City Commission - Regular Meeting

Good morning. 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 morning, the invocation will be given by Commissioner Fairchild.

Oh, gracious one, you are like a shelter in a storm. In this season of school openings, particularly this day as Dayton Public School begins classes, We ask that you inspire us and guide us to create a community, a city, where we are a shelter for all our young people. Lead us in decision making so that we protect them, watch over them, and create a space for them to grow and thrive. We ask all these things in your precious name. Amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Ms. Jackson, may we please have a roll call? Yes, Mayor.

Mayor Turner-Slaus? Aye. Commissioners Joseph, Shaw? Aye. Fairchild? Aye. Beckham? Aye.

May I have a motion to excuse the absence of Commissioner Joseph?

So moved, Your Honor. Second motion.

It has been properly moved and seconded to excuse the absence of Commissioner Joseph. All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no. May I have a motion to approve the minutes of the August 5th, 2026 meeting?

So moved. Second.

It has been properly moved and seconded to approve the minutes of the August 5th, 2026 meeting. All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no. Any abstentions? Ms. Jackson, are there any communications or petitions this morning? There are none, Your Honor. Thank you. Ms. Jackson, are there any additions, deletions, or comments to the calendar this morning? No, Your Honor. Thank you, Ms. Jackson. Ms. Dickstein, are there any additions, deletions, or comments to the calendar this morning?

Your Honor, I have no additions or deletions to this morning's calendar. I have one item to highlight, which is item number four, It is a legal settlement with Dayton Power and Light. This is an intervention where we were able to reduce the AES rate increase by an average annual 1%. continued our disadvantaged community initiative and weatherization and bill payment assistance through 2029 that's two million dollars for the next three years each so a total of six years extending our commitment to support development of Dayton International Airport with the solar, which obviously will also help lower operating costs at the airport, maintaining waivers for both water and aviation, which also helps keep our rates low, and establish stronger customer protections by requiring new large data centers to bear the costs of their own infrastructure if they should be built. in the region. This settlement was unopposed by all interveners, including Ohio Consumers Council, Ohio Environmental Council, and Ohio Partners for Affordable Energy. So that's all I have to highlight this morning.

Thank you. Ms. Dickstein. Ms. Jackson, are there any citizens that are registered to speak on calendar items this morning?

Your Honor, there are two citizens 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. You will then have 30 seconds remaining to speak. When the red lights come on, you will be asked to cease your comments and 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 conversations. That would prevent the city commission from hearing the speaker's comment. With that being said, we're calling Zakiya Sankarful Jabbar.

Grand Rising, Zakia Sankara-Jabbar, 2426 Jerome.

Grand Rising.

Commissioners, Mayor, Grand Rising. I mainly have some questions this morning regarding the city manager's recommendations. I had reached out after the public hearing regarding the NCA and was told that the final hearing or passage for that was going to be today. I don't see it on here, so just trying to figure out, is it tucked away somewhere? Because I have to be honest, I do not have trust for this body as long as this city manager is sitting here. And certainly after Monday's meeting, which all of you were there with the county commission and with Congressman Mike Turner, And there's just been a lot of, particularly from people who live here, people in the community, people are very concerned about how they're being governed here locally, certainly at the county level, and certainly from Congressman Mike Turner. I've heard from a lot of people that they're concerned about the downtown being the most important and being walled off. The language that was used in the presentation from state representatives who are elected, coded language, racial language, talking about criminal elements and people congregating and needing the police. and then we have a city manager who obviously supports those efforts because this body allowed her to invest in new police stations all over the place downtown west dayton but then you all come to the community uh... you don't say well there's no money for this there's no money for that and then we constantly over the time look at the city manager's recommendations From my perspective and from a lot of the people that I talk to in the community, there isn't anything that's being recommended that is improving the lives of Daytonians in terms of their living conditions. The living conditions are still out of control all over West Dayton and East Dayton. Unfortunately, we have a commissioner here, Mr. Shaw. We went and took pictures of his business on Germantown. A small child can literally die in his parking lot because there's parking holes that are so big when it rained, if a toddler fell over, it would die just from drowning, okay? So there's a... There is a perception, since we want to talk about perception, that this entire organization is run like a criminal cartel, led by the CEO right here, Ms. Dickstein, that y'all continue to accept recommendations from. When y'all done heard the community over and over again for five months tell you that they don't want this person anymore, they elected new leadership and they want a new direction for this city. Now, you all need to tell us the timeline for hiring a new city manager, because I know Y'all not hiring no city manager in October for her to train. Are y'all serious? I'll be back. Thank you, Mr. Barr. Rodney Stark.

Rodney Stark, 4526 Alfred Drive, Dayton, Ohio. I want to talk about the city manager's recommendations as it relates to collecting unpaid fines on our citizens. I know for a fact that you guys make more than the average citizen in Dayton. You get paid about $50,000 to $60,000 as a commission, 80-something as the mayor, and 300-something as the city manager. But yet, you want to go and bully... the average citizen who is struggling with grocery bills right now, who's struggling to pay their AES bill right now, who is struggling just to afford where they live, and some even lost their homes and out on the street. So when you go and ponder how you're going to And there are elderly folks, too, that can't afford it because they're on a fixed income. When you go and ponder how you're going to bear down on these citizens, I want you to keep that in mind. Let's talk about the NCA. I just told you your salaries. Then you want the citizens to go down here and pay another 5% on top of what? What they purchased downtown at this hotel? Another 5%? Are you kidding me? What is that going to do to that individual? They're not going to be able to go downtown. I think that's part of the plan. You don't want us downtown. All right? So what is that going to do to the worker there that's waiting for that tip? When they see that extra 5%, they're not going to tip too well. All right?

So think about your salary. You can afford it.

Because guess what? You make $60,000, $80,000, $300,000 a year, and you can afford that extra 5%. But the citizens can't. And I dare you to pass this NCA. Because if you pass this NCA, that is an additional tax on the people. And if you pass it, I'm going to do everything I can to get you up out your seat. Promise you that. Pass that NCA. I dare you to pass it. Charge the people during this economy the way it is right now. You can listen to Mike Turner, your leader, your God, all you want to. Let me tell you something. Jeffrey Mims listened to Mike Turner. Where's Jeffrey at right now? Mike Turner's been the mayor of this city for 32 years, still trying to get this city out the ditch. It hadn't gotten out of ditch yet. Other cities are thriving and moving forward. Keep listening to Mike Turner. He's still leading you astray. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Stark. Mayor, that is all. Thank you, Ms. Jackson. Commissioners, are there any comments to the city manager's recommendations this morning? Commissioner Beckham.

Thank you, Your Honor. Yeah, I just want to congratulate our sustainability office and law department for the work on the AES settlement. I think our residents were well represented and will receive some benefits and additional protections due to this settlement. So I just want to congratulate the organization on that. Of course, as we see electric rates rising, this is a very important item that we'll be approving today. So thank you all. Those are all my comments.

Thank you, Commissioner Beckham. Commissioner Fairchild.

I have no comments on the agenda today.

Thank you. Commissioner Shaw.

Yeah, just wanted to echo what Commissioner Beckham said about the Sustainability Office and appreciate their work in that space.

Thank you. I, too, would like to echo the comments of my colleagues in regards of the work of our Law Department and Sustainability Office. Ms. Dixie, could you please call Ms. Maloney to the podium? just so she can really do a very high level and the impact and what this will, the settlement and how it will in fact provide additional resources and services to speak to what the work that has been done thus far. Especially as it relates to the Dayton Home Energy Network and that work around that piece. Also the cap as you mentioned towards the data centers. Even though we have in fact passed a moratorium But I think it would be enlightening if you could provide some additional context, if you would. Sure. Meg Maloney. Good morning. Good morning. Thank you very much. I really appreciate it.

