DETROIT, MI --

Detroit Councilman Kwame Kenyatta said he'll introduce a resolution today opposing state control of Belle Isle.

"Don't give away Belle Isle, don't give it away," Kenyatta told the council during Tuesday's meeting.

The city's consent agreement with the state calls for the state's Department of Natural Resources

. Opponents argue the lease amount to a state takeover that will result in charging city residents a fee to use the park.

Kenyatta said he wants the council to fight the agreement.

"When we look at something like the giveaway, and weigh in, I don't want to just weigh in," he said during Tuesday's meeting. "I don't want to have a discussion about it, I want to control it."

And while the state's involvement is written into the consent agreement, Kenyatta said that doesn't mean, in a practical sense, the city needs to cede the park to the state.

"If we say we're not going to turn it over, you just don't turn it over," Kenyatta told MLive after Tuesday's council meeting. "What are the going to do? Bring in the state police and take it? No."

"We run Belle Isle now and we should continue to run it," he said.