City Council - Regular Meeting

for the ones all right good evening garden city i like to call the order regular city council meeting for monday june 8th 2026 at 7 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 if we'd please rise

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for Under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you. Mr. Smith, if you take roll, 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 would like to make a motion to approve the amended council meeting agenda for june 8th 2026 as presented support council member hughes oh uh sorry removing item 11b9 support okay discussion from table from the public

All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passes 7-0. We have no recognitions, no state or county officials, no presentations. We do have a couple community events, and first I will call up Garden City Library, Kim Poma, to talk about the 26th Summer Reading Program.

Hello, Council. I hope you're all well tonight.

So we are coming up to summer, which is every librarian's favorite time of year. It's when the kids are out of school, so we have a lot of our programming going on. So I just want to address a few things we're going to be doing this summer. This Friday is our big kickoff event. It's going to be at the Garden City Library from 1 to 3. We're going to have a touch of truck with our very own Garden City Police and Fire coming. Garden City Schools are very kindly sending us a bus and a dump truck for the kids. We're also gonna have ice cream by King Cone. They donate ice cream for us to give away, which is very sweet. We're gonna have a bounce house, we're gonna have a spin art, and we're gonna have an opportunity for kids and adults to sign up for summer reading. So we're very excited. We're gonna be having, also the Freemasons are gonna be there with a table set up for child IDs. They contacted me through the police, they wanna come and do that. Our theme this year is dinosaurs, which is very exciting and very fun. So we're gonna have a fossil program for the kids, we're gonna have a reptile program, we're gonna have crafts every Monday, we're gonna have story time every Wednesday, and we're gonna have a special book club every Friday for older kids. It's a Wings of Fire dragon series. dragons and dinosaurs are very similar but we're really excited uh we hope everyone can come by this summer to sign up um it should be a lot of fun do you have any questions keep up the good work thank you thank you very much sounds like fun and i will ask our garden city business alliance president miss jackie peridor

to come up.

Hi. I'm Elaine Salter. This is Jackie Peridor from the Garden City Business Alliance. We are here to announce the dates if you haven't seen the cards all over town. June 18th, July 16th, August 20th, Third Thursday. The June 18th band is a new band for us called the Ones and Twos. They're like Motown Detroit Funk. The second band is our hometown favorite, Smith Factor. And the third band is our returning favorite, St. John Smith.

Jackie has we just wanted to remind some people that we are doing a volunteer program Where if you want to earn money for your local nonprofit? You can volunteer some time with us and we'll pay you for that privilege Just get ahold of any one of us You can get our phone numbers off the business Alliance website or on Facebook. Just message us We also are going to have vendors food trucks popcorn games for the kids and It's getting bigger and better every year, so we hope to see a lot of people. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you, Elaine. Sorry about that. We have no petitions or communications, no public hearings tonight. Item 11 is our consent agenda.

Mayor.

Council Member Witt.

I'd like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda items A1 through 3 as presented.

Support. Support from Mayor Pro Tem Dold. Discussion from the table. Mayor.

I just have a question. I was looking over the minutes from the last meeting. I don't think we've noticed this before. You know, it puts everything on there, what we discuss, and it puts what the residents come up and say, but it doesn't put anything what council says. So if the council has a comment about some city business, none of that is recorded in our minutes. I don't mean like happy birthday or condolences, but if we bring something up and there's a discussion about it or we direct the city manager, that should be in our minutes.

we can look into doing that just historically it's never you know the minutes is mostly just a recording of the motions and then we do put the public comment in there but it's something we can look into okay thanks brian further comments from table from the public all in favor aye opposed

pass a 7-0 action items number one is our zoning ordinance amendment and I will call our McKenna specialist mr. Mario Ortega