Yeah, so additional context on the settlement. Every time AES or CenterPoint asks to raise rates, our sustainability office, with the help of the law department, will step in. Our main goal is to not only protect residents, but also businesses and nonprofits. So we're the only party at the table that I think brings that really unique perspective. um and so through this settlement initially they had an over three percent rate increase and all the consumer groups came together and we felt like that was too high especially with the previous rate increases that they got so we were able to negotiate that down my biggest concern is also how we can protect again residents and businesses and our city facilities to try and keep rates low because we know that everyone has been saying how difficult it's been with the rate increases So the disadvantaged community program is a great option. It's available to all cities in the service territory, but Dayton has a bulk of the low income residents. So that funding in the past has been going to the Dayton Home Repair Network to our partners, which you saw on the calendar items this year. The other big piece I think of this one that we were really proud of is the data center language. While you stated earlier we don't have, we have a ban on data centers, the cost of a data center going in our service territory, people worry that that cost can still get passed down to our residents, anyone that pays an AES bill. So putting them in their own unique rate class and ensuring that they're paying their fair share of the infrastructure cost is also a protection on our residents so that they're not seeing that trickle-down effect on their bills. The solar project's also really exciting for us. We have over 70 electric accounts at the airport which makes it really difficult to meter a solar array into it. So they actually helping us combine those meters that make it a little bit easier for that solar project to move forward. And then lastly, since we have public infrastructure, that's very important for our region. We don't want additional costs going on them. So there's something called a redundant service charge that essentially would cause additional costs to our water treatment plant and airport that we're preventing. And again, that's helping save taxpayer dollars because we don't have to pay those additional costs because it's of public interest. So I felt like this was a big win out of the settlement. And again, I think it's very important, especially for our low income folks that we get these programs in there.

Thank you very much. And could you speak to some of the data and the impact that we, with the Dayton Home Repair Network, we had a total of 900. And if you want to talk about those families and individuals who have been able to benefit from this settlement.

Yep, so great question. On our wait list, we had over 900 low-income homes, households that were on that list that desperately need home repair. And so what we are able to do through this funding is the past three years, we have gotten funding through AES and CenterPoint. We're doing about 450 homes, which is really great. And again, that is for low-income residents living in, about 80% of the city of Dayton qualify for that. And so then the additional access to this funding will allow that program to hopefully continue. We do have to apply in to get awarded that funding. But the hope is that in the next two years we'll be doing around, yeah, between 425 and 450 homes and then we can continue to make our way down on that wait list that the Dayton Home Repair Network has.

And this is also in partnership with the income tax levy that was passed, the additional bucket for housing and the work that's being complemented with the home program with, or Pathways to Home with Montgomery County Land Bank, right?

Yeah, so I was going to say, I think we're... We're partnering with all of the different regional home repair partners, but yes, our big contribution is definitely for the home repair space, but we're ensuring that we're working with them in communication so we're not causing any redundancies or anything like that.

And it has also been extended. I think, what was it, just last week, two weeks ago, it has been extended to landlords for apartment units, whatever.

Yes, we just rolled out our soft launch of our landlord tenant pilot because as I mentioned last week around 50% over 50% of Daytonians rent and traditionally home repair has only been available to homeowners so The innovation team led through Lila Klein is doing a really great job of rolling out that program We're trying to start small so we get it right Starting with more of that contractual piece getting good relationships with the landlords and tenants that are in the program And then our hope is to expand that program with additional funding that we're receiving through these

Thank you and last question just a point of reference for more information it is in fact on the city's website and whether other outlets are or is the information available.

Yeah if I always tell people the easiest way to find it if you just google city of Dayton sustainability you'll see our sustainability page we have a page there that talks about the Dayton home Home Repair Network and this work. And then Dayton Energy Collaborative is also the other one that I encourage folks to look at their website. So if you Google Dayton Energy Collaborative, you'll see the application and how you can kind of get into the queue if you qualify.

Okay, thank you. And kudos to you and your small but mighty team. And I will note too that Dayton was, correct me if I'm wrong, we were one of the only municipalities that were able to negotiate to reduce the actual percentage fee that was potentially going to be applied to homeowners.

Yes, I was going to say, or for the rate case you mean? Yes. We were the only city to intervene. And I will say that we just got spotlighted, I think it was yesterday, by the U.S. climate mayors for our work in intervening in rate cases. So I think that we're definitely setting not only a precedent in Ohio, but definitely nationally. as well.

Congratulations. Thank you. Ms. Dixing, if you could, could you provide an update to the NCA in terms of the timeline and where we are in the process itself? Sure.

The NCA legislation is being finalized. That includes the declaration of the ncaa as well as naming the board individuals and that you should have the the commission body should have that by the end of this week at the latest so that you can determine when we will bring that forward thank you and how does this speak to the the timeline is it still within the timeline or being that. The timeline as far as the timing between the first and the there was a timeline require right from when we first introduced it to when we had the public hearing and now it's just a matter of us bringing the final legislation for there's not a timeline dictating to that.

Okay, and then have all of the questions been I know that they've been put on the they've been put on the city site. I've seen the link to the presentation and all of the questions. Thank you. Yeah. All right. Thank you. I appreciate the update. All right. May I have a motion to approve the city manager's recommendation?

So moved, Your Honor. I'll second the motion, Your Honor.

It has been properly moved and seconded to approve the city manager's recommendations. All in favor, say aye.

Aye.

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

First reading ordinance number 32200-26. Declaring the intention of the commission to vacate the alley east of South Main Street from the alley south of East Sixth Street to 106.54 south of the alley south of East Sixth Street. First reading, Ordinance Number 32201-26, appropriating property designated as parcels 9SH and T, 12T, 15T, 22T, 30T, 33T, 36SH and T, 43T, 46T, 47T, 51T and 54T in connection with South Smithville Road Construction Project. First reading ordinance number 32202-26, appropriating properties designated as parcels 130T, 156T, 166SH and T, 168 S H N T 169 T 171 T 175 T 177 T 180 T 181 S H N T 182 S H N T one 83 s H and T one 95 T one 96 T one 97 s H and T and one 99 s H and T in construction think I'm sorry in connection with the sit Salem Avenue reconstruction phase 5 project. second reading resolution number 6947-26 approving the submission of grant applications to the district montgomery county ohio public works commission integrating committee authorizing the acceptance of the grants awarded from the state of Ohio Public Works Commission for the state issue one program for the public capital infrastructure improvements in the amount not to exceed $3,390,987.00 on behalf of the City of Dayton. Mayor Turner-Slaus? Aye. Commissioner Shaw? Aye. Fairchild? Aye. Beckham? Aye. Resolution number 6947-26 has passed, has adopted with four votes in favor. Second meeting resolution number 6, 9, 4, 8 dash 2, 6. Approving submission of a grant application for the fiscal year 2023 states and tribal assistance grants administered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, USVPA, for the Wolf Creek Trunks sanitary liners installation project, authorizing the acceptance of a grant in the amount of $1,255,200 $95.00 on behalf of the city of Dayton. Mayor Turner-Slaus? Aye. Commissioner Shaw? Aye. Fairchild? Aye. Beckham? Aye. Resolution number 6948-206 has been adopted with four votes in favor.

Thank you, Ms. Jackson. I will now open the public hearing. Ms. Dixie, please proceed.

Thank you, Your Honor. At this time, I'll call forward Tony Kroger, Planning Division Manager, to lead us in the public hearing.

Good morning, Mayor and Commissioners. I'm Tony Kroger, Planning Division Manager.

Good morning.

