And welcome to our last session before City Council recess and just want to remind everyone recess does not mean vacation, but everybody.
Some of us will be taking vacation. Call it out right now. But what it does mean it gives us an opportunity to just kind of regroup, clean the office up and go out to a lot of those community events that you all are having and we want to make sure that we're there and be able to share that time with you.
With the red of the session of Tuesday July 28th, I will now come to order that will clerk.
Will you please call the roll?
Sure, Mr. President.
Awesome.
Members got Vincent.
Yeah.
Vincent.
Council Member Littisha Johnson.
Council Member Denzel and Tom Campbell.
President.
Council Member Renee the Miller.
Council Member Gabriella, Santiago Romero.
President, President, President,
President, President, President, President,
President, you have a form?
Thank you, man. We have a form with
Management now in session.
For those of you who would like to speak before this body,
we want to give you an opportunity.
There is a portion called public comment where you
can speak to this body on whatever issue that you like.
But you got to fill out a comment card,
and you can put you in the queue if you're at home.
Same thing.
Raise your hand and we'll make sure we put you in the queue for that public comment.
We're going to be closing a cutting off the collection of public comments very, very short.
I would like to provide in this morning's invocation.
We will have none other than pastor Stephanie Jones.
She's a senior pastor of Park of Deliverance Church located at 544.
to have a new win. City Council District 6 has to Jones is a lifelong Detroit resident and is faithfully served at the Ark of deliverance for nearly since it's a since it's establishment.
Excuse me. After years of ministry and leadership, she was appointed senior pastor in 2014. Good morning.
As the singer, by the church's founder, Pastor Robert T. Jones, you know, I'm very well.
Her ministry has rooted in serving both the congregation and the surrounding community.
A commitment that was recognized in 2024 with the power of one dedicated woman award from Michigan community resources.
Pastor Jones, thank you for being here. The floor is yours. Thank you.
Without heads and lifted hearts, they're Lord, we thank you for the gift of life and the opportunity to serve the people of the city of Detroit.
A proverbial wisdom book instructs us in all your ways, acknowledge him.
And he shall direct by path.
So Lord, we acknowledge you today and pray that you guide us so that this meeting will be productive and effective.
strengthen us as we make tough decisions, help us to listen with understanding and good
will to speak with clarity and charity and restraint and conviction. Most importantly, give
us a spirit of service. Remind us that we are stewards of your authority, guide us to be the leaders
that the people of the city of Detroit need and most importantly trust. Help us to see the humanity
and dignity of those who disagree with us and to treat all persons with the reverence of your
creation that we deserve. And finally, Father, renew us with the strength and the presence
and the joy of helping to build a thriving community community. We ask this as your son's
and daughters, confident that you hear us in Jesus' name, amen.
And thank you so much, Pastor Jones.
I understand if you have a schedule, but you are always welcome to stick
to stay with us during our session.
The journal of the last session shall stand approve.
Before we go forward with the agenda, we do have a few presentations
that we would like to deliver and we will start off with a member, Donson.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, everyone.
This morning, I have the honor and privilege
to recognize the outstanding team behind the City of Detroit Renew Detroit Essential Home
Repair Program. I would like to ask for the entire team if they will come and stand in front
of us. So we can all know who it is that we are recognized.
As they come down, many of us know
that this program was funded through the American Rescue Plan Act renewed Detroit.
Actually,
we can get them in here in front of us. In front of us, I'd like for someone to be right there,
podium to get ready to speak in recognition of the entire team and all of the hard work that you all have done.
So the renewed Detroit program was created with a simple but powerful mission to help
income qualified Detroit homeowners preserve their health, safety and housing stability by providing
critical home repairs. Through two phases of service focused on essential roof and window repairs
that renewed Detroit team worked tirelessly to support some of our city's most vulnerable residents.
What made this program truly remarkable was not only the scale of the work, but the care and
commitment behind every single project. The team balanced complex construction management,
regulatory requirements, fiscal responsibility, and meaningful resident engagement to ensure
homeowners received the support they needed. Since launching in 2021, the renewed Detroit
team has achieved extraordinary results.
Collectively, they completed more than 2,000 major home repairs.
They conducted nearly 2,500 property assessments, resolved hundreds of resident service requests,
onboard at 12 contractors, successfully administered a $15 million Mr. Grant within 16 months,
and maintain an impressive 96.2 resident satisfaction rating.
They also facilitated more than 24,000 stakeholder interactions through phone calls,
emails, and written communication, ensuring residents remain informed, supported, and connected
throughout the process. These accomplishments required exceptional teamwork and daily collaboration
across construction inspections, finance, procurement, and program operations.
Each member of the Renew Detroit team played a vital role in moving projects from application
to completion while keeping residents at the center of their work.
The impact of this team has been recognized throughout the state and beyond.
Renew Detroit has been highlighted by the citywide home repair task force named a recipient
of mischievous 2024 video of the year and honor with mischievous 2025 success in monitoring
award.
In 2024 the team achieved an incredible milestone by completing 1100 and 1100 and 1100
room for replacement in a single calendar year.
Today we celebrate not only the numbers and accomplishments but the dedication, innovation
and compassion that made those achievements possible.
Each team member brought unique skills and expertise
that strengthen the program and advance this mission of improving housing quality
and stability for Detroit homeowners. Please join us in congratulating
and recognizing the exceptional renewed Detroit team for their commitment to service,
excellence and the residents of the city of Detroit.
And, and I would like to just recognize each one of you individually, I hope I say your name correctly.
There's one name I know I'm going to get incorrect, but we do have a spirit of Detroit award here for you as well as a pin.
We have Rashida Bradley, who's program manager and deputy director.
It's waving your hand.
Great need to rate the program specialists and construction managers.
Travis McAdori, McAdori, housing inspector, project superintendent, construction analyst.
Got Obamonum, program specialist,
just in Rainer program specialist, see your program manager.
Jillian Coney, Program Specialist, Senior Program Specialist, Melissa Malone, Program Specialist,
Jamar Jackson, Housing and Spectre Program Specialist,
Alexandria Hayme, Program Assistant Program Specialist,
Mary Lynn Marrant, Housing Inspector, Construction Project Superintendent.
Rise, Johns, Housing Inspector.
Rise, Day, Rise, Johns, Rise, Johns.
Mark Robinson, Housing Inspector.
Russell Norris III, Housing Inspector.
Emma Bassett, University of Michigan,
in Europe, in turn, that a specialist?
No way I'll merit team assistant,
in-voicing specialist.
And last, the certainly not least darling cattle.
St. your operations analyst,
St. your operations manager and director.
As we all know, our befunding is coming to a conclusion
this year, and we just wanted to recognize
the amazing work this team has done
to provide support to our residents
throughout the city of Detroit. I drive through the neighborhoods and just seeing new groups.
And I'm really, really pleased that what I've seen, we know that there is more that needs to be done.
But this is a tremendous effort, a tremendous work that you all have done. It is certainly
commendable. I remember being in the community with several of you when the first roof was done
in District 4. So we appreciate you. We appreciate your commitment and dedication to our residents
and we applaud and honor you for the amazing work that you were able to do within this time. Thank you.
Okay.
I am so overwhelmed in this moment, but I have the privilege to stand here and represent this exceptional team of,
This exceptional team of people who have come together from all different walks of life with different skill sets, different thoughts, different ideologies, different backgrounds, and we're still able to come together and serve a singular purpose, which was to renew Detroit.
It was an insurmountable task and I will not stand here in act like it was easy any single day.
There were days when folks thought we couldn't do it.
There were days we thought we could not do it.
But when you do what has never been done, it takes a level of grit and hustle and thought
that we possessed.
We had to believe in ourselves.
and so I am so very proud, along with all of you on city council who helped us sharpen
us challenge us, because had it not been for that, we would not be standing here today.
Alongside all of the residents we've served over 2,000 of them, over 2,600 of which we've
interacted with, we have changed lives, has it been perfect, no, has it been without
drive no but at the end of the day we have better lives in a way that no one across this country
we've checked has been able to do in the timeframe that we have done.
And so I just want to take
this opportunity for you all to take a look at us. We are renewed Detroit. We are Detroiters.
We are passionate. We did great great work. We hope that we can serve as a model for those who are
this right now because this is exceptional. It took City Council, it took our city departments, our
stakeholders, our community partners, our contractors, it took so much grit that we would
mean to be here for days for us to be able to explain it and we don't have the luxury of that time.
So in that said I'm going to say in this moment, thank you. We brought some thank you cards for
all of you as well at City Council. We'll be handing those out now and we just want to leave
here with a spirit of gratitude. We want to share with you a spirit of gratitude because it's
that spirit that we'll be able to continue to serve our residents.
At the end of the day, we are Detroiters, too.
It is our communities, too.
It is our neighborhoods, too.
And so we are here to make them better and to continue to renew them.
And whether we are here or not,
we hope that the foundation that we have laid
will continue to benefit us for years to come.
So thank you.
Thank you all so much. Thank you all so much. We're going to make sure that once we wrap up, we're going to come down and take a couple of photos with you as well. Remember, Johnson, you have a couple of words.
But you said it's some things that they're already walking down.
Thank you.
Thank you for my phone.
Just big air hood. Love all y'all.
Thank you. Well, of course you've been doing really appreciate it.
We definitely need to do this.
That will make the good things.
Thank you.
Huge thank you.
When are we all set?
We're all set number Johnson.
Yeah, thank you.
All right.
Thank you all.
And like I said, we're going to take a photo with you.
Once we get past the other presentations as well.
They'll give them a round of applause to take your seats.
We'll give them a round of applause to take their seats.
I'll give them a round of applause to take their seats.
All right.
Thank you.
Yes.
Hey man.
Thank you, Mr. President.
The value of work is measured not only by what it produces, but by the lives and improves.
And this gentleman has made lives better through negotiating fair wages, that are working conditions, and the best contracts.
He has raised the quality of living.
He has fought for people who couldn't fight for themselves,
and people who couldn't get a job, or were being mistreated on the job,
would be able to go to hell, and he would make it happen.
He is my honor and privilege to present this spirit at Detroit Award,
for this is the expression of the gratitude and esteem of the people of Detroit
to the significantly important and tremendously viable
Shetroe Collier, President of a Malcolm Bandy
Transportation Union Local Court, he says,
come on down.
And since this is requested by the Eternal Advocate
for Transit, Mr. Cuttingham, can you come down as well
as Director Cramer come down to
and Quarparation Council, Malik, you come down as well
as you negotiate a contract.
Yeah, you're right, block
over years as president 20 years on the ATU local 26
executive board 33 years as transportation equipment operator for Detroit Department of Transportation.
I come from a strong U.N. background. I was born and raised here. A hard working middle class family
me. So hard work came from me naturally. I saw my parents do it every day. That was what
was a betty in me as a child. I have to have super heroes mentality. I'm going out there.
I'm going out here and to save people because I'm telling you I have empathy for the people
who were out there showed up every day and just did my job. And I know my drivers will do
I would like to build on the successes of those that came before me to keep my
membership strong and to help the city of Detroit provide the service to the
people out there who meet at the most are passengers. The wage increase maximum
$25 an hour will help the drivers and passengers of Detroit. I just want to say
Thank you, President, the colleague for those words and your tremendous served, calling, for you.
For those words, as the PDinar is calling, I'll stop with the matrix for you.
I'll try to be thousand.
Calling, I'll stop.
I'll stop.
It's okay, my son.
I'm for no mischief.
It later goes back and forth.
I'll stop.
You are indeed a champion for the people of Detroit.
You are ass-ed to our great city of Detroit.
We thank you, and are terribly grateful for your tireless efforts,
exceptional achievements, outstanding leadership, and dedicated devotion,
that lives the spirit in hearts of all the people of Detroit, Michigan, and America.
You ought to look home in a young and second.
Detroit City Council President Trump's effort at large,
with the entire honorable Detroit and City Council of Detroit, Michigan,
proud to present this spirit of Detroit award to Chetron Collier.
Thank you.
Anything you like to say, sir?
First of all, I like to think my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who has put me in these positions in my life to be the success that I have been.
Second of all, there's no way that I put a gut up every day and I'm going to try not to be a motion.
I take to do what I did every day if it wasn't for my wife.
So I like you guys, give my wife Amy Carter.
And again, I was forced in the to be raised in the home with both my parents and I saw them work very hard. They work with the General Motors. They were strong union people.
So again it was embedded in me in the beginning. I didn't know anything else to do, but to get up and go to work like I was supposed to do.
and then to be able to make where I work a better place is what got me involved in a union.
I work very hard on behalf of my membership and I can tell you for each one of you sitting up there
and everyone in this room who has ever stood in a position of leadership, your desire is always
to leave something better off than you found it and I was able to accomplish that.
Again, I'm a strong
life long to quarter. And I raised my children here, they all attended each
for a public school, they all were able to go to college. This bus, driving this bus
every day has taken me somewhere I couldn't dream of. When I walked on the job
at 26 years old, I had a dream and with my hard work and the grace of God himself
it has taken me past a dream I had. I can't even imagine back when I first started
that I would be standing here.
I just wanted to be able to provide a steady life
as a hard worker man to my family,
and God has lifted me away past that.
And so I am so grateful to him, my family, my children,
who also contributed to me,
they gave me the drive and support that I need it.
And again, to each one of you,
I will pray for each one of you so that at some point,
You can feel the feeling of what is like to actually leave something better off than you found it because it's a very hard job.
There are many obstacles.
People throw in arrows at you back. You've got to crawl under over and around things to just get small things done with each.
Victory will help you win the war.
And so I will stay a committed Detroit again.
I'm going to try to who did have to stay here.
I chose to sleep here and raise my family.
I love my city, I love my union,
and I love my family, and God Himself.
Thank you.
The colleagues want to say anything.
I remember this.
This call here is an honor privilege to be here today
while you receive this honor.
We've been working with you and ATU for well over a decade now
And you are continually to come through for the residents of Detroit.
You have represented your clients and your bosses with honor and dignity and respect.
And I really do appreciate about that about you.
You are very responsive if we have concerns or issues or questions.
You respond quickly and you make yourself and your boss is available at a moment's notice
to answer questions and to help eliminate any concerns that we may have.
Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
Thank you Mr. Chair, Mr. Collier.
I just want to say thank you for your dedication and commitment and your service and
always seeing everyone as individuals being respectful of everyone.
I thank you for going on the right among with me.
We were outstanding on the street waiting for the bus together and witnessing improvements
I needed to be made, but for you, thank you for being there on the ground, always doing the work and being committed, not only to the union members, but to the residents in the city of Detroit. Thank you.
Thank you.
Good morning, I'm went to the chair.
Mr. Carley, or when I saw your name on our agenda, my heart dropped because they're losing a true union brother.
And so my union brother, I just wanted to say,
you're a waiver and commitment to ATU local 26 has been
an attestimate to Detroit City workers,
because you fought years, so it proved those benefits and wages.
And then last contract, I was honored to stand there
and protest with you at the Kilpatrick Transit Center.
To stand there and wave our sides and say, listen, no more.
We cannot allow other transit systems to run through our city
and our workers get paid $6 left to date.
You fought hard for that right. You fought rock hard for those union brothers and sisters and they deserve to have a fair wage
comparable to other transit centers
Systems and the respected deserve by justi trading alone. It was long overdue and shame on us for nine doing it
Head of time
But I wanted to say I support you. I will continue support the union and that's union brother. It's sister solidarity forever
Thank you.
The past president, how do you thank you?
When you have someone who has served with this city over 20 plus years, you've seen
a lot, you've been through a lot, and you've made a huge change, a huge difference, and
you've changed a lot.
I just appreciate the way that you approach everything with the level of professionalism,
And while you have, while you send it to be the president of ATU,
you never lost sight of the main goal is to take care of the folks that we see out here
the community. Those who rely on our public transportation to get to and from the doctors of
appointments to get their kids to and from where they need to go. So just every day to day life.
So thank you for your service and I am reminded when I have me and of your
Statue come before us and you're getting accolades to not forget a very important person in your life, and that is your wife.
Because she allows you to do things that you are able to do.
And you go through those ups and downs, those journeys together as a team.
So I got bless you in your whatever you tend to do moving forward and just know that you still have nine folks you can lean on in the
Thank you, Council President.
We're going to go ahead.
I just wanted to say really quickly that you're in COVID,
I'm reminded of Jason Hargrove.
And I think that that is the quintessential definition
of the D.I.T. translators.
People who are willing to sacrifice their lives
so that people could get to and from.
And words cannot express how thankful we are
to you and the leadership that you provided during those top times.
I also and remind the people who have to walk through the snow to get to work
and because of the service that you provide, you are preventing that from happening
from people who can't afford to transit, people who get stuck in places and can't get out of
seeing your citizens, we have gotten lost because of the services that you provide, and because
the excellence and the kindness that we provided that we have addressed those issues.
As I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for your service.
It will not be forgotten. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you, thank you.
Did anybody else want to say something at all? Go ahead, Miss Powell.
He's always been one call away and he's willing to talk to the upper echelon, the pion, or whatever.
He's always been there in extracurricular and our private meetings we have about different issues.
He's in those calls. He didn't have to be, but he chose to be all of the orbs. And he was in a given
great advice, great perspective, and I think it came from the Holy Spirit, those wise
perspectives that he would bring to the meetings, that he did not have to be in, and we're
going to miss him. I'm going to miss him.
We do Zoom meetings about the Wayne County Village, about doubling data, just different other issues.
And he would join those meetings very, very, very insightful.
And I just say, agape, agape low, we appreciate you, the 313 loves Mr. Collier. He's good peoples.
And thank you, and thank you, Council Pro Tim, for doing appreciate it.
Good morning, Council.
It's been an honor for me in my year and a half at D dot, but I've known President
Collier longer than that in the transit world.
And as I say it often, the transit equipment operator is the most difficult job that we have at D dot.
And I think that President Collier has done
Yomans work for many years representing the spirit and the passion
and the dedication it takes.
And has always done just a fantastic job talking to young people
in particular looking for their next career
about the impact that you've cured again here this morning,
the impact that it's had on him and his family
and the pride that he's taken in the role he's played
moving people around the city of Detroit.
So, this has been an honor, again, really look forward to what is next for him, well, well deserved, but it really has been an incredible force and it was an honor also to be involved here with the really generational change and contracts last time around that represents decades of
of ATU and President Call, you're really fighting for,
for a parent between D dot and other equipment operators
in the region.
So again, it's been an honor and I think
his accomplishments speak for themselves,
but appreciate the opportunity to acknowledge him.
Good morning.
I really hadn't misrepresented and intended on saying thing.
But this particular moment moved me.
My father, as many of you know, was the director
of the Department of Transportation,
well, the city Detroit under Coleman and Young.
More importantly, a former president
of the Union, he was followed.
The name that I know that Mr. Collier
renews members was one of the men
who shaped me as I came into political and public service.
Without heward Holly, without the bus drivers,
without the guidance that the first district political leadership provided me I would not be standing
here before you today. We all owe a debt along the way to various people and it wasn't until
Mr. Collier a few minutes ago that I had thought about Hubert for about two or three years. A man
who was so important to this city, so important to me,
and so important to D-Dye,
that is just my privilege to stand here today, Mr. Collier,
and thank you for your work and to remind all of us
of the tremendous contribution that the transit workers
make for this city every single day.
Thank you,
man.
Well, thank you so much, and we again will come down
and we'll take some photos after we wrap up this last presentation.
so thank you again. Thank you all. All right, that's a big thank you for
our final presentation.
We have a recognition for Jim and who most of you have never heard the name. Don't see them.
But fingerprints are on a number of legal opinions, legal documents and activities that are
taking place that have worked to safeguard the interests of the city of Detroit. And it is not
other than attorney Eric Gouble.
Come on down,
please.
It's been quite an awful,
I feel,
Quincy's taking her back from on this bill.
And he thought he used to be on that side.
We won't bring him on this side of the table.
Last bench.
Congratulations, sir.
Yeah, absolutely.
Quincy eight years is a long time.
You've had an opportunity to see the city
because they had been in flow the whole roller coaster that we talked about earlier, a major part of many of these pieces of litigation that has helped us in many different ways.
And as I said, most folks have never heard your name, we never see the documents, but they feel the impact.
So again, I just want to thank you for that.
And when we talk about the impact, just give you a little brief information.
I'm not going to read the whole testimony resolution, but Eric Bigobo joined the city Detroit
a lot of department in 1998 as a member of the state bar of Michigan and having graduated
from the Michigan State University and U of M. Law School.
I knew it was going to be something.
Attorney Gabo has represented the city Detroit and its employees and in the Wayne County
Circuit Court, Michigan Court of Appeals, Michigan Supreme Court, United States District
Court for the eastern district of Michigan and six, excuse me, six circuit court of appeals.
I'm Mr. Gobo has offered meticulous and scrupulous advocacy on behalf of the city
Detroit and its employees for 28 years both inside and outside of the court ring.
It has been recognized by judges of the state of Michigan and the federal bar as well as
opposing counsel for his cogent legal writing and exhaustive research.
His risen to become one of the most distinguished litigators in the history of the city
of Detroit, zealously furthering the city's interest while furthering that highest ethical
standards.
Ladies and gentlemen, y'all, please give a round of applause to make the most valuable
Thank you for those kind of words.
I just want to say it's been an honor and a privilege to work for the city and be able to help the city and whatever way that I can.
I could have done that without the support of the department and the other departments and my family, of course, my wife.
And of course, my dog Frank and my children, but I really don't have much else to say other than it's been a long, odd journey.
I think I've worked as hard as I could, I've tried to work with integrity and honesty, and I guess everything comes to an end, though.
So thank you again.
Thank you.
The most recent pleasure working with this gentleman.
I'm going to be up to him to say if he works as well.
So, can I have all the law departments to stand up?
Eric, these are men and women who have worked with you every day.
They know you to be a man of integrity.
They know how hard you work.
They've known that I'm more than one occasion,
Jim Nesita, myself, have had to say, Eric, you've got to go home.
There's no more to be done today.
You will be missed and you will leave an intellectual gap in a lot of part of it that will be very, very hard for us to fill.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Eric is the first and do whom we give all the hard piece.
So I mean think about this.
We were sued by a group of landlords who believe that he had unfairly manipulated the COVID reimbursement system where they got paid tenants got supported.
and somehow or now that because of the rules that we put in place, that the properties that
received the support had to come into compliance with the ordinance that we had imposed
on them, and on reasonable birth that was unconstitutional. Eric won that case for all of it.
And with the class hacking suit that would have been Mr. President consequential, had we lost.
Eric took on all of that work. He took on all of those kinds of burdens, and he has been
doing it for a very, very long time, functioning at a very, very high level for decades.
And so, Angie, we appreciate all the time away from home that you and your family allowed
him to spend on our behalf. We will miss you Eric in ways that you don't quite understand
And while I haven't said this, I'll loud, and I'm telling you right now, we are going to call Eric, what would you do?
What would you have done? Where should we look? So this is this is a great moment for you and for your family, my friend.
I appreciate you very, very, very much. And for once for true, you will be missed. Thank you all.
Thank you, Attorney Gabo, it is an honor to have attorneys who are dedicated to the residents of the city of Detroit and have given their all and have selected to stay with us.
And as many of you know, municipal and public service, it's a calling, it is a mission.
is not one where you come to become wealthy.
It is a place you go to make a difference and to impact and provide the best quality
of life for the residents of the city to try that you possibly can.
Smart men recognize their lives and I've known Angie for a number of years being in the non-profit sector as well.
And so it's always good to know that behind and beside every smart man is also a wise and smart woman who helps to
and lead the family as well.
So you have done great jobs on many fronts attorney got.
So just we want to say fair wins,
following seeds to you on your future endeavors as well.
Thank you.
Thank
you.
Thank you.
Go down there.
I'll take this.
Since we have trying to get out of the water.
We'll see.
This is where the moment is.
All right.
We have to let's.
Okay.
Please.
All right.
Oh, you're done.
