City Commission - Regular Meeting

Okay, 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, the invocation will be given by Commissioner Fairchild.

And Commissioner Joseph has a moment of silence. Want me to start, Commissioner?

Yes, please. Thank you all. I'd like to take a moment for us now to honor the life and memory of young man Pierre DeMoss Bell. We hold his family, his loved ones, and the entire community, especially the Haitian community in Springfield, in our thoughts during this painful time. With this moment of silence, we honor his dignity, his aspirations, and his memory. With just a moment of quiet reflection, please. Thank you.

Thank you. And thank you, Commissioner.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Thank you, Commissioner. And for our prayer tonight, Wendell Berry passed yesterday. And Wendell Berry was a Christian mystic, a farmer, an advocate for economic and racial and social justice. And if you're not familiar with his writings and his poetry, I encourage you to become familiar. So I have a poem for our prayer tonight from Wendell Berry. It's entitled, What We Need Is Here. Geese appear high over us, pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds them to their way. Clear in the ancient faith, what we need is here. And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart and in eye clear. What we need is here. Amen.

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.

All right, Ms. McClendon, may we please have a roll call?

Mayor Turner-Sloss? Aye. Commissioners Joseph?

Aye.

Shaw? Aye. Bearchild?

Aye. Beckham? Aye.

May I have a motion to approve the minutes of the August 26, 2026 meeting? And there are some corrections that need to be made.

So moved, Your Honor. Second motion.

It has been properly moved and seconded to approve the minutes of the August 26, 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. And this evening, we have a presentation on the semi-annual IAA report. Mr. Parlette, please proceed.

Yes. Yes, Mayor. This is, as you mentioned, the report of the Independent Accountability Auditor. As you're aware, we have a contract with Frost Brown Todd and representatives here ready to get going.

Good evening. Good evening, Ms. Brown. This is the second semiannual report of the Independent Accountability Auditor for 2026, covering activities for the first half of 2026. So in review, the duties of the Independent Accountability Auditor, or the IAA, are to review citizen-generated complaints against the Dayton Police Department, to audit the investigation process and the discipline process, to produce reports, and to recommend changes to policy, procedure, and training. So in review of the citizen-generated complaints for the first half of the year, first I just want to take a second to just identify the two different types of citizen-generated complaints. First, you have complaint receipts. And those are complaints that can be resolved immediately, either to the satisfaction of the complainant, or it may be a complaint that was actually against something another agency outside of Dayton or the courts or it could be a complaint from one citizen against another citizen so it's not actually police misconduct but we still record those. And then you have the citizen complaints and those are the complaints that require an investigation. So looking at the data from January 1st through June 30th, there were a total of 70 citizen complaints and complaint receipts. And those are the originating incidents. But there can be additional allegations stemming from one incident. So we are going to focus on just the citizen complaints, not the complaint receipts. And as you can see, there were 23 originating events and 60 specific alleged complaints. So what that could look like is from one event, there could be multiple officers that someone has a complaint against, or it could be different policy violations in the same event. So comparing the first half of this year to previous years, you can see there has been an increase in the number of complaints received. But we're still in the average, so it's not a drastic change. I also want to note that just because there is an increase in the number of complaints received, it doesn't mean that there is an increase in police misconduct. Actually, the majority of the complaints have been found to be unfounded or exonerated, which I'll explain in a minute. So exonerated means that the act that was alleged did happen, but it was lawful and proper. Unfounded means that there's no evidence that the act actually happened. Then something can be sustained when the act did happen or not sustained when there is not enough evidence to prove or disprove that it occurred. So looking at the data from the first half of the year, as you can see, 55% of the complaints were found to be unfounded. 23% were found to be exonerated. 17% were found to be sustained, which is an increase from the past few years. On average, previously it's like 10% or less. This is an increase, and I'll talk about that in a minute. And then 3% were determined to be not sustained, and one investigation is still in progress. In review of the sustained citizen complaints, there were 10 complaints originating from three different incidents. So out of those three different incidents, there were three officers that were involved. The first two incidents, it involved one officer. And it was two different complaints. The third incident, there were eight different allegations, four with each officer. and they were for discourtesy and disrespect, missed court appearance, insubordination, performance expectations, and exercising care while operating a vehicle. Looking at these three, I did review the investigations and all the investigations did take place within 90 days in accordance with policy. The officer that was involved in incident one and incident two received oral reprimands for both incidents and then the officers involved in incident three received written reprimands for that incident and also were directed not to work together moving forward. We also reviewed the unfounded citizen complaints to see if our conclusions were the same. There were a total of 33 complaints originating from 11 different events. And this involved 17 different officers, and there were a variety of allegations. In our review, 23 out of the 33 complaints were determined to be unfounded. Five of the complaints were determined to be exonerated. And what we've been finding is that sometimes when the investigations are happening, the complaint that will come in will be something like, An officer conducted an illegal search of my vehicle. So they'll go through the investigation at the end. The conclusion says there's no evidence that there was an illegal search. So they reach the conclusion that it's unfounded. But the way that we look at it, we first see was there a search? Yes, there was a search. So that act did occur. But was it lawful? Yes, it was lawful. So the officer would be exonerated rather than the complaint being unfounded. There were two complaints that were determined to be sustained and these were discourtesy and disrespect complaints or a rudeness complaint. Two were determined to be not sustained. We didn't believe there was enough evidence to make a determination on that one and then the last complaint we couldn't review because we didn't have any evidence to look at. And lastly, reports, or almost last. So looking at our hours by activity, most of our time is spent auditing investigations, preparing the semiannual reports. We were also reviewing policies and procedures, attending community appeals board meetings, hearings. We also spent time in the field. So I participated in a ride along. I also attended the critical incident press briefing. There was one critical incident reported to us in March. It was an officer-involved shooting. And then looking at the investigation timeline, as mentioned, the policy requires investigations to be complete within 90 days, and all the investigations were complete in under 90 days. There's one that's still in progress, but they're still within the 90-day limit. And then policy review. We decided to review the de-escalation policy. We were finding there was a pattern coming up with discourtesy and disrespect complaints. And we wanted to see if there was a way to address that through the de-escalation policy. And so when we think about de-escalation, de-escalation is conflict management strategies. So the big goal of de-escalation is to reduce a threat and to obtain voluntary compliance. But de-escalation is also helpful with building trust with who you're talking to, with stabilizing the emotions and just getting to a resolution more efficiently. So in review of the current policy statement, as you can see, it's written in a way that combines the escalation with potentially violent encounters. And so with our findings, we determined that it doesn't mention a broader use of de-escalation tactics outside of potentially violent encounters. We also identified that the de-escalation techniques and situational awareness considerations are listed under de-escalation options, which suggests that it's optional to use these strategies. We also determined that the policy provides minimal discussion of officer conduct that can escalate situations. So given that it's a de-escalation policy, it's focused on de-escalation, but considering how escalation can cause a situation that requires de-escalation is also important. So we propose to consider that the need for effective conflict management is not just limited to potentially violent situations. And an officer's conduct may cause or increase the risk of confrontation or use of force if the officer misses opportunities to use de-escalation strategies and if the conduct of the officer actually escalates the situation. So our recommendation is to revise the policy and the policy statement to incorporate broader use of de-escalation techniques, to revise the policy to address officer conduct that may escalate situations, and to revise policy wording and organization to clarify expectation. And our plan is to provide our findings and recommendations and propose revisions to the policy review committee for their input. We recognize that this policy was crafted by the police reform group, and we just feel like this is an opportunity to take their work one step further. And with that, that concludes our report. I'm happy to answer any questions.

Thank you very much. Commissioners, any questions or comments? Commissioner Beckham.

Thank you, Your Honor. Just a few. First of all, thank you for this comprehensive report. It's the first time I think the IAA update has come before us, at least in the time that I've been up here. So it's good to see this work being done. I am curious, given the number of sustained complaints, Could you speak a little bit more to what the nature was of those? It did sound like there was some patterns around just how the engagement with the citizen was going. But I'm curious if you could maybe speak to what the key consistency was in the sustained complaints.

So with those three incidents, one had to do with an officer not appearing for court. So that was one incident. The third incident, that's the one that had the eight allegations. The officers were spotlighting, so they were shining their flashlight into a moving vehicle. They were also told not to do that before, and they did it again. I don't remember what the second one was, so...

All right, thank you for that detail. The other thing I quickly say, I was involved in the police reform work. I was specifically on the use of force committee. So I recall having pretty lengthy discussions about de-escalation. So I appreciate the recommendations along in terms of building on that work. I'd be curious to know, AT WHAT POINT THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE WOULD BRING THOSE FINAL POLICY CHANGES FORWARD? IS THERE A TIMELINE THAT'S BEEN SET ALREADY OR IS IT STILL IN THE WORKS? DO YOU WANT TO SPEAK TO THAT?

Good evening, Chief Eric Henderson.

Good evening.

Good evening, Mayor, Commissioners, City Manager, Deputy City Manager, and Clerk. So our Policy Review Committee meets once a month. So it's a very diverse group that meets within our department. Ms. Brown also joins those conversations and provides input. So I would say within the next 30 days, we should be able to review. I don't know the last time they met. So I would say we can definitely supply that exact date that we should have this work done. But we definitely want to make sure we still keep what was developed during the police reform. If you recall, this was actually meant originally to be incorporated within the use of force policy. And one of the things that we saw is that this should apply to more than just use of force incidents. We should be using de-escalation tactics on every type of situation we encounter. So I just think we just need to do a better job in making sure that everyone understands that that's the process. So does that answer the question? It does. Thank you, Chief. Thanks.

