good evening ladies and gentlemen welcome to this regularly scheduled meeting of the house and city council second meeting in july you know where to get the meeting called order and conduct business we need to find out if we have a quorum years they have stood us in good stead we open our meeting with prayer this evening it will be given council member talk whiteman will be followed by the pledge of allegiance to our flag i would invite those of you who are able and in chambers to stand with us in those two items please pray with me dear lord we come before you today privileged to call this great city home and those of us at the diocese come before you asking for guidance and wisdom as we deliberate the city's business we ask that you would give us clarity of mind give us sensitivity in our dialogue with one another and let us maintain decorum at the highest level in a way that would honor each other as peers and honor you and so as we go about tonight's business and as we part from let us do what you require and that is to seek justice the next item on the agenda is the consent agenda and the consent agenda is made up of all of the items on the agenda marked with an asterisk and i'd like to mention if you are in chambers and might follow along there should be printed copies of the agenda the literature rack at the back of the chambers all of the items that are mar consent agenda these items are considered to be routine in nature and have been studied or discussed at prior meetings or study sessions and will be enacted with a single motion and a single vote however if you are here to address council or one of these items or would like to specific have some more specific questions about that you may ask to have the item removed and if there are items that will be removed by the council members they also have the opportunity but in order to know what is on the consent agenda request and have to give us a summary of please item five to approve the minutes of the regular meeting tell june seventeen and july one two thousand and fifteen item six to excuse the absence of council members tretheway and birch item eleven eight to accept and files of office from various boards and commissions item fourteen a one to approve a budgetary purchase of thirty two thousand seven hundred sixty nine dollars with the transfer from contingency in the amount of five thousand seven hundred sixty nine for the purchase of a tractor with a load or for the how on board of public works to include the heavy duty brush any snow blower with green marquis quitman in item fourteen eighty two to adopt a joint resolution appropriating five million three hundred in fifty two thousand dollars from the electric utility funds to school year two thousand and sixteen budget for the general purposes of the city of holland to the city a pound fourteen e one point two to approve the mid black light remove all along with the light installations with the exception of the light at nine forty one south shore drive and two lights between twenty fourth and thirty six  really and one at myrtle ave and that the total number of lights removed would thereby equal sixty seven for an annual savings of one hundred five thousand seven hundred kilowatt hours and at a rate of nine thousand five hundred dollars per year fourteen eat two point one two a the brenner estimating incorporated bid for the region boulevard project in the amount of four hundred twenty eight thousand eight hundred ninety seven dollars and fifty cents but the not to exceed overall project budget of four hundred thirty five thousand and that the initial funds be allocated from the street improvement phone with the paid back amount through assessments subject to approval as to form by the city attorney item fourteen each three point one two approve the bi submitted by your drinks construction inc and that amount of twenty five thousand three hundred dollars for the van the farmhouse restoration and repair work of the front porch to be funded from the legacy funds item fourteen e's three point two two approve the fredrickson supply bid for forty two thousand and fifteen six inch trash pump and diagnostic equipment in the amount of sixteen thousand dollars and to declare the nine hundred sixty five trash pump as surplus and amend the fiscal year two thousand and sixteen centralised vehicle equipment budget to allow for this purchase item fourteen e three point three to approve the purchase of an elton pelican and peace weeper from bell equipment company at a cost of one hundred eighty four thousand one hundred thirty seven dollars to be paid from the centralised vehicle equipment fine and to declare the one thousand nine hundred six elden pelican sweeper as surplus allowing city staff to dispose of it in the most advantageous method i don't fourteen eat three point four to adopt a resolution appointing david vander hyde as city assessor of record to provide temporary supervision of the assessing staff during the board of review and prepare in sign assessment roll i am fourteen  four point one two accept with appreciation donations to support the racing through education traffic safety and education program regarding drag racing in the city of holland item fortini five point two to approve the downtown development authority board reappointment of members of david wilkins in indy beer to stick spire on june thirtieth two thousand and nineteen and to accept with regrets the resignation of board members might be terrorists and mary george item fort i six point one two approve the lend tronics inc bid for the purchase of the nexus server in the amount of twenty thousand one hundred ninety two dollars and fifty cents funds to be allocated from the fiscal year two thousand and sixteen see a t v budget declare the existing equipment as surplus and authorize staff to dispose of said equipment in a manner that is most advantageous to the city i am fourteen b six point two two approve the bid submitted by b in each photo for the purchase of a video editing server in the amount of thirteen thousand two hundred ninety with funds allocated from again the fiscal year two thousand and sixteen ca t v budget and i don't fourteen east six point three to approve the year dear usa bid for the purchase of a new ruckus wireless system in the amount of twenty nine thousand seven hundred dollars and seventeen cents with funds allocated from the fiscal year two thousand and sixteen technology services budget thank you all right those are the items that are on the consent agenda and they will be enacted with a single motion and support and the single vote on was one of those items is one more of those items is removed is there anyone in the audience that would like to have one of those items removed and any members of coun americans with disabilities act and we have a resolution to note that event and i think it would be very fitting if our council member points out and i guess to some people rightfully hands me this resolution to read but because it may seem to some that it's more important to me but what i'd like to point out his that best i can tell it's pretty important everybody around this dyess at least our actions have said