City Council - Regular Meeting

Thank you.

There's a lot of things, but they're all pretty unroutinely and got to do with stuff.

There she is. Who added this?

Or was that just admin?

Oh, he asked me to add the chamber breakfast. All right. And I said, oh. I just wanted to. And I knew Sarah was coming, and I forgot. I remember that, but forgot to put Sarah on, so my bad.

That's all right. Do you need a minute? Hello, everyone. It is 7.02. We'll call the City Council regular meeting to order. It's Tuesday, July 7, 2026. Would everyone please rise for the invocation given by Councilman Curley, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.

Once again, gracious Heavenly Father, we thank you for your love. We thank you for your forgiveness. And tonight, Lord, we ask that you would be with the council and the mayor that we would do the business of this beautiful city. And we would ask that you would be kind and take care of all the residents of our city. Those who have lost their job or are sick, just be with them. Let them know that you love them. We ask all these things in your son's name, Jesus, the living Christ. 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. Thank you, everyone. Please call the roll.

Council Member Baker.

Here.

Council Member Curley. Here. Mayor Kleinfeld.

Here.

Council Member Shadlick is out this evening. Council Member Scott. Here.

Right, and I would seek a motion for approval of the agenda. I'd ask to add, right after this, the rare presentation and also to remove the closed session. I'll support that. Or if that was your motion. Sure, that was my motion. Please call the roll.

Mayor Kleinfeld?

Yes.

Councilmember Baker?

Yes.

Councilmember Curley? Yes. Councilmember Scott? Yes.

All right, you're up.

Good evening, everyone. My name is Sarah Frederick and I'm the deputy director of the Recreation Authority of Roseville in East Point. And I'm here just to share some upcoming events that we have this summer for the community. Right on this first slide is a photo of the new park development behind our facility. If you haven't had a chance to visit yet and check it out, please do so. A really nice walking path back there. A brand new pavilion. We have cornhole courts, four pickleball courts, additions to the playground, a new playground surfacing, and a new community garden. So it's been really nice having that back there. Um, we have our annual pride in the park event on Thursday, July 16th from five 30 to eight at veterans Memorial park. Uh, this is a free event. Um, we have entertainment that comes, um, kids craft area and we have, uh, local vendors as well. It's a really nice evening. So hope to see you guys all there. We have our movie in the park, um, that is held at Spindler park. Um, That is going to be on Tuesday, July 21st from 7 to 10.30 p.m. We are showing Wicked for Good. Last year we showed Wicked, so we wanted to continue on with that. We will have free popcorn there, and then we're working on getting a snack food truck there as well right now for it. Just bring a chair, and we got a really nice big LED screen and everything to show the movie on. Uh, next event is our, um, new this summer. It's our community rummage sale. Um, that's going to be on Saturday, August 22nd from 10 to 4 PM. Um, in our parking lot at the recreation authority center. Um, if you are interested in, um, selling any items at it, um, you do need to fill out an application. Uh, those are available on our website or in person. Um, and then if you have any questions, um, you can talk, contact, um, Kate and Golan Blesky, our office. She's our community engagement supervisor. And for a vendor space, it's $15, and then entry is free. And then we have a few spots left open in one of our family fun trips for the summer. We have already went to the Tigers game. We went to Michigan Adventures. And then our last one to wrap up the summer is at the Bavarian Inn Lodge. That's on Monday, August 17th through Wednesday, August 19th. We take a bus from our facility, drop you guys off there, and then you get to stay for the whole weekend or the week, and then we take you back and everything. So it's really nice. And then we're just finishing up our fall newsletter. Those are for programs that run through September through December. We should have this newsletter available at the end of July and our registrations for those programs starts on August 3rd. Does anyone have any questions for me?

Any questions? No questions, except as I say it all the time, Sarah, I get excited when you get here and start talking because she loves what she does and she does an incredible job at the center. And if you've never been over there, go over there and see what they do. I mean, it's incredible. And the new facilities and the area we have outside is great also. So Sarah, God bless you.