Those are all my questions, ma'am.

Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Fairchild.

Yeah, thank you for this report. It's very helpful. I'm curious, what happens when in your review your assessment differs from I assume it's the Professional Standards Bureau that's making these determinations. So there was two cases where you looked at the cases and you said, these really should have been sustained. But that's not what the Professional Standards Bureau had determined. What happens at that point?

we meet and talk about it and it depends on the situation. So there have been instances where I have met with Lieutenant Bauer to talk about certain problem areas and then we resolve it however it needs to be resolved.

Okay. Would that then possibly be a reversal of their decision or is it just looking forward to how they might do their work better in the future?

I think it depends. There hasn't been anything that has been extreme, but there have been instances of having certain officers go through additional training, some sort of corrective measure to address whatever we found.

Thank you. And Chief Henderson already kind of shared my second comment, which I was on the training police reform group. And I remember that conversation about where de-escalation went. And there was originally going to go in use of force, but as Chief said, we moved it out because it should be broader. And so I think your recommendation is in spirit with what the reform group was doing and getting better language and then training that's consistent with that language will be helpful. Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Fairchild. Commissioner Shaw.

Yes, thank you for this report. It is helpful to us to kind of understand the process of how this works and I was really just interested. So you said that, I was looking for this sheet now and I can't find it, that there has been an uptick in, I guess, discourtesy or, tell me again what you said.

So we were seeing trends with the discourtesy and disrespect complaints. And so when you're reviewing the footage, you can see that there are some officers who do a very great job at conflict management. When they're speaking to people who are heightened, it's, I hear you, I understand, and they're calming the situation. But there are other officers who don't do that, and sometimes it makes the situation worse. But if there's no policy to address that, it's hard to correct it, other than training or just letting people know, do it differently, but to make that more of an expectation that we should be speaking professionally all the time, we should be taking control of the situation as the person of authority in those situations, you set the tone. So making sure that those steps are taken so that things can be resolved better and people feel respected in the process.

That makes sense to me. So I'm interested in understanding how that is then reported out. How do the troops kind of get informed that, hey, there has been this uptick? What's the process for kind of correcting that? Does that go to the chief, to the professional standards?

We haven't really discussed that. That's a good question.

So this is information that we share. We report out usually yearly on what type of allegations we've had and what type of discipline or corrective action has been issued. But also part of the process, our Professional Standards Bureau is looking for trends in these issues, and then working with our training bureau to provide additional training, especially on one-off situations where there's just a specific person that we might be having issues with. But I do want to highlight the vast majority of our folks are doing a great job on a day-in, day-out basis. So it's difficult work that they're doing, and it's oftentimes during some critical heightened situations. But we're also an extremely young department. I looked at the numbers this morning. Nearly half of our officer rank is five years or less on the department. And then a lot of our supervisors are also younger in their tenure as supervisors. So it's a constant learning cycle, and that's why I want to make sure that we're providing as much training as we can to our folks.

Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you both.

Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Joseph.

Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for this report. This is excellent. You all know that I had hand in writing this, so it's always exciting to get your reports. It's great to see it come alive. And I have to say, Commissioner, your question about what happens when she sees something that doesn't mesh, I was like, come on, answer it right, answer it right, and it's just as we envisioned. You went and you talked to the right people, and if there were additional sanctions needed or changes needed to be made, they were made, and that's the process that we really fought to have included because too many times, there wasn't a mechanism there to have those things happen. The review cycle wasn't there, the connection with the right people wasn't there, You're doing great. That was a wonderful and excellent question, Commissioner. I was going to ask that one, too. But I have two other points I want to make. The first is, I'm looking at the citizen-generated complaints over time chart that you've built. And if you could add a column to each of those with a number of originating events. I think that's a key stat. If you could stick that in there. Because I'd like to see that trend. That would be great for the next time out. I had the same question that the commissioner did, and I just wanted to acknowledge Commissioner Beckham's and Commissioner Fairchild's comments on expanding the use of de-escalation techniques. I think it's a great idea, and I look forward to the report back. So thank you very much.

You're welcome. Thank you, Ms. Brown. And I, too, want to echo my colleagues. A number of my questions have already been asked. But I do want to pull on the thread just a tad bit from Commissioner Shaw's point. When you mentioned, Chief, that the staff PD, many of our officers, five years or less. So with that, there will take 30 days for the policy, if you will, to be updated, to be revised, whatever have you, once it goes through the various different process. The question that I have is, so what are the immediate, if you will, solves to the trends that we are seeing that Ms. Brown has noted in terms of the lack of courtesy and the uptake, if you will, in the trends of the lack of courtesy and professionalism? I hope we're not waiting, which I know we're not. We're not waiting for that yearly report out, but is in fact, Are there, I should say, training memos? What is in fact informing the staff, leadership, as well as the officers on the street, in the field, whatever have you, that there are concerns as it relates to the level of professionalism?

Yeah, so when this policy is revamped, that's gonna get issued out, and that's pushed out through our learning management system, basically. Okay. So we're sharing that information. But we're looking at, as you said, we have roll call training, and then we can pull folks back in, back to our academy to receive some additional training. But on the instances where discipline was rendered, those conversations have occurred, those processes have occurred. But one of the things that we did I think it was early 2022, we completed what's called Integrating Communications and Tactics Training, which is ICAT is what it's called. It's through Police Executive Research Forum, and it's basically de-escalation, and it's evidence-based and research-based. So there's been research that this, proves to reduce use of force incidents and helps with slowing situations down. So one of the things, all of our new recruits receive that training. Our officers receive it when they go back to the academy, kind of just intertwined with some of our other training. But one of the things that we're looking at doing early next year is bringing the whole department back and putting them through that entire process through that ICAT training. So I think that will help long term. But again, We see fluctuations. It depends on the situation, and we want to make sure we're focused on individuals that may be leading to some of these upticks also.

So not... So it's not simultaneously worked, right? You want to focus on those individuals, but you also want to set the tone throughout the organization, right? You just don't want to, you want to make sure before it even leads to any others that we're adopting that behavior, that it is overall the sentiments of the organization, right?

Yes, I mean, we have 40 training officers out in the field. We have 27 sergeants that are out in the field. And, you know, they're reviewing video day in and day out and having conversations one-on-one, you know, just like any work environment with, you know, with their staff. So there's communication happening all the time about best ways to handle situations, new techniques, and things like that. So it's ongoing. So it's just not one and done, and there's no one touch point. We also do... audits, random audits of our videos. So we do 45 random audits a month of those videos. So we're constantly looking at stuff and those are random. Those are picked by calls for service because we want to make sure officers are activating their body cameras and everything on calls for service. So it's picking that information out and making sure we're in compliance with that too. So there's a number of touch points.

Okay. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. Ms. Brown, thank you very much for your report. I really appreciate the work and the comprehensive review. And thank you for going into details and providing the additional context and giving examples as to why and how de-escalation can be best suited and utilized through the various situations. Mr. Parlette, Ms. Brown made a recommendation some time ago. Do you know where we are on her initial recommendation during the last review where, I believe, and I'm paraphrasing, that we need to perhaps have more of a user-friendly process in terms of how the public is in fact lodging their concerns or their complaints? I believe I have that right.

That was with Mr. Moore. We did discuss that. Okay. Oh, but you're talking about the, okay. Yes. The correspondence that complainants receive when they file a complaint, specifically with the appeals board, explaining to them what the process is, what the appeals board can and cannot do,

My understanding was that the Mediation Center was doing that work, but we'll double check.

Okay, I appreciate it. Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Brown. I really appreciate the report. Thank you. Thank you.

Ms. McClendon, are there any deletions or, let me ask first, excuse me, additions, deletions, or comments to the calendar?

Yes, Your Honor. I would like to request the addition of resolution number 6951-26, supporting the dedication of $1 million of associated general fund revenue to fund and promote neighborhood development across the city.

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

Your Honor, I have no additions or deletions, just a couple of comments. We have several grant agreements that seek to distribute some of our entitlement dollars to organizations doing some really important work in our community. Additionally, Resolution 6949-26 seeks to create the new community authority, and Resolution 6950 provides some depth of definition in terms of what parcels are included in it. That's all I have, Your Honor.

Thank you, Mr. Parlett. Ms. McClendon, are there any citizens that are registered to speak this evening on calendar items?

Yes, Your Honor. There are six 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 and you will have 30 seconds remaining to speak. When the red light comes on, you'll 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 Talis Gage. Thank you, Mr. Gage. Sharon Screech.

