City Commission - Regular Meeting

The Dayton City Commission meeting will now come to order. Would you all please rise for the invocation and remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. This evening's invocation will be given by Commissioner Fairchild.

Thank you. Before I give the invocation, we've become aware that a long-time city employee, retired employee, Keith Stiebler. Stieber. Stieber, thank you. After he served the city for 35 years, he passed away. And so can we have a moment of silence in recognition of his service to the city, but also for comfort for his family. O Holy One, breathe your spirit upon us. Prepare us as a gardener prepares the soil. Make us ready to receive your wisdom and guidance so that we yield beautiful fruit, create a city rich with opportunity, and an abundance of love, peace, and justice. Amen.

Amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION, UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

MS. MCCLENDON, MAY WE PLEASE HAVE A ROLL CALL THIS EVENING?

MAYOR TURNER-SLOSS? AYE. COMMISSIONER JOSEPH? AYE.

SHAW?

AYE.

BAIRCHILD?

AYE.

BECKHAM?

AYE.

May I have a motion to approve the minutes of the June 3rd, 2026 meeting?

So moved, Your Honor. Second the motion, Your Honor.

It has been properly moved and seconded to approve the minutes of the June 3rd, 2026 meeting. All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no. Any abstentions? Ms. McClendon, are there any communications or petitions this evening?

There are none, Your Honor.

Thank you, Ms. McClendon. Are there any additions, deletions, or comments to the calendar this evening?

There are none, Your Honor.

Thank you. Ms. Dix-Teen, are there any additions, deletions, or comments to the calendar? Welcome back. Thank you. You're welcome.

Your Honor, I have no additions or deletions to this evening's calendar. I do have a few items to highlight. The first item is a service agreement, item number two, the Environmental Service Systems Service Agreement. This is an agreement for $163,000. And It is for supplemental janitorial services at the Dayton International Airport. So I want to be clear, again, when we say supplemental, it is not meant at all to supplant or replace any of our full-time employees or our employees out there, AFSCME employees particularly. It is supplemental. It is three times a week. In the midnight hours, it is really designed to do the deep cleaning that you can do only when the airport is not bustling with customers and folks coming and going on their flights. And it is a one-year contract. There are four one-year options with it. But this is something that we do surveys regularly of our customers out at Dayton International Airport. And the cleanliness is a... often cited issue, particularly with our bathrooms and overall. And so this allows us to do the deep cleaning three times a week to supplement the work that's already being done by our employees at the airport. When we went out for our RFP and in the contract, the scope explicitly excludes daily routine custodial tasks during first and second shifts, including trash vacuuming, restroom wipe downs, office cleaning. It is limited to specialized deep cleaning, floor stripping, refinishing, carpet extraction, pressure washing, high dusting, restroom descaling, and third shift supplemental coverage. So we also did have conversations with Ask Me and particularly with Lucas. I had a conversation with him as late as today to talk about how we can continue to keep working to see if there are future solutions that we may be able to, with the resources that we have dedicated here, we can always continue to look at other options and are open to continuing that work. But we really wanted to make sure that we got something in place to catch us up and then try and maintain a clean and attractive airport. Service agreement number three is a agreement with Miami Valley Housing Opportunities for $810,000. This is an agreement to support outreach program for our homeless community or those that have threats to becoming homeless. This is focused for downtown and neighborhoods, so it is throughout the city. The contract basically puts in place a four-person team that will be providing, engaging, and supporting individuals, coordinating data, working on a partnership-driven approach with MVHO. The support services with this contract include transportation, Physical needs, toiletries, housing, placement, barriers, removing those. A lot of times there's ID documentation or credit repair before they can go into housing. Temporary assistance. And the team also has a contractual... agreement or we'll have a contracted licensed social worker on the team who will respond because a lot of our individuals have the qualifying disabilities to be placed into permanent supportive housing and you need a clinician to assess and evaluate that to be able to get them in the queue for permanent supportive housing. So this is funding, this $810,000 is funding that is coming from our home ARP contract. It is not general fund. It is a three-year, it is reimbursing for services in 2025 that MDHO incurred as they were continuing the outreach program. And it pays also for 26 and 27. On the 24th of this month, there will be a related item coming forward with an MOU with Montgomery County that will provide up to $150,000 towards this contract to help support the outreach services in downtown and in our neighborhoods. So excited to bring that forward. Also, Miami Valley, on item number four, which is also another contract with Miami Valley Housing Opportunities, this is our annual permanent supportive housing tenant-based rental assistance. This is where we provide about 260 units of of permanent subsidized housing with wraparound services, again, to help prevent further homelessness or repeat. Once we have somebody placed in permanent supportive housing, the goal is to keep them in that housing and not have them have to reenter shelter. And then finally, B5 is an award of contractor with Blade Cutters Lawn Service, award of contract for $58,000. This is another investment brought by the Dayton Recovery Plan, and it is the removal of 68 hazardous trees and 15 stumps. throughout many of our parks. The parks that are going to be serviced with this contract are Burkhart, Claridge, Five Oaks, Gettysburg, Lakeview Lake, Nordale, Residence, Thal, Vietnam, Veterans, and Washington. So excited to continue to remove blight and things that are detriments to our public amenities. And that's all I have this evening, Your Honor. Great. Thank you, Ms. Dickstein.

Mm-hmm. Ms. McClendon, are there any citizens that are registered to speak on calendar items this evening?

Yes, Your Honor. There is just one citizen registered to speak on calendar items. I would like to state there is a three-minute time limit. As you address the commission, we ask that you state your name and address for the record. At that time, I will turn on the green light. When the green light comes on, you will have three minutes to speak. After you have spoken two and a half minutes, a yellow light will come on, and you will have 30 seconds remaining to speak. When the red light comes on, you will be asked to cease your comments and to take your seat. To the audience in attendance, please be mindful this is a business meeting, and we kindly request that during this portion of the meeting, you refrain from any hand clapping, finger snapping, and conversation that would prevent the city commission from hearing the speaker's comments. I call to the podium Noah McAllister.

Good afternoon. I'm Noah McAllister, 1816 Ellesmere Avenue. So I would just like to say when it comes down to the janitorial items at the Dayton International Airport, I do agree because the cleanliness of the airport does represent us as a city when it comes down to tourists coming into Dayton and how we keep that tourism alive. And so therefore I do agree with the decision to fund the janitorial cleaning systems at the airport. I will say though We may not that the amount of money that we need to use for these systems may not be necessary. I would say we have janitors clean throughout the day as we go through the first and second shifts throughout the day just so that way instead of having the midnight hours to run a machine that costs about a million dollars or so. to clean up throughout the midnight hours when we have humans who are getting paid to clean the airport throughout the day to clean the airport instead of funding a million dollars, which could get funded to something else. For the black community, the white community, it doesn't matter. Yeah, so pretty much that's all that I want to say. And... SO, YEAH, I DO AGREE WITH IT, BUT WE SHOULDN'T HAVE SPENT THAT MUCH MONEY ON IT, OR WE SHOULD GET BETTER or we should hire more people or no people, and we should have the people who are on shift then to clean up then. So that way that million dollars that we are spending on this system can go to fund black communities which need the funding and to reopen recreation centers like the recreation center on 3rd Street. That's pretty much all I have to say today. Good night.

Thank you, Mr. McAllister. I really appreciate you being here. And just for clarification, it's the $163,000. That's for the janitorial service, to your point, for the Dayton International Airport, for those additional work that's needed to be done. Thank you very much, and thank you for your support on that initiative. Excuse me, Ms. McClendon.

