City of Southfield 
Regular Meeting (conducted as a Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting)
Agenda of the City Council 
August 18, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.
Council Conference Room
Donald F. Fracassi Municipal Campus
26000 Evergreen Road
Southfield, Michigan 48076
Telephone: 248-796-5150

ROLL CALL

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.

ITEMS TO BE DISCUSSED:

A.    Southfield Police Department / Custodial Services for Police Buildings

B.    Proposed Agreement with the City of Lathrup Village for the Continuing Provision of Police and Fire Dispatch Services for a Two-Year Period Beginning July 1, 2025

C.    Emergency Management Position

D.    Authorization to Purchase Three (3) Sutphen Heavy Duty Pumper Replacement Engines

E.    Authorization to Purchase Two (2) 2026 Replacement Road Rescue Ultramedic Life Support Units (Ambulances) for the Southfield Fire Department

F.    Authorization to Purchase One (1) Sutphen Heavy Duty Pumper Rescue Engine

G.    Approval of Stryker EMS+ Seven (7) Year Agreement (Rule 10 – Immediate Need to Act)

H.    Presentation and discussion regarding the proposal to renovate and reuse the building and site at 24260 Telegraph Road for used vehicle sales and vehicle repair accessory to the vehicle sales use (PSLU25-0004)

I.    Presentation and discussion regarding the proposal to operate a group childcare home at 24749 Maryland Street (PSLU25-0005)

J.    Authorization to purchase benches, trash receptacles, landscape planters and light poles for the new promenade on the front lawn of the municipal complex (Rule 10 – Immediate Need to Act)

K.    Authorization to Award Bid for Library Mechanical Upgrades – Boiler Replacement (Rule 10 – Immediate Need to Act)

L.    Authorization to Purchase a Vehicle for Streets & Highway Supervisor

M.    Carpeting Replacement 

N.    Southfield Aquatic Center Update

O.    Review Council Meeting Minutes for 2024

P.    Outdoor One Communications LLC v City of Southfield (Rule 10 – Immediate Need to Act)

Q.    Council Table at 2025 Police Department Truck or Treat

CLOSED SESSION

1.    Discussion of Pending Litigation:  Outdoor One Communications LLC   v City of  Southfield - Material Exempt From Discussion or Disclosure by State or Federal statute.  MCL 15.268 ( e);(h); MCL 15.243(1)(g)

2.    Pursuant to the Open Meetings Act (OMA), Public Act 267 Section 7, MCL 15.268(c), a discussion for strategy and negotiation sessions connected with the negotiation of a collective bargaining agreement in a closed session as requested by one of the negotiating parties.

AND ANY OTHER ITEMS DEEMED NECESSARY

Individuals with special need for this meeting should contact the City Clerk’s Office at 248-796-5150 (voice) or 711 (TDD). If auxiliary aids or services are needed, reasonable advance notice is required.