everyone welcome to tonight's meeting regularly scheduled meeting of the policy council hold on one second please who are in chambers i would invite you to rise and for everyone and made him join us in these items please pray with me differently father we come before you today privileged to call holland michigan our home your word says that when we humbly pray you hear us so tonight is stewards of this great city we prayed in your name for the specific things we pray that you will reveal to us the critical issues that lie ahead of us we pray for your wisdom and clarity relative to the matters we address we pray that you will raise leaders like we see in your word the davids the hannahs the esters the jail's to join us in the betterment of this place we call home father let us work with those neighbors rather than in them we pray for continued spirit of passion from our neighbors for this great city and we pray gets complacency impassivity we pray father that the unifying spirit that we've recently seen in our churches would spread throughout the broader community and that area governments can do likewise and embrace a spirit of collaboration and finally father we pray that we as leaders would act justly love mercy and walk calmly with you i pray the sings all for those who are in james tonight their paper copies of tonight's agenda located in the rack in the rear of the room if you are in chambers and have an electronic device of some sort or you are following along at home or someone else you can always go to the city's web pages city of holland dot com and you can not only download the the agenda for this evening but also all of the background material that council has reviewed in preparation for tonight's meeting typically that information is uploaded to the city's website around monday if not before previous to the council meeting you'll note on that agenda whether you're seeing it on paper or electronically that there are a variety of items that have an asterisk next to them these are the items that are on the consent agenda they are so mark because we think that they are probably routine or have been previously discussed by council so the intention is to handle them collectively with one motion and one vote regardless of where they show up on the agenda what we will first do is have our clerk read for us what is presently indicated on the consent agenda and then i'll give some further instruction immediately after that and would you please read for us with presently on the consent agenda item five to prove the minutes of the regular meeting held me twenty one and regular in close sessions held june to two thousand and fourteen item six to q excuse the absence of council member peter's item fourteen a one to approve a contract with  fifty thousand seven hundred forty three dollars of this includes a ten percent contingency for the country club water main replacement pending approval as to form by the city attorney item fourteen eighty two to approve a contract with v williams for a total amount of one hundred eighteen thousand dollars and a transfer from contingency in the amount of forty thousand dollars in order to meet the total project cost of one hundred ninety thousand dollars for the natural gas pipeline inspection fourteen a three to approve a contract with great lakes painting of howland in the amount of eighty eight thousand two hundred thirty five dollars and a contingency of ten thousand dollars for the painting of unit nine combustion turbin generator pending asked a form by the city attorney item fourteen a four to accept a grant from hope college for a utility easement for underground electric lines pending approval as to form by the city attorney item fourteen a five to approve a purchase order with j c environmental in the amount of twenty eight thousand nine hundred sixty nine dollars and sixty cents for the rebuild of the wastewater treatment plant plant sewage grinder item fourteen a six to approve a dark dark fiber lease agreement with links networks group pending approval as to form by the city attorney i am fourteen a seven to approve a base contract with sequin energy management for the sale and purchase of natural gas pending approval less to form by the city attorney three two thousand and fourteen fourteen b two to accept in place on first reading zoning ordinance tax amendments to section thirty nine dashed one ninety eight residential infill regulations with final reading to be held on july second two thousand and fourteen fourteen c one to adopt and except the acceptance resolution from the bor board of i don't count he wrote commissioners transferrin jurisdictions of roads to the city of holland for the construction of the new gas power plant in fourteen d to two except in place on first reading the proposed ordinance to allow the serving of alcohol at the civic center for a trial period of one year with final reading to be held on july second two thousand and don't fourteen one point one to approve the proposed policy regarding banners with the neighborhood commercial districts known as washington square in south shore village merchants i don't fourteen e's three point one two except as information in the may two thousand and fourteen monthly financial report as presented item fourteen east three point two two approve the insurance program for fiscal year two thousand and fourteen two thousand and fifteen at a cost of one million five hundred seventy three thousand nine hundred ninety five dollars for the board of public works and city with the shit cities cost four hundred forty six thousand two hundred seven d two dollars item fourteen three point three two approve the fiscal year two thousand and fourteen year end budget amendments and authorize a finance director to make the necessary transfers and amendment item fourteen point four to approve the purchase of a canon c five twenty type function copier at a cost of ten thousand six hundred fifty three dollars to replace the color printer in the second floor mail room and to amend the fiscal year two thousand and thirteen fourteen technology services budget accordingly item fourteen four point one t except the use alcohol enforcement grant in the sixteen thousand dollars for use alcohol in force and authorized the mayor and deputy clerk to execute any necessary grant documentation on behalf of the city item fort five point two to approve an appropriation agreement with the hauen historical trust for the revised milledge proportions contingent upon voter approval by the city's election electors and adopt a resolution to place a proposition on the ballot for the november for election to raise funds for the purpose of supporting the operation repair maintenance and improvement of the hauen historical trust and its facilities subject to approval as to form by the city attorney's fourteen point four to approve various reclassification and title changes as outlined in the report effect of july one two thousand and fourteen i had importing eve five point five to approve the