good evening and welcome to this public session of our city council here until i fifteen we're glad to have you all here as a part of this meeting we'd like to start with a roll call mr  prayer led by our colleague wayne conference and the pledge of allegiance after that we would ask that you would stand with us if you are  able dear god we pray for this country that seem so divided and we seek your help to get us back on track to cooperation we pray for citizens leadership and governmental leadership everywhere to step forward with wisdom and clarity of purpose we are pained by senseless killing and slaughter of lives in orlando and chicago and other cities and places violence breeds more violence hatred breeds more hatred and evil breeds evil goodness reads goodness and we are deeply in need of goodness be with this country in this council in you thank you elaine we will now have the clerk read the consent agenda of it possibly there's an item on there that you came here to talk to council about therefore you would rather that we not approve that in the list of other things the consent agenda if that's the case i will open up that after tim reads that consent agenda and you may come to the podium give us your name and address and tell us which item you would like taken off consent and then we will go and handle that in its sequence on the agenda so please tell her to read that consent to jenna i well i don't for a day to excuse the absence of council member hook stra item for b to approve the minutes of the june first two thousand and sixteen regular council meeting item for c to accept and file executed oaths of office from various boards and commissions item twelve a one to approve the grant of utility easement for underground fiber optic cable located at nine thirty interchange drive from property owners ca z y a l l c r m twelve eighty two to approve the metro permit with zeal and charter township pending approval as deformed by the city attorney item twelve a three to approve the whole attachment agreement with fiber technologies networks for the installation of a fiber optic cable in the h b p w service area using existing h b p w poll ending approval as to form by the city attorney item twelve eighty four to approve a contract with keystone electrical manufacturing company in the total of mt of one hundred thirteen thousand six hundred eighty six dollars for the purchase of seven control panels for the pine avenue substation project pending approval as deformed by the city attorney item twelve a five to approve the consumer's energy lease agreements for property associated with the natural gas interconnect with consumers and with the a in our pipeline pending h p w board approval of june twentieth and final city attorney approval i'm twelve d one to refer claims filed against the city to the city's insurance carrier and city attorney for consideration i am twelve d two to approve the license application submitted by chris altering on behalf of brew merchant l l c four forty two washington avenue to operate a dance business in the city i am twelve year one point one two approve the proposal from land matters l l c for the right away acquisition services associated with the relocation of sixty fourth street at the intersection of m forty and to authorize staff to issue a purchase order the amount of ten thousand dollars for the services with funding to be provided from the street improvement fun item twelve one point two two approve the funding application agreement with the michigan department of transportation for flasher and gate upgrades to railroad crossing number and i two three five six one five t on twenty fourth street and authorized the mayor and deputy city clerk to sign the agreement item twelve one point three to approve the engineering and construction administration for the sixteenth street and columbia avenue traffic signal installation project to parsons brinckerhoff in the amount of twenty four thousand nine hundred fifty one dollars allocate funds from the street improvement fund subject to approval as to form of the city attorney item twelve a four point one t approve the insurance program for fiscal two thousand and sixteen seventeen and the contracts with a a c and gallagher bassett item twelve a four point two to declare than one thousand ninety six part an easy one pump or as surplus and authorize a perch cigarettes or draw for the apparatus to the hamilton fire department for the appraised price of eighteen thousand five hundred sixty dollars and authorize signatures on any and all documents required for the disposition of the vehicle item twelve a four point three two approve the fiscal two thousand and sixteen year end budget amendments and authorize the finance director to make the necessary transfers and amendments item twelve east six point two to adopt a resolution to schedule a public hearing for july sixth two thousand and sixteen for the civic center place public improvement direct the city clerk to publish notices of said hearing for public comments notice to be published one week prior to the holding of such hearing and that this comprehensive project information be a made available to the public in the city clerk's office item six point three two approve the budget amount of thirty three thousand four hundred eighty one dollars to be paid for the general operating support of the makah tawa area coordinating council twenty four thousand two hundred thirty item twelve the six point four who approve the appointment of matt vandyke an assistant to the city manager technology services director to the vacated position on the board of review item twelve  we need an open situation would anyone want to take one of those items off the consented genda that we would handle it in a sequence in the agenda seeing nine alice want anything else bird yes mayor de boer yes the motion passes eight zero nine thank you very much now we would like to have a special presentation  is i'd like to play the video here once the video's over and we can have the player team come out but i believe there's a number of public safety here in the city and also membership the whole club he's got to he has a few words to say so we welcome family after the serving our community in a little bit different way one that's all volunteer one that goes out and supports families and individuals that are suffering from cancer we had an opportunity to connect with the city communications team and media team  show everybody what it is our hearts are our soul pining after people for i guess there's not too many people in this community that aren't affected by cancer  other and we've just been able to utilize public safety as a vessel to be able to talk to a lot of different people and i want to personally think everybody on the council the city manager for the support that you've given to me and to is his wife amy and menu some of his family there and we went on their visit maybe had seventy five to one hundred different public servants from the michigan state police county sheriff's department too many fire departments even for me to remember them and just had a great time just swarming them surrounding them becoming friends to amy and kevin kevin lee here says well i just want to let you know i have that award