Hey, Bo, everybody, I just want to let you know, it's four o'clock now, but we can't start the meeting because we are waiting on another Commissioner. Yeah, we gotta have a quorum. That's, that's, that's the protocol. We have to have a quorum. And our administrative blossom here did kind of call that Commissioner, but we haven't heard anything so at this moment. So if you could just, you know, work with me for just a little while longer. You know, we try to put this together. Lot of people on Zoom is waiting to hear about towing. You know, because Towing is a hot subject right now. You know, very hot subject. A private towing company cost you $800 for a tow. So people want to hear about towing. It's a hot subject right now, you know, so got my people on, supposed to be on Zoom, I want to hear it is so I'm just hopefully that.
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Miss Boston. You ready?
Okay, we go call to order to meeting. I'm the committee chairman central banks. We go have our invocation done. I'll do the invocation, father. We, thank you right now, recording in progress. Thank you for moving we. Thank you for bringing us clarity and understanding on towing in the name of Jesus. We just thank you right now. Introduction of commissioners starting to my left,
Commissioner Tamara Smith, Commissioner Cedric
banks, approval of the
May 28
agenda. The chair will entertain a motion for the approval of the agenda. I uh. A second, the motion has been properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion hearing? None. All in favor. Say, aye. Aye. Any opposed? No, the motion carries. All right. Entered, BOPC, BOPC, committee chairman. Report, I do not have one. We have a BOPC, yeah. Committee chairperson, report, we got a presentation. Now.
The presentation
is captain, go do that. Okay,
Captain, would you go ahead and lead us off in this presentation? Please?
Yes. Thank you. I'm Captain Jason Adams of the Detroit Police Department. I'm over the management services section. Most importantly, I'm over the police towing into town unit. I have a presentation to go over four points of discussion, an overview of the police towing and impound unit and police authorized toes, a third party toads, the fee change, which will be effective July, 1, 2025, and stolen vehicle, hardship and Crime Victim language. The first was the overview the police towing and impound unit. Etiu is entity within the department that is responsible for the administration of tow trucks for any tow initiated by any member of the Detroit Police Department. The unit operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Etiu consists of the tow desk, which is our dispatch tow monitoring, support, tow truck, vehicle operators, storage lots and auction teams. Our operations are open to the public to redeem vehicles, Monday through Friday, from 9am to 5pm and Saturday, from 10am to 2pm with extended hours for special details, we are closed on Sunday to the public the police towing and impound units. Responsibilities include maintain the function and security of all the department towing facilities and impound lots, maintain towing software for Tow rotations and inventory information and their status overall compliance from the authorized tow contractors oversee all tow desk operations, special tow details for department operations. We facilitate redemptions of vehicles, auctions, scrapping of vehicles impounded by the Detroit Police Department. We oversee auctions at department impound lots, the Detroit municipal parking department and the police authorized towing impound lots maintain inventory and financial transactions for towing and impound operations, and also we investigate internal and external towing complaints. Our current staffing at the police towing and impound unit, one lieutenant, three sergeants, 21 police officers, which includes administrative staff and operation of the impound lots. We have one police assistant. Our civilian staff includes eight members, which is for administrative and impound lots, and we have 21 vehicle operators, which are our tow truck drivers. These are our numbers as of May 12 of 2025, our current fleet at the Detroit Police Department towing unit includes 17 tow trucks. 14 are described as roll off flatbeds. There are three records and one highlight. Four locations that are overseen by the police towing impound unit include 10750,
Grand River.
11631, Mount Elliot, which is used for evidence lots, that's where our main office is,
9425, Grinnell
and our Linden lot, which is used for storage of non motor vehicles, which is not open to the public.
