good evening ladies and gentlemen welcome to this regularly scheduled meeting the house and city council or first business meeting in the month of october in order to get our meeting moving thank you we open our meetings with two items one a prayer which this evening will be led by council member bryan birch and that will be followed by the pledge of allegiance to our flag i would invite those of you who in the audience who are able to please rise and join us in those two items please pray with me most high and glorious god govern us by all your wisdom so that our souls may always serve you and not only as we may choose  your way so that we may ascend to the heights and happiness of heaven and up punish us by granting that which we wish or ask if it offends your love we pray that will always live inside us gracious and ever given god and light in the darkness of our minds give us a right faith affirm hope and a perfect charity that we may always and in all things act according to your holy will many of you in the chambers this evening i see have found the paper copies of the agenda which are available in the back of the room for those watching either by live stream or community access television you may also access those in that information on line go to the cities home page and click on agendas and then click on today's date and you will see the agenda and all of the background material that city council members of it access to to assist in their decision making you will see that by looking at that agenda that there are a number of items that are marked with an asterisk those items are on what we call the consent to genda which is a means of dealing with routine items or items that have been previously discussed at a study session or an earlier session and all of those items will be dealt with in a single motion and with a single vote it may be that you have come to address one of those items that's marked with an asterisk and would like to be able to speak to that item separately if that's the case once we've heard the summary of the consent agenda i will give an opportunity for members of the audience to remove items from the consent agenda and the same for city council members any items that are removed from the consent agenda will be dealt with in their regular order as they are on the agenda and will come up for a separate vote at that time however so that we can know exactly what we're dealing with i would like to ask em up to give us a summary of what is evening's consent agenda item for b to approve the minutes of the study sessions held september ninth twenty third in thirtieth answer a special joint meeting held with the home board of public works september twenty three two thousand and fifteen item for c to accept and file executed else of office from various boards and commissions item twelve a one to approve a contract with storm technologies inc in the amount of forty two thousand one hundred twenty eight dollars and fifty cents and a project contingency get in the amount of seven thousand eight seventy one fifty to cover additional expenses required for unit three and four boiler tune ups and junior assessment and two a transfer perm contingency fifty thousand dollars for on budgeted expenses and to authorize important twelve a three to approve a contract with can't power in the total amount of five hundred eighty thousand six hundred two for the james street substation modification work and to authorize the mayor deputy clerk to sign contract pending city attorney approval twelve a for to approve a contract with jan extend them not to exceed amount of three hundred eight thousand two hundred seventy five for pipelining radiograph inspection services and to authorize the mayor and deputy clerk to sign deputy clerk to sign contract pending city attorney approval twelve c one to approve an agreement with perry perry davidson for a two year lease for two motorcycles at a cost of three thousand dollars per year and to authorize the mayor and deputy clerk to sign said agreement for twelve do you want to refer a claim filed against the city to the city's insurance carrier and city attorney for consideration twelve easy one point one to approve a contract with the city of the island to provide plumbing inspections for the city at a compensated rate of fifty to fifty three dollars per inspection and to authorize the mayor and deputy clerk to sign contract pending city attorney of twelve one point two to adopt a resolution designating the mayor as authorized signatory of required grant amendment for the historic and other contract related document item twelve e's three point one two approve the recommendation to reject the bid received for the installation of handrails at city hall him twelve point two to approve an agreement with public financial management group for financial advisor services for the two thousand and fifteen limited tax general obligation bonds at a cost of forty five thousand two hundred fifty dollars and to authorize a mayor and deputy clerk to sign contract pending the attorney approval i am twelve point three to approve an inner agency cash transfer agreement with michigan rehabilitation services authorized the mayor and city clerk to sign said agreement with conditions as stated in and report item twelve four point one to approve the bid submitted by national construction for the way really road fire station rear driveway and site improvements in an amount not to exceed fifty four thousand three hundred seven dollars and forty four cents allocated from the municipal capital improvement fund reserves for the for your station improvements and to authorize the mayor and deputy clerk to sign pending city attorney approv form twelve easy for point two to adopt a resolution authorizing the city's participation in the michigan mutual aid box alarm system and to authorize the mayor and deputy clerk to sign the fire department aid agreement pending city attorney approval s to form i then twelve point two to approve a residential sidewalk variance for properties located at twelve sixty eight and twelve seventy six beach drive and five sixty seven ramona drive i am twelve a five point three two adopt a resolution scheduling a public curing for november eighteenth two thousand and fifteen to declare the albertine property as surplus as this property is located outside the city limits and to otherwise the deputy to publish notice to hear objections of disposition up said property item twelve five point four to approve the bid submitted by methe midwest energy group in the amount of eighteen thousand eight hundred forty for performance of twelve energy building audit reports to be allocated from fiscal year two thousand and sixteen