but i don't want anything anything else to happen with it because you know i want to be sensitive about the family because he had learned also that kevin circum i heard recently passed at about the time of the it won this award he had lost his fight to cancer but haven't been able to get to know cover the name me a little bit i felt comfortable enough for i thought i could give a phone call and say this is what happened what do you think we would like to present you in honor of these guys and give them the respect and credit that views are we up to here  ok into in today's world of public safety probably one of the last things that people attribute to police officers and firefighters is having a heart having a family being such stalwart members of the community and i think in this time it's even more important to take time out to appreciate  that you have done all the sacrifices that a family makes in order to have someone who's a firefighter or a place officer in their family mantle that most don't wear  and we're really grateful for gifted people that can tell a story for us you can talk about something and you can go on and i'm for paragraphs and people really don't listen that well anymore we really need a picture and you can say that that's a there's a very moving story and blah blah blah but until you really see the family you sense the emotion you see the numbers of people that came and gave that's what really touches your heart and it's not just touching the heart of how being people but it's the concept that these are individuals who daily face evil face opposing forces in our community are constantly dealing with the dark side and those are the people that line up and help someone one of their own that the power of that team that heart of that team is what moves people so much and that's why there are forty thousand views and i'm sure there will be many more and everyone who watches that video is challenge to be a better person this challenge to be grateful to care about the next person to realize it each one of us can make a difference and together we can make a huge difference so there are just so many levels to this where people can come together we can't control the decision of your husband's cancer we can't make them better we can't bring them back and we wish we could but we can care and show that and show up and try to be a resource to help and that the only force stronger in this world than evil is love and when it's expressed in all these different ways and all these different levels it moves all of us to be a part of those who want to make a difference because we love well so thank you eric and catherine for being a part then we go into business hard to make a transition after that and the special order of the day which is a public hearing about the vacating of land grant him forty and the interchange drive project myriad of details associated with that and we're very appreciative to brian and his team for working them out and this is one of the final ones so brian can you tell us about the vacation yes good evening  six the map that's up on the screen here shows it best and basically what this relates to is with the the rerouting of interchange drive shown here in yellow  the old the portion of the old interchange drive in orange here is what's being up for vacation tonight one of the things that is related to this it's a case pending that that survey is complete and verifies the meats and bounce description that we have enclosed in the packet so with that brief introduction i think i'll just turn it over and answer any questions that may arise we are here for a public hearing right so let's open it up for a public hearing is there anyone here who has come to speak to this issue motion to separate accept a recommendation typically the way we do the vacations is that the adjoining property owners assume ownership of the their right away up to what would be the center line of the old interchange driveway it away so basically notice of intent and study session and eventually action will be needed in august seventeenth is the date in which they required no period would have expired the notice period so tonight's a public hearing will simply fulfil that project was reviewed in that context it is eligible for neighborhood enterprise zone for eight years according to the current the current policy terms and according to the knowledge currently known about this project so this might be a time to receive a short presentation from the prospective developer and or to of the public hearing so we like they proposed an easy thank you and i just want to introduce both the teen and brad dr who are here from g d k and we're here to answer any questions if anyone has questions after the public hearing  this is a very exciting transformational project i mean it really anchor the west side of downtown it would be a very large investment and and the ne z here is critical to the success of this project and  first i'd point out is as mr cotton mentioned under the policy it scored enough for eight years and i would urge the council to consider a ten year and easy for this this project the only missing missing criterion under the city's policy was the lead certification criterion we had some discussion about that during the work session last week and i just want to highlight a few points the developer here g k does intend to adopt and follow many of the lead standards but is not going to pay their fairly exorbitant summit costs for leed certification so for example it will have energy star appliances energy efficient furnace is minimize the use of landfills when we do use landfills it will be local landfills and these are all items that are scoring points items on of the leed certification process they will maximize recycling bill use low impact materials like low v o c materials over the carpeting and other things that they use in the in the apartments local transportation and then local materials and  resources sub contractors and so forth so there just isn't as much of a carbon him impact from you know transporting materials and people from a long distance the easy is important this project to really make it work you heard during the working session to just want to be competitive with the market rate apartments that are being posed here and and you also heard that the market rate is is below for example grand rapids in and the construction cost unfortunately are not any lower here than they are in neighboring places like that so the ne z is very important you also know that the way the ne zeese works the last three years of the are really just three quarters of one year so a ten year uneasy would get seven years in a in a little bit more three quarters of a year spread over over three years so we're here to answer any questions about the any easy request of the designation see no one will close the public hearing and go to discussion counsel or motion questions when i said one question i know that this is going to be voted on later and i certainly support this but i just be curious as to one hundred apartments in here every day do we have any information as to a one bedroom how many two bedroom three bedroom  sure that's a good question then check again and thank you again we haven't determined everything