That concludes calendar items, speakers. Thank you.

ALL RIGHT, COMMISSIONERS, ARE THERE ANY COMMENTS, QUESTIONS TO THE CITY MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATIONS?

THANK YOU, YOUR HONOR. I'LL BE VERY BRIEF. I AM GLAD THAT THE ADMINISTRATION HAS HAD CONVERSATION WITH AFSCME. I KNOW THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT just the overall logic and justification for the additional cleaning services. I would just ask that given that it's a one year that we just come back and evaluate and see if we are indeed getting the level of service that we want to have. So again, appreciate the proactive conversation there and want us to stay flexible. Also, just glad to see these service agreements with Miami Valley Housing Opportunities come forward. I know there's also been quite a bit of conversation about the need for these added programs and additional services, particularly as it relates to serving our homeless population. So glad to see these on the calendar. That's all my comments.

Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Fairchild.

Yeah, thank you. I was curious around the contract out at the airport. I see Mr. Smith here, and there were notes in the record saying that we'd had conversations with him for over a year. But it doesn't say whether, ask me, was in agreement with this step or not. And I don't know if Mr. Smith was here to speak on this issue tonight to let us know what his agreement was or not. Prior to taking this route, did we work with the labor union to see if there was any pilot program that we could take, any offerings made to part-time employees to do additional work? Because I would imagine some of our employees would like more hours. Did we try any of those steps?

We did a number of those things for over a couple of years, trying to address the cleanliness of bringing in overtime. At one point in time, we had overtime ask me employees from facilities that were working late shifts and going in, but it wasn't a sustainable model. I do know that those conversations started about a year ago, and what I'll do is call for Dan Zink to come forward and provide a little bit more, because I wasn't in those conversations, but Dan was the one that was leading the conversation.

Good evening, commissioners, mayor. Dan Zank, I'm the deputy director of aviation. Yes, I was leading the effort for this request for proposals for supplemental services. And yes, I think the city and the union are aligned with this proposal because the true issue here is employee retention. We struggle at this service level to retain employees. Over the last two years, we've hired 25 employees to provide janitorial services. We've lost 20 of those. So it's not a matter of can we offer more overtime to existing employees. I think the problem would continue to perpetuate if we did. It's job burnout. It's trying to retain the employees that we have. I'll give you a good example. Last week, we hired an employee, and they were there for three days. And then their no call, no show. That is the... the issue that we are having, it's a retention issue. And so management needs to keep the facility clean. We are marketing to airlines, we're marketing to our community to use Dayton Airport, and without a clean facility, people are going to Cincinnati or Columbus. So that is truly the issue.

I see Mr. Smith here. Is it possible to hear that we're in alignment? I mean, that it was made that we were in alignment?

Mr. Smith, if you're comfortable, please, if you wouldn't mind.

Yeah, can I?

Absolutely, please.

So it's not a referendum on the city. The city has been wonderfully communicative. We've had multiple meetings. We've talked in great length of what this would look like. The city has provided pretty strong guardrails under this RFP to avoid an overreach of the work moving into what our day-to-day first and second shift employees are doing. We still do not agree, and with all due respect, we see the work as our work. And we take a lot of pride in the airport. And this goes back a few years when we had full-time facility workers at the airport. COVID hit. We took a downturn. And the union and the city worked together to do massive pay cuts to avoid outsourcing our firefighters and our facility workers 100%. So we took huge pay cuts. A lot of our employees didn't want to take the pay cut. They went downtown to be part-time. The few that stayed at the airport got to remain full-time, but took, like I said, almost 50% pay cuts in some cases. After that, we had no staff at the airport, and correct me if I'm wrong, we did bring out facilities from downtown on overtime to keep the airport going, to do floor stripping, and all the work that needed to be done. But we phased that out as the airport started bringing back more staff. We worked with Lachey and the administration to get some of the wages back up to a reasonable amount, not to the original amount, but to a reasonable amount. So again, we worked with the airport to do that. We also worked with the airport to bring in the temp service to circumvent civil service a little bit, to bring people in through the temp service for a hiring process that's faster and more efficient to allow some of those retention issues in this case. When they brought the RFP to me, it felt more like a, this is what we're doing. Do you have any questions? Do you have any concerns? We had questions and we raised some concerns, but ultimately the RFP moved forward. I believe we can expand our employee services and we can do the work. I believe we can hire more staff at the airport, and we can handle the third shift. We can handle the extra duties. That's our position. We feel that once we open this door, no matter how many guardrails are in place, the administration, Dan Zink, is wonderful if they've been with me. They may not always be here. The next administration may see the opportunity to widen that door and bring in more employees. more temp services. So I agree with the young man. I want the airport to be clean. I did not bring him, I swear. But we want the airport to be clean, but we want to do it. It's our work. Let us do it. Give us the opportunity to do it. Let's work together to make it happen.

Thank you, Mr. Smith. Let me just be clear here. We would love to hire more, right? We just can't keep them, and that's the problem. We have 10 positions. With 10 filled positions, we can keep the airport clean. We just cannot retain the employees. So what we align on, and maybe I wasn't clear, is we're not getting rid of any union positions or any city positions. We're just trying to fill the positions. And that's why this is a supplemental contract.

Excuse me, please. Commissioner.

No, I would ask that we move item two out of the consent calendar so I can vote against it, given what I've heard tonight.

Okay. Are there any other questions, comments? No. Do you have any questions, comments? Yeah, I do.

Well, just a comment. I have said this many times to the city manager and to Mr. Smith as well, that my direction was that you cannot over-communicate. And I'm glad to hear that you all are talking. So we're not going to litigate this up here and do a negotiation up here. But I'm glad that the organizations are communicating with each other. And we'll get through it. Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Joseph.

Yes, ma'am. I want to thank the city manager, as I usually do, especially for the Miami Valley Housing Opportunities grants and the dollars that we have spent with our partners and the effort that we've made with our partners over time to try to combat especially chronic homelessness. These are huge keys for that. And it's a huge effort involving us, service providers, the county, and many others over many years. It's just sort of a regular part of business now, and people don't mention it probably as much as they should. We saw some good news that in the annual count, the number of homeless went down a little bit, which is a great victory. IN A LOT OF PLACES IT'S GOING UP. LET'S HOPE TO CONTINUE THE TREND. I APPRECIATE BOTH YOU AND YOUR STAFF'S WORK WITH MBHO AND OUR PARTNERS AND MY COLLEAGUES' SUPPORT FOR THE LEGISLATION AND THE WORK. SO THAT'S MY COMMENT FOR NOW. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, COMMISSIONERS, FOR YOUR COMMENTS AND YOUR QUESTIONS AS WELL. I have a number of questions or comments. But first, let me start with the supplemental agreement for the service, a service agreement, calendar item number two. What I am asking is that we pull this calendar item for further review and conversation. And I appreciate the context that you have provided, Ms. Dickstein, Mr. Zing. Thank you very much. I would like for the contract to be pulled for us to have another opportunity to have conversation with Mr. Smith. Is, in fact, there is an opportunity, if there is an opportunity with the $163,000 IS THERE A PILOT TO INCREASE THE PAY THAT IS NEEDED TO HELP WITH THE ATTRACTION AND THE RETAINING OF THE support that is needed for the staff that is needed for the deep cleaning, the stripping of the airport itself. Allow the time for us to at least identify a win-win. And if in fact it is unsuccessful, then I think there's an opportunity for us to move forward there.

