to Councilmember and team Ray TJ, how to rock a Trish, Kristen, and really appreciate it. Thanks. Thanks for all sport guys. Speaker 2
Madam President, thank you Joelle for presenting that I appreciate it. And as I mentioned to my colleagues, if you are interested in learning more, again, this is us simply trying to find ways to better serve our residents. And I'm really grateful that Joelle went through this process to learn more and encourage other offices to to go through as well. This is what I was talking about when I mentioned about HR giving us some tools when we first come in some training. This could be a part of that onboarding process, because this takes years to figure out how to simplify our processes and quite frankly, our residents don't have that time. So how about we create the tools, the platforms, the processes Now, anyone that comes in after us can come in better and ready and better to perform for our residents. Thank you, Madam President.
President Sheffield
Thank you so much. Thank you. Member Santiago Ramiro member Benson
Speaker 4
do yourself to member Santiago Romero. Thank you for the presentation. Thank you to your staff for taking the time and being willing to take this on. This is a fantastic tool. Are you open to sharing this platform with your colleagues to make our offices more efficient as well when it comes to constituent service work? Through
Speaker 2
you madam president to member Benson I thought about making this an ordinance. I thought about making this a resolution I thought about making this something that's already an embedded process. But again, I can't force future council members to to go through this process. But 100% I think that we should share this information. If you would like this might be something that could be a report for our office best practices to serve as as a local government office. But we are thinking about ways to replicate this work. So yes, this is not at all what we should be part like, I'm not guarding this work. I want everyone to be doing this work to better serve everyone. We will be reaching out. Thank you. Sounds good. Thank you. Thank you, Madam President.
President Sheffield
Thank you, Member Santiago and Muriel. And no. We will have further discussions as well. I'm not sure if you maybe want to see how we can possibly figure out a way to implement this for councils. Not necessarily mandatory, but some way that we can offer an implement it so thank you. I think we're always looking for ways to better improve communication and accessibility and efficiency with our residents that we serve. So thank you for the presentation Member Santiago Ramiro Alright, well, that concludes Alright, let's give them around the balls and our whole team. Thank you all right. No, we will make sure that this presentation is available to the public and her team is here and can make sure that we connect you with her. Okay. Thank you so much.
President Sheffield
All right, the regular session of Tuesday. June the fourth will come Excuse me. The regular session of Tuesday, May the 21st will be approved. There being no reconsideration or unfinished business. We will proceed to the budget financial audit standing committee for the budget Finance and Audit Committee
Unknown Speaker
Reports from various city departments.
President Sheffield
The three reports will be referred to the budget Finance and Audit standing committee or the internal operations standing committee to reports from the law department. The 10 reports will be referred to the internal operations standing committee for the Neighborhood and Community Services standing committee reports
Unknown Speaker
from various city departments.
President Sheffield
The reports will be referred to the Neighborhood and Community Services standing committee or the Planning and Development Committee
Speaker 5
for reports for various city departments
President Sheffield
before reports will be referred to the Planning and Economic Development standing committee for the public health and safety standing committee.
Speaker 5
14 reports from various city departments.
President Sheffield
Before it team 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.
Unknown Speaker
There are no items Madam President.
President Sheffield
All right. We will call now for public comments. And everyone will have two minutes Miss Lyons you will go first followed by a restaurant.
Speaker 6
Okay, you know, of course you know why I'm here. I'm here of course to voice the importance of receiving the overpaid property tax to that to the Detroit residents which is an injustice. If it is not done. That $600 million is Dugan or Dan Gilbert dividing it among themselves. I know Miss Sheffield, you did try and you did step forward. Although I haven't seen we haven't seen anything. At least you have the night was the one that did step forward. Again, I like to say what is happening with that money? How can $600 million just be null and void and just sitting somewhere and I know it's gaining interest. There has to be somebody to go to them and audit this. Dugan, who is no more than the spirit of emelec because he seems to have free money for Dan Gilbert and bed rock. But he closes the door on the Detroit residents which is so unfair. So please don't forget us. And this Miss. Miss Oh, shoot. I'm sorry. Dr. Elliott, maybe she says she's financial. Maybe I can ask her where this money is being misplaced because it has to have an answer. How much time Oh shoot. And but I want to also speak up for the bus drivers. I love riding Detroit buses, and that what the drivers have to put up is just awful. I've been on a bus when the police have risen up. People have called them names they have tried to start fights with them. They get on the bus and don't want to pay and they should not receive in my opinion, less than $30. That's a whole lot of work for them to go through. So please think about them because they deserve so much more.
President Sheffield
Reliance restaurant, followed by Miss Mayberry.
Speaker 7
Good morning. I'm here to talk again about the library's administrative fee. The administrative fee was found to be without charge for the library for years at $1.2 million without any documented justification. When this was challenged, the city said that they were going to read not to us but to the library that they were going to reduce the fee from 1.2 million to $700,000. After this was made after the original dot lack of documentation was made public. Of course there was no documentation for $700,000 either but when I I raised this at an evening meeting of city council A while back, it was reported to city council that the library had approved the 700,000 agreed with the $700,000. I raised this question at a Library Commission meeting and I was told that the city had promised in March to give a document justifying the $700,000 expenses. And in later May meeting two months later there no documentation had been received. So they have had never had a basis to make approval of anything. And so any communication to council members, what was it best premature and maybe untrue in terms of the library approving $700,000? The fact is, there is no justification but that's what was put into the budget and it's being charged and they plan to continue to charge it. I remind council members that in the last nine years to 10 years $38 million has been taken from our library and it's caused real harm and we're going to ask you again to restore there is some legitimate costs. But when I talked with the budget director I made the case that that those costs probably are under $100,000 Oh my time, the time it ran out already. You know what I'm saying?
President Sheffield
Yeah, please follow spoke and I was sitting here going through my email Mr. Blank, because this was something that I specifically added to the executive session during budget. I have emails from Mr. Watson that indicated that they did come to an agreement to reduce the fee I think it was to what was the amount that you mentioned half or 40%? Yeah. And so if we can possibly remember there ha No this is your committee add this as a line item to budget Finance and Audit so that we can just follow up on what's the status of the administration, the administrative fee with the Detroit Public Library, and what happened during our budget deliberations and what has taken place to date. So the clerk would add this as a line item to budget Finance and Audit please. There are no objections,
Speaker 8
discussion this very quickly. And so did this. Come in Through you, madam prison to you? Did this come through as a memo to the committee already during the budget session? I know we've dealt with many of those those memorandums
President Sheffield
No, I don't think we did. An official memo. But after today, we can follow up with a memo as well. Okay, but if we could please just add it as a line item, and I will attach the email from Mr. Watson as well. So, thank you very much. Thank you so much. All right. And we have Miss Mayberry followed by Xavier. Xavier board. This Mayberry
Speaker 9
Hello, everyone. Once again, I'm coming before you again to ask for the flag to be flown on June 10. Day. I know I've been coming on quite often to find out what what's your decision what time we're going to have that flag to be flown over the city of Detroit to represent say there was a legal holiday that you know that we will have that flag to be flown over to city Detroit. And, you know, Aston and Aston no time yet. No timeframe or what time that I can ask him. I'm talking to the city of Detroit who's going to come out and help me to support that flag being flown at that particular time. So I'm looking for that. And I'm also to end our Juneteenth weekend. We're going to be at the Merlin King Memorial Park. Because Marcia because it is the 61st anniversary of the Martin Luther King. I had a dream speech that was spoken here in the city of Detroit that we're going to still honor him in that park. I've been putting planting flowers out there and trying to get everything prepared for us to come out and and just just to honor him for that day. And we're going to leave peacefully his have just have this ceremony to remind us of our great leader of Martin Luther King. So I'm looking forward to having I've been talking to this today and still haven't got any response on how I can get restaurants because you had gave me numbers. Council President of numbers and I have not gotten any response from anyone about what we can do with getting those facilities in that park. You don't say although I know we had we're going to have a meeting on June the 18th at duckbill. Library at six o'clock for anyone who wants to come out and talk about the park because I know you had allocated money for the park to be restored. So I'm looking forward to people coming out for that also. So I'm just looking for a time.
