that is first with the invocation which this evening will be led by our colleague from the third ward brian birch immediately thereafter we will say the pledge of allegiance to flay we would invite all in chambers to rise and join us for these i me in prayer a mighty god ruler of the universe we gather here today on behalf of the people of holland intent on doing good work we seek to represent fairly and well those who have given us this task our community was so many blessings new businesses strong neighborhoods natural beauty and caring families all of which contribute to our quality of life a life intended to serve you may our efforts be blessed with your insight guided by knowledge and mutual respect for all their faith give us strength their values give us discernment and they are wisdom give us the right judgment to act honestly in all matters before us we ask you now to grant us a sense of justice and stewards thank you brian there are paper copies of tonight's agenda located in the rack in the rear of the room if you do have a computer or a tablet or smartphone of some sort and you'd like to follow along you can also find a copy of the agenda as well as all the background information the council has reviewed in preparation for this evening's meeting by going to the city's website city of holland dot com click on the calendar page go to today's date and you'll find all that background information that information is put out on the web usually by friday at the latest monday before meeting so you can follow along with what council is intending to act upon at its meeting as you look at the agenda you'll note that there are a variety of items listed that have an asterisk next to them are items that we have placed on the consent agenda which means that we think that they're relatively routine or they've been previously discussed by they've been discussed previously by council so the intention is with those items and those items only to handle them collectively with one motion and one vote regard this of where they show up on the agenda now you may on the other hand think that one of the items is not necessarily routine in fact you might have come from your house tonight to this room  specifically talk about one of those items so what we will do is we'll first ask the clerk to read for us the items that presently are on the consent and gender after that i'll give members of the audience members of council to take items off if they so choose but let's first find out  for all in the room all at home what is on the consent of john but as it stands right now we have item five to approve the minutes of the special meeting held september twenty fourth two thousand and fourteen item eleven eight to accept and file executed oaths of office item fourteen items fourteen each one point one fourteen one point two b n fourteen a one point three two adopt resolutions schedule in public hearings for the downtown parking operations principal shopping district and snow melt operations specialist estimates to the october fifteenth two thousand and fourteen regularly scheduled council meeting item fourteen easy one point four to accept the bid from sparta graphics at a cost of one eleven thousand dollars were a bargain thousand one hundred dollars for the painting printing team in me i mean of the two thousand and fifteen city calendars with the cost to be paid from the solid waste fun item fourteen one point five to approve the installation of the unity sun sculpture in new dawn rising sun disc to the river avenue bridge provided by the community foundation of the how and zealand area i don't fourteen one point six two adopt a resolution for the renaming of the river avenue bridge to unity bridge and to install signage at each end of the bridge i am fourteen eat two point one to approve the proposed purchase agreement with j c r for regent boulevard schedule world road improvements necessity for october fifteenth two thousand and fourteen instructed deputy city clerk to distribute the required public hearing notices make the project construction contingent on any short term funding cost incurred being reimbursed by the property owners if i am to be necessary for project funding and subject to the west michigan airport authority approving the acquisition of fifteen acres from j c i item fourteen eat three point one two accept the two step aug two thousand and fourteen financials as presented i don't fourteen eat three point two two approved to enter agency cash transfer agreement with michigan rehabilitation services was established conditions and authorized the finance director to sign th necessary documents item fourteen to four point one to accept the bureau of justice assistance grant funds in the amount of six thousand four hundred twenty three dollars and seventy eight cents for the purchase of ballistic vest to authorize staff to proceed with the council meeting and to authorize the deputy clerk to publish and mail the required notices and item fourteen yf i point three to adopt an amended joint resolution with helen township for the authorization in some middle of a grant application for the  gardens non motorized bridge and regional trail connections project to the michigan natural resources trust fund or a thank you and so that is the consent agenda as it currently stands for we're going to handle all of these items with one motion of one vote however before we do that if anyone in the audience would like to remove an item from the consent agenda we just ask just simply step forward to the microphone tell us which item that is and will handle the pain its ordinary spot removed the council member whiteman mr like to remove item fourteen he three point two michigan rehabilitation services it is so removed any other items to be removed all right with the amended consent agenda what is the pleasure of clam parents yes mayor thanks john yes motion passes all right thank you that takes us then to item number eight special order of the day the first item is eight dealing with the establishment of a local development finance authority or l d a and designates certain boundaries of said district as well as a point certain people to serve on the board and for that initially we shall turn to the city manager run cotton good evening ryan thank you mr mayor