City Council - Regular Meeting

I pledge algiance 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. Good evening, honorable city council members, to our mayor, to our clerk and treasure in their absence, to our city attorney, administrative staff, uh members of the public here in the council chamber, and those viewing via our broadcast channel and YouTube live. Welcome to the city of Romulus City Council regular meeting. Today is Monday, March 9th, 2026. Members of the public wishing to participate in this meeting may do so under the public comment portion of the agenda. Please fill out a request to speak public comment card located on the table in the back of the chambers and handed to me the deputy clerk. At this time, we will have roll call. Councilwoman Abdo

here. Councilman Bulock here. Councilman Jones here. Councilwoman Rosco here. Councilwoman Tally here. Councilman Wsworth here. And Councilman Willhigh here. Madam Chair, we have a quorum for tonight's regular meeting. Thank you. Tonight's regular meeting agenda is as follows. Number one, agenda. Number two, minutes. Three, petitioner for chairperson's report. Five, mayor's report. Six, clerk's report. Seven, treasurer's report. Eight, public comment. Nine, unfinished business. 10, new business. 11, warrant. 12, communication. And number 13 is adjournment. A motion would be in order to accept tonight's regular meeting agenda as presented. So move support.

It's been motioned by Mr. Jones, seconded by Miss Rosco for the approval of this tonight's agenda. Mr. Jones, yes. Miss Rosco, yes. Mr. Wilhyde, yes. Miss Abdo, yes. Mr. Bullock, yes. Mr. Worth, yes. Chair votes, yes. Motion approved. Thank you. City Council agenda item 2A for approval of the regular meeting uh minutes held on Monday, February 23rd, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. Madam Chairman, Mr. If I may, uh, I'm going to move, um, I'm going to move for the approval of the minutes from the regular council meeting that was held on Monday, February 23rd at 7:30. Support.

Thank you. It's been a motion by Mr. Wsworth, supported by, seconded by Miss Rosco for the approval of minutes from the regular meeting held on Monday, February 23rd, 2026. Mr. Wsworth, yes. Miss Rosco, Mr. Whale, yes. Mr. Jones, yes. Mr. Bulock. Yes. Miss Abdo. Yes. Chair votes yes. Motion approved.

Thank you, city council. Agenda item 2B for approval are the minutes from the special meeting public hearing held on Monday, February 23rd, 2026 at 6:45 p.m. to hear comments or objections to the uh the request to vacate Bo Champ A and the adjacent alley in the Bo Champ subdivision. Uh, madam chairman, I'm going to move for the approval of the minutes of the special meeting that was held on for for the special meeting and public hearing that was held on Monday, February 23rd at 6:45 p.m. Um, it was here the comments. Um, and the objection to the request to vacate the Bo Champ Avenue and adjacent alley of the Bo Champ subdivision.

Support. Thank you. It's been motioned by Mr. Worth, seconded by Miss Rosco for the approval of the minutes from the special meeting. Public hearing held on Monday, February 23rd, 2026 at 6:45 p.m. to hear comments or objection to the re to the request to vacate Bocham A and an adjacent alley in the Boam subdivision. Uh, Mr. Wsworth, yes. Mrs. Rosco, yes. Mr. Bullock, yes. Miss Abdo, yes. Mr. Wilhy, yes. Mr. Jones, yes. Chair votes, yes. Motion approved.

Thank you, city council. Agenda item number three is petitioners. We have two petitioners under the agenda. The first petitioner is from uh Jay Curig of Polka Dots Decor and more. He's petitioning council for approval of various special events and road closures. Um these events were reviewed by the relevant um administrative departments, the police department, fire department, parks and recreation, DPW and DDA. And there were no objections from those departments. Um, the fire department requests that petitioners do not allow parking on Ferndale Street so that firet trucks can respond to emergencies on that street if one may arise. And Mr. Curric's here to present his uh, requests.

Uh, thank you, Deputy Clair. Pretty much exactly what Deputy Cler mentioned. Um, all of our markets uh, started last year with our haunted night market. So, we're continuing those events this year. Uh reestablishing the Rondulus Farmers Market is our big goal this year, which is going to be on Ferndale. All of our other markets are going to be held over by the historical parks. Okay. Any discussion? Let me say this. You got a boatload of stuff going on here. This is exciting. This is exciting. You're going to light up the downtown. Serious. That's That's This is amazing. This is amazing for you to take all this on. It's a lot. Um, but I'm excited about I'm going to make as much as I can, but you got a lot going on here. But, um, thank you. Thank you. If no, chairman,

Mr. Wsworth, I just like to make a comment. I appreciate what you're doing. I really do. And the public does and the residents do. You're doing one heck of a job and we go back many years ago when you did a a a fundraiser for my animal shelter when I first started and I appreciate that. Thank you. Mhm. If there's no if there's if there's um no other comments, I'm going to move um for the polka dot for the for the polka dot decor and more Jake for the petition for a special event and and the road closures for the events that you mentioned in support.

All right. It's been motioned by Mr. Wsworth, seconded by Miss Abdo, uh to approve the special events request for polka dots special events and road closures um as listed here. Um and authorize a new fee permit for the closure of Ferndale Street from guarded road to the alley entrance and the closure of Hunt Street from Bippus to the entrance to the post office for the above mention. Any discussion hearing? None. Mr. Wsworth, yes. Miss Abdo, yes. Mr. Bullock, yes. Mr. Jones, yes. Miss Rosco, yes. Mr. Wilhel. Yes. Chair votes. Yes. Approved. Thanks, Jay.

Agenda item 3B is the second petitioner from Bradford Airport Logistics is requesting a conditional resoning request here on behalf of Bradford Airport Logistics is Mike Rosson. Good evening. My name is Marcus Tommy. I'm the director of economic development for the Wayne County Airport Authority. I'm here to introduce our team. um the so mentioned Mr. Rosson from Bradford Airport Logistics who will speak to uh the nature of this project and its benefits. Thank you.

Thank you. Uh thank you Marcus and good evening mayor and council members. Uh we appreciate the opportunity to be here uh this evening and for you to take this time a little technical difficulty. So we have we have an updated slide deck for the council uh this evening. Thank you very much. So what I'd like to do is go through and first of all I would like to introduce our team obviously uh the city of Romulus Wayne County Airport Authority Bay building company here locally CNS engineers and LS3 it's the team that is going to help us put this project together. A little bit about what Bradford does. We operate uh centralized receiving distribution centers. We've created the market in airports. We have 25 locations throughout the US and two in Europe. Uh right now we operate here currently. And really I wanted to start out with our mission. Our mission is to relentlessly innovate the CRDC operations to be be the benchmark leader for the global aviation industry in safety, cost efficiency, security, and sustainability. Our purpose is to help airports run great. A little bit about the project. So what this and I'll show a map in just a minute. In essence, it's going to centralize all logistics. This will be the main logistics center for the airport. All goods destined for sensitive areas of the airport um will be coming through the centralized receiving distribution center. What that does is it takes um truck traffic off the terminal fronts uh potentially forest hazardous goods away from terminal fronts and sensitive areas of the airport. There's really four components we like to look at. One is improved efficiency. It centralizes the operation. Two is enhanced security and screening. Everything all good will be um be screened as including personnel going into the building. Sustainability. It will support um environmental and recycling object objectives for the airport and the community. And then

obviously the local impact we plan to include 20% s uh participation with with local businesses. So as you can see this is kind of the setup we have currently. So we operate now at the Evans terminal and the Mcame McName north and south. What you'll see the new location that we propose and are here seeking the conditional resoning approval is on the corner of Wayne and Eureka Road. So it takes it the operation out of the terminals, reduces congestion, enhances safety and security and centralizes it into one location. With that, I'd like to turn the time over to Michael with the CNS engineers. Uh, good evening, council members. So, my name is Michael Holdwick. I work for CNS Engineers, and I'm one of the members of the design team who is helping Bradford Airport Logistics design this project. So, we just wanted to tell you a little bit about some of the project specifics. Um, so first, this is an 11.8 8 acre parcel located at the southwest corner of Wayne and Eureka Road. So, if you're familiar with where the south cell phone lot is, there's a green upland site kind of in that vicinity. That property is owned by the airport authority and that's the site that we're proposing to develop. Um, the building itself is going to be around a 30,000 foot logistics facility. It'll be scalable and state-of-the-art. It'll have 10 inbound truck docks. So receiving goods will come into those 10 docks and then there's seven outbound docks. That's in secure area. So that's where the Bradford trucks go and that's where they go through checkpoint 34 if you're familiar with the airport and get ultimately to the terminals. So the Evans and the Batame terminals. Um there'll also be some employee offices within the facility. So we'll have screening for those for people uh both employees and guests to get checked in.