yeah right now it's probably about sixty percent one bedroom and portie percent two bedroom now we also have some that could be three bedroom condos that we're putting into the mix as well so primarily be wanted two bedrooms but there there will be a few three bedroom a larger units depending on demand so we thought we'd do is is tailor the project one building at a time so we'd like to start with one building with sixteen apartments and use that same this is a very exciting project everywhere you go in city development they talk about mixed use you have to put in retail on the main floor and offer housing and other amenities and you are doing everything by the book and  at's that's a new book itself we're really excited to have that kind of innovation and to have developers who care so much about the community they live in it and that level of accountability is very high and  we really appreciate your partnership in all of this journey and sorry about the wheels of government yet have sixty days and so we won't be able to vote on it till august but we're getting there thank all right we'll move on to the washington school potential neighborhood enterprise all right thank you meredith or this is very similar to the one we just heard from although pertains to a different property that i can get up on the screen here so this neighborhood enterprise out would involve the washington school particular building as well as the properties around it in order to meet the criteria  this also was the subject of righty of of council meetings today to us notice the intent and also have study session on it it was also scored in this case according to the policy it needs to have achieve six points eight points minimum i have to refresh my tach to your door check that it's the second attach mer attachment there and based on the analysis the project would not be eligible for neighborhood enterprise zone since total points are less than six however we did receive information at the study session that is under review so much as does the project introduce a new housing units in the area which hasn't seen housing that has five years whether the correct and best answered that it has shown as well as the energy information that we just heard about from the last project so  council can can determine according to the policy you can make whatever decisions and policy judgments are important but nevertheless there is no action tonight it is a public hearing and it is scheduled for action on aug seventeenth ok thank you so we are opening up another public hearing if you came here to talk about this any easy please step forward would urge the council to consider an eight or ten year in easy for this project and i'll just hit a few of the key key points for for consideration again it's critical to the project and i just want to make it clear again that this is not for any of the single family homes it's just for the condos that would be the rehab of the school building that's a different product that's a little bit more difficult to predict in terms of the immediate marketability at and the cost of the rehab is generally going to be more the new construction it is a very classic example of how the any easy has been used in other instances when you really have existing buildings like this  e they really need the any easy to justify the the increased cost that will take it above what we believe the market will be the market rate so to entice buyers to buy these any easy will give the buyers  the developer but the buyers the benefit of the reduced taxes for a period of time if you approve the uneasy and just to hit on a couple of the criteria one is the lead certification we talked about this during the work session and in the developers actually completed the points in the in the lead criteria the lead standards and based on that analysis the developer is confident they'll they'll have enough points in the lead system to actually get to a gold rating for this that's pretty significant and i'll just give you a examples a few of a few of the items again energy star appliances minimized use of landfill ways and frankly the reuse of the building is is  darkroom which again in the lead system is is important they'll use existing infrastructure and community services much like the other project that i talked about just a few minutes ago and i think you know in mr gotten his mentioned that you know the one of the other criteria was the has there been new construction activity in the last five years and that was discussed and i think the only new home is the one that was the result of a home that burned down and we would submit that that's really not a good measure of whether there's been new construction in the area and i realize that this may be a standard of some interpretation but the replacing a house that burned down little bit more and so forth so we wouldn't we would urge consideration of an eight or ten year uneasy for this project as well and doug and i again are happy to answer any questions to comments and questions yes brian i have a question and i'm looking at that's map with the line in a red so we're including currently built and homes that impact a single family home but if something one should need a major addition for some reason or another then they would be eligible ok ok so it's not ok so it's not that homes that are in the zone are currently built and currently paying taxes would therefore have there they would lose their taxes ok it would not initiate any of the existing homes you have to have a minimum of ten contiguous parcel sure so we included parcels that already have homes on them in part to assure the council that this is not a request for potential requests for an easy for the vacant lots where the new single family homes are going to be built here if you still have to approve individual applications for the any easy ok so he is so you could have logically included the vacant parcels also two to get here ten minimum lots right now i mean there that would be contiguous can considering the vacated property of eleventh street i guess that was my question that they would be and you know by by design we did not include those vacant parcels so they want we wanted to make it clear that the intent here is to limit the availability of the any easy to the existing structure to the condos if they were to do some but it sure th is behind the parapet so unless you're in a helicopter you will not see the of so so you won't be bothered by the lack of history that the idea is that it's reflective versus a black absorbing more heat creating more energy costs for cooling the whole make sense i never noticed how the roof went so ok thank you ok so we will address this august seventeenth is a big day for the ne brownfield board and i would just call your attention to a difference between the report and the attachment that is partly related to what we talked about upstairs in relation the civic center place so tim thank you this request is a significant one in that we are asking to capture approximately ten and a half million dollars worth of future taxes to be paid  in this district and there is a personal map i believe that i think i put into this presentation that shows the properties involved and you'll that on the screen now is