And then
like yeah,
but we're a burial.
We're
filming
it.
That's all?
I'm filming it.
All
right, as they make their way to the seats, everyone give them another one of the clause for our honorees for today flees. They aren't it, they aren't it.
And I know there's some folks saying, why are you taking on this time, giving awards and everything? Well, the reason why we take that time is because for so many all you hear is negative and all you hear is what folks aren't doing. So we always want to lift up those individuals who are doing the work that you want as residents of the city of Detroit.
So we appreciate them and we want to make sure
that we show that appreciation.
All right.
I thought I saw Deputy Clerk Gilbert in the house.
Mr. Deputy Clerk, come on down.
I know I had a busy weekend, you had a black party,
there was a competition going on,
but even more than that folks are now starting to vote.
I want to give you an opportunity to say a few words.
Absolutely.
So thank you all for allowing me a few minutes
to give a couple words a first one to thank you all those that could attend our Black
Party for making this a success helping us get the word out for early voting.
I wanted to give you an update on our early voting competition, our nine-day
competition that's going from now until August 2nd. Right now district 2 is currently in the
with the most both the highest turnout those and vote in early followed by a district five and then
district six and those follow-in behind you still got time to catch up in and help your
orchestrations get that vote out. So don't want to be before you long again this will be
going until August 2nd the winning district will receive a district-wide celebration and then beyond
That's what remind people that early voting is now until on the second we have a voting early voting district early voting center in each of our districts up from nine to five nine to five and then we have one downstairs in this building in room 106 so if you haven't voted yet you still have time if you want to encourage people to get out both early and help your district claim it's rights to being the highest
turn out district when it comes to early voting. So again, thank you and hope to see everyone at
one of our early goal centers. Thank you so much. Thank you for the update and we'll be having
you come back every once in a while, post the primary because the thing is important to toss and
the drill that in the folks and that just for us to wait until before voting time, you've got to keep
that in the minds of all. So thank you again for the work Mr. Jerry and the regular days. Mr. Jerry
I just have a question for the deputy clerk, real quick, sorry.
We got this question just to the MPHS, I'm not sure we got the answer yet, but on,
I know there is free fare on the buses on the election day.
Is that the same for pair of transit as well?
Working on that, and should happen in November.
All right.
I think there's announcement coming this week.
It's a little bit louder, right?
Yes.
they will have a press conference this Thursday at 11 p. 11 a.m. at WC3. So we'll give more
information there. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you so much. All right. As I mentioned earlier,
all the common collections have now concluded, there being no reconsiderations are unfinished
business. We will proceed with a budget finance and audit standing committee minimum clerk.
Two reports from various city departments. The two reports will be referred to the budget
Finance and Audit Standing Committee for the Internal Operations Standing Committee.
Simit, what's the minimum randoms?
The two minimum randoms will be referred to the Internal Operations Standing Committee for the Planning and Economic Development Standing Committee.
Four reports from various city departments.
The four reports will be referred to the Planning and Economic Development Standing Committee for the Public Health and Safety Standing Committee.
The 10 reports will be referred to the public health and safety standing committee.
We will now move to voting action matters.
Under other matters, Mark.
There are no ionist, Mr. President.
Under communications from the mayor and other governmental officials and agencies.
There are no ionist, Mr. President.
We will now call for public comment.
And we want to let everyone out.
Don't have how many cards we have today online and in person.
We're going to get everyone two minutes, all
right.
So we're going to take that.
I'm going to let just totally get download about number of folks.
A minute, 45.
When you've everyone a minute, 45.
I'll probably comment this morning in a minute, 45.
And for those who are not familiar with our processes,
we as the body are not going to go back and forth.
We will allow everyone to provide their comments.
Everyone, both in person and online.
And then we will provide comment from that standpoint.
So once your time is up, I've got to be fair to everyone.
I've got to get everyone the same amount of time when you time is indeed up.
Please remove yourself from the microphone if you're in person and allow the next person to speak.
Thank you.
Our first speaker is in the shower.
Williams followed by Betty Lyons followed by Darryl Stewart.
If that button in front of you, so red turns green.
Hello through the chair.
Um, I like to talk about voting yesterday with IC. Um, I went to go vote. I've been voting since I was 18 on West Grand Boulevard. Last week, the clerk was here talking to me talking about how the, what they are doing to make sure people are not voting and I mean everything is compliant through the laws. So think this people. This is for the citizens of Detroit. When you get out of prison, you can get a job.
through the any chip agency and I know for a fact a lot of people that came home from
prison they are they working at these polls I don't have a problem with that but
this is what the problem I do have with the legal vote so you get to vote in your
real name like I said it didn't in your fake name early voting that's the key right
here I'm there they had an ear buzz on that's not acceptable and like I said
How could they even get a fake name?
They have to have a social security card
of birth certificate to go to the Secretary of State Office
that becomes someone new.
And this is why we have ex-Fenders
in Latin America citizens on the Detroit Police Department
and working all around the city.
This is for you coming a contract,
walk a Miller, Charles Wright, Museum.
I see all this.
I stayed behind walking with Miller.
They come in the back door and come out from front door.
I'm talking about ex-offenders just coming from the third.
I don't have a whole lot of time, but like I said,
if you see what I see, the bad people carrying their weapons,
if you didn't have anything to hide,
you can come to work with your weapon.
You don't have to worry about it.
Mucher next speaker, Betty Lyon, followed by
Darryl Stewart, followed by Cassandra Rodriguez.
Okay. You're talking about how you receive these negative comments. Well, I'm going to
tell you about the over 600 million dollars in stolen property tax that you all set
behind that evil Satanic, do good, and you say it nothing. Am I supposed to come up
positively and say I got in my money. No, I can't. I'm telling the truth. But you continue with your satanic ex.
The Leeland tenets I will never forget how you sit and set all those months or years and how they were constructively
Evicted, you helped the slum lord more than you did the tennis, and these lawyers, they are
painful.
They don't come to the aid of the people.
They come to the aid of the wrong doors.
The wrong doors of the slum lords.
They continue to help the slum lords, giving them more money and taking a
away from the tennis. So no, I have nothing positive to say to a group of people who are
evil, what is a allowed Romero? So do what is to go on television and talk and for the illegal
But yet she won't speak positively for the people of Detroit who have money that was stolen and that attorney Gavin
Oh, I include it.
All right, uh, Gerald Stewart?
One minute, four, five, six.
Good morning, Galson.
Of course you guys know me out there before speaking on behalf of the leader.
And uh, we went over in the meat.
Okay.
Thank you for all close to you.
He's over in the meat.
Okay?
Definitely over there.
But to resist you effects, let's pull up before a continuing.
We had to find the answer to the thing I talked about.
emotional mental and physical things people I think when I have to put up
on the stress but here's the big one. There were three of them probably saying
what do you mean by that? It didn't work. It was boxed. It was two or five
to it. The second part.
Once we couldn't be present for it, probably came out, which we're finding now, once a store is missing and is damaged.
We weren't there. We did not have fair representation of us being able to monitor what was done in our places, because we weren't there.
Stop, come out, damnist, and it's missing.
Now saying, it's stolen, it's stealing the building.
It's empirical.
Say that word, it's a fact.
I think it's still sitting in a lot.
Did not make it out of the stores.
It's sitting in a nap, in a sealed up building.
And I guarantee you, on the floors above,
people's property is sitting up there now.
That building is full of treasures.
Right now, people are, as we very upset.
Plas then shook up, stopped going and we were caused in the doing this deal because of fear of loss of property.
So we went through with it.
Well, property is lost and damaged.
So I'll keep it brief like that.
Thank you.
Keep that in mind.
Thank you.
Next speaker, Cassandra Rodriguez, followed by east of cross followed by rural property.
It's not to apologize if I'm mispronounced you.
Hi, my name is Cassandra.
I'm here representing a local community organization called
the Committee of the Arts and Communitaria,
or the Detroit Community Action Committee.
I'm here to say, I do think it's shameful
that you guys are taking an entire month off for recess.
I think a lot of us, it's already hard to come
to these meetings.
They're on Tuesday at 10 a.m.
in the middle of the work week
when most people should be working.
They're taking their time out of their days to come here.
And you guys got an entire month off for August.
followed by September and then October where you're going to take another month off so essentially you're getting just the month of September where we get to come here and talk with you guys and I think that's very shameful
That's very shameful because this is a community outreach that you guys get to have that you're not going to be doing for the entire month of August and then the entire month of October
And I think that's shameful.
I think that's very shameful.
The city of Detroit, it doesn't go anywhere while you guys are gone.
We're still here.
They're citizens and residents that still need stuff from you guys.
And every time that you're not here, you're not being held accountable to them.
People should be able to come here to these meetings and speak to you guys directly.
And I think it's completely shameful that you guys do not have that during the month of August.
And October, knowing down below, you're going to have a bunch of holiday recess during the holidays during Thanksgiving and Christmas.
While you guys are not here, enjoying your community events or reflecting on what your campaigns have been doing,
there's people being deported in your streets, there's children.
Teams being shot up by the mayor of the police department, you guys seriously need to reconsider how you're spending our tax dollars.
Thank you.
Mr. Rodriguez, I would hope to stay until the end so we can respond back to you as well so you can hear that some different, I know, so you can hear. Thank you so much.
All right, Mrs. Krauss.
Hello, my name is Asa Krauss.
I am with Detroit Community Action Committee, urging for Detroit to be declared a sanctuary city.
As a concern citizen, I am very disappointed in Detroit Council's lack of actions and the questionable ones win chosen.
The lack of care has felt I have felt from this council has been nothing but pure
apathy. It is very disheartening to see those who are meant to care for this city. On top of
that we see each and every one of you going on a month-long break. The city does not pause for a month
and neither does any of the citizens living at it. Detroit has been crawling with ice officers
and still continues to embed fear into our neighbors. We even saw how DPD assisted in an ice
on June 30th.
This action says more than anything I have heard in this room thus far.
We have a responsibility to our immigrant communities that have helped build this city to ensure
our undocumented neighbors are protected not prosecuted, thank you.
I don't expect their little Rodriguez followed by a Chevy Stored followed by Brother Cunningham.
Hello.
I'm Rue Rodriguez.
I'm here once again, so I urge a city council to pass sanctuary policies in the city
to Troy, such as ending DPD, ICE collaboration and city information sharing with ICE. I was there
at that ICE raid on June 30, which I know Gabriella Santiago Romero showed up at that raid as well,
doing some investigation as to whether DPD was present or not. I heard, I did over here you
saying that DPD that you would call DPD and they said that they did not come to the scene that day,
However, there is video evidence and footage that they were there, so I think it's very clear that there is a lack of honesty happening coming from the city whether that be from police or city council.
I think, yeah, the police are not being held accountable to saying whether or not saying that they are not collaborating with ICE when they clearly are.
And I do think that's shameful and I think it needs to be looked into and I think we do need to work on getting some policies in place to prohibit that behavior.
I think if the council can agree to spend millions of dollars on a
shot spotter contract for the supposed purpose of making residents feel
safer, I think you should be extending those protections to our immigrant
communities as well. And I also think it was pretty
shameful last meeting because that same day there was the city council meeting
right here that day where Gabriella said that black Detroiters did not want
Thank you very city. This was based off the comments of two people I think that day. I don't think to Black Detroiters speak for the entire community
So yeah, I think we need to get those transactions in place and yeah, that's all I've just I think you.
All right, I'm going to take your resolution or follow that brother planning. I'll follow that page random in there.
Good morning, Council.
The names are a shallower Stewart, life-money trader.
I want to say congratulations to President Oyer.
Thank you all for giving him that spirit award, Detroit,
because it's very deserving of him.
He's always been in a listen to us.
Always doing whatever he could to get the things we asked for.
And I want to go back to two things.
On this ballot, it's coming up.
It's in close August 4th.
We get that way in county transit, transit village on there,
and our school tax.
Please turn your ballots over. Please please get out in both. These are two very important issues. I'm not saying the election for the politics
This is not important there are two. So please do your diligence. Research these candidates if you haven't both already. Make sure they're lying
Of what your back is the things that you want to do for this city in this state. I also want to say
Come by to give me a update on that contaminated soil.
I have a lot this next door to me I've been trying to get to the last five years since it was
dimmer.
Uh, when it was being dimmer, I did call dimmer mission.
The supervisor came out doing the dimmer mission process, but once it was over, and they went
to put the soil in, I kept saying you're putting sand in there, it's got, rocks, it's
got steel.
It has all these things in.
So I wound up at a man-dated mayor meeting back in August of 2024 and brought three
bags of sand from different lots in my neighborhood.
right after that it was a man I'll say at the last bottom and have later getting samples.
I would like to know if the Latinx would have me at 113, 6, 5, 1, is contaminated. I know what
he is. You know, and what is the time frame on getting these sites with the proper soil
as opposed to being a member of the person, please.
Thank you.
I had to make a brother turning in,
followed by Adrian and Minas,
followed by Daniel Webber.
Shout out to Councilman, President Tate,
a Councilman Gabriel,
a sidejack or a mirror,
a Councilman for Benson,
all three of you were kind to me
while we were out at the election.
I can't say that about all people,
but you guys were kind to me and I appreciate it.
313, 444 914, 3144, 4449, 1144, 1144, 4449, 114. The big pushes coming. I've been doing a lot of bus
ride along, we give out low income housing and bus tickets on board being a blessing to people
doing recess. Maybe I can do some with the council again because most council members have done the bus
right along and it's greatly appreciated. On Facebook for subservient,
it's cutting him, on Facebook for subservient, it's cutting him and you can reach out to
one and do a bus right along. Agape, Agape's unconditional love, selfless love,
sacrificial love, it's the highest form of love. A is an apple, G is an
girl, A is an apple, P is an apple, P is an apple, E is an entertainment. Agape,
I don't see that kind of Agape directed towards me in my life regularly.
so I appreciate it when I really get it. Please vote yes on the Wayne County
Millage, the Wayne County Transit Millage. Some racist cities have been
opting out for years, racist cities don't want black and brown or even working
class poor folks coming through their community. If you vote yes, if you vote yes
and encourage others to vote yes buses will fully fully go through Wayne
county, and folks can get to their jobs of any demographic. They use the term out communities.
Thanks. Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Next speaker, Adrian, I'm going to ask follow-up by Daniel Brepper, followed by Paul Stevenson.
Hello, my name is Adrian Jimenez, and I'm here to urge you to take this
of action to declare Detroit a sanctuary city. I urge you and the city to prohibit the collection
of sharing of immigration status by city agencies unless required by law. I urge you to prohibit
the use of city funds personnel or facilities to assist ICE operations. And I urge you to prohibit
any detention of individuals based solely on information from ICE, the Tainers or administrative
with warrants.
Detroit's resources are for Detroiters
for improving transportation, education, and public safety.
Detroit police officers should not
detain individuals solely based on information provided
by eyes and trainers.
We want to monitor Detroiters, not for eyes,
killings, and deportations.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you.
Next speaker, Daniel Weber,
I'm a fellow by Paul Stephenson,
followed by Rashida Brett.
The Detroit City Council, my name is Daniel, I'm a proud Detroit City resident where I work as an EMT and member of Detroit Community Action Committee.
I come here today to continue our campaign for a sanctuary city because Detroit deserves real protections and a city council that actually fights for a citizens.
Last time I was here, Shotsbotter was being voted on, and the argument was to protect a
trodder from violence.
I ask, how does Shotsbotter stop ice from chasing citizens into oncoming traffic?
Let's address that violence, how does Shotsbotter stop ice from executing neighbors and witnesses
point blank?
Why is the only thing the trodder gets is extra surveillance?
And while many of you are all forgiving the police for whatever they need, you know what
police was doing, a mother was being ripped away from her children out of her home by ice with
DPD assistance. City Council knew about this and yet still fought to give them an expensive
surveillance toy. I see this and I realize that what our City Council stands for is not the mother.
It is the arm thugs that seek to terrorize her. You can call it what you want. I don't care for
sanctuary name, just the policies it would bring. And now Trump comes to Detroit,
flaunting his power, because he knows our city council will do nothing to stop it.
He knows some of our greatest allies are an apathetic city council making anecdotal claims
to Detroiters and immigrants don't want a sanctuary city. I might have been born here,
but some of my immediate family was not, and I am terrified for them, and that fear is only
amplified when I see my elected officials do nothing about it. And so while city council is on their
and Detroiters are left in the wind.
D-Cack will continue to work and fight for real protections for Detroiters.
You can.
And I speak all savings and solid libraries.
She's a Bradley, followed by Denise Lomatt.
Good morning, Council.
Good morning.
Good morning, Madam President.
The members of the Detroit City Council.
My name is Paul Stephenson.
I'm here on behalf of our Open Grace Bible Church.
located at 6495 West Warren Avenue District 6.
For more than 60 years, our church faithfully serves the residents of Detroit.
We provide a place of worship, support families, host community programs,
and strive to be a positive presence in our neighborhood.
We're committed to partnering with the city, the strength and our community.
Today, I'm asking for your assistance regarding the stormwater drain fees,
being assessed against our church property.
We believe these charges deserve
careful review under the principles established by the Michigan Supreme Court
in both versus Lansing City of Lansing,
which hail that the charge of labor as a fee must truly function as a fee
and that as an unauthorized tax.
We respectfully ask that the city
demonstrate how these assessments satisfy that legal standard
And whether they are fairly and proportionately applied, as a non-profit church, every dollar
spent on excessive or improper fees is a dollar that cannot be invested in ministry, youth
programs, food assistance, community outreach, or maintaining a safe and welcoming facility
for our neighbors.
And I have to mention there's a lack of repair support from DWSD to resolve our current issue.
We have one of our five parking lot drinks.
We're not here to avoid our responsibility.
We pay our bills.
We see a lot of people like to provide to rest in the comments
to the clerk's office.
We'll be placed on the public jacket as well.
Our next speaker is the Shita Bradley, which is still here. Next speaker, then, is Mr.
Lee's Lomax, followed by Anthony Bala, followed by Maryland or RETS.
Grand Rising and Great Awakening to everyone that's here in his audience, council president
James, say coming up and our councilman didn't say okay, I'm both. So I'm here again about
the incidents that's happening in our community, the molested, the molestation, the seven-year-old
girl who got molested and threw into the lot. The city of Detroit has the materials that equipment
to come out with that big tractor and come all this stuff down. It's sick like you're by park where
He is playing it. That's horrible. I didn't bend down there. How many times? So we have a meeting come August 14th
from 6 to 8. Then they'll Campbell. He'll be fine. They'll come a young. He's fine. They're very
waters responded. James, say that. I've been trying to call your office for the longest. No one asks
is your phone. So after we have this meeting on August 14th, we got questions. If we don't get the
that we want, we're doing a protest, we're coming down, work work from work work and
want and we're coming down to the C County Building and we're going to shut off
a bandroof. And that's my piece.
All right. Thank you so much.
Next speaker Anthony Bala followed by Maryland, Mirac, followed by Terry Jones.
Good day, everybody.
I'm a council chair and members of the council. My name is Reverend Anthony Bala.
The pastor of Grace Community in Adam Methodist Church located in District 1,
your district on the President, and I'm glad to be here to address this committee.
I was born in Liberia West Africa, a country formed by free slaves from the United States.
Some way along that country's history, it descended into carnage and lollusiness, where
voters were surprised, the voices were heard, my own uncle, which were in prison for a long time.
Now, I'm here as a pastor and hoping to share that what does voice need to be heard.
Because my constituent, my church, raise community, UMC, form of sentiment is a polling station.
And so I know firsthand what it means for what is voice to be suppressed.
So we are here today as pleasure people as community leaders to appeal to this council to hold the
pledge of protecting people's voices as the goal to polling station.
So there we stand as people of faiths have been in Detroit to make sure that we are by
by the Constitution and instead ready to protect voters voices to refuse to comply with any
lawlessness from the executive orders to request information from voters, and to fitfully
certify all seats that will be voted upon and winners to be seated respectively.
So today I'm here to lend my voice to that effect.
I thank you so very much for listening to us.
Thank you.
Marilyn Mirac, followed by Terry Jones, followed by Reverend Roe, Marilyn Mirac, are you still
here?
All right, Terry Jones, are you still here?
Hey, Mr. Johnson, big all for a minute, I just found out from the city that the people
that took my house there, we in litigation, how can we in litigation, how can we in my house?
I'm like look from the kitchen, I'm not in litigation in my house, now, like I said, I'm
getting ready to get people to go to the fair, I want to see what's going on, and he
to step up Yagag, Mr. Chis, just to be doing her thing. We're helping me out. I haven't
called her in about a couple of months. I've been doing my thing. If people in took my
house all the way to California with the LLC with a post box, how's the way in County
Deez Department letting this go through? Now I'm about to bring the faith in. I want to see
Documents, they have me when it got to PTA on the house.
I still got mine.
Everybody's running around here.
Pointing thing is that each other.
We need to be pointing things at the Wayne County.
These are the parks.
Because I work here.
I work at Oakland County.
Oakland County.
Put a, uh, what they called a fraud alert on the company that I sent to them.
This mutual property management company, you're a management company.
How did you imagine to put me on my house and I gave a chart with a home in Beijing?
And I was six months, I was on a six months, none reported.
This is the stuff I'm talking about.
The police department, I can still be.
This, this, these department is not doing it job.
I don't understand this really. What's going on in the city?
I got people that want to invest money here.
So much and it's been
a while since I've been here. I've worked with several of you since I had brown hair and that was a long time ago for justice.
I'm here with faith in us, a group of interface, a clergy that have been working to protect the vote.
I'm not trying to tell you what you already know, which is that House of Democracy is on fire,
that the administration with the help of the Supreme Court has stolen all the fire extinguishers.
the civil rights act, the voting rights act, the racist redistricting, 17 states have already
turned over their voting worlds to an administration that is going to purge it for people
they don't think are going to vote for them. And I'm in a church, some to an United Methodist
church that's a polling site.
I want to say I don't care if you call it
sanctuary city. I want to know what happens if ice turns up at
Central United Methodist Church or at Sacred Heart for at any other
polling place. I want to know what are the place going to do. I want to know if
we can work together as an interface clergy and this council in every district
to make sure that people feel safe.
Yeah, the other thing that I worry about,
and I'm really glad to hear all that you're doing
to bring out the all, but in midterm elections,
the registered voters come to vote.
I'd like to believe, I'd like people to believe
that they're around the house,
and that you can work with us.
Thank you so much to make sure
because we're ready.
Thank you so much.
Our next speaker, again, at least not my rules.
This is the rules that I have to follow by.
Everyone has to say at the same amount of time.
Reverend Paul Perez.
Thank you.
Council President Tate.
Council President Protemion.
All the city council members.
I'm also with faith in us.
Multi-faith clergy leaders that are united to fight for democracy.
We are here because we're really alarmed by the continued and repeated efforts of the federal government which are aimed at suppressing the vote intimidating voters limiting access to the ballot box and preventing eligible voters from voting, especially in black and brown communities like Detroit.
Included is this is just years of false and repeated unsustainable claims of election fraud and tampering,
which are really meant to undermine the public's confidence in our local voting procedures here.
Also includes the safe act, which is going to make it really difficult for eligible voters to register,
especially people who don't have the means to obtain birth certificates and passports.
I'm really concerned that the Department of Justice is sending election monitors here to
Detroit and a Lansing and East Lansing, and also as Reverend Rose said, the continued threats
by the presidential administration to deploy ice and national guard at polling places.
So as Reverend Rose said, essentially, I'm at this church rice serve downtown in District 6,
is a polling site. Our church is proud to serve our community by providing a space for our neighbors
to exercise their right to vote, but we're deeply concerned about the impact of these efforts
by the federal government that our neighbors won't feel safe coming to our church to vote.
We're also concerned about the safety of our church, our church staff, and our volunteers.
So that's why I'm here with our fellow faith leaders to ask you to take a pledge
to abide by the U.S. Constitution and state election laws,
refer you to comply with any unlawful executive orders or depot.
a request to receive Restriction of Voting.