commercial and industrial task force pilot program and to authorize a marin deputy clerk to sign contracts pending city attorney approval twelve five point five to approve a contract with soon hamas sorry energy solutions in a not to exceed amount of ten thousand dollars for the third party review services of the snyder electric investment grade audit to be allocated by the building energy performance labeling authorised mayor the mayor and the deputy clerk to sign petty pending city attorney approval last a form item twelve easy five point six two adopt the following joint resolution with the hound board of public works to amend the annual appropriation from the how on board of public works net income and to appropriate funds to the hauen energy trust item twelve e six point one two approve the speed limit change from twenty mph to thirty mph forty ninth street from me to pine ave by resolution as recommended by the traffic committee item twelve east six point two to postpone until they are told or twenty one two thousand and fifteen regular council meeting for notification to be sent to adjacent property owners for comment of the proposed changes to parking spaces it's on the east side of college avenue for loading and unloading zone from six to ten am item twelve east six point three to approve the speed limit change from twenty five miles per hour to thirty miles our river avenue north of first street by resolution as recommended by the traffic committee item twelve east six point four to postpone until the october twenty first two thousand and fifteen regular meeting for notification to adjacent property owners for comment of the proposed change of the installation of no parking signs east side of country club road north of legion park drive east six point five to approve a purchase order agreement with black gold transport in the amount of thirty five thousand for the two thousand and fifteen h m a pathway resurfacing project with funds to be allocated from the sidewalk improvement found twelve e six point six two except the sidewalk and utility easement at one sixty one one seventy five one eighty five one ninety three two zero three and two or ninety states street and to authorize a total payment of nine thousand five hundred two dollars and four cents to the property owner item twelve east six point seven two approve a project a budget for treat planning installation of repairs on central avenue in the amount not to exceed seventeen thousand and to authorize staff to include as a change order under the central avenue construction contract with cam and rabbit twelve east six point eight to approve a budget in the amount of twenty nine thousand for irrigation improvements along eighth street to include as a change order under the central avenue construction contract with  and road its twelve e's seven point one to accept as information the implementation of the city's email retention policy item twelve e's seven point two to approve the purchase of a new tangent data  retention appliance with a three year meaning and contract in the amount of seven thousand eight hundred forty five dollars and item twelve the seven point three two approved area of construction cost and purchase of equipment through comcast for a fib optic connection for the ca t v channels in the amount of twenty five thousand two hundred eighty dollars and three cents thank you adam nicely done particularly considering we changed the numbers that was hard so you have heard the summary of the consent agenda and all of those items will be dealt with on a single motion and a single vote unless someone in the audience or someone on council asks for an item to be removed if that happens it will be dealt with in its usual sequence is there anyone from the audience that w like any of the items that were listed an item that was listed in the consent agenda to be removed from the consent agenda seeing not any member of council that would like items removed mr just twelve twelve east six go to learn the numbers over again six point one i'm sorry six point one bead limit revision on late night street right that is removed that's the only one that you need destroyed to remove item twelve three point three twelve three point three has been special order of the day public hearings first item is a public hearing on the neighborhood enterprise joel you have this report correct i have this report that could be the mayor and members or council for those in the audience and those at home watching on t v that me introduce myself my name is joe di i am the interim director of community and neighborhood services this evening city council is going to hold a public hearing every guard proposed neighborhood enterprise zone to be located at one twenty four east six tre t for those in the audience or those who are just curious on a neighborhood enterprise zone i'll give you the quick ten seconds summary a neighborhood enterprise zone is a development incentive zone where the city will freeze tech property taxes on a parcel for in a certain amount of time to allow residential development to occur there that area we're looking at for this is known as one twenty four six street this is located north of the down floor to and install roughly twelve to fifteen one in two bedroom apartments this plan does mean our downtown strategic vision for this area of introducing housing in this corridor is being worked in your current update to our city's master plan where we'd like to see housing growth in our north of our downtown area to help make this project go forward the developer as asked city council to consider you know establishing the neighborhood enterprise zone in this area tonight is the night when we receive public comment primarily from other taxing jurisdictions who might not receive the same amount of taxes they received in years past comments that are received tonight will be taken by staff for review and feedback our plan is on your november fourth regular meeting as one city council will be taking official action on whether to approve this neighborhood enterprise zone or not so will be no action from the city council it's just to receive comments and then for those comments the staff are reviewing study any questions from city council about tonight's public hearing all right i guess at this point i will declare public hearing to be open if there is anyone who wishes to address council this neighborhood enterprise  your this is your opportunity the rules are that if you have something to say that you come forward to the podium you indicate your name your residential address and if you are speaking for a taxing entity that you state which entity you are speaking for and the to limit your comments to five