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Good evening. Good evening, council members. Before you tonight is a proposed amendment to the zoning ordinance regarding residential parking alternatives for the single-family homes in the city. The Planning Commission has been developing ways to allow more parking alternatives on residential lots. Some of our smaller lots have been challenged to have enough driveway surface so that to meet the parking needs for larger, more modern families. Sometimes children might... stay longer or they might come home or extended family seniors on the site, so they're looking for alternatives. The Planning Commission considered draft text alternatives and has developed an amendment that they feel can allow these such alternatives. This proposed amendment has also been crafted to minimize the impact of hard surfaces in the front yards. So the amendment is proposing a maximum driveway width on all lots, which will also, but at the same time also limit the amount of driveway width in front of an actual house. That would be limited to no more than 20% of the house width. So for example, if you have some of our smart lots that are 40 feet wide, by the time you take out a three foot, nine foot minimum required side yard, the maximum width of that house on a 40 foot lot would be 26 feet. So with a 26 foot wide house, the maximum width of concrete for the driveway would be approximately five feet. So that's the maximum that could be allowed. And that's basically the equivalent to the sidewalk that leads up to the front door of a home. So the Planning Commission held a public hearing on May 14th of this year, in 2026, and had no comments from the public at that public hearing. So at the meeting, a motion was approved that recommends that City Council adopt the proposed zoning text amendment. I can take any questions from yourself or the public.

I have a question. With the 20%, five feet isn't a lot for a driveway. How is that possible?

By the time you factor in the about 12 feet on one side for a house with a detached garage and add that extra 20%, that gets you up to about 19 feet. And our parking standards have a minimum width of 9 feet. So when you're getting close to 18 feet, I know that is pretty tight, but I will say the council members deliberated about how much they would want to see permitted in front of the home. And historically, our ordinance has prohibited any hard surface in front of a house except for if someone had the width to do a circular drive. That's the only time in which technically a hard surface could allow. So while they understand it might not add a whole lot, their thinking was this might be something that could at least get a way to begin answering this question for some houses. Because you're right, it might not work on every lot, but it could be some. For example, though, on a 60-foot wide lot, it could be... Well, by the time you factor out the thing, you know, more like eight to nine feet at a minimum in front of the home. If someone should choose.

Mayor. Questions. Council Member Karifotis. You don't mean the driveway. You mean if they want to add something in front of the house?

Well, it would, yes. And so while it might not lead past the house as an actual driveway, it would lead, it would still be some place where someone could pull in to park the vehicle. But not their actual driveway that's there when they buy the house.

Right, right. I mean, if we build a new house and it's only 26 feet, you're not saying they can only have a five-foot-wide driveway?

No, it wouldn't be that. It would be adjacent to the... Additional to the driveway. Additional to the driveway, yes, that's right.

It's more like a stub parking area. We brought this up because a lot of people were asking to put all that cement in their front yard last year, right?

Right, yeah.

Okay, all right, thank you.

Are there questions or comments from the table? Uh anything anybody from the public wishing to speak out. We'll take a motion sorry about that. In the verbiage it says 20% on a drawing says 20 feet.

So in addition to the 20% in front of the home, the 20 feet is the maximum amount of width that a approach could be. The approach is from the street, the driveway approach, and then the width of the driveway starts out at 20. They are allowed to go up to, in this ordinance, up to 30 feet in width. So in certain situations, like with an attached garage, if the typical garage door is about 18 16 to 18 feet in width then they could extend either in front of the house 20 percent or uh again add that extra 12 to 14 feet on the other side so that way it can come off to the side of the garage so 20 feet is that what is already on it's already on the books yes all right okay thanks okay further camera any other questions

a motion is in order mayor council member king i move to approve the proposed zoning ordinance amendment to amend section 154.069 residential districts parking and driveway standards support or from council member witt and this will take a uh majority so uh we'll do a roll vote on this mr smith do you have any public comments i already asked once any other comments questions

Councilmember King. I come from a wet night out of our carefulness by Councilmember dole. I come from our Hughes I may approach and all right mayor Jacobs I came motion passes 7, 0, thank you, Mr. Taylor.