This is a public hearing related to zoning code text amendment that is refining language for the issuance of zoning civil penalties. The case type here, it originated through plan board. That's how it arrived at city commission. City plan board recommended approval on July 14th, 2026. Today is the public hearing related to the zoning code text amendment. And it really, I'll get into more detail here shortly, but the idea is here it refines the process by which the city of Dayton could collect civil penalties related to zoning matters. But, you know, something like this doesn't just show up on a commission agenda. There's been a long process here relevant to this public hearing. Back at the end of 2024, for example, there was considerable engagement that occurred, including with our priority land use boards uh interested groups and organizations as we brought forth a variety of zoning code text amendments including those that really was the enabling legislation for civil penalties and and so what that did was get us away from the criminal process of of um addressing zoning violations and that was something at that time that both the land use boards, the plan board, this city commission, city administration all thought this criminal process has become less effective than one would like and the civil process is the preferred means here and when I'm talking about some of these penalties, particularly as it relates to this text amendment, we're talking about those mostly commercial, if not all commercial, violators that have decided to essentially ignore zoning code violations as they've been noticed, as they've been sent violations by our zoning administration. It's those that have basically said, Try me. So it's important to make that distinction now. This is about those violators who are impacting the quality of life of Dayton residents. Me and everyone else that lives in the city of Dayton. It's those that are saying, Try. And so civil penalties, we all agreed, would be probably the preferred means of making our zoning code effective. Because otherwise, why have one? So anyway, back to the process. Plan board, of course, recommended approval of going that civil route. There was a public hearing in front of this very board. This board approved putting these civil penalties into our zoning code. Since that time, via direction of our Department of Finance and the county auditor, it was recommended and kind of determined that there's really specific language that should be in a zoning code, not just a zoning code, but every section of our RCGO that enables the collection of various types of penalties, whether it be fire, police, water. There's specific language that's desired in there to enable that. Okay, so we did in 2025 pass legislation that first introduced civil penalties for zoning matters into our zoning code, and then it was determined there's a particular way, a particular language that should be in the code to make it explicit on how those fines can be assessed. So we've got the public hearing today annually by October 1st. The city must certify and provide the list and rationale for those fines, those civil penalties that we would like to collect related to zoning matters. So looking back again, nearly exactly a year ago, this commission passed zoning code text amendments that said that the zoning administrator can assess civil penalties for those who are not complying with zoning code violations set forth an appeal process and then the third bullet point is the one that's being refined here really which is you know at that point it just basically said the department director needs to get the list of finance and then it kind of leaves it open-ended which you know sometimes can be useful in his own encode but in this case it's not sufficient for what our department of finance and what the county auditor would like There's one minor reference that's being fixed here with this amendment, and that's for a section number here. This is very ministerial stuff here. Why even call out a specific section in the first place? You might as well, everybody has to adhere to everything in the zoning code, so it really was an outdated section reference. This is administrative. So the refinement that I'm talking about here, again, corrects this first paragraph, which just really broadly says that the director shall send finance those unpaid civil penalties, OK? and then an invoice occurs. The language is the second paragraph there that is being added to the zoning code text amendment should be approved by the Dayton City Commission that lays out all those things that shall occur to collect, to essentially assess as you would taxes and unpaid civil penalty related to zoning matters. And this isn't a must that occur, Zoning administration will have the discretion in our department of all the discretion of say this is this is an egregious violator that is ignoring zoning violations and that's impacting the quality of life for Dayton residents and We need teeth to be able to make our zoning code Worthwhile that we've all worked on together for so long and so that's what that paragraph really puts forth is the ability to Make our zoning code functional So when considering a zoning code text amendment, there's required standards set forth in our zoning code that says, hey, here's some standards for consideration when thinking about a zoning code text amendment. The first one says, hey, is this change generally consistent with the intent and purpose of the zoning code? And I think the highlighted passage of the general purpose of our zoning code speaks to the fact that, you know, we must provide clear regulation standards and procedures for how the zoning code is run and that's what this is really doing here it's it's refining a vague vague language and saying here's how you can assess those zoning code violations that need to be addressed in a certain way Second standard calls as well what how how's this going to affect the city and is it going to affect a part of the city more more so in parts than others and you know certainly the answer to that would be it would be those areas that are most impacted by zoning code violations where they need to reach a point where they've reached a point where assessment as you would taxes has become necessary.

And finally, the third standard says, hey, what's changed to require this?

Why are we doing this zoning code text amendment? What's happened? What's changed? And what's changed is the allowing now civil penalties. That occurred a year ago. And then also our zoning administration continues to add capacity for doing enforcement work. And for the 20 years I've worked for the city of Dayton, all we've heard is we need better enforcement. Things are going unaddressed. And so we're reaching that point now where, you know, these quality of life concerns can be mitigated through those means that a city ought to have. So that's basically the extent of what I wanted to share. You, of course, will ultimately have your three traditional alternatives. If you have any questions of me, I'd be happy to answer them. I also have representatives from our Department of Law and Zoning Administration should they be necessary. Questions of me?

Just if you wouldn't mind, very quickly, Mr. Kroger, from my understanding, we do have a work session this morning immediately following the commission meeting in which our housing division will, in fact, lay out and present some of the more details about the civil penalties moving from criminal to civil. Is that correct?

Yes, the work session is going to be in many ways about those kind of zoning violations that are not the big egregious ones that we're talking about here. It's going to be the ticketable ones that go to a hearing officer or something like that. So you'll have that after this meeting. And this one's really about let's get the ones that have just moved in and done whatever the heck they've wanted. When I say the ones, I mean commercial businesses that have done whatever they wanted and are ignoring the impact that they're making. So that's the relation between the two.

Yes. Thank you very much.

I appreciate that clarification. Sure.

Commissioners, do you have any questions? Commissioner Beckham?

Thank you, Your Honor. No questions. Just thank you for your work on this, Mr. Kroger.

Thank you, Commissioner Fairchild.

No, thank you on the work. It continues to build on the work we want to do to address the concerns in our neighborhood. So thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Fairchild. Thank you. same thank you thank you I appreciate it thank you very much and please extend our gratitude and appreciation to the entire team will do thanks so much all right miss Jackson are there any citizens that are registered to speak on the public hearing this morning no your honor all right Commissioners, no comments. I will now close the public hearing. What is the pleasure of the commission?

Move forward.

Move forward. Move forward. Legislation, Ms. Jackson?

First reading emergency ordinance number 3 3 I'm sorry 3 2 2 0 3 dash 26 amending section 1 5 0.1 3 0.7 of the revised code of general ordinance relating to the zoning code and declaring an emergency.

Thank you miss Jackson and we have board appointments this morning.

Yes. I move to reappoint Nicole Miller and Marlin Aldrich to the HRC Board for a term ending August 31st, 2029. Second the motion, Your Honor.

It has been properly moved and seconded to reappoint Nicole Miller and Marlin Aldrich to the Human Relations Council Board for a term ending August 31st, 2029. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say no. Commissioner?

Mayor, I move to appoint Cameron Anderson and Sabrina Chump to the Human Relations Council Board for term ending August 31st, 2029. I second the motion.

It has been properly moved and seconded to appoint Cameron Anderson and Sabrina Chump to the Human Relations Council Board for term ending August 31st, 2029. All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed say no. Ms. Jackson, are there any citizens that are registered to speak? Thank you.

Yes, Your Honor. We have eight citizens who are registered to speak. And I would like to remind everyone of the speaking. So please, if you have any questions about it, just ask me when you come up. We're going to get started with Ms. Zakira. Zakira, you're welcome. Jambar. Jabar. Jabar, yes.

