CITY COUNCIL AGENDA 
CITY OF NOVI 
Regular City Council Meeting  
 January 22, 2024 | 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 Heintz, Gurumurthy, 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. Appointments to Boards and Commissions
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2. Approval of resolution to authorize Budget Amendment #2024-3
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3. Consideration of approval to award the construction contract to Underground Infrastructure Services, for the Distribution System Material Inventory Hydro Excavation project, using the Livonia contract (extended to MITN members, in the amount of $261,712.
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4. Consideration of approval to award a two-year contract with a two-year renewal option for fuel purchases to RKA Petroleum Companies and Marathon Flint Oil Company (a split award) for truck transport deliveries (over 5,000 gallons); and RKA Petroleum Companies and Gen Oil Company (a split award) for tank wagon deliveries (under 5,000 gallons) through the Michigan Intergovernmental Trade Network (MITN) cooperative purchasing bid for an estimated annual amount of$336,843.
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5. Consideration of Ordinance No. 24-124.20, an Ordinance to Amend the City of Novi Code of Ordinances, at Chapter 11, “Design and Construction Standards”, and consideration of Ordinance Nos. 24-106.05 and 24-168.02, Ordinances to Amend the City of Novi Code of Ordinances at Chapter 12, “Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance”, to meet the requirements of the City’s Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System Permit issued by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy.
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6. Approval of Introduction of Ordinance 24-156.06, an ordinance to amend Chapter 2, Administration, Article V, Boards and Commissions, Division 3, Board of Review, Section 2-193.1, Application for Exemption and Section 2-193.6, Guidelines to be Uniformly Applied, relating to poverty exemptions, in order to revise the standards for uniform application of exemption provisions to comply with state law requirements. FIRST READING.
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7. Consideration to approve variance relief from the depth-to-width ratio required in Chapter 38 of the City Code, Subdivision of Land, in order to allow a land division related to parcel 50-22-33-100-009, located at 47133 Nine Mile Road, that would result in two separate parcels, one of which would exceed the permitted ratio of the Code of Ordinances.
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8. Consideration for tentative approval of the request of Wixom Road Development, LLC, JSP22-01, for a Planned Suburban Low-Rise (PSLR) Overlay Development Agreement Application and Concept Plan for the Camelot Parc development. The subject property is approximately 8.78 acres of land located on the east side of Wixom Road, north of Eleven Mile Road, in Section 17. The applicant is proposing 46 units in three 2-story apartment buildings. The subject property is currently zoned R-1, One Family Residential, with a Planned Suburban Low-Rise Overlay.
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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 

MAYOR AND COUNCIL ISSUES 

COMMUNICATIONS 

CONSENT AGENDA – Background information for Consent Agenda items is available for review at the City Clerk’s Office.   
A. Approve Minutes of:
January 6, 2024 - Special Meeting  
January 8, 2024 - Regular Meeting
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B. Approval to renew School Liaison Officers Contract with the Novi Community School District beginning with the 2023-24 academic year through the 2027-28 academic year.
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C. Enter Executive Session immediately following the regular meeting of January 22, 2024, in the Council Annex to discuss pending litigation, Novi v Malles.
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D. Approval of claims and warrants – Warrant 1148
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ADJOURNMENT 

SCHEDULED MEETINGS – All Regular Council meetings are held in the Council Chambers unless otherwise noted. For a complete listing of scheduled meetings, please visit the Event Calendar at cityofnovi.org. 

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.