Toss the member Scott Benson. Scott Benson and I. Councilmember
Letitia Johnson. Member Denzel and Tom McCambell. Council Membered Miller.
Member Miller indicated she would not be present today. So
our absence is excused. Kirklausow, no Mr. President. Councilmember Gabriela
Santiago Romero. Present. Council member Mary Waters. Present. Council member
Angela Whitfield Callaway. Council President Pro Tim Coleman Aye on
a second. President James Tate. Mr. President, you have a
foreign. Thank you, ma'am. We have a quorum which means
we're now in session. Before we go forward, we will
now begin the collection of public comment cards. If you
would like to provide comment to this body, please raise
your hand now. If you're in person and online. If
you have not received a card, keep that hand up.
If you're in person and someone from the team will
come by and provide you with one of those cards.
So we will be closing public comment very shortly. And
before we begin to begin the meeting, we have always
start with the invocation and providing this morning's invocation. We
have none other than Pastor Quantez Presley, a third new
hope Baptist Church located at one, two, eight, five, zero
Plymouth Road in District 7. Many of you young folks
around here don't know that this gentleman here actually served
in this building about 20 years ago. He did a
great job then. His heart was for the community at
that time and his heart is absolutely with the community
now. So Pastor Q, you can please come forward. The
floor is yours. Thank you for joining us this morning,
providing. This morning's a vacation. Sir. Thank you for having
me again to Council President Tate and Councilor Pro Tim
Young and his absence into all of the council members
and to the city of Detroit. Let us join our
hearts together for a word of invocation. God, we have
come on this terrific Tuesday with hearts full of humility
and gratitude. Thanking you for the experience of another day.
In this day, we commit ourselves to a spirit of
purpose and productivity. And we asked that you would activate
our gifts of reason. Discernment, and decision making. As we
endeavor to enhance and advance the quality of life of
those we are privileged to serve. God, we ask that
you would please attune our attitudes to be sensitive to
how what we do today impacts the lives of the
least, the last, and the left out. May all that
we do in say be pleasing to your sight and
in alignment with your will. And thou hast now with
your wisdom, your guidance, and your direction. As we thank
you for the opportunity that you have provided us to
make great things happen in our world, our community and
in our society. It is in your all sufficient names
we pray and give thanks. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Pastor
Presley, if you would like to stay with us. We
would love to have you, but totally understand if you're
a schedule does not allow. Thank you again for providing
us with that powerful prayer this morning. Right. The journal
of the session of Tuesday, March 17th, 2026 shall be
approved. And before we move forward, we do have two
presentations that are taking place this morning. I would like
to begin first with member Santiago Romero. She will present
a spirit of Detroit Award and acknowledgement of trans day
of visibility. Remember Santiago Romero, the floor of yours, ma'am.
Thank you, Mr. President. Good morning, everyone. That's has been
mentioned. Today, March 31st is transgender day of visibility. In
2026, this day is in specially important. The year 2025
was the sixth consecutive record - breaking year in the
number of anti - trans bills considered across the country.
There was a 45 percent increase in bills between 24
and 25 alone. Between 2021 and 2025, the number of
bills and consideration has increased by 668 percent. Further, Lincoln
institutes a genocide prevention and human security release its third
red flag alert for our country. The USA. Earlier this
month, in response to Trump's administration's anti - trans initiatives.
I share this to ring the alarm that our residents,
trans, and gender nonconforming Detroiters who live in our city
play pay taxes and patronize our local businesses are afraid
and under attack. As leaders, we have the responsibility to
both call out the hate and protect our residents, especially
the most marginalized and vulnerable among us. It requires us
to acknowledge the fact that trans people have always been
here. And will always be here. They are entitled to
the same rights as cisgender folks. Grounded in this reality,
I am excited to honor a Detroiter who's leading by
example. And works every day to build communities of care.
Or are trans neighbors, where they can live safely and
thrive with dignity. Lisa, I hope this award serves as
a confirmation that in Detroit's, you are seeing, you mattered,
and you are loved. With that, let's learn more about
her work. Lisa Bod is a Latina trans woman who
has called Detroit home for 13 years. As the LGBTQ
community liaison. For the Wayne County prosecutor's office. She has
helped secure more than 78 capital convictions with a hundred
percent conviction rates. She started a main change program. She
started a name change program that has helped transgender individuals
out of opening county, Wayne County, McComb and Washington County,
where she has successfully done over 800 name changes at
no cost to our community. Something that was possible due
to her extreme networking and hard work to secure pro
bono legal services from partners such as Florida and GM.
She's also the first trans woman of color in the
country to testify. As an expert witness on social determinants
of health and transgender violence. Further, polisa has helped train
Detroit Police Departments and Wayne County Sheriff's offices on LGBTQ
cultural competency. All said, Holy Cesa travels and trains other
prosecutors offices across the country on having a trans inclusion
policy like we do in Wayne County. She has helped
Nashville, Tennessee, St. Paul, Minnesota, and the county in Georgia.
All in act inclusive trans, policies within their court systems.
For this and so much more, it is my privilege
and honor that this year on Trans Day of Isibility,
we honor her with the spirit of Detroit Awards. Congratulations,
and thank you so much. Would like Mr. President
for her to share a few words possessive possible. Thank
you. Thank you. Good morning. I saw Latina trans woman
of color. I'm truly honored to be here on transgender
day of visibility. I want to thank the Detroit City
Council and Council Member, Ms. Santiago Romero, for honoring me
and seeing my hard work and my dedication to the
city. I want to thank my community for believing in
me. Allowing me to do this amazing work and change
the culture here in Michigan for so many Michiganders. This
work never stops. And though we are in a difficult
place in our climate, it is important to acknowledge the
process, the progress, excuse me, and the change that we
have made in Michigan. We are accomplishing great strides for
the transgender community and that will not stop. I am
so grateful for the elected officials that are allies and
for the Wayne County prosecutor's office for believing in me
and allowing me to do this monumental work. And my
affirming family. I'm so humbled, grateful, and full of joy
to see that people that have worked with me throughout
the years have came to support today. It lets me
know that my community is visible and is seen. I'll
continue to diligently work hard and continue to make effective
change for my community. And I truly can't say thank
you enough. And to my community, please keep fighting because
there's light at the end of the tunnel. So thank
you. Mr. President, thank you again for coming down today.
I am as a fellow queer Latina. The first queer
Latin elected to city council who has often the targets
of bigoted comments, um, I'm just so grateful for your
work. It's inspiring to me and it just reminds me
what I believe that we are all children of God
that we all care deeply about each other and that
if we just allow each other, uh, to care for
each other, we can really show love. So thank you.
Thank you for showing up. Thank you, Mr. President. I
know we have one more presentation. So I believe we'll
take a picture afterwards, but thank you. Thank you. All
right. Before we go forward, I'd like to turn the
plur over to member McCambell. Thank you, Mr. President. Um,
good morning to everyone. Thank you to my colleague member
Santel Carmelo for, um, honor and trans to visibility. And
thank you, Ms. Talysa, for all of your work. Um,
on behalf of the community, I just want to, uh,
echo that trans folks are here in Detroit deserve to
have safety deserve to have dignity, um, has been trans
focused, especially trans women of color who have embraced me
and ensure that I was safe and made sure that
I had what I need. So, um, extremely grateful and
extremely grateful for your work. So thank you. I just
wanted to express my gratitude. Thank you. Remember Santiago Merrill
want to thank you as well for bringing forward this
very important issue as someone who, uh, has taken, took
a while to understand, uh, the transition for those who,
uh, undergrow this process, um, I appreciate. And I appreciate
you because I have, uh, a transgender nephew now. And
again, it took a while, you know, when you are
putting little barrettes and beads and all those things on
a little girl's hair and you're trying to force this
on. And he showed us who he was. Um, and
without any fight whatsoever, we have loved him. He has
done everything that we have wanted him to do, not
on drugs, not harming anybody, living life the way we
want him to live at university doing great. So I'm
here to support him here to support all of our,
uh, residents of the city of Detroit fill in the
blank where you fall in. We are here to support
you. So thank you again for bringing this forward. Mrs.
On, we have, I say that on behalf of my
nephew, who has had a very difficult pie. Um, just
trying to be himself. Um, but it has been, um,
a journey for us all. And I'm thankful to be
where we are today at a point where we accept
him for who he is and providing him with the
support that he needs to, uh, thrive and grow in
this world. So thank you again. Thank you again. Member
Johnson. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to say,
uh, to Jasa, thank you for showing up as your
authentic self. I think it's so difficult for so many
people, just in general to do that. So thank you
for being who you are. Thank you for representing your
community. And thank you for showing up. It's extremely important.
And I wish we all would do it. I wish
we all had the courage and the confidence to do
it. But certainly do appreciate you for who you are.
Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So what we'll do
is we will, uh, go through our next presentation and
then we will have photos. All right. And next up
we have member Benson was here to present a very
special award honoring someone very near and dear and close
to us who served with the city of Detroit for
a number of years. And did so with excellence. I
do not want to spoil the surprise for those who
don't know. So here she is walking up. You spare
wild dresses? Thank you. Uh, and good morning everybody. It
is a special honor and privilege to present a testimonial
resolution to Denise Fair Razo as a distinguished health care
executive. Now as many of you know, uh, Denised Ferrazo
has been our director of health and our health department
since before 2019, 64 COVID. And so coming to the
city of Detroit, taking on this big role, filling in
big shoes. She's immediately hit with the greatest pandemic, probably
the greatest healthcare challenge that the United States of the
world has seen in generations, if not within a millennia.
So and she took it head on and got us
through. And we're all here. And funny thing is we
still have the remnants from that healthcare, the pandemic that
hit the entire world and put the city of Detroit
on his knees. And if people don't remember, we had
a lot of our residents who didn't make it out
of that. And so that was a really trying time
and a tough time. And director Ferrazo helped get us
through that. And so number one, I want to thank
her for her strength and her ability to help the
city of Detroit get through that at the time. That
was a huge deal. And it's still a huge deal.
And many of us over lives the fact that we
were able to attack that. And again, and make, make
our way through it. So just want to give her
a call to that. Help us to do that. So
let me read our testimonial resolution. And Denised Ferragazzo is
a distinguished health care executive. And also we also have
her husband here. If we go with my, come with
that. This is a family deal. And as my wife
tells me as I told my wife behind every strong
woman is a man rolling his eyes. So in his
eyes, man. Denise Farrell distinguished healthcare executive servant city of
Detroit's chief public health officer in this role. She leads
a team of 250 public health professionals and works diligently
to protect the health safety and wellbeing of Detroit residents.
The longest serving public health officer in the history of
Detroit and in the history of our health department. There
was another round of applause. For a while pointed by
Mirror Mike Duggan in September 2019 and lead the city's
public health efforts, armed with an MBA, MPH and FACHE.
I'm sure that is. She responded swiftly and decisively to
the COVID - 19 pandemic by spearheading a comprehensive public
health response. Her leadership helped save countless lives through outreach
initiatives rapid testing public education campaigns media engagement and vaccination
clinics. She also oversees critical functions such as communical disease,
interventions and environmental health and safety inspections under her leadership
to help department and ministers 40 services and programs, including
the food rating ordinance. That is very special in my
heart at one time. We were openly restaurants in the
CV choice serving poisonous food to our residents without any
type of accountability and then advocating that they could not
comply with the basic requirements by law that any restaurant
has to do. And these ferrals though helped me with
our food rating ordinance, dining with confidence program to ensure
that every family in the city of Detroit can dine
with confidence that we're feeding their family safe and healthy
food. And so I give an extra special that. Needs
to arouse tirelessly to expand her expertise in order to
better serve others. She earned a bachelor's of arts from
University of Michigan, a master of the public health from
University of California, Berkeley, and a master's of business administration
from the Mike Illish School of Business at Wayne State
University. She's also a boar certified health care management by
the American College of Healthcare Executives. Tons of accolades. And
here are some more. Denised Farrell was deeply committed to
advancing public health for all citizens. She serves on numerous
boards and has received multiple honors and recognition of her
outstanding leadership and service appointed by Governor Whitmer. She serves
on Michigan's public health advisory council. She is also an
active board member of the public health foundation. The Detroit
zoological authority, the parade company, the Troy Symphony Orchestra and
Green Hills School in 2020. She was recognized by crazy
business as one of the prestigious 40 under 40 named
a woman of impact by the Joyce Ivy Foundation and
honored as a woman of excellence by the Michigan Chronicle.
He has also. And there's more. He's also received a
Michigan Avenue Award of Public Service from the Southwest Detroit
Business Association and was recognized as a health champion by
the city of the city by the black family development.
And I'm going to forgot this last paragraph. But that
the office of councilmen Scott Vince and Detroit City Council
hereby recognized and these fair rosa for her exceptional service
to the people of Detroit and for leading with grace,
expertise and compassion while making health safety and quality of
life, top priorities. May God continue to bless your endeavors
here on out. Then one last fun fact about Denise
Ferrazzo, which many people don't know. I'm not sure if
anybody knows this. I didn't know this until today. She's
also a former Zumba instructor. Who is getting up early
to teach people Zumba three days a week. On top
of leading 250 people and speaking of safe in the
city of Detroit, Denised Fair Rosa. Thank you. Thank you.
I have to correct that last statement. I was a
Zumba instructor before I became the health officer. There was
no lag at the top of both, but I, this
is, this is so wonderful. Um, thank you so much
for this incredible honor. I am just so happy to
be here. It's really been a pleasure. Yep. This is
my husband, everybody. No, it's truly been, um, an honor
working with you. You're headed so many initiatives and the
health department has been, um, just so pleased to support
you. I also want to thank the entire Detroit City
Council for your partnership and service to our city. Thank
you for recognizing the health department and giving us the
support that we needed. Especially thankful to former Mayor Mike
Duggan for giving me the opportunity to lead the state
of Detroit Health Department. Um, when I started in September
of 2019, I remember the staff telling me that I
was the 12th health officer in 15 years. And they
looked in the up and down and said, well, how
long are you going to stay? And my response was
as long as you will have me. And it's been
almost seven years and the help. That I know that
less than six months later, the city of Detroit would
be hit with a pandemic. And the city would rely
on the health department to help lead us. So it
certainly has been an incredible journey. I want to thank
the staff of the Detroit Health Department for their leadership,
for their steadfast support, for my family, my parents, my
sisters who are watching online, who instilled in me strong
Christian values, a strong work ethic. They taught me to
put God first. And if you put God first, everything
else will line up. And it certainly helps. But finally,
I want to thank my husband, Rico Rado, for his
support, but also for being my calm in our mini
storms, um, that we faced, um, the city of Detroit.