Zakiya Sankara-Javar. You good? Thank you. 2426 Jerome. Grand Rising again. I'm back. I'm wondering, where's Matt Joseph? He hasn't posted anything. Is he all right? I mean, I'm seriously asking. I hope he's okay. We didn't see him at the Monday's hearing. I wanted to follow up on some comments that I made earlier regarding what's happening in the city. And the public hearing on Monday again was shocking to me. I couldn't believe that elected officials, smart people, all these business people downtown, all these university presidents. And when I looked at the presentation and even the recommendations, nothing was proved. Like when you come to a community and you're spending money or you're making recommendations, you should be able to prove What's your plan is? Like have some data, have some facts that you share with people to back it up. Downtown is the economic driver, the core. Prove it. Y'all say that all the time, but then we don't see it. Because if the downtown is the economic driver and the economic core, then when is it going to trickle down? See, this is my problem. You all are talking about trickle-down economics in 2026? They tried it already when Ronald Reagan tried it. It don't work. It don't work for the masses. Let me be clear. It works for a few people, and it works very well for a few people. But it does not work for the masses. I need to know, again, because I like to have a moral conversation. I need to know, again, what you all stand for. And Mr. Beckham, you're new. You're the newest one here. I had a wonderful meeting with you. I respect, I believe, what you're trying to do, but some of the things that I'm hearing in the community from people who are close to you is that you told the community one thing when you were running, but when you got here, you switched up. so there were people in the community who would have voted the straight slate but because they want to support a young up-and-coming black man that's how people are in the community we love young people we want to see them do well you fooled the people you told them yes i'm going to be supportive of what you know shanice and and what mr fairchild because we do want new leadership you know exactly what they were talking about they wanted to get rid of this city manager you knew that And so now, since you're in office, my question is, did you get a phone call? Did somebody else have a better offer than the masses of the people that put you here, that voted for you? I'm seriously asking, because I've tried to meet with you again, but I have to talk from here because you haven't called me back. So who was that person? Because we got a picture of you meeting with somebody downtown. I believe that was a CareSource CEO. Where he live at? I mean, I'm just saying, so the other piece is, if you're going to be on the side of the business community, which is what I was told last night, you told somebody recently, that you're going to be on the side of the business community, at least make them have some social responsibility. Do y'all know how to negotiate? It just seems like it's a crisis in leadership. It's a crisis in competence. If you're going to be for the business community, at least negotiate. You tell CareSource that I need you to fund five black-led organizations in West Dayton and five community-led organizations in East Dayton. Give them $250,000 a year to operate to deal with issues in the community. Do you know how to do that? If you don't know how to do that, call me. Negotiate. Don't just give away the whole pot and the people don't get nothing because that's what's happening right now. There needs to be a new social contract where it's not just for the billionaires and the millionaires and everybody that y'all want to import to the city, because we see the plan. You want to wall off downtown? $1,000, what? At the Victoria, this is in the Dayton Business Bureau. Y'all, it's going to start at $1,000 a plate. Who the hell in Dayton can afford that if they're making $43,000 or less a year? This cannot be a leadership and a commission that caters to the rich, that caters to the wealthy. This is a city that has doubled the poverty rate, and I don't see no leadership up here yet, except from the mayor, who has set up her, we got to have new leadership. And then she's bullying the mayor? I done heard you done been insubordinate. No, ma'am. We don't take that kindly. She's your boss. Listen. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. Karajabar.

Mary Sue Geminer.

Mary Sue Geminer, 1418 Arbor Avenue. good morning good morning before i express my top concerns i would like to acknowledge some city employees who have done a great job recently i'm a member of walnut hills neighborhood association a few months ago some of our residents came to our monthly meeting with concerns about speeding on their street we invited john zielinski of the city's civil engineering traffic bureau to come and speak to us about our options Mr. Zielinski spent a lot of time with us, not just explaining our options but really listening to our residents and responding with practical suggestions. Since then, he has reduced the speed limit on this street and a sign has been placed. While there's more to do, I'm confident that he will continue to follow through. A few weeks ago, our president asked some people from Public Works to review problems with Walnut Hills Park. Brian Dahm and two other employees came out. Again, they spent all the time that was needed to go over the problems. They didn't make promises they couldn't keep, explaining what could be funded and what couldn't, and what we as volunteers could do to help. They provided a timeline, and we're hopeful that they will be able to make necessary repairs as promised. There are unfortunately plenty of stories of employees who haven't met expectations, but I won't share them today. I will say that the Department of Communications needs improvement. For example, I did not hear about Monday's meeting through any official channels, excuse me, and I heard others make similar comments. Still no update on the investigation into the Reginald Thomas killing. No update on the investigation into the misuse of flock and who knew what when. Don't forget about tenant rights. My public records request has been ignored, even after forwarding it to the law department and asking them to look into it, which was Commissioner Joseph's suggestion when I mentioned this to him. It's been 10 weeks since I submitted it, no status update other than the initial email acknowledgement. and a few notes about Monday's meeting. I take exception with Representative Plummer's statement, visibility makes people feel safe in referring to the police. This is only true for people who have had positive experiences with the police and that unfortunately is not the case for all our citizens. Representative White commented on her vision of downtown that everyone has a purpose and a place for being there. I would suggest that in the ideal downtown, one shouldn't need a purpose, but just wanna be there because it's a nice place to be. I wanna see a downtown with pocket parks and benches, with places to meet basic needs, so public restrooms and drinking fountains that don't close at 5 p.m. Riverscape is great, but it's not enough. Commissioner Shaw mentioned a statistic, and I'm sorry that he's not here, that I've heard many times before. 70% of the money that we generate is from the urban core. And I need to hear what that data point is. Where does that come from? Thank you very much. Your time is up.

Thank you, Ms. Gminer.

Jeffrey Peterson. Your name and address for the record, please.

Good morning. Jeff Peterson, 33 and a half Park Drive in Dayton South Park neighborhood.

Good morning. Good morning. You may begin.

I'd like to talk for a few moments about the flock cameras, which I believe have been off since May 1st. My bachelor's degree is in criminal justice. I served on the Dayton Police Department from 1975 to 1983. We had the finest in technology at that time. We had a four foot by six inch notebook and some pencils. We had the leather on the bottoms of our shoes. That was the extent of our technology. I reviewed the data from Flock. I can only access what's generally available to the public, but Flock in general has said that they have participated in a resolution of a million crimes, recovered 22,000 stolen cars, 2,000 lost people, And out of one million alerts, and I'm not sure what that is, eight of them were flagged as problematic. In today's paper, I note that the City Commission of Springfield has approved their second year contract with FLOC. It was unanimously approved by city commissioners. Chief Elliott and Captain Williams of the police department said that the flock-managed transparency portal, which seems to be a big issue here, includes information like how long Daddy has retained, the number of cameras, how many searches have been done in the last 30 days, top five offense types, et cetera, and a list of agencies that have accessed the data. Captain Williams said that as of earlier this year, the agency filters out any immigration-related searches. They do that with the filter that they implement. The Springfield Police Department also states that anyone found being deceptive would immediately stop sharing the network with Springfield Police Department and take that action. I'm not sure what the problem is with setting our filters correctly. I note that Judge O'Connell recently sentenced Otis Moore for five to six years in prison from a shooting of two people that occurred on a Fairground Elementary school property on Ellesmere Drive. The SUV was captured on the flock camera and Moore was identified as a shooter. This was also used in a Springfield shooting in Clark County. I would just tell you this. If we're not going to get the cameras up and running, a suggestion. Shelly, you order some notebooks. Shanice, you sharpen the pencils.

Thank you, Mr. Peterson.

Kenya Akbar.

