City of Southfield 
Regular Meeting Agenda of the City Council 
August 25, 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

Reappointment to the City Centre Advisory Board – Josh Suardini
Reappointment to the City Centre Advisory Board – Kimberly Peterson

PRESENTATIONS  

Presentation of the FY 2026 Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) Grant Award for the 9 Mile Pathway between M-10 (Northwestern Highway) Service Drive and Greenfield Road by Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG)

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

A.    Regular Meeting Minutes of May 20, 2024
B.    Regular Meeting Minutes of June 10, 2024 (Budget Adoption)
C.    Regular Meeting Minutes of June 10, 2024
D.    Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting Minutes of June 17, 2024
E.    Regular Meeting Minutes of June 24, 2024
F.    Regular Meeting Minutes of July 1, 2024
G.    Joint Meeting Minutes of July 15, 2024
H.    Regular Meeting Minutes of July 15, 2024
I.    Regular Meeting Minutes of August 19, 2024
J.    Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting Minutes of August 22, 2024
K.    Regular Meeting Minutes of August 26, 2024

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

A.    Brownfield Redevelopment Plan & Tax Increment Financing Plan and Development & Reimbursement Agreement for MAB Real Estate Redevelopment 30835 Greenfield Southfield Set Public Hearing Date September 15, 2025

B.    Economic Development Initiative – Request for Two Public Hearings from 26250 Northwestern Bldg. LLC for Establish A District and Commercial Rehabilitation Exemption Certificate under PA 210 of 2005, as amended – September 15, 2025

C.    Authorization to Purchase Fuel Management System

D.    Authorization To Purchase Vactor Accessories

E.    Purchase of Vehicles for Fire

F.    Authorization to Apply to the Local Bridge Program – Inkster Road Bridge over the Rouge River (Job No. 2615MDOT)

G.    Receipt of Bids for Central Park Boulevard and Grodan Drive Rehabilitation (Job No. 2611SFLD)

H.    Authorization to Contract with OHM Advisors for Library Mechanical Upgrades – Boiler Replacement Construction Phase Services

I.    Southfield Police Department / Custodial Services for Police Buildings

J.    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

K.    Emergency Management Position

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

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

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

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

P.    Yeshiva Beth Yehudah  - 15751 Lincoln Dr. Request Delegation of School Plan Review and Inspection Authority to the City of Southfield

ITEMS TO BE DISCUSSED AND/OR ACTION

PUBLIC HEARINGS AND SITE PLANS 

A.    PSLU25-0004, the Special Use Request by Atlas Consulting on behalf of Journey Express LLC, to renovate and reuse the building and site at 24450 Telegraph, Southfield, Michigan (Sidwell Parcel 24-28-151-011) for used vehicle sales and vehicle repair accessory to the vehicle sales use

B.    PSLU25-0005, the Special Use Request by Abigail Pierce, to operate a Group Child Care Home on property located at 24749 Maryland Street (Parcel 24-25-204-021), City of Southfield, Michigan

ORDINANCES

A.    Enact Ordinance No. 1815, rezone 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

B.    Enact Ordinance No. 1816, 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

COUNCIL

A.    Travel Expense Report: Daniel Brightwell, GFOA, Washington DC, June 28 - July 3, 2025

B.    Travel Expense Report: Charles Hicks, 2025 NLC Summer Conference, Houston, TX, July 30 – August 2, 2025

MAYOR

ADMINISTRATION

A.    Adopt Section 8 Housing Budget for FY26 pending transfer to Plymouth Housing Commission

ATTORNEY

CLERK, TREASURER, PLANNER, ASSESSOR, ENGINEER

SCHEDULE

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