Our police authorized holders are contracted to work for the city. This is done through the office of contracting and procurement using the bidding process. These are set by city ordinance, it cannot be hired. Evidence, stolen vehicle recoveries and abandoned vehicles are towed to the police towing and impound unit lots by these authorized towingers. Vehicles, towing for parking complaints, accidents and proper ownership are taken to the police authorized tow lots or the contract lot the police authorized towards must meet the standards set by the city of Detroit, including facilities, staffing equipment and conduct oversight by the Detroit Police Department. Tow, monitor, myself, Captain Adams, and currently there are five companies contracted for the Detroit Police Department. This was as of May 12. The companies include Bobby's towing at 10401, Linden 7d, towing at 5700, East Nevada, Troy's towing at 9615, Grinnell Avenue. Wayne towing at 20495, Sherwood Street and BBK towing at 18 to one tromp Street. Now I'd like to discuss third party towers. Third party towers have no affiliation with the seat of Detroit, Detroit Police Department, or are contracted police authorized tow companies. The fees charged by third party towers are not regulated by contract, ordinance or law. Citizens may use third party towers for consensual totes, which are often found at accident scenes or with disabled vehicles. DPD members are required to serve a third party tow notes to inform citizens if they elect to not use a police authorized tow or police towing. This next slide is a copy of the notice that citizens will receive from our officers that would respond to, say, an accident scene, and the citizen decides they'd like to use a third party towing. And what this notice informs the citizen is that these fees cannot be any higher. The rate for the fee is 125 for the tow administrative fee is 75 and it's $15 a day per storage. The third party towers are not bound to this. They can charge any fee that they set July 1 of 2025 util rates come into effect. Our current fees are represented for one of the left columns, a light duty truck. Our light duty vehicle towed by a truck would be $125 would be most your passenger vehicles under 10,000 pounds, growth vehicle weight the medium duty, which would be a U haul truck, something of larger size, typically commercial, like commercial will be $175 and heavy duty would be very large commercial vehicles,
effective July 1, these fees are going to change To $225
for passenger vehicles, vehicles under 10,000 pounds, $425 for medium duty and 700 for hidden Another change is going to be to boats and campers and trailers. Effective July 1, that fee will be $700 with a flat fee, not based on vehicle weight or length or any other category other than it's a boat trailer camper and light duty includes motorcycles ATVs, recreational vehicles, anything that's not a polar Vehicle, typically small in size.
The current storage fees
are represented under the daily fee, $15 for light duty, 20 for medium, 25 for heavy and 15 for motorcycles. Effective July 1, the fees will be $30 for light duty, $40 for medium, 50 for heavy, again, which would be your commercial vehicles, and $30 for motorcycles out of town. Retrievals, which are not very common, the police authorized tow companies may charge a mileage fee for every mile outside of the cities, from the point they leave to the point they return. That will increase for light, medium and heavy, from $6 or $4 to $6 I'm sorry, light for light, medium for heavy duty, it'll be 695, to 889, the administrative fee will remain the same, from its currency to the new fee schedule in July.
Here's a breakdown of some of the numbers associated with towing in 2023 year to date. So that of May 11, the police towing an impound unit oversaw towing 11th out little over 11,000 vehicles. Same in 2024 in 2025 it increased to about 11 seven. I attribute the increase to the mild winter and the city's focus on global in 2023 the ptiu code, about 1800 vehicles. Very similar in 2024 and 2025 we're over 4300 the police authorized towing. Pretty consistent.
Around 9400 for 2023
around 9300 for 2024 and this year we're at 7446 so the percentage of tones of police towing an impound unit was fairly consistent from 23 and 24 around 16% in 2025 we're at about 36.7% and here's A more breakdown of the numbers for 2023 and 2024 total number of vehicles totaled around 31,000
and again, it reiterates the same numbers that were on there.