So, right now the site is currently zoned C3, which is highway commercial, and what we're requesting is that it be um reszoned conditionally to M2, which is general industrial in February, so last month. That was approved by the planning commission and recommended for the um city council tonight for approval. And if we get approval, ultimately, we'll move forward with final design. And once design is complete, we'll come back to the planning commission for site plan approval before we begin construction. So, a little bit about the justification for the project. Uh the proposed zoning is more consistent with the surrounding area and the vision that the city has for this area. So, it's in alignment with the master plan and the future land use map and it aligns with the industrial and transportation type facilities that are being developed in this area. Um the current zoning C3 is more of a retail zoning. It does not allow for uh logistics or warehousing facilities. So it would be a variance to the current zoning. And we're also seeing that the demand for the retail type facilities that the C3 allows for they're they're less in demand and and the logistics developments are more in demand. Um so it's really not aligned with the long-term vision for the city. So the benefits are it's more compatible with the development taking place there today. It'll promote economic growth and provide highquality and airport supporting jobs for the surrounding community. Uh the main point I want to make is uh really about what the airport is doing here to assist with um the community with rounds. Um, this project supports the long-term commitments that the the

city has made. Um, we also have the fact that this is a state-of-the-art facility that's going to be going into the city. This is the next generation of CRDC's. As was already mentioned, these are all across the country and a few of them are in Europe. Um, and these important facilities help uh the airport and the surrounding community. Um, but really it's about bringing a CRDC into Ramulus. It represents a core need for the airport, but also for the city. It represents a larger opportunity to grow in that southern gateway district and support the city's vision and long-term goals. Uh, this project is an opportunity to build that right here in the city. um with the sustainability that Bradford has, there's recycling, there's uh the ability to uh capture uh the entire airport's uh recycling at our at the new facility. Uh and also it's going to be a great looking building, which you'll see here in a few minutes. So, uh we're taking a vacant parcel of land in a district that's going to help spur additional development, that additional um airport support that was written into the Southern Gateway District. And and frankly, we're just really excited about the opportunity to bring something like this to the city.

Question. Y'all going to be leasing this? You're going to put this investment in this vacant property, build it up and build it out, and then lease it. Uh the the agreements have not been signed yet. Working on the design. So, those agreements are still to come. Okay. Uh yeah, for today, it's really about getting us to a point where we can release the funds for the design and then uh hopefully be able to start construction sometime this summer. Okay, chairman. Yep. Mr. I have a question out there. This is property that um the airport condemned back in about 98 and we've lost the tax base on it since then. Is this going on our tax rules now?

Uh so again it would be determined on how we structure the lease. Uh right now it's getting Bradford, Gil Bane and the team to be able to build the facility and then we will be entering into negotiations for whatever that structured lease may look like or the operation of the facility. I guess I should ask the mayor. Bob, is this going back on our tax rules is my question. That's the question I just ran past legal counsel. I believe that it is, but I can make confirmation at a later. I I believe it's going back in the tax roles. I'm trying to make sure that's not in the typo. Um, so stay tuned. I like what I see, but I would like to get some of our tax money back that was taken away from us in back in 98 when I sat here.

Go ahead. I came to the airport in 1999. So I've been around for a few years. I don't blame you, man. I'm not blaming anybody. I mean, I thought I saw something in the documents about going back on the tax ro. I may have maybe I was mistaken. Um I I don't think we have that in this presentation. No. Okay. Okay. Might have been Okay. Okay. I'm sorry. Continue. That's okay. No, I was finished with my part. So, um, we will turn it over to the other way. Now, I messed it up. Okay, take this away.

All right. So, I just wanted to zoom in a little bit on the development and show you the preliminary site plan so you get a better understanding of what we're looking at here. Um, so this this figure is rotated clockwise. So, north is to the right. So, just keep that in mind. So, um, on the right hand side is Eureka Road and then on the bottom is is Wayne Road. So, you'll see in the middle the tan color, that's the building. So, that's the 30,000 square foot uh logistics warehouse. Uh, on the south side or the left side of the page, that's where the truck docks are going to be. So, the truck entrance will be on the south side and um the trucks will come in and out there. the employee parking will be on the north side of the building or the right side of the page. You'll you'll also notice that uh the cell phone lot remains intact. So, we're not changing that. We're developing south of that. Um it'll comply with all the municipal ordinances. So, the sidewalk, the setback um for the front and the sideyard and then it'll also have your fire circulation road around the facility. Um, and no wetlands will be impacted because there are some environmentally sensitive areas in this area. So, we're developing an upland site and we've done our our diligence on that. That's uh that's the plan for the site and rendering conceptual images that we put together, but we do we've been through the zoning ordinances. We understand that there are minimum square footages of materials. What those materials are going to be on the facades. We plan on following all those. We are screening the uh the truck bays from Wayne Boulevard. Um again, this is purely conceptual, but we want to give you an idea. You know, we don't

want this to look super industrial. It's going to look a little more pleasant than that, but we, you know, we need to develop that. So, I open it to any questions you might have on the facades or the architecture, the conceptual architecture. Any questions from the council? Not on the uh building itself. I have some questions. Okay. You you guys still got more in your presentation, right? Yeah, we fine. Okay.

Good evening, council members. Uh so, just want to give you a kind of idea what the building looks like internally. Um, I'm on the operations side of Bradford. So, I kind of helped design the inside here. So, you see in the green area there, that's all our inbound dock areas where all the goods will come in. But along that line, separating the green and red areas, that's where we have some state-of-the-art screening equipment. And I cannot, you know, understate the the the state-of-the-artness of this equipment. I mean, it's brand new state-of-the-art technology for screening to make sure the traveling public go to the airport remains safe. There's no prohibited items making it through. This whole building was kind of designed to funnel everything into that red area. Uh there will be a cooler and freezer installed in that upper part of the building there. Uh where this will be staged delivery, they'll be loaded on our outbound trucks and then taken out of the building to the to the airport. So just a couple other points on here like Brian mentioned, we're going to comply with all the city's compliances and ordinances for screening and the look of the building. Um it's about 30,000 square foot total. The the big part of this too, there's scalability that was mentioned where we can eventually bring in other businesses that operate in the airport to operate in this warehouse too. going to keep all the traffic off the airfield and off the airport and we're really designing this with sustainability in mind.