Thank you so much.
The next speaker is Pastor Forsyth.
I'm down.
Thank you, President Tate.
It's all the council members.
Thank you for this opportunity.
I'm also a faith in us.
As a pastor in District 3,
I stand before you with other faith leaders from Detroit.
That's here today to make a difference in the upcoming midterm elections.
Our nation is at an affliction point, or says to follow me on this nation over 250 years ago,
we are facing the greatest threat to our democracy and to our democratic process, but the
Department of Justice in the election monitors the Detroit requesting border law rolls
from Wayne County.
We already see the Trump administration efforts to interfere the elections, not only in Detroit
also in Wayne County in the state of Michigan and across this nation. We must not, and we cannot,
that others control or dictate who should or should not have the right to vote, or who wins an
election. The United States Constitution and the Michigan State Constitution guarantees every
person's right to vote is their conscious about government interference, persuasion, or intimidation.
this democratic process, as we're closely for 250 years, we ask that Detroit Council members and all, and you like the officials, to support the freedom to vote, protection, and pledge, to in order to make certain elections that Detroit take place about any unlawful interference from the executive branch or department of justice.
So today I invite the members of the Troy City Council to stand with me and other faith leaders
because I stand not just as a pastor of the city Detroit.
Why stand as a husband, a father, a grandfather, a uncle, and a son of this great city
because the long time ago somebody stood for me so that I could have the right time.
Sometimes I turn the stand, make sure that we all so much.
Thank you.
Next speaker, Shelby Murphy, followed by Ayam Misham, or I do apologize for
mispronounced name, and then Amona Malawi.
Good morning.
Thank you for your time and attention.
I want to express my gratitude and joy in witnessing solidarity between our city council members
last week, and both decisions to look further into where money is, and it has been allocated,
and the push for more information regarding data centers.
I do feel and know that I would want to know and hear now what the people here think and feel about something so life-altering and world-changing.
The diminishing normalization of tone of smaller data centers already being here seems like the entrepreneurs and land developers hopeful end game for a larger one to be more easily accepted or ignored.
I feel like I'm using my intellect wisely being said vastly dedicated to sharing my information with you the final decision makers.
I feel like I may exhaust myself sharing with a lower and the chain planners.
There is so much information I want to share with you.
I grew up in Detroit in the same house, my great grandparents built and my grandfather mother uncle and sister grew up in as well.
I love, and I know Detroit very well, and I never left, and I'm still here.
Please consider saving Detroit from people who don't care about Detroit.
I loved all of the positivity here today, and I appreciate you all.
And I hope that we all can build a beautiful report,
so that we can actually do positive things, because data centers really are destroying Earth.
You know, honestly, thank you so much.
Thank you.
Let's speak to your mom, Nishal.
This machine.
Let me give you a two-part machine.
Like Mishal.
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.
Peace and blessing be upon you all.
Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi ta'ala.
O barakatuh.
My name is Imam.
I am Mishal.
I serve as the Imam of the Darwin Institute.
Mr. Dara located on in Detroit district 7 proudly.
Thank you, Council President. Thank you members of the Council.
Thanks to everybody for my fellow faith leaders.
as Muslim and an Imam.
ano been goi encontلم بغیادہ ہے، nuevos usサطان sentence.
اور اللہا دا نہ خل Winds. اذکر بلhod مبقر nieu منی سے دعون
groب strap ہم لی اض unquote اُ blogsا ہے.
اُس مفیر اضعِ اضعِ اضعinateї vine و resonبہوں woo
اضعِ اضعِ اضعِ اضعِ اضعِ اضعِ اضعِ اضعِ اضعِ اضعِ اضعِ
اضعِ اضعِ اضعِ اضعِ اضعِ اضعِ اضعِ اضعِ اضعِ اضعِ schne خلیقِ اضعِ اضعِ اضعِ
لچیں اور ہے ہم اگر ہوں اور ہمیں اور ہمیں۔
ہمیں ہے۔
اور ہمیں گی ، ہمیں آپ اس اگر ہے۔
ان یہ پر ان کے لئے یہ ہوں۔
لیکن ہمیں سکھتے ہیں اور ہمیں گے لئے ہمیں گےز ہمیں۔
تقريطت روز، لڈ کی سب کرتا مواری، بلکہ نظرن ہے لیکن تو اپنے 옆ناائی بڑنیےیں stomach.
اور یہاں بھی سرنے موارنیے کے مسل ممالی موالیگا اور ہم امجھ موارنیے اور ممالیگے کے اور موارنیے ہونی ہے،
سکھے رہا ہے جاتھ لگوں ہے لگے اور پہت عامے۔
کہی رہا ہوں گے سکھے کا چیر بنے سکھیں۔
میں نے آپہ وہچائھ بھی ہائی ہے۔
اگر آپے کھائزے ہیں آپ اور آپ کو پہتا ہے۔
سکھیں کہ انی سانیے اور وہ پھائٹے ہیں۔
اسی بھائٹے کا گی کیس کیس کیس کیس کیس کیس کیس کی今日 کر دیا ہے۔
دہیں بہت بہت بھی ہم ہم سرے ہیں۔
یہاں جو Görمال یاد ministry alongside 및 ایس کی نقرمای ب breathا ہی سوڈمیں پھیی کھ switch to پار ہی
را یاد posible جنے طو谷 رکھےters پھڑے اصان تی نعہی ہے
کومن الحیم جیس سا متر versa صبر النسٹی ایس کی جاران ہے
اسے ایک ہم می istediличی吸gefہ کیا ذکھے ہیں ج۪ ترا ا flexibleیڈیار اور نے حال شیگی کجھ کісیں Spring
کھ computational نائی کے سLANی فرارت کےде television مائیں پھر کسہ اور ف PRI ل في ایفیرات گینی کے سنیگی
کروال بھیٹوے ایک ٹکہ کرنی م Traffic خمسائبٹاelenی کی کسہی کو رہتٹ準 میں ہو Somewhere
پھوستانز with the voters of the city we urge every member of this council
and election officials to sign on thank you so much thank you next speaker
جلکہ سکمت ہے اور اس انا وائ سے خوجفہ له نکinde بھی
انسقطنی از ٹائٹی میں و جہ سیڈ کے لیز انپرحکاناستا میرا بھی
نہیں ہے اس سیڈھی انپل退ی
یہ محمsomeش بنا بع detalxico.
کہ سعérie آپ کو یہ غصائم راشتی ہے کہ آپ اس کیا کہ
سطائمتے تو میں رصائم م понялے کیا وہ جو کو بھی پہاستیت بہت کسیے بھی قرام
بیتی ہے کہ آپ اس کیا کہ آپ اس کیا کہ آپ کیا کہ آپ کیا کہ آپ کیا اور بیتی تھی رکھے جا گئیتے تو یہ سطائم مکول)?
میں کاickt inside two days four days کے بعد�� طلب ونقوم لے تجأسلنا کہ اس میں
شق کے للاد میں میں کو حسجنا کروںے اور سے انں continued
میں یہ ایک یہ لاتسigneز ہے اور یہ ایک مقری focus
اور یہ تسلم zacc
اور یہ م件事情 اور نے مستازم کا سotypes مص mustnا
میں یہ ملاد والہب سے وہ شکیر گی بھی
じゃあ ان سے انوڈانسائر strony اللہ کا کیا آپ کو سوائرے اور انوڈانسائر میں کے قائلت ہی يا ایک
ہمارے کی سوائرے الانوڈانسائر سے اسے کے بمارے کی سوائرے ہیں
اور انوڈانسائر میں کیا آپ کا کرتے ہیں
快點 من پس مکمل ناقیجل لدائیہ اور انوڈانسائر میں کسی کسی وجہاں باتقی اور انوڈانسائر سے سوائر کے ایک
اور یہ تا ہے کہ یہ اعدلہ ہے کہ سایچے میں شئے پھر مہنی۔
اور وہ ستسیچے میں سے یہ گئی۔
اور
ان میں۔
لہذا دائیں ہے کہ can't be good.
کیا ہم ان میں لیوں اور یہ کھی تھنانے میں کھی world پھورہ مجھاتے ہیں۔
اور یہ سایچے میں یہ ہوگا ہوں جائے میں۔
ایک انا ہیہ آپ کے سموجود پھر جائے میں یہ ہو گا۔
اور وہ کہ انہوں کو ایک جہتے ہیں کہ اکنے میں جائے میں ہوں۔
بھی اور میں اور بھی نہیں فکتے ہیں کہ ہوں میں چاہے میں فکتے ہیں۔
اور کنگوں میں پہر نظام کے سوال وظ سالنگوں کوئی بھی انہوں میں اپلب اس کے سوال وظارنی آپ سے اس بھی نے بہل سفید کنگوں کو پیٹچس کے بھی کنگوں کے سوال وضیکانیوں کے سوال وظارنیوں میںласی پھر التسکل کو لیکن سے کنگوں کے سوال وظرچتے گیا ایک یعن کس کا سوال وظرنیوں کو پیر وظرنیوں کو پیر جائی ہیں آپ کو کہا رکا لوں کاencerت vegل ہو جлушیان کے سوال وظرنیوں میں کہا ہے
افیٹرام کا ناپی ہے وہ خیدتن کا ساتھ اور پھر بھائیوں اور خیدتنہا ہے۔
این ان بھی این تود ویٹھتیٰا مجھات کرتا ہوں ایک بہت نے پکر碟 کیا ہے۔
این انٹھا ہے۔ این این قیلی ان بھی فلای این بھی اور مہت بھی اور حامت کا آتین اور کامت کیا ہے۔
اور کہ سکٹر کے اپنے گی سے طور کیا ہوں سے اپنے جنہا ہے۔
اسمیں کہ اسمیں کیا ہوں سے نےasında۔
اور ان excessے میں نے کیا ہوں سے پوری طن when he comes to no more than i can be in a place –
next speaker You're a person.抱کتے
ہیں۔抱کتے
ہیں۔
اور؛ کیا؛
کیا؛ کیا؛ کیا؛ کیاا؛ کیا؛ کیا جس کے آپ کو کوئے
کیا fresh he's still down
ہوں نے کسی کے مٹکریہ کیاا کیا fresh he's still down
کنہت ہے۔ تو Simiہٹلідٹل کی مرے انظرمنوں انچھیںوں بھی یہ ہوسی تو آمی ہے۔
اونکنہ زہبدienia Dank inmنسط کے متخصی اور خgio ہے۔
نمیں جمfarو انتی Finnish کے مرے ہیں۔
عمل которую سنرındت다고 اس کا conf freedی
این ق estruct ق milliلمت کرد تستمر میں یہ بھی مب�ھاہتے ہیں اور کسارین مہکھے ہیں to have-
اونکھاہ رہان مàcies مورد کی کا
ہ نے exploitر سے کی وجات رہے ہیں اور ہوں Director of Media
ے پھر عکید اے پھر ہر اسیقتبلحہ ہے کہا ہے اور انہوں پھر جسکل پھر مجھا ختمیوں کے اائے ہوں
لیس رہے ہیں اور دیسیے کے آمیں پھر earہ سے پھر کے مجھا ہوں اس کے سہلے پھر مجھا ہوں
کیا返 ۔어줇یں پھر مجھا ہوں اس بھر اπειرنای آپ کو بڑھے پھر مجھا ہے
ساتھ میں ہونے میں پھر اگر میں پھر مجھا ہے کہ او بھر مجھا ہوں ، ایک جم慣 کے لئے
برورے کے نحوان او پر انگرات دمو آپ کو متکے گا گئے ہم بتگرشی تو پڑب ہم کو پر آنت�ہ
برورا ہم اللہ ہمتے ہیں ليس نکور رایت کیا تو ہم کو دیکھتے ہیں
کہ سنکونے باکرات سنکور پر آنت عمتم ٹنی멋 گئدا
آپ اللہ انگرات برورا ہم آپ پر آنت عبتا ہما
hintرا کیا اعلقیوں میں بہت من دیا ہوگ bölے
اور پہدفання ہے بہت مے spoke
ہیں، بعد نعم نے شرنا ویورداشہا امری دیولی ایک ا untersقے کروைoungہ ویپار ف Renaissance طریقا،
ا میں وجود جودہ پاقسا ہے ب dau mãہ اللہ کرا �ئی حصیدا ہے، میہ رہкоїا کرت ушت continuation رکھமکھیں
شری говорит Alan الله لائصل ہے جاڈ ہی شریم۔
اور فلا امنای بمنار بڑผڑا ہے، ویپنتِحاطع کرنے سدیت طری sf کی مًا نیلفتوں،
سے دیایا سناتنے کی ت absentا ہیجم چاہتے گیا گا İnsوانا司且 متجار پھنے disappointingшی تھا
یت کردے کی کا ku 1943 جاد ہو گیا جنے کی سنے جہ ککنا جھیل نہیں نہیں کردے ہوگیا ہے
لعGraeme طائق جو probable بہت طائق تھا وہاں س ănشہگ Self of all
کیا حال possibile ہے ایک ہر کیا گرے ہیں ابن کیا ح medal ہے
یہ آپ کیلی ہے ہوں گرف کو
commemor�를 گون مج�ہ گوnut terminal ہے
ہوں اожلم ہو لیکنے چیہ ہیں
ان اگر چک heard 및 کیینہ کیلی سے ملو ہوں
اور تو حیاس کیا یا suchا سٹلنے ولا ہم کر رہے�� ہے
رہے ہیں اور کے خلکہ ہے، وسالے کرے گا۔
از از ان پہت ہوں گا۔
چیسے ہیں۔
ہوگا تو ل ہوتی ہیں۔
تری پایمﷀ عام کی نپنے، مجھوان دلام کے خلکہ ہے۔
مانا بہت بیت ا تھی اسمیلے سے عام بجیسے گے۔
پھر ہمت کے مجھوان درکہ جائے م告诉 him
رہا براندرے گے۔
اس کے لطرم پھر خوالیخ ڈرابیتا ہے تو تو اس کے لطرم سے پیر سے مدردہتا بھی پر گیا ہے
اور اس کے لطرم سے پر چير دم کیے ہو گا تو پھر ہمے ہیں
اس کے لطرم کے لطرم سے پھر ہے
ہم کوئی بہت میں پہر اللہ اس کی خود گی کے پھر ہی ہیں
تو ہوں کو جمائے اور مرنگ میں ساکتا یہاں پر دیم کو عبقیٹیوا
کیا اس ممسکہ اس پر برف Sanities
مہتے ہیں، ایکا اس سکتے ہیں، مہتے ہیں،
کا در زوارف سید اس کو اگر لمبانت موکتے ہیں،
کہں شرحیں ہم آپ کام بشارک جتا ہے۔
at what point do we realize that we might be missing some?
ایک ایک بھارے نے ایک رہے ہیں،
میں ایک ایک کام بھارے ایک ایک مہتے ہیں،
میں ایک ایک ہم مہتے ہیں،
ان سکتا ہے،
کہ احتaultی کا بھارھیوں ہے او چھوانییگی都 ہیں اس کی خنایمےگئے کیا ہے یہ ہے اس کے ک when we have come on people.
پھنے یہ کے سہلے میں پھنے دعہوں نے وہ آپ کا سیمچھا ہے nonsense …
تو理کیں کہ این للمیکن کے سیمکے پہنے آپ don't wanna celebrate خلیمے ہیں fácil办قiser کی خلیمے DUOEM
of if you wanna Tryfal Klee in laugh .
دser pair کھوی کا پھنے کی پھینے گئی وہ کیا کہ میں گئی ہے کہ کا پھینے ہیں
آپ With the plans of giving meaning to him you want to shut it down so
away to hear the celle of tweet Memoiruz
important gimmisین facebook moneerah
یا صبل کے strengے لگے جاصلا تینک بہدہ ہم آپ گفر ویڈ آون ان پہ ott autumn بھی، ایک اوغز مق مام بہان ہوئر
ان ان اhrlich کی بھی جو ہے傘 بfferم ہے اللہ اپھےھیئے harhood to sagtی poquito نے انفورادہ کہں لے موین کرنگ دے ہوں
ان اہتی مع کریWellکہ دکھا bastante واümüع اگر اللہے تھا یہ نتیگے دئیں گا اینا اینا بہت اگر رکڈی کیم ہے
اہ سیکنہム سائنا�لی موقن سيستانہا تو commandments حیرت جردہ ہم،岸ے Stromر ڈ IRAkelا سفرقیلہ عبеля معلیا۔
پس ہناقل میں مصدلہ giveوں اور اللہ سیجال معئے انہان晚ئی جدا عبالکی ہی recommending کتسئی کرنا迈 اسا کرنا۔
تو علي mijn طالح ہوتی ہے ناب Exc Gardenesian وہتی مز�دہ ہم من نارے ہیں کیا۔
تو اجگوں کے بھی للا كفیچیامہ جاست fridge پوچ細ام
которого تم ب albeit آپ کام بھی ہم ،
Pauline Delgate ڈنے کے پر سنوان سنوان سنی تنای پرشنی سے بھی سکhai
بھی پر میںاں پاسمیت کیا رکھتے ہیں اسلام قیچہ ڈسجائ پیمیتے سے پر سنیھ گر
کرتے ہیں اسلام سنیھ گر کسی کسی نہیں کرتے ہیں
اسمیت کسی گر کسیچییں، الفیسے پیتیگئی سنیھ گر کسیچی ہیں
ب
کیا میں ہوں اس پیرے ہو؟
돮ہ مری بمانی مرے بس موزنزہم ہم سمسانی وینزہ کا دیکھ رکھتا ہے۔
و ایک پر ایک مٹھلی کوئیässی گئی پر رکھیی ہے.
علیکھا ہے اسی م Jasäتلی کا بھی مقاطر ہے.
سوڈی نے بنیسی کی وجہ ہی ہے.
اسی مطرپشمی میں پرکھیتے ہیں.
درہ میں سوڈی سے کیا۔
ہے sharing پر مقراشہ جائے تھا ایک ہوں۔
ایک اس موطرپشمیس کے ایک ایک اسے جائے ہیں.
اسم ایک اس میں چیسے میں پرشمیس کے پر مقر؛وم ہیں.
اسیوں کے طوال۔
سکٹن ہیں
Our beyond business, they regularly give back to the community, donate their services when there is
a need and support local residents and organizations without seeking recognition. They understand
the important importance of investing in the people they serve. As someone who lives in a city of Detroit,
I believe it is important to recognize businesses that not only provide quality services, but also
than our neighborhoods. ABC Professional has established itself as a pillar in our community through
its generosity, community involvement, and willingness to help others. I respectfully ask the
Council to consider their positive track record, their dedication to our community and the
value they continue to bring to district four in our city. Thank you for your time.
Thank you. And I speak over Ronald Smith, followed by a few to each other, followed by a care
Kelly Torrell. Good morning to all the city council. I appreciate the opportunity to
step for your speed and behalf of ABC.
The day-to-day operations with ABC have
riverside marina. I can save myself as then I'll stand far as I'm concerned. I'm
having voted with over 20 years experience and what they bring to the table
something different than a lot of marinas. I have seen a lot of marinas. I dealt with a lot
of other voters from different marinas and you can hear them say when they come to Riverside
that the Bolton atmosphere at their marinas is unlike ours unmatched. Simply because the staff at ABC
at Riverside, Marina, gives the boat as their family atmosphere, which is unmatched with
any other marine. They promote that because of the camaraderie that we have from one another.
The seasoned boaters and new boaters, new boaters, they experienced something they had no
ideal, they would because of the camaraderie, the family feeling there, that you don't get
a lot of marines. Not only do they promote the atmosphere for borders, they also implement
new ideals, and I know firsthand they provided a program that introduced I used to something
that they have never seen before, and it was a very good idea. They gave them a new boat and
was so excited. And so with the boaters, the season boaters. Thank you so much. I just want to say thank
you for the time.
Thank you.
The next speaker is the theater or Easter followed by Kelly Turrell and followed by
element chaplain.
Good day. I'm a theater. Easter and life long betrayer resident local business owner, a
client, Monta property owner, tax payer and voter with over 25 years on order.
I'm here today to voice my strong support for ABC professional.
My Bowdoin Hissley is deeply rooted right here in my DNA, the
of my parents, but started right there at Porterfield Wilson's
dream, Carber Hill, Marina, which is now Riverside, Marina.
I'm proud to serve on the bridge, Detroit, Motor City,
I club, the second black I club in the nation and the only one in Michigan.
We were recently inducted in and recognized by the interlake in
interulate, yacht, and association, I-L-Y-A-Gran, that's official, Y-I-Status, and Rest-Ret Proposity.
And I want my text to have preserved, and advance, Porter will feel Wilson's original vision and dream,
and I urge the Council to award the Management Contract to continue the ABC Professional,
so they can continue delivering the, delivering the enhancements and improvements this marina deserves.
Thank you.
Yeah,
I'm going to speak there, get it to rail.
Good afternoon.
Honorable members of the Detroit City Council.
My name is Kelly Terrell and I am a proud to stand before you representing the black one and
Boulder Club.
Today, I ask you to look beyond a contract.
I ask you to look at the people whose lives are impacted by your decisions.
The Detroit River is one of our city's greatest treasures.
It should be a place where families create memories where children learn to respect the water and
where voters of every background feel safe and welcome.
That doesn't happen by chance.
It happens because of strong leadership.
Jason McGuire and ABC Professional Management provided that leadership at Riverside, Marina.
Our organization is built on one simple but powerful mission to educate, to promote voter
safety and to ensure that every person who lives, that, that leaves the dot return home safely.
I must say that ABC professional has embraced that mission.
Mr. McGuire has opened doors for organization like ours.
Encourage community partnerships and help create a marina where safety is not just the policy
it's a culture.
And a world where it's easy to focus only on building buildings and budgets.
Mr. McGuire and ABC professional has focused on people.
He understands that a marina is more than Docs and Bols.
It is a community.
This where friendships are built, where families gather,
where small businesses thrive,
where the next generation learns to love
and respect our waterways.
Leadership like this is not easily replaced.
The Black woman, Bolters Club, has been first hand
with Jason's professionalism, his accessibility,
his genuine commitment to making river side marina
place where everyone feels welcome next speaker I hope the chat and
followed by Andre chat and followed by Leon Petty actually this is my husband I
think it come up with me just one by one yeah so my name is Elma Chapman I'm a
lifelong Detroiter I'm living this to the mic please I live in the city but I'm also
rather than at Riverside, Marina, where ABC professional bar leaders. Jason McGuire has been
like a son to me, and we've been at Riverside, Marina for over 30 years. So Riverside is my home.
And I'm here to support ABC professional Jason McGuire in charge staff at Riverside, Marina.
When I say it's a home, it is a home.
It's a home away from our other home, it's just on the water.
But I just want to say that Jason and ABC professionals are there.
They are very supportive.
I've seen changes at the Marina in a positive manner.
They've done some great things to enhance our liability.
And I will be in. Thank you.
Thank you.
Next speaker.
Andre Chen.
Here you go.
My name is Andre Chen.
I'm just on behalf of the support Jason McGuire at ABC.
We're running in Marina.
Wait a minute.
Can you get that mic up to close to your direction?
Good.
Support him and wait.
Treat us.
Everything we're running at the Marina improvements.
That's why I say we've been this as June the 1996, and I like to stay there no
but under his mention, that's all I have to say.
Thank you.
And I speak for Leon Petty, followed by Kim Burke, staff followed by the
niece Wilson.
Good afternoon.
Yeah, I'm Leon Petty, I've been a voter at Riverside Marine and now for 17 years.
And like a lot of people say here, there's a lot of things that take place that you don't hear about.
For instance, they bring at risk, he is in the learn about fish and who have never had opportunity to pick up a fish and ride.
They've done training programs or kids.
I'm in the environmental industry where kids spend the summer there, learn how to test waters, learn how to swim.
Learning a lot about different jobs that's in a waterway profession, you don't see that every day at other marinas.
We visit them all the time and you just don't see that.