Hello, Commissioner. Good evening. And Mr. Parlett. My name is Sharon Screech. I live at 515 West Grand Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, 45405. And I'm here to speak about... Resolution 6949-26, determining that the City of Dayton New Community Authority and District will be conducive to the public safety and convenience. But anyway, good evening, Mayor and Commissioners. Let's be clear about something. The name change from the City of Dayton Citywide New Community Authority to simply the City of Dayton New Community Authority speaks volumes because we already know it's not citywide. Everyone in this room knows the conversation is primarily about downtown Dayton. We're not talking about the neighborhoods on the east side, the west side, or the other communities throughout the city that have been dealing with blight, vacant properties, deteriorating infrastructure, and limited city services for years. So let's stop pretending that this is something that equally benefits the entire city. And let me be equally clear. The city of Dayton new community authority is not wanted by everyone. Anything that adds another surcharge to the cost of eating, shopping, or doing business downtown deserves serious scrutiny, especially when residents are already struggling with the rising cost of living. Why is it always the residents who are expected to carry the financial burden of decisions they didn't ask for? And frankly, I have serious concerns about this commission's ability to make a decision of this magnitude. Anyone who regularly attends these meetings can see that this commission is divided. You're not always on one accord. And when residents witness one commissioner openly disrespecting another, it makes people question the level of trust they should place in this body's decision making. Quite honestly, I don't trust this commission to decide What we're having for lunch today, let alone make a decision that could reach into the pockets of Dayton residents. Let's put this into perspective. Imagine you have $10 in your pocket. You normally spend $8.50 on lunch downtown. You budgeted for it. Then you get your bill and there's an additional $1 surcharge. To someone making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, a dollar may not mean much. But to a city employee making $27,500 a year or a parent trying to feed their family, that dollar matters. When you're already deciding between groceries, gas, utilities, rent, and putting food on the table, another surcharge is not insignificant. It's another burden. And that's what this commission needs to understand. Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Screech. I call to the podium Alec Johnson That walk gets longer and longer

I'm Alec Johnson. I live at 3206 Linden Avenue in the Hearthstone neighborhood of Dayton. Greetings Mayor, Commissioners, and the greater Dayton community. Imagine two Dayton residents who should be able to help one another. A skilled construction worker whose hours are uncertain and a homeowner with a leaking roof and an inefficient furnace. The skill is here, the need is here, the money is being spent, but too often the contract goes elsewhere, the profit leaves the region, and Dayton is left with the same unmet need. That's why the proposed citywide new community authority is such a profound wrong turn. I'm not opposed to sidewalks, parks, the convention center, or downtown development. But this vote would not merely approve a sidewalk. It would create a long-lived Chapter 349 body with power to impose community development charges, issue bonds, and operate through an initially appointed board that includes developer representatives. The official case centers on a $77 million, 197 room hotel and promises citywide use later. Yet the public materials do not provide binding answers. Who ultimately pays if charges are passed through? What enforceable labor standards apply? Who owns the wealth and who absorbs the risk if the hotel underperforms? When do residents gain meaningful power? Saying property owners opt in and the city's full faith and credit is not pledged changes the risk but not the distribution. A charge voluntary for an owner can become a cost for workers, tenants, and customers. Debt outside the general fund can still organize public choices around creditor claims. The NCA turns private development into a public institution without turning the resulting wealth into public or community wealth. It's the old attraction strategy in a new legal wrapper, subsidize a project, hope benefits trickle outward, and postpone democracy until later. There is a much better approach, the Miami Valley Community Wealth Initiative. It starts by mapping what the city and anchor institutions buy outside the region, identifying what we can responsibly produce here, and connecting that demand to local suppliers, worker cooperatives, community land ownership, training, and accountable procurement. This is selective import and placement and not isolation. Instead of hoping one hotel radiates prosperity, we build rooted enterprises whose jobs, ownership, and surplus stay in the Miami Valley. I ask you to vote no on the citywide NCA and instead ask this commission to place on a future agenda a resolution that supports the Miami Valley Community Wealth Initiative and establishes a formal pathway to city cooperation with its independent community-led research and planning. Bring the roofer, the homeowner, and Dayton's purchasing power into the same economic system. And in conclusion, I say, again and again and again, let public power and public policy produce public wealth. Let's keep the wealth we create. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Johnson. I call to the podium Lynn Lamance.

Hi, Lynn Lamance, 1061 Bertram Avenue. Good evening. Good evening. I am also speaking in opposition of the NCA. First off, as it was said in previous meetings, we don't believe in trickle-down economics. There is also several areas of the city that have neglected business districts that do not have the money that the downtown gets, nor this, nor TIFs, nor anything. North Main Street businesses, Gettysburg businesses, West 3rd Street, past the historic area, like you're going to Drexel. I mean, these business districts look like an abomination and get no help. And then the next thing, yeah, the neighborhoods that were mentioned before in Columbus and then over the Rhine, now over the Rhine in Cincinnati, those are gentrified areas. And so I need that to be recognized. There has to be another tool in the toolbox besides gentrification or historic districts that save everything. and then again I had spoke before regarding the board of the NCA. We had passed A tax initiative, citizens voted for this for a public hospital. Again, everything moving forward with the NCA and the board, we have not heard much regarding the public hospital. And I just received a report. It's actually on the Dayton Children's website. But it's the Community Health Needs Assessment dated 2026 to 2029. And it clearly shows maternity... I'm sorry, disparities in maternity for black women and giving birth. This has been documented several times. I mean, it's documented. The Ohio Public Health has it. Montgomery County Public Health Board has it, which Verletta Jackson sits on the board of that. The Dayton Foundation has mentioned it. Also, I have an article from a Jasmine Young that is actually my citywide worker from my neighborhood, but also sits on the Minority Health Board of the Public Health, which also clearly talks about maternity health. It's mentioned everywhere, from state to local. And we're just looking for something to actually be done with the public hospital in regards to maternity health and a birthing center. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. LaMance.

I call to the podium Ebony Hastings.

Lower hand mercy. Lower hand mercy. Good evening, Ebony Hastings, 1238 Wabash Avenue. Luke chapter 16, verse 10. Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much. Whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. What it means is if the city is careless with small amounts, can we trust it with millions? Yes. I read this agenda, all 523 pages. It is released 48 hours, and it is written in legalese. written for attorneys, not us. My point tonight is not that we are looking at it. First, the contracts. The commission says the contracts are published good, but published is not the same as audited. Has anyone done a forensic audit of the 223 contracts signed under the city manager's authority? Has anyone counted how many more have been awarded since? Can we see the list? BUT WE HAVE SEEN THE LIST, BUT WE HAVE NOT SEEN THE REAL CHECK. THAT MATTERS BECAUSE YOU TELL US THERE IS A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR GAP IN OUR BUDGET, AND AT THE SAME TIME, THE CITY MANAGER CAN SIGN CONTRACTS UNDER $50,000 WITH NO VOTE AND NO OVERSIGHT. $50,000 CHECK SIGNED ALONE WHILE WE ARE TOLD THE MONEY IS SHORT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. SECOND, THE HOUSING TRUST FUND. THE COMMISSION JUST PASSED A RESOLUTION ABOUT HEALTH CARE AND SNAP BENEFITS. INFORMAL RESOLUTION 1017-26. GOOD WORDS, BUT NO TEETH. I WANT DAYTON TO HAVE THE SAME ENERGY FOR A HOUSING TRUST FUND. THE DAYTON TENANTS UNION HAS ALREADY ASKED FOR ONE. NEARLY HALF OF DAYTON RENTERS ARE RENT BURDENED. IT COSTS LESS TO KEEP A FAMILY to stay in their home up front before they become homeless, then to pay on the back end after they have been displaced. Start a housing trust fund. It is cheaper than the alternative, and it is the right thing to do. Third are police cars. The police have the biggest share of the city's cars, 250 out of 612. Officers drive like the rules do not apply. Lights and sirens for a U-turn, red lights, speed bumps at full speed. The wrong way down a one-way street, driving close behind residents. It feels like we are being hunted in our own neighborhoods. Every cruiser that they wear out and wreck is a new car we, the citizens, pay for. When a car is replaced, do you sell it, put the money back, or give it to a family that's in need? I want a public list of police cars purchased and consequences when officers abuse them. Fourth, Zen City. It reads what people post on Facebook and X. And a computer judges how we feel about the city. It is based in Tel Aviv, Israel, across the ocean, working for Dayton since 2018. Is the city still paying for this? How much? What do they... Do with what we say. Show us the full contract. And then the daybreak numbers are incorrect. It's a $200 discrepancy in it. Six, the new community authority. Y'all know I disagree and it doesn't make sense. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Hastings.

I call to the podium Rodney Stark. Rodney Stark.

Rodney Stark, 4526 Alfred Drive, Dayton, Ohio, 45417. Good evening, Mayor. Good evening, Commissioners. Good evening, Deputy City Manager, Madam Clerk, and Ms. Jackson. First of all, I want to apologize. Thank you, Commissioner Fred Chao, for giving me a call. I can admit when I'm wrong. He called me out. I like that. If I say something wrong, I'm going to say it to you. He said that I did not address the commission. I should keep all comments to the commission, and I will do that tonight. But I stand wholeheartedly on my comments that I said. Also, I want to thank Tony Kroger for meeting with me last week. I appreciate him explaining a couple of things to me. I really appreciate that. Other than that, I want to really talk about the NCA because it's at the top of my mind. Like I told you before, it's a Ponzi scheme. It's legal, but I look at it as a Ponzi scheme because you're selling it as it's going to do something for our neighborhood. We already know that there's a funding gap of $17 million, right? We already, Mayor, you said last week that we're already short $15 million. So we're talking about $32 million already we're in the hole, right? Those neighborhoods are not going to see a dime based on how the contract is written. That's not going to see a dime until everything is paid. Those bonds got to be paid off. Everything's got to be paid. The neighborhood's not going to receive a dime. All I'm asking you tonight is say that. Just say, we're not going to be able to give you anything for the neighborhood until we take care of that $77 million hotel. That's all I need you to do. Be honest. Be honest brokers. When we talk about that. Also, let's talk about our neighborhood. You took all the ARPA money. Citizens ask for one thing. Take care of our neighborhoods and clean up our neighborhoods with that money. What did you do? Anytime you dipped into the pot and you came up short with your budget, you took the ARPA money to make it up. You've got it posted online. You took it and made it up with the money. You took $7.5 million and gave it to UD and Premier Health. They got money. But you leave all the trash piles in our neighborhood, the burn piles in our neighborhood, the debris piles in our neighborhood. How fair is that? You got $5 million over here on 34 Main Street that no one's even in there. That's $5 million, 34 Main Street, waiting for Mike Turner and his task force to do something with. You see the discrepancy here? Unemployment is out of control. 8% in Dayton, Ohio. 11% for black folks that live here. 35.4% of black folks in the city of Dayton is below the poverty line. We've got more to talk about.