Hey item 2 is the Great Lakes water authority water service contract. Now call Mister Oman are DPW director.

good evening mayor and council uh in 2009 the city entered into agreement with which was then the city of detroit water and sewer department and in which in 2016 became the great lakes water authority for our water service every four years glwa holds what they call contract reopeners purpose of these contract reopeners are to verify update all information set appropriate flow rates and volumes based on the actual usage of the system by review by reviewing historical data to right side the values of the contract to determine the rates that the partners pay for the water service two key factors are the max day and peak hour values. These are established by representing the highest possible usage of the system and what GLWA is required to provide. I recently attended a meeting with the GLWA team for a contract re-opener. We reviewed all the data. GLWA has agreed to lower our max day value to 3.30 million gallons a day to 3.28 and also lowering our peak value from 5.2 million gallons a day to 4.87. Another change was our projected annual volume, which was lower to 92,000 MCF to 80,000 MCF. And our minimum annual volume was lowered from 46,000 MCF to 40,000 MCF. These are small changes, but we'll don't lead to uh... savings for the seat city in the future uh... there was no changes in any of the language in the contract we have questions i guess we'll do now councilmember hughes uh... i was wondering how does it happens has it work that it saves us money

I don't understand the connection between promising that we'll use less versus...

I'm not sure what kind of savings it will be, but when they lower the numbers, there will be savings in the future. How they base our usage and our charges.

It's a matter that we're saying that they don't have to put a placeholder for us for that amount of water?

well in this contract that's what there are required to provide us we don't want to exceed so that's why they lowered the numbers and then what happens if something changes and we don't meet those numbers Well, we exceed, they'll review this four years from now and they'll up the numbers and they'll charge. It's all based on the usage of all the partners in the system. I think the more water you use, the more the charges go up and the distance from the treatment plant and the elevation, it's all mathematically. The formula. Figure it out, yeah.

These changes don't take place until July 1st of 2027. Any other questions? No questions? Okay, motion is in order.

Mayor.

Mayor Pro Tem Dole.

I move to approve the amendment number five to the water service contract with Great Lakes Water Authority. Support.

Support from Council Member Karifotis. Okay, discussion from table. mayor council member care photos so with them lowering that the rate is at some point when it gets all figured out that it's going to save money for our residents yes thank you that's why we want to hear that we're going to save money on the water bill i would think it would probably take a little time if it starts in 27 it would probably be somewhere around 28 that we would see any changes okay better than nothing are correct uh further comments from table from the public all in favor aye aye opposed motion passes 7-0 while you're there sir we've got the 2026 sidewalk program report and colin this is just a call for a public hearing

yes mayor again this is our annual sidewalk program the area for this year is warren to ford benoit ameriman we are addressing trip hazards greater than one inch the buchelli group did a inspection field evaluation of the area and found 434 properties that need some type of sidewalk replacement

Okay, and this is just, I need a motion just to call for a public hearing.

Mayor.

Council Member Witt.

I'd like to make a motion to approve the attached resolution receiving the report in call for a public hearing of necessity for the 2026 sidewalk program on Monday, July 13th, 2026 at 7 p.m. Support.

Support from Council Member Hughes. Any questions on the calling of the public hearing? From the public. All in favor? Aye.

Opposed?

Motion passes 7-0. Thank you, Mr. Roman.

okay item four is the 80 20 opt-out resolution health care uh mr smith good evening mayor and council so this is an annual resolution that's tied to public act 152 of 2011. when that public act was passed what main component of that is it put in place a cap of a health care employee employer health care sharing where it caps the employer's contribution of 80 percent of the cost at the time this was passed the city negotiated with the collective bargaining units that in lieu of doing a cost sharing for the health care we would increase the employee pension contribution um from six percent to twelve percent um so this is still a component that's in all of our collective bargaining agreements right now even though it's in those agreements each year we still have to come to council to do a resolution um opting out of that 80 20 um so that we can file those those that yep the city looked at it um and this is for the next year this is what we're going with going forward um this it does require a two-thirds majority so it does require five affirmative votes thank you okay motion is in order mayor councilmember witt

I'd like to make a motion to adopt the following resolution, an opt-out exemption as required by the Publicly Funded Health Insurance Contribution Act, Public Act 152 of 2011. Support.

Support from Mayor Pro Tem Dole. Further discussion from table?

Mayor.

Member Karifotis.

What would happen if we didn't do this? I'm not saying, I'm just asking.

It would just be against the collective bargaining agreements with all of us. It's basically every city doing this? Cities all address health care differently, but the option to opt out, it allows us to negotiate with our unions. Justify the opt out. In this case, employees contribute 12% of their total salary to our retirement system, and we pay for the other portion of the health care. So if we failed to, they would reduce their contributions to the retirement system and then set 4%.

