001[Music] Call in order. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance and the invocation following. 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. >> Dear God, please bless our elected officials. Grant them the wisdom to know and the courage to do what is right for all citizens. Amen. Amen. Amen. >> Roll call, please. >> Allan, >> here. Leaf. >> Mr. Ravage >> here. >> Ricks >> here. >> Schultz >> here. >> Warren >> here. >> Yellen >> here. >> A motion to excuse uh Dennis Lefor from tonight's meeting being out of town would be in order. >> I'll make the motion. >> Support. >> Motion made in support. Any discussion? >> Not. All
002in favor of the motion signify by saying I. >> I. I. >> Motion does pass. should move on to approval of minutes for the city council meeting of August 4th. Is there a motion? >> I'll make the motion. >> Support. >> Motion been made and supported. Any discussion? Being not. All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. >> I. >> Against. >> Motion does pass. We have audience comments on non-aggenda items at this time. Superintendent. >> Good evening. >> Hopefully you guys are having a wonderful day. Um, I'm here tonight to talk on behalf of Richmond schools to talk about an upcoming uh initiative that's going to be on the ballot in November. Uh, a bond election. And hopefully you've and either get receive one of the flyers that's come or the communicator
003over the summer. Um, let me start by just stating this. Uh, not many districts in the state of Michigan say can say that their enrollment has been steadily increasing. Generally, the state of Michigan student population has been on a decrease for the last several years. However, Richen over the past decade has had that steady growth. And what's projected um through some of our enrollment survey studies that we've done is another 16% growth over the next 10 years, which is about 300 more students that were projected to have in our district. To put that into perspective, imagine the first graders starting at Lee this fall and graduating in 2038. By the time they graduate, there should be approximately 300 more students in our district. And one of the things that we're facing is a physical space
004of to put those students. Um, this proposal is a no increase to what we're currently paying as our debt levy for the community and it would generate about 51.8 million. The projects and if you scan the QR code or go to the district website, it's all listed all the different projects and the budgets and so forth that we anticipate uh would be classroom additions on all three of our schools and a parking lot expansion at all three of our schools. uh a new multi-purpose gymnasium and a cafeteria expansion at the middle school. Uh renovated locker rooms and expanded clinic at the high school and an expanded kitchen uh and partial roof replacement at Lee Elementary School. Most of the bond is building new the new additions. Uh the work will be done in two phases
005with the first phase starting in uh 2026 which would be the middle school addition and the additional elementary parking lot. The second phase would be done in 2028 which would focus on the improvements at the high school and then the classroom additions at the elementary school. Um if you recall in 2019 we added 10 classrooms on the elementary school. We currently just have two of those left open for uh students. Um so I encourage everybody to visit the website. All the information is there. You can click on the just ask uh and we've been answering a lot of questions regarding it. There's the the debt levy chart there will show what your taxes will be or the the debt levy rate that we'll charge. Um again, it's really about preparing our district to be ready
006for these incoming students. And so I encourage everybody to vote on November 4th. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> We move on to adoption of agenda. Any changes, Mr. City Manager? >> No changes. >> City Council changes. >> Motion to accept the agenda as presented would be in order. >> I'll make the motion. >> Support. Motion been made and supported. Any discussion? Being not. All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. >> I. I. >> Against. Motion does pass. We move on to items for consideration. We only have two tonight. The first one being consideration of a special event request. Bees Motorsports LLC. Mr. City Manager. City Council is scheduled to consider a special event request for a mobile food vendor from Bees Motorsports in cooperation with Vans Tire at 67290