Just put the traffic. So there's just another side shot. Turn back over through the chair. Mr. Wilhy,

I have a couple questions about um you know, it's well and fine that you're taking all the traffic out of the airport. Um, but my fear about this whole thing is the truck traffic on Eureka and Wayne Road. Um, I live in the south end. I come through Eureka Road and at peak times when the airport is letting up people out, it's backed up past the entrance. So, I was looking at your proposal and you have um 35 to 45 inbound trucks off the expressway coming in there to drop their loads and then you have half of that or 30 trucks going to the airport. And I noticed that the times were 3 to six or three uh two to three uh for the inbounds coming off the expressway, which is not that great of a deal. But the um outbounds going into the airport is five from 5 to 7. And that's right at peak time when I worry about the traffic there because how many trucks do you think will go in there?

No, understood. Thank you for the question. So the what what we think what we believe you'll see is an improvement to the traffic. Everything all inbound goods that come to us, they're all meticulously timed and staged, right? So we'll come there and most of those uh deliveries occur very early in the morning. The outbound will be Bradford trucks. So everything that comes in, we consolidate, screen, and then load it on our trucks. We have how many do we have right now? Four. So you'll see combining the with with both operations, we've got six trucks. So that's all we'll have going outbound. And basically what we're going to do is just go right across the street to checkpoint 34 and into the airport.

Okay. So um you go in on um what is it? The airport drive, not the entrance to the airport where No, no, no. This this this operation draws everything completely away from the main entrance of the airport. Okay. So, checkpoint 34 is right there. Checkpoint 34 is right across the street from Okay. And do you guys supply all the vendors within the airport? Yes. All right. And you're going to do that with six trucks? Correct. We do it we do it today in two different operations, two different terminals. Uh, don't you have aren't you located on the airport right now?

No, we're we're embedded. But what you would see and and if I would have brought the pictures, you would see what it looks like in the morning. If you've ever been down early in the morning, the FIS, you know, the federal customs, right on the bottom level there in either terminal, it's just it's goods being delivered to the airport and it gets backed up. All those docks are full and you have trucks just lining the roadway, congesting the traffic. And my fear is I was elected to this position for the residents, not for the airport. And it's like to move their traffic onto our streets. That is a concern of mine. No. And I appreciate the concern. That's all I have right now. Okay. Thank you. Through the chair,

Miss Abdel. My concern is what benefit is this to the people of Romulus? I've heard the question asked, is this going to be on our tax base? And no one seems to know if you I would like to know that for sure

through the chair perhaps a common misconception of the airport is everything within the fence is not on our tax rules. That's not entirely true. Spirit airline uh their hangers on our tax we tax at FedEx the new FedEx building is on our tax role. Um anything that's not directly correlated to DTW's operations. Um so this is an opportunity and like I said are we excited about trucks? No. However, it's an opportunity to pull something inside the airport, outside the airport, put back in our tax rules, and use that property that we lost years ago for the proposed fifth runway. So, it's definitely going to be on our tax roles. Yeah, exactly. The only question that I had was um it looks like there's a carve out in the TIFFA where this would go general funded, not TIFFA.

I want to make sure that I'm correct on that, but it's coming on our taxes. That's all I want to know. Okay. Madam Chairman, Mr. If I could to the mayor, you're saying it's going to be on TIFFA or it's going to be in the general fund. That's what I want to clarify. There's if you look at the TIFFA map, there's a carveout in that area. So, I believe it's not captured, but I can't say that definitively at this point. And I'll get back to council on that. Okay. Thank you. Do the chair. Um, so is this taking over the cell phone lot? Is that what I'm seeing? No, the cell phone lot will remain. So, is it like behind it? Is that uh correct? Yes.

Okay. So, it'll still be there. Okay. And then the trucks that you'll be using, just so we're clarify, I know everyone talk about trucks. What kind of trucks are you using? Are they semi-truckss, 18 wheelers, or they just smaller box trucks? They're they're smaller box trucks. Okay. So, so not not semis, not you'll your deliveries from the freeway. Will those be uh 18 wheelers? Yes, I'm assuming. And then your smaller ones running back. Some will uh there will be a mix, but yes, those will be the inbound the uh inbound trucks coming in to drop off of your screen. And then the alpha and all of those trucks will be the six that were mentioned. Those smaller trucks here through the chair. Perfect. Mr. Mayor,

just so the trucks that supply your operations now, how do they enter the site now? Do they come in? You're not increasing truck volume, right? They're already coming into the airport, correct? Yes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions, discussion? Did you have more of your presentation? I know we kind of dove in with questions.

We got through it. So, if there's any other questions, happy to answer. anybody? Okay. Well, let me just say this. Um, this was um recommended by our planning commission. They are very they are amazing. Um, and they are diligent in their due diligence. So, um, yes, I'm very comfortable with this because our planning commission put their stamp on approve. I think you went to them a couple of times um before them. So, um, yeah, thank you for the process and I do have a lot of confidence in our planning commission. So, thank you. Yes, they put us to work really well. So, we made the the corrections and we I think we got it right. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Miss Rosco, um there's action we need to take on this petitioner. Okay.

And so with that being said, I'll make a motion to concur with the planning commission's finding and approve the first reading and in introduction to the conditional reszoning request for RC-2025-00004 Bradford Airport Logistics to reszone 11.88 88 acres of the 40.52 acre parcel ID number 80-130-99-00001-706 at location 15184 Wayne Road from C3 Highway to M2 General Industrial subject to the finalization and execution of the conditional resoning agreement by the city Attorney

support.

Okay. It's been motioned by Miss Rosco, supported by uh seconded by Mr. Wsworth for concur with the planning commission's finding and approve the first reading and introduction to the conditional reszoning request for RZ-2025-004 Bradford Airport Logistics to reszone 11.88 88 acres of the 40.52 acre parcel ID number 80-130-99-00001- 0706 at 15184 Wayne Road from C3 Highway to M2 general industrial subject to the finalization and execution of the conditional resoning agreement by the city attorney. Any more discussion hearing? U Miss Rosco, yes. Mr. Worth, Mr. Wilhigh,

yes. M Miss Abdo. Yes. Um Mr. Bullock. Yes. Mr. Jones, yes. Chair votes, yes. Motion approved. Thank you. Thank you, city council. Agenda item four is the chairperson's report.

Thank you, Dean. Um couple of things I want to just first want to thank the people who were at our last meeting. Um we had a lot going on in that meeting, but one of the things that I was just really pleased with at that meeting was the conduct of the people who attended um the uh the meeting. Um it was orderly, it was respectful, and I just want to say thank you. Um it could have went so many different ways, but it didn't. I want to thank the mayor and his team for um for what they did to make sure we had an orderly meeting. Ellen, Ellen, she's not here tonight. And Dejon um what they did, everybody working together as a team um to um pull up a great front um for our city. So, and just the people that attended just very respectful, very orderly, and I just want to say thank you. I want to thank uh Captain Harris and the police, our um Romance Police Department for their work on uh that last meeting, too. Lots going on that day, but just want to thank you for your hard work. Um, also want to shout out to um, Captain John the He used his hook and let and I'll talk about that some more down the line um, as a staging area to help out during that time. So, thank you John the for your help in that during that um, last meeting with everything going on with the protest. So, anyway, just want to do those shout outs really quickly. And on that note, um, regarding the ICE, I want to turn it over, yield the floor to David Jones, Councilman David Jones for some couple of words he had over the weekend regarding, um, a meeting he attended. So, Mr. Madam Chair, uh Saturday I attended the meeting for the coalition against um ICE and the detention center in our neighborhood and they were very supportive of this our um proposal uh against the the uh detention center. It was it was a platinum meeting. Uh it was informative. They meet every Saturday. Uh but it was just good to know that

what they're doing in the meeting in our city about the detention center uh it was uh most of the people there was not from Ramulus but they was against the detention center in our in our city. Thank you. And I just want to say that we passed that resolution at the last meeting. Um so it's not just about passing a resolution. We're very passionate about what's going on in our city and how it affects our city. So, I want to thank you, Councilman Jones, for participating in that meeting, just kind of, you know, getting ears on what's going on and then just letting us know. So, thank you for that. And then on that note, I'm going to yield the floor for you for a resolution.