is such and of equal importance i know it's of importance to the city manager and his team and they've shown that clearly through their actions his leadership team has embraced accessibility for clues in people with disabilities wholeheartedly and so lest anyone think this is just about those of us that pass resolutions in ordinances i thought it fitting to point out that this is truly an entire entity leading by example so here i go whereas the american was with disabilities act the eighty eight was passed on july twenty sixth one thousand nine hundred to ensure the civil rights of citizens with disabilities and whereas the americans with disabilities act has expanded opportunities for americans with disabilities by reducing barriers changing perceptions increasing full participation in community life however the full promise of the americans with disabilities act will only be reached if public entities remain committed in their efforts to fully implement the americans with disabilities act and where as numerous organizations in the city of holland including the disability network veterans of foreign wars the comments of evergreens and countless others that work together to bring forth the promise of hope and freedom that is in vision in the passage of the americans with disabilities act and where as on the twenty fifth anniversary of the americans with disabilities act the city of holland michigan celebrates and recognizes the progress that has been made by r g the principles of equality and inclusion and recommitting our efforts to reach full americans with disabilities act compliance now therefore be it resolved that the entire city council of the city of holland michigan proudly recognizes the twenty fifth anniversary of the americans with disabilities act that the city council commence the americans with disability act on its continuous effort to bring awareness to the community and to write people with disabilities the same opportunities as everyone else to participate in american sign this fifteenth day of july in the year two thousand fifteen may or rubber band  in taxes thereby in a way which supports and encourages these expansions and job growth before us tonight is most integrated technologies who has come clean on a project for land of building improvements  and some of the former j cia headquarters and also had an opportunity to receive a visit hosted by mr chris hall who is here tonight showing some of the corporate offices space that was renovated and various elements to production which is also there on site the benefits to this facility are that they're the world headquarters for some of the work associated with j c i previously as well as headliner production and it's not only the production it's also as i said the management staff so thirty new jobs forty eight st for twelve years from the state taxed commission approval date and its adoption is recommended as i said with us tonight is mr chris hall who's vice president for strategic affairs and also mr cameras it was like sure advantage i should one or both want to address the council all right very good that's encouraging report we're always excited to hear of new jobs particularly thirty new jobs sic very significant i will declare the public hearing to be open and anyone in the audience particularly represented the company wishes to address coun  least up forward to the podium give us your name and your residential address for the record and you have up to five minutes to address  polls good evening my name is chris hall on his right side and vice president corporate strategy in development for most integrated technologies and representing the executive leadership of that organization home addresses five nine zero eight sixteenth avenue and bill michigan four nine four two six a little bit of history about myself i'm i was part of print corp way back in the early ninety's which then transferred over to jobs controls and no part of most integrated technology history about motors were formed last june june one two thousand and fourteen as part of the car above from john's controls it is the visor and headliner manufacturing we have a facility here in holland a facility in mexico into in europe that came as part of that carve out we're excited about this business we took now only the planned hollander was about forty five above plant folks part of that organization then transferred over from the corporate center at thirty second waverly and we made a commitment for a corporate headquarters here in holland those folks moved over to that facility as well as was mentioned we expect thirty or so jobs to be added over the next two years we've already added several our c e o is moved to the area or c f o is moving to the area where corporate finance person has moved to the areas of several folks actually being hired in moving in to the west michigan area which we're very excited about the space the local community and those of you that are familiar with j c i prince in their care and share program we've continued that we've renamed to unity for community we get we've almost ten thousand dollars to the community last year and we plan ramping that up again this year several that you've described are support positions or up are upper level positions it sounds like is that primarily the type of jobs that will be creators or production positions as well you know much is going to thirty that i described and we carved out from john's controls no corporate finance folks no corporate id and no corporate h r folks came as part of that business so for the last year we've been pain j c i support our business in those areas as we ramp up and hire folks do that ourselves so in that facility we corporate finance within that thirty corporate i t to support our business globally and then some h r folks so be safe to assume that  wages you'll be paying those folks would fall within the livable wage category yes that's an important question for me to ask because again to reiterate you know an exercise like this is a bit of a trade off for the citizens of this and when we hear reports that the jobs that are created are being created in an area where again the livable wage of his part of that scenario it's an important consideration for me and i think from my colleagues it's great that you recycled the building henry then it probably feels a spot in your heart we doing a prince and j c i building and we are creating a local industry that that means a lot to everybody and i really appreciate that in your local commitment and here believing in philanthropy and giving back to the community those are all awesome heller's have what makes this whole city work so we really appreciate your willingness to establish your headquarters here and to move people here and build your global industry from here thank you thank you what else was drawl you talk about these thirty two jobs as being primarily administrative and administrative support do you also have current production facilities in in this facility here yeah sense we can say we're not just creating those jobs but we're creating thirty new jobs but we're maintaining that the hundred fifty jobs here as well here we not only