crescent shores marina brownfield project reimbursement agreement subject to approval as to form by the city attorney i had in fourteen the five point six to prove the reappointment of jim bishop to the downtown development authority board set term to expire june thirtieth two thousand and eighteen item fourteen  point seven to schedule a public hearing on the requested tax abatement for true form tool and engineering at nine sixty productions court for wednesday july second two thousand and fourteen and to instruct the deputy clerk to publish and mail the required imported point eight to approve the revokable license agreement perhaps eighty and eighty four east eighth street for two projecting signs as approved recently by the desire review board and community and neighborhood services and item fourteen point nine to approve a tentative agreement with how and police officers association for a two year period effective july one two thousand and four team through june thirtieth two thousand and sixteen and that the labor attorney prepare the necessary adjustments to said agreement that's it you know actually there was one item that you listed as being on consent which i do not believe is and that's the forty five point two the historic trust piece is not on the consent agenda so all right so that's what's on the consent agenda right now now the intention as i said earlier is to handle all of these items collectively now if you came here tonight to speak as to one and start to speak on one of these items  what i'd like you to do at this point to remove it from the consent agenda is to step to the microphone and tell us what number you'd like removed and we can certainly have it removed and we'll take it in its ordinary course mr houston thank  you sixteen eleven highland avenue and i thank your city employees for prompting me so i look like i know what i'm doing that i request on the second page here and d two to write taken off the table please the alcohol yes or ok thank you it is off anyone else in the audience care to remove an item members of council care to remove one or more items from consent mr weightman please mr mayor i'd like to remove fourteen b two please fourteen i'm sorry would it be to yes there were no in the infill ordinance yes and you i assume you'd also like them to remove nineteen a police will also assume that nineteen b is removed on the first reading of the alcohol at the civic center that's a permissible assumption is it not mr city attorney ok thank you anyone else on council care to remove one or more items from the consent agenda seeing nothing motion passes all right thank you i believe we have no special presentation mr city manager is that correct correct ok that then takes us down to item number twelve communications from the audience this is the opportunity for members of the audience to address council on any item that does not otherwise show up on tonight's agenda there yes sorry what a day what i miss ok i missed nothing a little white system that will come on when the light is green for feel free to speak when it is yellow you have a minute remaining and when it turns red your time has expired so with that said i will open up the microphone at this point on item twelve fires that are taking place and i have that i was told i should give you each a copy of having recreational fires and i don't have central air and i have a two story house and i only have air condition in the bottom part and even if i did have central air i would like to be able to have my windows and my home open and i come home on evenings and  it's very disturbing i don't mind my neighbors all party till two three o'clock in the morning i don't mind the music i don't mind the talking i don't mind the laughing i can put cotton in my ears and just let people live because i live in the city and i expect a certain amount of noise if i want perfect silence i need to move way out in the middle of nowhere but i cannot do anything about the smoke and i have asthma and when i come in my home and my home is filled with smoke i have a burning those i get a headache and i cannot breathe and i don't want to end up in an ambulance having to go to holland hospital and i'm wanting something done i talked to i came to the city hall the last time was the thirteenth of this month and i spoke with mr robinson the assistant city manager and he suggested that i pass papers out and that i addressed this to the city  i left a message for mr burch i have not heard back from him yet and i'm wanting to know what i can do about this because as it is a health hazard to me and the last time i called the fire department they didn't put the fire out and i was sitting in my car trying to air my out stair upstairs in my house up i was in my car from two o'clock to four o'clock in the morning and thirty nine s not a fun place to be this so thank you for bringing this to my attention and we will look into this particular case as well as the general case of recreational fires and brief us future study session in which case we will advise you if you'd like to participate it's upstairs in this building ok thank you thank you very much the microphone is open and item twelve anyone care to address coun evening welcome jim cio twenty one ninety nine whispering dunes although not a city of holland resident i consider myself a citizen of the greater holland area sharing many of the expenses and am really concerned that emotional arguments and i read some of those emotional arguments stated in the the articles in the paper i've read some ridiculous emotional arguments from i'm go are right that any any laws that keep guns out of this city i'm for and that's the kind of people the illogical people that we have influencing apparently compliance in this board now what really disturbs me is that i'm a logical person you know i happen to be on another board and i'm not going to talk about that i'm not here is a board member from some other piece another government organization and here is a private citizen and  when a council member prides himself on making decisions based on logic and the logical issues presented in for or against this particular approval for building  target range come down to three issues exposure to lead noise and safety and that none of them has it as as as admitted has any bearing yet that same logical person decided to vote against the expansion i think i'm boggled i would request that the city council reassess this issue all right and not be affected by the emotional people who come into this room who are for lack of a better word afraid of guns when every logical every logical argument every factual bit of data proves that we're more guns are in the hands of responsible  people you have less crime all right and to say that crime or safety is an issue is a completely illogical emotional argument by people who are afraid of guns and i hope that the city will reconsider that argument thank you thank you anyone else who are in fear of their government the councils are pressing these