good evening we are here august second having gone through something me none of us expected to have happened yesterday as we happily pursued our civic center project that we have worked hard and long to be able to accomplish for the community and i guess one of the last things we ever thought of that was that someone could lose their life in pursuing that wonderful project but i do want to say that we really appreciate all the public safety people and how well they responded to the issue within minutes they were there working hard working together accomplishing all that was humanly possible in relation to the accident really appreciated met and i can as our assistant to the city manager and our owners representative on site at the civic center he was great in is experience with reaching out to the media and helping with the sequencing of information the production of a press release in the middle of the parking lot and all the different kinds of things that need to be accomplished that one does not expect to have to deal with and i do want to say that we have the names of the people that were involved yesterday and it was hernandez alvarez is forty one years old he is the one that was injured and he has left the hospital so the same incident two people one is ok and one lost his life i remember an interview with president george w bush one day with the wrist saying why did that terrible thing happen and why did some people walk away and others didn't and he responded with you know far be it for me to speak for god and i think that's probably what all of us think in relation to this incident it was they were trying to follow every safety procedure there are things that happen in all building you cannot osha is still on site looking over everything and inspecting everything and we'll see what their findings show and we did halt all the work today we'd have no schedule for construction at this point everybody is still reacting to the situation and we have to wait till the investigation is finished before we would proceed so that is where we are out in what happened yesterday and really appreciate people reaching out and we are grateful for your prayers for the family of reuben who lost him and the family of raphael as he recovers and of course all the people that were working with them it was not very easy for them as well we appreciate victim services that could come in and help with translation and go home with whatever people needed for support there's just so many levels of professionals that could step forward to care and help people and i guess it's the kind of system you don't want to test but we are very grateful that it went as well as it did from a professional sta door here we have a quorum mayor thank you and then we'll proceed with two things that we've done for many years i'll start with an opening prayer led by our city attorney ron vanderveen and then we will have the pledge of allegiance we would ask that you stand with  thank you ron we'll continue with the consented genda this is a list of items that council will vote on as one large unit at the end of its reading but perhaps you came here this evening because you wanted to address one of those items and if that's the case at the end of it and i reading all the consented giant agenda items are open the floor and you can come up to the podium give us your name and address and tell us which item you would like taken off consented genda and then we will handle it in its sequence as it appears on your agenda so ana could you please tell us what's on consent for th to excuse the absence of council member com parent for b to approve the minutes of the july twelve b n twenty six study sessions enjoying one thousand two thousand and seventeen regular meeting for c to accept and file executed oaths of office from various boards and commissions twelve a one to approve the broadband shared by rate rate book terms and conditions and service level agreement twelve do you want to refer claims filed against the city to the city's insurance carrier in this city attorney for consideration twelve one point one two approve the two thousand and seventeen skip million any paving project to black gold transport paving in the amount of forty nine thousand with funds provided by the major in local street meet newts budgets twelve easy one point three to approve the use of city prop thirty located at the seventh street parking deck for installation of a fiber hut and associated equipment is a part of the b p w s project and authorized the city manager in board of public works general manager to document the details of the use as in the letter of understanding twelve easy one point four to approve the use of our board of public works property located at forty eight street electrical peaking plant precise development in support of the city's composing project and authorize the city manager and board a public works general manager to document the details of the use as indicated in the letter of understanding item twelve two point one to approve the appointment of tate tracey through the re appointments of chris brown and greg hill to the washington square business improvement district said term expires in june thirty two thousand and nineteen twelve three point one to approve an application for s historic does of nation on the twenty two acre polder portion of when my island as a as indicated twelve eat three point two to adopt a resolution to accept the trust fund grant from the michigan department of natural resources in the amount of one hundred sixty five thousand for improvements to the entrance area located at the digraph nature center twelve eat four point one to declare mowers police incur care murray equipment and police vehicles as surplus and to authorize staff to dispose of all irons in a manner that is most advantageous to the city for point two to approve the novus resource corp bid for the restoration of the and the amount in an amount not to exceed thirty eight thousand five hundred funded by a combination of municipal capital improvement found in the fix it fun for a first found item twelve east six point two to designate interim city manager greg robinson or his designee to fill boards and commissions responsibilities and appointments are not until a new city manager is appointed thank  so that is the list is there anything on that list that you would like taken off and if that's the case come to the podium give us your name and address and tell us which item seeing none would turn to council as any item on the consent are moving on to a public hearing we'll start with the report from staff about the tax abatement for the try again steel components grade the introduction recommendation on this this is a request for a twelve year p a one ninety eight god steel at fourteen forty eight lincoln avenue down by west michigan regional airport they are constructing a new building of almost thirty thousand square feet divestment of nearly