City Council - Regular Meeting

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All right. Hello, everyone. It is 7 p.m. We'll call the City Council regular meeting to order. It's Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026. Would everyone please rise for the invocation given by Councilman Curley, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.

Our gracious Heavenly Father, thank you. Thank you for being here with us tonight. We ask that you would calm our nerves and that we would be able to get through with our agenda. and a situation that we would be friendly and it would be done.

Lord, we ask that you would be with all of our wonderful people from all parts of the... A closed session for collective bargaining after Mayor and Council reports. All right, so moved with... Bargaining after Mayor and Council reports. All right, so moved with that addition.

Support.

All right, please call the roll.

Council member Baker.

Yes.

Council member Shadlick. Yes. Council member Curley.

Yeah.

Mayor Kleinfeld.

Yes.

Council member Scott. Yes.

All right. And first up, we have a presentation. Mr. Brown.

Good afternoon council and welcome. I'm Don Brown. serving with Candace Miller, Miller and Macomb County Public Works. And I just wanted to come down and bring greetings, first of all, from Candace Miller. Send your warm regards to all of you and the work you're all doing to serve our mutual constituents. And that's kind of the point of why I'm here, is just to remind you that our office is serving the same people you're serving on a daily basis, your mutual constituents. Our office has three goals, and one's to improve water quality for everybody. One is to help the overall economy, help the economy thrive by operating our office efficiently. And then the other is can't flow when we have flooding. Our office is very much concerned about those things. And Candace Morrison, she's taken office about 10 years now, is set off to go do an inventory of the assets that we have underground, the stormwater pipes and wastewater pipes. And we find and we fix them. We know too well when she first came into office, 15 mile road, that pipe collapsed. Fortunately, the engineers did a good job and they avoided a calamity environmental company by doing the good repairs. But now we're using technology that isn't available then. We now use drones that fly through the sewers and scan the pipes inside and then send that information up top to our technicians and they can determine where there's cracks and so forth on this pipe. If we find them, We'll go in there and line them like your DPW. I was talking to your gentleman from DPW here tonight. Same thing you do in your city with your own sewers and pipes. And that's what we do. We use technology. We also use drones. We fly drones to find sewer. And if it couldn't find sewer, and if it couldn't go down the pipe, it got backed up where it came from. And sometimes that was in people's basements in our neighborhoods and communities. Public Works Commissioner Miller and her team, with the cooperation of the Board of Commissioners, have funded many big improvements at Chapiton to increase the capacity to accept more of that waste. And since 2025, we haven't had one overflow into Lake St. Clair because of not enough capacity to do it. And hopefully we'll continue to do that. We keep adding to capacity, trying to build in-system storage to help manage those things. And so... Our office is working very diligently to try to continue to make improvements to reduce flooding and sewer back as long as I've known her. And, uh, she's been there right along with every step along the way to help us get the things that we need to help help off, serve all the community. So I just wanted to come out and let you know, I gave you some packages and there's some information that's more detailed and goes into more depth on the mid. We have a sewage system. We maintain 61 miles of sewer lines. In the county. And we also, you know, as I mentioned, many of the open drains. And there's an annual report there that talks about that system. There's also her bi-annual report. She doesn't put just one annual report. She puts out two to keep people up to date on what she's doing in her office so that people know what they're paying for. And the annual report is also in the packet.

Oh, into the lakes so that we can handle all into the lakes so that we can handle all the, as you said, stormwater when we get heavy rains. So and your office has done more than that, too. I know when Commissioner Miller got in there, it was for a long time we were trying to get reapportionments done. And your office did a lot to help make sure we weren't paying for other cities wastewater. So there's a lot of corrections that you guys have made over the years. So I appreciate that.

You speak about wastewater rates and you know all the work that's been done in the system At Chapman in the Jefferson that your project you just mentioned that benefits this community in indirectly all that work has been done.

All right, we'll move on to Proclamation Pride Month 2026 would anyone like to make a motion? There's one correction to the end. It's says proclaimed the first day It would be the second day

You want a motion to have the council accept it and then have someone read it? Is that what you want? Yeah, approve, accept. Okay, I would move that the East Point City Council approve and accept the proclamation for June 2026. Support? Okay, any comments? I'll read it if you like. Oh, well, please. Marital status, national origin, sexual orientation are physical attributes as an effort to our fundamental principles. And whereas proud month began in June of 1970 on the one year anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in New York City after LGBTQ plus and allied friends rose up and fought against the constant harassment from authorities and the discriminatory laws that have since been declared unconstitutional. and whereas the city appreciates the culture, civic, and economic contributions of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, plus LGBTQ plus community that strengthen our social welfare.

All right, we'll go right into the hearing of the public. The first hearing of the public is open. Would anyone wish to be heard? If you could come up and state your name and you'll have three minutes.

Hi, my name is Steven Johnson. I hope you guys can write down my address, 15641 Glander Avenue. I'm having a problem with the individuals who are, there's an empty lot next to my home. And I got up early, I made sure I got my clothes on, and I'm going to head straight to the Juvenile Justice Center to do my job. I just need something to be done about it. I'm tired every Tuesday. I look on my cameras and I see someone dumping trash into my yard. I go to work every single day, minus my days off, obviously. And I put my life and my safety at risk to protect this county. I'm currently on light duty due to numerous injuries because of my job, which is a part of the job. I get it. It is what it is. But I shouldn't have to come home to trash in my yard. You have about 30 seconds left.

That's it. Okay. Mr. Johnson, would you mind leaving your information over there, contact information with our employees? Thank you very much. Can I walk across? Yes, go ahead. Anyone else wish to be heard?