President Sheffield
So we did submit a memo regarding the raising of the flag and at
Speaker 10
same time that we submitted the memo we found out that there actually is an event on Friday the 14th at Spirit plaza where they will be raising the flag for June T there's a ceremony that is taking place in spirit Plaza in annaroo in honor of Juneteenth and we'll get to that flyer. So they are doing a ceremony with the raising of a flag. And so that will take place on Friday the 14th in spirit Plaza. So we'll get to that and thank you so much. Okay, that was probably all to you. Thank you everyone. All right, and we'll follow up with you regarding MLK Park as well. All right, our next person will be missed. Xavier probably my property they put CDs put a demolition order on my property. And I received the builders permit on May on April 30. And by May 23. I had a demo order and my permit was revoked. I got a lot of money tied to this property. I got investors on hold and the city continued to want to tear the property down and go into this for two years trying to get a building permit once I get the building permit. I went straight to work starts completing the demolition. So we can start rebuilding. I was working on a Wednesday. On Thursday, I had a demo order on the property. Come Friday, the 24th wanted to the holiday. I had a revolt permit and all I wanted some help. Okay, I'm not sure if you want to state the property address publicly but we can get your information and then we can connect you directly with the council person that represent your district and see how we can help you while you're looking. I had talked to miss Ramirez Jolla, I talked to him and he was trying to help me and he referred me to come to you, council president. Okay, okay, so maybe he's in district five. I'm not sure. But let me just okay. So we'll get your you have it. We'll get your contact information and try to reach out now while he's here to the appropriate department to see what's going on with the property and how it gives support. Thank you. You're welcome. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you. For coming down. Of course it works. Good morning, city council. I'm following up on a letter that was written to Mary Sheffield on May 21. And I want to thank this elder who did speak on the Juneteenth flag and I just want to bring one in and show everyone what the Juneteenth flag looks like, as well as what it represents. It represents black Americans it is a black American holiday. So with all due respect, all marketing, flyers should not be bred black and green. They should not represent anything African because it is an American holiday. Prior to swinging this flag and raising this flag. We flung the the American flag because we are Americans and prior to that, in 1967, there was the black American heritage flag so we have that flag as well. And so black Americans are asking to be properly represented this Juneteenth because this is not about anybody else, but our ancestors who fought and died on this soil and were emancipated on this soil. So with all due respect, let's get it right from this day forward. It is not African and I just want to kind of highlight how important that is to our reparations. Okay, so Mary Sheffield, city council president, I know you have been present. You've been bringing your status. We appreciate it. But that is a dead end it is going nowhere if we're not stepping to the plate and representing black Americans in its truest form, bread, white and blue. Okay, so that's all I wanted to say. Thank you so much, but we did send a letter on May 21. We noticed that there is an employee event that is happening, and they're looking for African dancers and African drummers and I want to yield against that which should not be doing anything African on a black American holiday. Thank you. Thank you so much for that. We appreciate you miss Portia. At words. And Sandy fat. Yes. Hi, how are you? My name is Sandy. Fan. And I'm here for the secondary naming of the Peterborough street into Vincent Chin Boulevard I believe. And I didn't see it on the agenda. But we were asked to come and comment. And one thing I'm wanting to make you aware of the fact that it's not just this issue regarding the street itself. I'm part of a bit a larger committee, our friends and family of Detroit Chinatown project and my committee is focusing on the vision of what we would like to plan for the replacement of the area that used to be the Detroit Chinatown. Historically if you didn't know, the Chinese people have been coming to Detroit. My grandparents, my both my grandmother's, both sides of my family came to Detroit and there were about 40 Chinese families and all of Detroit when they first came and and the original Chinatown was at third in Michigan Avenue. And it was moved to when they put in the Bagley exit and they moved us to Cass and Peterborough. At the time that they moved in the 60s. Most of us at my generation were already living in the suburbs, and our grandparents were still remaining with the businesses that were in downtown Chinatown. The area that we were given, we had a very, very poor reputation. It was a red light district. It was Skid Row. It wasn't safe, and most of us would come to church in the afternoon at Central Methodist Church where they had a Chinese missionary. That's why the Chinese people came to Detroit. So the sponsors of our committee that is helping with this vision is not only the association of Chinese Americans, it's also central Methodist Church, and it's the Association the American citizens for justice this group was founded when Vincent Chin was killed by two Caucasian men with a baseball bat. And if you look at a PBS series that was just created in 2021, there's five episodes but the fifth episode is almost all about Vincent Chin. So we really would like you to consider the secondary naming. It is not just for that street, it's the whole community. Okay, thank you so much. We appreciate your comments. And our if you can please make sure the timer is on so that people can hear the timer. All right, thank you so much and Mr. Foster you will be our last in person the morning through the chair. Personally, I just wanted to say as I look around and see our city progressing in a fashion has progressed and I am happy for that. But we have to deal with on a progression on every level. We have to not just take care of our home sales, but we have to learn to love our neighbors and be neighborly. In Genesis four nine it says And the LORD said unto Cain, where it's able to my brother and he said I know not Am I my brother's keeper? And he said what has done the voice that I brought this blood for everyone to me from the ground? Well today the voice of the blood of our youth is crying out. They're crying out and saying Don't let my blood be shed and bang. They're crying out for justice. They're crying out for equality, crying out for peace. They cry now for democracy. They're crying out for opportunities. I hear their voice. Do you hear their voice? And to answer that question, Am I my brother's keeper? I am. So we must learn to listen to our youth. And be our brother's keeper is out here. And not just our old one. I know that tip. I am very happy for the homeless center. That was just illustrated yesterday. I think that that was a great start. I think it was a well thought out facility to address a lot of needs of the homeless. So obviously somebody who doesn't know our rec centers are very important and we have to keep our rec centers and keep them active. I'm very happy about Northwest activity center. One Stop Shop doing a very good job. Parks are important. I think Palmer Park is one of the more development parks here I'm actually happy to go out there and enjoy time with my children. I'm grateful for the CPR certificate I got in district for the opportunity to get it didn't cost me anything. So I'm very grateful for that. As we see black male again in this important more important now than ever, slanderous our nuclear weapon within the black community. We must combat that by uplifting each other. We must give Miss waters and here into where she trying to go. And I got a lot more to say but we must be more community and uplifting children within our communities be learned to be brotherly.
President Sheffield
Right. Thank you, Mr. Foster. All right, we will go to the online virtual callers.
Speaker 11
Good morning, Madam President. There were 23 Hands raised before you would cut off public comment. I'm sorry 28 hands and the first caller is Mike Duggan. We move
President Sheffield
now to our online callers. Who do we have first? Madam
Unknown Speaker
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Speaker 11
Okay, well, the first caller is Mike Duggan worst Mayor loses billions.
Speaker 12
Madam President, the first online caller is Mike Duggan. Worst Mayor loses billions in black wealth.
President Sheffield
All right, good morning.
Unknown Speaker
Good morning. Can you hear me? Morning Can you hear me
President Sheffield
we're not able to hear Hello. Hello.
Unknown Speaker
Hello.
President Sheffield
Alright. We are having issues with audio and are not able to hear our virtual participants so we will stand at ease and for a second to see what is going on. With our audio we will stand at ease
President Sheffield
they can hear a
Unknown Speaker
busy life. Thank you.
President Sheffield
Right to hear us Oh great. All right. All right. All right. We will call back to order our formal session and as we are trying to get the audio to work for public comment, we will proceed to our agenda and once we get our audio working we will come back to our public comment
President Sheffield
for the Neighborhood and Community Services standing committee from the Office of contracting and procurement also
Speaker 5
member Dr. Hall to resolutions noting that line items 16.1 and 16.2 were postponed from last week formal session. First items contract number 6006155 100%. City funding to provide manage cemetery operations and maintenance at Gethsemane Forest Hill and mount Hazel contractors premiere group Associates LLC, total contract amount $1,365,000. That's for general service and next contract this contract number of 6006207 100% capital funding to to provide improvements to city seawalls lower Eastside flood mitigation contractors Detroit building authority, total contract amount 2,700,000 That's for general services. Councilmember dr. Hall two resolutions
President Sheffield
that will be the vice chair of Neighborhood and Community Services. And I think that was a winner. Callaway and she's not here so then that will be member Benson will follow
Unknown Speaker
up my apologies.
Speaker 5
Madam president that would be for councilmember Bisson two resolutions. line item 16.1 is 16.2. Discussion.
President Sheffield
Okay. Move for discussion member Benson
Speaker 4
discussion item 16.2. My understanding is correct. There should be a request from the administration to remove that line item that accurate
President Sheffield
does not use so I haven't received anything to remove it. I know that member Johnson may still have some outstanding questions and was asking for a postponement of the item but not to be removed from the agenda.
Speaker 4
So she my conversation with member Johnson this morning is that there is a conversation with the administration and they should be requesting that that contract be removed today. So I want to make sure that we're all on the same page.
President Sheffield
So is there someone from the administration that can come on please speak to a line item 16.2?
President Sheffield
Mr. Washington, are you we're not going to be able to hear your
Speaker 4
resume, there's nobody who can respond. We can push that to the end. But my understanding is there's an agreement to remove that I want that request to come from the administration versus coming from counsel, which I believe is the proper process there. So motion to move lineup 16.2 to the end of the agenda
Unknown Speaker
once you
Speaker 13
Thank you, madam president through New Haven to member Benson, how do you feel about mu? We can't hear him. That's the problem. How do you feel about moving, sending this back to committee and then allowing the committee then to dispose of it? As opposed to going back to committee? There was like cleaner and get rid of it. Move on.
President Sheffield
Okay, there's a motion to send 16.2 back to committee and Hearing no objections that action will be taken.
Unknown Speaker
Motion to approve item 16.1.
President Sheffield
All right before we approve 16.1 discussion line item 90.1 is a petition on behalf of Silvia tamps Tomas to speak before council regarding the protest for this item. And so for my understanding, we should take up that petition first, prior to taking up line item 16.1. And we may need to postpone this one to the end of the agenda because we may need procurement to come on as well to speak to this item. So is there a motion to maybe move this on as well? To the motion to the agenda? Okay, Hearing no objections we will move 16.1 to the end of the agenda for the planning and development Standing Committee under unfinished business
Speaker 5
council president pro tem James Taylor in ordinance not in a roll call. also noting that this line item 17.1 was postponed from last week formal session.
President Sheffield
Pregnant potentate
Speaker 13
the president moved to discuss line item 17.1 Please
President Sheffield
Okay discussion.
Speaker 13
Thank you. I did have an opportunity to speak with the sponsor of the amendment and there was a request for a one week postponement. Leave this will more than likely be the last one we are discussing at this point but request for a one week postponement for line item 17.1. All right,
President Sheffield
Hearing no objections, we will postpone line item 17.1. That motion is approved by the Office of contracting and procurements.
Speaker 5
Council President Pro Tem James take a resolution or the deadline item 17.2 was postponed from last week. Horrible session. Contract Number 6004815 dash a one 100%. ARPA funding Amendment One to provide an extension of time and increase suppose for labor law repair training programs on track their environmental tested and consulting Incorporated. total contract amount $367,050. Less for housing and revitalization council president pro Tim take one resolution.
President Sheffield
President Pro Tem TAFE the president moved to discuss please. All right discussion.
Speaker 13
Thank you there was a request from HR D actually to postpone the vote for one week so they can provide information on this particular item. And if there are no objections, I'm moved to postpone banana 17.2 for one week.
President Sheffield
All right, Hearing no objections that will be postponed for one week. From the public health and safety standing committee,
Speaker 5
Councilmember Santiago Romero one resolution that only the line item 18.1 was postponed from last week's formal session. Contract Number 3073420 100%. City funding to provide an emergency demolition for the commercial property at once. 7900 John our include a basement backfill contractor inner city contracting LLC, total contract amount $491,928.95 cent less for construction and demolition. Councilmember Santiago Romero more resolutions.