Something to mention is important when it in regards to towing or abandoned vehicles. Abandoned vehicles are defined under MCL, 2572528, states that abandoned vehicles, which gives the authority for abandoned vehicles to be impounded and auctioned a vehicles that are not redeemed are auctioned for the cost of vehicles not redeemed are auctioned for the cost of recovery for the hook storage and administrative fee, the maximum starting bid by state law and auction vehicles for the fees owed, that's under Michigan law, overages beyond the fees owed for hook storage and administrative go to the Treasury and are paid to the registered owner. Scrap vehicles are vehicles in poor condition, typically not redeemed, that failed to be purchased at auction. They were sold to scrap. Strap bids are awarded to the Office of contract and procurement, and this will parking department oversees that contract.
So into the waivers the
city of Detroit offered stolen vehicle feed waivers the qualifications the vehicle must be registered to an individual, the vehicle must be stolen and recovered in the city of Detroit. Residency is not a requirement or a factor. Insurance does not cover towing and storage fees. This does not apply to corporate entities. Does not apply to vehicles stolen in other jurisdictions, other cities, does not apply to false theft reports. Does not apply if the impound is a result of criminal activity by the vehicle next. Waiver is the hardship waiver, which is available to senior Detroit residents. Some of the considerations are, first time tow, low income relief, they're unable to meet basic living expenses, compassionate early release, student consideration, medical expenses, funeral expenses, notarized eviction, foreclosure of the principal residence, and again, it does not apply if the hardship was result of criminal charges or conditions.
The violent crime victim waiver has been
in Detroit Police Department policy for quite some time. Crime Victims of surviving families of homicide victims, victims of sexual assault, armed robbery or carjacking, are eligible to have their fees waived, and this is done automatically. Owner residency is not a factor. Storage fees are waived during the vehicle hold for it. This does not apply again if the vehicle owner was involved in criminal activity. Waiver process for stolen vehicles requires identification, proof of insurance if they're going to drive the vehicle from the lot, proof of ownership and the waiver affidavit request is completed at the time of detention, which is a two page document, basically fill in the blank information.
The violent crime victim
requires identification, proof of ownership, proof of insurance. If they're going to drive the vehicle from the lot, it's an automatic waiver of towing storage fees for vehicles impounded to the notification of release aid, meaning, if vehicles released and the parties don't pick the vehicle up for 30 days, then storage can apply. But typically, people will redeem their vehicles once they're notified, and hardship waivers, identification, proof of ownership, proof of insurance if they drive the vehicle, and supporting documentation specific to the hardship waiver, the reasons of request the
for information, context, applications and instructions are available at all the lots, including our location at 11631, Mount Elliot, 9425, Grinnell, 10750, Grand River. Our hours are Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm and Saturdays, 10am to 2pm closed on Sundays, for any questions, please feel free to call the police towing an impound unit at 313-596-8832, for any Questions regarding vehicles impounded at DPD lots in waking Thank
Thank you, Captain, for that presentation. Now
I'm hearing, you know, when you talk about private towing companies are charging $800 for towing. Can you explain that to audience here, if you know anything about it, not zoom. Audience, you know people. You know. Want to know why
gentlemen? Would you a gentleman? Will just tell me,
not long ago, he paid $800 for total. What is do they have the right to do that? What's going on there? Unfortunately,
they do. So I'd like to first contrast the police toying down unit in our police authorized overs, because our fees are set by city by city ordinance, okay, and the Detroit Police Department, police department, okay, and so the fees cannot be filed now the third party towards are not bound by any law or regulation to set their fees so private towards our third party. Yes, okay, alright. And so typical situation would be where people involved in an accident, and either through agreement or arrangement, they call for their own token, which could be good. They could have triple A or another company to pick up their vehicles, right? But they may call even on scrupulous company, and they can charge whatever fee schedule that they choose. There really are no regulation in the state of Michigan to require them to charge what we would consider and the one thing that we have for enforcement is under the city ordinance of 46 or 113 which is solicitation of tow services, it is illegal for a tow truck driver to pull up to an accident seating and offer to cover they have to be called or requested and then private towing, private token. Okay, that's not by police. Okay? If we order one, or if we dispatch one of the police trucks, or one of the contract trucks there, it's a police authorized but the third party tow it. They use some, lack of a better term, some random tow company, they can charge whatever they like to charge. And so what we've tried to do interact that we rephrase that, what we are doing is we're educating the public about this part of the industry. There are a lot of really good, credible people in this industry, but the ones that do this type of thing, that charge in orbit and feeds are very detriment. And we have some guests here from some of our contract companies, representatives in the industry, and they can elaborate on that, I'm sure as well. The unscrupulous acts by vulture towing, we call them, are very difficult to deal with, and we've been in police departments, in discussion with different industry people, including insurance companies, of trying to find other solutions to this. But our our biggest tool that we have to educating the public to know what the fees are before they agree to have somebody towing.