an area in red but the district includes contiguous or parcels across the street as well both on the south side street as well as the properties over  to the west at the civic center properties the overall plan would reimburse costs to the developer up to one point seven million dollars and then there's about eight point seven million dollars of public infrastructure that would involve basically the construction of a parking deck on property immediately facing a ninth street and it would be a two story if we're part of that and single story on a part of that as well that's the largest component of that it also in visions this possibility of some  sidewalk work some curbs and go to work it includes potentially the park on the west side of pine street in the south west corner of the civic said property and it could include other properties on the civic center project as well so this is kind of a public private partnership in that the city and the developer both would be reimbursed for  these project costs you're eligible per the plan again the the the overall cost is somewhere in the ten and a half million dollar range properties existing taxes could be continued to be paid as they are to the to the taxing energies however this plan does extend to a thirty year term and so it would certainly limit the amount of tax revenues over  several years unless the development is such that it starts paying these costs back sooner currently we're tonight we're going to talk about it a public hearing and then expect that in the days ahead  as early as the twentieth of july we are looking potentially to see this come for action at the council at that time we will also have a reimbursement an agreement that will last council to approve improvements like the parking and some of the other improvements at the civic center now with this private investment so if this if this investment happens the increased tax revenue could be available to help reimburse those things and that's that's that's obviously significant it's because of all those public infrastructure items that this ends up being a much longer tift than you're accustomed to and i would also point out there had to be there would be priority given to city bonds it would be used for parking that it'll course the details gets built out of the reimbursement agreement draft and will but i just want to point that out so that the game plan would be for the first priority to be for those bonds that would be issued for parking and then there'd be a sharing of the tiff revenue after that  between the developer and the city for the city's other expenses that are going to be funded with the with the but again we're chuck read and i are here to answer any questions thank you jack yes ryan i just like to point out that to mention it about the park the on the west side of pine it's southeast corner of the area the area that is would be overflow parking as well as park primarily i also want to point out that that's noted in the report and the attachment it was noted so the report is what we intend to carry forward for the july twentieth and the last thing is in addition to the reimbursement agreement there's a separate item that would pertain  to develop the operations of the parking garage that we hope to bring to you i hope on july twentieth as well so that you can have the complete picture the last thing i'll say is this is just a really tremendous huge opportunity and a great plus and compliments to the development team for bringing this forward in making this happen like they are yes thank you and he coun investment in this or at least the public infrastructure if you will kind of elongates what we would call more of a traditional time table associate with us kind of curious with the parking structure itself i mean we we've done parking structures before i'm kind of curious about the the seventh street parking infrastructure that was done with brownfield what was its cost per space if you will and just kind of wondering how it stacks up with this but i'm kind of hoping we can figure out a way to build for less than six million dollars as seems high relative to the parking kind of on grade and i know some of this is going to be subsurface but i just want to know if there's any insights into those cost him sure the parking structure on seventh street was built at a cost of four million so there's one hundred  parking space there so i think we're just past twenty thousand space so in this case we're talking about three hundred spaces so we would be a six million dollars twenty thousand space so i think typically that's a standard it's utilized quite often and i think i suspect it depends on the levels and you know that service parking should be less expensive than that well the secondary way up to it has been engineered but you're right most parking service parking if i understand correctly is significant much less expensive the other concerns thank you a lot of exciting things going on boy and do we have parking good thank you so wait till she and her out till july twenty for that about now we go on to the petitioned for the michigan department of natural resources and the no wake zone situation right and who do we talk to for that oh i'm sorry i missed washington school brownfield so many brownfield they're all running together here kate sorry who is going to talk to us about the washington school brownfield is that the return of john john going to bring that up i will just briefly cover and say that this project total cost of this project is much less than the other one was it's about to four hundred sixty two thousand dollars we think the term can be a much less term i believe fifteen years or we've talked about here the majority costs are for demo work inside the building in certain types of of abatements and that sort of thing inside but for the most part this covers those kinds of old will cost that are available with brownfield funding the district includes properties contiguous to the school properties which are those vacant lots are going to be sold to those are within the district so the the increase in revenue on those demolition and abatement i mean that's the vast majority of it and in the total too if it appears that it'll take about ten to twelve years for the reimbursement certainly well with well below or well within your fifteen year policy so that's our estimate of twelve years ok so we'll open this up for a public hearing if anyone came here to speak to the brownfield situation with washington school please come forward tell us your name and address and let you come inside now would be the closing of the public hearing thank you and still counsel have anything and when are we going to vote on this one three requested that we hold a hearing to petition the part of the natural michigan department of natural resources to explore a no slow no wake zone in the area of the narrows that is going to extend from on the east approximately seven hundred feet east of myrtle avenue west to the west of the limits of old orchard as extended staff has been working with the folks at park township to make sure that our ordinance of holes will now match what theirs are and this is the first step of the best of that process the one thing that you will do tonight if you choose