CITY COUNCIL AGENDA
CITY OF NOVI
Regular City Council Meeting
September 22, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Council Chambers | Novi Civic Center | 45175 Ten Mile Road
(248) 347-0460


CALL TO ORDER

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

ROLL CALL – Mayor Fischer, Mayor Pro Tem Casey, Council Members Gurumurthy, Heintz, Smith, Staudt, Thomas

APPROVAL OF AGENDA

PUBLIC HEARINGS

PRESENTATIONS

REPORTS

  1. Manager/Staff
  2. Attorney

AUDIENCE COMMENT – In order to hear all citizen comments at a reasonable hour, the City Council requests that speakers respect the three-minute time limit. This is not a question-answer session. However, it is an opportunity to voice your thoughts with City Council. Speakers wishing to display visual materials through the City’s audiovisual system must provide the materials to the City Clerk’s Office no later than 12:00 P.M. the day of the meeting. The materials cannot be changed before the meeting.

CONSENT AGENDA REMOVALS AND APPROVALS – All items listed under Consent Agenda are considered routine by the City Council and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a Council Member so requests, in which event the item will be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered at the end of the normal Agenda.


MATTERS FOR COUNCIL ACTION

  1. Approval of the final payment to Ajax Paving Industries, for the 2023 Capital Preventative Maintenance Program, in the amount of $131,556.
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  2. Approval of resolution to authorize Budget Amendment #2026-1
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  3. Consideration of a Preliminary Site Plan request for Twelve Mile Townes with a PD-2 option, a Special Land Use permit, Wetland Permit, and Storm Water Management plan.
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  4. Consideration of tentative approval of Mariella Estates, a 10-lot single family development, located north of Eight Mile Road, west of Garfield Road, to include a Zoning Map Amendment rezoning from Residential Acreage to R-1 with a Planned Rezoning Overlay. FIRST READING
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  5. Consider recommendation from the Finance and Administration Committee (FAC) to authorize Plante Moran Realpoint to begin negotiations with both firms who appeared before them at their September 15th meeting to provide design and related services for the Police and Fire Facilities building project.
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CONSENT AGENDA REMOVALS FOR COUNCIL ACTION – Consent Agenda items which have been removed for discussion and/or action.

AUDIENCE COMMENT – In order to hear all citizen comments at a reasonable hour, the City Council requests that speakers respect the three-minute time limit. This is not a question-answer session. However, it is an opportunity to voice your thoughts with City Council. Speakers wishing to display visual materials through the City’s audiovisual system must provide the materials to the City Clerk’s Office no later than 12:00 P.M. the day of the meeting. The materials cannot be changed before the meeting.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

  1. Finance & Administration Committee - Mayor Fischer

MAYOR AND COUNCIL ISSUES

COMMUNICATIONS

CONSENT AGENDA – Background information for Consent Agenda items is available for review at the City Clerk’s Office.

  1. Approve Minutes of:
    September 8, 2025 - Regular Meeting.
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  2. Approval of a Storm Drainage Facility Maintenance Easement Agreement for Avalon Pointe Office Center located on the south side of Eleven Mile Road west of Meadowbrook Road (parcel 50-22-23-229-024).
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  3. Approval of a warranty deed to dedicate 35 feet of half-width right-of-way along the south side of Eleven Mile Road and acceptance of a sidewalk easement from Eleven Mile Avalon Association as part of Avalon Pointe Office Center (parcel 50-22-23-229-024).
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  4. Approval of a Sidewalk Easement for Goddard School on Cabot Drive located on the south side of Thirteen Mile Road west of Cabot Drive (parcel 50-22-12-200-050).
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  5. Acceptance of a water main easement from the property owner of 22530 Napier Road (parcel 50-22-30-300-023) for construction of the Southwest Water Main Loop, in the amount of $6,414.58.
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  6. Enter Executive Session immediately following the regular meeting of September 22, 2025, in the Council Annex for the purpose of discussing union negotiations.
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  7. Approval of claims and warrants – Warrant 1188.
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ADJOURNMENT

NOTICE: People with disabilities needing accommodations for effective participation in this meeting should contact the City Clerk (248) 347-0456 at least two working days in advance of the meeting. An attempt will be made to make reasonable accommodations.