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Home My WebLink AboutSYNOPSIS - 2011-04-06 th SYNOPSIS OF THE MINUTES OF THE 1,678 REGULAR MEETING LIVONIA CITY COUNCIL – APRIL 6, 2011 Meeting was called to order at 8:00 p.m. Present: Brian Meakin, Joe Laura, Laura Toy, Maureen Miller Brosnan, Conrad Schwartz, John Pastor, and James McCann. Absent: None. th MAD #80-11 Resolution by Toy and Pastor, approving the minutes of the 1,677 FAT Regular Meeting of the Council held March 23, 2011. A roll call vote was taken on the foregoing resolution with the following result: AYES: Meakin, Laura, Toy, Schwartz, Pastor, and McCann. NAYS: None. PRESENT: Brosnan. President McCann announced there will be three (3) X-items added to the agenda at the end of the meeting. President McCann announced two (2) Public Hearings to be held on Monday, April 18, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. (or immediately following the 7:00 p.m. Public Hearing) in the auditorium of the Livonia City Hall, 33000 Civic Center Drive, Livonia, MI, for the following items: Petition 2011-01-01-01 submitted by Robert Semaan requesting to rezone property located on the north side of Plymouth Road, between Wayne Road and Stark Road (34800 Plymouth Road), in the Southwest ¼ of Section 28 from C-1 to C-2 (Local Business to General Business). (This matter has been rescheduled from an original public hearing date of April 6, 2011.) AND To determine Necessity for a proposed Special Assessment District for the operation of an irrigation system along portions of Plymouth Road formerly paid for utilizing PRDA funds, pursuant to Section 3.08.070 of the Livonia Code of Ordinances, as amended. (CR 79-11) President McCann announced a Public Hearing to be held on Wednesday, April 20, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the auditorium of the Livonia City Hall, 33000 Civic Center Drive, Livonia, MI, for the following item: John F. Tenbusch, President, Linear Mold & Engineering, Inc., is requesting approval of an Industrial Facilities Exemption Certificate for the purchase of new equipment and machinery for their facility located at 12926 Stark Road, Livonia, MI 48150. (Industrial Development Overlay District #111) th SYNOPSIS OF THE MINUTES OF THE 1,678 REGULAR MEETING 2 LIVONIA CITY COUNCIL – April 6, 2011 AUDIENCE COMMUNICATION: Jenny Burns, 14015 Sumner, and Ashwaq Iman, 25513 Five Mile, Redford, members of the LaRouche Political Action Committee, expressed their political views on how to stop the budget crisis. The following item was received and filed: Communication from the Department of Finance, dated March 11, 2011, re: forwarding various financial statements of the City of Livonia for the month ending December 31, 2010. The following resolutions were offered by Pastor and Meakin: MAD #81-11 Approving the request of Kathleen A. Fitzgerald to hold a block party and FAT close Cranston, between Elmira and Orangelawn, on Monday, May 30, 2011, from 2:00 Police p.m. to 8:00 p.m., subject to the approval of the Police Department. MAD #82-11 Approving a request, submitted by Shannon L. Ferguson, 27455 Burnham FAT Blvd. #94, Brownstown, Michigan 48183, for a Massage Therapist Permit in accordance OrdEnf with Chapter 5.49 of the Livonia Code of Ordinances, as amended. Police #83-11 Recognizing Hearts of Livonia as a worthy non-profit organization in the MAD community, determining that the City of Livonia shall be one of the co-sponsors of the FAT P&R 2012 Ben Celani Golf Day Benefit, and approving the use of Whispering Willows and nd Police Fox Creek Municipal Golf Courses for their 32 annual golf outing to be held on OrdEnf Wednesday, August 15, 2012. #84-11 Authorizing the purchase of 13 replacement police vehicles from budgeted MAD FAT funds; FURTHER, authorizing the transfer of 13 surplus City-owned vehicles to other Police City departments or the disposal thereof at public auction after receipt of the new vehicles. #85-11 Accepting the two lowest bids and awarding contracts to EQ – The MAD Environmental Quality Company, 36255 Michigan Avenue, Wayne, Michigan 48184 for FAT the estimated total cost of $250,000.00, and Terra Contracting, LLC, 5787 Stadium Eng Drive, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49009 for the estimated total cost of $180,000.00, for performing all work required in connection with the 2011 Sanitary Sewer Closed Circuit Televising Program (Contract 11-L); FURTHER, appropriating and authorizing the expenditure in an amount not to exceed $430,000.00 from the Unexpended Fund