And we wouldn't be filing our contract.

And we would be against the contract agreements. Thank you.

Further comments or questions from the table? From the public? Let's do a roll call on this one, please. Councilmember Witt.

Aye. Mayor Pro Tem Dold. Aye. Councilmember Carofotis. Aye. Councilmember Dold. Aye. Councilmember King. Aye. Councilmember Hughes. Aye. Mayor Jacobs.

Aye. Motion passes 7-0. Item 5 is our library lease agreement. Mr. Gibbons. Aye.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. On June 30th of 2026, our current lease agreement with the library for their portion of the Maplewood Center expires. Over the last number of months, myself, our city attorney, the library, and their attorneys have gone back and forth just negotiating new lease terms for the next five years. I've spoken with the library about their intent. They requested it go through September 1st, 2030. So the key terms we've changed, we've just, created lease term from July 1, 2026 to September 1, 2030. Annual rent was increased to $53,000 with monthly installments of $4,425. We also included an escalator tied to inflation with a lesser of inflation according to the consumer price index, or 2.5%. And it establishes maintenance, insurance, operational responsibility, and termination clauses for both parties.

Those termination things have been updated since our previous.

Right these are different than the previous.

The other questions. OK motion is in order. Councilmember dole. motion to approve the attached lease agreement between the city of garden city and the garden city public library effective july 1st 2026. support from council member karafotis further comments or questions from table from the public all in favor aye opposed motion passes 7-0 Okay, item six is our Administrative Hearing Bureau Officer Compensation. Mr. Gibbons.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. This is just in relation to our recently passed ordinance for the Administrative Hearing Bureau. One of the steps to begin the Bureau is to establish compensation for the hearing officer that is a licensed attorney who comes in and essentially oversees the blight court that is the Administrative Hearing Bureau. i check with number of municipalities particularly the two we're modeling our court after which is mount clemens and port huron and found that they both use 75 as the compensation for the hearing officers it works for them they have successful courts so we're going to adopt that in garden city if

is an order.

Mayor. Councilmember Karifotis. I move to adopt a resolution establishing compensation for Administrative Hearings Bureau hearing officer at $75 per hour. Support.

Support from Councilmember King. Further discussion from table.

Mayor. Councilmember King. I do see the expense side of it is coming out of the general fund mayor and council legal services. How about the revenue side of it, the fines and such? Which?

So I use that as because it's where we currently pay all of our legal services out of as a placeholder. It is my intent once the Bureau is up and running during the course of this next budget year to develop a section it out and pick up part of the police budget. But we haven't created those accounts yet within our police budget on our revenue side. But once those are established, I would then put a expenditure side for legal services for the administration out of the police budget. haven't created those yet and i haven't started to see how those flow in and flow out so until then i parked it in a place that seemed logical which is legal services for the city all right thanks further questions or comments from the public all in favor aye opposed

Passes 7-0. Okay, next is our Clemmons participation agreement. I'll call our police chief, Chief Robert Arnosky.

Good evening, Council. Tonight, I'm here to ask you for authorization to continue our relationship with Clemmas. Clemmas was with Oakland County, but they're separating from them now and creating their own authority. Clemmas has served as the backbone of our public safety technology infrastructure. It connects more than 260 law enforcement agencies, fire departments, and courts throughout Southeast Michigan, providing real-time information sharing, records management, dispatch support, mapping, and critical public safety data services. Here at Garden City, our officers rely on this system every day to efficiently perform their duties and coordinate with neighboring jurisdictions. From the time they sign in on their shift to the time they sign out, they're using Clemmas throughout the day. Whether it's when they get dispatched on the runs, they look up information on the CAD, whether they write a report, whether they're booking a prisoner back in our jail cells, they're using Clemmas. So it's well integrated with us and we use it daily. Recently, Clemmas transitioned from operating under Oakland County to becoming an independent public authority. For Garden City, this transition provides continuity of service while preserving our access to the same regional data sharing network and technology resources we currently utilize. From a financial standpoint, the impact is predictable and manageable. Membership fees will continue to be based on the number of sworn officers assigned to our department, under the approved authority framework fiscal year 2027 rates include a standard five percent adjustment consistent with the established calamus pricing model so we were already anticipating the five percent this is just putting their writing in the new agreement so the only thing that has changed is we were doing quarterly payments and now we will be doing one annual payment october 1st 2026. Our alternative to renewal would require the city to identify and implement an entirely separate records and information sharing system. Such an undertaking would involve significant cost, excessive staff training, and the loss of seamless interoperability with surrounding agencies. Continued participation ensures uninterrupted operations, preserves regional partnerships, maintains compliance with criminal justice information security requirements, and provides long-term access to one of the most comprehensive public safety information networks in Michigan. For these reasons, I would request that council approve the proposed resolution and authorize a participation agreement and continued membership with the Clemson Authority. Thank you.