Hello, Mayor and Council. Wanda Moody, East Point resident. and the chair commissioner for East points arts and cultural diversity commission. I would like to take this opportunity to invite all the residents here tonight, as well as those watching from home to join us for our third annual Juneteenth freedom celebration. This celebration would be a little different this year rather than having a

Good evening, Council. My name is Nina Olszewski, and I work at 18441 Utica Road in Roseville. And I am here on behalf of CARE of Southeastern Michigan. We are a substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery nonprofit organization. We are here on behalf of our upcoming event that we have. It is Friday, June 26th. It is our second annual Michigan Recovery Con and Film Festival. It is essentially like a Comic-Con film festival type of event, but it is centered around recovery, recovery-based films. We have a DIA art exhibit, et cetera, and other activities and panels. Specifically, we are inviting any elected officials in Macomb County to attend, specifically because we are holding a youth panel where youth will have the opportunity to present on matters that are important to them, anything that affects them that they want to bring to the table, essentially they'll have a platform to speak to elected officials about things that matter to them. So it is a core opportunity for that connection to be made. So we are just reaching out to elected officials. But it's a chance for youth to advocate for those causes. and the presence of the officials in charge of bringing about that positive change in the community. So the event itself is going to be, the panel is going to be at 2.30 p.m. at the MISD building. That will be the youth panel, and students will share their motivations for engaging in substance use prevention, highlighting work that they've done, especially if they've been a part of it,

Pride Month makes weak families, weak males, effeminate or masculine females. It's not where we want to go. It's a bad deal for the city. So I'm 100% against that. I'd like to thank, if he's still here, he's not here, the gentleman from McComb County Public Works. That was a nice presentation and nice to know what he's up to. regarding the pride month, you're, you're, you're having a, uh, you're having a parade or whatever you do over on wherever you do it. Now, are you going to have cameras there? I'd like to see what you're up to. You can post pictures. Um, or is that a private event that is that open to the city of East point? Everybody. Cause maybe we need some scouts there to see what the heck is going on. Um, Chief, I heard yesterday that there was quite a scuffle with youth in the area. It might not be this area. I don't know. It mentioned near McDonald's mentioned. I don't know if it's in St. Clair Shores or a nine mile road. Your department was involved with St. Clair Shores and Roseville. And I read a very good review of your department on Facebook. So keep up the good work. Mr. Mattis, have you moved into the city? I think we need to see Mr. Mattis' contract. I want to know if he's working from home or what he's doing. I hope we don't have to FOIA it, but maybe we have to FOIA it. Because I'd like to know what he's being paid and what he's paid for. I hear the gossip that he's got a 3% mortgage. He doesn't want to give up where he lives. But then he shouldn't have applied for the job. So who knows? Uh, and once again, regarding that 10,000 word pride declaration included the word race in it.

You have 30 seconds.

I noticed we have a race, which may be a race directed lawsuit at the city right now. Uh, the, the meeting last night, which I wasn't able to attend was, uh, didn't resolve anything. So you're going to probably be looking at some kind of lawsuit regarding your employment practices, which from my own determination coming to the meeting before, I think there is Bryce involved in that.

Thank you very much. Anyone else wish a beard?

Larry Edwards, East Palm residents. Um, I THINK, AND WE OUGHT TO ENCOURAGE, THERE NEEDS TO BE A GREAT CHANGE WITH THE PROCEDURES OF HOW THE MEETINGS ARE CONDUCTED FOR COUNCIL. openness as they claim that they are to the public. I also believe on top of years that people have claimed that they're going to be transparent and they're going to make things known. They're going to address situations and write your name over there and over here and different places and whatever. I think it's time out now. You have enough time. I think you ought to be able to comment, and that includes the city manager, when his time is allotted to him, that he should be able to comment on something while he's up there, while you're up there giving your reports. Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone else wish to be heard?

Jennifer Nicholas, East Point resident. I do have a question about one of the agenda items tonight. It is new business item F, introduction and first reading of ordinance regarding traffic and vehicles and inoperable vehicles. Looking at the cover sheet of this, the description is that the police department is experiencing an increase in the number of unlicensed vehicles parked or left on streets and highways, and that this ordinance will assist the police department in lawfully ticketing and towing if necessary. so it makes it sound like this was initiated by the police department and it's implying that, you know, this is a big issue for the police department. Um, I don't know, chief Haynes, maybe could to move it, have it towed somewhere else. Um, I feel that that kind of puts an unfair burden on people. This, this ordinance is just a blanket ordinance. I understand. The point of it, I know our building official and with the city manager, feels that, you know, it's important to clean up lights and make, make properties look nice. But I think that this is not specific enough and I think that it's going to impact people that, you know, what other choice do they have if they're working on a car, if they're able to fix their own car and it's going to take them 30 seconds or a couple months or it takes them a while to afford to buy the part for it. the thought of them being ticketed a fine of $200. And I think the second fine is $400 or possibly towed or impounded seems unfair. So I don't know if there's a way to either separate this out in the ordinance, have pass an ordinance for vehicles on the street and maybe deal with people's homes at a different time or send it back to the planning commission and have them, you know, itemize this better. Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone else wish to be here? Anyone else?

So as usual, no transparency, no answers, no adding in life-saving amendments to the rapid ordinance yet you'll sit there and claim from your rear ends and you put these protections in you have done absolutely nothing to answer why in the backyard chicken ordinance those are pets Okay? People can keep them as pets. And there's a prohibition you can't slaughter them for human or other food consumption. But yet you completely ignored that with the rabbits. Let me tell you something. People have more pet rabbits than they have pet chickens. You clearly ignored it when Chief Haynes told you about that idiot. who did nothing to refill that frozen water bowl and three rabbits froze to death and trying to escape. Now, if y'all had any damn common sense, you would have objected to the ordinance. You would have questioned it, you would have protested it, but you sat there and you passed it. That's so outrageously stupid, reckless, and irresponsible. So the summer season is starting to kick off. You wanna lie to the media and keep, shh, don't talk about the rapid ordinance. We don't want the controversy. I'm taking to the streets. And so the thing is, the more I take to the streets, the more I talk to people one-on-one, this is gaining traction. And the more it gains traction, people will take action. And don't forget, you're up for reelection, you're up for reelection, and you're up for reelection all next year. I will make sure this hangs over your head during your reelection campaign. Fix this. Thank you very much.

Anyone else wish to be heard?

Good evening, council. Mary Hall Rayford, East Point resident. I'm really glad that we didn't have to wait to admit that my mother, bless her heart, died at 50, that my mother, bless her heart, died at 58, taught me how to conduct myself in public. And I don't think I've lost sight of that at 74. And I'm pretty proud of that. Education is my passion. people, family, understanding how to love one another, those are my passions. And I would like to think that many in the city share those passions. I get that we don't all share the same passions as others, and that's fine. Everybody's entitled to be passionate about what they're passionate about. But I recognize that Just because I'm passionate about something, not everyone else has to do so. So, so far, I've been very supportive of the council, even though I don't agree with everything you say. And that's OK, because we don't have to agree. But I hope I never disrespect any of you. Like I said, if I do, most of you have my number. You know where I live. You see me on Facebook. Call me out on it. Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone else wish to be heard? Anyone else? Seeing none, the first hearing of the public is closed. We'll move on to approval of the minutes. Item A, regular meeting minutes from April 21, 2026.

I move that we approve the regular minutes. meeting minutes of April 21st, 2026. No second.

Any comments? Please call the roll.

Council Member Shadlick? Yes. Council Member Baker? Yes. Council Member Scott? Yes. Council Member Curley? Yes. Mayor Kleinfeld?