And I would just encourage everyone to visit the new park behind the community center. It's really nice. And also, I know you don't do the financial stuff, but just a shout out to Rare. We did just receive their contribution recently for the splash pad here. They gave us $300,000. So I just wanted to acknowledge that. Thank you. All right, would anyone like to read it out? All right, would anyone like to read it out? All right, I'll do it. The proclamation reads, whereas parks and recreation is an integral part of communities throughout this country, including the city of East Point, and whereas parks and recreation promotes health and wellness, improving the physical and mental health of people who live near parks, and whereas parks and recreation promotes the time spent in nature, which positively impacts mental health by increasing cognitive performance and well-being, and alleviating illness such as depression, attention deficit disorders, and Alzheimer's. Whereas parks and recreation encourages physical activities by providing space for popular sports, hiking trails, swimming pools, and many other activities designed to promote active lifestyles. And whereas parks and recreation is a leading provider of healthy meals, nutrition services, and education. Whereas parks and recreation programming and education activities such as out of school time programming, youth sports, and environmental education are critical to the childhood development. And whereas... Parks and recreation increases a community's economic prosperity through increased property values, expansion of the local tax base, increased tourism, the attraction and retention of business, and crime reduction. Whereas parks and recreation is fundamental to the environmental well-being of a community. Whereas parks and recreation is essential and adaptable infrastructure that makes our communities resilient in the face of natural disasters and climate change. Whereas our parks and natural recreation areas ensure ecological beauty of our community and provide a place for children and adults to connect with nature in recreate outdoors. Whereas the U.S. House of Representatives has designated July as Parks and Recreation Month, and whereas the City of East Point recognizes the benefits derived from parks and recreational sources. Now, therefore, be it resolved that the members of the East Point City Council declare the month of July 2026 is recognized as Parks and Recreation in the City of East Point.

I'd like to see it because we missed it. So, also... Do we have to see any East point official by email? We can't talk to you personally one on one with Mr. Myers. We can't do that. I have to email him. So I have wrote a letter what I want to say. Okay. So I'm here addressing concerns regarding the inspection conducted at my property located at two zero seven one five Redmond. We recently received a final notice stating, that we owe $300 due to no compliance related to the inspection, specifically citing failure to certify the rental. I am uncertain how I can provide certification when I never received the initial report following the inspection conducted July 20, 25 by Kaylee course. Am I saying her last name? Right. Gorse G R O C E. Okay. So I previously explained the situation to Mr. Myers and requested a copy of the original inspection report. He did email me the report, but I find the documents, and I have it right here. Okay, so I did receive it. So I find the documents unclear and believe It may be inaccurate. Mr. Meyer assured me he will personally inspect the property himself. My husband visit the city of East point out here on July, on June 19th, no before, cause he was supposed to come out June 19th. My husband visits the office to confirm that we are scheduled to meet with Mr. Myers, right? on June 19th, 2026. When inquiring, the representative stated that we are not currently on his schedule, but kindly added us. We also requested to be present during Mr. Meyer's visit as preferred. Not to receive information.

We do cut off at three minutes, but we have a second hearing of the public.

Okay, okay. So what we're trying to say is?

Well, I have to cut you off because everyone just gets three minutes, but if you stick around, you can come back up and speak again.

All right, because I got a lot to say.

Thank you. Anyone else wish to be heard?

Good evening, council. Sir and madam, you'll have to forgive the council because the city, I understand our city manager does not even take the time to live in the city. And they don't know what in the world is going on here. So you better stick with them. I object to the use of parks and recreation for the pride in the parks. It's a filthy lifestyle. It's not a lifestyle for children. It's bad for mental health. And we should not be using city money to do these kind of events. I don't have nothing against people or what they do. I don't care. I'm 71 years old. Do what you want. But our parks and recreation is for children. And this filth has nothing to do with children. Mr. Mayor, I'd like to see the sign-in list to your event that was put on in the month of June. And you paid for all that with city money. I got a right to see the sign-in list. I want to know who's there, who's a donator, whether you're running the... Kleinfeld for judge campaign out of there secretly or whatever. I want to see that list. Um, Mr. Mattis, you are an interesting guy. Very interesting. I, you know, council, I got a, I got a letter at home. Um, anonymous letter all about Mr. Mattis. I don't know Mr. Mattis from, from Adam. I didn't know Adam either, but, uh, You know what I mean? They send me a copy of your home address, your LinkedIn page. For the second time in less than a year, we have a black woman who's been put on administrative leave. Basically lost her job is what I hear. I'd like to know what it is about black. Oh, that was quick. Your time's going to be up too.

Anyone else wish to be heard?