So I stand behind ABC professionals for the ability to keep doing what they're doing.
I think they're doing a great job. That's all I got.
Thank you.
Let's get going.
We have a petty.
I'm sorry.
I think we got.
Public slide.
Council, Council President and take good to see you in that position.
Okay.
Glory to God today.
My name is Kimberly Scott owner chronic queen and 51% social equity of chronic city.
I am the first cannabis licensing and I bought and led the movement for cannabis legalization
here in the city of Detroit.
I also hope to create the trade legacy for Detroit ownership in the cannabis industry.
here for Detroiters. I help many people get license and have legal access to medical and
record cannabis in the city of Detroit. Today I'm here because exactly what I thought for it
I'm still fighting for myself. I'm in a predatory social equity partnership who are now accusing
and sewing me for stealing the social equity license which I did not do. I'm here to put on record
to the Honorable Judge Brian Sullivan that I did not steal nor transfer a license into my name.
The city of Detroit's former cannabis regime admitted in writing to B.C. that the city of Detroit made a mistake and put the license in my name.
I have proof which I have emailed a few of you last month.
I am being accused of something that I did not do and ignored you. I have the capacity to do.
I am asking the council to have the city of Detroit sent notice and proof to the third circuit court judge Ryan Sullivan that the city made the mistake.
and they accepted a $15,000 payment for a cannabis social equity license that they then transfer
to an entity that was not pre-qualified nor a social equity, which is against the ordinance.
You must be pre-qualified before renewal. Now I am being threatened to be put in contempt
of court this Friday in jail by their attorney who has submitted several motions to have me in jail.
If I do not settle and give up my 51% equity of chronic city, the city of Detroit
I feel the department wants to remain neutral and has refused to be involved.
I'm asking the city of concert to please help me resolve this matter.
And stop it, it's for you.
I'm going to please.
Life and see.
Thank you.
Next speaker, Denise Wilson, followed by Aubrey, Mitchell, I believe.
Hi.
I'm Denise Wilson.
I'm on the behalf of the M.C.
I am a voter.
I've been a voting now for 15 years, both of my grandparents have votes.
I really enjoy the community at Riverside, Marina.
To conglomerate the family, we may have disagreements,
but we all very good, you know, good people.
I love them, I love, I live there.
I'm there every day.
That's my home away from home,
and I love everybody at Riverside.
I don't want anything to change as far as the people there.
I'm really nervous and I don't know why,
But I appreciate this, and you guys have a good day.
Next speaker, Warrie Mitchell, followed by Elijah with Stinton.
Good morning. I'm Warren Mitchell. I'm a resident in every side of Marina.
We love it there like everybody's come before. They say we're real family.
The management that we have there, and I was great. They're not disboters.
They're not disboters. They're not disboters. They are voters.
And they're family to us. I was, I had an unfortunate accident.
having a fire on the water with my children we had about 14, 15 people on the boat. The boat was
engulfed and in minutes of me getting on the radio I called the Coast Guard called everybody,
the family from Riverside from Jason to everybody with jet skis and everything pulled up and
they got our children off the boat got everybody off the boat and that was before the Coast Guard
even made it, that was before the fire, fire boat made it so these people are really like
their family to be not like family and I love them and we love Riverside and we like the way
It is only like the management that we have, so thank you.
Next speaker, Elijah, one student team?
Yes, Elijah.
I want to speak on behalf of Jason McGuire.
Great man.
He has given me an opportunity to grow in the Bowdoin community as a new voter only four years in.
I wanted to see him prove him as Albert Rosamarina.
And he came up with the plan together with me on improving docs.
so we came up with a budget to get a new dot built and it did get built within the time that we
negotiated and I really hope that the city backs him and support financially to improve the marina
I do believe in him as a manager and running the marina and hope to see more for what Jason and his
affiliates. I just want to speak great will on him. I've got to know that everyone know that he is a great
manager and I think he's the right guy for the job. Thank you.
Thank you.
Next speaker, Mark Blakey.
Well, City Council.
Thank you for your time. I am Mark Blakey.
I'm the operator of Symbad's restaurant Detroit.
Our family has been there since 1949.
I've been there for 46 years, running Symbad.
I'm here to support Jason Laquire and ABC Professional.
they are a great partner on the river. We work together, we see each other all the time, and
we have developed a great relationship, and I think they do a wonderful job, and I've been there to
see it for many, many years, and thank you for your time. Thank you.
Next speaker, Marbi Betett,
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The next speaker, Peter McGreeby, followed by Mr. Foster, Peter McGreeby, are you here?
There you are.
Followed by Mr. Foster and our last in-person speaker would be Sabrina Thomas.
Good morning, Council President.
Mr. City Council.
My name is Peter McGreeby.
I'm a resident of the City of Detroit.
I'm also the Deputy Chief Financial Officer for the Detroit Public Schools Community District.
Here to talk about those last.
We understand that there's been a little bit of misinformation.
I wanted to clarify that.
And there's a little bit of the story of how do we get to post less and why do we need
to post less?
When DPSCD was formed 10 years ago, the state lent the district approximately $600 million
in operating debt.
It required DPSC to levied the operating knowledge to repay that operating debt.
When the operating debt is repaid, DPSC can no longer levied an operating village, DPSCD becomes
of traditional school district and the DPSCD could require to open to 11.
The operating point.
We're at that point where we will make our last payment in September of this year for the
operating debt it will be repaid.
We therefore have to repeat our DPSCD therefore has to
11 operating knowledge.
This part of state code stay law for school funding.
Which is a reason proposal.
It is not a new tax.
It is merely changing the taxing authority from DPS to DPSCD.
It's a tax on commercial businesses, not a tax on residents, and we are required to, again,
let me that tax in order for us to receive our poll state aid from the state.
I thank you for your time.
Yeah. Next speaker, Mr. Foster, fellow Vice Sabrina Thomas,
we're more into the president of a few things.
I understand that this election season and aside from that,
I think it's important that our community knows that we cannot just be blind followers,
Well, this leadership in government or well, this in churches, right, we have to exercise some more clarity,
experience of clarity, more clarity as the ability to recognize ethical issues and make decisions that align with your values.
It involves understanding right from wrong and taking a principle action without being clouded by confusion or compromise,
who are remaining open to facts and diverse perspectives.
And so during this time, we cannot be clouded by black white,
Jew, Gentile, Burst, Lump, male, or female.
You have to make decisions based upon your after-pervades,
where you stand at a light.
And those that are going best represent you and your values.
I think that's important. I understand.
When I spoke about resources earlier last week,
I wasn't saying it to be offensive to anybody.
It's a taboo topic, but we have spent money a year for the day out of the Supreme Deal, right?
We have a DPSH, right?
They have issues in plumbing.
It's not what time ponds are maxi-passed.
It's an immense role.
Floating with other things, indiscretions.
So these things cannot be a blind eye.
I'm not just talking.
It's not just about advocate for everybody, just for a blanket.
be hate for a paramorality on a job or office job is about having more clarity
conducting yourselves in certain fascist and being accountable for behavior and
things. So I think that's important. Shout out to the birthdays, Mr. Wittaker, Ms.
Cowley. Come up next. We can enjoy yourself.
Thank you.
A final in person speaker, Sabrina Thomas. Sabrina Thomas left. Right. We will now
position to our on our online college. Good morning or good afternoon Mr.
Huff. I'm going to call us if you happen. Who will be our first please?
Good morning. Good afternoon. Council President first. We have 23
colors online with our first color being 1244.
We call her ending 1244, which was yours, then it 45, Jim Republican.
Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. This may be right here. I'm calling
every girl to say, I thank Mary Waters for her sizzling seniors event that she's going to
have today, commentators, she always have, we always have a one-to-one time, they're at that event,
and I thank you for holding such an event with Mrs. Congress City Council woman Mary Waters.
I love you and see you soon, but also I get just great thing. We need to do something
with the Renaissance, and I feel like we don't tear it down.
I'm trying something else to do with it, we can do other things with it.
The other things, data centers, we don't need.
Sage of Warr City's, we don't need.
Mary, what does I love you?
And see you soon.
That's all.
Thank you.
It's taller, please.
Next up, we have Ms. Betty Ivana.
Ms. Betty Ivana, the floor is yours.
General public comment.
Good afternoon to all within the sound of my voice.
I'm Betty A. Byron, a president of the SOTLs for Black Association.
I'm going to start out by saying Kudos to everyone who received awards today.
But I want to speak about Ms. Alex.
She was a part of the renewed Detroit program.
I didn't hear her name today, but I want to say she was my, I don't know what her
was, but I'm going to say she was my liaison person. She kept me up to date. I was in the
program where I was able to be blessed to receive windows, and she kept me up to date status
of what was going on. They sure that I remember all the appointments that was scheduled,
and she was always so respectful and pleasant, and that was probably her job. But I want to say,
I received the call from her yesterday, and my project has been completed for over two months.
And she called me just to see how I was doing and if everything was okay, and if life was still treating me good.
And I don't know if that was part of her program, her job, but I really did appreciate it.
It was a wonderful surprise. And so Kudos to Miss Alex.
She gets an award for me.
Later contract in company, I'm still having received the status and regards to my property
that has been damaged from the wonderful sidewalk program.
It's a wonderful program, they did a good job on the sidewalks, but they have damaged my fence
and they remove walkways and I want them to replace.
They only replace.
Next call the clips.
Nice stuff.
We have Danielle Kramer.
My caller the floor's yours.
General public com.
Call are you there.
Let's put the caller in as the queue and go to the next place.
Yes, sir.
Next up.
We have Frank hammer.
Right hammer.
The floor's yours.
General public com.
Frank hammer are you there?
Let's hammer the end of the queue and go to the next place.
Next up.
We have care and hammer, care and hammer the floors yours, general public comment.
Good morning.
My support, sanctuary cities, status, the transit funding and with schools and the freedom
to vote, protect and pledge, but my purpose is to speak on data centers. The Saline Michigan
didn't want it, the residents and the government united against it, but it just, the corporations
just broke ground. It'll be using millions of gallons of water a day and energy enough for
One million homes, 25% of DTE's peak capacity.
It strains our grid and rates will rise more.
We need a moratorium, city and state,
to allow delaying data centers opening
and having public meetings, both with scientific presentations of the noise,
light, water, and sound pollution and to allow public input and influence on regulation and oversight.
70% in the United States oppose data centers, but Michigan lawmakers passed a law giving tax breaks to encourage them.
51 Michigan Town City's past moratoriums against status centers City Council can provide a moratorium to delay so we can
All
right, thank you. Who you're listening to?
Our next speaker is Renar Machonsky.
All right, floor is yours.
The minute 456. Thank you, Mr. President, vote. Can I be heard?
Yes, sir. All right. My name is Ronan. I'm a Shastriam, a district six resident, life-on, Detroiter,
and organized it with Detroit People's Platform. Like my colleagues said before me, I implore you
all to go and vote, because we didn't do that in 2024. And a lot of the consequences were facing today, as
a result of that. We could change that this fall. We could change that in the future. Actually, in a few days,
all this to forth. When the election takes place, we have from 8 a.m. to about, I'll say sorry,
7 a.m. to about 8 p.m. to vote. There are two important villages on the ballot proposals,
one for our schools, and one for public transit that allow us to get around that just Detroit,
but the entire county, as there are no longer any outbound communities including Detroit.
So we all will have better connection between smart data people can get to the malls, the shop or to work, to the airport, to other cities where most of the jobs are and most people in Detroit have advice versus people could come into this city and patronize our businesses
which have been grown as a plate due to the efforts of the city, every down call on Monday, Department of Neighborhoods called us, just so many businesses that can benefit from increased transit access.
And then those are cars you would benefit for a couple of reasons.
One of your car breaks down, which it will, cars break down, you would be able to take
the bus and rely on the bus as every 10 to 15 minutes because it has more resources.
And then for those on property, your property value actually go up, because people want to
live communities where there is public transit.
This is not the 90s or the 80s anymore.
People are literally choosing cities to grow up and raise their families where there is accessible
public transit for all types of people.
So I'm poor you ought to go follow on August 4th. Thank you.
Next all of them's our next speaker is Theo.
I call it the floor drawers general public comment.
Good morning council. The Opright with Detroit people's platform. I'm here at the comment on LPD's data center tax revenue impact analysis.
The report makes two important findings first.
data centers create very few permanent jobs, meaning they will generate very little income tax revenue for the city
a second, because of that the city's primary long term fiscal benefit comes from property taxes, meaning
necessary property taxes,
incentives should be avoided, that matters because Detroit's development strategy has relied on giving tax incentives and exchange for jobs to generate income tax revenue
the report makes clear that data centers do not fit that model yet it is highly likely
developers will seek local incentives particularly groundfield tax captures which is
allowed under the state's data center tax exemptions. If future property taxes are
captured the city's primary revenue benefit disappears. Also a groundfield tax
capture alone does not trigger Detroit's community benefits ordinance meaning
project could receive significant public assistance while avoiding a community benefits agreement
with residents. The report also leaves major questions unanswered. It does not evaluate
infrastructure calls, opportunity calls, or whether data centers are the best use of industrial
land and with growing concerns about speculative investments in AI infrastructure. These projects
carry significant financial risk. This report shows we need more time, not less, to understand
a moment of time impacts of data centers. There's been calls for moratorium on data centers
to give us that time listening to those calls may be prudent as council decides how to
move forward with data centers. Thank you. Thank you. Let's call it please. Next up, we have the
Again, follow the floor of yours, join our public comment.
Good afternoon, City Council. Can you hear me?
Yes. My name is Tim McKenney.
I'm representing the McKenney Foundation.
And I'm here today to invite you and our entire Detroit community
to our upcoming 16th annual celebrating a healthier Detroit expo.
taking place Wednesday, August 12th from 11 to 3 at Milliken State Park in Harbor. Our theme
is equipping families to thrive. Our community continues to face urgent health challenges,
which is only worsened in this post-pandemic era. This prevent directly tackles those needs
through expert-led seminars and vital health screenings. We provide education and resources that
critical so that families can proactively build healthy habits. We also take a direct aim
at diabetes diseases. By focusing heavily on childhood obesity, proper nutrition, and
active fitness for the entire family. Beyond medical screenings and disease prevention,
we make wellness joyful and accessible. Families will enjoy life cooking demonstrations with
through tasting. Like DJ music, dance, free giveaways and prizes. The expo truly is a full
day of fun with the serious purpose. Designed to strengthen our community's health, our families,
and overall spirit. We have two requests for City Council, specifically. First, to officially
co-sponsored this vital community effect. And second, to help us promote it through city official
newsletters, social media channels, and really the platforms. Thank you for your time and leadership.
Thank you. That's caller, please. I'm next caller is Tyson Garge.
Tyson Garge, the floor's yours. General public comment.
Hi, can you hear me? Third. Thank you. I'm working on a written submission that I'll be
sending to I've Council and the clerk for public record for today's agenda.
shortly included in it are 15 separate FOIA requests from different semesters all of which
the law department failed to respond to whether it was erroneous denials or no response at all
or just saying it was going to respond by x-date and then never actually responding.
hoping that council can address this 15 requests is pretty substantial and that's just
the ones that I'm like immediately aware of under the charter city council has oversight
authority to conduct investigations into the affairs of the departments under section
for 109 and for 110 city council. So they can initiate investigation and then they can also ask
the auditor general under 7.5 1053 to investigate the administration and operation of any
city agency. I think the law department gets on here and just lies to your face or makes up some
slightly blatantly wrong or incorrect or misleading reason for why, but you know, I've never gotten
a boy a response successfully fulfilled by the city.
Thank you.
Let's speak of puts.
Our next speaker is William M. Davis.
It's William M. Davis, the floor of George, the general public comment.
Oh, good afternoon, can I be heard?
Yes.
I like to start off with saying, and that I, according to Health and Safety yesterday, and I got an excellent response because there was a huge pile of wood debris in front of my next to a neighbor's house and elderly lady that has, you know, there's a fire hygiene in front of her house and there's a handy camp partner, but this pile and then there for a while and they came out and they did a good job getting in and up. They even swept the swept the street or going up the small debris from the other wood possible.
Also, I'd like to say down please to see that the city has a new minimum wage for four time employees
Well, 21.045 cent, which is a good start, when I first started with the city before somebody I was born in 1978
I started at a 6,0006 to 6,000 an hour.
It would be also great if the city could be moving towards a livable wage for city chart retirees
Because we have many cities right retirees delivered on less than $2,100 a month, which is unbelievable low.
That's, you know, well below the probably level.
So it would be helpful if we could do something to help people.
My pension is above that, but there are many who pension is way to low.
So more needs to be done to help cities right retirees.
More needs to be done to help seniors.
More needs to be done to keep the breathe and go on and to our catch basins.
you know so there's always more that could be done and hopefully we will continue to do more
and hopefully y'all will enjoy y'all recess. I'm sure I'll be staying at all y'all on recess. Thank you.
Let's call it close. Our next caller is Caller and he gets 1-6 now.
Caller, Indig and 1-6 now. Of course you won't admit.
Hello, can you guys hear me?
Great.
Religious bullies are wicked.
Other names for bullies, prosecute or a press or an intimidator.
Religious bullies are the worst against Cunningham, he is the underdog just because something has.
These names only don't give you the right to be a bullies.
I'm talking about you.
Thank you for continuously playing for Cunningham.
Everyone under the sound of my voice, I know he prays for all those people you can pray for him too.
As I've seen lately,
Honeyham.
Oh my God.
As I've seen lately,
Honeyham has been doing a very,
very, very good job,
and you all can do more.
Thank you, Honeyham,
by thanking Honeyham.
Thank you for my time.
Thank you.
Next call, please.
Our next speaker is Beverly Kindle Walker.
This Beverly Kindle Walker,
the floor is yours.
General public comment.
Good afternoon.
I'm calling on behalf of the airport department, Jason Wach, who has an issue before you.
We got a rezoning that, of course, the Friends of Detroit City Airport.
I thought you five year old organization is in support of this rezoning effort.
To bring workforce development to the airport, we on the move.
We're on the horizon.
and great things coming up the ESAT at the Colmanian International Airport.
So I know we have your support on that issue.
I also want to make mention of the opportunity to vote again this week.
You can vote at the Eastern Campus WC3.
Please exercise your right to vote people.
You don't have to live in any particular district.
You can vote at any of the early voting locations, early vote in person.
I also want to mention about the, uh, a rise Detroit day on this coming Saturday.
Uh, Luther Chief would be tremendously proud of Detroit to continue to rise
in the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the rise Detroit.
And my final note is on August 17th Monday,
will be the anniversary of the rare black and green flag that was established in 1920,
Father, Uncle, Marcus, Messiah, Garvey, and we help everybody who raises the red document
when you flag.
We remember the pride that when you see that flag, it means black pride.
Thank you.
God bless.
Thank you.
Next caller, please.
Our next speaker is current, Stana, Gina Brown, Anderson.
All right.
Call of the floors yours.
General public comment.
Good afternoon.
Um, yes.
This is Christana, Gina Brown, Anderson, and District 3.
And we are having a serious problem with our weekly bulk pick up around the entire community.
And purchase receptacles have not been delivered.
My order went in on March 3rd and I have yet to receive a garbage received receptacle.
We've been pumping this to 3.
We did major cleanups in May and June with volunteers from other cities.
And the waste is still on our streets and someone is dropping off tires throughout the community.
We can't schedule more clean-ups until we have already cut, we put the stuff that we already cut down and piled up is picked up.
Our new neighborhood deputy manager is going to need some expedited help.
Please establish that help quickly.
Priority waste is not picking up bundle, bulk or even small bulk of yard waste.
their workers need updating training on how buck is supposed to be organized on the
curb. We don't even see draper trucks on bulk day. If you don't know what a
draper trucks are, please look up. Look them up because there is no way we can
clear the streets without them. Maybe you want to stop the contracts and bring
back our own city waste management team and employ the people that live here.
Please have the fire pertaining to buck pickup and property maintenance put on
residential and as well business doors and enforce it. So the residential and the business
on this can take our ordinance to serious. DTE has left large cut of three boxes in our
alley, which I have created a haven for Romans and both given residents reason to avoid cleaning
their alley. I humbly request you an urge all city council members to go revisit the tree cutting
contract with DTE. And let's call it please. Our next call is wants to be
make Michael M. Call of the floor's yours. General public comment.
You know what you mean? Yes. All right. Here we go. Hey all Michael here. I got my doctor at
Wayne State University right here in Detroit and I'll just get started. GSR, the memo has
have done anything? So much so that during last public.
Parliament, cops are recorded with ICE, supporting another abduction. What more data do you need before you push for real action? You're not being bullied, you're being held accountable.
And then those of you who voted for shot spotter are fools. I hope you can fix that error. I want to know if the cops in uniform sitting in the gallery, we're getting paid to do nothing while we're at it.
And finally, that public comment is only available at 10 a.m. on a Tuesday is explicitly anti-worker.
Do you all not want to hear the voices of the public, the workers and so on, I believe
it with the scheduling decision, and finally, sanctuary city now and the madness.
You guys hold the power to move the needle in any capacity and have so far chosen not
to get to work.
Thank you.
Let's go, please.
Next, callers, sir, is going to be your Dante Smith.
All of the floor's yours.
General public comment.
Good morning, we'll get afternoon.
Hello.
I want to say.
I, I second, Christana Jean Brown.
I understand the sentiments about our city services.
Even on my district three, I'm in district five.
I have a pop hole at the corner of my street.
And I, I'm looking for some assistance.
So, we're not in Miller.
I'll be reaching out to your office to get some assistance.
I'll get this pop hole board up.
I've reached out to several different folks about it.
And it's not being done.
I got a lot of border houses in my area.
and I haven't viewed it. I have not been boarded up.
There are a lot of you seeming not know what's going on a lot of the time.
But I'm a district, I'm a district father.
And every block of the president in district five,
which you've seen, I understand what that is.
Also, I'm very happy that we got some traction on the co-curdists
when it comes to four or five, when you spend boulevard.
I will be going out there today and posting up on that line
because it seems like a house needs to be taken away.
This lady is a millionaire.
She owns five to six houses on the eastern boulevard.
She owns 30 plus properties in the city of Detroit.
And she refuses to fix this one property up.
And for five straight years, she has been a new sensitive community.
And I've been probably single-handedly the only person pushing to get some action on her.
So I'm glad to see the city finally doing the job that we paid them for.
It's about time.
Also, when it comes down to our mayor, I'm very disappointed in this administration,
and how we have moved backwards, seemingly when it comes to a lot of issues.
I want to say this too, when it comes to me running for office,
I am running for office in the city to be trade and I am not a politician. I will say this anybody who comes at me comes to my name
Says anything to me that is outlandish or not correct or not true. I'm gonna come at you
I'm Eric May is if I'm anybody else. I'm Fred Hampton join you. I'm Malcolm X. I will cut you out
I will give you the facts and I will set you straight
I don't want to get on people's good side around. I'm gonna be the same way even had it even temperate the whole time. Thank you.
Let's call it please.
The next caller is Sam Stung, SMG9.1 you call it the floor of George. Do you know what about the comment?
Good afternoon.
Yes and no.
My name is Ruby Riley.
First of all, I don't want to sit.
Everybody get out there and vote.
Vote for the school.
Vote yes.
Vote for the transportation.
Definitely.
I wanted to bring to you all attention. I don't know what's going on with the bus system, but
the first one I told you about what they had to air blow and that was fixed because I know it was
I was on the bus. Once again, I didn't freeze. It just said they wanted to have one window
correct, so the one has been fogged up. But last Tuesday, I was on just a couple and a
I didn't really catch the coded bus bus number 25 that if that and I had unlock my bike from the store was just right a constrie and I seen the bus coming right
But I made it across the street to the bus stop to get on the bus to put my bike on here, right?
I'm certainly fat and so the lady that poured up that was driving the bus
She's seen me at the bus stop, but she stopped
to block the street and did not, and the lady was getting on the bus and passed me up.
