computer device we welcome you to this meeting as well we begin tonight meeting first of all by making sure we have a quorum to conduct business so i would ask our deputy city clerk you know paralysis to please call the roll bar here first of all a prayer which tonight will be led by the city attorney and the mulder followed immediately by the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the united states and i would ask invite everyone in chambers to join us in these items let us pray we gather tonight such a beautiful night marveling at the beauty of your world and the special place that we call holland michigan we have been blessed with the delicacy of summer the trees flowers grass sun and the beauty of like michigan and the vibrancy of the people of not only the city of holland but also the greater holland area it is a truly a celebration of your world tonight plus the council and its the liberations to make wise decisions for the citizens of this city we would also ask your blessing on those who are sick lonely and without someone to care for them our prayers go out to them and their needs tonight as school starts for our children grandchildren and friends bless those who educate and teach them to be equipped to lead our communities family we ask your blessing on those who live in harm's way to protect us and our country we live in a troubled world and we thank you for them  thank you randy there are copies hard copies paper copies of this evening's agenda located in the rock of the in the rear of the room for those of you who are in chambers this evening additionally if you are here with an electronic device an i pad a laptop or watching at home and have access to one of those devices you can go to the cities web page at city of holland dot com and there you'll be able to download it not only tonight's agenda but also all of the background material that council has looked at in preparation for this evening meeting typically that information will be placed on the city's website around friday or monday prior to the meetings easiest way to do so is go to the calendar page on the web page go to today's date and you'll find information about this particular meeting you'll note as you look at the agenda that there are a variety of items on it that have an asterisk next to them and these are the consent agenda items these are the items that we believe are relatively routine and our intent is to handle all of them collectively one motion one vote regardless of where they show up in the particular agenda this evening now you may on the other hand not think that these items are so routine in fact you might be here to have one of the items specifically discussed and so what we will do is i'll ask  moment the deputy city city clerk to read for us the consent agenda items then i will give anyone in the audience the opportunity to remove an item from consent and if no one chooses to do so and it will actually if someone chooses to do so will then handle it in its ordinary spot in the agenda so that's what we'll do at this point and if you would kindly read for us at this moment what is presently on the consent agenda item five to prove the minutes of the regular meeting held aug twenty one two thousand and thirteen except and file executed oaths of office item fourteen do you want to refer claims filed against the city to the city's insurance carrier and city attorney for consideration  item fourteen three to approve a new business license for second hand junk located at one forty south river avenue fourteen one point one fourteen one point two fourteen one point three two adopt a resolution schedule in public hearings of necessity for downtown parking operations and maintenance principal shopping district and the downtown snow melt assessments for wednesday september eighteenth two thousand and thirteen council meeting and to instruct the deputy city clerk to publish and mail the required notices fourteen point four to approve the proposed fee and charge revisions for beekeeping permits with the initial permit for three years at a of twenty five dollars and renewal permit for two years at a cost of fifteen dollars fourteen one point to schedule a public hearing for wednesday september eighteenth at the regular council meeting in order to obtain citizen comment for the previous fiscal year two thousand and thirteen consolidated annual performance and evaluation report for submission to hide item fourteen year point one to approve the bid submitted by the window center for replacement windows at window island post house at a cost of nineteen thousand forty one dollars and seventy three cents to be paid from the municipal capital improvement fund fourteen three point two two approve the b in a software application upgrade in training charge in the amount of twelve thousand three hundred sixty five dollars with the addition of one thousand eight hundred fifty dollars for the service fee for a total amount of fourteen thousand two hundred fifteen dollars to be paid through the technology services fine i don't fourteen three point three two except the quarterly investment report for the fourth quarter of fiscal year which runs april through june two thousand and thirteen as presented i don't fourteen eat three point four to approve agreement with inter agency cash transfer with michigan rehabilitation services for rehabilitation services with conditions as stated in the city managers report approval to form by the city attorney and to authorize requested tax abatement for engineering at least thirty seconds or wednesday september eighteenth a regular council meeting and to instruct the deputy clerk to publish and mail the required notices thank you very much would any one of the audience care to remove an item from the consent of gender a member of council creator of one or more items council member whiteman mr mayor i'd like to remove them for three point four please the rehabilitation services interagency agreement all right it is remove anyone else seeing what is the pleasure of council at this time moved to adopt support supported by de boer is there any discussion on it seeing none please call the roll people or yes yes yes yes yes white man yes yes yes yes all right thank you thanks the item seven special presentations