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The Livonia City Council held a Study Meeting on Monday, August 17, 2026. Although the agenda listed an 8:00 p.m. start, the meeting was called to order at 10:11 p.m. by President Reid. All seven council members were present. The meeting served to set the agenda for the Regular Voting Meeting on August 31, 2026. Most items were directed to the Consent Calendar, while the Security Camera Bid and the Library Elevator Modernization items were moved to the Regular Agenda. Several residents provided public comments.
Welcome everyone. Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance, led by Honorable Council Member Robin Persiconi. Welcome to the August seventeenth, twenty twenty-six study session of the Lavonia City Council. This meeting sets the agenda for the two thousand forty-seventh regular meeting, which is a voting meeting that will take place on Monday, August thirty first, twenty twenty-six, where tonight's items will be officially voted on. We have all seven council members here. Um a while back at one of the previous meetings, there was discussion over at the Costco of them building a new gas station, you know, and moving that. At that time, the the topic of remediation of the old gas station was brought up and assured that they would go through that process. What I would like to have the council consider is something along that line, because in the city of Lavonia, it seems to be a common practice that a lot of our small gas stations are being purchased and want to be remodeled. The problem that I see is the only thing that they're remodeling is the size of the footprint of their store to be more profitable. Not for the safety of the public of the citizens of Livonia. I would like to have some kind of a of a policy that if any of the gas stations want to remodel that an abatement and a modernization of their pumps be included for the safety of the citizens of Livonia. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, sir. Name and address, please. You have three minutes. Steve King comes from Gardens. The agenda is way too long. If I was a council person up there, I would get together and say too long. Uh want to talk about the process. The boilers. There are bylaws and processes in place. I find it interesting. The lawyers on the the lawyers are the ones saying we can ignore the law. The lawyers. An employee comes forward and says, I appreciate all that we hear. I appreciate it all. You know what we would appreciate? If you follow the law. He said it checked all the boxes, but well, then they didn't check all the boxes. You cannot accept that bid. It's it's wrong. Okay. The finance department comes up and tries desperately to explain something to you guys. Everybody up there on council bent over backwards trying to get that over the finish line. Finally, it took three people, three people to explain what we're trying to do. Three. No one asked the simple question, how much is it going to cost? No one asked that. A 300,000 over 300,000 for a bathroom. I can build you a three-bedroom, three-bath house with ADA compatible bathroom for less money than that. Nobody said anything. Come on, people. Come on. Full gut and convert is 50 to 100,000. This is just ridiculous. Okay, finally, 48154. Have you heard about the good news?