City of Southfield 
Regular Meeting Agenda of the City Council 
July 21, 2025 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

APPOINTMENTS

Mayor Appointment to the Public Arts Commission - Genelle L. Speed-Hale  
Mayor Reappointment to the Parks and Recreation Board – Brandon Gray
Mayor Reappointment to the Public Arts Commission – Cherron Jones
Mayor Reappointment to the Southfield Brownfield Redevelopment Authority – Ammar Tank
Mayor Reappointment to the Southfield Brownfield Redevelopment Authority – Louis Poole, Jr.
Mayor Reappointment to the Southfield Brownfield Redevelopment Authority – Monique Holliday-Bettie
Mayor Reappointment to the Downtown Development Authority – W. Michael McFarland
Council Reappointment to the Public Arts Commission – Dr. Lilian Crum 

PRESENTATIONS  

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.

MINUTES

2024
A.    Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting Minutes for April 8, 2024
B.    Regular Meeting Minutes for May 6, 2024 
C.    Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting Minutes for May 8, 2024
D.    Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting Minutes for May 9, 2024
E.    Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting Minutes for May 13, 2024
F.    Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting Minutes for May 15, 2024
G.    Regular Meeting Minutes for May 20, 2024

2025
H.    Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting Minutes for May 5, 2025
I.    Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting Minutes for May 7, 2025
J.    Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting Minutes for May 8, 2025
K.    Regular Meeting Minutes for May 12, 2025
L.    Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting Minutes for May 14, 2025
M.    Regular Meeting Minutes for May 19, 2025

CONSENT AGENDA (these items are considered routine / non-controversial or have previously been discussed)

A.    FY 2026 SEMCOG Membership

B.    Upgrade of Cisco Collaboration Architecture

C.    Authorization to Sign Agreement with Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART) for the Specialized Services Operating Assistance Program
Contract Period: October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025

D.    Authorization to Purchase ADA Compliant Golf Cart for Evergreen Hills Golf Course

E.    Authorization to Purchase the Rough Area Mower for Evergreen Hills Golf Course

F.    Authorization to Purchase Camera Trucks

G.    Authorization to Purchase Trailer for Skid Steer

H.    Road Materials and Debris Removal Services

I.    Receipt of Bids for Hooper Blvd Reconstruction and Utility Improvements (Job No. 2612SFLD)

J.    Approval of Second Extension to Professional Engineering Consulting Services Contracts

K.    Release for Review - Amendment to Sustainable Southfield 2.0 Comprehensive Master Plan – Addition of Southfield DDA 25-30 Strategic Plan as addendum

L.    Authorization to Accept Relocation of the 2024-25 Detroit Institute of Arts Partners in Public Art (PIPA) Project

M.    Authorization to Utilize Opioid Settlement Funds to Purchase Six (6) LIFEPAK 35 Cardiac Monitors from Stryker

N.    Proposed Lathrup Village Fire Protection Contract Extension

ITEMS TO BE DISCUSSED AND/OR ACTION

PUBLIC HEARINGS AND SITE PLANS 

A.    Request to rezone the parcel at 27301 W 11 Mile Road, Southfield, Michigan (Parcel 24-19-100-221) to ODD Overlay Development District, reaffirm the previously approved site plan for the site (PASP20-0054) as the Master Development Plan and create an ODD agreement to permit the reuse of the existing site and buildings for the wider range of uses permitted per the ODD ordinance in the SmartZone subarea in addition to those permitted per the existing/underlying B-2 zoning of the site

Introduce Ordinance No. 1815

B.    PTZA25-0003, a text amendment will amend Title V, Zoning and Planning, Chapter 45, Zoning, of the Code of the City of Southfield by amending Article 22; to update the Exceptions to Height Standards to specifically address flagpoles

Introduce Ordinance No. 1816

ORDINANCES

A.    Enact Ordinance No. 1814, PTZA25-0002, a text amendment to Title V, Zoning and Planning, Chapter 45, Zoning, of the Code of the City of Southfield, Articles 16, 17 and 18; to update the uses permitted in the B-1 Neighborhood Business, B-2 Planned Business, and B-3 General Business zoning districts to include executive, administrative and professional offices

COUNCIL

A.    Travel Expense Report: Yolanda C. Haynes, National League of Cities, Tampa, Florida, November 12-16, 2024 

MAYOR

ADMINISTRATION

ATTORNEY

CLERK, TREASURER, PLANNER, ASSESSOR, ENGINEER

SCHEDULE

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