members of the city council this is probably about the fifth time that the city council has reviewed this and this is effort you need to take what is final action tonight on a status thing the local development finance authority appointing directors approving rules and procedures and heading down trees the boundaries include an area along the waterfront and that lake bachata waterfront generally and connects to holland charter township along its water for in a way that would creates the possibility of having a smart town in the city of holland hala chard township we have tonight a presentation from lecture advantage is jennifer owens who has taken the lead on this matter for a number of good reasons that will involve exceptional regional cooperation and hopefully prove ment's that will make possible the recruitment retention of technology leaders and professionals in a way that will benefit our community in the long term that is it in a nutshell i will say there are a number of protections that are part of this there's also a number of opportunities that is part of this and i will close my remarks with saying there are three individuals for individuals recommend to be appointed to tonight to the authority should the resolution be approved and those individuals are listed in your packet and i will say to state for the record it's tell me if i correct me we talked about this in the pretty council meeting  bridget three i stand corrected so with this approval tonight there will be a series of other steps including it to plan they'll come back to you and the possibility likelihood that we would then have funding over the long haul for fifty percent of all tax and units that would go towards the smart zone funding to be administered by lecture advantage upon approval of the who's also from the city side we're pretty much on this single questions jennifer we are pleased to have you with us this evening beginning to become a fixture on meetings because of this topic but certainly we welcome you in are appreciative that hearing actually ryan will give us a little controller well i want to give you an interaction to the smarts on program but what i want to start off with is really commanding the city at looking at but that that the entire community can enjoy and this ecosystem is really focused around an amazing asset which is the lake mecca taua so i hope that we can look forward fifteen years from now and see the fruits of all of our labor and terms of  of our of our lakefront that is filled with technology professionals and individuals anchored by the michigan state bio economy institute which will be kind of the center of technology development but i'm going to walk you through the smartphone process very briefly contributed to our organization to be the economic development engine for this community so our core focus fairly sure bandages business services focusing on the development of existing companies talent development and attraction so making sure those companies have the individuals to meet their needs and then finally innovation so the smartphone program is really core to innovation and innovation is what is really focused on stardoll entrepreneurial endeavors and making sure those future pillars of the community have the tools and resources to be successful this community was built on amazing entrepreneurs like prince g w hayworth and we want to make sure that the community's tradition is continued so so smartphone as a tax capture tool that captures the increase in property taxes fifty percent of the increase and brings those resources back into the community that typically aren't available locally so the smartphone tool is designed to support entrepreneurs infrastructure development so developing infrastructure around this community and also really focusing on community collaboration not only with talent charter township ottawa county but also a partnership with the city of grand rapids as well so the smarts own is about a thousand acres a big portion of that is in the city of holland so it's a thousand acres focus around the waterfront about one hundred million dollars in property tax value and here is how the funds can be used in the smarts on program infrastructure acquisition of property technology development marketing services and entrepreneurial support how those resources are spent are first and foremost finally just decided by the local units of government there is a very strong checks and balances with this tool but there is a local development finance authority board who works with  resources available to be spent as part of the smartphone program the upside of this program as a whole really on a conservative estimate over a fifteen year period of time the smartphone will capture about six point eight million dollars of resources of that six point eight million five point two we're currently not be available to be spent locally now if the zone exceeds the conservative estimate of one percent the resources could be very significant that we could be broke bring back into the community for technology and entrepreneurial development and infrastructure so today is really the first step in the process so this is a process that has moved very quickly we have competition very strong competition for this program there are only three smartphones satellites in the state of michigan so today we're moving forward on formalizing the creation of the district so that is the full thousand acres including the portion in holland township because this authority will govern the entire smart zone the next step is creating the board the twelve member board and approving the bylaws or the rules for this authority to act and then finally you will appoint four members of the local development finance authority board tomorrow i will be in front of howland charter township will take similar action as as as your organization does today and then to formally partner together to do joint regional collaboration and i want to focus that our resources stay locally the partnership with grand rapids is really a learning and a mentoring arrangement so if we get through this plan that we will work with the twelve member board and after that plan is approved the smartphone will likely be active act tobar december timeframe once final approval from the partner of