President Sheffield
Councilmember Santiago Ramiro
Unknown Speaker
Thank you Madam President. Motion to approve
President Sheffield
any objections to line item 18.1. Hearing no objections, the one resolution will be approved and why not have 19.1 Is the requests for to speak before city council so we can postpone this one as well. This is the item I mentioned. Your no objections.
Unknown Speaker
Discussion?
President Sheffield
Yes, member Benson
Unknown Speaker
postponed. We have a date for a postponement
President Sheffield
not postponed I'm sorry. We want to move into the end of the agenda. Thank you. All right. We will move now to the new business portion of the agenda from the Office of contracting and procurement.
Speaker 5
Also, remember best set nine resolutions line items 20.1 through 20.9. And Madam President, I want to note that line item 20.9 was mistakenly placed on the agenda for today it should have been contract number 6005280 Dash eight one in reference to the far rail Farwell Recreation Center. I do have copies of that contract, madam president for everyone. Okay. First contract is contract number 6006087 100%. ARPA funding to provide evaluation services for the shot stopper CBI program contractor Regents of the University of Michigan total contract amount $377,025. That's for help. Next contract is contract number 6005446. Dash 811 100% are for funding Amendment One to provide an extension of time only for services to reduce violent crime in the city of Detroit through community violence intervention, CBI tactics, contractors Detroit 300 ca t LLC total contract amount 1,400,000 That's for help. Next contract is contract number 6005412 dash a one 100% proper funding Amendment One to provide extension of time only for services to reduce violent crime in the city of Detroit through community violence intervention, CBI tactic contractor New Era community connection total contract amount 1,400,000 That's for help. Next contract is contract number 6005403. Dash a one 100% opera funding Amendment One to provide extension of time only for services to reduce violent crime in the city of Detroit through community violence intervention, CBI tactics contractor Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency total contract amount 1,400,000 That's for help. Next contract is contract number 6005413. Dash 811 100%. ARPA funding Amendment One to provide an extension of time only for services to reduce violent crime in the city of Detroit through community violence intervention, CBI tactics contractor force Detroit total contract amount 1,400,000 That's for help. Contract Number will line item 20.6 Contract Number 6005401 dash a one 100% arpa funding Amendment One to provide extension of time only for services to reduce violent crime in the city of Detroit through community violence intervention, CBI tactics, contractor Detroit friends and family total contract amount 1,400,000 That's for help. Contract Number 6005402 dash a one 100%. ARPA funding Amendment One to provide extension of time only for services to reduce violent crime in the city of Detroit through community violence intervention, CBI tactics total contract amount 1,400,000 That's for help. Contract Number Nine item 20.8. Contract Number 6005921 100% grant funding to provide residential redevelopment of vacant parcels in North Corktown neighborhood contractors the community builders incorporated doing business as TCB affordable housing incorporated total contract amount 750,000 That's for building safety and engineering, environmental and last contract contract number 20.9. For me, yes.
Speaker 14
Yes, if 20.9 is incorrect, it should be removed. The new one shouldn't be walked on rather than read.
President Sheffield
Right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Is there a motion to remove line item 20.9. Discussion? Yes, member Benson is
Unknown Speaker
22.9 A contract is still needs to be approved.
President Sheffield
From my understanding you all move this out for regular business or is this in the show next,
Speaker 2
Madam President? Yes. This is supposed to be discussed next week in committee. Okay. All right. It was
President Sheffield
already in your committee. It will be excuse me
Unknown Speaker
it's in regular business. So yeah, that's what I thought.
President Sheffield
Okay, so this can be removed, Hearing no objections 20.9 will be removed from the agenda. And let's just take up these items first and then we'll walk on one the the contract Dr. Powers were you thinking I didn't disperse because it substitutes okay. Okay, Sara motion to walk on the contract 60052801 motion. Hearing no objections. We will walk on this contract. All right. Mr. Washington if you can come on really quick and win a test to see if we're able to hear you.
Unknown Speaker
Madam Chair, can you hear me?
President Sheffield
Yes, we can hear you. Great. Thank you. Alright, so member Benson. We are now moving line items 20.111 through 20.9 or 20.8. Excuse me. Eight, right. Motion alright. And just discussion really quick, and I'm not sure to the committee or to someone from LPD or the CVI contracts. There was a few of the contracts that mentioned they were a year extension but in the description of the actual contract it goes until October 31 2024. It was actually only a three month extension and that's for line item. 20.4 20.2 also only has a three month extension. However, the description matches it. They are a year long extension. So I'm not sure Mr. Washington if someone is on just to kind of give me an update on what the correct amount of time for those particular contracts should be.
President Sheffield
Mr Washington
Speaker 11
Madam President, it appears he dropped off but it looks like Ashley Wilson from LPD might be coming on.
Unknown Speaker
Good morning. legislative policy outside.
President Sheffield
Okay, good morning. Good
Speaker 15
morning. Ashley Wilson. legislative policy division and the description and the contract is correct. It is actually a three month extension until October 31 2024. And
President Sheffield
is that for all of the contracts or is there certain ones that are only three months and the other ones are a year long? Because in the description of the contracts, it says add one year or to July 31 2025. And it says that for every single one that CVI contracts, but in the description part at the top for some of them it only has a three month extension.
Speaker 15
Okay, if you can give me one moment to verify that I'll be right back
President Sheffield
through the Chair. Yes,
Speaker 16
we do have Annie Suvarna as well as Sandra you start online. Okay.
President Sheffield
We can promote those individuals.
Unknown Speaker
Thank you so much, Madam Chair.
President Sheffield
Can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you. Excellent.
Speaker 1
So let me clarify two of the contracts are four month extensions that should be Detroit, 300. And Wayne Metro, and the remaining four contracts for CVI organizations should be your long extensions. The reason for the difference there is that four of our groups have shown very promising early results we've seen significant declines in homicides and shootings in their areas. The other two have are making progress but need some additional time to refine their tactics and reach the same level of impact as the other groups. So we went with shorter extensions for them to give them a bit more time to work on their strategies compared to the year long extensions for the groups that have shown more significant results so far.
President Sheffield
Okay, thank you. And then as it relates to the evaluation of CBIC. We also have an additional contractor coming in place to evaluate the overall effectiveness of CVI for you to speak to the new process that will be in place and then also how that information will be shared both with counsel in the public as well.
Speaker 1
Absolutely happy to. So as counsel knows, we've been looking at homicides and non fatal shootings as the key outcomes in the shot stoppers program and we look at that based on DPD data we've been looking internally, the University of Michigan will really help us get a much deeper and more nuanced understanding of how we're achieving the results in the CBI program. So what they'll do is look at administrative data that we're collecting from the groups about what their activities are in each of their areas. They'll also be collecting survey data from residents in the community to understand how are they perceiving the shot stoppers program? How are they perceiving community violence intervention overall? And then finally, there'll be conducting focus groups with community members with folks from within the administration who work with CDI, folks from within the police department, you know, really the broad range of stakeholders who engage with the program to understand, you know, what's working, what's not where we can change, what have the impacts been of CBI again, we're all just looking for a more nuanced and deep understanding of how is this program operating in the community? And absolutely, we would be very happy to brief counsel, we're expecting to get regular reports from the University of Michigan. So we'd be happy to share with you any and all information that's helpful for your understanding of CVI and then similarly we can publish some of those evaluation evaluation findings. We are expecting again, regular reports and then a final report on the program.
President Sheffield
Okay, all right. Thank you so much for that information. And awesome Rubinson you have moved these for approval and this is 20.2 through 20.8. Are there any objections is concerned? Yes. Councilmember Santiago
Speaker 2
Amuro. Thank you, Madam President. I just want to confirm we have not voted on approving this group, correct. If that's the items that we're discussing right now are 20.1 through 20.8 20.8. So just want to get clarity on on track number 6005280 amendment number one. So I was just discussing with my team, but 20.9 should have been removed and we can leave that as is. But the contract that was just moved in was approved to regular business, not new business. So I believe what we just walked on should be removed as well and that I go through the process so if that's this is the farewell
President Sheffield
Recreation Center. This is the one that was just walked on. Correct. That should have that was approved
Speaker 2
to regular and not new so did not happen walked on. Enable it so I will motion to remove contract number 6005 to eight zero noting that it is going to be in committee this committee forced full session next week.
President Sheffield
Discussion. Yes, member Benson.
Speaker 4
So that was approved. So that's no longer in committee. So that one
Speaker 2
was it'll be seen. It is
Speaker 4
in transit, regular base. Okay. So make sure it's not going back to community has been approved and we've got a committee as well. Okay.
Unknown Speaker
Thank you. That was just a process. No, thank you, Madam President.
President Sheffield
Any objections? Hearing none, this will be removed from the agenda. And is there any further discussion? One row 20.8. hearing no further discussion, motion has been made for approval. Are there any objections? Hearing none, the resolutions will be approved.
Unknown Speaker
Of course a waiver allows 20.1 through 20.8.
President Sheffield
Any objections to a waiver? Hearing none a waiver will be attached to those items from the Office of contracting and procurement.
President Sheffield
Ready
Speaker 5
first contract this contract number is 6006240 100% are for funding to provide an install exhaust contamination removal system at DFD. Ladder 30 and edges 5557 is 60 contractor Rosman Enterprises Incorporated total contract amount $150,593 in myself, that's for fire. Next contract is contract number 6006135 100%. City funding to provide fire and EMS records management system. Contractor ESL Solutions Incorporated total contract amount $164,193.69 That's for fire. Next contract is contract number 3074597 100% grant funding to provide a HPE MSA 2060 storage error rate data store system contractor staples contract and commercial LLC total contract amount $742,834.78 cent that's for police. Last contract is contract number 6006209 100% grant funding to provide automatic license plate readers for various freeway locations. Contractor flag group incorporated total contract amount 6,250,000 That's for police Council Member Santiago Romero, four resolutions.