Yes. Uh, Madame Chair, I like to offer a motion for a memorial resolution for John Bradley. Uh, John Bradley had been the secretary of St. John's Lodge for pretty close to 20 years. Uh he's been a member of St. John for since back in the 50s and I just like to for the resolution for him. Uh he passed this today at 1:30 support.

It's been motioned by Mr. Jones, seconded by Mr. Wsworth for the memorial resolution for John Bradley, the secretary of the St. John's Lodge over 20 years. Any discussion? Hearing none. Mr. Jones, yes. Mr. Wsworth, Miss Rosco, yes. Mr. Wilhigh, yes. Miss Abdo, yes. Mr. Bulock, yes. Chair votes, yes. Motion approved. And then just a couple other quick things. Um, I want to yield the floor to Celeste for resolution.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to ask for memorial resolution for Ella G. Ella Gis is the daughter of Doug and Erica G. Erica G is one of our state senators. and um she passed away on February 25th after about a three and a half year battle of cancer. She's very young. She was a teenager and just like to keep uh Doug and Erica and uh their son Michael in our prayers and thoughts during this uh time and and they've been through a long three years with this battle with a rare cancer that she had. But anyways, um I would like to ask for a memorial resolution for Ella.

I'll support that. Okay. It's been motioned by Miss Rosco, seconded by Miss Abdo for the memorial resolution for Miss Ella. Uh guys, any discussions hearing? None. Miss Rosco, yes. Miss Abdo, yes. Mr. Wilhy, yes. Mr. Willisworth, yes. Mr. Bullock, yes. Mr. Jones, yes.

Chair votes, yes. That motion is approved. Um and then nextly you want to talk about um I'm excited about what's going on Bubbies. I'm just saying right now just excited about what's going on with Bubbies. Um all these events going on in our downtown. So again, thank you Jay and his the team for that. Um and then we haven't got to it yet, but I'm excited about things with the parks and wreck with Colleen is going have coming down the line before us. I'm sorry I'm putting you on front right now, but we'll be voting on that in a minute. I just want to just just exciting stuff in our city. Emphasis on our parks and wreck. Um just things that's going on in our city. It's just really time um good time to be in the city of Romulus. Um and then shout out to you for your mother and son um bowling event. That was really well attended. Very nice. All the uh characters that dressed up. Uh Colleen was dressed up. So great job for another great event. So thank you for what you do with that and all your events. Thank you. And then um I want to shout out to the mayor and the chief of staff for their monthly department meeting. I attended the second one uh for this year and just well very wellrun and just very informative and so I just want to say thank you guys for that and allowing me to sit in on those meetings. Um very informative and um you know everybody know my favorite right now is hook and ladder. Hook and ladder. I went to an event uh over the weekend and um they had an event uh the Miscast cabaret and what it is and what I love about this particular event. All the events I've been there have been amazing but this one was focused on youth. Um the youth they had a cabaret they call them miscats because they were singing these rows of show tune favorites but people that sung the songs were not the people you think would sing the song. So if it it was just very interesting. and they have a show this Saturday. If you're interested, I ask you to um um check them out. And it's this Saturday from at this 14th and you have to go on the Hook

and Ladder uh website, hookandladder.lus.com for times for the show, but it is this Saturday and it's called the Misscastaret. young folks, our young folks. And I'm love when we uh focus in on our young folks. Very talented young folks um that I saw over the weekend. And we have to focus on our youth. We have to focus on our youth. And so a shout out to the mayor. He has the youth council. You know, he focuses on the youth. And we we y'all, we're not going to be here all the time. We just not. So we have to train up our kids and train up our young people. Um Colleen, I commend you on the people you put on the recommen recent commission. You got young folks. We need that in our community because we ain't going to be here all the time, y'all. So, let's train up these people and have a good succession plan for our youth in our community. So, thank you, mayor, for what you do with the youth council and in your involvement with the schools and your work with the superintendent. That's all key in our community. So, thank you. And so, with that being said, with Hook and Ladder, y'all, again, they are having a ribbon cutting um March 17th. Is that St. Patrick's Day?

Yes. No. Yeah. No. Okay. March 17th from 2 to 6, ribbon cutting at Hook and Ladder. So, ask you to be there. I'm sure it's going to be a great event. Uh John the I told him I would show this up at the meeting. So, Hook and Ladder, the official ribbon cutting from 2 to 6, 35255 Garden Road. I need to show that. And then I also need to show that I picked up over the week my hook and ladder bag. So, Leah, hooking ladder, I ask you to support them. They are new here. They are doing a phenomenal job. So, I ask you to just support them. Go catch a show. It's very worth the time. I really thought it was a great investment. I go I go to a lot of shows there and I love them. Um but the one with the youth who just really touched my heart because it's the youth and they like the support. I got an email this morning um from the uh I think it's the director uh who she manage uh works with the kids just thanking her for my presence and I told it wasn't nothing to thank me for because she's working with these youth. So check out our hook and ladder if you can make it this Saturday. You have to go on the website again and um find out the ticket information. Um but just support our local business. Hook and ladder bubbies. We have so many local business down here that we need to be supporting. So thank you for that. And I think that will close out my report.

Madam Chair, I'll make a motion to accept your report. Second. Okay. It's been motioned by Miss Rosco, seconded by Mr. Jones to clo approve the chairperson's report. Miss Rosco, yes. Mr. Jones, yes. Mr. Wilhy, yes. Miss Abdo, yes. Mr. Wsworth, Mr. Bullock, yes. Chair votes, yes. Motion approved. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. Number five is the mayor's report.

Thank you. Good evening, city council, deputy clerk, those in the audience here today, and those tuning in at home. A couple items before my action items. Uh, first and foremost, there's so much going on right now in the in the city of Romulus that we have no control over. Uh but I want to commend all the elected officials and working in uh unity on this issue and have united up front. So much work goes in behind the scenes uh trying to address this issue. And then last week or last meeting I dropped in some last minute legislative changes that were being proposed. Um and council didn't waste any time and they voted a resolution in opposition of that. Basically what that language was, it it was introduced by the Homebuilders Association and the Michigan Association of Planners and it it was called a preeemption legislation and it took away a city's right to govern in order to increase housing. There's not a city out there that's having a hard time developing houses right now because of our own zoning ordinances. Um so the reason we participate with MML, CWW, SEMCOG, uh they let us know they're trying to push that legislation through at the last minute. Um, we got involved and thank you to city council for passing that resolution because that allowed me to go to the meetings the next day and say unanimously opposed. Um, and this is why because we're not going to give up that local control. Uh, but if MML wouldn't have been paying attention to that legislation, we wouldn't have been notified. Um, and I don't know if you noticed it, but there's a press conference and over 1300 communities were involved in this because it's it matters to everybody. And because of that action, it preempted or it uh got MML to propose legislation that allows them to achieve that goal. And it's called partnership over preeemption. So, we're in the middle of going through that right now. I think it's a good compromise. Um and we're being asked to sit at the table and have some input there. So, I'll be in Lansancy for the next two days discussing those those legislative pieces. But, um those are things that the public don't see that goes on behind closed doors that we work hard to protect this community and I want to thank council for that. Um, also just a quick update. Uh, we all know that