minutes anybody the neighborhood enterprise will i will declare the public hearing to be closed and that's the extent of what we need to roll over twenty one i married and yes good evening city mayor and city council thank you for having me this evening my name is dana color and i am the downtown director for the city of how and first on your agenda for public hearing is the downtown parking operations and maintenance assessment in new delhi the properties that are in downtown and within four hundred feet of a public parking lot are specially a sassed in to operations of the downtown parking system that includes staff administration to run our program and also maintenance of all of the public parking lots or  parking lots that we actually lease for public space in the downtown the funds raised from the assessment also go towards lease payments of some of the lots that we i actually are privately owned that we use for our parking system  we do have a variation that's applied in terms of the rates to our properties that are within this four hundred foot zone so depending on the type of use and what particularly if you're on the ground floor or second floor then the rate is reduced as you move up in height in the building so there are different rates applied depending on where you are within the particular parcel and in downtown the amount assessed during  fiscal year two thousand and fifteen was one hundred ninety three thousand eight hundred forty five dollars ninety seven cents and that amounted to a base first floor square footage rate of essentially thirty three cents and this year is a three percent increase being  suggested and will result in revenue of one hundred ninety nine thousand six hundred eighty dollars and fifty seven cents tonight where recommending that city council approve the draft downtown parking operation maintenance assessment role and adopt a resolution scheduling a public hearing for the final  to address that issue with the same rules apply state your name and address for the record and you have up to five minutes e schedule the role of hearing for our meeting on october twenty one so we support district was created in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight with the purpose of providing a comprehensive coordinated approach to promoting downtown the p s d is dedicated to enhancing downtown in a variety of ways through promotion and marketing of downtown that event excuse me parade of lights and new upcoming events like the fall fast jingle jam and hope paps we do business advocacy with the funds raised through the p s t assessment we hold various business some in ours and workshops and keep up and maintain and enhance the down town hall and website seasonal advertising image and branding and business recruitment the p c assessment was approved a number of years ago and we are now proposing a change to the assessment rates in fiscal year two thousand and sixteen as a result of fiscal year two thousand and fifteen assessment generated just over one hundred seventy eight thousand dollars in fiscal year two thousand and sixteen will generate one hundred seventy eight nine hundred forty three dollars and forty cents so we are asking at this time that city council approved the draft assessment roll and adopt a resolution scheduling a public hearing for the final this is the time for the public hearing on the principle shopping district same rules apply will declare public hearing to be open and i will declare the public hearing to be closed final hearing this evening public hearing necessity the snowmelt operations and maintenance assist thank you before council this evening as a consideration to approve a draft know my operations assessment either in the street or sidewalk and this year the rates have been changed slightly in terms of how they have been calculated the rates are based on a per square foot basis versus a linear foot basis in the attempt to make sure that the program as equitable as possible and we were finding that it was necessary to recalculate the assessment rate based on the actual length and with the sensually of where snow melt is adjacent to a property versus just the linear feet as we have varying sidewalk blitz throughout the snow melt assessment district in addition we did find that most of the properties through this methodology actually side decrease although we're increasing the total amount by five percent because it affected different properties in a variety of ways so this year the front of the linear foot rate was five dollars roughly a linear foot for  twenty one dollars for a street snow melt for linear feet based on linear feet this year but through this change we're seeing that the assessment rate will be roughly thirty nine cents per square foot  to some city properties especially in parking areas and those will be covered by funds through the downtown parking fund so again before you we have this evening the snow melt assessment and scheduling the the hearing for the twenty first all funds generated through this assessment go towards operating the snow my system maintaining the snail mail system and making sure that it's in a good working order each year all right thank you one last time i will declare the public hearing of the snowmelt operation and maintenance role to be open become it will be accepted seeing none i declared public hearing to be closed to the council what is your pleasure with regard to that role hearing total assessment will be let me make sure i have this correct i had switched different pages so i don't have a committed to memory so let me take a look at that it is a total of one hundred seventy four thousand six hundred fifty four dollars and ninety three cents thank you ok any other questions you brings us down to items seven unfinished business a traffic change believe that was rescheduled specifically to this meeting so it is currently on the floor before us at this time mayor we would like to meet the recommendation on this to keep it on his table as we received a letter not position for this item p and we would like to present it back to the traffic committee so they can study it further all right we have a recommendation to send this with the opposition back to the traffic committee leave it on the table until the next business meeting after the traffic committee i complete its review of the public comment thank you that was  have heard the recommendation to leave this until the traffic to where he is to had a chance to take a look at it again and make that motion as he said it's a part as he said tonight to address city council on an item that is not in the agenda tonight this is your opportunity to do so we would invite you to come to the podium again