President Sheffield
Councilmember Santiago Romero and for Tarkwa November, Young has joined us as well. Local.
Unknown Speaker
So note Madam President,
President Sheffield
thank you, Santiago and Miriam. Thank you
Unknown Speaker
Madam President. Motion to approve 20 point 10 and 20 point 11.
President Sheffield
All right, motion has been made for approval, any discussion? Hearing no discussion and Hearing no objections. The two resolutions will be approved Member Santiago Romero. Thank you,
Speaker 2
Madam President. Motion to approve 20 points 12 and 20 point 13 If there's any need for discussion, all right.
President Sheffield
Any discussion on these items? All right Hearing no discussion, motion has been made for approval Are there any objections?
Speaker 2
Objection members Santiago Ramirez. 20 points 12 and 20 points 13.
Speaker 5
A clerk would note local cell note Madam President.
President Sheffield
Hearing no further objections. The two resolutions will be approved
Unknown Speaker
was a waiver lines 20 point 12 and 20 point 13.
President Sheffield
I'm going to object to 20 point 13. And if there are no other objections, 20 point 12 can have a waiver attached and motion passes. In 20 point 13 for a waiver does feel from the law department.
Speaker 5
Tough to remember Bisset introduction of an ordinance line item 20 point 14.
President Sheffield
Councilmember Benson
Speaker 4
Madam president I move that the ordinance be read twice by title ordered printed and laid on the table.
President Sheffield
Hearing no objections that action will be taken councilmember Benson.
Unknown Speaker
Motion to set a public hearing TBD.
President Sheffield
All right. And this is the public hearing for the curfew ordinance for minors for June the 24th for the fireworks. And if there are no objections to scheduling a public hearing, that motion will be approved. From the Office of the Chief Financial Office, Office of Development in grants
Speaker 5
how suburban Santiago Romero one resolution line item 20 point 60
President Sheffield
Council Member Santiago Ramiro Thank you madam
Speaker 2
president motion to approve this is a appropriation for grant funding. To end the HIV epidemic.
President Sheffield
Hearing no objections, the one resolution will be approved. Under resolutions
Speaker 5
councilmember waters three resolutions line items 20 point 70 through 20 point 19.
Unknown Speaker
Councilmember waters Thank you, Madam President Move approval.
President Sheffield
And I think we have to take these up individually because a Roll Call is required. So we can start with 20 point 17 And if you are unable to attend, please vote no. Madam Clerk
Unknown Speaker
from line item 20 point 70. Madam President,
President Sheffield
and this is scheduling a closed session for Tuesday, June the 18th at 3:30pm.
President Sheffield
Madam Clerk, call the roll please.
Unknown Speaker
Councilmember afraid or how to third oh no member Donna also member Gabriela Santiago Romero. Yes. Also President Pro Tem James Tate. Yes. Councilmember Barry waters.
Unknown Speaker
Yes.
Unknown Speaker
Councilmember calling you on a second? Yes. Council President Mary Sheffield. Yes. Councilmember Scott business? No. Five days. Two days That motion passes. Mr. President.
President Sheffield
You have to have six votes. So that majority president that
Unknown Speaker
motion fails. Okay.
President Sheffield
All right. In line item 20. Point 18 is scheduling a closed session for Tuesday, June the 18th. At 3pm. And I'm not sure Mr. Whittaker instead of moving forward with failing and we don't have all of the members present. Should we maybe postpone voting for these I'm not sure if there's a time sensitivity because this is the same day at three o'clock. So just wanted to get maybe a direction on that. Maybe allow more members could be here to allow for.
Speaker 17
It's definitely necessary to have a quorum present at the actual meeting, but in order to have a closed session, you need two thirds vote. All right. So you need six to approve the closed session. But to actually have the closed session, at least five needs to be present.
President Sheffield
Right? I understand that I just didn't want it to be denied and then it has to be submitted to the process again versus just postponing it and taking it up next week when we have six votes is what I was trying to get at. But if we want to deny it again, I'm not sure if we have enough support to move forward today with six votes is what I was trying to get at.
Speaker 18
Through the Chair Graham Anderson. Law Department. We would definitely appreciate a postponement on this item as it is time sensitive and if it would be possible to have enough votes next week. The law department would be grateful. Thank you,
Speaker 17
man. It sounds like sounds like the date probably needs to be changed. as well. So if you bring it back next week, you probably need to bring it back with a different date where you can have more people present
Speaker 18
to the charity, the wealth the body, if we're able to make we're
President Sheffield
not sure what member Calloway schedule is, or member Johnson and it sounds like we just needed maybe one or two people yet one more person available. So if we could, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 8
Yeah, Madam President, I'm willing to reschedule something that I have on that day. So I like to make a motion to reconsider my previous vote.
Unknown Speaker
Okay. All right. Thank you, Councilman.
President Sheffield
You're correct. Yep. That we wanted to make sure we have. Yep. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you. So much. Remember, Dr. Powers? Er, there's a motion to reconsider line item 20.7 T. Hearing no objections, we will work consider line item 20 point 17 And Madam Clerk if you can read all line item 20 point 17
Speaker 5
Sure. Also remember Fred are hotter. Yes. And discussion?
Unknown Speaker
Right point. 70.
President Sheffield
There's a motion to approve 20 points 70. Discussion council member? Yeah.
Speaker 19
Once we got the Powers Resolution, I'll get this right. Once we move to reconsider, we can vote it up or down. We don't have to vote it No, and then vote again. Right. We can just vote to just vote it out. Because I'm not sure I'm quite on that. Point You're right.
Unknown Speaker
reconsidered, and then
Unknown Speaker
go to the vote. Okay.
Unknown Speaker
Yes, it
Unknown Speaker
vote yes to reconsider and they vote yes on the motion. That
President Sheffield
all right. So the motion at this point notice to reconsider. Are there any objections? Hearing none, That motion passes. And member Benson moved. I think we already did that member events and moved it again for approval now line item 20. Point 70. And you say so move the game. I just said so moves will be in. Thank you. Madam Clerk, if you could please call the roll for 20 point 70.
Speaker 5
Council member Fred or hold a third? Yes. Councilmember Gabriela Santiago Romero. Yes. Council President Pro Tem James Tate. Yes. Councilmember Mary waters. Yes. Councilmember. Call me on a second. Yes. Council President Mary Sheffield. Yes. Councilmember Scott Vincent. No. Madam president is six days in one day That motion passes
President Sheffield
all right, that motion that resolution is approved by an item 20 point 18. Madam Clerk, please call the roll for Tuesday, June 18 at 3pm for a closed session. Motion. Thank you member Benson Madam Clerk.
Speaker 5
Also remember Gabriela Santiago Romero. Yes. Council President Pro Tem James state. Councilmember Mary waters. Yes. Councilmember call me on a second. Yes. Council President Mary Sheffield. Yes. Councilmember Scott visit? No. Councilmember Fred Hall, the third. Yes, six. Yeas and one. No, that motion passes, Madam President.
President Sheffield
All right, that resolution is approved discussion. Yes.
Speaker 4
So this to yourself to LPD do we have to have a quorum to hold us close session?
Speaker 17
Madam President, yes, law department is indicated in situations like this where you got a request for indemnification and representation that they would like really all of counsel present because of the seriousness of the of the presentation that is being made. And so I think the law department has advised counsel to have at least a quorum present in a closed session, typically because closed session is not in public and it's not a an official meeting historically. We haven't had it but law department has ruled as determined now. We'll certainly be in verification representations hearings. You need at least a quorum present. So
Speaker 4
we are being advised by a lot of our budget, that we should have a quorum just to get a minimum number of council members at the indentification but as a rule, do we need a quorum outside of that recommendation for closed sessions?
Speaker 17
I have advised Council historically that you don't because it's not an official meeting of Congress. And
Speaker 4
the reason I'm asking that question is this is just an opportunity for council to rethink its rules, where we now require a closed session, require a quorum for closed session that we may not want to we may want to rethink that rule. But for the identification, there has been a suggestion that we may want to keep a rule that nature for that specific closed session, but maybe we think the rule that we have to have a quorum for all closed session that's just wanting to make that on the record.
President Sheffield
All right. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Robinson. All right. We will now move to line item 20 point 19 And
Unknown Speaker
Madam Clerk,
Speaker 5
and I know was moved together with the other two items for customer waters.
President Sheffield
Alright, so actually nine, item 20 point 19 is a resolution denying appeal or the bobby Ferguson request. And so we can actually take this item up now and we do have inspector high here if there's any questions a lot apartment in LPD. So is there a motion to move for discussion? Motion? All right. motion has been made for discussion, Mr. Whittaker and Mr. Anderson.
Speaker 18
Through the Chair Graham Anderson law department. Just want to say that Corporation Counsel agrees with the OIG argument that city council has the discretionary authority to deny Mr. Ferguson's appeal, based on his failure to not participate in the Available appeal process beforehand with the OIG and based on that failure Corporation Counsel recommends Mr. Ferguson's appeal be denied and that the OIG is department decision about and deferred to anything else from LPD.
President Sheffield
Okay, all right. Any discussion on this resolution denying the appeal? Right Hearing none member waters would be the one to move this one.
Unknown Speaker
Thank you. I um, I have a question. Yeah. What was the
Speaker 20
why didn't he participate in the process?
Speaker 18
For the chair Councilman Foreman waters your question Yeah, I thought you said Why did Mr. Ferguson not participate? I could not answer that for Mr. Ferguson.
Unknown Speaker
Okay. I didn't know if he gave a reason or anything like that. Not that I'm aware of.
Unknown Speaker
Okay. All right.
Unknown Speaker
Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you. President Move approval.
President Sheffield
All right motion has been made or approval. Misses line item 20 point 90 Regarding the resolution denying the appeal for Bobby Ferguson. Are there any objections? Hearing no objections, one resolution will be approved. Under resolutions
Speaker 5
so remember Santiago Romero, three resolutions, line items 20. Point 20 through 20 point 22.
