welcome we are here february three twenty sixteen to begin council meeting regularly scheduled council meeting and i would you please call the roll bird  client i invite you to join in this prayer or god we approach you before we begin our work to acknowledge your presence here in your great love for us in the thoughts we have the words we speak in the actions we take be inspired by that love and reflect the essence of who you are please give watchful attention to those who serve us be with our fellow citizens in the flint areas they face extraordinary challenges and power correct and courageous remedies to those problems any justice and peace come to that community we pray with grateful attitudes amen thank you dave and and we are now going to read the consent agenda and those are all the items that have been marked as i'm concerned that we will pass with one vote after they are all read however there may be something that you came here to talk about in its sequence in the agenda and if that's the case we will ask you after and i has read all of those kids consent items that you could come forward and request that i them be taken from consent and placed in its sequence and we would honor that when we get to it and i could you read the consent agenda place item four b to approve the minutes of the january sixth two thousand and sixteen regular meeting item for c to accept and file executed oaths of office from various boards and commissions item twelve a one to approve a contract with i don't county community action agency for the customer assistance program w term of february fifteenth through december thirty one two thousand and sixteen which shall renu on december thirty one of each subsidy subsequent year unless either party provides written notice in the amount of thirty five dollars per application not to exceed twelve thousand two hundred fifty and authorized the mayor deputy clerk to sign said contract item twelve a two to approve obtaining of easement rights to allow the building of the natural gas pipeline and the one thirty eight k v interconnect line hauen energy park item twelve c one to approve the exchange agreement with j d k properties for city property located at forty four west eighth street and adopt a resolution to dispose of property and replace it for property of equal value and authorized the mayor and deputy clerk to execute the agreement item twelve d one to refer claims filed against the city to the city's insurance carrier and city attorney for consideration item twelve easy one point one to approve a payment of thirteen retroactively the purchase of enhanced traffic control material for the pedestrian mid black crosswalks and seventy three in the amount of one thousand eight hundred dollars and for the construction contractor installation of said materials estimated to be approximately seven thousand five hundred i had in twelve easy one point three to accept ownership of properties purchased by m dot in support of the m forty an interchange drive safety project so property being a portion of tax parcels zero three zero two fifteen one hundred zero one eight zero nine zero three zero two fifteen two hundred zero zero one and zero zero four subject to city attorney approval item twelve two point one to approve the contract for construction services for the south shore village improvement project to national construction and not to exceed amount of four hundred seven thousand three hundred ninety two dollars and seventy two cents and that the mayor and deputy clerk reauthorized to sign the contract as approved us to form by the city attorney and a budget transferred from the general fund contingency budget in the amount of seventy five thousand to help cover the increased cost for this project i didn't twelve a four point one two except the december two thousand and sixteen monthly financial reports as presented item twelve efore point two two accept the financial fiscal year two thousand and fifteen cash and investment portfolio performance in status report as presented item twelve easy for point three to accept the quarterly investment report as presented item twelve yf i point one to approve the grant from the michigan office of highway highway safety planning in the amount for twenty thousand four hundred ninety six and authorize a finance director to execute the necessary documentation on behalf of the city item twelve east six point two to approve the appointment of dana color where downtown director for one year term as a new member of the board of review item twelve east six point three two accept  qualified and i believe all three also viewed this project that this is another job that recognizes significance of this project to the community and reflected that in their dialogue estimate above and beyond the other companies which if you look at how this project is beginning to flush out and you know the design features that are talked about and and will be talked about it's going to be essential  particularly with a little of the budget figure that is already in mind to be able to estimate those costs and make recommendations to help us stay in line with that last budget considerations that was one of the larger considerations in in this choice with and with the jump point filling that gap the end of the design tunnel is hopefully mid march march sixteenth is the date that the resources has on their counterparts to present to you the the design option that they are recommending if you decide that night or some subsequent night to to adopt that approach then we will need to enter into negotiations with edgewater resources as well as for the construction manager on stage two because both will have completed their missions at that point so that would be coming back to you and in between time we have something called budget study sessions and hearings and i suspect that those numbers will  be talked about in that context and once we have that figured out so i think i'm a long or short answer is ma now we have communications from the city manager share thank you oh i only have two items one is to make a belated mention that we've received several thank you notes to the city council and i'll get you the exact notes out to you but i want to let you know that former mayor bob end of us he wrote a thank you know for his reception about a month ago as well as like your