and recognitions this is a bit of a surprise however i was handed a letter and a ribbon so you know it's  it's an important one and i've been asked to read this and i believe there's going to be something that follows it comes to us from the department of the army and it says as follows dated july thirteenth  holland public safety i would like to convey our deepest gratitude to you on behalf of our entire battalion for the wonderful support that you have shown us i know how much time and effort goes into putting together packages and personal letters it means so much to our soldiers to know that the folks at home appreciate their service there are many of our young men and women who do not regularly receive packages or mail gifts like these mean more than i can tell you our soldiers are working hard to make a difference and are seeing some great progress today in afghanistan men don't have to grow beards to avoid getting beat up schools can now teach math and reading girls can receive an education and children play cricket together everywhere that we go while the progress here is encouraging nothing is more uplifting than knowing that great americans like you care about us and our mission once again thank you for remembering us and helping to make our time away from those we love a little bit easier sincerely eric elfs and captain and battalion chaplain so i believe that we have please come forward at this at this time if you come to the podium and i'll meet you there how about that that's the rocket team one hundred first airborne division or salt this flag was flown over forward operating base salerno afghanistan on march twenty sixth two thousand and thirteen please accept it is a small token of appreciation for your volunteers and generous you so much for your support of our soldiers over thank thanks everyone obviously we accept these facts of these flags on behalf of every of every individual at the through the fire department and police department i'm not sure i quite deserve one of these plaques i was one of many who donated all kinds of gifts and goodies it sent over but a large portion of this this work was done by jack dykstra so he has all the information as far as how much we collected a was a woman that walked into my office helen geiger and who has a heart for the soldiers and she she brought she brought a mission to me that day and i come to work every day and that as a job i come to work as a mission she gave me a new mission and she said can you help me and so i just want to thank you helen you have been an inspiration to me to all those involved that saw you work and see your continued word for the troops and it was a pleasure to be part of this effort and i just want to thank you for your dedication to all those men and women that continue to serve and thanks for bringing that mission to us and thanks for giving us the opportunity to share in it into dhoni seven hundred ninety one pounds of donations twenty well certainly thank you to department of public safety and i trust that the chief and captain dykstra won't mind me saying this but the real thanks goes to the men and women serving not just in afghanistan but around the world on our behalf it's a small token of what we stateside can do and we're appreciative for the department of public safety as efforts but we're especially appreciative impressive most impressive i also want to thank allen for bringing this whole idea about a surprise presentation to me some time ago and thank you sir for being here tonight as well we really appreciate it very much helen was very very adamant that it remain a surprise to the chief and to captain dykstra so it was it was all i could do to make sure that they'd be here tonight we almost had to add a department of public safety matter to the agenda so they'd show  up but we didn't go that quite that far but thank you again would you mind coming to the microphone so folks at home just so folks at home can hear you this is so important that we want to make sure that the good people at home watching this meeting can hear what you have to say well maybe but what you do what you will say is important so please thank you and i want to thank you for being willing to take this as a big secret for the surprise which i was hoping it would be i  didn't really keep my mouth shut as much as i should have to other people so i don't know i might have given them an idea way i so appreciate that you would do this and i am so appreciative of these two men that would do this for the soldiers and take it to the line they did it through the media because i had no idea i just thought maybe they'd take a collection up of maybe three or four boxes i had no idea it was going to be twenty two and weighing seven hundred ninety some pounds or something like that but i know how much those soldiers appreciated i've met soldiers that have gotten things like that and i am very very grateful and especially for you to allow this time tonight you counsel people are also listening to this and i am very proud of our military and i love all of those soldiers thank you  modification to section thirty nine dash three sixty one a one which rolls right off the tongue dealing with wall signs so phil meyer the head of the community neighborhood services department of the city of holland will introduce this on this amendment looking at the issue of wall signs within the downtown area there is currently a provision that allows them maximum of two square feet of sign area for each one foot of building like the wall  that isn't necessarily the wrong dimension but it is a dimension that they felt didn't always go hand in hand with the compatibility standards that they also utilize when they're reviewing signs in the  day so what they have recommended and downtown development authority has also recommended to you is an amendment to the ordinance to section thirty nine three sixty that essentially changes it from two square feet per per one foot of wall length to one square foot per wall length and then gives them some flexibility with that to allow greater square footage of wall area where there are multiple ten buildings where the character and placement and size of the sign make sense on a particular building and that goes back to the compatibility