state your name and address for the record and you have up to five minutes to address council item we do have a time keeping system for you if you will notice in front of the  diocese here in front of me there are a series of lights and a little green light will come on when you start and after four minutes the light will change to yellow which indicates you have a minute left and when your time expires the light will turn red so good evening welcome good evening city council my name is i representing my family for lipscomb family our current address is two six five east fifteenth street holland michigan for nine four two three i would like to address the council in regards to policy regarding any damages that may occur due to the construction over the entire city and how it's being handled i would like to know from the council how i can obtain the accurate information as it's supposed to go to the council from what i understand it has went through twice and it was voted upon twice and i would just like the council to inform me or direct me on how i can get access to that written information and i would wish state that the city council voted not once but twice to deny our claims if that can be answered generally when a claim is filed against the city it comes to us and we then refer it to our insurance carrier for disposition and then that if this relates to the construction sixteenth street last summer urged their new matter that is of concern there's also a new matter that is pending city manager and since we have yet to get clarification on this matter it has delayed our process and submitting a claim on another matter we need to understand as a family as well as the citizens how this proceeds through and i am aware thank you mayor for informing me  of that it is to go through your insurance carrier but upon filing the complaint each citizen is the giving the city ordinance which states that it does go to the council first and i was also told by the manager's office that not only went to the council once but that it had gone through twice and it was denied both times and then from there it was proceeded to your third party vendor who is supposed to handle that as well as the other construction team however they did receive the information told june twenty fourth supporting that that claim even existed so there could be some clarification as to what the process is supposed to look like going forward because i have another pending claim as well and if there was indeed the matter taken before the council and voted on not once but twice i would like written notification and know where i can pick that notification information up for further consideration at this time where i believe the first item just clarification i'm not sure exactly where  there's i'm confused by some of the information you just received the one and sixteenth street was actually when it came to my attention was not timely filed i spoke to the insurance carrier and their staff and it was over the time limit if you get with it's ninety days or longer something like that so that was waived and that was considered and it was reviewed by the individual the claims adjuster and is correct that did not was not considered something that was you know covered by insurance thomas let's go to request there was an appeal and that appeal was considered as well and at that point i'm not sure you know where the trail is so i have to verify and get back to you and make sure that you were notified as to what the status  was i'm not familiar with the the second one that want to course would come to council i'm not sure if every city clerk is aware for you receive it for information in the basically in your agend s it's not not something that you act i'm rather you prefer it so to just for the record there have not been any denials by the city council of any claim at least not to my knowledge  in recent years and someone please correct me if i'm wrong i believe that's correct it would have been referred to as it would have been brought to us and refer referred by us to our insurance company but then other than it's up to the insurance company to deny or approve a claim so it would have been the insurance company that didn't deny the claim not us individually and i believe you can get verification from the city attorney to be sure but i believe your recourse is if the insurance company rejects the appeal your opportunity to contest that would be to file a claim with the court correct that would be correct yes mr merrett is five min i'm sorry so your we did not to as a city council action we did not know your claim the insurance company denied claims and your recourse once the insurance company  ok can we can we slow down the minute the insurance company is not here to represent themselves nor my asking them to there was a simple statement put out there on behalf of the man it's the city manager's office it was stated to me not not not only on once but twice and in any any further occasions and even i your claim form on the front it says that it will go through the council ok if this indeed has changed in the paperwork that's being passed out to to the public is a incorrect or b needs to be updated because it's antiquated at best because that's not what it says and furthermore if it did come to you whether it be put to a popular vote or a secular vote or a private vote there should be some documentation referring that as well as to when it had occurred who was involved and not the insurance company because it's your city ordinance that we're talking about not right now not the insurance company and i was told that the city council voted on this matter not once but twice and all i'm asking for is the written information that shows that not once but twice this claim was thinking took counsel and i through counsel that's what i've been being told i've been holding on to that and almost for a year the insurance company was not a part of this situation so i don't think it's fair for the insurance company to be brought into this situation since there's not any representative for the insurance company here to represent themselves and since this claim has been being held it cannot be filed in a timely fashion if it's being held up by council or any part of council it enables me to file it through the necessary and proper channels to get it handled if i don't have the necessary documentation again my question is how do i get that documentation not once but twice that it was stated that it went through city council that's all i need not five minutes just an answer to that question and which office with me i pick that information up so i can prepare to see through the legal system which you're telling me i would have