We're getting ready to celebrate five years of marriage. So
it's been five years. And finally to the people of
Detroit. Thank you for, um, allowing me to serve for
trusting me to serve. It really has been an honor.
I am very hopeful for the city of Detroit. And
I'll be cheering from afar. Thank you so much. All
right. Let's take photos. Uh, and I would like to
know that we will now cut off the collection of
public comment cards.
In case they didn't know.
That.
Okay. Oh, please. Are you very awesome?
Totally deserved. I'm so proud. Thank you for watching.
All right. You need some balance on this.
There we go. Rico. S in the middle.
So my zero mill for solo just because.
You can't even throw another.
Gun. Which one? You talk about that. That's right. That's
right. All right. All right. Thank you so much.
Federal clerk there being no reconsideration or unfinished business. We
will proceed with the budget finance and audit standing committee.
11 reports for various city departments. 11 reports will be
referred to the budget finance and audits. Standing committee for
the internal operation standing committee. Seven reports for various city
departments. The seven reports would be referred to the internal
operations standing committee for the neighborhood and community services standing
committee. One report from the mayor's office. The one report
will be referred to the neighborhood and community services standing
committee for the planning and economic development standing committee. The
submittal of two memorandums. The two member randoms will be
referred to the planning and economic development standing committee for
the public health and safety standing committee. Seven reports from
various city departments. Seven reports would be referred to the
public health and safety standing committee. Who will now move
to the voting action. Items. Go to action matters, Madam
Clerk. There are no idles, Mr. President. Under other matters.
There are no items, Mr. President. On the communication from
the mayor and other governmental agencies and officials, no items,
Mr. President. Thank you so much. We will now move
to public comment. We do have 13 cards in person
and a number that are online. So we will give
everyone two minutes for general public comment this morning. Just
asking for those, uh, when your time is up, keep
your eye on the clock. Any time is up, please
relinquish the microphone to allow the person coming next to
you their opportunity to speak before this body. We're going
to start first with Eileen. Followed by Alvin Horn. Now
you see you being a public comment, sir. But then,
uh, followed by Brother Cunning. So Eileen Williams, Alvin Horn
and brother Cunningham. Ms. Williams. You may come before the
mark. Come on down. Be careful. Be careful. Take your
time. Take your time. I'm here today because I've got
two problems. One is the fraud against my home. They,
they, someone took out a deed or my property. So
I had, I came down to the morobian and the,
and the gentleman explained to me that, uh, they, you
know, when you put the side. Anyway, when they stabbed
it, they seemed that that was wrong. Whoever did it.
So they had to investigate. It's been by two years.
And they still haven't done anything. I went past there
because so many friends of mines had been telling me
that they to fix the house up and they done
moved in. Well, I had fixed it up some, you
know, but I didn't know nobody had moved into my
home. And when I went by there, they have. So
I want to know what, what else can I do?
Because that's what they told me to do was come
down to the Monroe building and talk to them about
the fraud. And I did that. And the gentleman, he
was very nice about it. And I've called. And he
said that the investigation is still going on. But I
don't get known, you know, no mailing, no email, no
nothing about what's going on with my property. But I'm
seeing people living in my home. Yes, ma'am. So it
sounds like, and we can't give you back and forth.
I just want to give you a little guidance here.
We're going to have someone, uh, work to assist you.
Where's your address of that? I say, don't give me
the address. I'm sorry. Giving the intersection. Of where the
home is located. Yes. Okay. Well, I'm on roles. I
mean, it's not rosemary, you know, right there off of
Dickerson. Okay. All right. I think someone from member Johnson's
office, um, provide you with assistance offline. That's council member
Johnson right there. All right. Okay. I thank you so
much. I'm so, I don't know how to feel. Thank
you. Yes, ma'am. We're going to do what we can
to assist. Next speaker, Alvin Horn. Followed by brother Cunningham,
followed by Miss Betty Lyons. Good morning, Mr. President. Members
of the Tracy Council of the last several years. The
assessor's officers reviewed some 6, 100 properties interedian specials. Of
those 6100, less than 250 were bought by something other
than a quick plane being. Wood planned age and land
contracts are perfectly legal ways of back property. But they
have their own dangers, particularly in the city where the
average age of a single family home is over 100
years old. Remember Johnson has spoken about the need to
bring pre - sale inspections back to the city. I'm
here to support that idea. People do not know what
they don't know. As I said, land contracts and quick
claim dates are perfectly legal ways of buying property. But
they have no guarantees. You are literally buying a house
as is. Some of what we've seen over the years.
Hollowed out furnaces. Painted over rotten window sales warp floor
boards. Cracks in the foundation have been hit. People don't
know what they don't know. And most of us don't
have the extra taste to actually examine the house. Um,
I realized that there are stresses and burdens on the
city's finances. And I don't have the wisdom assault. I
don't know how we find the mind to do it.
I do know it is a necessity. Particularly in the
city, as I said, with the average age of a
single family home is over a hundred years old. As
part of state council's ordinance, the assessor's office looks at
twenty percent of the properties of the city every year.
We've looked at over a third of the housing, housing
stock and the save the last several years. We have
reduced 90 percent of it. From good and average to
fear and poor. By the time we're done this year
as part of the mayor's executive order, more than 90
percent of housing stock in this city will be in
either fair or poor condition. That's just the reality of
100 - year - old homes. Thank you. Sir. Next
weekend, Brother Cunningham followed by Betty Lyons followed by Effie.
Hello everyone on the sound of my voice. 313 -
444 - 9114 - 3134449114. We want to one -
four. That number was made so you can remember it.
You can find my cash app, Patreon, different articles, uh,
reach out for prayer, reach out to be supportive. I
had a decent donation last week. And gas prices are
atrocious food. His atrocious, I'm still in like the poverty
level. Um, have some invisible disabilities. But, uh, God's good.
I'm not going to complain. Uh, so with proportion of
the donation, I give out hand women's bus tickets. Um,
mostly bus tickets and ice water in the summertime, half
off rise in the taxi cab, free rise. If they
look like they're like a senior older, if I can
afford to do it, I do it often. Here's a
31 day pass. Um, I don't know if anyone signed
on my voice inside the building. No, someone that can
use a 31 day pass for Detroit Department of Transportation
DOT coaches and smart bus. They work on both. Someone
may know someone before I leave, I'm leaving Wrath of
my public comment. I'll hand that to you, no problem.
I got some four hour passes. Um, it takes a
lot to get out if you don't have a lot
of money. I always say that the parking should be
validated. And busted gets be given out. To those who,
um, come down, um, to a city meeting. Everybody don't
have a plushed car free gasoline free insurance. Or if
you're paying for your insurance or car, not everybody has
that, um, benefit. Um, so know that you are blessed
to have a vehicle and pray for those who are
riding, uh, DOT. They're not on time. Often not clean
and they're not showing up. Thank you for passing the
budget. Thank you. Next speaker, Betty Lyons followed by Effie,
followed by Shirelle Kubiak. Okay. We're talking about truth. I'm
going to say my truth. What you're trying to uplift
is an abomination. To my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Yeah. Laugh. You are a reprobate mind, the ones who
go along with his trans and men and man and
women on women. It's evil and a satanic mentality. No
pity party for illegal immigrants. Oh, by the way, the
health department need to have a seminar on how the
STDs has exploded from this behavior. No pity party for
illegal immigrants. Romero waters, met Campbell, all fighting for illegal
immigrants. While the legal intennists are treated inhumane. Why don't
you rally for that? How they are treated. Put the
slum large in jail. Take their money and make whole
the people at the riverfront and the Leland tenants. Inhumane
how they're treated. And that attorney mallet. He is of
no use. He is dull - minded. He's not fighting
for them. He's helping the slum lords. And that 600
million dollars that's older, the Detroit citizens. Why don't you
excite for that? You're not fighting for that. No, you
helped Dugan still that money. Did he try residents? Where
is our justice? You talking about justice? Where is it?
For us who are the citizens, the real citizens. Real
men, real women. Those are the citizens frowned. I'm glad
because you're reacting, but you're not thinking you're reacting. That's
all you do. You don't think. You don't help. The
man that came down last week, the way he was
treated was awful. It was awful. Next caller, please. I'm
not next, calling next person. Effie. Followed by Cheryl Kubiak
followed by John Laslo. Yes, good morning. How are you
mourning? I'm a little closer to the mic so we
can hear you want to hear. I'm really happy to
be here today. Actually, um, most of you know who
I am. You know, I've knew you're for years. So,
but, uh, the reason I came here today, because number
one, you know, I was tired as an architect, but
say as an architect about 12 years ago, and then
when I retired, I decided that I would like to
teach. So I started teaching. You know, teaching young people,
you know, trying to help them, you know, and making
sure that they prepare for their lives and they pay
attention more to the education. So I've been there at
the school for 12 years now. And, uh, and I
said, I'll come here because, uh, I also belong to
the African world expo, the African world expo, uh, we
have been having the ban for the last 32 years.
As my father, this is the 30 second year of
the African world expert. And I was, I came here
to ask the council, you know, to try to work
with those. Because I try sometimes to get to you.
I do. You know, I will package it. I lived
here for the council members. So please look at the,
you know, the package and see how we can collaborate
together. And again, there are so much opportunities that is
city council, the city. And the council can work with
Africa. You know, to try to, you know, for development
collaboration. So, so we have to come together and try
to say, well, we can do, you know, to build
the city of Detroit and also, also Africa. Again, thank
you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank
you. Thank you. Our next speaker, Jarrell Kurdiak followed by
John Laslau followed by Mia Anderson. Good morning. Thanks so
much. Uh, I hope I'm not preempting the resolution in
honor of social work month, but I am Cheryl Kubiak.
I'm the dean of the Wayne State University School of
Social Work. And I wanted to come up here in
gratitude to the very rich history that this body has
in social work. I had the privilege of working for
council when Irma Henderson and Mary on the half you
were president. Both social workers. And I can say that
the values and the ethics that I learned in this
chamber, uh, and around the table for those three years,
really are the catalysts for the work that we do
now at Wayne State. And I hope that you know
that that education that I received, I want to give
back and continue to partner with you as a body
as well as the mayor. So thank you very much.
Thank you. Our next speaker, John Leslau followed by Mia
Anderson followed by Ms. Logan. My name is John D.
Lassello and I'm here today basically because in 2006 you
guys illegally double my home tax because I didn't know
the law. Now the government should know and obey its
own law. After I found out about the law, I
started peeling and after about 10 years of appealing, finally
last year, the board of review, all that mafia crap
brought my taxable value and my assess value to zero
confirmed by two people, uh, secretary of Board of Review,
uh, Michelle Hickson and Cynthia Burton. Now there was last
year, this year, they want to raise the tax back
to market value and stuff. Disregarding the state and local
laws that limit how much they can raise your text
if there's no, um, ownership transfer. I went to the
board of review meeting and they used the LCD screens
as cowboy bandit masks. They have no names you feel
in front of them like in front of KGB. And
they don't care about the state law, about the local
law, about the decision they made last year. If the
mafia, the tax mafia cannot go by the law, they
should be disbanded. And the home taxes should be abolished.
Abraham Lincoln wanted to abolish them. But you guys killed
him when he wanted to abolish the property tax. So
I'm asking your help to make the tax mafia, go
by the law to increase the tax according with the
law limits if there was no ownership transfer. And I
want to thank you so much. And please forward one
package to my councilwoman, one to the president. They should
not ignore the laws. The laws are for everybody to
follow. And the government should not play with the people
taking advantage because the people don't know your laws. You
guys know the law you should go. Thank you so
much. God bless you all. The next speaker, Miya Anderson
followed by Strawberry Logan followed by Kari Jordan. Hello. Hello.
I'm calling, I'm coming in today because I did actually
speak with my council person been singing yesterday. Um, I
have 10 lot purchase agreement with the land bank since
July. I've actually had two. They will not honor it.
One of the lots is part of the Dirty Dirk
contamination. I've asked them to proceed with the cell of
the nine other lots because they're not under investigation. I
asked Mr. Benson to confirm facts. He said he just
want to take them at face value with the land
bank saying that it's not safe to sell me the
other lots. I asked him to call Mr. Tim Pasolazzo,
who is the person who is in charge of the
investigation. He said he did indeed speak with him. And
then Mr. Pasolazzo said that the contamination does not spread
past a lot of investigation, but he still wants to
take the land bank at their word that they have
safety am I. So the last couple of times I
spoke, I'm giving you a little bit of tidbit about
how the land bank works. So I'm going to tell
y'all safety is not their highest priority. When I worked
there, I was in a project management and of maintenance.
People would call in and say this tree from your
lot that you have the priority to maintain is hanging
over my house dropping lens is clearly dead. I don't
want damage to my house. Can you please come remove
it? Uh, the policy was no, we're not going to
remove it. We don't have the funds, even though they
have multimillion dollars of funds back in those days from
you guys, y'all were getting it to them back then.
And it would fall on their homes. And then they
gave rule at the land bank legal would claim governmental
immunity. So I can tell you safety is not the
priority. The wellbeing is not the priority. They're refusing to
sell me to nine lots because their own personal preference.
And I'm encouraging the body, not my counsel person because
he's not going to do it because he just wants
to go along to get along. But to encourage them
to do what is right. However, I did vote for
you and you did walk the alley with me during
your campaign trail and you said you would get those
huge voters, the ones that are about 12 feet long
out of my alley. And I do expect for you
to honor your commitment to that. Thank you. Our next
speaker, strawberry Logan spotted by Kari Jordan followed by Josh
Man. Everyone. I'm here again. I've been coming for a
couple of years now whenever I can. I think it's
my reasonable service to let you guys know how I
feel about your governing. And I'm not too pleased about
it. Because I've been coming here and I've been basically
saying the same thing about over assessment of property taxes
about me losing my home as a consequence of that
without due process. Uh, I met with, I didn't meet
with him, but I spoke briefly with council president Tate
who was pro - Tim at the time, the mayor,
uh, the council president, nobody can help me. They send
me to nonprofits thinking that a nonprofits are going to
help me. If you don't, you who I voted to
represent me don't help me. Why would you think nonprofits
would help me? I haven't got no help. For the
last couple of years. And I think these, these, uh,
the comments should do something. Rather than just be a
sounding board. Answer our concerns. Publicly. Just in case other
citizens who have similar concerns would know what to do,
nowhere to go. You, you'll probably represent us. We'll come
here. Don't want to do an investigation. Don't want to
do nothing. Just listen for these two minutes. And then
it's over. That's ridiculous. I've been coming here for two
years. I have the same concerns. Nobody has done anything.