So what I did, yes, I called in to make a report because they're making 25,000, if they
don't want to do the job, give it to somebody else.
That's not right.
You know, you're going to pass somebody up and they write that to the bus stop, but you
won't stop before the bus stop.
And that's somebody else.
That's not right, President.
I'll tell you, that is not right.
They need, they need, listen, every time it happened, I'm going to report.
Because it's not right. You don't pass nobody up. I was at one stop when lady that does the keep up with the people
They're passing their work for the birthday that for did that they will a lady up for doing the same
I
Next call is going to be Lisa Frank
At least the Franklin the floor George General public comment
Thank you. Good afternoon
President Tate and City Council
I'm Lisa Franklin and I'm now the President and CEO of the Warriors on Wheels of Metropolitan Detroit and I'm also a resident of District 2.
I'd like to congratulate the ATU Local 26 President Collier for your recognition today and all of the awardees in making sure that all residents of India ability had respectful customer service and were respected as
transit riders. I like to announce that warriors on wheels is providing rides to the
poles. For early voting, our kickoff is in the spare say July 30th at Firewheel
Rec Center. You can vote from 9 to 5, but we will be there with a get-out to vote
celebration from 1 to 4. That address is 2781 East Outed Rounds. Thank you to Council
member, um, Calaway or helping us to secure that. Um, early voting. Like I say, has already started
to make sure you can get out to vote. Come in party with us and we also will have rides to
depose, but rides for seniors and people with disabilities that phone number is 313251577.
That's
I had a couple other things I wanted to discuss, but I see my time is done.
Franklin family out on Delo, if someone could help us in that situation, we were asked
to leave the island.
Thank you.
Next caller, please.
Our next speaker is Darren McClusky.
Call the floor of the doors, general public comment.
Call her out either.
Let's put that color thin in the queue and go to the next please. Our next
color is zone user. I call it the floor drawers. General public comment.
All are you there? Yes, I'm here. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. I was calling
me in about the property tax issue and a city of Detroit. Are you guys going to
properties. I also, we're calling in about a lot of issues. What about these auto shops is taking
people's money and taking their cars and keeping them in. Then people drive them and I hope
kind of crazy stuff going on around the city. It's like one particular company almost like 50
car lots I mean car on one of those service shops in Detroit and I got multiple complaints
and the state we've been complaining and no no response I mean one of them is in your
district we're actually two or three of them in your district district one we try to get some help
and for the residents, I mean, I thought that's what we hired you guys for,
but we need some help around here with all this expired food being sold.
Now you got all this lettuce and all this stuff is bad, but it's so out of hand and city of Detroit.
It's not regulated to where it's a mess. It's a big mess here. So you know, tell the
type of disease we have in the city of Detroit floating around with all this
expired food and products being sold in the city of Detroit by these
no name companies. When are you gonna step up and send somebody out to investigate
these companies and make sure they sell in proper products and food that they're
using at these little local stores.
All right, who are next to the queue? Our next
speaker is Cindy Darser, I'm a Darser, I'm a Darser, I'm a Biti 45 second.
Yeah, I just learned, well first of all, Doug and David's speech at Mackinac about the
data centers.
Now, I just learned that he wants to be the president of the University of Michigan and the
research that research, there's two regions that are on the ballot, make sure that hopefully
they're not going to support Doug and to be President of the University of Michigan.
I don't know who the other regions are. I really haven't checked it out, but check that out.
And also, I like to think we can get better government if we get approval voting,
for you can vote for more than one.
So in our system, when we had nine people run for mayor
and that splits the boat up
and I never even saw all the candidates together
in a place for public to see them.
So we need approval voting.
You just take the all-ver vote out the machine.
We should go to hand-telling
because I don't trust the machines anymore.
And the also right choice, the way to get their 50% they go down to the least popular candidate
and throw and take the second place choice.
So those candidates, the people of vote for that least popular candidate move up.
They don't give 50% they go down to the last next least popular candidate and throw their first place away
and see what those voters chose for their second place.
that is not fair logically.
We need approval voting election science.org.
We need better government.
All right, thank you.
We are next to the queue.
Our next speaker is iPhone.
All right, iPhone, 4 is yours.
A bit it in 45 seconds, iPhone.
Hello.
Hi, I'm calling on regards to the Riverside Marina.
What I want to say is that everyone who spoke really spoke on their personal relationship with Jason McGuire,
but no one spoke on the conditions of the Marina.
There are dots that are broken, they're in the water, there's wires loose.
The bathroom shower curtains have motor on them.
No one is talking about the safety of the Marina.
You have people who don't even attend the marina on the marina still in things from other people boats
And you know, it's just not safe. Like I think
We need to focus more on the safety
And the appearance of the marina other than the relationship that everyone have
With the manager of the marina
I feel like everyone is just based in it off of their personal relationship
relationship and not the actual marina itself. And that's all I had to say. Thank you.
Thank you. That's Father, Lisa. Our next caller wants to be caring wheeler before we go to our
callers in the queue. I call the floors yours. General public comment.
Hi, can you hear me? Yes,
man. So just to piggyback off the last caller, Jason has been at it a long time and still a long
to go but I think it's going to be a hard press to find someone with the experience because
that's the most important thing and for him to get more time things will get better. Some of the
things that she mentioned, those things will happen and also I don't know if people are aware. A lot
of this is funded by the managers who run the marina so I think in fairness to Jason that he
build something there, still building, and to if anyone else would come in, they cannot match
the experience level he has, and then you're probably going to end up dealing with people farming
it out, or possibly non-locals, and I think that he deserves the renewal of the contract because
of everything that he's done and still more to do.
Thank you. That's call it, please.
College, sir, our final column. If you're going to call us in the queue, we're going to be Jason Friedman and there are three
callers in our queue. All of the floor drawers, general public comment.
Caller are you there.
Let's put that
caller in the queue and go to our callers in the queue, please. Yes, sir. First caller being a Frank
I'm a Frank Hammer, the floor of George, general public comment.
Good afternoon, President Tate, and good afternoon, City Council.
I first want to thank all the election defenders for speaking out about her voting rights
which are under attack.
I also want to give a shout out to my union brother, A2U local 26 President Collier and other
Unionist deserves your recognition. My UAW President Sean Fein. Yesterday President Trump was in Michigan standing with GM CEO Mary Bart.
He denounced President Fein as bad news, just a month ago Fein and UAW delegates at our national convention, join ranks with city council, denouncing the Israeli genocide against Palestine, our convention voted to end union investments in the Israel occupation.
It is the first major U.S. Union to do so.
This is the major break for the political establishment of both parties, which is pumping
millions of dollars to represent an uptended arm and Stevens for their continued votes
in support of the Israeli military.
With its vote to die best, the U.S. W. took a historic step towards peace.
President Fange should be recognized as a peacemaker, so the traders, please spread the
word in your union and to your union friends to spread the movement to that best.
And with that, thank you very much and have a good recess.
Thank you.
That's college woods.
Next caller is wants to be Daniel Cramer.
Call of the floor drawers.
Yes, can you hear me?
Yes.
OK.
Good afternoon.
My name is Daniel Cramer and I work as a paralegal at Neighborhood Defender Service
when County's Public Defense Office.
Today is our third day on strike.
You may have seen us pick it outside the criminal justice center
or Detroit's 36 district court fighting for a fair contract.
Every day, my colleagues and I represent people who cannot afford a lawyer
in the 36 district court and third circuit court.
We're proud members of UAW, local 2325, the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys.
We never really did want to go on strike.
We want to be in court representing our clients,
but NDS has offered only 1% cost of living increase, while that's effectively a pay cut.
The fight is personal to me, of course. I'm raising a child here in Detroit, and I want him to
grow up believing that workers are valued and respected. Not asked to do essential work for less.
Also, I'm possibly more importantly, a decent salary and health care are necessary for me to raise a happy and healthy child.
I'm also fighting because public defenders protect the constitutional race that people who otherwise couldn't afford representation.
When we are supported, we can focus fully on our clients.
When we are underpaid or losing benefits, it weakens the entire system of justice in Detroit.
Our rollback for public defenders is a rollback for Detroit's most vulnerable communities.
And that's why we need action now, not later.
I'm asking you, City Council, to do more than stand with us in spirit.
Call, name, or how to find our service, and demand a fair contract, and a real cost of living
increase, and no cuts to health care.
Contact the Wayne County Board of Commissioners and tell them to intervene and insist on a fair
agreement.
Show up, speak out, and make it clear.
Detroit Public Defenders will not be forced to accept.
This is much, let's call the police.
Next speaker is one of the bearable closking.
Call the floor jurors, general public comment.
Good afternoon, council.
You guys know what I'm going to speak about.
So the solar project, it's a vanity project.
It was conceived by Mike Duggen.
Mike Duggen is falling out of favor.
was dirty dirt, scandal is kind of hauntem, much like the Flint water crisis haunted Rick Snyder.
And you guys have a choice because it's going to all come out very soon. The facts of this project,
how people were basically baited or lied to to condone the project and you're using tax credits
and you haven't met substantial completion to it.
So in addition to all of your $90,000
of re-demolition bids that you're gonna have to do,
I really have not had this question answered.
How many are in the solar neighborhoods?
Are you going to be digging through solar panels
to dig out contaminated dirt?
Is that going to be happening?
And then beyond that,
Mr. Ski still stands.
If you guys have never answered that, somehow it went from $12 million to $10 million to $2 million
to mediate that blight, that everyone sees on the lower riverfront.
It's never been remediated and that was the seed money for this project that may not even happen.
So I think more people are going to come forward. There's a lot of elderly people who are filing handwritten responses to the complaints in court.
And we'll see what actually happens, but the truth will come out.
Thank you for your time for my time.
It's caller, please.
Final caller for public comment today starts.
I'm going to be Jason Friedman.
Jason Friedman, the floor jurors, general public comment.
Jason Friedman, are you there going once?
Jason Friedman, are you there going twice?
Jason Friedman, are you there going three times?
Unfortunately we're going to have to move on if you would like to provide your comments to the clerk's office that we will be placed on to public record.
How to take a sore last call.
Yes, sir does.
All right.
Thank you so much and we will now open up the floor for any comments from colleagues.
We'll start with members.
to have a narrow followed by member, the Campbell followed by I think of something on the Johnson.
Mr. Union, okay, it'll be our first to speak.
Thank you. Thank you Mr. President. First, thank you to our faith leaders for coming down today
and for asking us to make sure that we have protected people's rights to vote and making sure
that our elections are followed through. I have signed the pledge. I encourage everyone else to sign
as well and want to share with my colleagues that we might hear soon from residents at Riverside
Apartments. I was surprised that we haven't heard from them today. They have reached out to us
earlier this month, letting us know that they were issues with air conditioning and their units.
We did contact BCD who sent an inspector to the site and the latest that we've heard is that there
It might be two weeks that residents have to be there with our air conditioning until a piece arrives to fix the air conditioner yesterday during our office hours that come any wrecks and we had several residents from the towers come down to let us know that they still don't have air conditioners but if they do have air conditioners they have not been installed there was one resident who took their dog to the hospital who has not occurred about $800 worth of bills.
And we have residents that are ready to put their runs into SRO until this issue, this basic
amenity is met.
So we have reached out to the administration, we're asking for support and making sure
that residents receive their unconditioners as soon as possible.
We want a firm timeline of when repairs are going to be made at the powers and we want
to know if the administration is able to reach out to the residents as well to support them.
And unfortunately, this is a common thread that we are seeing in our office, not just in our apartment buildings, but a lot of the homes that are being rented out, the lack of compliance.
So for my colleagues for the administration, as we plan about the budget coming up, we need to have a real plan for compliance for our properties, because basic things like air conditioners in this time with climate change need to be provided for everyone in the city.
And want to also note that when it comes to what's, at least our office is doing to address
the intensified immigration enforcement in Detroit.
The immigration task course, which is made up of 30 plus organizations throughout Metro Detroit,
we have been meeting regularly and the number one thing that they're asking the city to do.
There are many things that they're asking, but in priority it's making sure that we are enforcing our language access
ordinance when there was the terrible air conditions, many did not receive any information in
their native tongue. If they didn't speak English, this for them makes them feel as if they don't
matter at all. How can we, how can they, if they don't feel as if they are expected to be cared for,
if they can't even be communicated with. So we are starting at the very basics for immigrants here,
want to be communicated with, they want to make sure that the current policies in the books,
because we do have sanctuary policies already in the books. Police are not supposed to be asking
you for your immigration status. We are not to be cooperating with ICE for anything other than
if they have awards. Unfortunately, these have been policies have been broken. The biggest issue
here that we need to be keeping friends aligned is that we need to be enforcing the current policies
that we have. And the memo that I sent out earlier this year to create an ordinance that
would ban ICE from City on properties has created the ordinance. So we are again, as I mentioned
from the very beginning, I do this work with immigrants, I do this work with undocumented immigrants
first, and we are working together to bring this forth to the council. And so our religious partners
here. Thank you for wanting to make sure that we are doing more for immigrants. I'm also asking
the mayor to pass to enforce a mandatory training for all city staff, all city employees are
knowing their rights and on services on how to support undocumented immigrants if they have been
impacted by deportation because our office gets calls every single day. I'm how to help families navigate
Once they've been supported, and we get these calls from colleagues or from other cities staff who I know want to help.
So one of the biggest things that undocumented immigrants are asking us to do is to know our rights is to know what legal firms.
You can call to support our families because they're being impacted by immigration every single day.
And this is another commitment that I've asked of my colleagues for city council.
We have immigration task force members like Abiza, Access, C dad who are already and willing to support with training.
We will be connecting them with all of the offices during recess, because we will not be off during recess will be working.
Making sure that we are catching up and making sure that we establish these trainings and get these completed by the end of the year.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Thanks. Thank you, remember accountable. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to also thank our
faithfulists for coming down and urging us to do all that we can to protect about. I know
you have passed out the pledge and I think you will find a lot of allies here on the council
with that and I know we've had this conversation. Last week with the clerk's office as well and
we do have the primary election coming up next week, but I think there's a lot more
that we can do than up to November, general election as well, to make sure that we're also
engaged in folks in our districts on what to look out for, how to be folks to protect the
others as well. So just want to thank you all, and I have signed a pledge also with that.
Want to make note that as mentioned, I can show you all my calendar would not be, I will be working
doing the recess, but I also want to know for folks that I want to be completely honest
about city council. While you all may see us here, we're doing committee in a formal
session weekly, you may not see the stuff that goes on seven days for a week, and that
doesn't stop doing recess. So I want to know that I know we have a lot of committee folks
on council, just because the calendar says recess that we're not in the formally does
I mean that the work is not continuing and also lifting up the need for rest and to, for folks to take the rest as well, no matter who you are, no matter what work that you are part of.
What I will also say is that I want to thank Member Santiago Romero.
Thank Commissioner Victoria Camille for joining us on the letter to all my security to demand that they stop the ice pursues in our communities because we have multiple folks impacted by that, including in District 7.
And what we saw is that DHS announced that they would hold that and then we saw Trump come back and say that they shouldn't do so.
So we're going to continue to push on that and also we do have memos out to the law department and LPD to see what actions the city can take to make folks hold in that way as well against the fellow government.
So just want to lift those up as well.
And thank you, Mr.
Thank you so much.
And I know in this environment,
it lends itself to the dim versus us.
It makes it appears if we're the opposition,
but the opposition on the folks who are oppressed all of us.
And I think we need to keep the focus on that.
It's really strange when you have,
pretty much the most empathetic person
who is the person who's the most empathetic to you cause
is the one that's persecuted by those who are coming down here. It just makes to me, I don't understand it.
I've seen my colleague work. I've worked with her on a regular basis. I've seen how she's
been able to go out in the midst of a lot of challenges that some folks are sitting in this
auditorium right now will fold, but she went through strongly. And it's not just one member of this
it's all of my colleagues, all of us. We work extremely hard. When you don't value the work
that is being done either by this council or the staff, you think that just keep on pushing,
keep on going. And you've got to understand that our recesses we've explained before in the past
is not a vacation, but some of us deserving, I'm going to say, right now, I'm going to take some time away
because there is no other opportunity for me to do this. And I do challenge those folks who are saying
we shouldn't have time to stick around with us all day to day. Just today. And then come back
the next time. And the next time you understand better why my staff, our staff just need a time to
What recessed means is that we're not at the council table going through the cultural we're still reading, hundreds of documents that comes our way. Again, I challenge you to read those same documents in the short timeframe that we are responsible to do so.
You've heard the actions, but sometimes folks only want to see them want to hear what they
want to see and want to hear. We have the folks with the little red hats come down here and
they sound very simple because we don't say exactly what you want to hear, you turn a blind eye to all
of the other works that it's done by this particular body and the city. So I definitely encourage
everyone to speak up, speak out, first amendment rights, show up, be here the whole night. But I just
That's, that you also have that same level of empathetic heart that you're looking for from this body as well when it comes to our team and these human beings that make a city council.
These are humans.
I again.
Mr. Assuming pass the ball.
Thank you.
And for our communicator leaders.
Thank you all for coming down here as well.
I just want to say let's have this relationship.
The first time I saw this shit and I'll be right now because we're on the same page we're on the same team
We're very supportive. So I don't want it to give the impression that it's again them versus us
We're on the same side all of these things you're here and many of our independent meetings that we have so I
host
Three community meetings every month where we draw just had one we had a hundred plus people who were there
We talked about a government issues. We talked about human and issues
But we also talk about election, we talk about it, but you name it, we have this.
So I would invite you to come out and join us at the meetings that we have outside of
just what you see on Tuesday and the various committees as well.
There's a lot of work that's being done and we're doing it on behalf of the residents, not to
ingratiate ourselves, remember Benson mentioned earlier when you're in public service,
you don't do so because you're trying to get rich. Well, we don't hear there's some folks
DC who do that one in particular but not right here. And so thank you all again for being here colleagues
other any additional comments before we go forward. Member Miller
and we're on the same team.
Thank you, Pastor Row. Member Millen can hit that button. There you go.
Good afternoon. I want to just start off so regarding the recess in any occupation you are
afforded evocation and time off from work.
I've been in the work for us for over 40 years
and I've never seen anyone complaining about
so I haven't evocation.
We're time off to spend with their family.
But even in this capacity, in my area long,
we have over 50 block clubs and associations
where people don't know what we're doing when we leave here.
Sometimes there's overlapping events every day.
Sometimes we can almost late as late as eight or nine o'clock at night.
We have mandatory monthly meetings for the city, for the administration, and for the council.
On our recess, we will be going on tours, tours of the Detroit detention center,
tours for the calf's quarters, shelters that everyone has been complained about,
tours for Detroit most power, and is growing a new business in our city.
We're having a great funding workshop in August, and we're also having a, I want to be visiting work for our development sites.
We're so to 15 developers going on in our city right now, and I want to see how many are actually being paid a union wage and union workers.
Please do your due diligence when it comes to what we do as a council. It's more than you can even imagine.
We are constantly moving throughout our city and our districts where each, I believe, I was told that each district can't go over like 90,000 people close to it.
And someone's calling, we do door, we knock on doors.
We have an awareness letter that goes on in district five when there's a development coming to let people know that they need to come to the zoning meetings to come to city planning.
We're not doors, we walk neighborhoods, and constantly answer a plethora of calls every single day in E-Mails.
So please know that we are definitely doing our due diligence to make our city better.
From District 5, and I'm going to say that my colleagues are doing the same.
I would actually give some grace, perhaps an empathy, and give some mercy when making comments that does not line up with actually what we're doing.
When it comes to our parks, a lady spoke today and she talked about the drinking, allow music and the smoking marijuana in our city parks.
A lot of residents have complained about our parks this way. I want her to know that we're having on August the 22nd.
We're going to reinstate the lower as a minute park residents have called because this woman here brought people into her home. She gave them shelter provided food clothing for many residents in the north and
And they feel the legacy is being defined where people are in gathering at night, doing having a listed activities in this park.
We wish to help restore the integrity and bring awareness to why we have our parks and why we have name six.
Because people have forgotten what real advocacy look like.
So we're starting with the lowest minute park because we do not want our residents to have to go to the suburbs and peace and quiet with their children.
is unacceptable, and we have to bring awareness to it as well.
When it comes to the agency park,
I would say I have been a fan of this park,
where I do realize that some things need to change.
I sit here today, and I watch several African Americans speak about a park on the riverfront.
I had to ask myself to walk to country in America,
how many African Americans actually occupy a waterfront.
How many actually live on a waterway?
And I believe the city needs to do more to help this
contract for field what they had to bid to do.
I am researching and will confer with my colleague
because where I stand, I see people get contracts
that be 20 30 and 40 years.
But this contractor have had to go five years, five years
and a two year contract, which was meant to be 15 years
for my understanding, you cannot expect anyone to invest millions and millions of dollars
if you have died given the opportunity to receive from what our city do for the regular
average person.
So I look forward to staying down with those people who have that particular part.
I am, I do frequent it and I will tell you, it's hard to rent any place along the river,
but this establishment gives you the opportunity to be affordable.
and sometimes even for you. So it is my desire to see how we can't work with them. I know
it's not before us, but to see them come today they're getting prepared for a fight.
Sound likes to me. Sound likes to me. I commend them to fight for what they want to do and to
access the city to support them. But that incident that is, oh I want to say to Mr. Smith
and today I am not aware of your path home.
Please let us know the address so we can see
to that with the proper department
to get that path home field and the industry.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
And two more things from me.
One, it was mentioned that we are having a recess
also in October that is incorrect.
There is no October recess.
There is one in September.
There is one in December as well.
Excuse me, in August and December.
And then lastly, I will ask for a Mr. Washington if you've become forward please.
Thank you so much.
Mr. Washington, are you there?
Thank you so much sir.
I just wanted to take the time to say happy birthday.
Because I got a feeling that this probably going to be the only time we're going to be nice to see you right now during this week.
We go ahead and get it out the way.
So happy birthday.
Thank you so much for the chair.
Absolutely.
All right.
I'm back to your regularly scheduled program.
are any additional comments?
Seeing none.
Understanding committee reports,
Madam Clerk from the budget,
Finance and Audit Standing Committee,
from the Office of Contracting and Pecurement.
Tell us a member of the Campbell,
a resolution lined item 16.1?
Member Campbell.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Motion to approve.
There's a motion to approve line item 16.1 colleagues.
Are there any objections?
Hearing none,
that action shall be taken.
Mr. Chair request for a waiver as a request for a waiver in line up 16.1 colleagues and objections
seen none a waiver should be attached from the office of the city clerk city planning commission
House of November Campbell a resolution line item 16.2 remember Campbell most to approve as a motion to approve my
up 16.2 with discussion remember Miller
I don't know on that again and I just wanted to say for a statement regarding this particular project that I stole is the voting on a loan last week.
I watched the video of this development in budget finding as an audit and when X about the
prevailing wage from our honorable team here, the developer said that when X about receiving
the prevailing wage for the workers, he slipped and said, our project is privately funded,
a probably funded development that is not required to adhere to prevailing wage.
I would say that he probably made a mistake when he said it and what he had, but he did.
And I want to commend, remember, Johnson, because I watched the video. When she said to him,
We have an MOU and he set their confused like why we had an MOU which was to
track them and to babysit this project because they're not to be trusted.
He himself backed up and I guess he said we dropped the ball and picked the ball back up.
And then he said he said that we have a union affiliated workers which would receive a
feeling wage. So for me that alone continues the standards that we have to put in place.
This developer will always say that he does not again regenerate it,
have to have a rebellion wage. We have even though he signed M on you with us and then when
she turned her head and looked at him like, are you serious? He said, oh, but we will do that for the
I don't need to have any attention.
I'm doing it for a very long way, so is it negative for me and no on this country?
I think further call them.
There's a motion for approval for line I'm 16.2.
Are there any objections?
Objection in the remote.
No, the one objection.
Line I'm 16.2.
She'll stand.
For the internal operation standing committee from the mayor's office.