standards that they exercise and it would be a maximum square footage of sixty four square feet that would be allowed they're for but any questions for phil all right as this is an ordinance amendment requires a public hearing and at this time if you're here to talk on this particular item we invite you to step forward to the microphone state your name and residential address for the record the public hearing is now open on this  right seeing no one i will close the public hearing and we have a recommendation coming to us for these amendments is there a motion were supported by peters and a discussion among you can't help but think of our former colleague jerome thomas kobus and jerome would have had lots to say about this particular proposed amendment and none of it would have been good i suspect but  most excellent that takes us then to communications from the audience item twelve and this is the opportunity for anyone in the audience to address council on matters that are not otherwise located on the agenda the rules of counsel are relatively straightforward all we do is ask that you come forward to the microphone so everyone in chambers and at home can hear what you have to say state your name and residential address for the record and you may have up to five minutes to address council typically what might happen is that there's a green yellow and red light below me and the yellow light goes on when you have one minute left in the red light will indicate that your time has expired so this time i invite anyone who would like to address council to do so and step forward to the microphone right seeing none we will then move on to i believe our next item is the one that was removed from the consent and gender which was item fourteen eat three point four a matter from the finance department regarding the michigan rehabilitation services for disability program might we get the most brief of introductions on this item mr city manager in the audience is finance as well but basically this is the second year of an understanding that the city has entered into if you proceed that makes it possible for good things to happen in the disability standpoint my organization all right our colleague whiteman is also the executive director of the disability network and therefore has a conflict in this matter might we get a motion to recuse mr weightman from this almost moved by the mayor pro tem supported by following gifts parks and recreation department received the following gifts for the windmill island design here funds from anonymous donors in the amount of one ninety four twenty nine surely and john richardson in the amount of one thousand dollars cunningham and dominique in the amount of two thousand dollars and from john in judy spool hoff foundation in the amount of fifteen thousand dollars in addition donations were also received from the following for the south her a scholarship teresi in the mount of a dollar for five dollars melissa brower for three dollars walk this five dollars hillary who in the amount of three dollars in the amount of a dollar in michelle carter in the mouth of five dollars community a neighborhood services department received donations from a n j automotive in the mountains thirty dollars in cross country cycle in the amount fifty six dollars for the two thousand and thirteen national night how it is recommended it is recommended that the said donations be accepted with appreciation and an expression of gratitude be forwarded to the donors what is the pleasure of coun people whatever their means or economic level to come together to support the just one being fixed and to support the children of the community who would like to participate in recreation activities and don't have  the finances for it themselves it's a real statement about the heart of the people in this community month after month it's really week after week it's really inspiring excellent anyone else seeing the motion was to accept with appreciation all in favor of doing so please say i oppose the same that passes unanimously that takes us then down i don't fifteen communications from the city  to see it again after i say it twenty fourth street is not completed it is drivable as many of you have seen and noticed the school is up it was delayed due to some water line testing in the to make sure that  chlorination was properly functioning and that involved waiting until we received clearance before it was based paved the final course of pavement is next that due to a short window is going to be squeezed in as soon as possible which makes us do something we don't normally do we'd like to operate that final course of paving start the work on saturday this weekend when we had there's a slot that's open for the paver and completed on sunday it would be early sunday morning probably completing early in the afternoon but nevertheless that is something that is unusual and i wanted you to be aware of it the churches in the area are being alerted and all activities are focused on making that happen and be done so when school starts on monday again all will be as it was with one possible exception at the railroad tracks there's a section a new water line that is chlorinated mean tested and if they do not does not clear its test then that section will have a short area that will be on resurfaced final course until such time as we get clearance keep your fingers crossed i'm washington russian avenue was opened on time as planned our city engineer in the construction services and the contractor all worked well on that project amazing given the complexity all summer long however an individual drove through somewhat concrete at one juncture which means that one hundred foot section needs to be replaced all is well for now yet two weeks from now we need to have a closure in the vicinity of thirty fifth street for one hundred feet to replace that concrete contractor replace it and it is not the city's liability and it is unfortunate that it needs to happen for long term success of that pavement area so that will be clear to people why that's happening but that's the story and it needs to be done and sooner rather than later so all the concrete will be equally good on that major construction project so that will happen that month and be closed for