Good evening council, Mary Hall Raiford, East Point resident. There are so many things I need to say now. I wasn't going to say, but it seems like maybe I need to. I asked a few months ago, what happens when there is an employee dispute and the city manager is the person everybody reports to? If nothing's worked out there, what happens after that and who monitors that? I'm beginning to be a little concerned about what's going on in City Hall because it seems to me that there are some discrepancies that haven't been addressed. I don't know if they will be addressed, but I think everybody has a right to know what's going on. I don't really care what people are doing on their own time with their own money. That's not my business. But at the same time, When we are taxpayers and we are paying for certain things, we do have a right to know. I have a theory. I don't want to discuss it right at this moment, but if things don't change soon, I understand there are about three or four other black employees or former employees now that are going through some things. That says a lot to me. And I don't want to go there. But if I have to, I will. And I will lead the protest outside City Hall.

So let's get our act together. and start treating point resident. Um, I was wondering is new business item age H still going to be on the agenda at the civil service board meeting last still going to be on the agenda at the civil service board meeting last night, civil service had to postpone approving this because they are one member short. Now I know city council approves parts of the administrative rules only after civil service approves it. So, Would it make sense for council to table this item until civil service has their third member appointed and can review it? There was a posting for the open civil service seat that is voted on by city employees in the posting. Mr. Mattis, our city manager stated that this posting was not open to the general public. The seat must be filled by an East point resident who is a former full-time city of East point employee familiar with the civil service boards, vital role in personnel administration. The requirement of being a former employee is unique to this seat and I emailed Mr. Mattis because I can't find anything in our city charter or city administrative rules that states this requirement. I emailed him on June 24th. And I emailed him again yesterday, did not receive a response. Civil service chairman Martin also asked about this requirement at yesterday's board meeting. And Mr. Mattis responded that he really didn't know and would have to find out if the information in his vacancy posting was correct or not. So I'm asking maybe Mr. Albright, if you could clarify or point out in the charter where this requirement is stated, because you would probably know better than, maybe Mr. Mattis. Regarding the design for Nine Mile Phase 3, I did see it on the website, and I'm asking could Mayor or Council please ask AEW if they would be able to give a presentation on the design. I have a copy of the area between Kelly and I-94, and I need some help understanding the median that has been added. Currently, when you are traveling east on Nine Mile, the only place that you cannot make a left turn is between Beaconsfield and I-94, presumably because it's not safe to try and turn so close to the freeway exit. This median design will force all east... Members of the Council, my name is Richard Goodman.

245-75 Kelly Road, Apartment 2. As Mr. Solera said, yes, I do live in an apartment. I did move to East Point recently. I'm a lifetime Macomb County resident. I am running for judge here in East Point. I was raised, if you don't have something nice to say, you don't say it at all. Times have changed. Now, if you don't have something nice to say, you go on the Internet and you say it. If you're scared of the consequences of your words, you say it anonymously. I'm a fairly private person. I keep my stuff off the internet. Since I'm running for judge now, I do have to have a social media presence. There's a lot being said about me. One of the things that people are saying about me is that I'm a carpetbagger. Now, a carpetbagger is someone who moves to an area to exploit the people, resources, or political situation for personal gain. I still own a home in Frayser. Yes, my wife still lives there. I'm looking for a home for us to move to in East Point. Anyone else wish to be heard?

Good afternoon. Wanda Moody, East Point resident. I HAVE SOMETHING ON A LITTLE LIGHTER NOTE THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE. I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO COMMEND THE ENTIRE ACDC COMMISSION FOR THEIR HARD WORK IN MAKING OUR THIRD ANNUAL JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION A TREMENDOUS SUCCESS. AT LEAST 100, IF NOT MORE, ATTENDED THE CELEBRATION WHICH WAS HELD ON JUNE 19TH HERE AT CITY HALL. IT WAS TRULY WONDERFUL TO SEE OUR COMMUNITY COME TOGETHER FOR SUCH AN IMPORTANT CELEBRATION. I WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR STAFF LIAISON COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT MANAGER, JUANITA WALTOWER. JUANITA, WHO WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF CITY ATTORNEY MR. ALBRIGHT DEVELOPED A WAIVER THAT ALLOWED OUR SMALL BUSINESSES TO PARTICIPATE IN THE EVENT. because of Ms. Juanita's diligence with the support of the city manager and others, our vision became reality. Thank you, Mayor Kleinfeld. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem.

Anyone else?