Thank you, Mrs. Stark. That concludes speakers on calendar items, Your Honor.

Thank you, Ms. McClendon. Commissioners, are there any comments to the city manager's recommendations this evening? Commissioner Beckham.

Yes, Your Honor, just a few. I want to... lift up the organizations that are recipients of our community development block grants. All of these organizations are doing very safety net type of work in our city from Daybreak to Homeful to YWCA, Miami Valley Meals. So I'm glad to see these come forward. Also, Mayor, I just want to thank you for bringing the resolution forward in regards to the THE FUNDS THAT WILL BE GENERATED BY THE FUNDS THAT WILL BE OFFSET THROUGH THE GENERATION OF THE NCA. SO I APPRECIATE IT. THOSE ARE ALL MY COMMENTS.

THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER BECKHAM. COMMISSIONER FAIRCHILD.

Yeah, no, I just wanted to thank you, Mayor, for bringing the resolution and colleagues working together. The community hasn't been able to see the resolution yet. It does several things. One of the things it does is to dedicate a million dollars to neighborhood development. That million dollars is part of the, you know, we had these three recommendations from the Greater Downtown Dayton Fund Committee, which Commissioner Shaw co-chaired. And in there, the recommendation is that um particularly the remote tiff is generating money that can be used for downtown development which creates the opportunity to offset some of the general funds to go into the neighborhood and so this resolution puts that kind of documents that that we're going to do that it also You know, we had a conversation around how do we deal with our neighborhood business corridors, because we know that we need to do work. And as people have pointed out, the NCA is not a tool that will particularly help those neighborhood corridors. So we're asking the city manager and the commission to work together to work on some real strategies so that... We're doing this in tandem. We're working to improve downtown development and neighborhood development, and this resolution documents that commitment to do that work. So colleagues and mayor, thank you for the work.

Thank you, Commissioner Fairchild. Commissioner Shaw.

Thank you, Commissioner Fairchild, and thank you, Mayor, for bringing this forward. This was a good process. We worked through this together, and I think we came up with a really good resolution here that we all want to improve the neighborhoods. You all want to press economic development out into the neighborhoods, and I think this NCA tool is going to go a long way to strengthening that. So I just want to thank you and appreciate it.

Thank you, Commissioner Joseph.

I just want to add my thanks. I know it wasn't always easy, but I appreciate your legwork, and thank you, colleagues, for working together to get this done.

Thank you all. Again, sentiments are the same. I also, too, want to thank the community. Thank you for your voices. Thank you for your advocacy. Note that the neighborhoods are, in fact, important to all of us. We want to make sure that that work is done with a healthy balance and in tandem. As Commissioner Fairchild has mentioned, there's no one over the other or And so with this resolution that we have before us, it codifies that work. It allows us to be able to move where the work is necessary. So again, thank you to the community. Thank you to DUER, Dayton Unite for Human Rights, Dayton Tennis Union, to all of my colleagues, and to the law department. I really, truly want to thank our law department. They had a number of versions. And this was a great exercise for us. And again, I just sincerely want to thank my colleagues for your willingness. We were able to give and take, to compromise, to have conversations. And so I hope that this is the path that we continue on into making sure that we are answering the call and addressing the grievances and really pushing forward legislation that is, again, can really be the tool that's necessary to improve the quality of life. So thank you to Mr. Davis, Ms. Jackson. And again, I really want to highlight and uplift the work of our law department because they were in there doing the work until the ninth hour. We got it done. Thank you to the residents and your comments. Ms. Screech, thank you for raising your comments. And you're right in terms of the name change. There was a name change. And Mr. Parlett, correct me if I'm wrong, that was due to there was a lot of confusion with the use of citywide and more so looking at the organization, the quasi form of government citywide itself. So that's why the name was changed.

Please, if there's any... That is my understanding, Your Honor. Confusion potentially with citywide development corporation. Yes. and the phrase citywide within that. So that was some of the feedback we received, so we amended that change.

Thank you, Mr. Parlett, and Ms. Screech, thank you for raising that point. Mr. Johnson, thank you for your comments. You have provided us with a proposed resolution. Thank you very much. I would definitely take time to read this. Some of my colleagues, they were kind of flipping through and going over it as well, so this is something that we would definitely take time to review and digest to see if there is something that we could... proposed for consideration for commission consideration. Ms. Lamance, thank you. Commissioner Fairchild has already spoken to the points in regards to what you raised with the corridors and there are some that don't necessarily have the means or more so even an interest for an NCA that is why I believe that this tool is if you will a pilot to see if it will work if it if it works it works if it doesn't then again we know that we need to course correct we know that we need to pivot so this gives us an opportunity to do so all the while having that resolution to again to codify that the commitment is there for the million dollars in our neighborhood so thank you for your advocacy and the work that you're doing In mention of the public hospital, we are having those conversations as noted. It is not falling on deaf ears. We're looking at the clock. The work is being done from all of us as well as the administration. We're just trying to figure out what is the best path forward in understanding that. there is a need to communicate that to the public. So we, again, there is more to come on that, and we will be providing that information for the public's awareness. So thank you for raising those points. Ms. Hastings, you mentioned an audit. We actually just finalized the financial audit. This early part of this week, we had a review, a number of contracts, a number of our financial controls were in fact reviewed and investigated. And so the final report, I believe we should be receiving that sometime, That's not necessarily my area, so I'll look to Ms. Lofton in terms of when that final summary that we will receive from the auditors, but the audit has been conducted. And that information is, in fact, noted and recorded on the city's website. I believe it's under the Office of Management and Budget. Finance, excuse me, finance. Thank you, Ms. Lofton. So that information is available online. Mr. Stark, thank you. You're correct in terms of the $17 million deficit for the hotel itself. We're not carrying that burden. That is MCCCF-A, which is Montgomery County Convention Facility Authority, which is completely separate from the city of Dayton. Note where our obligations and our commitments are. Yes, we want to see economic development. We want to see that we're addressing the charge, and that is having a number of rooms that are available so that we can attract and potentially host conferences, seminars, whatever the case may be, to have that large volume of visitors into the Dayton area. But I do know that we don't have the capacity or the bandwidth, for that matter, to help fill that deficit of that $17 million, nor have we been asked to at this juncture, and that's my understanding. In terms of the neighborhood investment for ARPA dollars, If you take some time, if you have an opportunity, I would encourage you to look at the city's website on the dashboard. I was hoping that I had a copy. We generally receive, during our quarterly finance review sessions, there is an update that is provided to us from OMB that highlights the progress of the use of the ARPA dollars, the American Rescue Plan dollars. There was actually $55 million out of the $138 million that was designated solely to the neighborhoods. So that include demolition housing projects, curb and sidewalk, a number of various different things. And so the breakdown on the dashboard is very informative, and you can really see where, in fact, those dollars were committed to, and then who were the recipients of those dollars. So I encourage you to take a look at that. And I believe that's all the comments that I have. And so may I have a motion to approve the city manager's recommendations?

You're under our move that we approve the city manager's recommendations. I second the motion.

Thank you. I'm jumping in. Excuse me. It's 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. McClendon.

Aye. First reading resolution number 6949-26, determining that the city of Dayton new community authority and district will be conducive to the public safety, convenience, and welfare, and is intended to result in the development of a new community, declaring the city of Dayton new community authority to be organized as a body politic and corporate in defining the boundaries of the new community district. FIRST READING RESOLUTION NUMBER 6950-26, APPROVING A CONSENT TO ADD CERTAIN PARCELS OF REAL PROPERTY TO THE CITY OF DAYTON NEW COMMUNITY AUTHORITY DISTRICT WITH RESPECT TO THE CITY OF DAYTON NEW COMMUNITY AUTHORITY AS A NEW COMMUNITY AUTHORITY ESTABLISHED UNDER CHAPTER 349 OF THE OHIO REVISED CODE. And for the added legislation, first reading resolution number 6951-26, supporting the dedication of $1 million of associated general fund revenue to fund and promote neighborhood development across the city. 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 11 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, and you will have 30 seconds remaining to speak. When the red light comes on, you'll 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 will prevent the city commission from hearing the speaker's comments. I call to the podium Talis Gage.