Yes. I didn't be regular meeting minutes from Maine Sears. I've just had to open my experience before I've seen I've seen other people do it But I don't I don't think it's required If you find out otherwise, please let me know in the future All right All right not seeing anyone who wishes to be heard that public hearing is closed which closed at 739 I think it opened at 738. No unfinished business reports from administration city managers report Mr. Mattis.

Yes sir good evening mayor and council. Couple things for tonight. Our clerks department has been very busy. I wanted to remind you that there are petitions available for the school board election that's coming up. Early voting information will be mailed out very soon as early voting will take place here in City Hall and not at the library. That'll be for both the August and the November elections. Early voting for the August 4th election will take place July 25th to August 2nd, 2026. So you'll get that via mail in the near future. It'll be on the website. It'll be all over the place, but it's coming. Election season continues to roll. The election commission met today and we are gearing up for the August election. So lots going on. check in my list here oh the water mains across nine mile road have are almost complete there the connections are just about set they'll be completed very soon there's lots of work going on around town I'm sure you've seen the basketball court Lots of paving, lots of asphalt, lots of excitement around town. We love orange barrel season. Our team met today with the first of a couple interviews we will conduct for the contractors interested in leading the building effort for the police and court building. We'll be conducting interviews this week. We'll have a full workup of all the steps of that process for council to consider. The goal is for the June 16th meeting to have that ready for your consideration. That's it for me.

Are there any questions for Mr. Mattis? I just had one question. I don't know. Did you see my email from earlier? I didn't see those plans sent out.

I did not send them out yet. I do have a paper copy. I will hand you right now. The plans for Nine Mile Road. Yes. We were discussing them quite a bit with our team at AEW. There's a paper copy. I will share those electronically to all counsel as soon as I'm back at my computer. Okay.

Thank you. Any other new court administrator is changing our prosecution doc new court administrator is changing our prosecution docket the time changes that are over there right now we Handle the prosecution criminal docket on Monday afternoons beginning at one o'clock Wednesday mornings beginning at 8 o'clock, Thursdays beginning at 1 o'clock, and Fridays beginning at 8 o'clock in the morning. Due to some juggling of the docket, the Wednesday and Thursday time slots are going to change, so the prosecution docket is going to begin now at 1 o'clock on Wednesdays and 8 o'clock on Thursday mornings. And that's going to be effective beginning July 1st. Doesn't really affect it. Just it's a change. It's not going to increase the caseload or decrease. It's just, uh, I think it had something to do also with officer scheduling. That's why the court administrator wanted to make that change. Uh, but that's all I have. Uh, mayor of council is also in receipt of our monthly status report for the month of June. And I also attached, I believe it was a five updates to that's to that, uh, Mr. Fran's office provided us. Uh, there was, those are being handled through the MMR MA. So I'm happy to answer any questions.

Any questions for Mr.. Albright? All right, thank you. Thank you moving on to new business item a energy audit report in the project proposal I

I guess, Mr. Mads, would you want to speak to this at all? Sure. We will invite Mr. Jeff Studebaker to come up and tell us more. He's a part of Verigy Energy. They've completed an energy audit, and he gets to tell us more in detail. Mr. Studebaker.