East Point police ignored state law that mandates fireworks discharged at least 25 feet away from houses and in a driveway or paved service on private property. The next door tenants set fireworks off the tree stump at the rental house that's less than 25 feet from my house. The stump is 15 feet from my house. East Point police ignored that, said they're on private property, and they never asked for proof of express consent from the property owner. All they told them was they can't discharge fireworks from the streets or public sidewalks. Well, of course, once they're gone, the tenants and guests ignored that and ignited fireworks from the public sidewalks. Both mornings, July 4th and 5th, there's fireworks litter all over. We're less than the mandated 25 feet distance away from the fireworks. The building department that's also responsible in ticketing tenants for fireworks debris on my property said that I would be potentially ticketed for the debris that's caused from the tenant neighbors. Really? Since when do you charge crime victims with crimes committed by the criminal? Brilliant. Ryan Mattis, when I complained to you about the building department's failure to ticket the tenants, your snarky response was, you really want to make a federal case out of all this? You could have cleaned it up yourself. When I... Told you I wasn't asking for the SWAT team. Oh, that's right. You said you weren't going to send a SWAT team out to clean up all the city. I told you I didn't ask for the SWAT team and that your reply was snarky. You admitted that was intentional. So I emailed you a copy of section 2-97, the city's preamble. You should familiarize yourself with that due to your unprofessional and egregious conduct during the phone call. I demanded an apology from you at tonight's public meeting. Also, there's the July 1st deadline that passed. The city still owes me an apology for violating my First Amendment rights.

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 June 16, 2026.

Mr. Mayor, I would move to accept the minutes. The motion is on schedule. It's tracking. I know it's only two lanes right now, but it is well underway and on schedule. The nine-mile water main installation is completed, and Nine Mile Road now has a new water main from the west city limits all the way to the east city limits, which is very exciting. And then that same contractor will start on the water main on Lexington shortly. They already started, but it's just getting going. Lexington is under reconstruction as well. The basketball court's on 10 Mile. The parking lot and courts are paved. We're waiting on the installation of the hardware, which should be coming soon. New basketball courts. Wilmo is under construction. It took a little time with all the heat last week. The splash pad is well underway. Fencing will be going in. Final grading later this week. We're waiting on a couple things from Eagle before we are able to open, but we will have an open date for you hopefully in the early August. Stop me if I'm on a roll, Kern. The Civic Point parking lot over by the library is well underway. The carports are being installed this week. The streetscape work is ongoing right behind us. The trees and all the landscaping are going in. There's concrete repair happening over in the area of Stevens to Nine Mile and Piper to Schroeder. Many of the streets are down to one lane, so just be careful over there, but it's good progress. The Fox concrete repair is well underway as well from 10 to Haas. That will be starting very soon as well. And then the sidewalk repair program is getting started. The letters have been sent out to everyone who may be impacted by that as areas have already been assessed. That's just the Darren list for us today. The clerk's office is also very busy. There were over 6,000 absentee ballots mailed out on June 25th for the state primary 25th and run through Sunday, August 2nd for that August 4th primary. Lots going on in the clerk's office. then we've got several events coming up this week so the the clerk's office is busy with an a special election to the East Point Civil Service Board that absentee ballot started for city employees earlier today. That election will conclude on Thursday afternoon and we'll go from there. Notices and all those things have been sent out to everyone who's able to vote in that. We have a Velocity Road show coming up talking about capital access for small businesses. So there's flyers on the table at the back if interested in that. The library has the one and only Alex Avila coming on Thursday. Thursday night, Alex will be there talking about his new book with author Tom Gage. The summer concert series is going to get rocking here soon. We are going to have dueling pianos. It's rescheduled to next week. So they'll be on July 16th because also on Thursday night we'll have Alex at the library. The planning commission meeting will be happening here. So Midwest dueling pianos will be next Thursday night from 6 to 9 right out back here. We'll be broadcasting that widely. because I know it's been a hot summer. We are eager to get to that splash pad. As you go by Kennedy Park, you'll see most of the equipment's been installed. It looks really cool. We're excited to see the fencing go up this week, some more site work going on. There's lots happening. As soon as we have a date, we will be letting you know. How close would you say they are that they could flip the switch and be open? Close, but we're not going to do it without Eagle's approval first. So that's what we're waiting for.

Well, God bless Eagle.

Amen. That's all for me. So the only thing I wanted to address, I know I had brought up the idea during budget for paying for our sidewalk program from the local and major roads. So does council have any feelings about having administration look at that and directing them? Remind me of what your suggestion was? So something that they recently did in St. Clair Shores, we've gotten some increased funding for major roads. And right now, I think we have a pretty healthy reserve. So instead of charging every resident the individual cost of replacing their sidewalk, I think we have the funds there to pay for it through the city fund.

