City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening garden City like to call the order regular City Council meeting for July 27th 2026 at 07 PM. Our first order of business is our opening ceremony which consists of the national anthem. followed by the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by a moment of silence for those service members who have given their lives for our country, and also a moment of silence for a longtime Parks and Rec Commissioner, Mr. Dennis Kapolinski. If everyone would please rise.

Thank you. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Mr. Smith, if you take roll call, please.

Mayor Jacobs. Here. Mayor Pro Tem Dold. Here. Council Member Hughes.

Here.

Council Member Witt. Here. Council Member King. Here. Council Member Dold. Here. Council Member Karifotis. Here. You have a quorum of seven.

Thank you. Item four is the approval of the agenda.

Mayor.

Council Member Witt.

I'd like to make a motion to approve the Monday, July 27th council meeting agenda amended as presented. Support. Support.

Support from Mayor Pro Tem Dold. Discussion from the table? From the public? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passes 7-0. Okay, we do not have any recognitions, nobody from the state or county, no presentations, no community events, no petitions, no public hearings. Item 11 is a consent agenda.

Mayor. Councilmember what like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda items a one through four including for a as presented.

Or from councilmember Hughes discussion from table. From the public. All in favor aye opposed. motion passes seven zero okay on to our action items first item is uh a lot uh rezoning and uh mr ortega our planning consultant from mckenna

Good evening, Mayor, Councilmembers. Before you tonight is a request by the property owner of 27500 Marquette to rezone the site to C1 Local Business. This site is a 2.05 acre lot and was previously occupied by a church and school. The site is now vacant, but the structure and the parking lots remain. It is currently zoned R1 One Family Residential. The Planning Commission, at their July 9th meeting, held a public hearing and considered the issues. And actually, during the course of a deliberation, the Planning Commission had voiced concern regarding the traffic that could be created and developed into the neighborhood and the other uses, due to the other uses permitted in a C1 zoning district, such as retail. The applicant had indicated that they would like to redevelop the building for an office space and then potentially use the existing classrooms for a child care center. However, as a straight rezoning, the Planning Commission had to consider all the types of uses that would be available to a c1 designation the applicant then actually chose to uh voluntarily do a conditional rezoning limiting this would limit the uses allowed on the site to only establishing a professional office and the daycare center child care center So after considering all the issues and the revised request for a conditional rezoning, the Planning Commission has recommended that City Council approve the proposed conditional rezoning of the site. One aspect of conditional rezoning is there is an agreement that has to be signed, and actually the applicant has already presented a signed conditional zoning agreement, which legally binds the property owner to only develop the site as an office and or a childcare center under the C1 zoning. So in the end, the Planning Commission does recommend that Council approve this rezoning of 27500 Marquette from R1 to conditional C1 local business, given that it's in compliance with the master plan, it's compliance with the future land use map of the city, this designation is consistent with the zoning classification of adjacent land, and the site is in compliance with the dimensional requirements in the C1 district.

Mayor? mayor pro tem dole i'd like to motion to approve the rezoning of 27500 marquette from r1 to one family resident to conditional c1 local business support or from council member king discussion from table mayor council member hughes

I see that when we're talking about rezoning to see one that as it reads that there has to be did it the purpose is to allow a limited shopping and services that for the needs of the residents in the immediate area and then also they suggest different types of businesses office are included in that but um with right now the city of garden city has anywhere between seven and ten daycare centers with a couple that are on their way um city of wayne only has six so um i'm i'm curious as to um why why you feel the need or the need is you know somebody feels a need that we that's going to be a benefit to the neighboring residents that having an immediate need for either an architect office or a daycare center.

so it's the applicant's request to do this we're just recommending approval consistent with the master plan and that sort of thing but to answer your question with regards to that to one thing this is a condition rezoning to see one that allows him to so professional office will be permitted by right under this and then actually the daycare center is actually would be a child care center so it's for more for more than twelve children uh... and they would still have to comply with the fact that this is a special and use so they will have to come back again to planning commission and council to request a special and use criteria because at that time uh... it would be evaluated more for based on hours of operation based on the number of children uh... whether it's compatible in the area and one of the criteria of the special and use would be a consideration of the need for the use So that's done at that time. And that's not to say you can't speak to it now. But I would say that in terms of, forgive me, I don't know everyone off the top of my head, but I do know obviously we have a child care center on Inkster just north of Ford, that size and scale.

And there's one on Cherry Hill as well. ah yes exactly there's one on cherry hill they're both of them within blocks of the current the address we're looking at right now um and then also um there are there are no known uh mistakes as far as the zoning was set originally it says in the correct yeah as far as we know no mistake in zoning as residential number one and so there's therefore no no reason to suspect that we need to change it because there was a mistake

correct yeah that's just one of the criteria like some some efforts of rezoning are typically to correct them on my mapping error and actually we we did that not too long ago when we had our oh one uh... district in addition to getting rid of the oh one we made some changes and corrections to the zoning map for example the the property at the northwest corner of cherry hill and inkster uh... was only partially zoned commercial so that drive-through use at the time was legally not conforming and we change that kind of so that's usually what we're looking for their terms of that but the the fact that this is in the master plan it was designated as mixed-use and commercial is consistent with the c1 designation to as is residential to degree we already have seen one nearby well adjoining so both of those would

fulfill the multi-use.

Well, the vision of the mixed-use district, and granted, this is from the master plan from 2015, the idea would be to allow for a higher concentration of residential with commercial and proximity to allow for that mix of uses either adjacent to or on the site. So a single-family component could definitely be part of that, but I think the idea is this block that's planned as mixed-use is kind of larger and has a lot more development opportunities to create something unique for the city.

Already fulfills that mixed use. And then we also have, there's two residents, two homes that butt up to this property.

I believe one of them is a parsonage for the previous church. I could be wrong, but I thought that's what the case was.

Mayor? Thank you.

Council Member Karifotis.

