The Taylor City Council met on Tuesday, July 15, 2025, at 6:30 PM in the Taylor Municipal Building. The meeting lasted approximately two hours and four minutes, concluding at 8:34 PM. Key actions included the approval of a rezoning, a $350,000 payment for emergency repairs at the Sportsplex, the issuance of amusement device permits, and a vote to receive and file a Board of Ethics resolution admonishing former Councilman Herman Ramik. A council vacancy remained unfilled after two nominations failed to secure a majority. The meeting also featured extensive discussion on the city's towing contract and public comments.
The meeting to order at 6 30 p.m. Uh first item is the invocation and we have uh Reverend Jeff R Jeff Drutchus here and uh take a moment uh and to congratulate him on uh being recognized for all that he does uh within this community and throughout Southeast Michigan for those that aren't aware. Maybe you can I believe it was the is the top ten for the Detroit News. Uh it was the Michiganians for 2025 in a group of ten. Uh but you know uh uh it's all teamwork, right? Everything good that happens is a result of people working together. So and blessed congratulations, well well earned uh recognition. Uh we know you here in the community, and uh we thank you for everything that you and your family and those that you work with have done. So with that, turn it over for the invocation. All right. Let's bow our heads in a moment of prayer. Then gracious Lord, we come to you tonight. We ask your blessing upon this gathering and all of its deliberations. We ask you to bless each of the council members and also our mayor and all those who serve the city. But we ask also, God, your blessing upon our entire community that it might be faithful to you in the way that it looks ahead to the future with courage, with hope, with compassion. Uh grant to this council tonight the insight they need to make the decisions that are going to help this city move forward and prosper in a wonderful way. All this we ask in your name. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, sir. That brings us to the pledge of allegiance and like to ask uh councilwoman uh Witten to lead us in the pledge. One nation under God, an individual with liberty and justice for our all. All right, that brings us to roll call. Roll call, please. Miss Daniels here, Miss Rose? Here, Mr. Johnson? Here, Mrs. Brandana? Here, Miss Winton? Here, Mr. Geis? Here, Mayor Woolley? Here, Mrs. Bauer? Here, Mrs. Toko. All right, and uh for those that aren't uh familiar, uh the gentleman sitting to my left will be filling in for Mr. Plato, if you'd like to just quickly introduce yourself. Good evening. I'm Randall Pentuck, and it's my pleasure to be here. Thank you. Even lawyers take vacation, so hopefully Ed's having a good time. But he uh picked a much shorter agenda uh to to not be here. So uh hopefully that's in your benefit, Mr. Pentiak. Um all right, that brings us to the agenda uh 5.1 motion to approve the agenda. Chairman Councilwoman. I make a motion to approve the agenda, adding um a motion eight point nine uh to approve the purchase agreements for the petting farms 2025-2026 fiscal year in an amount not to exceed 170,000.