Kenya Akbar, 147 East Hillcrest, Dayton, Ohio, 45405. I would like to begin by invoking the name of Allah Akbar Al Azeem, God be almighty, the infinitely wise. Between 1526 and 1866, 12.1 to 13 million people were stolen from Africa and forced into slavery. Roughly 2 million jumped and died at sea, suicide, rather than come and go through the process of capture. The process of capture killed millions more. Inland forced marches and died in the forts where they were being held. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tamir Rice, John Crocker, Reginald Thomas, Brian Moody, State violence is being perpetuated in the streets of our urban cores in Dayton. What is the commission truly doing to stop the perpetuation of police brutality as a mode of state violence? The 13th Amendment abolished slavery except in the case of criminality. Any city in the US that is operating in status quo policing is in fact perpetuating systemic racism the commission is lending hand to a system intentionally designed to oppress and deny equity to people with melanated skin you are complicit and guilty journey in your minds with me back to the racist south immediately following the emancipation proclamation in the south people had nowhere to go imagine being enslaved your mother father grandmother great grandmother great great grandmother only able to live with a monster a master only able to eat what is given. Vagabond laws were made to place the homeless slaves into jail. These slaves were put on chain gangs, forced to work for free. That was the duty of these slave catchers. Freedom was a crime. Think about that being stolen from your home and then being punished for not having a home. and taken hostage all over again. Prisons are highly corrupt enterprises since their privatized monetization. Let me translate. Rich people are having people to slave in Ohio.

Thank you, Ms. Akbar. Alexander Stone. Good morning. Good morning. Name and address for the record.

Alexander Stone, 531 Belmont Park North. Thank you. Good morning. I'm here again to speak about the conditions at Park Lane, at the Park Lane building, as well as severe mismanagement and neglect shown by Peak 10 and Brian Newcomb. There are stories from other tenants which are more extreme than mine, but I hope to bring those to you in their own words, in their own voices at a later date. Today I will share my own personal experiences. I was very fortunate that my unit does not have the same structural issues or water damage that some of my neighbors does. Upon moving in, we noticed a few problems immediately. The toilet flushed water directly onto the back and onto the bathroom floor. This is something that surely could have been noticed before putting people into that unit, putting it on the market. Instead, we shared a bathroom for the first week. Then we found that our dishwasher did not work. Upon submitting our maintenance request, it took three weeks for them to finally determine it could not be fixed and to install a new one. This was frustrating, but we were glad to have a new dishwasher and we did not have to do our dishes by hand anymore. One of the contributing causes to this low speed is the fact that they only had three maintenance workers for five buildings in the Grafton Hill area. Park Lane, the largest, has around 120 units. All of the others have multiple floors as well and really should have their own dedicated maintenance staff. Another factor is that the property manager regularly marks maintenance requests as complete before anyone even looks into the problem. I'll go into detail on that. In October, I noticed a black dust or fiber building up on the surfaces of my bathroom. It seemed to be coming out of the air vents. I could see that the insides were very dirty, but because all the screws were painted over, I requested that maintenance come up rather than messing up the paint myself. Two weeks later, this was marked as complete without anything being done. I put in another request in April, many months later, tired of cleaning fibers off my counters. In March, I noticed the request had once again been marked complete, and I resubmitted it again, this time referencing the specific request number ID from March, and this was marked complete the very next day. Eventually, one of the maintenance individuals came around, told me I should clean my counters with bleach, did not look at the vents. I did this, I waited to see if it would work, of course it didn't, and submitted another maintenance request in April, which was marked complete two weeks later. Again, I resubmitted, re-put in the report ID. Finally, over a month after this last request, July 28th, they actually came up, opened up the vent, and cleaned out the inside. I have no idea why it took almost nine months for such a simple issue to be fixed, but regularly marking incomplete requests as completed has become a recurring issue at Peak 10. Another way Peak 10 pretends to be working on maintenance requests is to mark an issue with technician contacted. Upon move-in, we noticed an informed maintenance about the door to our balcony. The waterproof lining was falling off, and the door itself, I had to use my whole strength to move it. Probably not normal. Your time is up now.

Thank you.

I apologize. Thank you.

Thank you. Sharon Screech.

Hello, my name is Sharon screech. Good morning a grand rising crime. 5.15 this grand. You may begin. I would first like to second resident Alexander getting up here. I live in a peak 10 property. I'm going to say this real quick we had a fire in the building. I want to get out of the building in a door that's supposed to let me out and it was locked I could see through the door. But the door is locked. I had to come back up towards the fire, past the firemen coming up to get the fire to get back downstairs. So everything President Alexander is saying about P-10 is all true. They're terrible. They're terrible. They're terrible. But anyway, let's get to the point at hand. We need to fire Ms. Dickstein. I came to this commission some months ago and said directly that someone that makes more money than you feel like they can tell you what to do. And was I lying? I was not lying. Mr. Fairchild himself said she was being insubordinate. That's what people do when they make more money than you. This lady makes triple what y'all all make together. You think she's going to listen to anything that you have to say? Nothing that you say. She's going to do whatever she wants to do. Because she makes the money. And in 10 years, she's got $111,000 in raises. Who was giving the raises? She giving herself raises. And you know what was happening? The commission was seconding the raises. No performance evaluations, no nothing. I would love to give myself raises. In 10 years, you got $111,000 in raises for what? And then you're complicit with Matt Joseph. He works for a company that got $2 million in contracts from this city. Where do they do that at? I can't go on my job and I can't even sell cookies for my grandchild at my job. That man making money off this city. His business, the business he worked for, got $2 million in contracts from this city. That means he's getting money from the city. She's complicit in it because you're allowing the contracts. The commission is complicit. Y'all seconded the contracts. And then Mr. Shaw was gone, but hey, let's say this. He up here dancing and jigging about this NCA when Mr. Fairchild had already said in a work session that that should have been brought up. Why are we doing an NCA in an emergency? There should have never been no emergency. Everyone up here should have said no. Everyone should have said no. You should have said no. You needed more information. You needed more information. But who's complicit? Her and him. They know what they was doing when he didn't tell Mister Fairchild to you about this NCAA thing coming up and then we got to do an emergency vote on it. Why can't we emergency vote her out? Let's vote now so we can see who's voting yes to keep her in. Beckham? Because we already know who's voting no. We already know who's voting yes to get her out of here.

Ms. Creech, your time is up. Thank you.

Thank you.

Alex Johnson?

It's actually Alec Johnson. I'm a big fella, but there's only one of me.

I apologize, Mr. Johnson. So Alec Johnson, your name and address for the record, please.

Alec Johnson. I live at 3206 Linden Avenue in the Hearthstone neighborhood.

You may begin.

Mayor, commissioners, and community members, after the July 29th public hearing, I reassessed the proposed citywide new community authority using the Mattei Austerity Scoring Index, or MASI. On MASI's 1 to 10 scale, from strongly pro-working class to highly pro-ruling class, the design score rose from 6.6 to 6.9, moving in the wrong direction. Its implementation risk is 7.7. The resolution that would actually create this authority is not on today's posted agenda. That gives this commission a brief but important opportunity to decide what must be binding before the institution exists. Participation is voluntary for property owners. NCA debt would be paid from NCA revenues, not the city's full faith in credit. The city also says records, contracts, audits, and financial information will be public. Those are real safeguards and Massey credits them. But the hearing explained the NCA's power much better than its social constitution. We still lack binding public benefit standards, meaningful resident power, protections against costs being passed to workers and customers, a traceable rule ensuring that general fund savings become additional neighborhood investment, an underperformance plan, and a fixed sunset. These are not secondary details to settle after creation. They determine who pays, who benefits, and who governs. A charge is not progressive merely because a business owner writes the check if the cost is shifted to workers or customers. A public improvement is not necessarily redistributive if the principal result is higher private land and development values. Last week, speaking about Black August and unfinished reconstruction, I asked this Commission to make community-governed investment a priority, investment whose purposes and benefits are shaped by communities themselves. The NCA is a concrete test of that principle. Community participation should not mean commenting after the structure is settled. It should mean residents have meaningful power before projects, charges, and long-term obligations are locked in. So I'm asking you to withhold creation until the core governance standards are binding. First, publish the complete creation resolution, its boundary description, and every incorporated exhibit with enough time for public review. Do not ask residents to comment on an institution whose decisive document they have not seen. Second, refuse emergency treatment. Use the ordinary two-reading process so the public can examine the actual proposal and commissioners can answer concerns before the final vote. Before creating the authority, require binding resident power and disclosure rules, enforceable wage, apprenticeship, local hiring and anti-displacement standards, protections against regressive pass-through, general fund tracking, and a stress-tested review and sunset process. Do not create the institution first and promise democracy later. Publish the document give it two readings put our rights in writing before you vote. Thank you.