businessmen under the threat of financial burden arrest imprisonment or ultimately death has everything law just a hunch just isn't force either by a gun in the hands of a government official when it comes down in the end these business and wish to provide this community with indoor shooting range of services are by their customers however this council has claimed absolute and complete control over the usage of these elements private property arbitrarily deciding what commonly accepted lawful activity may or may not transpire inside their establishments walls no where in the michigan state constitution which every council has sworn to uphold does is this power granted to the state and thereby granted to this council to regulate the use of private property in the manner this council lays claim to hold the founding fathers were stark supporters of private property rights this is blatantly obvious from the rights they rightly recognize the rights of individuals to own and thereby gain benefit from private property understanding this is a fundamental element prosperous and free society thomas jefferson also said rightful or quote the rightful liberties under structed action according to our own will within limits draw around us by equal rights of others i do not add within the limits of the law because the law is often but the tyrant's will and always so when it violates the rights of an individual and called majority members of this council acting as tyrants have deprived these noble businessmen of their liberty and right to property which is a constitutionally protected these honest trustworthy entrepreneurs wish to grow their business and goods and services to the community thereby providing additional tax revenue to this  they have gone through every erroneous and burdensome stuff as required by the federal government to transact the sale of guns additionally abiding by the state and county stipulations for a legitimate business operation after all of that the city still requires permission to expand their business on their own private property majority members of this council have voted down and thought of these gentlemen's plans of grantor yet i would like to remind you of the united states is not a democracy where the mob a majority rules i find it appalling the city council is exploiting and abusing a nonexistent power that is not granted to them by the constitution which every member of this council swore an oath to uphold thomas jefferson said quote all tyranny needs to gain a foot hold for people of good conscious to remain silent the true fault here is upon the citizens who have kept silent these many years electing members at all levels of government who so freely and repeatedly violate their oath of office extending a power that is not granted to them by this great republic it is offensive to the constitution the principles americans founded on samuel adams said among the natural rights of these colonists are these first the right to life second to right to liberty and thirdly to property together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can majority members of this council of actively worked to prevent these fine gentleman from engaging in free market practices thereby providing additional revenue or additional avenues for the local citizens of the immediate area to exercise their second amendment rights in summary the local citizens desire a location to purchase and practice with firearms exercising their right of life secondly these honorable business men desire the liberty to revive local citizens with a safe and secure venue to exercise that right to live to life and liberty third these businessmen wish to build a range on private property which they have purchased thus exercising the right to property why then does this council stand in their way why does this council utilize their duly elected positions to exercise unconstitutional overreaching nonexistent power preventing a private establishment from growing their business will close with a quote from james madison and his federalist papers number ten and that is that democracies have ever been speculations of turbulence and contention have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property and general have been short their lives and their violence their deaths a republic by which i mean a government which is a scheme of representatives take place opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking thank you thank you and if you do want to put that written form into the record you can email it to clerk at city of holland dot com and it will be placed into the record officially thank you the microphone remains open and i think that any claims of this being unsafe are unfounded living that close doesn't bother me at all with the decision that was made a couple weeks prior to that to scuttle the project so to speak i've been a customer ever since a open i don't believe that they had misled the board and i believe that they took what the board had led them to them to move on and purchased the property to do the expansion was all in good faith and i just wish that you would reconsider that some way that you could right the wrong that has been done to these fine gentlemen let's all thank you hasn't changed from that date to this date in the sense that it says retail some may call on nothing and today it reads the same thing in the ordinance which means i buy wholesale i sell retail i sell services which is gun cleaning training and shooting there's no exceptions in your ordinance from two thousand and thirteen to today that is any different personally motion has made an exception to this to this ordinance and if you review it and read it unless you write something specifically in it there's nothing there and at this point to write something in it is pure you know you're just you're just being painful to us to review the ordinance and read it and there's no exceptions and thank you thank you want to make sure that it's clear tonight that the this chapter twenty of the ordinance code is incorporated into the zoning ordinance because we have a general ordinance  under chapter thirty nine that says that no zoning activity no activity under the zoning ordinance can be allowed as long it is prohibited by some other law or ordinance of the city so i think if the argument tonight is that chapter twenty which is under our disorderly ordinance is not incorporated into the zoning ordinance that is absolutely wrong because we have a general provision like most cities have that a ordinance that is located outside that zoning ordinance is incorporated for purposes of defining a lawful land use this is essentially the basis on which the city of wyoming did not allow medical marijuana in that city until it was overturned by the michigan supreme court on the basis that under federal law it was regulated as a class one controlled substance so therefore it was prohibited under federal law and therefore was not allowed so i want to make sure  ordinance codes of the city out this was