maintain the manufacturing folks that were in that facility like i said we took the engineers program managers and other above plant folks from the tech center and move them into the second floor great great well thank you thank you the report that you boys will write all of their please say i right all right thank you for catching that and now we are to item twelve which is communications from the audience anybody in the audience this evening has come to address council on an item that is not addressed later on in the agenda this is your opportunity to  make your thoughts known to us the rules of council are very simple please come forward to the podium state your name and residential address for the record and again you have five minutes to address council and to make sure that you understand what your times are you'll notice that there when they light up there are three little lights in front of me as long as the green light is i don't you will have time to speak when the green light goes off the yellow light comes on that means you have one minute left and when the red light turns on that means your time has expired so if there's anyone in the council the chambers who wishes to address council this is your opportunity good evening in mourning primal tice live at seventy four sixteenth street right downtown going on thirteen years now i'm a long time member of the neighborhood improvement committee member of the home corps board and the founder director three sixty and they were led nonprofit i'd like to just take a moment to talk to you about the sixty four rental ordinance that passed last october so as a member of the nic i was part of the discussion for many months in fact years we thoroughly weigh the pros and cons of the change and i understand the intention of the ordinance and i agree with what it's trying to accomplish it was instituted to stabilize neighborhoods to decrease the impact of more cars for parking overcrowding to minimize the negative effects of transience i believe it serves a purpose and it was instituted to strengthen our city well in cooperation other city and many other partners three sixty or nonprofit has also been working to strengthen diligently sometimes quietly but to strengthen our city our nonprofit however has been negatively impacted by this workmen's as many of you know we do many things in our community as a team and neighbors we do too lending property improvements we help city staff with code violations plan and host neighborhood gatherings where holistic in our approach to building a vibrant community currency is people time relationships we complex much in our community without a lot of money what with innumerable volunteer hours and donations one of the most lasting and significant things we do and it's only increasing is to host interns community development interns we host them we train them we deploy them back into our neighborhoods many young adults and they  things that we do our nonprofit currently owns two houses on college avenue that are not mental homes these houses are becoming a hub and an engine for educational informational work is houser one small bit of equity that we have that allows us to host and train and stand you know dogs and we're partnered with other non profits in this all non profits that are stakeholders who care about the health and well being of our community the residents of our houses go through comprehensive application process is recommendations check your references the applicants are the cream of the crop are current summer intern graduates honors a whole college is underway to princeton so these college post college folks are incredible we're seeing an increase as i said in young adults who desire these formation experiences our current partners for this next coming year or pillar church or college western seminary and if they farm there's direct involved supervision for all of these programs we've quired in rehab the house of grants blood sweat and tears a lot of volunteer equity we've taken the worst housing on the block and made in the best we've built now to garages for two lending ready to launch that program and fall the reality is we are now unfortunately facing reduced capacity to host i would say community changing folks or work in through these houses with these interns a source of a healthy and thriving community we are a creative and stabilizing force a contributing force in our neighborhood and our city i believe we are the exact opposite energy that the ordinance was intending to change so i'm asking that you the council who approved the ordinance find a way i don't know what that way is talk to join other staff members find a way to possibly request for you to consider asking staff to find a way or to find a way to work with us in this we wouldn't so i've say any questions all right well kind of cliche phrases come to mind no good deed goes unpunished and something about the law of unintended consequences we will take your request under consideration and refer to staff and see if there's a way that we can ease some of your burden all right th graduate from hope college and i was in shipper cottage and it was myself and nine other guys in a very similar sized home to the two that he has so i know those homes can probably safely fit ten assuming you match appropriately male and female appropriate residences but it was that was totally unintended but i actually wanted to ask you guys or at least in gentleman a couple questions or just propose a an idea or two i am the individual who fell through the manhole cover back on july first and just following city procedures left voice mails trying to go through the proper channels and stuff finally got paperwork submitted to you guys this last monday i didn't realize i had to come in until marsha gave me a call back she was on vacation lots of delays i understand the bureaucracy is involved but i didn't see that i was listed on fourteen d one so i don't know that my paperwork made it through to you guys in time i'd get it  just before five on monday probably did not get included in the ok at this point no problem that's right and i'm in kind of an interesting dilemma here in that the way it was marsha had proposed a situation to me was that i was supposed to go get all my medical expenses taken care of and then write everything up and submit a claim to the city and then it would be reviewed by the insurance policies or the insurance company that does your your reviews for that and then  potentially reimbursed that really doesn't work well for me my wife and i have been debt free for the last eight years we have an emergency fund that's been somewhat taxed is down to only a thousand dollars right now  don't personally have health insurance the rest of my family does but if i were to go get checked out a doctor's office the order x rays the expenses would stack up very quickly and the potential for those to get reimbursed would be  that's a very significant risk to my family's financial wellbeing and i'm wondering if there's any way that this could be worked out without everybody on facebook is it recommended that i get a lawyer and go through those motions i'm just wondering if