So I just want to make sure that I'm clear that Starting wage for these jobs are still $3 above the minimum wage, the industry wage, right? So we are not underpaying, right? I mean, this is very challenging. When you can't retain staff and we have, you know, we are getting complaints. Yeah. So I am concerned that we... that we pull this because I don't know that we have a solution that we can bring back that's any different. But I just want to, I mean, we have a growing problem at the airport and I just want to make sure that we are all on the same page with regards to we have to have a clean airport, which is why I encouraged more conversations to go as this first year occurred, right? Because I do always appreciate trying to be creative and innovative and making sure that we've looked at everything we can. But for instance, $160,000 could potentially pay for two people, part-time perm, Because those are about 80, 85 loaded. I don't know that that is enough to provide the kind of cleaning service three days a week. So we can look at some things like that while we move forward. If we pause it, it's just going to continue to magnify the problem out at the airport.

I think this is an opportunity for us to pause, to revisit, to have the conversations. Mr. Smith, I hope that you will work with our leadership team and to identify a way forward, understanding that there is, and I know I'm preaching to the choir in this, but again, this is a major attraction and this is You already know. All right. So I would just ask that. These are wages. Yes. Yes. Please. Excuse me. But if we could, Ms. Dickstein, I would appreciate it. And Mr. Zink, thank you for your commitment as well. So if we could pull this calendar item number two. I think also, too, it would be fair if we have a timeline to that so that we won't hold it up and that if there is not any progress made and if we need to make any unnecessary adjustments, we can do so. So if, in fact, we can identify a timeline. Is that? Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Very, very, very excited to see a number of things that have listed here on the agenda this evening. I believe Miss Debbie Feltman, she's here as well. Robinson, I'm sorry. And I know that. And I'm looking right at you, and I know that. Yes, thank you, Commissioner. It's good to see you. Thank you very much for being here. You have been, in fact, a partner for a number of years. I know this is something that is a long time coming. I'm glad that this work is continuing. This is something that I advocated for for a number of years. This is something that will We campaigned on, and thank you, Ms. Dixie, for also speaking to the partnership that we will have more information that will be coming out soon with Montgomery County, the $150,000. Again, that is to make sure that the work is expanded out into our neighborhoods. So we do have our community resource outreach that will be downtown, but it will also be expanded to downtown, I mean, excuse me, to our neighborhoods as well. So... just speaks to the great work and the partnership that we're doing. And so kudos to you and your staff and the PATH program. And also I want to uplift the work of the community, the planning and community development division, or department rather, and all the great work that they're doing. They were working on this agreement tirelessly along with our law department. So I'm so grateful to see this come before. And the timing is right. The timing is right, especially with the point-in-time count that we just recently had, the continuous work that's being done with the continuum of care. So it complements all of the work that is being done. So kudos to the staff, as well as to you and the HL and Ms. Watts. Glad to see that the work is continuing along with the tree reduction. So thank you for bringing this forth, Ms. Dickstein. And I believe that is all I have for the comments. All right. So may I have a motion to approve the city manager's recommendations with the exclusion of calendar item number two?

I move to approve the city manager's recommendations with the exclusion of number two. Second the motion, Your Honor.

It has been properly moved and seconded to approve the city manager's recommendations with the exclusion of calendar item number two. All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no. Any abstentions? Legislation, Ms. McClendon.

First reading resolution number 6937-26, authorizing the acceptance of a grant award from the State of Ohio Department of Public Safety Office of Criminal Justice Services in the amount of $159,999.45 on behalf of the City of Dayton. First reading resolution number 6938-26, authorizing the acceptance of a grant award from the State of Ohio Department of Public Safety, Office of Criminal Justice Services in the amount of $16,286.85 on behalf of the City of Dayton. SECOND READING ORDINANCE NUMBER 32192-26 CONSENTING TO THE ROADWAY RESURFACING OF STATE ROUTE 444 FROM STRAIGHT LINE MILE SLM 0.3 TO 3.375 WITH A PORTION BEING IN THE CITY OF DAYTON AND AGREEING TO COOPERATE IN MATTERS INCIDENTAL THERETO, INCLUDING THE EXECUTION OF AGREEMENT NECESSARY TO IMPLEMENT THIS ORDINANCE. Mayor Turner-Sloss? Aye. Commissioners Joseph? Aye. Shaw? Aye. Fairchild? Aye. Beckham?

Aye.

Ordinance number 32192-26 has passed with five votes in favor. SECOND READING ORDINANCE NUMBER 32193-26, AMENDING THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP TO ESTABLISH PLAN DEVELOPMENT 196 AND CHANGE THE UNDERLINING ZONING FROM LIGHT INDUSTRIAL I-1 AND SUBURBAN GENERAL COMMERCIAL, SGC, TO SUBURBAN SINGLE FAMILY, SR2, FOR 28.77 ACRES AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF BRANT PIKE AND SCHWINN DRIVE. Mayor Turner-Sloss? Aye. Commissioners Joseph? Aye. Shaw? Aye. Fairchild? Aye. Beckham?

Aye.

Ordinance number 32193-26 has passed with five votes in favor. SECOND READING RESOLUTION NUMBER 6934-26, AUTHORIZING THE SUBMISSION OF AN APPLICATION FOR FUNDING CONSIDERATION BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION UNDER THE SAFE STREET AND ROADS FOR ALL, SS4A PROGRAM. MAYOR TURNER-SLOSS? AYE. COMMISSIONER JOSEPH? AYE. SHAW? AYE. BEARCHILD? AYE. BECKHAM?

AYE.

Resolution number 6934-26 has been adopted with five votes in favor. Second reading resolution number 6935-26, authorizing the city manager or her designee to apply for, accept, and execute water supply revolving loan account funding agreements administered by the state of Ohio on behalf of the city of Dayton, Ohio for one, advanced PFAS treatment at Ottawa CMAR construction, Two, Ottawa Water Treatment Plant drain gates replacement construction. Three, Calvary Reservoir inspection and design. Four, Ottawa Water Treatment Plant laboratory renovations design and construction. DATEN ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURE PHASE ONE, DESIGN. SIX, EXPANSION OF MIAMI WELLFIELD RECHARGE LAGOON PHASE THREE, CONSTRUCTION. SEVEN, LEAD SERVICE LINE COMPLIANCE PHASE THREE, PLANNING. AND EIGHT, LEAD SERVICE LINE REPLACEMENTS PHASE ONE, CONSTRUCTION. MAYOR TURNER-SLOSS? AYE. COMMISSIONERS JOSEPH? AYE. SHAW? AYE. FAIRCHILD? AYE. BECKHAM?

AYE.

Resolution number 6935-26 has been adopted with five votes in favor. And that concludes legislation, Your Honor. Thank you, Ms. McClendon.

Are there any citizens that are registered to speak this evening?

Yes, Your Honor, there are 13 citizens registered to speak. I would like to state there is a three-minute time limit. As you address the commission, we ask that you state your name and address for the record. At that time, I will turn on the green light. When the green light comes on, you will have three minutes to speak. After you have spoken two and a half minutes, a yellow light will come on. You will have 30 seconds remaining to speak. When the red light comes on, you will be asked to cease your comments and to take your seat. TO THE AUDIENCE IN ATTENDANCE, PLEASE BE MINDFUL THIS IS A BUSINESS MEETING AND WE KINDLY REQUEST THAT DURING THIS PORTION OF THE MEETING YOU REFRAIN FROM ANY HAND CLAPPING, FINGER SNAPPING, AND CONVERSATION THAT WOULD PREVENT THE CITY COMMISSION FROM HEARING SPEAKER'S COMMENTS. I CALL TO THE PODIUM MARY SUGA MINOR.