You haven't even discussed it far as I'm concerned. As
far as I know, you haven't come back to me
and said anything, give me any kind of direction except
go somewhere else. I think that's disappointing. Next speaker, Kari
Jordan, followed by Josh Mann, followed by looking. Council
members. My name is Kari Omara Jordan. And I am
honored to introduce myself as the newly elected president of
the Grixdale Farms neighborhood association. I'm reaching out on behalf
of a proud and deeply rooted community located between six
mile and seven mile wood and john R. We often
describe Gregsdale Farms as a hidden gem. But our goal
is to make sure it's hidden no longer. Our residents
are actively working together to strengthen safety, build connection, and
poor positive development into our neighborhood. From grassroots organizing to
community engagement, we are committed to creating a place where
families want to move in. Living and stay in. As
we join District 3, we are excited about the opportunity
to collaborate with the council and with others already doing
impactful work across the district. We know that meaningful change
happens through partnership. And so I speak directly to our
esteemed leader and council representative Scott Vinson. We are ready
to be a part of that work. We would greatly
appreciate your support as we continue building momentum, whether through
resources, guidance or simply staying connected to our efforts on
the ground. Thank you for your time. And we look
forward to working together to uplift not just Greg's Dale
Farms. The entire district three community and on behalf. Of
the city of Detroit. Thank you for your time. Thank
you. Next speaker is Josh Mann followed by Liberty, who
will be our final in - person speaker. For today.
Good morning everybody. Um, you know what I'm going to
say? Flock. You guys are old enough to remember privacy.
That thing's going to be gone. So, and being having
like grandkids, kids, nephews. Just to drive from Boston Edison
down to here. I had to pass 12 flocks surveillance
cameras. That are all not just monitoring their cataloging everything
about you, your car, the dirt on your car, how
many people. 2027, they're mandating technology in cars. In 2024,
they said by 2027, all cars have to have surveillance
systems. So now between our phones, our cars, our streets,
it's a complete surveillance state. And this is nothing that
anybody would want to bring future generations into. This is
going to be weaponized and used against us. I was
next in Hazel Park the other day next to an
Amazon fulfillment center. Every 90 seconds a drone flew over.
One after another, the dog was going crazy. And to
think like this is our future. And soon the surveillance
is going to be in the sky as well. You
can't control the cars or our phones, but you can
control this city. And please research this and look into
it because the decisions that are being made currently are
going to affect the future tremendously. And these need to
be really considered. And it's not about crime. It's about
mass surveillance of everybody. This isn't just for criminals. I
please, I really wish you all would think this through
about the implications that it's going to have for future
generations. Thank you. Our next speaker and final speaker in
person. Is liberty. Thank you. So to give us a
little focus, um, I'm going to say through the chair
to everybody here if you want to stand for the
Pledge of Allegiance. So I pledge of allegiance to the
flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands. One nation. Under God indivisible
with liberty and justice for all US citizens. I'm going
to add. And in the name of Father, Son, Holy
Spirit. Amen. So I missed, I think it was last
week the results of the property tax moratorium. Um, but
let me give you some more information. To look at
all over Michigan and the United States. There's a housing
shortage. Uh, the U S house oversight and accountability committee
held the meeting at the end of the Biden administration.
September 25th, 2024. And I'll give, uh, the clerk copy
of this 21 page report. So for all council members.
But anyone can look at it online, the title of
it, well, the hearing is entitled, the Border crisis, the
cost of chaos. But the title that you can look
up, uh, for everyone to read, the consequences of illegal
immigration for housing affordability, government budgets and American workers. And
again, the gentleman that brought this to, he was called
in 30 different oversight committees. Um, brought in as an
expert. 30 different ones. So, um, so basically what's happening
is the value of our homes. Are overinflated. Uh, because
of. Anyways next time. We are online public. And how
many callers did we have and who do you have
first. Morning, counsel president? Um, we have 18 callers online.
And the first number is ending in 03 knowledge. I
call her the floor, yours. You have two minutes, general
public comment.
Yeah, there's hit them right here on the phone talking
to you. To you directly to you. And you call
Canisia's mother, Canadia Coleman, DPP case number 20 dash 112.
And you said I wasn't in the right representative. For
the family. But the family didn't actually do nothing. It
was, ne, me, my friend Antony, Ivy's granddaughter, Canisia's daughter.
That asked me to help her with her mama. Now
you filed. You. Born heaven, turned right now. And it's
tolerant Kenlock pastor. Solomon Kinlock. Playing y'all got in place
to remove Mary. It's getting ready to run into monkey
wrench roof. I got a 45 geography in and around
Detroit or being stand up. You don't got that. When
you was at Benedict in high school, I could hear
you a lot about your whole tower. High school years.
Now what you did in college and went over to
the police department nine years city council and you the
constant president. To get this up. Your political career. It's
getting ready to run into monkey rich rule. Me. Rare
is a talented lawyer. You don't deserve to have no
law license in the state of Michigan. And it's born
evidence. I don't know what Warren game is now, but
I do know when I do know. And now it's
pastor Solomon Kellogg. He don't want to talk to me.
But he want to get information on Mary. How to
get hurt removed from office. It ain't going to work.
I support Mary shall feel now 1010 percent. Let's call
her please. Next caller is Betty A1. It's been a
vernor of the floor of Georgia. You have two minutes.
General public comment. Uh, good morning to all within the
sound of my voice. I'm Betty Aybar and the president
of the soda Ellsworth black association. If you are someone
who are having problems paying for your prescription, medical relief.
They have a prescription program where prescriptions costs eight dollars
and 30 cent. And that's for a month supply. And
they will mail or you can pick up the prescription.
They're located at 21725 mail rolls avenue. That's in Southfield,
Michigan. The telephone number is 313 866 533. Again,
3138665333. There's an application that you have to fill out.
Or you can go to the website to fill out
the application at www. Worldmedical relief. org. Www.
worldmedical relief. org. You must be 18 years old. There
is income. It's income - based program. If you're single,
you can earn up to 44, 800 dollars per year.
Again, 44, 800 dollars per year. If you're married, your
income would be 51, 200 dollars per year. You must
have proof of your income and picture ID. And that
can be licensed or state ID. There are people who
have insurance, but the deductible for the prescriptions is very
expensive. Uh, this eight dollars and 30 cent is for
any medication, as long as they can get the medication
and only will cost you eight dollars and 30 cent.
Please share the. Ms. Farner. Next caller. Next caller is
Jacqueline. Jack, when you have two minutes in the morning.
Jacqueline? I'm here. I wanted to comment on, I was
listening to the budget yesterday. And there's a million dollars
for, um, a chinatown. And I was just wondering why
are we reinventing Chinatown when, um, Chinese Americans don't live
here. It's less than one percent. And if the 10,
000, um, go to Wayne's, that go to Wayne state,
our students and professors, um, I hear Miss Barner calling
all the time for the 1500 dollars thing. And I'm
wondering if Whitecast City Council just, um, waive that fee
for her. Along with just seeing if the past that
she can get, um, help for her for the parts.
And that is my comment. Thank you. Next caller, please.
Caller is Dante Smith. Right. Call of the Floor George.
We have two minutes, general public comment. Good morning. Maybe
hurt. Good afternoon. Good morning. So, okay, start my time.
I appreciate how you were very childish yesterday, council present
tate. Uh, that was very unbecoming of a council president.
I also want to say to Gabriela Santiago, Maro was
very unbecoming of you to laugh and sneer at your
colleague when he was being unprofessional. Also, I was going
to say, uh, as a legislative body, it is very,
very important that you guys use the power to be
a check and balance to the executive and judicial branches
of government within the CD betray. I don't think that
you guys are, um, properly utilizing that power. There are
so many things that are happening in the city. So
many residents who come in with consistent concerns better not
be addressed things that are not being, um, attended to.
And we have so many belabor and concerns that we
keep calling down here about, I think it's very, very
sad that so many people call down here and talk
about housing. We have a land bank full of properties,
at least 750 that are sitting, uh, and some of
them could be put to productive use. And we also
have commercial buildings sitting in the land bank that could
be put to productive use. We have a homelessness crisis
in a city of Detroit. We have terrible bus system.
We have economic crisis. Our children, um, underfunded our children
can't read. We have a deplorable, um, educational system. And
I understand that it's only so many things you can
do within these sex and balances. But so many things
have been, uh, just left, we just left offend for
ourselves. Also, we need to downzone places like Kronos. We
have so many holes filled with contaminated dirt that have
been, the dirt has been taken out, but we have
open holes that are sitting around. We have children who
are on spring break, who are all around and they're
going to be close to these holes and not secure
properly, which is also terrible. And then yesterday, I went
downtown. I seen so many, uh, teenagers and young adults
with nothing to do. So they all came downtown. We're
eventually ended up fighting and stuff like that. We have
all these TVIs who may call it this money who
are not coming down there and dealing with the kids
who are as DPD calls and the main drivers of
violence. So I feel like we're giving out a lot
of money. We're not getting a lot of results. And
when you do more for the kids and more. Please.
Call her is long time active city of Detroit resident.
I did not hear that name, but call her the
floor, yours. You have two minutes, general public comment. Paul,
are you there? Mr. Whitefield, let's put that caller at
the end of the queue and go to the next,
please. Yes, sir. The next caller is please no more
speed mobs. Call of the floor is yours. You got
two minutes, general public comment. All or are you there?
Yes, we can hear you. Okay. Thank you. Um, well,
first of all, I'd like to say since it's the
last day of women's history month, I'd like to contribute
to my absolute favorite American hero, Harriet Tubman. The way
I was admired as a child because of all the
extraordinary things she did to save other people. I was
just always impressed by her and Betsy Ross also helped
people that got injured and more. So those were the,
those, but Harriet Tubman's my absolute favorite. And on that
note, I'd like to give this a Herr Judman Award
to Mary Waters. We don't agree on everything. But the
fact that she's doing 10. 2, the formal hearing on
the Michigan land bank authority. And then an 11. 3,
she wants to do the request on blight violations and
rental properties where people actually live. That's where it's important
not vacant buildings that the land banks trying to take
that it doesn't have a right to take. So, um,
uh, I remember waters. And here's the other thing I
don't understand about the rest of this body. Remember waters
was in the state legislature when this bill passed. Why
are you not listening to her? And in addition to
that, but I didn't have time or I wasn't at
the meeting, but ask William McConaughey. He was in the
state legislature also. And when I told him that the
land bank was taking people's private property when he knows
how much unattended publicly on flight there is, he gave
me this look like, huh? That doesn't sound like what
we voted for. No, cause it wasn't. So I commend
you member waters for continuing that and, you know, shifting
the priorities which should be 11. 3 and not taking
people's property in the other way. Of course you want
to make sure things are safe. Remember Campbell, thank you
for the animal and wildlife hearing thing and humane solutions.
We have a groundhoundhog migration problem from development in my
neighborhood. And we need help. Next caller, please. Next caller
is William M Davis. Mr. William and Davis, you have
two minutes, general public comment. Good morning. And can I
be hurry? Sir. I like to restate. I think the
land bank, y'all should give them four years, you know,
with the first year, they should start repairing the city
expenses associated with their properties via a physical property or
a lot
for cutting grass and what have you. Also I think
the city should be moving more so towards clean energy.
I worked out in Southwest Detroit for 34 years. And
the, you know, we have major respiratory issues there in
other parts of the city. So we should be moving
to more clean energy. And perhaps, you know. Some of
that should be like buildings and structures. But you know,
the clean energy and the choice should be working towards
trying to be one of the cleanest cities in this
country. Right now it's not. Cause especially in the area,
I worked at 482 Oh nine, a 4217. It's horrible.
Estrarrey problems and people die early. And especially old people
young people, you know, the city of the church should
be trying to be more clean, uh, we need, we
need to be using public service announcements and informing people,
the fact that they should be begging their trash, you
know, like say, you know, people that like they pulled
my trash today, the neighbor down the street who. Was
maybe new to this country or new to my neighborhood.
They never put their trash and bags. That's why you
have paper and stuff blowing in the street, you know,
things that help to clog up catch basins and make
it more likely over here in aviation. Then I said,
the basements and streets are going to flood. So it's
a whole lot to city can and should be doing.
Hopefully I will start doing more. Thank you. Thank you.
Next caller, please. Next caller is number ending in one,
two, four. Inning and one, two, four. The floor is
yours. You have two minutes. General public comment.
About the litter problem and the other problems it causes.
My collar will be crystal rice. Sir. Follow the floor
is yours. Two minutes in the republic comment. Hello. Can
I be hurt. Yes. Hi. Um, a few months ago
before, um, the, I know the new people there. Um,
I did come to city council and present, um, regarding
the purpose that were from fecal to six mile, especially
on the six mile area where there was garbage and
people living at homeless living in there. And it's deplorable.
Now, I know y'all get, I know this is the
worst part of the day for y'all, but y'all need
to listen to y'all citizens. This if this was addressed
last year, you wouldn't have news all over it and
the embarrassment, um, because I did tell y'all that it
was one owner that owned that. Um, so I, you
know, I know it's hard for y'all to talk to
the listen to us because we're writing our head on,
but we're trying to also get assistance and help. There's
no reason he should be on the news that that
neighborhood should be like that. And y'all didn't listen. And
now this is the end result. And y'all acted clinching
out pearls acting like y'all just found out about it
when it was presented months ago. Now getting to the
Chinatown thing. Y'all want to have Chinatown? Okay. I need
the same respect for Africantown. Now you know the former
city council woman, um, presented that. Not when she was
in the city council, but she was also asking for
African town. It got turned down. But y'all turned up
for Chinatown in the blackest city. I want y'all to
really think about that. The blackest city does not have
representation. And this is what I do. I promote black
businesses and I plan to open up a sword every
plex our culture for black owned business because it seems
like y'all don't want to do it. Y'all keep turning
things down. That's all things white. But I do commend
y'all for the contractors that y'all said that we need
to find city residents for those contractors. I do give
a commit. I'm not going to say all of y'all
are bad or anything like that. But some of the
things I do was right. And I applied to Mary
Waters for all the things you do in Callaway who's
in my district. But that six mile, that was something
that was resented to y'all months ago that y'all should
have did something about. Now it's a problem. Thank you.