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All of them. And what happened then is that they took a historic building, That was an elementary school near the river that had had a lot of money put into it about 10 years before I got there that had never functioned properly with the heating and cooling. It was always cold. It was always wet. And they diagnosed the issue and got that fixed. And for the first time since they dumped the $12 million, whatever it was in there, that building actually functioned properly. Over three years, we did around $22 million worth of work to bring that district forward, drug them screaming a couple of times because of just how much we were spending, but that was how much there was to do. One of the things we'll talk about here tonight is similar to one of the things that I did when I was a superintendent. So Verigy is an energy service company. What we do is we work with schools and municipalities to upgrade infrastructure on basically needed infrastructure items, and those are always targeted to drive down your utility spend, either gas, electric, or water. Tonight's packages that we're talking about are all focused on pretty much the electrical spend here at City Hall, as well as over at the library. So I'll go ahead and get in here. I'm also with Tyler Grant. He is our development engineer, and he will be able to answer and talk to a lot of the technical details this evening. So we'll go through the project overview, budget and purchasing, and then we'll talk about why you should do this. So we're going to break this down into two bites. So we'll do the Memorial Library first, talk about it. I know you're probably not going to be able to read that very well. So part of the project is actually being paid for by a grant that Greg actually secured. So part of that grant actually pays for the ASHRAE level two audit that has been completed. And part of that is just getting a summary snapshot of what is being spent in the city for gas and electric, primarily here at City Hall and at the library. You can see the library spend is about $11,000 on electricity per year, and then roughly $5,600 on natural gas. Existing conditions over there. This is just a focus on the light situation that's going on, which is the bulk of that project. You can't necessarily tell very well from the picture there, but it was on again today. That first picture there on the left is an exterior light and the photo cell is not functional. So it was blasting light, even though it was a clear, beautiful blue sky day. And then you've got some other issues cooking around the outside of the building there as well, but on the inside. The inside is a completely different story. You've got a variety of different T8 lamps, which is an older fluorescent tube. And there's a lot of mixing and matching of bulbs throughout the library space. Some are very yellow. Some are mix-matched, like you can see there on the right-hand picture. The fixtures themselves are aging. The lens is colored in multiple places. It's just a rough look, number one. Since it's a T8, you are spending a lot of cash you don't need to on the lighting side. That's important for another part of this library project here in a moment. The other piece is that the library folks have to go to the breaker box to shut the lights off or turn them back on. There's no controls. There's no way to control. for any one particular part of the facility. So they, right now, are going to the breaker box to shut everything off. So this project would actually address all of the issues that we brought out. So at the library, you've got the audit that's part of that, the lighting upgrade, and then there's also a solar package that would be placed on the south-facing roof of that building that would actually nearly knock out 100% of their electrical spend. So someone once told me a few months ago that solar packages are like a kid's dessert. You know, the kids have to eat their vegetables before they can have dessert. So in order to put solar on that building, you really need to do the lighting to get the electrical spend corrected. Because right now you're spending more money than you should. And you don't want to overproduce. When you do the lighting package, you do not want to do that after you've done the solar, because we'll be out of whack and you don't want to be giving away power to the utility. The other piece with the solar component is that the Inflation Reduction Act is an opportunity for you, we'll show you some money here in a minute, On that but it's an opportunity to get a portion about 40% of that project cost back So that you're not paying 100% of the solar package But that means that package the solar array has to be energized by the end of 28 now we have a long runway and But that's a good thing in case we run into any unforeseen issues right now. We're anticipating if we were able to get rolling, you know, having this thing energized probably before the turn of the year, which would be ideal. I mean, so you can see here the solution at the library. is basically taking those fixtures completely out as is and putting in a flat panel LED. It's not a bulb retrofit. It is a new, really nice, sleek-looking LED panel set in all the existing areas where there's lighting now. And then you would actually have a lighting control package that's easily adaptable. I know that the library is getting ready to do a building study. Going with this type of control package will allow you to rezone however the library may reconfigure itself down the road very easily with basically just going into the app. And it would easily be able to encompass new lights for any potential expansion to the library. So here's what we refer to as a helioscope for the library. The blue is where the projected solar panels would go. That is not the final version. Obviously, if approved, we would work with you to determine how you exactly want that to be laid out to go. And then you can also see there, there's the protection values there in the lower left-hand corner. You can see obviously we're in peak solar season now. in June and July, but one of the things that you wanna do is you wanna overproduce whenever possible, because then that goes back to the grid. You get a credit for all that overproduction, and then the months or days or even the evening when you're using more than you're producing, that credit that you generate actually offsets that bill. So the array as it's conceived here would knock out nearly 100% of the electrical spend once the lighting has been addressed. So here's the price tag for the library. It's approximately, well, not approximately, it is $582,390. The estimated IRA rebate is between $109,000 and $150,000. That's only for solar at the library. So you get that back. You get another $1,000 back on the rebate on the lighting side. And then you have an operational savings in the first year of almost $11,000. One of the things that we've done is inside the contract, we've put in a proposed 3.5% escalation rate for the utility inflationary index. So basically, then we're also inside the contract guaranteeing the first five years of production. So when I was a superintendent, we purchased a 20-year guarantee so that if we had any year in there, The solar panels did not produce as they were expected to. Verigy would write a check to make us whole. In the contract, there's a five-year package there, and we are escalating that utility savings by 3.5% contemplated inside the contract. The reality is that escalation is a very conservative number. It's a really low number. There will be years where the utility increase will only be 3.5%, but we haven't seen that low of one in a while. Last year, there was a 17% request. They ended up getting seven. That's probably about what you're going to see again. Natural gas really is not being contemplated in this package. NATURAL GAS REALLY IS NOT BEING CONTEMPLATED IN THIS PACKAGE, BUT IT IS PART OF THE ASHRAE LEVEL 2 AUDIT, AND IN THAT AUDIT WE LAY OUT ALL THE VARIOUS AGES OF EQUIPMENT AND RECOMMENDATIONS AND SO FORTH FOR THAT. SO YOU SEE YOUR 12-MONTH UTILITY SPEND IS JUST A LITTLE OVER $66,000 OVER THE LAST 12 MONTHS. AND THEN SIMILAR TO WHAT WE DID WITH THE LIBRARY, YOU'VE GOT THE TWO BREAKOUTS HERE. We're spending 42.5 on the electricity and then on the natural gas again, just a little over $7,000. So part of this package is something that from the very first time I met with anybody from the city was an issue. And that's the EV charging stations out here in the parking lot right over here. So right now, when you pull in, you have what's referred to as a level one charger out there. And when those were installed back in that era, really up until just the last few months, whenever you put a level one charger in, you couldn't really generate any kind of revenue off of it, meaning it's free to anybody that pulls in and plugs in. So what's happening is that you've got folks pulling in, plugging in, and leaving their vehicle sit there for multiple hours, if not overnight, a variety of things. It's been a headache for the folks that work in this facility. The proposal is that we would remove those level one chargers and go with a level two. The level two is a faster charge. It also will allow the city to generate revenue off of that. It's a point of sale system. So it would basically be a credit card type of thing where the customer would come in, park, plug in, run their card, and then they would get charged. It would charge faster so the cars don't have to sit there as long, plus then it's a revenue stream for the city. The proposal also includes two new EV chargers. You can see the ones that are off to the right. those were requested for basically the employee use for city hall. They would also be point of sale chargers, but the vendor that we are recommending will give you the ability to have the employee have a card that they can use to be able to park a city vehicle there or their vehicle there, whatever the city wants to do down the road. So you go from two level one chargers that's generating no revenue, but it's also, HITTING YOUR ELECTRICAL SPEND BY AT LEAST 10% PROBABLY EVERY YEAR, PROBABLY MORE, DEPENDING ON HOW OFTEN IT'S USED. TYLER AND I WERE COMMENTING WHEN WE PULLED IN THIS EVENING, TONIGHT WAS THE FIRST TIME, AND WE'VE BEEN HERE MULTIPLE TIMES, FIRST TIME THERE WASN'T AT LEAST ONE VEHICLE PLUGGED IN, AND IT DIDN'T LAST VERY LONG. MAYBE 10 MINUTES AND SOMEONE CAME IN AND PLUGGED IN. AND THERE WASN'T ANYBODY WHEN WE CAME IN RIGHT AT THE END, BUT AGAIN, IT WAS HIGHLY UNUSUAL. taking advantage of your free electricity. So can I ask a question? Yes.

The difference between level one and two, that's just regards to the charging speed, right?