council passed the unanimous resolution in opposition to the proposed ICE detention center. As of this date, we still have no confirmed communication from the federal government or DHS that they uh they plan to use it as a detention center. However, we were able to locate uh on a FEMA flood plane site um a complete narrative and write up um that was on there. The odd part of that, as soon as I went on WJR talking about that, it disappeared from the internet, so they pulled it down. But we have a printed copy. Uh we had a great meeting last week with the uh with the AG and they have that letter as well. And we're still trying to work. So as of last week, we have support letters from uh um from Peters, Slackin, and also uh Dana, our AG. So we have a lot of uh people at the federal level right now and the state level that are supporting us. Um, but I just want to reiterate that the city of Romulus unanimously opposes any proposed use for detention center by ICE in in the city of Romulus. Um, and there have been so many conversations that happened like I said before with this city council and elected. People think that we just uh show up here and have a meeting. There's so many conversations where our phones are ringing all all weekend and that's to be prepared for a meeting and also to work on issues like this. Um, two council meetings ago, we had a U of M student that was here as part of a project. Um, and we had some pretty weighty issues on the agenda. And they came up to me after and they told me what they were working on. Um, and they said, "Does all of your council meetings run like that?" Because it was such an oddity. And I said, "There's so much work that goes on behind closed doors, you know, that we see before the camera comes on and the questions are answered and how we smoke things out for city council. We're transparent, but we're prepared." So, they were impressed by how well we operated. Um, and then the last uh meeting we had, even with the protest we had here and the with the work we got done, uh, we had CBS News comment on it after they said, "I've never seen a council being run like that." And I said, "All the issues and the heartburn sorted out before that camera comes on cuz we want to be prepared at this meeting. If there

council has an issue with an issue, we will smoke it out, find out what the issue is or pull it from the agenda. We want to make sure, you know, that we are a united firms up here for the residents of Ramula." I want to thank city council um for working on those key topics and those issues. And also, you know, we had, like I said, U ofM students that were here learning and we had CBS out here and they all noted how smooth that run. CBS had also commented that DC and Lancing could learn from the city around us. So, well done. Hats off to you guys for that and I appreciate all the uh all the uh the work we're doing behind the scenes. um heavy lifts going on right now, especially being able to handle these Bmpton laws that are out there and also, you know, the the detention center issues. So, thank you for your support on those.

That being said, I want to turn your attention to the monitor for announcements from the mayor's office and Vanessa Tower.

Hello, I'm Vanessa Talber and here are some events happening in Romulus. Hook and Ladder Theater Company would like to invite the community to a ribbon cutting celebration on Tuesday, March 17th from 2:00 p.m. to 6 pm. Join for snacks, refreshments, and then have a look at the new theater. The ribbon cutting will be at 2:00 p.m. St. Alawish's Church is hosting a fish fry dinner every Friday until March 27th. The cost of the meal is $15 for an adult and curbside pickup is also available. The community Easter egg hunt will take place on Saturday, March 28th at the Romless Historical Park beginning promptly at noon. This event is free for ages 11 and under. Please bring your own basket. Thanks everyone. Remember to like and share us on Facebook and YouTube or visit our website for more information. You have yourself a lovely evening.

Thank you, Vanessa. Great job as always. Uh the action items I have up for my report is one is for downtown activity street closures. I respectfully request the city council authorize a no fee permit for all downtown activities and the closure of Hunt Street beginning at Bibbons and ending at the entrance of of the post office for sounds in our district. Madam Chair, Miss Rosco,

I'll make that motion. concur with administration and authorize a no fee permit for all downtown activities and the closure of Hunt Street beginning at Bibbon Street and ending at the entrance of the post office on Friday, June 12th, July 10th, August 14th, 2026 from 6:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. for the sounds in our district. I second that.

Thank you. It's been motioned by Miss Rosto, seconded by Mr. Jones for to concur with administration and authorize a no fee permit for all downtown activities and the closure of Hunt Street beginning at Bivven Street and ending at the entrance of the post office on Friday, June 12th, July 10th, and August 14th, 2026 from 6:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. for signs in our district. Any discussion hearing? None. Miss Rosco, Mr. Jones, yes. Mr. Bullock, yes. Mr. Wilhy, yes. Miss Abdo, yes. Mr. Wsworth, yes. Chair votes, yes. Motion approved.

Thank you. The next item I have up is another road closure request for Junth activities. Respectfully request the city council authorize closure of Hunt Street beginning at Bibbons and ending at the post office entrance on Saturday, June 20th, 2026 for the 4th annual Junth celebration. Madam Chairman, Mr. Wsworth, I'm going to I'm going to move that we um have a road closure for the June uh teen activities which will be on June the 20th. It's the fourth annual a community celebration. It'll it'll run from noon to 5:00 p. p.m. Second.

Okay. It's been motioned by Mr. Wsworth, seconded by Mr. Jones to concur with administration and authorize the closure of Hunt Street beginning at Bibbon Street and ending at the entrance to the post office on Hunt Street from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 20th, 2026 for the fourth 4th annual Junth community celebration. Any discussion hearing? None. Mr. Wsworth, Mr. Jones, yes. Miss Rosco, yes. Mr. Wilhot, yes. Miss Abdo, yes. Mr. Bullock, yes. Chair votes, yes. Motion approved. Thank you. For the next item I have up, there was a memo that was added to everybody's station um that was um accidentally omitted from the uh the packet. So, you have that now. That's on the three-year contractual service agreement for grass and weed cutting. Um, I respectfully request city council award ITB25-26-14 to the lowest per square foot bidder outdoor exports incorporated uh for grass and weed cutting the needed work specified and bid documents the ordinance public safety department. Uh Gary Harris, deputy finance director has verified funds for this acquisition have been budgeted for and are available. Madam Chair,

Miss Ras, Miss Rosco, I'll make that motion to concur with administration and award ITB25/26-14 to the lowest price per square foot bidder outdoor experts incorporated for a three-year contractal services agreement for grass and weed cutting for as needed work specified in bid documents for the ordinance/public safety department. support.

It's been motioned by Miss Rosco, seconded by Mr. Wsworth to concur with administration and award ITB25/26-14 to the lowest price per square foot bidder outdoor experts, Inc. for a three-year contractual service agreement for grass and weed cutting for as needed work specified in big documents for the ordinance public safety department. Any discussion hearing? None. Miss Rosco, yes. Mr. Wsworth, Mr. Wilhyde, yes. Mr. Jones, yes. Miss Abdo. Yes. Mr. Bullock. Yes. Chair votes yes. Motion approved.

Thank you. The next item I have up is a three-year pricing for uh um department class A and B uniforms. Respectfully request council award ITB 25-26-15 to the most responsive and responsible bidder. Ali Brothers Uniform Incorporated for the city of Romulus police officers. Gary Harris, deputy finance director, has verified funds for this acquisition have been budgeted for and are available. Madam Chair, Mr. Jones.

I move to concur with the administration and award the ITB 25/26-15 to the most responsible uh responsive and responsible bidder Alli Brothers uniform in in court for a three-year pricing contract for class A and class B uniforms for the city of Romulus police officers. I'll second it.

Thank you. It's been motioned by Mr. Jones, seconded by Mr. Willhigh for to concur with the administration award ITB25/26-15 to the most responsive and responsible bidder Ali Brothers Uniforms, Inc. for a three-year pricing contract for class A and class B uniform for the city of Ramlas police officers. Any discussion hearing? None. Mr. Jones, yes. Mr. Wilhy, yes. Miss Abdo, yes. Mr. Bullock, yes. Mr. Wford, Miss Rosco, yes. Chair votes, yes. Motion approved.