007Main Street to have a mobile food vendor to to Kiierra Martinez at their car show and burnout contest event. Vans Tire has sponsored a burnout event for several years at this location. Uh the last two have included car show. The mobile food vendor truck uh is being requested for 100 pm to 10 pm on Saturday, September 6th. >> Thank you. Is there a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the special event request for a mobile food vendor from Bees Motorsports to have a mobile food vendor tequilia Martinez at car show and burnout contest on Saturday September 6 from 1:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. >> Support made and support. Is there any discussion on this item? All I can say, there's a lot of food down in that area. Um, I will pass on this
008one, but uh I hope that whoever uh applied for this uh bees uh did check with some of those food people that were all down around there um because many of them have participated. I see a couple of them participate in St. A's festival recently. Um, and I hope that they had checked with them first uh to see if uh they could have handled the crowd that they have there on Saturday of the good old days festival. Any other comments? Any public comment on this, sir? Back to the table. All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. >> I. >> Against. Motion does pass. Item number two is consideration of special requests painting proposal Richmond PD. Mr. City Manager, >> city council is scheduled to consider approving a quote for painting the hallways
009in the Richmond Police Fleece Department side of the city office building. Uh the 2526 uh buildings and grounds budget included funds to complete this painting project. Uh the chief has uh precured three quotes. The low quote is Coast to Coast Painting LLC in the amount of $5,660. Uh he also received a quote from Printall for three vinyl logos uh to be placed in the hallways in the amount of $568. And Chief Castello is here tonight to answer any questions. >> Chief, anything to add to that? >> I don't think I have anything to add. I think it would be a great addition. It's about been since what 1994 since the place opened up. So >> yeah. No, it looks nice. if that's a indication of what we're going to get the pictures from another uh
010place. It looks real nice on there. I'd uh recommend council uh uh take a look at the motion. There's a typo in there. Authorizing should be uh stricken from the from the motion. Uh is there any uh further comments here? If not, motion would be in order. I'll make a motion to authorize the quote from Coast to Coast LLC in the amount of $5,660 to paint the police department hallways and the quote from Print Hall for three vinyl logos in the amount of $568 with the expense charged to the appropriate line item building and grounds building additions and improvements. >> Support been made and doubly supported down there. Take your pick, Madam Clerk. >> I got it. Thank you. Any comments on this item? Audience participation on this item. Back to the table. All in
011favor of the motion signify by saying I. >> I. >> Against. Motion does pass. >> When's that getting done? >> I'll call them tomorrow. >> Very good. Miscellaneous matters from the city manager. Sir, >> uh, tomorrow DPW is scheduled to hang the, uh, photos in the community room for the timeline. Great. >> Uh the uh sewer contractor doing the sewer lining uh is essentially done. There is one block on buyer that uh needs to have some repairs, but other than that the they have completed the installation of the uh sewer lining. Uh the water man uh contractor was supposed to pull the uh last section of water man up to division road today. I did not get a chance to check with uh Jim Gutsinger to make sure that that got completed, but uh if
012not today, then in the next day. >> Very good. We move on to council comments. Michael, >> uh nothing today. Thank you, >> Jim. >> I I got a couple things. >> Mhm. >> We forgot the consent agenda. >> We didn't bring that up. >> You're right, Jim. I I dropped right through down to uh to items for consideration. Very good. You should stop me there, Jimmy. Uh, we can back up. Is there a motion for the consent agenda? >> Go ahead. >> I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> There is no discussion on the motion. All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. >> I. >> Against. Motion does pass. Correct me any time when I miss things like that. Go right ahead and correct me. Um,
013we move on again. Council comments. Jim, you got something else? >> Yes. Uh the golf cart scavenger hunt on Saturday was awesome. It was uh very nice. Kind of warm, but uh very nice. Uh had a very good time. I was honored uh by my son and daughter-in-law and granddaughter to be on their team. It was a lot of fun. And the other thing, it was nice to see that zinc yellow convertible GT make it down to the Woodward Dream Crew. It deserved it. >> It was. And I made it to the golf golf outing. Yes. >> I got just back in time. Yeah. Yeah. Emily, >> nothing. Thank you. >> We got a soccer game we can go back to, right? >> Yeah. >> John, >> I have nothing to set. >> Okay. We've