It's usually charging speed, but it also has the additional tech so that you can do, um, um, point of sale. And then they realized that they would be giving away that power. Now we had increased the amount of production because we had, we put solar in, so it was really going to be a wash for them. But, Politically the Commission for the airport as well as their accounting council was kind of like why are we giving away electricity? So we pivoted and now there's actually a level one now You can purchase that has point of sale Which is not something we even had access to when we started the project six seven months ago, whatever it was so You could go with a level one to do the point of sale. We wouldn't recommend that because it takes so long and I mean, basically a level one's a little bit better than a triple feeder that you would attach to your lawnmower over the winter to keep the battery from dying. I mean, it's just, that's a real slow feed. So they do have fast chargers that are higher numbers, but that's an exponential increase in costs and it really doesn't make a lot of sense for this use. So, um, there's some urgency related to the EV charging portion of this contract. Um, there is a tax credit federal side. I keep bashing that microphone. Um, the, um, ITC tax credit, the investment tax credit, is available, but it expires way easier for the installers to be able to get commissioned. So when we're in a situation where we're racing the clock, that's a huge deal. So we recommend that we go there with those. So here at City Hall, this is a relatively straightforward package. So again, you have the ASHRAE Level 2 audit that's being paid for by the grant. You have the LED lighting upgrade, both interior and exterior, into this building. You've got multiple fixtures in this building that just need to be replaced. They're older, that just need to be upgraded in terms of looks. You've got some control issues with some of the lighting on the inside of the facilities as well. And then, obviously, the EV chargers that we were talking about. So you have two, the package is replacing two and adding two. So it's a total of four chargers with actually the ability to have eight cars being charged at the same time. The other piece to this too is right now, and I alluded to this, but I always make sure this is really crystal clear on the EV piece. Right now, that is a negative to the city. You are paying for anyone to come up and plug in. THIS PACKAGE ACTUALLY THEN WOULD TURN THAT INTO A REVENUE STREAM. AND YOU'RE IN TOTAL CONTROL OF THAT IN TERMS OF HOW MUCH YOU CHARGE, YOU KNOW, AND HOW MUCH YOU CHARGE FOR A VEHICLE THAT'S ALREADY BEEN DONE CHARGING BUT IS STILL SITTING THERE ON THE SPOT BECAUSE YOU CAN DO THAT AND YOU SHOULD DO THAT SO SOMEONE'S NOT TAKING UP A SPOT. SO THE PACKAGE ON THIS SIDE IS $516,085. IF YOU CAN GET THE CHARGERS installed and commissioned by the end of the month, then you would get almost $60,000 back on the IRA ITC rebate. You already have $100,000 available from the grant that was awarded. $10,000 of that's for the ASHRAE Level 2 audit, and then $90,000 of that can go into the cost of this particular phase of the project. And then you get another over $21,000 in rebates on the lighting as well as the EV charging stations. You will get a rebate from your utility provider on the EV charging side as well. So from here, you get the $15,000 on savings in terms of electrical spend and operations. And then the fuzzy here is on the charging station revenue. It's hard to estimate what that is. Taking a very conservative approach, it'd be an additional $5,200 a year. Again, you are in control of that. And it's also assuming that we're only getting four vehicles per day and they're only getting a half a charge. So if you got more use than that, or you go a little bit higher on your EV charging rate, you can generate way more than that. And that's really a conservative estimate on there. And when we, look at the payback and all that kind of stuff. That's the part where we just don't have a clean handle on. And you can apply an escalation rate to that, but again, you are in total control of that rate. So as we were telling the airport, you're in control of parking rates, you're in control of the charging rates, and that's totally up to you in terms of how that would work. So as I mentioned, excuse me, I had one quick question on that previous slide.

The project cost. Is that before the rebate?

That's actual cost. It's before any rebate.

Okay. And then everything underneath is what will come back. Okay.

Thank you. So the way that the IRA would work, once the solar is installed at the library, that's a separate project, separate set. So you would file with the IRS of all people, entities, and you file with them. And then a few months later, you'll get a refund on that. And that's undirected dollars. So you may be paying, like the library has its own fund, but that would come back into general fund and you can allocate that however you choose to allocate those funds. Same thing's happening here with the EV charging. Once they are installed, then we'll walk you through the filing process. And it's beefy, but we've gone through it a few times. So we've got guys that can help, you know, the treasurer's office to get all that squared away for you. Again, you'll get a rebate for that amount at some point down the road. And then, of course, there's a lengthy, very detailed. FORM FOR THE UTILITY PROVIDER AS WELL. BUT, YEAH, ALL THAT STUFF COMES OFF AFTER THE FACT. ALL RIGHT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON EITHER OF THE PROJECTS BEFORE I GO INTO SOME SPECIFICS ABOUT US IN TERMS OF ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT'S UNIQUE WITH US? SO THE LAST THING I WOULD MENTION, YOU KNOW, I WAS A SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT. I MEAN, I SPENT MY ENTIRE LIFE IN EDUCATION. I WAS A SCIENCE TEACHER, I WAS A CROSS COUNTRY TRACK AND CHESS COACH, AND THEN I WAS CONVINCED TO GO INTO ADMINISTRATION AGAINST MY BETTER JUDGMENT PROBABLY, WORKED MY WAY THROUGH, BECAME A SUPERINTENDENT, DID THAT FOR NINE YEARS, AND AT THE END, YOU KNOW, I STARTED GETTING BEAT UP BY FOLKS TALKING ABOUT ODD THINGS. That may have happened here tonight, I don't know. But the fact of the matter is that Verge did a great job for us. We had years and years of deferred maintenance issues. And one of the selling features were two things. They guaranteed the production on the solar. So I mentioned the 25-gallon buckets that were all over the place. They came in, did a roof restoration, put solar on top of that, and I had no more leaking. But the cool part of it was is that the solar then was working. The roof was actually working for itself. Come back to you and say, oh, dude, we forgot something. So here's an extra 50 grand we need. That will not happen. If there's something you want us to add in while we're here, that's up to you. And we can do a change order that way. But we cannot initiate that change order. If we've made a mistake, if we've missed something, we pay for it to make it right. And then again, we take a comprehensive approach. We did an ASHRAE level two audit here. We have a pretty good understanding of what's happening in this building beyond what we've even talked about tonight. Same thing over at the library. So we have a very comprehensive package. We're recommending the most obvious need sets for both buildings. And at the library in particular, It makes sense to do both at the same time. You've got to right size your electrical spend before you put the solar on. You don't want to lose out on that 40% rebate on the solar side because if we don't get it energized by the end of the year next year, you do not get that rebate. And then you just have to wait for a while for something to come back. or for prices to come down, and I'm not sure that that will happen. And of course, then we are guaranteeing five years on that solar side. So if for some reason we don't hit that number, we will make you whole. So any questions?

Any questions from the board?

I have one. It's with respect to your scope of work, your attachment A, that you had... in our packet. I don't know if you have access to that, if Tyler does. At any rate, on the city hall exterior, it's talking about landscape up lights and installing 12 new LED landscape up lights, et cetera. Are those also going to be tied into solar because it's an exterior situation? Are we not?

Yeah. There's no solar going into this building.

None would go in here. Okay. It's only at the library. Only at the library. Okay. I didn't need that.

I needed that. That are listed in the scope of work but would fall outside the contract? Essentially. Okay. I guess I don't understand how that works then. If we have a contract saying we're awarding the scope of work to them and then going elsewhere. Does my question make sense? It does.

Do you mean like I guess I have to interrupt. I'm sorry. Do you mean like such as when we put the solar panels on the roof, we're going to need some extra? I mean, I'm not an architect or anything like that, but sometimes you need some kind of engineering upgrades or some kind of support up there for those panels. Is that something that you're mentioning?