Okay, Captain, now triple A has a
road coverage. Triple
A, yes, and you pay $100 a year for triple A, they send you a card out the gold card, you get five toes for $100 so it's not worth paying $800 for one tow. We just pay $100 and triple A give you that little road coverage card, and you'll get five toes if your car get, you know, stalled out somewhere, right? So, you know, I just want to put that out there. People
call them these private towing companies getting murdered
with that if
persons involved, or people involved in an accident and they want to use tripling, right, then people absolutely allow them to use their private towing for consensual towing, the vehicle going on evidence or their total factor has seasonally. It's not really part of this discussion, but if the citizens want to use their vehicles in our policy set vehicle to the toll. Yeah, so once DPD
come out and tour car and take it to the yard. Okay, here's if that car stays in there five days. If I'm not mistaken, there's money every day. That money that the prices is going up right there each day. What type of, what type of storage fee is that? What type of
so right now it's $15 a day. For passengers, 15 a day, yup, in July 1, it'll be $30 a day. Okay,
alright.
Anybody else at the table? Have some passive information for the captain, Vice Chair, question, Vice Chair. So
I noticed that the chair, I noticed that the motorized vehicle, recreational vehicles, increased substantially from light duty, from 125, to 225, and so on. Is there a reason for the increase, or it's just because of the times changed?
So the last total increase was 2012
okay in the city ordinance, city council has the authority to convene authority commission is a recommendation, is the City Council can take in part or hold that recommendation, and city council the
ordinance members didn't charge.
I'll pass it as Oh, so city council said to be, so what's with the towing with the Detroit Police Department? Yes, they let the Detroit Police Department know what's going on
there. Yeah. Thank you.
Okay. Anybody else?
Administrator, Captain, on one of the slides, you refer to the state statute that governs consumer or private enterprise, and you mentioned that certain fees go to the Treasury. Would you refer to the state of Michigan Treasury on that slide because you cited the state law. Yes,
it is correct. So
technical point, it first goes to the city of Detroit Treasury, and then it goes to the state treasury, the state of Michigan Treasury then distributes the money back to the title owner of the vehicle
and the list of towers that you have as police authorized towers was current you said it as of May 1. May 12. May 12. Bobby's towing, which came to the meeting last week, is on that list. So would that list to be current today or not current today?
So effective May 20, Bobby's toll was her contract was terminated by office. Contract to be determined. Bobby's tow has asked the city and OCP to reconsider, and that's where it sits right now. Thank you for the clarification on the time.
Anybody, else at the table? I'll be coming to everybody out here doing public comments, so just hold on, get get your thoughts together. Coming anybody else at the table? Deputy Chief, you got any empty chief, you got anything? No, I don't have anything. You all said, Yes. Anybody else at the table? Candice, six, Secretary, okay, all right, we want to, we skip one. I'm sorry about that. Introduction of BOPC staff and Representative Candace.
Introduce them.
Yeah, introduce everybody. Oh, you or secretary,
secretary,
if we may just introduce ourselves for Brown. Is that okay? Okay, okay, that's fine. Lydia Garnier, secretary to the board of police commissioners. Candice Hayes, administrative assistant for the Florida police commissioners, Theresa blossom, these Community Relations Board,
excellent. All right.