Councillor Buncellos Reyes.
Councillor Miller with the O'Connell way or Resolution 9, items 17.1.
Councillor Miller.
Thank you, Monsieur.
Thank you.
Madam Park.
Milition to approve with discussion?
It was a motion to approve, I'm 17.1 with discussion number Kallleway.
Thank you, Monsieur.
I think there's a duplicate, line item 17.1 and 17.12.
Just I was going to ask that same question.
What's the difference in those two items?
Madam Court, may look very similar.
Mr. President.
Yes, ma'am.
Through you, I believe that confusion with these two items is that it was moved from committee.
However, it was missing under resolution, which were referenced that this would have been a resolution from LPD.
However, this is a mayor's office, so 17.12 can be removed as that item didn't have a resolution connected to.
in the first place. Okay, remember Calibut, you want to move that item now?
Yes. Mr. Chair, motion to remove line item 17.12.
As a motion to remove from the agenda line item 17.12.
With discussion, approaching me on.
Yeah, man, I click on this on, make sure I understand.
The fact that 17.12 says reappointing.
And at that, that 13.1 said upointing.
That doesn't have any, that's not to be effective with the removal, right?
No, I would not mispermpt.
Because I don't know those kinds of things.
And I think it's correct in just saying pointing, right?
Correct.
Thank you.
Thank you, Carlos.
There's a motion to remove line.
I'm 17.12 from the agenda.
Are there any objections?
Seeing none.
That action shall be taken.
I'm Kelly.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Back to line.
Item 17.1.
Motion to approve.
The appointment of state.
to the Detroit Downtown Development Authority Board of Directors
beginning immediately and expire in July 17, 20, 30.
Excuse me.
There's a motion to approve line item 17.1 with discussion member McKemba.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just a question,
either for LPD or the law department.
Notwithstanding the background of this individual,
but understanding that they work for bear rock and we will be
It seems that a Brownville development is coming for approval
and also will be under the DDA.
One right is that a conflict for this,
or how would that be navigated through a son
or if there is for LPD or the law department?
We'll start with the law department, for instance.
I thought Mr. Wooder could look over to the side.
A lot of department, come on down.
Thank you. Good afternoon. Good afternoon.
The Hill Law Department to my knowledge.
I'm not aware of the conflicts.
However, I can't.
Say that with 100% certainty. I do know that throughout the process of making their appointments, there
has been a lot of communication with the law department in regards to who can or cannot be appointed
to certain boards due to conflict ventures. So my question, my answer to that is, I am not certain
However, I know there has been quite a bit of communication in regards to that.
I'm going to share the mic, Mr. Whitaker.
I guess it also comes down that there's a project that this entity has before them.
They have to recuse themselves.
Is that part of the overall question as well?
I think that's the distinction.
He would have to recuse himself on projects to come that he has his or his company has.
But he is already served on this war for quite some time, so the issue has not caused him to not be able to retain his service.
So I would think that there was a conflict that would have been acknowledged long ago, because he's been on this war for some time.
Thank you. Thank you both. I will also say I think the thank you for asking my question on the conflict. I think also as overall with this without the conflict of having think this is a company that has a lot of projects that may come before this body.
as before and sent us a such. So it's also for me.
It's the question of should that individual be on that type of board.
When there's a lot of that type of visit before the DDA and before city council.
So thank you for clarifying that the recruitment process will be in place.
I will, but no on the appointment, but thank you for the clarification. Thank you.
Thank you so much. Can you further, Carolyn?
question with further discussion movements.
Thank you.
That was a good catch on my colleague.
And this has come up before with a pointy set of boards who may have business that come before those boards.
And the standard operating procedure is to reduce one cell.
And that's been confirmed in the past.
So they do have to reduce themselves.
That is enforced at those boards.
But there is oftentimes a conflict if you do do business in a city of Detroit and you represent and you're representing on the DDA, but that can be handled just as this body has the same level of conflict of interest requirement to
to use yourself with your community.
I'd be curious, Interest.
Thank you.
Mr. Wooden.
Spread what this issue raises, you know, particularly
for youth from a Campbell, you might want to give us an assignment
so that we can explain that.
So that you have some clear understanding.
I think we've written on it in the past,
but we would be happy to draft a new opinion.
you know, we circulate one of the past so that you fully informed.
The problem in the city with so many boards is often the folks who have the most
experience to bring to bear on the boards are people who would often come before the
boards.
So that's why recusal probably is the best method to take away a lot of the person to
But deal with conflicts and might arise and some might arise with some regularity as you pointed out.
But we'd be happy to draft an opinion, so it's clear for the body going forward.
Thank you.
Do you have a visitor?
Member Rickamp.
Motion to have the opportunity to draft a opinion on, I don't know how to word it.
on the complex of interest with various boards and individuals serving on them.
There's a motion on the floor colleagues having objections.
We follow up with the memo.
Seeing none that action shall be taken.
There is a motion to give for line item 17.1.
Are there any objections?
Objection.
Objection members.
in Cajabra, Merrill.
Noding the two objections,
917.1 shows stand approved.
From the law department, Madam Clerk.
Is it true?
I remember.
I'm request a waiver online item 17.1.
The request for a waiver online item 17.1.
Thank you, sir.
Are there any objections?
Seeing none, the waiver should be attached.
From the law department, Madam Clerk.
That's the member with Bill Kellaway.
Eight resolutions,
This is not only that lie item 17.2 through 17.5, we're responsible for the last
week formal session.
All right.
Member Kelly, we line up 17.
I'm sorry.
Member Kelly.
17.5 through 17.2 through 17.5 correct.
Member Kelly.
Mr. President.
Member Kelly.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Motion to approve.
These are various settlements and lawsuits.
The motion to approve line items 17.2 through 17.5 colleagues.
Are there any objections?
And Subjection Member Johnson 17.4 is 17.5.
Subjection.
We'll start remember Suncaggle Rumeral 17.3 17.4.
Subjection, a Campbell 17.4 or 17.5.
There any further colleagues?
Seeing none.
Line out of 17, noting the objections.
Line out of 17.2 through 17.5.
She'll stand approve.
Madam Clerk.
So we were from the Office of the City Clerk, Mr. President?
We're at 17.6.
We're still in that section.
I'd ask which items were removed and I mentioned 17.2 through 17.5.
Yes, actually Mr. President, I'm more or 8.
I was just notating that 17.2 through 5 were postponed from last week.
Okay.
So I guess I didn't say the line items can debidially, there were 17.2 through 9, it's what was more
Refreshing 17.2 through 5, I just did not say the line items, so there might be where the confusion was.
So 17.6, excuse me, yes, 17.6 through 17.9 correct.
All right, member Cowley.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Motion to approve line item 17.6 through 17.9.
these are various settlements and lawsuits.
As a motion to approve line item 17.6 through 17.9 colleagues, are there any objections?
Seeing none, that action shall be taken.
Thank you.
Protemia.
Okay, we are reconsidered the vote on a while,
17, we five and 13, we're voting.
It probably says a motion for reconsideration for the vote
for line items which once comes.
There's a motion to reconsider the vote for line item 17.5, are there any objections?
The nine, which are reconsidered line item 17.5.
That'll court.
I'll pass the number with the O'Calleway Resolution.
I'll remember, Kalleway.
This is line item 17.5.
Yes, sir.
Are we voting?
This is a reconsideration.
So we're always reconsidered.
We've got to place it back on the floor.
The motion to approve line item 17.5.
As a motion to approve line item 17.5 colleagues.
Are there any objections?
The objection member.
Objection member.
That's right.
All right.
Madam Clerk looking at the numbers that we have at the table currently.
This five knows Mr. President and five three knows in five days that motion passes.
None clerk.
We've got two seats there, empty at the table.
Member Bissett is still here, Mr. President.
Oh, there it is. All right.
All right. That action shall be, line out of 17.5,
shall stand approval from the office of the city clerk.
I'll remember with Bill Calaway, a resolution line item 17.10.
917.10 member Kelly. Motion to approve. As a motion to approve. 917.10 colleagues, I
have any objections. 109, then action shall be taken. Under Resolution's Matter
Clerk. How's the member Whitfield, Calaway? 4 Resolution. 3 Resolution. 3 Resolution.
We've
Alicia's Mr. President.
All right, line item 17, point 11 from 17, point 14, minus line item 17, point 12, never calculate.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. If we can take them individually, the first one, motion for discussion on line item 17, point 11.
The motion to discuss line item 17, point 11.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is a resolution and support of Senate Bill 1035, and I'd like to read the resolution, whereas DNA testing is a powerful forensic tool capable of identifying perpetrators, excluding individuals who did not commit an offense and providing reliable evidence in the review of potentially wrongful convictions.
and whereas DNA evidence has played a role in approximately 15% of all exonerations in the United
States demonstrating that access to post-conviction DNA testing can provide a critical means
of establishing innocence and correcting miscarriages of justice. And whereas expanding access
to post-conviction DNA testing would remove significant barriers faced by incarcerated individual
seeking to establish their innocence, particularly where advances in forensic science
permit biological material to be tested or analyzed in ways that were not available at the
time of conviction. And whereas Michigan Senate Bill, one zero three five, together with its
house counterpart, House Bill six zero nine two would amend Michigan's post conviction DNA testing
statute to remove outdated procedural and technological restrictions and afford circuit court judges
greater discretion to order testing when granting a petition would serve the interest of justice,
and whereas Senate Bill 1035 sponsored by state Senator Jeff Irwin of Ann Arbor and co-sponsored
by Senator Stephanie Chang, Kevin Hertail,
Kavanaugh, Eric Geiss, and Su-Shink
would update Michigan's approximately 25-year-old
pulse conviction, DNA testing statute,
to account for substantial advances
in forensic technology since the statute was enacted.
And whereas modern forensic techniques,
including touch DNA testing,
which may recover genetic material
from skin cells left on evidence and vacuum extraction methods capable of recovering biological
material from fabric may produce a prototype results from evidence that could not be successfully
tested using earlier technology and whereas Michigan's existing statute may prevent access
to modern DNA testing techniques even when biological evidence remains preserved and available
in a court determines that additional testing could be warranted, and whereas innocent individuals
have pleaded guilty to crimes, they did not commit and excluding all guilty plea cases from
access to both to post-conviction DNA testing, make prevent course from considering reliable scientific
evidence capable of establishing innocence or identifying the actual perpetrator. And whereas
advocates report that the reforms proposed by Senate Bill 1035 and is companion, House Bill 6092 would bring Michigan more closely in line with the post-conviction DNA testing standards,
followed in 45 of her states and the District of Columbia.
Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Detroit City Council hereby urges the Michigan
legislature to pass in at Bill 1035 as a critical criminal justice reform and as a necessary
update to Michigan's post-conviction DNA testing law and be it finally resolved that the Detroit
The city clerk shall transmit copies of this resolution to the mayor of the city of Detroit,
the governor of the state of Michigan.
The members of the Detroit delegation to the Michigan Legislature, the state of
Palette Defender office, the Innocence Project, the Michigan Innocence Clinic,
and the city of Detroit returning citizens task force.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Motion to approve line item 17.11.
Thank you.
There's a motion to approve line item 17.11 with further discussion.
I'm going to cut to know that it's similar to the appointment for Mr. Ogden to the DDA.
This is also the duplicate if I'm not mistaken.
Line out of 20.24 and just check and see if there's any difference in those particular items.
Discussion?
With further discussion, remember.
I'm Santiago Guerrero.
Council President, I think you are correct.
We did discuss this in PHS yesterday.
We believe it's a duplicate of duplicates.
So I'm happy to remove 20.24 if you feel comfortable.
Yeah, that's good.
They're emotional.
Motion to remove 20.24.
The motion to remove my out of 20.24 from the agenda.
.
Any objections?
They know that action shall be taken.
With further discussion, a line out of 17.11 into accountable.
I just want to say thank you for to member colleague for this resolution.
I think it's vitally important if the past would love to join all.
Thank you.
Any further colleagues?
109, are there any objection?
109, ejection's line out of 17.11, shall stand approved.
Mr. Chair, request a waiver online, item of 17.11.
It's request for a waiver on 17.11 colleagues, any objections?
109, waiver should be attached.
9, on 17.13, the look out the way.
Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair.
This is the appointment of Dr. Latoshi Appatman to the Board of Review, beginning January 1,
2027 and expiring December 31st, 2028.
This is member waters reappointment recommendation.
Motion to approve.
I'm 17.13 colleagues.
Are there any objections?
Hearing none.
That action shall be taken.
Mr. Chair, we request a waiver online item 17.13.
It's a request for a waiver on 17.13 colleagues.
Are there any objections?
Seeing none.
We wish it be attached.
I don't know 17.14 and you know thank you Mr. Chair this is an appointment for Raymond
Lazzano to serve on the Detroit land bank authority beginning immediately and expiring
March to 6, 20, 30.
So motion to approve line items 17.14 colleagues are the any objections.
18, 9, 5, and 17.14.
It will be approved.
Request the waiver Mr. Chair online item 17, 214.
The request for a waiver on 17, 214 colleagues
on the any objections.
Seeing none, waiver should be attached.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Brown.
For the planning and economic development standing committee
under unfinished business, Madam Clerk.
Possum of a chance sent an ordinance
on a roll call nine item 18.1.
Member Johnson.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I move to take from the table in ordinance
to amend chapter 50 of the 2019 Detroit City Code, zoning by a minute article 17, zoning
district maps section 50-70 and dash 28 district map number 46 to revise the zoning classification
for the properties commonly identified as 114-0-0-connestreet and 1105-5-Glimfield Avenue,
generally located east of Counter Street between Glimfield, Avenue, and Flanders Avenue from the R3, the
Audensity Residential District Zone in Classification, to the B4 General Business District Zone in Classification,
laid on the table June 23rd, 2026.
That action shall be taken, Council Member Johnson.
I move the ordinance be placed on the order of third reading and considered grade.
Here are no objections that actually shall be taken.
Council members.
I move the ordinance be passed as submitted.
They're being a role call required.
I'm clerk, but you please call the role.
Council member Miller.
Council member Jasmine.
Yes.
Council member Santiago Romero.
Council member Warders.
Council member Woodfield, Calaway.
Council president Pro Tim Young.
Yes.
Also, President Tate? Yes.
Yes.
Also, Mr. Vincent?
Yes.
Also, Mr. McCamble? Yes.
Six shades that motion passes, Mr. President.
Here are no objections that action will be taken.
Council members Johnson.
I move the title to the ordinance to be confirmed.
I'm sorry the ordinance is approved.
That should say that.
Now, here are no objections that action will be taken.
The mismatch group.
I'm not going to agree.
From the City Planning Commission.
of clerk.
Prof. Mayor Rajasant and ordnance, no need a roll call.
9th, height of 18.2.
9th of 18.2.
Number dancing.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I move to take from the table in ordinance to amend chapter 50 of the 2019 Detroit City
Coal.
Zoning by amending article 17.
Zoning district maps section 50 dash 17 dash 4.
District map number 3.
To revise the zoning classifications for 11 parcels.
commonly identified as 1525 and 1529 Temple Street,
2801, 2821 also known as 2825,
and 2847 Trumbbell Avenue, 1510 Perry Street,
1537, 1545, 1555, and 1555, 555, 10th Street,
and 1520 Perry Street, generally bounded by Temple Street
to the North Trumbbell Avenue to the East.
Perry Street to the South and Cochrane Street to the West from the existing SD1 special development district small scale mixed use are to two family residential district and are three low density residential district zoning classifications to the B2 local business and residential district zoning classification laid on the table May 12, 2026
Here are no objections that actually will be taken.
Council member Johnson.
I move the ordinance be placed on the order of third,
reading and considered read.
Hearing no objections that action will be taken.
I move the ordinance be passed as submitted.
There'd be an a roll call requirement.
I'm clerk, but you please call the roll.
Council member Johnson?
Yes.
Council member Santiago Romero?
Yes.
Council member Waters.
Council member with the O'Claw away.
Also quite an important young. Yes. Also President T. Yes.
House member Benson. Yes.
House member McCamble. Yes.
House member Miller.
Seven years that motion passes Mr. President.
The ordinance is approved. Council member Johnson move the title to the ordinance be conferred.
You know, objections that action will be taken.
All right, Madam Clerk, I did neglect to note that it received a memo this morning that
member Miller would be departing the session at 1.30.
Thank you so much.
From the Office of Contract and the procurement
medical card.
Pass the member Johnson for resolutions,
9 items 18.3 through 18.6.
On items 18.3 through 18.6.
Thank you Mr. Chair, move for approval.
The motion to approve line items 18.3 through 18.6 colleagues are there any objections.
See, nine line items 18.3 through 18.6 self-stand approved.
To Mr. Chair.
Member Johnson.
I'd like to request the waiver online items 18.3 and 18.4.
These are contracts for the Allisure Repair Program.
The motion for approval for line items 18.3 and 18.4 colleagues are there any objections.
109, an action shall be taken on the Johnson. Is that a waiver?
Yeah, because it's the chair.
The way I'm looking for this document, this was thrown me off.
There's a waiver request that you can fill in on that of 18.318.4.
Are there any objections?
Seeing none, waiver shall be attached.
From the Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority, Madam Clerk.
Awesome, Mr. Johnson, a resolution line item 18.7.
by the number 18.7 number jobs.
Thank you, Mr. Chair, line item 18.7 is also associated with line item 18.10.
There is a request to bring these two items back. After recess,
so motion to bring line items 18.7 and 18.10 back and one week.
There's a motion to postpone the vote for line items 18.7 and 18.10 into
Our next formal session, are there any objection?
Seeing none, that action shall be taken.
Which Johnson,
move the rest of them?
Just that, one, 18.7 was the only one that really was addressed with the clerk.
So I believe, 18, we're on 18.8.
Did we also postpone the bill for 18.10 as well, correct?
Yes.
Okay,
mine item 18.8, Mr. President, we from the Office of the Chief Financial Officer
Office of Development and Grants.
I'm also member Johnson, a resolution line item 18.8, Council Member Johnson.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Move for approval.
This is the fiscal year, 2026, 2027, annual action plan.
As a motion for approval for line item 18.8 colleagues other in the objections, see none that action shall be taken from the city planning commission on clerk.
House member Johnson, the resolution line item 18.9.
Item 18.9 colleagues member Johnson.
Thank you Mr. Chair.
Move for approval.
This is a request to do alterations at the Wayne County Community College, downtown campus.
There's a motion for approval for line out of 18.9.
There are any objections.
See none that actions shall be taken.
We did.
We're going to postpone the vote for until we return for line out of 18.10 from the planning and development department.
mental clerk.
Professor Bajacic, who resolution line items 18.11 to 18.12.
Member Johnson.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Move for approval line item 18.11 is acquisition of Wayne County tax foreclosed properties.
The right of first refusal for the 2026 properties that the city is looking to utilize.
And line item 18.12 is in a DTE easement request.
for 1-1-4-4-6 van Dyke.
As a motion for approval for line items,
18.11, 18.12 colleagues, are there any objection?
Discussion with discussion and call one.
Do we have any one on from planning and development
to give me some more information about line item 18.11
if not, I'd like to make a motion to postpone until we return from recess.
If this is not an urgent action that has to be taken today,
That's line out in 18 point to 11. Those are three properties in District 2, namely on the avenue of fashion.
I see Mr. Washington has joined us. You have someone available, sir?
Yes, through the chair, we do have John trunk, as well as Jason Friedman on my.
We'll promote those individuals.
Through the chair, this is John trunk, the housing revitalization department. I think I should be joined by my colleague Jason Friedman as well.
I'm on as well.
This is Jason Friedman, Director of Public Private Partnerships, HRD.
Turn your camera on, there will be helpful, please.
The camera on as the Friedman.
It is.
I'm having some technical issues, though.
Let me see if I can switch to my phone.
Well, we won't prolong this portion of it.
We'll give a member.
Kelly, now between to ask the questions.
Member Callaway.
As far as yours.
I'm Kelly.
Oh, yes.
Are these urgent matters?
Do we have to take action on these two days?
I mean, I'm sorry after recess.
Yeah.
There's Michael I can answer that through the chair.
Two council member Calway.
There is a level of urgency and that's due to a short timeline with the
Wayne County treasurer with treasurer debris.
When we can exercise this right, we're a refusal.
Candidly the process year over years really tight because just
the beginning of the process.
They don't give us the final foreclosure list until about two weeks.
You know, we've had it for about two weeks now.
So we're we're against the deadline from them as well as we're closing and I know we've got
the two district two lots, you know, one at one nine three three seven liver knowing, which
is a vacant person, they have new fashion. And then the other one is at nine a one with more and
that's for a Palmer Park parking lot to a Spartan neighborhood and multi-family. We have
correct. Yeah, there there is a short timeline. We could not afford to postpone this.
I'm through through the chair to you. What's what's the time frame? We need to make the
determination with what criteria is to breathe on the final list and have payment within two
weeks. And that's there. That's there timeline that we're forced to lodge by. I would just add
John that that's actually within extension. So they've already given us an extension. They they've
us over to us very very late this year. So it is urgent to meet the extended deadline. It
for us to hopefully move forward today. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you. Any further colleagues?
Seeing none, there's a motion for approval from line items 18.11 and 18.12. Are there any objections?
Subjects from the account before 18.12.
Noting the one objection online on 18.12.
Objects remember some general. We're mirror 18.12.
Noting the two objections for line on 18.12.
Both line on 18.12 and 18.11 of standard proof.
But the public health and safety standing committee.
From the Office of Contract and Epicurement.
Professor Reversanti, I have a reverberal or resolution, no need at this line item was postponed
from last week formal session, nine item 19.1.
Nine item 19.1, members such as a reverberal, no need to approve.
The motion to approve, nine items, nine item 19.1, are there any objection?
Discussion, Mr. Chair?
With discussion, Member Kell.
Yes, this line item is a $50,000 contract for Emerald media that I motion to postpone for one week.
This individual has gotten close to $15 million herself and contracts since 2022.
She has now said that she is a Detroit based business. That's not true.
I went by her, if she doesn't have an office, she has, she shares a cubicle, a shared space with another individual, and she hardly ever goes into that space at Tech Town.
She pays $100 and $70 a month to say that she has a Detroit-based business, sir.
She doesn't have a desk assigned to her, and I'm not sure if she has a mailbox there or not, but I did go down here and I got a copy of what she,
Her space is called a shared desk space for two people and it's a hundred and seventy dollars a month
So I don't know if that qualifies as a Detroit base business or not. I did speak to a attorney, Jade
Matt this who is the
Director of Creole and she and I are going to talk about perhaps strengthening our ordinance language with respect to what it's really considered a
Detroit base business because I do believe
that our procedures and our ordinances are being taken advantage of, exploit it for lack of a better work.
They're not, they do not have a brick and mortar and Detroit, but they're saying that they're Detroit based.
So I think we as a council, and it's going to start with me working with Creole,
to strengthen our own ordinance, and what really is a Detroit-based business?
Is it a brick-and-mortar?
In this instance, in the most instances I'm finding, it is not.
If you have an address, like in-pan-a-pad a paper, a desk, and a chair,
you are considered a Detroit-based business because we don't have any other
qualifications or requirements, but this absolutely is not a Detroit-based business.
And so, but because of our own deficiencies in our ordinance, she qualifies, she qualifies.
But I would be objecting to this particular contract.
Again, she's gotten close to $15 million.
She was supposed to hire someone, a student, an African American.
I don't know if she's done that.
That was part of an agreement, a year and a half ago, when I served on the internal operations with
member Johnson and member Waters.
That was one of the part of her agreement.
I don't know if that ever happened.
I had not met her.
She's never appeared before internal operations,
but her contract's keep appeared.
So, I do not believe this is a Detroit base business
and she might even qualify 170 dollars a month.
That's what she pays.
And she don't even utilize the space.
I found that out today.
But that being said, sir, I'll be objecting
to line item 19.1.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
There's a motion for the photo for mine at a 19.1.
Wait, she made a motion.