Yeah, we would pursue those as we need to. Yeah, I know that the initial price tag is large and scary, right? It is. And so some of it would fall on this fiscal year, some would fall on next fiscal year. The rebates and other incentives are enticing. The timeliness of some of it, it brings it to our attention quicker maybe than we're ready for, essentially. We have worked very well with Verigy. We've enjoyed the process. Having received the grant funds to pursue this and dive into it has been a very good experience for our team. I know Greg's, our team has done a lot of work to dive into the details of this. This is the output of that work. So we bring it to you for consideration.

And we don't have... the amounts for the totals of this project budgeted at this point, do we? I mean, we'd have to adjust our budget to find money to put it into the upcoming budget, yeah.

None of this is budgeted. The only piece that needs to be done by June 30th is the EV portion. Everything else will be in next fiscal year. and we do have the grant the hundred thousand dollar grant that will will get reimbursed as soon as this stuff gets going at the back of the package there's a very conservative look at the savings takes into account all the rebates that whether it's fiscal year 27 fiscal year 28 it's going to be spent at some point and the library does have the funds available to do this yeah because I was aware that the library had the funds for the solar panels and they wanted to go ahead and complete the project so that they can get the rebate because they would be approaching the deadline yeah but they can't do the solar if they don't do the interior work

Yeah, so I'm aware about the library, but City Hall.

Right, and the Library Commission has not met to discuss this in detail in their portion as of yet.

So let me ask this. I guess with the recommended motion from administration, are there essentially other items that you're looking at maybe whittling down from the contract?

We know that we would pursue them, as it says, pursuant to available funding, beginning with the installation of EV chargers because that is time-sensitive. And then the other ones would stretch out going from there.

So I guess my question to that is from your perspective, you're getting this contract. Do you have that same understanding that it could be piecemeal, or are you thinking we're being awarded a million-dollar contract?

Well, I mean, if you were to approve the project, it would be our understanding that The scope of work and the budget is there. The timeline, however, is very fluid. I mean, we can move stuff around to meet budgetary constraints as needed. But as mentioned, though, at the library side of it, that is a package that has to pretty much go together if you're going to do the solar. I mean, you've got to do the lighting and the solar concurrently. There's electrical stuff that has to happen together, plus you've got to right-size the electrical spend. Here, and out of both projects, the urgent piece is the EV charging. If you want to capture that 30% on that, you've got to move. really tonight. I mean, we're right up against it. We have a two weekly time on, um, getting them purchased and getting them here. Um, so I mean, I used to be a superintendent and work with boards.

You meet our, our requirements for going out to bid and all those things, which is helpful. And then, uh, John Krause, our sustainability coordinator has been instrumental in, uh, John Krause, our sustainability coordinator has been instrumental in, uh, going through the audit with you. So we appreciate those efforts. Yes.

I'm sorry. Oh, go ahead. So I'm just going to, Randy, you gave a good report. The figures, are you satisfied? Are you happy? Yes.

Yeah, there'll be some timing issues as far as cash going out the door and cash coming back, but overall, the city hall piece pays for itself, so I'm very comfortable with that. In the library, they do have the funds available, and it's intended for some capital projects, so to me, it makes sense to do them. City manager, are you happy?

I think it makes sense. It's a bigger number than... You know, at first glance, it seems like a big chunk, but when you break it down and understand the life cycle of these things and the time, it makes some sense.

All right.

Would you like a motion? So, can I say one more thing? Of course.

You're the mayor. You can say whatever you want.

I mean, I'm just looking at the contract, which essentially says, you know, pretty explicitly this is the scope of work. I probably would want a clear understanding. Just hearing what you're saying, we understand it to be the whole contract. The administration is kind of like, well, we might look at different pieces of it. I don't want to be in a situation where... the city's sort of expected or forced, not that you would sue us or something. I'm not saying that, but I mean, maybe you would, I don't know.

So stuff later on down the road, there's a lot of work left to do in this building as well as over at the library and potentially even over at the new jail. Um, some of the stuff that we have that we have not talked about tonight. So, um, But at the very least, tonight, you really need to make a move on that EV charging station set. We've got to do that. So if we're going to have any chance of getting the installation deadline met.

I agree with that. I do definitely want to get that portion done because I know we have Charges out there that I think shouldn't be necessarily free for anyone to come and hook up and charge City Hall I guess Sorry, I have a couple more thoughts if I I guess mr. Mattis I'd ask you would you be Would it make sense or even mr. Albright if you wanted to chime in if we made the motion as recommended it but added Adding a provision to contract that the city may reduce scope if the city determines fundings unavailable. I Mean would that be something problematic for your company?

Okay, I mean that would make me feel more comfortable I guess It's a large amount of cash we understand that we also understand the clock is ticking on a couple of these components that I'm sorry

Yeah, and we're doing a lot of other big projects right now, so we're spending some money. I can make the motion if it's. Yeah, go ahead. Sure.

I'll go ahead.

I'll make a motion to approve the contract with, how do you say it? Verigy. Verigy East LLC, doing business as Verigy LLC, with the added provision that the city can, quote, reduce scope if the city determines funding is unavailable for specific work, end quote, and authorize the city in 2022 approval of MDOT contract, end quote. 26-5188 for Hayes Road concrete pavement repair.

Mr. Mayor, before I make the motion, I just want to let the folks know that the city received federal funds to complete concrete pavement repair and curb and sidewalk to work on Hayes Avenue from Stevens to 10 Mile Road. So now you know where the money's going. I'd like to let you folks know the anticipated cost of the project will be $620,320 and federal funds of 507,731 will cover the majority of the project leaving a total cost to the city of $117,589. So I would move to approve resolution number 262022 to approve contract number 265188 with the Michigan Department of Transportation for the Hayes road concrete pavement repairs and further authorize the city manager to execute all necessary documents.

Support.

All right. Any other comments on that? Please call the roll.

Councilmember Curley? Yes. Councilmember Scott? Yes. Mayor Kleinfeld?

Yes.

Councilmember Shadlick? Yes. Councilmember Baker?

Yes. Item C, approval of letter to Macomb County regarding 10 Mile Road reconstruction delay. Would anyone like to make a motion?

I move to approve the letter to the Macomb County Board of Commissioners regarding 10 Mile Road and authorize the city manager to send the signed letter to the county.

I would support that with a comment, Mr. Mayor. You or the city manager, maybe the city manager that you wrote, let the people know that's here today.

Copy, yep, we'll get it in the mail. Perfect. Well, it's addressed to Mr. Hackle's office, but we'll also send it to our county commissioners and the road commission for Macomb County as well. Send it to every address you can find.