Talis Gage, 1921, Salgadiesburg. All right, so the first thing I want to say is I got an idea. An idea, simple, which is, all of y'all, why can't we pick a street? I done said this repeatedly. We pick a street. We pick one house. We see what that kid needs, what that mother needs. If the father is there, we see what he needs, too. And I'm just, we could use us right here. We could be the sources that they use for one small street, one street, one block, one community, one neighborhood. And we got enough people who do footwork. We got the street soldiers. We got Greg West's group, Felons with a Future. We got people that can secure areas. So if we just locked in on one street and we make sure that this neighborhood is safe and clean, like this could be the model and it could just be like a centipede or a caterpillar. It could just keep on Why can't we do that with just y'all? Can y'all get out there with me or something? Can y'all commit to that? I know you will because you've been out there already. You put in the footwork. I appreciate that. But that's all I wanted to say is that right there. But another thing I wanted to say is this guy right here behind me, man, how come you ain't email me? How come you ain't call me? It's been like four months, five months, and I ain't heard from you. I know I'm supposed to address y'all, but it's over with.

Thank you, Mr. Gage.

Okay, my bad. And another thing I wanted to say was, you up in 2030. You and you was up in 2028. I'm on y'all's head, though, and it ain't no threat. It's a promise. I don't care what you write down or what you think. I don't even care if y'all don't like me, because I honestly don't know if I really like y'all that much neither. But when it's time for y'all to be reelected, I'm going to do everything in my power. Everything. We just need one of y'all, one at a time. I'm going to get rid of all three of y'all if I got to do it myself. Y'all stink. Good to see you, Fairchild. Good to see you, Shanice Turner-Sloss. But the other three of y'all, I'm on y'all. Y'all getting up out them seats. I'm going to get y'all out them seats myself.

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

I'm Sharon Screech. I live at 515 West Grand Avenue. The first thing I would like to say is I would hope so that we can retire Ms. McClendon from giving us the three minutes and get some kind of timing dial. I see that in a lot of other council meetings and all that type of stuff where they have a time frame where people can see when their time is almost up rather than someone telling me. That helps with the... how fast I need to speak. So people aren't numbers on a spreadsheet. They are parents, they are seniors, they are city employees, they are working people, they are small business owners, they are residents trying to survive in a city where everything seems to cost more while many people's wages aren't keeping pace. And while we're talking about affordability, let's put the income disparity into perspective. A city manager earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year may not think twice about an additional dollar. But what about the city of Dayton employee earning around $27,500 a year? What does this decision say to that employee? What does it say to the resident living in one of our struggling neighborhoods? What does it say to the family trying to feed their children to keep the lights on? IT SAYS THAT THE PEOPLE MAKING THE DECISIONS AREN'T LISTENING. IT SAYS THAT THE CONCERNS OF WORKING CLASS RESIDENTS AREN'T BEING TAKEN SERIOUSLY. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, IT RISKS SENDING THE MESSAGE THAT THE PEOPLE YOU WERE ELECTED TO REPRESENT ARE NOT YOUR PRIORITY. THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING THIS COMMISSION TO STOP AND LISTEN, NOT JUST BE THE DEVELOPERS not just to downtown interests, not just to people with influence, but to the residents who actually live here. Because Dayton does not begin and end downtown. We have neighborhoods throughout this city that deserve investment. We have residents throughout this city who deserve consideration. We have families throughout this city who are already stretched to their limits. And they deserve to know that when this commission makes a decision, you are thinking about them too. So when residents walk into the voting booth, I hope they remember these conversations. I hope they remember the promises that were made. I hope they remember the concerns they brought before this commission. And I hope they remember whether they felt heard or whether they felt ignored. Because elected office comes with responsibility. You work for the people. And when the people repeatedly tell you that something is hurting them, you have an obligation to listen. You may have the authority to make these decisions, but the residents have the authority to decide who gets to make them. So before you move forward with another surcharge, another authority, or another decision that places additional financial pressure on Dayton residents, I ask you to stop and consider one simple question. Who is this really serving, and who is being asked to pay for it? Because the residents of Dayton deserve an answer, and they deserve better than being told to simply accept the consequences of decisions they never asked for. Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Screech. I call to the podium Bishop Jerome McCorry.

Jerome McCorry, 1461 Cornell, City of Dayton, Your Honor.

Good evening.

Commissioners, to the assistant manager, to each of you, I'm glad to be here. I want to start with first of all a question, a very simple question. Who ultimately should be responsible for leading the city of Dayton and accountable to the people of Dayton? I believe it's time for a strong mayoral form of government in this city. I know it requires a charter change, and I'm not making an argument against professional management. Cities need qualified administrators, department heads, financial professionals, and other experts. Management and leadership, however, are not the same thing. A city is more than an organization to simply be managed. It's a community of people with neighborhoods to strengthen, businesses to develop, families to protect, young people to prepare, and difficult social problems to confront. when citizens are concerned about public safety housing economic development neighborhood deterioration and city services they should not have to study and organizational chart in order to find out who they need to take the problems to Under a strong mayoral form of government, it's the mayor, the people elect the mayor. The mayor is already given the authority to lead and ultimately the people should be holding the mayor accountable at the ballot box. That is democracy. That is accountability. A strong mayor also gives a recognizable voice and an advocate. When we compete for state and federal resources, business, Development opportunities, philanthropic investment, regional partnerships. Our city deserves an executive who can speak with the authority of a direct mandate from the people themselves. This is especially important to residents who often feel like we do in Dayton, disconnected from our city government, from our elected officials. Citizens should be able to look at our mayor and our commissioners. We elected you. We trusted you with leadership. Let others manage. You have to lead. What are you going to do should be our question. The mayor should possess the authority to answer that question with answer and the backing of the city commission. Of course, strong mayoral leadership, strong commissioners must include strong checks and balances. The commission must retain meaningful legislative and budgetary oversight authority. But the choice is not between professionalism and democracy. We can have both. Chicago does it. Baltimore does it. Other cities do it. Your time is up. Thank you. Professional leadership is what we're asking for, and the people want to hold elected officials accountable. It's time for a charter change.

Thank you, Bishop McCord. I call to the podium Alec Johnson. Thank you.

My name is Alec Johnson. I live at 3206 Linden Avenue in the Hearthstone neighborhood of Dayton. Greetings again, mayor, commissioners, and the greater Dayton community. I have to say, it's going to be a tough act to follow the bishop there, so I'm going to abbreviate my remarks some. The Democratic Socialists of America program begins with a proposition. Working people deserve more than survival. We produce abundance, but capitalism organizes it around private profit rather than human need. This contradiction enters city government whenever public money strengthens private accumulation without building public capacity. As I've said before, no five elected officials can abolish capitalism from this dais, but every contract, subsidy, land decision, and development agreement answers a class question. Does public power make private owners richer, or does it expand the ability of working people in neighborhoods to govern their own economic future? The Miami Valley Community Wealth Initiative offers Dayton a practical beginning. It combines import replacement, cooperative enterprise, community land ownership, workforce development, and democratic governance. Instead of asking only how Dayton can attract outside capital, it asks what Dayton's people can own, produce, and build together and how the wealth they create can remain here. I want to thank you, Mayor, for acknowledging the receipt of the draft proposal of the Miami Valley Community Wealth Initiative that establishes a formal pathway for city cooperation and its independent community led research and planning team. I believe you all have it in your packet now. It's a combination of that proposal and the initiative itself. Support it as a new direction away from dependence on mobile capital and toward rooted institutions that workers and communities can help own and govern. We should ask of every major public decision, who pays, who benefits, who governs. Dayton's future should not be something done to working people by investors from somewhere else. It should be something working people build together. And let me repeat, yet again, a refrain I'll never tire of declaring, that public power and public policy must produce public wealth. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Excuse me. I call to the podium Yusuf Elzain.

First, let me appreciate Commissioner Fairchild for the moment of silence for the victim of our government's tragedy. But I had it in my notes, but I was hoping that you'd do the same for the Palestinian and the Lebanese people that are being killed with our tax money. Good evening, Mayor, Commissioner. My name is Yusuf Elzain, 4906 Amberwood Drive. Good evening. Dayton, Ohio. Good evening. Recently, just last weekend, I stood with our neighbors at the unshakable Springfield Rally in solidarity with the Haitian community. One of the speakers, Reverend Jackson, reminded us of Eli Weitzel's words, hate is not the opposite of love, indifference is. I'm here tonight because our administration has managed to weaponize both. On Monday, Pierre Damas Bell, 20 years old, Eight days into his freshman year at Wright State, died just a little bit after he spoke to his dad. Imagine that it's one of your sons doing that. Only because our government put a shackle on his feet. He was fitted with an ice ankle monitor and mocked by classmates for wearing it. That monitor was never about safety. He's a student, for heaven's sakes. It was a modern shackle that we all should be upset about, including all our civil rights leaders that are nowhere to be found these days. The shackle was meant to strip a young man of his dignity for the crime of seeking an education here. That is hate. And a system that lets 20 year old carry that shame alone until the only person left to call is his father from the side of the highway, that's indifference. This is not only a Springfield story. Families in Lebanon and Gaza are living under the continued Israeli occupation and murder. Homes under rubble, families still displaced, still blockaded with no one made to answer for it. A shackled ankle in Ohio and a shattered home in South Lebanon or Gaza come from the same root. A quiet decision that some lives simply count for less. Eli Weitzel didn't warn us about hatred alone. He warned us about the silence that lets hatred do its unopposed. I just heard that recently, it's willful silence. When we took away from a grieving father in Springfield, we are indifferent. When we look away from buried families in Lebanon or Gaza, we are indifferent. So I ask this commission and everyone in this room, where is the conscience of our community, of our nation, of our world? We cannot call ourselves just while we let human beings be shackled, occupied, and buried in silence, reject indifference, speak before another name is added to this list. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Alzein. I call to the podium Lynn Lamance.