you a motion is in order there. I'm swimmer King. I moved authorize a participation agreement and continue membership with courts and law enforcement management system authority for the continuity of existing services under new governance structure.

The court or for for mayor pro tem doled. Comments or questions may councilmember dole.

I'm sorry. on the quote page in the back of this? We are Contracted with them for all of these that are listed all the different subscriptions for the police and the fire department It adds up to like forty five thousand dollars. Okay, there was just there wasn't a total on there So I I didn't know if that meant we were going with all of them or not.

Oh, yeah, it's all okay It winds up being forty five thousand eight hundred and seventy three dollars.

Okay, just out of curiosity is is Is this the only service, thank you, is this the only service that's available, Clemmas?

You know, being born and raised in Garden City, I only see Clemmas. That's all I've ever heard of. So I'm sure that there's other areas, because it's a Southeast Michigan system, that have their own records management systems, but I don't know them, I'm not familiar with any of them.

and i could just add a little uh... all of our neighboring cities operative in law enforcement very operable very well put together and value is there they are governmental unit at all

operation it is providing a service at a what I've always found to be a pretty fair cost given what we got we've we even I think over my time as chief we went and got the fire department to jump on that system as well so further comments from table from public all in favor opposed thank you motion pass 7-0 Thank You chief

okay item eight is our civic plus annual contract renewal uh mr king good evening mayor and council before you is an agreement with civic plus for the office next fiscal year for our cyclic fix services chatbot the mobile app and the city's website This is the first invoice we're seeing that is the full rate for all the services included. There is a 2% increase. I meant to include it in my letter, but there will be a 2% increase from here on out with Civic Plus. In adding those extra products, we kind of negotiate with them on pricing, and they have a standard 5% increase, which we were paying the last few years. Here, moving out forward, will always be 2% if we continue to continue to use all these services included like i mentioned it includes c click fix the mobile app chatbot and the website and amounts of 33 617.73 thank you thank you motion is in order mayor

council member whit like to make a motion to approve the attached agreement with civic plus llc the city's website and software provider regarding the renewal of our annual website's content management system c clicks c click fix and mobile app in an amount of thirty three thousand six hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy three cents support or from council member kara photos comments from table mayor council member hughes

Um, I see that it's an, there's a large increase from last year to this year. And then I, so what you said today is it's because we're adding the city website onto the three products that we were purchasing from them last year. Is that.

There's two differences between this and last year. One is, yes, this is all the services put into one quote from the same company. And two, the promotional credits we got for those services first year, I believe we had a 50% and a 30% discount. Those have worn off now. So now this is the full rate of all the services we have.

Okay, and then I compared the two contracts between last year and this year, and they all have the exact same line items.

Yeah. So just the promotional credits dropped off. So the amount of the cost of that service for the full year is now more. It's an amount that increases about $6,800.

Further comments from the table? From the public? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passes 7-0. Thank you, Mr. King. okay we have no other business uh i'll open up to public comment uh three minutes uh non-agenda items only it's not a time for us to go back and forth but we will try to get you some answers anybody wishing to speak mr jones

One week from tonight, the Autos for Autism Car Show will take place in Radcliffe Middle School. It's a big event. We have a lot of cars, a lot of motorcycles, a lot of judging, which I get to participate in the tabulating of the winners. So we urge everybody to show up. It's a huge event. Music is provided by Bonnie and the Working Girls. It's a worthwhile program to help.

For a great cause.

For a great cause, thank you.

Thank you. Further comments?