All of us. Did I... second that yes yes so I guess got one more question here I go Mr. Hacko gets this letter the what do they got 13 commissioners or 11 13 yes 13 all the commissioners get this letter commissioners aren't going to make this decision it's going to be the County Exec, we don't have to talk about now, but do we have, do you have a plan B in case they say, well, we already made up our minds, it's gonna be next year. So do we have a plan B? Maybe not. In regards. In regards to saying that's not acceptable.

We can put our finger on the scale. I don't think we can. upset the entire apple cart. We could go out there and fix it tomorrow at our cost. No, we're not going to do that. We would completely throw every relationship we have with Macomb County into question. That would not be advisable. This is us doing what we can to put our finger on that scale and try to tip it in our favor.

So diplomatic. I love him. So diplomatic. Okay, that's it. All right. Please call the roll.

Councilmember Shedlick? Yes. Councilmember Curley?

Yes.

Mayor Kleinfeld?

Yes.

Councilmember Scott? Yes. Councilmember Baker?

Yes. All right. Item D, approval of school resource officer contract with East Point Community Schools. Okay. Would anyone like to make a motion?

I move that we approve the school resource officer contract extension agreement with East Point Community Schools and authorize the city manager to sign the agreement on behalf of the city. Support.

All right. Any questions on that? Please call the roll.

Council Member Baker.

Yes.

Council Member Curley. Yes. Council Member Shadlick. Yes.

And we have plenty of local street activity that needs to be done I just wanted to highlight that one that we are doing our very best to get money into the local street side to Take care of the issues and that's really about all I wanted to highlight is just we're we're gonna transfer extra money over And I know this is sort of a side question I know I had asked about the possibility of using some of that increased revenue for sidewalk replacement Yes programs

Does that happen? Would it come from local streets if we take it from major to local and then can use it for?

It depends if you're doing. Or is it dependent on the road? It depends what type of street it is. If you did sidewalk and grass, it would come out of major. If you did sidewalk and nine mile, it would come out of major. You do it on Aurora, it's going to come out of local.

I was just curious. Would anyone like to make a motion?

I move to approve budget amendment BA 26-3 as presented. Support.

Any questions regarding that? Please call the roll.

Councilmember Baker?

Yes.

Councilmember Curley?

Yes.

Councilmember Scott? Yes. Mayor Kleinfeld?

Yes.

Councilmember Shadlick? Yes.

Item F in for introduction first agreement ordinance 26 1 2 6 4 traffic in vehicles inoperable vehicles I Had some thoughts on it, but I will open it up to council first I've just took one question on the background brief it says the police department is Experiencing an increase in the number of unlicensed vehicles parked or left on the streets and highways so the motion

says goals in within personal property so an inoperable vehicle within a garage is permitted in this we find the language I'll refer to mr. Albright if necessary storage of unlicensed vehicles within an enclosed building so that is section 44 dash 154 within an enclosed building on the premises of a business that is working on vehicles a vehicle in an appropriate storage place or depository maintained lawfully and properly by the city and then temporary storage of not more than one such motor vehicle on residential property for not more than 30 days while the owner is actively attempting to sell the vehicle so the one i fumbled was item b is a vehicle on the premises of a business enterprise operated in a lawful place

It impacts the police in the public right of way. Correct and that's what we were looking for is the cars that are parked on the street that are inoperable but they don't completely fall under the abandoned auto statute which basically an abandoned auto would under state code it' s basically the vehicle is like nothing there it just has a frame and maybe a wheel on it and that' s all that' s there. This is to help us clean up the streets and clean up the blight of the cars that are seriously broken down like broken parts not been registered for And are completely you know not drivable. That's what we're trying to get to remove from the streets turn to go there if it were Reported by a neighbor we'd refer that over to the building department because we're only looking for things that are in the public right away Not not in people's driveways or yards so we should and Mr.. Mayor we should

the motion abandoned abandoned unlicensed and inoperable vehicles we ought to add there that parked on the street well and highways right because it doesn't say that if I may my preference actually would be to refer this to the Planning Commission I'm not prepared to vote yes on this tonight I didn't like some of the language or I was concerned about some of the language in there it's a crazy question

What have we been doing for the last 40 years of abandoned vehicles on the street? You operate with that and you take care of it, right? Are we just getting in writing now? But you've been doing that since.

We have been doing some under the abandoned state statute, which is difficult because of what I described it as. Others have been taken under the snow emergency because we have language very similar to this in the snow emergency statute. If you were to read down in that statute, it says that a vehicle that has expired or has been abandoned in the street, it's a better definition. You can't speak for the Planning Commission, but I bet they would be happy to take this up.

I imagine they would be. He just said the Planning Commission would probably like to take a look at it.

Well, as long as they... We can change the wording. It's a recommending body. And whatever they recommend, we can... take it as it is or adjust it or whatever so I just want to make I just want to make sure that on the motion left on the local streets and highways is because the motion does not say that so I would

see or recommend you know the direction we would like it to go as a council I say we I'm sorry you as a council and planning could consider that in the creation of any changes or anything like that and then upon your recommendation of to send it to planning commission for review they would consider that in their deliberations after that they would get they would make a recommendation to adopt to council at which time you would reconsider it with those changes mayor

I can bring this up at Thursday's Planning Commission meeting. Okay. At the end, we have a discussion, and what I'll do, if the council so chooses, to refer this over to the Planning Commission between now and Thursday. The entire ordinance change. Okay.

Have them just take a look at the whole thing.

Yeah. Oh, okay. That was a whole squander.

Okay. I'll make a motion to refer this to the Planning Commission for review and recommendation, I guess, and direct Mr. Albright to relay the concerns from tonight. Any other comments? Please call the roll.

Mayor Kleinfeld?

Yes.

Councilmember Baker?

Yes.

Councilmember Curley?

Yes.

Councilmember Shadlick? Yes. Councilmember Scott?

Please call the roll.

Councilmember Baker?

Yes.

Councilmember Shadlick? Yes. Councilmember Curley?

Yes.

Mayor Kleinfeld?

Yes.

Councilmember Scott? Yes.

Item H, approval of special event application for ACDC Juneteenth celebration.

I move to approve. I'm sorry.

Go ahead.

I moved to approve the special event application for the ACDC Juneteenth event on June 19th, 2026 contingent upon the following. Any food trucks at the event must be permitted with an approved inspection at least five business days before the event. Any tents larger than 10 by 10 feet require a site plan and must be properly permitted at least five days prior to the event.

And doing their best. to do things that will help the city and help the residents enjoy, will help the city and help the residents enjoy more than what we have.

Thank you. Please call the roll.

Council Member Shadlick. Yes. I think I heard Council Member Scott. Yes. Mayor Kleinfeld.

Yes.