Thank you. Thank you. The next item I have up is a change order for the security system upgrade at Ramulus Police Department. I respectfully request council authorize the attached change order requesting additional funds to resolution 25-385 in the amount of $12,637.76 to upgrade the access and enterprise version of security software for Romulus Police Department. Gary Harris, deputy finance director, has verified funds for this acquisition have been budgeted for and are available. Madam Chairman, Mr. The last one I'm going to move for the um change order for the um a security system upgrade. It's resolution 25- 385 and it's in the amount of uh $12,637.

Support. Thank you. It's been motioned by Mr. Worth seconded by Miss Rosco to concur with administration and authorize a tax attached change order requesting additional funds to resolution number 25-385 in the amount of 20 thou 12,637 and.76 cents to upgrade the access and enterprise version of the security software for the remnants police department. Any discussion hearing? None. Miss Mr. Wisworth, yes. Miss Rosco, Mr. Jones, yes. Mr. Bullock, yes. Mr. Wilhy, yes. Miss Abdo, yes. Chair votes yes. Motion approved.

Thank you. The next item I have up is a soul source soul source purchase of self-contained breathing apparatus for the fire department. I respectfully request city council authorize the soul source purchase of additional self-contained breathing apparatus SCBA. The Romulus Fire Department at total cost of $31,500. Gary Harris, finance director, deputy finance director has verified funds for this acquisition are available for Madam Chair. Miss Rosco,

I'll make that motion to concur with administration and authorize a sole source purchase of additional self-contained breathing apparatus SB SCBA equipment from McQueen Equipment for the Ramos Fire Department at a total cost of $31,500 under the terms of soul source purchases exception in section 39-11 of the city of Romulus' purchasing ordinance. I'll second it.

Thank you. It's been motioned by Miss Rosco, seconded by Mr. Will high to concur with administration and authorize a soul source purchase of additional self-contained breathing apparatus SCBA equipment from McQueen equipment from the for the Ronda Fire Department at a total cost of 31,500 under the terms of sole source purchase exception in section 39-11 subsection D subsection 1 C1 of the city of Rama's purchasing ordinance. Any discussion hearing? None. Miss Rosco. Yes. Mr. Wilhigh. Yes. Mr. Jones, yes. Mr. Bullock, yes. Miss Abdo, yes. Mr. Wsworth, yes. Chair votes, yes. Motion approved.

Thank you. And one last item, not that more of an update rather than an action item. Um, regarding the protest we had here last week. I've been here 25 years. I've never seen an event like that at our city hall. Um, and we all spoke highly of PD and how they acted, how they handled the situation. So many meetings went on behind before that happened with the organizers and their management and it was a great meeting, great demeanor whether you support it or not. It's freedom of speech and they're allowed to do it and they did it in a professional manner. Some people we were worried about that they were either far left or far right were here to cause trouble that didn't take over and and drown out the messaging. Uh but we give a nod to our new chief haber over there too. because we threw him right into the lion's den and impression.

Um he was the man at the door saying fire code one in one out and he did a great job with his demeanor and professionalism. That that could have been a really valid moment. Um and great job. Thank you for jumping right in and make sure everybody stayed safe. So um I I agree that could have been if if Ramos was asleep at the wheel that could have been a very volatile situation in front of our city hall. And there were some knuckleheads out here banging on windows. We had to clean foot marks off in the morning, but that was definitely not the majority of the people who were out here who wanted to voice their opinions and exercise their their rights to free speech. So, um, well done by the people who were here and also the city of Ramos for handling that and our PD and our public safety and everybody that had a hand in making sure everybody went home safe that night. Great job. And that concludes my report for the night.

Thank you for that, mayor. And I did have you, Chief Heavner, on my report and forgot to say your name in the shadow, so I concur with the mayor. Thank you. Thank you, mayor. Uh, agenda item six is the clerk's report. There are two action items under the clerk's report. Agenda item 6A is for first reading and introduction of the parks and recreation master plan. So, it's requested that council approve the first reading and introduction to the 2025 to 2030 city of parks and recreation master plan. Madam Chair, Miss Rosco,

I would like to make a motion for the first reading and introduction to 2025-20 30 city of Romills Park and Recreation Master Plan. Support. Thank you. It's been motioned by Miss Rosco, seconded by Mr. Worth to approve the first reading and introduction to the 2025 2030 city of Ramas Parks and Recreation Master Plan. Any discussion? Madam Chair, Miss Rosco, I I would just like to say, Colleen, you did a great job

um with everything and uh being your first go around as as you say, uh it it you did a great presentation and when I came for the when you had the residents come and everything, it was a really good meeting. So, I wanted to say thank you.

Any more discussion? And I concur with you. Uh, Miss Rosco, she did this a great job right here. It you had a lot of historical stuff in here that I I'mma call you about it later. Stuff that I didn't even know about and I said I was like, "Oh, wow." Okay. It was really really put together really well. A lot of detail. Um, a lot of statistics and facts and like I said, Ram's history that I wasn't aware of. So, thank you for that. Um, and your team, huh? And and her team, everybody together with you on that. Absolutely. Oh, good. Miss Rosco, yes. Mr. Wsworth, yes. Mr. Wilhyde, yes. Miss Abdo, yes. Mr. Bullock,

yes. Mr. Jones, yes. Chair votes, yes. Motion approved. Thank you, city council. Agenda item 6B is a steady session request for Monday, April 13th, 2026 at 5:30 p.m. But before we get to the action, we do have a public comment request from Matt Marlin, who would like to speak prior to council taking action on. Okay, sure.

Thank you, city council. Um, I'm part of the group that, uh, Councilman Jones attended their meeting. Um, uh, I noticed that it says 5:30 on, um, next Monday. We are uh I've submitted a letter for him uh to share with all of you and we are planning on doing a press release uh that we would love for you all to to be at in front of the council in front of the ice camp um at 5 on on that Monday. So if there is a way to uh and we have already invited uh multiple other groups including news outlets to come cover our press release. So, if there is a way to uh reschedu that that um study session, we would love to have you all there.

Thank you. And then I have another comment later about what the actual meeting and stuff is. You can do that on the public comment. Thank you. Okay. All right. So, the it's requested uh Treasurer Stacy Paige is requesting a 30-minute study session for Monday, April 13, 2026 at 5:30 p.m. uh to discuss the quarterly investment report. The date and time are available for this request. This uh particular study session was originally scheduled for the 23rd, but um Treasurer Paige as well as Grey Liy was very amendable and agreeable to cancel it to give time for the protest and for uh any elected officials to participate. They're just trying to get this back on schedule. Who's got that motion?

Madam Chair, Mr. Jones, I move that we scheduled the request for 30 minutes study session for Monday, April the 13th, 2000 20 26 at 5:30 p.m. for a quarterly investment report. Support.

Thank you. Motion by Mr. Jones, seconded by Miss Rosco for the uh rec uh rescheduling the 30 minute study session for Monday, April 13th, 2026 at 5:30 p.m. to the for the quarterly investment report. Any discussion? I want to say thank you for coming up. We postponed this meeting before and so yeah, I get it. But thank you for the invitation. Um we can't put her off again. So, and it was because of what happened at the last meeting. So, thank you though for the invitation. Um Mr. Jones. Yes. Miss Rosco. Yes, Mr. Wilhyde. Yes, Mr. Bullock. Yes, Miss Abdo. Yes, Mr. Wsworth. Chair votes. Yes. Motion approved.

Thank you, city council. Before I close out the clerk's report, just want to make one final reminder that the city of Romulus and the cemetery boards of trustees will be conducting its annual spring cleaning of the Romulus Memorial Cemetery. So, all floor arrangements, which includes wreaths and grave blankets, must be removed by March 15th. That is this coming Sunday. The cleanup will begin uh next week. Uh both fresh and artificial flowers must be an unbreakable case uh vase. Um for a full listing of the prohibited items, you can go on the city's website or you can contact the clerk's office at 734-942-7540. And that will conclude the clerk's report. Thank you.

