Agenda for This Afternoon's Planning Commission Meeting

Agenda for Tonight's City Commission Meeting.

CITY OF BLOOMFIELD HILLS City Commission Agenda May 9, 2017
The regular meeting of the City Commission will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at City Hall 45 E. Long Lake Road Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304. Phone 248.644.1520

1. Call to order and Pledge of Allegiance.
   
2. Consent Agenda
   

A. B.

Bills Payable for April 2017 Department Reports:

1. Finance Director / Treasurer
   
2. Public Safety
   
3. Engineering
   
4. Building
   

C. Minutes:

1. City Commission Budget Meeting held April 5, 2017.
   
2. City Commission Regular Meeting held April 11, 2017.
   
3. City Commission Closed Session held April 11, 2017.
   

D. Correspondence:

1. Memo from City Manager Hendrickson: City Goals
   
2. Memos from City Manager Hendrickson: Staffing
   
   1. Police Commissioner
      
   2. City Clerk
      
3. Fair Housing Resolution – Oakland County
   

3. Recognition of Citizens in the audience.
   
4. The commission will adopt a resolution honoring the Bloomfield Hills Garden Club for their years of support to the city’s beautification efforts.
   
5. The commission will discuss the rehabilitation of the Oak Knob Drain.
   
6. The commission will consider the request of the property owner at 81 Whysall Lane for an appeal from the grading ordinance.
   

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Revised 5/8/17

7. PUBLIC HEARING: The commission will hear a presentation from Finance Director / Treasurer Keith Francis and consider adoption of the 2017-2018 General Appropriations Act Budget Resolution.
   
8. The commission will consider approval of budget amendments for FY 2016-2017.
   
9. The commission will consider the adoption of the Local Road Improvement Matching Fund Pilot Program Cost Participation Agreement.
   
10. The commission will consider an ordinance to adopt the 2015 Property Maintenance Code.
    
11. The commission will hear City Manager comments.
    
12. The commission will discuss lead responsibilities.
    
13. The commission will consider other business.
    
14. The commission will move into closed session to discuss negotiations with the City Labor Attorney.
    

Respectfully Submitted,
Amy L. Burton City Clerk 

15 DAYS WERE REQUIRED TO DETERMINE Å NEW CITY MANAGER FOR THE CITY OF BLOOMFIELD HILLS.

 It began on the Evening of February 22nd and it on ended March 9th with the promotion former Director of  Public Safety of David Hendrickson "Aka the Chief" from Interim City Manager to City Manager.
The beginning in the hunt for a City Manager  meeting was closed to the public to protect the applicants privacy. Some employers  
take dim view of job hunting employees  and some job seeking candidates may not wish to tell all and sundry why they had three jobs in three years.  At least not in until all the chips were on the table. 
As Warren Buffet so aptly put it when you  are in a power game for  a half hour and you haven't figured out  who the patsy is, its you.

Numbers published in the Eagle Newspaper  and presumably obtained from City Hall revealed that 39 applications were  for the vacancy were received and with the help of the Michigan Municipal League that number was reduced to two with David Hendrickson being unanimous choice of the Five City Commissioners.

If one wants to read  further between the lines  Hendrickson was most likely the unanimous choice from the beginning of the selection process. City Manager Hendrickson told the Eagle that he hoped  the commissioners saw his dedication to the City  and his experience at the helm as to what set him from other applicants.
The Commissioners  would have to been blind not to.

Unexploded Bombs from the Cravens Era threaten City Going Forward.

Communications Towers

When he was hired as public Safety director in 2013 he was well versed on the issues  foibles of the City. He knew the City did not want a Cell phone tower but that the need public safety required one. The key of a tower is to communicate through walls with signals 
broadcast on high tower. The need had become immediately apparent with the collapses of the World Trade Center when the police could not warn the fireman of working inside of the dangers of the tower's imminent collapse because their radios wouldn't reach.
So Henderson his and his department tested what they had on every tower City had to offer including Christ Church Cranbrook  which by the additional virtue of being on a hill was the highest point in town. Then they jerry rigged a system which worked for four years   and was not promised to be a permanent fix. Crime however continued to outpace the system. A Homicide in the Township and an attempted break in with shots fired in City made that apparent.
 The Chief made his request then City Manager Cravens virtually on his way out of town called  his contacts from 2011 presentations. Unfortunately Mr. Cravens by perhaps by haste or design left  the door open for commercial interests to piggy back on  existing on towers or build there own claiming a mandate from the FCC. Actually the FCC says you many not object to a communications tower for alleged unproven reasons of heath hazards. It does does require the tower builder to prove that the tower  will do what is claimed. At a recent Commission meeting