there's a way or procedure that this can be done that doesn't involve undue burden and financial stress to the city or just explore those options with you guys it and i mean we'll get back to you right sooner than that right if you have all your best contact information on that and we'll be back in touch ok thanks i do have a doctor's appointment scheduled i haven't done anything as far as i haven't seen anybody personally i haven't that my physicians on vacation right now as well so do you mind if i take just another quick thirty seconds just to address one previous item as well that came up or how much time do i ever see the old light on that means you have less than a minute ok about the workforce of the city i have a lot of friends and some family who were formerly employed with what was j c i i think it's now the new division i'm not sure how the splits working but i know that they can be better parents your time with ok so our questions back and forth so all of the luck to finish i think i'll be really brief i think it would be i think the best investment that we can make and our work force in our city just for reducing crime for empowering our students our youth for mentoring and guiding our next generation just speaking as a boy scout leader is getting that contact time with parents unplugging from the internet from t v having that face to face contact time and just encouraging jobs and positions where that's feasible because i know for a lot of the industry right now it's there's a lot that's not and i could say a lot more but i'll i'll wrap it up with that so thank you very much for time we appreciate your your concern thank you god bless and i will speak with mr khan afterwards great thank you anyone else to address coun role as community energy services manager of with board of public works to announce make you aware of in the public aware of the first annual governor energy excellence awards i've been serving on a statewide committee to develop these awards and there will be eight of them one for best residential project best commercial project best public project best culture project best industrial manufacturing project contractor of the year best communication or education program and the eight the ward is our innovator of the year and these prestigious awards are designed to honor the innovators the trendsetters and those completely committed to energy  nominations are currently open and they close the end of july so july thirty first it's an on line application to my energy excellence dot org that's energy excellence dot org and they will be awarded by the governor in september and it would be wonderful to have companies individuals from here in holland and west michigan that end up as finalists and winners of these awards so if you know of a person or a business that represents the best in energy efficiency please nominate them for the he website yes we can make that available wonderful anyone else under communications from the audience yes sir good evening and welcome oh my name is henry allen weimer i'm a property owner of ninety four east sixteenth street holland michigan do that is not my current residence due to go up by or sorry to hear that no worries are right manley i was fairly curious about what this place was like i lived in holland the north side of on since i was two years old and very rarely traveled outside of it and i was just kind of curious how all this work and so far it has been very properly done and it's actually an enjoyable experience being able to see what you guys do i bided a very large problem in american society that the pure fact that people all vote for alike or should vote for the president action and they don't vote for these type of things or obviously the room is very empty and this is the things that directly affect as and i thank you very much for your time and patience and i love holland very much i have recently been going through a great deal of changes personal faith financial matters and all that simply i would like you to be aware that i plan on i received a very large settlement and i'm also selling my house for quite a bit and i plan on improving holland as best as i can with my cash due the just that i feel like it i have this feeling in this faith that i should do things some of these ideas i already contacting and stop by the library about trying to make local hotspots you to the peer fact the libraries as many of the homeless need to use their wife by because they have phones but no way to use them so hotspots that would be easily assessable much like in grand rapids and in other cities become cool cities and i don't quite understand why holland would not have this already due to our fairly wealthy crowd beyond that mainly i've been making charitable donations i plan on going about this a way that helps out and no need this i know homeless people because i've had to deal with that problem myself so and said some very big issues so that they have fight to be able to cannot contact family members and get jobs i also understand that people need businesses so i'm actually investing in a number of jobs or anything i can just simply employ people i also randomly on sunday gave different businesses random amounts of money to simply improve people's lives i gave it all pyros three hundred dollars for a gift card to give to the city in the mission because why not why not have people that are desperate have an extremely good meal why not i can't change their lives but three hundred dollars gets them an extremely good of that and breakfast doesn't sound that bad same other things i did a other places went to a hotdog store i gave them seventy five bucks that anyone wearing a temporary tattoo would be able to have these type of things actually i want to about seven different businesses doing this because when i want for my harsh time fifteen ten dollars was all i needed per day now in my situation i have more money than i could conceivably spend within a decade and i don't believe i deserve it and i believe han deserves it and i'm going to try and do this but i'm hoping to be able to talk to different area businesses charities about how so my  hope so my dreams to improve the city so i simply wanted to make you aware and thank you for your time and god bless and i love you by well thank you very much and we are as a community deeply grateful and i think we have a new poster child for paying it forward and we appreciate that so there's a number of folks in the room that i'm sure could give you before my house was burned i had been trying to just do this type of thing with a home and i sucked at it and with their help the lives so please really do consider what he says wine in beer at the civic center events this was something that was reviewed and discussed in depth and was eventually approved with a number of cats associated with not allowing any activity associated with youth or i school sports or n c double a i think i got that right sports events etc recreation events recreation department events  in that none of those events would have any opportunity to purchase or have alcohol served it was limited i believe to twelve and a year has passed and we had