two million dollars and they currently have eighteen employees and hope to add another fourteen to twenty four within the next four years so the staff is wrecked we've reviewed this recommendation or this application recommending that the council approve the resolution approving the twelve year tax abatement for trike on steel and the accompanying agreement and there maybe someone here from the company to make a few comments tonight ok great thank you greg yes so is anyone here to address us thank you good evening good evening and we thank you greatly for your support in this matter but we're excited when to suppression and moving to the city of holland with the growing of the business and in being able to add you know team members to tr to the area and we recently joined the west coast chamber of commerce who will be having a ribbon cutting ceremony there so anybody is more than welcome to come if you'd like but if you have any questions i'm ready to answer so this is like  almost a one point nine million dollar investment yes and how you're also putting in personal property it doesn't have to be listed anymore but how much is that currently we has made between two hundred fifty and three hundred thousand great that and we appreciate your investment in me and definitely looking forward to your almost doubling or maybe more than doubling your workforce right in the next four years yes the market must be good at this and you know how to address it and that's  tradition here but it's one i'm fine with particularly interested in the number of employees that you're projecting to add as part of this expansion years hopefully fourteen to twenty fo employees without divulging any information that might be proprietary can you give us an idea of where in the wager range that those positions ma from the general labor always up to professional engineers it will be between you know twenty eight and eighty thousand dollars a year depending on your skill set in training ok appreciate you telling me that the reason i asked that question up obviously some tax money for a number of years you know exchange for helping you to grow so i think we're happy to do that i for one i'm very happy help from the city the company feels are a demonstration of the dedication and a recognition of the need to treat employees fairly we're in the midst of this huge conversation about affordable housing and and part of that discussion lands in the area of wages and how much people can afford and so forth so it's heartening and i appreciate very much to community at large so thank you very much for having that mindset and my recognition i wish you luck thank you thank you any other comments or questions thank you i ok anyone else in the audience like to speak to this request ok seeing that will close the public hearing did you have something like that on the pro se so there's a motion to approve move now we're moving to an approval of a community development block grant program and greg can you lead us in that when we're going to sue harder to come up and walk you through this perfect good evening communing you still standing after a long and vital national night out last night so i learned i could stand for about twelve hours and then pretty much kill over and i'm sure you did arrive at four did you annual action plan for this next year which is two thousand and seventeen two thousand and eighteen by the federal budget at the last study session we discussed with council that there were some delays in us getting the allocation and the neighbor to promote committee would like to add some affordable housing components unfortunately because our five year plan did not list affordable housing as one of our goals we will have to go back if we want to do that and add those goals later so what we're asking council to approve today is a budget based on our existing it consolidated plan because we get the money late and yeah all those things there's noticing requirements if you want to change a consolidated plan and it just couldn't be accomplished in six weeks right ok thank you so we want to open for a public hearing is anyone here who would like to speak to this recommendation come on forward give us your name and address and you're free to speak for five minutes green means go yellow means one more minute and red means you're five minutes i don't have five minutes and fund gets allocated to the right hud i don't know where you're at in the process that part i'm not on the committee but i just want to make sure that whatever happens that that money gets allocated to affordable housing because just since we've been here tonight when we prayed that prayer closed with this is a great place to live i heard councilman hoekstra said that affordable housing is important to the council and to the city i've been here before to speak about affordable housing i just can't emphasize enough that we have the companies coming the bring in more workers and there's just not enough affordable housing in in the city and i want to make sure this maintains to be a wonderful place for most people and right now there's not enough housing so whatever it takes i just want to urge the council to make sure that the c d p g funds go into the part of a housing so i don't know what has to happen but i just would urge you guys to make sure that that does so thank you thank you kelly any other comments to this recommendation part two from sue i feel to mention that any changes that we want to make in the consolidated plan would have to come again before the called for it would be noticed in the paper and your public hearings so before you make any changes calls will have an opportunity to look at what we're going to expend that money on ok great thank you so anyone else want to speak to this recommendation seeing nine will close the public hearing and we and so we're moving on to a public hearing about adapting an ordinance a member a man meant the amendment about municipal broadband services you are here on a historic evening we are starting with becky lehmann to give us what's going on thank you becky  good evening thank you very much for having me today this is a historic event michigan metro act requires that we have a business plan that is estimated to be right around six hundred thousand dollars depending on how many businesses are interested to sign up for that we're looking for collecting that information over the next couple of weeks to find out more details giving to the construction company to build the fiber we're looking at rates of eighty five dollars for a gigabit service and that's available to any of the  income from the first year forward actually so that's really good news that doesn't happen all the time but in this case it does and the resolution i guess that's the details skipped over the public so sorry yeah we can hardly wait so let's let's open up a public hearing does anyone in the audience like to speak to this on this historic evening