to proceed with this is to pass or that a resolution to that will then be sent on to the michigan department natural resources that will kick off their process of investigation and analysis to determine if that slow in the wake zone is indeed warranted stathis is intending to work as closely as we can the officials of park township to make sure that the process is moved together in unison wonderful thanks for your work on that that it sounds like a no brainer but we have to go through all the appropriate channels with all the appropriate people in the about being on time thank you so we would like a public hearing about this no wake sounds of any of you came to address this issue and with like to speak to it please come forward and tell us what you will close the public hearing about the no wake zone and anyone from council have a comment or question yes mike would you like to give it a vote on it first or sure would you like to put out a motion i will adopt recommendation motion by truth you read support support by land any other comments from yes mike i just wanted it to augment a little bit with what matt was saying we already have an ordinance on the books that takes this same area in the narrows on our side of the lake the south side of the lake two hundred feet from shore it was my intent in working with park township to make the whole narrows an awake zone all the way across it it's called the narrows for a reason this years is exceptionally high water exceptionally high problems but this is been an area of contention for an awful long time so let's put it to bed get it taken care of i think the county in the court of the coast guard not wanting to speak for them but are in full agreement with this are and are also willing to patrol and write the tickets when they're needed to enforce the loan so unfortunately it's not going to happen very quickly as nancy said earlier the wheels of government move slowly well the propellers of government move even slower so the d n r has to have their their due diligence we're making our first step working you conjunction with park township so that we can run these things simultaneously get the whole narrows taken care of matt has indicated to me this evening that the the area that we now have on the books the two hundred feet from shore does have the buoys innit so it has been marked so thank you very much for into the adoption of a resolution to create the city of howland home energy retrofit program so we have it explanation of that first and then we'll go to a public hearing jolt i just want to say this is another the mayor and members a city council as i mentioned earlier tonight council be holding up public hearing regarding the home energy retrofit program this is a program that will be housed out of the third floor it is a home improvement program that is designed in such a way to make it easier for homeowners to take measures to do deep energy retrofits to their home this is program has been reviewed by city council a previous meetings and then tonight we will be receiving comments and then there is a recommendation that you adopt the resolution to create this program to give members of the council a little flavor of the way this program is intended to work as we have gone ahead and we have hired a part time residential energy adviser peter bogart is the person who is working on average twenty hours a week upstairs in the third floor homeowners will meet with peter learn about deep energy retrofits they will then have a energy assessment done on their property which will identify improvements that need to be made they will then work with peter to create a plan for those upgrades as well as work with the contractors to make those upgrades and then over the course of for these improvements so if a homeowner is willing to spend north of ten thousand dollars they were receiving twenty percent grant from the city of holland this incentive is similar to other homey per programs that we run on the third floor through home improvement programs as mentioned there is a public hearing tonight three see comments regarding this and then after the public hearing there will we do need a motion to adopt a resolution that would be approving this plan thank you  so we'll open up the public hearing if anyone here in order to speak and this new initiative we will be closing the public hearing yes right i just want to add this program works in concert with a new program that the public works will offer called on bill financing for these energy improvements thanks to our former legislators and the governor in the legislature so that will make available to people large fifteen thousand that want to take it from there sure so a sister program to this home energy retrofit is right mentioned as the ability to finance these improvements on your w bill if you're a resident of the city of holland the reds the all the improvements i believe on those things is actually five thousand dollars is when you can start doing the financing on the program there and depending on the amount you're  going to finance and how quickly it paid off your interest rate fluctuates between two points i don't know exactly what this point sorry it is important also to note and i like to think growing for bringing this up these programs are going to be ready to go starting august first so more or less the third floor has about forty five days working with our counterparts and salaries at the b p w to get this program up and running we anticipate on having what we're calling community conversations over the next forty five days to introduce this program residents as well as contractors to get people excited and start drumming up support and you know lining up the applications for this program and people can pay back over fifteen years on their utility bills and hopefully with the savings achieved one other comment regarding the on bill financing we just actually had a meeting today talking about that our plan is to offer loans between five and thirty thousand dollars and if you have a ten year loan the interest rates going to be four point nine nine percent of you have a fifteen year loan it's going to be five point nine nine percent so it's very attractive financing the entry levels are very easy to get to basically you have to have twelve months consistent bill paying history on your electric bill you have to be a resident city of holland and you have to be of e p w your letter customer and but your credit score is not necessarily going to determine whether you are eligible for the lo great thank you so if people hear this and it sounds really good day is it a two step process where you go to the city and the b p w or can you just show up at the city you can show up on the third floor of city hall and we will be able to walk you through that process thank you any other questions or comments from co while this represents changing legislation at the state level and a lot of hard work and coordination in whole new area for the city to help people save money but make it possible to get to that point because we'll help you on the way with saving energy great thank you do we have a public hearing for this ari can you remember yes ok thank you all right do we have a motion for passes eight zero thank you sir now we