good evening we are happy to have you here with us tonight post to look time no more shows going and so here we are doing business thank you for being here and and we are grateful for a wonderful two lip time this year and it was great weather for most of it and we broke records with all kinds of attendance and it's really wonderful to live in a place that you can get together and enjoy each other and enjoy the season and honor heritage and build new relationships it's it is a wonderful gift that you really thankful to be a part of in this community and everybody just seems a little quieter this week and as we all recover so we're here first with the roll call matt could you leave that please thank you matt now we will start the meeting as we have for many decades with an opening prayer led by our colleague brian birch and after that we'll have the pledge of allegiance please stand and join us if you're able dear lord your spirit comes to us as the wind and that wind is not a mild or gentle breeze but a gale force as messy and chaotic is with this when that you created our world it's with this wind you created new life it's with this wind that you save the israelites it's with this wind that you created your church within us when the wind arrives we should come to expect disruption surprise and the unexpected lord we know that you will never force your will upon us but if we are prepared for the wind if we're prepared for the chaos and destruction we can welcome your spirit into our hearts and our lives and create something new beautiful and glorious through you and i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all we now have been dyken our systems the city manager will read that what we call the consented genda which are all the items that are on the agenda that are set up to be handled with one vote at one time perhaps you came here for one of the items that he will be reading and you would prefer that we take that item off consent and instead address it in its sequence in the meeting and if that's the case at the end of matt's reading i will open it up for you to come forward and request whichever item you want taken off the consent to genda and we will do that in its place in the meeting so please matt read our consent agenda item four b to approve the minutes of the april twenty and may for regular meetings in the january thirteen and twenty seven twenty sixteen study sessions item four c to accept and file executed also office from various boards and commissions i don't twelve  one to approve a natural gas main is agreement with consumers energy in the end no amount of one thousand nine thousand four hundred forty dollars pending approval as to form by the city attorney i don't twelve a two to approve a contract in the amount of two million six hundred sixty four thousand six hundred forty six dollars with a ten percent contingency of two hundred sixty six thousand four hundred sixty four dollars to newkirk electrical associates incorporated for the general construction of the pine av substation  city attorney approval item twelve a three to approve an agreement with tri tech energy services to provide operational procedures and employ a qualification program for the holiday and your part in the amount of one hundred twenty thousand dollars pending approval as to form by the city attorney item twelve a for to approve a contract with interface office interiors incorporated in the mail of one hundred thirty one dollars seven hundred and one hundred thirty one thousand seven hundred nineteen dollars and forty three cents and a project contingency of eighteen thousand two hundred eighty dollars and fifty seven cents for the holiday and if you park to cover any fresh things not included in the bid package once the file finally out is determined for a total of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and city attorney approval as to form i am told they five to authorize the mayor and deputy city clerk to accept a reimbursement to the city of holland for construction and engineering services in the amount of three million five hundred forty four thousand one hundred dollars which includes a ten percent contingency to approve a seventy one thousand five hundred dollars transfer from contingency to fully fund the anticipated cost of the water main which includes construction contingency approve a six hundred ninety three thousand three hundred dollars transfer from contingency to fully fund the integrated cost of the snow melt in a contract which includes construction contingency for the ninth street reconstruction project to approve a contract with the tower radiant incorporated in the total amount of four hundred fifty six five hundred eighty one dollars for the twenty sixteenth's snow melt valve replacement and flushing pending approval as to form by the city attorney to approve a purchase order with m tech incorporated in the amount of three hundred ninety six thousand four hundred thirty two dollars to replace a combination sewer jet pack truck number eighty seven twelve b one and seventeen a to accept and place on first reading proposed text amendments to sections thirty nine dash one eighty five thirty nine dash one eighty seven thirty nine dash one hundred nine thirty nine dash one ninety one and thirty nine dash one ninety eight of the zoning ordinance with final adoption of the ordinance amendments to occur at the june one twenty sixteen meeting item twelve the one to refer claims filed against the city to the city's insurance carrier and city attorney for consideration i don't told you to do approve the lancer broadcasting corporation's fireworks permit application from monday july fourth twenty sixteen rain date of july five twenty sixteen and that the conditions established by both fire and police departments be enforced item twelve the one point one to approve a contract modification to the agreement with paradigm design in the amount of one hundred fifty thousand nine hundred dollars for additional engineering material testing and construction  ministration work on the central avenue improvement project item two all the two point one to adopt a resolution of intent stating w s f twenty fifteen l l c request to create a neighborhood enterprise zone pursuant to public act one forty seven  hundred two as amended for a portion of one fifty six west eleventh street otherwise known as the washington building and direct staff to begin the process of notifying the governing bodies of each taxing unit at the levies and advil or