not under chapter twenty nine it was an underage another chapter that is not typically administered by our zoning department ok again if there are motions to be made on this the appropriate time for members of counsel the appropriate time of course is that item eighteen we go down then to item number for the section fourteen a eight which is the advanced metering infrastructure mr nally i believe you are going to introduce this one for us mayer yes the item eight advanced metering infrastructure is before you tonight for approval to replace infrastructure that currently has reached end of life we put in advanced meters back about ten years ago today a number of those meters are failing due to batteries that are also a hard coded into the cards that are within them we also were never able to incorporate the three phase metering that is done for industrial and commercial customers so actually the eighteen percent of our customers that use eighty two percent of our electricity we still read those meters manually we go out with a laptop and collect that data so the request before you is to provide the funding necessary that to over a five year period replace that infrastructure put into place the software that will convert the data gathered by that infrastructure and handed off to our billing system that's i'll say the cliff notes version and i'll be glad to take any questions that you have from riyadh from an efficiency standpoint what is gained from this system as opposed to just simply fixing the meters that are in place because it's a pretty large capital spend but what it would have again we have twenty eight thousand meters roughly the vast koester the biggest portion of the cost for this project is in fact the hardware cost for those meters the company that makes those meters makes the meter and we had a second company that actually integrated the battery system the communications part into that meter they are no longer supporting that card if you will that is not something that really we do we we would have to send it out and do it and that companies no longer doing so it's not just a matter of trying to replace the batter's is trying to find somebody that could in fact do that for you and it really isn't a long term solution for us it would certainly keep the present system going but we were an early adopter of this technology the current technology that's out there today it provides us the ability to communicate two ways right now the communication is from the meter into the b p w at a certain time a read is made and it sends that data to the service on the new technology will allow us to talk back to that meter we can change the timing of the reads we can do soft disconnects or restore so try trying to just keep the technology going from a cost benefit standpoint really it's it's not there we just don't have the support to do it and we can't continue to have these meters fail on the get into the point of having to try to manually read one more question to the the other major utility that's in the holland area the investor owned you know yes there is one is that utility our customer base will be completely retrofitted with this technology correct does the investor owned utility customer base have the same capacity for all of their customers they are in the process of implementing that they started a couple of years ago and they had a similar five to ten year plan i believe it was about a six hundred million dollar effort to do that but they are doing that right now i know they converted my meter earlier this year so it's it's there they are doing the same thing i'm not aware of what their technology is compared to what we're doing but they are doing that as his d t so we're right there with them if not ahead of them and some of this stuff we were well ahead of them ten years meters and has nothing to do with the water and waste water meters growth that is correct and do we have a potentially similar situation with those metered no we do not those are operating fine and those are still supported the new technology would allow us to use or convert with a change out of a transmitter but we are fine right now with the technology we have for water so we're moving from a decade ago state of the art to a different state of the art today and that gives us real time feedback probably less employees are needed to check this out what it allows us to do is not have to build a meter reading staff we eliminated or meter reading staff over time i think our last meter reader will retired in two thousand and eight so if we didn't do this we'd have to gear back up to go out and read meters and this will help the customer use electricity in a smarter way right because simply exactly how much we're using exactly when we're using it correct part of this recommendation and request involves a new customer portal where this information is put out into a database that is successful by our customers on a real time basis great thank you the questions thank you then don't go don't go anywhere dan i am not you get the next one to which is the steam turban generator purchase small items small like this well relatively for this project smaller earlier in the year we went out to the market and requested proposals from four vendors to pull us for qualified bender's there were others that wanted to supply this piece of equipment but due to either their financial strength or other technical issues they were not allowed to bid on the project with these four vendors did respond to the requests for proposals we received those an h d r owners engineer and h p p w a staff have been evaluating to work through all the technical discussion and the really from a technical standpoint most of the things are very minor we have reached terms on a contract value we have a contract value of  would allow us to provide steam heat to hope college if in fact we get to the point that from a commercial negotiation standpoint and a technical standpoint to we could do that that is something that we are working on with the  district energy task force so we as i say we have come to commercial terms and technical terms with the same incident this time recommend purchasing a siemens  turbans as the main power movers for this project at the same time we are working on that agreement we are also working on a long term service agreement or long term program with siemens to maintain these units there are certain maintenance and regular inspections that ha to go on with these units based on right now or similar to the units we have it forty eight street although they don't run as much as we expect this these units to run so we're asking for approval to enter into a long term program with for that meet and it's and depending on run time it could be anywhere from thirteen to twenty two years for a cost of fourteen point five million dollars great questions for mr savva no we reviewed that all these all right thank you we go down then to the item that was removed from the consent agenda fourteen b two the infill ordinance