We forgot something.

so and it's the most exciting thing so the electricians were over at the pavilion today we now have new electricity for the pavilion yay yay all right that's all thank you how could you forget that i was so excited about music okay further comments from the public

else okay uh mr gibbons city manager report baron council um nothing much tonight but just because uh clemens came up civic plus came up and it made me think of uh you know some requests from the public to discuss our policy on ai um the police department has just basically put the finishing touch touches on their policy anticipate being rolled up a policy focused on you know as ai becomes part of municipal government particularly in the police world wanted to start with a policy because it contains such important protected data information. But it's meant to protect constitutional rights, civil liberties, provide oversight. And something that I think that we have to worry about drifting into, I didn't think about it until we examined this issue, is making sure the decision making comes from humans. That when AI may kick out a suggestion or some way that it's really there's a human monitors what's occurring to protect the interests of our citizens and their constitutional rights. So glad to see that. So with the police department one done, which I felt was the most important to start with, the city will adopt one citywide, but it'll be with the consideration of all those important things that come out of the police department's policy.

So we're going to piggyback off that in the next one. So just want to give an update on that and nothing further.

Thank you, Mr. Smith.

Yep, just two quick things. Just I wanna thank everyone who came out for Community Shred Day last Saturday. So we did have 148 vehicles and we had five walk-ups. So we broke 150. We got some donations of food for the food pantry. and i also have um some cash donations that i'm going to take over them this week so thanks to everyone who donated thanks for everyone who came out and if you missed it this uh last weekend we're going to do another one in september on september 12th also thanks to everyone who participated in the citywide garage sale we kind of did the thing come and get a permit to get your name on the list kind of see how many you didn't have to um but we ended up with 102 addresses that came into city hall to get that permit to get their name on the list so i was able to fine-tune you know the the map so i kind of had fun making it so and hopefully it was useful for people to kind of figure out where the concentration of sales were and plan their shopping accordingly so i think it was a successful weekend for uh cleaning out our garages and cleaning out our shreddable documents

Thank you mayor pro tem Dole.

Yes. I have a couple of things Anybody that watched the news last week or so is had to have seen a Priority waste on there a lot of issues that surrounding cities. I'm just curious how they're doing in our city One more thing entry points into the Garden City, got the welcome signs, welcome to Garden City with the little placards underneath. Our American Legion post, the name was changed, I think.

A couple years ago.

Yeah, a long time ago. It still says Otto Miller. I'd like to get that updated. William Kalitas, American Legion Post. Bill wasn't just a mayor. He was one of the founding members of the American Legion Riders. Anybody that doesn't know, it's a group of individuals that help veterans, and they are very active as well as in the community. I haven't checked the statistics in about five years, but my last time I checked, membership was over 300,000 members within six countries. That's huge. So I'd like to get that updated for his family. They should be very proud of that. Thank you.

Thank you. I agree with you 100%. I'm not sure how I missed that. Council Member Hughes. Thank you.

I just wanted to mention for people to encourage people to go to see click fix if they have any issues with trees or potholes or you know anything that is of concern for them in the city and and I know from personal use there the response is very very quick and my neighbor happened to use it over the weekend and I think he made a he made a report on Saturday and he got a response on Monday morning and somebody was actually out

his house this morning so it it works well and i encourage people to use it use this service thank you councilmember whit uh thank you mayor just one thing uh mike downey let me know this weekend is the craft show at the garden city ice arena so the 13th and the 14th saturday and sunday saturday is from nine to five and sunday is from nine to one there is no cost to enter and shop so shop your little hearts out at the ice arena

Thank you. Council Member King.

Just one thing also, our Parks and Rec program has a really fantastic dance program, Dance Express, and the recitals are this Wednesday and Thursday. And that's all I have.

Okay, thank you. Council Member Dold.

Two things. The citywide garage sale was a big success. I think I managed to hit about half of them. But I would also encourage anyone who participated in that with their home on the list to please make sure you go take your signs down. The other thing, I just want to congratulate all of our graduates. We've got a bumper crop of them this year is all I can say. We've got a lot of really good students that just graduated from our high school, and I wish them all much success.

Thank you. Council Member Karifotis.