Hi, Lynn Lamance, 1061 Bertram Avenue. I would first like to thank Mr. Fairchild for clarifying when the numbers for the downtown employees include actual businesses such as Grandview that lies outside of the downtown area. And getting actual clarification on businesses and employees of the actual downtown area. I would actually like to know, there has been a pause on the home repair loan program, and I would like to know, since you all are collecting our tax dollars, where is that? I also would like to know the people on the boards, the various boards that the city has. I did ask Mr. Squire about it, but specifically, how do people that do not reside in the city of Dayton be on boards? Specifically, the HRC board, there's a person that resides in Englewood, and no, he does not own any city of Dayton property, because I've already looked that up. I also would like to know regarding this flight plan, if citizens go ahead with that, are those going to also be full of people that reside outside of the downtown area, or how many actual citizens are going to be on that flight? before I do commit to that. I would like to thank Matt Joseph for being here and being here for the entire meeting because there's been numerous absences with, you know, no explanation. I also would like to know the Sierra Nevada contracts, have those all been properly bid out? And I mean all of them that's ever been I also would like to know, the speaker regarding the police IAA, can citizens actually get not a copy of the presentation but the actual summary? In other words, the actual complaints and specifically what she works on? For the example, you know, you all get complaints regarding police officers. Is that taken into consideration showing patterns of behavior? You know, the police collect information on us showing patterns of our behavior. You know, speeding tickets, whatever, DUIs, et cetera. But like Joseph Setti, that I believe is still on the police force, those patterns, where is that publicly put? Because the officers that were mentioned, for instance, regarding Reginald Thomas, were not mentioned in the police report. or rather not mentioned in the media. And when you try to pull a police report, the city of Dayton will refer you to Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, which then in turn refer you back to the city of Dayton and then says it's unable to be provided.

Thank you, Ms. Lamance. I call to the podium Ebony Hastings.

Ebony Hastings, 1238 Wabash Avenue. Commissioner Shaw, why are you running for office? Humble yourself. Chief Henderson does not need your protection. My topics tonight are about police accountability in our recreation centers and pools. Two Dayton people were killed by police in the last two years. Brian Moody, he was 16. He was shot in June of 2024. No charges. We never learned the officers names. We never saw the video. Reginald Thomas was 44. He was shot in March of 2026. No charges, no names, no videos. 12 people have died in Montgomery County Jail in two years. In the Christian Black case, a grand jury cleared all 10 officers. This week, a Haitian student named Pierre Demas Bell took his own life after ICE made him wear an ankle monitor. These are all... Authority figures, police officers that are doing these crimes. A life taken is innocent bloodshed on the city and the county. The sheriff's office and the state investigators keep investigating themselves and keep clearing themselves. That is not justice. I am asking this commission to do two things. Give the independent accountability auditor real power, full video, full review. Two, invite the county to join the city in a joint oversight group. The city can start the conversation tonight. And we ask for respect on our streets. Officers should drive with dignity, not like they are chasing prey. We all live here. Second, our pools. The staff at Princeton Recreation Center is phenomenal. Absolutely phenomenal. Diamond taught Serenity not to be afraid of water in 20 minutes. However, because the Belmont pool is closed and due to renovations and we have gone from eight recreation centers to three, you should see the number of children that are waiting to learn how to swim because our resources are limited. Parents are signing their children up to utilize those resources. We need the money for our children. If we take care of our children, our children will take care of us. I don't know how many other ways we need to say it, Matt, you are running. We know that you are running. Do your due diligence. Take care of our children the way that your children are taken care of, the way that the children in Kettering are taken care of. This is not an act. This is a demand. This is a human right for children to have access to resources. It's not just the parents' responsibility to take care of the children when they're out working two and three jobs to make ends meet or trying to go to school to increase their livelihood and their quality of life. And then we want to say, where are the parents at? Well, where's the community at? Where's the church at? The IAA needs to include demographics and disability in order for me to view it as a comprehensive, measurable outcome. Your time is up, thank you. And your body language speaks volumes. We're watching you. Thank you, Ms. Hastings.

I call to the podium Ryan Klein.

My name is Ryan Klein. I live at 1360 Cornell Drive. Good evening, commissioners. Good evening, mayor. On August 17, I woke up at about 4.15 in the morning to the sound of a car crash outside of my house. I live near Cornell and Catalpa. If you watch the traffic for even 20 minutes at this intersection, you would understand why I go to bed every night knowing a car could come through my home. That morning I walked outside to see my neighbor's metal fence was mangled. There were tire ruts in my yard and more damage across the street. The bumper was left on the sidewalk. Dayton Police did a great job and found the driver. Four days later, on August 21st, another car ran the stop sign and hit another vehicle. This is a pattern. Crashes, pedestrian strikes, and drivers blowing through without stopping. It's getting worse. I can't even keep track of all the crashes since I've moved into my home. One of our neighbors was struck and critically injured walking his dog at the intersection. We have asked the city to paint crosswalks, which they did, and they're maintaining those, which we appreciate that. So visibility improved, but speeding and crashes have not improved at all. We have lots of signage. We need physical barriers. I have asked the city about speed humps or raised crosswalks like the ones already used in the Dayton View Triangle neighborhood and the University Row. I was told no, the speed limit on Cornell is 30 and they won't do anything because emergency vehicles use it. Since I was told that, you all have installed speed bumps on Gettysburg, Philadelphia, West Third Street, streets with speed limits of at least 35, and that doesn't seem to have bothered the police or fire departments from doing their job, and they've been really successful at reducing crashes. I'm just curious, do you want a fatality at Cornell and Catawba before we can have some change to the design? A city engineer told me the curbs are completely disintegrated. They're not even there. When a car is crashing, they just go right up into the yard because there's nothing stopping them. The engineer told me This was probably two or three years ago. We would be a priority curb repair when the road was repaved. Well, the road was repaved this year, and the curbs were not touched at all. So I just feel like we're just at significant risk for escalating crashes. Salem has construction. A lot of people cut through Cornell. And we just need some kind of barrier to protect people who live in the neighborhood. I love my neighborhood. I just want to feel safe. where I live, so thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Klein. I call to the podium Rodney Stark.

Rodney Stark, 4526 Alfred Drive, Dayton, Ohio, 45417. Protocol has already been established. Mayor, I do not need to look at a dashboard, all right? I'm going by your financial statements, what you've done with the ARPA money. I invite you all to go and look at what you've done with that ARPA money, all right? So it's right there, tell you what. And by the way, Port Authority owe you like $19 million that you can't collect from them. You know, all those dollars that I talk about could be going to our community. Fix those curves that he's talking about. To fix up all the dirt piles that you left in our community. All that money could go out there, but yet you're spending money, $15 million already in the hole. You're spending money on glamorized porta-potties out there. $400,000 worth of porta-potties. $500,000 and an LLC to come in here and tell you how to treat your employees, right? This is what the bishop is talking about. There's no oversight. There's no management of those funds or those tax dollars. It's a shame and it's almost criminal as what's happening here. Also, the IAA, you need to add another column on that sheet about all the claims, the lawsuits that is being settled also needs to be on there, right? And who got hurt in those crimes. Let me say this, I am not against the police, I'm military, I support the police. We have a lot, a lot, a lot of good officers out there. I know because I talk to them all the time and I tell them all the time, I'm with you when you're right, right? And if you're wrong and you own up to it, I'll be with you. I appreciate you being honest about it. We're with our officers. We're with all of our city workers. We got some fantastic city workers. Like that Chris Shaw said something positive, okay? We love all our city workers. You know the problem I have is right here with this body right here. We've got to start making better decisions. Matt Joseph, you've been here over 22 years. It's time to go, brother. It's time to go. It's time to go. Hang it up. It's not working for us anymore. The one-trick pony downtown isn't working. Chris Shaw, you've been here 10 years. I like everybody, but it's time to go. It's time to hang it up. We need new leadership here. We need to go a different direction. And I'm very serious about it. The chief of staff office needs to be revamped all the way. We got to get support out here. The way that you guys don't listen to the citizens. Darius, you came in here, you dismantled the citizens use of force committee. You took that. Now we have a use of force committee. I can't even find the minutes from what those guys are doing. I don't even know who's on that committee. Where's the minutes? Where's their report?

Time is up. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Dart. I call to the podium Kevin Keller.