advantage in relation to the smarts and the contract that was entered into so  those things i want to make sure you know people appreciate it secondly we have a new found system in the city hall and this is something that i first heard of i think four years ago  county joint purchase had about a savings of seventy five thousand as i recall and has made the installation happen go extremely smoothly and i've participated in these elsewhere and this has been the smoothest having said  it's last week about thursday knowing that we have a new system the old systems that were rebuilt when i was high school you know going to be retired in officially powered off tomorrow morning at eight am and  them and i will be a much better man for it so thank you for them for their purchase great thank you matt that's that was a huge undertaking and you involved everybody and their brother in the region in order to save everybody money so thank you very much is that it brian yes ok so i think it was a slide for the max safety bike safety open house yeah you just went by the road safety the area coordinating council is hosting a session at the fillmore township building from i think it's ten in the morning till two this saturday the sixth of february they're concerned about bike and car and vehicle accidents and so you're welcome to attend that and they will be even be serving lunch there so whether you drive a vehicle or ride a bike you'd be a good idea to step in and just get a few pointers on how we can be more safe in this area with both types of transportation and i i heard that the groundhog didn't see its shadow shell were supposed to have a short spring and i guess all the ground hogs i didn't know there was like repetition of ground hog's i guess that's the plural the repetition of groundhogs all agree that will be an early spring so i think everybody's probably in favor of that my husband had a conversation with a medical specialist that's that's well known in the area from the grand rapids area and he mentioned something about having gone to holland and he said you know i haven't been there for a long time and i just happened there and i can't believe the difference in the city of holland he said it is really happening there what a great down town what development you have and what an amazing place hyland is you just couldn't say enough about how great the city of highland is so it was really nice to hear that whenever you do and please encourage your friends and other people that haven't been here for a while to come on back and try it out again appears i live a good things going on and how it's also the heinz plant has been here for a long time it's touched three centuries of development  our in our city which is the longest company and you know sometimes you think a company gets kind of stuck in its ways and it's just old heinz but they are coming up with a really cool super bowl commercial that they'll be showing this sunday so we thought you might enjoy it can you show so so sweet you know you got to love you gotta love heinz and i think the picnic packaging came from our holland plant where they figured out how to package all of those together and that was a big idea that really helped heinz become even more profitable so we're very thrilled and that's it for me now i'm wondering about communications from council members wayne  this is a little ways off but on may the team the fair housing commission of michigan will be in grand rapids at the crown plaza hotel and they're going to have  was the real life coach of the film remember the titans will be the speaker so if you want to listen to a great speaker who actually was on the ground running with that so each year they come up with really something really good so you might want to put  on your agenda the other one was we ran out of time up stairs or would have brought this up we i think probably every sconce a member received a letter this week from someone concerning seasonal rental violations and  i guess that i'm going to be asking the city manager to see if that is something that we can put on our study agenda in the near future to consider or maybe it needs to go to the neighborhood commission or exactly what but over the last couple of years we have taken a hard look at chickens and b s and parking and on the road in a number of things like this and as far as neighborhoods we've talked about fewer done in holland and spring lake in grand haven and other places have so maybe it's something we need to look at advocating it or not against it but i think maybe we need to look at the pros and cons and it was brought up to us by resident and apparently a number of other people are interested in it and i think it's worthwhile taking a look at the thank you and any other comments ok well thank you we also had a meeting this week for robert boudreau from the american wind symphony which is a group that performs on a huge barge and i guess he was here a few decades ago he's been doing this for fifty nine years all over the world and students perform on the barge as it floats in the water and it's an awesome concept and he also works with students and encourages them as a part of fund raising in order to raise money for an instrument in the school he has all different ways that they work within the community to encourage the education encourage music as a as an avocation or as a career for students and i looking for people that are interested in being on a committee to help with hosting robert boudreau and his american wind symphony when they come this july they will come here in between being a man of steel on their way to chicago and this barge was designed by a famous architect whose name i don't have written down but and it is so famous that chicago wants to keep the barge there when he's going to back it so if you interested in being involved in that hosting in the planning of that please get ahold of me you can call three five five thirteen eleven and let me know what you'd like and also you if you want to connect with any of us please go to the highland dot com and all of us are available there if you can connect with us with whatever you'd like to talk about so thank you for tuning in tonight and hope you have a wonderful evening and it is pure michigan out there one type of weather every five minutes take care if you have a wonderful evening