to my knowledge  individual events in which alcohol was intended to be served only one of which actually happened the other was cancelled it was the fiesta weekend as part of the first weekend of the whole time festival in may  there were no public safety problems so if a year is passed as noted in the ordinance as of july thirtieth believe the permission to do so will sunset without action by council so tonight at or taking action tonight on an ordinance that is before you that would continue this ability for only twelve events per year subject to first reading tonight and second reading at a subsequent time or some other action as you might choose so i know this is something you discussed ups stairs in your council meeting and that there is some discussion needed and and a variety of opinions so my remarks tonight is intended to ramp that up and i know that i am and a prowlers has been involved in this matter and actually assisted in the discussion upstairs as jeremy meyer has given you a short activity in our downtown and the fact there's been no problems that the city council consider first reading of the ordinance as amended to delete the sunset provision where every move that we appro but i think it was in that conversation at least my recollection was that we we thought it probably pretty wise to at least get back around this issue and you know unpack it a little bit considering some of the trend lines that we were seen relative to that in essence the city  the entity that was well in some other ones as well and so my question upstairs was in light of if we are going to do such a review in unpacking is there anything that necessitates this being done tonight but rather maybe take it up after we have that conversation so he says a chance to fully back out those you know any further questions any additional insight staff may have forces cetera et cetera so that was sometimes when events are really planned it's so little bit more difficult to vote no on a because people who are of already things in place at this point it's really i have an open question and we have several people who are not here tonight and i think it could be booked in the future son so it's not like there are people running to the civic center to all these events we should have some time to rethink that through i have just a couple of procedural questions of this if in fact we do nothing tonight then  this ordinance affectless effectively does sunset and goes off the books correct it doesn't technically go off the books but but the ordinance says it's currently on the books i would prohibit events after july thirty first so effectively if it does cause that to happen they would no action people would not be able to have events we had which they serve beer and wine inside the civic center all right and then if that in fact happens  and we decide that we would like to allow them again procedurally that could happen without the reestablishment of the ordinance or we could just look at so conceivably if we would accept it for first reading this evening or next and that it does not allow any debate correct and takes press event over the motion to or what is the closure of goals of the motion to post po you redevelopment liquor license for forty two washington i will try this one in two thousand and six the state legislation was enacted that allowed additional premised on premises liquor license within what is termed as a reed to redevelopment project areas and development district areas for an liquor license as these licenses are in addition to the number of licenses available with this within the city due to the census formula the redevelopment or development district licensed are based on the level of public and private investment within the particular area as you recall on may thirteenth of this year council adopted resolution establishing the washington square business improvement district as a development district the development district met this past monday and approved for this application that was submitted to the clerk's office to be considered for one of these applications and it is from the applicant from broome urgent l l c for a development district licensed to be located at four forty two  avenue there are they meet the qualifications week there is some information that needs to be turned into the michigan liquor control commission on this and so there is like eighty seven different steps that have to be tape again and we have done all of those departments have been notified to make sure that they meet the requirements from the public safety from fire and police and also from the community neighborhood services we are asking for council to approve a resolution adopting a resolution from the michigan the control commission for the applicant for merchant from broome urchin l l c for the four forty two washington square to be adopted this evening for consideration we do have development districts is is there a finite number of licenses that are available within the district i believe you can have  you know i'm sorry i didn't know we can for that ok but this is the first one for this area yes for this new established there is some they do have to qualify and they have to make sure that they at least have seventy five thousand dollars that is going to be invested in this rehabilitation in the location in also that we cover two hundred thousand dollars over the for the proceeding five years in the area all right the good evening welcome thank you very much welcome before council tonight is to propose the liquor license for the washington square district it is something in an area that i t it also needs a little bit of an injection of some new life into that area peretti says a great place and we are plenty of partnering with them with some food service i had said earlier that the council has been formed the business of river district has been formed and we've had nothing but a large amount of support from that district and a lot of excitement about us going into that area our plan is to focus on microbrews and craft beers which were a coffee style coffee house style so now focusing so much on food  you said you picked the washington square myriad had you looked at any of the other areas in holland yes actually sitter and why did you you said you like this area we actually did look at process and my wife actually loves that area and in going through it and meeting with other people that are in the square we just have felt overwhelmed with the support in this community spirit that really resonates and that's where and it just feels like home to us ok the other question i have is in the looking up the two thousand and six redevelopment project p a five zero one one of the statements they have in there from the state of michigan talks about when you get one of these licenses these special licenses it's to enhance the quality of life for citizens and i'm just going to comment on that and then also in two thousand and ten the city of holland in their neighborhood talking about subtle city one of the key items that we were concerned about is having safety of the neighborhood people need to feel safe you feel like you're establishing establishment