treasury  forward so it's a complex process it's a complex tool we are very thankful for your collaboration we look forward to continuing dialogue and i welcome any questions or feedback that you have on the smart reasoning for this fast track the reason for the fast track is that the law only allows three of those satellite zones in order to take advantage of those zones the and goal is to get the final approval to the michigan economic development corporation currently says about six smartphones are competing for the three that is allowed by law and so we're moving very quickly but we think this tool has a critical positive impact on the can unity but we still have time to study and discover on the plan spending plan going for now is it one of these or one of the three has already gone or not has that happened so currently the mission economic development corporation has received two applications one is an additional one is pending they are all over at the department of treasury right now for the final stamp of approval but they have encouraged us to continue to move question how do you see this six point eight million dollars or whatever you see these as grants or loans or do you have some kind of an idea as to zones that each one use a lot uses the tools very differently and our community is unique to any other community in the state of michigan so we know how we can use the tool but how we can apply it is really very detailed conversation with the authority to say here are the options that are available what will have the most impact in this community and then present that plan to you so that the forty board will create the plan of action i can only say how others ons have used it but i of you see this as an increase of government and private sector relationship in this area or you see this is how do you see that relationship which you feel you know you know i was very pleased to see that the distribution of the board members between very strong public and private sector leaders coming together to talk about the future of the waterfront and also the future of entrepreneurial development in this community the eyes of the private sector are on this community now working together and as they always have been working very to get together side by side with positive progress i think it will only ways the justification is that this tool is used to support the development of technology companies and professionals so in the city of grand rapids they've used the tool for bridge improvements beautif infrastructure they've used it for scripts streetscapes all the other amenities that make a community a place that technology for professionals want to live and work and so it's it's definitely there's a broad use of how this tool can be applied  presented so once a year the budget will be presented but quarterly we will report to you on that spending plan and successes anish gives the move positive moves forward of the smarts on ok great now there are three in line and three are going to be granted but they still encourage us to continue preparing to submit yes and there's yes there's also on movement forward on legislation to add additional zones as well so that the state has said that they want to see all of the zones who are looking for partners be successful because these are strong partnerships and regional collaboration so and they also even though they received the applications are all sent to the partner treasury for final approval and often what they found in the process there's a lot of boxes that need to be checked so they don't want to slow down anyone's positive progress and if all three of the jones are gone they're very hopeful that legislation can be presented to to provide additional zones ok thanks for the clarification any other questions for jennifer i just have to maybe not so much question just confirmations one is that the persons whose properties are within the zone and there was a map somewhere well there you go that the properties the person's own properties within the zone be in the township where in the city they don't see any additional taxes on their property collects the money some of the property taxes that are generated within that district only the increased amount and second though the real power of of the of the zone is that the state reimburses the education mill so you get to couple of questions from people who are within the zone saying wait a minute are my taxes going up because of this and the answer of course is no it's just a question as to how those resources are allocated and the opportunities for additional resources to come in through that allocation cracks and i think hopefully their property values will only increase over time which will be positive said they look to restyle as that area becomes more vibrant and bustling is there more development so if i were a property owner in that zone i would be pleasantly surprised and  it's the appointment of the four persons we talked about earlier craig hall for a four year term council member brian birch for a three year term i'm out now in for a two year term and me for a one year term with that i will open up the public hearing at this point for anyone who would care to address council the rules of council or relatively simple just please step forward to the podium and microphone so everyone can hear what you have to say please state your name and residential address for the record and you have up to five minutes to address council and the way we handle that is right beneath me as you begin speaking you'll see a green light turn on it will turn to yellow and you have one minute left i want to turns red the time has expired the public hearing is open on this item and we invite public comment on it at this time be for a meeting of the transportation asset management council of which he is a member but since we cooperate on a number of items affecting the city he asked me to be here to represent him and encourage favorable action on this happily adjoint such a low unemployment rate as we have the past time but one of the reasons for that dad asked me to point out is that local government here you counties around township and other townships have been aggressive in seeking opportunities like the smart zone to encourage entrepreneurs to encourage job growth to