I'M JUST LOOKING OVER THE WORDING AND THE WORDING THAT YOU USED, YOU SAID IT WAS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE MASTER PLAN OUTLINE, BUT OUR MASTER PLAN ACTUALLY SAYS WE SHOULD BE PROMOTING MORE HOUSING IN GARDEN CITY, SO I'M HAVING A HARD TIME WITH WE NEED TO PROMOTE HOUSING AND WE'RE GOING TO GET RID OF MORE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY. THAT MAKES NO SENSE TO ME. OUR MASTER PLAN ACTUALLY SAYS WE SHOULD PROMOTE MICROHOUSING WITH STANDARDS FOR SMALLER HOUSING SO WE CAN GET SMALLER LOTS, SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES WITH A HIGHER DENSITY. I've been seeing for a couple years and in our city manager said it would be nice to increase our population in Garden City I think if we're taking away residential property where we can build single-family homes or townhomes for seniors I don't think that makes much sense to take it away. I know that that's about 2 acres with our our recent other um ordinances that we changed uh with variances that could fit six to eight houses so i'm concerned that we're passing up on space that we could use for houses also you talked about traffic there's already two schools there and another daycare that would be a lot of traffic if you ask me right there at marquette for those other houses there's um Tipped in right behind there and lathers is right down the street and if you ever try to get down there at 830 in the morning, it's not happening. So I think that would add to it. Our master plan also says that our population is decreasing and over the next 14 years or so at our master plan to space is going to decrease another 7%. so that's a lot that's a lot of money for us to lose for federal money um for grants i just think that we should think twice about giving away a residential property we're pretty much landlocked and i think that with the other new houses that are going up around garden city and these vacant lots we're getting a fair number of um of tax dollars from them and if that lot was sold for houses we would make more than if it was left as a daycare I know that most houses in Garden City, even if they're older and they're not new, they're selling for over $200,000. New houses are selling around $3,000. That's over $10,000 a house in Texas. So for me, I'm just worried about giving up our residential property when that's what we need the most, in my opinion.

one aspect that we did consider in our analysis was the fact that uh... looking back the site has historically been a religious institution and i don't think it's ever been a single-family home so transitioning it from a non-taxing use to a tax taxable uh... office that's one of the factors that kind of lent itself to R1 excuse me to C1 And then, as we talked about, the Planning Commission was very concerned about the traffic, and they did note the others, but they also factored in the fact that there's a boulevard, Marquette is a boulevarded cross-section right there, and then it's not as far from Inkster as those other traffic-generating uses. And so they were hopeful that when they do the special land use review, they can get a better feel for, you know, traffic movements. But it is something to consider just in the future if it were to be rezoned, that they have another opportunity to evaluate it. But it is a consideration, and that's why they went from a straight C1 to... Conditional, but yeah, those are all factors to consider when you're when you're looking at this question Yeah, I mean going from a church where we're not getting taxes to a business.

You're getting taxes with houses. You're getting more taxes So and more people I Think that's what garden city needs the most Mayor Yeah, okay, yeah, thank you councilmember dole I

I just lost my train of thought. I have several concerns, though. One of them is we're not talking just one block into the subdivision. We're talking three blocks deep into Marquette with the resident right on that side, with residents to the south of them, the west of them, It's my understanding. I know when we do these rezoning things or we do special land use, that kind of thing, that people are notified within 300 feet of that property. And actually, my personal belief on that is there are some things that I think all of our residents should be notified of because it affects the city that we're living in. But in this case, the 300 feet, I just... I'm sorry, I've just lost my whole train of thought on this. I need to review my notes. Okay, we can come back. Well, it would include, yeah. And one

one aspect about this site that was unique is that the property to the north and east and west are larger so you didn't capture as many property owners but then the properties of the south are more single family there are single family houses so they were only about like maybe fifty foot wide lot so you did capture more of those and then during and then But during the public hearing, we only had one property owner attend. No other property owners were noticed. Do you know how many were contacted? I don't have that number off the top of my head, but definitely everyone within 300 feet was noticed. Is it 300 feet from property line to property line or 300 feet from the building? 300 feet from property line to property line. And even if it just skims somebody's lot by like two feet, they're included. Because we do want to make sure that we have as much discussion and letting people know.

going back to what I was, just came to me. So everybody was notified within 300 feet, but there are a lot of resident comments on this particular issue, and it may not be people that live right there, but there are a lot of comments on this issue, and I would say 99% of them are negative to changing it to C1, whether it's conditional or not. And the other problem I have with the conditional rezoning and I mean this in the nicest way, but sometimes we agree to change things and then a few years down the road, guess what happens? Things change and the city is not staying on top of that. There's businesses right now on Ford Road that have went in under what they were supposed to be and they no longer are. and here it sits so that's a worry for me too what is the future use of this property going to be not only that but i think that sometimes we need to take into we just we need to take things into account there is a house located right next door i personally would not like to live right next door to a daycare where the children are outside playing all the time and i believe this has come up before in garden city where there's been homes inside of neighborhoods that have tried to get daycare from us and we have turned that down so it's kind of the same thing i think there is going to be an issue with it with the traffic there's no way there's not going to be an issue with the traffic and to say in the paperwork that people will walk their child to the daycare because it's located where it is To me, that's just kind of silly because you don't walk your child to daycare and then walk home and go to work. It's a work thing. I just don't see this as a benefit to the city.

ranges and that you know uh... one of the reason we pointed out the walking aspect is just the fact that the state does require you know back in the day and actually in schools cars would come in and then they'd open the doors and can just run out uh... state law prohibits that daycare center so every daycare center child care center the the parent or guardian has to park their car and walk them into so that's right more what we were there with the letter was referring to in that situation and then uh... But yeah, then in terms of the other aspects, like I said, with regard of whether it's compatible with the neighborhood and given the fact that it was a school and children attended there previously, that's the only reason we were thinking that it might be of a similar character that was established, that's all.

Mayor. Council member care photos one more thing about the traffic I know when we talked about having the building right across the street to daycare that traffic was one of the major concerns for the the board in at Council and we talked about how much the times that they get dropped off and all that and it was concerned just for that one and that's middle belt that has 60,000 cars a day so I can imagine the concern on Marquette when there's already two schools there and we have another one opening on Ford Road Yeah, right, the other daycare on Ford Road, plus there's the one at Maplewood, plus there's the one at Radcliffe, plus there's the one on Cherry Hill. There's a lot of daycares. Not to say we don't want more business in Garden City, but just not in a residential neighborhood.

And just one other aspect to just make you aware of, I have all the facts, is that in terms of monitoring this use and make sure the site doesn't come into any other type of use, as a condition of rezoning, the legally binding agreement states that if they were to ever use this for anything else other than an office or a daycare, it has to automatically revert back to C1.

I read that.

At least there's that. And then one other aspect is the building department now utilizes what we call a use statement. So any business operator, whenever they come in, first they submit their application for a certificate of occupancy, and then they sign another document afterwards that verifies all their details and identifies them, all the conditions that they have to comply with. And then if they violate them, then... The city can take any and all actions to mitigate the situation or require them to vacate the property. And so, you know, those are all ordinances that are already in the books and everybody had to do that anyway. But it's just something that we provide as another, try and use another.