amendments this is on for first reading and i believe it was removed for procedural reasons  perhaps the the slimmest of introduction on it at this time might be appropriate given that it some point assuming it passes tonight it will be placed on second reading and have a public hearing mr city manager are you intending to computer community neighborhood services department in the audience to see evening so mark will invite you forward to give us again the slimmest introduction of this item slim is it all right property owner of thirteenth street who approached the planning commission a few months ago and was rather concerned with the housing retrofit project that was happening there  home a two family home was raised in height and they actually lifted it up in reconstructed the basement and so forth in the resident was very concerned that that did not require an infill review  with the staff and or the planning commission if it gets picked up to the planning commission level the planning commission observed that and said yes this is probably something that should be reviewed you know we  review all kind of all kinds of additions for homes and grudges and whatever it may be in the central neighborhood area for infill stuff if somebody is going to be raising a home substantially that probably ought to get in  infield review also so we plan to commission merrily went down this way in you know remember past or recommended some language for a city council that actually was on your plate or was going to be on your plate for first read a month or so ago and then the planning commission wanted to take another peek at it and in the reason for that is the they wanted to change one word they wanted to change  one word being average ok now i'm getting past the slim and trim thing here so we maybe want to save this for e a study session thing but there's that if that's that's the intention the clarification of this can be very easy in a study session point of view and we'd be happy to do that it is a future time so but just wanted to share with you the the the rationale behind it and and the reason why it was originally brought to you in the planning commission want to take another look at it now they have another recommendation in front of you so they think they have their work worked out correctly all right guidance here if we can go and have a first reading tonight and then if it's proper that i make a motion to delay a second read until july sixteenth we can study session for  your next regular meeting subject to a motion by the council to defer the second reading of the ordinance so you can so i can make that as well so i'll go ahead and make that motion that the my a motion to schedule a second reading the consent regarding the sale of consumption of alcohol in public property again this is a central emotion for first reading to amend the policy ryan perhaps  here so there has been a subcommittee that has worked on this with my support and brought it to the point of your consideration two things would need to happen in order for alcohol to be permitted at the civic center during appropriate one is adoption of an ordinance as you noted the second is approval of a policy as indicated in your in your pack and i'm page electronic page sixty nine the their number of safeguards included in those provisions for your consideration one is that no use of alcohol would be permitted except by permit there is a review process involving three reviews one a public safety if you want to neighborhood review and one a city manager review third the there is a sunset provision automatic july thirty one of next year so with approval of this ordinance without any further action it would sunset no longer be permitted further once if twelve events were requested to be have this opportunity no thirteen would not be permitted it's limited to twelve over the course of that year and century one per month it's lose it restrictive i think than we have in our other locations where it's permitted the reasons i mentioned it's been requested multiple times and it's good public service to respond to these requests with and with balance a second there's it's common elsewhere for reception purposes that do not now happen at the civic center but are requested and third it provides more uses to a building which would benefit it's a sunk cost it would be appropriate for the community as well as good for the the city user fees pay for this one hundred dollars special fee should they have the alcohol and two hundred dollars as an extra safeguard should there be any untoward damage so with these safeguards it is on your agenda if your consideration all right you've heard the request three questions for the city manager mr mayor just so that we're clear we're not proposing the council adopt  ok anyone from the audience try to address this  the public and on the same page to the right of this article the headline birthday bash keeps police busy during the two day country festival of music at the motor sports park the allegheny county sheriff's office made a total of one hundred thirty eight arrest and or citations in and around the venue the most incidents on both days involved minors possessing alcohol other incidents included operating while intoxicated disorder conduct a mess dick assaults and use of marijuana the holland sutton all in november the six twenty twelve had a headline drink drive and pay drunken driving and cost the driver thousands of dollars in the state of michigan and soon the city of holland could also collect the drivers who take that risk and are caught in the city many other communities in the state of adopted similar ordinances including zealand and grand haven holland public safety dealt with one hundred ninety operating under the influence charges and twenty eleven so if the average feat collected was three hundred fifty dollars this city could every couped about sixty six thousand dollars the city council also consider a super drunk ordinance to coincide with the state's two thousand and ten law that inflicts stricter penalties on people got driving with a blood alcohol content and zero point seven or more and paragraph three in the fifty's articles in the sentinel will show that the various or the original purposes of building a civic center was to be a youth center various service clubs saw the need for such a building they sponsored weekly youth programs at the holland high school gymnasium when the school building was located at the corner of fifteenth street and pine avenue in holland since at that time there was no west otto a school district hamilton high school from eighth grade on students came to holland high school making holland high triple a school district making the holland school districts second only in geographical area to the city of detroit would such a campaign be young people were encouraged by adults who are in the know to diplomatically speak to the hollin west out of one hamilton taxpayers and anyone else who would listen to the younger generation about