I think that would be great. Yes.

All right. I did want to make it just clear for you guys, so I'll make a motion if that's official. Okay, sure. Yeah. I move to direct administration to draft an administrative resolution for the next meeting to amend our sidewalk program to be funded out of the appropriate major and road funds. So long. Does that make sense? Yes. All right.

But the overall percentage for the 25 years came in at just over 4.2%. So a little bit less than I was expecting, which is a good thing. pension actuarial report the December 31st 2025 it just came out it was uploaded to the website this afternoon our funding increased from 58 percent to 61 percent so we finally Exceeded that magic 60% number from the state of Michigan We need to keep it up for three years and then they'll quit bugging me But it's going in the right direction and it's going well and if anybody wants to take a look at it It is available on the website or I can send you a PDF And I know I'm going to defend Mr. Mattis here because he won't do it himself. Whoever is sending anonymous information is ill informed. Residency requirements have been banned in the state of Michigan since the 1976 Supreme Court ruling. If he had to live here he wouldn't have a contract that paid him if he moved here. So people that are making comments need to have their facts correct. And that is all I have. Any questions?

answer questions that were asked just so we have some clarity on what's what okay, and I Guess I can follow up with you. Are you with me or however you would choose to do it? We can talk. All right. Thank you.

Thank you Any other questions? We'll move into new business item a approval of amendment number five to the water service contract with the Great Lakes Water Authority Anyone like to make a motion? I'll move to approve amendment number five to the water service contract with the Great Lakes Water Authority and further authorize the city manager to execute all necessary documents. I second. Any questions on that? Please call the roll.

Mayor Kleinfeld?

Yes.

Councilmember Baker?

Yes.

Councilmember Curley? Yes. Councilmember Scott? Yes.

Approval of extension of contract with AEW to December 31st, 2026.

So AEW is the city engineering firm. Their contract expired on June 30th, 2026. They currently have a number of projects with the city.

More for roads and stuff. More for roads and stuff. Has administration considered whether or not there should be like a separate contract for, because AEW is handling our engineering and architecture for the courthouse.

Yes, they are. The contract is inclusive of several things. Roads are definitely a big part of it, but they also support us in inspections and other things of ongoing infrastructure projects. I'll defer to Mr. Kern if you want to highlight some other things. AEW does several things for the city.

Yeah, this is our generic agreement for engineering services that we have with our municipalities. It does cover more than just roads, but it covers water and sewer projects, park improvement projects. We've been involved with the splash pad project. We do have our own architectural department, geographic information systems. We do update the mapping for the city as well under this contract. There's also some specialty engineering that we have, traffic engineering, structural engineering. So this does cover basically everything that we do for the city.

So when you have a municipality that's just using your architectural services, wouldn't that contract look different than this?

I'm not familiar with our architectural services contract, but if it's just specifically for architecture services, which we do have a few communities we only do architectural services for, it would be a different contract. I don't know how it's set up though.

Okay.

The reason I ask is I just think, I think when this was signed, urban county qualification to continue as a participating unit of local government and further authorize the mayor to execute a letter. And let me add a little... information on that that the city must provide Macomb County with a participation decision letter by July 31st 2026 with a determination to continue participating in an urban County CDBG program or not either decision will be irrevocable until June 30th 2030 a new resolution is not required so that's why we have the motion tonight Please call the roll.

Council member Curley?

Yes.

Council member Scott? Yes. Council member Baker?

Yes.

Mayor Kleinfeld?

Yes. All right, item D, approval of resolution number 26-2024, participation in Clements Authority interlocal agreement. So moved.

Support? I will support it but I want to add something to that where the resolution is 26-2024 the city of east point currently uses courts and law enforcement management information system and the police building and fire departments the police department for property property room lives can booking system and other law enforcement systems the building department code enforcement division Utilizes them for access to lean the fire department utilized

Your Honor, that does sound about right. It is a per-user fee that we're charged. But basically what has happened is Clemmas was part of Oakland County. So we were paying Oakland County directly for all the Clemmas services. Clemmas has since separated from the county, and now it's basically the Clemmas authority. So all of our contracts had to be changed. We've been in these contracts for many years. It just had to be changed out of the county realm into the Clemmas authority realm.

Any other questions? I'm sorry, was there support for that?

Yes.

