City Council January 20 Regular Meeting Agenda

City of Southfield
Regular Meeting Agenda of the City Council
January 20, 2026 at 6:00 p.m.
Council Chambers
Donald F. Fracassi Municipal Campus
26000 Evergreen Road
Southfield, Michigan 48076
Telephone: 248-796-5150

ROLL CALL

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

APPOINTMENTS

Appointment of Deputy City Clerk
Reappointment to the Public Arts Commission - Delores Flagg
Reappointment to the Public Arts Commission - Nicholas Pizana

PRESENTATIONS

Presentation of Employee of the Month - Ryan Rivers
Presentation of Employee of the Month - Henry Gordon

COMMUNICATIONS

The Southfield City Council has established the following Rules of Procedure for all speakers:

• Each speaker will have 3 minutes to address the council.
• Each speaker is responsible for his or her comments and the City of Southfield does not, by permitting such remarks, support, endorse or accept the content, thereof, as being true or accurate.
• No speaker may make personal or impertinent attacks upon any officer, employee, or City Councilmember or other Elected Official, that is unrelated to the manner in which they perform their duties.
• No person shall use abusive or threatening language toward any individual when addressing the City Council.

Any person who violates this section shall be directed by the presiding officer to be orderly. If a person addressing the Council refuses when so directed, such person may be deemed by the presiding officer to have committed a "breach of the peace" by disrupting and impeding the orderly conduct of the public meeting of the City Council and may be ordered by the presiding officer to leave the meeting. If the person refuses to leave as directed, the presiding officer may direct any law enforcement officer who is present to escort the violator from the meeting.
The Council may not provide responses to public comments during the meeting. If you have provided your contact information when you sign up for public communications, the City will provide a more formal response to you in the near future should it be needed. The Council may respond to comments at the end of communications if they are able to do so.

MINUTES

A. Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting Minutes of August 18, 2025
B. Regular Meeting Minutes of August 25, 2025 (amended)

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

A. Authorization to Seek 2026 Michigan Arts & Culture Council Experience Support Grant

B. Authorization to Purchase Par-Kan Easy Dump

ITEMS TO BE DISCUSSED

PUBLIC HEARINGS AND SITE PLANS

ORDINANCES

COUNCIL

A. Travel Expense Reimbursement: Yolanda C. Haynes, MML - Women's Elected Leadership Intensive, Lansing, MI, October 18, 2025

MAYOR

ADMINISTRATION

ATTORNEY

CLERK, TREASURER, PLANNER, ASSESSOR, ENGINEER

SCHEDULE

CLOSED SESSION

A. Discussion pursuant to Section 8(a) of the Open Meetings Act - a periodic personnel evaluation of a public officer, employee, staff member, or individual agent

Individuals with special needs for this meeting should contact the City Clerk's Office at 248-796-5150 (voice) or 711 (TDD). If auxiliary aids or services are needed, reasonable advance notice is required.