in taxes one forty seven of one thousand nine hundred two as amended for a portion of the block bonded by a street on the north ninth on the south river and on the east and pine have on the west and direct staff to begin the process of notifying the governing bodies of each texan unit the four point one two except the april twenty sixth in monthly financial reports as presented item twelve easy for point two to adopt a resolution authorizing the prepayment of the special assessment bond series two thousand and six dash a to be first twenty sixteen regular council meeting i don't twelve years six point three to approve a revokable license agreement with the business owner of spring suite for a projecting sign at fifty six ethe east h street on the resignation of any dand of aadi from the international relations commission missed the end of adi has served since twenty fifteen and the resignation of joe silva from the parks and rec recreation commission mr silver has served on the parks commission since two thousand and five thank you so much matt that's a long list thank you so perhaps you came to talk about one of those items and would like us to take it out of the consent agenda if that's the case please make your way to the podium and give us your name and address and the item you  matt how we are in the post to the time season and we are definitely in the construction season hollands different than the rest of the world because we talked to our department of transportation people and plead with them to please wait until after to have time and they did thankfully i can't imagine what that would have been like nothing anyone with all the traffic of to attack so we are thankful for the reprieve but it has hit us now and i think we're all paying attention to what is going on on one street and thirty one and therefore we thought we'd bring in the expert of all traffic for holland that would be brian white our director of engineering for the tra transportation department and we appreciate you taking time out bryan to just kind of walk us through what's closed and why and a little bit of where we're going so thank you brian ok well good evening madam mayor and council members thanks for the opportunity to just share with you all and the members of the public where we're at with regard to construction just a couple of remarks you know i realize that it's been tough job we're replacing one hundred year old water main throughout the project we're also making a vital snowbelt transmission main connection that will allow us to function our snow melt system downtown  with the new energy park that's going to be coming on line here in the not too distant future all these are good things positive things happen to the community unfortunately there's there's some pain in order to get those improvements in place so with that what i've got here i'd like to just spend a couple of minutes on us thirty one and then a couple of minutes on ninth street maybe if we can zoom out a to basically the bridges there at lakewood boulevard that's one that southbound drops down to one through lane for us thirty one so that's going to be basically in place through mid august  and then and out of go ahead and switch that traffic over to the newly constructed roadway and then they'll finish that out by mid november and basically get traffic back to  normal there is going to be some follow on work in the spring of seventeen primarily bridge painting and things like that just touchup work that's not going to really affect traffic too much so i think a couple of s certainly in the first few days and weeks of the construction phase there's certainly some some time there where folks are just getting used to that and i think we're kind of in the midst of that right now  so but as folks get familiar with the way things work hopefully that will that'll settle things down with regard to that main line obviously it is putting pressure on some of our side streets waverley road in particular but then also some of the other cross streets as well so we continue to monitor that we're on a regular discussions with them on it so certainly as things come up we're going to try and address those  as efficiently and it's as quickly as we can switch it over a mat if you can maybe pull up our our website with regard to our ninth street project where in the first phase of that project we've set  up a website here that specific to the project it's actually rolling on our main page so if somebody wants to to get the latest information on night street they can just go to the main city hall and page and will see a link  there to it that will bring them to this site and then again we're in phase say it's the first phase of the project basically looking at improvements between river avenue and lincoln avenue we're going to keep both of those intersections open and just work between those and get the improvements done there approximately a sixty day window there so mid july we intend to transition out into the next phase  which will be the pine to river section and we're also going to be picking up some work on college avenue between eighth intent on that phase b and then to finish out the project we're looking at the final phase which basically will take us all the way to a little bit west of washington avenue at the west limit of the job and to the h street transition there by the field house on the east side of the job completion date expected for mid october and most of that last phase of construction is going to be part what we should be for the most part be able to maintain a  lane street there so a couple of things i just want to mention want to thank the public for the patience that you know understanding that this is not ideal situation for people to get around holland but the prescience the patience and understanding of what we're trying to get accomplished there and certainly if there are you know comments observations anything from the motoring public or folks that you know opportunities for improvement by all means get it get in touch with us there's contact information on our website and our phone number nine to eight twenty four hundred we're certainly open and  open to improvements and want to try and make this as efficient and is as good of an outcome as we can for everybody so thank you brian this is the second year of kind of being able to connect with the power plant and all that we're going to unveil in february right it is yes so particularly with with those stomach transition means this is the