to go to anyways to get this matter settled i need the information from counsel or from wherever you it comes from whether or not the item team before city council and was voted on would be noted in the minutes of the council meetings that have transpired since that time so we could have somebody from city hall look through those minutes to determine if in fact there was something that came before us other than referring it to the insurance company we will give you that information but to my knowledge the only items that were brought to city council regarding your claims was the vote to refer them to the city city's insurance company nothing to do with any denial or approval of a claim against the city and i can appreciate that sir but in going forward there seems to be some confusion because the paperwork that your hand out to that side tach to the claim form specifically states that in the second to the last well actually the last paragraph in almost the last sentence is specifically states that it will go through council if that indeed has been changed and the paperwork has not been updated before going forward with my next claim which is pending the ability to get the information from my first claim satisfied then that would be fine so going forward we would not have this confusion i miss understanding of who handles what and how it's supposed to be processed that's why we have the city government thank you we also we will also review the language on the form to make sure that i is both clear and current with practice and sir can you tell me where and who is responsible for getting me that information so that i can be go go to the right party and pick up that information once you've had the opportunity to scroll through the minutes this claim actually came before the camp council and when it was referred off to whatever party you referred off to please direct me as to where to go because i don't want to go to the wrong person with the wrong expectations thank you i believe we have your name and address and contact information on file we will undertake that review promptly and once the review is done we will contact you to let us to let you know what we have found you that review and also you need to take i would ask that the council take into consideration because of this issue being long gone in drag out it has enabled my family to  put forth another petition in motion for damages as well because of the language and the misunderstanding between what is currently residing with the first claim we want to make sure that we are fair to the council fair to the city fair to the citizens in responding to that and doing it in a professional fashion thank you thank you we will take care of that evening good evening my name is pat was my address is thirteen seventy one floor right avenue zealand michigan however i own a business on twenty fourth street and i just want to make sure i heard item seven a correctly i've been on a little hard of hearing around a factory it's noisy in the factory so i mean not hear everything correctly did i understand that it was it is chaired for a period of time to determine if we can park on twenty four street or not i have a support letter from another business owner on twenty four street also asking for the ability to park in front of his building the address is five eighty one ottawa avenue it's a it's a condominium building there's really  small electronics who is supporting it tommy carwash who is supporting it and yost manufacturing and i'm with you oh so manufactured so the three entities on twenty fourth street are all supporting it for years we parked there and a number of other people parked there about twenty years ago we were running into trouble backing into the building on twenty fourth street there's one loading dock in the middle of the building that faces north and it would at times interrupt traffic flow because the semi would park what would back into the truck well there and it would interrupt traffic on twenty four street we were told that we needed to put in a loading dock on the sole side of the building so we needed to do that while we actually had to buy that portion of the building to gain access to the loading dock what we're asking for is is so i'm going to be sidetracked a minute about twenty years ago we asked for no parking signs to be put up on twenty fourth street and at the time we were told by police chief cried off here's a couple of signs you hang them up yourselves it will get done a lot faster so that's what took place some twenty years ago we put the signs up there's one sign there it's been there some twenty years i've parked there daily for the last twenty years about early june because of traffic flow into  semis were parking the length of twenty four street on then or side on the south side and it caused a traffic jam well one day when i was parked there they stopped a police officer and said hey that car's parked in a no parking zone because of sciences no parking this side of the street i was unfit was not issued a ticket i was asked to move and i said politely i've been here twenty years parking here well you can't park there i said what do i need to do so i started with tammy at the traffic department and i started this petition in june i have been parking all about three hundred feet away every day in front of me instead of infront of my building to get to my building i'm asking can the sign be taken down so i can park in front of the business the other three occupants of this building are asking the same thing to have it studied i don't see the validity in studying it it's it's there's a site there's a building there's a sidewalk there's an apron of about eight and a half feet prior to the road can we park on the apron it's one sign if you need to study it ok i need to know when it's going to be studied and when we can expect a response so i think i heard everything but white who goes to our traffic committees he's our city engineer and i'll give you three copies and you're you'll be aware of the questions that have been asked there's about a questions that deserve appropriate review questions ok do you want this support letter i mean i've sent support letters on behalf of my business but here's another one from another entity that we would like to have that at the traffic committee and then we'll come back to counsel's party anyone else that has an item to address council on under public all right item ten adoption of ordinance rezoning of five thirty two west sixteenth street from the c one district to the p u d district let me quick bents the slides here ok really in a nutshell well you can see the the affected property here the request basically is coming to the city council