City of Southfield 
Regular (Hybrid) Meeting Agenda of the City Council 
December 18, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. 
Council Chambers
Donald F. Fracassi Municipal Campus
26000 Evergreen Road
Southfield, Michigan 48076
Telephone: 248-796-5150

ROLL CALL

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

COMMUNICATIONS

The Southfield City Council has established the following Rules of Procedure for all speakers:  

• No speaker may make personal or impertinent attacks upon any officer, employee, or City Council member or other Elected Official, that is unrelated to the manner in which the officer, employee, or City Council member or other Elected Official, performs his or her duties.  
• No person shall use abusive or threatening language toward any individual when addressing the City Council. 

Any person who violates this section shall be directed by the presiding officer to be orderly and silent.  If a person addressing the Council refuses to become silent when so directed, such person may be deemed by the presiding officer to have committed a “breach of the peace” by disrupting and impeding the orderly conduct of the public meeting of the City Council and may be ordered by the presiding officer to leave the meeting.  If the person refuses to leave as directed, the presiding officer may direct any law enforcement officer who is present to escort the violator from the meeting. 
The Council may not provide responses to  public comments during the meeting.  If  you have provided your contact information when you signed up for public communications, the City will provide a more formal response  to you in the near future.

APPOINTMENTS

PRESENTATIONS  

Presentation of Greg Kennedy Community Service Award to Delores Flagg

MINUTES

A.    Regular Meeting Minutes of November 13, 2023
B.    Regular Meeting Minutes of November 20, 2023
C.    Regular Meeting Minutes of November 27, 2023

CONSENT AGENDA

A.    Annual Adoption of 2024 Poverty Exemption Guidelines under MCL 211.7U

B.    Authorization to Purchase Extrication Tools

C.    Receipt of Bids on Replacing Tower Exterior Doors at the Library

D.    Second Amended and Restated Brownfield Redevelopment Plan & Tax Increment Financing Plan and Development & Reimbursement Agreement for Northland City Center LLC Northland Redevelopment & Hudson City Market 21500 Northwestern Highway Presentation

E.    Renewal of Lease for 24433 W 9 Mile Rd

F.    Annual Update of City’s Investment Policy

G.    Annual Update of Depository Resolution

H.    Authorization to Accept the Oakland County Parks & Recreation Park Improvement and Trailways Matching Grant for the Lahser Woods Park Improvements – Phase I: Dog Park and Parking Lot

I.    Resignation of Councilwoman Linnie Taylor

PUBLIC HEARINGS AND SITE PLANS 

ORDINANCES

A.    Change Ordinance No. 1780 to Ordinance No.  1782, Matick Southfield Properties, LLC, to conditionally rezone the northern portion (0.9 acres) of the property located at 29300 Telegraph Road, City of Southfield, Michigan (Sidwell Parcel 24-08-476-007) from P Vehicular Parking to B-3 General Business (PCZR23-0003)

AGENDA ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION AND / OR ACTION

A.    Authorization to Seek Food Waste Elimination Study

B.    2022-2023 Year-End Actions; Fund Balance Allocations

COUNCIL

MAYOR

ADMINISTRATION

ATTORNEY

A.    Allison and David Barkley, Jeffrey & Saharsage, and Clyneita White v City of  Southfield; coun1y of Oakland, George W. Kuhn Drainage District, and Oakland County Water Resource Commissioner Jim Nash, jointly and severally (Oakland County Court Case No. 23-202345-NZ)

B.    Edgardo Anenias Guevarra  v American Economy Insurance Company, David Aniol, Jr., And City Of Southfield, (Oakland County Court Case No. 2023-202331-NI)

CLERK, TREASURER, PLANNER, ASSESSOR, ENGINEER

SCHEDULE

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