Balance of the Water and Sewer Fund, and authorizing the City Engineer to approve minor adjustments in the work. A roll call vote was taken on the foregoing resolutions with the following result: AYES: Meakin, Laura, Toy, Brosnan, Schwartz, Pastor, and McCann. NAYS: None. th SYNOPSIS OF THE MINUTES OF THE 1,678 REGULAR MEETING 3 LIVONIA CITY COUNCIL – April 6, 2011 Toy gave SECOND READING to the following Ordinance: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 120, 130, 140, 190, AND 220 OF TITLE 3, CHAPTER 04 (FINANCIAL PROCEDURES) OF THE LIVONIA CODE OF ORDINANCES, AS AMENDED. (CR 64-11) A roll call vote was taken on the foregoing Ordinance with the following result: AYES: Meakin, Laura, Toy, Brosnan, Schwartz, Pastor, and McCann. NAYS: None. Meakin gave SECOND READING to the following Ordinance: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 030 AND 050 OF TITLE 3, CHAPTER 06 (COST RECOVERY) OF THE LIVONIA CODE OF ORDINANCES, AS AMENDED. A roll call vote was taken on the foregoing Ordinance with the following result: AYES: Meakin, Laura, Toy, Brosnan, Schwartz, Pastor, and McCann. NAYS: None. Pastor gave SECOND READING to the following Ordinance: AN ORDINANCE REPEALING CHAPTERS 18 (COKE AND COAL), 21 (DRIVE-IN THEATRES) AND 93 (WEIGHTS AND MEASURES) OF TITLE 5, OF THE LIVONIA CODE OF ORDINANCES, AS AMENDED. A roll call vote was taken on the foregoing Ordinance with the following result: AYES: Meakin, Laura, Toy, Brosnan, Schwartz, Pastor, and McCann. NAYS: None. #86-11 Resolution by Toy and Brosnan, unanimously adopted, accepting a cash MAD donation in the amount of $300.00 from Livonia Goodfellows for the purposes FAT designated by the donor. (Fire Car Seat Safety Donations) Fire #87-11 Resolution by Pastor and Schwartz, unanimously adopted, accepting a MAD cash donation in the amount of $1,000.00 from Allstate Insurance for the purposes FAT Fire designated by the donor. (Fire Community Donations) #88-11 Resolution by Pastor and Schwartz, unanimously adopted, accepting a MAD Grant of Easement from Livonia Phoenix, LLC, in connection with the development of a FAT Eng sanitary sewer constructed at the Livonia Marketplace at Seven Mile and Middlebelt Assessr Roads, in the Southeast ¼ of Section 2. th SYNOPSIS OF THE MINUTES OF THE 1,678 REGULAR MEETING 4 LIVONIA CITY COUNCIL – April 6, 2011 #89-11 Resolution by Toy and Brosnan, unanimously adopted, accepting a Grant MAD FAT of Easement from Livonia Phoenix, LLC, in connection with the development of a water Eng main constructed at the Livonia Marketplace at Seven Mile and Middlebelt Roads, in the Assessr Southeast ¼ of Section 2. #90-11 Resolution by Pastor and Brosnan, unanimously adopted, suspending the MAD rules for procedure as outlined in Council Resolution 574-82 in order to permit FAT consideration of items that do not appear on the agenda. #91-11 Resolution by Toy and Schwartz, unanimously adopted, authorizing a one MAD issue extension of the contract with Dearborn Lithograph, Inc. 12380 Globe Street, FAT ComRes Livonia, MI 48150, for a total cost of $6,400.00 for typesetting, printing, sorting and delivering to the Post Office, the summer issue only of the City’s quarterly Newsletter from budgeted funds. (CR 69-07 and CR 103-10) #92-11 Resolution by Pastor and Brosnan, unanimously adopted, authorizing the MAD expenditure in the sum of $45,001.50 from the Unexpended Fund Balance of the Water FAT and Sewer Fund to be paid to Liqui-Force Services, Inc., 28529 Goddard Road, Suite Eng 106, Romulus, Michigan 48174, for completing all work required in connection with the emergency sanitary sewer repair on the 12-inch sewer main on Middlebelt Road, between Roycroft and Broadmoor. #93-11 Resolution by Pastor and Meakin, directing that a closed Committee of the MAD Whole meeting be held for the purpose of discussing pending litigation and FAT attorney/client privileged communications with respect to Ray v City of Livonia. A roll call vote was taken on the foregoing resolution with the following result: AYES: Meakin, Laura, Toy, Brosnan, Schwartz, Pastor, and McCann. NAYS: None. AUDIENCE COMMUNICATION: None. th By Laura and Toy, unanimously adopted, adjourning this 1,678 Regular Meeting of the Council of the City of Livonia at 8:37 p.m. on April 6, 2011. TERRY A. MARECKI CITY CLERK *The foregoing is a summary of the Council’s proceedings in synopsis form as authorized by CR 1158-68. The full text of the official minutes of this meeting is on file in the Office of the City Clerk and is available to the public upon request.