encourage investment in our locality so i won't take any more of your tie but to say that he encourages a yes comment on this item in the public hearing right seeing no one i will close the public hearing and counsel you have a recommendation to force any further question before i ask for a motion seeing no further question last promotion drew yes motion passes all right thank you very much and jennifer versa dare for sure advantage thank you for being here tonight to inveigle you worked long and hard on this particular matter mr khan or city manager thank you as well well so we certainly invite the public to come and see what will be happening with the all the l d f a great thank you all right we have another item a special order of the day it is the water main extension vinyl project special assessment roll for the hi drive slash twenty fourth street piece and ryan we turn to you for introduction of this item thank you was in april two thousand and thirteen that this matter began in earnest at a regular city council meeting today as a public hearing and review of the water main extension projects pacifically the final special assessment role for the hiawatha drive from twenty fourth street north until the end this is a water main extension that was requested and acted upon by the city council and constructed by the board of public works last fall this final step is a public hearing regarding the assessment which is amounts to forty five thousand and thirty five dollars out of the total cost of the project of one hundred forty five thousand four hundred sixty four are eleven property owners that are part of the special assessment and will pay this as part of their costs for the the improvement amount of thirty two dollars per front foot a life is forty years but the assessment for all will be paid back over fifteen years an interest rate of two percent and this is the opportunity for the city council hold the final assessment roll public hearing mr kevin coning with the public works here tonight who is very knowledgeable about this matter should there be anything to add or if you have any questions all right thank you ryan mr coding i don't imagine you'd love to give us the elongated explanation of the project you've you've lived it long enough to  know anybody has questions certainly kevin is available for answering them this is the time it will first money questions for either mr conan or mr cotton saying none this time the place for the public hearing if you're to address this particular item in public hearing happens now and we invite you to the microphone right seeing no one i will close the public hearing and we have the request to approve the final assessment roll is there a motion movie approved by de boer supported by the thirty seven dash thirty three dealing with landlord notices of lease and security deposits related to the board of public works this is up for final reading and we perhaps should have an introduction of this item before we get into it and i don't know ryan will you handle that or simply this is going to match the the language that we have for the electric utility so this is been before council approved before very similar language so the slightly longer story is that this gives the  public works some flexibility in in examining credit and basically gives in the opportunity to have some flexibility in their policy the change that's actually quested in the ordinance is simply  to simplify interim you remove some of that language and and make the focus of the policy in protecting land owners or property owners who have tenants on their property from having liens against their property  due to nonpayment so it is simply change the onus to really focus on the intent of what it's there for right thank you any questions for m right seeing on time and place for the public hearing on this item if anyone is here to address counsel on it this is your chance to do so public hearing is open all right so i will close the public hearing on this one as well any final questions from counsel seeing on a motion please motion to move bunch of or supported by hoekstra any discussion counsel please call the rule then have two other adoption of ordinances this evening they are related in some ways us official a so that legally we can handle them as collectively at least as far as the public hearing goes and that is my intention  this point to do so unless anyone would care to sever the two from a public hearing standpoint the as we still have two votes but will have one public hearing seeing i really ok with that perhaps mr cotton you give us a brief introduction of this  staff pacifically commune everitt services department staff phil and joel and others who participated in a long series of discussions about ways of of strengthening neighborhoods ranging from a to z and this is one of the last items and dealing with the number of unrelated individuals that can live in a rental you so with your action tonight and on second reading you will and as in speed signifying that any new rental units are limited to only four i'm related individuals living there those with five now or six now would be grandfathered those that have more than six are actually not permitted by law at this time and certainly with should that come to our attention will be addressed so that they would not have the number that they if they exceed the number now so essentially it draws a line and signifies that for the purpose of stronger neighborhoods this is an opportunity for the council to create this limitation it should be noted that i think all but one community surveyed had a reduced number of individuals than what the city now presently allows which is six many were even less than three or four before summer at three so with that i think i'll turn to the city attorney who can discuss the mechanics of how these two ordinances work together to accomplish that outcome as well as ordinance there's only the last part of that definition that's been changed to reduce it as proposed to change to reduce it from six unrelated persons two to four as a zoning ordinance that doesn't apply to existing uses chapter fourteen of the housing code does apply to existing uses that uses will use the same definition of family except that we provide in the proposed ordinance amendment