Thank you.

Mr. Johnson Rodney Stark Rodney Stark 4526 Alfred Drive Dayton, Ohio Good morning. I don't think I said that this morning. Good morning, Mayor. Good morning, Commission. Good morning, City Manager and Madam Clerk today. First of all, before I get started, I want to thank Mr. Ritchie and his team for meeting with me out at the VA. We walked the grounds and just checked out to see who's responsible for what and everything. I'll follow up with the email.

Mr. Starks, make sure you speak into the mic so we all can hear you.

I'll follow up with the email and I'll see Ms. Lofton on that also. Thank you. the business at hand the i want to say real quick the ncaa is a ponzi scheme it is a ponzi scheme all right it is a ponzi scheme if you don't know what a ponzi scheme i invite you to look it up the other thing i want to say we got one billion dollars in tax incentives in this city right one billion dollars i looked at march i went back and reviewed the march meeting and that's that's according to your numbers mystic sting one billion dollars these are the numbers we don't talk about when we talk about what the businesses are bringing in and we're not talking about how much profits they're making in this city off of us that they leave with and don't invested back into our city so those numbers have been left out let's talk about this meeting on monday it was disgusting Absolutely disgusting. We were lectured to by MAGA folks that stood there and y'all stay quiet while they took the stage and preached down to us, right? Mike Turner, the longest serving mayor in Dayton, 32 years he's been here, sit there and assembled The whole team, or I would say the mob, right? This working group is a mob, right? He assembled the mob and he decided that he's going to come after crime in our downtown area uh miss white she made a statement and it was very revealing we are going to lean in a little bit here to send a message that we don't tolerate that down town you guys got to understand what you signing off to come on because that was in january when mike turner did his press briefing In March, Reginald Thomas was killed. You guys got blood on your hands. You got blood on your hands. You got to be careful when you're talking about perception of crime, because when you start talking about crime, our police officers interpret that a lot different than you think. If you don't want us in the downtown area, just say that. If you don't want us down there, just say that. Come out with it. This mob that they assembled, CareSource, Wright State, UD, is all signing off, and they all got blood on their hands.

Thank you, Mr. Starks.

Thank you, Mr. Stark. Mayor. Thank you, Ms. Jackson. Ms. Dickstein, do you have any closing comments this morning?

I, too, have one this morning, Your Honor. I, as the commission knows and the organization, we have been spending the last several years really focused on building an intentional, measurable culture plan for the City of Dayton organization. And by culture, we mean How do we show up for ourselves? How do we show up for our employees? Do our employees feel valued and engaged and feel like they are able to contribute because we know everybody comes to work because they want to be a part of something, particularly in public service. So I am very pleased to announce that The City of Dayton government has been selected as Best Workplaces in Ohio for 2025. This is an award that looks at innovative benefits, foster inclusive environments, supporting professional growth, demonstrating community commitment, And it highlights employers who value their workforce and set the standard for workplace excellence in our state. And the city of Dayton government was the only government of employers larger than 200 that was highlighted or recognized. So that's a great recognition of our work and what we've been doing to date. And I'm happy to share that with you and we'll share more information in the future.

Thank you, Ms. Dixing, and congratulations to the entire organization. Commissioners, do you have any closing comments this morning? Commissioner Beckham?

Thank you, your honor. Yes, couple brief comments. First, I just want to congratulate Daybreak. They have received a $270,000 community impact grant from Lowe's. There will be a press conference tomorrow morning. Look forward to joining that. This is part of their $1 million renovation to expand their campus which will be the first time that they're doing so decades so congratulations to daybreak and their leadership they serve a very i think critical gap in our city serving homeless young people so i look forward to joining them and want to congratulate them on this this award towards their one million dollar campaign also want to Congratulations, Dayton Public Schools. This is their first couple days back. I saw Dr. Lawrence was here briefly, but I was able to join their convocation last week, so I hope it is a successful year. I know DPS has adopted a lot of changes in the district lately particularly around workforce pathways so i look forward to supporting that work and wish them an excellent school year lastly i just want to go on record and say i i'm pro jobs i i want more opportunity for residents and folks that call our city home and the more economic activity we have in our city the more income tax we actually have to go towards the budget that we use to actually provide services to the city. It is no surprise, right, that we're coming up on budget season and like every organization, both public and some private, right, we have a deficit. So it is critical that we get more jobs to our community. So economic activity is not a bad thing. It is a good thing and we need it to actually have more dollars to spend on residents and our neighborhoods So I just wanted to make that clear and those are my comments.