Makes collar, please. Next caller is JM. Call of the
Floor Georgia. You have two minutes, general public comment. All
right. Can I be heard. Yes. Thank you. My name
is Jared Mooney. I'm the board president for the brush
park neighborhood association. Very briefly. The gentleman that spoke about
the privacy. Duly noted, please city council. You're the tip
of the spear on defense and protecting citizen three and
privacy matters. So if it's not on your radar, that's,
uh, that was more of the commentary. I'd like to
talk to you today about the budget specifically we have
some pedestrian safety issues within brush park, uh, district five
obviously. And we're requesting that, uh, we have a raised
crosswalk put in place at the park and an adjacent
on brush fruit. And also at our intersections, uh, with
a technical daylighting, it's a very inexpensive solution to help
aid pedestrian crossing. We have had a senior citizen pedestrian
fatality. We have, um, a lot of, a lot of
issues with, with this in brush part, in which I'm
going to move to, I would like to request that
we have increased, uh, parking enforcement. Uh, with that, I
would like to request the city council, look at an
additional revenue of dynamic pricing. The city council for San
Diego, California recently passed this for their, their city and
for PECO park. They're major league baseball stadium. They're forecasting
6. 28 million dollars in revenue to address a list
at parking and all of that. Right now on brush
park, you can come here and the ticket is much
cheaper than parking at a garage. So we do, uh,
respectfully requests that city council look at that. And perhaps
with some of this revenue, uh, apply it to our
other physical needs, our other security needs. The last thing
I'm going to say, we are going to send all
of you, uh, a PDF that has this request and
a company data to back up this. So please have
your staff, uh, be on the lookout once again. My
name is Jerry Mooney, brush park neighborhood association. Thank you.
I do appreciate. Please. Next caller is winner papa. Call
of the floor is Georgia. You have two minutes, general
public comment. And through the chair, may I be hurt.
Yes. Um, two miss lions, our elder, I say the
congregation says amen. Ms. Callaway mentioned yesterday about uniforms, green
uniforms that had been bought for the police. And now
we're going to do something differently. And now I see
special to uniforms on the agenda again. 360, 275, 000.
I'd like to ask this council, what is the, the
police union responsible for, we buy their uniforms. We, uh,
defend them. We, uh, indemnify them. Uh, 27. 2 and
27. 3 are zoning changes that you make for particular
people. Coronos should be down zone. It is not a,
is this not inhabitable? You can't live around them. And,
um, Mr. McDaniel, my question to you is yes a
million dollars. They've, she's asked for, for streetscapes and sidewalks,
what kind of funding are you asking for for the
seventh district saying that we have no recreation center? And
a lot of the services are being delivered through recreation
center. So the disparity is great. Even though you know
that they have 130 million dollars of our property dollars,
you're going to beg the pistons to build us a
recreation center. You need to delegate some money for the
youth for the summer, extra money just for the youth
and the seventh district because we don't have a recreation
center. Buses are not clean. You, you, you awarded Ms.
Fair an award today. About a pandemic that you all
said was the worst, Mr. Benson, uh, health issue, but
we still have people with, um, HIV number one an
SIDs. And what can we say. What's called, please call
her is Shannon Esther. I call her the floor. She
have two minutes, general public comment. Yes. Good morning. And
thank you for the opportunity to address this honorable body
for decades neighborhoods near the airport have been marginalized from
the city's overall progress. The airports failed expansion and subsequent
closure of six mile devastated the areas vitality separated neighborhoods
shuttered a once bustling commercial corridor and negatively impacted accessible
travel. Current efforts to develop in the airport vicinity without
engaging the community perpetuate a deceptive practice of backroom deal
making and rakes of urban renewal. To date, there has
been no comprehensive planning study for these areas hindering full
public participation and preventing the creation of holistic development strategy.
I urge you to stand up for the coming good
and demand full transparency in all airport expansion and redevelopment
plans. I implore you to postpone any regulatory actions. Public
right - of - way or zoning changes that will
exempt public or private development of AVIACIA related uses until
a planning study is completed by the city's planning department.
Additionally, I request that any future developments within a three
mile radius of the airport require a former community benefit
agreement. You possess the power to in longstanding inequitable practices
that have disenfranchised airport area residents for generations and deprive
them of the growth potential that other Detroit neighborhoods are
now experiencing. Thank you for your time and commitment to
safeguarding the residents of Detroit and ensuring that all neighborhoods
rise higher. Mr. Follow, please. Next caller is Tahiro Ahmad.
Follow the floor, Georgia. You have two minutes, General Republic.
Comment. Yes. Good. Good morning. Our first. I want to
thank, um, uh, Mayor Sheffield for honoring the coalition for
property tax justice agreement 100 days, first 100 days agreement.
And the reason is the reason why Alvin Horn has
had his little public comment, which is very rare. It's
kind of strange. But, um.
He's still there. I don't know what. Yeah. Can you
hear me? Yes, ma'am. Okay. Can I have my time
back? I don't know what happened. I didn't do anything.
We can hear you. So yeah, let's hold on. Hold
on. Let's pause. Let's go back to 120. Go back
to 120. Okay. Yes, ma'am. One time. I hope you
heard everything though. I said, okay. I want to thank
Mary or Sheffield. When it says in the property values,
the office of the assessor only physically inspects 20 percent
of the houses and make a determination of how much
those houses are worth, uh, that's the problem here. That's
why we got illegally over a six, 600 million dollars
and a hundred thousand homes were illegally foreclosed. Uh, the
assessor is not qualified. Uh, Alvin Hornch should not serve
as Detroit chief assessor because he has not passed it
required. Michigan, um, master assessing officer examination under state, uh,
law. So he's, he's not, uh, the assessor under Michigan
state law not being honored is that individuals who, uh,
and MMO A o certification should act as the assessor
of the, um, the record. So he doesn't know this
information cause he's not qualified. That's why he's getting on
here with public comment. So we want to thank, um,
mayor chef field and the specific formulas we want, uh,
being, uh, adhered to, to assess properties properly so that
we don't have this mistake again. And pay us back
our 600 million dollars and return those hundred thousand. Police.
Next caller is Veronica Smith. Mrs. Ronica Smith, the Floyd
Georgia. You have two minutes, general public comment. Reset yet.
Good morning. Sorotnica Smith. McCoalition of property tax justice. And
I, too, want to thank the mayor. For what she's
done in terms of our hundred days. Campaign. But like
to reiterate the five pillars that we had on that
campaign. Place a MMA old qualified individual as Detroit Chiefs
assessing officer. Two, it forced the property tax, you formed
ordinance passed in 2023. Three, stop overcessing lower valued homes.
Mandate the assessment division not to use only warranty D's.
Four, protect owner occupied exemptions. Remove the LLCs from the
PRE roles. Five, return the money to over tax homeowners.
Now we know and recognize that might require some state
legislation. On another note, hands off of bail Lyle. Hands
off Bell Isle. If the Detroit retirees are required to
pay back their era in their pensions, those judges should
also be required to repay the error in their pensions.
And lastly, several city departments are getting together sometime today
or this week to clear up debris and garbage. From
an abandoned apartment complex on Greenfield. My question is where
was the city inspector? This did not just happen. It's
been going on for years. What is the duty of
the city inspectors? Thank you. That's all the thing. Next
caller is Cristana Gina Brown Anderson. I called it the
floor. George. You have two minutes, general public comment. I'll
be heard. Yes. Greetings. My name is Cranstona Anderson. I
am a lifelong Detroit resident, community advocate and taxpayer. As
city council reviews the proposed budget over the next seven
days, transparency, fiscal accountability and effective oversight must be priorities.
Departmental funding should be carefully scrutinized to ensure compliance with
legal requirements for a balanced budget and alignment with residents
needs while public input is essential comments from Detroit District
3 residents are too often ignored. Align corporate level wages
and salaries to be paid with taxpayer dollars does a
disservice to our community. Detroit is not a corporation with
unlimited resources. Too often decisions appear to be driven by
money and power rather than the basic needs of hardworking
Detroiters who live work and invest in their neighborhoods. It
appears that there were many promises made during the 2025
election, but we, but be cautioned, there will be much
resistance to come and remain of those promises need to
be paid with our tax dollars. In addition, negotiating with
companies polluting our air and contaminating our soul and waters,
I'm becoming of an elected official and rezoning down zoning
cross zoning up zoning out of our neighborhoods to satisfy
political promises failure to properly represent Detroit. Please, I like
to draw your attention to the many people that come
before you that were formerly employed by the Detroit land
bank. And they talked to you about the number of
properties that they own, the number of lots that they
own. This at that time we thought was not allowed
to happen, employees of the Detroit land bait, hogging up
all the land. I am glad that Mr. Davis brought
up the problem with the trash and I do believe
we need some solution for this serious problem. One of
my primary efforts in my community is keeping our streets
clean decent and in order. And we have some very
bad actors that just, just people that moving your neighborhood
that do not take. Next caller is Darren McLewski. Follow
the floor, George. We have two minutes, general public comment.
Council. Okay. Thank you for the full two minutes. Um,
I agree with the prior caller that a basic 30
second response would be warranted. I don't know what rules
need to change for that, but it'd be very helpful.
From you guys. Um, I'll be reaching out to the
lady who spoke on behalf of Greg Stale Farms. To
see if they truly do support. What's happening with the
solar tickings. Um, I'm remote today. I'm calling in from
Florida. Or guess what? There's lots of solar panels, but
there's lots of sun. So just as an update for
you guys, solar is continuing forward. The city 313 day.
It was a day of celebration in the city. They
filed two huge use restriction eminent domain cases that involved
over a hundred properties each. Taking people's rights. They're taking
rights for properties that the vent of the city placed
on those properties years ago. In some cases. So, um,
I've also filed an OIG complaint against the Just Compensation
values for the hundreds of lines taken for a substandard
price given, uh, giving fraudulent statements by then, uh, CFOJ
rising and backed by former Mayor Duggan. The OIG says
they can't do anything because those people aren't there anymore.
So I guess something that happens that's wrong. Can't be
corrected once they leave. Um, by the way, if you
guys want to land 12090 nerding park, you guys didn't
even know you owned it. The Catholic trips has been
maintaining it. They sold it to you guys in the
70s or 80s. Five acres right there. You could use
for solar. Didn't even know that you guys owned it.
You guys don't have your records right. You don't have
the basics taken care of. You're taking people's property when
you don't have the basics under control. Please fix that
Detroit Solar scam. Thanks, Carla. Please. Caller is Samsung SM.
All of the floors, Georgia. You have two minutes, General
Public comment. Father, are you there?
Let's put that caller at the end of the cube
and go to the next, please. Okay. Going back to
longtime at the city, great resident. Call of the Floor's
yours. You have two minutes, general public comment. Call, are
you there going once. Call, are you there going twice?
All are you there going three times. Unfortunately, we have
to move on. If you would like to provide your
comments to the clerk's office that will be placed on
to public record. Next caller, please. Okay. They want to
balance it. Please no more speed. Helps. Call of the
floor is yours. Two minutes. General public comment, I believe
that may be someone we've heard already. Call, are you
there going once? I already spoke. Thank you. Please take
care of the dirty. Disconnect that line, please. Thank you.
Next caller. Last caller, if you going back to Samsung,
asking. All right. Call of the floor is yours. You
have two minutes, general public comment. You might be hurt.
Hello. Yes, ma'am. I, uh, this morning I woke up
and, um, I noticed there's some trash strolled on side
street and furthered down the street from me. And. I
usually have my cameras hooked up where I could see
everything, but I didn't have it on at the time.
So people is coming in here. And it's too licensed
in there. Cause I've, I've, I've dug through trash before
when they left keys and addresses and things. So those
two license plates that's in there should be checked it
by whoever it was through this garbage over here. And
what we need to do, I'm tired of seeing all
these signs post each time I rip out your house,
we're by your house. Do the suburbs have all that
places littered with signs. I'm sure the city can have
something to open up. Oh, the other lady that has
advertising that they don't need these signs posted all over
the city of Detroit. Which you are speaking at. I
know some people got supposed to get fine some years
ago. For putting signs up everywhere. And I like it's
their property. They don't even live in Detroit. So I
would like for you all to look into having those
signs removed and let them pay the city some money.
Let the city make some money for the advertisement and
our city. And then a tree still hasn't come down.
President Tate that's on dad's nine collie. I just hope
that the wind don't blow too much more hearted because
the sidewalk is lifted up. And like I said former,
um, that was up in the mayor dugout. And, uh,
he came out here to an assessments came out here
and I showed him, please get that tree before it
falls on another house. We're having failed, but I needed.
That. Takes us to the end of our general public
comments, colleague. Are there any comments that you would like
to provide based on what you've heard. A member McCambell.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, I appreciate your folks who
will call in for public comment. Also, um, I know
a lot of the comments were around enforcement and items
that are carried out, uh, with various departments. So one
of the sure folks, um, if you have, especially if
you're in district seven for folks, if you need to
be connected to those departments, um, I know there's also
their improved Detroit app as well if folks are using
technology. Um, you can reach out to my office at
three one three two four two on five one to
make sure that they're appropriate department knows about that. And
then we can follow up for there to make sure
that those actions are actually taken. So I just wanted
to make that note for folks who are calling in.
Thank you. Any additional colleagues. Remember Johnson. Thank you Mr.
Chair to the young lady who called in about the
Komenet Young International Airport. I did receive your email and
just want to let you know we'll follow up with
the email with the information that you requested. And also
just wanted to say thank you to, uh, chief assessor
Alvin Horn for coming out, uh, expressing support of the,
um, pre - sale inspection requirement. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you. Any further comment. Say none, we shall now
go into the agenda. There was a request colleagues. If
there are no objections to take up line item 20.