President Sheffield
As I remember Santiago Ramiro,
Speaker 2
thank you, Madam President, motion to approve 20 points. 20. This is a resolution recognizing June as Immigrant Heritage Month 2021 Recognizing June as LGBT Q Pride Month and 2022 Recognizing June as national Caribbean American Heritage Month, noting that it is also mental health awareness for men's month. It's also Juneteenth. There's so much to celebrate, but these two record resolutions are simply recognizing these three items. Madam president motion to approve.
President Sheffield
All right motion has been made or approval. Hearing no objections. The three resolutions will be approved under resolutions
Speaker 5
summer Bill Santiago Romero on behalf of customers with the Callaway a resolution line item 20 point 23
President Sheffield
Councilmember Santiago Ramiro Thank you
Speaker 2
madam president motion to approve this is a resolution recognizing me six through 12 as National Nurses month or National Nurses Week.
President Sheffield
All right, any objections? Hearing no objections, the one resolution will be approved. All right, we can go back now to you give me a hard copy of the agenda as well so it's easier for me to go back to the cemetery contract.
Unknown Speaker
That will be line item 16.1. Madam President.
Unknown Speaker
President Yes,
Speaker 13
we can also bring another we move the item to back to committee and because we're waiting for the mics to warm back up for the administration, but I would ask based on feedback from my colleagues, things that we can bring back online on 16.2 as well. Since we have not closed session yet, that is the seawalls contract so we can remove it based on the conversation that member Johnson had with the administration
Unknown Speaker
and he's removed from the agenda.
Speaker 13
Yeah, I think that would be I believe that was the special they were having. But my issue was that it's kind of slow enough the agenda let's keep it moving but not back to back on the discussion.
President Sheffield
Yes, member Yeah.
Speaker 19
I just wanna make sure I get this clear as chairman, because I moved this out for the purposes of being able to take this up. I just want to make sure you want to remove this from the agenda, and then bring it back to committee. I just wanted to say what what what are we doing that well, what what will what will we expect to change? It hasn't already.
Speaker 13
Thank you. Um, so Through you, madam president to Chairman Young. This is a request from member Johnson. Oh, I was under the impression that conversation has been hailed by the members as well. So it sounds like you now. Okay,
Unknown Speaker
I understand it.
Speaker 13
So wanted to honor colleagues, Lucia designer, that doesn't design discussion.
Speaker 19
I was starting that now understanding we're going to move this back. We're going to try to get the grant to be able to make up the differences in the areas that that the seawall will not be covered on private land. I just wanted to make I believe, did you Sorry,
Speaker 13
madam president, that the request was to actually remove it. The agenda. That sounds like that has not taken place. Right point.
Unknown Speaker
But it's going back to committee though, right.
Speaker 13
We're currently now Through you, madam president. Currently, now it is going back to the committee but the request was actually removed it based on the conversation with the administration. So we did not get the chance to hear the administration. And that's what I believe we will allow an opportunity to to allow that to happen since we now have the microphones operating again, but the request from the member and it sounds like there was a desire at least to remove it from the agenda, especially if there was an agreement with the administration. So I'll stand out because I was not privy to those conversations.
President Sheffield
Well, what happened was to Washington Come on now, Mr. Washington, if you can have you come on now to speak to 16.2 since this was a request of the administration to remove from the agenda line item 16.2.
Speaker 16
Yes, Madam Chair, we are requesting that that item be removed. We are still working with member Johnson on it and so we would like to pull it at this time.
President Sheffield
So we had already sent this to committee to him. So
Speaker 14
go back to see we've already seen it to go back.
Unknown Speaker
Then go back to I had to reconsider. We can just go back and
Speaker 21
just the motion was approved to send it back to committee. We
Speaker 13
want to take it out of committee and vote them to get rid of the
Speaker 21
committee and then the committee to deal with it and to say never want to bring it
Speaker 13
done. That was my thought. But again, based on the conversation when he reconsidered I literally have no dog in this fight outside of me trying to execute with my colleague who
President Sheffield
so we just want to reconsider it then we'll just go
Speaker 13
to reconsider the vote for line item 16.2. Madam President,
President Sheffield
all right motion has been made to reconsider for line item 16.2 and Hearing no objections that action will be taken in member potentate. Aisle member Yang now we can motion to remove this item on the agenda.
Speaker 19
Motion to remove line item 16.2 from the agenda. All
President Sheffield
right, Hearing no objections, that action will be taken. All right now we are back to 16.1 which is our management of our cemetery cemeteries and before we move to 60.1, we need to take up 19.1 which is the request from Sylvia Thomas to speak for council regarding the contract or the cemetery management. Malik do we have someone on our Mr. Whittaker would you like to speak to the process for counsel to move forward
Speaker 17
that was shown to the cold when a individual has been thinks that they are wrong and they follow a petition challenging a bid through purchasing. They have a challenge. petition filed with purchasing in this particular instance, the vendor has filed a petition with purchasing that has been adjudicated and has been decided by the purchasing director pursuant to the code and if the council chooses to accept that outcome, then you will simply deny this petition. But if you want to consider the outcome and you want to grant what she's saying, then you would you would vote no you would allow her to speak and then vote no on the contract, which would start the process over.
President Sheffield
Okay. All right, colleagues, is everyone. Clear on how to proceed? Okay. So remember, yeah, we're going to take up 19.1 first and this is a petition on regarding from Sylvia Thomas
Speaker 19
discussion yes. Thank you, Madam President sign. I'm showing up being the late kid in class here. But I just wanted to know if we talked to the administration about this. I know they had some issues in terms of not wanting to take up line item 16 16.1. I wanted them to be addressed why that was.
President Sheffield
So Mr. Washington, do we have someone on or is there a recommendation to not move forward with 19.1
Unknown Speaker
Madam Chair, we do have director Salomaa
Unknown Speaker
Okay, Director stall.
Speaker 22
Through the Chair, thank you for this opportunity to speak to this protest. Um, as LPD mentioned, and I'm via the memo that my office distributed to council last week we have reviewed the protest. The protester felt that they did not get a fair chance or consideration in the evaluation process. We reviewed all submitted proposals, the scoring and the evaluation. And I confirmed the original evaluation results and support recommending moving the award to PJ forward
President Sheffield
we're not in here request to not move forward today. Sounds like we're okay to move forward with contract 90 line item 19.1.
Speaker 22
That's correct. The city is recommending to move forward with the contract 19 or 16.1
President Sheffield
excuse our 16.1 and the petition is 19.1. Point you remember young we're still we're taking a 19.1 petition
Unknown Speaker
first Okay. Okay. But that's why they didn't want to
President Sheffield
write motion.
Unknown Speaker
Motion to take up line on 19.1
President Sheffield
Motion to approve.
Unknown Speaker
Excuse me. Both to approve Lionel 19.1.
President Sheffield
All right. There's a motion to approve line item 19.1. Are there any objections? And you can show me as a note. And remember, if you are approving this then we will have to hold down the contract that has been proposed to us. For recommendation by the administration is what Mr. Whittaker just explain.
Unknown Speaker
Objection members Santiago Romero.
Unknown Speaker
Objection, Councilmember derbo
Unknown Speaker
discussion.
President Sheffield
We're in the middle of a boat. Oh.
Unknown Speaker
Okay, I forgot.
President Sheffield
So how many objectives
Speaker 5
do we have Madam President, you have four noes and three yeas and motion fails.
Speaker 19
See the key enemies objection as well. Yeah. Better
Speaker 5
president that will make it five knows in two days that motion fails. All right.
President Sheffield
That line item fails. And now we can go back to line item 16.1. Councilmember young
Speaker 19
motion to approve line item 16.1.
President Sheffield
In Madam Clerk, if you can please read that contract.
Speaker 5
Yes, Madam President. line item 16.1 is contract number 6006155 100% city funding to provide manage cemetery operations and maintenance at Gethsemane force field and mount Hazel contractors premier group Associates LLC. total contract amount is 1,365,000. And that's for general services. Member young or resolution.
President Sheffield
Councilmember Yang?
Unknown Speaker
Where are we at?
Unknown Speaker
16.1. Okay, I just read the contract.
Speaker 19
Oh, got it again. Okay. I'm going to move it. Blue to approve line out of 16.1.
President Sheffield
Very objection. Objection. Okay. All right. Any objections? Yes. The clerk would no member waters is a no buckle. So
Unknown Speaker
no, Madam President,
President Sheffield
any further objections? All right, hearing none 16.1 is approved. All right, that is all of the items. Are there any additional items that we need to discuss? Yes. Remember young?
Speaker 19
I need to walk on some items. Madam President. They're all events because we didn't have a quorum. And they were going to community services committee. And because we were away at Magna, the data come up. I think we've got to wait till I don't even want to add to the agenda and then take those items. Up.
President Sheffield
Well, we're gonna get into the agenda now. So if you want to print copies of them, then yes, we will walk those on when they're ready. And we will proceed to our referrals while we're waiting on that member young for the internal operation standing committee.
Speaker 5
Eight reports from various city departments min president we were told to do a lot of permit that line item 22.7. They're requesting that that item be removed. They submitted in an error that was request from the law department.
President Sheffield
Okay. And so is there a motion to remove 22.7 from the agenda? All right, Hearing no objections that action will be taken in the seven reports will be referred to the internal operations standing committee for the Neighborhood and Community Services standing committee reports from various city departments. The three reports will be referred to the Neighborhood and Community Services standing committee for planning and development standing committee.
Speaker 5
One report from the Office of the Chief Financial Officer Office of Development and grants.
President Sheffield
The one report will be referred to the Planning and Economic Development standing committee and for the public health and safety standing committee.
Unknown Speaker
Five reports from the area city departments.
President Sheffield
The five reports will be referred to the public health and safety Standing Committee under the consent agenda.
Unknown Speaker
There are no items Madam President. Okay.
President Sheffield
And before we move forward where member reports we do have your walk ons in for you?
