CITY COUNCIL AGENDA
CITY OF NOVI
Regular City Council Meeting
September 08, 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
- Manager/Staff
- 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
- Consideration of a request from Seven York Inc. (DBA: The Dancing Pine) for a new Class C quota license to be located at 42738 Grand River Avenue, Novi, MI 48375 and Agreement on the Prohibition on Profiteering by Class C Liquor License Holders.
Click for packet item. - Consideration of a request from Jayaksha LLC (DBA: Amruth Royal Cuisine) for a new Class C quota license to be located at 30750 Beck Rd, Novi, MI 48377 and Agreement on the Prohibition on Profiteering by Class C Liquor License Holders.
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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
- Long-Range Strategic Planning Committee - Mayor Pro Tem Casey
MAYOR AND COUNCIL ISSUES
COMMUNICATIONS
CONSENT AGENDA – Background information for Consent Agenda items is available for review at the City Clerk’s Office.
- Approve Minutes of:
August 25, 2025 - Regular Meeting.
Click here for packet item. - Approval of request for Fireworks Display Permit by City of Novi Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services, to be operated by ACE Pyro, on Thursday, October 16, 2025 for the community event, Diwali Fest.
Click here for packet item - Approval of a Resolution to close the intersection of Ten Mile and Taft Roads for the 2025 Novi High School Homecoming Parade from 4:45 PM to 6:15 PM on Friday, September 26, 2025.
Click here for packet item - Approval of the request from the builder of 41380 Eight Mile Road (parcel no. 50-22-36-353-002) for a variance from the Design and Construction Standards in Section 11-256 (b) to dismiss the sidewalk requirement along Meadowbrook Road and pay into the City Sidewalk Fund.
Click for packet item - Approval of claims and warrants – Warrant 1187.
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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.