9 first, that is the resolution. Uh, sponsored by member
Santiago Romero and clerk. Santiago Romero of resolution, knowing that
line item 20. 9 was postponed from last week formal
session. Remember Santiago Romero? Thank you, Mr. President. Discussion for
20. 9 has been mentioned. This is a resolution to
recognize March as a national social work month. Thank you
to our Dean at the Wayne State School of Social
Work for coming into support this. Our members at the
National Association of Social Workers and staff at the School
of Social Work at UM and all of our social
workers here this morning to recognize March as National Social
Work month. There are many of us on City Council
who have social workers in our office, myself, member McCamble,
member Johnson, President Tates as well. And I myself am
a proud social worker and happy to read this on
the record. Whereas this year, social works month theme is
social workers uplift, defense, and transform. This embodies the fact
that social workers positively impact the lives of millions of
Americans dailies and our hospitals, schools, child welfare agencies, community
centers, and in our federal, state and local government. The
theme shines a light on the spirit of social workers
who transform the lives while bringing hope, healing, and justice
to the communities they serve, especially in times of profound
change and challenges. We follow a code of ethics that
cause on us to stand for equity in every community
uphold human dignity and fights against all injustices. Social workers
are on the front lines defending all vulnerable populations, including
immigrants, our LGBTQ plus individuals. And those spacing discrimination or
poverty, while uplifting vital social safety net programs and ensuring
the rights of everyone. Social workers assist those navigating trauma,
grief, systemic biases and barriers, and help people recover from
natural disasters, public health crises, and other issues transforming their
lives and encouraging ways. Social workers confronts oppression and racism
advocate for human rights and advancing their policies for all
persons by eliminating barriers that prevent individuals and families from
thriving. Social workers care for those that are experiencing mental
health issues, recovering from substance use disorders, and support the
well - being of our children. The profession continues to
grow with over 800, 000 social workers in the United
States who are transforming the lies every single day. Now
therefore be it result that the Detroit City Council identifies
March 2026 as National Social Work month, and we call
upon everyone to join the National Association of Social Works,
social workers, and Detroit City Council on celebrating the vital
work that social workers do every day. Thank you, Mr.
President's motion to approve. Thank you. There's a motion to
approve line item 20. 9 colleagues. Any objection. See none,
that action shall be taken. Thank you. Mr. President. Just
briefly, I know I won't disrupt a quorum, but any
social workers in the house that want to join us,
we take a quick picture over by our mayor young.
Uh, thank you. Fortunately here, Jen, thank you. Thank you.
Back Jack. Hurry up back. Alright, so we're now going
to the agenda to take it from the top. Under
the standing committee reports, Madam Clerk, for the budget finance
and audit standing committee from the Office of the City
Planning Commission. Council Member McCambell, a resolution line item 17.
1. Campbell, 97. 1. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, move
to approve with discussion, please. As a motion to approve
line item 17. 1 with discussion. Remember McAvill? Thank you,
Mr. Chair. Just want to note for this line item.
It was recommended to form a without recommendation. I just
want to talk about this for one second. Um, as
you know, their budget finance and audit, we do receive
the neighborhood enterprise zone certificate applications. And per state law,
uh, the city council cannot deny these certificates. And by
wanting to have, to bring to discussion, um, as we
see these certificates, and I've talked about this in committee,
um, the spirit behind this law is to spur development
around building and rehabilitation and distressed areas. And the concern
of mine that we're getting a lot of these certificates
and areas that I will say, uh, already have quite
a bit of activity. Um, so I just want to
bring this up that what is under the purview of
the city is to actually take a look at these
zones. And if we see that they have fulfilled their
duty around any disease to change them or get rid
of them. So I just want to bring that up
for discussion and to, um, because there has been something
we talked about in a budget finance and audit. And
to really see how we are effectively using this to,
to spur activity and neighborhoods that need them. So just
want to bring that up and thank you Mr. Chair.
Thank you. With further discussion member Callaway. Thank you so
much. And, um, I kind of know through the chair
to remember McCambell. I kind of know where this area
is. Um, is it your, is it your opinion that
this is considered a distressed area? Because it's also declared
historic. So I'm not sure, um, if this would even
qualify if it's not really considered distressed, um, through the
chair to you, Mr. Member McCambell, or you don't know.
McCambell. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Through you to member Callaway.
So it is both, so this, and that's why I
want to speak on the spirit behind the law that
is to encourage that activity in those type of areas
that need more of that. I also economic or house
and development, but this is a historic district. Um, and
it is also an easy. Thank you. Thank you, Mr.
Chair. Thank you. Member McCambell. Discussion with further discussion, remember
Benson. I thank you. Uh, with the and approval of
any Z, what type of, um, support to the operations
IE, the tax liability annually, would the owner or developer
receive from this in EZ. Uh, if we could get
someone from LPD who can assist with that particular question,
attentionally, or maybe law firm.
Mr. Gula, I heard your name a couple of times.
Is he here? He is here. Good morning. Please introduce
yourself for the record. And we're going to reassess the
question as needed. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, Chris Gulak,
CPC staff. Um, to answer council member Benson's question directly.
Well, to give a little background, develop a developer bought
a house in Corktown. I think they bought it for
350, 000. And they want to put in about 100,
000 and then sell it for about 650, 000. So
they would, they would make a profit. And so the
NEZ would be when they go to sell it, the
buyer would get the NEZ tax break for 17 years
since it's in a historic area. So the taxpayer, if
they don't have the NEZ, the buyer, the tax we'd
be about 21, 000 dollars a year. If they do
get the NEZ, their taxes are about 6, 000 a
year. So it's a substantial discount for the buyers property
taxes. Okay. Well, thank you. And so for me, I
support the NEZs. I support, uh, when people buy property
in the city of Detroit time trying to reduce the
operational cost. And that's the biggest burden that we've seen
in the C to Detroit when it comes to purchasing
property in our more stable neighborhoods. And so a 21,
000 dollar tax liability versus a 6, 000 dollar tax
viability. That's, there. Now, if I'm looking at property in
Gro's point, if I'm looking at property and Birmingham, or
maybe even Ferndale, what is my tax liability from a
similar cost house? Do I make that investment in the
city of Detroit? Do I bring my family here? Do
I pay my income taxes? Do I become a part
of the fabric of Detroit? Or do I make that
investment someplace else? Because the tax liability is just too
high. 21, 000 dollars a year on top of a
mortgage. That may be the decision, uh, threshold. Do I
move to the city of Detroit? Or do I not?
And so I'm hoping that we're looking at how can
we more, how can we better attract families and residents
to the CD Detroit? Cause our tax liability is extraordinarily
high. Um, the conversation on the 11th floor is how
we're working to reduce the property tax liability to attract
more. People don't want that commute to the city. They
also don't want that 21, 000 dollar annual tax liability
on property. So I'm hoping that we can look at
what does it take to get people into the CD
Detroit when it comes to operating a home. Our auto
insurance to challenge. Our property insurance is the challenge and
our high tax liability is also a challenge. And so
this is a way to help reduce the cost of
operating a home because property tax is a part of
that. That is just part of the operation of a
home in any choice extraordinarily high. Uh, and through yourself,
Mr. President, to the assessor's office. What would a comparable
price property cost for property tax liability in Birmingham and
in let's say Harper Woods. What would a hormone repaying
those two areas just without any, any Z or any
other tax incentives to help reduce the cost of operations
of that property. And those are the municipalities with whom
we compete. And that's very important. When it comes to
a decision making process, who are we competing with. It's
not automatic that people move to Detroit. And obviously in
the past, people have actively moved out. We need to
keep people here. And this is one of the ways.
And so I'm hoping that people can also look at
what does it take to get people into the city
of Detroit. I'm hoping for that answer on what is
the competing cost to operate properties outside of city, Troy,
in our competitive municipalities. Remember, interesting, are you looking for
that answer before you vote on this particular? I would
like answer on that one before we vote. I think
that could be very helpful when it comes to people
how they make a decision on moving forward with these
type of incentives. Go see for singular family homes. Yep.
Gotcha. So Mr. Washington, uh, no, member Benson was seeking
someone from the assessor's office. I know the assessor was
down here personally. Not sure if he's made his way
back to the office or he had someone assigned. Do
you have anyone in the queue or we can bring
this item back at the end of the agenda, Mr.
Washington. Um, through the chair, um, if we can bring
this back to the end, I can reach back out
to the assessor. Okay. Mr. Chair, before you do that,
member McCampo. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, and yet we'll
definitely love that answer as well. Let me just make
a couple of things clear here. Um, the, any Zs
as they exist. What I'm saying as we look at
the process as we look at taxes, as we look
at property taxes in the sea of Detroit, um, I
believe the conversation will have to also, um, include in
disease as well. Not saying that this changes right now.
And I understand that folks will be paying a high
property tax that they were to buy this property without,
uh, the NEZ certificate. But as we're having conversations that
yes, we have to bring down property, uh, tax rates
here in the Citroit. We also have in a conversation
that we are limited with the budget and the needs
that we have for our residents here in the city
of Detroit as well. So we do have to manage
and find a balance and act that we are encouraging
people to move into the city, but also that we
have enough funds to take care of the needs that
we hear in the C. Detroit. So what I what
the reason why I want to bring this up for
discussion is to make sure that this is on the
minds of my colleagues because we have this discussion and
budget finance and all the end. I know, uh, PED
as well around NEZs. And I think we should be
talking about this as an entire conversation around property taxes
here in the CFD trade. So thank you. Thank you
for further discussion member waters. Thank you. Um, I just
want to say, uh, a couple quick things. One that
he was not planning to live the property himself. Well
temporarily. And two, I want to ask him who's going
to flip the property. He was like, yep, I'm going
to flip it. So I took issue with it frankly.
So I wasn't willing to vote yes on it. I
know that the loss is that we can't deny it
anyway. I'm not sure why they bring it before us
in that case. So but at any rate that, that
was my rationale for it. See, it's one thing to
get people, give people those breaks who are going to
actually live in that proper live here. And I know
he says it's going to pass on to whoever purchases
at 750, 000 dollar home So I don't, I don't
know, you know, where they're going to come from for,
that's, that's a very, very expensive home. And so, but
that was my rationale, Mr. President. Mr. Gula, before we
send this item to the end of the agenda. Thank
you, Mr. Chair. I just to provide more feedback to
yak. I think law department wouldn't say you can't deny
the certificate. I think the council's main, uh, options are
either to reduce the number of years. This is historic
area. So you can, you can grant a certificate anywhere
from 11 to 17 years. The resolution before you says
17 years. The other option moving forward is to eliminate
zones in the future, you know, that's a policy decision,
whether Corktown or brush park or other parts of the
city need in any Z. That's a policy decision. Um,
but just to respond a little bit to council convince
it, I think, um, I don't know that the mills
for Birmingham, but if the NEZ one is very generous,
it's half the state average. I think the state average
is about 35 mils. So it's half the state average.
So on one extreme, you have the NEZ, which is
very generous. And on the other extreme, Detroit's property taxes
are high at 65 mils. So, uh, so 18 mil,
the NEZ would bump their attacks to about 6, 000
a year. If you bump it up to 32 mils,
it's about 12, 000 a year. I assume Birmingham's about
50 mils a year. I'm guessing. Uh, so that would
be about 16, 000 a year. But Detroit 65 mils
would be 20, about 21, 22, 000 a year. So
you just kind of go up gradually. Uh, so I
just threw those together. But the assessors might have more
information if they, if they're able to join later. He
actually has been able to join us in person right
now. Cesser Horn. Who's yours? Good afternoon, Mr. President. Members
and city council, Alvin Horned, deputy CFO and assessment for
the safe Detroit. I heard part of the conversation regarding
the NEZ million chin and the need to engage in
these EN historic district. Yeah. We're going to allow member
Vincent to re ask the question. Thank you. Through yourself
Mr. Chair. So Mr. Horn, and thank you for being
here today. Looking at a home in court town, which
is going to be redeveloped 100, 000 dollars of investment
into the home, which will then look to sell for
about 650, 000 dollars. The estimated tax liability without an
NEZ is 21, 000 dollars a year. With the NEZ,
they're looking at about 6, 000 dollars a year. That
is a huge difference when it comes to your decision
making. About do you locate in that house? So my
question is, what would the tax liability be on any
equivalent, we priced home. In Birmingham, in Harper Woods? And
those are just two of our competing municipalities. How much
would someone pay for a home in those municipalities versus
Detroit? If none of them received an inezi through the
chair, thank you for the question, council Vincent. As Chris
Gola mentioned, the military Birmingham, the substantially lowered it is
in Detroit. Detroit's homestead milledge is somewhere around 63 mils.
The homestand milledge for Birmingham, I believe is 19 mils.
Uh, for Southfield, it is 25. For Novite, it is
31. So Detroit's homestead military is substantially higher than our
sister states and our peer cities. Um, 600, 000 dollar
home in the city of Birmingham, assuming new sale, new
construction. So the, uh, with the 600, 000 is true
cash and the assessed and taxpayer 300, 000 on that
1800 mil rate. It would be somewhere around 1700 dollars
a year. For putting information. Please repeat that how much.
A 17 mil. One mil is somewhere around 800 pounds.
830 dollars. I'm calculating my head, sorry. 17 mils on
a 300, 000 dollar tax bill. Somewhere around between 1700
to 2200 dollars. So even less than what an NEZ
would cause that same home investment. And so in addition
to the challenges that we do have here in the
city of Detroit, even with the NEZ in place, we
are still three times more costly. Than any equivalently priced
home in Birmingham. And the reason I bring this up,
that's just the challenge of how Z location theory or
decision making matrix in the city of Detroit. If we
want people to move in the city, we have to
have value add, which means we have to be able
to compete. And unfortunately in certain situations we don't. We
have all the great amenities. We have the sports teams,
the cultural assets, the bike lanes, which everybody wants. But
what we don't have is a competitive pricing model. And
the NEZ allows us to have that. And the concern
always should be, are we able to provide services based
on our revenue generated from property taxes? And as we've
seen over the years and decades, property taxes play a
smaller and smaller role when it comes to our general
fund makeup. And so income tax, corporate tax, utility tax,
those all play a larger role when he comes to
how we fund our services in the city of Detroit.
But the ultimate decision comes with those who are prepared
to buy and pay our property taxes, which many people
over the years have said, I cannot afford to live
in the city of Detroit because I can go to
Birmingham and pay 1700 versus the 21, 000 dollars. I
mean, that's just a kitchen table conversation that people have.
And oftentimes we just can't compete to compete we have
on any Z. We still makes it three times more
expensive. But when it doesn't do is make us 13
times more expensive, which is what the NEZ does. And
so that's why I'm a strong supporter in these situations.