said a lot of things the last time this came up which would have been of broccoli six weeks ago it is a very exciting time and as nancy said this is a fourth utility  over a number of years to include these essential services and when we think about a modern essential service we don't just think hey i need something to watch really fast cat videos in four k  we we do that but we also need it to educate ourselves we need this to be a smarter society we need this to bring information into our  community and that's what this is for in the same way that clean water changed the way we we look at public health the way that electricity changed the way we interact with each other after the sun's gone down  this is a big deal and really proud to have seen this achievement con through and all the people in the community and the b p w who really pushed this forward there's some people that are in here tonight dan morrison in particular but pete who was a community member for a long time and then joined lily got the job to do this thing with becky and it's just amazing that that this is happening it is for so many people have got on board so i'm looking forward to this next step of the pilots and the next step toward an even broader broadband rollout in the future the rest of our city thank you thank you brian anyone else really appreciate the way the b p debut addresses things carefully researching it looking all over the country for possible models and then trying a pilot with three businesses wi something like that downtown for a while testing it and now our next larger pilot with the downtown and what a great message to have for your downtown gigabyte reception for  whiteman yes extra yes bird yes yes peter's yes we're divorced yes motion passes unanimously thank you and i thank you becky and pete ok we're moving on to public comment perhaps you came here to talk about something that's not even on the agenda coming up but you would like to do to address council at this time you're welcome to come forward give us your name and address and again you have five minutes green means go yellow means one minute left and red means five minutes are over would anyone like to address council as a part of public comment seeing then we will close the public comment and we'll move and to the adoption of ordinances which is again related to the b p w r ten a proposed ordinance amendment is that correct requirements ok thank you so this is what we have to do to finish the job correct correct all right so we need to repeat is that the report from staff that sounded pretty good all right baghdad then we're going to open a public hearing there would anyone like to talk to that report that was good from right no comment so we'll close that public hearing and then we need a motion from council to adapt runs well stated theme it's been a beautiful year of ours are in full bloom we invite you all to come down as well city's i want citizens it's free to come down and joy this will be the event that really tops it off we're having our competition through this entire season where we've been inviting folks to come on the island to paint the beauty of the island with the painting so far been beautiful so the competition be ending that night it will be a fund raising gala for the public is invited to will be selling paintings at that point as well as announcing the winners report is to adopt a resolution so we can send it in to the michigan liquor control commission for a wendy's special liquor license so the combination of the art team or  you can still go any other discussion ok and i could you please call they're all white men no extra  know peters yes birch yes yes s actually item related to what will be a regional downtown traffic study the main components being analyzing current and future traffic characteristics is a be a lookout about twenty years in the future it will involve a pretty robust traffic modeling effort data collection that would go into that model and we're going to incorporate basically all users so not mack area according coordinating council is going to lead the effort there actually bringing for some grant funding in the amount of sixty five thousand dollars in the lead the study so the city oh participate with that handsome mobility for all users downtown we anticipate a pretty robust public involvement we're certainly going to encourage that probably be at least three public meetings throughout the course of the project we're going to you know certainly trying to engage the primary stakeholders be in the downtown merchants and property owners hope college certainly be involved in that as well as the ottawa county road commission at the fringes of the future study session once we get a first data collection effort and get some input from that before we get too far down the road with the study then we have another data collection effort this fall when school gets back in session and hope college gets back to more of a routine schedule there will do a similar data collection effort so again before you thousand dollar contingency and approximately five thousand dollars with the staff contribution as well so total amounts to fifty thousand dollars it's in the recommendation here tonight thank you brain any questions or discussion for move by peter's support supported by birch any other discussion we're glad you're looking into this it is not an easy going to decide because there is so much going on and we do on a facilitate bike traffic and pedestrians and there's freight and rail and cars and it is very complicated and it's not just about the fastest distance between a and b is it so again will be balancing all those interests and putting forth recommendations that have all those in m yeah great thank you and i could you call the roll please let's try yes bird yes yes peter's church yes yes man yes we're divorced yes motion yes thank you we will move on to gifts the city manager's office is pleased to report the following gifts community human relations department for the in the amount of fifty cure all gone or man in the amount of one hundred james in jacqueline rosenblum in the amount of one hundred joey and brooks and james brooks in the amount of one hundred roger and be accepted with appreciation and an expression of gratitude be forwarded to said donors thank you hannah motion to accept support supported by bird of us in favor say aye opposed same sign that carries and once again we are moved by the generosity of so many people for so many wonderful causes in the city so now we go on to the city manager wider connection story because you tell us a request from the property owner here if you can see on the diagram at  forty two ninety six a fifty second street this is in the southernmost or south eastern most portion of the city adjacent to fillmore township request to connect from a home that's being constructed on this property to the fillmore township water line which is across the street