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Meeting Name: City Council New Business Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 7/29/2014 10:00 AM Minutes status: Draft  
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14-1137 11. ContractJenkins, reso. autho. Contract No. 2873053 - 100% State Funding - To Provide Funding for Reconstruction Work Along Civic Center Drive from Jefferson Avenue to Atwater Street - Contractor: Michigan Department of Transportation, Location: P.O. Box 30050, Lansing, MI 48909 - Contract Period: November 1, 2012 through June 30, 2017 - Contract Amount: $0.00. PUBLIC WORKS (REPORTED OUT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDING COMMITTEE ON 07-28-14)   Not available
14-1095 12. ContractJenkins, reso. autho. Contract No. 2877933 - 20% State, 80% Federal Funding - To Provide OEM Parts for Gillig Transit Coaches - Contractor: Gillig, LLC, Location: 25800 Clawiter, Hayward, CA 94545 - Contract Period: May 1, 2013 through April 30, 2016 - Contract Increase: $300,000.00 - Contract Amount Not to Exceed: $675,000.00. (Original Contract is $375,000.00) TRANSPORTATION (REPORTED OUT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDING COMMITTEE ON 07-28-14)   Not available
14-1211 13. ContractJenkins, reso. autho. Contract No. 2892161 - 100% City Funding - To Provide Towing Services for Abandoned Vehicles Citywide - Contractor: Bobby’s Towing, Location: 10807 Lyndon St., Detroit, MI 48238 - Contract Period: July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2017 - Contract Amount Not to Exceed: $51,000.00. MUNICIPAL PARKING (REPORTED OUT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDING COMMITTEE ON 07-28-14)   Not available
14-1212 14. ContractJenkins, reso. autho. Contract No. 2892256 - 100% City Funding - To Provide Towing Services for Abandoned Vehicles Citywide - Contractor: Troy’s Towing, Location: 9615 Grinnell St, Detroit, MI 48213 - Contract Period: July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2017 - Contract Amount Not to Exceed: $51,000.00. MUNICIPAL PARKING (REPORTED OUT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDING COMMITTEE ON 07-28-14)   Not available
14-1213 15. ContractJenkins, reso. autho. Contract No. 2892643 - 100% City Funding - To Provide Towing Services for Abandoned Vehicles Citywide - Contractor: Wayne’s Service, Location: 20495 Sherwood St., Detroit, MI 48234 - Contract Period: July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2017 - Contract Amount Not to Exceed: $51,000.00. MUNICIPAL PARKING (REPORTED OUT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDING COMMITTEE ON 07-28-14)   Not available
14-1214 16. ContractJenkins, reso. autho. Contract No. 2892391 - 100% City Funding - To Provide Towing Services for Abandoned Vehicles Citywide - Contractor: Nationwide Recovery, Location: 11785 Freud Road, Detroit, MI 48213 - Contract Period: July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2017 - Contract Amount Not to Exceed: $51,000.00. MUNICIPAL PARKING (REPORTED OUT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDING COMMITTEE ON 07-28-14)   Not available
14-1215 17. ContractJenkins, reso. autho. Contract No. 2895741 - 100% City Funding - To Provide Three (3) Front End Loaders - Contractor: Southeastern Equipment, Location: 48545 Grand River Avenue, Novi, MI 48374 - Contract Amount Not to Exceed: $496,927.00. PUBLIC WORKS (One Time Purchase) (REPORTED OUT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDING COMMITTEE ON 07-28-14)   Not available
14-1216 18. ContractJenkins, reso. autho. Contract No. 2895736 - 100% City Funding - To Provide 2 (Four) Ton Diesel Fired Asphalt Hauling Trailers - Contractor: Spaulding Manufacturing Inc., Location: 5366 East Road, Saginaw, MI 48610 - Contract Amount Not to Exceed: $49,800.00. PUBLIC WORKS (One Time Purchase) (REPORTED OUT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDING COMMITTEE ON 07-28-14)   Not available
14-1217 19. ContractJenkins, reso. autho. Contract No. 2893923 - 20% State, 80% Federal Funding - To Provide (Seven) Vehicles, 5 Cars and 2 SUVs for Transit Police - Contractor: Galeana’s Van Dyke Dodge, Location: 28400 Van Dyke, Warren, MI 48093 - Contract Amount Not to Exceed: $169,891.00. TRANSPORTATION (One Time Purchase) (REPORTED OUT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDING COMMITTEE ON 07-28-14)   Not available
15-0001 110. ContractJenkins, reso. autho. Contract No. 2884148 - 100% State Funding - To Provide Public Health Services through the State of Michigan Comprehensive Services Program - Contractor: Institute for Population Health, Location: 1400 Woodbridge Street, Detroit, MI 48207 - Contract Period: October 1, 2013 through September 30, 2014 - Increase Amount: $418,621.00 - Contract Amount Not to Exceed: $14,273,049.00. (Previous contract amount is $13,854,428.00) HEALTH AND WELLNESS (REPORTED OUT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDING COMMITTEE ON 07-28-14)   Not available