And sometimes it doesn't make sense. But in this one
makes a lot of sense. We want to get a
family into that home after the developer builds it and
flips it to most likely a family. Because it doesn't
make much sense when it comes to making that investment
property. That's going to be a home for a family,
not a home for an investor. So this is why
I advocate for this type of incentive to help our
middle class family stay and move to the CDT versus
moving out to our suburbs who are more competitive when
it comes to pricing and operating a home in those
municipalities. I'll do the chair. If I could a member
of Vincent, I'm assuming you're talking about the NEZ rehab.
Which is the lowest up to three. Uh, it is
based on the taxable value before any rehabilitation of the
property begins. So it's basically the shale. They're taking the
shell and they're taxing it at that rate for 15
years. And once that, um, once that abatement expires, then
with the local sacerdoses, we basically figure out what the
CPI is for each of those 15 years. And we
bring that taxable value forward. So you don't get a
jump. Um, the assessment goals of based on market, but
the taxpal states frozen. Uh, at the end of 15
years, it's not a true encapping in the sense that
it properly sold. So the attacks will value performs foreverly
assessed as. You take that original taxful value. You bring
it forward based on the CPI for each of those
15 years. So you come to a taxable bag. Certainly
to say, well, capture an increase. But it's not the
type of uncapping increase that we see now. So colleague,
I'm going to ask you, we can either take this
item to a vote or postpone it, whatever we want
to do because we do still having 2 PM executive
session. And we're going to have to have an abbreviated,
unfortunate executive session today to allow for us to move
over to the state of the city. So Mr. Chair.
Definitely going to allow the conversation. I want to be,
want us to be mindful of what the day looks
like. I remember Campbell. I'm sorry. You still had the
40. Yeah. Anything else we want to add? No, and
that's just my argument for why we need days. We're
not competitive and we need to be competitive and the
conversation when it comes to property tax relief is about
how do we lower that so we don't need these.
But currently we need these type of incentives to get
residents at this level. And we need middle class families.
So stay and to move into the city of Detroit.
And this is the kind of incentive that gets them
there. Okay. No, sir. Remember McCambell. Thank you Mr. Chair.
I will, I would just say as I go back
to what I originally said, um, with my point to
bring us for a discussion was not to get rid
of any Z's or the use of them. Um, it
was to make sure that we are taking a look
at where NEZs exist right now in the COit. And
as we move forward in the conversation, our property taxes
to take into account, um, that we are seeing a
lot of applications and certain neighborhoods where folks are moving
to that they have more means. Um, to cover a
tax bill than other neighborhoods that folks don't have the
means and that we have folks coming down here that
are not able to pay their property taxes as they
exist currently. So to take all of this into the
current conversation that we're having around property taxes, understanding that
folks may move into. When you look at Birmingham, um,
but I will say that there's other factors that may
lead folks to move into Birmingham. And there are other
factions that may lead folks to move into Detroit that
are not around property taxes. So understanding I completely understand
the use of NEZs. I support the use of anything.
I just want to make sure that some of these
inexed have existed for decades and we have to make
sure that they are still there for the use that
they were attended. So thank you. Thank you. College, emotion
on the floor for line item 17. 1. Are there
any objections. See none that action shall be taken. Thank
you. Thank you, sir. Mr. Chair. Yes, sir. On this
line about five years ago, this body approved brand new
maps for any Zs Realtal City of Detroit reapportion made
them far more efficient. Alvin Horn was a big part
of that myself at a current mayor worked on that.
And this body approved it. That comes up. I believe
every five years to try to remove the political aspect
of that. And we should be seeing a reassessment for
a very reason that member McCamble addressed about those in
easy neighborhoods on the NEZ homestead, not the NEZ rehab,
which is a different type of NEZ. But we recognize
that we need to look at these every five years
to ensure they're doing what we want them to do,
which is to incentivize and keep and help people into
neighborhoods. That are frankly, the conversation's always been around stable
neighborhoods. We also needed to encourage incentivize the stability of
existing neighborhoods. Thank you. Sounds like this is a discussion
I need to take place in committee. Not informal at
this moment while we're trying to get through this agenda.
Thank you so much. We shall now go to line
item 17. 2 madam clerk. Under resolutions. Council member Benson,
a resolution, line item 17. 2. Remember Benz. Remember McCandle.
Mr. President. I want to say I believe this resolution
was originally, was it member Benson and then we received
one that had member McCambell's name on it. So that's
what you see. When your script says, remember Vincent, it
originally was member Vincent, but we received a change to
remember McCample. Mr. Resolution, my item 17. 2. That should
be member McCambell? Yes. All right. Remember McCall. Thank you
Mr. Chair. Move to approve. It's a motion to approve
line item 17. 2 colleagues. Any objection? Discussion. With discussion
member Johnson. Very quickly. This resolution should actually be in
my name, um, it is, um, a request that came
from my office to LPD. But we can address that
later. I just wanted to put that on the record
because it did come from a district for resident. Thank
you Mr. Chair. All right. There's a motion on the
floor colleagues. Any objection. See none that action shall be
taken. Madam Clerk, if you could note the, um, name
of the sponsor of the resolution. Kirk was so note,
Mr. President. My apologies. When I mentioned a member, Vincent.
Remember Johnson is correct. The LPD submitted two resolutions. One
is in member Johnson's name and the other one is
a member, but Campbell's name. The one from member McCambell
was submitted at a earlier date at a later date
prior to the one that was submitted. And member Johnson's
name. And that was why it came on the agenda
as member McCambell's name because their resolution was dated later
than the resolution dated for member Johnson. Thank you so
much for that clarification. For the internal operations, standing committee
from the law department, Madam Clerk. Council member Benson, a
resolution noting that this line item was postponed from last
week formal session. Remember Vincent has stepped away, Madam Clerk.
Council member camp, we failed Callaway on behalf of Council
Member Benson. A resolution noting that this line item was
postponed from last week formal session. Number Callaway. Motion to
approve Mr. Chair. Uh, motion to approve with discussion, please.
Um, looking to bring this item back for one week
from what I understand there was a request. To do
so based on questions that we, uh, we ask. So
college, let me get a one week postponement for line
item 18. 1, please. Motion. There's a motion for one
week postponement 18. 1. See an objections and action shall
be taken. Thank you. From the law department, Madam Clerk.
Council member with Phil Callaway, 15 resolutions, nine items 18.
2 through 18. 16. Remember Callaway. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you Madam Clerk. A motion to approve these various
settlements and lawsuits. There's a motion to approve line items
18. 2 through 18. 16, Madam Clerk. Yes. Yes. All
right. Um, we have discussion, please. Narcotics. So we can
please bring back, um, line item 18. 4 in one
week. Motion. Uh, and that will be connected to 18
points. Also 18. 4, 18. 7, 18. 8, 18. 9.
18 point 10 and 18. 12. These are all connected.
I like to bring those items back. Um, a postponem
for one week. I would love to get a close
session on this particular item. And I don't, I know
that we won't have an opportunity to do so in
one week. Um, to the chair, which we will send
those back to committing to allow us to have that
closed session. Yes, Mr. Chair. Thank you so much. Collises.
I think an emotion to send back to committee line
items 18. 4, 18. 7, 18. 8een point nine, 18.
10 as well as 18. 12. Inter motion, please. There's
a motion. Any objections. See none that action shall be
taken. Any objection to the remaining items colleagues. Mr. Chair.
I member McCam. Uh, McComble objection to 18. 5 18.
6 and 18. 11. Thank you. Any further. Saint
none. The remaining items shall be approved. Under
resolutions. Clerk. Council member Vincent to resolutions, knowing that both
these line items were postponed from last week formal session.
Line item 18. 17 and 18. 18. Member Benson 18.
17 and 18. 18. Motion to approve discussion. To motion
to approve the two items with discussion member Benson. I
thank you. These both items were postponed from last week.
There's a number of issues. Uh, out of the internal
operations standing committee line out of 18. 7 was moved,
uh, recommendation to deny that is at the urging of
LPD who wrote that opinion based on the information, um,
included 18. 8, uh, was moved with a recommendation to
approve based on conversations with our law department. I continue
to urge a vote to deny for line I'm 18.
7, which is the resolution, uh, to waive turning client
privilege. From legislative policy division. And Mr. Chair, I like
Mr. Whitaker to be able to speak to why LPD
is urging and why internal ops is urging a boat
to deny. 18. 17. Um, Mr. President, we have indicated
we thought it necessary to deny this given the fact
that we thought that the privilege needed to be maintained
based on the conversations that we had in close session.
Thank you. All right, colleagues. Line it up, 18. 17
and 18. 18 have been moved. Are there any objections.
Remember Scott Benson vote no on 18. 17. Objection member
Johnson, 18. 17 objection members on taco Romero, 1817. Objection
accountable 18. 72.
17. 17. Fails. Line out of
18. 17 fails colleagues. Uh, it does not sound like
there was any objections to line on 18. 18. So
that action shall be approved. For the planning and economic
development standing committee under unfinished business. Customer Pajon said an
ordinance noted in a roll called line item 19. 1.
Number Johnson. Thank you Mr. Chair. I moved to take
from the table and ordinance to a man chapter 50
of the 2019 Detroit City co zoning by amending article
17 zoning district maps section 50 - 17 - 49
district map number 47 to revise the zoning classification for
a parcel generally bound by riched in street to the
north. Potasky avenue to the west. Dwayne Street to the
south and homer street to the east commonly known as
409 for Dwayne Street from the R2 district, two family
residentials owning classification to the SD - 1 special development
district, small - scale mixed use zoning classification laid on
the table February 3rd, 2026. Here in objections, that action
will be taken, council member Johnson. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I moved the ordinance be placed on the order of
third reading and considered red. Hearing no objections, that action
will be taken. Councilmember Johnson. I moved the ordinance be
passed as submitted. They're being a roll call required with
a clerk. Please call the roll. Council member Santiago Romero?
Yes. Council member Mary Waters. Council member Angela Whitfield Calloway.
Yes. Council President Pro Tim Coleman and Your Second. Yes.
Council President James Tate? Yes. Council Member Scott Benson? Yes.
Council Member Latisha Johnson? Yes. Council Member Denzel McCambell. Yes.
Yes, that motion passes Mr. President. Thank you Madam Clerk.
The ordinance has approved. Councilman Johnson. I moved the title
to the ordinance be confirmed hearing no objections and action
shall be taken. Mr. Chair, I'd like to request a
waiver request for waiver online item 19. 1 colleagues. Any
objection. Hearing none, a waiver should be attached. From the
office of contract and the procurement, Madam Clerk. Council Member
Johnson for resolutions line items 19. 2 through 19. 5.
Noted that line item 19. 2 was postponed from last
week formal session. Thank you so much. Contract number 600
7474 - A2. It's the least agreement rental rate. Second
amendment to extend and expand the right to minerals from
properties owned by the city of Detroit contractor Detroit salt
company. That's for plain and development. Contract number 6007707. It's
at least revenue to provide for lease of 127 Campbell
from the city of Detroit for Gordie Howe International Bridge
Project Staging, contractor BNA constructorsusa JV. Total contract amount. 28,
800. That's for planning and development. Contract number 604900 -
A400. Opera funding amendment for to provide a time -
only extension for managing the single - family scatter site
home ownership programsy partners. Total contract them out. 2, 875,
000 housing and revitalization. Contract number 600 7424A1 and contract
number 600779 - A1 for two emergency approved contracts. Pertaining
to the expansion of emergency shelter bed capacity for contract
number 6007424 - A1. It was for a shelter for
bad capacity for individuals experiencing homelessness from 56 beds to
88 beds to contractor's neighborhood service organization and contract number
60079 - A1 for the expansion of emergency shelter -
based capacity for individuals experiencing homelessness from 50 beds to
77 beds. Contractor, all things women, total contract increase amount
203, 0484. And for contract number 6007424 - A1, the
contract increased amount was 471, 947 dollars in 60 cent.
Council member Johnson for resolutions. Remember Johnson, line items 19.
2 through 19. 5. Thank you Mr. Chairmu for approval.
As a motion to approve line out of 19. 2
through 19. 5, any objection colleagues. With discussion and defensive.
A lot of 19. 4 for yourself either to the
chair or to the administration. This extension is through June
30, 2026 for the ARPA funds. Time only. But will
we be able to extinguish these funnel spend these funds,
uh, within this extension, or do we need additional extensions.
Mr. Washington. What do we have available. Yes, through the
chair, we have Rebecca LaBob online. Alright, we can promote
her, please. Alright, Mr. Bove, thank you for joining us.
Please introduce yourself for the record, and we can restate
the question as an if needed. Thank you. Rebecca Labov,
housing and revitalization. Pile of a foreign housing revitalization. Remember
Benson, if you can please restart. Thank you. On line
19. 4, these are ARPA funds. This is a time
extension only. But the attention runs only through June 30.
2026. Do we expect to expend these funds within this
time period? Or will there be the need for an
additional extension to expend these funds? And I don't want
to send any money back to the fence. I'm sure
nobody else here wants to either. Through the chair, we
do expect to expand the dollars by that date. There
are 12 specific homebuyers that are associated with the balance
of funds left on this contract. Um, all of whom
are under purchase agreement and have been preparing to close
on their homes. Um, safe for some final pieces that
were needed from the sellers of the homes. And we
were able to get the alone modification executed. To the
rental development that is selling the homes, um, last month.
And so now the pile and his team who are
working on this are moving into actually setting closing dates
with those buyers. And we know who they are. We
have the dollar amounts ready to go with the title
company. So we don't expect that we would need additional
time to expend these art performance. Okay, and just now
thinking about this, is this the scattered site situation. Where
the homes were rent to own and now there's the
issue with the back taxes, which are being brought forward
and paid. And that issue. Um. Yeah, they are the
scatter site home sales. Um, for low income housing tax
credit homes that are occupied by, by low - income
renters looking to purchase. These dollars are not associated with
folks, um, that have backed taxes to pay. These are
buyers who are just ready to close and getting the
final pieces together, but I'll let my colleague add to
the chair to member Benson. Different portfolios. For different portfolios,
we are focusing on some different, um, or focusing on
different funding sources. So the other scatter site contract that
we have spoken to about is a CDBG funded one
that's being used at Grashimadul. And that is one that
has had some issues with back taxes. But that bright
more, that's not a particular issue. Okay, thank you. College,
the motion to approve line items 19. 2 through 19.