Yeah, I'm aware that we have that as a backup.

Mayor?

Council Member King.

Just to clarify, you said if it was used for anything other than what was approved, revert back to C1. Did you mean R1? Correct, I'm sorry. Okay, I just wanted to clarify. That's what I thought. You mentioned something about special land use. So if today this is approved, they could start using it for a business, but they would still have to come back to the front of council for the daycare because it would be a special land use?

That's correct.

Okay. i guess i have a different thought than on this it was vacant property i'm fully support keeping as residential but with the existing building already sitting on that building sitting on that lot and i drove by it doesn't look the greatest at all a lot of overgrown brush parking lots destroyed And we don't have a developer in front of us today asking, do you want a business there? I mean, do you want professional offices there, or do you want residential? They're only offering one. If it's denied today, it will probably remain vacant for a definite amount of time. We don't know when somebody else will come by, or if they'll even sell the property to somebody else. With that, I think a... An office building would be nice at that site. Better than definitely a vacant church in a school building. Looking at the master plan, I did comb through that too, it definitely does specify that Michigan does need to be more diversified homes. We have a lot of single family, more duplexes and town homes and other stuff. We need more diverse homes. However, it also has, I was looking at one of the objectives, is commercial and office development, promote a well-planned, this is actually Objective 2.2, promote a well-planned and integrated system of commercial and office uses which will serve the needs of the city, residents, enhance the image of the city, and strengthen the city tax and employment base, which I think this specific case does exactly what Objective 2.2 talks about.

i did have another point on that i don't remember at this time so contagious sorry that's all i have at the moment mayor councilman something else um some of the things that council council member king stated if we were to deny this and the building remains sitting there as is it's no longer a church so there are taxes that will have to be paid correct

I'm not an assessor. So I don't know how yes work there.

There are it's no longer a church It's bought by you know, so that there's taxes that are will have to be paid on the property So we will not be out the taxes If it remains vacant, we also have ordinances for that where we can charge them vacancy fees we have our blight court now, which will clean up the property and And I do have a question, though. So if we had a church come into town right now, what is the zoning requirement for a church?

They would have to obtain special land use approval because a church is not, a religious institution isn't permitted by right in the R1. They do have to go through special land use process. And while this was previously established at a church, because it's been vacant for more than six months, it's lost that legal non-conforming status. So it would have to be evaluated again because And the thought is that things like churches and schools belong in the middle of neighborhoods. Back in the day, they were the focal point in the community, focal point in that neighborhood.

Party stores were in the middle of neighborhoods then, too, though.

There's a lot of things that have changed since then. Absolutely, and so that's why before it used to be print, write, write, and now it requires special land use to factor in the things that you're concerned with right now in terms of parking, hours of operation, that sort of thing, or traffic, excuse me. So then those kind of things would be evaluated if it were proposed to be a religious institution of any kind. Okay, so that would have to come before council.

Yeah. Okay, thank you.

Mayor? Council Member Karafotis. Well, we just talked about it's obviously in the middle of a neighborhood. That's why I think it needs to stay in a neighborhood. But another thing that... Councilman King talked about that the developer bought it and it's going to turn into a daycare. That doesn't mean a developer that does housing wouldn't buy it. We have someone right now that lives in Garden City and buys vacant lawns that puts brand new houses on it. I think he's put like 10 houses in the last year and a half or two years. So, I mean, that availability is out there. We have regular residents who buy these things and put up new houses and if you drive down Henry Ruff or Shotka or Elmwood or Balmoral, there's five new houses right there in the last two years. So I think when there's vacant property in Garden City, there are developers waiting to buy. Mayor.

Council Member Wood. When was the property bought?

I'm afraid it was in the last April April and it has been making for over 6 months right so the developer had a few months to purchase it if it was up for sale and all of that but speaking of the other developers in the city, you know we have a developer that owns a very fair chunk of land from the schools at the old Berger site that probably a decade now that has been built. so there's there's the possibility for all of these homes to be built and all of these homes to be put in that just hasn't gotten to that point yet because he hasn't seen profitability profitability in it that's just why he's doing that he's waiting hold on council member i'm sorry go ahead but still he is sitting on this and hasn't done it he's got his contract with the schools and that's that's what it's sitting at but i do agree a lot with council member king in these situations and looking at you know the amount of time that planning commission does sit and go over and deliberate on these things you know that's why we have a planning commission in place they go through all these deliberations they work through putting all this together to be sent to us you know in the last three years we've sent a lot of things away granted we've pushed a lot through but we've sent a lot of things back to the planning commission and i don't think the whole point of us having a planning commission to deliberate more on this or you know make a facebook post that's you know what do the rest of the residents think of this i understand we do want all of the residents input on it but we notify the area that's affected of that affected area one person showed up but probably at least 15 properties give or take if not a little bit more Okay, but still, only one person showed up and opposed it and still had the conversation. I don't think it's worth it for us to deliberate more on this and keep pushing stuff back to Planning Commission in certain situations.

Mr. Mayor, just to provide some additional information just for background. In terms of the Burgess site that is owned by the school district, they actually have a deed restriction on it that it can only be developed as single-family homes. We've had several people come in attempting to put in either townhomes or a little bit more uh... housing on that site than previous uh... we've asked them uh... we told them you know where we can only do what's permitted by by the deed and so they they i believe that they have uh... stock to the school district school district has not either not chosen or just didn't have the process in place to consider and removing that deed restriction but uh... in terms of but the developer did had developed uh... single-family homes in the past And on that particular site, they chose not to. And that was a vacant site. And I know one other aspect that we're, because we are going to be presenting the updated master plan for housing. One aspect that faces communities such as, mature communities such as Garden City is the fact that The sites that might be available hopefully are vacant, completely greenfield. Some sites aren't, such as this would be, so demolition costs factor into it, especially if there's any extended costs for demolition, and then that factors into, it adds on top of the escalating cost of construction. And then with the amount of density that we do or don't allow, that could be a factor. Because even though there's a two-acre lot, we have our 60-foot minimum lot width and 72, 300 minimum lot area. And forgive me, I don't have the width of the lot in front of me. And then because the only way they could develop additional single-family homes is... if there was land deeper back as to put in a road or something to that effect because all lots have to be on a public street. So then the developer would be facing whatever the lot width of that is divided by 60. So you might get five, six houses. Possibly, forgive me, it could be more than that. But just that's another factor that developers consider, because when we talk to them, we're always trying to drum up all the sites, Burgess site and all the others.