section d to then any dwelling unit that's illegally occupied by five or six unrelated adults currently and they say currently we really mean september as of september one of this year may continue in that manner but the property owner needs to notify the department of community and neighborhood services to confirm that occupancy and that later than december thirty one they will be able to continue with that occupancy then going forward we have paragraph three of of this subsection however and that would terminate that right if the owners rental certificate is revoked not suspended but revoked or if it's allowed to lapse and not be renewed for at least six consecutive months then they would lose that right to have five or six unrelated persons in the unit for any questions for the city attorney all right this is the time of the place for the public hearing now there are two separate ordinance amendments but they relate to the same item in the sort of binocular we've been referred to these  the six to four issue so we'll handle one public hearing for both of these things since there are certainly intertwined with that i will open the public hearing and invite any public comment on this item at this controversy and i sincerely appreciate the compromise language that was introduced the grandfather do exist uses and would request that you do vote affirmatively on this ordinance as it's written thank you thank you presentation ready and doing that i'm not doing well tonight but let's first look at section thirty nine dash two definition of family let's focus on that one alone at the moment with that care for birch i don't even know where to begin on this i guess overall i've made i think what we did two weeks ago is a bad move for the community bad for the neighborhoods i i don't know how to fix this at this point because in my opinion we are in a lose lose situation we either passed this and the community loses or we say no to this and it goes right back to where we were when we started essentially having never had this conversation before in the past so i'm a little bit frustrated right now and i just wanted to make sure that was to everyone if that wasn't already know i don't i'm not passionate about that i'm passionate about this and that passion about where this is going right now unfortunately right thank you any other discussion definition of family yes birds no mayor dexter yes motion passes six yes two no ok on the other one we have which is a similar nature is amendment to section fourteen  well on this one i just say that i mean concurrence with brother burgess comments and i am not pleased with the result that we've engendered tonight i think as i said last predominantly or substantially occupied by six person rentals and while the same time making the smaller houses no more attractive for it so with that please call white men now extra yes no motion passes by yes or no right thank you all right then that takes us down to i'm twelve communications from the audience this is the opportunity for members of your audience to dress thank you i just wanted to come and take this opportunity to new deuce myself to you my name is tiny shoot maker and i'm running for reelection in the twenty sixth district the twenty sixth district as you may know is a new district because the east side of the state lost population the west side we're growing jobs over here we gain population so the twenty six district includes all of in buren county all of allegheny county city of can't win and gains township so i would ask for your vote november i have to tell you about myself is i am a i've always lived on the west side of the state here and i'm dutch as well so it's kind of nice to come up to holland and participate in the various festivities but when i ran for reelection or when i ran four years ago i think there's a stark contrast from how it was to how it was is now if you recall we couldn't even pass the most basic of functions and that was balancing in every year about above one and a half billion dollars structural imbalance and we have solved that and not only have we solve that one and a half billion dollars structural balance but we also have passed a balanced budget on time actually early which i hopefully you all appreciate because you probably depend upon revenue sharing and your budget you're probably starts in july first and we've had a budget done by june of every year we're not actually required because our budget year doesn't start  october of every year but we have passed a balanced budget early we eliminate i want to have billion dollars structural imbalance we actually contrary to what you hear and the t v sometimes we actually have invested  hundred billion or one billion dollars into k twelve education i'm all about good governance and how you deliver services to people and i think you do that by ranking your priorities and  when it comes to jobs and in the economy we have i think four years ago the unemployment rate was about twelve and twelve point four percent now at seven point four percent the lowest thing since two thousand and four  so i think that's a good sign i think all the metrics are going in the right direction over two hundred fifty thousand private sector jobs have been created and i think that's in large due to creating the economic climate where jobs can thrive we eliminated michigan business tax which really taxed your small and medium sized businesses twice we reduced actually everyone's taxes by a tenth of a percent and for every regulation we instituted we got rid of ten regulations so happy to answer any questions i would ask for your vote in november i think that michigan's headed in the right direction and we've created the right foundation to make this just a prosperous area i think it's we i thank you for the service that you all do and i'm happy to answer any questions from either you or have the audience i don't know what your roles are here but if the audience and i also have a brochure i'm happy to pass out as well you know wonderful i want to leave a three four of us who are elegant county residents which is almost as many as you can have considering the allegheny county part of the city holland is the smaller part but the way that the districts and things are create you could have five we have four