Mary Sue Geminer, 1418 Arbor Avenue. Good evening. Good evening. My topic is automated license plate readers and the surveillance state. There are three aspects to this issue. The first is identifying the harm that was done with the unauthorized release of flock camera data to outside entities. The law department is holding up all public records requests relating to the audit logs. The same categories of data that they are restricting have been shared by other jurisdictions. You have all received examples of that. Protected or personal data is not being requested. Direct the city manager to direct the law department to stop their objections and get this data released. The second is the investigation of who knew what and when. Who raised the alarm? Who was in a position prior to that and didn't do their job to raise the alarm? How long was the data being shared? Once it was known that there was a data breach, who was told and who wasn't told? For example, did Chief Afzal know immediately upon the discovery? Did he tell the city manager in October or November, February, March, April? Someone knew something and chose to withhold that information from you, resulting in you agreeing to more cameras last January. You need to hold all those people accountable. Third, there needs to be a clear understanding of the consequences of allowing this kind of surveillance as a crime-fighting tool. Early in our nation's history, citizens were concerned about overreach by government authorities. This is why we have the Fourth Amendment preventing unauthorized searches and seizures. ALPR data is requested without a warrant, a loophole that bypasses the Fourth Amendment. Do we need these cameras? As Chief Afzal said in his press conference on May 1st, the police were solving crimes before this technology was introduced, and they will continue to solve crimes. You must cancel the contract, remove the cameras, and renounce surveillance technology. Let me remind you that Dayton has committed to working towards becoming a human rights city. Dayton United for Human Rights released this community report. I hope you've all read it. In the chapter on safety and privacy, it says, community members also identified ongoing concerns related to safety, privacy, and the impact of surveillance and public safety practices on trust within Dayton neighborhoods. Residents emphasized fears surrounding misuse of data, lack of community consent, and limited understanding of how surveillance systems are monitored, stored, and accessed. THESE ARE THE VOICES OF THE COMMUNITY. WE DO NOT WANT AUTOMATED LICENSE PLATE READERS IN THE CITY OF DAYTON. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, MS. GEMMEINER. I CALL TO THE PODIUM EBONY HASTINGS.

Ebony Hastings, 1238 Wabash Avenue, Dayton, Ohio. I want to talk about this misdefinition of black on black crime. It is not black on black crime. Proximity violence is directly connected to historical and ongoing economic disinvestment. First one being spatial concentration in disinvested hotspots, the legacy of redlining, loss of critical community resources, public health and environmental stress. The city of Dayton is not addressing these needs. I always try to fact check before I come up here and speak because I don't like to publicly be corrected. But as I was scrolling Facebook this afternoon, it's been mentioned that the violence interruption program may be having some disruption in regards to the funding. I want to know if that's true or not. Because how do we have millions of dollars, roughly $5 million, to open up a police station in this west side of Dayton After sitting through the work session this afternoon, it's identified and it's on the record now that we have 22 officers coming, effective, 25 more police officers coming into Patrol. And that's another thing that wasn't clarified. I want to know who's patrol and who's behind the desk. 25 more police officers, only eight of them are being allocated towards East Dayton. 17 being allocated towards West Dayton. That continue supports the burden of proof, the facts, the data that we have that the city of Dayton is being disinvested in. I ALSO WANT TO SPEAK TO THE SIGN-UP SHEET TO SPEAK FOR OUR THREE MINUTES. AND NOW, LET ME SAY SOMETHING. WHEN WE COME IN HERE AND WE ARE INFORMED OF SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING WITHIN THE CITY OF DAYTON IN REGARDS TO HOW THE CITY MANAGER IS MAKING DECISIONS UNDERMINING AND USURPING HER AUTHORITY TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD SPECIFICALLY, WE GASP. We are emotionally reacting to the disinvestment that is happening to us. So to attempt to threaten us with a fourth degree misdemeanor if we response is again criminalization and retaliatory practices. And it is my hope that you as the city commission in regards to the $163,000 RFP that Mr. Smith does not have DOES NOT HAVE ANY ADVERSE ACTIONS IN REGARDS TO HIS JOB AND HIS POSITION FOR STANDING AND SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER IN REGARDS TO HOW WE ARE CHOOSING TO CREATE AND ESTABLISH THESE RFPs AND THE MANIPULATION IN REGARDS TO IF WE DELAY THE PROCESS. HIRE STAFF. WE NEED JOBS.

THANK YOU, MS. HAYSTON. I CALL TO THE PODIUM TALEBE PETTAWAY. Good evening.

Good evening.

Name and address for the record, please.

Oh, yes. My name is Talib Padaway. I'm at 915 West Grand Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, 45402. I'm here today to speak about two community member-led events. First is the Juneteenth at Liberation Park, hosted by Donald Dominick. It's going to be 620 from 11 a.m. to dusk at Liberation Park. Vendors are needed. They'll be free to show up. And his phone number, if you need, if you want to participate as a vendor, is... Let me bring it up. 9372517048. And then the other event, IS THE ANNUAL WESTWOOD BLOCK PARTY. THAT'S GOING TO BE HOSTED AT WESTWOOD ELEMENTARY. THAT'S GOING TO BE HOSTED BY LEAD, BY DAVID CLAYBROOKS, THE PRESIDENT OF WESTWOOD. AND THEN THAT'S GOING TO BE 7-5 FROM 10 A.M. TO 6 P.M. VENDORS ARE NEEDED THERE ALSO, BUT THERE WILL BE A COST OF $150. AND THEN THERE IS ALSO A COST OF $10, $25. for children, $50 for adults, $75 for VIP. We're going to have performances, live bands, and such. And then we also need volunteers at that event. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Pettaway. I call to the podium Nyla Tucker.

My name is Nyla Tucker and I live on South Irma Street and I'm here to address the injustice in our beautiful city. The city of Dayton violence looks like a modern day genocide, but it doesn't have to be that way. I believe we can turn the city around. We can introduce new programs for all ages, especially school age. students because that's where it starts. I have seen more police in my neighborhood, but I believe if the response time is quicker, that will help. It's not too late, but it will take more than just the programs. It takes a whole community. We face a lot of racism in our community. In contrast, a man named Ahmaud Arbery was chased and killed by white men after racial slurs were used. Investigators testified that the attackers started the conflict using racial slurs, yet one of the killers only received 20 years in prison. These real examples show that racism and violence are sometimes treated differently depending on the race of the people involved. To create a truly fair country, we must learn from this painful history, fix unequal systems, and treat all people with equal respect.

Thank you, Ms. Tucker. I call to the podium Dori Trammell.

Hello, hello, hello again. Good evening. I'm Ms. Dori Tramiel, and I reside at PO Box 35071 here in Dayton. And I'm kind of bad, kind of in solidarity with a couple of organizations. But the reason I stand before you is the traffic patterns that you guys have going on at Salem and Philadelphia, Maine, and... Helena, all the way through the, I guess you call it the, I forget what you call it. It's kind of dangerous. There's been people running into the... Curve outs? Yeah, people are literally running into those. So I don't know if you guys plan on revising that or not, but that's kind of why I'm here to discuss that again because it's becoming very hazardous.