Mayor.

Council Member Karifotis.

I know that the sixty is our normal but we just gave a variance a few months ago and built those four houses on Elmwood and they're forty foot so I mean we do give variances in order to get more housing in and I don't know why we wouldn't do that some more like I said our master plan recommends that we do more micro housing to get higher density And that school property, it definitely wants to be developed. It just has not been developed the way the school wants it. And that 10 years is coming. And I'm sure when that 10 years is up, you will see things built on there right away. And again, I just think that it's senseless to give away a residential property when we have so very few of it in Garden City. There's not that much left.

Mayor? councilmember hughes i just want to point out that at the at the planning commission meetings there were only four members and only three voted in favor one abstained so when we talk about you know you know having the commission do the work they they were supposed to be doing they were sure i think kind of short-handed and um in a sense that you know we didn't get an overwhelming yes to begin with it was kind of you know they want to put the the restrictions on it but we still only had three votes from the planning commission to move forward

Okay, that's mayor Pro Tem Dole.

I got to agree with the councilwoman care for this that we need to protect our residential zones for future use. Some of the problems now we have is across the country. These builders don't want to build because the cost is sky-high right now. Perhaps in the future, it's going to come down. We have a opportunity to build multifamily homes on this land. I'm throughout the city quite a bit probably more than anybody else at this table. I haven't heard one good thing. One person that wants this to happen. We've heard from business owner. Not positive for their either. I just think we need to protect the residential zones.

I have a couple comments. And I've listened to everyone and I agree and disagree with some of it, but we do have the Berger property that the school owns until 28 that the developer has to start a development, but he hasn't done it in 10 years. So obviously there's not a big, there's a cost, uh restriction on that uh radcliffe they had it sold to a developer that wanted the city to pay for everything the demolition everything before we'd it'd be 20 years before we would have gotten our money back on it so there's not to me there's not a great race to build subdivisions or or houses or tear down existing houses the property owner put it up for sale and somebody bought it for a pretty good amount of money they want to turn it into an office building mostly i would i would assume and i don't think that's going to create a whole lot of traffic problem when it comes back if it comes back as a as a school then that'll have to be a special land use we can take that up the planning commission if we if we only say that three voted for it then we got to go to every commission and when not everybody's there say well only only a certain amount voted for it so i don't i don't think that's a fair assessment they all take pride in what they do they they consider everything i'm in favor of believing what they say and the work ethic that they put into it um i believe the taxes will be greater as a office building and as a potential child care but yes taxes will be paid but i believe there'll be more than a couple if there's a few houses built there And again, we have empty properties that nobody's fighting to get at to build houses. So I think to put an office building right there, a couple blocks off of Inkster Road with the boulevard, I don't think that's gonna increase traffic that much to affect the people. And if it gets to childcare, then we can discuss that, because that's a special land use. So for me, with the properties that could have been sold and could have been built on, and nobody's willing to put up the money to do all that. And I know that church has been there a while. I'm sure they had church services for a while. Probably much more traffic than the daycare or the office building will put in there. and it wasn't wasn't a big traffic concern then um so i i'm just in favor of following what the planning commission recommended and again i think there's enough property elsewhere that we can look at building on mayor councilmember care photos

I agree that we put things in front of the Planning Commission for a reason, but it also comes to our council for a reason, and our residents elected us to oversee those things. And it's here in front of us for a reason. We're not just supposed to automatically say yes to everything. We're also supposed to discuss it and come up with a good resolution. When it goes back to the school property, again, that owner absolutely wants to develop that property, but he wants to develop it into apartments or multiple, and the school says you can't for 10 years. It has to be single-family housing. They're waiting on that 10 years, and he's chomping at the bit in hopes that we will approve multi. It's not that he doesn't want to. He's waiting out a 10-year lease, according to the school.

But it's not guaranteed the school will sell it back to them and change their mind. That's still school property.

They can do whatever they want with it. They can. And if you look at the rest of the vacant lots in Garden City, they're all being bought up by developers that are putting houses on it. So if there's four houses and they're $300,000 houses, that's $40,000. right off the bat and i think earlier we said that was about the same in taxes if there was um the daycare so that church has gone from zero i i kind of doubt that it's going to go to to 48 000. and that property actually sold for about a hundred thousand less than it did 20 years ago

further comments mayor councilmember king i remember what i was going to mention um for this garden city we really don't have a business district just i'm sorry business district professional offices not most of it is retail so i think that is a plus for the city to have a professional business i'm not sure about the child care however i think that's kind of down the road that's more of a special land use when i mentioned about a dollar coming in and develop the property for residential right now the current developer as we all mentioned just purchase building and property in April was vacant property I think much more doable to convert over to residential but it's not is there's already a functional building on the site as you mentioned to be demolished as all at a cost I don't know would be profitable to switch it over to residential at this point. If he doesn't get the okay to build, to use it for what he's intended or what he thought he was going to be able to use for the property, it may just stay vacant. There's nothing to force the developer to sell the property to another developer that's going to demolish it and put residential there. in that aspect i think it's better to see a site utilized money put into it that will increase the taxes yes they do pay probably some very limited property taxes being a vacant building but if property taxes are based on the value of the property and the value of the business if they redevelop the property and it's a They fill their office suites, however, with an engineering firm or whatever. That will add more property taxes to the tax rolls. With that, what I hear over and over from our residents, they want the burden of the taxes taken off the residents and more commercial. Of course, we'll never have as much commercial as our neighboring cities, Westland, Dearborn. They just have much more space and much more developed commercial than we can have in Garden City. What I've heard more and more is they want to see other entities paying into the taxes to help bring down the residential taxes.

I just want to say that property taxes are not based off how well the business is doing. It has nothing to do with that. It's what the property is worth. So it doesn't matter if this business is making $300,000. We don't up their taxes for it if it's the same property. Whether it's vacant property or not vacant property. Mr. Mayor.

Just information for you all. A couple things as far as the value of the property. Once again, I'm not the assessor, but I do believe that the value of the property is based on the value of the building. As a dilapidated and deteriorated building, the value of that would be less than if the developer spends money to raise the value of that structure. Because then the assessor goes in and reassesses the value based on how many improvements. It's just like if you put in a new kitchen in your home, your taxes are going to go up because the assessor says, oh, that's a very nice bathroom you have in there. And then one other aspect for your information, just to be sure, I'd let you know, is that the zoning ordinance states that When an applicant comes for rezoning, if it's denied, then it cannot be considered for another rezoning for one year. So it could not be considered for C1 uses unless it's substantially different, meaning not office and not daycare. It would not be able to be developed for one year as in any other district other than R1. So the R1 uses would be permitted, but someone would have to come in and propose a development on the site that is in compliance with the R1 designation. They'd have to wait a year.