Um, Captain, you got any more? Got anything else for us? You did a great presentation. You got anything else for us?
No, but just as a matter of clarity, through the board, Commissioner Smith, you asked about the increases in pricing, is, for the most part, that is the cost of doing business. So commission was able to make a business case to city council with regard to why they needed increased funding for those for those fees, they present a business case. Captain Adams is actually on the tow commission, but he says mutes on any suggestion regarding Thank you. I'm just an assumption that, because of everything else increasing, I guess is a sign for things to increase here as well. Yeah, a business case for additional funds
the prior increase,
okay, set for a while.
Okay, that's good. These, they don't go up every year,
showing people leniency.
Yeah. So
ready, Captain, you all said we got anything else.
Anybody got anything else for the captain?
No, okay,
all right, the role of BOPC in towing, presented by
Miss Teresa blossom.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. All right, welcome. This will be quick. It essentially lays out the history and then goes into current day. I
A so the slides are coming up. This presentation covers the role of the board of police commissioners under the city charter mandate that specifies in chapter in Article Seven, chapter eight, that the board has supervisory control and oversight of the police department, and it will just give the history of why the board has not had a direct role in private towing services used by DPD since the fall of 2022 as Captain Adams pointed out, that is the purview of the procurement division of the finance department, and the board still retains general oversight ability by looking at the DPD budget and unit operations that may relate to police authorized towing, as his presentation mentioned, they have employees in that division, and they also operate tow yards, and those were line items and The board, when the board considered the fiscal year budget, the city charter just lays out, as I said, that general mission to have oversight of the department, and the three areas of interest today include policy, budget and public complaints, or what we still call citizen complaints, but I always reiterate, you do not have to be a citizen to follow passport involvement and police authorized towing With respect to policy in 2010 the board established general rules for towing companies that wanted to tow for the police department. It required those towers to submit requests for permits those were displayed at the place of business, and it required a rotation of all towers to ensure fairness and equity. With respect to budget and 2018 The Board approved the DPD budget request to set up and operate a towing unit that you've heard Captain Adams talk about today and those police tow yards, and its formal name is the police towing and impound unit. With respect to policy, also in 2018 the board passed a resolution to provide the criteria for that hardship waiver. I so
now it changed shortly after that, in 2022 The board voted to transfer to the city finance department all of the responsibilities that it had previously exercised over police authorized towers. It no longer would issue permits. It would no longer deal with the operations of the tow companies, all of that moved into the administrative department and the executive branch solely with the finance department. The Finance Department put out a RFP or RFQ, or proposals. It went through the select, you know, the the public bid process, open bid process, and those contracts were negotiated and submitted to City Council for the review and approval, because under city charter only, only the City Council can approve those contracts.
So after the board transfer that power by majority vote, the general role has still and always would be in effect under the 2012 charter, so the board still reviews the annual budget periodically, mostly by order, but always at the request of the board. If the board makes requests, the finance the agency finance director comes to the board and gives updates on the budget. So most recently, the board approved the fiscal year, 2027 2026 budget. Previously, in fiscal year 25 our current year, there was a line item that specified that the unit had a budget of 4.1 and 28 employees. But I certainly heard the captain's cabinet Adams report, and it seems to be 50 or so in your in the unit. So there's likely another line item, and the proposed budget for that same line item was consistent now, because when the board approved DPD is ability to get those tow yards. There were capital improvements that needed to be made at those tow yards, and some of them have been completed, and there are capital funds attached to those projects. So the line item may not include capital improvements, because there's a separate capital improvement budget. So overall, the board continues to hear about towing, whether it's through the chief's weekly report. He mentioned last week that he had visited the tow yards any special presentation the budget department, for example, and Mr. Manzarko, and then, of course, precinct reports. Because when we're in the community, we often hear about their
traffic enforcement
operations. I'll take it in tow or traffic enforcement. So because of that traffic enforcement that deals with police authorized towing as well, and the chief and some of the assistant chiefs have shared some enforcement and precincts recently where people were driving without proper documentation and had vehicles tow. Police authorized towing. Now, of course, the board always handles complaints, non criminal complaints, and we certainly do see complaints about towing from time to time. So that continues to happen, and the unit for the board, the Office of the Chief Investigator, continues to accept those complaints, whether they come in by the hotline, the 135962499, number, or any of the other mechanisms. People can walk to a precinct, come to any BOPC office, certainly follow online, even we still take telefax so multiple ways to always file a complaint, and that is pretty much the summary of the history and where we are right now. The board has direct roller towing. Yes, you before 2023 it because it transfer that role to the city finance department, and the city finance department continues to oversee those contracts, and the board continues with the general supervision under this mandate for supervisory control and oversight.