are and to public comment this is the part in the agenda where you may come and address the council on any items that isn't already listed in what we are going to st cover in this meeting so you may come give us your name and address and have five minutes to talk to us about whatever is on your heart green is go yellow means one minute and red means you're done good evening my name is diane quaker and i am the director of the hare district library and today i want to talk to you a little bit about the things that have been happening at her district library and man if you have that video can you show the video this is just a very brief video to give you some highlights of what's happened at the library in the past year in the greater holland community we treasure imagination it drives our economy and feeds our entrepreneurial culture imagination allows us to look at things we have always known in a different way and help us solve community challenges together imagination is central to hair district library a place where ideas are explored studied in born the library serves and is paid for by the residents of holland park and like downtown chips as well as the city of holland nearly half of these neighbors have one wonderful thing in common they own a hair district library card one point four million items were checked out or downloaded with library cards last year spreading ideas in new ways of looking at the world to people  cross our community library computers and wireless internet were accessed almost four hundred fifty times a day assisting the one out of five michiganders without internet in their homes the library helps young children discover the joy of reading through early literacy techniques shared by staff both inside the library and out in our community instructive and enlightening experiences from lectures to one on one help with mobile devices allow thousands of people to learn more about the world around us nearly seven hundred eighty thousand people visited the library last year more than visited the grand rapids public museum and west michigan white cats games come by and imagination is a treasured resource available in abundance through the every day work and service of herrick district library we are proud to be committed to this community that we call home so our library has worked very hard to meet the needs of our community community and well books are a core to what we do they are not the only thing we do so much more we have formats like ebooks any audio books we have digital music and digital magazines that we have streaming music streaming movies and documentaries available for our card holders to check out we help bridge that digital divide we with our partners have offered one on  one counseling for businesses who are startups we have done one on one help with digital devices so that if you don't know how to use that device you have received we will help you learn how to download books or use the libraries resources on that digital device we have offered one on one assistance with social media we have early literacy backpacks our young adult librarians and children's librarians are experts in early literacy and train parents and school members on how to work with kids and early literacy we have partnered with grand valley state university hope college the city of holland the outdoor discovery center low ready for school board of public  works for each chamber of commerce local public schools and many more to offer great programs in our community so why is all of this important and why am i telling you this today first to let you know what a great resource we have in this community in the herrick district library and the second is that we do have funding that is important to the library and the library will be requesting or going for a millage in august of this year august second there will be a question on the ballot for park township how in township hall and city and lake town township in one thousand nine hundred ninety six the district library was formed and was formed by requesting each of those municipalities to vote for the formation of the district and to fund the district library at that time we asked for one point five mils for funding and thankfully all of those municipalities did vote for the district library so that library was formed in the question on the ballot this year it will say that this is a new and additional tax and it says that because this is the first time that we are voting as a district library we do not need to pass this individually in each of those four municipalities we need to pass it district wide so we just want to know the language we wanted to know that that question was on the ballot and encourage everyone to vote on august second thank you so the money requested is not going to change we are we are asking for one point five mils which is a renew and benefit anglin say if he saw that video where libraries have guy that's it's wonderful and it's great to live in a community that values education thanks diane and the other comments from the audience about eighteen properties that they own eleven st between lincoln avenue in fairbanks avenue as noted on the map in front of you properties are currently zoned r t r n which is our traditional residential  council rezone the property is to build additional student housing as noted in the site plan here and they would also be looking to build some parking  that goes to the east of this property also and i don't know if we have that slide i don't believe we do so there would be one hundred space parking lot east of this property or east of where these student housing is is noted along with the six new proposed buildings need to inform you also that the planning commission did hold a public hearing last night in official site  plan that whole college presented to them in the planning commission approved the site plan for the six new buildings in the parking lot of one of the conditions on their approval was that city council actually rezone the property so  reviewing the proposed site plans and it was noted by city council members that he wanted the college in the planning commission to the site plan review process to to look real  closely buffering in screening of these properties from other twelve street properties to the south and believe that we have those concerns adequately addressed in the site plan that was approved by city council last night so i'll just stop my comments with that and council has any questions i'd be happy to answer college is a great school a great asset to the city there's no question about that this is really a question of land usage i think it's a mixed bag of colleges made many improvements to help this neighborhood some however have i think to say destabilize the existing neighborhood and if you look at the blue section there you can see how large this area has grown as the college increases in size single family homes decrease rentals increase student housing increases and the neighborhood changes churches move or close in schools or so  remaining owner occupied neighbors hang on and yet get more and more frustrated with the students so college in the city property owners compete for habitat problems of parking traffic noise student behavior density and responsibility