Mario, isn't our CBD considered an office

Well, definitely, yeah. I mean, we, back in the, just to back up for a second, we used to have an 01 district, but it was kind of limited to limiting the commercial property owners to just office. So we got rid of that, right? So we got rid of that, exactly. We got rid of it, and so 01 is permitted in C1, C2, C3, and CBD. So it's permitted everywhere. Some offices are permitted. And rather than propose a C2 or C3 or CBD, the applicant wanted to do a C1 because of the local characteristics of the business. But then when the Planning Commission voiced their concern that even the C1 was going to open up the door a little too much, that's why he chose to voluntarily close the door and only do office by right and then daycare, child care center by special land use. Office by right if we approve it. I'm sorry. Yeah, absolutely if the rezoning gets approved then it could be developed as an office But offices are allowed all over the whole city in every zone right except for residential.

Correct. Yeah Okay, I have a question Councilmember Dole Is there any precedent for this?

Is there anywhere else in Garden City where we've put commercial so far into a residential area? That you can think of

trying to think you know the the residential building pattern based on the plots excuse me the plant never really encroached that much into there and that's one of the reasons why we've had some extended uh... vacancies because in the past before my time in like the nineties you know there were efforts to try and increase the depth of the lots but even that was restricted sometimes we've got We've got a couple parking lots behind the buildings that went into one or two lots into the residential subs, but it never got that much more. The daycare, that doesn't even go in. You've got the hospital.

The new Hollywood Sound. Yeah, Hollywood Sound.

Back about a block and a half. On the west side of the city, those lots, but that's based on the plat. They were deeper there. I was going to say, that was originally the...

property outline there.

When I say plat, I mean back in the day when they first came, they chose to have very small lots along Ford except for downtown and except for adjacent to downtown where those are deeper. So the amount of opportunities to even do that was very limited because in order to get into that far deeper, you'd have to assemble land. I guess the only other aspect that... MIGHT BE SIMILAR TO THAT AS UP HERE ON MIDDLE BATH, GOING TOWARDS MAPLEWOOD. YOU KNOW, SOME OF THOSE GO A LITTLE BIT DEEPER, BUT NOT BY MUCH.

BUT THEY WERE

Those lines were deep to begin with. It wasn't that we changed them into commercial. Right, and that's why there are those extended vacancies on some of those properties because the buildings are developed with 1950s, 60s style retail and that sort of thing. So luckily, we were seeing an influx of development for those small uses, but we haven't seen any large-scale developments

uses want to assemble the land they go somewhere else is it also safe to assume that the the purchaser was fully aware of what that property was zoned when he purchased it well absolutely yeah i mean everybody you know they know what what they're getting into so okay is there anything new from council just one thing

But Councilmember Hughes.

You know I I debated on I've debated on this. It wasn't, you know, I wasn't thinking one way or the other. I kind of torn, you know the reasons that the mayor gave and and Councilmember Witt and King. uh... but i i keep coming back to the original thought process between you know of a c one especially this far into you know uh... subject you know subdivision residents uh... and hearing from all the residents in the area close by down the street Um, they're really not in favor of it and I represent the residents. So that's where, you know, I, I kind of fall along. And then, um, also, um, I, I come back to the C1 and I don't see any, um, any. Benefit to the residents in the nearby area area immediate area as it's specified in the c1 So I don't I'm like I don't see any compelling reason other than you know Trying to develop a piece of property right now because we have somebody who's here And that's that's the only reason that I see I don't there's no other compelling reason for me to think that this is in the best interest of what the residents don't want

Okay, thank you. Last thing I'll say is just that somebody has stepped up and bought this property to develop it. There's no guarantees that it'll be sold if we turn this down. It could sit vacant for a while, like some other properties that we have. I think it's better to put a building there, or a building is already there, put a... a business in there that is not going to be that invasive on that the resonance around there so that's my thought process i'll open it up public comment anybody wishing to speak on this no public comment all right mr smith

Just a point of order before voting just remember the rezoning is a zoning ordinance zoning map on ordinance So it requires five affirmative votes.

Okay, we'll take up to roll roll call Yes public comment come on up

Good evening. My name is Nasser from NC Designers. So I see positive and negative things about this property to approve or not approve. So I look at it and as an architect, I look at the whole thing and I'm putting my office there where architectural firm that have, of course, by appointment. We don't have people coming from the road or from the street, butching in and sitting with us and talking to us. So everything is by appointment. So all this parking that we have, probably we're not gonna use a third of it while we are in the process of doing our business. On our both, I mean, What I see, they're fearing the C1, C1 as a retail office, bringing it into the residential. I deal with this every day in every city council for my customers. Now I'm doing it for myself. I'm surrounded on this building by C1, a couple C1s. Let's assume. Someone buys one of these C1s. He doesn't have to come here. He'll just put a retail store, office, whatever he wants and he gets everybody there. What makes that better than putting this building as an office building and it's not gonna be very aggressive because Inkster is nearby the property then going into that residential role to the other side. So I see that voting into an office, it's your choice, but still I see that neighboring that they are already see one. So why not them coming and putting something there? Now you went to the first item that you argued about that, hey, we don't want C1. And you have C1 touching my property. So I just want to point this out this way. I mean, maybe there is a little bit of a wiggle that looking at it from the other side. I know that you want a residential. That's an open thing, and I see, and I work in the city of Garden City, and I also built for people in Garden City, in the city. And That is a multi 15 seconds. I just want to close this that I hope you guys vote yes for this kind of business. Thank you.

Thank you. For the comments from public. Okay, Mister Smith roll call please.

Mayor pro tem told me. Councilmember King I got some are careful to us today. Councilmember dole today. Councilmember with I come over Hughes. Mayor Jacobs.

Motion fails. Okay item 2 is client service agreement for the Met account management, I will ask fire chief keen to come up.

good evening mayor counsel what you have before you tonight is the client service agreement with medical management we've been using them since two thousand seventeen is our dms billing medical really visits so they keep us in the loop with stop trainings up-to-date uh... the requirements for billing what what's required by insurance companies by medicare medicaid how to make sure that we can collect what we actually bill So what you have before you tonight is a four-year renewal with a nominal increase. It's 0.1% over what they previously collected over the previous four years. And included in that as well is they do cover the cost of our EMS documentation program. So that's included in that as well. And as you can see, it equates to approximately less than $900 a year is the increase.