You did initially. Okay. Please call the roll.

Council Member Baker. Yes. Mayor Kleinfeld.

Yes.

Council Member Scott. Yes. Council Member Curley.

Yes. All right. Item E, approval of Resolution 26-2025, committed fund balance assignments.

Mr. Mayor, the finance director is requesting that the city's council adopt resolution number 26-2025, which is...

I move that we approve the renewal of worker compensation third-party administration services with the Michigan Municipal League at a net cost of $215,831 for the period of July 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2027.

Support.

Any questions? Please call the roll.

Councilmember Baker?

Yes.

Mayor Kleinfeld?

Yes.

Councilmember Curley?

Yes.

Councilmember Scott? Yes.

Excuse me. Item G, approval of third-party general liability insurance.

Mr. Mayor, I would move to renew and authorize the execution of an agreement with the Michigan Municipality. All those positions are filled. You can't do that. That's up to you. Okay, then I would move to move the table. To be clear, until what time? I said until such time that these positions are full. And the city manager said I could do it if I want to.

And I did. Is there support? You mean like jelly rolls?

I don't know what you mean.

He said these rolls.

Is there support?

Support. Well.

No, no, Mr. Blum said he was going to.

Well, the Civil Service Board has a section or sections that they review and approve, but they're a recommending board. They're not an actual approving board. By delaying this, all of the changes in the employee benefits would be delayed until, well, since Civil Service won't meet again until August. It's going to be sometime in late August. It creates a lot of retroactive administrative effort.

Mayor Pro Tem Baker on some of his questions as well But yeah, it would be something that I mean the council can certainly vote on it and follow the suggestion of Mr. Blum or there is a motion on the table to also table it to some point in the future So what I was thinking the motion was to table until the civil service board was full and

Section one of this does state that the city charter Gives the authority for the director of personality to create these rules with the approval of the Civil Service Commission I don't have the Charter in front of me right now I'd like to look at that maybe get an answer from Brandon and there's also a section in there about amendments to I

And one point on four specifically excludes civil service from the Employee benefit areas yet, so I was gonna and I know that there are some sections in there that are specifically excluded from any review or recommendation of the civil service board so the council could Vote to approve those changes just because they have the council has the authority to do that without any input from the civil service board on the amendment, please

Mayor Kleinfeld?

Yes.

Council Member Curley? Yes. Council Member Scott? Yes. Council Member Baker?

Yes. All right, and please call the roll on the main motion. Council Member Curley? Yes. Council Member Scott?

Yes. Council Member Baker?

Yes.

Mayor Kleinfeld?

Yes. All right, table to the next meeting. Item I, approval of special event application for the East Point Community Baby Shower.

Motion to approve the special event application for the Betty Harris Foundation Community Baby Shire event on July 18th, 2026, contingent upon the following being completed at least five days prior to the event. All food trucks at the event must be permitted with an approved inspection. Any tents larger than 10 by 10 or any 10 by 10 tents closer... Than 20 feet together must provide a site plan and obtain temporary use permits all tents must comply with the International Fire Code 2021 chapter 31 and any bounce houses must obtain a temporary use permit Support any questions?

Please call the roll.

Council Member Scott. Yes. Council Member Baker.

Yes.

Council Member Curley. Yes. Mayor Kleinfeld.

Yes. Item J, approval of special event application back to school community fair.

Macomb Delta Sigma Theta Incorporated is requesting that the council approve a special event application for their fourth annual back to school community fair on August 29, 2026. This event must take place. Would take place at the love life Family Christian Center at one seven three six three tow for an East Point, Michigan The motion is to motion to approve the special event application for the Macomb Delta fourth annual back-to-school community fair on August 29 2026 contingent upon the following being completed at least five days prior to the event All food trucks at the event must be permitted with an approved inspection. Any tent larger than 10 by 10 or any 10 by 10 tents closer than 20 feet together must provide a site plan and obtain a temporary use permit. Any tents must comply with the International Fire Code 2021 Chapter 31. Any vendors selling goods at the events must obtain a vendor license from the clerk's office and any bounce houses must obtain a temporary use permit.

Sarah support support on the house on Redmond last year. Also, additionally, while I understand the safety concern address and the denial letter, I would like to bring to your attention ongoing water, water quality issues in East point where residents are required to use filters for drinking water. I will appreciate information on how this matter is being addressed and whether it poses as a safety risk to residents. That's all I have. And I believe I would like someone to contact me because this is not right. And I believe Ryan matters is this guy's head boss. And if you act the way you act, the way people say, then I don't have no way in this situation. And it is not right. I have never been out of compliance and I've been living in this city for over 23 years. Thank you. Thank you.