can fulfill safety for citizens in that area and how do you see that it enhances the quality of life for so i think it enhances the quality of life in the standpoint that it brings up another spot very in the community to bring people together and drives a lot of traffic and hopefully some funds into that area the business improvement district in and of itself acting as a governing body i believe in he still fills all those check boxes as well because  now there are the group is formed and can do projects together responds to enhance the community to do things in the community and i believe that the other people other merchants in the square are also on the same page as i am it's ours that's concerned i i also believe that with washington square it fits in very well with everything that's going on the style short district and on this end of town with the civic center and thank you i thank you very much all right we have a recommendation i believe you were approve after vesting in this particular commercial areas are admirable i know we've been talking and wondering about some of those have spaces as well i'm hoping that there would be felt so i'm glad to see that  images are rather shadowy places you know bars sure being christian farm had nothing to do with my perceptions at that point but you know those are kind of the images at least that i grew up with that you're speaking of are becoming more like as you mentioned upstairs while i got the opium out of a local pub where there are places where people connect and get together and you know this of the purpose is served by coffee shops and cafes and in the same manner  a pub like this as i like to call them serves that purpose to it so it's more than just a place to grab a beer it's a place to connect with your neighbors build relationships build strong neighborhoods so they're in my mind at least they take on a much greater importance these days so i don't think that if we do happen to cling on to a rather negative image of  point it's also very positive for the commercial district like this neighborhood in general so i wish you the best only a lot of hoops to jump through st only here we go thank you mayor and city council as to the marriages mentioned for those watching at home and those in the audience my name is joe di i am the interim director of community neighborhood services also in the requesting that city council adopt a resolution of intent and schedule a public hearing for august fifth two thousand and fifteen to approve a residential clean energy residential clean energy plan which will result in the development of a landlord energy energy upgrade revolving loan program which will be operated out of the department of community neighborhood services and in partnership with good samaritan ministries now at this moment we would like to  distribute an updated resolution the resolution in your packet i believe on page two of the resolution it references that you can find this plane and on the city website at that b w w dot blank and it was brought to our attention that we didn't add that website address so we went ahead and prior to this meeting we updated that resolution so it is the correct website that it will be located that this is on our website it is on the home page holland dot com so those who are at home watching if you go to that website you'll see it come across this through the screen you can click on it and you'll be able to see exactly what the clean energy plan references what we'd like to do this evening is just give you a brief overview of where we plan on going with this program again tonight you are or you are only be approving the resolution of intent and scheduling the public hearing at your august fifth meeting is the time when you will be formally approving this program and instructing staff to you know begin the implementation of the program so what is this plan well the  program is a private nonprofit public partnership it is a pilot program that will assist landlords that currently participate in the good samaritan ministries transitional housing program and making energy efficiency upgrades to their properties so the city of holland is going to work with good samaritan ministries specifically with the landlords that participate in a transitional housing program and we're going to try to improve those rental properties in the central neighborhoods the landlords going to receive assistance in improving their properties the tenets who reside in those units will receive either lower the total bills and better comfort or if the utility bills are paid by the landlord the tenants going to receive a better comfort house to live  with the city gets a return of overseeing this program as we're going to be given an introduction into managing the revolving loan program that's going to help me in the we are estimating that we're going to receive approximately thirty thousand dollars from good samaritan ministries it will be a lump sum donation that good sam will give to us after august fifth when if city council decides to approve this program it will be deposited into our finance department budget set aside just for this program alone and then as we work with good samaritan ministries will identify properties and they would line up energy audits once the energy audits are done on these individual units the property owner gets minute good samaritan ministry staff in the city will agree to what work needs to be done and the amount of funding it needs to do the work the landlord within work with community and neighborhood services staff our home repair program staff on the third floor to sign necessary green agreements liens and contracts this is a similar program to our home repair program and it's a process that we understand well and you know we don't imagine any hiccups going with this kind of process what we are proposing is that the program will offer a twenty five percent grant to the landlord and then a q percent loan for the remaining seventy five percent which will be paid back over a five year period so roughly on an eight thousand dollar project the landlord reduce even a two thousand dollars grant and then we will finance the remaining six thousand at two percent which we anticipate would generate approximately twelve hundred dollars and principal and interest each year for that project the work starts when the work is it completed we are in after all the permits are approved and then they're dissatisfied with the work done on this house the city will pay to contractor the money that's paid back to the city on a monthly basis will create that revolving loan program and as we you know bit more money will introduce another project into this and then as that is paid back when to use another project one thing we do want to highlight that's in the plan for cou  now attention here is if this program let's say doesn't work out the way we think it should work out the city is under no obligation to pay the money back to good samaritan ministries we only have to transfer it to another clean energy program so what that does is that sets us up as you know the city's talking about several clean energy programs right now in the city so if