Thank you motion is in order mayor mayor pro tem dole a move to approve the client services agreement with men account management service with the fee increase of 10% guaranteed for 4 years. 2026 to 2030.

It's part or from councilmember King discussion from table man, it's also under care for this point it's 0.1% current 10% in this in this the decimal.

Okay, further comments from the table?

It's much different.

In our favor.

No further comments from the public? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passed 7-0. Thank you, Chief. Item 3 is on-street sales for the Garden City Goodfellas. Mayor Councilmember Dole. Were you going to do it?

I can do it. Go ahead.

So good evening, Mayor and Council. I received a request from the Garden City Goodfellows to host a on street newspaper sale. We had approved one previously this year, but situations didn't work out where they were able to have it, so they have. come back with new dates and are requesting to hold the on-street sales Saturday August 15th and Sunday August 16th from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Ford and Middlebelt Ford and Merriman Middlebelt and Warren and Ford and Vinoy and I have also been told that they are looking for volunteers if anyone is interested in coming on out and helping take the motion first then they you can recruit volunteers.

Motion is in order.

mayor councilmember hughes i make i want to make a mo i'd like to make a motion to grant approval of the garden city goodfellows to hold their 2026 goodfellow newspaper fundraiser on saturday august 15th and sunday august 16th from 8 a.m to 4 p.m at the intersections of ford and meadowbelt ford and merriman ford and finoy and middlebelt and warren subject to the receipt of a valid hold harmless agreement by each participant and compliance with the provisions of city or city on street sales policy support support from mayor pro temp dole discussion from the table from public

all in favor aye opposed motion passes 7-0 and as mr smith said i believe they're looking for volunteers item four is our 2026 lead service line replacement program engineering and construction services and i will ask mr tim wilson from hennessey engineering to come up and kind of explain what we got here

Yes, this is the proposal for our construction engineering fees for the lead service line project. Just as a reminder, this is the one that just got awarded to All Seasons Underground. There's a $1,090,000 project amount. Half of that will be the L&I grant and half the DWSRF loan. So these fees are already included in that whole project budget. This is not an additional fee. uh... that we're at more paperwork for the uh... to get the grant yesterday these fees in front of you will be covered by that loan and grant so this is not this is not like an additional amount that we're throwing out this is part of that original project that's in the final stages of getting approved think we needed this to

turn in the paperwork for all that right yes so that we are on on track with it they had the numbers down and then we realized we did not have the resolution from council mayor council member dole i motion to approve the contract for professional engineering and construction services for eagle project number 7894-02 for 2026 lead water service replacements with hennessey engineers incorporate in the amount net to exceed $200,000. Support. Support from Council Member Witt.

Discussion from the table. From the public. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passes 7-0. Okay, under other business, discussion on blight reduction ordinance amendments. Mr. Gibbons.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. At the request of Council Member Karafotis, we are kind of requesting some input from Council to review and examine our ordinances as they relate to blight, as they relate to commercial buildings that are vacant, and anything really related to the maintenance of properties while they are UNOCCUPIED AND BOARDING UP OF WINDOWS AND THOSE STANDARDS WHAT I WOULD LIKE THE OUTCOME TO BE IS ESSENTIALLY COUNCIL GIVES US SOME INPUT AS TO THE DIRECTION THEY'D LIKE TO GO I WOULD THEN POSE A QUESTION TO OUR CITY ATTORNEY TO EXAMINE OUR ORDINANCES TO SEE ONE DO THESE ORDINANCES EXIST IN A MANNER THAT'S CONSISTENT WITH WHAT YOU'D LIKE AND TWO YOU KNOW what's the most effective way to enforce him? Because you really have two parts. You know, there's an ordinance that says what it says, but then how you carry it out has an impact on how that policy takes place. So just some input and I just start with Councilman Carapares who asked for the agenda item.

Yeah, I just asked for it because we have so many residents that are asking to do something about the blight, do something about boarded up windows, do something about vacant buildings. So just hoping our city manager can maybe give us a list of some of the ordinances that are for vacant buildings. or recently vacated buildings and just, you know, we can review those and maybe update them, see what other cities are doing, see if we need to adjust things to how it's working in our city. There's so many vacant properties right now. Everybody knows the Kmart property, you know, where everyone's complaining about weeds there, but are they too long? Are we, you know, there's just so much that we could do in our city and our residents are not, holding back anymore they're very very concerned with light. So I'm hoping that our city manager can check with our attorney and we can update some things so that we can get more on board with our Blake court since we want to use it as much as we can. I just want to hear what else is opinion if you have some ideas about updating their ordinances.

I'm I'm fine with getting a legal opinion from our attorneys as to what what he's seen from other communities and what our legal remedies could be for it so i'm fine with uh uh recommending to go to uh our attorney and get some information for from him mayor yes councilman isn't our new attorney very familiar with uh blake court and all these things