which i think is probably the largest river at terms of allegheny representation so though you have not been our state senator yet i can say as soon as the redistricting maps for finalized you've been very present in the area certainly our unofficial representatives to today and certainly i wish you well as thank you very much to sink in any other questions for the for the senator of story get city manager and then come from whitman oh mr mayor i just want to thank senator should maker for welcoming general manager david custer and myself to the senate technology committee for the house bill financing so it was great to have your support thank you and we're working on your bill there so it's a good bill i think it has been brought he's going to make a technical point since bob has a portion of fourth ward in allegheny county we've decided that it's actually four point five of us for technical purposes and bob h spent time in chicago so he plans on voting into place another we then drop down to hocks members that were removed from consent and that begins with fourteen easy one point five and then one point six maybe we can handle these collectively at least from a reporting standpoint so weeks and since they're connected anyway perhaps phil meyers the director of the community neighborhood services department would come up and provide some information on these items and good evening phil and we welcome you to for your good evening thank for what you have before you is an agreement that is the result of an earlier action you took back in july back in july you reviewed proposed sculpture to be located at in the vicinity of the river avenue bridge a major piece of sculpture that's entitled uniting sun it's by artists or a look some bird that is the image you have on the on the screen right now that's to be located in the triangle  on the south end of the river avenue bridge and then additionally there are sun discs a series of sun disks circular shapes mounted on poles that that run across both sides of river avenue bridge  those that combination of sculpture you approved back in july you have some requirements for us to continue to pursue as a result of your public art policy was of those is to develop an  agreement for the city to accept the art and it has a variety of provisions in the agreement that deal with the various it various companies and individuals that are involved in this the community foundation structures landscape design services the king company and to have an electrical services all have our contractors on this project and do various aspects of the foundation work to soils investigation foundation work design the placement of the sculpture the design and placement of the sculpture as well as the landscaping and site improvements around the sculpture  is at some point in the future the city council is fully authorized and and is in full control of what might happen to the sculpture over time or these sun discs over time whether it's to relocated or whatever council might decide to do over a long period of time there is another aspect to this which is if you'd like me to cover both both of these parts together another aspect of this is the renaming of the river avenue bridge it's a it's a the authority of the ottawa county road commission to name bridges they are looking at the possible new aiming of this as the unity bridge it's a proposal that came through this public art process they are prepared to approve quake the approval of the name but they are when they want to be sure that the city and the township both are comfortable with the designation so it would be entitled it would be called unity bridge and it would also have reference to celebrating our diversity and building community together which are two of the themes that are behind  sculpture behind the bridge itself and all of the ideas that have gone into the improvements here in this area there we're still working on one actually two details one of those is the provision of adequate protection around the base of the sculpture from vehicles we've had some instances of vehicles running off the road and into the triangle so we are working on sufficient protection there and the approval would be contingent on the public safety director and the city engineer approving the final plans for that protection there's also in the renaming of the bridge there are to be two signs located one in the city and one in the township as you're heading either north or south that indicate the name of the bridge the the proposal here is that you would approve the renaming of the bridge and approve  the placement of signs there continues to be some discussion about what the design of those signs should be however and the the approval today would not be a final approval on the design would bring that design back to you in the desire as we've heard is to have that sign consistent with a new way finding program that is under development at this point with that i will stop and answer any questions all right thank you phil any questions for  go on talk of the town and people wonder what is that thing going up on river have a new over there but also i'm very excited about this sculpture because it's not necessarily unique in that it's the first piece of sculpture of hip hop and we have a number of those around town but in terms of scale it probably will be one of the larger ones that we have but it's also i think unique in that represents a couple of community values him diversity and unity and to have something that that visibly represents that  i think is just pretty cool and i don't know a lot of other things so i come to mind at least he's really that do that in this in this town we celebrate the the unity that we have not only in this community but also with the surrounding communities the collaboration's that we've experienced certainly are examples of that so it's an important piece and the message that it sends is certainly  please yes i've been somehow i don't know how i've been involved in this in some arrangement or another but just is in my professional background involved in arts  organizations and i'm really excited to see this come to fruition because i think public art is an important part of the community's culture and framework and i just think it's awesome big piece of art a