Thank you, Ms. Tramiel. Okay. Thank you. I know that we did add additional signage, if I have that correct. And I don't know if we have fully deployed all of the signage that was needed for those major corridors and the traffic dying efforts that we've made. I don't know if they're quite complete for Philadelphia. That's something that we can definitely look into to see where we are with the signing for those particular areas that you mentioned. Excuse me.

I call to the podium Yusuf El-Zain.

Good evening, Mayor, Commissioner, City Manager. 14 weeks and counting. The weeks are going so fast these days. Tonight, I want to acknowledge Yusuf El-Zayn, 4906 Amberwood Drive. I'll take advantage of a couple of seconds. Tonight, I want to acknowledge progress. Monday's launch of the Mayor's flight plan for Dayton that included Summer of Peace demonstrates real commitment to domestic peace. This matters. I would also like to thank the Mayor for publicly endorsing a few weeks ago the Greater Dayton Peace Coalition's Peace Summit proposal. You recognized something essential. Peace cannot just be a passive program. It requires bold platforms. You sit in front of our six sister cities flags. Those banners represent citizen diplomacy and commitment to global brotherhoods and sisterhoods. What better way to fulfill that promise than ensuring the upcoming Dayton's Peace Summit include youth not only just from the neighborhoods, but youth from these very sister cities that we proudly display here. We need to invite young people from South East Palestine and Sarajevo to tell their stories. We need the youth who have lived through these disasters, through real violence, who understand what safety and dignity mean on a global scale to define what peace actually is and requires. I urge you to launch the peace summit now, not later, soon. Because the world is watching and the timeline of human suffering does not wait. As we sit here, Gaza is starving. Refugees' tents, for heaven's sakes, are being intentionally appropriated. In addition, South Lebanon, my ancestor's home and Commissioner Joseph's ancestor's land, is facing its own genocide and ecocide, where last week we admired the city for sustainability. Shame on us for not speaking against ecocide somewhere else. Palestinian detainees are being systematically tortured and sexually assaulted. Crimes corroborated this week for your information by UN reports and major human rights organizations. Dayton, the city globally synonymous with peace accords, has a unique opportunity to lead by example. We can bridge the local and the global, showing that a comprehensive vision for peace, safety everywhere, means safety everywhere, from West Dayton to the West Bank. The Greater Dayton Peace Coalition is entirely ready to support this. We have the framework, we have the voices, we have the young leaders waiting for the platform you promised. Mayor, Summer of Peace is beginning. The Peace Summit is actually your commitment. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Alzain. I call to the podium Kenya Akbar.

Kenya Akbar, 147 East Hillcrest, Dayton, Ohio, 45405. I feel like you all are playing in my face and in the face of the Dayton residents. We are not stupid, we are incredibly intelligent. JP Morgan came and put a brand new bank from the ground up on the corner of Clevenger and Seaman dollar. I don't know who reads what, but JP Morgan was charged with shipping drugs into this country and there was no case follow up. My men, my brothers, my fathers, my sisters, are in prison making up 80 plus percent of the population. It is disgusting that this city continues to play in black people's settings. Black code. We will honor, respect, and stand with the black code. We will love and respect one another. We will not kill children. We will protect the youth, consciously, emotionally, and physically. We will honor and protect our elders. The elders will teach the youth. We will build foundational strong family structures. Fathers are highly present. We will educate our own beyond the system. We will act with integrity and justice. We will exercise control over our emotions. We will support and spend money with our own first. We will keep our streets clean because we are a product of our environment. New era, era, new era, era, era, black code.

Thank you, Ms. Akbar. I call to the podium Joseph Abrams.

Thank you, Ms. Akbar.

Hi. I want to second a lot of the things that I've heard so far today, particularly from Ms. Mary Sue and Ms. Ebony, and for the young people that spoke. I agree with everything I heard so far today. And on the issue of the flock cameras, I feel like... We got a lot more firing to do because, again, we haven't looked into city manager's office. Nothing happens that doesn't go through the city manager's office. There's no way they didn't know. There's no way that only one person was responsible for the whole implementation, and if there was, why? And looking over the contracts that we have with FLOC, it looks like we don't have a no-fault convenience termination clause that a lot of cities have worked in, so did we just okey-doke on that too? And aside from looking into that, who in the law department knew, again, about just the default settings from FLOC being left the way they were the whole time and chose not to say anything? And I feel like it just strikes a like... You know, Mr. Beckham talking about he was glad to see that the city apparently talked to the union, but then we heard that wasn't the whole story. I feel like you all need to ask a few more questions sometimes before just forming an opinion and saying, oh, that looks good to me. Okay. And I also like to see some of these issues not be parsed, like we've been hearing from black residents a lot about abuses going on in the city, and I appreciate hearing Mr. Fairchild raise some of those issues in the thing earlier. I just wanted to echo, talk about some of the stuff I witnessed today. You know, we're wondering why we don't have police out in the neighborhoods to try to stop some of this violence going on, black people dying particularly in higher rates. There are too many police downtown, and I'll tell you how I know this. We got a lot of white men in uniforms downtown. And we already know about the death of Reginald Thomas for riding a bike. They have time to harass a man riding a bike at night and move immediately to stop and frisk and a death. Today, I SAW ALL THESE OFFICERS HANGING AROUND ON THE HUB. THERE'S ONE TINY LITTLE YOUNG LADY WHO WASN'T COMPLETELY COHERENT. WE WERE DOWN THERE TRYING TO REGISTER VOTERS TODAY, AND SO I'M JUST OBSERVING WHAT'S GOING ON. THIS YOUNG LADY IS JUST RIDING HER BIKE AROUND. OFFICER TOLD HER TO STOP. SHE DIDN'T. BUT AGAIN, WE TALKED TO HER AFTER. SHE'S NOT... SHE NEEDED SOME KIND OF HELP. SHE'S NOT COMPLETELY COHERENT. AND, CHIEF, I HOPE YOU'RE LISTENING. Why did it take 10 officers to chase her down across several blocks and punch her in the throat to where she pukes all over herself, throw her in the back of a car for a little bit, and then put her right back out on the street on her bicycle again? Nothing. I come across some people complaining about that, and I heard a white officer threaten to charge one of them with disturbance for cussing in public. I had to remind him that that's federally protected speech, and then he just stopped talking. Why do they have time for that? Why aren't those officers on the west side in the neighborhoods doing neighborhood work instead of crowding up the space downtown, wasting our resources? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Abrams. I call to the podium James Parton. James Parton. Renee Tingle.

Ms. McClendon, if you put Mr. Parton at the end of the list, he may have went to the facilities. Thank you. Excuse me.