final piece of that puzzle to get everything connected in and ready to go should be well worth it and please continue to come downtown right and be always going to be possible thank you very much brian for coming in on last minute notice to help us with all that is traffic appreciate that now we're moving on to public comment so if there is anything that someone in the audience would like to talk about that is not handled in the agenda later you are welcome to come to the podium give us your name and address you have five minutes to address council there's a green light when you begin and there's a yellow light when you have one minute left and there's a red light when you're done i don't usually talk this way but i'm going to about a bells palsy so if you don't it's kind of like i'm talking with a rock you know sometimes so i am a lifelong resident of ottawa county i am the fifth generation of the founders of i am married to my wife kelly for thirty three years i have two sons drew is thirty one is married to a listen jake is twenty nine for over twenty nine years i have been practicing criminal and civil procedure criminal civil practice from my law office located in genesis and the criminal side i am representing my clients dealing with traffic tickets all you have to fill me life offenses i have been appointed by all the i will county district and circuit court judges to represent indigent defendants and also prosecutor i'm the assistant city attorney for the city of wyoming i have been asked by the arrow county sheriff's department commune instructor in the marine patrol and their citizen patrol groups for five years i have been appointed by all the idle ankit county circuit court judges for the to be a family court mediator and a civil court facilitator for over fifteen years in addition to my law practice i'm actually involved in my community attorneys law enforcement and other community leaders i want to be the fifty to support judge because i am the most qualified candidate i had the legal knowledge and experience to perform those duties but also i would like to continue my lifelong efforts in the community by being the fifty two court judge i will be able to affect in the service greater portion of the community than just my law practice my community efforts thank you appreciate your work within the community when anyone doubts like to come forward at this time close the public comment period and move and to request of hope college with all fees being covered through the requesting parties so i'd like to ask ron to outline a little bit of the law guarding this matter and you will have on your screen shortly the actual location the location the map is oriented with east at the top north on the left and essentially it's the top half of the soccer field for hope college  the desire expressed by the colleges to have the entire property of the soccer field property within one jurisdiction so that's just one zoning ordinance that applies to the whole property the process by statute because this is adjacent to the city and there are no residents in that area is for a whole college to file a petition or the city and the township with which they've done and before you in the packet and then for the city council and the township board to both adopt resolutions approving the transfer of the property into the city it's just a boundary line adjustment the property is currently not taxable is exempt from taxation in the township and would stay that i would expect in the city  i suppose there could be a change in the future that would change that but currently appears tax exempt and so you're being asked to adapt a resolution tonight that approves of taking this property into the city tomorrow at the holland township board meeting they will be asked to approve the same resolution or the flip side of taking it out of the township putting it in the city once that happens and we file it with registered deeds and we file it with the office of the great seal in lansing thank you does make sense for them to have one sack of field in one city along with the rest of their institutions now we're onto gifts that christmas that keeps on giving could you let us know who sent us things matt be happy to the city mayor's office is pleased to report the following gifts for the parks and recreation hall in the bloom chemical bank five hundred dollars for pres scholarship fund various anonymous donors sixty three dollars and three cents the city managers office youth connections program your for glenn and janet dirks one thousand dollars ryan and karen cotton appreciation and the expression of gratitude be forwarded to the dollars thank you his area action to that motion to accept with appreciation supported by byrd now favor say aye same sign that path unanimously thank you that is wonderful people that care about children and care about the future of the community  and the quality of life care consistent donations for that youth connections program that to mention our city managers thank you very much so next we move to our first that the the city of holland ordinances that restricted the no wake zone on the south side of lake macca taua within the city of holland were written to extend to the nearest opposite shore the nearest opposite shore is actually outside of the city limits of the city of holland those run approximately down the center of lake mack atol the group that met agreed that that created a very confusing situation when we look for the lakes that feed into lake michigan that the city can pass that ordinance to be the half a mile from their their shore so they can extend out a half a mile that does create a situation off of colony park where it's real close to that but essentially this this request has come to you primarily through the d n r to clean up that language to to say to our our city limits to eliminate any confusion in the in the future you can imagine that a group as we're looking shore portion i won't say that i i don't know if they don't have ordinance noise ordinances at all but we did look up there ordinance and there is no matching ordinance for this this area here for  five thousand two hundred eighty feet in a mile it's going to be twenty five hundred twenty six hundred feet so it's going to be real close if not a little bit more in spots for all vessels the no way the yellow is no wait for twenty six feet or more and the green is no toe no high speed six thirty p m to ten a m and the blue is water  you may speak for five minutes capital stacey