Ms Bucha,
yes, okay, good presentation. Now you said there the complaints on towing? Do we have any documentations on what type of complaints be going on when folks cars get towed?
Mainly that they were towed.
We did have the civilian oversight analyst look at it. They were just a few, and they all related to the couple that we had related to that that issue, that their vehicle was tow.
Anybody at the table had any questions for Miss? That was a good presentation. That she she put out on the floor. Any questions,
go ahead. I
think I can offer a little more clarification on our staffing, at least towing an impound unit stand alone doesn't include all these numbers. So prior the I the dispatchers, correct communications, the abandoned vehicle Task Force oversaw the auction functions and a lot of that. So I'm including anybody that works in towing, but they may have a different line item on there. Thank you. So that's where to be utilized.
Thank you, Captain. Anybody else at the table? Have any questions for Miss blossom? Anybody else Deputy Chief got anything? Okay? All right. Well,
we go move on, and
we did the Detroit Police Department rolling towing, right? Yes, sir. Okay, Candice, let's do our announcements and that that'll take us into public comments.
Next one committee meeting will be Wednesday, June, 25 2025 at 4pm here at Detroit Public Safety headquarters on the in the woolberg room, the same room at 13, oh, 1/3, street, Detroit, Michigan, 48226,
Jose. Yes. Okay. Now where are we going to start going into public comments. Who we go start in with public comments. In here. We're on Zoom.
Nobody has their hands on nobody has their
hands raised up. No, okay. Well, we have quite a few people in here sure they're ready to go. It's your time for public comments. Anybody got anything to say? Ask the captain
or it's blossom.
What's up on your heart? What's on your heart? Go
ahead. Go right ahead. Thank you. Go right ahead.
Sure. I'm Peggy. I'm representing the important towing association I also took on the tour race, mission, Captain, can Auditor General, or
when we talk about those rates,
let it be said that we did our due diligence on those rates. We met several times over last summer. We did extensive research, both nationally and locally throughout the state, on what toll rates were. So those rates are good, and I would suggest that this body and the police may consider putting it out there as a suggestion to follow police authorized rates that private tow companies should and they would be instead with the rest. So the suggestion and something to deliberate, I know later, it's not, I'm not. I'm just saying that just I like to do you know the good work and educate people, please. I think the presentations were excellent. I did watch the budget presentation at the last page, and I did hear the CFO before I say that Detroit was not a revenue generating organization, and I thought that was the right answer, because the police commissioner could ask,
please come to the table. Sure. Thank you
wherever you want. I think, yeah, let's do here, right here, yeah,
let me start over. Go right ahead. Yeah, you can go right here. But all speakers come to the table when it's time to speak. Okay, we want you to come to the table that way you picked up on camera and everything.