Speaker 19
Yes, ma'am. Thank you, ma'am. I'm announced. Speaking Excellent. Okay, so the for events that we have to thank you, my colleagues to all your patients and for waiting
Unknown Speaker
for
Speaker 19
events that we have here is one Indian village house and garden tour committee. Secretariat we have to check troit third of it we have as Motor City Pride Parade. The fourth event we had was one I will never participate in is a tour Detroit's and those documents are being passed out as speed. Thank you, Mr. President, for your patience. I don't know if the administration has anything they want to contribute further.
President Sheffield
All right, there's a motion to walk those items on. Are there any objections to walking these events? One? All right, Hearing no objections. These items will be walked on to do business for a vote in any discussion on the items. All of these events have been approved by various departmental agencies. Any discussion on the items? Yes, member Young. Thank
Speaker 19
you. Madam President. I don't know if the administration had anything they want to comment or add further to this. Mr.
President Sheffield
Washington,
Speaker 16
or the chair. I don't have any additional comment at this time. But Ms. Fife is available if the body does have any questions
Unknown Speaker
when you want to move before approval?
Speaker 19
Yes, I do. I would like to do it one at a time. Thank you, Madam President. I would like to move off for walk ons Move to approve that.
President Sheffield
All right, a motion has been made for approval. Are there any objections? Hearing no objections before resolutions will be approved? I'm sure. Yes, Mr. White,
Unknown Speaker
and may we request the waiver on all those items as well? Motion.
President Sheffield
All right. motion has been made for a waiver. Hearing no objections that waiver will be attached to those items.
Unknown Speaker
Thank you so much.
President Sheffield
All right. We now need to go back to public comment.
Speaker 17
Well, Madam President, yes. As to line item, I think it was 19.1 18.1 only point 19. I'm sorry when you point 19. Would you please move for waiver on that item we'll have that move for waiver. The Bobby Ferguson appeal. Okay.
President Sheffield
There's a weak request for a waiver for 20 point 19. This is the resolution deny the appeal for Bobby Ferguson. Is there a motion? Motion? All right. motion has been made. And Hearing no objection. Wait, there is an objection. Okay. Member waters would like to object and so that motion does fail for a waiver. Okay, all right. We will go now to public comment. And how many columns do we have virtually?
Speaker 12
Madam President, there are 18 persons who are on for public comment virtually the first caller is rollin Wang.
President Sheffield
All right, good. Good afternoon. All right here for public comment.
Speaker 23
Thank you, Madam President and council members. I'm rolling Wong and I'm president of American citizens for justice. The lead organization in the justice for Vincent Chin campaign, but 42 years ago, the organization was founded at Cass and Peterborough in the odd long haul. And I just want to urge you to support the secondary street name ordinance 43 341 changed to allow for those individuals who have been interred or buried in the city of Detroit. And that would be just a one phrase, ordinance change it would recognize Vincent Chin who was buried in 1982 at Forest Lawn Cemetery. He's been inter or buried in the city for 42 years. And so with that, I just urge your support for that ordinance change to 43 341. Thank you very much.
President Sheffield
All right, thank you.
Unknown Speaker
The next caller is William M. Davis.
President Sheffield
Mr. Davis, good afternoon.
Speaker 24
Good afternoon. Can I be heard? Yes. Okay. First off, looking at 9.4 The land bank. I think that the city tried need to do a study as to see about the potential savings from getting revenue most of the properties and then land bank. I think that will increase our tax base. I think that would also reduce costs. And there we spend a lot of money doing a poor job of maintaining the front of some of these properties and some of these lights. You know, and I think that you know, that will put more properties on the tax roll that also perhaps it will help to reduce our overall drainage be you know, for everybody else, also. And I think that we should not be changing our secondary straightening process. You know, especially as it relates to somebody that did not live in the city was not killed in the city. And that's a bad thing that, you know, the city tried to associate it with what happened with Vincent Chan, because, you know, of course, I'm older than most young doesn't I was at Wayne State when that happened, you know, but you know, this and Ken did not live in the city. You know, he was not killed in the city that happened in Highland Park when he was leaving a strip club, you know, by two white guys that did not live in the city, you know, so I don't know why we're going through all this discussion and making these exceptions for people you know, we have a whole lot of people that have lived in the city of Detroit, and, you know, that contribute to the city tried to, you know, if we're going to make some changes, but we should, you know, stick with the way things are, and I think especially we need to do more with planning on reducing the overall land bank is as you know, it's a horrible institution and most hated in the city of Detroit. Thank you.
President Sheffield
Right, thank you, Mr. Davis.
Speaker 12
The next caller is Barry a Varner.
President Sheffield
Right Good afternoon, Miss Varner.
Speaker 20
Good afternoon to all within the sound of my voice. I want to start off by I'm going to apologize for my demeanor for yesterday and when I spoke at the committee meeting I want to personally apologize to honorable councilmember waters and honorable councilmember Denson. I was upset because I take my work very seriously. I love my community and the city. And when I put in my time when I advocate for issues that I feel and that community feels is important. I don't want feel like I've been railroaded. After I spoke I was contacted by Mrs. Lockett honorable council member their halls. she hissed staffed by my community liaison person. And she shared with me that the information that I received and regards to the grant I advocated for that information I received is a different grant. So I told her if it's not in writing, it did not happen but I have calmed down. And I did a little research and the name of the grant that I received information for is the Detroit home accessibility program. I'm humbly asking honorable council member waters or honorable council member Doha. Please confirm with me that this is a different program. And the people that I advocated for Sanders and people with disabilities will be eligible for the senior accessibility home repair fund without going through needing the money from the state standing. Thanks.
President Sheffield
Thank you so much Miss Varner.
Speaker 12
Madam President. The next caller is call in user one.
President Sheffield
All right, call the user one Good afternoon
President Sheffield
probably user one Good afternoon.
Speaker 25
Good afternoon, Madam President. Thank you so much for all that you do. I like to bring to your attention. That it is still ongoing retaliation when trying to get repairs there in terms of Building and Safety, where they are sending out notices to management that people call every week as if that's not your constitutional right. You're living in an inhabitable environment. Now the place is Red Bull Roach and my infested, filthy unclean carpet and I'd like to know why you know, tickets being issued is the first question. The second question I'd like to know, Madam President, is what measures is going to be done to bring in more stable allies plus services would be that it seems like when you're off the Michigan and Woodward line is too much slowness, and now you're having drivers to become hostile and irate and nothing gets done when you complain to customer service. Accent you evidence for the two all can see as a full body. What is allowed. It needs to stop it needs to be cleaned up. Finally, when are you all going to pass the bill to stop? Businesses from locking? Those that come in? Without permission you were supposed to have done this path last year and businesses are still locking you in but the same owners instead of just leaving Detroit and go someplace else, become very Rachel.
President Sheffield
Thank you so much, Michelle. And that ordinance is going through the process now. It should be before Council very very soon. So please stay tuned and we will make sure we follow up on your concerns via email as well. The
Unknown Speaker
next caller is Miko. A Williams.
President Sheffield
All right. Miko Williams. Good afternoon.
Speaker 26
Hi, good afternoon, Council. I just want to make public comment a bit. I'm glad to hear about the Juneteenth flag being raised I asked for the dashiki to be put on the city of Detroit to celebrate Juneteenth as well. I think it's very important that we should celebrate our heritage and we should celebrate our diaspora. I disagree with the public commenter before that says that Juneteenth should not be a black it should not be a black holiday. I think for what she's referring to it should have been Memorial Day where we should celebrate as Americans. It just sounded right wing and racist to me for a black disc. African American city. That's 80% such as Detroit to not celebrate its African heritage. We have Haitian we have Caribbean. We also have you know other cultures here that mesh well in the city of Detroit and we should be able to celebrate Juneteenth with everyone. That is celebratory of our liberation and our excellence and success. I also want to say that the I don't know where Byron Osbourne is we should have nominated him for the board of appeals. I don't know where that is. I also want Lieutenant Brandon Cole to be fired. That man harassed me in 2020 and doxed me and also put me up on a list to be targeted by police officers. I really want Lieutenant Brandon Cole to be gone and as for Mayor Duggan, I want him to know that all your comments are BS. You started this us versus them by putting on the lie that black leadership has failed in the city of Detroit and the interest within a white supremacist like you I reject all of his comments, and I wish Detroiters were to remember,
Speaker 19
thank you, man. I just also want to say Miko, African Americans also created Memorial Day as well. Matter of fact, that was a holiday that was created after the Civil War, where African Americans were suffering the losses due to the Union so I just want to let you know that as well. Thank you. All right. Thank
President Sheffield
you member. Yeah.
Speaker 12
The next caller is Chuck.
President Sheffield
All right. Good afternoon check. Yeah, can you hear me? Yes, we can.
Speaker 27
Yeah. So I just wanted to talk about I live in the state fair rounds. And I'm interested in having the solar project to be forward in my community. And I think it'd be a good opportunity for, for the house sales, because that's a that's a big thing in our area, where there's no house sales, so there can be no comparable units. So I just want to say I support the solar project and the solar fair grounds us my time.
President Sheffield
All right, thank you.
Speaker 12
The next caller is Karen's iPad.
President Sheffield
Right, good afternoon.
Unknown Speaker
Well,
President Sheffield
yes, we can hear you Good afternoon. Oh, great. That's when
Speaker 28
you get and have a lot of media issues here lately. Um, as it relates to a secondary street signs. And I'm gonna have to relate that also to districts and regionalism, because they all kind of, you know, count on each other. What I'm trying to say is like, you may go to a council district meeting and they don't even want to let you participate, because you're not in that district. But then you start talking about letting people from other cities or whatever, have a presentation in a district assembly. It just doesn't make a lot of sense to me when I'm trying to think about it. Either. We're going to be regionalised and that means everybody can participate in everything. Or we're going to be district allies, but you can participate if that's in your district. So ask me all this as an issue that needs a resolution because it's you know, it's conflicting, and it's confusing, you know, so I can't even you know, ask a question out of district meeting, but you come to this general meeting and we
President Sheffield
write sounds it sounds like we lost you. Miss Karen Winston.