cool  i just want to make ask phil a very serious question will no more than thirty percent of this art represent was happening within the city of holland i'm just kidding that's not a serious or any other comments council mclaren's yes just one i just want to thank the people who have worked really hard on this and donate a lot of time and also donated a significant amount of money for this this it's been paid for by no donations rather than by kinds of things and have fun with it it's not the end of the world so i think it's a great a great addition so thank you for the thank you anyone else please call the roll extra pro tem to do so is there support support supported by true we all in favor of accusing your colleague for this vote please say i already post saying that passes unanimously now we have this item before us which in the briefest of description is your city manager would you give it to us thank you this is very similar to what the city council did last year it's a way to accommodate one of the major services in our community associated with disability network to the fact that they are located in the city of holland and the majority of their clients are city residents the just feeling at work approached the city to see if we could perform in a financial conduit role and for the purpose of receiving a share of a larger federal grant so there are two enraged cash transfer agreements before you with michigan rehabilitation services and it is recommended that city council enter into these two interagency cash  through is there any discussion on it i would just say that we're fortunate to have the n l in our community they do very very good work we've had a very good relationship with disability network like short and they've been providing us with great service and it's a pleasure to be able to contract with them as a community as an organization to help had to exit to to leverage their expertise to make this community a better place for those persons who have disabilities they do get excellent work and they do it meant a fraction of the cost is what it would cost they do it better and more cheaply than what it would cost us to have a dedicated staff persons doing this work on our own so this is money well spent with a very good organization please call that will come parents the city manager's office his prison report the following gives women island gardens received cash donations in the amount of one hundred twenty four dollars and forty two cents graph nature center received fifty dollars from gail klassen for land fifteen communications from the city manager thank you i only have one and that is that last night the overnight parking trial period on city streets ended tonight we advise residents to please use their driveways or there will be consequences sense for who is here winter is approaching and of course we cannot have streets on as cars on the valley state university whose time has been extended over to complete review of all the data on this subject i can say unequivocally given the status reports i've received not about the remarriage but rather about the length and  breadth of his research that it will be the best researched public policy and local government in the state of michigan this year there's just no doubt so in addition to receiving e mails from people hundred randomly chosen addresses that have an opportunity to go onto a link and fill out a survey monkey it says it takes twenty minutes it's actually not going to take more than five or ten minutes and we have received ninety responses today out of the fifteen hundred so we are just those anyone watching who may have gotten that postcard to take a minute and go on to that lincoln and provide their opinion that is a quasi  statistically valid because it was a random sample chosen so for people to respond to if someone needs language assistance i stop there's a notation as to who to call and aaron will help you or other city staff will help you the last thing is this matter will be brought to the city council for your review complete with pros and cons of whatever approach you might wish to take on october twenty second so at that time the matter communications from the mayor tonight of course we have our usual public service announcement of check out city of holland dot com for information about the city of holland its city council members and of course senior administrative staff we try to put as much information as we possibly can onto that website because we know that some of you would prefer not to come in to city hall if you don't need to or access information at times other than normal business hours for city hall so we we do our best to put information there and you can find out lots and lots of things about what's happening course we also welcome contact and communication as well e mail and telephone numbers are available on that site we are as was reminded tonight by having sen slash candidate with us  we are in the height of campaign season and i spoke with our deputy the clerk tonight about our preparedness for the upcoming election which happens in early november it would have a couple of changes  locations as well as i thought it would be good for us to all have a refresher as to how if someone is how a home home is eligible for an absentee ballot and how they can go about getting one there we go so with that and would you mind just walking us through some of the changes in our polling locations for this upcoming election please yes we've made two changes we made two changes that one is from midtown village all the voters there were there in the second ward are now at first united methodist church so all aboard to is now going to be handled in one location and that is first united methodist church and that is at fifty seven west  and then we made another change for all of ward three that was initially at moran per church that is now at the boys and girls club which is located at four thirty five in reality ave so all of ward three and all were to are now under one location and so those are the last two changes that we made and hopefully that will be for now i just wanted to remind the deadline to register to vote for this november election is monday october six you may either go to the secretary of state's office to register to vote or you may