Okay, continue. Yeah, go ahead. Okay, so I did hear the strike CFO at the last full board of police commissioners meeting say that Detroit Police is not a revenue generating organization, when asked by one of the police commissioners about why their revenue was so much lower than their expenses, and I thought that was a great answer, I would never want our police to be pressured to think that they have to earn revenue for the city in any way, shape or form. But it does beg the question, and this is not a critical of the police. This is just looking at a system that is current. Why then are the police system the city spending money on hiring tow truck drivers when they have freshly trained police authorized tow truck drivers already in the city. Why are they purchasing trucks when they have police authorized stores that have highly maintained tow trucks that they've invested billions in and spending money on impound yards other than evidence that obviously makes sense. The police should have their own evidence here, but when you have acres of zoning compliant police authorized coherent in the city, I just am putting that out there as an observation. It's not a criticism. I think the police do excellent work in the city of Detroit, but I do know that in the last, I want to say two years on a Zoom meeting, commander did say that the police will always be first in rotation. So that says to me, they're under pressure to earn revenue for the city. And that's, that's just, you know, a question I have, not a criticism,
but you entitled to your question. Yes, you're entitled to that. That's your right. Absolutely. Thank you. Like, welcome. Thank you. Okay, who's who's next? Just step to the table. Just step to the table.
Yeah, two minutes.
Yeah, we'll
give you three minutes. Okay, three minutes.
Oh, just a suggestion, and there are currently one Please operate to our city, Detroit, at a towing for 36 years in city, Detroit, we constantly are new customers that. Excuse me. Can you just speak up? Yes, sure. Sorry. We are constantly getting customers that we are towing for in the third precinct area, downtown stadium, they are not see any signs where the bike lanes are, no parking signs. So I was just going to suggest, and I don't feel something that you guys could do, but a lot of clusters are complaining about that. So if that's in, that could be enforced. So that way patrons are coming down to the city, Detroit means whatnot on the seagulls, no parking signs, just how says Detroit. Another question that I have is he, folks in campers are into the Linden a customer comes in and wants to retrieve their unit. How does, how do they come that's
just curious about that. Notice that,
like so, very rarely do we take a polar trailer that'll be
there items that are abandoned in very, very poor shape. Okay, so it's very rare. So scrappy says the strap items to be going, okay. I was just curious, how does customer COVID into vehicle or their their trailers, if, if the lot's closed in
the rare case that's happened, to make arrangements, okay?
Thank you very much. Appreciate it.
Thank you for your question. Thank you. Who's next step forward at the table? Anybody else on this side? We go stick to this side. Anybody else
you don't have anything?
All surprised at that the way you came up to me last Thursday and let me know you go be here with all these questions. Okay,
okay, good. Anybody else on this side?
Okay, on this questions,
anybody else down there?
All right, we all set Commissioner chair. We do have hand raised, yeah, okay. Bring them all which state your name and your Yeah, your name.
Hi. Can you hear me? Okay, yes. My name is Kaylee Licklider, and I'm a reporter with bridge Detroit. Bridge Detroit, okay, yeah, I know there's an ordinance that requires private towers to notify the police department before performing a non consensual tow from private property. I was just wondering if there's a process in place for tracking those notifications to ensure they're actually being made, and whether or not there's a process that as citizen could go through to make a complaint about that,
yes, I can answer that. So typically, what happens when a private private property impound is done by a non state of Detroit towing they contact the precinct desk. The vehicle has to be taken to the closest precinct and then entered into the law enforcement information network within 24 hours. And the tracking system, we use the GOV tow system for all the towers. So
okay, that's private and police authorized. Correct or no,
it's the
for private, for private property impounds non police towing. Those
are recorded as well. Dovetail. I towing.
Okay, thank you.
You're all set, ma'am,
yes, that's all Thank you. You're welcome. Anybody else up here on Zoom? Katniss,
right? All right,
but we down to adjournment now. Adjournment,
yeah, I entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting. Yeah, alright,
the Chair will entertain a motion to for adjournment. Is there a second? The motion have been properly moved in second? Any discussion hearing? None. All those in favor say, Aye. Any opposed? No. Alright, the motion hearings correct. We had a good meeting here. We, I thought this was a good meeting. You know, it was.