Good evening. Good evening, Ms. Tingle. My name is Ronnie Tingle. I live at 2080 Ravenwood Avenue. I was moving to 2115 Ravenwood Avenue. As I have been working with my community and my elderly and Ms. Chin lived at 2115 and she had issues. She lived in Texas now and she had issues with trying to get her home secure. I called the police several times. They told me the only way to get it secure if I wasn't the owner was to get the black doors on the house. So I called as a nuisance in July last year that it wasn't messed up or anything. It was just the kids were going in and out of the house because the door was open. They came and boarded it up. It's been shut ever since. And I finally went to Texas three times to talk to Ms. Jen, and she finally gave me the house. But the problem was the reason why she could never sell it was because her title was not clear. She was married to her husband. He passed away. They gave her the survivor deed. They did not... They changed for everything. The house was in her name, but when I did the title search, because I know to do that, it said that the title was invalid. I went on with the information I had. I had her marriage license. I had her lawyers told me that they had cleared her, that that home was hers, and that they're the ones that sent in the survivor's deed, and that's how she got it. COME TO FIND OUT IS STILL SHOWING THAT IT IS AN INVALID DEED. SHOWING THAT IT IS AN INVALID DEED. SHOWING THAT IT IS AN INVALID DEED. SO BEFORE I PUT ANY MORE MONEY SO BEFORE I PUT ANY MORE MONEY SO BEFORE I PUT ANY MORE MONEY INTO IT, I WENT DOWN THERE INTO IT, I WENT DOWN THERE INTO IT, I WENT DOWN THERE APRIL 22ND. APRIL 22ND. APRIL 22ND. I TOLD THEM THAT I WAS ONLY I TOLD THEM THAT I WAS ONLY I TOLD THEM THAT I WAS ONLY SIGNING THIS TO GET INTO THE SIGNING THIS TO GET INTO THE SIGNING THIS TO GET INTO THE PROPERTY, THAT I HAD TO PROPERTY, THAT I HAD TO PROPERTY, THAT I HAD TO ESTABLISH MY, THAT I LIVE ESTABLISH MY, They told me I had 30 days to do a structural thing. She had already been working on the structural problems for the whole year. The holes were gone. Nothing was wrong with it. We walked through the house yesterday, and a gentleman was outside tearing down the handrail, and that's how I found out that the house was being demolished yesterday. So as I was telling them, you are trespassing. I just received this property. I should have more time to get this situated. He told me he didn't care. He pulled that bulldozer right up to my face. And he told me that he didn't have to show me any paperwork that he had to tear my house down that day. I had realized that they had took the wires because she had had all the electrical was already secure. Nothing had been done to that house because someone had been living there. They were living without their power on, but they had been living there to make sure no one had tore down. I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW YOU COULD TEAR THAT HOUSE DOWN WITH ME STANDING THERE. MR. JACKSON WAS NOT EMPATHETIC. AND I HAVE BEEN A NEIGHBORHOOD PERSON THIS WHOLE TIME. I HAVE FLIPPED 20 HOUSES IN THE CITY OF DAYTON TO HELP WITH THIS, TO BE A SOLUTION AND NOT A PERSON THAT COMPLAINS TO SHOW THAT THESE HOUSES CAN BE HELPED AND WE CAN FIX OUR NEIGHBORHOOD OURSELVES.

Thank you, Ms. Tingle. We'll have a conversation after the meeting. Please, if you wouldn't mind staying for the entire meeting. The remainder, I should say. Excuse me.

I call to the podium Talis Gage.

Talis, 1921 Gettysburg. actually got a little smaller list this time so i ain't just freestyling but the one thing i want to talk about was uh was it three policing projects 20 million is my number off did i see that For three policing projects, $20 million?

Is my number off? No, I think we can talk after the meeting, but please, I don't want to...

Okay, yeah, yeah.

Your time.

Okay. But anyway, I just want to say, no matter how much money was put towards the project, we can't find no money to create no rec center. We can't find no money to do nothing, but we can find the money for a police station. Make that make sense. That's the first thing. Then the second thing I want to talk about is we went from, I just found out we went from, or I think I heard you say it Saturday, we went from eight rec centers to now three? Come on, man. Like, I'm going to be on the rec center thing because I know how it benefited me in Cleveland. You know, I know how I can help out giving these kids a different option of something to do. We got to figure that out. Like, I can't do nothing about the ones that's older than me but watch them wash away when their time comes. But the ones that's younger than me, we can still impact them to have a better future going forward. That's my focus at the end of the day. And I live a rough life. I've been through some stuff to where my story, my tests are now my testimonies to reach the people that a lot of people in here can't reach because I done been through it. Not saying that ain't nobody else up here been through nothing, but I mean, I say it on this informant, drug dealer, Been to prison. I done been through a lot. I done did a lot. So it's not too much you can tell me about certain things and me not be able to say something to these young people and be impactful in their life. So it's important that we get these rec centers and then just some community centers, spaces where people like me can reach those young people. Man, I need a space to where I can be impactful in these young folks' lives too. And to the people that's looking for some people to work at that flight place or at the airport, I'm looking. All right. But yeah, community, community, community. If we want to fix the community, another thing that I think we need to do, and it's simple, man. It's simple. So that's why I was doing my community love days, which I think some of y'all might be familiar with. I've been doing them for years where I give away food. I use that moment to infiltrate. And when people hear the word infiltrate, a lot of times they think of it as something negative. But I'm infiltrating with love so that I can meet them where they are and I can talk to these young men. Right there, right at the, I ain't afraid of them if they got guns, drugs, whatever, because I used to have it too. I don't care. It doesn't scare me. Right? So I go up to them and I talk to them and tell them what they need to hear. You know? I tell them what's right. So that's what I say. The love days, I'm going to have one at the end of this month. I'm going to have one each month until it gets cold. And then I'll probably start doing Coke giveaways like I did before. But that's our way to.

Your time is up. Thank you.

But that's what we need to do is have rec centers and things for young people to do. And we need to get rid of Shelly Dickstein. I heard you, but we need to fire Shelly Dickstein. Fire Shelly Dickstein. Fire Shelly Dickstein.

Thank you, Mr. Gage. I call to the podium Sharon Screech.

Hello Commissioners, my name is Sharon Screech. I live at 515 West Grand Avenue. Good evening. I would first, well, hearing some of the stuff today, it switched up my plan of action. First of all, We want to talk about the piles in the city. 72 Ashwood, 160 East Parkwood has been like this for seven years. 465, 467 Alwyn, 23 Greater Miami, 43 Victor. Five piles of debris. I don't know how they come up with the nuisance around here, but there's Fountain Avenue right off Main Street. That whole street needs to go. That whole block, it might be a few folks that live on that street, but every house is dilapidated. And when that guy comes in here and says, oh, we only have 61 houses, and that's a nuisance. Oh, no, this whole city is east side, west side. They're everywhere. Furthermore, I would like to speak to Mr. Smith. We are in support of Mr. Smith, $163,000. How much are these people making an hour? That's what I would like to know. Because let me tell you something, somebody that's making $287,000 with a $111,000 raise in 10 years can't speak about somebody that needs a job. She's out of her element. She makes enough money. We need the people that's like me that can speak to that. How much are they making an hour? Do you know how far the airport is? Who's going to drive out there? Mr. Zink is making hundreds, 200. He's making as much money as her. He can't speak to what Mr. Smith can speak to. They need workers that's making a decent wage. I was in a union for 18 years. The union protects their jobs. But now this man is talking about saving some jobs. Let him hire some permanent folks that can work at night and do that work. He says somebody can do the work. And why did we hire somebody, an outside company? This is a company from a whole other state. When we got people right in this city that can do that job. North Carolina. Why do we have a company from North Carolina? She must got to end with that. That sounds like some salacious type thing to me. You must got a plan with that. Somebody got some money somewhere. Because Mr. Smith is trying to get some jobs out there. He's trying to pay his people. That $163,000 can go to his people. That's where I think the money should go. Why are we giving it to some other state when we got state workers right here in Ohio that can do the job that Mr. Smith. We're in support of you, Mr. Smith, and we will be back to support you. And Mr. Zink, if you need Mr. Zink, let us know.

Ms. Screech, make sure you address the commission so we can hear you. Thank you.

So we need to support Mr. Zink. I mean, Mr. Smith. We need to support Mr. Smith. Because there's retaliatory things that happen with that. He's trying to protect workers out at the airport. We want the airport clean, too. I've never flown before. But I've been out to the airport a lot. My son's in the military. No one wants to come to a dirty airport. Thank you so much.