and care for property strain the very core of this neighborhood these challenges of the neighborhood have been allowed to slowly change the environment of this neighborhood since the one nine hundred sixty s and maybe before kelley just purchased over one hundred properties in the traditional residential neighborhood zoning and now wishes to place eight hundred of them in the educational district under the cover of their master plan the city of holland the whole college need to come to a clearer vision for both the city neighbors and the college east and this eastern part of the course it needs to be given some additional care i think if you look at the map you can see how this area has been eroded a single family homes nothing wrong with a college that's changed  know i really appreciate your comments and agree with a lot of the concern around you know what's happened i think that's that's partly why earlier this year i was so adamant we were talking about parking  and leveraging some of the tools that we had to restrict some of the expansion of of the student rental housing and so we put some things in place and this council has to help curb some of that spread in terms of number of unrelated individuals that can live together a number of parking spaces at a property how did welling in through conversations that we've had and the presentation that came last week it seems like not only is this kind of the the cap on the expansion but through some of the other tools that hope has put in place with the walk to work and so the neighborhood investments on there and i'm really appreciating them stepping up but you know at the end of the day i think it comes down to kind of finishing off that block and expansion but really making sure that we're pushing for things that we can do to help  reinvest and get single family owner occupied houses throughout that fourteenth fifteenth sixteenth street as we've talked about her number of people talk about so so i think it's also really important having us table and having the presentation come in and gregg and sharing some of the vision and giving us a little bit of that and then i'm also pleased to see that there's revision around say plans to keep some of that  assurances around the green space between the development in the homeowners on twelfth so thank you right i  think this is a really well thought out plan so thank you hope for letting us look at this and coming in and being so generous with your time the only thing i have a concern that i brought this up during planning commission is the consideration of the corner and if very large parking spot that would most likely be underutilized with the exception of basketball games and some soccer games i have some concerns over this this parking issue that i don't really think exists and i know there's an issue with people parking on twelfth street and there's some challenges there but dedicating green space to vacated asphalt to me is a precarious situation that i want to make sure that we're we're not going down in other areas bulldozing homes for for parking seems that seems like really the wrong  path long term so as long as we're conscious of that i would like to make sure that that's considered in addition to the of the homes on these properties so thank you again looking forward to seeing this bil the other comments i believe the point of the about the construction of the parking lot was brought up and planning commission level that it will be a permeable surface so there will be runoff as is now the policy for any parking that hope builds also that the specific these facilities will be housing upper class students who otherwise would live in rentals off campus so there w be supervision and central to their location which i think is also a help to the neighborhood eventually whatever other place they would've moved to otherwise but i do think it's important for us to continue to talk with the neighbors and i saw one of those conversations happening at the planning commission level on tuesday so it's a good to have synergy that way and to be able to go to each other's offices and and discuss how we can better involve the neighborhood and keep it the great city great college combination that we have so do we have we have a motion and  second could we have a roll call please tim yes the motion passes seven one thank you tim then we go down to six point one gets could you please read those for us as well city managers office is pleased to report the following gifts for the holland youth connections program mr and mrs george stemm us merger e one hundred dollars mr and mrs thomas and suzanne ten hovey one hundred dollars robert de noir chevrolet two thousand dollars mister and mrs matthew and carrie steen work four hundred dollars one hundred thirty seven dollars in the harden excuse me holland garden club three thousand dollars for the digraph nature center brick and land improvement and a howell one hundred dollars for the vendor altie farm living room and dining room in kind donation from rip coal like paints wallpaper valued at eleven hundred eighty five dollars and seventy cents for the sell per as scholarship to recreation office of twenty dollars the matter and concession stand of one hundred eighty seven dollars and forty cents and for the windmill island gardens community garden linda twenty five dollars vendor hi twenty five dollars holland garden club inc five hundred dollars it's recommended that these donations be accepted with appreciation an expression of gratitude be forwarded and he said donors from a great community giving back making places better and helping people grow to be better to that's really inspiring so we're on to communications from the city manager right caton no i miss something six point two six point two sorry oh yes the civic center we took that off sorry the civic center place public improvement it's scheduling of a public hearing which means we'd like to discuss that further and ryan would you like to talk about that thank you the action tonight is to basically reaffirm the action two weeks ago to formally set a public he project and then direct any questions to someone in city hall and specifically anyone in our offices so that is the long and short of this agenda item and i can go much longer much deeper and i'd be happy you to the questions for question thank you yes brian yes i don't think that's necessary i remove this from the agenda because i wanted to emphasize we had a discussion upstairs and and it was with regard to the language of special assessment and there's a clarification from the city attorney with regards to that being a special session of the neighbors directly adjacent to this area not a common project for the all for all of the city so that just a language between we i guess myself and several others were confused that special susman meant or it meant tax millage and it doesn't in this case correct city attorney can address that best yet that is correct by charter we have to indicate how much of a project would be funded by special assessments typically for example a sidewalk or a water main installation would be assessed to the properties that they go in front of because they benefit here it's a citywide benefit so it's funded through tax rate i just wanted