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The Livonia City Council held a study meeting on October 26, 2026, to discuss and set the agenda for the Regular Voting Meeting scheduled for November 9, 2026. The Council reviewed items from the Fire, Public Works, and Engineering departments, including capital purchases, road repairs, and technology pilots. Significant public comment was heard regarding waste collection, road construction materials, and city surveillance policy.
Welcome to the October 26th, 2026 study session of the Lavonia City Council. This meeting sets the agenda for the 2052nd regular meeting, which is a voting meeting that will take place on Monday, November 9th, 2026, where tonight's items will be officially voted on. We are just missing Councilwoman McDonald tonight, who had to go home. She was here for the regular, but these chairs are not good for your back. So we wish her well and that she can recover after sitting up here. Good evening, sir. Name and address, please. Before I leave your Bob Plansick again from country club in Lavonia. I hopefully I'm not speaking out. I shouldn't be. About the trash. Speaking to a couple of the uh drivers of their vehicles, I said, what's the issue? There's always something left for Saturday or the following week. It's usually the trash. And he says, our problem is the equipment. It's breaking down, and I can't tell you how many times I've seen throughout the summer uh tow trucks towing these big trucks on our street and other streets through the Lavonia. So, you know, it took us like over 70 years to get a uniform trash bin with the lid and big whatever. My daughter's neighborhood in L in Northville, they do the recycle every other week based on the address with the the odd week even week. So if you first week of the month, the odd addresses go out. Second week, the even up go out. And if people have a problem, if it's not enough, they just take their cart and push it across the street with the sir whatever week it is, and it'd be picked up over there. Um I think this would help these guys get their equipment up to snuff, okay. The stuff is breaking down, especially when we're using the yard waste. So this way they could have something going in the yard, but I don't know if it's a problem, but uh they have mechanics or whatever, because it's a nationwide thing. Like Ford Motor Company, the CEO mentioned this is a while back, that he has something like 5,000 repair bays throughout the dealerships in the country that are empty every day of the week. They have not the mechanics trained to fix these vehicles. That's why the recalls are so high and stuff like that. Our school system, as you know, throughout the country has failed to a point that we're not turning out people to do this kind of work in in fields. You know, I was born raised in Detroit. We had Castech and Cody and McKenzie and and Central and so on and so forth that had all these shop classes and wood and mechanics and welding and stuff like that. We I would we just don't have that anymore in in the numbers that we should have. So I you guys probably get with these priority people and kind of kind of work with them a little bit and see once the the recycle start, I mean the yard waste ends, maybe go to every other week with the recycle so they can have a truck or two in the shop through December, January, February, March. So come the next year, they have stuff that's fixed. The tyros are changed, that's a big job in itself. The hydraulic system is very extensive. So based on that, hopefully you guys could work that out with them because it's not only Lavonia problem with priority, it's other cities too. Thank you. Good evening, sir. Name and address, please. You have three minutes. Good evening, Elijah. I actually did want to echo that briefly. Priority has been a nightmare for every city I've gone to and heard about it. It's one of the consistent things. It's pretty funny. Um, but yeah, please, uh something to do about them would be great. Uh I just wanted to clarify my first comment from council about what council could do about Flock. And I appreciate uh Councilman Brockway's comments. Um I was more interested in the legality of what is possible.