the need for an area youth center so in hundred fifty two the same year vice presidential candidate richard nixon spoke from a railroad car at the holland train station for would school was dismissed the civic center was completed and for a while howland area service club sponsored activities for youth in the brand new civic center building but then these activities for youth fizzled out as other types of programs took over christian congregations were encouraged by people in the know to open up the doors of their child buildings and even build gymnasiums or have activities and church parking lots as opportunities to be relevant to the community and keep the younger generation from the big city gangs who love holland because holland is generous and kind to people even people who are tired of being  little fish in a big pond and hope to become big fish in a little pond as they reside in the holland area now four times a year the sunday school guide published in zeal and still used by many churches in the area would have temperance lessons  the theme of one of the lessons in one thousand and thirty five and you can go back to the early one thousand nine hundred so the seminary with this the godly citizen is the one whose life is marked by the greatest self control and one of the texts was first peter chapter t which shows the victory of believers over the sins of the flesh the submission of believers to governments and the separation of believers from worldliness so there are some questions that can come from these statements does the world today value wholly conduct in the lives of others is delivered for the flesh contrary to the souls welfare do these last attack and conquer the inner life and lead into captivity and pairing its energies soling its purity lowering its tone and cutting off the locks of moral strength like sampson is the liberty we have in christ a license for living in an equity how many followers of jesus christ glorify god by good works and what ways can our american governments at all levels be said to encourage and reward obedience to the laws of the land what's the difference then between being subject to the government and honoring the government why is a life lived according to the will of god always to be preferred to a life lived after the last of the flash how can we encourage our young people to have the mind of christ and live by the power of the holy spirit to courageously refused to run the way of the world's we can is is that the end and that is your thank you and there you can finish your sentence if you'd like  anyone else care to address this item all right we have a motion to place this on first reading in a discussion among coun i'm sorry mister surely you jest but i would let this go beyond saying something hope springs eternal now i'm just kidding but i am slightly vindicated in the stance that i've taken the specific there was an excerpt taken although alderman's law from the first ward fight strongly against the granting of a license to j s come outs of grand haven to open a saloon in the slab block on account of the many partitioner that have come it's i'm not teetotal i don't judge people that have an occasional imbibed meant i have just seen too much of the hurt of what alcohol does to families when it's used to an excess and to that end i don't think that the city should be contributing to that i have voted consistently against alcohol on public property and i will continue to do that as long as i'm on this council right any other comments channels november i'll chime in real quick there are significant opportunities with the civic center in particular to have events pointing to things like tulip time group walk that add to the the culture of our area not that it's required to have alcohol to have a good time however it does provide a source of revenue for the community to make these events more sustainable long and i'd like to see this happen and more happen in our city because i think the events are healthy and safe and adult in their nature where the this type of activity is happening and in that the there hasn't been the negative fall back that that many have discussed so i'm looking forward like the sunset provision of those for one year so we can take another look at the the downside that bothers me a little bit is the fuzziness of a you think is it mean that youth are the youth attendance or so youth event and i and we talked about this and they've been the only one that is concerned about that but i think there is an area that's a good the gray area here that i'm not feeling real comfortable with i think i will support it in a trial basis and let's see i concerned about people have to make the decisions of the go or not go you know perhaps we could have given them some clearer guidelines  for yes motion passes six yes to no ok thank you we then go down to forty five point one some gifts please and everyone sit back and relax because we have quite a gift for forty again this evening the city manager's office is pleased to report the following gives city managers office for the hauen use connections program received donations from jennifer all wins a thousand dollars and mr and mrs christine prudent and stephen but here in the amount of five hundred dollars and let me apologize now about the last names international relations commission for the multicultural festival received various donors and the amount of seven donated and the amount of seventeen dollars and five cents the rotary club also donated two hundred fifty dollars various in kind donations were received for unused council received donations for the charity for clarity auction that was held on march twenty nine from orange the frozen yogurt tear mansfield's fabric carlos place killings of holland huntington bank how an aquatic center model drugstore side door party store peach way frozen yogurt crazyhorse eighty four east taco bell but works restaurant beechwood in events and conferences lind smith herman miller margarita's restaurant the old coat studio and sam's club total cash was two thousand one hundred sixty eight dollars and sixty  cents in kind of nations of six hundred dollars craned the hauen bakery de boer bakery and big b coffee donations received for the run of the mill event that was held april twenty ninth i mean april nineteenth two thousand  requests food and signs now parks and recreation receive various donations for the following from various donors in the amount of three thousand three hundred thirty three dollars an honest donation of five hundred dollars when my island has won repair find various donors and the amount of three hundred ninety dollars and fifty five cents and from deborah sanderson and honor of sarah and sean dog and  dollars when the island gardens children's area and rose garden for the two hundred two thousand and fourteen season from the hauen garden club in the amount to seven hundred dollars for sell her a scholarship fund from katherine leighton and gordon we're smart and rhonda edgington public safety