15-0002 111. ContractBenson, reso. autho. Contract No. 2884810 - 100% State Funding - Amendment #2 - To provide comprehensive Substance Abuse treatment to Healthy Michigan recipients residing in the City of Detroit. Contractor: Institute for Population Health. Location: 1400 Woodbridge St., Detroit MI 48207 - Contract Period - October 1, 2013 through September 30, 2014 - Amendment Amount: Contract is being increased by $1,746,000.00 from $5,550,821.00 to an amount not to exceed $7,296,821.00. HEALTH AND WELLNESS (REPORTED OUT OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDING COMMITTEE ON 10-6-14)   Not available
14-1249 112. ResolutionJenkins, reso. autho. The Purchasing Director to solicit bids for the monetization of City’s Parking RFP (#48771) and that the City will comply with the CBA and Privatization Ordinance as stated. (Resolution pursuant to the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the City of Detroit and the Coalition of Detroit Unions related to Article 16 on contractual work (The outsourcing Provisions) and Article V. Purchases and Supplies, Division 8 - Privatization of certain city services, Sec. 18-5-103.) (REPORTED OUT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDING COMMITTEE ON 07-28-14 WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION)   Not available
14-1121 113. ResolutionSheffield, reso. autho. Detroit Public Library submitting report relative to the Operating Millage Proposition. (The Detroit Public Library requires an operational millage to support its mission of providing library services to the citizens of Detroit and seeks a renewal of 4.00 mills. The Resolution and ballot proposal approved by the Detroit Library Commission on July 7, 2014.) (REPORTED OUT OF NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY SERVICES STANDING COMMITTEE ON 07-24-14)   Not available
14-1070 114. PetitionJenkins, reso. autho. Petition of Head for the Cure RUNdetroit (#297), request to host “Head for the Cure 5K” on September 6, 2014 from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. (REPORTED OUT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDING COMMITTEE ON 07-28-14)   Not available
14-1254 115. ResolutionJenkins, reso. autho. Permission to accept a donation of a movie screen and stackable chairs from the ABC Student Transportation Company. (The Detroit Police Department be and is hereby authorized to accept a donated movie screen and two-hundred (200) stackable chairs from The ABC Student Transportation Company.) (REPORTED OUT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDING COMMITTEE ON 7-28-14)   Not available
14-1096 116. PetitionJenkins, reso. autho. Petition of Bethany Baptist Church (#302), request permission to hang 11 banners on W. Chicago-north side of street, between Greenfield and Hubbell in Commemoration of their 75th Church Anniversary from July 1, 2014 to September 30, 2014. (REPORTED OUT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDING COMMITTEE ON 07-28-14)   Not available
14-1224 117. PetitionJenkins, reso. autho. Petition of Jude Missionary Baptist Church (#2695), requesting permanent alley closure behind property located at 9105 Van Dyke. (REPORTED OUT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDING COMMITTEE ON 07-28-14)   Not available
14-1225 118. PetitionJenkins, reso. autho. Petition of Pat Whaley (#2580), requesting conversion of alley to easement in area 3356 Leslie at Glendale and Dexter. (REPORTED OUT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDING COMMITTEE ON 07-28-14)   Not available
14-1123 119. ResolutionSheffield, reso. autho. Lease of 9200 Olivet, Detroit, MI from the School District of the City of Detroit. (The Recreation Department has proposed to lease from the School District of the City of Detroit (“District”) certain land at 9200 Olivet for use as a public playfield.) (REPORTED OUT OF NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY SERVICES STANDING COMMITTEE ON 07-24-14 WITHOUT RECOMMENDATIONS PENDING RECEIPT OF ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS THAT WERE SUBMITTED AND MORE INFORMATION PROVIDED TO THE COMMITTEE ON THIS LEASE)   Not available
14-1173 120. PetitionSheffield, reso. autho. Petition of Soul Circus, Inc. (#334), request to hold the “Universoul Circus” at Chene Park on September 4-15, 2014 with various times each day; Set-up begins 9/1/14 with tear down 9/16/14. (REPORTED OUT OF NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY SERVICES STANDING COMMITTEE ON 07-24-14 PENDING RECEIPT OF REPORTS)   Not available
15-0003 121. ResolutionCastaneda-Lopez, reso. autho. To reconvene the Vehicle for Hire Commission. (The Detroit City Council requests that the Auditor General, under the authority of City Code Section 58-2-6, reconvene the Vehicle for Hire Commission.)   Not available
15-0004 122. ResolutionCastaneda-Lopez, reso. autho. In support of Wayne County Education Enhancement Millage. (Detroit voters are being asked on the August 5, 2014 Primary Election Ballot to approve a countywide two-mill, six year education enhancement millage.)   Not available