a week to two weeks depending on the curing of the concrete you can still be passed you know go b and there will still be at least two lanes and possibly more depending upon the center lane how we how that gets affected next item at your next meeting i would like to show a video that technology services prepared about the at risk youth employment program that we experimented with the summer that program exceeded the expectations of the organizers and including the funders we have an anonymous donor who  they would like to support this program again next summer and multiply their support so with that good news i would like to use the next opportunity we have at the next council meeting to publicize the fact that this at risk youth getting more jobs and i think anyone who sees this video will come to the same conclusion that there is everything right about this program and the whole community has everything to gain and as you know the city gained with the work that was done as well and so we'd like to both put out a call to more employers that would like to participate and use some of their funding along with the downers as well as more agencies that work with  risk youth escape ministries was very instrumental this summer and made all the difference yet we don't want to exclude any agency that may have connections to issues with families and youth that they could use an opportunity to grow as well as helping their community so that would be more more on that next council meeting last i don't recall if this announcement got if we had heard the announcement of forbes list at the last council meeting or not but i do want to recognize once i figure that all the services of our city workforce that has made it possible you will see you do not see it is not and there it is on the screen you will see this information in various and all the city work places within the next week or so and we hope to have it up for some time it's no small feat to be listed as one of the fifteen prettiest places in the country as i think mary dykstra might have said last time this was nothing that we applied for nothing we saw it is pure pure recognition and that makes it all the more noticeable and recognizable on behalf of the many services that the city staff perform it's nothing that i asked them to achieve it's simply because of the former actions of former counsels and former staff members and existing staff members that built the team that made this happen so i just wanted you to know that we are celebrating each and every city employee because one way or another directly or indirectly the entire team made that happen so thank you for your activities which could have been possible without what you have done as well thank you all right thank you ryan for me this  evening a couple of announcements one is that we have the forty eighth annual holland hope community day coming up in two weeks and weeks from this coming saturday council of course will not be meeting before then so we thought we'd give it a little bit of a highlight right now  this year the end you will the celebration began with a when a former mayor and council decided to celebrate the unique relationship with the college and the community have by having a community feast basically ox roast as it was called they got enough they really literally roasted an ox but fast forward forty eight years and we get to what we've got today and that is that we'll share a meal together this year it's windmill island and your ticket for the meal also gets you into the football game and i believe there's a soccer game that evening and some other things happening on campus as well so hope and holland have a very unique and very strong relationship it's i would say a town gown relationship that there may be some that match it but i don't think there's many if any communities that exceed the relationship that we have between the college and the community before then this week this weekend we have the civil war must er going on and that will be taking place at veneral t farm it is the i forget what year this is eighth maybe somewhere along that maybe even more civil war muster taking place on van ro which is an interesting spot both because it is obviously not i want to say isolated but rural and but also the person who owned the farm initially was himself a civil war veteran as well their parks in which they do reenactment so we're hoping for good weather so far it appears as though the calendar will well oblige or the other the weather the weather people will oblige to it and it should be a great great weekend for that as well of course you can always get in touch with us through city of holland dot com you'll find our phone numbers e mail addresses all sorts of information about things going on in the city of holland as well as forms and other kinds of resources relating to anything from property value and tax information to building permit applications and those sorts of things if you're needing information that's a great place to start or of course we'd love to have you step down in city hall to say hello to us as well communications from coun wrong column park crossing kind of get an idea where are we at in that particular thing and maybe other people are much more aware than i am secondly up to date on off street parking where we  inspected once a year and there are some roughly sixteen hundred of them and we have fewer people this year than we had last year and i just like to kind of know is that going well and if not what can we do and then thirdly or fourt skirts on that also have that the lights on and i'm like the kind of no i did call one of these agencies and you know is it really the b t w that handles that and they said well the d d a handles it as the parkie partment handle but you know what's kind of the maintenance issue on that we have you know pretty town here of sudra but we need to maintain these who's in charge of those things before they become very expensive to repair i don't know any of those just an update or a little information say yep working on it or we've got somebody so i suspect the city manager has got him written well you see way back when when we had a former assistant city manager that was the downtown there was a specific salesman work for a company that