5 any objections. See, none that action shall be taken.
Request a waiver, Mr. President. For 19. 2. A request
for a waiver online, item 19. 2. Any objections. Seeing
none of waivers should be attached. Alex, can I get
a waiver online out of - Mr. Chair. Can I
also get on 19. 5 as well. Ocean. It is
a request for waivers on 19. 4, 19. 5 colleagues.
Any objection. Hearing none, waivers should be attached. From the
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation, Adam Clerk. Customer Pajon said, a
resolution line item 19. 6. Remember Johnson. Thank you, Mr.
Chair. Move for approval for the amended and restated project
plan and issuance of bonds by the economic development corporation
for the music hall expansion project. This is to set
a public hearing on April 16. There's a motion to
approve line item 19. 6 colleagues. Any objections. See none
that action shall be taken. Request for a waiver, Mr.
Chair. Quaver requested for line item 19. 6 colleagues, any
objections. Seeing none of Weber should be attached. From the
planning and development department, Madam Clerk. Council Member Johnson to
resolutions, line items 19. 7 and 19. 8. Remember Johnson.
Thank you Mr. Chair. Move for approval. The motion to
approve line items 19. 7 in 19. 8. Any objections.
Seen none. Those actions shall be taken. Under resolution final
clerk. Council Member Vincent, a resolution line item 19. 9.
I remember Benson, 19. 9. A discussion. With discussion. Uh,
Mr. Chair of the urging of the administration, a motion
to postpone the vote for one week online. I am
19. 9. They're currently, uh, in negotiations. Um, I'm hoping
that these bills die in the house and in the
Senate. Um, and I know there's tons of consummation from
our municipalities around the state who do not want to
be preempted, including Detroit and the opposition these bills will
sign off by six of my colleagues via SIMCOG as
well as the mayor of Detroit, but they are currently
negotiations. And at the urging, I'm going to motion to
postpone this. Uh, so they can continue discussions. Um, the
request for a postponement for one week for line out
of 19. 9 colleagues, any objection. Say none, that action
shall be taken. Under resolutions, Madam Clerk. Council member McCambell,
a resolution line item 19. 10. Remember McCambell. Motion to
approve. As a major session. With his emotion to approve
line item 19. 10 with discussion, member McCam. Uh, thank
you Mr. Chair. Just to know 19. 10 should be
a member Johnson. Madam Clerk, if you can know, please.
Michael Sono, Mr. President. Thank you. Collects any objections to
19. 10 with the further discussion member, Benson. To which
bills are these? Because the little bit of confusion in
the information I saw. On which of these bills and
memory Campbell may have cleared it up. Uh, being this
is from member Johnson. But which bills, what do these
support. Remember Johnson? Mr. Chair, thank you. Um, this is,
um, for Mr. to create and operate the my home
readiness program to provide grants to local units of government
to cover costs associated with the adoption of land use
policies. Master plan updates zoning text amendments and similar actions
to encourage the increase of housing supply and affordability. And
just discussion. And so these are the converse. Of house
bills bills 5529. Which SIM cog and MML are opposing.
This is the alternate bills, um, package, which the municipalities,
MIMMA male and SIM cog are supporting to provide more
support to cities versus preempting. Thank you. It's going to
verify. On the floor for lying item 19. 10 plus
you. Any objection. C9 that action shall be taken. For
the public health and safety standing committee from the office
of contracting and procurement, Madam Clerk. Customer Passantiago Romero, two
resolutions, line items 20. 1 and 20. 2. Contract number
600 5876 - A1. Grant funding to provide an eight
- month extension of time contractor community logic software incorporated,
total contract amount, 390, 000. That's for public works. Contract
number 606408 - A400 ARPA funding four to provide an
extension for time only to provide stabilization of commercial structures
within the city of Detroit, contractor DMC consultants incorporated. Total
contract amount, 634, 000, 11 dollars. Santiago Romero to resolutions.
Remember Santiago Morrero. Motion to approve 20. 1 in 2022.
Some motion to approve line items 20. 1 and 20.
2 colleagues. Any objection? Discussion. What discussion member Callaway? Thank
you so much, Mr. Chair. Is anyone available from public
works. Regarding line item 20. 1. 1. We have anyone
available. To the chair. Yes. We have director Brundage online.
We would promote him.
Mr. Director Brandis, we're trying to promote you. If you
can accept the promotion, please.
Through the chair. Mr. Washington. Yes, are we able to
postpone this item to the end? I'm flying for director
Brun Dijk now to accept invitation. That's line number 20.
1, correct? I remember Callaway. Yes. Uh - huh. Colleagues,
is there a motion to thinline item 20. 1 to
the end of the agenda. Motion. It's an objections that
action shall be taken. Line item 20. 2 colleagues. Are
there any objections. Seeing none, then action shall be taken.
Request a waiver, Mr. President, for 20 points too. There's
a request for a waiver online. Item 20. 2. Any
objection. Seeing none, that action shall be taken. From the
Department of Public Works, city engineering division, Madam Clerk. Council
Member Santiago Romero, six resolutions, line items 20. 3 through
20. 8. Remember Santiago Romero? Thank you. Motion to approve.
These are all various requests for easements and vacations. The
motion for approval for line items 20. 3 through 20.
8. Are there any objections. See none, that action shall
be taken. Under resolutions, Madam Clark. Council Member Basanti, Hacker
Romero. Two resolutions. Line items 20. 10 and 20. 11.
Remember Santiago Romero. Thank you, Mr. President. Motion to approve.
As a motion to approve line items 20. 10 and
20. 11. Any objections. Seeing none, an action shall be
taken. We will now move to the new business portion
of the agenda from the mayor's office. Council Member Santiago
Romero, a resolution knowing that this line item was postponed
from last week. Formal session, nine item 21. 1. Mr.
Chair. Mr. Chair. Before we go to you, Madam Motion.
Remember Santiago Rubeck? Motion to approve 21. 1. The motion
to approve line item 21. 1 with discussion, member Callaway.
Not on that. Um, I have a 20 point 11,
a resolution declaring March 18th as dawn icinday on my
agenda. Is that not on anyone else's agenda? Or did
we skip it? We just approve it. Okay, well, it
should be in my name. I don't even heard line
item 20. 9 through 20. 10. I didn't hear 20.
11 because it should be in the name of Council
Member Callaway. It was moving. Pardon me? We did move.
It was moved. Moved and whose name, sir? So the
resolution, it was under Santiago Romero because it was in
the committee. But I believe your name is on the
actual resolution. Okay. So I would need to see my
name on the agenda cause I don't see it. I
just see, um, it's in the name of Santiago Ramirez.
So if we could make that correction, it usually is
in the person of the, you know, the name of
the council person who was bringing the resolution. Not in
a, because they cheer, it shouldn't be in their name.
Madam Clerk. Mr. President, to you through member Callaway, apologies
to that, member Callaway is absolutely correct. Her name, if
this is her resolution should have said member Callaway. So
apologies to you, member Callaway. Um, we're in the middle
of the vote. So if you want to have any
comments, we'll first deal with the book that we're in
right now. We're giving opportunity to provide comments. Our colleagues,
there is a motion for approval online item 21. 1.
Any objections. With discussion, member McCambell. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Is there somewhere from DOT available. I see a direct
crane. Come on down. Oh, thank you. Please introduce yourself
for the record. Afternoon. Rosy Kramer, director of DOP. Thank
you, member McCamp. Thank you director. Good to see you
this morning. Um, just, uh, want to say full, full
supporters resolution for the free bus for students. I just
want, if you can just go into, um, as you
all are looking at this pilot, like what are you
all thinking about? Cause we had conversation around student safety
overall on the buses. And as I think this is
opportunity, as we've discussed to think about ways to improve
that safety. So if you can just go into what
you are, think about student safety around this pilot as
well. Absolutely. Through the chair. So the resolution before you
regarding the six month pilot of student free rides, uh,
provides something that's required by the ordinance, uh, the city
fair ordinance allows this period. Um, and basically would set
this to, you know, show your ID and ride for
free for any, any students, which basically anyone that's up
to 18 years old. This is an opportunity for us
under, uh, Mayor Sheffield's leadership to learn more about how
transit DOT in particular can work more effectively, uh, for
students and their families, not only when it comes to,
uh, attendance at school, but also thinking about afterschool programs.
And even in this case, this pilot obviously accents through
the summer. So, um, even any activities job opportunities, um,
that they may want to partake in. The pilot provides
a great opportunity for us to continue some of the
conversations we've already started having with students, families, uh, the
DPS CD charter school is private schools. Um, about the
needs of their students and their community. And, uh, thinking
about things like improving safety, an opportunity, maybe we would
have, um, adults basically that could ride the buses for
some of these routes that have more concentrated student rides
or issues where students are feeling unsafe. Um, that's one
of the things that we're hoping to, uh, have this
opportunity having the fanfare around this program, this temporary pilot
provides an excellent opportunity for us to draw attention to
the fact and also to get more input and feedback,
um, from all of those partners. That also, um, uh,
in addition, supports changes to bus stop amenities, uh, in
some cases even the routing of buses, the schedules. Those
are all things we're going to be learning about over
the next couple of months and then bringing that back,
uh, to the council as part of the permanent program.
It actually require a ordinance amendment to change the fare
with whatever system, uh, program has developed. And so lining
up all of these improvements to set with the next
school year. So starting a thinking about September, early October
of 26. This provides a great opportunity for us to
learn more about that. Here from the council, um, and
really come back with a package of improvements and changes
to go along with that ordinance, which then also would
include a fiscal financial impact analysis as well. Hopefully that
answered the question through the chair. Absolutely. Through the chair,
thank you so much, Director. And I'm glad to hear.
It sounds like that is what a pilot is for
to see how we can, uh, make sure that the
forward program as we roll out is, um, as effective
as possible, uh, for our students and writers as a
whole. So appreciate that. And also, um, I would just,
uh, as the administration and such as you all are
learning more about the pilot, um, hope that the robust
conversation with, uh, DPS CD, not only superintendent, but the
school board as well. So thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank
you, Dearth. Thank you, pro tim, young. Thank you. I
just want to say person. I think this is a
credible program. And from my understanding, this is in part
comes from the truancy rate that's been happening within DPSCD.
And so this is more of a partnership for us
to be able to revive transportation. I just want to
know, is there ever a plan for us to be
able to revitalize the goal line program? And if so,
with this coincide with that. And if so, how. I
know that's a lie chair. So without any specifics on
that program, I can say this resolution really is focused
just on invoking this opportunity for the six month pilot
to have students ride for free. Um, and as mentioned
with the previous question, I think it provides opportunities for
a discussion about all sorts of ways that the excitement
and energy around this can lead to, um, strategic thinking.
I know, um, Madam Mayor has brought on some, uh,
really energetic additional team members, Dr. Hampton. I'm sure I'm
forgetting some other folks as well. But then incredible amount
of, uh, additional energy and focus on thinking about, uh,
not only students, but youth in general, how the city
can support them better. So this is a great opportunity
for us to learn more about that and maybe talk
about other programs that, uh, that could grow alongside it.
No, I think that's very important. I also wanted to
ask, um, and I think that's going to also want
to ask, but who is going to want company. The
kids at all, all these buses, are you going to
have somebody in company them with these children and then
secondly has there been an analysis in terms of what
this would do to a chronic adventism and on time
performances as well. So, um, through the chair. The accompanying
students on board is something that was kind of part
of the last question, this idea of possibly having, uh,
adding other adults against the best way I can think
of describe to it along some routes. Now, uh, as
you all know, um, whether it's DPS CD or, or
students who attend other schools, uh, the idea of a
neighborhood school is something that doesn't apply to the majority
of students. So we have students that are basically crisscrossing
the city to get to whatever school they might go
to. Uh, so it's, it's not practical for us to
say we're going to have an adult on every bus
on every route, uh, we're already starting to receive more
data from DPSCE and some of the other schools about
the patterns and where their students are coming from to
get to whatever schools might be. And that is consistent
with DPSCD in particular has a focus on a couple
of their schools that have the highest absentee rates. So
thinking about, you know, looking at those schools, are there
spots where we're going to have volunteers or adults that
are riding again to help improve the feeling of safety
on the routes and then continuing our partnership, obviously DPD
provides security for us at the transit centers and out
on the street. We have the opportunity to work with
them to target particular trips and routes as necessary. Again,
kind of based on this feedback that we're really looking
to receive. Well, I think that it's an opportunity for,
I don't know, through an authority or through a coronation
council, but I think it's an opportunity for you to
be able to partner with, uh, DPS and the police
that they have there as well as TPD to be
able to provide, um, police or have a car follow
just in case we want to make sure these kids
are saving. We'll make sure that nothing happens. And then
God forbid. And so this is my final question. I
just wanted to ask. Or also you probably could have
maybe somebody for CVI also be able to participate in
following through. But it's also one to ask you. So
the pilot will take it through September and give data
on the truth and see improvements is, is that correct?
And it is, are you using artificial intelligence at all
to be able to collect that. So through the chair.
So yeah, the pilot is through up to 180 days.
That's what the ordinance allows for the resolution. That's also
the limit that the FTA places on temporary freight changes
as well. So really either way after six months, if
we're going to continue anything forward, it would require an
ordinance amendment and a fair equity analysis with the federal
transit administration. But specifically to your question about the truancy
rates, that is something that we're partnering with the schools
to track. And then we'll see if the change based
on, you know, starting April 1st. We'll take a look
at any of that data. Um, the first pilot or
the pilot program is going to be, you know, show
your ID and ride. So we'll be able to track
the number of students that take the rides, but we're
hoping that the permanent solution can have more of a
scan or a pass that allows us to more precisely
track exactly which students from which schools, not personal information,
but at least knowing what school we can attribute the
rides to. And then you can compare if Cody has
a great improvement and it's based on a lot of
rights happening there. Maybe Mumford doesn't have that improvement and
it's because there aren't those rights. That's the precise data
we're hoping to put in place with a permanent program.
Okay. So I see what you're saying. You're basically just
using that you're tracking, but not necessarily artificial touch because
the issue though. Because you can see it's me. You're
talking about the issue with data. I mean, that's part
of why you were anonymized that data. They have programs
that do that differential privacy. We had to get in
the cybersecurity right now. All right. Thank you. I appreciate
that, sir. Uh, I am done, Mr. Chair. Thank you.