from the planning commission but with the support of the property owners immediately to the west here this is these properties are owned by a lake mack developers council members will remember hopefully you remember that probably five six years ago the residential condominium property across the street to the district to accommodate that residential development it's incurring there right now at the same time there are these two properties right here at sixteenth street and saw shore drive rezone to the  district and the vision of the developer for these two properties here was that this was going to be a mixed use building retail in residential this past spring the city in cooperation with the lake mack developers purchased this property just to the east of that it's a one hundred about one hundred thirty two foot parcel and the city entered into an agreement to sell the west sixty feet of this property woods which is shown in black here to lake mack developers in to the east forty feet is going to be used by the city to build a new parking lot in this area here this property is own c one district in that it was thought by the planning commission as well as the developer here that this property would be best rezone to the puti district so these parcels are all have the same zoning  so that really is the is the rationale for this arizonan request tonight the planning commission held the required public hearing in regards to this back in september noted that there's a lot of good grade activity going on in in this particular area of the city and i thought that this rezoning would be certainly in line with the other development occurring in the area in recommend the council landscaping pathways and it'll be awesome i don't really look like a south shore village absolutely thanks for your work yes motion passes ten be zoning ordinance text amendments yes so planning commission also has basically i'm what amounts to some hopes keeping ordinances for you tonight there are are six proposed text amendments to the zoning ordinance the first poe's text amendment is to section thirty nine dish one ninety seven of the ordinance and that really is is the part of the ordinance that deals with fencing and the specific amendment if approved will allow fences not exceeding six feet in height inside in rear yards and three feet in height in any front yards inside your adjoining a side street including non required yards so the that may sound kind of gobble league and in all honesty the real motivation for doing this is well really kind of cut to the chase it became apparent that  in some locations a property owner not that they would want to do it or not but could potentially put a six foot high fence in front yard requirement of ten feet and a maximum setback requirement of twenty five feet the technicality that kind of came to light is somebody could potentially put a six foot fence  a ten foot set back from the sidewalk we've always kind of operated before that any kind of front yard areas in that area being between the front of the house in the front property line you can only heavy a three foot fence but this did come to light and we thought the just in the planning commission the best way to deal with this is just to propose a text amendment we don't want to get into a situation where somebody could potentially put a six foot fence ten feet off the sidewalk in the central city that would look not so good in would probably get a lot of phone calls so that that is the real motivation for that  particular item there so i don't know if i need to belabor that anymore so we will quickly go to the next amendment proposed text amendments to thirty nine dash one ninety eight and  design for the storage of vehicles shall have a minimum front yard of sixteen feet except where vehicle access to an accessory building in a corner lot is from a public alley then the setback may be reduced to the minimum side you on a side street etc so this is another kind of highly technical set back issue that was requested by home corps if this is approved it will it will give them flexibility as they continue to renovate homes particularly in the central city area in the in the tier in district to do some some really good investments on those  properties the third item would be to amend section thirty nine desh for a while on this just deals with the election as zoning board of appeals officers in a specifically this will allow staff cns staff to amendment to section thirty nine sixty one these would add civil infractions to those sections of the zoning ordinance in would would basically convert violations of those sections from being misdemeanors to civil infractions and this is kind of following up on a theme we have we have changed other parts of the zoning ordinance to be misdemeanors to civil infractions and it's much easier for staff to enforce that type of issue in the last item is a proposed tax mint to section thirty nine dish ninety five and this really is just a small text amendment that would allow apoel parking lots to be included in the c one neighborhood commercial district and this kind of goes back to the previous item that you voted on sixteenth street this would allow the city to build the parking lot in that forty feet of sea one district property that we bought just earlier in the summer so we would really like to have that text about any questions at all any questions on that yet he of these six amendments i am requesting clarification on the z b a you had said about taking over the minutes the secretary position appeals no longer zoning board of appeals is that yeah i guess is that that's something the council can just before you council we have we are in the process of doing a complete cut of cation of the city ordinances and prior to that we are reviewing some ordinances that are no longer necessary to be in the books therefore we are asking for three to be obsolete chapter twelve for the food service sanitation is no longer needed because it's not handled by the city mia mongar it's handled by both are in the i'm in county health departments chapter fifteen ice is our yes we obsolete in chapter thirty eight weights and measures is handled by the state and agricultural department and we would also ask that we amend chapter thirty two section thirty two dash thirteen elimination of sidewalk license cut curb cuts and driveway approaches this is currently handled by the streets department in issuing permits for this type of work all right we've heard the request to clean up some of these obsolete ordinances by repealing them a longer have a use which the pleasure of cultural moving toward but who are supported by white men in the comment or question that any of these