so i'm not sure how wide that right away is for fifty second street if it's sixty feet but this is probably about a seventy five or eighty five foot connection property there have to be an easement construction of a water line along here down into the property maybe across this way all the way to fifty second and down it sure quite how it would work but there probably be an required over a couple of properties and quite an extensive distance at the total cost to the property owner so certainly very significant in comparison to having a home here and just connecting across the street so on a map this looks very practical for one of our for a new city resident it looks certainly more cost reasonable we have a history of water to conversations  and so forth with fillmore township so i just bring this up in the context of a precedent that you may be setting to some degree here but how many other situations like this you know we're going to run into and that's you know we can talk about that and look at maps and all that but i think as you think about your action on this to think not only of this parcel but probably two to the north one to the south  possibilities if you prove this of also some point in the future maybe never maybe soon sooner rather than later connected to that film or township water line so our recommendation is that you do approve agreement with film or township and with this owner to make that connection rather than requiring the owner to extend a water line all the way from m forty with the associated easements that would need to be acquired by move to prove a tad supported by hook stratton david any discussion well keep it brief compared to the conversation upstairs but you know part of my concern greg you highlighted is the precedent that we're you know some of the things that we don't know going forward that being said also very sympathetic to the fact that we have homeowners that that's a pretty large expense and so i don't i'm not making amendment to this motion but but i would say that i would i would be in support of us figuring out a way or at least understanding the costs associated with the b p w providing what i would call  if you live in the city i think that there is a responsibility on our part to at least provide reasonable access to get to the city water they should we should have the ability and what i would consider a reasonable way similar to that which they have access in this case to the township but but to be able to access city water and so for me that's kind of where i'm i'm sitting on this issue any other comments yes extra yes mayor devor yes motion passes five yes three no thank now we move on to communications from the city manager greg robinson i do not have any extra communications this evening thank you ok thank you communications from the mayor we have some interesting slides and we had movies in the park last night which has been nationally recognized we get an award of down in orlando by an energy company our energy recognizing group in the  country for a little highland about how our movies in the park they thought it was such a great idea that we got people out of their basements and their video games and brought them out and i had so many people right along the water watchin movies and of course that happened after national night out which is a great celebration of all the public safety people that we have in our area and how they care for people and we also have a biking for holland you can get together and meet to go biking with friends and they usually have a meet up afterwards so it's a great time for people of whatever age bracket to be a part of that effort people love going to that and then that labor day comes along with the truck parade did you have to talk about that mike oh holy smokes look at th less than less than a month away or just over a month away i should say we've got a couple of great events that happen on september fourth one is the boardwalk is there going to be a book procedure as far as i know yes yes a at the civic center parking lot we have we've sold out this year we've got a waiting list first time ever no part of it because of construction of the civic center but this event grows every year it is celebrating the work force that we have the the wonderful manufacturers that we have the the the large trucks the industry that keeps holland going holiday and zealand going it's truly a community event and the pride of drivers that is shown in these trucks is just phenomenal some guy spend the whole weekend to spit polishing these things and it's just it's neat to see all that iron coming down the road laying on the horns and the kids faces lighting up so if you say that you have nothing to do in holland michigan on september fourth you can look very far we started nine fifteen and zealand should hit the civic center roughly the twenty five minutes twenty to twenty five minutes after that be pulling into the civic center parking the trucks at that point there will be a long hard blast the safety tapes will come down and you will be able to interact with the drivers and and have your ice cream and we hope to see a bunch of people out there on labor day after the the boardwalk of course can't forget that but to come down and support your local industry comes down and support your local drivers and just have a great time great thank you m i think the boardwalk starts at eight so over by heinz be great to have people doing all of those things would be wonderful and also the citizens police academy not everybody knows about that but that is a great way for you to learn about how our police force works and what kind of things go into the decisions they make and you need to be at least seventeen years old it's runs from september eleventh to the twentieth of november from six to nine o'clock and i have never met anyone that's been a part of that that hasn't felt like wow i learned so much to take so many things for granted and also do you need a tree in your front yard we will help you with that so come on down to the parks department and we can talk about that she had she was at the last board meeting and we are very very happy to have are on board i think that will get us to full complement of this point so i would be a make this is a motion  abigail conference term expiring in june of twenty twenty thank you we have a motion for that i mean you made the motion to have a second support supported by l all those in favor say aye oppose same side that passes we thank abigail for her service any other comments motions resolutions by council members yes david i was like to take this and exercise one of the greatest privileges known to man on this earth get to do it freely to do so thank you tad yes great reminder it's a week from now i guess today right next week tuesday third boy please about any other comments from council members no oppose same sign that kerry's thank you for being here this evening or for tuning in