014got uh go to the calendar today being the 18th. Uh we have our uh community free shred day on the 23rd. It's from 12 to 3:00 right here at city hall on uh 32 Mile Road. We have a TIFFA meeting on the 27th at 7:00 here at city hall. That's the same time uh at 7:00. On the 27th is the last summer concert in the park. And I believe they have something else for us. No, I covered that. Okay, we move on to September, believe it or not, two weeks from tonight. Uh, city hall will be closed on that Monday for Labor Day. Community center will also be closed. Library will be closed. They'll open back up on Tuesday the 2nd, and the city council will be meeting back at its regular time at 700
015p.m. right here at city council uh chambers. And also the recreation board will be meeting at 7:00. Uh I assume uh >> well they'll either be at the most likely they'll be in the community room here. >> Yeah. Okay. All right. And then good old days is coming up. So uh we have a council meeting before that. Um but good old days is the first week in September this year. School. Uh what's the first day of school, Mr. Superintendent? >> September. >> The second. So watch out for the kids, the buses, and everything else. September 2nd. Tuesday, the day after Labor Day, school will be opening back up again. So, that is it for the calendar. Um, and I also uh echo Jim's uh sentiments on the golf cart event. Um, I'm already seeing on
016social media and from other people that were there, they're getting hit. They want to do it again and they don't want to wait until next year. So, >> yep. Yep. We got a lot of positive feedback. There are little glitches. First time event. uh we'll we'll be do a better job next time, but uh overall everyone very uh positive reception and uh discuss, you know, the next time we'll we'll be able to do it. >> Yeah. Yeah, it was great. I see a lot of people stuck around, had dinner afterwards uh in the restaurants there. So, it was it did what we wanted to do is bring people downtown in the social district there and and uh go to our restaurants. So, that was great. Okay. Uh we move on to close session uh for
017the consideration of the city manager's evaluation uh as he's requested. Uh is there a motion? >> I'll make a motion to convene into close session in accordance with section 8A of the Michigan Open Meetings Act public act 267 of 1976 as amended for the purpose of considering a periodic personnel evaluation of the city manager as requested by the city manager. >> Support made and support. Is there any discussion on this item? >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Avich, >> yes. >> Ricks, >> yes. >> Schultz, >> yes. >> Warren, >> yes. >> Yellen, >> yes. >> Allen, >> yes. >> Motion does pass. We'll go into close session. We need a motion to go back into open session. >> I'll make a motion to reconvene in open session. >> Support. >> Motion made and support.
018Any discussion? >> Not. All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. >> I. I. >> Against. Motion does pass. We're back in open session. Under other business, do we have a motion? >> I'll make a motion to approve the city manager's evaluation, which place the manager between effective to very effective and the city manager and TIFA director's compensation should be adjusted in accordance with the raise provided to the other full-time non-affiliated personnel this year. >> Support most made and supported. Any discussion on this item? As the motion states, uh John did another great job for us and um seems to improve like wine. Uh the older you get, the better job uh you get done. There's a lot more responsibilities as you well know. Our town has grown and grown and grown under
019your leadership. Uh for what is it, John? Is it 18 or 19 years that you've been city manager? >> Uh 20. >> Is it 20 now? >> Yeah. Uh yeah, 25. Uh March of 25 was uh when we named me full-time. >> Yeah. Okay. So, um we know everybody knows how much more >> 2005 >> uh has go go goes on in our community as we've grown over the years and uh you've done very very well to keep up on that and keep us up on it and the council's done a very good job to stay up on it and um we appreciate uh the job you do for our community, John. uh no doubt about that and that's reflected in your evaluation again this year. So uh thank you thank you very much and
020thank you as I mentioned uh the the work that the council puts in and the work uh that you do uh supporting administration and myself uh is greatly appreciated. >> Very good. With that all in favor of the motion signify by saying I. I >> against motion does pass. >> Adjournment will be in order. >> I'll make a motion to adjurnn. >> Support. >> Motion been made and supported. All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. >> I. I. >> Motion does pass. Thanks for being with us. [Music]