Thank you, man Thank You Commissioner Beckham Commissioner Fairchild

yes um a couple events coming up um the um this saturday and sunday is the dayton african-american cultural festival both saturday and sunday i believe at island park as it has been in the last couple of years i encourage people to come out it's a great opportunity to build community to be educated on a variety of issues around African American culture, to stand with the African American elders, to enjoy good food, music, and, you know, it's just a joyous time. And so I invite people to come out and be a part of that. also want to get on your schedule the following saturday is porch fest and i'm very glad that these two events aren't on the same saturday as they have been in the past and i find myself running back and forth between island park and saint anne's hill and back to island park so great opportunities to build community and to really experience some of dayton gems and what makes us great as a community The 6888 Kitchen Incubator is expanding its volunteer events team and is looking for community mentors to support upcoming events and fundraising initiatives, including the 2026 From Scratch Food Founder Expo. If you'd like to learn more information about these opportunities, have questions answered, or to sign up, you can contact them at 937-203-0802. Just a clarification on, the contracts that we've made with Sierra Nevada. These have been opportunities that have come. They're transparent. We have made space out at the airport. Yes, Commissioner Joseph works for Sierra Nevada. but it's the whole commission that makes the decision and in each case he's recused himself and so he has a conflict of interest he acknowledges that conflict of interest and the commission as a whole with him excluded evaluate the deals and then make a vote and so similar things happen with me with dayton children's there are issues that come with dayton children's I recuse myself and the commission as a whole makes a decision So Regarding the NCA, you know, this was first publicly introduced on July 1st. At the time, it was an emergency ordinance partly so that we could get the public hearing within the 30 days. My hope is that we'll have two readings. I suspect it'll be an emergency ordinance. And the only difference that the emergency reading does is if it's not an emergency, then it has to wait 30 days to be enacted. And so, city manager, I don't know what your plan is, but my hope is the commission will have one reading of the the ordinance resolution even if it's an emergency and then have a second week reading i think you know we've been looking at this now for six weeks questions have been raised we've attempted to answer them it seems like we've had a robust public conversation around the merits the pros and cons hopefully we get all the questions answered and i think with the two readings we should be able to get there i suspect that people won't be happy i suspect it'll pass right now i'm needing to be supportive of it it's a tool i think last week i made my comments around how the strategy around the convention center that hotel is a piece of that work and so i look forward to the ongoing conversation but that's where i think things are with the ncaa um last week and i regret commissioner shaw isn't here to be a part of this commissioner shaw responded to my comments and at one point he called me a liar his uh his statement was you've said a lot of mistruths um but then he didn't specify what i said that was a mis mistruth um It may have been about the process around the police chief. And so I want to be clear my understanding of that process. And again, this is not about Chief Henderson. But on April 7th, we had an executive session. We came out of that executive session. We had had a meeting of the minds of the commission. That meeting of the minds was to give the city manager direction that would include a process to execute to find the chief of police. The mayor memorialized that meeting of the minds in an email on April 12th. Commissioner Shaw, Commissioner Joseph, Commissioner Beckham did not respond to that email with saying we disagree with the characterization of the agreement. They didn't raise any questions about that agreement. No one called me questioning the agreement or saying that's not what we agreed to. um i think at the time i checked with the mayor and they had not called the mayor either and then at some point i'll have to go back and review my call logs to his credit commissioner beckham did call me and he did not question the agreement but instead said he had changed his mind And so my problem with the process is that collectively we had made a decision, we had given it a direction, and the members of the commission changed their minds and so it makes it hard to have trust among the commission to be able to work together when we say one thing and we do another. so commissioner shaw i encourage him to review what i just said and to point out where my mistruth may be secondly not only did he call me a liar but then he lied about me he said that i don't call him and i interrupted him at that point because i was just befuddled quite frankly befuddled I shouldn't have interrupted him, but I was just befuddled because he was telling a lie. On 11 days prior to last week's meeting, I had called Commissioner Shaw. And I got back from vacation and I was concerned about where we were in the conversation of the selection of the board for the NCA. The mayor had sent out an email suggesting some people to be on the panel. No one on the commission had responded to that email. And so I started to call my colleagues to see what their thinking was. On 7-24, I called Matt Joseph, starting with the senior member on the commission, left a message for him. Then I called Chris Shaw and he answered and we had a conversation. It lasted a minute. The content of the conversation was I was calling to talk to you about where we are with the selection of the NCA board. and his response to me was i've sent my list over to the mayor and i have three votes and that was the extent of our conversation now you would think that my next call would be to commissioner beckham but given what commissioner shaw my next call was to mr davis to see if he could give me a copy of the email with the membership that Commissioner Shaw had identified. And then you can look at my emails and see that Mr. Davis found that email and forwarded it to me. So there's a fact pattern of me making a call to Commissioner Shaw and the details. So I just need to set the record straight and to say, You can't call me a liar and then lie about me and then talk about lowering the temperature. And so I want this commission to not be dysfunctional, but we've got work to do.

Commissioner Fairchild. I have a couple of brief comments and I know we have a work session this morning. So I would like to thank all of the residents. Thank you, Ms. Maloney, for her comments and for providing us an update as well as Mr. Kroger in the update in reference to the public hearing. And the commercial Properties that we're looking at incorrectly if I'm wrong that I do believe that this will also have impact this will also Impact some of the concerns that we're seeing with more of our our larger residential apartment units some of those more egregious Landlords or investors that we are having issues with ie and some of the concerns that we have there. So this will allow us to have a process in place where there is more teeth, if you will, in our language and in our ordinance. Is that right, Miss? What'd you say? I can follow up with Mr. Kroger. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. So I really do appreciate that. So Alexander Stone, your comments, they're heard. They're not falling on deaf ears. Know that we're working through a number of different processes. And this is one point I think that we also need to, to Commissioner Beckham's point, right? We're in the budget season. We're looking at all of the various different things that we have before us in terms of the constraints the challenges and this could potentially be an opportunity for us to look at a rental registration we know that we have the ordinance in place we know that we we have that on our books we know that it is being currently ran out of the auditor's office, Carl Keefe. Perhaps this is an opportunity for us to revisit and to find ways and means to make sure that we are improving the quality of life, the conditions in our residential units, our more multi-family residential units, our apartment units. This will give us an avenue, not only will we hold those individuals accountable, But two, we can potentially create a fund to address those issues around the quality of life in our neighborhoods and our multifamily units. Potentially, it could be the base for us to start access to council, which we know this is a huge concern as well. So I really would like for us to revisit the rental registration for us to have the conversations. I have the legislation already drafted. I believe it's in the law department. I'll be happy to share that. Commissioner Beckham, I don't know if you, you don't have a copy of it because being that you just recently elected, but I'll be more than happy to share that with you so that we can really start pushing that forward. I think if we marry the two, This is an opportunity for us to be able to address those issues that we're hearing from many of our residents in regards to the quality of life and the multifamily units throughout the city of Dayton. So thank you, Alexander, for your comments. as well as miscreant thank you for your comments as it relates to pizza and we know that it is of issue i have family and friends who are impacted by this very same uh... organization if you will and the quality of life is very much so questionable and in the management of their properties again i like to thank everyone who came out uh... this morning in his hand throughout the uh... the inclement weather uh... i think that definitely speaks to your commitment in uh... your overall dedication to the city of Dayton, your love and your care for the city of Dayton, and wanting to really, truly impact change for the betterment of everyone. And so, Ms. Sikora Jawar, and I know how to say this. I don't know why I'm stumbling when I get to say this. to the microphone on the day is. But nonetheless, thank you for your comments. And you're absolutely right. The social contract is, in fact, a tool. And that is my belief, how we can really utilize that tool in the NCA. As mentioned, we have the resolution. The commitment of my colleagues, we already formalized that in conversations, in the email, but we won't even take it a step further and pass a resolution so that we can, to your point, have that social contract, whether it's a community benefits agreement or the resolution itself. And I really want to acknowledge the work of DTU, Dayton Tennis Union, Dayton Unite for Human Rights, all of the work that they're doing. a DSA, many of the members that are working in this space that are really trying to push this forward, Racial Justice Now, all of the organizations that's pushing this forward, because you're spot on in terms of the social contract and the work that we're doing, and we're very mindful of that, and we prioritize that work. So note that it is, again, it is not something that we take very lightly. This is something that we're constantly asking questions about. How do we make sure that, in fact, the people in our community, the residents in the city of Dayton are, in fact, benefiting from whatever development? To Commissioner Fairchild's point, when you look at S&C, those are the number of questions that we were asking. What is the wage? We're talking about $70,000-plus. income, salary, thank you, thank you, Ms. Loeffler, 70,000 salary income range. We also have the partnership with S&C and Sinclair. They call it the S&C Sinclair Academy, where students are able to learn the skill sets behind aviation, whether it's the aircraft mechanic. There are other jobs that go along with that work, not just aircraft mechanics, but you're talking about the business office, the finance, the back office. All of that back office support is those conversations that we are readily having on a continuous basis. The other point is, and I know this is your lane, this is your area with your finance background. but could you really speak to and this is laid out in the number of the quarterly finance reports but talk a little bit about that 70 percent that downtown uh economic engine that we are very mindful of and understanding that that core allows us to do all the various different things now mind you too let it be known and noted that what we are always um advocating for on a continuous basis, even prior to even serving in his elected office, we have to have a very healthy balance. We have to make sure that we're balancing our economic development and our focus in our neighborhoods as well as in downtown. So could you speak to where that dollar amount comes from and just that 70% and how we keep a record and how it is

noted and recorded in their yearly report that we receive short so I'll often back up just a little bit and just remind you all and the public that the resources that the city generates in order to provide basic services police fire public works recreation come through what we call an earned income tax And earned income tax is the 2.5% that we levy against anyone working in the city of Dayton, not living, working in the city of Dayton. It has been determined through not just our collection methods, but regional studies that have been done that over 70% of our job base, that means those who are earning a wage, work in establishments downtown. And so this is not uncommon for any major metropolitan city. Most urban cores, their center for employment is usually a downtown. And so that is where that number has come from and has generated, it has been steady across the last several years. And we have wage earners that commute into the city to work. And when they come in here, whether they live in the city or not, their wages are taxed, and that tax becomes the revenue that we need in order to pay for the rising services that we give to our citizens. So that number is documented. I can get you more detail about where those regional studies have come from, but it is consistent. We know where our major employers are, where they're located. We know that the amount of payroll because we collect the income tax from them. So that's not something, a number that we just pull out of our hat. We've been tracking that and maintaining that and managing that information for decades now and it is the basis. of our income tax. It is that piece. And then over 70%, the number correlates to over 70% of our general fund revenue is from that income tax. So yes, we do have small businesses in our community and they are spread throughout our neighborhood and our residential areas. And they also generate income, so small business development in our corridors and in our neighborhoods are also very important, and they make up the balance of that 100%, the 30% or so that generates income for the city of Dayton. So yes, there is a balance, there is a need to not focus one over the other, but the reality is what it is, and that is that the majority of our jobs are centered in our core, downtown area. And again, that is not uncommon for most metropolitan cities.