Ms. Emotion for approval line item 21 member Johnson. Thank
you, Mr. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, thank you so
much for being here. I do appreciate the support being
provided to our young people. I wish it was a
different six month period. So you could really evaluate them
going and coming from school because this also encompasses the
summertime, but I'm hopeful that this will, um, give the
information that it needs to improve service and frequency for
those routes that, um, kids are going to and from
school. I did have a brief conversation with Dr. Hampton.
So I'm looking forward to, um, the additional supportive services
that the city is going to provide to our school
students as we continue to expand this pilot, um, and
just the relationship with DPSCD and charter schools throughout the
city. So thank you. Thanks Mr. Chair. Thank you. Alex
says a motion for approval line item 21. 1 any
objection. See none that action shall be taken. Request away
from Mr. President. We'll have a request for line item
21. 1. Any objections. Seen none and waiver should be
attached. Mr. President. Thank you. I wish I would return
back to line item 20. 11 noting that it has
been approved to allow member Callaway to add commentary as
needed. Remember Callaway? No, not a commentary. Thank you Mr.
Chair. Just a correction request through yourself to the, um,
the clerk. It should be in the name of Callaway.
Clinical. So note, Mr. President, thank you March 18th being
declared as John Eisenday, former U. S. Attorney. Thank you.
Thank you, madam chair. Mystery and Madam Clark. Thank you.
You're welcome. So we are now, uh, from the mayor's
office, Madam President, pro Tim Young, three resolutions, nine items
21. 2 through 21. 4. Young 21. 2 through 21.
4. Thank you, Vice President. I moved to approve my
item 21. 22 through 21. 4. League stairs of motions
for approval. Any objection. See none that action shall be
taken. Request away from Mr. President for 21. 3. It's
a request for a waiver on 21. 3 any objection.
They none. Waiver should be attacked. Thank you. Thank you.
From the office of contracted and procurement, Madam Clerk. Councilor
Basantiago Romero. Three resolutions noted nine item 21. 5 was
postponed from last week formal session. Contract number 6005 361
- A2 to provide an increase of funds for ADA
complementary pair transit services. Contractor Delray United Action Council. Total
contract amount. 18, 447, 122 dollars in 49 cent. That's
for transportation. Contract number 607482, contractor APC bus
incorporated total contract amount, 2 million. That's for transportation. And
contract number 600 7742 100 percent grant funding to provide
services for the women, infant, and children, weak program, contractor,
community health and social service center, join business as Chaz.
Total contract amount, 1 million, 143, 600 dollars Santiago Romero,
three resolutions. I agree, Merrill. Motion to approve. It's a
motion to approve line items 21. 5 through 21. 7
colleagues in the ejection. Projection. Remember Callaway online item 21.
6. Any further colleagues. Seeing none, the action
shall be approved. Request away from Mr. President for 21.
67 and 8. It's a request for a waiver for
line items 21. 6. Through 21. 8. Mr. President, we
did not too lying. I know 21. 8 was 21.
5 through 21. 7. 21. 6 and 21. 7 is
a request for a waiver colleagues. Any objection? Objection online
item 21. 6 Callaway. Uh. Uh, with that being noted,
there shall not be a waiver attached to 21. 6,
but no objections to 21. 7. A waiver should be
attached. Mr. President, member Santiago Rumina. I made a mistake
and I should have also asked for 21. 5 for
a waiver. As a request for a waiver on line
on 21. 5 colleagues, any objections. Seen none of waivers
should be attached. From the office of contracting and procurement,
Madam Clerk. Council President Pro Tim Young for resolutions, line
items 21. 8 through 21. 11. Noting that they are
all for the general services department. Contract number 6007670 to
provide construction. Cartition equipment and supporting services. Contractor also construction
equipment. LLC doing business as alter equipment company, total contract
amount, 11 million, 392, 663 dollars 6005312 - A100
city funding to provide time only extension to provide firebolt
maintenance and repair services, contractor RNR file trump repair incorporated,
total contract amount. 150, 725, 100 percent grant funding to
provide bomb disposal unit remount and repair services contractor McQueen
equipment LLC, total contract amount, 349, 988 dollars. Contract number
6007688, 100 percent city funding to provide judiciary services for
office of sustainability, contractor, Detroit, economic growth association, total contract
amount. 211, 500 dollars, Tim Young for resolutions. Pro Tim
Young. Line items 21. 8 through 21. 11. To discuss
to discuss. Um, it comes to my attention that Mr.
President, you want to postpone like 20, 21. 11 41.
11. Did you want to speak to why or five?
So there's emotion. So I like to make a motion.
The postpone lie item 21. 11. Yes, please. There's a
motion to postpone the vote for one week line item
21. 11. Colleagues. Any objections. See none line on 21.
11 shall be postponed for one week. Rotemyung. Thank you,
Ms. Brittany. I'm sorry. I forgot to say that's to
provide fiduciary services to them for the office to sustainability.
Just want to make that clear. I ain't on 21.
8 through 21. 10. As a motion to approve line
items 21. 8 through 21. 10 colleagues. Any objections. Objection.
Uh, member Callaway. Thank you Mr. Chair. Line item 21.
9. Object member Callaway. Any further colleagues. Seeing none that
action shall be taken. Okay. Thank you. From the office
of the chief financial officer, office of development and grants.
I'm a clerk. Council President Pro Tim Young, a resolution
known in at this line item was postponed from last
week formal session. 9 item 21. 12. Thank you. Mr.
President. I moved to approve line on 21. 12. It
was a motion to approve line item 21. 12. Any
objections. See none that action shall be taken. Of course
we're waiver on that item protein, please. I like to
make emotional requests to way wrong. Lyle 21. 12. Thank
you. There's a request for a wavering 21. 12. Any
objections. Seen none. Waiver shall be attached. From the housing
and revitalization department, Madam Clark. Council Member Santiago Romero, a
resolution line item 21. 13. Remember Santiago Ramiro? Motion to
approve. It's a motion to approve line item 21. 13
colleagues. Any objection. Say none that action shall be taken.
Request a waiver, Mr. President. This is to support our
lead - based pink hazard reduction program. As a request
for a waiver online item 21. 13 colleagues. Any objections.
See none of waivers shall be attached. Under resolutions, Madam
Clerk. Mr. President, for a line item 21. 14. And
21. 14 council member Johnson a resolution. Council member Johnson.
My name21. 14. Thank you Mr. Chair. Move for approval.
This is a resolution recognizing Michigan severe weather awareness week,
which was last week. As a motion for approval 9021.
14. Any objections. Seen none that action shall be taken.
You want to waver on that one. That's a joke.
Request a waver in advance next year. Right. Uh, Madam
Clerk. Under resolutions. Council member Whitfield Callaway line item 21.
15 a resolution. All right. McAlloway line number 21. 15
motion to approve. Mr. Chair. Thank you. Does a motion
to approve line item 21. 15. Any objections. Say none.
An action shall be taken. Uh, under request to speak
before city council. Council President Pro Tim Young a resolution
noting that this line item was postponed from last week
formal session. Right. Pro Tim Young. I moved to remove.
Why on 22. 1. As a motion to remove line
item 22. 1 from the agenda. Any objections. Seeing done.
That action shall be taken. For the president's, um, Madam
Clerk, let me see if we have any wall. Just
a president. Yes. You do have an item that you
refer back to the end. Yes, ma'am. A line item
20. 1 with the return back to that item colleagues.
We did postpone that one to the end of the
agenda. Mr. Washington, if you can have the representative for
us. Mr. Brundage. Sorry through the chair. I believe Director
Brundedge has been in and out of meetings. He may
be trying to rejoin us. Um, I know we're at
the end. If you want to postpone this one week,
we can. See request to postpone this item for one
week or do you want to move forward. That is
again, line out of 20. 1. Mr. Chair discussion? Uh,
with discussion member Callaway. Thank you Mr. Chair. I requested
that, um, we bring this back. I had questions, but
I'm sure I can get those questions answered. So the
reason for us to bring it back. I'll be comfortable
with getting my questions answered by Mr. Brunsch probably by
the end of the day. So you're okay with moving
forward with your son. All right. Yep. So Madam Clerk,
9 out of 20. 1. Member Santiago Romero, a resolution,
line item 20. 1. A member Santiago Romero. Motion to
approve as a motion to approve line item 20. 1
any objections. Seen none that action shall be taken. Thank
you. The minimum clerk. I know I have a resolution
before it's canceling internal operation, but it looks like we've
already dealt with that in that line item that we
just had. So Mr. President. Okay. I'm hearing no. So
Mr. Whittak. Very for two other committees, which was neighborhood
and BFA. This resolution for a walk on is for
iOS. Okay. Uh, is there a motion to walk on
the resolution cancelling iOS for April 1st. Mosa. Any objection.
With discussion. Remember Benson. It's just redundant that committee's already
been canceled. What are we doing this way? Hasn't been
cancer this week. That's for this week.
Mr. President. Yes, sir. As, as typical, we normally do
this by resolution. And I understand it. Remember Callaway has
issued a notice to the clerk to cancel. But there's
no normally done by resolution so that the public has
full understanding particularly those that come for public comment that
you're taking this move. So it is not necessarily required
in the open meetings act to do this. But this
is custom and practice. That's why you just voted on
the other two. Okay. So we've been in situations where
other committees have been unilaterally canceled. Right. Typically. So I'm,
I'm hoping that if we're going to start doing this
now that this custom extends to all committee's moving forward
and not just as special times. Typically is done when
you don't have a quorum and you don't have time
to do this. Okay. But when you have time to
give a notice, you should because public needs to advance
notice that they shouldn't come down. They travel all the
way down here. It's horrible thing. You're letting them know
in advance when you have an opportunity to vote, you
should. It's not necessary to cancel a meeting with a
notice. That is true. But when you have an opportunity
to do this. And this is what we typically do
or you typically do. We typically prepare it for you.
That's why I know it's done. Mr. Whitaker, I get
it. That's why I'll say again. I'm hoping if this
is customary, what we are accustomed to that we will
hold to that. We've had situations that's not been the
situation. We've had quorums. And unilaterally committees have been canceled.
And so hoping that chairs will take notice and then
follow this type of custom moving forward. If not, then
we shouldn't have to do redundant motions if a committee
has already been canceled. That's just my point. Thank you.
Thank you. Uh, with further discussion and member of Kelly.
Thank you. I, um, hope that we'll just abide by
the OMA open meetings act. If the resolution is not
necessary, but customary, it's not required. Um, so if we're
not violating open meetings act, we shouldn't have to do
resolutions. That's something that I guess the body before I
joined created. But if it's not required by the OMA
and customary, I would think that the OMA would probably,
um, Trump customs. I don't know. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, colleagues. There's a motion on the floor. To
send to new business, any objections. Seeing none that action
shall be taken. Madam clerk. Council member Whitfield Callaway of
resolution. Member Callaway. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Madam
Clerk. Motion to approve. Is a motion to approve the
walk - on. Canceling, uh, internal operations for April 1st.
Any objection. Seen none that action shall be taken. For
the president's report on standing committee referrals and other matters
for the budget before you do that, we do have
another walk home from you. If you like to walk
that on now to new business, a resolution requested a
mayor to modify the proposed executive organizational plan. And I
missed that one. I don't have that one in front
of me. I was passed out yesterday for the record.
That's that one yesterday for the record. As a walk
on, has someone yesterday. So I remember this one. Let's
make sure we bring it to the table on the
day up. All right. So this is a resolution requesting
the mayor to modify the proposed executive organization plan noting
the two items, uh, that have been submitted. College is
their emotion to. Place on to new business. Motion. As
emotion. Any objections. A none that actions shall be taken.
Madam clerk. Council President Pro tell Young on behalf of
council president James Tate a resolution. Protein. Young.
Bene, correct the proper language here. Move to approve. Okay.
So, uh, motion to approve the. Mayor's modified executive organization
plan. Resolution. The resolution. Walk. Motion to move the wall
con resolution. There's a motion to approve the walk -
on send it to business. With discussion. Mr. Washington. Yes.
Through the chair, um, just for my clarity, is this
the LPD resolution with the body's recommendations? It is, sir.
Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any objections? Good
discussion with further discussion member McCambell. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Um, uh, on the resolution agreement with your professional of
changing the name of the homeland security, um, just wondering
was there any thought of dropping homeland security aspect completely.
Yes. Um. There was, but there was some talk about
funding, um, that was tied into it with the name.
So if there was, there's a desire to move forward
on it. I welcome that. Um, but at this moment,
I'd, I decided to move and keep the name, but
ensure that the emergency management services is the emphasis because
they do two totally different things. Absolutely. Yes. And, and
quite honestly, there are other departments around the country that
has a similar language that does this similar function. It's
totally different from, uh, the federal homeland security department. Yes,
sir. Thank you. Thank you. Any further colleagues. All right.
There's a motion on the floor for approval. Any objection.
See none that actions shall be taken. Right, madam clerk.
For the president's report on standing committee referrals and other
matters for the budget, finance, and on it, standing committee.
Submittal of five memorandums. The five memorandums shall be referred
to the budget finance and outerstanding committee for the internal
operations standing committee. Six reports from various city departments. The
six reports will be referred to the internal operations standing
committing for the neighborhood and community services standing committee. Six
reports from various city departments. The six reports will be
referred to the neighborhood and community services standing committee for
the planning and economic development standing committee. Six reports from
various city departments. The six reports will be referred to
the planning and economic development standing committee for the public
health and safety standing committee. 11 reports from various city
departments. 11 reports will be referred to the public health
and safety standing committee under consent agenda. There are no
ionizer president. Colleagues, is there a motion to suspend member
reports. There's a motion to suspend and remove reports. Any
objections. Seeing none that action shall be taken under adoption
with committee reference now, clerk. There are no items, Mr.
President. I'm the commission communications from the clerk. A report
on approval proceedings by the mayor. Report will be received
and placed on file under testimonial resolution and special privilege.
Councilmember Benson to resolutions, nine items 33. 1 and 33.
2. Remember Benson.
To approve. As a motion to approve line items 33.
1 and 33. 2. Any objections. Saint none that action
shall be taken. I hear no objective. There being no
further business to come before this body, this meeting. She'll
stand adjourned. This meeting is a joy.