15-0005 123. ResolutionCastaneda-Lopez joined by Council Member Spivey, reso. autho. Affirming Detroit as a Welcoming City. (The Welcoming Detroit initiative aims to build cooperation, respect, and compassion among all in our city, including immigrants and non-immigrants alike; endeavors to create an atmosphere in which immigrants and refuges have increased opportunities to integrate into the social fabric of their adopted hometowns; and seeks to embrace diversity while supporting and retaining unique cultural identities.)   Not available
15-0006 124. ResolutionJones, reso. autho. Council Member Raquel Castaneda-Lopez to serve as its Liaison to the Detroit Public Schools, for a term ending on December 31, 2017.   Not available
15-0007 125. ResolutionJones, reso. autho. Council President Brenda Jones to serve as alternate to its liaison to the Detroit Public Schools, for a term ending on December 31, 2017.   Not available
15-0008 126. ResolutionLeland, reso. Requesting that Fireworks be outlawed in the City of Detroit. (The Legislative Policy Division has prepared the attached draft resolution, based on the State’s preemption of local government authority to regulate fireworks, as discussed in LPD’s previous report dated July 10, 2014.)   Not available
15-0009 127. ResolutionSpivey, reso. autho. Appointment of Mr. LaRonn Harris to the Detroit Entertainment Commission for the remainder of the three-year term beginning July 1, 2013 and ending February 14, 2016. (Nominee of City Council Member Mary Sheffield)   Not available
15-0010 128. ResolutionSpivey, reso. autho. Appointment of Aaron Dworkin to the Detroit Entertainment Commission for the remainder of the three-year term beginning July 1, 2013 and ending February 14, 2016. (Nominee of City Council Member Raquel Castaneda-Lopez)   Not available
15-0011 129. ResolutionSpivey, reso. autho. Appointment of Mr. Norman Thrasher to the Detroit Entertainment Commission for the remainder of the three-year term beginning July 1, 2014 and ending February 14, 2017. (Nominee of City Council President Pro-Tem George Cushingberry, Jr.)   Not available
15-0012 130. ResolutionSpivey, reso. autho. Appointment of Mr. Herman Jenkins to the Detroit Entertainment Commission for the remainder of the three-year term beginning July 1, 2013 and ending February 14, 2016. (Nominee of City Council Member Andre Spivey)   Not available
15-0013 131. ResolutionSpivey, reso. autho. Appointment of Mr. John Collins to the Detroit Entertainment Commission for the remainder of the three-year term beginning July 1, 2013 and ending February 14, 2016. (Nominee of Council Member Scott Benson)   Not available
15-0014 132. ResolutionSpivey, reso. autho. Appointment of Gregory J. Reed, Esq. to the Detroit Entertainment Commission for the remainder of the three-year term beginning July 1, 2013 and ending February 14, 2015. (Gregory J. Reed, Esq. was the nominee of City Council Member Kwame Kenyatta and the appointment was assigned to City Council President Brenda Jones)   Not available
15-0015 133. ResolutionSubmitting report and reso. Approving Partnership between the City of Detroit and the Detroit Economic Growth Association to pursue funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration. (The staff of the Mayor’s Office and the Detroit Economic Growth Association (DEGA), would like to pursue a project called the Returning Manufacturing/Mount Elliott Employment District Project (the “Project”). The Project will develop a comprehensive strategy for revitalizing the Mt. Elliott Employment District as the center for a rejuvenated manufacturing cluster for Detroit.)   Not available
15-0016 134. ResolutionReport on approved proceedings from the Emergency Manager. · Contract No. 2894152 - 100% City Funding - To Provide Collection Services for Garnishment, Liens and Foreclosures for the City - Contractor: Gila Corporation d/b/a MSB, Location: 8325 Tuscany Way, Bldg #4, Austin, TX 78754 - Contract Period: July 9, 2014 through July 10, 2015 - Contract Amount: $0.00 Revenue Contract. ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS - Professional Service Contract · Contract No. 2885386 - 100% City Funding - To Provide Project Management Services - Contractor: The Economic Development Corporation of the City of Detroit, Location: 500 Griswold, Suite 2200, Detroit, MI 48226 - Contract Period: July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014 - Increase Amount: $55,000.00 - Contract Amount: $255,000.00. (Amendment #1 requesting increase in funds. Original contract $200,000.0.) PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT - Professional Service Contracts · Contract No. 2885389 - 100% City Funding - To Provide Project Management Services - Contractor: The Detroit Economic Growth Corporation, Location: 500 Griswold, Suite 2200, Detroit,    Not available