I'm going to ask that you leave your information with someone over there, address and phone number. Thank you.

James Hall. Now, I'll finish this up since I know now we've got three minutes here. Any city official, anyone that any department has that you come to visit or you have a concern should be like, hey, you're bothering me. That is the feeling I get. So I think I've done ran my time, but any city official, anyone that is a department head should be readily available within reason, unless they're in the courthouse. Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone else wish to be heard?

I was hoping I didn't have to get up here, but I just can't sit down due to dental work and stuff. Due to dental stuff and what have you. Since this last administration and what have you, it has become none but a total circus. And more and more each meeting, it proves it out to be worse each time, with the exception of a few. And what have you. Ryan, I mean, Mr. Blum, you had the audacity to sit up there and defend Mr. Madison on the situation or issue that John brought up and whatever. but you wouldn't even defend yourself. From the Ethnic Board meeting, when it came to the point of where they said, you was told by the mayor and the Monaco about a situation. And then the Monaco and they came here to this meeting here and call you a liar to your face. And you said nothing on your behalf to call you a liar and to be the one that held money and what have you. That's absurd, absurd and what have you. You need to go somewhere and sit down. Anyone else wish to be heard?

I believe very much in what Mr. Goodman said. Don't talk behind people's back. Talk to them in front of their faces. That's why you're different, but you come here to, you come here on this issue, but you come here to, you come here on this issue. Give me a call. Uh, we have, uh, Mr. Blum talking about gender neutral language to women in the last year, two black women in the last year, Maybe Mr. Kleinfeld's flavor of this DEI that he does brings in the flavor of, you know, some like George Wallace from the South 40, 50 years ago. I don't know what's going on here. Is it because she's a woman? Is it because they're black? Or maybe it's both. I don't know. I came here after that civil service meeting and I said that was an ugly meeting. Because of this young lady's comments, it now doesn't have a job here. I think that's retaliation. I don't care what anybody thinks. And Mr. Bloom, if our charter is that out of date, then why doesn't this crew fix it? What do you got in there? Just a bunch of junk in there? A bunch of 30-year-old language? What the heck is going on here?

I wish people would get involved. I really do. I've made pleas... I've made pleas, doesn't always happen. I do remember as early as 2018 where there was some sort of criteria for a residence requirement because I was running for council at the time. We have to do better. Residents have to do better. I don't want to come here and pick on any of the council members for things that they have no control over. Don't want to pick on the police department or the fire department for things they have no control over. A motto of mine has always been take care of the things in which you have control. None of us has control over everything. So let's take care of the things that we do have control of things that we do have control over. and deal with that. Personal animus doesn't really get us very far. I know for a fact that I can call any of the council members with a concern. And most of the time, they will respond in a timely manner. I don't want to see anger rule the city. I don't want to see fear rule the city. Because when you have that type of attitude and mentality, it leads to hatred and bigotry. And I don't think we need that. And I did allude to the fact that there could be something else going on here. And Mrs. Laris, we don't agree on a lot of things, but we know how to unite for right.

Order or the administrative rules and regulations say boards and commissions. We do require, um, board members and commissioners to be residents of the city with the exception of the construction board of appeals, because that's a very specialized board and also the DDA, because there are businesses that business owners that live outside the city that participate in the DDA, the rest of the boards and commissions typically do need to be city of East point residents problem with the civil service board. Um, I'm not sure what's happening there. Um, There was an opening, uh, back in, I believe April, uh, was Scott bourgeois's last last meeting. Um, city employees elected a board member. Um, this board member put her home up for sale on March 4th. The home was pending sale March 19th. She was elected to the civil service board on March 31st. She put in a bid on a house in Berkeley, April 16th. On April 21st, the East Point house actually sold. She had her first board meeting May 4th. May 7th, Berkeley House sold so she is now an owner of a home any of you does not cost you any money It cost me money. It cost the rest of these residents money. They are taxpayers. It costs City Council and the mayor money You know, we have the First Amendment one That was against someone who was actually a resident of the city.

Thank you Anyone else wish to be heard? Oh, no, no, sorry. Anyone else wish to be heard?