Thank you, Ms. Greach. I call to the podium Amaya Mickler. Thank you.

Thank you.

Hi. My name is Amaya Mickler, and I live on Edison Street. I'm here to talk about black genocide created by other supremacy groups. Learning about other non-black supremacy groups and the legacies of genocide makes it clear that these systemic injustices are deeply wrong, and their effects are felt right here in West Dayton. Historically, these supremacy groups used direct violence like 1921 Tesla race masquerade to destroy thriving black neighborhoods. But genocide also includes systemic neglect and destroying a community's economic life. In 1951, activists even took a We Charge Genocide petition to the United Nations to expose state-sanctioned racism and medical exploitation, like forced sterilization targeted black Americans. This history matters because West Dayton still carries the weight of these systemic breakdowns, decades of redlining, segregation, and deliberate disinvestment by other outside systems created deep inequities in our neighborhood. It's not okay that West Dayton face food deserts, lower funding, and fewer resources. compared to other areas. When you look at unequal healthcare access or historical trauma of police brutality, you see that the modern struggles in our community are connected to the same long history of racial injustice. This isn't right. It needs to be changed. We shouldn't still be treated differently. Past generations fought for this. Why are we still going through this? This doesn't make sense. City Hall, y'all need to be doing something to prevent this from carrying going any further. Thank you.

Thank you, Amaya. I call to the podium James Parton.

I think he may have left, Ms. McClendon. Thank you. I conclude, Speakers, Your Honor. Thank you, Ms. McClendon. Ms. Dixtine, do you have any closing comments this evening? I have none, Your Honor. Thank you, Ms. Dixtine. Ms. McClendon, do you have any closing comments? I have none, Your Honor. Thank you. Commissioners, do you have any closing comments? If you wouldn't mind, Commissioner Beckham, go ahead, please.

Thank you, Your Honor. Just a few. Definitely look forward to getting to some form of a resolution on the, of course, airport. I want to also speak to the point that was raised about the violence intervention program. We're in the pilot phase, which is a one-year pilot, but I think it is the position of... Mine and my colleagues, that we certainly want to keep this program funded for the foreseeable future. So I wanted to clear that up. It sounds like there's some conversation on social media about that. But I assure anyone that is wondering, we want to maintain that funding and we plan to. Also, I want to, of course, thank the young people who spoke. Specifically, I couldn't agree with Ms. Tucker more. It definitely is going to take our whole community to ensure that public safety, you know, is better, right, for our residents. Also, just lastly, want to speak to the properties that were named. If we can, of course, look into those, the fire piles and the potential nuisance properties. I think we've got those for the record, so I want to make sure that we identify whether those are on our nuisance list or not, or clean up. And lastly, I just want to thank the organizers of the Dream Symposium. It was a Thank you very much. SUPPORTIVE OF THAT ECOSYSTEM GROWING. WE KNOW THAT THOSE JOBS ARE, OF COURSE, GROWING IN OUR CITY AND WANT TO CONTINUE TO SEE THAT. SO I JUST WANT TO THANK THEM FOR INVITING ME, AND THOSE ARE ALL MY COMMENTS. THANK YOU, MAYOR.

THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER. COMMISSIONER FAIRCHILD.

YEAH, THANK YOU.

Miss Jackson, I don't know if you could give us an update on where we are with the release of the audit logs. I think the commission as a whole is in favor of releasing the audit logs, but I have not heard where we are in that timeline.

From my understanding, we have to identify the firm. Is that correct, if I'm tracking? I'm talking about the release of the audit logs. That's fair.

It's my understanding, Commissioner, if I could. I actually spoke to the law department yesterday about that, if you don't mind. No, no. Please. And they're actually looking. We said, as you know, some direction over. And then you and I had some conversation, Commissioner, a few days ago about order of release and how that would happen. I think the law department isn't clear on what that happens. And it's actually, I'm going to need to talk to you after the meeting about what that is. And I think once we give direction, they'll start going.

Okay. Okay. Great. And just to be clear from where my stance is, I believe the audit logs are public records. I believe we've committed to releasing those. My request, our request is to create a production schedule so that citizens will know when those are going to be released. So I look forward to getting some resolution to that. Thank you. And Mr. Elzain, I'm in support of the Peace Summit. I've had a conversation with Natalie Hudson. She's supportive of that. I think it's the right thing to do for our city, both to strengthen what we're doing here locally around peace, but also to build on our foundation of citizen diplomacy, build on the UN Assembly work that was here last year. So I look forward to working with you on that proposal and making that come to fruition. Invite people. The World Cup begins, and the U.S. men's team, national team, plays their first match on Friday night at 9 o'clock. There's a watch party at the Fifth Street Brew Pub if you want to come and join us at that late night. But I encourage folks to join in in rooting for the men's team and enjoying the World Cup, which we are jointly hosting with Mexico and Canada. Have a lot of events coming up this weekend. The air show is Saturday and Sunday. Invite folks to come and get your tickets and come out to the air show. The annual Autism Awareness and Acceptance 5K returns on June 13th, Saturday at Eastwood Metro Park. It brings our community together in support of individuals and families affected by autism. It has options with a timed 5K, an untimed 5K, or virtual participation. So there's an opportunity for everyone. All proceeds go to the Autism Society of Dayton. And it is at Eastwood Metro Park. On Sunday, Old North Day evening is observing Flag Day with the rededication of the memorial from 2 to 5 at the corner of Kiwi and Valley Street. Invite people to come out to that event. Commissioner Shaw had to step away, so I'm going to share two events that he had planned to share. Montgomery County Public Health is hosting its Sunny Start event on June 17th. That's next Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Sunrise Center on East 5th Street. This event is designed to support families with newborns by connecting them to valuable resources and free services. Attendees can expect free food, giveaways, and information on programs that provide ongoing support for new parents and infants. on June 20. Next Saturday, the Grafton Hill Home, Garden, and Historic Auto Show will take place from 11 AM to 4 PM at 525 West Riverview Avenue. Attendees can explore one of Dayton's most historic neighborhoods through its beautiful homes, gardens, architectural landmarks, and classic automobiles. And I encourage everyone to come out, connect with the community, and experience firsthand how this remarkable neighborhood continues to shape Dayton's future. The Y-Lagers, I've been promoting this for a while, but want to encourage you to make your plans to join them in cleanup and beautification on four days, June 20th, 27th, July 11th, and July 18th. You can get more information or donate to their efforts at 937-701-3092. And finally, Mayor, I want to congratulate you on taking the next step with your fight plan. I was here at the press conference. I value your vision for the city and the three runways that start to make that concrete. It is ambitious, but we need ambition in this moment. It's the time to do it. I would say, you know, we're in a moment of crisis, and Dayton responds to crisis. We're gritty folks. We're resilient folks. We've come together after mass shootings. We've come together after tornadoes. We are Dayton Strong, and it's a moment for Dayton Strong. I'm particularly looking forward to the mayor's youth cabinet and the work that will come out of that because our young people deserve that. So I reiterate again what I said on Monday. I'm here to support you and to move this forward.

Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Joseph.