Okay, I just have a couple things. One regarding what our city manager said about the AI. I did hear a study today, actually, about AI that said all the companies that got rid of a lot of employees to do AI are now hiring a large majority of those employees back, and that's because they need more people to monitor the AI than they originally thought. So it's not taking over everybody's job. If you have a lawnmower that's AI and goes and does your stuff for you, you still need someone to turn it on and look at it. The same thing when it comes to police. We still need policemen out there to monitor stuff for AI. The other thing I'm just letting the public know, we do have the new city attorney and they're already working. In regards to that, do you know, city manager, when we're gonna start on the renter's ordinance?

had a discussion with them about it. There's about three major topics. We've already had a pre-meeting about saying we're going to meet about these others. We're getting them kind of in the prosecution thing, but it has already been talked about a couple times.

Okay, good. So the renter's ordinance, and if anybody doesn't remember, it's about limiting our renters in Garden City. So it's coming. And then... Oh, I had suggested to council and city manager about the council getting a calendar, and that was just not for my benefit, but it was for the residents' benefit so that we would have a year-long calendar so every resident could just look at that calendar and know that council's gonna be talking about budget in January and February and March, and then we're gonna do the, we're gonna do negotiations in June of every year, July of every year, so that is already in the works, so I think it's gonna be, good for residents to see what we're doing and why we're doing it and when we're doing it.

Okay, thank you. I have a couple things, and first I want to piggyback off of Mr. Jones. I forgot one thing.

sorry go ahead i just wanted to comment on what uh mayor pro temp dold said we have had so many comments about garbage so can at the next meeting can we have a report of like what's going on with if we're charging them for missed pickups and all these other cities are saying they're billing them so our residents want to know what we're doing and and if it's becoming a problem maybe we should think about where we're going forward

priority this morning regarding a lot of our concerns. I just forwarded that this afternoon to council, a letter of response to some of those issues, but I can give a much better summary with a little bit of time to adjust for the next meeting.

Thanks. Okay, thank you. I have a couple things, and one I'm gonna piggyback off of Mr. Jones there on the Autos for Autism. Again, it's a week from tonight, and it's on the screen. It's for a great cause. It's a great time, a lot of fun. A lot of people donate a lot of time and money and energy to it. A lot of cars, which makes it really hard for the judges. but hopefully it'll be nice weather like last year and they can do great things and like i say raise a lot of money for a great cause so if you're not doing anything come on out four o'clock to nine o'clock at our middle school And also, I wanna congratulate our high school, some of our high school teams, and coming up in the future, we're gonna try and get them in here to properly congratulate them, but our conference winners, and hopefully I don't miss any of them, but I believe our girls softball, boys baseball, boys golf team, Girls soccer, I believe all four of those won their league championship. So I want to congratulate our high school athletes on that and hopefully at one of our next upcoming meetings we can get them in here and properly acknowledge them along with a couple other high school surprises we can come up with.

that's all i have uh at this time i'll take a motion for to go into closed session mayor council member what uh the time is 7 46 p.m so i'm making a motion for a strategy and negotiation session connected with the negotiations of a collective bargaining agreement pursuant to mcl 15.268c related to contract negotiation with command officers association of michigan support or for mayor proton dold

um mr smith if you'd take roll call please council member whit aye council mayor pro temp dole aye council member karafotis aye council member dold aye council member king aye council member hughes aye mayor jacobs aye okay motion passes seven zero we will now uh go into closed session this meeting is in recess thank you

okay at this time i will take a motion to go back into session mayor council member what the time is now 8 41 p.m i'd like to make a motion to return to open session

support support from mayor pro tem dole mr smith if you take roll please council member whit aye mayor pro tem dole aye council member carafotis aye council member dole aye council member king aye council member hughes aye mayor jacobs aye okay we are now in session and i will take a motion for what we mayor council member carafotis

I move to authorize the city manager to submit a proposed two-year collective bargaining agreement to Command Officers Association of Michigan consistent with the provisions discussed by City Council in the strategy session held on closed session today, 6-8 of 26. Support.

Support from Council Member Dole. Mr. Dole. if you take roll call.

Council Member Karifotis. Aye. Council Member Dold. Aye. Council Member King. Aye. Council Member Witt.

Aye.

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

Aye. Motion passes 7-0. No further business. This meeting is adjourned.