They're familiar with multiple communities throughout Southeast Michigan, all the different manners in which blight is enforced. From my own review, we have a significant amount of ordinances on the books, and really the battle comes from, it almost plays itself out in our discussion about rezoning. There's a certain balance you take WHEN YOU ARE REQUESTING DEVELOPMENT, YOU REQUEST COMMERCIAL INVESTMENT IN YOUR PROPERTIES, YOU REALIZE THOSE THINGS TAKE TIME. AND SOMETIMES WORK IS HAPPENING ON A PROPERTY THAT YOU CAN'T SEE, WHEN DESIGNS ARE HAPPENING, WHEN PETITIONS FOR REZONING ARE HAPPENING, WHEN PLANNED DEVELOPMENTS ARE HAPPENING. But you know mostly what comes to my mind right now is the balance between promoting that economic development but yet the maintenance of the parents of the community during that time. And we know and we've seen you know I think are the business that's going next KFC at Ford Harrison by the amount of time that a lot of set that waiting. But now is moving actually quite rapidly. You know what standards can we apply that both balances good economic development But accountability for the conditions of the property at the time we're talking, you know, we're seeing it on a daily basis. So, you know, in addition to, you know, our first Blight Court is will be this month for Administrative Hearing Bureau. It's also not a bad time to hear from Council some of that input. I do think it's important though from the City Manager's advice is that we balance those things. And we realize that when Blight comes up, THE PROCESS FOR THE CITY TO DO IT IS, ONE, REQUIRED BY LAW. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE HAVE COMMERCIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, AND THEY'RE ENTITLED TO A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF PROCESS, WHICH DOESN'T ALWAYS LOOK PRETTY. IT TAKES TIME TO GIVE SOMEONE THEIR FULL RIGHTS TO ADJUDICATE SOME OF THESE BLIGHT ISSUES IN COURT. IT KEEPS YOUR PROPERTY, THE PROPERTY NEXT TO YOU THAT YOU'RE NOT HAPPY ABOUT OR THE ONE YOU DRIVE BY YOU'RE NOT HAPPY ABOUT IN A CONDITION THAT, YOU KNOW, IF WE HAD A MAGIC WAND, WE, OF COURSE, WOULD HAVE FIXED IT. AND SO IT'S A MATTER OF really balance and I just want to get input from council as to if they would like that performed by this our new city attorney and if they could come through and see if there's any really as the mayor said advice from other communities where they're successful in a particular items particularly in the area of commercial development in the blight and then it's over you know construction sites you know we all love construction when it's done. GETTING FROM POINT A TO POINT B CAN BE VARIED. SOMETIMES OUR HEAVILY INVESTED IN COMMERCIAL PROPERTY GETS BUILT REAL QUICK AND WE'RE SUPER SATISFIED AND SOMETIMES IT TAKES A WHILE AND THINGS GO WRONG. FUNDING FALLS OUT AND HOW DO WE BALANCE THOSE TWO? very different but also to the same end. Situations I you know I look only to Ford mill about her Ford Merriman where we had the old bar one 5, 3, it's not being finally developed but it's set for a long time. You know how we move those along. What mechanisms are best is it like court is a dangerous buildings ordinance is that the zoning Board of Appeals of what are these what what are the mechanisms that work best and the fastest and most effective.

I think there are residents are looking for that balance between

yes we're helping them develop but in the meantime we still want it to look decent that's the balance we're looking for council member king um yeah i kind of look at it there's two two blight issues there's um commercial that's operating active businesses that need to take care of their property and then there's the what we talked about more recently the development properties i do think there's when there's a balance there you want to promote developers come into the city and building new businesses and so there's a little give and take there but i do think they need to show progress maybe every three months every six whatever it is whatever's legally and whether municipalities are doing but checking in with the city and letting us know where they're at um you can't go six nine months a year with nothing to show for what you you're doing for their property That's that's my fault for development. I agree with that down.

Council member Hughes.

I was wondering if we could make a differentiation between a vacant property versus one that already has approval from Planning Commission for progress on actually building and developing the property. So I see those as two different things. If you have somebody owns a property and it's just sitting vacant year after year after year versus somebody, like you say, trying to get that balance on... somebody who actually has um uh plans in place they are moving forward and they're stepping forward and is it possible for us to have two different approaches to blight on you know with that differentiation yeah that that's absolutely the type of question i i'd like to pose and find out and i can bring back okay anyone else

Okay, city manager's report. Nothing much tonight, Your Honor. I don't have anything. Okay, Mr. Smith.

Yep, just remind everybody come on out and vote. Election Day is next Tuesday. Polls will be open from 7 AM to 8 PM next Tuesday on Election Day, but we also have early voting currently running now every day through this Sunday. It is at the Police Department from 8 AM to 4 PM. You vote just like you do on Election Day. You come on in, you get a ballot and you put it in the tabulator while you're here.

point of order do we want to go back to public comment number 13. oh okay missed that one okay sorry about that all right item 13 public comment for non-agenda items only nothing mr jones chief arnosky Sort of public.

Yeah, from the police chief's desk, I guess you could say. I just wanted to inform council that tonight the police department participated in the rib fest over in Westland at the Texas Roadhouse. They had a rib eating contest. We sent our patrol commander, Lieutenant Billy Smith, and one of our new hires, patrol officer Gavin Geppert, and they took first place.

we got a nice little trophy they didn't give it to me but we have we could have put it all right we'll get it next uh put it on the table thank you thank you thank you that was billy anyone else with public comment uh chief next time let us know so we can go and cheer everybody on we might have we might have missed the meeting then yeah but you know it might not be on a monday night next time okay all right uh mayor pro tem dole thank you mayor i don't have nothing tonight okay thank you council member hughes or yeah council member hughes thank you um i wanted to point out that um the garden city fire department um the roofing and siding are completed yes

and hv is hvac is installed and drywall is installed painted and primed and painted yay i understand there's just a little bit more to go right just a little bit And then also, I want to point out Parks and Rec, in the month of June alone, they saw 2,194 participants. So I know a lot of people worried about, you know, how that was going to come along, and, you know, is it really going to be worth it? And apparently, I mean, it seems like it has been worth it, and they are generating a fair amount of income.

That's it. Okay. Thank you. Council Member Wood. Nothing tonight. Council Member King.

I do have one. There's pending storms coming through tonight through the state of Michigan. Haven't checked the radar recently, but it's over like 50 mile an hour winds, I believe. It made me think about them. I think the city, we should have basically a standard storm response. A lot of times we hear from residents on Facebook, a storm comes through, does DPS help with the branches, do they not? I think it's similar to snow removal. ALL RESIDENTS KNOW IT'S FOUR INCHES THE TRUCKS WILL BE OUT ANYTHING LESS THEY'RE NOT GOING OUT UM I THINK FOR BRANCH PICKUP MAYBE SOMETHING SIMILAR I'M JUST THROWING OUT NUMBERS NOT SAYING THIS NEEDS TO BE THE NUMBERS BUT OVER 50 MILES WINDS OVER 60 MILES WINDS WHATEVER WE PICK dps will support otherwise i know we do play um the trash company to pick up debris and that kind of stuff so wouldn't want to go out there for every little storm outages if we have over half the city with outages maybe that's when we open up the the centers i mean i know the police station is always available but maybe there's other um places we may open and it is just ideas um something on the last storm i noticed uh i think critical street lights the middle belt and ford road was out three days now luckily it was uh fourth of july weekend not a lot of traffic however i think the lights not going to be restored within 24 hours we really need to reach out to wayne county get a generator on critical lights uh that's a very busy intersection and we really i think should have had a generator out there um powering that light three accidents at ford middle belt in the first 12 hours of that power outage oh well okay i wasn't sure if there was or not but um so i think something we should look into standardizing storm response so all the residents have an expectation of when we engage and when we do not and that's all I have tonight. Okay, thank you. Council Member Dole.