we aren't satisfied with this process and the city feels we want to go to a different direction we can back out at any time and  you know place that money to another screen energy program that's the summary want to give you this evening on this program or any questions from coun because i do but i'd like to know from linda if she has three or four  we have talked with one in particular who has two properties who is very interested in is ready to engage someone to come in and do the energy audit and look at that project that would be  through this so yes we have we talked to all of our landlords yet no we wanted to get your approval first that this was something that would be what exactly we were proposing but we anticipate that this would we have probably i would say eight or nine landlords that have properties some are individuals some are churches that would be in to potentially interested in this but we hadn't had the opportunity to lay out all of the details until we came before council so other question you know we just appreciate the partnership with good sam in doing so much good in neighborhoods and in coordinating with so many different entities like you said individuals churches and there are all different ways to give a cup of cold water and you are coming up with more and more of them and we really appreciate the banks stepping forward to facilitate this and being able to have a trusted partner and the city to oversee it i think the synergy of that gives us a great way to try how do you incentivize redoing all their properties so that they will use energy more efficiently and maybe inspire other landlords to do the same thing in the city and it seems as though not a year goes by but there's another type of program that we dream up around here to try to redo homes and make them better for the future and how does pay for the the extensive kinds of changes you have to do and in some older homes and i appreciate that you have partners are ready who are working with you and they're not just stepping forward because there's money involved and this is a great pilot and no be very interesting to see what happens with that and possibly that could multiply other places besides holland thank you we appreciate the partnership with the city as well  as joe mentioned there are people in city hall that have administered programs similar to this and so you have a skill set and a capacity to do that that allows us  to be able to use these funds in the most efficient way and so we appreciate the partnership here with the city as well so any other discussion from members following gives public safety services for your operations received one thousand dollars for the hauen c t symposium from allegheny county fire chiefs association parks and recreation digraph nature center for land surprise three console received gifts from for the third annual run of the mill from registration fees that were collected one thousand four hundred thirty six dollars from kimberly al box care of edward jones investment for one hundred dollars robert dinoire chevrolet in mt of one hundred magna closures for two fifty eight the boss pending services for two fifty merrill lynch and the amounted to fifty pad nos in the amount of five hundred and eighty debbie electronics for five hundred dollars in kind donations were received from career tech center baking department for cookies in the amount of three hundred fifty dollars and requests food for bottled water and two hundred dollars for the gazelles sports support parks and recreation  recreation received a divorce thousand dollar donation from the j r b corporation on behalf of ross's restaurant and mows family person recreation south pres fund received various donation donors from for the amount of one hundred forty dollars and eighty six cents to graft nature center for the bridge trail project received one thousand dollars from johnson controls from the blue sky project how  new connections program received a twenty five dollars donation from an anonymous donor and the human race to permit received one hundred dollars from her college for the multicultural festival and one thousand dollars from home college for the howland and it is recommended that these donations be accepted with appreciation and an expression of gratitude be forwarded to these do and what w reading ordinance for the one that was postponed if we can have clarification from the city attorney on that one for items one it's for for my great pleasure to announce to the city council that if one looks at the website for the michigan association misspoke works when most see the in the professional association representing the clerks and the betterment of the profession in the state and i understand she will be trapped lancing once a month so our appreciation to you and i for making that commitment and also celebration in your achievement and also we thank your staff for helping you make that possible thank and as the court of public works goes about installing l e d lights so if people see the board of public like public power the holland board of public works changing lights putting l e d s they're going to be doing about  hundred a month they'll be seeing that for several months to go third i want people to know that the are directional signs sprinkled throughout the community usually associated you know when you're perks those signs have not held up to the elements of what it's all to rather raise or freezing thawing we're not sure they're probably i'm not sure how old they are but they look quite old and older than they they should look so you will be ready by then but they at least will not they will appear as if in a state of being under repair and wanted out of the community to know that and last understand that they have been dyke and are assisting the city manager and also head of our communications and id services has a special video presentation do we're going to cue it up here and i think you'll see the georgetown university energy prize prize patrol was out and about again so we were able luckily to catch that on video and we have a short video for thank you matt all right well that's and even if you didn't win it's a good thing to know your number i might add mine is fifteen point one eight and  there are lots of lots of benefits to know your number and working on improving and communication and such from the mayor i had the distinct pleasure of this afternoon to be in lansing for a bill signing ceremony along with representatives from lakeshore advantage holland chamber of commerce the grand rapids chamber of commerce and people from the right place in grand rapids and city officials from the city of grand rapids to witness governor snyder signing into law of the new smart zone legislation now known as public act one twenty five of twenty fifteen formerly known as house bill forty two twenty six establishes the ability to to add establish satellite's mark zones and makes possible the completion of an agreement that is in place between grand rapids and of the right place and the city of holland and holland township with lakeshore advantage will be a great economic development tool we certainly are grateful to representative