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Richmond council approves festival permits, food vendors, Lions Club sale and updates maintenance-permit signatories
Summary
Council approved a string of routine requests on Feb. 16: a mobile food vendor for a May 2 wrestling fundraiser, the RAGS Heritage Festival (with street closures and signage), a banner and vendor for RAGS, the Richmond Lions Club white cane sale, and a resolution designating signatories for a Macomb County blanket maintenance permit.
The Richmond City Council on Feb. 16 approved multiple special-event requests and an administrative resolution as part of routine business.
The council approved a special-event request from William (Will) Trombley and Saving Destiny Animal Rescue to allow Main Street Tacos to operate a food truck on Main Street at a professional wrestling fundraising event on May 2 (truck on-site 5:30–9:30 p.m.; event 6:00–10:30 p.m.). (City Manager; William Trombley)
The council also approved the Richmond Area Historical and Genealogical Society’s seventh annual RAGS Heritage Festival for June 27–28, including closure of Park Street (Stone to Beebe) and Beebe Street (Pool Drive to Festival Drive) for both days, placement of temporary directional signage, an across-the-road banner in the weeks leading up to the festival, and Deer Camp Traveling Cafe as an on-site food vendor. City staff said volunteers will be asked to help enforce traffic closures.
Separately, the council granted the Richmond Lions Club permission to hold its white cane sale on city sidewalks and edges of intersections on April 24–25 with specified times and the condition that volunteers not stand in the intersection during school arrival; the Lions Club must sign the liability waiver required by the city.
On administrative business the council adopted Resolution 2026-5 to designate the public service director and city clerk as authorized signatories for Macomb County Department of Roads (MCDOR) blanket maintenance-permit applications; administration said the last permit update was in 2020 and the county requested the update.
All event approvals and the resolution were moved, seconded and approved by voice vote. No detailed roll-call vote tallies were recorded in the public transcript.
Next steps for organizers include final coordination with city staff on closures, signage placement, and liability waivers; the city clerk and public service director will be authorized to sign future maintenance-permit applications with Macomb County.