So the reports we have in front of us are for the month of June, but I just wanted to say with our storms this month already and the response that we got from the fire department, from the police department, DPW, from everybody, everything was outstanding. And I imagine you guys were really busy But other than that, I know that what council member King was discussing with the emergency response plan, I know that that's been asked for by a certain council member for about four years now. And it is really something that we do need. I think it's critical. And even with our heat waves and stuff like that for so long, you know, people didn't know what to do, where to go, that kind of thing. So I did notice the last time that was getting communicated a little bit better. But yeah, other than that, like was said, the Goodfellows is looking for volunteers to help us with our paper fundraiser. This is what, we've really had to put our noses to the grindstone this year because our paper sales were so absolutely horrendous last year. And that has historically been what's enabled the Goodfellows to provide Christmas for our local needy children. So yeah. If you can help, let one of us know. If you see us out there, donate. Thanks.

Thank you. Council Member Karafotis. I was so glad to hear another council member talk about our emergency plan. And I was even more happy today to talk with our city manager, who spent a lot of time with our fire chief, to get that going. So it's coming soon. And it was the exact things that... Well, just to add to that...

I was specifically talking about storm response. However, I think there's another one we need for emergency plan for catastrophic events in the city.

But no, the storm is part of it. So if it's snowy and freezing and the power goes out, if there's branches that can go to the curb and our clients, our residents need to know, you can do this. That's exactly the kind of stuff that I was talking about all this time. And I was glad to hear that it's coming. Thank you for that, Chief Keenan, our city manager.

that's all i got okay thank you um i will say on the last storm over the fourth dpw i know part of their their response is to go pick up some branches when they have time and they were swamped there were trees that were down across roads that they had to go clear up wayne county is not always the most responsive to get them out there and i agree we need an actual emergency plan but usually we can make a phone call to get out there and they'll hook up a generator at middle belt ford merriman and ford goes out as far as places to go i know radcliffe lost power so that was uh It would have been hard to communicate that it's quickly before people went out there. But that's what I was told so. But we we should have a plan in place I agree with that and we do have

Sort of a plan so I'm sure we're going to work on that if I could just clarify we have always have plans within each part of our organization was be requested from counts and there's a little more of a formalized more publicly noticed plan. But you know work to the police Department 23 years I was here for the blackout. uh right when i first started uh so i'm very familiar and the city has and always has done an excellent job of responding you can always get better and so myself and the fire chief has spent a significant amount of time over the past week or so and we're adding some final pieces but it all include what we already offer but to standardize it and we do live in an age of information that i think it's only beneficial that the community has a little more input or a little more insight but i don't even think we've gone this long without one of course we have access to resources we send our public safety professionals to the places to know the things and they're part of groups that can bring a tremendous amount of resources in to our town at a moment's notice and um you know we have wayne county emergency management so there's a lot of pieces they're all individually we're just going to formalize one into more of a centralized place

I also mention what what I said was nothing to criticize our departments now I think they respond great I just want to standardize it like you said so the residents know when to expect that kind of service and when when not to kind of thing so I'd also like to offer my condolences like I said earlier to the family of Dennis Kaplinsky he was a along the pride longest serving Parks and Rec Commissioner that we've had and he passed away a little time ago, a week or two ago, suddenly, so sorry to hear that, and we'll have, his wisdom and experience will be missed. Speaking of schools and stuff like that, the Imagination Station at Radcliffe is hosting a Pack Your Backpack Bash, and I thought they were gonna put up Flyer, not sure if they will, but it is Saturday, August 15th, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Radcliffe. They'll have some backpacks and school supplies. They'll have raffle baskets, free kids, haircuts on site, and miscellaneous other things. So no income requirement. If children need some backpacks and school supplies, Saturday, August 15th, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. is a good time to go see what they have. I'm one of the few probably older people that still get a newspaper, and I was reading in the Free Press the other day, they had their Community Choice Awards, and there were quite a few from Garden City in there. For finalists, they had Plymouth Therapy under the rehab, Roofing, they had Kroll Construction. Not really Garden City, but we consider it. Barson's was a finalist for Garden Center and a florist. And then winners for the Community Choice Awards, there was House of Dank for CBD. And Garden City, Gordon Chevrolet had four of them. They won for auto repair, new car dealership, used car dealership and oil change service they all won that award and also i'm not sure second or third time phil bakery won for bakery so congratulations to all them all garden city businesses are really close so again congratulations and that's all i have for that uh now uh

closed session i'll take a motion for to go into closed session mayor council member whit i'd like to make a motion to move into closed session at 8 17 p.m for a a written legal opinion to receive an attorney client privilege written legal opinion to consider material exempt from discussion or disclosure by state or federal statute pursuant to mcl 15.268 h regarding city waste disposal contract and B, a written legal opinion to receive an attorney-client privilege written legal opinion to consider material exempt from discussion or disclosure by state or federal statute pursuant to MCL 15.268H regarding city participation in PFAS class action lawsuit. Support.

Support from Mayor Pro Tem Dold. Mr. Smith, if you'll take roll, please.

Council Member Witt. Aye. Mayor Pro Tem Dold. Aye. Councilmember care photos high councilmember dole councilmember King high councilmember Hughes I may or Jacobs I okay at this time we will go into closed session.

Okay, this time I'll take a motion for coming back into session.

Mayor.

Councilmember Witt.

I would like to make a motion to return to open session at 9.21 p.m. Support.

Support from Councilmember Karifotis. Mr. Smith, take roll call, please.

Councilmember Witt. Aye. Aye. Councilmember Karifotis. Aye. Councilmember Dold. Aye. Councilmember King. Aye. Councilmember Hughes. Aye. Mayor Pro Tem Dold. Aye. Mayor Jacobs. Aye.

Okay, we're back in session. I will now take a motion for our closed session.

Mayor. Council Member Witt. I'd like to make a motion to concur with findings of city attorney written legal opinion regarding city waste disposal contract and authorized city manager to proceed in a manner consistent with recommendation.

Support. Support from Council Member Karifotis. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Aye. Motion passes 7-0. Now a motion for item B.

Mayor?

Council Member Hughes. Thank you.

I'd like to make a motion to support the continued participation in the PFAS class action lawsuit represented by Kirk, Huth, Lang, and Badalamenti, PLC, at the direction of the city attorney.

Support. Support from Mayor Pro Tem Dole. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passes 7-0. Okay, no further business before this council. It is adjourned.