I'm going to foul all that stuff up. My name is Kevin Keller, 3922 East 3rd Street, Dayton, Ohio, 45403. Good evening, Mayor, Commissioners. Good evening. City Manager and our audience. I come here today to sing a really old tune. I've said it several times and I'm still looking for an answer. East 3rd Street up the hill. My wife and I were almost killed last week when we pulled out onto East 3rd Street going east When a car come down the hill where it's double lanes around the curve, it's a blind curve to a point, and we're pulling out of Quinton, going south onto East 3rd Street to go up the hill, we almost got, my wife almost lost her life because the guy came down the hill and went on the other side of the yellow line and almost killed us. She had to take evasive action. He didn't care. He just continued on. And he was going at a high rate of speed, probably 50 miles an hour. That hill's got to change. It's a blind curve up a hill, and Smithfield Road at airway is the crown, and it's scary. Two things there. One is the blind curve coming down the hill at Quentin. The other is it crowns out at the top of Smithfield and the airway. Plus when you cross that intersection in a green light, you really don't know which lane you're gonna catch when you go to the other side because there's no stripes lines or anything. You're guessing that you're in the right spot and you're not gonna get hit. That needs to change. I don't care whose property it's on, whether it's city of Dayton, whether it's Riverside, something needs to happen. I'm tired of being up here talking about traffic issues and nothing happens. A couple years ago, like this gentleman said, my yard has been hit by cars several times. And it ended with a woman coming down the hill at about 50 miles an hour, trying to turn left onto Quinton, going south, and she didn't make it. She embedded her car in my hill on the side of my house. That said, that's got to change. The second thing is, oh, wait a minute. Excuse me. I'm going to need a drink of water. Oh, wait a minute. Citizens are not allowed to have drinks in the chamber. That doesn't mesh with me. I don't understand it. But we have our commissioners. They have all the drinks they want up there. I don't understand that. Anyway, this traffic thing's got to change because somebody's going to get killed, just like their situation there. So thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr. Keller. I call to the podium William Hoogstaden.

My name is Bill Hoogstaden, 1216 Cornell Road. I should say Cornell Speedway. I'm just going to reiterate what Mr. Klein had said, that I was the one walking my dog. I got hit. 13 months ago, three broken ribs and a messed up shoulder. The traffic on the Cardinal Speedway is outrageous, and I don't know why we can't have some control to stop it. Obviously, we can't have good things, but do something what they had did on 3rd Street and Gettysburg, at least. Thank you very much.

Thank you, sir. That concludes speakers, Your Honor.

Thank you, Miss McClendon. Mr. Prowlett, do you have any closing comments this evening?

Your Honor, I do have one. I'm nearly certain that you saw that we had two police officers get injured yesterday making an arrest of a domestic violence suspect. I wanted to update you and let you know that they were released from the hospital before noon yesterday. So they're, generally speaking, doing well. No serious threatening injuries. So just wanted to give you that update.

Thank you. And the assailant was apprehended?

Yes.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Perlick.

Ms. McClendon, do you have any closing comments? Yes, Your Honor. City Hall will be closed on Monday, September 7th due to the Labor Day holiday.

Thank you, Ms. McClendon. Commissioners, do you have any closing comments this evening? Commissioner Beckham?

Yes, Your Honor, just a few. I certainly want to thank all of the residents for their comments and concerns that they raised this evening. I want to thank Commissioner Joseph, Commissioner Fairchild for the moment of silence for Mr. Pierre Demaspelle. Such a tragic situation for a really promising young man who is very adjacent to this community. So my prayers and condolences to his family and all affected by that. A lot to address. Specifically, all of the feedback on the IAA. I appreciate that tool, as I said after the presentation. This was one of the initial occasions in which I got to see the result of that process and that work. I think there very much is an opportunity of course, as long as there is discussion and collaboration amongst this commission to add to what the IAA collects and presents to us. I think that is well within our ability. And for it to be an evolving tool makes good sense to me, especially given that it is influencing policy of the police department. So I certainly welcome a discussion about how we add to that report. So thank you for the specific concerns that were raised around that. The home repair loan program, I know that was brought up as well. Of course, I think that was approved by this commission prior to last November. I do believe we received a memo and a I'm not sure how recently that packet came through, but it seems, and City Manager, Assistant City Manager Parlette, please clarify if I'm wrong, but I think there was... From my read of the situation, it was paused due to the income threshold that residents had to meet. Of course, it is set at a particular rate for residents to qualify for that. And because of that, there was not necessarily the frequency of applicants. So I think we Our staff had gone back to the drawing board to kind of re-engineer that program so that it is actually receiving applications that qualify. I think I'm correct in that. So I wanted to speak to that. That's a very important program. All of the traffic concerns... I think when, as an organization, our engineering department, when recommendations are made or things are actually done, it's in the best interest of everyone, the safety of the residents, and of course our city, to actually go back and measure whether or not something has improved. And I appreciate the efforts that has been made thus far, despite how significant or little, but clearly there are still serious problems. And the last thing we want is traffic fatalities in our city. Of course, any fatality in our city is a tragedy, but as it relates to some of these traffic concerns, if we can get just an update and a memo as it relates to truly how far we can go to remediate some of these intersections, There have clearly been some patterns around which ones are the most problematic. I don't think we're hearing every single intersection in our city has a problem, but there clearly is some that have consistent issues, and those are worth real scrutiny. So I would... recommend and request that we actually evaluate with our engineering department what we can do because this is clearly an ongoing problem that hasn't improved. So thank you for the comments tonight regarding that. Lastly, I just want to provide some clarity around the bishop's comments. You know, there's been a lot of, I would say, commentary throughout our city around our charter and our form of government. I would simply say that, you know, I mean, yes, the city of Dayton has been a city manager form of government for, what, a hundred and something years, roughly. I mean, um... That being said, I think any review of our charter would just have to be done with serious scrutiny and a real process. That being said, it would of course be a conversation that this commission has to as well agree on if it were to take that route. We've seen ballot initiatives come forth in this city. Some are put on the ballot by this commission. Some are done by other residents. So there is a process to these things, and I feel like it's at least worth speaking to the fact that a process would have to happen if that were to come forward. So I'll just leave that there, and I appreciate everyone who weighed in tonight. So thank you. Those are all my comments, Mayor.

Thank you, Commissioner Beckham. Commissioner Fairchild.

Yeah, thank you, Commissioner, for your comments. Thank you, citizens, for being here and your comments. A couple to respond to Mr. Klein. That intersection is two blocks from my house. One of your neighbors was knocking on my door. getting signatures to see about putting flash, we have the petition here so if you want to sign that. So I think there's still a question about is what is the best way to look at the civil engineering in that intersection to make it as safe as possible and that's something we can work with staff to come out and evaluate. and see what the best solution is. And you know, Mr. Kerrigan's been here multiple times. He's not here tonight, but he's testimony to the fact that our staff will work with folks to try to find the right solution for these traffic concerns. Commissioner Beckham, I appreciate your request to look at an analysis of the fatalities and the accidents we have. I'm trying to recall, I know we had a briefing maybe in the spring around this very topic and an initiative to look at the safety of our streets. I'm not recalling the details of that now or the timeline of that project. Mr. Parlette, does that?

I don't recall either, I'm sorry. All right. But we'll certainly, to address the concerns expressed as well as yours, typically what we do when we receive complaints, and I'll look into what the briefing you're referencing, But typically what we do when we get a complaint is that we will study the data. We'll deploy devices to capture data for a period of time. Generally speaking, two weeks we'll capture data. And it captures speeds within a percentile, as well as traffic volume, those types of things. And generally, when we get that data and it Oftentimes, it is the appearance of unsafe conditions. The data sometimes doesn't support the idea, so suggesting maybe 80% of the 20,000 cars that go through there in a period of time might be two or three miles an hour over the speed limit. I'm not ignoring or suggesting that the testimony is not factual because we all know that 80th percent, there's that other 20% that aren't doing that, right? So generally speaking, We do the study, we analyze the data, and then we formulate kind of response plans and see what we can and can't do within a specific geography or intersection. So we'll do that in this case with Cornell and Catalpa. And I know we did that on East Third Street. It's got some... time to it, like it's got some age. So I'll circle back with public works and police and refresh my memory on that one. It's a couple years old.

Yeah, thank you. And I think, Ms. Lofton, were you in that briefing on the fatalities? No? Okay. Well, I'll have to go back and try to get you some guidance on that, Mr. Parlett, on that briefing. I do want to acknowledge Cornell is the main connector between Salem and Gettysburg. And people utilize it a lot, many at high speed. In our... Police and EMTs use it quite heavily too. I'll be interested to see what the data shows, but because of that usage and the kind of straight shot between Salem and Gettysburg, it lends itself to people being reckless. Mr. Johnson, I appreciate the report you shared with us or the resolution, and I look forward to reading those. Bishop Corey, I want to echo my colleague's comments. I think Ms. Hastings has already kind of brought this question to, I think, It'd be really important, I think, as a first step to try to bring some education around the differences between a city manager and a strong mayor form of government. There's pros and cons to both. Where are the checks and balances in there? Where are the weaknesses? And I think doing some public education would be helpful. at the end of the day i think it's that question of checks and balances that is going to be really helpful to think about what provides us the best accountability to the community and you know there's and we can look at different cases particularly cities our size in terms of those those form of government so i look forward to trying to find a way that we might do some of that education in a public setting so other citizens can be brought into the key questions and is also learning kind of those pros and cons. Mr. Elzang, thank you for being here and continuing to keep us from being desensitized and for being a voice of conscience and for reminding us of the human pain that war and violence bring throughout the world. As my recovery comes along, I look forward to reengaging with you on the Peace Summit and trying to find concrete ways that we can, you know, I really think we have a desire to reduce violence and to recognize the dignity of all people. And so my hope is in that Peace Summit work we'll be able to do that. And finally, I just want to say to our men and women in labor, thank you for what you do. And thank you for the The life that you've created for all of us in this country in terms of safety and work and dignity of work and being able, you know, we've lost a lot of power from the labor movement over the years. And some of Mr. Johnson's comments reflect that in terms, and some other comments in terms of You know, it should be that you can work a full week of work and earn enough to take care of yourself and your family. And our society is distorted in that way right now, and we've got to find a way to recapture that that spirit of the labor movement to push back to that so that people have dignity of work and they also have the resources to live their lives. And so as we go into this Labor Day weekend, that is what I encourage us to reflect upon about how do we move in that direction. Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Fairchild. Commissioner Shaw?