services fire division received a donation of four hundred dollars from bon banks it is recommended that these donations be accepted with please say i i i pose the same that passes forty five point to the holland historical trust we invite representatives of the trust for i know they're here tonight so  which will equate to around the average of fifteen dollars per household in support of the trust we're also asking park county which is approved and how and charter township as well to place and approve the measure this would generate for the trust six hundred thousand dollars a year annually which will provide solid bedrock for us to begin to grow as an institution our programs exhibits and what we can give back to our community this is a portion of what we will need annually so we are expecting to raise roughly three hundred thousand dollars as as our own on our own efforts which what we're proposing is a public private partnership in the sense of being able to ask for support and also ask for also be able to raise our own funds as  well what we're asking in a nutshell is as as a historical museum we are the collectors preservers and interpreters of the communities history we do that every day we're professional staff have over twenty eight thousand objects in our collection and five thousand feet of archival material that tell the history of our story our diverse community and we're asking our community to help us preserve and and help us to save that history their history as a result of with the milledge and also with the support that the city has given us for bridge funding which has been so supportive of our efforts helping us to get to the milage we are removing the barriers which stand in the way visitation for for public we're removing our admission fees for all citizens of the city of holland as a result of the funding as well as the knowledge and we're also removing all of our k through twelve in mission fees not only with the voting population but all k through twelve students with these robust outreach program that allows us to work individually with teachers to meet the needs of their students in the classroom by providing real primary sources objects and letters so forth to add to the a way where they may not be able to bring their students on a visit to take this outreach also to our older citizens to retirement communities and homes and shut ins in the shared these objects as well with that  e we've been very blessed and humbled by the support that we've gained from our community community very much believes in this in the sister e we've been able to raise our overall attendance by twenty three percent over last measure on the ballot november twenty fourth and ask for your support in this endeavor thank you sir any questions for so your approach to history and taking it to the people and helping children learn about our past and how it affects us today i thought it was so important that you did  year propaganda art display with all that it reminds us about is what has happened in the past and how we need to learn from that how aware we should be of what's going on around us in light of things that have happened in the world of deception in the past and those are important messages that we need to repeat and learn and treasure and tell other generations and come together and talk about them  i'm really glad that chris you came over here from the other side of the state with the experience that comes from all of that in giving us another way to look at things and to embrace things creatively and and i just think it's so important we know it's a bedrock value of this area to appreciate our heritage and to celebrated and value those who came before us and so we do have a responsibility and i think the support for does wine and and the message of that and american bloom as an organization has recognized our our value of heritage and g national award about that last year i think it's something that we need to continue to value and part of that is is the museum and the use of the archives in a dynamic manner to teach remind us adults and teach children about what's important about our past so thanks for being here and thanks for having the courage to pursue this follow i will only say that i've been in front of meetings regarding this particular item in and it is a welcome turn of events that has taken a long time to get to both having meetings with various folks from the private sector business leaders in our community as well as governmental leaders from jurisdictions that don't just include the city of holland you know it isn't the city of holland museum it really tells the story of the broader holland community and for a long time for various reasons that all you know had been good bases behind them the city was the principal supporter of the museum and again that may have made some sense years and decades ago when the city was the largest by far of the jurisdictions and frankly helped most of the population of the entire holland area as well as tax base that time has long since come and gone you know we're no longer the largest jurisdiction in the holland area there are three very large jurisdictions in our community and all three of these jurisdictions heard allen church on chip and park township will all hopefully be putting this on the ballot parkas as was stated earlier has already voted to do so and my hope is that the residents of those communities will or those jurisdictions will vote in the affirmative on this is well because i think it is a good thing for us all with that place called  then jump all the way down to item number fifteen communications from the city manager this evening thank you i have three items one i want to thank our fire department who was tasked this last week with a number of multiple fires it does prove the point for why we have multiple pumpers because it's hard to disconnect one that's being an in service when you have another major fire come in so that  one crew got the bulk of the work we have a different schedule which is uniformly liked by that by the fire department however in this case they probably have wished there was a schedule because they think they got multiple ones knowing their nature they were probably appreciated the opportunity to use their profession and do so admirably and having said that i want to note that we had some strong winds today and grateful knock on wood there were no major trees of any note that came down our limbs so that's a testimonial to the poor public works who has an active training program and of course our forestry crew who also keeps up with trees to that end you'll see many many many many many as trees coming down there and working as hard as they can and some very large ones that are extremely sad to see go bet as you know they will not be coming back so they must go before some problems arise second item has do with fireworks and i think there are probably others here that will want to address that in terms of the limitations the third is i wanted to  that escape