Speaker 28
Jokes. I think we need to see the bylaws and rules. There should be administrative procedures for everything we're listening to. We don't have any reference. We can't just ask and then be told what the rules are. We have to be able to reference the rules. Every new whatever has to have, has to have an organization. It has to the laws and rules have to be okayed by at least presented at a public meeting and allow for public comment. So I just think we're doing everything wrong. Our articles of incorporation from Michigan Constitution, three to a 4.903 talks about articles of incorporation, necessity for bylaws, and incorporate a you know different rules. We got to follow them. Thanks
President Sheffield
Thank you.
Speaker 12
The next caller ends in 534534. Good
President Sheffield
afternoon.
Unknown Speaker
Yes, good morning, Mandy, her
President Sheffield
as you can. Yeah,
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Speaker 29
guess there were some technical problems. I couldn't even hear the meeting when it first came in. But really, I don't think there should have been a waiver put on anything, because you didn't hear from public comment first and it's supposed to be about the people. I would like to invite any one of these council members to have a conversation with me about the nuisance abatement program. And what I see over and over again to be selective enforcement. I would also like to talk to the land bank is trying to nuisance of eight people who even have vacant building certificates. Since when did they get in the business of telling people that they got to have their property occupied. If there's a process that allows for vacant building certificates. Why is it they're concerned about maybe peeling paint that doesn't make a house a nuisance? And yet, there seems to be no concern about the mowers hired by the city or even the developers like the people for who want to build work and learning moving over garbage constantly. There's literally broken glass on the sidewalk. They're cut up tin cans. pieces of plastic fugitive pieces of plastic broke blow onto my property. So something's really wrong in everyone and member waters. I looked you were on in the state legislature when the Michigan Fast Track Land Bank Authority Act was passed. So my guess is like none of this nuisance abatement stuff was contemplated, if it seems off to you, and it appeared to be off to William mechanical, when I mentioned it to him now chief judges at 36 District Court who was in the legislature at the time this is passed. And so with the overtaxation, the unconstitutional foreclosures, this nuisance abatement, really folks like it's just overwhelming to me what's going on?
President Sheffield
All right, thank you, Miss worry.
Speaker 12
The next caller is Samsung SM t 227. You
President Sheffield
all right, good afternoon. Hello. Yes. Good afternoon.
Unknown Speaker
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President Sheffield
can hear you.
Speaker 30
Okay, good. I didn't know city council president and counselors at large and obviously I heard you all say something about given land bank it out here are million dollars. Number one, number two. What would the city of Detroit be removed from our authorities? And I also want to thank Council at large coming young second, for his assistance from his staff. When I was talking about the land bank, I have two people I have Councilwoman mayor, one of the large now so I contacted Coleman Young office to assist me with it. But also with the Land Bank Authority, and I'm hearing that they want to do what they want to do. What about did you all vote to keep them contract when they expired in December? Are they still did you get that contract back to them after they expire? So I don't think they should have a contract. And I have a lot of people that said yes, the land bank, and I'm not finished lamb back. I know you hear me talking. I'm not finished. I have some other legal issues like you doing what you do. I have other legal issues that I'm going to do. So anytime anybody's taking care of property for 25 years and 17 years and that gets they not they're not aware of other legal avenues, but I'm gonna take every avenue I can to make sure that I get when I taken care of because well for me, it wouldn't be it would be my side law. Both of the houses, even though one went to bridge Detroit, it would be my sideline because you wouldn't have been nothing there. So I am going to continue doing what I'm doing and I can sit here and I think that's a woman Mary waters. At Large and Coleman Young staff. Thank you
Speaker 12
the next caller IDs in 299
President Sheffield
Good afternoon caller to nine i
Speaker 29
Very Good afternoon to everyone to all council members into the city of Detroit. Good afternoon. My name is Joyce Mo and Virginia Park community coalition within the boundaries of the Virginia Park community. I'm here today for two accounts really two issues. One, I have learned this lady who comes down there to every council member and talk about the $600 million now I'm not clear but did you say $6 million? What did you say you allocating $60 million? This million dollars would be 100 years if I if I'm correct, please, sometimes I'm off but not not often. But if you're talking about 100 years to repay that something's wrong, Something's definitely wrong here. My question to you to council members is what are you? What public steps are you taking there? Let us know that you have contacted these people provide compensation for these people. And what measures are you taking? So we have no idea is the money sitting there? Is it being used what fees provide public information or what's happening with the money to compensate those people who lost the stability of their home which is what very important to an individual you must have your home stable home stable, your stable home not stable your assets. So what's the vision that you provide and to provide that stability for those people that were under that? It did a foreclosure during that period of time? Number two, I was at a brunch on Saturday. The power of one dedicated woman I'm a 2020 honoree, and I was I was surprised that Auntie neighs they're very very, they say small organization but an organization that's providing public services to people there that I had is 1212079 Yellowstone right 12070 Excuse me. 1-200-701-2069 Yellowstone again, and it is way land bank. They bundled a bunch of houses, and they say well, you can't have this because it's a developer. I'm asking this council member, Council Member as body to back up and try to help some of this organization that gets us
President Sheffield
all right. Thank you, Miss Moore.
Unknown Speaker
The next caller is Kyle Kuntala.
Unknown Speaker
Good afternoon, counsel. May I be heard?
President Sheffield
Yes, you can.
Speaker 31
Okay, thank you for allowing me to comment by now. You know, I'm vehemently opposed to the solar field initiative. It was rushed we were lied to details were foggy. Information was given us given to us way too late. And for the city to be taking over 250 acres. I still think this 100% Should be a citywide vote. I know you guys vote for it. I still have no idea when that is. But since my comments on my social posts I've also been reached out to with more information regarding why there can't be community solar and how DTE has lobbied against community solar. I'm not sure if you guys are aware, but there is Senator Irwin is bringing up a bill at the state level to allow community solar and I think everybody in the city can be more interested in this if we all benefited instead of the city just getting the break from the DTE bills, right. So on top of that, scratch all the fact that I'm not for this 250 acres I think the biggest thing that really bothers me too. I'm for sustainability. I worked in the sustainability office, I want to see our city radically rebuild in a sustainable and affordable way. We're a UNESCO world city of design and we haven't even looked into any other designs that would make these areas that are prime real estate in a city that's been begging for population growth. We haven't even looked into any other options as opposed to just blanketing them and solar panels right. So for example, in Korea, they've put the solar panels over the bike lanes. Why couldn't we do that over the Joe Lewis Greenway? We haven't reached out to u of D U of M MSU. Any of these places to say, how would a new How would a new block look sustainable, affordable smaller homes with farms community centers in the middle of them. We just chose to pick 250 acres and blanket them and and solar fields. And I really think that is lazy for the city of Detroit. So anyway, I would like you all to vote no and reconsider this and think of better ways to use this money.
President Sheffield
All right, thank you.
Speaker 12
The next caller is a notion American citizens for justice.
President Sheffield
Good afternoon. Hello.
Speaker 32
I am a board member for AC J and I'm testifying in support of the ordinance change to allow a secondary street designation for an individual buried or intern the
Speaker 33
for not less than 10 years. Vincent Shen has been buried in the Forest Park Cemetery in Detroit for the past 42 years. Vincentians parents immigrated from China to the US and worked at a laundromat in Detroit until 1971. Chin and his parents lived in Highland Park and enclave of Detroit and moved to Oak Park eventually, up until his racially motivated assault and dad's chin was working for an automotive supplier in Detroit. Vincent shins legacy matters and political leaders such as yourselves play a huge role in combating anti Asian sentiments. The Detroit Housing Commission condemned Chinatown as part of their slum clearance program. The community of Chinatown was demolished in favor of the construction of Lodge Freeway. The implication of this depicts house Vincent shins case is absolutely 100% a Detroit issue and it is important to commemorate him in the city and enacting this ordinance change is important in honoring the ones robust Chinatown in Detroit. Thank you. All right, thank you. The next caller is Marguerite Maddox Scarlett. Good after No. Um, please make sure that they work correctly for lunch. To this meeting. The show. Live comm so we grew up
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Speaker 33
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Speaker 33
what you see more done have to be different No, no. Thank you. I'm done.
President Sheffield
All right. Thank you so much. Miss Maddox.
Speaker 12
Madam President. The next caller is phone number ending in 076.
President Sheffield
Good afternoon.
Speaker 12
I show caller ending in 076 as muted. They can unmute themselves by pressing star six if they're on the phone.
President Sheffield
That afternoon call 076.
Speaker 34
people that listen and then to call us this listen and then got true concerns about the city. I want you all to really listen to what I'm about to present. There's massive election for all transpiring in Detroit, call me the second. You continue to spread a false narrative that 100,000 votes was checked. So I'm gonna say this like as you repeat it, we checked 250 residents that allegedly voted and we found close to 50 of them fraudulently, which means we have a major problem and we may find fraudulent voters every day. Fred Daryl Hall He's shy he'll I talked to the Secretary of State of Ohio. He shy he he'll currently is registered to vote in Ohio. He was registered may 2020. And he's been he started voting 2020 here and 2021 absentee Are you in district seven. He does not live there. The same way Korea, a guy who she's out of state registered as your voter you need to resign because you have fraudulent voters. Last but not least common Young's the second it's only been two lawsuits filed on Janice Winston. We've never been associated with Trump with the 50 lawsuits to lawsuits filed on her for election fraud. Get one back pay off. And the other one backer Christina karamo. To hit the RNC. The one back PIF. She admitted IRS which he was much more than IRS. It was full. So again, people that's listening in you're never would get no justice on this council. They are contriving and a cheating and if y'all want to get anything transparent, you have to
President Sheffield
potentate, yes,
Speaker 13
thank you, Madam President, and will not give too much airtime to that. In my opinion, nonsense. The reality is, many folks continue to come to city council, giving words giving words they are entities and I say this all the time. There are entities that you can send this information to, to make sure if you think that city council is not doing our job, go above our heads but just talking coming to public comment, giving us false narrative and I'll say it myself and I guess I'll be the third target that you're going to now call out next time you call but the reality is there are so many different entities that that this information but yet and if you recall, he said there have been to two losses but he didn't mention here. So if you have information if you heard this solid information, please provide it to the entities that do the investigations into this type of fraudulent activity. If not, again, it's just public comment. Everyone has the right to do so but just because you say it Mr. Jackson does not make it true either. You got to prove your your information. So take it to the individuals, the authorities that have the ability to approve it, but you just telling city council that we're not doing our job, you're just telling us that we have the ability to do it. You're saying that there's no will and desire to do so. So now take it above our hands, I challenge you and take you to the authorities that can actually make something happen if you actually have that information. Otherwise, you can continue to lob allegations against his body over and over and over again, but it's not going anywhere. I encourage you to please take that information to authorities that can can actually execute whatever you're looking to get done. Thank you, Madam President.