Council Member Baker.

Yes.

Council Member Curley.

Yes. Moving on to payroll and bills, would anyone like to make a motion?

I move that we pay the bills in the amount of $2,809,516.14. Support.

All right.

Any questions regarding that?

Maybe they did say $25,000. My next question that I would like to make a comment at this time is with reference to Commissioner Curley. I want to say thank you for that wonderful comment. Because we do, we work our butts off over there trying to do the right thing within the city. The second is with reference to the producing of the solar, the energy. In the state of Michigan, we have less months of sunlight for us to store energy. So my question would be, and for you guys maybe to ask them, is that if we're not storing enough energy in the off months, What happens then? Do we buy energy from DTE? And then on the opposite end, if we overproduce energy council, we have the president's day.

We have a veteran's day. Veterans Day isn't a very important day. People die. Many millions of people have died for Veterans Day. So why do we need a pride month? Do we need pride all month long? Are they more important than veterans? Are they more important than presidents? I don't understand that. Pride, I think, detracts from our community, not adds to it. Why don't we just go to the gas station? Whoever needs their electric... YOU KNOW, I THINK SHEETS HAS ELECTIVE CHARGERS NOW. WE DO NOT HAVE GAS STATIONS FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. WHAT ARE WE DOING THERE? THAT'S A WASTE OF MONEY. ARE WE GOING TO NEED A NEW BUDGET NOW? MR. BLUM, IS THE BUDGET DEFICIT GOING UP? OR IS THAT A SECRET? SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING THERE. JUST WASTING MONEY. Solar cells are so toxic that you can't even throw them out. I don't know how you get rid of them. And the average solar cell can only turn 50% of the sunlight that hits it into energy.

I LIKE TO THANK ALSO COUNCILMAN CURLEY FOR BEING TRANSPARENT IN HELPING THE CITIZENS OF THE RESIDENCE OF EAST POINT IN MAKING COUNCIL BE MORE TRANSPARENT. about a couple of issues that came up tonight and what have you, which we should always be transparent when things are being presented that the public are not aware of, don't understand or know about. I think Mr. Baker, he's one that does it as well. Doesn't just out of the air, just asking us, do we want to make a public hearing on a proposal in regard to it? And there's a lot of craziness going on in here. and what have you. And, uh, I know government can be crazy just period, but it's just getting pathetic now, uh, to ask, uh, uh, questions, to ask questions, uh, in regard to, uh, things that nobody have, have knowledge of.

And, and you're so used to people going along just to city administration, hijack that to slip in, uh, vehicles that are on people's property. you know, when you look at the ordinance here, there's one sentence that refers to vehicles on the streets. Everything else refers to vehicles that are on people's properties. So I think if those two items had been separated, you probably could have gotten a first reading and approval of the ordinance tonight, instead of having your part, having to go back through the planning commission. But it just seems like You know, this is another time where the building department is trying to get something through without going through the planning commission, without having discussion about it and seeing it all over the place and talking about it for months now. And for some reason, this has been very non-transparent. It concerns me again with businesses parking. You know, Councilwoman Peshad, like you mentioned this months ago, and I didn't quite understand what you were meaning. I'm understanding it now. And I agree with you that this probably is not a rip out and replace. There's probably other surprises for businesses that will be 30 seconds or their right of way. And I'm just disappointed in the whole process. Again, AEW does not live in this city.

It's bad. I mean, I can only hear every other word or so when I'm watching it on the video. So that needs to be addressed so everyone can hear. We have a number of residents who are wearing hearing aids, including me. And so when you have glitches in the system, it makes it real difficult to hear what's being said. So I would ask you to consider doing something about that. I also want to encourage people to vote and understand the dilemma that seems to be always present at this point regarding the need for teachers. I just saw a post about needing element naturally, emotionally, loss of loved ones. And we just need to be kind to everyone. I thought I was gonna make it under the 30, but I didn't, thank you.

Thank you. Anyone else wish to be heard?

So let's go over this again. didn't do anything to prohibit slaughter of rabbits. Who paid you off, huh? Patrol officer. He was good, and he worked real closely with Chief Jeff Randazzo. They got ahold of the state vet because, well, some of you were not on council at that time, but this goes back to 2019. And it was real stupid. People in city administration thought they were going to be slick and sneak in a petting zoo. They got a hold of the state vet and they talked about all the neglect that goes on in these petting zoos. And the state vet agreed with each of you off that you're not doing anything to protect rabbits from being slaughtered, from failing to mandate sterilization. You're ignoring the MDARD. PDF that says do not let domestic rabbits outside.

Thank you very much. Yeah Anyone else wish to hear Hey seeing none the second hearing of the public is closed. We'll move on to mayor and council reports, um Councilman Baker Thank you. I got nothing Hey councilman, Carly

Thank you. I got a couple things. I drove by, parked my car. There were 32 kids playing basketball, taking turns. No angry, no fights, no bad language. Just 32 kids that wanted to play. And we get that other court in there, that's going to be fantastic. Now, remember I told you that I was going to bring up the people who make this country run, and that's the females. And so I've got a thing I'm gonna read. First of all, a show of hands, and I don't imagine there'll be too many, head inspiration, player of pianos. They realized that if a radio signal could rapidly hop from one frequency to another, just like the piano keys changing notes, the enemy would not be able to jam it. They called it frequency hopping, and they officially patented that in 1942. But here's the kicker, the men, when they gave this to the United States Navy, the military basically laughed. They told Heidi, just be more useful selling kisses for war bonds instead of doing science. Typical men's response.

To invite everyone to the Juneteenth event on Friday, June 19th from 4 to 7. It's right here at City Hall outside. And it really is a good time. Wanda had mentioned that, you know, we work very hard on that event. And it's a lot of fun. So it would be really nice to have everyone come out and spend some time, like she had said, even if it's just a short period of time. Come out and have some fun.

Councilwoman Scott.

I think there was a question that arise about pride and so I think we recognize pride month because the federal government recognizes it and the city of East Point should also recognize it. I support treating every resident with dignity and respect however I feel like the proclamation district court. Thank you.

Thank you. I also would encourage everyone to go to the Juneteenth event. It was a good time last year. I think it was last year where it was very sunny and nice for the event, and then right at 7 o'clock, a hurricane came in. Regarding that there was a question the EV chargers my understanding is we just have to purchase them in time to get the rebate money and to get the Rebate money, but it's not that we're gonna be putting them in so there should be any interference with the event Thank you everyone for coming Thank you everyone for coming out and I will I guess entertain a motion to go into closed session for collective bargaining pursuant to MCL 15.26.

Thank you.