Thank you to both of my colleagues for addressing some of these issues, especially the traffic issues, which are a problem all over the city. I know that we were able to capture data with regards to the red light and the speed cameras to be able to notice trends in there when we turn them on. You know, the traffic issues go down when we turn them off. They go back up again. So I think there's a way to... be able to capture data and to learn from it and then make the appropriate adjustments in the areas that we need to do so. So I'm glad that we're at least looking at that and I would encourage us to do more. So thank you to my colleagues for dealing with that. I, too, want to give a shout out and a great thank you to our labor organizations and our labor members. You're right. They have provided the opportunity for middle class in this country, provided safety on the job, which was not always the case. And I just want to hope that we celebrate them on this Labor Day holiday. I encourage small business owners and entrepreneurs to take advantage of the Procurement Pathways event taking place Tuesday, September 15th from 5.30 to 8 p.m. at the University of Dayton's Bosch Lounge. This event is a great opportunity to connect directly with procurement professionals and learn more about contracting opportunities. So I'm going to try to be there myself if I can, but I hope to see everyone there. Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Shaw. Commissioner Joseph?

Thank you, Mayor. Three things tonight. First, I want to give a huge congratulations to our environmental management team at Water, our Water Department. They got an honor on August 19th. They got a 2026 Source Water Protection Award for the work they do protecting our drinking water. You all know it's a huge priority of ours and the entire city to make sure our residents have clean, accessible water. And they're the ones on the front lines. We're lucky to have folks who take good care of this, one of our most important resources. And I want to thank the team. And Mr. Harlett, please pass those thanks along to everyone. We really appreciate their work. Second, I appreciate you all joining me in a moment of silence for the young man, the athlete, the scholar, the young man, the promising future, Pierre-Domas Bell. My colleagues have spoken about it, and they're correct. It's a tragedy. It's another shame upon us, upon our country, upon the leadership that put an ankle bracelet on a young man who was here with the full force of law. He had the paperwork to be here, a bright future, and got the rug pulled out from him by a terrible, terrible policies with terrible consequences. So I really thank those in the community who have surged their efforts towards Springfield, toward our Haitian neighbors and immigrants. A lot of folks have been there. Some people here, Yusuf was there. So I urge folks to keep doing that. The current situation is such that it seems hopeless, but I'm encouraged by the fact that so many people are going to help, and I really appreciate that. So in this young man's name, please continue your efforts. Finally, I want to echo my colleagues' comments on Labor Day. The labor movement built this country, and so I hope everyone, all of our workers, especially our unionized city workers, have a great Labor Day weekend. Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Commissioner. I, too, want to acknowledge all of our labor organizations and the work that they do on a continuous basis. And I hope that people take the opportunity to, in fact, enjoy the holiday and to recognize the work that is being done. And with that, in observance to the holiday, a waste collection will be delayed a day. So if you have normal collection on Monday, your day will then be moved to Tuesday. So please make note of that. Thank you, Mr. Parlett. And thank you to my colleagues for uplifting and a moment of silence for the young man. who passed. I really appreciate it. And thank you, Mr. Alzain, for your comments. And just want to echo Commissioner Fairchild's points in reminding us that the humanity of it all and what we're faced and what we're dealing with across the world. And so again, thank you for your leadership, Mr. Alzain. Commissioner Beckham had noted the number of service agreements on the calendar item, and I just, too, want to uplift the number of Department of Housing and Urban Development programs, especially given this time, again, when there are a number of challenges and obstacles that we are faced with, and not knowing, again, the uncertainties on various different funding sources. So to see that this work is being done, I want to uplift the land Montgomery County Land Utilization Corporation and the Homebuyer Counseling Program. That is a great, great program. And so I know that there's some information that we'll be pushing out to the public. So we hope that those who are interested will, in fact, take heed to what is available through the home buyer program, as well as Miami Valley Mills, especially, I mean, the point was raised, right? We recently, by way of the Amos Project, and again, we recognize the work that they're doing, the Amos Project, the Black Women's Health Initiative, they brought that legislation forward to us, along with LEAD, and so we supported that, but this complements that work that we're doing, not just to have the point was raised, right, performative language, but to also have programming and support that, in fact, complements that work, and we see that with the Miami Valley Mills, and there's more work. We actually, not to put the cart before the horse, but there's some additional work that we're doing and looking at other funding streams and grant opportunities, so hopefully we will be awarded and we will be successful in that ask. the day in YWCA, the work that is being done there as well, and that is to extend the services to many of our families and women who are in fact victims of domestic violence, but two who face, who are in fact unhoused, and then Daybreak, the work that is continuing with them as well. And just, what was it, Commissioner Beckham, a couple weeks ago they celebrated a large award that they received from Lowes. So they're continuing that work. So I'm happy to speak to that. I want to thank all of the residents that came out this evening. Thank you for your comments. Mr. Gage, I too will be happy to... The charge is on you. You pick the street, and I'll be there. We can take, again, a street at a time, a block at a time. Ms. Screech, your comment is valid in terms of a time clock. So, Ms. Jackson, if that's something that we can work on, I think if there is a clock that we can have in front just so individuals can be able to monitor that time, that was a great suggestion. It takes all of that burden off of you, Ms. McClendon, right? So thank you for that. Bishop McCrory, it's good to see you. And your recommendations. Mr. Johnson, thank you for being here. Ms. Alzainas, I really appreciate you being here. Ms. Lamance, thank you for your comments. And to Commissioner Beckham's point, that program is now, it was in fact, there was a pause, but from my understanding from the memo that we did receive some time ago, it is back on the streets, meaning that the The pool is now, or the application process itself is now open. So those who are interested in participating in the program, who have an interest in the Dayton Repair Home Network, I would encourage you to Google it. I usually have the phone number right in front of me, but I don't have that right now. please visit the city of dayton's website you can also google the dayton collaborative network or the dayton home repair network and then you'll be able to find it there and it's all under the dayton energy collaborative either one of those options you can definitely google and you can find the information because the pause has been lifted miss hastings thank you for your your comments As noted from my colleagues, the additional information for the IAA, I think those are good suggestions in terms of what, if in fact there are any perimeters that prohibit us from providing the demographics or whatever the case may be for us to provide that additional information. So thank you Ms. Brown for being here and Ms. I'm hasting for raising that point. I believe that Ms. LeMans raised that point as well. And then, Mr. Parlett, can we get an update? I think some time ago there was an update provided on GDRC, the pool, and I know there was the process of making sure that we went through the state for the actual... permitting or license, if you will, just so we can find an update to see where we are in that. And I'm glad to see that a number of families are utilizing the recreation center at Princeton. And thank you, Ms. Hastings, for uplifting the staff and the work that is being done there. Mr. Klein, Mr. Keller, And, sir, I apologize. I didn't catch your last name, Mr. Beal. Thank you for raising those points. My colleagues have already raised. I don't want to beat a dead horse, but note that there is a charge or a task, if you will, for us to do some additional review and to have conversations with our civil engineering experts And so the administration will be working with the commission as a whole so that we can have an assessment or a review. Because you're absolutely right. I remember just, what was it, maybe even last year, two years ago, there was rather an unfortunate incident that took place right outside of Commissioner Fairchild's home. A young lady passed. I believe she... lost control of the vehicle and struck a tree. So we do know that the issues of speeding and reckless driving is, in fact, an issue not just in Cornell or Catawba, but throughout the city of Dayton. And unfortunately, it is across the country. So I hope that there are some other various different things that we can review and find ways for us to address those issues. A couple of other things and then we're going to wrap up. The 3320 was second in Delphi's. Thank you to all of the community members for bringing this issue to our attention. This was brought to my attention some time ago back in 2324. And so I really want to thank the staff. Thank you very much, Ms. Lofton, for really tracking that down, as well as Mr. Ritchie, the Public Works Department, Mr. Gondo, the entire P&D staff. We were able to get over there. And this has been a problem area for over two decades. And so I'm really appreciative of the staff. and us really pushing that forward and noting that the concerns were heard from the public. We did in fact walk the area back in I believe it was June and Mr. Ken Woods vehemently raised this concern and so I'm very grateful and appreciative of the staff that we were able to mitigate and remove That debris itself. There are two other concerns that are there. We also have an unfortunate burnout that is right next to the Westside Dayton Club. And I know that there has been an issue for that club for some time. So my hope is that we can address those concerns, the additional concerns on West 2nd. and 3rd Street, and excuse me, and Delfis as well. There's some exciting news that was announced last week in regards to a site, some great work of our sustainability office, some work that they're doing. So we look forward to more of that information that will be coming down the pipeline. And those are additional dollars that the city was awarded from the Attorney General's office. So congratulations to our sustainability office. And I know that work will be done on... on Delphi's to mitigate some of the other sites that are of concern. Again, I really want to thank my colleagues and us working together on the resolution for the million dollars and the commitment that was made. There were comments in reference to The flight plan, so the letters, the invitation letters have went out to all of the interested parties. There were a lot of interest. And so with that, the work will start later on this month. We will be hosting an orientation. And it will be in the evening. More details will come with the date and the time and location. But it's an opportunity for us to, again, to do the work of the flight plan. And I'm very excited about that work. So with no further business to come before the commission, this meeting is now adjourned.