Thank you, Mayor. Just one. Commissioner mentioned the watch party for the first game coming up, the first World Cup game. I'm here to announce a watch party on June 19th for the second game. All residents are invited to a free watch party at Yellow Cab Tavern. This is USA taking on Australia. That's the second game they're going to play in. Doors open at 2 o'clock at Yellow Cab. Kickoff begins at 3. You're going to have raffles, giveaways, backyard games, plenty of opportunities to collect with local organizations, community resources. This event was organized by members of our NLI class. This is this year's class at the Neighborhood Leadership Institute. So thank you to the class for creating this event, this opportunity. And I know we'll have at least a couple of you here. So if you wouldn't mind raising your hand if you were part of that 2016 class. Thank you all. Excellent job. Love to see you here. And these projects are always a great start for what usually ends up to be a great career in community service, and we really appreciate your work. So thank you for doing these. That's all I have, Mayor.

Thank you. Thank you. I would like to acknowledge and thank all of the young people, our youth that came out. Mr. McAllister, thank you. Ms. Tucker. And I apologize, Ms. Amaya, I did not catch your last name, but I really commend you all for giving voice, raising your concerns and your grievances before this body. That takes a lot of courage. And so, again, I thank you all for giving your voice. And I hope that we can find some way for you all to be involved with the Mayor's Youth Cabinet, as well as other programming and initiatives that we have throughout the city. We want you all to continue to use your voice and be intimately involved in the decision-making process. So kudos to you all and thank you for being here this evening. Ms. Mary Sue, thank you. Ms. Gamina for your comments. And as noted, and thank you, Commissioner Fairchild and Commissioner Joseph for providing that clarity. You are correct in terms of the direction that we gave for the release of the logs. And thank you for the update in terms of where the law department is. For the record, too, Ms. Gminer, I am, in fact, in support of an investigation. And so I am hopeful that we can move forward with that understanding, too, that we are also in the phase of identifying a firm to review all of the logs in its entirety. So there are proposals that we are reviewing right now. So I appreciate your comments. Ms. Hastings, thank you for your comments. And as Commissioner Beckham mentioned, this is the pilot phase. However, it is a commitment. You saw the heads nod. I think a number of us are, in fact, on the record stating that we are in support of this model, of this program, in making sure that there is two efforts to complement what we're doing with CBG and Felons with a Future. My hope, and that's one example of that work that we're doing, and again, we mentioned that during the calendar review, the partnership with MBHO, my hope is that we will see that work continue with the street outreach that will, again, complement the work of CBG felons with the future, with street outreach workers that will be able to go out into those targeted areas, those areas of concern to provide that level of support, whether it's with a licensed trained professional, licensed social worker, I should say. And again, that model is already built with PATH, the PATH program under NBHO. So we want to make sure that We're continuing that work. So thank you for your question and for asking for clarification. I mean, you are correct in terms of the 25 officers that will actually graduate this coming Monday on the, I believe it's the 12th or the 13th, the 13th. So... Mr. Padaway, thank you for acknowledging the number of events that will take place for the Juneteenth celebration. I hope that we can have those dates, not the date, we know the date, but if we can have the times so that we can too make sure that we are bringing that level of awareness. I understand that there are a number of Juneteenth events and we want to make sure that we help with spreading the information out to the public. Mr. Male, thank you for raising your concerns and your issues in terms of the signage for some of the street dieting efforts that have been made. I know there was a great push and There is time that needs to be allotted for many people to become more accustomed with the changes that have been made. And so it will be interesting to see. And I think Commissioner Shaw may have raised this point during the police strategy to identify what, if in fact, we've seen a number of traffic incidents or accidents reduced since we have deployed the traffic dieting for some of the areas. They have the information and the data for, I believe it was Main Street, if I have that right, but they're still in the process of gathering information because a lot of these efforts are still new. Philadelphia, for example. That is something that has just recently transpired, so we will be monitoring that very closely. The data is still being retrieved and analyzed, so more to come on that. We do hear your concern, Ms. Tramiel, and we will follow up with that once we receive that information. Mr. Alzain, thank you for your commitment, your advocacy. And as noted, if you wouldn't mind providing the additional details in terms of the peace summit, you have my commitment in supporting that effort. So I'll be happy to speak with you after the meeting so we can know more of the details. Ms. Akbar, thank you for your comments. Thank you for being here and raising the concerns. We know that there is... a lot of areas of concern and the disproportionate number of crimes and all of the effects and all of the various different things that have overwhelmingly affected the African American community. So thank you for your comments and giving voice to those issues. Mr. Abrams, thank you for your concerns as well and for being here. Ms. Tingle, I'm glad that you're still here. I want to learn more about the incident and just truly get an understanding as to what took place and if in fact you were notified or if the homeowner, considering that if the title was clear, whatever the case may be, if in fact it was actually valid and if it was clear as to whether you were notified or whether the homeowner in Texas was notified. I'm asking Ms. 16 if we can find out more information about that structure just so we can have an understanding of the background and what the records clearly show as to who was the owner, who was notified, and how long it was in fact on the nuisance list. Because it may have been on the nuisance list for a long period of time. That's unbeknownst to me, so I'm not going to speak out of turn because I don't know. But again, more to come on that, and we will follow up with you once we have more information. Thank you. Mr. Gage, thank you for your commitment and your testimony and lending your support for more recreation centers. Understanding that there is a commitment of all of us to make sure that there are a number of events in Activities and spaces that are safe for our youth. As noted during the Summer of Peace, there was a list that was compiled of 110 camps, events, organizations that are readily available. And so we will make sure that that information is out on social media. And we'll give that information to you as well so you can help us when you have the engagement with youth that you can help us spread the word that these events and camps and activities are available. Ms. Creech, thank you for your comments. If you can give us that list, that would be helpful. So if you can scratch it down for me and then I can take that list. Even though it is on record, we want to make sure that we have the number of... properties that you have identified, we want to make sure that we address those concerns. And just for the record, it has been made clear that the commission is in agreement with identifying if there is in fact a win-win for addressing the concerns as it relates to the airport. So my hope is that we will find a solution with that. So I appreciate Ms. Dix's team, Mr. Zink's and Mr. Smith for your willingness to have a deeper conversation to identify how, in fact, we can address the issues collectively together. I also want to congratulate all the NLI graduates. Thank all of those who came out, who attended, rather, the press conference. Yes, it's very ambitious, but to say the least, we're already doing the work. The work is there, so thank you for your support. Commissioner Beckham, thank you as well. I know Commissioner had it, Commissioner Shaw, and I believe you had another obligation as well, so thank you very much. I appreciate the support. And thank you to the staff, Ms. Bankston, the Public Affairs Department, The whole entire commission staff. Mr. Davis, thank you for your efforts and your leadership in leading that. And with that, if you have any interest in joining one of the three advisory committees under the flight plan, people centered governance is runway one. Runway 2 is reimagining public safety. Runway 3 is business and economic development. We will be accepting letters of interest and applications through the city sites. We'll have more information on that in terms of where it will be located. And again, that is seven to nine members for each committee and more to come on that. So thank you, Ms. Jackson and Mr. Davis for your efforts and your leadership in that. The next Mayor and Commission walk will take place on Tuesday, June the 16th at 6 p.m. We will be starting at the Wesley Community Center. So we're very excited about that next walk. Therefore, we will be in the Westwood neighborhood. That is June 16th at 6 p.m. Thank you, Ms. Debbie Watts Robinson, for being here. I appreciate your leadership and all of the work that's being done with NVHA. I'm so happy to see this before us. And I also want to acknowledge and thank our partners with Montgomery County, Commissioners Rice, Dodge, and Commissioner McDonald, as well as Mr. Colbert. I'm glad that we were able to see this move forward and more to come. Thank you for that date, Ms. Dickstein, and that will take place later on this month. So with no further business to come before the commission, this meeting is now adjourned.