Number seven is the treasurer's report and there is no items under the uh treasurer's report. Number eight is public comment and this is the portion of the agenda for those in the audience who would like to address the city council. The rules to address the city council can be found on the back of the meeting agenda. If you would like to address city council, please raise your hand and after being acknowledged by the chairperson, approach the podium and state your name. Members of the public who submitted a public comment card will be called upon first. You will have three minutes to speak. Any additional time will be upon the consent of the chairperson. Please note any comments or responses from the city council will be made under agenda item nine, which is unfinished business. Madam Chair, we do have several public comment cards requesting to speak to council. The first one I have is from Matt Marlin again.

Okay.

Hello. Thank you. Um, as I said, I'm with the Coalition to Shut the Camps and U we formed at at the protests outside. That's where we were first um pulled together. We have been doing weekly meetings at the Marriott by the airport. Um, and we've also been canvasing uh with letters like these. I gave uh Councilman Jones a couple to pass out, sorry, pass out to the group. We have come up with a five-step uh plan between five different regulatory a agencies for ways to slow and shut down the ice camp because that was requested at at the last uh council meeting was actionable items. Uh you are one of the five regulatory bodies who we believe can take direct action and I've shared that letter with Councilman Jones so that he may get it all to you. Uh we also are doing a press release of the letter. Uh we are showing it to you beforehand uh in hopes that you will sign on and be signitories for it. Uh but we are doing that press release on Friday or sorry on Monday at 5 uh the 13th which is why I had mentioned uh in the prior meeting or prior uh section. I understand that it was already rescheduled because of the protests, but these are not normal times and I I really don't want uh more of what happened uh outside. It was it was good in here, but I I fear that more uncertainty uh regarding the ice facility is only going to bring trouble to Ragulas. Uh nobody wants that.

Uh especially everybody here. Um, and so I think that I know that there's a lot going on behind closed doors that we don't see. Uh, but and I thank you. Thank you, Councilman Jones, for coming to the meeting to uh join us in in our organization efforts. We uh we do have one letter directly for uh the mayor because you are um our you are the leader of the town. Um, I've shared that with uh, Councilman Jones. If you can get that to you, we would love to have everybody on. I understand you can't make it um, to the actual press release. Uh, well, it's at 5:00. Meeting starts at 5:30. I don't know how much time you uh, spend before, but these these are not normal times. Um, and they will continue to get less and less normal. Um, as long as that facility is in town. Uh, that is not what anybody wants. Um but it you know we uh we want peace in Romulus and and part of that is ICE will disrupt the peace as well. We know you know that. Please uh join us and get uh the information from Councilman Jones. Thank you.

Thank you. Appreciate it. You get 700 doors. You knock at 700 doors in the last I got one. You got one? I got one. Fantastic. All right. Uh, the next public comment cart we have is from Diane Roy.

Good evening. Good evening.

Um, I feel like I'm just going to join the love fest you all have for roundhouse here thanking you guys and mayor's office, the police department, fire department. Um, I thought it was on awesome. I have uh as I stated last meeting, I am very proud to be a resident of Romulus and you know it just it came on kind of sudden for everybody. So you guys responded awesome and I really appreciate that and I know other people appreciate that. Um I I thank you guys for always supporting this community, always listening to people. You guys went over time limit to make sure everybody had a chance to speak and even so far as to going outside to make sure that people who could not enter the building were not waiting to speak and I really appreciate that as well. Um I had I met a lot of people I had a lot of people come and um I warned them about parking. I said there's not a whole lot of parking around here. But they were like, "Well, there's not a lot of parking and we told you." Um, and I met a couple who were here at the meeting prior to the protest and they're from Plymouth and you were saying that people were commenting how well our city council is run. They said the same thing and I met other people that said the same thing. So kudos to you guys because people that come and see these things and they come into this meeting especially last the last meeting and how everything was um and they see how professional you guys are, how respectful you guys are, how receptive you are to the community and the surrounding communities and I just think that is um something that really needs to be applauded for you guys. Um, the only thing else that I have to say, I know this is a very important

fight and it's very public right now and it's kind of pressing and stuff, but I really encourage us to work together on our housing. You have mentioned the housing problems that we have in Romulus and the laws and the zoning and everything we have and I just continue to urge that we work on that because we do have a housing crisis in the state of Michigan and in the community of Romulus especially in the West Village um mobile homes where there is not just a housing crisis but a health crisis going on there. So, I just encourage you to keep those lines of communication open and, you know, work with us to fix these issues. And thank you again.

Thanks, Diane. Appreciate that. The next public comment card I have is from Michael Calibris.

Robert City, sorry, Robert City Council. Uh, I came here to tell you how proud I am. And that's a feeling that I don't rarely that's a feeling that I rarely have is pride because I see a lot of horrible things happen everywhere. I read I read the news and I shouldn't because it's bad for my psyche. Uh soon I go back to work. I broke my hand a few months ago and uh sorry for the sweaty handshake, Mr. Mayor. Uh she's still healing a little bit. I can almost make a fist. Um I came here to say a few things. One is I've been observing that building, that ice facility. I mean, I call it a concentration camp, but facility, whatever. Uh, I've seen vehicles going in and out of the parking lot. I've seen a couple of the truck bay doors. They have the green and red light means loading, unloading. Um, been sitting there with some binoculars. Uh, I don't think that's safe for me to do obviously, but I don't really care cuz I'd rather if they're going to disappear me, I'd rather be on the right side of history of things, you know? Like, if I could only be 40 and be on the right side of history, I guess I'll take it. Let me clarify. I'm not suicidal. So, if somebody finds me with a couple of rounds in the back of my head, it wasn't me. Um, I came here to talk about a couple of things. Um, what's his name? I seen the video of Gregor Buttsowl get pushed to the ground or whatever. Uh, and I've been reading about them, gropers. They're nationalist Christians or Nazis for short. Um, they believe in they don't believe in one one nation under God. They believe in one God under one nation. And it's kind of a supremacist thing. Um, I can't say how I felt about watching that video, I don't think. But, uh, hey, Gregor, what kind of an American are you? It sounds a little Russian to me. Uh, I don't like the idea of paid agitators coming to town. I I don't like how some of those protesters were banging on the doors. You know, obviously, we need peace. We need uh

decorum. Uh, it's what's the word I'm looking for? misplaced aggression. And I know a little bit about misplaced aggression. When I was younger, I was a lot more aggressive in a positive manner. Not I'm not like going out there causing trouble, but like I said, pride, nationalism, there's there's a lot of things going on out there. Um, when Congress votes to hide its sexual misconduct after one of their staffers set themselves on fire after having an affair with one of them, that doesn't make me too proud to be an American. When I see a military Marine get his arm broken for pointing out the fact that nobody wants to go die in a pointless war, that doesn't make me feel too proud to be an American. But you guys, your unanimous vote, your conviction, I'm not used to feeling like that. There's a few other things I want to say, but my time is running short. Um, oh yeah, I go back to work soon, so you probably won't see me too much, you know, being busy with whenever this thing gets healed. But I appreciate you guys and I don't know. I hope that we have more than just strong words for these monsters.

Thank you. Thank you very much. The last public comment card I have is for Laura Perry.