come into the clerk's office where here eight to five also open during the lunch hour in order to receive an absentee ballot you must qualify either you're sixty years of age or older physically unable to attend the polls been appointed to work as an election inspector or absent from the community on the day of election or you cannot attend because of religion and purposes or cannot attend because you are confined in the arraignment you may come into the clerk's office and fill out an application we will then issue a ballot to you at that time because the ballots are available right now we do ask that you bring your driver's license your identification in order to receive your application all right thank you and that telephone number if you go to that city's website got it on my computer here that if you're the department area basically go to city hall dot com slash a city clerk and you'll get to where you need to go to find information about the clerk's office if you scroll down you'll see a tab that talks about polling locations and you can find that information as well as contact information for you but it's three five five thirteen zero one is the office number one question what does if some want to register to vote for the first time what do they need to bring with them to do so the driver's  license and just remember the students young adults that will turn eighteen by november for even though your birthday could be october twenty seventh in the deadline is to register to vote this monday please come in by monday because you will be eligible then to vote for the november fourth election night so long as you turn eighteen before november for your eligible but in order to be registered that must happen by monday october sixth correct all right again the number three five five thirteen i want to you have questions about absentee ballots registering to vote what your belt looks like your polling location anything to do with the elections we certainly want to make sure that you know what to do you know where to go and if you have questions you know who to call i do have one motion and resolution tonight not a motion resolution appointment to handle it is the appointment of mr peter to the i r c which will be for a three year term which expires june third he of twenty seventeen i place that before you for your consideration group move by the mayor pro tem supported by cook straight a discussion on the all in favor please say i i suppose the same that passes communications from members of the city council this evening told him brightly a rare moment for me but i will do my best to make an invitation here on occasion m invitations to public events on labor day for past labor day but tonight i'd like to invite each one of you and those that joined us in t v land to what we call the ability award on october without barriers where people with disabilities can participate contribute and belong this year we have ten great nominees will honor each and every one of those that night and ultimately we'll honor one winner that exemplifies and embodies that spirit so that invitation is open to us council members and we invite the general community to join us as well there's no cost to the event begins at five thirty p m we'll spend thirty minutes socializing and having some more d'oeuvres and then at six o'clock we'll start a program have a great guest joining us that night juanita lily a grand valley state recent grand valley state graduate lives with a visual impairment but has persevered and started her own organization for students with disabilities traveling abroad she'll share with us her thoughts on independent living and we would invite you to join us and celebrate being this coming friday evening at seven o'clock i like big trucks and i like big noise and it's going to happen all over again except this time it's a very special parade it's the fire truck parade starting at eight in columbia in ending up at the civic center again that's going to start at seven p m october three downtown there will be a set up at the civic center there will be some demonstrations or police come out and support all  local fire departments probably between seventy five one hundred trucks are going to be down there it's always a great show and you can tell the passion that these firemen have for their job and protecting communities to come down and show some support for them the second thing is this coming saturday october for is the beginning is the city manager cotton said about the parking on the streets one of the reasons  program that starts this saturday and goes through november fifteenth only leaves nothing else and please make sure that those leaves are not piled around utility poles hydrants traffic obstructions things like that the city will do their final pick up the week of the fifteenth barring any snow there may be some pickups in between depending on the amount of leaves that come down things like that but so not before but starting october for you can start putting your leaves out on the curb through the fifteenth of november and only leaves and the third and final thing is speaking of spring coming up yes i just said spring kick coming up to a planning taking place on october eleventh there are two times that you can do that at windows on the waterfront you can do the shift from eight to ten or from ten to noon it's always a great time get out have a couple of cups of sight or a couple of donuts dig some holes put some tool bobs in and then come back in the spring and see which your work the fruition of your work i hope to see a whole lot of people out there that's again october eleventh from either eight to ten or ten to eleven at window on the waterfront and you can sign up on the web at tulip time dot com i believe that's it right thank you comes from riches to anyone else have anything this evening and i would note that we just boosted the fall leaf program information to the city's web page city of holland right on the home page so if you're looking for information about that program you to jot down everything mike had just said go to the city's website and you'll find out the parameters and particulars of the program anything else tonight for the good of the order seeing none left then is a motion to supported by peter's any discussion on it