five five four eastern drive so the area that you outline is known as the narrows that is going to be completely no wake regardless of size of craft correct as you see it as the orange legend betrays the operating inside of the graph if you go down to the narrows you have orange which designates that there will be no way whatsoever regardless of the size of the craft see this time of high water i don't i think that almost has to be approved without question because that's the narrowest part of the lake which a majority of us are here on will be most affected and it's the most dangerous part i think right now the high levels you could realistically where the levels are right now no matter what size craft you'll have boats in people's front yards in complete washouts behind the sea walls were my neighbors have big investments i'm not there but bordering but i think that's  dangerous part of the that should be considered no way starting at the big can all the way to the end before it breaks off into pine creek bank and the only question i have to is i i understood that to be your responsible for the regardless of where you're at so and that's going to come into play quite a bit with this for memorial day weekend the water is within eighteen inches of the lip of the firedogs wall with moral day coming you're going to see a complete wash you're going to see him some neighbors here in the speak to are losing cleats already with no traffic minimal traffic so i don't know how you're going to enforce that or should be enforced but i think that part of the lake is probably the most crucial as you can see as you described where the water mark is the closest that's the closest point that probably should be focused or enforced more than any other part of the slick yes or just for  thirteen so if you go out eleven and thirteen are where the two big cans are that's before you go into the area known as central park we're gives a very tiny that's were you know in the eighty's the last time the water was this high you know we had an eighteen foot dangerous and if we're already having people losing cleats now when one boat goes by what's going to happen when you have sixteen abreast on a busy day and that's what's going to happen and somebody hurt so that's my  put forth well yeah thank you for bringing that concern to our attention does anyone else have a comment again bob connla five twenty eight and doctor i just want to support what kevin was bringing up is that narrows is the most dangerous area last year large watercraft were plowing through there breaking one of my pilings which you know one pilings about six hundred dollars plus various cleats that get tore up here doc and i would just ask that the city council support making that a no wake area for all sizes for some for certain the recommendation before you is not to make any additional areas no way the recommendation before you is simply to take the existing ordinance as it stands today and remove the portion that says to the nearest opposite shore so that our ordinance is only within our city limits there are no additions no that's not what i have been requested to this point that we have not heard this i have heard this feedback  ok thank you sir but nothing you said gets on air because you're not by a microphone so people don't know but those are great suggestions and as you can see we are just addressing what the michigan department of natural resources asked us to address that we can't legislate on the other side the like but you bring up some real concerns that i think would be good for us to discuss with the coast guard and with the sheriff's office and all the people that do and force things along there and also your concerns about having something that marks this area as no way because we certainly entertain a lot of visitors that don't come to this meeting so that is important to know as well so i i think would be good for one or two of us spokespeople to give your information to matt have this meeting or after this meeting and he can connect with you for what you would like communicated and we can take that then to the sheriff's office and the coast guard and ask about that michel if you want to leave that d v d with with matt also that may come in handy for them to understand what what we are concerned about you have me and just one other suggestion sergeant alb we can go from there it's great to intice a pedo problem instead of coming in after the problem so we appreciate you or you were the ones with the boats in the water so to speak and that and the houses right next to it yes i thought i was going to have a boat but i did he was on the south side of the narrows he had to go really slow but if you went on the north side you as fast as you wanted to as i recall so part of the solution perhaps is our conversation with our township neighbors in crafting some regulations for the north side rather than ask leaving you know the whole damn lake it seems as if they could spend a little  n and i believe narrows us at six forty five and then various other zones are scheduled within fifteen minute blocks is the council aware that the council is likely not aware of that yes ok i have that was as a public announcement two weeks ago i guess and so we plan on attending there but i believe they could ultimately regulate the no wake zone so no that's not correct now they enforce them make sure to get to work on this and come up with a solution that that's best and spreads along that the right foot it just has the right language and i mean i speak for myself but safety and and all those things are very  and it's all about tulip time what i want to thank everyone in this room all the staff every single member contributed in some way and it was a herculean team effort especially parades with the city staff apart from the person our department i think some volunteers until times well and picked up immediately as the parade passed the point they were right behind such that our transportation cr course did yeoman work in moving things around they also come out ever on wednesday thursday and sunday mornings were flabbergasted with how clean the streets were and basically it means they're doubly clean because once you're out there with a blower you know stop you you still blow and so every single cigarette butt in town was picked up so it really was a great outcome i do want to say that we fielded some concerns about the tulips on sixteenth street and it wasn't comparing the commonly known that sixteenth street is no