I can't post for me again.
I don't think.
Because I've made a motion last week to post.
So as back on the agenda to date,
due to a post-pumming from last week.
No.
I thought she was going to be okay.
I thought she's safe.
I know you're going to vote for.
Yeah, I'll tell her.
Just be cool.
I'm not trying to postpone it, but I'm just to chair. I would ask the repulse opponent again.
We're going to have a possible Mr. Chair.
It is possible, but it is with the vote of the body.
Pardon me. With the vote of the body, it is possible.
So, Mr. Chair, motion to postpone it for until we come back from recess.
This is not an urgent matter.
Next line at a 19.1 correct. Yes.
All right, college is a motion to postpone.
Absolutely.
We've got to go through the procedure down.
There's a motion, postpone the vote until we return from recess for line out of 19.1.
With discussion, a lot of members as well as a herbness to Washington.
Do see folks from media services as well as the health department.
Here with us, so come on down.
Colleagues, who at her, I see member Santiago Romero, followed by member Johnson, followed by protemia.
Thank you, Mr. President.
I wholeheartedly agree with you to bring things in house into the city, support, free
business.
I just also do believe that this contract is urgent.
This is for the health department to promote their services, which they have not been able to
to promote their reproductive health services such as breast cancer screening, pregnancy testing,
contraceptive options. For me, this feels urgent. They need this to be able to use grant funding
that they have to be able to promote their work. So just just to note, this does feel like it's
important. I do want to bring things in house. We are asking the questions all the time in committee
as well. And I did believe that the administration is working towards that. So for me, let's bring
more of this work in house. Let's make sure that we're not preventing services from being promoted
today. And I just want to say a note that it does feel a little discriminatory to say you're not a
small business or a business unless you have a storefront or brick and mortar. There are many
entrepreneurs, many small business owners that do not have a brick and mortar that I believe are
small businesses are a key trade businesses. So let's just keep that in mind as we're having these discussions. Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you.
Followed by member judge. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
So I want to now respond to member Santiago Romero, but I want to ask.
I think media services, is there any reason that the request from the health department?
We can't be utilized with the open contract that is with Emerald Media currently that has a little over four million dollars in it.
Through the chair to member Johnson that contract that is currently open is for citywide campaigns.
because we have typically companion contracts.
One for grant funded because they're being paid through a grant and then we also have one for
citywide which all the departments can use, but the grant funded is typically for the health department.
Okay, so your answer to my question is that the health department can utilize the contract that is currently
open because it is a citywide contract that they think but it's for not
citywide is nine grant funded. That's why we have a separate contract for
grant funded specifically.
Stay at one more time for me. I'm gonna say I'm like
not slow swim. So the grant funded contract is specifically for the purpose that we're
here for today. The grant funded contract that we're getting approved for the
department to continue. It's summer campaigns and that money is grant funded coming from
the state of Michigan. So typically when we have a grant funded or when we have a grant funded
contract we use that particular contract because it's grant funded. I understand that but we've
ever used through the chair to member Johnson.
We've never used grant fundate campaigns to city-wide
contract and never done that.
So could we not create a campaign for the health department to
utilize the city-wide funds?
It would be appropriate to use the grant fund to contract.
You still didn't answer my question, then.
It was a chair of asking answering as best I can.
We've never used the city-wide contract for a grant-funded campaign.
We all, that's why we have two separate contracts.
One for grant-funded.
And that would take away from other city-funded contracts
that the departments bring their own money to the table to use the authority on the
statewide contracts. We specifically have general funds, right? We specifically have a
grant fund to contract for this purpose. So are you saying that the programs that
the health department are run via grant funds and these are associated funds to
to help market them or get through the chair.
These are funds to help market these services and programs
provided by the health department.
And many of them are grant funded.
The health department can also use the city-wide fund
to contract if it's not grant funded.
If what is it grant funded?
Through the chair, Christina Floyd, deputy director,
public health strategic health department.
So we have various programs that are funded through grant funds for advertising and that we also have some that they cannot use grant funding.
And so those particular programs that use the general funded citywide contract to be able to support their programs.
So that's why there's a split of two because some programs do not have grant funds that they can allocate for advertising.
and then there are some that have the ability to do so.
And so this particular one that we're trying to utilize is
for the grant funder programs that
again will end on 930, 226
through our MDHHFunding source.
Okay, I think I understood that better.
Thank you, thank you for that.
So what I hear you saying is that these are grant-funded programs that cannot use
general fund dollars to promote them, though.
Through the chair, so these are grant-funded programs that only have grant funds to be able to support.
So not every program within the department has general funds to be able to support.
So there are some that actually have grant funds that allow them to be able to advertise.
And so again, it's so for instance, for FY27, our general funds for the entire budget for
our programs. We only have allocated $120,000 for advertising for the entire departments and only
programs. But on the grant side of things, we have programs that have been able to allocate money
to be able to support the advertising. So with that, that's why we're able to have two separate
contracts to be able to utilize one for the city fund, which is general funded, and then one for
because they also go on to separate timelines as well, or city fund it is for July 1, 2020, July 1 through 630.
The grant fund is 10-1 through 930, and so it allows for the time to be able to have for advertising as well.
So it's two separate timelines and two separate funding.
I think I understand that it makes it easier for you all, it makes it cleaner, but there's still nothing that I'm hearing that says you cannot use general fund dollars that are in this open contract with Emerald Media to promote the programs that work grant funded that the health department is administering.
So through the chair, to council, which has, and so the, the particular programs that we have that have allocated the grant funded money's to, they don't have general funds, and so they can't use the general funded citywide contract.
That's why we can't attach these particular programs that we're trying to use the $50,000
for to the citywide contract.
If we could, because as of 71, we'd be able to do so, but we can't.
So that's why we're using the MVHHS grant funded dollars to be able to support that on the grant
funded contract for the media services.
Okay. All right. Thank you for that. I thought LA shaking her head. So I'm good with LA. I do just want to respond to what
member Santiago Romero said as it relates to small businesses. I think we do recognize that there are
small home-based businesses that operate throughout this entire city, which
based on my recollection when I was sharing IOS and this contract,
vendor came before us. This vendor, yes, their home-based business is not in the city of Detroit.
And I think, remember, Caloay's point was that in order to appease the city, essentially,
they go and pay for a mailbox at Tech Town or wherever else in the city, so they can qualify as any
Right there.
Is this, I agree, I do not believe that they are. And so whether they have received equalization credits or anything or just being recognized as a Detroit based business, I do not believe that they are.
And so I think that Monica there is inappropriate, but that's my perception of all of this and I don't want to take away from small Detroit based businesses that may operate in their home.
And so with that I am the thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you.
Before you're in the queue remember, Calaway?
Next up, Potsamia.
You got it, then, Calaway.
Thank you, thank you, Mr. Chair.
There's nothing to discriminate for you.
I'm just saying hello, Honour Calaway.
Okay. He can't defer.
Can't defer.
I don't know.
Sorry.
I'm in Galway, low pump vacation.
Listen, I just wanted to ask you really quickly.
Can you just tell me why this is so transensitive
and just kind of remind everybody what happens?
You don't pass this and what's this for?
Why are we doing this in the first place?
And can you also tell them about the money
we're potentially saving from the grant?
I'm going to do it, everyone.
It's a little
bit of a chair to a problem young, so this again is funding that we get from
MDATHS on an annual basis that if once we allocate it to a particular line item, if we
do not use it, or we cannot use it before 930, it will actually be given back to the state.
And so that is why we are trying to make sure that we do utilize it in this timeframe.
The reason why we are here and we have the amendment to the contract is because it expired in April 17,
2026. And so it took a time period to be able to get the amendment process through, to be able to get to you,
to be able to be heard and to be utilized. It has been postponed several times, which is why we are now
critical deadline because as of right now, our processes through the state budget amendment,
if we don't have this funding allocated to be able to utilize, we're going to have to
re-allocate or give it back and we're now in our fourth amendment process for the state, which means
by tomorrow we need to let the know whether or not we're going to use a certain amount of money
before 9.30 and so literally we pretty much need to be able to know by today how we're
going to be able to utilize this money otherwise we'll be the reallocated or sent back
to the state and this is for and again this is for the advertisement of our reproductive health
are within other services and so it's the $50,000 that's remaining in the last quarter of the
the HHS FY 26 budget for this year.
And we, if we didn't have this, could we, you say that we can't take much, is he, that
we can't take money from general funds because this is something that is specifically grant
funding that has to be grant funded or is it, I mean, look, even if we could, but we decided
to use the grant.
I will prefer the grant because we have those savings to me.
I mean, that, you know, left me on money for police and fire, others on service, I'd
It's been of a general point.
That's just my personal preference.
So before what I'm understanding,
oh, thank you, appreciate it.
But that was rare.
But I just want to ask like, is that what this is,
or do this this is specific that this has to go for this program
because it's designed for this purpose.
We don't get this grant.
We can't provide this service.
Is that my understanding?
How does that work?
So, through the chair, it's not that we cannot use a lot of utilize the service.
This is for advertising dollars for programs that do not have zero fund dollars allocated
to them to be able to do advertising.
So, again, as stated, we have some programs that do have general funds and some that have
grant funds.
And so these particular ones that we are working with for this amendment have grant funds only for advertising.
Is it half or general funds?
Because they're my law, is that my rule, is that by state law, is that my policy, what, where does that come from?
Where do you have to use a grant for this type of program?
It seems to be a little bit unique.
Authorization for that.
Right. So through the chair,
What particular funding sources, some will allow to be able to have advertising dollars for grants and so with that, they will use advertising dollars and so again with our general funds.
We have four programs that have a general funded for FY27, which we're currently in now.
The money that we're working with for this particular amendment is for grant,
grant fund year FY-2026 so it seems really confusing but we can use FY-207 dollars for those programs that are general funded but we can't use them for FY-207 for grant funds until 10-1 so that's where we're lying at why we have this really short window
to be able to utilize this funding for those particular programs by 9.30, 2026.
And so it's not that it's a simulation, but we're still in the previous grant year of FY2026 to be able to utilize that funding.
No, thank you.
And this is my final question.
It's a little bit of pushback on this process in terms of transparency.
Because I think we need to be more transparent.
I think we got to work this out either whether it's through blockchain or whether it's through a dashboard,
but people can have this information available to them
or at least be better in terms of how you promoted and presented.
I would like to request you, I have to give it now,
but I would like to be able to receive a copy publicly
of what Emerald Media has done and invoice the city
from January of 2021 to 2006 to current.
If I could get that, I would appreciate that.
Other than that, this is something that I will be voting
to move out today.
Thank you, President, I am done.
Thank you.
Thank you Mr. Chair.
This has nothing to do with discrimination at all.
This has to do with whether or not a company is based in Detroit or do they have.
And I've always set that since I've been on this council.
That's why we have legacy businesses.
That's what they're called.
That's why we have tax abatence and tax incentives and brownfields.
They're Detroit based.
So even you are or you're not.
And this company is not.
They don't even go into the space at 440 burrows.
I have this from from from the office this morning.
It's a shared desk with another person.
It says it right here. She pays a hundred and seventy dollars a month.
So it does matter either you are or you aren't.
If you are home based business in Birmingham or you are Detroit based business,
you can't have it both ways.
But you're gaming the system so you can get the points.
So, you can qualify as a Detroit-based business, but you're not.
So, you know, we don't have to play the game.
We know that some businesses who say they are Detroit-based are really not.
They do business in Detroit, but they're not Detroit-based.
So, that's why I'm going to take it upon myself, Mr. Chair, and to my colleagues,
to work with attorney, Jake Mathes, because she agrees.
We probably have to tighten up our processes and our ordinances,
because I don't know if Atlanta does business like us.
I don't know if Philly does business like us.
I don't know if Chicago.
But they also have requirements for Detroit base.
I mean, not Detroit, but city base businesses.
And you get extra points.
Like we award extra points.
This is only $50,000.
I get it in light of the $15 million
that she's already received since 2022.
I get that.
It's just a principle.
it's the principle of the matter. It's not the amount. It's not the amount. Some promises were made by this company and I don't know that they kept them or not.
I'm going to object to it. It's just not the amount. It is the principle of the matter. Either you are or you aren't. Either you're working out of Birmingham, your home, or you had just gotten this peel box type of setup and now you're saying you're Detroit based on you can get the points. I get it.
So thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you.
I appreciate the advocacy of my colleague.
And this is something that we've worked on probably about six years ago.
This is something we've worked on about six years ago on during President Jones' leadership.
She led the charge to tighten our regulations then.
We implemented guardrails to prevent exploitation of any loopholes.
We tightened up the rules and regulations and sounds like that needs to happen.
And again, I'd be interested in hearing from LPD, or from the opposite procurement, any suggestions
on how we do that moving forward.
And I hope to, that we can come to some new rules, regulation, ordinance, modification,
and back and get us there, but there's also a challenge that we have to operate within the
of the law and of others have found ways to gain that is up to us to change the rules to better reflect the norms and more ways that this council wants to see implemented.
But I am interested to see what could be done in a situation like this when you do have somebody this has always been a problem I believe people have deaths.
they qualify via the letter of the law, but not by the tent of the law. So then what is the
what are some of the suggestions, or maybe it's a whatever can give me a quick 30 second
elevator speech here, but then I'm hoping that we're going to see this type of energy and effort
when it comes to modifying these regulations before. It was a little bit clearer. I wish I was just
week. We certainly will give it a lot of thought and attention over the recess and we might
be able to give you some more specific ideas here. It is a problem that the city has razzled
with really since I came to the city. So I'm over the 25 years. So it's been trying to calibrate it
that you benefit the businesses that are genuinely trying to
assist the city and and exclude those who are gaming the system, but we will
look at it again and try to give you our best effort. We will work or
create and see whether or not we can come up with a better solution than a
current one that we have. All right, thank you. I'm Mr. Chair, I'm Mr. Whitaker
thank you for that. Just do my colleague as well. 25 years, this is a
situation that has be giled, the city and our leaders who want to implement the same time protections that you're looking to do here.
So it's not a easy fix. I look forward to what comes out of this new effort again, but thank you for that.
It's unfortunate, but people continue to do it and we find ourselves in situation again.
I'm looking forward to the efforts to resolve and rectify this problem. Thank you.
discussion.
I will also add my voice and send that we do need to sign it up. We face those
with a lot of contracts that have come before us and community especially MPHS especially around
goods and manufacturing that they may have their main manufacturer facility in one area
and have a desk or office that they may do just the counseling or such or a little bit of
and Detroit, and I don't consider that to be a Detroit-based business.
Some of the things I've thought about this, I know I believe so on IRS violence.
You have to talk about, you have to indicate how much of your business is done at a certain place.
Maybe we can look into that.
I'm saying that more than 50% has to be done in the city.
But yeah, we'll love to be a part of that conversation.
And tying up those rules as well.
I think what we have here, I think this is a matter of...
There's a couple of things that are happening here, I think we continue to get things and I know this has been brought back quite a few times, but we continue to get things from the administration at the last minute and I would say even a month is a last minute when it comes to this because we're going to have multiple questions and, you know, we had this in PHS, we brought it back a week later, we sent it out and now this is brought back so it's about four weeks, but I think in knowing that this is a company that has had issues before this by the time.
for it, it begs for us to have more time to deliberate and think about what other options
to have.
And when I was at the table, I asked about bringing things more in house, I understand
that's not the most ideal in this situation,
but I understand the need, I suppose, support, the
vision behind or the need for us to have this advertisement for our new program.
So I will, and I had this conversation with folks as well.
I will reluctantly support this just because of the time.
But I do not want to see anything else from Emma or media.
I think we can do a better job.
There are, especially having the background in this field.
I know that there are media buyers in the city that would be more than what to help us.
And I hope to see that in the upcoming RFP and contractors.
Thank you, thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Director Thomas, I think you want to say something to you.
Yes, through the chair, Vicki Thomas, senior.
Director of Communications for the City of Detroit in Mayor Mayor Mary Sheffield's office.
One thing I wanted to point out is that I know I won't first want to applaud you for your fears
advocacy and your investigative skills.
So I did reach out to Emerald Media, letting her know that Member Callaway had done some investigative work and said that
know, she was not using the office. She told me she does use the office. She said that they also are allowed to have
Conference room and that some city employees, she's met with them there in the conference room and they've
used that conference room. So the office is being used. Another point I wanted to make is that
the $15 million contract. How do we verify that? Excuse me? How do we verify that? I mean, that's
the vendor. Well, I'm just sharing what? No, I get it. That's what she's saying. But that's now your
credibility if that's not true. That's all I'm saying. Because if we haven't verified what that vendor is saying,
I would say allow her to say that and I heard I have that conversation with member,
Calaway, because that's now saying basically you support that and I don't know if you've been able to validate it.
I'm just saying I had the conversation. I respect you. I'm just saying respect is this way.
Please don't fall down on that one because we don't know if that's the truth or not.
I'm just saying if you'd have a scene in it.
Through the chair.
Just throwing it out there.
I'm just saying the conversation that I had with the vendor, whether you believe it or not,
that's up to each individual council member.
But also to the point about the $15 million,
9% of that $15 million goes to media outlets.
the vendor only receives 10% of that.
So in this instance with the $50,000,
the $5,000 would go to the vendor 90% would go to the media outlets
that are part of the marketing campaign.
So I just wanted to clear that up.
And right now, Emerald Media only has two open contracts.
that's the city-wide contract that member Johnson referred to and then this particular contract that
we're asking for the amendment for the $50,000 so that they can continue marketing the summer
campaigns. We are in the summer, so time is of the essence.
All right, colleagues, we've had the discussion on this particular item. This is mine. I don't
excuse me, on 19.1, there was a was there a motion to postpone this. I think that's what we had on the table. So there's a motion to postpone a line out of 19.1 until we return back from recess. Are there any objections?
That should take.
Object.
You remember Johnson.
Object.
Members.
Thank you.
I'm going to need to have a minute.
Clerk.
Mr. President.
And including.
I'm.
As he attempted to.
And then member.
And I heard.
So I'm one clearly.
If.
I'm.
Young is.
Object in as well.
Yes.
I haven't.
Thank you.
So Mr. President, there would be five knows that motion fails.
The motion to postpone the vote until we return fails.
I remember calories.
There are multiple line out of 19.1.
Discussion.
Before we go to the motion.
I would like to make a comment on the make a motion.
For 19.1.
Motion to approve with the session.
You know, this is a member of Santa I've ever been in the, it failed, so that means it's
back up. The issue is I was putting it under member of Calibrate, but it's actually under
member of Santa I've been, so that was my year, number of Santa I've been there.
Thank you, Mr. President, motion to approve and just want to make it very clear, that I'm pretty
sure, and we're going to look back, but I'm pretty sure I have voted against Emerald Media
because they weren't a Detroit based company, this conversation really does rely on
preo and the city doing a better job of verifying whether or not these businesses
are Detroit based, are in the city. I do stand behind my comment. I don't believe you need to
be a brick and mortar to be a business in the city and be Detroit and that was the only
reason why I made that comment Mr. President. But I am grateful that this body is making changes
to the ordinances so that we can verify small businesses, Detroit businesses here in the city
with that motion to approve 19.1.
There's a motion to approve line out of 19.1 colleagues.
Are there any objections?
Objection member Johnson.
Objection Callaway.
No further objections.
Line out of 19.1.
Just stand approve.
Thank you.
Have a great afternoon.
Thank you.
Mr. Chair.
Member Kelley.
Still on this.
This topic.
I'd like to make a motion to have.
I don't know if it was properly moved, but I'd like to make a motion to have LPD actually take a look at
amending our ordinance with regard to what actually qualifies for a business to be considered or deemed a Detroit-based business.
What does that mean?
So that's one of the issues that's going to be on the motion to to to help me do what does that mean it varies from city to city. I'm finding out.
And so that is my motion that during the recess I'd like to work with you and my staff and your staff and I don't know if we need to bring a law and but certainly.
to look at our ordinance to kind of tighten it up with respect to what really qualifies for a Detroit-based business, whether or not that actually means brick and mortar or a desk, a pencil and a pad and a chair.
That is my motion, Mr. Chair. Thank you.
to help me. Thank you. There's a motion on the floor to be followed with the memo.
Yes. Are there any objection?
Hearing none, that action shall be taken. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Widdler.
All right.
We'll now move on to the new business portion of the agenda from the mayor's office
on the clerk.
How's the President Pro Tem Young?
Eight resolution of my items 20.1 through 20.8.
Well, Tem Young, an items 20.1 through 20.8.
But thank you, Mr. President.
I move to approve.
Mine items 20.1 through 20.8.
Motion to approve.
Line items 20.1 through 20.8.
Are there any objection?
The discussion on the number, Santiago Romero.
Thank you, Mr. President. Is there anyone on that can discuss 20 points too?
Mr. Washington.
Yes, through the chair, we do have you came a five online?
We promote this five.
Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Yeah, I came a five manager,
especially events.
Probably. Thank you, Mr. President, through you to Miss Five Good afternoon.
good to see you. I am reaching out to you to ask about 20.2. This is an event in Corp Town
and from the Roosevelt's Park in Michigan Central. As you already know, we have residents
that have been hit by events over events and I'm just wondering if there was proper outreach
done to community members about this event.
Through the chair, yes, we had extensive conversation in regard to this event because there were some issues last year.
We had DPD on the call and we also stayed in contact with Ms. Manley. She is in touch with the petitioner.
She's getting everything she needs from the petitioner and we had issues with the parking lot across the street from the event.
We had issues with parking last year.
we had issues with a couple cars rev in their engines and we are we know that this year none of
that will happen. We spent quite a bit of time on this event and right now everybody is satisfied.
You're the chair. Thank you, Ms. Fife. I appreciate that so much. Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you. Thank you. The motion for approval. With further discussion,
and member Johnson.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'll prove you to miss you, Kim, a five.
Is it necessary if a date of an event changes?
Is it necessary for us to amend the resolution
that we have in front of us?
I understand that 2.5, the date was changed
to September 25th.
14th, 1 second, go to chair 1 second, please.
And that is the for the love of the East Side event.
You through the chair, yes, I did speak with Mr. rail last week.
She would like to change the date, I've spoken with Andre Gilbert of the Clevver
Office before and dates are very important in regard to events, so there will be something
coming back to where we return from recess.
Okay, thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
for the discussion, but it's fine, it's been nice to let the chair know that you change the dates
through the chair, it hasn't been changed yet. It hasn't been changed yet.
It's nice of me to know in the future that you decide to change the date when I'm proven on it,
you know, just a little heads up, you know, dog, I buy it to the sun, just let me know,
No, hey, it's not permanent. We don't change. This is this date. No, you make me feel like a very
stuff right here. I'd like to get a little bit more notice. All right, I appreciate you. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Through the chair, not my intent at all. I was at an outdoor event. Once this
was already put in the system and that's when it was brought to me my apologies.
There are no problems, I appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Chair. Thank you so much.
Collin says a motion for approval for line items 20.1 to 20.8. Are there any objections?
Seeing none, that action shall be taken. Mr. Chair, I like a way where I lie.
I know 20.1, 20.2, 20.6 and 20.0.
However, this is a motion for this request for waivers on the items, just mentioned.
Are there any objections?
Please give me one more time.
Twenty-point-one.
A waiver on twenty-point-two.
A waiver on twenty-point-six.
And a waiver on twenty-point-seven.
Are there any objections?
Seeing nine waivers should be attached.
From the Office of Contract and Epicurement.
How's the number of San Diego Romero six resolutions noting that lie items 20.9 and 20.10 were postponed from last week formal session.
Those are lie items 20.9 and total rule line item.
What's he point 14.
Thank you Mr. President, I know that there were some questions for these items wondering, if we are all sex, if not, I came forward with approval.
Thank you so much. I did have extensive conversations with DPG and what we're looking to do is not so much air quote punish these last two groups that have been operating as the others.
But move forward with new additional metrics that we will be able to evaluate the overall CVI process.