ministries because their leadership the program is underway with seventy eight youth that you know by the numbers one hundred two hundred forty thousand dollars in total has been received by the city we are the fiduciary for this program forty  donors in total five employers are making contributions in total that's thirty five percent of the total funding is from lawyers it's our mission to grow that rich amount should this so this program will be sustainable this is for at risk youth there are many more that there would be a need of this summer employment so it's incumbent upon employers to see the return on investment that this provides as the city does not give to points along those sidewalks and i request anyone listening if that is the case in their neighborhood to please trim the brush make italy's or with it more done that way and if for some reason you come home and are surprised when that pressure working and what it's accomplishing and be distributing those throughout the course of the summer august seventh one o'clock for a graduate or a cookout thank you all right thank you ryan questions for the manager right communications for me this evening of course city hall and dot com is your spot for finding information about the happenings in this city as well as ways to get a hold of members of council senior staff and others  so we invite you to visit city of holland dot com any time twenty four seven from anywhere around the world a couple things coming up this weekend juneteenth happens saturday afternoon at collin park wonderful  celebration in fact there was a special event that happened tonight that we were all invited to but couldn't attend because of council meetings so should be a good event at the park and i would invite everyone to be there for it i believe council member looks true may be attending on our behalf and that's the city manager is going to be there instead that's what it was an upgrade for me to be sure thank you you bet dave we have a couple of appointments surgery appointments most technically this evening appointments are josh franken for a second the historic district commission affective july one fourteen expiring june thirtieth twenty seventeen also reappointment james souter to the second to a second term on the board of appeals effective july one of this year with everyone the city actually has a very strict law on the books with regards to fireworks and it's important to remind the public that fireworks in the city of holland are illegal outside of the times designated surrounding the ten national holidays as designated by the state of michigan as we've discussed in these chambers and form previously there have been a significant and noticeable increase in the usage of fireworks in our city especially in the oldest and most dense neighborhoods in which many of us live these fireworks pose a fire hazard to the property the personal property of individuals represent a safety risk to those who use them every year the fire department responds to fireworks related fires and injuries in these holiday related fires and injuries are preventable concurrently the fireworks that are happening illegally during times that are not during one of the ten national holidays or the day before or the day following those holidays create an unwanted disturbance to many people who have called me recently or have i have talked to recently on and on line they create an unwanted disturbance and noise level they create a nuisance throughout the neighborhood we ask very politely to abide by the law and use fireworks only between the hours of eight a m to one a m on the day preceding the day of or the day after a national holiday fireworks offenses are misdemeanors in the city of holland there punishable by up to ninety days in jail and or a fine of five hundred dollars this is something we are very serious about and we're doing this because of the challenges we're getting from individuals in the neighborhood who own homes that are made out of wood and i realize we got a ton of rain today but that's not always the case and many people are anxious in zion he is reaching its peak and while we are facing one of our favorite holidays to blow up fireworks one of my favorite activities ever it's still important to respect the personal property of individuals and the risk that fireworks pose and respect the law that is currently on the books if you know where a firework is happening and for public safety depends on neighbors reporting that illegal usage on our streets our police can't be anywhere everywhere everywhere they are somewhere they can't be everywhere at the same time if you see or hear fireworks and you know where they originate please call holland d p s at six one six three five five one one one zero and report that if any fireworks related fires or injuries take place and you see it happening or you experience an injury or a family member please call nine one one again this is part of our ordinance you can actually find that in at least section eleven seventeen of the of the code thank you hopefully we can avoid injury and in more of these calls and our children and our animals rest easy and we can all be less anxious that our home is going to go for things other communications council this evening calls woman to board we are in the midst of a contest that started on the fifteenth for the talent in bloom an effort this year we're we are going from blizzards to blooms so if you have a nice place a a nice garden at your house or a front yard or backyard or window box and you would like to participate in this all you have to do is take a picture of it up to five pictures and you can submit it at the parks and rec building on twenty fourth street for twenty nine east twenty fourth street or you can e mail it to holland in bloom at city of holland dot com you can also nominate a good neighbor of yours a friend of yours if you notice how well they take care of their flowers and their yard then please do it just needs to be an amateur gardener that has planted and cared for this property and there is a grand prize of carolyn stitch a local artist will draw a picture of your home or garden and you will also get a gift certificate from yonkers gardens is a first prize also a one hundred dollars gift certificate a gift certificate to yonkers and a second prize of fifty and a third prize of fifty four j w greenhouse all those businesses are also supporting this effort our judges are coming the and of july and this contest ends the fifteenth of july if you are one of those winners you will be part of a special experience with the judges on the twenty ninth of july when they're here so get excited and get nominated as great gardens that you see around you in the halland so we can be ready for having a beautiful community when the american blue judges come the end of july any other communications from members of council tonight for motions and resolutions all then that is left is a motion to adjourn please so moved the same that passes goodnight everybody