longer to a plank between the road grime in the salt they just were not thriving over the years so the been discontinued they are spotty though because some residents experienced a little bit of a problem that's under research involving a number of experts on the waterfront had a couple of beds that did not thrive and there was one on when the island so before we know exactly what the problem is well on pace to have another year in the black the amount of the tickets were up twenty four percent in terms of sales plus other pre sales and other activity overall revenue was up thirty seven helm there and they're going to celebrate the year of the butterfly in june eleven also when the island garden so people want to come for that kind of excitement as well tonight is a part of our consent agenda we mentioned really glad that you have been our attorneys city attorney for the last couple years and has done a great job in helping us understand and navigate the world of robert's rules and all the rules that they're that it takes to do things according to michigan law and we appreciate all of ron's help and we look forward to his serve in this city for another couple years thank you ron thank you and also we had silva all of whom had to move or their life changed in some way there and they really expressed the expo excitement that they had in serving the city and commissions and were sorry to have to leave and every one of them has served  with distinction and some for a long time so we appreciate all the volunteers that continue to show up for meetings and help us to do the work of the city as volunteers so we're very grateful for them also selling the kindest mentioned that during to look time we had for guests from the midwest living magazine and they really liked what they saw here and liked it so much that they offered us the opportunity to have a two page ad for the city of holland in the midwest living magazine and that should be coming out in the july august edition i think we have that page somewhere and it's going to show up on your screen it's all there it is expect the unexpected there it is so let has a little different twist than what they have done before so they're always thinking and coming up with something to market how in michigan and help people rethink who we are and what we do here also this saturday they have what is called the youth olympics which is a really great idea just for two through eight year old school it's really the little many people and they do all kinds of running and throwing and other kinds  of exercises and it's a great fun for everybody i think it starts around nine eight thirty registration and it should run out at the highland christian high school track area so you want to go out there to enjoy that we also welcome  farmers market today for the first time of the season through december ten so we have farmer's market today and again on saturday and we're in that regular wonderful routine now so we're grateful for  that also on monday evening we're bringing in an expert in the world of domestic violence he will be talking to many people that are involved in that issue and they will be having sessions all through the day with therapists and ministers and other people that are helping individuals in those kind of situations they are also having an open to the public session in the evening from seven to eight thirty so if you are interested in attending that they like to know if you're coming you might want to check with the center for women in transition to get your name in as one of the people that would like to attend on that monday evening also save june to that saturday for the two lip dig which is a lot of fun and you can buy yourself a pail of two looks and then go home and plant those so in there we have our there commercial right there nine a m on saturday june for i have there ok that we great rain or shine bring your bring your pails bring your hose yes or your shovels thank you sounds like thank you quincy and also the heinz corporation an ounce to the birth of a new division to their work at the heinz plant they are adding a seventeen million dollar addition in order to do gr mustard and i guess we are going to be the that makes that very popular mustard so mustards are very big now and all kinds of flavors and so we're really glad that they were able to compete for that within the world of craft kinds now and we're given that contract it is our oldest industry all this company that we have had in the city of holland in that same location touching three centuries and so we're excited for their work and also appreciate their support brian basle is that the manager there and he and his crew were so helpful with the labor day boardwalk this past year and all the employees there was so helpful with clearing all the debris along the boardwalk right by heinz we just so appreciate the community partnerships that we can have with the heinz corporation so that is it for comments from the mayor is anyone from council have something they'd like to mike i hope i didn't miss your announcement on this but this coming saturday at six twenty five hastings the b p w is going to be having a appliance and electronics reclamation back to think you can get even get paid for turning in refrigerators and freezers that don't work or that work i don't know exactly what rules are check on it go to the responsibly especially the refrigerators and freezers with the freon you don't want to just cut the lines and let the free on the air it's not a good thing so saturday this coming saturday the twenty first ryan i think it's important also that the parks department is coronating a playground built at rosa parks this saturday ten a m and everyone is welcome as that's a great public private partnership wonderful donations yes any i like to think city from my to look casto shoes fit well this is my first participation of took time parades and all been a representative of the city it was it was a lot of fun and i enjoyed it enjoyed carrying the banner as well thanks br the wind at forty miles an hour whatever that west i was glad i was behind you guys hauling that instead of third graders well we appreciate your presence and participation there thank you and i'll see you bright so we have seventeen a b that we took off do we need to prove that separately we should have a motion to approve that yes support ok move by hoekstra supported by white men all in favor say aye opposed same side i think that carries now we have one more motion left