Good evening, council, and thank you for allowing me the opportunity to speak. My name is Laura Perry, and I am a candidate that is running for state representative in our upcoming midterms. I wanted to come out today to introduce myself and tell you a little bit about who I am and why I'm running. I was born here in Wayne County, grew up in Monroe County, currently live in Dundee Township. I have four children which live with me in Dundee with my husband. Um he's a lineman, so he works for our utility companies. And I am very much excited for this run. I started um my career going to on a soccer scholarship to Upper Iowa University where I triple majored in finance, business administration and sociology. From there, I went to grad school at the University of Toledo and I worked for the city of Toledo, state of Ohio, building out their first wage garnishment program. Um they did not have a wage garnishment program, had local taxes that were uncollected. I worked with them to create the infrastructure and in the first year we collected a million dollars and helped them work towards a balanced budget. In 2012 I took on a position with a healthc care staffing company where I quickly earned my position in executive leadership and we moved from staffing in one state to taking it nationwide. One of the largest divisions that I created was our government division. I got us on contract with the GSA and we staffed with VA hospitals, military bases, correctional facilities, and state hospitals where they still existed. Um, as well as a school division. So, staffing critical therapy services within our schools nationwide. In 2021, I decided to invest locally and I purchased a 75year-old sporting good

business in Monroe County. We've since expanded it into three different locations. Frenchtown, Dundy Township in the city of Monroe. Um, you guys wouldn't know it, but I just came from soccer practice. I'm a six-year varsity soccer coach at St. Mary's Catholic Central. I'm very involved with our youth and I sit on the city of Monroe's DDA and I chair the Dundee DDA. So, I very much appreciate all that you guys do. I'm running to represent 15 different municipalities. Um, I see the challenges that our young people are going through. I do not want to see the kids that I coach, my kids, leave our great state for lower cost of living and opportunities. I know that we have a lot of high impact industries that are trying to come into our local townships, cities, villages, and I want to make sure that you have a strong principled voice to represent you. I am a strong advocate for local control. I want to be here to listen to you, to get to know Romulus, and then to be a voice for you in the future. So, that cuts my time, but I'll be back to speak some more. Thank you so much for the opportunity.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I have no more uh request to speak public comment cards. Okay. So, we'll open it up to the audience if anybody would like to speak. Uhhuh. I just wanted to clarify that whole outfit that I wore last time I was here. That is not some YouTube clout chasing. I don't post those videos. I don't post videos online. The only time that my camera goes on is when I feel someone's aggressing me and I don't feel safe. Got it, too.

I don't feel safe a lot of times nowadays. Like I said, I've been observing that facility and uh I don't know, there's a bunch of stuff that I wanted to say when I came up here, but I'm bad at this. It's ner I'm, you know, I'm nervous. I don't speak in front of crowds ever. Uh, I haven't been socializing very much since I broke my hand and but yeah, man. Uh, there's there's a lot of messed up stuff. Like you said, there's a lot of messed up stuff going on. It's a dangerous time to have an opinion and be voicing those opinions. But, you know, we got to be on the right side of history. Or I mean, you can sell your soul to not be. That's okay. Thank you. Thank you so much. Um, we're going to close that part out.

All right. Thank you, Madam Chair. Number nine is unfinished business to the chair. Mr.

Just just a couple of quick comments. And as much as I appreciate anybody's behavior and demeanor, well, most of the people that were there, uh, please convey with your leadership groups, too, that City of Ryland stands with you. We're opposed to this dropped on our lap. Um, we had no idea this was coming. Um, so we're doing all we can to prevent it from the legal side of things. Um, but every time there's a protest or in the roadway, we're going to make sure that police are out there and everybody's going to be safe first and foremost. We don't see anybody get injured. Um, but just the other night was about a $10,000 drain on the city of Ramulus just to make sure everybody was safe. So, it is a big impact and it's not something that the city of Romulus um invited or wanted to come here. Um, and on that note too, I also want to make a comment and I saw a lot of the the media outlets that were putting out there and they they led the uh us to believe that because of the protest, city council took action. That's completely false. City council talked and sorted it out and took action way before that protest was on here. You guys were on the ball. You were negotiating with legal counsel about how to pass that resolution. Um, there was polling going on to make sure everybody was comfortable with it, but kudos to you for taking the the proactive action there and it absolutely did not happen because there was a protest outside. Whether the protest happened or not, that action was going to happen here that night. So, thank you for that.

Thank you, Mayor. Madam Chairman,

Mr. I could under underfinish business to the mayor. Mayor, I got some calls today. people that people that live on on Marman between Ecourse and Beverly said that they see sidewalks going up all over our city. Is there any plans to give them a sidewalk? They talked about a a boy who said on a bike there about a year and a half ago was he was out in the street between E course and Beverly on the it'd be the east side of Marman. Some of them people have been there 50 40 years and they were just curious. I know as those sites and those vacant lots get developed and required to put a sidewalk in there. But as of right now, there's no uh we don't have the funding for something like that. We could take a closer look at it. Maybe there's I wish you would please.

We got a great grant writer and we could put her to work and uh they just secured that grant for the Beverly Road that's going in as well. So we can Okay. Because I don't believe there's any homes going north from there. The homes are between Beverly and E4. We can definitely look into that. Thank you. through the um this Matt, correct? Uh I just want to confirm that date with you. So it seemed a little little off to me. You said April 13th is your press release. That's almost a month away. Sorry. April 13th. Yes. It seems a little odd. 30 days away. Okay. You're absolutely correct. This next month. Okay. So we could we could make it to this one. 5 p.m. at the camp on the 16th.

The 16th at 5 p.m. that I'm I'm just a little nervous. No, you're good. I just It just seemed like I'm waiting 30 days to put it out. I was like, "Wait a second." Is when? So, he originally said the press release was on the 13th, which was on our paperwork, but that's almost 30 days away. He's actually doing it this coming up Monday. Got clarifying. So, we wanted to go to Okay. Thank you for clarifying. Thank you. No, no worries. Um, did you have some, Mr. Joe? No. Okay. Anything else on the unfinished business? Go close that out.

All right. Number 10 is new business. Number 11 is a warrant for approval is warrant number 2605. Through the chair, I'd like to make a motion we pay warrant 2605 and the following amounts. General fund $178,98.36. Major street fund $5,928.93. Local street fund $74,541.38 public safety fund $37,53.7 cable TV $5,16463 Marman Road Special Assessment $4589 Garbage and Rubbish Collection Fund $111,42412 Tax Increment Finance Authority $11,66263 Downtown Development Authority $1,50028 Michigan Interent Defense Fund $14,8918 911 Service Fund $3,1660 Law Enforcement Federal $197.50 50 library funds $7,66386 CIP bonds court building $500 capital improvement bonds $1667 water and sewer fund $1,524,364.33 Motor vehicle $112,511.71 1 technology services $8,440

retirey insurance benefits $148,63928 revolving fund $10,837.50 50 current tax $24,89342 Impress payroll fund $299,652.92 totaling all funds 2,581,2256

supported okay it's been motioned by Miss Abdull seconded by Mr. Wsworth for the approval of warrant number 26-05 for checks presented in amount of 2,581,2256 cents. Any discussion hearing? None. Miss Abdo. Yes. Mr. Wsworth. Yes. Mr. Wilhigh. Yes. Mr. Bullock. Yes. Mr. Jones. Yes. Miss Rosco. Yes. Chair votes. Yes. Motion approved. Number 12 is communications. Okay. Any communications? All right. If there's no communications, number 13 is adjourned. The time is 8:53. So move.

Support the motion by Mr. Wsworth, supported by Miss Rosco for the German of this meeting. Mr. Wsworth, yes. Miss Rosco, yes. Mr. Wsworth, yes. Mr. Bullock, yes. Mr. Jones, yes. Mrs. Abdo, yes. Chair volt. Yes.