proposed repeals s members of council this is before you as something that i hear for the principal shopping district has had approval from the liquor commission yet it's became clear there they really should not be named rather it should be the city of holland so this matters for you to make that clarification of pertains to the new fall fest and then a collars here representing downtown holland if you have questions for the wise it's intended to be a family event all day long including pumpkin carving personal lanterns friday night and then pumpkin carving hayrides all saturday and of macaroni and cheese cook off that evening as well as refreshments served by restaurants who have the proper licensing and including wine and beer so that is the wine and beer is what is before you tonight on private property be kind of like the fiscal agent to facilitate this contract it allows for services for people persons with disabilities and in essence it's a grant that is funneled through the disability network  to receive the funds through through that organization and in turn reimburse them back through the state the city simply acting as it is a recipient of the funds there's no obligation  scenario we've researched this over the past couple years so what we're asking to do is once they receive once the city receives checks from them we will turn around and sign the agreement agreeing to be the facilitator of this  process the checks will come in two stages this year the first will come on or before the end of the year the second will come on or before march it is possible that they will come that the state because of the closure of can do it's possible that the state will come and even ask for an expansion of this amount that they are sharing and working through the city with currently that amount of one hundred seventy some thousand dollars in the city councils basically acting as as an agent to help facilitate that transaction all right you have heard the request for this interagency agreement what's the closure for the whiteman joy that brings us down to five one give us the city of how one has received the following donations to city managers office for the how a new connection program received a two thousand dollars donation from home church the canine golf fundraiser for the holland public safety services received in kind donation from custom engraved hundred laura toner in the amount of two hundred cindy kepler for one fifty karen rice fifty chiffon received the following recreation office anonymous donation in the amount to two hundred twenty nine dollars and from the two thousand and fifteen softball tournament revenues were at three thousand seven hundred five dollars and sixty six cents was expenses of one thousand four hundred seventy one dollars and sixty five cents for a total revenue of two thousand to thirty four and one penny and kind donations to the two thousand and fifteen south turn him it were from hops at eighty four east with give certificates from buffalo wild wings additional give certificates and eight st of your girl as well and umpire wages that were valued at three hundred eighty dollars the labor day boardwalk the two thousand and fifteen workforce in the amount of seven hundred dollars back to health chiropractor and the amount of four hundred donations received at the event one thousand nine hundred twenty dollars out of that the total revenue to the supper a scholarship fund again was two thousand one hundred nineteen dollars and eight cents in kind donations to the two thousand and fifteen labor day boardwalk event hinds were from the following organizations or in businesses accepted with appreciation credited to the appropriate account and an expression of gratitude be forwarded to the donors what were your goals with this crisis here we have a need hitter that brings us down to item six point one which was removed from the consent agenda  your timing is impeccable and the item that you removed from consent has just come up for consideration brian white with the director of the transportation department here at the city and also for this particular item a representative from the the traffic committee again traffic committee for those of you  not familiar it's a staff level committee that's made up of the transportation department as well as the public safety office community neighborhood services and some other staff level  folks at the city we typically review all things traffic parking changes but also speed limit changes as well so the item before you here tonight has to do with the adjustment of a speed limit long night street one block between pine and maple avenue this is brought to our attention basically some residents along this route had expressed some concerns about high speeds with the public safety department so it was brought to the traffic committee for review we want to have did a speed study out there and found that the eighty five percent eighty fifth percentile speed was we're recommending a change from twenty five to thirty just to get in line with the with what we found with the speed study recommendation for us is to make the speed limit change what we get emotional on the floor so that we can have some discussion mayor for my abrupt departure here but we had a little emergency my place of employment so everything's good we understand thank you brian the reason i took this off is i know that we're in the throes right now of the study study my concern here is and i understand the eighty fifth sento been around a lot in many discussions about this but my concern here is that changing this in the middle of a study might lead to some confusion depending on the outcome of that study and our action pursuant to that study potentially moving back to twenty five whatever a second traffic study would do for short periods of time here i just prudent that we may be if it all defendable and i understand all the ramifications from the police from the law enforcement standpoint i'm just i'm i'm thinking of the general public potentially getting confused  what's going on here and flip flopping back and forth within thirty sixty days that is my concern yeah understood i don't believe that we would propose any changes as a result of the study the study really isn't intended to look specifically at speed more so look at what those changes may do with construction next year in those in those changes that would come along with that construction so there's a period of time  that you know over the course of the winter where we'd like to be aligned with that with that speed study but part of the outcome of this study is also potentially changing the from one way system do to a system which could potentially change your eighty