President Sheffield
Thank you President Pro Tem tight, remember? Yeah,
Speaker 19
you know, I could have said it better myself. President Pro Tem I just want to say it I apologize. I wasn't here for the day that we had this discussion where I know there was someone that petitioned to speak about this issue before my committee and I know it got voted down because of that individual, past incidence. But I think this is why it's important for us to have this discussion. This was important for us to be able to bring it as normally you're right. I wouldn't bring oxygen to this. I just know that this is just something that if we don't nip this in the bud now if we don't get this out now, if we don't disprove this now, this is something that's only going to gain more steam, as elections are going to become closed and I'm not talking about Mr. Jackson's intentions. I think that where he's coming from is from a genuine place. But there are other people whose intentions are malicious and who will use these things as license to be able to come into this city and do very chaotic and quite frankly, engage acts of violence. And things that we don't need an act of terrorism in my opinion. So I will talk with my colleagues about how we can have this discussion, you know, at a later date in terms of getting this out, getting the information out having experts giving a testimony of what happened here and from my understanding what he said about fraud. He went on my one election he told my fraud over a multitude of MIDI elections. So I think this is something that needs to be discussed and needs to be aired out. So the truth could come out so people can know because people deserve to know that we have fair that we have safe and secure inlet and elections done with integrity. Thank you, Mr. President.
President Sheffield
Thank you, member Yang, President Pro Tem team.
Speaker 13
Thank you, Madam President. Last thing I believe that the certainly this last presidential election has gone through certain a level of scrutiny that we haven't seen before in the history of this country. But if folks wanted to truly know what the state of elections are in the city of Detroit, the clerk's office is having an event today at 1pm over the Wayne County Community College District is not open to the public.
President Sheffield
I was we were told
Speaker 13
Northwest Catholics is what I was told. It was sent out to me you know, there was nothing to say that it was not for that public was prohibited from it. So putting the information out there. That's what's happening today. 1pm Wayne County Community College District a state of elections in the city of Detroit, our city clerk, Janice Winfrey hosting Thank you. Thank
President Sheffield
you pro tem and we are still working to schedule either a committee of a whole or having the city clerk Secretary of State and I think there was an organization's that member Santiago Amuro has suggested come before council for discussion. So we are actively working on it now. All right, our next caller please.
Speaker 12
The next caller is Mike Duggan worse Mayor loses billions and black wealth. All right.
Speaker 35
Corruption does exist. Mr. Jackson is right. Mr. Coleman Yun told me in a press conference for the lab value tax that he will not help me get repaired Miss Varner. There is a quid pro quo in getting repairs. I've been asked for repair for 10 years and Mr. This pro Kobe Yang walked up to me in at the press conference I said the reason why I'm not getting new home repairs is because you criticize me in public comment. I have a witness. So it's not just what I'm saying. There's a quid pro quo there to no transparency I've been on the list all these different lists for repairs and still haven't gotten the repairs that I'm on the list for. I got help from nonprofit organizations, and I've gotten help from DTE, but not from these other places that I'm on the list for there are different lists this list for different people that give props to the mayor and props to Coleman Young who are corrupt and a fraud. Mr. Young and I want us to get to the you have the ability City Council. You'll hold hearings. You have subpoena power, Reverend Dr. Watson told me that you all have the ability to get to the bottom of it. There is some funny business going on election office and we need you to get to the real issue city. Council and Mr. Duggan has caused the loss of life in Detroit. Prior to the pandemic he cut off 1000s of people's water caused the epidemic and have a that made us worse for COVID-19 He turned away 6000 vaccines for COVID. And leaving this the President Biden scrambling to try to get to the bottom of it. Gotcha.
President Sheffield
Discussion. Councilmember Young.
Speaker 19
Thank you Madam President. Listen, Mr. Mayor. Can we just go somewhere and have this out? Seriously, like you know, I love you and I have respect for you. But we had this same conversation like every other month. And I you know, you say what you say and then I talk about the you know, $15,000 that I provided from a housing and revitalization department shout out to them. And then the $6,000 that I provided from, you know, the Community Health Corps is like, let's let's just sit down. Let's just have a discussion. And let's just work this out. I want to help you. I've helped you in the past. Just call my office 313224424 A dash 313-224-4248. Let's just get together and let's just work this out because I'm just tired. I don't operate well in these types of situations. I don't really want to help you. So let's just get together. And work this out. Okay, again, 313244248 Thank you. Take care. God bless.
President Sheffield
Thank you remember Yeah.
Speaker 12
The next caller is one of these coldest
President Sheffield
All right, good. Afternoon
President Sheffield
Yes, we can hear you.
President Sheffield
Right breaking up now.
Unknown Speaker
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Speaker 34
Oh, my I got pulled out of the meeting three times hands down. So I had to dial in. Can you hear me? Hello. I had problems hearing earlier. And I hope that you can hear me now. I'm coming from the Barber College on San Juan. I'm getting my hair cut right now. Please. Excuse the background noise. The hotline number is 313-444-9114 again the hotline numbers 31344491141 more time 313444911 phone that number was made so you can remember it. And on Facebook retro active fairness again on Facebook retro active fairness. Everybody under the sound of my voice I request and hope that you can ride the DDOT buses and see how it is and when you get on board. Don't be so dizzy or uppity. Talk to the people get the good, the bad and the ugly. You ain't got to ride with me but I want you to ride the buses. If you'd like to ride with me 313444911 For and I just want to let you all know DDOT is only on time 65% of the time or closer to 67 68% and just imagine if your car was broke down that much you would lose your job, you'd be suspended. All kinds of things would happen. So I'm just asking people to have sympathy and empathy. Also always raising money for my transmission repair and the bus tickets that I pass out at the bus stop that costs money. I did get a large donation they requested that I did not say their name and who they are. But I need about maybe two more $1,000 and I should be good. But it was a substantial donation and I thank God for that. And I attributed it to praying in the Holy Spirit and you all praying for me and my mother showed me Reliance at the rivers of growthpoint. Hope that the counseling was the rode the bus with me before we will be willing to do it again with other organizations. I do thank you. But again 67% of the time on time is horrible. You guys are doing what you can but we need your help.
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Speaker 36
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Speaker 36
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Speaker 19
For this program to flourish. And GSD director Krystal Perkins, who was also present, it was a phenomenal program. And I want to thank all of them for their participation also thank my staff for their assistance. I also want to say thank you to my staff for a wonderful coffee with Coleman for the community at McDonald's. That included the land bank staff, voter registration staff, and Rod Liggins, CEO of Detroit Regional Chamber and I also want to say thank you to 50 residents of bowing senior apartments who came out for a great luncheon. And last but not least, I want to also say Marlo Shawn Franklin, for allowing me to speak at the final cut to barbershop voters. Thank you very much.
President Sheffield
Thank you, member young member Santiago rimuru. No report. All right. Just wanted to mention really quick, two events that our our office has coming up. One is our community resource fair in partnership with Detroit at work that will be held on Wednesday, June with well over at Durfee innovation society on Collingwood's Street. Again, that's Wednesday, June the 12th. From 10am to 1:30pm. You can come out for baby supply assistance, food assistance, clothing assistance, technology assistance, utility assistance, childcare services. expungement assistance and much more. Again, that's Wednesday, June 12 at 10am at the Durfee innovation society. And then lastly, on June the 27th. Our office is hosting an affordable housing summit and resource fair. We will have intake one site so if anyone is experiencing homelessness or looking to be placed in affordable housing throughout the city of Detroit, you can come directly to this event and interact directly with the housing and revitalization department unite the Community Housing Coalition you officer eviction defense and several other stakeholders in organizations that can help directly with affordable housing here in the city of Detroit. Again that will be held on Thursday June the 27th from four to 8pm. At breakers covenant international church, more information will be provided. Lastly, I also wanted to mention that June also is Gun Violence Awareness month there will be several events happening not only in Detroit throughout the state of Michigan regarding gun violence awareness. There will be one taking place here on Saturday, June the 15th. There will be a press conference a march in a rally starting at 10am. And hopefully Oh Tim and I think member Dr. Hall usually come together with myself to commemorate gun violence in to raise awareness around the issue of gun violence in our city and looking forward to that event. That will conclude all of our member reports for this morning. And Adam Clark what is the next thing on your honor adoption
Unknown Speaker
Madam President,
President Sheffield
okay under adoption without committee reference, there are no items Madam President.
President Sheffield
And the next one please,
Unknown Speaker
under communications from the clerk. A report on approval of proceedings by the mayor. All right. And for you, Madam President, that report will be received in place on file report
President Sheffield
will be received and placed on file under testimonial resolutions and special privilege. There are no items, Madam President. All right. If there's nothing else to come before us. Yes. Councilmember Young.
Speaker 19
Thank you, man. Pres. I'll make it real quick. I just want to say thank you to Reverend Bartell on the avenue of fashion for allowing me to be a judge in the men's suit contests. Like any president.
President Sheffield
Thank you. There being no further business to come before us. Is there a motion to adjourn? All right. This meeting will stand adjourned.