So I'm okay with releasing the the hold if you will and if you want to call it that and we can move forward.
But certainly plan to have additional conversations through recessed beyond about really tightening up the way that we ensure that there's some standardization amongst our CVI groups because many of them.
I'll just say that we don't have that while we may see the results, we don't have the ability to truly measure outside of, you know, how many people got shot, how many people got killed, we got to do better than that. Thank you so much.
Through the chair, agreeing Mr. President, so with that's motion to approve 20.9 and 20.10.
As a motion to approve line items 20.9 and 20.10, are there any objections?
Are you none that actions shall be taken?
I request a waiver, Mr. President, for both items.
I request a waiver on line items 20.9 and 20.10.
Any objections?
Seeing none that actions shall be taken.
Member Santiago Romero.
Motion to approve 20 points 11 through 20 points 14.
As a motion to approve line items 20.11 from 20.14 are there any objections?
Jackson, McCambo, 20.11.
A objection member, Johnson, 20.11.
Any further comments?
You know further objections line items 20.11 through 20.14,
you'll stand approved.
Request a waiver, Mr. President, for 20.14.
As a request for a waiver online item 20.410 colleagues are there any objections.
Seeing none, a waiver should be attached.
From the Office of Contracting and Securement Madam Clerk.
I'm also President Pro Tib Young, a resolution like item 20.15.
Well, Tom.
Thank you, Mr. President.
I'm moved to approve my title 20.5.
The motion to approve line item 20.15 colleagues.
Are there any objections?
See, none that action shall be taken. From the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Office of Development and Grants, no card.
I also remember Santiago Romero, three resolutions, line items 20.60 and 20.18.
From the Santiago Romero.
Motion to approve 20.16 to 20.18.
is a motion to approve line items.
Oh.
I'm so sorry, Mr. President, excuse me for the introduction. I would like to amend my motions.
Ms. Moon. Motion to approve. Motion to discuss 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 16, Mr. President.
There's a motion to discuss line item 20, 20, 16, number, Santiago, or mayor.
20.16, this is a grant application for drones and I just want to be reminded what this timeline is to submit, because as far as I know, we still don't have policies around our usage of drones for this type for police.
So, frankly, I've heard that people will feel more comfortable moving this forward once we know how we're going to use this technology.
So, I just want to get a confirmation from DPD, the timeline for this grant application.
Mr. Washington, anyone available to speak on the side?
Yes, through the chair, we come from out Deputy Chief Mark Bliss, as well as Terry Daniels.
We will promote those individuals.
Good afternoon.
But after no, please introduce yourself for further work.
Deputy Chief Mark Ballist, Detroit Police Department.
Terry Daniels, Director Office of Development and Grants.
Thank you.
Now see the top of someone's head there.
Is this someone else joining us?
Oh, she's actually just disappeared.
Members don't get worried.
Thank you, Mr. President, through you to our panelists.
I think DC, I believe it's told us a timeline for this grant, but I cannot remember.
Can you let us know what the timeline is for the grants of mission for this?
The chair.
The deadline for the grant was the 10th of June.
This grant was completed abruptly in order to get it through.
So, it was coming to the Council for approval later than usual for that because we were going back and forth in regards to.
We currently have another piece of drone that's going through C-Ox that we are going through Board of Police Commissioners.
So we did this last minute to get this through.
I did talk to the first assisted chief in regards to the timeline to get the C.Ox through the board and we're moving that now.
So I do not foresee that taking too long maybe just a couple weeks in order to get the C.Ox done.
We do have a draft policy for a drone usage that has been through the board.
It has not been approved yet, but it has been through the policy committee and is looking for approval.
Through the chair, do you see does that mean that you already submitted the application that you're asking us for permission to submit?
I will refer that over to the grants.
Through the chair to Councilmember Santiago Romeral.
Yes, we did submit the grant.
We had to before the deadline.
It was a very short turnaround, but the backstop on this is that all grants have to be approved
and accepted by council.
So if we were awarded this grant, council has the authority to not accept the grant.
Through the chair, that does not seem like proper process to me,
although I understand what you are saying.
Mr. President, this has already been done.
I'm not sure if we want to bring this back to discuss,
since it's already been done, to see how we can rectify this
or we can both this up or down.
I did let DPD know, off the record that I would not be in
support of this due to the lack of policies around drones
and what we've seen with this technology
and how the federal government has accessed it
or how police across the country have abused the technology
but that is where I stand on this issue.
Not sure because anything else that needs to be discussed
before we've pulled this upper down or moved this back.
Bring this back.
Thank you.
With the Department of Session.
I try to get this out of here, but I got a question for you.
This may even go for a lot of department.
The fact that this is before us,
seeking authorization,
is there required before the department seeks authorization
for approval from this time to do so?
Yes.
Mr. President.
So that's where I am druged extremely the wrong way.
One, I was not made aware as the council president, and maybe not important to some folks.
But I'm important in my own household, in my dim office, and I think that I deserve the
respect to at least me made aware that what's coming before this body actually has been
moved upon.
Thank you so much, Member Santiago, where I'm going to ask you a question because I
assume that our partners on the other side would have told us that. That's very, very, very, very
disappointed. And I'm not sure what authorization or where it was determined, and maybe there's
some type of loophole that Ms. Daniels were aware of that allows for the administration to apply
for these grants without going through council, despite how air quote type it is. There's a lot
type things but there's a process and procedure for a reason. There's no way and it's not acceptable.
If this body decided to take away a ability power of the administration regardless of what
executive is sitting in that seat. So I'm not sure and I'm very supportive. Let me just say it's
very supportive of the police department and the items that come before us in most capacities,
but I'm also supportive of this body and our authorized powers from the charter.
So just is there any loophole that we may be missing that allows for you all to apply for applications without coming through council first.
up to the chair. There is no loophole. We were coming up on a very aggressive
deadline and we hit the button to apply for the grant and hindsight we should
have at least let you know that this was something that was on the table and that
won't happen again. Yeah. Should we believe that? Because I'm going to believe that you would have done
at this time. So, June, when did you, when did the application go through? June 10th. So, June 10th
is now July the 28th and we're only finding out now as this item is before us that you are
violated the protocol, violated what was supposed to be before us.
Why are we just learning today, once the question is even asked, just from a standpoint
of communication and collaboration, why not even tell us afterwards?
I mean, it's been before us in the committee, just trying to figure out, I mean, this, this
is real challenge in terms of relationship.
to the chair. I wasn't aware of this until, after it was submitted, probably two weeks or so,
after it was submitted and looking back again, we should have notified Council that it had already been applied for.
Mr. Whitaker what is what what are what's the recourse? I mean right now instead of valid
Application if it has not been approved by this body
I was saying Mr. President. No
But it's a lot of the theory because they may not hurt I understand what they're saying that if if
You'll have a fight that to Apple
when and if the city received the grant to deny the grant.
But you should have been allowed to determine whether or not you wanted to see the grant to start with.
That begins at the application process that has not been according to you.
So you can take the prerogative of turning it down if you choose to.
I don't want to go there again. I'm saying is the application valid because it has not been approved.
That's the piece that I'm more concerned about at this moment.
I believe that the process that you're speaking of is on the city side of Maine.
Whether or not it's valid would be a determination by the grantor, whether or not the grantor would it,
whether or not in order for the process for it to be accepted by the grantor,
whether the city is sent for the application that's necessary.
I don't know that. I'm saying even in terms of that. But in terms of the city's records, we got
across first and first is the internal threshold, right? As far as the city's processes has been discussed,
city's processes was not initially followed with the seeking of the of this grant by application.
And just for clarity, who's decision was it to move forward?
Was it the director? I'm just trying to get a bit of understanding, because this is the first I'm hearing about it.
So unfortunately, I got to ask questions now as opposed to on the phone call, meeting, zoom, and some other way.
Who could make the authorization to move forward on this?
Without the authorization.
To the chair,
I designate staff members to apply on my behalf.
I wasn't aware of the timing that the council letter or that we had not received approval to apply yet.
We also may be able to go into the grant portal to withdraw the application if this honorable body would like us to explore that.
You're saying the approval came from you?
Not to submit on the eighth, but I designate staff members to apply on May be half.
I did not know at the time that we did not have Council approval.
Once it was identified that we did not have Council that you all did not have Council approval.
Who's decision was to keep moving forward and not talk to this body?
It would have been the grant officer who basically is just looking at the deadline date and trying to make the deadline.
What calls the deadline should be so air-cooled tight?
It looks DOJ only gave us less than a month, but 30 days to submit the application, which means in that 30 days you have to come up with a score.
of work, a budget, you have to work with the department to write the narratives, and it is a time-consuming activity.
So it didn't leave much time to make the deadline.
So my safety assumed that it was actually submitted to us after it was completed.
I have to check to the chair.
I have to check the dates.
Any further colleagues?
Member McCamble.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It looks like from my notes that the first time we considered this in PHS was June 29th.
And I think this is, well, I would just take a step back.
We had this conversation in PHS and we had acts about the deadline and we weren't given the information on the deadline because we have my
And concern with this grand application because there was not approval on the type of use that was my original concern which was the reason I would
Of opposed this today because I just feel like we should follow the process, especially we have in the Board of Police Commission are considering this right now, but now to hear that
It was just done without any of that, that is the thing we concerned and so I just want
to make that put on the record that we did have these conversations and committee.
Thank you.
Any further questions?
Yes.
I just want to say, this is just truly disappointing.
I'm just at a rock in the hard place, but I support this technology.
I think we should be doing more with the technology quite frankly.
But I think that this is very important in terms of first responders, in terms of allowed
our police officers to be able to go out and deal with tier 1 calls.
But this is like a basic form of government here, we are a co-equal branch of government.
We are an approval body, the executive proposes and the legislature disposes.
That's how this works.
for you to do something without our approval is just outrageous. I mean, I mean, this is just, I just don't, it is just a shame, because I support this technology. This is so
Final, in terms of saving lives, in terms of what this could do, and not just that,
in terms of, you know, I don't know, my college pride will support, where I want to go with it.
But, you know, in terms of, you know, plastic situations, in terms of a protected fully,
only just so many different things that it gets almost endless what we could do.
So it's like I want to support this, but I think I don't think I can. I don't think, you know, we're talking about whether or not it's legal for my perspective. It's not. You cannot do that. You cannot approve something without the council first. That cannot happen. It is a dangerous trend. It is a charter crisis as well. So I mean, just respond, I'm just disappointed. I want to support this.
But I can't I don't think I don't think I have the authority to I think it'd be a violation of the O by
Swore
So I mean, I don't know if you want to take corporation council to be able to have this discussion. I don't think now as time anyway
Maybe I don't remember. I don't know a Mr. President. You want to bring this back
I
Personal think you should think it should go down
You know, I think anything we can obviously be the fruit of the poison is cheap quite frankly
But yeah, I'm just really disappointing because I truly support this technology, so, but I can't
encourage you to go for this.
Thank you, President.
Excuse me.
I would like to ask a question.
Member Benz.
Thank you.
Six and 17 tech four tech two approved by City Council and office of grants management required.
Alpha.
We'll go by City Council to adoption of a resolution and a director of the Office of
Grants Management shall be required, shall be prior to the filing of City of an application
for a federal state or other grant to be used in whole or in part to fund any
city program services or activities.
Thank you.
Will we read from just so we can refer back to, in case they missed it?
Say a little about flagging and then pass in place city of Detroit coasts
Unicode you can find it there. That's right. Thank you
All right, remember San Tagore, Merrill. What is your desire for line item 20.16?
No, she needs to approve
There's a motion to approve line item 20.16 are there any objections. So Jackson, member, young
Objection Member Johnson.
Objection Member Campbell.
Objection Member Santiago Romero.
Objection Council Member Scott Vincent.
Objection President.
Mr. President.
That's six demolition fails.
Thank you.
Six nos.
Member Santiago Romero.
Thank you.
Mr. President's moving us along.
Would like to bring back.
20.17 and 20, oops, no, I apologize Mr. President. I'm reading my notes wrong.
Motion to approve 20.17 through 20 points.
Thank you.
Correct. Thank you, Mr. President, through 20.18.
The motion to approve line items 20.17 and 20.18 colleagues.
So there are any objections.
Seeing none that action shall be taken.
From the Department of Public Works City Engineering Division.
Customers, Santiago Romero, a Resolution Live.
I don't 20.19.
My name is 20.19.
Number, Santiago Romero.
Motion to approve.
There's a motion to approve.
Line, item 20.19.
Are there any objections?
Very none that action shall be taken.
Under Resolution's Mental Clerk.
I'll submit a Santiago Romero for Resolutions,
my items to 20.20 to 20.23.
I'll submit a Santiago Romero.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Motion to approve 20.20.
There's a motion to approve line out of 20.20 colleagues.
Are there any objections?
Seeing nine, that actions shall be taken.
I'll submit a Santiago Romero.
Thank you, Mr. President. If we could bring back item 20.21 and
20.23 until September 18,
we come back for recess. These are both resolutions that we would like to discuss in September.
As a motion to postpone the vote until our next formal session for line items 20.21 and
20.23, are there any objections?
Seeing none, that action shall be taken.
I'm going to start to have a room now.
Thank you, Mr. President, motion to approve 20.22.
The motion to approve line items 20, line item.
Excuse me, 20.22, are there any objections?
Hearing none, that action shall be taken.
Under resolutions?
Mr. President, I'll remove this item earlier.
How does this come from the request to speak for city council?
Professor members Santiago Rivera, a resolution line out of 21.1.
Ms Santiago Rivera.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Brief discussion for 21.1.
I'm wondering if LPD wouldn't mind giving us recommendation and how to respond to 21.1.
I do believe this is something that could be done outside of this request, but would like to just verify their LPD and I can make a motion if that's okay.
Mr. President, just as we said many times, it's your carolative, it's whether or not you want to allow someone to speak obviously you can't do much about carolation.
organization. You know, it is a problem, but whether and I actually have the ability to handle
it, is a different question. And I think allowing this individual to come to speak to you,
make me a gross waste of time, particularly before the whole body. But, you know, we would do
our regular report if you ask this to, and get back to you formally, but right off the top,
It looks as if the subject matter that she wants to speak.
She certainly can be allowed to speak like everyone else
said, you know, doing general public comment,
but to allow her, especially privilege to speak.
Because there's a lot of them,
more than just ground rocks, running the streets of Detroit
these days, and you might be allowing other people
to come and speak about rats or something else.
So that's my thought.
but we'd be happy to take direction from you.
If you want us to write on it, we'd be happy to do.
Through the chair.
Thank you.
I believe that's enough for me.
I agree that this can be done.
Either during general public comments, residents are always welcome to attend.
Our block of meetings, coffee hours, et cetera.
So with that, Mr. President, I will motion to approve
noting that I will be an objection
encouraging the petitioner to come before us during general public comments or any of our other events or opportunities to engage with our office.
If there's a motion to approve line item 21.1 colleagues, are there any objections?
Objection. Objection member Santiago Romero. Objection member Johnson.
Objection member Campbell. Objection president.
take.
I'm clerk.
Five non-stand motion feels Mr. President.
All right.
Line item 21.1 fails.
I don't think I know we do have a number of walk-ons before us before we go into the
we're first.
Speak to Mr. President.
Actually, so far I have five.
However, I will try to separate these.
Now,
the first one is the resolution of Council Member Mackamble joined by Council Member Johnson.
It's a resolution urgent on Michigan Public Service Commission to hold public hearings when it considers a DTE gas or electric rate increase.
However, Mr. President, this item is relative to my item 23.1.
That item can be removed if we're moving to walk on the resolution.
By the way, is there a motion to send to new business?
The walk on as mentioned by this resolution mentioned by Perth's office?
The motion to move this item to new business for a vote.
Any objections?
Discussion?
With further discussion.
Member Santiago.
Thank you, Mr. President.
What's going to ask my colleagues if I could join you on the resolution?
We're just moving.
Just.
Oh.
Well, that will be a question for once we move it.
Thank you.
Yes, thank you.
Over.
Any objections?
Seeing none.
We should move this item to new business.
I'm a clerk with the next.
Sure.
Mr. President.
We'd like to walk on.
A resolution to opt-in cities in the pays.
to stay pays program, begin in tax year 2026 for to cost a member of Macamble.
All right. There is a, is there a motion to walk on this item from the business motion?
There's a motion, any objections?
Seeing none that actions shall be taken.
Don't court.
Next was a motion as council of a Santiago Romero on behalf of council President Tate, a resolution
to prioritize adaptive reduce of closing DPSC these schools.
We're going to move that one now, Clark, there was a few challenges in moving that
item today.
But yeah, we'll talk about later if we can.
Thank you.
Next, council members.
Council members.
Council member Mary Waters, a resolution urging BC to perform comprehensive
of in-person inspections or properties owned by Muneus Rilty and its affiliates.
Here is a walk on request. Is there a motion to walk this out of Muneus to the business?
Motion. Motion on the floor. Any objection colleagues?
Seeing none. That action shall be taken.
Don't court.
Have a resolution. You recognize in a hundred and six anniversary of the pan African flag.
Pulse a member Johnson.
Mr. President, I believe there is a request to walk along the line item
24.1, which is
on the City Planning Commission.
This is only ordinance for introduction
instead of a public hearing.
Or member Jassen.
A line out of 24 point one is their motion to move to new business.
Motion.
As a motion to move to new business.
Just with discussion, just to understand,
we move this to new business.
I know we will be in recess.
What movement will happen in the time frame
that we're on recess, if we move it now.
And I saved the rectitude Todd is joined us,
and maybe he has the information
I'm going to give you a chance, I'm not sure.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
We are, as I'm sure you know,
the team is looking at the schedule for the rest of the year
for public hearings and it looks like we're going to be crunched.
And so we want to be sure that we have the time
to be able to address this.
as well as line out of 9.1, Mr. Chair, we'd like to move this for a, to walk in
on for a vote today. They, they both will be set for a date to be determined.
Gotcha. And I remember those days very well. Line out of 24, excuse me, 24.1, there's a
motion to move that item to new business. There is a motion. Any objections, colleagues?
seen none that action shall be taken. I remember John's what was that other line item nine point one.
I'm nine point one as we scroll up the agenda
line out of nine point one of us park stone development partners on behalf Detroit metal shaping
In conjunction with the initiative of the Detroit Planning Commission to resolve property from an R2 to a P.D. in the area and noticed, as our motion to move line out of line going one to new business.
motion, see no objection, that action shall be taken. All right, no clerk.
Okay, Mr. President, I guess we'll go last, we'll start with this.
Compton member, Josh, then an introduction of an ordinance.
This will be referenced in line item first, 9.1.
Member Johnson. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I moved that the ordinance be re-advised by title order printed
in late on the table. Are there any objections? Again, this is referring to line item 9.
Seeing none, that action shall be taken.
I don't clerk.
Custom Member Johnson, a resolution setting
in public hearing.
Which item?
Mr. President, this item is,
goes along with the order for her.
She's laying on the table.
We must also move the resolution to set the public hearing.
That's true.
For a member, Johnson.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Move for approval for a date and be determined.
As a motion to approve the item for day to be determined, are there any objections?
Seeing none, that action shall be taken.
I'm Claire.
Awesome. Have a chance.
In ordnance.
In entrance.
That's the definition of an ordinance sorry, which is referencing line, I don't 24.1.
Line item 24.1 member Johnson.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move that the ordinance be re-advised by title, order printed and laid on the table.
Are there any objections, colleagues? It's been moved.
Seeing none, that action shall be taken.
Madam Clerk.
Professor Nebuchastin, a resolution set in a public hearing.
Member Thompson.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Move for approval for a day to be determined.
It's a motion to approve for a day to be determined.
Any objections?
Seeing none, then actions shall be taken.
Madam Clerk.
Council Member Johnson, a resolution, which is relative to the resolution recognized in 106th Anniversary of the Pan-African flag.
Member Johnson.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Move for approval with discussion.
Mr. Johnson, motion to approve with discussion.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
So before Member Miller left, she wanted to join me on the resolution.
And is that appropriate, I did let or know I would inquire?
Then, Clark, if you can note that, I'd never, Miller is also able to want it to join on this particular line.
I will start.
Well, so note, Mr. President.
Thank you so much.
With further discussion, Member McCamble.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to join on this as well.
Or join it.
I don't Clark, if you can note.
Clark, well, so note, Mr. President.
Thank you so much.
There's a motion for approval colleagues, other injections, say none that action shall be taken.
I'm Clark.
How's the member, McCambo?
Two resolution.
This is the pays and the other is the one regarding the DTE gas and electric rate increase.
Council member McCambo.
Thank you, Mr. Chair, on the motion to approve with discussion.
It's a motion to approve the two resolutions with discussion member Campbell.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Just want to make note on the MPSC resolution.
Just want to make note that it is an amended resolution and thank you to member Johnson.
There's the resolve that reads that the Detroit City Council request a city law department
to actively participate and attend and proceed
before the NPSC and involve in matters that may affect
Detroit residents, including, but not limited
to electric and gas, or to the race,
great reliability, infrastructure, and investment,
and consumer protections,
to ensure that the city interests are represented.
And be a further resolved that the Detroit City Council
requests that NPSC and the DTE energy company provide,
an annual presentation before the Detroit City Council,
on electric and gas, rate changes,
grid, modernization, reliability, and improvements,
outage, transfer, infrastructure,
investments, and plan system upgrades,
impact and the city of Detroit,
including opportunities for the council
and its public engagement regarding future utility planning.
And I just want to note that the spirit behind this
resolution is to ensure that the traders are actually
that we have a voice and the government body
have a voice in these rate increases.
It's so often that MPSC, you have to pull a team to get them to have actual hearing here
in the city.
Otherwise, you'll have to go the last one or join virtually, but I believe that is important
that they see and hear from Detroiters right in our backyard, so thank you, Mr. Chair.
And what that, the motion's on for?
There's a motion, and it was for both of them, correct?
both. It was a motion to approve to walk on resolutions. Are there any objections?
Seeing nine, that actions shall be taken.
Members are you open to removing a light out of 23.1 from the agenda?
Motion to remove light out of 23.1 from the agenda.
Mr. Chair.
Member McKam.
Go ahead, go ahead.
Do you see any objections that action shall be taken?
Not in the background.
Thank you.
I'll get ahead of myself.
Is there a possible request to wave on the pace?
Resolution?
There's a request for a waiver on the pace resolution.
Any objections?
Seeing none that action shall be taken.
And for the budget, excuse me, for the.
Mr. President, a mental clerk.
Yes, we do still have one more resolution.
Oh, I'm sorry.
or council member Santiago Romero on behalf of council member Mary Wars.
Yes.
Member Santiago Romero.
Motion to approve.
Motion to approve the resolution of the walk on Excuse me.
Are there any directions?
Seeing none.
That action shall be taken.
Now drop down.
For the planning and act planning and economic development standing committee.
that I'm clear.
Mr. President, we just approve that I am so, there are no referrals for planning
the economic development standing committee at this time.
For the public health and safety standing committee, thank you.
Six reports of a various city departments.
The six reports will be referred to the public health and safety standing committee under
consent agenda.
There are no items Mr. President.
There are motion to suspend remember.
Motion to suspend.
and under adoption without committee reference.
There are no item, Mr. President.
Under communications from the clerk.
A report on approval for seatings by the mayor.
The report will be received in place on file under testimony resolution, special privilege.
Awesome, Mr. Johnson, or Resolution line item 30.1.
Mr. Johnson.
Motion to approve.
Motion to approve line item 30.1, are there any objections?
see none that action shall be taken under testimonial resolutions and special privilege, not
a court.
House member, John St. on behalf of council member Miller and also know that line item 30.3 is
on behalf of council president James Tate.
Member Johnson.
Motion to approve.
As a motion to approve line items 30.2 and 30.3 are there any objections?
see none that actions shall be taken and they're being no further business to come before this
body. This meeting shall stand the chart. Thank you all, say travels, enjoy and regroup while
your own recess. It's meaning to judge.
That's how I clap back.