fifth percentile back down below the thirty or whatever the case may be yet that's a direct there is my concern yeah yeah and it certainly could change my concern would be that there's just a fair amount of time  to pass between now and when that construction projects is is complete and traffic could be could be switched around there so so there is a fair amount of time there where i think it be prudent that we just line up with our speed study that we have a filer thank you thank you you know the questions or comments on this the insitute open house and opportunity to report on their annual progress to the city at midtown center that starts at six o'clock there will be refreshments and among other things the winners of the youth videos will be announced and shown second i want to say let you know that relational hot energy truss which was reviewed up stairs  michelle gibbs could not be here the director of the stabling stupid she did write a note that i wanted to take an opportunity to just quote here shortly rather than pass out more paper she would just like you to know that shows in her view how much you care about the people who live here so also peter boogaard was here earlier as chair of the citizen task force on home energy retrofits for the same reason that completes my remarks thank you  from the mayor that's along the usual encouragement to contact us with any concerns or ideas that you have for the betterment of the city  information for contacting us is available on our website and you can either email us i believe our phone numbers are listed there if you have any thing that you need to dollars also an abundance of information on the website as far is that you have access to the website so make use of that as a resource as well i have two to the as an ex officio member of the board of public works and that is to well the under expired term of gary school sorry who has had been the township rep ex officio township representative to the board public works he is resigning that position because he is no longer a township representative he now lives in the city  so we are pleased to have him as a citizen and we accept his resignation with regret and appreciation for the service that he gave to the board of public works so i would  hang on just a mere eight months from now think of a mere eight months from now it will be too little time and the beautiful flowers that we have during tulip time which is mace may seventh through fourteen or twenty sixteen just in case you're wondering put it on your calendars they don't happen by themselves there was a number of years ago that the members of this is steamed council determined a specific area known as window on the waterfront to what i lovingly know is the old history location where the board of public works service center used to be it was kind of drab little bit green which isn't bad but it needed some sprucing up in this esteemed body decided that we wanted to put some flower beds in there and this is seen by the also said that they would help plant these flowers i'll leave the rest of that to your imagination on this coming saturday october the tenth from eight to ten in tend to noon you will have the opportunity to put your mark on the fifty thousand tulip bulbs that have to go into this  area council members are encouraged to attend and so is the general public it's a great time i've been doing it for probably six seven years now there is instruction all the tools are there that you need there's great and no mr klump arms there is not a up or a down they will find their way out i know you asked the question earlier but come on out what you want to do is you want to get pre registered and you want to call up kara rocks at six one six three nine six four two two one extension one one four or e mail kara k r a at to look time dot com today tonight tomorrow friday and come out enjoy those two ships eight to ten intended twelve or if you're an overt achiever like i am you'll be there for all four hours so we hope to see a bunch of people out there it's always a great time a lot of hands make a little bit work and then in the spring you can come out and see what your handiwork did so come on out and join us and enjoy the spring that is oh mr man thank you mike council's challenge looking for election inspectors going to open post an open house this friday nine thirty to eleven thirty at the holland museum deplete cooks will be there t get a little change by serving the city they'll be there to answer your questions if you have any questions and can't be present but you want to inquire about this call three five five one three zero one thats it we had a parks and rec committee meeting this past week and we went into the big cooler at the parks and rec building i have never been in there it's called looks like a huge safe and it's all stacked full of fresh tulip bulbs just can't come from the netherlands that is very cool i had never heard never seen those like two hundred ten thousand two lip balms and any time the department of agriculture will be coming through and they check to make sure that they are all clean enough and no bugs and everything that to look bob is posted do they check it out which is very exciting i'll be planting some of those on saturday thank you for your steamed commercial and also i as dana was talking about downtown and all of the different things that the business owners pay for us down there i was kind of adding things up and so for us to have free parking and not walk on snow through the winter and have somebody put parties on for us downtown it cost them over half a million dollars besides the property taxes that they pay to be down there and it hasn't been easy to be a downtown business this summer i don't think it's an exciting summer because so many things are changing and we're getting natural gas for our new power plant and are redoing snow melt everywhere but that causes some disruption and sometimes people just turn a different direction and said i'm coming downtown so it's not been an easy summer for downtown and i think it's a great time for us to step up efforts to be downtown and to thank downtown owners for all they do to have a wonderful heart our community in and apply i swear we can go and enjoy fall fast and all the other events that are going to be happening for us so there are a lot of things to be thankful for great to take time to thank those that are involved in providing those things for right but one well we've actually got two things to go with one is not so pleasant a request from the city attorney to go into a closed session to the purpose of which is to deal with property acquisition that's correct mr mayor thank you pleasure of council to support