So from my previous comments, yes, it will make a federal case out of this if you're stupid enough to try and ticket me for fireworks debris caused by negligent tenants who also failed to clean the fireworks debris off of the rental house sidewalk. who continue to maintain blight with a ratty mattress. Now do something about all these deadbeat tenants. Now do something about all these deadbeat tenants that never pay their water bills and continue to rack them up between $200, $1,300 to $1,400. This is ridiculous. Last of all, check your emails. I sent all of you an email before the start of tonight's meeting regarding proper rabbit care. You do not prohibit the slaughter of backyard pet chickens and then you fail to offer that same protection to pet rabbits. I shudder to think how many of these rabbits suffered and died during last week's horrific heat wave. You know damn well nobody's going to enforce this ordinance. Rabbits do not make any noise. They don't bark, growl, meow, howl. They're quiet. Nobody's going to call this in. Nobody's going to report it. This ordinance is pathetic. You all are condoning animal neglect and cruelty. Also, if you're running for office, don't bash Judge Galen. That's uncalled for. You know, you can use that on- You have 30 seconds. I'm sorry? You have 30 seconds. And again, I will remind you, the July 1st deadline- So-

I can't speak necessarily to what a building official decided or said because only he could give the clarity or clarification on whatever he sent to you or whatever correspondence was there. But we can receive emails or phone calls and try to also help you in assisting with getting some clarification on things. If I can come in during business hours, I'll come and talk to him if he's available. If not, I have no problem sending an email along with you if you have questions. So I don't mind serving as a go-between, but that's what we're here for. We're here to facilitate some things. Well, if you get a card, you'll also have my phone number on the card, too.

Sorry. Hold on. Hold on. It's time to speak now.

Thank you. So most people here that know me know that I work a full-time job. I'm not a full-time council person. But many people that sit right out here with you today know that I am good about answering my phone. And if I cannot answer my phone, I am very good about calling people back. If there is something that I don't know, I have no problem admitting that I don't know something. but I also don't have a problem asking questions. If I don't receive an answer, I have no problem telling you that I'm still waiting on an answer.

It's a good idea, and I would leave it up to the city manager to have a presentation by AEW on our last phase of Nine Mile Road. The last time we did that, it was very interesting, and people really appreciated it. So if you could arrange to have them come and give us a presentation, whether it's the next council meeting or the one after that, whenever. But I would like that, too. I've been watching a lot of stuff on television, particularly just watched today a thing on Gettysburg. And if you know anything about the Civil War, Gettysburg was horrible. 50, 60,000 Americans died. I say Americans because they were all Americans, weren't they? They were even brothers who fought against each other. So tomorrow night, tomorrow night at six o'clock, every state in the United States, someplace there and in several different cities will be reading the Declaration of Independence. I have an arc on Jefferson and St. Clair Shores. An arc on Jefferson and St. Clair Shores. That starts at 5.45, that's probably introductions in the mirror, probably will say a few words. Then they're gonna read the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration. And in that first draft, he had a clause in there about slavery. And the delegates of all of the other states at the time said, no, we're not gonna vote on anything unless you take that out. So he took it out of the Declaration of Independence. But he wrote that. So that's all I'm gonna talk about tonight. I'm gonna leave here tonight realizing that Take off my glasses. Realizing that this is America, and every one of you are Americans. The people of Gettysburg fought for you. The people in Vietnam fought for you. World War I, World War II, they all fought for us. To have that right to come forward, Do you think that the thing that you said in other countries, Israel, Russia, wherever, do you think you could get up and say that?

I want to thank you so much for putting on that event. I'm actually going to be looking forward to the art show. So I can't wait for more information. I had the opportunity of seeing soundproof on June 25th. So I am kind of disappointed that we're not going to have the ability to see the pianos dueling. on July 9th, but it will be next week. Okay. So I'm looking forward to that. And I also want to say happy birthday to Ian because he's doing a fantastic job putting on these shows. He's bringing a lot of programs in with Velocity. I think Ian is also the one that brought him in to kind of provide that financial information for these small businesses. So happy birthday to Ian. And I think that's all.

thank you I hope everyone had a great 4th of July weekend and stayed cool and they're staying cool now I want to give a shout out to ACDC as well that event is growing and there was definitely more people there than last year and I am excited to see what you guys do next year so motion to adjourn so moved support

Okay, my choice. Council Member Baker?

Yes.

I heard Council Member Scott? Yes. Council Member Curley? Yes. Mayor Kleinfeld?

Yes. Meeting adjourned at 8.31.