garcia for her work we thought we had this done last year before she was elected and there was a  technical glitch in the legislative process which prevented it from taking effect and it's as much about the ability and the esteem with which her colleagues hold her that a freshman legislator can go to the house in lansing and within six months shepherd through a very important piece of legislation l and the surrounding area yes some some departures and some appointments and re appointments we note that the district library board one of the cit particularly through some very significant times for eric library the other the remodeling project renovation project the transition from city library under state enabling legislation to a district library you're absolutely right road trip when he said it didn't quite seem right to the point we're making to drag robinson that was actually supposed to be an appointment to the community pool  all right back to communications briefly we value your input you know you can find lots of information on cities website including our road contact information e mail addresses phone numbers other ways of contacting us we are always appreciative of input that we receive from citizens try to make it as easy as possible for it to be given in the most comfortable means that citizens are willing to participate in so if we need to do that will be formally to ask our a city attorney to look into that ordinance language and see if there's a way that could be crafted to allow what city attorney or any and or staff to to look into that so specifically i don't know if we need to make that but can i can i just ask a question seems fair is that run would you be able to speak to that a little bit as ordinance provisions of zoning ordinance has to be reviewed by the planning commission and then a public hearing held on that and then a recommendation to council and then council can act on his own ordinance and then think that the appropriate approach would be for staff in the planning department to review this and and determine whether they can come up with a plan that would work to move forward with doing anything for an amendment and was certainly i work with the planning department to review it to make sure it meets and we will require e rental properties are businesses and this is not for business purposes it's actually for community felt and purposes yet there's still you know what about ten years down the road what about the next ten or his ations  and a week from this sunday the america in bloom judges are going to be arriving in holland and that sunday night and they will be going around with their tours and monday and tuesday and determining whether we will win in our population area and whether where aso when in our other criteria areas that we are applying for so we hope to do really well and just one two you know that company is coming  on that monday and tuesday of july twenty seventh and twenty eight and we hope to have maybe in that newly wrapped vehicle of that the convention visitors bureau has so you'll see a windmill on one side in a lighthouse on the other and we hope that that works out to take them around in that and we're really thrilled that they're coming also we heard that in the process of our participating in the american bloom competition we submitted a you tube video that was done by our stellar video guys here at city hall and it was submitted to the contest and we won and there was also a national horticultural conference held in columbus ohio recently with about ten thousand attendees there is i guess the maca for horticulture and they showed the highland you tube video that we produced here in the here in holland we believe that investing in the natural environment enhanced our quality of life how it is known for its to a festival city employees with help from residents plant over four hundred thousand bulbs each year after the festival the tulips are replaced with a new office but to appeal allows residents to purchase bulbs for replanting in their own yards and donated annual or free for residents who live along the two look like hauling the blue helps encourage my neighbors to keep our homes and t  lanes blooming all season long one of the benefits of our participation in the american bloom competition is the receipt of a comprehensive report these suggestions are shared throughout the community to foster new ideas good example  gave us as the hanging baskets in the background and that came from the two thousand and twelve suggestion and we implemented that last year two thousand and thirteen american bloom is more than a competition it's an opportunity for us to create and sustain vibrant public and private places community involvement in the blizzards to bloom's garden contest allowed us to celebrate the end of a harsh winter and the talents of local gardeners dreamgirl workshop show residents how to capture water for reuse in their yards attention to the city of pop businesses of all sizes flourish in west michigan this is due not only to the excellent business climate but the ability of employers to attract a quality workforce drawn to an environmentally rich area i look at this is community as a showcase and when one business has a beautiful landscaping it's certainly contagious and we see up and down our local streets beautiful office environments portis industrial parks reality that's proud of its facilities holland has a rich dutch heritage celebrated at windmill island gardens are two hundred fifty year old dutch windmill was recently renovated following an extensive fundraising campaign our vibrant historic downtown is a delight in all seasons visitors to holland pick up on the the pride celebrate the past and plan for the future of our  community and it's just awesome how much we entrusted with in this community and what a wonderful responsibility it is to carried on for future generations and it's great to have it encapsulated in a video like that i hope that we can keep that  anyone else i'll just go back a minute and mention something else that's coming up this weekend on the twenty fifth believe is saturday out there last sunday for the fiftieth anniversary fiftieth birthday party you don't need an extra excuse to go to in a while and it's just a great place to go and enjoy all right  well yes i'd be good too to handle this for appointments we have let's see here our fellow named todd whiteman is being asked to be appointed as counsel yeas on to the west machine airport authority following the departure of near dexter times the alternate to this board so term would expire and wimmer thirty twenty fifteen also being asked to appoint alan hughes to the board of appeals for a three year term said term to expire june thirty twenty eighteen allen's term as alternate has expired he will be replacing eric davis speaking of eric davis being asked to appoint him eric davis as alternate to the board of appeals for a three year board of appeals for a second three year terms of term to expire june thirty twenty two and i believe i can make that as a motion around a correct need for the motion so have nineteen was postponed which brings us down to item twenty