Thank you, Ms. Lofton. Correct me if I'm wrong. This information too is on the dashboard. If we go, if individuals want to visit the city's website under a management and budget, there's a dashboard there and it has all of the various different financial quarterly reports, all of that information. Could you speak to a little bit about that?

sure all of our finance committee meetings that we have where we update you all on our progress over the year how much we're collecting in all of our revenue streams income tax property tax fines forfeitures what have you that's all tracked and reported to you all once a quarter and it is on the City's Management and Budget webpage, and it goes back several years, and we, again, we monitor that very closely. As much as we have to spend every year on services, we also have to make sure that we're collecting and receiving the revenue that's giving us the ability to provide those services. So yes, that information is updated and provided every quarter.

Thank you. Last question. There is a report that we receive annually and that report speaks to the return on investment, if you will. The number of jobs, the potential earnings from the jobs that are created from the income tax. Could you speak to that a little bit in terms of like the time frame in which we generally receive that report and if that information is noted on the site as well?

So in my mind where I believe that information is most prevalent is when we give you all the economic development update where we track and sort of understand where any new jobs have been established through businesses and business growth, what we've done with those development dollars, how we've incentivized any businesses to relocate here or locate or expand or grow here and what that investment gives us back in terms of dollars and income tax. So there is leveraged investment that we track and keep up with, and of course that is always the goal based on what Commissioner Beckham is sharing. If you know that your primary source of income to do your business is through jobs, then that is an indicator of how well we're keeping pace, right? We have to maintain jobs, and jobs at all wage levels. So it's not like we're just going after, you know, the $100,000, $400,000 jobs. We need our citizens to work as well. Again, our income tax is based on where you work, not just where you live. And so we want jobs for all of our citizens and our residents, and we want companies to be able to provide a diversity of salary wages and ranges.

Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Just a couple more comments. Thank you, Mr. Johnson, for your comments as it relates to the NCA. And note, as mentioned, it's been about six weeks now. We've had some conversation. There are the questions are in fact on the city's website on the actually as soon as you go to the city's website You will see a link that says NCA presentation and it lays out the questions as well as the presentation again as noted the resolution I'll be bringing that before it has to go through the law department first and I'm hopeful that the law department is we'll be able to turn the resolution around. It has to go through the law department for form and correction. Once it goes through the law department, then it will then in turn go through the process through the city manager's office for review on that Thursday meeting and then hopefully we'll see it on the calendar for that following Wednesday for us to be able to vote on for for consideration for the approval of that resolution. So I appreciate your comments. Thank you, Mr. Peterson. I know that he has left, but I will follow up with him to address his questions in regards to the audit. And Ms. Mary Sue, you have questions in regards to the audit as well. So what this body has been able to do thus far is we have been able to collect if you will proposals from three to four different firms those three to four different firms we have now compiling all of that various different the the proposals itself reviewing and vetting those proposals now the next step is for us to have a conversation and to decide as to which firm will be selected to execute the audit there are members of this commission as well myself included commissioner Fairchild, I believe, and I won't speak out of turn, that are calling for an investigation to go along with that audit. So again, we're looking at those proposals that we received, the three or four proposals, and now we will make a selection. That information has already been collected, and I appreciate your comments in that vein, as well as the other comments that you have raised in acknowledging the members of the organization and the work that they've been able to do in addressing the concerns. Ms. Agbar, we do know that we are experiencing heightened violence throughout the country. Although we're seeing lower levels of crime, there are still the effects of crime that we are seeing, and violence, I should say, violence that are affecting many of our community members. And so working through what those resolutions are and identifying ways and means for us to have Constructive conversations, but also putting those provisions in place where everyone feels safe and everyone feels That the city of Dayton again under our watch Is in fact a place to belong and that downtown is and throughout all of the city all city 65 neighborhoods is a place where everyone should feel welcome and belong Mr. Starks, thank you for your comments. I am You asked me to call you out on a couple things, and I'm going to do so. So I will ask that if you and I can have a conversation, because there is a lot of inaccuracies in your statement, but I ask that you and I can have a conversation more in detail about some of the various different things that you have noted. As mentioned, this body many of us the meeting that took place on monday from my understanding the notice the public notice went out on seven on 7 august that was uh through the various different channels of the city uh social media the website i do believe that the county as well they shared that information um had i personally could have did better yes i take take full ownership of that in terms of making sure that that information get out in a more more accurate time if you are more prompt time. And so I did send the information out when that information was readily available and made available to us. But the notice did go out through all the various different channels through the city of Dayton on the 7th. And then I shared that as well. I know some of my other colleagues in the county, they shared it as well. But That meeting itself was an opportunity to provide an update on some of the questions that were posed around the advisory committee that was convening under Congressman Turner's office. And it was also an opportunity for the county and the city for us to hold a joint meeting, which is something that we have already pledged to early on. We actually made the pledge back in December or January when I first came on board that that was something that we were committed to doing, making sure that we had an opportunity to work together and to address the concerns in our community overall. And so I look forward to Continuing on those conversations and having those joint meetings. We also had some offline conversations to see if that's something that we want to entertain on an annual basis. My hope is that we will also extend that same offer to our school board as well. So conversations are being had in that vein. Note that we do have a full report of the recommendations and the city's response. Those recommendations are, and correct me if I'm wrong, Ms. Jackson, those are on the website, the recommendations, or is that something that we can definitely upload to? We have a full report. The city has a full report of the recommendations, and we highlighted some of those various different things as recommendations President Commissioner Rice, she noted in her presentation of the things that we are working on jointly together. The street outreach program, that is something that we had a press conference on a couple of weeks ago. That's something that we're working on collectively together. The men's gateway shelter and the continuum of care, that's something in a relationship that has been ongoing for a number of years that we are continuing to move forward on that in terms of the permanent supportive housing. So that's just a highlight of some various different things that we've been able to work on now that we're going to continue to work on. So Mr. Starks, I invite you for you and I to have a conversation and we can be able to have more detailed conversation. And then note that I have also responded to a number of your inquiries via email. We could take it offline if you like. Again, I want to make sure you have all the information and any questions that you may have that you receive the answers that you need. So again, I thank everyone for attending this morning's meeting. And then there was one other thing that I wanted to note too, Ms. 16, the $1 billion tax incentives. Do you have any idea as to what that is referring to?

No, the only thing that I thought was the one million, we talked about general fund that could be shifted to the community, which we alluded to from the beginning, because the remote TIF is now mature and generating income. And so the idea was if that stays, it's generated from the downtown businesses. If that stays there, then it allows us to shift uh some of our development fund allocation annual development fund allocation into the community for community uses like more demolition housing etc okay thank you i appreciate it with no further business that come before the commission this meeting is now adjourned