sold fiberglass poles and he tried to convince them that they were less maintenance so on and so forth council at that time city manager at that time said absolutely not we're going to cast iron so low and behold what goes around comes around and i got elected council so every time mr wolf brought up the fact that the poles needed to be pain i just stared at him and said i told you so so that's the end of that story now those fiberglass poles are those the ones that come with the hole in the base or right other communications the  cage match occurs after the meeting we're selling tickets for it at the civic mike place this is the last time you're going to hear about the truck parade for at least nine months but i just want to say thank you for that to the community thank you to the whole all the volunteers thank you know the drivers thank you to my colleagues for putting up with it but it was an extremely successful both of them may turn out standpoint from a safety standpoint from a community appreciation standpoint and from a weather standpoint i don't think we could ask for anything better so it was very well attended people in the general area there got a little extra treat this year with a little extra blast from the horns at about ten o'clock they all ran for about five seconds and i was standing in the middle of the parking lot about that time it was awesome tell you what so that's lester going to hear about that but again thanks to everybody it's just  another testament that this community stands behind the businesses that make this community and it just reinforces to me the work ethic that we have and the proud the pride that we have in this community so again thank you very much thank you michael the communications from council tonight please go home and the war and also the labor day boardwalk was once again the weather perfect and we had at least three hundred people that came through for pancakes there were huge neighborhood groups just a bunch of parents and children like forty five or so that all just ran together they said they do it every year they just really enjoy it so was all different generations and ethnic groups that got together and it was really wonderful being out at windmill island gardens watching for the reinforcement of the bridge and the coming of the crane and that whole historic re refurbishing of the wind mel and so people just really love that i mean just as the truck parade celebrates the hard work ethic and integrity of the worker in this area  think the boardwalk celebrates our stewardship of nature are appreciative of creation and time that we can be with family and friends and of course a healthy perspective as everybody gets some exercise watching walking those three point nine miles from holland park and heinz area all the way to win the island gardens in the way that all connects with the boardwalk and once again it was a lot of thanks to city staff that worked hard and their own time many of them twenty years to make that possible and now of course all the participants that came and then of course the money that was raised for the cell president creation fund to help kids participate in sport and get know other kids and positive relationships and help build good futures for them so it was a day to really appreciate living here and how in michigan i like where else would you want to be so  right thank you nancy anyone else otherwise motions and resolutions this evening the mayor pro tem i believe has one for us yes mr mayor you've already mentioned community day that's coming up and this is somewhat related to that this is an honor that has been coming for a while but certainly well deserved you have before you a resolution that i'm going to ask for support and passage of that is honoring our former city manager soren wolf soren who served this city for more than a quarter of a century was involved with  many many different particularly capital projects and improve infrastructure improvements that were made in the community and this will be a small hon him in one of those areas as we would rename the east and of thirteenth street from fairbanks avenue into the entryway into the stadium and the tennis facility there would be renamed soren wolf way and the the resolution is pretty self explanatory so i will i will just read that if you will bear with me through the whereas has in the now there fours where as soren waltz honorably served the residents of the city of holland michigan in city government for more than a quarter of a century as an assistant city manager and city manager and whereas during his years of service soaring walt oversaw numerous capital and infrastructure projects in the city including the construction of the municipal stadium and improvements to small  and whereas the road leading into small and burke park as well as the hope college football stadium tennis courts and other athletic facilities is a portion of east thirteenth street a public street and where as east thirteenth street from beginning mild point one point five five seven two ending while point one point six one two is a segment of a roadway that is part of this city of holland's street system according to act if the one public act one thousand fifty one as amended and where we're almost to the end folks whereas east thirteenth street from the beginning a mile point one point five five seven to the ending mile point one point six one two represents a portion of thirty street from fairbanks ave to the east two hundred ninety feet and where as the city of holland wishes to change the name of said portion of thirteenth street to be named soren wolf way in recognition of sorrels many years of dedicated service to the city of holland and to this community now therefore be it resolved that the city council of the city of holland does here by resolve to change the name of thirteenth street beginning mile point one point five five seven and ending mile point one point six one two to soarin wolf way and that said roadway segment shall remain a public street or public street purposes you probably notice some michigan department right made by the mayor pro tem supported by council member is there any discussion on it my understanding it was down to this stretch of roadway or the sewage treatment plant