to clarify that and one thing we also talked about so we're expecting to discuss this next week the session that yourself and the city finance manager also bring to our attention what that is that tax millage site would look like so that we have a little bit better understanding of of that because that also came up to be great we will correct we intend to  related to next study session next week yes and we do want everybody to know july sixth is the day for you to come to a city council meeting to tell us what you think about the civic center place project and how important you think that is to the community so please come on down to lie six thank you brian for taking that off ok now we're going to communications from the city manager thank you to items i'm pleased to say captain to me and chief messer have announced that they've received the most recent public fire protection classification rating what does that mean that means that our rating improvement for two or three which is a positive outcome and should make a difference in insurance rates to the holland community so goes to them for working through that reclassification that comes up and that's definitely the right direction to go  interest in working through the city of holland you come to us with a multitude of years of experience and human resources and we look forward to working with you to benefit our community through benefiting our internal customers and doing everything we can to make sure that they're successful in their work thank you great thank you madam there yes mr truly we need to go back to the six point two and vote on that we pulled it off so we did not vote thank you ok we are right to go to communications from the mayor thank you i received the e mail blotter from buddy dyer who is the mayor at the city of orlando florida and i thought what he said was good and often what every community needs to think in in light of whatever happens that we can't control and that we need to respond to so this past sunday was the most horrific day in the history of the city of orlando and yet i have never been more proud of our community because of the way they have come together united with a singular focus of supporting the families and friends of the victims but her ex of our orlando police department as well as other law enforcement and the actions of our citizens in no doubt saved lives throughout the night the medical personnel in our city were fearless as they worked to save the lives of those transported to their hospital they are heroes i cannot overestimate the gratitude i have for the dedication of our city employees through long hours they have helped in every way possible to lead our city through this weekend's events we will be a better city because of this we will not be defined by the act of a cowardly hater we will be defined by how we respond and how we treat each other and isn't that what every community is defined by how we respond to whatever happens to us individually or as a community and how we treat each other and we shouldn't have to wait for that kind of event to be grateful for those who serve us in public safety for those who serve us in the medical profession for those who work throughout the city and all the different services that provide so much for the beautiful quality of life that we enjoy here in holland michigan so take time to say thank you when you see somebody serving us in whatever capacity and let's all keep working to make a positive difference in our world today we have street performers come in tomorrow again they will run from noon to eight thirty that just at night anymore this summer they're trying that the lake shore ethnic and diversity alliance is having its twentieth anniversary party this thursday at the midtown center that will be great juneteenth has been having events throughout this go throughout the day from i believe one until eight at collin park on saturday and then sunday is father's day and i don't think it's good to skip over that because this community has been built by many very dedicated fathers and of course it's reverend been royalty was one of the first with his group that came here but i i served with some very dedicated fathers as well people that take responsibility for their own wives their family's lives their work life and their communities life and i really struck in this community with the leadership and grace and selfless perspective of so many fathers in this area my dad died this past summer and so i especially  appreciate what has been done in my life with having had a strong father who cared and helped encourage me through so many challenges in my life and was was never looking for credit for himself and i think so many times it's very easy to take for granted that kind of perspective that every day service that type of responsibility and i think it's very important for all of us to realize that it is it is each of our duties to honor the fathers in our community and in our lives so that is it for comments from the mayor any communications from council members hosted us we went to frankenmuth that last week and they are coming here on the eleventh so if you see frankenmuth people smile and wave they were wonderful hosts for us and it is a real joy and a privilege to be able to show them around holland and really enjoy have an almost a vacation day ourselves with them so we're looking forward to that and also if you are new to holland the fourth of july is  park here we have fireworks over the like it's a wonderful way to relax and enjoy being with family and friends and can appreciate that makes this wonderful country that we live in yes mike i need to just expand upon just a little bit about what you were talking about with ranking with to me the reason that they're coming here is because we are participating for the first time in a number of years in what's called mayors exchange there's exchange is a function through michigan municipal league that allows cities of like kind to send contingents to each other to learn a little bit about how the other half lives how things happen over there possibly get some ideas get some brainstorming have some time of camaraderie and things like that so a small contingent when it was a june third of june actually june second and  we haven't done in a number of years and i'm very welcoming scene come back and it was always great just to see how different cities operate how different councils operate how they interact with each other and we gain some great ideas staff goes along  contacted us so perfect and they had a great idea you will love mike called the dog ball all right all types of obstacle courses or whatever and dogs compete like the olympics what a perfect summer for that so yeah there are it's fun to talk to other people and see how other cities do what they do and and also just to get to know people that we can call so it's great and he got see everything else has been handled correct and now we have to come to the and of the this meeting but after this we will have a close session to review the personnel that you ation we need to close out of for the personality i have such request here in writing to give to the city clerk and then we need a motion to make a motion to go in to close the aforementioned personal